BeLOnGings

The book of Job and The Space Trilogy both have very beautiful endings!

We read of the daughters born to Job after his ordeal “Nowhere in all the land were there found women as BEAUTIFUL as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an INHERITANCE along with their brothers.” (Job.42:15)

Their given names speak of the loveliness, the consecration, and the maturity of the BEAUTIFUL end time BRIDE. The INHERITANCE piece points to the pre-fall relationship between man and woman, needing no ‘pecking order’ but coming together in a powerful and complementary unity as was the ‘original intention’ at the beginning in Genesis and as portrayed at the end of the book in Revelation at, ‘the marriage supper of the Lamb’

The Space Trilogy also ends with ‘a feast’, and ‘a marriage’ beautifully restored.

The husband Mark who had sold out to the ‘beast’ system realizes now, how brutishly insensitive he had been to the beauty of his wife. Up until the last sentence we wonder will she receive her humbled husband now returned home? I love the way Lewis genius for understanding men and women is revealed in the very last sentence of the Trilogy.,....”the sleeve of a shirt – Mark’s shirt – even hung over down the outside wall. And in all this damp too. How exactly like Mark! Obviously it was high time she went in.”

I noticed that all three of the books had 17 chapters. interestingly this is the biblical number for VICTORY a victory that is is only realized at the very end of the story but is assured throughout!

This is why I choose the song “O Behold the Lamb.” to head this blog, for this is the Lamb ‘slain before the foundation of the earth.” (Rev. 13:8) In other words the end of the story can be known from the beginning. Our journey through all the ups and downs of this ‘mortal coil‘ is that we might learn to ‘behold the beauty of the Lord’ throughout (Ps..27:4), knowing like Job that ‘our Redeemer liveth’

Leading up to Christmas a ‘beast of a storm’ brought windchills of – 30’s and 40’s our way. So as Robin’s song “A Billion Little Ways” put it, we were,”In the belly of the beast’ ……’Locked Down’…….. this time not in submission to a capricious human government but in awe of a benevolent creator!

And yet in this place, (where we find ourselves again today with another 10 inches of snow!) there is such beauty.……for those with eyes to behold it.

My normal running path had narrowed with snow bowed branches. A pause to savor and catch the beauty with my phone before ‘passing through the restriction’ heightened the joy of this little “Job journey”!

For the beauty of the earth, For the beauty of the skies

For the love which from our birth over and around us lies

Christ our God to thee we raise this our sacrifice of praise.”

………..was another old hymn that rose up with fresh meaning

“Hidden treasures in hard times.” was how Megan, Dave and Cindy Watson’s daughter described the family’s faith perspective throughout Dave’s recent ‘Job journey’ beginning with CPR by a stranger on the sidewalk!  

It reminded me of how I had been given to ‘behold the beauty’ during my illness.

There was of course the realization that beauty is not ‘skin deep’ as I beheld in the mirror my disfigured face and knew at a deeper level the joy of “Christ in me”, as I shared in the last blog. 

I was repeatedly made aware of Psalm 23. “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.”

Amazingly time and again provision was made.

Primarily this was through people, especially my bride as she manifested the unfailing love of Christ that from our birth, ‘over and around us lies.’

She discovered a card that dear friends from the Netherlands had sent us last Christmas. He is a prophet. It’s often only in retrospect that we understand something to be prophetic and what that prophecy (Blessed 2022) meant! 

On one occasion I discovered that milk and honey could both help with the itch. Hilary had arrived home that day with a little jar of honey. Despite the fact we had just purchased a 50 pound tub of honey she’d felt prompted to buy this. It turned out that the Manuka type of honey she’d bought was even more perfect, and the milk Robin had bought was raw…again perfect. It felt like the ‘land of milk and honey‘ had come to me! Remedies such as Basil leaves , an aloe vera plant and silver, all just happened to ‘turn up!

“You anoint my head with oil.” the psalmist says ….and the essential oils which have for 25 years been our ‘go to’ again provided healing and relief from Father’s medicine cabinet in nature.

“My cup runneth over” shows how by faith we can move beyond temperament where the optimist and pessimist see the cup as half full’ or ‘half empty’ to realizing the everything God allows in our lives has it’s place in fulfilling God’s purpose for our lives in his time, as this scene from The Chosen illustrates so well.

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On rereading the Christmas story in this year of 2022, the character Herod was highlighted to me, and how he evilly ordered the slaughter of the children under 2 years of age.

Human nature has not changed and we have seen over the last few years that there are still what psychiatry would call ‘psychopaths’ and ‘sociopaths’ in our day, who rise to places of power and will do literally anything to preserve and increase that power.

In The Space Trilogy this is personified in the character Weston who became what Lewis described as the Un-man. In tandem we see Ransom move in the opposite direction and morph through his Job-like struggles into the True man, a son formed in God’s image.

Likewise, with the exposure of the evil and corruption that has been so deeply embedded in our modern world, there has come the emergence of many ‘beautiful” people we would otherwise never have been aware of.

