“To the ekklesia of God, … [giving-themselves-to-]
. . calling upon the Name of the Lord of us, Jesus Christ,
. … their (Lord) and ours”
. excrpt frm. 1 Cor. 1:2 ( w/ Grk denotation of verb)
Of the INCREASE of His government (lit also “RULE / dominion”)
and [of] peace
THERE SHALL BE NO END,
The zeal of the LORD of hosts WILL accomplish this.
. Isaiah 9:6-7
. In October of last year (2021), a phrase came to me, right before waking up for the day:
“Obduracy of Vision”
. I did not understand what this meant. For weeks I scoured through my memory to see if I could recall having ever heard the word, “Obduracy”, used by anyone in my entire life; I could not remember one single instance.
. I had an inkling as to what this word might mean, yet was not exactly sure. So I looked it up in a dictionary, & this is what it said:
“obduracy – the state of being obdurate”.
. This didn’t help.
. Looking up the word “obdurate”, I found this:
“stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action.”
“synonyms: stubborn, obstinate, unyielding, unbending, inflexible,
intransigent, implacable, unsparing, desensitized, unmerciful,
callous, unmoved by persuasion…”
. I realized, then, from the phrase that came to me – “obduracy of vision” – that this obstinate stubbornness has everything to do with a present state of believing and thinking, how one, negatively, apart from eternal truth and an unwillingness to be persuaded to eternal perspective, sees things.
. That is, outlook & conviction – the current vision of the world, of issues around them, and accordingly their believing that the way they see is factual concrete, and therefore ‘truth’ – is what is, period.
. The only ‘hope’ to which many hold fast is a believed pending “rapture”, (and the then ‘judgments to be poured out upon the wicked once we’re outta here.’).
. It is a vision without true Biblical Hope from God for this life.
. It is vision apart from faith, foundationed upon a ‘calloused by this age’s sight & sound’ heart.
“And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh … tore their clothes; and they spoke to all the
congregation of the sons of Israel, saying,
“The land which we passed through to spy out is an
exceedingly good land.
If the LORD is pleased with us, then He will bring us into
this land, and give it to us – a land which flows with milk and honey.
Only do not rebel against the LORD; and do not fear the
people of the land, for they shall be our prey (lit. “food /
bread”). Their protection has been removed from them,
and the LORD is with us; do not fear them.”
But all the congregation said to stone them with stones.”
. Numbers 14:6-10a (NASB)
That phrase from that October morning, “Obduracy of Vision”, I did not know what to do with it; I wasn’t sure back then if Father was speaking it me. All I knew is that “Obduracy” was not a word I’d ever used or could recall ever before having heard .
. I sat on those three words for two months.
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. Throughout 2021 I knew in my heart from Father that the word written for 2021 was going to carry through, with increase, for this year, 2022; and I believe, even more in the proceeding years.
. The cornerstone for that “Sword of Grace” word, posted in March, along with the succeeding posts, I received from Father one morning in late October 2020, from Luke 2. (The verses below, which follow Simeon’s prophetic decree in Luke 2, are the foundation for understanding the link to this present Kairos).
“And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His
.mother, ‘Behold, this Child is appointed for the fall and
.rise of many in Israel, and for a sign to be opposed –
.and A SWORD will pierce … – to the end that thoughts
.from many hearts may be revealed.'”
. Luke 2:34-35 (NASB)
“The LORD said to my Lord;
“Sit at My right hand,
. Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
. The LORD will stretch forth Your strong scepter from
. Zion, saying,
“Rule in the midst of Your enemies,” “
. Psalms 110:1-2 (NASB)
” … He raised Him from the dead,
and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies,
far above all rule and authority and power and dominion,
and every name that is named, not only in this age,
. but also in the one to come.
And He put all things in subjection under His feet,
and gave Him as head over all things to the church, “
. Ephesians 1:20-22 (NASB)
” The LORD … will speak to them …
. ” I have installed My King … “,
“I will surely tell of the decree of the LORD:
. He said to Me, “You are My Son, … Ask of Me,
. and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance,
. And the very ends of the earth as Your possession
. You shall break them with a rod of iron,
. You shall shatter them like earthenware.”
