Something Wicked this way came......and caught me up in "an evil day".
Proverbs 11:13 "He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy conceals a matter."
Pray for one another, judge not what you know nothing of; allow God to work in
His time, and why does the angry mob call for blood? They betrayed and crucified
Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and
He tells us that the love of many will wax cold, and that we too will be hated for our
Love and
Faith in Jesus Christ. Why do the heathen rage and imagine a vain thing? Why do the heathen rage? and call for the blood of their brethren? Why do they betray one another?
King Solomon who was considered the wisest man on Earth knew that one would experience adversity, and darkness suddenly on "the evil day". That "the evil day" would come upon you like a snare, a trap and the devil would be working overtime to catch the servants of the Lord unawares, that it wouldn't mean the servants were not righteous, that it didn't mean they weren't praying right, or singing right but that traps would be layed out. You see; God also knew that His faithful servants would come out better, on the other side of the "evil day". All one needs to do is look at Job, Joshua, and David for examples of sudden adversity and it didn't mean that one of them was not a faithful servant, not one was unrighteous, but each had some unrighteous people surrounding them. God even asks the devil "Have you considered my servant Job?" knowing full well that no matter what the devil did Job would not curse God. God trusted his servants; every one of them. God trusts His faithful servants, that they will not cave to mammon, pride, avarice, greed, jealousy, wickedness, sloth, adultery and so on, God knows exactly who He can trust but sometimes we need to know how much God trusts US! and like all children and Father's their will be tests and the tests can come hard and fast and plunge you deep into "an evil day". That is when you find out that Dad was right all along but you had to "get up in your own head" because your mind starts to think it has the answers, and what really does have the answers is our Father in heaven and He speaks to you in your heart, not in your head. The "voices" in your head rarely give you the "right" direction. Praying and fasting is the way to wait on the Father to give us the right direction and it comes through our hearts and is backed up with scrpture. Scripture; the only sound doctrine. Not man made theology and "formation"of doctrine. Doctrines of devils will be accepted in the latter days when people will seek beautiful words with itching ears and will not love the truth so will be sold a lie. That's a paraphrase from 2 Thessalonians 2
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=2Th&c=2&v=1&t=KJV#top
We have the wisdom of King Solomon who wrote Proverbs and Ecclesiastes here is a bit of what Solomon had to say about the sudden and swift ensnarement on "the evil day".
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race [is] not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Ecclesiastes 9:11-12
Recently I was snared in an "evil day"the Lord had prepared me by listening to a teaching about the "evil day" by a beloved Preacher, and Solomon calls himself the "
Preacher", and it still caught me unawares, as I caved into my flesh, hoping against hope and the counsel of my elder brothers. I succumbed to the "voices" screaming in my head, instead of the voice of my Lord in my heart, for some kind of righteousness to be present where I had been warned none would lay. My Father in Heaven has forgiven me for my trespasses, and I forgive the trespasses against me; in "the evil day". My brothers have forgiven me, my brothers love me and now it's up to me to show that I am worthy of their love by being obedient, and silent and not engage in
talebearing. I was snared suddenly and in a moment made a monumental mistake;
I went back on my word. I trusted one who should not have been trusted, and he betrayed me in public, and lied to his "followers" It is in plain site if you can see it, there is a talebearer, and there is one who conceals a matter. We have nothing but the saving grace of our Lord and Savior and we have the "word that comes out of our mouth" and that word must come in truth; with prayer and supplication, not in our heads "raging like a heathen and imagining vain things"which is what caused me to stumble, fully in my flesh and full of sin.