I think of many of those I’ve mentioned here over the years who have all been granted not the whole truth, but an an aspect of truth to share with those who ‘hunger and thirst after righteousness’ A beautiful emergent community of courageous heroes like…..Kash Patel, Dave Hayes, Johnny Enlow, Del Bigtree, Joseph Mercola, Amazing Polly, Zach Bush, Neil Oliver, Shiva Ayyadurai, Andrew Bridgen, Judy Mikovitz, etc.etc.

None of the ‘good guys’ are without fault even as we must believe none of the ‘bad actors’ who are human are without hope of redemption.

The most beautiful heroes of course are that community of truth seekers whom you have found and gotten to know personally where you live, likely little known on earth, but recognized from heaven!

It is a critical time in His-story, when we must each and everyone of us, “Chose you this day, whom you will serve.”

Then as the song says,’“

“The scene is set, this is your slot.

Walk on…….. and give it all you’ve got.”

Jesus tells us, in John 15, that if our lives are to bear fruit that will last, it will result from our ‘abiding in Christ.’

Paul tells us that if we are to share in the fruit of Christ’s resurrection life, we must also share with him in his sufferings and death. (Phil.3:10)

This is borne out in both the story of Job in the bible and the story of Professor Ransom in The Space Trilogy. Both had ‘more than a Near Death Experience’ that transformed them and made them fruitful, Job at a more personal level, Ransom at a more universal level!

After being lead to read “That Hideous Strength” which is the third book in The Space Trilogy, I subsequently reread the text from my high school days, the first in the series, “Out of the Silent Planet” and then finished with the second book in the series, “Perelandra”.

My readings were seemingly ‘out of sequence’…….. book three, then one, and then two!

However It was indeed Father’s prescribed order!

Book 3, “That Hideous Strength” describes humanity facing a crisis on Earth which bears an uncanny likeness to what we are currently facing today. I elaborated a little on this in Part 1. of this series.

Book 1, “Out of the Silent Planet” (i.e. Earth) confirms the origin of the problem – an ‘evil’ on Earth, embodied in Weston, who kidnaps the central character, Ransom, and takes him to Mars.

Book 2, “Perelandra” is set on the planet Venus where there has been no ‘fall.’ Here we read about Ransom’s lengthy struggle to the death with Weston who has followed him from ‘fallen’ earth and who has surrendered his will to ‘the evil’ there. He seeks to ‘spoil’ Venus too. Lewis brilliantly describes him as ‘The Un-man’

In Ransom’s wrestling with Weston, he at one point sustains an injury to his foot. When he appears again in “That Hideous Strength” where he has become, “The Director” to the little group who work with him to secure the final overthrow of ‘the evil empire’, he still carries this wound.

It was at the end of Perelandra, this second book in the Trilogy, that I realized why Father had ordained it be the last in my reading order.

There, at the climax of Ransom’s battling with Weston we read,

“In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes – I mean Amen.” said Ransom , and hurled the stone as hard as he could into the Un-Man’s face. The Un-man fell like pencil falls, the face smashed out of all recognition…….there was hardly anything left that you could call a head, but he thought it better to take no rsks. He took it by it’s ankles and lugged it up to the edge of the cliff; then after resting a few seconds. he shoved it over. He saw it’s shape black, for a second, against the sea of fire, and then that was the end of it.”

That, however proved not to be the end of it, for the same ‘evil’ reappeared again to be finally destroyed on earth, in the last book, “That Hideous Strength.”

“…..he will crush your head, and you will bruise his heel” was the scripture that came to mind where God speaks to the serpent about the ‘seed’ of the woman.(Gen.3:15) For Ransom to play his part in the final overthrow of evil, he has to qualify by going the way of ‘the Son’ …. crushing the enemy’s head while having his own heel bruised.

I realized that the message of Perelandra (where I had landed) was to do with the training and transformation of Ransom (‘the sons’) in order for him to participate in the final victory of “the Son” who became the Ransom for all men.

……and so Father’s emphasis for me was that…… this is where we are NOW in His-Story

We have been, and are being, trained to ENGAGE in the current battle of the ages on earth, as members of the Body of Christ, Jesus himself being our Head.

In other words it is God our Father who is Looking for a Ransom (and a Job!)……. those whom He has trained and transformed so that they can, while contributing nothing, participate fully in the work of Christ!

So how are we to ENGAGE NOW in the work of Christ?

That is for each person to be lead by the Spirit, but let me mention a few things we have been lead to do.

Job like Ransom was getting ‘on the Job’ training to do what he was then only able to do, in the final 42nd chapter. Having shared in Christ’s sufferings “who ever lives to make intercession for us” he now qualified in unity with Christ, to move beyond ‘saying prayers’ as he had done in chapter 1, to effectively interceding for his friends.

In the middle of my sickness Brian sent me a video Q and A session, given by one of Watchman Nee’s colleages. The saintly brother (over 100 years old!) said, “Leadership is meant to be ‘the neck’ in the body of Christ. It’s function is to facilitate communication between Jesus, the head, and his body. Problems arise when the neck starts thinking it is the head!”