Now, therefore, O kings, show discernment;
Take warning, O judges of the earth,
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish from the way,
. when His wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.”
excrpt frm Psalms 2:5-12 (v7-10-NASB/v11-12 – KJV)
I did not realize that Father, God, was about to weave what I began to hear for last year into what was I was about to hear from Him some days before Christmas last month.
. On December 21st, right before awaking, I heard Father say to me, “Butter Nut Scotch”. I knew then I was hearing from Holy Spirit. Intentionally getting up and going to my table, I got pen and paper, and my Bibles open, to start writing, asking Father to keep showing me what He was saying. (The “Butter Nut Scotch” will be explained below).
. It was that day predominantly, and then several of the days following, that Holy Spirit unveiled from the scriptures, going back to the October phrase, “Obduracy of Vision”, this that is written here. There was clarity which also came from Him on January 4th and a couple of days later.
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(Many of) My People do not believe in their hearts
that Jesus IS Lord!
. Father began to put on my heart that His people (at large) do not really believe Jesus is Lord; this has to do with their vision – what they see (going on) in the earth (predominantly through media).
. Though they’ve heard through many sermons and know from the scriptures that the Bible declares that Jesus is Lord (Phil. 2:9-11), the circumstances of life make it look like the kingdom of darkness currently has the upper hand.
. When I heard this from Father, the verse that came to mind, which I believe Jesus is going to weave as truth into us, was the last portion of 1 Corinthians 1:2. I have broken down that statement from the Greek text word order so that you’ll see the impact of what Holy Spirit spoke through Paul’s writing.
“To the ekklesia of God, which is in Corinth, having been
. sanctified in Christ Jesus, called ‘Holy Ones’ [‘saints’],
. together with all those [giving-themselves-to-] calling
. upon the Name of the Lord of us, Jesus Christ,
. both their (Lord) and ours“
. When Moses first returned to Egypt after the LORD had made Himself known to Him for God’s people there to know that He was come to deliver them from out of bondage, initially they believed Him & worshiped Him (Ex. 4:29-31).
. However, the judgments beginning to come against Egypt, with the cessation of each part came Pharaoh’s hand stronger in oppression over the people, to where God’s people dismayed at Moses having put hope into them that the LORD was going to do as He was declaring through him. When Moses got a fresh word from the LORD of His promise to deliver, they did not listen; the current, ongoing oppressive circumstances seemed to prove Moses quite wrong (Ex. 6:2-9) … and maybe somewhat deceived? … until the night they sacrificed a lamb, and the next morning saw alas ‘deliverance from slavery’!
. Yet there is another example stronger even than the illustration cited. This one unveils exactly what is “obduracy of vision”, how it is set into the heart, with the resultant stubbornness of vision that disallows one’s heart to be persuaded by eternal truth, by the Vision of the One enthroned as Lord far above every principality and power and authority and every name named … to our benefit!
“When they returned from spying out the land…,
they proceeded to come to Moses … and to all the
congregation of the sons of Israel in the wilderness …;
and they brought back word … and showed them
the fruit of the land.
Thus they told him, and said, “We went in to the land
where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk
and honey, and this is its fruit.
Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong,
and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover,
we saw the descendants of Anak there. Amalek is living
there in the land of the Negev and the Hittites … are living
in the hill country, and the Canaanites are living by the
sea and by the side of the Jordan.”
Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses (pay
attention to this: Heb. text lit. says, “Caleb HUSHED the
people toward Moses”) and said, “We should by all
means go up and take possession of it, for we shall
surely overcome it.”
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not
able to go up against the people, for they are too strong
for us.”
So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the
land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through
which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that
devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw
in it are men of great size. … we became like grasshoppers
in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried,
and the people wept that night.
And all the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses
and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, …
“And why is the LORD bringing us into this land,
to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones
will become plunder;”
“And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, … tore their clothes; and they spoke to all the
congregation of the sons of Israel, saying,
“The land which we passed through to spy out is an
exceedingly good land.
