I wrote, “The Final Feast”, not to tell believers exactly how to become a Tabernacle Christian but rather to help those interested personally explore this undiscovered country. Learn about the spiritual fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles and Divine Love here…
There was literally 5 minutes before every miracle in the Bible.
When you stop and consider what the circumstances were like five minutes before different miracles in the Bible, it was pretty harrowing most of the time.
5 minutes before Moses opened the Red Sea, things looked pretty bad. Pharaoh’s armies were bearing down upon the children of Israel from behind and the Red Sea blocked any chance of escape before them. Everyone, except Moses, thought all was lost. Yet, in five minutes, everything changed.
Five minutes before Goliath died.
Five minutes before the rock flung from David’s sling killing Goliath, things did not look very good either. I doubt if one man in either army thought that the young boy was going to be anything else but crow meat in the next few minutes. I’ll wager that even David’s brothers thought their younger sibling was a goner. Yet, five minutes later, everything changed and Goliath was no more.
As Elijah poured the 3rd barrel of water over the sacrifice and altar, everyone present waited in unbelief as they watched the spectacle. All afternoon the false prophets of Baal and Ashtaroth had leapt about, cutting themselves with knives while calling on their false gods to answer by fire, yet nothing happened. Now, Elijah made sure that there was no possibility of his sacrifice turning into flame by natural means. The prophet poured so much water on that altar that the trenches about it filled to overflowing. Yet, five minutes later everything changed and God answered by fire and burnt up not only the sacrifice but the rocks and water along with it.
Five minutes before the lame man walked.
As Peter and John looked at the lame man on his bed at the entrance to the Gate Beautiful, he had been like that for decades. However, when Jesus showed up in the guise of Peter, everything changed. Five minutes later that cripple leapt and danced about, completely healed by the power of God.
Lazarus lay dead for 4 days. In fact, his sister Martha told Jesus that he surely “stinketh”. Five minutes before Jesus uttered the words, “Lazarus come forth!” everything seemed hopeless. Yet five minutes later, Lazarus walked out of that tomb alive and everyone’s sorrow turned to joy.
The point I wish to make is that 5 minutes before any miracle things usually look really bad. The Devil fights us to the bitter end, trying to bluff his way to victory even though he knows he cannot win. The truth is, since Jesus rose on the third day the fate of Satan and his demons is hell. It is not a matter of “if” he will suffer judgement, but only “when”.
In just 5 minutes a whole lot can change when God is involved. In fact, often times when things look ridiculously bad, that is when God is about to do a miracle. I was sitting down the other day just laughing to myself saying, “wow, things are looking so awful I must be 5 minutes away from a miracle!”
God is near, give Him five minutes and everything will change
The next time things are looking impossible, awful, and just plain ridiculous, know that God is near to deliver. If you, like any one of the men and women in the Bible who believed God, can stand your ground and trust what He says, that is when you are 5 minutes from your miracle too.
Believe me when I say it is not easy. Take heart when I say it takes the grace of God to strengthen us! Believe me as I declare, in the name of Jesus, that we shall not be moved! God can do anything and will do anything in Jesus name!
Have faith my friend…really, what has anyone got to lose? If God does not show up you have lost everything anyway….why not err on the side of ridiculous faith when you are confronted with insurmountable odds. God loves to show off and bring Himself glory through miracles. Stand back and let your Father have some fun at the devil’s expense. Amen.
Ten Commandments – Pillar of Fire and Parting of Red Sea
“For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
1 Timothy 2:13,14
The Beginnings of Strong Delusion
What I am about to teach you today goes against much of our societies present mindset. In our day and age it is all about “Women’s rights” and the “equality” of women. However, if we are serious about being true to the word of God, we must allow our Father to give us His judgement on critical issues and accept that He knows best.
“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”
1 Timothy 2:12
Why is this so? Why didn’t the apostle Paul allow women to instruct the congregation as well as men? The answer to this question is that women, by their very nature, are more susceptible to deception than men.
Lucifer deceived Eve
In the Garden of Eden Lucifer successfully deceived Eve. However, when Eve offered her husband the forbidden fruit, Adam was not deceived. The first Adam knew exactly what disobeying his Father meant, but because He loved Eve so desperately, he joined her in her sin.
Why did Adam do this? Adam knew that eating of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil would result in death. While I cannot say for sure, I suspect that Adam hoped that his Father would have mercy on them both for his sake. Perhaps Adam felt that, if he did not eat the fruit with Eve, God would certainly have done away with the love of his life and left him alive but alone.
Father, forgive her, for she knows not what she does
In effect, Adam threw himself on the mercy of his Father for Eve’s sake. In our modern day vernacular we would say, “he took a bullet for her.” The apostle Paul, knowing that Eve and all her decedents were capable of putting men in the position, out of love, to do things that are not right before God, did not allow women to spread deception within his churches.
God says,
“Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
Gen 3:16
God puts women under submission
Part of Eve’s curse for falling into temptation and bringing damnation upon the whole world was that her husband would rule over her. This was and is a decree from God and it is as relevant today and when God first spoke these words in Eden.
