Dear Connections,
Usually, I tend to refrain from talking about harsh things. However, for some time now, I have been feeling led to illuminate what is going on in our society with regard to our wives and our children.
God says,
“There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.”
Proverbs 30: 11-14
What you have just read is a prophecy, spiritually speaking, about the last generation we are living in, the one just before the revealing of the son of perdition. Just like those who meet Jesus in the air will know Him because they are like Him, those who are destined for hell will identify with that man of sin because they are like him, too.
This type of attitude toward parents and husbands now permeates our Western culture. I hate it. It is like a terrible itch that cannot be scratched. This foul spirit is anti-life, against God, and despises everything our Father made good. It is literally the spirit of antichrist. Many speak ill of authority in every form and will not obey anyone, anytime, anywhere. Thus, they are in rebellion to the very God they hope and pray will save them in the day of judgment.
God has not given you, oh wife, a man to lead you without providing that man with wisdom and authority to do so. Furthermore, our Father did not say, “Honor your father and your mother,” if He did not believe children, for their own good, needed to do so. When a woman or child talks down to someone that God has given as a covering in their life, they offend the very One that created them.
Oh woman, thou art deceived
When it comes to Godly authority, daughters of Eve, it is wrong for you to rise up and stand against your husband created in God’s image, for this is what Lucifer did. However much you fight and struggle against His divine pattern, nothing changes the fact that it is you who partook of the forbidden fruit and caused, from the very beginning, all the death and destruction that has come upon the human race.
Moreover, daughters of Eve, our Father put you under headship for your protection. Women cannot discern truth fully, for they have been deceived from the very beginning, while Adam, our father, was not. To rebel against the Spirit of Wisdom in us, and to cause your children to do so, too, is folly indeed.
Allow yourself to be led before it is too late
Men cannot lead if those God put with them will not follow. Thinking you can take over a man’s authority in his own household because you believe you are better equipped and wiser only brings destruction to yourself, your children, and society in general.
Things are about to get very rough. I have seen this for some time. He who restrains is only going to hold back the flood of Satan for a short time more. If, when that dam breaks, you do not listen to your husband, and if you have taught your children to rebel against their father, great destruction will come upon yourself and those around you.
Do not mock God.
Sincerely,
Michael King
Dear Connections,
God says,
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”
1 John 3:2
The fact is, that as you yield to the Spirit of God, as you allow your Father to reside in you, to conform to His image and begin to take on his likeness. For all those who desire Heaven, this is your destiny.
God also says,
“For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:”
2 Thessalonians 2:7-11
The truth is that those who are going to follow the Antichrist will also know him because they will be like him. In retrospect, when all is settled in heaven and earth, each person will manifest the spirit that they allow to control them. If it is God’s Spirit, you will be like Christ. If it is Satan’s Spirit, you be like the Antichrist.
We are at the end of this present age, the gentile church age. Shortly, all that God has been doing with the wild olive branch, the gentiles, will be wrapped up and finished. All that we know now will be little more than what we now know about before Noah. Our Father is going to wipe away these last 2000 years and begin again with Israel and deal with them for the next 1000 years.
Spiritually, the tares among the wheat are becoming apparent for they are showing their colors.
Amen,
Michael
Hello Michael,
When I read this post of yours the day it came out, I am almost 100% certain you said, “Women have NO discernment,” in those exact words. I was so shocked that it took me some days to wonder if it was even worth coming back to comment. But now that I’m here again, I see you have changed your post to women “cannot discern truth fully.”
That’s a big change in short period of time for a “prophecy.” I hope there’s an even bigger change to come, because a Christ-centered approach is desperately needed here. For as it stands, IN Christ my gender—and yours—is no more. We are “one man” in Christ. We are also “one woman,” if we use the metaphor of the bride of Christ.
