"THOU SHALT NOT JUDGE!"

"THOU SHALT NOT JUDGE!" - AUDIO

 

It has come to my attention that the Body is divided and also unclear about the issue of judging.  This devotional is addressed to both those who are cautious and those over eager to judge. The issue of judging cannot be separated from discernment.  Simply because discernment is the act of judging between what is wrong or right, or in to know what something is.  When we discuss the topic of judging others, we have to include discernment as well. 

We have all heard the words, “Do not judge” and somehow equate this to you are not allowed to say when something is wrong in a particular situation.   And yet to us is given the responsibility to expose the works of darkness.  We cannot do this without judging the wrong from the right.  To us is given to render judgment on that which is directly contradictory to the Word of God and His statutes.  This is our moral obligation and responsibility that comes with being a Christian.  Part of being a light unto the world is not just to love and be Christ to others, but also to actively engage in spiritual warfare.  Discernment is a critical component to this warfare.  We have received clear directions from the Word of God as to what spiritual warfare entails.

2 Corinthians 10: 4 - 8

⁴ (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;)

⁵ Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

⁶ And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

⁷ Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

⁸ For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

Here Paul is admonishing and rebuking the Corinthians by exerting his authority in the Lord.  In fact, Paul is judging, that is to say discerning, where they are at as his flock.  Taking responsibility for their spiritual state.  He is saying, when I show you the error in which you are walking in, it is with the purpose to cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God in you.  I am pulling the strongholds down that have been built by the deception you have walked in.  Saying that what they are about and believe is in contradiction with the knowledge of God.  Who God is.  Then he says his aim is to take every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.  Basically saying that they are disobedient.  The reason why he does this, is that once they are walking in obedience after repenting, they themselves will be ready to take revenge on all disobedience. 

Paul’s aim is clear.  He is exposing the wrong, in order to bring them into a place of obedience, so that they in turn will be equipped to take revenge on all disobedience.  This word revenge means to carry out justice or to retaliate. 

Paul is speaking here as a shepherd of the flock with the intention to first free the flock and then to equip them.  The motive is that of love, even though he had to be brutally honest with them. Such is the case when we need to speak the truth.

The reason why I am mentioning this scripture first is to bring across that we are engaging in spiritual warfare when it comes to discernment and speaking the truth, in sometimes very uncomfortable or confrontational ways.  We tend to look at the people and feel afraid to offend, whilst we ought to ask ourselves what is worse.  Offending them or keeping them in bondage?  We forget the spiritual ramification or alternative.  We have to understand that it is inevitable that we will expose the man/woman when we expose the works of deception done through them.  In Matthew 24 Jesus tells the disciples when they asked Him what would be the signs of the end-time, that deception is first on the list.  Of all He could have said, the first thing He mentions is deception.  In fact, in that one chapter He mentions deception four times.  It stands to reason just how important it is for us to distinguish between judging unrighteously and righteously.

Among the gifts of the Spirit scarcely is one of greater practical usefulness than the gift of discernment.  This gift should be highly valued and frankly sought as being almost indespensible in these critical times.  This gift will enable us to distinguish the chaff from the wheat and to divide the manifestations of the flesh from the operations of the Spirit. - A. W. Tozer

I wonder what Tozer would say of the deception in this day and hour?  It is quite simple when it comes to unrighteous judgment.  Simply put, don’t criticize everybody and be so opinionated about everything, thinking that you know it all.  Also, sweep before your own door before you are so quick to judge others.  Make sure that you are not guilty of the very same thing.  For instance, homosexuality is a grave sin, but so is fornication.  How much fornication do you watch on television?  Both are sexual sins.  Do not be a hypocrite.  We have to be willing to be as equally hard on ourselves as we want to be on those we deem as false.  And the reality is that there are many people out there that somehow feel better by putting others down.  Secretly they relish in finding fault with others because then they would not look or feel so bad.  This is all out of a very poor self-image.  Then there are those who personally just like to “stick it to” those false preachers and teachers because they had it coming, often in the guise of great concern for the flock, all the while relishing the reactions.  Others like the idea of upsetting the proverbial applecart, because for them, to be right is everything.  Of course, this too is done in the name of love, whilst within their heart it is actually about the confrontation itself.   They enjoy the attention.

Luke 6: 37 says that we are not to judge and condemn others if we do not want to be judged and condemned.  He ends with the simple statement…forgive and ye shall be forgiven.

This verse has nothing to do with discernment with regard to whether somebody is walking in error or deception.  Rather, the focus is on a wrong done unto another. The word judge means to avenge or decide, and the word condemn is to pronounce guilty.  In this context to forgive makes perfect sense.   So we cannot use this verse as a means to cop out of our responsibility to discern and fall back on  “nobody can judge”.  The only time we are not to judge is when we have been wronged and are to forgive and leave room for vengeance, as vengeance belongs to the Lord. 