My neck was the focus of my suffering and I discovered at the same time Brian too had a painful neck. We realized we were like Paul being given an opportunity to participate in the mystery that is to ‘complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body that is the church.” (Col. 1:24) We were interceding for the leadership of ‘the church of God’. – the neck!

So there is the prayer..……. and there is the practical.

As someone who is easily distracted I have had to learn how to continuously ‘Stop and Drop’, then ‘Discern Decide and Do.’ You might think about it as learning to ‘Drop Down‘ into your spirit, or learning to ‘SINK’

One simple practical action we were lead to take was to respond to Juan O Savin’s encouragement to write a letter to the Supreme Court in advance of the January 6th hearing in support of the Bronson brothers case I mentioned earlier in the series! You can learn more about that here.

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This coming Sunday, one local expression of ‘the church’ will meet in our home – a God joined, heart knit, relationally based, Spirit lead Christ centered ‘motley crew’.

We were given the name HQ which has turned out to have multiple levels of meaning! One is HeadQuarters. as we gather together to honor the Head and encourage the members of his body where he is Quartered in their various gifts and callings. Reflecting on the year past and looking forward to 2023 we will be seeking to help one another answer the question, “How should we then live in these critical days in order to bear fruit that will remain?”

Next week Hilary and I follow the Spirit on an assignment back to Ireland. I hope to complete this blog series before we leave.

My friend and blog reader Tom P. sent me a message on Christmas Eve that was a wonderful nod and gift from heaven!

It was the article below by Dwight Pryor giving a second witness and scholarly basis for what I have been blogging recently. In particular how God answers our “Why?” not with Reason but with Revelation.

Dwight Pryor, a teacher of teachers, was the president of The Center for Judeo Christian Studies.

What Tom didn’t know was that I personally had the privilege of meeting and becoming friends with Dwight, many years ago, in Australia. Subsequently we ministered together in Auckland, New Zealand.

Dwight had his own ‘Job Journey’ as he suffered greatly from severe rheumatoid arthritis. He died a number of years ago.

I always remember when he was on earth, the encouragement of his saying to me that he had set his alarm to awaken each morning to my singing,

“I open my eyes,

I see your smiling face

Warming my heart.

Good Mornin’ Dad “

In the last blog I recommended this to you as my habit : – )

Dwight and I also ministered together at Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids Michigan, at a conference on Men and Women.

His first wife had died and he had just remarried and so he had asked me to sing from the platform on his behalf the song, “How Beautiful You Are” from the Song of Solomon’ to his new bride!

It was from Dwight that I learned how scripture never tells you to trust in man, but only to trust in the Lord…..with one exception, when in Proverbs 31 it speaks about “the virtuous woman” whose husband ‘trusts in her’

Even there, Dwight said, you must understand that this woman is primarily representing ‘The Bride of Christ’

This has been where we have been going with the blog,….. how the process of becoming part of that company involves a ‘job Journey’ for each and every one of us where God does a work of cleansing and purification and by his grace alone brings us to be a trustworthy bride for his Son!

So be encouraged, heaven’s company wants us to know……. we’re on the right track : – )