If the LORD is pleased with us, then He will bring us into
this land, and give it to us – a land which flows with milk and honey.
Only do not rebel against the LORD; and do not fear the
people of the land, for they shall be our prey (lit. “our food /
our bread”). Their protection has been removed from them,
and the LORD is with us; do not fear them.”
But all the congregation said to stone them with stones.”
. excrpt frm Numbers 13:25-14:10a (NASB)
. “Obduracy of vision” is vision desensitized from the eternal truth of the finished work of the cross of Christ for this life by the “factual news”, which is showing itself, through media’s sight and sound, to seemingly be the actual lord of this life …
. … (I’m going to step on toes here) … It is a belief which has roots in an incorrect understanding/believing of the “sovereignty of God”, one that believes God is “allowing” storms and circumstances to take place, giving the devil some sort of “right” to wreak havoc wherever he chooses; and maybe in the sweet bye-and-bye we’ll then get to inherit divine promises.
. It takes hold of no believing Jesus to speak through us to the storm to “HUSH, be still!” … (Are you listening, Beloved? Did you catch above what Holy Spirit had Moses to document as to how Caleb responded to the unbelief pouring out of the mouths of his fellow spies? ) And neither does it see & hear Jesus saying to them, “Why are you so timid? How is that you have no faith?” – Mk. 4:39-40)
. What many who believe this incorrect understanding of the sovereignty of God do not realize is that this believing actually sets into their thinking an evil mindset willing to pick up stones to cast against those of the bold believing of Caleb and Joshua, of those who still believe in miracles, that what Jesus, on the night that He was betrayed, promised to take place through the saints(John 14:12) has not been taken away or removed from the saints.
. This incorrect foundation of faith manifests as a Pharisaical spirit/thinking which sounds spiritual, and uses scripture to back up their lack of active believing, their lack faith.
. Ultimately, it is an ignorance which stands in a position of “scotching” God’s purposes in glorifying Jesus through Jesus’s body on earth, in showing forth that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever … which includes signs and wonders and miracles, as we see through Jesus’s life in the gospels.
. This obduracy of vision gets rooted in taking in the news of this age (not having guarded their hearts according to the command of Holy Spirit through the scriptures – Pro. 4:20-23; Heb. 3:7-8a); it talks it up, using it to then justify what they think is being said through the book of Revelation, mulling it over in heart and mind (as did the Hebrews who wept all night in their tents until the report, the news, grew to a mountain in their minds), till the age of this world looks daunting in contrast to the forgotten work of the blood of the Lamb on their door posts that delivered from a life(time) of slavery to sin.
. It is a mindset and heart conviction that holds little hope for the future of the next generation; and thus cannot pray in hope and faith for the next generation, for they believe darkness is actually growing, not the light of the gospel, not the increase of the government of Jesus through the ekklesia, His body on earth.
. This wrong understanding and believing of the Sovereignty of God has, in truth, displaced Jesus’s Lordship from out of many of God’s people’s hearts, the place where believing, where ‘faith’, is rooted (Rom. 10:9-11).
. Their active ‘for this life’ “faith” has been, to whatever extent, quite diminished. (Many will say that they believe “God can do anything”, but don’t actually believe He wants to work with us, NOW, in this life, through Jesus’s faith in them (Gal. 2:20b in the lit. Grk) so that Jesus’s Lordship could become increasingly manifest through them, individually and thus corporately as the ekklesia ).
. The culmination of this type of believing is what breeds “obduracy of vision” … and can dangerously lead to actively resisting divine destiny through those who do believe Jesus, through the Grace-gifts of Holy Spirit, has not changed; (the 2nd statement which came to me on Dec. 21st will address this).
. … Selah …
. This place is, however, where Holy Spirit would bring the Sword of Grace …
. … yes, of GRACE …
. … to penetrate as far as a division of soul and of spirit,
. … to transform your heart unto that bold Caleb spirit (Num. 14:24a).
