27 Aug Navigating the crossing
It is noteworthy to me that both of these illustrations come from an artist in war ravaged Ukraine. I’m not the only one.whose mind is pregnant with this message. There are others as well. In his book The End of the World As We Know It, Johnny Enlow saw 2020 as beginning “The greatest rescue operation since the children of Israel’s original Passover—when they were led through the Red Sea and delivered miraculously from generations of oppression . . . Soon enough, life will be known as before and after these present days.” (1) In April of 2020, God told me to “walk in what I am working out,” And He took me to the Exodus, where Israel’s back was against the sea with Pharaoh and his army bearing down on her.. There are others as well declaring that we are coming to a Red Sea crossing. I believe God is giving us an important navigational understanding for the events that are upon us. I believe that 2020-2027 marks the greatest passage since the Red Sea was parted to deliver Israel from her enemies. Is it sheer coincidence that 2020-2027 is also the seventieth set of sevens since Sultan Suleiman’s 1537 decree to rebuild Jerusalem?
The book of Revelation was given to the ancient church to help us navigate events that were immanent and yet to come. It is filled with: things impossible for John to explain apart from the apocalyptic imagery. that flooded his mind and filled his eyes. Revelation’s narrative has been unfolding in history ever since the visions were first shown to John. From those days at the end of the first century, the seals were broken, releasing the four horses of the apocalypse into every generation. Throughout the church age, God’s people have been at war with the dragon., Using apocalyptic symbols, bringing the Old Testament forward, the book of Revelation reveals Jesus’ glory in God’s eternal plan of redemption from the heavenly perspective. It calls us to overcome and it has strengthened the endurance of those who had to face “the beast” in their own time. Many have been martyred, burned at the stake, deprived of their living, or put to death for their faith. Revelation is unique in that it describes not only what is, but what has been and what is yet to come. Its narrative is being fulfilled, has been fulfilled, and is yet to be fulfilled.
In Revelation, the apostle John described the entity we face today as a beast rising from the sea, having seven heads (multi-focal) and ten crowns (ten kings). (Revelation 13:1; 17:7) We can see the accuracy of this description in the multi-focal global entity that has risen in our time. This global entity is a living, flesh and blood expression of “the dragon”, whose immortal objective has always been to rob God of His people. Those who belong to this global entity find no irony in the totalitarian, authoritarian tactics used to “preserve freedom”. Good is “evil”, and evil is “good.” They don’t recognize the ulterior motive behind the technology they are pressing forward–a technology that will link our minds to that which will override our soul’s ability to recognize and respond to God—destroying our ability to be saved, destroying our ability to belong to Him. Believing they are enlightened, believing they are superior to the rest of humanity, they are supremely confident in the necessity of a great reset. They know that it will be the end of homo sapiens, The early testing has begun; subjects are already learning to link their minds to the internet through their thoughts.
Seven hundred years before John’s visions, the prophet Daniel saw the same beast that represented the last world power. He called it the fourth beast.
Daniel 7:7, 15-17, 23-24
7 Then in my vision that night, I saw a fourth beast—terrifying, dreadful, and very strong. It devoured and crushed its victims with huge iron teeth and trampled their remains beneath its feet. It was different from any of the other beasts, and it had ten horns.
15 I, Daniel, was troubled by all I had seen, and my visions terrified me. 16So I approached one of those standing beside the throne and asked him what it all meant. He explained it to me like this: 17“These four huge beasts represent four kingdoms that will arise from the earth. 18 But in the end, the holy people of the Most High will be given the kingdom, and they will rule forever and ever.”
23 Then he said to me, “This fourth beast is the fourth world power that will rule the earth. It will be different from all the others. It will devour the whole world, trampling and crushing everything in its path. 24 Its ten horns are ten kings who will rule that empire. Then another king will arise, different from the other ten, who will subdue three of them.
As I follow what is happening in Great Britain today, I see a people being devoured and crushed, as the horn of their former power is uprooted and subdued by another. I grieve, but my heart flames with gratitude and recognition of the signs that we’ve been given, to help us navigate the events that are upon us.
“The greatest rescue operation since the children of Israel’s original Passover—when they were led through the Red Sea and delivered miraculously from generations of oppression—is underway. . . Soon enough, life will be known as before and after these present days.” Johnny Enlow (1)
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(1) Johnny Enlow, End of the World As We Know It: A Prophetic Word for Entering the New Era; Page 29 and 30, Kindle format
While I quote Johnny directly, and believe what God has told him —that He is bringing down the present rulers from the seven mountains of influence over the earth—I disagree with his seven mountain eschatology. He, like many, was wounded by a fear-filled upbringing that taught a dark and threatening end of the age with the rapture presented as the escape of the church from the great tribulation. He soundly rejects the rapture rescue in lieu of a kingdom now theology, which calls us as Christians to “man up” and take the mountain. He, like many others in the kingdom now movement (Bill Johnson, Dutch Sheets, Hank Kunneman, Lance Wallneau), have a call on their lives to arouse wimpy Christians into becoming who we are meant-to-be. They call us to realize and live up to who we are in Christ. But they dismiss a dark scenario coming, dismissing those parts of Scripture as predating the kingdom now. But the kingdom has not banished dark scenarios from the past, the present, or the future. To the contrary, it tells us that the saints of the tribulation overcome the beast by the blood of the lamb, by the word of their testimony, loving not their life unto death. (Revelation 12:11) I see the rapture not as an escape, but as our going out to meet our conquering Hero, not unlike what the citizens of Rome did when they ran out of the city to welcome their victorious generals home from war. I am convinced that in the meantime we will be more than conquerors through Him, with Him and in Him in every dark place..
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