Deception has no preference.  It is ready to latch unto you like a parasite at any opportunity you afford it.  Indeed deception is within the sphere of the mind, building strongholds on the basis of vain imaginations and lies coated in truth.  Just enough for you to tolerate it on the basis of 95% truth to 5% lies for instance.  Tolerance is often depicted as long-suffering or not being judgmental.  But I submit to you that when it comes to truth, tolerance is compromise.  Secretly we do not want to give up our favorite teacher or worship band.  Secretly we like what it brings to us and live in willful disobedience by “tolerating” the 5% lies.  The reality is that everybody makes mistakes, but we are talking about purposeful deception.  Not that it excuses us to hold on to a teacher when we know that what they are preaching is directly contradictory to the written Word of God.  David says in Psalm 138 the following:

Psalm 138: 2

I will worship toward Thy holy temple, and praise Thy name for Thy lovingkindness and for Thy truth, for Thou hast magnified Thy word above all Thy name.

Who are we to minimalize His Word that He places above His Name in the name of tolerance? Many fall back on the statement of “we are all just sinners saved by grace”.  Or they will say that even Paul said that he is the chief of all sinners.  This a classic cop out because the truth is often that we do not wish to be the bad guy and offend man and yet we are willing to offend the Most High.  The reality is that we would rather want someone else to do it so that they take the punch that comes with it, as long as it is not us.  This is nothing but being a coward.  We have to be willing to admit to this cowardice and our willingness to please man and not the Most High.  That we prefer to only appear as loving and caring Christians.  But the same Christ that loves unconditionally, whom we are to emulate, is the same Christ that called the Pharisees white washed tombs full of dead bones.  We have to come to the party, take deception very serious and accept the responsibility of discernment in the Body of Christ. 

Ephesians 5: 10 - 14

¹⁰ Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

¹² For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

¹³ But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

¹⁴ Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

Here a sleeping Christian is synonymous to a Christian that is not willing to expose darkness.  Think of a watchman asleep on the wall.  We must be willing to lay bare the dark secrets of the enemy, whether false teachers or prophets.  Whether in worship that comes from the premise that by the right ambiance and mood the presence of the Lord is procured or our best friend across from the table of us.  In the light of His warning to us in Matthew 24 about the last day’s deception and the fact that there will no longer be the love of the truth, I cannot imagine what an offence it must be to Him if we think that we can sit on the fence and leave the judgment on deception for another with the cry of “Oh, I may not judge!”  To not judge therefore is akin to being a sleeping Christian.  The Good Shepherd’s son or daughter sleeping whilst the wolves are luring away the flock in order to devour them.  Are we not to have each other’s backs and be able to speak the truth in love in order to protect one another?  Do we think that we will not be held accountable? 

Ezekiel 33: 6

But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

I have to wonder whether our resistance to judge does not stem from out of a false humility and fear of man.  Sadly some are willing to speak against a doctrine or ideology, but unwilling to expose the vessels through whom it is done.  Some are perfectly okay if our brother and sister is deceived, just as long as we all get along.  After all, does the Word not say that we are to seek peace with all men and blessed are the peace-makers?  We just simply do not want to be “that” man or woman.  And of course, we do not want to hear the words “Who are you to judge?”  But ask yourself, “Can there be any true peace without truth?”  Is this not a pseudo peace in the name of tolerance? 

Why is it that we have decided to “take the fifth” when it comes to speaking up against false prophets and teachers?  John 7: 24 says that we are to remove the beam out of our own eye before judging another on the splinter in theirs.  Why are we not willing to expose the splinter in our brother’s eye after we have removed the beam from our own?  This is the purpose of removing the beam, so that we may be able to better discern.  Unfortunately many Christians have decided that this scripture speaks against judging.  When in fact it is actually telling us to judge, but to do it righteously. 

1 Corinthians 2: 15

But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

A spiritual man is one who walks by the Spirit and is one mind with Christ.  In itself this speaks of one who cannot be judged by another as he has already judged himself by taking the beam out of his own eye in repentance.  Note, that this is not just someone who has repented of a particular sin in his own life that he wants to expose, but this is someone walking in holiness.  You may be able to sweep before your own door, but inside your house it looks like a hoarder.  Even though we are commanded to judge, we are to live in holiness when we do.  Therefore he can judge all things because he sees with the Most High’s eyes.  That is to say from His perspective, being one of mind.  The reality is that we fall for deception and are willing to compromise with the truth because we do not have a love of the truth as we should have.  We respect the truth, but do not jealously guard over it.  And because we are “lukewarm” about the truth, we are lured away by our own sin and desires of our hearts.  Such as movies and television programs with a gospel theme, but distorting and manipulating the truth for its own gain. The Word clearly says that His people perish for a lack of understanding.  Just as a word of caution, some people are very opinionated and speak without finding the necessary information first to back up their opinion.  

Proverbs 14: 33

Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.

Those who have no idea what they are talking about best keep quiet and sit back and learn.  To speak on a matter without understanding and the necessary knowledge is foolish and sheds a bad light on righteous judgment.  It smells of ignorance and pride.  We fall for deception due to not being grounded in the Word, drawn away by people’s dreams and visions and amazing spiritual experiences, touching the desires of our own heart to be as close to Him as they are. So we are drawn away by the desires of our heart and the truth falls by the wayside. 