Marriage is a likewise an earthly state of being that is a metaphor of spiritual union in Christ. As a single woman, my discernment is in Christ, who I am espoused to. It is a full discernment, not a partial discernment. If I end up marrying a godly man, my discernment in Christ will be confirmed. I am to recognize the Spirit working in him—and visa versa—for again, in Christ there is neither male nor female.
I am refraining from giving Scripture references, or making this some type of Bible study. This comment is not meant to be a correction to you, so much as a stand for the female gender who is in Christ.
You can use the New Testament writings of Paul, or anyone else, to bring law down on women–or children, for that matter—but you cannot take away from how that will bring you under the law yourself. The approach to unholy attitudes out in the world (which I appreciate that you are trying to tackle) must take on a Christ-centered approach, or you’re perpetuating spiritual fear and death under the guise of prophecy.
Michael, as someone who is living a physical existence as a woman—yet in Christ—I have little to any hope that this will be received by you.
But I could not let it go for the sake of any readers.
“Do not come under the yoke of oppression, for Christ has set you free.”
Pamela
Dear Pamela,
Thanks for your comment. Well thought out as usual! I have been thinking about something for a while and I will run it past you first to see what you think of it.
I believe our Lord has been speaking to me about a problem that many have about what is proper and fair between men and women of God. If I understand you correctly, you believe there is no difference in God’s sight, now that we are in Christ, between men and women…at least spiritually speaking. Each receive commensurate revelation and leading. Moreover, again if I understand what you are saying, you are somewhat offended that I would state differently. If I did not read what you wrote correctly, you can explain more if you wish.
First of all, I think you might agree that we have not reached the “restoration of all things” yet. Therefore, while we are provisionally saved, the part that says, “now has come salvation” has not yet happened. Therefore, when we are in our fallen state, whatever God decreed as part of His judgement for Adam’s and Eve’s sin still applies until all has been fulfilled.
So, yes, in general – Eve is still deceived and Adam is still not deceived. It is there respective natures and until we are fully changed when we stand on the shores of eternity and are like Him. While I believe I understand what you are driving at, I believe the scriptures you allude to speak of a time when we are perfected in Christ in a real sense and not just as a work in progress as we are now. While there are exceptions, I stand by my belief that women, by their very nature, are more prone to deception than men, especially if the men are led by the Holy Spirit.
Some might say that this means that women are inferior to men. I do not believe this. I believe women are different than men and that male and female have their strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, I do not believe men and women are equal in all respects, although they can be both fully saved.
Moreover, what some may take as discrimination, I assert is just a different understanding. While the facts of the matter of who woman are relative to men remain the same, the perspective God gives me is that He does not intend men and women to be equal in our present fallen world. What He really desires is that each accept their role in His great scheme and yield everything they possess to His will to accomplish His purposes. If His desire is for a woman to have children and be a helpmate for her husband, it does not matter if our current society believes this to be unequal. All that matters is that women submit to God’s will and set herself to accomplish her Fathers business.
My understanding of what I am to do is to accomplish my Father’s will by obeying His voice each and every day. To the extent I do this, I am a profitable servant. Of course I do not do it perfectly, but thankfully God has grace and counts faith as righteousness. Weather or not I am respected or listened to by women I still must do what I feel led to do. I also fully appreciate that given the current state of our culture that what I wrote in this particular essay may be difficult for some to read. However, it is better to write whatever I receive from the Holy Spirit, rather than say half truths.
You mentioned prophecy. While I am prophetic and much of what I write is word for word what God speaks to me, I am not infallible. The nice thing about it is that everyone who desires to have God fill them can ask for the gift of the Holy Spirit and speak in other tongues. When they are filled, the Spirit within them can either testify of what I am saying or not. His Spirit will lead and guide us into all truth. This, in turn, means that I can write freely and God’s Spirit in others will help them know if the things I say are correct in part or in whole. The truth is that there are VERY few prophets amongst us nowadays. I am not one of them. I am an apostle with a side gifting of prophecy. That is to say it is not my main thing and, frankly, I would not want to be a prophet – it is a hard calling.