Ours is a Resistance Movement (part 4 of 4)  Dwight A. Pryor, JC Studies. Here is a helpful clarification.Hanukkah commemorates a historic event in the life of God’s people that was subsequently established as a festival to remember the event. In the time of Jesus, the focus of Hanukkah was on the military victory of little Israel against the mighty army of the Syrians. However, the meaning of this festival shifted over time.After the destruction of the Temple in AD 70—and following the Second Jewish revolt in AD 135—the Rabbis began downplaying the military aspects of the revolt. They emphasized instead the more spiritual aspects of Hanukkah—the rededication of the Temple and the supernatural light that God provided for the Menorah. These traditions and celebrations continue to this day in Jewish communities worldwide.As I pointed out before, the meaning of Hanukkah for us is to be found in grasping the historical context. What seemed a clash of cultures was actually a battle for allegiance. Whom would they serve, the God of Israel or the gods of the nations?Before I share some final thoughts, let’s take a moment to draw several key contrasts between a Hellenistic and a Hebraic worldview.It never occurs to many people that ours is different from the culture of Jesus. Even our way of thinking differs from the way Jesus or the writers of Scripture thought. Yet there are significant differences between a Hebrew orientation to life and a Greek orientation to life, between a biblical and a western worldview.Consider these examples:What is ultimately important to the Hebraic mind is reliance upon the Omnipotent God and conformity to his moral law. To the Hellenistic, no revelation is considered ultimate because reason takes precedence. This idea of reason or logic is then used to analyze everything else. It does not submit to divine revelation.Ultimate wisdom, to the biblical mind, is to seek God and the ultimate virtue is to obey Him. To the western mind, there is no law to which one bows except self-expression.Ironically, the ultimate freedom in a Hebraic worldview is the freedom of obedience. To the Hellenistic, it is the freedom of self.The biblical mind typically asks, “What does the Lord require of me?” while the western mind asks, “Why are things the way they are?” One places supreme importance upon conduct and obedience, while the other places supreme importance upon truth and knowledge.I am not suggesting these two ways are antithetical, as if one is all good and the other is all bad. Nor am I advocating ignorance or isolation as a means to being faithful. Our ability to reason is a gift from God meant to bow to and serve Him.As I said before, educating to a more Hebraic—a more biblical worldview—is required. Then we will discern how the values and ideas of culture carry with them a worldview that, in many respects, diverges from a biblical one. If you are not sophisticated enough to know that, you will get sucked right into it without even knowing.Here is a hard truth. Our world so conditions us that we are not too interested in giving sacrificial service or making our bodies temples of holiness.We are much more impressed with comfort and convenience. Trust me; I am looking in the mirror as I say this. We are all guilty. How many hours a day do we spend watching TV as compared to studying the Word of God?Do you realize that the whole advertising industry flaunts the Word of God? What does one of the Ten Commandments say? You shall not covet. Yet the entire basis of advertising is to make you want, to make you covet. What you have is not good enough. You need the latest fashions! The sages taught that a contented man is a wealthy man. Yet the fundamental principle of advertising is to make you discontented with what you have.In our day, we face battles in many areas, including issues related to properly understanding God’s Word.During this period of Greek influence, a subversive and uniquely Jewish writing genre arose in Israel. We call it apocalyptic literature, which serves as an example of Jewish opposition to paganizing forces. Interestingly, another form of resistance developed over time, the parable. Parables are biblical truths captured and pictured in story form.Here is one from the Talmud, a Jewish compilation of oral teaching, traditions, and dialogue.A wicked government issued a decree forbidding Jews to study and practice the Torah. Papus Ben Judah found Rabbi Akiva publicly bringing gatherings together and occupying himself with the Torah. He said to him, “Akiva, are you not afraid of the government?” To which Akiva replied, “I will explain to you with a parable.””Once there was a fox walking alongside a river, and he saw fishes going in swarms from one place to the other; and the fox said to the fishes, ‘From what are you fleeing?’ They replied, ‘From the nets cast for us by men.’ And the fox said to them, ‘Why don’t you come up on the dry land so that you and your friends and I can live together in a way that my ancestors lived with your ancestors?'””And the fish replied, ‘Are you the one that they call the cleverest of animals? You are not clever but foolish. If we are afraid in the element in which we live, how much more shall we be afraid in the element in which we would die.'””So it is with us,” said Akiva. “If such is our condition when we sit and study the Torah, of which it is written ‘for that is your life and the length of your days’ (Deut 20:30), if we go and neglect it, how much worse off shall we be.” – Tractate Berachot 61bFinally, brothers and sisters, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.Amen.

Let me linger a little longer on the THIRD REVELATION Job had, and zoom in on the vision I believe he was given.

History tells us, that when the Romans crucified a man, the passers by were encouraged to lift rocks, and throw them at the face of the crucified one!

In Isaiah we are told “he had nothing in his appearance that we should desire him”. Is this a reference to his disfigured face upon the cross where he became ‘one from whom men hid their faces.”?

Was this the face that Job peered into in his vision, asking the question,

“Who is that?”

Only to hear,

“My Son. Your Savior.”

It was then as he continued to stare, he saw in that face, as if in a mirror……his own face!!!….and the great mystery of ‘in Christ’ dawned on him.

When I went through my recent ordeal and posted the photo of my ghostly face, (Into The Deep. November 19th)…. my children, and a number of you said,

“I didn’t know who it was!”

In fact looking into the mirror then……. I didn’t recognize myself!

It put me in mind of a little rhyme,

“My name is space

I have no face

I am a disgrace

To the human race.”

This was the rhyme that someone who came to our FREEDOM! retreat said his uncle used to laughingly recite over him.

It transpired that those words repeated in jest turned out to have a devastating effect on the young boy, that became evident from the wonderful freedom he experienced when that curse was broken and the grace of God displaced the disgrace and assured him of a name and a face.

The fact is we do have a face. We do have an identity. We are ‘in Christ’

As Job starred into that smashed up face of the ‘suffering savior’ he saw his face and discovered his true identity….“I am a son of God!”

The second aspect of the marvelous mystery of God’s salvation is that not only am I in Christ, but Christ is in me!

When I wake each morning the first thing I do is to say, “Good morning’ Dad‘ as I look by faith into ‘His smiling face’ revealed in his son Jesus.

The second aspect of the marvelous mystery of God’s salvation is that not only am I in Christ, but “Christ is in me”!

Once a saintly old lady cornered me and prophesied.” When you look into the mirror each morning, you need to say, “Good Mornin’ Jesus.’

