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My friend Steve continued with the following:

Seeing – Why Authority Inversion (AI)

Inverting God’s Authority Structure maximizes Astarte’s ability to rule through the Ruling Class Elohim female. By making the female superior it neutralizes the superseding authority of the Ruling Class Elohim male.

Jezebel’s name means, “chaste, devoted.”

This describes the role and ministering authority that YHVH deposited into Astarte’s name when He created it. Like Satan, this spirit belongs to the Angelic Class. In its original state, Astarte’s role was to minister to the needs of the Elohim Class in the spiritual realm by inspiring and promoting chastity and devotion to the Father, His Son (YHVH, Lord Most High of the Elohim), and His Kingdom.

Roles and authority, like gifts and callings, are irrevocable. They are integral to the design of the creature. The Animal must serve. The Angel must minister. The Man must rule. Every Living Being must fulfill the design and purpose for which it was created.

So, too, with Astarte.

This spirit’s role and authority remain intact – to inspire and promote chastity and devotion to the Father, His Son, and to His Kingdom. This is the role and ministering authority that it was given, so this is the role and ministering authority it must fulfill. The only difference now is that it fulfills its purpose through its service to Satan. Everything it does and everything it uses works to accomplish its reason for being created, including its use of the female Elohim.

Astarte can only inspire and promote, and it can only produce devotion.  It has no authority to rule, nor does it possess the power to enforce. To enforce it must attach itself to beings that possess the authority to rule and the power to enforce – the Elohim Class.

In the spiritual picture we see Astarte, the Queen of Heaven, attaching itself to Baal, the king of the gods, who knows how to secure the ruling authority of Man. In the natural picture, we see Jezebel, the Sidonese princess, attaching herself to Ahab, the King of Israel. In the 1960s, we see Astarte attaching itself to the Ruling Class Elohim Female and the ruling institutions of Man – government, law, business, education, entertainment, family, and the courts. Each of these ruling entities played a vital role in implementing and establishing Astarte’s strategies and defenses. They also ensured their continued enforcement.  While identifying with and primarily using the female best aligned with Astarte’s attributes, it also created a dilemma.

Under God’s Authority Structure the Elohim Female is under the authority of the Elohim Male. So, to move through the Ruling Class Authority of the Elohim Female to exercise and enforce its rule, Astarte would have to first obtain permission from the Elohim Male. This was an untenable obstacle that would make her rule cumbersome at best and hamstrung at worst.

Astarte’s solution was to take what she had done through Ahab’s Jezebel to the next level.

With Jezebel, Astarte usurped Ahab’s authority to rule Israel. With its new approach, Astarte wouldn’t merely usurp authority; it would convince Man to agree to invert or flip God’s Authority Structure. This would remove any encumbrance to its rule while making the female authority superior to the male. To understand the significance of this maneuver, we have to first understand how authority works in God’s Kingdom.

Under YHVH’s system, authority exists to bless and protect. It utilizes Divine power to mobilize Divine resources to achieve the Divine purpose for granting authority – to bless and protect.

The Spirit of Truth discloses the judicially approved means of administering God’s Authority to the one authorized to bless and protect. This is what enables YHVH’s hierarchical structure to produce unity and freedom instead of dominance and servitude. It functions in the simplicity and purity of the Father’s Nature and Character, so it fully expresses His Truth and Likeness.

With God’s authority comes His power and resources to effectively administer that authority. It is delegated in proper measure to the various Classes, Orders, and Ranks within His Kingdom based on the requirements of the Role.

The higher the Class, Order, and Rank, the greater the responsibility is to bless and protect in the fullness of the Father’s Nature and Character.

Jesus, who has been given the Highest Name, also possesses the greatest measure of authority (all). He uses this authority to fully bless and protect both in heaven and the earth. A simple illustration of God’s Authority Structure through which He

delegates His authority might look something like this:

The Father Greater Than All (The God)

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Elohim Class Ruling Class

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Jesus YHVH, Lord Most High Elohim

Man Male & Female = Heaven + Earth

Elders Heavenly Rule

Watchers Heaven’s Administration of Earth

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Angelic Class Ministering Class

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Cherub } Angelic Seraphim } Orders Arché } Etc. }

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Animal Class Serving Class

God’s Authority Structure related to the Order of Man might look something

like this:

The Father Greater Than All (The God)

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Jesus YHVH, Lord Most High Elohim

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Man Elohim Male

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Woman Elohim Female

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Children Elohim Heirs

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First-Born Male Carry-on Family Elohim Rule

Under God’s Authority Structure, the Father has given all authority to Jesus.

Jesus then delegates a measure of that authority to the Elohim Male who is

responsible for blessing and protecting his wife and family. Jesus also delegates a measure of authority to the Elohim Woman (Wife and Mother) to bless her husband and bless and protect their Elohim Children. The First- Born Male Child is then in line to carry on the Elohim Authority for and on behalf of the family.

Satan’s Angelic Class spiritual authority structure is very different. It would look something like this:

Cherub Satan (“god of this world”)

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Arché Spirit: Ruling Order

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Exousia Spirit: Authority Distribution

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Kosmokratór Earth: Government Compliance

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Pneumatikos Earth: Human Implementation

Ponéria (Spirits of Wickedness)

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Akathartos Earth: Human Torment

Pneuma (Impure Spirits)

In Satan’s Angelic Class structure, the top 3 levels operate entirely in the spiritual realm. The bottom 3 levels work to directly influence human governments, institutions, and people in and through the world system.

When the natural order (earthly) beings are included, Satan’s structure looks

something like this:

Cherub Satan (“god of this world”)

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Arché Spirit: Ruling Order

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Exousia Spirit: Authority Distribution

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Kosmokratór Earth: Government Compliance

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Pneumatikos Earth: Human Implementation

Ponéria (Spirits of Wickedness)

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Akathartos Earth: Human Torment

Pneuma (Impure Spirits)

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Animal Class Serving Class

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Man Slaves (“lower than the angels”)

Under the period of Astarte’s rule, Satan’s authority structure would look something like this:

Satan “god of this world”

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Astarte Ruling Arché (“Jezebel”)

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Angelic Orders Kingdom of Darkness

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Animal Class Serving Class

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Man Slaves (“lower than the angels”)

Specific to God’s Man, Astarte’s inverted authority structure would look

something like this:

Satan “god of this world”

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Astarte Ruling Arché (“Jezebel”)

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Children Highest Ranking Slave

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Woman Highest Utilized Slave

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Father Lowest Ranking Slave

Under Astarte’s inverted authority structure (AI), the one vested in God’s

structure with the least authority (the child) is delegated the greatest authority. The one vested in God’s structure with the greatest authority (the father) is delegated the least authority.

This structure minimizes or entirely neutralizes the blessing and protecting authority that God has vested in His male Elohim Man (husband/father). The Wife is positioned outside the Husband’s authority. The Child is positioned outside the authority of both the father and mother. Since the child has little or no ability or experience to exercise authority independent of its parents, the Elohim Woman becomes the highest utilized authority in the structure.

This inversion maximizes Astarte’s access to the Elohim Female’s Ruling Class Authority while minimizing any obstructive interference that may arise from the Elohim Male. This, by the way, is why Satan had his serpent approach Eve first while she was outside of Adam’s authoritative covering instead of approaching him directly.

While very clever, what’s so mind-boggling about this maneuver is that God’s Man – both male and female – must first agree to it before it can work. And we do. And once we do, Astarte has the unencumbered freedom to inspire and promote allegiance and devotion to its philosophies and agenda among the now unprotected – women and children.

FYI: While meeting with a Chinese Protégé in Toronto during the mid-1990’s, I was made aware of the 19 caves in China where all their tangible wealth was stored. The overseers were called “the old men” reporting to “the old woman” . The locations of the caves are highly protected and one can only travel to and enter a cave by invitation.

By FATHER’S Divine Intent, I appeared in a dream of one of the old men who told his protégé of the dream and described the “white man” with a gift of value who would give him the gift. While in a 4 hour lunch, FATHER instructed me to give him a 1 oz. gold coin which I had carried in my wallet for two years, awaiting further instructions from FATHER.

Once I had given the coin to the protégé, I was confirmed as the man in the dream and had “legal right” to access the wealth in the future. This has yet to occur but FATHER does not forget such a transaction, neither do HIS angels.

We must never assume what appears to be a long delay will be forgotten in Heaven. The angels have access to our books and mandates (Psalm 139:16) and are ready to bring forth the resources to fund the Gospel. Let those angels be dispatched without hindrance!

1 Corinthians 10:26 for the earth and all its abundance belongs to the Lord.

It’s all about Love!