According to the Preacher there are 6 "D's" that come along in "the evil day" and it was in "D" number five that I got depressed and did a stupid thing. The first "D" is Distraction; the enemy will find a way to distract you from keeping your eyes on the Lord. The second "D" is Disorientation and a combination of things the enemy was doing caused me to be disoriented, confused and thinking with my head and not listening to the Holy Spirit in my heart and we know that God is not the author of confusion. The third "D" is Division for the enemy always seeks to divide the servants of the living God and the division was in full swing; separating into several camps seemingly all at once, suddenly and swiftly the enemy comes to taketh away the Word. The fourth "D" is doubt; you begin to doubt if people really love you, you begin to doubt if you are doing the right thing, you begin to doubt your heart and get into your head. If we go back to Genesis that serpent got Eve to doubt the Word of God and she bit into the fruit, the poison fruit, the thought that "you won't die it's okay to do what you want". That is so "in the ditch" on so many levels. If you have ever been caught in a snare of human, fleshly emotions you will always begin to doubt the Word of God. When those who have been conspiring to "get something out of you" set a hook in your jaw. The hook that was set in mine was that the devil knows I have a heart for people, and an offer to help people was used as a hook and the devil knew it would get me if they went after my compassion. Of course after the hook was set came the betrayal my word was not kept in confidence; they lied and they hung me out in the public square, and had no intention of helping "the people", but to rob, kill and destroy. After the doubting comes the fifth "D"; Depression; once you are in a depression you begin to do stupid things, just flat out stupid things. You are in the ditch and grasping at scraggly outcroppings of weeds that are "twice dead" and when you attempt to clutch at them to get out of the depression, they crumble and come loose from the sides, and you have nothing but a handful of dead, useless weeds that are of no help to you. They are not built on solid rock, they are not part of the branch, they are sown in sandy, rocky soils and yield nothing except to allow you to slide further into the ditch because you haven't looked up. You are staring at the sides of the embankment instead of the rock solid instruction of God who is above you and in you if you love and serve him, and if your faith is built on a solid foundation you will stand on your faith, and not a wishy washy wash out that is soon going to slide you deeper into depression. The sixth "D" is despair you find yourself in a pit of despair and begin to resort to some very un-characteristic behavior to try and raise yourself up from the pit. You can see the error there, there is NOTHING we can do "by ourselves" there is no good thing in us and we are knocked flat so we can look up! We have to look up to remember that all we do, and all that we are is because Jesus died for our sins, shed His blood to redeem us and we are NOTHING without Him and His WORD!! Prayer and fasting, reading and meditating on the Word and asking to be forgiven for any transgression we have committed whilst in the snare. God knows that you are going to come out better on the other side of the "evil day" than when you suddenly and swiftly had it come upon you. It is always dark before the dawn, in the "valley of the shadow of death" you are led beside the still waters. The still waters is where you need to stay for a time, it is the only place to be to begin to hear the "voice of the Lord" once again. Here am I resting, beside still waters, thankful for the brothers and husband the Lord has so richly blessed me with, who are a blessing to me, even though I fell into the "pit", they extended a hand to me in love and compassion for they are good and righteous servants and their love is precious, the most precious worldly thing I will ever have for everything else is "vanity and vexation"as Solomon found out; and there is a time and a season for everything under heaven. With this trust in the Word of God I will lay beside these still waters and I will wait for the time and the purpose and the season for this "evil day" to pass, for my family to be "knit back together" for I cannot serve the Lord with my house in disorder; it would be unrighteous for me to do so. The Lord is working now to restore all things; so what has been broken is repaired, and all transgressions have been forgiven, all the dust is shaken from the feet of all my brothers and sisters and they are willing to walk in truth once again.
Now; there are times when sin has been found in the camp of the righteous. We can have a look at the book of Joshua for that, we can look to Genesis and Rachel sitting on her trunk of idols. A full scale attack was well underway in the household, one whom called us "brother and sister" was seeking to destroy us. Many of my blogs have been about the Harlot and there are also those that "play the Harlot" to get something they want; in an unrighteous manner. This was at work on every front; deceit, lies, double mindedness, greed, envy, jelousy, pride, vanity, and vexation. Deception and lies ran rampant and modern technology was used to aid in the theft of what belonged to "Her" brothers and sisters. Many things were coveted and the covetousness led to theft and destruction. There is only one course of action according to the Word of God to do in this situation and that is burn the idols, bring the truth out into the Light and let the Lord expose it, and true to our precious Lord Almighty, they "outed" themselves publicly. We did nothing to expose what was being done by those who "played the Harlot", they walked right out into the Light and confessed themselves to the world. If you can see the admissions, if you can see through their lies and deceit, their desire to "take down" those "She" called the brethren. "She" has many with her, "She" was clever and went about like a roaring lion behind the scenes, ripping and tearing seeking whom "She" could devour. You see as I have written in these blogs; in metaphors at times, that the Harlot is the consort of Lucifer, "She" works for him, even though "She" proclaims with "Her" mouth that Jesus is her Lord, she works for the enemy and seemingly cannot even see that is whom she is bound to; of whom she is an accomplice. She will be utterly burned as I have written before, as it says in Revelation 17, she will be burned and betrayed by the "one" "She" has served. You may also look to Jezebel and Ahab, they come in pairs to destroy those who truly serve the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and seek to lay waste to them that truly believe". Remember before Jehu comes she fixes herself up, puts on make up, and probably has her servants "do her hair". "She" thinks "baal" whom she worships will protect "Her" but "baal" is a dead and lying god of nothing which "She" soon finds out, and plunges headlong to her death and is eaten by dogs. To "Her", appearance is important, an image, an image that "screams" it's not about me, when truly it is all about "Her". Forgive me for speaking in riddles and metaphors "She" can also be a "He" which incidentally I will cover in an upcoming blog, so don't look for gender here; genders are switched routinely among the sorcerers it's called "androgyny". The symbol of the "Goat of Mendes" or "Baphomet" is an androgynous creature, with breasts and a caduceus for it's phallus. Masculine Females, and Feminine Males are there it's easy to see them, drawing their swords and desiring a special private place to rest their pretty heads, they like their pillows fluffed.They prefer "spa day" at the Ritz to tents set up in the open air. Could they dwell with the Lord in a lowly manger? Or would they ridicule the accommodations? Would they be able to listen to the Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane? Or would this out of the way place be too desolate and austere for them? They fell asleep while Jesus cried and sweat blood all the while knowing that one of His apostles had betrayed Him for 30 pieces of silver. Those who sold their brother got their 30 pieces of silver indeed, in fact they used the misfortune of others to heap riches to themselves, never asking for a dinar to help those who lost much, who worked to sow a fertile field for them, they worked not in the field, but came by to simply
reap from a brother's misfortune.