In conclusion, I suggest we not concern ourselves with equality, but rather seek to fulfill whatever roll God has given us so that His will is done in this earth as it is in heaven. Sometimes, God calls women to unusual ministries and that is fine by me, as long as God is evidently with her. However, far too many women want to rule rather than server Christ, in my opinion, and end up thwarting God’s will rather than helping Him accomplish it.
What matters to me is if I am doing, today, what God wants me to do. What I desire others around me to do is to yield their lives to His Holy Spirit to and do, today, what God wants them to do. If we each accomplish this on a daily basis, His will is being done.
Big hugs and lots of love,
Michael
Furthermore,
(As a caveat of what I am going to say, I am not speaking about women who are struggling with various physical difficulties and thus, not by choice, but by nature, they find it challenging when it comes to being feminine. I do I judge you and neither, in my opinion does God.)
Having said that, let me say this:
I very much disagree with the trend in our western society of some women trying to be like men. It is not their place, nor their calling. I don’t want to be a woman. I do not wish to cry. I desire to be strong and protect, to lead and guide, to take my place as a man in my household and in the ministry.
The fact that some women want to fight against such things is, to be frank, demonic. It is rebellion, not to me, but to the way God Himself designed his creation to function. I don’t want to rebel against that, I would to fulfill it.
Authority presumes responsibility and that is something my shoulders are meant to bear, not my wife. Women believing that they are as strong as men and can handle anything the world throws at them only works in our affluent society where food is 5 minutes away, there is clean water and central heating. It works when there is law and order and wolves no longer steal people in the dead of night.
I love women, but I despise the natural minded, antichrist thinking that there is a unisex. There is not and has never been a unisex. We are different and we are both blessed that we are. When we unite our differences we become whole and we are better together than we are apart.
I am tired of hearing others who have the same Bible as I do, espouses a philosophy that is diametrically opposed to it. When the car is about to swerve off the road and into a chasm is not the time to be polite to the children fighting in the back seat.
I am a man and that is how God made me. I don’t apologize for my position and I will not give it away or be brow beat by any person who wants me to abdicate it. I will fight for it, I will stand here and plant my feet on this field of lentils and God help anyone who may try to take it away.
Amen,
Michael
You might go much deeper into the Hebrew word for helpmeet: ezer kenegdo. I have, first, through Myles Munroe’s book Understanding the Purpose and Power of Women, and then through online sites. It’s a very great definition that reveals the giftedness and high call on “eve,” in Christ, I add. I agree women in Christ through the cross of Gal. 2:20 and Romans 5-8 et al must overcome the “eve” nature of the fall just as the last Adam is restored in the males, too, to become life-giving spirits and the embodiment of Eph. 5, particularly beautiful in The Message, to give of themselves to bring forth the glory of the bride. (Her development.) (See Myles Munroe’s The Fatherhood Principle on true male beauty.) Final: I am soon to read Kluane Spake’s From Enmity to Equality to add to my recovering of Abba’s design as a female fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139 Passion. One more: women do need and thrive under strong male leadership. At the same time, there is a strong hint in Proverbs 31 Passion that men cannot become leaders in the gate without a Proverbs 31 woman.
Dear Katherine,
I suppose, what I would advocate is an equality in our God given roles as men and women. Let the man be all that God made him to be and let the women fulfill our Lords divine design to her full potential too. These roles are complimentary and completing rather than competitive as the world so often asserts. Personally, for me, it is more about God’s Design than anything else. Men and women are fundamentally different in so many ways and thus it is unfair to either sex to be forced to compete where they other gender has a naturally greater advantage.
I fully agree with you that what really makes a good man is a great woman. Without his other half he cannot become everything God meant to be. This is one of the ways the Devil destroys God’s image in us, by making trouble between Godly unions so that they cannot function as He intended.
Big hugs and lots of love,
Michael