Click for James Nesbit Art By Tim Taylor, December 6, 2020 - I host a prophet’s council for Washington State. During our last meeting, this theme emerged starting with some lyrics from a Paul Wilbur song which says, "there is a war and a wedding feast." Elizabeth Sorenson, the prayer leader for the Washington State Prayer Caucus shared how the Lord had been highlighting a war between two churches.
What is the war over? It is over truth. We find the war described in Revelation 12 that spilled from heaven to earth and that Satan, the accuser of the brethren went to make war with God's people. How did they overcome? They overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. Satan is the father of lies (John 8:44) while Jesus is the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6).
The war is over freedom. Jesus said in John 8:32, "And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." It reminded me of what God showed me in February of 2020. God revealed to me that "We've Entered the Valley of Decision" and there was a war between the "doctrines of demons" and "the truth of God's word."
This is a Spiritual War Manifesting in the Political Sphere
We are in a fight now over a presidential election. It involves two parties: Democrats and Republicans. But this is far more than a war between two parties. There is a worldwide agenda unfolding here, a spiritual war, with numerous nations, bad actors in media, education, business, healthcare and government plotting intrigue with deception in order to steal an election. It is a war over God's agenda verses Satan's plans. The evil has caused a shaking even as it seeks to undermine the foundation of this nation but their plot is failing and instead producing a "Great Awakening." There is a Remnant Rising. Why God even marked this with a sign in July. Click The Sign of a Church Arising Over the Mountains.
I marvel because this war over the truth verses lying, fraud, deception and theft is separating the Church into two camps. This low point in American political history serves like a valley of decision and God is watching and recording our responses. Do you know what question resonates in my mind? What will heaven record about my stand during this time? Will heaven find me standing with God and the truth or with the Devil and the lie?
What is the war over? It is over truth. We find the war described in Revelation 12 that spilled from heaven to earth and that Satan, the accuser of the brethren went to make war with God's people. How did they overcome? They overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. Satan is the father of lies (John 8:44) while Jesus is the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6).
The war is over freedom. Jesus said in John 8:32, "And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." It reminded me of what God showed me in February of 2020. God revealed to me that "We've Entered the Valley of Decision" and there was a war between the "doctrines of demons" and "the truth of God's word."
This is a Spiritual War Manifesting in the Political Sphere
We are in a fight now over a presidential election. It involves two parties: Democrats and Republicans. But this is far more than a war between two parties. There is a worldwide agenda unfolding here, a spiritual war, with numerous nations, bad actors in media, education, business, healthcare and government plotting intrigue with deception in order to steal an election. It is a war over God's agenda verses Satan's plans. The evil has caused a shaking even as it seeks to undermine the foundation of this nation but their plot is failing and instead producing a "Great Awakening." There is a Remnant Rising. Why God even marked this with a sign in July. Click The Sign of a Church Arising Over the Mountains.
I marvel because this war over the truth verses lying, fraud, deception and theft is separating the Church into two camps. This low point in American political history serves like a valley of decision and God is watching and recording our responses. Do you know what question resonates in my mind? What will heaven record about my stand during this time? Will heaven find me standing with God and the truth or with the Devil and the lie?
Jesus Told Us This Day Would Come
In Matthew 24 and Luke 17 Jesus tells us how there would be two in the field: one will be taken and the other one left. In Matthew 25 Jesus describes how He will send His angels to gather all peoples and then He will sit upon His throne separating the nations, the people groups, between the sheep and the goats. The sheep get to join Jesus in His kingdom while to the goats He says in Matthew 25:41 41, "Then He will also say to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:"
There are two kinds of people and two kinds of nations. Should we be surprised if there are two kinds of churches?
The Great Harlot verses the Bride in Revelation
All through scripture you'll find Satan and his minions seek to copy or mimic God. But he is not God. He cannot create. He can only counterfeit by trying to copy the true. Since God has been preparing a bride for His Son, Satan has prepared a counterfeit.
In Revelation 17:5 we find Satan's counterfeit described as "Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth." Harlots sell their bodies to others. It's kind of like the Pharisees in Jesus' day who sold themselves to Herod and His temple. They colluded with government for they feared losing power, control, and wealth. This is why Jesus said beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. He was warning us about the collusion between a religious spirit and a political spirit. It is obvious those same demonic spirits are still at work today.
Abominations are actions which the Bible describes in places like Leviticus 18. These are actions which enact a spiritual law which cause a land to vomit the inhabitants out. We find a modern scenario of this evil collusion between the religious spirit and the political spirit manifested through how "the Church" or certain members of "the clergy" choose to align themselves with government policies that advocated things like abortion or the undermining of marriage as God defines it.
There are certain ministers and even denominations that bless abortion clinics, blaspheme God saying these clinics do God's work, or they compromise God's definition of marriage as they approve of lies that suggest there are more genders other than male and female. This 2019 article said there are 64. They've been blinded by their lust for power, money, influence or fame which is often afforded by a political party who seeks the same.
This Church which aligns itself with and propagates these kinds of lies. It should be no surprise that we'll find witches covens and Satanists groups aligning with these positions on the Democrat Left (this reference refers to the Democrat Party Platform and includes Republican's who are Republican's in name only - RINO's) and voting for candidates and policies that are literally inspired by doctrines of demons. The policies and laws which encourage people to sin or practice acts which are called abominations are the real problems. This hastens judgment. These are the practice and actions of the harlot Church.