My friend Steve continued with the following:

Seeing – The Kingdom of Darkness

Everything in Satan’s kingdom is a mirror of the Kingdom of God, minus the Father’s Voice and Truth. What Satan has, then, is a shell – an organization, a replica, a mirage – of a kingdom without the substance of a kingdom. It has power, energy, and intelligence, but no life, vitality, or wisdom. So, it cannot produce Good – what is of and from the Father. It can only produce Evil – what is NOT of and from the Father.

The Apostle John describes this kingdom in Revelation 13, using symbolic

language that is vividly descriptive:

• The dragon (Satan) is standing on the seashore (the earth) as he watches his kingdom emerge.

• His kingdom is coming out of the sea (the mass of humanity).

• His kingdom has the nature of a wild beast.

• This beast is strangely organized and configured (10 horns of power with 10 royal crowns, but only 7 heads).

• This beast is extremely resilient (kill one of its heads and it can come back to life).

• The one who possesses wisdom can see this beast and the kingdom it represents through an arithmetic calculation based on the number of Man (6).

“So here, in this very place, is the wisdom for the one that has and holds the mind and intellect to reason and understand the meaning: Count, calculate and compute the total number of the wild and venomous beast, for indeed, it is the total number of Man, both male and female. So then, the total number of the same is six hundred and sixty-six.” (Revelation 13:18)

What Jesus is revealing to John (and to us) is that when the tally is taken, the sum (total productive output) of this kingdom is directly connected to the sum (total productive output) of Man, both male and female. What Man is willing to produce on behalf of this kingdom through his authority to rule (6), labor (6), and material resources (6) is the extent to which the beast can function and rule in the earth (666). Take Man out of the arithmetic equation and the beast has nothing (666-666=0). It cannot emerge “out of the sea” thus leaving the dragon standing alone on the “seashore.”

“And I stared upon and saw with inward spiritual perception a wild and venomous beast ascending out from the sea and to the earth. . .and on its heads were the Name, Authority, and Cause of the slanderer, the blasphemer that vilifies by switching right for wrong and wrong for right.” (Revelation 13:1)

This is what John saw and said could be understood by those who possess wisdom – the way God thinks. What he didn’t say, but that is also clearly understood by those who think the way God thinks, is if the beast of the kingdom of darkness can be counted, calculated, and computed through an arithmetic equation, so can the Kingdom of God. This occurs when Jesus (1) finds a Man (6) who will partner WITH Him to accomplish our Father’s Vision. Jesus’ authority to rule becomes Man’s authority to rule (1+6=7).

Jesus’ labor becomes Man’s labor (1+6=7). Jesus’ resources become Man’s resources (1+6=7). What then “ascends out from the sea and to the earth” is our Father’s Vision, Will, and Kingdom (777). The Lord’s Prayer. (Matt. 6:10)

Satan is keenly aware of the constant threat and risk of exposure that his dependence on Man exerts on his kingdom. That is why John saw him standing on the seashore alone. Even though he has the uncommon authority as an Angelic being to roam the earth, that doesn’t mean he has the authority to do what he wants on the earth. He must first gain permission either from YHVH or Man. (Job 1:6-12; Ezekiel 28:13, 14)

So, Satan must wait to see if there are any among the mass of humanity (the sea) who will allow his kingdom to ascend out from them, so his beast and angelic forces can operate in the earth through them.

To combat this, Satan incentivized his realm to overcome this vulnerability by offering the most valuable prize he had to offer – to sit at his right hand as his co-ruler. This seat is reserved for the one who delivers to him total control of the world and along with it, God’s Man, both male and female.

And Satan doesn’t care who delivers it to him. Thus, his final offer to Jesus in the wilderness temptation was to give Him all the kingdoms of the world to rule if He would bow down and worship him as a superior. While worshipping him was mandatory, giving Jesus total rule was conditioned, of course, on Him achieving the mission. (Matthew 4:8, 9)

Even though he is dependent on Man to rule, Satan is still an Angelic Class being who possesses an Angelic Class kingdom. He is a member of the highest Order in the Angelic Class – Cherubs. He is also the highest-ranking member of Cherubs. So, Satan is the highest-ranking Angel in the creation and the only Cherub in his realm. His ruling class is made up of angels from the Arché Order. This is the highest Angelic rank in his realm next to him.

Man, though higher in rank and authority in the Kingdom of God, is “lower than the angels” in Satan’s kingdom. They are the slaves of the realm, who have been relegated to the Animal Class.

There are 12 Archés in his kingdom. They mimic the role of the 24 Elders in God’s Kingdom. Satan has given each of his Archés a period of time to rule his kingdom. Their mission is to deliver to him total control of the world. If the Arché then in power does not achieve the mission within the allotted time, it must pass the throne to the Arché next in line. The new Arché then takes its place at the head of Satan’s kingdom using its power – the attributes and ministering authority that YHVH gave to it when He created it in the beginning – to govern the realm and to achieve the satanic mission.

This is what was happening in the spiritual realm at the beginning of the 1960s. A transfer of power was taking place in Satan’s kingdom. The Spirit of War’s rule was ending, and Jezebel’s rule was beginning. It’s important to note that Jezebel is the last of the 12 Archés to rule Satan’s kingdom. There are no more Archés after this spirit, so the survival of the realm is riding on the success of Jezebel’s plan and rule.

The strategies and defenses behind the events of the 1960s were, therefore, the brainchild of the angelic spirit known as Jezebel. Each strategy is critical to this spirit achieving the satanic mission while putting on full display what Jezebel’s rule looks like in real-time.

Seeing – Astarte: The Originating Chief Ruler

In the spiritual realm, the angelic spirit that we refer to as Jezebel is known as Astarte, the Queen of Heaven. This is the Chief Arché and architect of the events of the 1960s.

Astarte is recognized as the most ruthless and feared Arché in Satan’s kingdom, which is why Satan appointed it as the last to rule. Where it was once known for its chastity and devotion, it is now known as The Harlot.

This makes Astarte incapable of serving anyone or anything other than its own faithless self. This character trait makes Astarte impossible to trust even by its most ardent supporters, including Satan.

Astarte has long been a seeker of worship and was one of the key deities worshipped by the ancient Phoenicians. It was represented by sacred trees or

poles called Asherah. These were erected next to and around the altars of Baal. Thus, the Queen of Heaven has always seen itself as the one seated next to the King of Heaven – Baal (Satan).

Seeing – Why Women

Angelic Class beings don’t possess genders as humans do, so they don’t favor one human gender over the other. As it relates to the spirits of darkness, they despise both genders equally while considering each their slaves. To them, their human slaves have only one purpose: To supply what they need to accomplish the satanic mission.

When spirits of darkness select a human target to do their work, they do so based on an alignment of attributes and a calculation of the target’s likelihood of success. This is heavily weighted by the target’s devotion to the promised outcomes. In Astarte’s case, it has chosen to work primarily through women as the attributes of the female more closely align with its attributes than do men. By contrast, men fit and align more closely with the attributes of spirits such as the Spirit of War, Spirit of Religion, or Apollo.

The targeting and selection of human allies is an extremely complex process that is fraught with risk and volatility. While spirits of darkness consider humans to be their slaves, they also know that God’s Man, both male and female, is higher in Class, Order, Rank, and Authority than they are. This can make the relationship with their targets extremely fragile as the human can reverse his or her agreement at any point in time without warning or notice. By exercising their inherent authority to rule, the human, whether male or female, can void the circumventing contract that has made them a slave by returning to their partnership relationship WITH Jesus. This instantly restores them to their rightful place as a Ruling Class Elohim. It also reinstates YHVH’s rules of engagement between the two dimensions.

The Apostle Paul demonstrated this dynamic with the devastating effect it had on the spirit of divination (Apollo) in Macedonia. (Acts 16) What this means, then, for the kingdom of darkness is that the selection of a human target is serious business. It must be done with extreme care and strict attention to detail, lest its target turns on them, like Paul did, and destroys what they had so painstakingly built.

We can see Satan employing this care and attention to detail in the calculation and selection of his targets in the Garden:

• The meticulous selection of the Serving Class serpent to approach the superior Elohim Female, Eve.

• The meticulous selection of the junior member of the Elohim Man, Eve, to approach the senior member of the Elohim Man, Adam.

In each instance Satan selected a target that was best aligned with his attributes at the time, so he could achieve his objective. And, with each selection, the target insulated him from direct exposure to the superior authority of the Elohim Man, whether it was the serpent shielding him from Eve, or Eve shielding him from Adam.

As he calculated, selected, and shielded then, so he and his realm calculate, select and shield now.