. This is where Jesus’s rule, His Lordship through the ekklesia – through you and I – can come to be in truth … with wonderfully set trepidation to the kingdom of darkness that God’s people will actually start believing Jesus outright – length and breadth and height and depth – seeing God let Jesus keep seated on His (God’s) throne … while He – GOD ALMIGHTY – sets every enemy under His (Jesus’s … His body… we who are together the ekklesia body of Christ) feet! (I Cor. 15:25-26; Eph. 3:10, 14-18; Col. 2:9-10).
“The LORD says to my Lord:
“Sit at My right hand,
. Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
. The LORD will stretch for Your strong scepter from Zion,
. saying “RULE in the midst of Your enemies.””
. Psalms 110:1-2 (NASB)
“For He (Jesus) must reign until
. He (God – the LORD) has put ALL His enemies
. under His feet.” !!!
. I Corinthians 15:25 (NASB)
. When you understand that this is tied to Jesus getting glory on earth, you will willing let Holy Spirit, through the Word, use that Sword of Grace to correct your vision.
. Holy Spirit wants to reset our eyesight, Beloved – to 20/22 vision.
. … Selah ...
. If you can hear, let this word be the grace sword that changes you: God is going to keep alive a generation of Calebs and Joshuas who see the Lamb that was slain on the Throne as Lord of heaven AND of earth, who believe, actively, that “the earth is the Lord’s/LORD’s AND ALL ITS FULLNESS“ (Ps. 24:1), and so live their lives accordingly, that Jesus’s headship rule is through His church, to do as they see Him in the gospels. ( … that His life lived is their life, His living in and through them – Galatians 2:20 frm the Lit. Greek – “and the life which I now live in the flesh, I LIVE BY THE FAITH OFTHE SON OF GOD!” / Ref. also Jhn.15:5).
“But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit
and has been full to follow Me, I will cause him to come
into the land … he shall see it, and to him I am giving the
land on which he has set foot, and to his children,
because he has {intentionally] been full after the LORD.
Joshua, the son of Nun, who stands before you,
he shall enter there; encourage him, for he shall cause
Israel to inherit it.”
. excerpt frm Numbers 14:24a; Deut. 1:36, 38
. (part NASB/ part lit. & in word order frm Heb. text)
. They believe outright that God wants us to inherit, to possess, to see Jesus’s cross – the finished work and working of His suffering – be glorified now, in this life, in the face of the kingdom of darkness’s giants, to where displacement of that kingdom’s work takes place through the church (Eph. 3:9-10 / Ref. back to Num. 13:30-33 &then over to Josh. 14:6-115 & 15:13-14), making fearlessly known by sight in the heavenlies and on earth the rule of the Light of Jesus’s Lordship & Kingdom! – (see Acts 2:34-35, 3:20-21. Ref. Heb. 3:8, 4:1) .
. This group of Calebs & Joshuas actually really believe the verses quoted so often at Christmas from out of Isaiah 9:
“For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given
and the government shall be upon his shoulder
and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor,
The Mighty God, The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace.
Of the INCREASE of His government (lit also “rule/dominion”)
. and [of] peace THERE SHALL BE NO END,
upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom
to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice FROM HENCEFORTH [from then on] even for ever,
The zeal of the LORD of hosts WILL accomplish this.
. Isaiah 9:6-7
. This Isaiah prophetic word neither indicates decrease at any time forward, from the moment Jesus sat on the throne, of the judicial rule of Jesus, … nor does it suggest an increase of darkness over light;
. … rather it decrees INCREASE, from that point onward forever … of JESUS’S Lordship !!!
. Are you listening, Beloved?
. The Caleb and Joshua generation believes this of God, of the impeccable, immovable, unambiguous, unchangeable character of God, of His word, His oath to Son, His zeal to accomplish glorifying His Son, Jesus’s sufferings, over the kingdom of darkness, with great joy especially for those believing Him in the face of every mocking … with the goal of seeing here, on earth, God our God setting ALL the enemies of Jesus under Jesus’s feet while He remains seated on God’s throne (Ps. 110:1; Acts 3:21; I Cor. 15:25; Heb. 10:12-13).