Why is this so? Why did God pronounce this particular part of the curse like that? It is because Eve and all her daughters after her would always be susceptible to deception. God, for Eve’s safety, put her under submission to the one that was not deceived.
The rise of the spirit of matriarchy
I have been thinking about history in this regard for a while and I have been tracing the major events and plausible causes for the decline of our western civilization. In little more than a generation, the United States and a greater part of the western world has fallen into great deception. The United States, in particular, left off being predominantly patriarchal and nominally “One nation under God” to a nation who has been set adrift from any form of Godly principle and dominated by a spirit of matriarchy.
The consequences of the “Summer of love”
At first, I traced the rise of immorality to the sexual “revolution” brought about by birth control in the 1960’s. The “summer of love” set in motion many of the greatest evils of our age. Broken families, unwed mothers, fatherless children, STD’s, abortions, and AIDS compose just a few of the obvious consequences of acquiescing to women’s demands in the area of reproductive “rights.” These evils, while previously relatively rare and held in check by a somewhat moral society, exploded into our lives through the deception of women wreaking incalculable damage to our civilization.
Suffer not a woman to vote
Upon reflecting on this I came to an even more stunning conclusion: the rise of the current wave of Strong Delusion began when women “won” the right to vote. I know that this flies in the face of almost everything that our western civilization believes and frankly, even I believed these lies too, but hear me out a bit on this point.
Women having the right to vote was, in essence, a violation of what Paul taught about women having authority over men. Paul did not believe, under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, that it was right or good for a woman to have such a position of persuasion over men. This is why Paul would not suffer a woman to teach in church. Paul feared the type of deception, the type that Eve succumbed too, infiltrating his churches and so made a prohibition against women teaching men.
The ascendancy of Eve and the acceleration of Strong Delusion
When women gained the right to vote that is when the current wave of strong delusion started to manifest itself in a more profound way in our societies. When women began to have “authority” over men they were able, through the power of the vote, to force their deception upon men and this is the inception point of strong delusion in our time.
It does not mean that everything that women have ever advocated is evil or bad. However, women, in general, remain vulnerable to deception being tempted into believing and thus voting for things that are sin. Of course, all of sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God and men sin just as much a women. However, what I am saying is that females, beginning with Eve and all the way up through the harlot church of Revelation, are vulnerable to believe and act upon the whispers of Satan’s lies.
A society deceived by Strong Delusion
When women received the right to vote then men started to court their support by championing their causes. Evil men, who cared not for the effects of what the women desired, helped them achieve their aims regardless of the consequences. Some of these things, like abortion, have been a disaster for our society. I can think of nothing more heinous than killing an unborn child. Yet, because of strong delusion that has been brought about by a women appealing her case in Roe v Wade, being “pro choice” is some sort of moral right. Oddly enough, years later this same woman became a Christian and repented for the role she played in this landmark case. This is a tragic example of a woman’s susceptibility to deception.
Evil men promote the deception of Eve for self gain
Moreover, who in there right mind would ever want their daughter to to go war and participate in actual combat? It used to be that men protected women and did not put them in harms way. Yet, because of the current feminist mindset of our society, young women are now deployed on the front lines where, if captured, they will be subjected to inhuman abuse. What self respecting country would ever do this? This type of insanity happens when evil men promote Eve’s deception in order to gain power. This is an abomination and a reproach to our country and a prime example of “strong delusion.”
And this is that spirit of Antichrist
Delusion has always been with us through the spirit of Antichrist and has worked within the hearts of men. However, what I speak about is “Strong Delusion” and not simply being deceived. God speaks about this type of deception here,
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
Isaiah 5:20
We are, in general, unaware of the depth of our deception
I know, by the Spirit, that I write is correct. Yet, I feel push back from a lifetime of conditioning that taught me to believe things diametrically opposed to God. In the guise of equality and human rights Satan perverts the roles and responsibilities of men and women. Fallen Lucifer deceives us so that, when we actually conform to God’s will, we feel wrong and out of place.
God was right to put Eve under submission to Adam
In conclusion, if you want to be a godly woman you must seek to glory in willing submission. God’s decree in Eden is better than the worlds idea of right and wrong. Women only achieve their full potential when she accepts her place of submission. Godly women put the full force of their will behind the truth that they were created to be; a help mate to their husband. Eve’s daughters greatest calling, unless God gives them a special dispensation like Paul, is to be a mother to their children and support their God given husband.
Suffer not a woman to have authority over men
Like Paul, I declare that I suffer not a woman to have authority over men either. Woman may teach other women or children if they are under the authority of a man. I will allow women to operate their gifts when they are in full submission to godly authority. What I write may seem old fashioned or even backward. However, now that I understand what these verses mean, I cannot say otherwise. When A woman usurps the place of a man she is out of order. Woman who is our of God’s order is a prime target for Satan to deceive. Hear the word of the Lord and understand what His Spirit says to His churches. Amen.
As you listen to this song, imagine you are Adam after eating the forbidden fruit. Imagine throwing your self upon the mercy of your Father for your wife’s sake.