We’ll go into more detail later about why Satan targeted Eve first instead of going directly to Adam. But for now, the point is that Astarte didn’t target women because it likes women. It chose to take on the female identity and to work through the female gender for strategic reasons. Their attributes are better suited to achieve its scheme than men.

Astarte implemented a version of this same strategy when it personified itself through the scriptural character Jezebel (its human namesake). Through this account, YHVH exposed many of this spirit’s core attributes, including its masculine temperament, confrontational disposition, violent ruling style, and disdain for YHVH’s reign and order. (1 Kings 16 – 2 Kings 9)

Selection

My friend Steve continued with the following:

Our enemy.

Seeing – Satan’s Way

When it comes to the natural order, the kingdom of darkness operates the same way in every situation without exception:

• In spiritual darkness

• Through Man’s labor and resources

• With Man’s authority, and

• Through the mechanism of transaction.

Take any one of these away and the powers of darkness are locked out of the physical earth that operates in time and space. That’s how fragile Satan’s control of Man and the material realm are. By contrast, it also shows how powerful Man, both male and female, really is.

As it relates to spiritual darkness, its mission and purpose are to keep hidden what would otherwise be easily seen if the lights were turned on. The kingdom of darkness facilitates this darkness by convincing Man that he is separated from the spiritual realm. This leaves Man blinded to half of God’s creation. This, in turn, provides the powers of darkness with a hiding place to devise their strategies, create their devices, and mobilize their schemes against God and His Man. So, spiritual darkness isn’t just important, it is essential to the effective operation of the kingdom of darkness. Take it away and Satan’s kingdom cannot function in the physical earth that operates in time and space.

Satan and his angelic forces are spiritual beings. They do not have the faculties to maneuver in the natural realm. So, they need Man, both male and female, to provide the labor to execute their strategies, and the resources to finance their schemes on the earth. And since they cannot compel Man to do either, Man must do it willingly. If Man refuses, Satan’s kingdom is locked out of the physical earth that operates in time and space having neither the labor nor the resources to carry out their intentions in the earth.

Satan does not have the authority to rule. He must obtain it from Man. And so, inherent within every scheme of darkness is the singular mandate to convince Man to voluntarily hand over his authority to the powers of darkness without knowing he’s doing it. If Man refuses, Satan’s kingdom is locked out of the physical earth that operates in time and space as it has no authority to rule anywhere in God’s creation.

Transaction is how the kingdom of darkness obtains from Man what it needs to rule – they offer; we accept. When Man accepts, it establishes the legal basis for the transfer of his authority, labor, and resources to the kingdom of darkness through which it rules the earth. If Man refuses to accept the offer, it locks the kingdom of darkness out of the physical earth that operates in time and space.

This is Satan’s way – darkness, Man’s authority, Man’s labor and resources, transaction. Without these four, his kingdom has neither a scheme nor the ability to rule on the earth. And so, to rule in the physical realm Satan must first gain Man’s permission to use his authority and all that he has against him and against the God whom he says he serves.

Once a scheme is devised and the permissions obtained, the scheme must be defended. Every scheme is therefore equipped with defenses to protect it from discovery and disruption. Each defense is designed to sustain some aspect of the scheme by repulsing, parrying, or misdirecting any attempt to probe or discover the scheme’s source, means, or purpose. However, sustainability, itself, is a function of rulership. So, the powers of darkness must secure Man’s permission and agreement to sustain the very schemes and defenses they have devised to exploit, enslave and destroy him.

Each defense is rooted in Satan’s nature. Facts or deceptive ideals are packaged as truth and then injected with spiritual, emotional, and intellectual energy to give them a sense of credibility. This supercharges the defense while hiding the lie that is resident within it. Though clever, the lies are easily discernable, which makes them vulnerable to discovery. So, Man’s authority must be marshaled to defend the defense before the defense can be effective. In every way the scheme and its defenses are dependent on Man’s support. Remove that support and they collapse leaving Satan and his realm locked out of the physical earth that operates in time and space.

This is Satan’s way with God’s Man, and his total dependence on him.

“Are you not aware or do you not perceive, or do you not see with your physical eyes into the spiritual realm that the voice you submit to in obedience is the one to whom you present yourself as a slave? You are slaves to the voice you listen to and obey when acting under the authority of the one speaking, whether of self-originating sin with the failure and loss it causes leading to physical or spiritual death, or to the voice you submit to in obedience that is deemed right, just and

judicially approved by God.” (Romans 6:16)

And so, Eve listened to the voice of Satan through his agent the Serpent. Then Adam listened to the voice of Satan through his newly acquired agent, Eve. And when each one listened, they then became slaves to the voice they listened to and obeyed, and under whose authority they acted. For each, the transaction was sealed. And like all transactions, the definitions of the terms that governed the contract between them were also sealed and then imposed on the parties to the transaction.

It wasn’t long before Adam and Eve discovered what Satan’s idea of being like God looked like. It meant being relegated to the Animal Class. It meant being made “lower than the angels” to serve his vision and interests as slaves instead of YHVH’s as partners.

And neither was it long before the defenses of fear and blame began to appear to ensure the sustainability of their new status as slaves. It was fear that would cause them to hide from the Face and Voice of their Creator. It was blame that would cause them to constantly and unforgivingly accuse and condemn each other and YHVH for the trouble they were in.

Thus, they took on the nature and character of the one whose voice they listened to and obeyed while doing his bidding and fulfilling his purposes as slaves…. all because they agreed to listen to his voice.

Jesus dealt with this same dynamic with those who said they believed Him:

“By extension then, Jesus was saying to the Jews who had believed and affirmed their confidence in Him, ‘If you abide and remain in My word you are truly and genuinely a disciple, learner, and follower of Me.’

‘And you will come to know, recognize and perceive through personal experience the truth and reality, and the truth and reality will set you free releasing you from bondage and removing the restrictions of sin and darkness.’

“And moving toward an advantageous goal, they answered Him, ‘We are the seed, offspring, and remnant of Abraham. And we have never been a slave to anyone, or turned over our prerogative to self-govern, or willingly assigned our ownership rights to another.’

“Jesus answered them, ‘Surely and most certainly I say to you, laying the argument to rest, all and everyone who makes or does the self-originating sin with the loss and failure it causes, that one is a slave to that self-originating sin with the loss and failure it causes.’

“’I speak that which I have seen and perceived with inward spiritual perception from the Father; and what you have heard and listened to from the father, you by extension therefore do.’

“They answered and said to Him, laying the argument to rest, ‘Our father is Abraham.’ Jesus, laying the argument to rest, said to them, ‘If you were the children of Abraham, you would do the works and carry out the purposes of Abraham.’

“‘But now in light of what has gone on before, you have sought by inquiry to reach the binding resolution to kill Me, a man who has spoken to you the reality of truth that I heard and listened to from the God. This Abraham did not do.’

“‘You are making and doing the works, and carrying out the purposes of your father.’ Therefore, they said to Him, laying the argument to rest, ‘We have not been born out of fornication. We have and hold to one Father, the God.’

“Jesus said to them, laying the argument to rest, ‘If the God was your Father, you would have loved and preferred Me, for I have indeed come out from within the God and have come to reach the destination of the end goal; for indeed neither have I come from or of Myself, but that One commissioned and sent Me on a defined mission.’

 “‘Why do you not perceive or understand or know by personal experience what I am saying? Because you are not able, nor do you have the power to hear or listen to My words.’

“‘You are of and have come out from within the father, the slanderous one, the devil, who falsely accuses and condemns to sever relationship. And the desires and passionate longings and lust of your father you are willing and ready to do. That one was a manslayer from the beginning, the chief and starting point ahead of all the rest. And in and with the truth and reality he has not stood, because there is no

truth and reality in or with him. In the time he speaks, the falsehood and lies he speaks are uniquely his own; for he is a liar who falsely represents, distorts and misleads, and is the father of the same.’” (John 8: 31 – 34; 38 – 44)

What’s fascinating about both of these stories is that neither Adam nor Eve nor those who said they believed Jesus, ever stopped to consider that they had been duped. So, rather than doing what they were created to do – to rule WITH the Father in the fullness of His Nature and Character – they instead energized and perpetuated the very scheme that diminished their stature and neutralized their role in God’s Kingdom.

As it was with them, so it continues to be with us today.

So, here’s a question: What if they or we just said to the powers of darkness, “No! We’re not playing anymore!”

What do you think would happen?

The story of Gideon answers the question:

“And the men of the fortified city said to Joash, ‘Bring out your son [Gideon] so he may die. For he has torn down and destroyed the altar of Baal, and he has cut down and cut off the Asherah, the wooden images of the Phoenician goddess, that were upon, above, over and beside it.’