. … Selah …
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20/22 Vision
“Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
. “Today, if you hear His voice,
. DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS … ” “
. Hebrews 37-8a (NASB)
“And I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me.
. And having turned I SAW … “
. Revelation 1:12a (NASB)
“Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him,
. and He is the one who is talking with you.” “
. John 9:37 (NASB)
. The part that I received from Father in the first week of January was from the account of Sarah in Genesis 18:1-12. Without going into detail, Sarah never called her husband ‘lord’ (see1 Peter 3:6) until she’d heard (for the first time in her life) from her husband’s LORD (Gen. 18:12b).
. If you can hear without argument from any place in your heart or mind, Sarah’s entire character was changed that day, by an authoritative Grace from her lord’s LORD breathed into her through having heard Him. (Click here to read towards the end of this Kairos for understanding).
. Oftentimes the kindness of God stops us in our (unbelieving) tracks when Holy Spirit speaks to us, catching us off guard and capturing our hearts at the same time. This alone can be the sword of Grace cutting off whatever it is that has so easily entangled our forward walk of simple outright believing the Lord our God (Rom. 1:4; Pro. 15:1a; 25:15b; 10:12b). All the striving for years from Sarai was, in a moment, in hearing and seeing the voice that spoke promise into her barrenness, gone, and Grace was breathed, changing her name to a Sarah, promoting her and raising her high, from barren “dominionative”, to the royalty of “Princess”.
. What Father spoke to me on Dec. 21st was that we need 20/22 vision. And He set a warning that day through a play on words, “Butter Nut Scotch.”
. The account of John 9 came to me, the whole chapter; … and it has not lifted, not one ounce, in the weeks it has taken me to put this Kairos in writing.
. Holy Spirit had John to write 41 verses, an entire chapter, about the healing of one single blind man. I write this for you to do your own study, to let Holy Spirit speak to you from out of this account.
. I believe, as it was for that man who got “seeing” from Jesus, in his fresh awe of Jesus (v38) – of seeing the voice that spoke to him giving him sight – and the consequential persecution by the religious leaders, that those of you who let Jesus – Holy Spirit through the Word – heal your vision, there is going to be persecution for your simple and bold believing (as God said of Caleb, “He was FULL to follow Me”) by fellow believers who hold to different doctrinal belief. (Ref. Jhn. 12:49-53; Mat. 10:36-38).
. Do not let your heart or mind judge them or become arrogant towards or antagonistic against them: “But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you,” “and pray for those who persecute you in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; “ (Lk. 6:27-28a; Mat. 5:44b-45a – NASB).
. When I heard that we needed 20/22 vision, I had to research what 20/20 meant, medically, and what means the various 2nd number that we hear about, which is different than 20: (i.e. 20/30, 20/15). I have heard these variances all my life yet never actually knew how these numbers were derived.
. From the American Academy of Ophthalmology :
“A person with 20/20 vision can see what an average individual can see on eye chart when they are standing 20 feet away,” …
An eye chart measures visual acuity, which is the clearness or sharpness of vision. The top number is your distance in feet from the chart. The bottom number is the distance at which a person with normal eyesight can read the same line.
For example, if you have 20/30 vision, it means your vision is worse than average. Twenty feet away, you can read letters most people see from 30 feet.
A person can have 20/15 vision, which is sharper than average. If you have 20/15 vision, you can see a line in the eye chart at 20 feet that the average person can only see when they are 15 feet away.”
. Father put on my heart that we have to step two steps closer to have right vision, that is, to see Jesus’s Lordship correctly. And He then began to explain these two steps forward.
. He spoke that morning that to have right vision – vision correction – of Jesus’s Lordship, we needed Revelation … chapter 20 and 22. A number of scripture references started coming to mind, which have the numbers 20, and even more, 22 (chapters &/or verse #) in Father’s unveiling this word (as seen in an early quote above from Eph. 1:20-22).