So that has become the second thing I do : – )

During my ‘faceless’ time I would stare at the strange countenance looking back at me from the mirror, and with a grin, again by faith, utter those words,

I love Robin’s song “A Billion Little Ways”, which begins “I’ve been in the belly of the beast” ….could that be Leviathan like Job, or ‘the big fish‘ like Jonah?

But then the chorus goes on to say that everything in our lives including ‘the belly of the beast’ experience is designed by our loving heavenly Father,

“…..to bring you back to the gaze

Of the love that you’ve come from,

The love you’re goin’ back to.

……………and it’s in you

..……….it’s in you.

..…..It’s in you.

...it’s in you.

The love you came from.

The love we’re goin back to.

Sing it to your mirror!

Sing it to everyone!

P.S. Those of you who know me, know I try not to ‘push myself’, however I was so inspired listening to Robin’s song again, I want to push you to push it…. simply because I can’t think of a better Christmas present you could give anyone, than the message of truth and hope that this song carries!……so please forward it to everyone! It needs to ‘go viral’ : – )

Robin’s new album “The Rubicon is a Red River’ is available on streaming sites and at robinkyle.com

Thanks

Paul (and Hilary)

After I spontaneously jotted down the final sentence on the last blog, our Father, stopped me in my tracks and had me read it again.

I realized that therein,“Sorry to leave you hanging….” did in fact lie…. the THIRD REVELATION!

Was Dad confirming in this riddle my revelation of these THREE REVELATIONS?

In verse 5 of the final chapter Job says, “My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.”

Up until this point Job’s experience of God had actually been ‘second hand’. He had heard ‘about’ God. I believe what he now had been given to ‘see’ by God, was a vision of the cross. Hundreds of years in advance of the actual earthly event, he had been given to see someone

…....’left hanging.’…. on a cross.

As he gazed on that ‘suffering servant’ it dawned on him that this was none other than the Son of God.

Again in advance of it ever being written, he was given a profound understanding in his spirit,

“…. that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting people’s sins against them.” (2 Cor. 5:19)

I believe as he continued to gaze on that Holy One he then saw……. HIMSELF! – as one of the countless number of humanity that make up ‘the world’ that had been ‘put in’ the Christ, and whose sins had been taken away. (1 Cor.1:30).

He too had been,

…...’left hanging.’…..in Christ.

He had at last found the ‘Ransom’, that ‘gracious mediator’ he had been looking for in chapter 33.

Once again after being ‘gobsmacked’ by the GREATNESS OF THE SOVERIGN CREATOR and ‘undone’ by the GROTESQNESS OF THE SINFUL CREATURE he is completely ‘flummoxed’ at……

the GRACIOUSNESS of the SAVING CHRIST.

It is “the kindness of God that leads us to repentance.” and so Job responded, “I despise mySELF and repent.”

Note my handwritten note from 27 years ago beneath the scripture ……+ trust in Dad, for now he has come to understand first hand, ‘the gospel’ of ‘the New Covenant’ where his religious practices and virtuous behavior count for nothing, and that he can truly and fully trust the work of “Abba” God through his son Jesus Christ, on the cross, counts for everything.

And so he in repentance turns, as Paul writes to the Thessalonians, from the I DOLL, of self, to serve a God, who is now “living and true” in Job’s own personal experience.

And so Job does find true comfort, the comfort the prophet Isaiah declared, that we are reminded of at this time of year.

In my old bible it too is a well worn page,

Hearing about Job’s tragedies we read of ‘three friends‘ who decided to go ‘and comfort him.’

They would be forever immortalized as “Job’s Comforters” for their efforts met with no success and neither were they meant to. God had something better in store for Job than just ‘a feeling fix.’ True ‘comfort’ must come from a deeper source!

Job’s dis-ease would not be healed at the level of the EMOTION in his SOUL, he needed an adjustment at the level of his SPIRIT

In Chapter 3 he begins his lament which can be summerized……

“Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?”

The biggest question of them all…..“WHY (my) SUFFERING?”

He concludes with, “What I feared has come upon me, what I dreaded has happened to me. I have NO PEACE, NO QUIETNESS. I have NO REST, but only turmoil.”

Our Father had the above video arrive in my inbox in perfect time for this blog!

Notice the repeated appeal to personal Ease, Comfort and Convenience. These seem to have become the I – dolls in our ‘western’ world today. Above all we must avoid pain and suffering.

As I was typing this last sentence our mail arrived. I was puzzled when I opened a parcel addressed to me. Robin had ordered it, but had forgotten to change the name of the recepient! Father knew I needed the visual aid to make this very point : – )

God does not answer Job’s question “Why” with a REASON, rather when he does speak toward the end of the book in Chapter 38, it is in order that Job might receive a REVELATION…… or rather, three Revelations.

This insight came to me in the midst of my first run in with Job, also by way of a personal revelation. Feel free to concur or not as I offer my perspective.

To receive the FIRST REVELATION, Job is taken on a ‘magical mystery tour of creation’ in three wonder – filled chapters – 38, 39 and 40! His eyes are opened and he is ‘gobsmacked’ by The GREATNESS of the SOVEREIGN CREATOR!