“But Joash said to the whole and all of those who took their stand against him, ‘Would you strive and contend for Baal? If you would defend and deliver him, let that one who strives and contends for him die by morning. If he is an Elohim, let him strive and contend for himself because his altar has been torn down and destroyed.’” (Judges 6:30, 31)

And so, when those who were being incited by Baal to kill Gideon stopped, Baal was stopped. Countryman ceased killing countryman and Gideon went on to complete his mission WITH YHVH to rid Israel of Baal’s raiders. When we consider the events of the ‘60s and the impact they are having on our time, the game is the same. The only question is how we will decide to play – WITH Jesus or on our own in the dark.

Satan’s way.

My friend Steve continued with the following:

Seeing – Our Enemy

“Thus, the whole and all of the heavens and the sky, the physical earth and land, and the army organized for war and warfare were completed, finished and accomplished.” (Genesis 2:1)

It’s a fascinating thought to consider that YHVH incorporated into His creation Plan the formation of an army for war and warfare even before He rested on the seventh day. In other words, He didn’t rest until His army was organized and fully equipped to defend not only what He had just created but also the Plan He had devised to achieve His Father’s Vision.

So, from the very beginning, war and warfare were to play a vital role in achieving our Father’s Vision. This was reflected in Man’s assigned role in the earth when he was created. He was to rule, subdue and subjugate WITH YHVH within the earthly domain. This is significant because these verbs describe acts that are to be performed against foes and enemies not against friends and allies.

 “And the Elohim said, ‘Make and accomplish man and mankind in Our image and in Our likeness and similitude. And, let them reign and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the flying creatures of the heavens and the sky, and over the beasts, animals and cattle, and over the whole and all of the earth and land; and over the whole and all of every creeping and moving thing that creeps and moves lightly upon, over and above the earth and land.’

“So chose the Elohim to create and shape the image of His man, in the image of the Elohim He chose to create and shape His male and His female; so chose Him to create and shape them.

“And blessing them, the Elohim said to them, ‘Elohim, bear fruit and be fruitful; and multiply, increase and be great; and fill to the full the earth and land; and subdue, bring into bondage and reign; and have dominion, treading down and causing to crumble, the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the heavens and sky; and over the whole and all of the age of the living that creeps, moves lightly about or glides swiftly upon, above and over the earth and land.” (Genesis 1:26 – 28)

And so, dealing with conflicts, challenges, threats, and even war and warfare are all part of the Plan for God’s Man. These are the devices God uses to develop the Likeness of the Elohim IN His Man, so he will be fully equipped to rule WITH Him in the fullness of His Nature and Character.

We see this on display even after Adam and Eve did their deed with the Serpent and became “lower than the angels.” (Psalm 8:5; Hebrews 2:7) From YHVH’s standpoint, His Man’s station in life – whether as a slave or a free man – had no bearing on His mandate for His Man to rule:

“So YHVH said to Cain, ‘Why are you burning with anger, and why has your face fallen?’

“‘If you are successful in doing what is right, sound and beautiful, will you not be an exalted one in character and rank? And if you are not successful in doing what is right, sound, and beautiful, sin is at the opening stretched out on all four legs like a recumbent animal. Its longing is for you, but you must rule and have dominion over it.'” (Genesis 4:6, 7)

Notice that YHVH’s solution for Cain didn’t change from His original mandate to Adam and Eve just because he was now in a supposedly fallen state of sin and depravity.

So, whether in a state of bliss as in the Garden, or in a state of burning anger as with Cain, or under some other attack or circumstance where we feel outmatched and overwhelmed, whatever condition we may find ourselves in, the mandate is still the same – to rule WITH Jesus in the fullness of His Nature and Character.

While reigning is more of a macro word that relates to governing willing citizens within a realm, rulership is more specific. It emphasizes the astute use of authority, power, and resources to neutralize and disarm enemies – those things or influences that oppose, threaten, or are hostile to the venture or goal to be achieved. In this case, it is ruling over anything that opposes, misdirects, alters, or seeks to control our Father’s Vision for creating.

In Adam and Eve’s case, it was ruling over and subjugating WITH YHVH the serpent that had aligned itself with a foreign spiritual enemy – Satan. The mission then was to neutralize the threat launched against YHVH and His Man by cutting off the spiritual intruder’s access into the physical earth, which he attempted to gain through the Serving Class serpent.

In Cain’s case, it was ruling over sin – the impulse to act independently from YHVH. This sin was personified as an animal that was patiently waiting for an opening to use God’s Man as a weapon to exterminate righteousness – the act of deciding to live and do all things WITH YHVH. This was the threat posed by Cain’s brother. Abel. This influence had to be removed so sin could flourish on the earth. The mission then was for Cain to neutralize and disarm sin’s power within him by showing his superior character and rank WITH YHVH. This would cut off sin’s access through him into the earth, and the death and destruction it would inflict.

In Jesus’ time on the earth, it was to strip Satan of the spiritual authority that he unlawfully seized in the Garden. The mission there was to enter into the spiritual domain of darkness by way of the Cross to conquer, render inoperable and subjugate “the last enemy” death. This brought death back under the Reign of the Kingdom of God where it belonged.

In every instance, the objective was the same – for God’s Man to work WITH Him to rule over their mutual enemies in the fullness of His Nature and Character. What is interesting to note is the Apostle Paul’s description of death as being “the last enemy.” (1Corinthians 15:26)

If there is the last enemy, then surely there must be the first. “And it came to pass that the sum of the word and speech of YHVH was spoken to me (Ezekiel) saying,

“Son of ‘adam (man) lift up and carry a dirge, a song or hymn of grief, a lamentation against the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says YHVH Adonai: “You were the sum, the perfect measure, and proportion. You were sealed with the fullness of skill and wisdom, and complete in beauty.

“In Eden, the garden and enclosure of the Elohim, it came to pass that your covering was the whole and all of every precious, rare and splendid stone – the ruby, the topaz, and the diamond; the yellow jasper, the pale green onyx, and the polished jasper; the sapphire, the glistening emerald, and the flashing emerald. The jeweler’s sockets and tambourines of gold were fixed to stand firm. They were

established to prosper on the day chosen to form, fashion, and shape you.

“With the vast expanse of your outstretched wings, you were the cherub that covered, hedged, screened, and protected. And it came to pass that you were set on the sacred mountain of the Elohim. Amid the stones of fire, you walked, coming and going.

“You were sound and complete in the day chosen to form, fashion, and shape you. In your way, manner, and journey you were entire in integrity and truth until injustice and unrighteousness appeared, existing in and coming out from you.

“In the multitude and abundance of your trade, traffic, and merchandise, you became full of violence, cruelty, and unjust gain. You sinned severing and bisecting the center of you. You pierced and profaned the mountain of the Elohim. You wandered away O cherub who covers, hedges, screens and protects, to perish from the midst of the stones of fire.

“You exalted your inner mind, will, and heart because of your beauty. Your wisdom decayed, thoroughly ruining your brightness and splendor. You are thrown down and cast upon the earth and land to be set before the face of kings to be seen and observed by them.

“Through the abundance and greatness of your injustice and unrighteousness in your trade, traffic and merchandise, and the guilt and punishment due for your iniquity, you have pierced and profaned the sacred place. Therefore, in your coming in and going out amid the fire it will eat and devour you. It will set ashes upon, over, and above the earth and land in the whole and all of every eye that sees and observes.

“The whole and all of the people who know you will grow numb. They will be thoroughly stunned, astonished, stupefied, and appalled with alarm, terror, and destruction. It will come to pass that you shall become nothing; a non-entity as far as and even unto futurity, the vanishing point of time.” (Ezekiel 28:11 – 19)

What an amazing story that YHVH passes on to Ezekiel to pass on to us. It recounts the history of His highest-ranking Cherub and the ministry he was to perform as the “Covering Cherub.” This superbly crafted Angelic Class being was vested with the authority and power to protect YHVH’s Garden and His Man who occupied and ruled it. And so vast was this Cherub’s prominence and authority that he was “set on the sacred mountain of the Elohim, amid the stones of fire” to come and go as he pleased.

This Cherub was created to ensure that the provisions of heaven were seamlessly delivered to YHVH’s Man through the device of commerce (trade, traffic, and merchandise). This was to fully resource Man, so he could accomplish his mandate to rule the earth WITH YHVH in the fullness of His Nature and Character. Thus, this Cherub was equipped with all the capabilities and materials necessary to accomplish its most prized and honored ministry as a partner WITH YHVH in covering and protecting the Father’s Vision for His Man.