. The cornerstone verse, Simeon’s prophetic word to Mary concerning Jesus, needs to be recalled here in order for you to properly comprehend of the prophetic stuff, from out of the scriptures, that follows below.
“And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His
.mother, ‘Behold, this Child is appointed for the fall and
.rise of many in Israel, and for a sign to be opposed –
.and A SWORD will pierce … – to the end that thoughts
.from many hearts may be revealed.'”
. Luke 2:34-35 (NASB)
. I’m going to write what came to me, but I believe Father will show each of you even more if you will go after hearing from His Spirit in you concerning this (Rom. 8:27a; 1 Cor. 2:10-12).
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The “Key” to 20/22 Vision
” I HAVE THE KEYS of death and of Hades.”“
. Revelation 1:18 (NASB)
“And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having
the KEY of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And
he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old who is the
devil and satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
and threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it
over him, so that he should not deceive the nations any
longer …
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them,
. and judgment was given to them … ”
. Revelation 20:1-3, 4 (NASB)
. In Matthew 16:13-19, Peter, before all of the disciples, just having gotten revelation from God the Father that Jesus is “the Messiah, the Son of the Living God”, that revelation of (the authority of God’s) Anointed One (see Ps. 2, esp v. 6-8) brought about a bombshell disclosure from out of Jesus’s lips as to what meant to them the authority from of heaven to them from out of this revelation specifically, from what Father had just caused Peter to hear.
. It is a decree from Lord Jesus to every generation since then to those who get (receive and believe) this same revelation of truth.
“He said to them, “But who do YOU say that I am?”
And Simon Peter answered (“Simon” is Heb. / “Peter” is
Grk. This is the only place in Mat.’s gospel these 2
are joined. He that hath ears … pay attention) and said,
“You are the Christ the Son of the Living God.”
“And Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you
Simon Barjona (Heb. name denoting “Hearing son of a
Dove”), because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you,
but My Father who is in heaven.
And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock
I will build My church; and the gates of Hades shall not
overpower it.
I will give you the KEYS of the kingdom of heaven,
and whatever you shall bind on earth SHALL HAVE BEEN
BOUND IN HEAVEN, and whatever you shall loose on
earth SHALL HAVE BEEN LOOSED IN HEAVEN.”“
The word “KEY” popped off the page in Rev. 20:1. What I saw was that what took place in the heavenlies, with satan being bound (“arrested” as it were), that we would see this begin to take place all over the world.
. There will be literal arrests of those who have been deceiving people, illegally having used their power to deceive, to hold in bondage, to withhold freedoms. I believe a number of these (high profile) arrests, (some of them wont be high profile, yet this will still happen to them), will be seen on the news; their arrests will be in chains – feet and hands (see II Chron. 33:11).
. That John writes intentionally descriptive of satan: “And
he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old who is the
devil and satan“, unveils the kind of person(s), as well as of the actions of those who will be bound and thrown in prison.
The dragon – from Biblehub
“drákon (from derkomai, “to see,” the root of the English
term, “dragon”) – properly “seeing one,” used of mythical
dragons (huge serpents) seeing their prey from far away;
[The ancient Greeks classified a “dragon” (drákon) as a
type of serpent. … was believed to have incredible insight,
able to spot prey in any hiding place.]
The serpent of old – ὁ ὄφις ὁ ἀρχαῖος – frm Thayer & frm Strong’s concordance:
“(perhaps named from its sight; … see Curtius, as under
the word ὀφθαλμός)” … “Probably from optanomai (through
the idea of sharpness of vision); a snake, figuratively, (as
a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person”
The devil – διάβολος – frm. Biblehub –
diábolos (from 1225 /diabállo, “to slander, accuse,
defame”) – properly, a slanderer; a false accuser; unjustly
criticizing to hurt (malign) and condemn to sever a
relationship.