You see, the dead are there and where the dead are "She" is also, and her young ones come to suck up the blood. Are these who come to the dead to suck up blood the "
zombies" of the future? Jude 1:12 "Twice dead and plucked up by the roots?
These are spots in your feasts of charity , when they feast with you , feeding themselves without fear : clouds [they are] without water , carried about of winds ; trees whose fruit withereth , without fruit , twice dead , plucked up by the roots;
Those that sought with joy, to suck up the blood showed up in droves and they were there compassing me about. Oh, and they love to play the "victim", the injured party, yes they were there also. Seemingly forgetting that loving good people were harmed while they helped tear them down, and cried for themselves only; big crocodile tears. No one stepped forward to lift a hand to help "the people" not one of them volunteered time or a dime but cried in the public square; "Poor Me!" "Look what has been done to me!". The one who ultimately pulled the plug; blamed the plug pulling on the "scapegoat" and used it to turn it into a "cash cow" that they milked every turn. The wicked will fall by their own wickedness, the Lord will not bless those that come to "make merchandise" of you. God keeps His promises so "Look out"! Light will be shed into every dark corner that you can be assured, as Jesus himself tells us this is how it will go.
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. (2 Peter 2:1-3)
You will not find understanding in my words, you must look to God Almighty for the answers, for understanding and some of you already "see" with your spiritual eyes, and "hear" with your spiritual ears what transpired. May the good Lord be praised for those who can hear and see.There are those "talebearers"who drape themselves in purple having the appearance of being close to the cross; but not under the blood of Jesus. I ask you this; who asked for the head of John the Baptist? (Mark 6:25)
Go to the Word of God and you will
SEE, if you have eyes, and ears you will see and understand. Start with 1 Kings 16:31 and continue on, then see how "She" is still around toward the end in Revelation 2:20, and in Revelation 12, and 17 please read, read what the Word of God has to say; ask for the scales to be ripped off your eyes, and for your ears to be unstopped, and pray the good Lord will give you discernment.
If this blog post makes it appear as if I have "lost my mind" and crawled up a pole acting like a crazy woman, so be it; I will do whatever it takes to get back to my family and serve the Lord in truth and love. I will cover myself in sackcloth and ashes to proclaim that something is amiss, and that the day of the Lord is very, very near and there are "wolves in sheep's clothing" among the body of believers!! This is me, crawling up the crazy pole, after landing in the pit of despair, I have nothing more to lose, so I did what I had to do. It's going to take more than public ridicule to shut my mouth, they have no idea the road I have traveled, and the life that I lived and left behind when I asked Jesus Christ to be my Lord and Savior. They underestimate what they do not know, because they do not care to know, only too anxious to sew that "scarlet letter" upon my chest and make it look as if I have committed a terrible transgression; have mercy on me all you who believe! There are wolves in sheep's clothing, all around you, you can see them salivating, you can see their yellow eyes, glowing in the night, waiting to devour you, giving you pretty bleats of love, yet ravening to tear you apart. Watch out! Pray for discernment, don't get ensnared in "the evil day"and if you do, ask for forgiveness, stop clutching at the clumps of weeds, take hold of the
BRANCH, and cling to it with all your might. Pray that you might be found worthy, that you may be saved, for God wishes that none should perish but that all would have everlasting life.
Proverbs 11:9 An hypocrite with [his] mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Proverbs 11:12 He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
Proverbs 11:16 A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong [men] retain riches.
1 Samuel 21:13
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
1 Samuel 21:14
Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore [then] have ye brought him to me?
1 Samuel 21:15
Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this [fellow] to play the mad man in my presence? shall this [fellow] come into my house?
So, may the evil king unhand me and think me mad so that the righteous King may show me the way back to my family and my home. May the King of Kings say to me one day, "This is my servant, in whom I am well pleased".