But then, “injustice and unrighteousness appeared, existing in and coming out” from him. His trade revealed what was in him just as it does with us. He had become “full of violence, cruelty and unjust gain” with injustice and unrighteousness saturating his every transaction.

This caused him to pierce and profane the sacred mountain of the Elohim –

God’s Kingdom. He was cast “from the midst of the stones of fire” to the earth where his wisdom, splendor, and brightness thoroughly decayed. This most honored of all Angelic Class beings was then repositioned from partner to opposer and given the name Adversary – Satan.

And so, the first enemy – our enemy – is a business guy. He took what YHVH had given him to bless and minister to His Man – commerce – and converted it into a weapon, which he then used to enslave Man through the mechanism of transaction.

“Amid the fire it will eat and devour you, setting ashes upon, over and above the earth and land in the whole and all of every eye that sees and observes.

“The whole and all of the people who know you will grow numb. They will be thoroughly stunned, astonished, stupefied, and appalled with alarm, terror, and destruction. It will come to pass that you shall become nothing; a non-entity as far as and even unto futurity, the vanishing point of time.”

Our enemy.

My friend Steve continued with the following:

The Game

Seeing

This is a vast subject, but for now, we’ll just highlight those points that are

relevant to our discussion about the spiritual side of the 1960s. To begin, let’s look at how Jesus taught the Apostle Paul about how to deal with the spiritual kingdom of darkness:

“In the remaining time, be empowered with the Lord’s power and ability, and with the strength and might of His dominion overcome immediate resistance with force.

“Sink into and be invested in the armor of God, the offensive and defensive garments that have every resource needed to wage warfare successfully. Show that you have the advantage; that you have the power and ability to stand against craft, deceit, and every method used in organized evildoing, and against the well-crafted trickery of the slanderous one, the backbiter and devil, who falsely accuses and

condemns to sever relationships.

“Because to us the wrestling, struggle, and conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against the originating chief rulers; against the authorities that have been delegated the power and freedom to act in a designated jurisdiction with force, competence, and mastery; against the world rulers of this darkness who influence the lives of people; against the malicious, pain-ridden evil and wicked spiritual ones in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:10 – 12)

In these few sentences, the Apostle lays out for us what Jesus laid out for him:

1. Our conflict is NOT against people (flesh and blood). It is against the organization of spiritual powers that operate in spiritual darkness.

2. The moment we align ourselves WITH Jesus we will be met with “immediate resistance.”

3. The resistance comes from the strategy’s architect (originating chief rulers), jurisdictional authorities, world rulers, and wicked spirits in the heavenly realm. This is the organizational hierarchy of spiritual forces that are marshaled against us.

4. We are to “stand against every method used in organized evildoing.” Thus, the evil is planned and organized, which makes it strategic.

5. We are to “show that we have the advantage.”

The Apostle then passes on to us the mission that Jesus gave to him:

“In the remaining time, be empowered with the Lord’s power and ability, and with the strength and might of His dominion overcome immediate resistance with force.” (Ephesians 6:10)

There is no greater force in all of creation than the Voice of God. Through His Voice, He articulated His Vision, formulated His Plan, and built His devices. Through His Voice, He:

• Creates, rules, judges, empowers, raises armies, vanquishes foes, appoints kings, destroys kings.

• Separates the waters of the sea and river, calms the storm, sends manna and quail for food, provides water out of a rock, multiplies the fish and loaves.

• Cares for the widow, delivers the helpless, announces The Favorable Year of the Lord, heals the sick, raises the dead and welcomes the children to sit on His lap.

• Calls for the fish to collect the coin to pay the tax He didn’t owe.

• Answered the more than 300 who came with knives and clubs to take Him away, knocking them on their keisters with two little words, “I AM.”

Through His Voice man is to live every moment of every day WITH Him.

And, through His Voice Jesus prays, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”

So, the way we “overcome immediate resistance with force” is by listening

to and then becoming WITH Jesus His Voice. What Jesus speaks; we speak.

What Jesus commands; we command. What Jesus sees; we see. And what

Jesus does, we do WITH Him.

No more, no less.

The Apostle doesn’t stop there. He tells us that overcoming resistance is not all there is to the game. We must also “show that we have the advantage.”  We do this by showing that we have the ability and power to “stand against.” But one cannot stand against what one cannot see. So, declaring WITH Jesus that we can now see the spiritual powers through what they are doing in the physical realm is an inseparable part of showing that we have the advantage.

This terrifies the spiritual forces of darkness because it demonstrates in ways that they uniquely understand that they are no longer operating invisibly in darkness. Instead, they have fallen prey to Jesus’ trap that has lured them into His Theater of Light where they are fully exposed.

All of this is done WITH Jesus. Not one thing is done on our own or apart from Him. This is how God’s Man performs his role and rules the Father’s Creation WITH Jesus in the fulness of His nature and character.

This is the game. But, unless we are willing to let Jesus realign our conflict focus

from people to the kingdom of darkness, we cannot play. Otherwise, we will continue to see people as our enemy. Men will be the enemy of women, whites will be the enemy of blacks, the old will be the enemy of the young, the young will be the enemy of the old. Like bleeding chicks, we will continue to peck each other to death while the forces of darkness happily enslave and destroy us in secret.

How else does one explain:

• The religious leaders measuring Jesus against their sacred writings and yet they could not recognize who He was?

• Or Judas Iscariot living with and watching Jesus interact with people for nearly 3 years, and still, he betrays Him for 30 pieces of silver?

• Or the crowd that rejected Jesus and instead chose the thief and murderer despite the miraculous things that Jesus had done for them?

It can’t be explained. It can only be described – the insanity that overtakes us when we play by the rules of darkness.

“Do you not see in the physical realm each and every part of the totality of this in the spiritual realm, so you can take the needed action?”

Seeing – The Vision

“Where there is no sight, revelation or vision, the people are exposed, naked and cast off. But happy and blessed is he who keeps, protects, watches over and attends to instruction and direction.” (Proverbs 29:18)

How many of us have ever wondered if the Father has a Vision for why He created? After all, if we are subject to ruin without a vision, should we expect Him to be exempt from such a fate without one? Of course not.

The Father’s Vision, then, was the starting point and end goal of the creative endeavor. Everything the Kingdom of God has done, is doing, or will do is designed to accomplish His Vision. This is why YHVH created. This is the Scripture that Jesus fulfilled. (Matthew 26:54) This is what we have been created

and invited to build and finish WITH Him:

That His Man would rule His Creation WITH Him in the fullness of His

Nature and Character.

This is the Father’s Vision. And nothing about His Kingdom can be understood apart from His Vision. It informs all things, directs all things, instructs all things, and reveals all things. It provides sight and revelation. It frames purpose and gives meaning. It makes clear what is unclear. Every part of YHVH’s creation and the way He structured it to function was designed to achieve one goal – His Father’s Vision that His Man would rule His creation WITH Him in the fullness of His Nature and Character.

The fascinating thing about the Father’s Vision is that it makes no provision for isolated, independent decisions or actions. Everything in His Kingdom revolves around the idea of partnership. This idea is best captured in English through the word WITH. In its simplest form, this is a manner of living that begins and ends with the Father speaking, His Man listening, and then doing WITH Him what He has spoken.

This is what Jesus modeled on the earth. It also is how He executes His role now as the One to whom the Father has given all authority in heaven and earth to execute His Plan and to accomplish His Vision. Although we have full access to our Father as Sons, Jesus is the One through whom the Father now speaks regarding the rule, administration, work, and mission of His Kingdom. (Matthew 17; Hebrews 1)

As we listen to and work WITH Jesus, His Nature and Character (Truth) is formed in us. This is then transferred to everything we do WITH Him. The result of this partnership materializes our Father’s Vision in real-time. Truth becomes embedded in every transaction in both the heavens and in the earth, whether in ruling or in reigning WITH Him.

Jesus calls this, “Truth in the Transaction.”

“‘Not by the force or resources of strength, efficiency, wealth and armies; and not when the vigor of ability is firm. Lo! Behold, it is by My Breath, Wind, and Spirit,’ says YHVH of the armies organized for war and warfare.” (Zechariah 4:6)

Seeing – The Structure

Everything about the structure and operation of the creation is designed to accomplish our Father’s Vision. When YHVH created, He divided His Living Beings into 3 classes:

• The Elohim Class

• The Angelic Class

• The Animal Class

Each class has been designed to partner with the other classes to achieve our

Father’s Vision. Categories were added to provide organization and placement for each being within the Class: Order, Rank, Position, Role, Authority, and Domain (jurisdiction). Names were then given to each being within the Class to uniquely identify them as distinct from all others.