Then in Chapter 41 at the end of ‘the tour’, Job is finally introduced to a great monster. It’s name is LEVIATHAN.

The final words describing this beast are, “Nothing on earth is his equal – a creature without fear. He looks down on all that are haughty. He is KING over all that are PROUD.”

I believe Job’s SECOND REVELATION was, that staring into the face of Leviathan….he saw none other than…….his SELF!

“That’s me!” He realizes.” ‘A creature without fear’…… the ‘fear of the Lord’ that is…….. I am indeed ‘KING of the PROUD’“

Again he is ‘undone’ as it dawns on him the GROTESQENESS of the SINFUL CREATURE….that lies within, and arrogantly exalts it’s ‘SELF’ over it’s creator.

SIN is literally and figuratively when “I” is at the center

Earlier in chapter 29, we see this illustrated. That chapter can be briefly summarized,

“ IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII“

………as Job recites to himself and his friends, one by one, examples of “MY virtuous life.”

Job’s problem is of course fallen humanity’s problem. and is again well illustrated in the above video. I decided to do a rough count of the number of times YOU or YOUR was said in the Ectolife video within the space of a few minutes. Here was the count,

“UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU”

The globalist elite of the New World Order who are seeking through Artificial Intelligence to take control of every facet of every life are banking on calling up this Leviathan by reinforcing, “Yes! It’s all about YOU!”

As the song “All Will Be Well” puts it,

“Though the famed and the fortune dictate the song

Though our fallen desires just play us along.”

All will indeed be well in the end, but in order for that to happen including our personal “well-ness”, there is a ‘Job Journey’ each of us must undertake. That JO(URNE)Y ends with the THIRD REVELATION

Sorry to leave you hanging…… but you’ll have to wait for the next blog for that one : – )

I uploaded to Youtube, Hilary’s video clips, posted with the November 18th blog, Into The Deep, as some of you had difficulty accessing them.

You should now be able to hear and catch the drift of that evening where something got reversed as Club 331 became Club 133 and as promised in Psalm 133 a blessing was commanded as brothers dwelt together and sang together in unity.

Someone said they’d never seen this sort of thing happening at the club before, where people paused from drinking and talking to listen, and let themselves be moved by another Spirit.

I couldn’t decide between “…blind but now I see.” and “……honor where honor is due.” as a title for this brief blog and so just called it P.S. because in the last blog I talked about “Willful Blindness” quoting Dr Aseem Malhotra.

This evening I heard the same quotation in of all places……..in The British House of Commons!

I have referenced Dr John Campbell, a popular Covid analyst, a few times over the last few years. My first blog likened him to Mr Magoo of ancient cartoon fame who got into all sorts of predicaments because of his shortsightedness. I have never questioned Dr John’s sincerity or integrity but was simply pointing out that there was a wide range of concerning information particularly about the ‘jabs’ that he seemed blind to.

The video posted above shows how Dr John has begun looking more closely at what has been going on. After bringing the parliamentary session to his viewers attention he says little, but is obviously deeply disturbed with the direction things have gone in over the past years and months. As such I would like to honor him for his willingness, like Dr Malhotra to ‘look again’ and have his ‘mind changed’ from the ‘safe and effective’ narrative that everyone was ‘sold.’

I would also like to honor Mr Andrew Bridgen. M. P. for being ‘willing to see.’ and then bring his ‘earth shattering’ findings to the government. I was horrified that all but 4 or 5 seats were empty revealing the bankruptcy of courage, morality and integrity within the British government.

Yet I was at the same time delighted to witness for the first time ever in a government broadcast, ‘ the kingdom of God’ in the way in which the 4 or 5 members present conducted business.

“I yield to the honorable member from……” did not have the hollow ring of an empty tradition but the authenticity of a few decent men seeking to honestly discern the truth and serve the people whom they represented.

You might remember at the start of my recent ‘trial by fire’ (where I tried to quench my burning skin rash several times a day with cold showers : – ) I was directed to C.S. Lewis’, “That Hideous Strength.”

Our friends Dave and Cindy Watson from Duluth then told me they too had just been lead to read that book together for a third time!….Our prayers continue for you brother Dave, for a full recovery from your recent serious health ordeal!

The name of the central character in The Space Trilogy was Ransom.….. Hence the name of this series.

At the same time I was lead to read or rather re-read another book, the book of Job in the bible.

My first significant personal encounter with Job, the book and the experience, was just after we moved to the USA 28 years ago. As with the bible character I realize now that was a ‘first round’ of testing where Satan was given permission to touch two areas of his life – his family and his wealth. We too were sorely tested in these two areas just after we moved from Ireland to the US. Those days left my old bible full of underlines and margin notes as Father walked me through Job’s story, that became my story : – )

This recent trial I realized was ‘the second round’ when permission was given to ‘strike his flesh’, and I too found myself with ‘painful sores’ on the top of my head…. but thankfully not as extensive as to ‘the soles of his feet.” !