(diabolos) in secular Greek means “backbiter,” i.e. an
accuser, calumniator (slanderer). (diábolos) is literally
someone who “casts through,” i.e. making charges that
bring down (destroy).
satan – the only Hebrew word used in this description. So lets look at the Hebrew name’s root – שָׂטָן . The name (sounds like ‘saw-tawn’) is rooted in the verb שָׂטַן (sounds like ‘saw-tan’). Frm Strong’s concordance:
A primitive root; to attack, (figuratively) accuse
— (be an) adversary, resist.
. The characteristics described above will be seen in those being arrested … in chains.
. Revelation 20, verse 4 popped off the page; and it was this that took me to Daniel 7:22.
“And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them,
.and judgment was given to them … ”
. Revelation 21:4a (NASB)
” the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was passed
. in favor of the saints of the Highest One, and the time
. arrived when the saints TOOK POSSESSION of the kingdom.”
. The statement decree, “and judgment was passed IN FAVOR of the saints of the Highest One“, we need to let sink into our ears. This is a now decree!
. I believe accusations will be nullified, and court decisions will be passed, overturning the evil intentions of the devil through people; deceitful intended injustice will be turned into justice, especially for believers, though it will not only be to believers, across the earth. (There will be out of the mouths of a number who are presently in prison, who will be freed, that will give thanks to the LORD, acknowledging His hand in “opening prison doors” – Is. 61:1)
. I believe we will see this take place especially for persecuted believers in the Far East and the Middle East, where they have suffered for generations for having believed into Jesus and having proclaimed His Name where it has been illegal to do so. Look back at Daniel 7:22, even to the words of this vision he is seeing in v.21. You will see verse 22 more clearly and understand the now promise.
“I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the
. saints and overpowering them UNTIL THE ANCIENT
. OF DAYS CAME, and judgment was passed in favor
. of the saints of the Highest One, …”
. As to what takes place in Revelation 20 verses 1-2, that which we do not see that IS taking place, on account of John’s words, that is, what he documented as to what he was seeing in the Spirit, we therefore need to let sink into our believing roots the truth of Jesus’s words in Matthew 18:19, as quoted above earlier – “Whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven…”
. For it is in believing Him – the “Word”, “God the Word” – the impeccable integrity and pinpoint faithfulness of God’s rhema words of life, of Jesus’s Kingdom rule on earth now from His resurrected, ascended, Throne-seated position as King of kings AND Lord of lords, of His INCREASING dominion rule through His church, that we will see the following, continuing words from Daniel’s chapter 7 vision (vs 26-27) manifest as the fulfilling of Isaiah’s 9:7 prophecy; (keep in mind what we saw written in Rev. 20:1-2)
” the court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will
. be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever. Then
. the sovereignty, the dominion, and the greatness of all
. the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given
. to the people of the saints of the Highest One;
. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom,
. and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.”
Father, the Only true and Living God, Almighty God, is adamant and on the trail single vision focused towards making Jesus’s Lordship a manifestly & overtly augmenting reality in the heavenlies, AND, (if I dare say,) more so upon the earth in the eyes of men – in nations, before tribes and tongues and peoples, in whatever religion to which they are presently caught up.
. This has EVERYTHING to do with the Father’s love for His Son, in glorifying the work of why Jesus was sacrificed to the death of a cross, towards redeeming mankind. At the same time it is so tied to His love for people (Jhn 3:16-17; Rom. 5:8-11), towards completely and utterly setting them free from every fiber of the clutch of kingdom of darkness, it’s destructive working against every soul of man (I Jhn. 3:8b).
. From the beginning of Moses’s very last blessing:
“The LORD (YHVH) … Indeed, He loves peoples:”
. Deuteronomy 33:2a & 3a (NASB)
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that
. while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
. Romans 5:8 (NASB)
“To this end was the Son of God manifested,
. that he might destroy the works of the devil.”
. I John 3:8b (ERV)
“But this One, having offered one sacrifice for sins in[to]
. perpetuity, sat down at the right hand of God,
. waiting from that time until his enemies should be made
. a footstool for his feet.”
. Hebrews 10:12-13 (Berean Lit. B-v12/ERV-v13)
. … Selah …
. In Part II we will unveil what Father spoke from out of Isaiah 22, the 2nd step from out of Revelation 22, and then also making known His statement “Butter Nut Scotch”.