The composition of a being’s Class and Categories, in combination with their internal attributes, comprises their person. Each person in the Kingdom of God is distinct from all others. Thus, they are a one-of-a-kind creation that is uniquely equipped to execute the role they have been assigned to perform in the Kingdom. The totality of their person is then captured in their Name. This identifies who they are, the authority they possess, the purpose they fulfill, and the place they occupy in God’s Kingdom.

Seeing – The Conflict

The irreconcilable hostility that exists between YHVH and Satan, and therefore between Satan and God’s Man, is a direct result of how YHVH structured and organized His Classes of Living Beings. This is the source of the spiritual conflict between Heaven and Hell with Man as the object of Satan’s conquest, as well as the instrument of his own demise.

Here’s why:

The Elohim Class is the highest in God’s Kingdom. It is the Ruling Class.

The Living Beings in this class possess the Father’s capabilities (Image) and

attributes (Likeness). Each member in this class has been delegated a measure of authority to rule His creation WITH Him in His Nature and Character according to their Order, Rank, Position, Role, Authority, and Domain (jurisdiction).

Unlike what has been taught in the educational system of the world, Man is NOT a member of the Animal Class. He is a member of the Elohim Class. And the Order of Man (both male and female) is the highest Order within this Class.

The Angelic Class is the Ministering Class in God’s Kingdom. It is subordinate to the Elohim Class. The Living Beings in this class support the rule and execute the wishes of the Elohim Class in the spiritual realm.

The Animal Class is the Serving Class in God’s Kingdom. It is subordinate to both the Elohim and Angelic Classes. The Living Beings in this class serve the earth and the interests of the Elohim Class in the physical realm that operates in time and space.

This sets the stage for why Satan is the way he is. Two primary factors contribute to his temperament, which energizes what he does and why he does it.

Factor One: SATAN IS SUBORDINATE TO MAN IN CLASS, ORDER, RANK, AND AUTHORITY.

As a member of the Angelic Class, the very reason he exists is to support the rule and execute the wishes of the Elohim Class in the spiritual realm. This includes Man. So, it doesn’t matter how much he hates or opposes or tortures or kills or deceives or steals or attempts to control or destroy God’s Man; Satan is still a Ministering Class Being. Everything he does MUST minister to the needs of God’s Man to advance him toward our Father’s Vision.

This enrages Satan. In his mind, the mere fact that he was the Covering Cherub who had been vested with the authority to cover and protect YHVH’s creation, made him superior to Man. But instead of being superior, he was given charge to minister as a subordinate to the needs of God’s Man. This is what sparked his “enmity, hostility and hatred” toward Man that YHVH said would persist between “the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent” throughout the age. (Genesis 3:14, 15)

Factor Two: SATAN HAS NO AUTHORITY TO RULE.

Because he is of the Angelic Class, the only authority that Satan has is the authority to minister. This is the sole Domain (jurisdiction) in which his authority can operate. So, to rule he must first obtain the authority to rule from the Class that has the authority to rule – the Elohim Class. But YHVH isn’t going to give him that authority and neither are the other Orders within the Elohim Class – the Elders and Watchers. This leaves Man as the only remaining Order within the Elohim Class that possesses the authority to rule.

Enter Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden who were members of the Elohim Class. But since Satan had no authority to rule, he couldn’t simply show up in the Garden and declare that he was taking over, nor could he compel Adam or Eve to submit to his will. They had to do it willingly. So, Satan had to devise an elaborate scheme to get them to voluntarily hand over what they had in exchange for what he was offering.

The First Adam bit, the Last Adam didn’t.

Such was Satan’s way then and such is his way now.

Servias Ministries presented these girls with their very own flute and a clarinet. Their band teacher chose them because of their excellent character and he could easily see that they would continue playing throughout school which is an indication of their gifting. My wife and I prayed over those instruments that the anointing from Our Heavenly Father be on them and minister life when the girls played those instruments. The girls were very thankful and showed their gratitude to Servias. The band teacher helped them put the instruments together for the first time since there was some preparation required. We thank those who are able to financially support this ministry to assist the kids in need. It’s all about Love.

My friend Steve continued with the following:

The Spiritual

“But the spiritual one is not the beginning or first in time, place, order and importance, but the natural one of the soul and mind; only then the spiritual one.” (I Corinthians.15: 46)

Spiritual forces are comprised of spiritual beings that have been designed and equipped to only operate in the spiritual realm. Man, both male and female, has been designed and equipped to operate on the earth. The two dimensions have been designed and equipped to work together as partners to accomplish YHVH’s Plan and intentions in both the spiritual and natural worlds, with Man as the bridge between them.

Under this design, when Man requires spiritual resources to perform or achieve his work, spiritual beings (angels) are dispatched to deliver those spiritual resources. Since Man is responsible for ruling the earth WITH YHVH, Man has also been given authority to exercise dominion over it. So, Man, both male and female, holds the key to spiritual entry into the earth, which only he and YHVH can grant. This is the core rule of engagement that YHVH established between the two dimensions when He created the heavens and the earth.

While this rule of engagement still governs the relationship between the spiritual and natural realms, the kingdom of darkness has circumvented it to support its dominion and rule in the earth. Its spiritual forces still cannot insert themselves or their strategies into the earth on their own. They must first attract human allies who will accept and agree to implement their strategies on their behalf as willing slaves. Most humans would never agree to this knowingly. So, the spiritual strategies usually come to them as ideas, thoughts, or concepts that promise beneficial outcomes.

The circumvention is activated when the human voluntarily uses his or her authority to accept the strategy’s ideas, concepts, promises, or outcome. The

acceptance then gives permission for the circumvention to function in the physical earth under Man’s dominion authority. This allows the spiritual forces of darkness to replace the partnership relationship that YHVH established, with a contract relationship that the kingdom of darkness establishes. Under the terms of this contract, the accepting party (the human) agrees to be subservient to the offering party (the kingdom of darkness). One of the obligations under this contract is that the human agrees to grant the spiritual forces free use of their authority and resources. Another is that they will play by the rules of darkness. This encases the human in darkness thus blinding them to the reality that they have also agreed to act as the offering party’s slave.

Once and only after this transaction has been completed can the spiritual forces move forward with their plans on the earth. They will immediately utilize the agreeing human’s authority and resources to promote and advance the strategy’s ideas, concepts, promises, and outcome. The goal from there is to achieve critical mass by gaining acceptance from other humans through their newly acquired slaves. If achieved, the scheme will build momentum to eventually spread to and affect the rest of the earth. If not, it dies.

This is what the devil was trying to accomplish with Jesus through the wilderness temptations. With each exchange, the devil was attempting to manipulate Jesus into agreeing to accept either his challenge (to prove that He was the Son of God) or his offer (to rule the world).

If Jesus would have reacted to either the challenge or offer, it would have affirmed the devil’s legitimacy as an offering party. This would have constituted an offer/ acceptance transaction that would have subordinated Jesus to the devil. This is why Jesus refused to entertain either the challenge or offer. Rather, He deferred to His Father as the sole source of what He said and did: “But answering, (Jesus) said, laying the argument to rest, ‘It has been written and inscribed that it is not fitting that the man shall live solely upon bread alone but upon each and every part of the totality of every spoken word that comes out from the mouth of God and the effect and influence it has on the man. . .’

“Again, the devil, the slanderous one who falsely accuses and condemns to sever relationship, assumed the office by taking Him to an exceedingly high and lofty mountain. And he showed Him each and every part of the totality of the kingdoms, sovereignty and royal power of the ordered system and arrangement of the world and their glory and intrinsic value and worth.

“And laying the argument to rest, he said to Him, ‘Each and every part of the totality of this I will give to You if You fall down and prostrate Yourself in homage kissing the ground to revere and worship me as Your superior.’ “Then, at that time, Jesus said to him, laying the argument to rest, ‘Be led away, Satan, by the authority of the Lord God who owns and possesses absolute rights over you. For it is written that you shall prostrate yourself in homage kissing the ground to revere and worship Him alone.’

“Then, at that time, the devil, the slanderous one who falsely accuses and condemns to sever relationship, was released and sent away. And (Jesus) experienced, beholding with inward spiritual perception, the angels approaching and drawing near to serve and minister to His needs.” (Matthew 4:4, 8-11)

The 1960s was a prime example of this same dynamic being played out in the modern era. The kingdom of darkness formed unholy alliances with willing humans who littered the decade with ideas and actions that never would have been tolerated by previous generations. The acceptance of these ideas led to the formation of new beliefs that were then used to alter cultural attitudes and norms. This, in turn, energized and mobilized behaviors destructive to the nation while promising to benefit the nation. The human allies were then used to carry these destructive ideas, belief systems, altered cultural attitudes and norms to the rest of the world, and into the following decades to produce the world we now live in.