The Bride
The fact that there is a counterfeit is proof there is the true. My friends, this valley of decision we've come to has presented a scenario which unites "the Church." I am referring to the remnant Church, the real Church that God is preparing as a bride for His Son. This valley of decision is a fire that purifies and simplifies. We find fire and the pressure causes what you really believe to surface. We find people from within each of the Charismatic movement to the Catholic Church and from the Pentecostals to Presbyterian churches and denominations being separated into two camps over these moral issues. You can see God's people in every stream and denomination emerging and separating themselves from the apostate Church. They are are in a purification process in preparation for the choosing by the King. It reminds me of the process Esther went through.
I know there are lots of denominations, streams, and movements, but this situation is simplifying it all. You either believe in and advocate for the truth or you do not. Know that you really cannot sit on the fence either (see We Find 3 Kinds of People in Spiritual War Today). Silence in a day like today might as well be a vote for the enemy of all righteousness. Trying to straddle the fence is not an option.
So, what will heaven record? I want heaven to record that I stood with our Lord Jesus Christ and the truth. I want it to record that I feared and respected God more than I feared man. What do you want heaven to record about your response in this day?
Let's use the following scriptures to help guide our prayer during this time that we might see our Father's will done.
Let us pray and proclaim:
Regarding the Harlot Church
In Matthew 24 and Luke 17 Jesus tells us how there would be two in the field: one will be taken and the other one left. In Matthew 25 Jesus describes how He will send His angels to gather all peoples and then He will sit upon His throne separating the nations, the people groups, between the sheep and the goats. The sheep get to join Jesus in His kingdom while to the goats He says in Matthew 25:41 41, "Then He will also say to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:"
There are two kinds of people and two kinds of nations. Should we be surprised if there are two kinds of churches?
The Great Harlot verses the Bride in Revelation
All through scripture you'll find Satan and his minions seek to copy or mimic God. But he is not God. He cannot create. He can only counterfeit by trying to copy the true. Since God has been preparing a bride for His Son, Satan has prepared a counterfeit.
In Revelation 17:5 we find Satan's counterfeit described as "Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth." Harlots sell their bodies to others. It's kind of like the Pharisees in Jesus' day who sold themselves to Herod and His temple. They colluded with government for they feared losing power, control, and wealth. This is why Jesus said beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. He was warning us about the collusion between a religious spirit and a political spirit. It is obvious those same demonic spirits are still at work today.
Abominations are actions which the Bible describes in places like Leviticus 18. These are actions which enact a spiritual law which cause a land to vomit the inhabitants out. We find a modern scenario of this evil collusion between the religious spirit and the political spirit manifested through how "the Church" or certain members of "the clergy" choose to align themselves with government policies that advocated things like abortion or the undermining of marriage as God defines it.
There are certain ministers and even denominations that bless abortion clinics, blaspheme God saying these clinics do God's work, or they compromise God's definition of marriage as they approve of lies that suggest there are more genders other than male and female. This 2019 article said there are 64. They've been blinded by their lust for power, money, influence or fame which is often afforded by a political party who seeks the same.
This Church which aligns itself with and propagates these kinds of lies. It should be no surprise that we'll find witches covens and Satanists groups aligning with these positions on the Democrat Left (this reference refers to the Democrat Party Platform and includes Republican's who are Republican's in name only - RINO's) and voting for candidates and policies that are literally inspired by doctrines of demons. The policies and laws which encourage people to sin or practice acts which are called abominations are the real problems. This hastens judgment. These are the practice and actions of the harlot Church.
The Bride
The fact that there is a counterfeit is proof there is the true. My friends, this valley of decision we've come to has presented a scenario which unites "the Church." I am referring to the remnant Church, the real Church that God is preparing as a bride for His Son. This valley of decision is a fire that purifies and simplifies. We find fire and the pressure causes what you really believe to surface. We find people from within each of the Charismatic movement to the Catholic Church and from the Pentecostals to Presbyterian churches and denominations being separated into two camps over these moral issues. You can see God's people in every stream and denomination emerging and separating themselves from the apostate Church. They are are in a purification process in preparation for the choosing by the King. It reminds me of the process Esther went through.
I know there are lots of denominations, streams, and movements, but this situation is simplifying it all. You either believe in and advocate for the truth or you do not. Know that you really cannot sit on the fence either (see We Find 3 Kinds of People in Spiritual War Today). Silence in a day like today might as well be a vote for the enemy of all righteousness. Trying to straddle the fence is not an option.
So, what will heaven record? I want heaven to record that I stood with our Lord Jesus Christ and the truth. I want it to record that I feared and respected God more than I feared man. What do you want heaven to record about your response in this day?
Let's use the following scriptures to help guide our prayer during this time that we might see our Father's will done.
Let us pray and proclaim:
Regarding the Harlot Church
- Pray God's people come out
- Revelation 18:4 4 And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.
- Revelation 18:5-6 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6 Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.
- Revelation 18:21-23 1 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore. 22 The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters shall not be heard in you anymore. No craftsman of any craft shall be found in you anymore, and the sound of a millstone shall not be heard in you anymore. 23 The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore
- Revelation 19:2 2 For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her."
- Pray for the preparation of our Lord's bride.
- Revelation 19:6-9 6 And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, "Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! 7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready." 8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
9 Then he said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!' - Revelation 21:2-3 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.
- Revelation 19:6-9 6 And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, "Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! 7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready." 8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
- The Spirit and the bride say come
- Revelation 22:12-17 2 "And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last."
14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. 15 But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
16 "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star."
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.
- Revelation 22:12-17 2 "And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last."
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