The teaching that came out of that initial trial, I entitled, “The Making of an Intercessor’ because although Job began as ‘a good man’, a righteous and religious ‘pray-er’, he also had an ‘ego’ that God wanted to deal a death blow to if he were to become an effective intercessor in unity with Christ.

The early and final chapters of the book were the most worn pages in my bible, however another section that had caught my attention once again was in chapter 33. where that ‘ego’ monster of PRIDE is identified.

The passage continues…………….

Turning the page I found the answer………….

There IS – a RANSOM!

…………………that can restore my flesh to that of a child’s

………………….that can enable me to see “God’s (smiling) face” and to shout for JOY!

A few verses later it confirms this is not just a ‘one off’ but even as the coming of the Spirit first at Sinai, then in the Upper Room at Pentecost and finally at Tabernacles represents three ascending levels of faith, so we may need to go on this Job journey of humbling, again and again, that ‘the light of life’ may shine on us, and in us, in it’s full measure!

So in this last round I sought to surrender to an even deeper level of dying to pride and letting ‘ego’ go!

I just listened to an excellently informative lecture by the courageous Dr Aseem Malhotra*** entitled “Has Big Pharma Hijacked Evidence-Based Medicine?” linked below.

He talks about how our ‘fragile ego’ can lead to “Willful Blindness”

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/12/09/big-pharma-takeover-of-modern-medicine.aspx?ui=bb2b60c02cb8338e5023840cf77638fdf4a643a5a675322588c45da11142be99&sd=20160327&cid_source=prnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20221209&cid=DM1302986&bid=1664748107

This helped explain to me why a number of ‘Good people’ have been unable to acknowledge the growing body of truth coming to light about the ‘psychopathic corporate tyranny’ surrounding ‘Covid’

Only God knows when our individual ‘ego’s have been thoroughly dealt with, and the ‘Job job’ has been completed : – )

Thankfully there is indeed ‘a mediator’……. ‘an angel‘ one sent as the messenger who embodies the message of God’s amazing grace in bringing about this ‘sanctification’!

One of the songs that rose up again repeatedly during my trial, sang the praises of the one who became a Ransom.……

“Does sleep her balm deny?

My silent spirit sighs,

“May Jesus Christ be praised.!”

Or fades my earthly bliss

My comfort still is this,

“May Jesus Christ be praised.”

The wonderful hymn continues……..

Let earth’s wide circle round

In JOYFUL notes resound

“May Jesus Christ be praised!“

Let air and sea and sky

From depth to height reply,

“May Jesus Christ be praised.”

and concludes…….

“Be this while life is mine

My canticle divine,

“May Jesus Christ be praised!”

Be this the eternal song

Through all the ages long

“May Jesus Christ be praised.”

And so after this ‘dark night’ it is with clearer sight and a more whole heart that I am able to enter each new day…..

“When morning guilds the skies

My heart awaking cries,

“May Jesus Christ be praised!”

Last Saturday night before going to sleep, I listened to the first part of an interview with Juan O Savin on Elijah Streams.

During the night I woke and as I turned to look at the clock, Father got my attention! It was 3.33 which multiples up to my life number – 27.

As I realized the clock would only say this for a brief 60 seconds, I was given the above title for this blog.

The next morning I finished listening to the interview with Juan. His final words were, “This is as epic a Moment as has ever happened in American history.”

At 3.33 Father had then begun to give me heaven’s perspective of our day that had just passed at the St Paul Artisan Festival and of our work over the years in the USA. It seemed to dovetail precisely with what I had been hearing from Juan O Savin.

I would strongly encourage you to listen below. This background information and current update might also end up being one of the most important “A-Ha!” 1 hr. 48 minutes moments of your life too!

https://rumble.com/v1yfz8w-prophets-and-patriots-episode-44-with-juan-o-savin-and-steve-shultz.html

Briefly stated, Juan talks about the Baal worship involving child sacrifice which exists in America today. Parents in ancient cultures also mistakenly believed that by offering up their children to this false god would bring prosperity. The contest on Mount Carmel between the prophets of Baal and the true prophet, Elijah is a picture of the moment we are again at in His-story.

Juan then talks about Baal being represented by a bull and uses the analogy of a bull fight to describe the Critical Moment we find ourselves in.

It is 10 minutes into the third round of a bull fight that a forth trumpet is sounded. This tells the Matador that he has only 5 minutes left in which to kill the bull. In the first rounds he has been aided by the picadors in weakening the bull so that it’s proud head drops down exposing the space between the shoulder blades where the ‘kill shot’ must be delivered. The Matador, risking all, has a very narrow window of time in which to strike the heart.

Juan points out that the contest between Baal and Yahweh took place on Baal’s turf, so as to speak on the top of Mount Carmel. There children would be put in the lap of the image of the ‘bull’ god to be consumed by an evil fire

Now some of you may have noticed the ‘deliberate mistake’ in the above title. “This should be PART 2 of the series.” you might say. Well as Father showed me the significance of our Wee Ones Wear event on Saturday, I realized that the previous blog was not just an announcement about this, but in fact God’s ‘set up’ for this series unfolding in ‘real time’. (He makes no distinction between Sacred and Secular!)