This is how the kingdom of darkness mobilized its scheme against Adam and Eve in the Garden. It is how it attempted to mobilize its scheme against Jesus. And this is how it mobilized its scheme against America and the world in the 1960s. In every instance, the spiritual forces of darkness constructed their schemes to gain greater control over God’s Man and the earth he was given authority to rule.

As this relates to the 1960s, it raises some fundamental questions:

• Why do women play such a key role in so many of the spiritual strategies of the 1960s?

• Why have so many of our women destroyed with their own hands what has always been most precious to them?

• Why have the most innocent and vulnerable among us been targeted for extermination, like what was done in the days of Moses and in the days of Jesus?

To answer these questions, and others like them, we must get to the why’s behind the events of the 1960s. But, to get to the why’s we must be willing to do something that most of us have thus far been unwilling to do – to get into the game, to be repositioned by Jesus from spectators to players, from the mindset of amateurs to Kingdom Pros.

This is where the reality of the war that YHVH spoke of in Genesis 2:1 is played out – in the spiritual realm. The problem, however, is that for most of us the spiritual arena is a mysterious place that we’d prefer to avoid. And so, we do.

This is exactly how the spirits of darkness want it. Our fear and unwillingness to venture into this unfamiliar place WITH Jesus provide them with their greatest cover. It makes them and their schemes invisible to us. So, we stroll through our lives not realizing that we’re heading headlong into our destruction without even knowing it.

The disciples were caught in this same delusion when they tried to convince Jesus about the splendor and superiority of the temple complex:

“And having come out from the temple, Jesus was going away. And His disciples came up to Him to show and demonstrate that the buildings of the entire temple complex were a suitable home for God. “And answering, He said to them, laying the argument to rest, ‘Do you not see in the physical realm each and every part of the totality of this in the spiritual realm, so you can take the needed action? Truly and most assuredly I say to you, laying the argument to rest, no stone here will be permitted to aptly fit on another stone but instead will be overthrown, demolished, and disintegrated.’

“And as He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, His disciples came to Him personally and privately, saying and laying the argument to rest, ‘Tell us, laying the argument to rest, when will this be? And what will the corroborating and authenticating sign be regarding the end purpose of Your Royal Coming when the age is completed with all the parts coming together into the whole?’

“And answering the question, Jesus said to them, laying the argument to rest, ‘Watch and be observant of what is seen in the physical realm to see what is happening in the spiritual realm, so you can take the needed action, lest a certain one – anyone – cause you to wander into error, getting off course and deviating from the correct path.’” (Matthew 24:1-4)

This is one of several instances recorded in the Gospels where the disciples were seeing one thing while Jesus was seeing something entirely different. Another was with the man born blind (John 9). Still, another was with Peter when he rebuked Jesus for daring to say that He was going to be killed but would then be raised on the third day (Matthew 16).

On each of these occasions, the disciples thought they were seeing correctly. However, they were only seeing half of what was there to be seen as Jesus so aptly pointed out. Though incomplete, the half they saw was so convincing that it caused them to draw incorrect conclusions that either completely neutralized them or positioned them against the very God whom they said they served.

Through their temple complex experience, Jesus tells them why: They were only looking at the physical dimension. They weren’t extending beyond the physical dimension to see the totality of what was happening behind it in the spiritual realm. This lack of perspective caused them to be totally out of sync WITH Jesus. So, while they were seeing one thing (the beauty and suitability of the temple complex), Jesus was seeing another (misdirection and destruction).

As it was with them, so it is with us.

When observing the events of the 1960s, it would probably be wise not to make the same mistake. While it may seem strange to think that we can see beyond the physical and into the spiritual, it is an attribute that we naturally possess as members of the Order of Man. YHVH built this capability in His Man when He created him, both male and female. But like all attributes they must be developed and refined through practice, which Jesus does as He teaches us how to properly use this skill WITH Him.

FATHER,

17 I pray that YOU impart to me the riches of the Spirit of Wisdom and the Spirit of revelation to know YOU through my deepening intimacy with YOU.

18 I pray that YOUR Light illuminate the eyes of my imagination, flooding me with light, until I experience the full revelation of the hope of YOUR calling—that is, the wealth of YOUR glorious inheritances that YOU find in us, YOUR Holy Ones!

19 I pray that I will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of YOUR power made available to me through faith. Then my life will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through me! This is the mighty power 20 that was released when YOU raised Christ from the dead and exalted Him to the place of highest honor and supreme authority in the Heavenly realm! 21 And now He is exalted as first above every ruler, authority, government, and realm of power in existence! He is gloriously enthroned over every name that is ever praised, not only in this age, but in the age that is coming!

22 And He alone is the leader and source of everything needed in the church. YOU have put everything beneath the authority of Jesus Christ and have given Him the highest rank above all others. 23 And now we, His called out ones, are His Body on the earth and that which fills Him who is being filled by it!

In Jesus’ Name,

Amen

(Based on Ephesians 1:17-23)

My friend Steve wrote the following:

The Natural

“But the spiritual one is not the beginning or first in time, place, order and importance, but the natural one of the soul and mind; only then the spiritual one.” (I Corinthians.15: 46)

This verse is part of a letter written by the Apostle Paul to the ekklésia in Corinth. In the surrounding verses (35 – 50), Paul is explaining to them (and to us) that when YHVH created the heavens and the earth, He distinguished one dimension from the other. YHVH then created, among other things, unique living beings that were equipped with certain properties and authority that enabled them to perform their role and function within their respective dimension. A spiritual being was thus restricted to the spiritual dimension while a natural being was restricted to the natural dimension.

The exception to this rule was Man. He, alone, possessed the properties to function in both dimensions of heaven and earth, the spiritual and the natural, at the same time. So, spiritual beings may want to spread certain ideas or influence certain behaviors or do certain things on the earth, but they cannot do them without Man first agreeing to cooperate. They may attempt to initiate but ultimately MUST FOLLOW what Man, both male and female, agrees to do. This is what was happening in the decade of the 1960s.

America seemed to be at war with itself as it continued to promote and embrace one destructive idea after another. This produced huge and unprecedented upheavals in law, government, family, education, religion, business, in the norms of everyday life, in the structure and operation of authority. And, with each upheaval the fabric of this nation that once declared that it was “under God” and claimed to be “indivisible with liberty and justice for all” was being torn apart.

Some examples of these unprecedented, fabric-tearing upheavals that were systematically dismantling the culture of America included:

• 1962 – Supreme Court ruling that banned prayer in public schools.

• 1963 – Supreme Court ruling that banned the reading of the Bible in public schools.

• 1964 – Launch of LBJ’s Great Society and passage of the Civil Rights Act.

• 1965 – Launch of the Hippie Movement.

• 1968 – Launch of the Feminist Movement.

• 1969 – Launch of the Jesus Movement.

• 1969 – Launch of Roe v Wade legal challenge that led to the Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark ruling, which legalized abortion under the guise of a woman’s “right to privacy.” This reduced an unborn child to the status of a wart. Since then, an estimated 310 million unborn babies have been legally (not the same as lawfully) executed in the U.S. alone (60 million surgically + 250 million chemically).

The common thread that ran through and connected each of these examples was that in the name of law each promoted something that was entirely lawless. This lawlessness was not only authorized but also protected by the Highest Court in the land. This marked the clear and intentional insertion of lawlessness into the U.S. legal, legislative, judicial, and law enforcement systems. The Court was then used to provide cover and legitimacy for the subsequent dismantling of the then-existing social norms while inverting – or flipping – established authority structures in favor of new ones.

What’s so sinister about these rulings and events is that they each targeted the innocent, the weak, or the less fortunate in the population – women, children, minorities, the poor – under the guise of helping and protecting them. They also had a resounding, declarative tone to them as if they were being established by decree.

For example:

• Children and Education: The 1962 and 1963 rulings declared that God was no longer to have a role in the education of children; only the government would.

• Civil Rights and The Great Society: The Great Society and the Civil Rights Act declared the end of poverty and discrimination against minorities.

These wonderful-sounding concepts and legislative initiatives were noble on their face (who wouldn’t want an end to poverty and discrimination?), but the practical effect, empowered and mobilized by judicial authority, has been to upset virtually every aspect of American life. Though packaged as a morally superior approach to civil society that promised to create equality for all by prohibiting and punishing discrimination, it actually set up a caste system within America’s population.  Instead of unifying the nation as promised, it divided the nation into antagonistic sub-groups that have been and continue to be exploited by politicians and the powerful.