. Take the time to set this Kairos before the LORD, and let Him speak to you from out of it.
Let Father establish His Hope in your heart (Rom. 15:13; Heb. 11:1a). Give heed to whatever He sets before you, Beloved (Heb. 2:1, 4:1), to wherever the Sword of the Spirit divides between soul and spirit. Any discipline from Father is Love for you (Heb. 12:2-6; Pro. 1:23; 3:11-12), whatever it may be, by which transformation into the image of Jesus that He brings about (Rom. 8:28-29), it’s all because He doesn’t want any of the image of the first Adam – anything that carries no weight of eternal glory – to be hanging on as weight or robbery from His destiny and faith rest that are yours in Christ Jesus.
. You are greatly loved, Beloved.
Mark D.
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** – Beloved, you are free to print this and any Kairos for your own study. Take the time to go through these scriptures, and let the Holy Spirit write them and bear witness to them in your hearts and minds. Let the Word of God and the Blood of Jesus and the witness of the Holy Spirit who lives inside of you wash through you and renew your mind. These blogs are meant to be Bible studies, so you are free to print up any newsletter of this blog site for your own study. Feel free to copy and reset these Newsletter with lines in them for notes.
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– If you have never believed into Jesus Christ, you can do so now, from your own heart and words. If you wish help to pray, pray, “LORD Jesus, I believe You died for me and as me because You love me. I receive Your Forgiveness for my sin. Thank You for shedding Your blood to cleanse me, for making me clean, for breaking the power of sin in my life, for transforming me as a gift of Your Grace to me. I ask You to live inside of me. I thank You, Jesus, for giving me eternal life, that I might know You and Your Father, as my God, forever. In Your Name, LORD Jesus. Amen!”
_ If you just believed into Jesus, if you prayed this prayer to believe into Jesus, it is of great importance that you be water baptized (Mk. 16:16a; Acts 10:47-48a; Rom.6:4). And ask Jesus to baptize you in Holy Spirit & fire. Share your faith, what Jesus has done for you.
– For those of you who have believed into Jesus; take communion often (I Cor. 11:23-26; Lk. 24:30-31a). Let communion be a refreshing of the Blood and the Spirit (Heb. 9:14) to cleanse your conscious from sin consciousness to righteousness consciousness, that you are indeed clean, as a gift of His grace. You are no more, Dearly Beloved, under condemnation; rather, you are under justification – eternally! (Rom. 4:25b, 5:21;b; Heb. 9:11-12). You will find the Holy Spirit of Jesus unveiling Jesus to you from the scriptures like you’ve never seen Him before.
kairos – (Kahee-ros’) – Strong’s concordance defines this word: “an occasion, I.e. set or proper time.” The Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible (NASB) defines this word; “season, time, but not merely as a succession of moments, which is chronos,” [from which we derive the English word ‘chronology’]. “Kairos, however, implies not the convenience of the season, but the necessity of the task at hand, whether the time provides a good, convenient opportunity or not.” This must be understood. Strategic times of the Lord do not necessarily imply good or convenient times. We are in Kairos times. Maybe not good or convenient times, but definitely strategic, opportune times because of the season we are in. We must have “ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches,” (Rev. 2:29), so as to respond correctly to the Kairos time.
* Some Scripture for this letter is taken from the (NASB) – NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE, (c) 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Other references translated from Grk. Txt as presented in T. Newberry’s Englishman’s Greek New Testament, Zondervan Publishing – 1982- originally published in London, Eng. 1877 Scripture references not showing a Translation in Brackets are this writer’s translation from the Hebrew Massoretic Text as it appears on the web-site “qbible.com”, our from the Greek text of Thomas Newberry’s “Englishman’s Greek New Testament”. Some definitions given to Hebrew words are also referenced from qbible.com website, as well as from Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament, Baker Book House Company, (C) 1979
Several Translations and study guides to which this author refers are taken from biblehub.com website.