Was there a message in The LOCATION of the WEE ONES WEAR event/contest?

It was…… on SUMMIT Avenue.

Father then confirmed the location was ‘set’ by Him, through a triple witness of St. Paul at St. Paul’s church in the city of St Paul!

The street number was 2022, so we knew the purpose of our being present there was to bring and be a blessing (222)

The St Paul UCC church could be described as ‘woke’ – affirming of abortion among other things.

Interestingly the LOCATION of the WEE ONES WEAR table was at the Main Entrance,……..opposite SANTA.

Of course the name SANTA is easily rearranged into SATAN. The hollowness of this Santa’s fake “HO! HO! HO!” also struck me.

As children were sat by their parents upon his lap and engulfed in his red cloak it reminded me of what I had read of the child sacrifice of Baal worship…..’Writing in the 4th century B.C.E, the Greek historian Cleitarchus said of the Carthaginian practice, “There stands in their midst a bronze statue of Kronos, its hands extended over a bronze brazier, the flames of which engulf the child. When the flames fall upon the body, the limbs contract and the open mouth seems almost to be laughing until the contracted body slips quietly into the brazier. Thus it is that the ‘grin’ is known as ‘sardonic laughter,’ since they die laughing.” “Kronos” was a regional name for Baal Hammon, the chief of Carthage’s gods.’

God is represented by fire in Deuteronomy 4. The fire of God however is the opposite to this fire. In Jeremiah 7:31 God says,” They have built the high places of Tofet in the Ben-Hinnom Valley, to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, something I never ordered; in fact, such a thing never even entered my mind!”

God’s fire is the fire of love It is this ‘fiery love’ of God that I sing about in ‘The Flame‘ song. It was this holy fire that consumed the evil on Mount Carmel and that purifies our hearts.

This story is also depicted in Irish history in the story of Patrick’s contest by fire with the Druids on Mount Tara…..a story we enacted for many years as we travelled across the USA performing “Would the Real St. Patrick Please Stand Up.” Time and again we would lead folk in the chorus,

“Arise and shine O mighty one.

Arise and shine your sleep is done.

Arise and shine your light has come.

Your light is Christ. Ireland’s /America’s true Son.”

Is this the Critical Moment when that calling forth will find a fulfillment?

Juan then turns his attention to how in this Moment, a very unusual case has been selected (out of 5-8,000 ) by the Supreme Court.

It has been brought by 4 famous trumpeters, The Brunson Brothers.

It alleges that the US Congress and Senate failed in their legal and sworn obligations to spend 10 days reviewing the results of the 2020 election before certifying it. Because this is deemed a ‘national security’ issue it could result in SCOTUS making a ruling that could happen very quickly and could involve the dismissal of all those members of government involved in such an erroneous certification. Juan then suggests that Trump, whom he sees as the matador, might then legally step back into a presidency that he never conceded nor was decommissioned from.

Does the court case brought by The FOUR TRUMPETERS signal that we are at the point in the bull fight of the FORTH TRUMPET being sounded?

Then I realized there was significance not only in the LOCATION of the WEE ONES WEAR event, but in the TIMING.

WEE ONES WEAR had been assigned TABLE FOUR, and it was in the FOURTH VERSE of ‘The Flame’ song that I had written, in 2000, long before Trump had decided to run for the presidency….

“When this age shall end, and THE TIME HAS COME

FOR THE TRUMP TO SOUND, and our Lord to come.”

Time will tell what this all means.

Our trust is not in Juan O Savin, Donald Trump, or any man, but in God alone to answer our prayer that His kingdom come and His will be done on earth as in heaven in His way and in His time. In the meantime, our responsibility as his people is to awake and to engage actively “on the ground’, in our locali situations in whatever way God has gifted us and directs us, fearlessly speaking the truth and manifesting the love of God in every relationship and situation.

The Spirit behind WEE ONES WEAR seeks to value the light of life in every child of God from the moment of conception…..to see each person recognize themselves as blessed (25) and crowned as a child of the King.

We were made aware of a sadness at the festival, as adult after adult admired the beautiful garments but then lamented, “But we have no children or grandchildren to buy for!” We realized this was the bad fruit of the destructive spirit of Baal that subtly seeks to destroy the children and the joy they bring to a community! The Satanic depopulation agenda is now being born out dramatically in the falling birthrate and failing fertility worldwide!

The scripture however we were given on our way to the festival was, “With joy you shall draw water from the wells of salvation (Yeshua)” (Is,12:3) and the forth verse of The Flame joyfully concludes with the coming of our victorious and sovereign King Jesus, ushering in a new and better age…. ….a Kingdom Age, of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit!

Our Granddaughter Saachi elected to model (with her WEE ONES WEAR skirt) on Saturday night our future hope!