The first beneficiary of these grand schemes was to be the black community. But instead of providing benefits, it has all but destroyed this community by replacing the black man/husband/father with the government as the family’s head/provider/protector. The result: Three generations of husbandless women, fatherless families and children, angry and violent sons, imprisoned men, and impoverished families that continue to perpetuate more of the same in proportions not seen in any other segment of society. And though equality was the “right” most promised to the black community, they scream more for equality today than before this whole charade began.

• Hippies and Baby Boomers: The launch of the Hippie Movement exploited and mobilized the teen and young adult members of the population in the name of advancing the movement’s redefined ideals of peace, love, and harmony. It was the first declaration from the young and youthful that they were better equipped to run the nation and its society than the older, more experienced adult members.

To accomplish the declaration, its young adherents had to dismantle and invert the traditional authority structure in the home en route to dismantling and inverting it in society. So, the young no longer deferred to or sought the wisdom of their elders nor did they yield to them out of respect. Rather, the new order dictated that the possessors of wisdom and experience were too old and out of touch to be of use in the new, vibrant, and morally superior world that was coming.

This cultural shapeshifter burst on the scene with such speed and force that it begged for a term to describe it. Soon, “Generation Gap” was coined not only to label the growing separation that was forming between the young and old but more importantly to legitimize the flip in authority that was coming with it. Though catchy, by implication the term shifted blame for the gap to the older generations. This gave credence to the younger Baby Boomer Generation’s assertion that the elders had forfeited their right to lead and govern the nation.

Once the term’s name and premise of blame and responsibility were accepted, the term’s impact became entrenched. This established the “Generation Gap” as the new norm. From that point forward, each succeeding generation of youth would experience a gap between it and every other older generation.

The generational mandate of the new order was thus accomplished.

The movement’s redefinition of peace, love, and harmony that outwardly promised to build a morally superior society of unity and equality, instead built a culture of inverted authority, blame, and division that was assured to pass from one generation of youth to the next. The movement’s strategic purpose was set. The attitudes that were sown in the Boomers in the 1960s were now certain to be sown

in the succeeding generations of youth, the evidence of which is now observed in Gen X and the Millennials.

• The Feminist Movement: The feminist movement declared that women were equal to men. Of course, to declare oneself equal means that you must first declare yourself to be inferior en route to becoming superior. And so, for women to gain equality with men meant they had to first concede that they were inferior to men. But, for an inferior to gain equality with a superior means the inferior must first possess a power that is greater than the superior with whom they are attempting

to become equal. Thus, the declaration of equality was the first step to the feminist movement repositioning women to be superior to men.

This was a hard sell because it required women to confess that they were inferior to men. To overcome this objection without first losing its constituency, the feminist movement had to create a common enemy to distract women from its core message (that women are inferior) while rallying them against their new enemy (their life) and the ones who were accused of creating that life (men). This required the redefinition of equality while igniting feelings of discontent and antagonism to mobilize women into the cause.

The movement accomplished this by shifting focus away from the person of women and to the activity of women. Once a sufficient number of women bought into this misdirection, it gave the movement its basis for establishing women’s inferiority without making women inferior. This set the stage for pointing to the woman’s role in the family as being inferior to the man’s role outside the family. The workplace then became the new definition of equality.

Women were unrelentingly bombarded with messages from every conceivable medium convincing them to break free of all previously established norms of what it meant to be a female, a woman, a wife, and a mother. Their new mission became the ever-elusive quest of achieving equality with men – now redefined as working outside the home in pursuit of a business career.

This, of course, was an illusion because although women were distinct from men, they were already equal to men. They could do whatever they wanted as many women of that time demonstrated.

No matter. The march was on.

• Feminism and the Career: The Medusa of the outside career (like the man had) had now become the ultimate prize that redefined what it meant to be equal. The glory of distinction was dissolved by the demand for sameness as the outside career was now placed on the highest rung of the value ladder. Nothing was more important than the career; not relationship, not love, not marriage, not having children, not raising children, not caring for the family, not providing stability

in the home. The panacea of career was heralded to women everywhere – in the arts, in magazines, in newspapers, in music, on the radio, in television programs and ads, in the movies. What had been praised for centuries as the noblest of all professions had been redefined in a few short years into a curse word – just like “straight.”

Over the next decade, a tidal wave of women fled the home and flooded into the workplace creating huge upheavals in the family.  Children for the first time in history were being raised in mass by strangers for a fee. Financial prosperity soared as two-income families became the norm. And the authority structure in the home was being flipped en route to doing the same in business, education, government, society, and all manner of life. The game was afoot.

• Feminism and The Sexual Revolution: An enthusiastic partner that was running parallel to the feminist movement was the sexual revolution. This began in the early 1960s. Its mission was to dismantle existing sexual norms by removing all barriers to sexual distinction, choice, behavior, and lifestyle, particularly among young women. It redefined sexual practices that for centuries had been deemed

abhorrent, deviant, and destructive to now be normal. Promiscuity, premarital sex, homosexuality, bisexuality, pornography, transgendering, sadomasochism, and the like, were all celebrated as not only being acceptable but preferred by the progressive, liberated mind. Soon this mindset seeped into the teen culture to affirm the normalcy of teen sex. Living in the liberty of this new sexual norm was heralded as yet another victory in the ongoing war for equality with men en route to becoming their superiors.

• Feminism and Power: What’s fascinating about the feminist movement is that it has never been about women being inferior, or superior, or pursuing more noble careers, or achieving equality with men. As stated earlier, though distinct women have always been equal with men, and have always had the freedom in the U.S. to compete in the marketplace. Money in this current world system has no allegiance

except to those who have the skill to make more of it and who are willing to give their life and all they have for it. And so, women have always had the same opportunity as men to love and give their life for money. But, like men, they have had to learn how to compete for it and to prove that they are willing to withhold nothing to get it.

To some, this may sound cold and insensitive toward women. To others, it may sound naïve, ill-informed, or even misogynistic. It’s none of these. It is practical. This Paper has already asserted women’s equality with men and is in full support of a woman working wherever she chooses as the law of liberty rightly allows. But the reality is that this current world system is being run by the spiritual powers of the kingdom of darkness. In this kingdom there is no equality, only power, domination, and servitude. This is how it rules, so this is how it rules us. Equality only exists in the Kingdom of God. So, if equality is what we want, then we have to learn how to play by God’s rules.

Women, like the rest of us, were being sold a bill of goods. They were being promised something that the promisor has no intention of delivering. Why? Because equality produces unity among people of every race, color, creed, age, and gender. But unity is the last thing the powers of darkness want to facilitate among people. The only thing they want to facilitate is division. This is how they rule humans and the institutions through which those powers rule the earth without us knowing it. This is what the strategies and events of the 1960s were all about. For those who decided to accept them, they promised to deliver a morally superior society and the unity such superiority produces. But instead, they only delivered hatred and division. And so, the equality that these strategies and movements promised was a lie because equality does not exist in the realm that devised them.

So, the feminist movement wasn’t about equality. It was about seizing power, authority, wealth, and control. It was one of many devices and strategies in the 1960s that was billed as one thing while delivering something entirely different.

• Abortion: Abortion was the strategic crème de la crème. It was the ultimate goal and achievement of the 1960s as it positioned women above law and even above life itself. This was the crown jewel of the authority inversion strategy. Once any class of being obtains or possesses the power to subordinate life to personal choice, the seat of the Divine is all that remains. As Eve was beguiled in the Garden by the Serpent, so our women were being beguiled in the 1960s, and with them, us.

These examples, though profound in their own right, don’t tell the entire

story. We could go on to discuss the assassinations of JFK (1963), Malcolm

X (1965), Martin Luther King (1968), and Bobby Kennedy (1968).

We could also talk about the Black Power Movement or the Black Panthers. We could examine the Jesus Movement, which grew out of the Hippie Movement. It has changed the face of Christianity more than any other influence, especially among the evangelical and charismatic segments of the Christian religion.

These are but a few of the tumultuous events that were happening in the natural order during the decade of the 1960s. And each of these events worked meticulously to accomplish the core strategic objective of the kingdom of darkness – to dismantle societal norms as a precursor to inverting God’s authority structure in the physical earth.

While the powers of darkness were furiously working to disrupt and enslave through their strategies, Jesus was way ahead of the curve working to free and bless by methodically building the infrastructure for today’s technology-driven world.

Some examples would include: Introducing the prototype to the modern computer in 1964. Developing the UNIX operating system in 1969. Sending the first message over the ARPANET (the predecessor to today’s internet) in 1969. And then, 20 years later in November 1989, when all was ready and in place, releasing His Net Vision with the announcement:

“Kingdom Business is about to break out.”

The natural.