Having said all that, please do not for one second think that I am saying that we are to all climb on our high horse of judgment and let all pass under our rod of affliction.  This is not what I am saying.  I am making a case based upon the Word of God the reason why we must judge and also exposing the reasons we have not.  Also to shed some light on deception.  Now I would like us to focus on discernment. 

The first thing we have to consider when we discern, is to ask ourselves, “What spirit is at work in me by how I judge or discern?”  Many years ago I was involved in Christian counseling.  I believe there is a place for Christian counseling within the Body of Christ, but the emphasis must be Biblical counseling and not mixed with the ideologies and phylosophies of pshycology that has nothing to do with the ministering of the Spirit verses the depedence on humanism.  Once the Lord set me free to understand the carefully designed trap in this, I was all of a sudden on a truth mission to expose every lie.  I started listening to many people exposing deception in the Church.  In a way, I went from one extreme to another.  Both were not good, and I praise Him for teaching me this invaluable lession.  Because, in exposing and speaking against so much deception, I invited a critical and harsh judgmental spirit to blind me and use me to come against the Church.  This is not to say that the deception that I saw was not true, but the spirit in which I spoke was not of Christ.  I was out of balance and out of line.  

Philippians 1: 9

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment (discernment)

One of the easiest and most natural thing to do is to fall back on our knowledge and understanding.  Yet to us an admonishment is given in Proverbs 3.

Proverbs 3: 5 – 7

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

⁶ In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

⁷ Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

From this scripture alone we can see that when it comes to discernment, it is of utmost importance that we are guided by the Spirit and not our knowledge or understanding only…no matter how true.  This is not to say that the Spirit will not use our understanding, but what we know and understand must be subject to the Spirit and not the other way around.  At the heart of discernment is our unity with Christ.  That is to say being of the same mind.  It does not matter what your opinion is.  It does not matter what your volume of knowledge is.  The only thing that matters is His opinion and perspective on the issue.  How He feels about it.  And does what He feels about this issue constitute that He feels the same way about all similar issues that may come?  Am I in touch with the still small voice of the Spirit and is my unity with Him as such that I am aware of His disposition?  Is He mildly displeased or livid?  Is He pleased or irritated?  What is His tone in which He desires to address the issue?  What is His heart?  Because in the end the only one whose opinion matters, is His.  Jessy Penn Lewis said the following.

“Truth is everything as God sees it.”

The very act of discernment or judging requires of us utmost dependence on the guidance of the Spirit, because of our propensity to lean on our own understanding.  Wisdom is the principal thing and discretion or prudence will keep us in all our ways.  Can we say that our judgment is righteous just because we are doctrinally correct?  In the end it is His heart that is to be expressed and if what comes out of our mouth stinks of self-righteousness and pride, have we then made His will known or our own, even if it is true? Who is to say that you are to speak at all just because you know what to say?  Does the timing matter of when we are to speak?  We may be right in what we are saying, but at the same time be completely out with our timing.  According to Him there is a season and a time for everything.  So it does matter.  The Most High does not need us to save the world, He just need us to be obedient.  It is important that we ask ourselves, “Am what I am saying coming from me or from Him?”  “Is this righteous indignation coming from me or from the Most High?”  This is why the Word says that we have two ears and one mouth.  We are to be quick to hear and slow to speak.  We are to have rule over our mouths.  Discernment is more than just knowing right from wrong.  It is foremost about loving the truth.  And the Truth is a person.  Not a doctrine or an ideology or whatever other idea we can come up with.  Discernment at the heart is about defending the Truth.  And is not truth falling by the wayside every day in our society and the moral standard of the world going down in the tubes?  Our Kingdom mandate is a moral mandate.  Discernment is about expressing the heart of the Father, not your own.  Therefore just knowing the truth is not enough, but we have to also love the Truth.  If you are more cautious not to offend man, but are willing to offend the Most High, what does that say about your love of the Truth?

Our thoughts and the meditation of our hearts has to be pleasing in His sight.  From out of pure vessel He wishes to express His heart, so that the truth may not be tainted or mixed with our opinion, disposition or wrong motives.  A vessel who feels what He feels, sees what He sees and whose heart is broken over those who are led astray.  That are willing to pray for them as much as they are willing to expose their works by His Spirit.  Within us the heart of God is to palpitate as a living force that causes us to speak in both love and judgment.  We are always to speak the truth in love, but very often that truth hurts before it sets them free from the strongholds built by vain imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of Him.

When we say that we get that it is about the love of the truth, about protecting the flock, then it is incumbent upon us to walk by the Spirit, which is in meekness.  Meekness is one of those adjectives that can very easily be seen as weakness.  Although it is defined as humility, humility only serves as one shade in this many faceted diamond.  We are told in Matthew 5 that the meek are blessed for they will inherit the earth. In fact, Paul has some choice words to say about judging or discernment.

1 Corinthians 6: 2 – 3

² Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

³ Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

It is very clear that we are to judge and that we are to be mature enough to judge the smallest of matters.  We can either have the disposition of I am a sinner saved by grace, or we can have a disposition of being a child of the Most High God who will one day rule and reign, out of a heart of meekness.  This is not to say that we are ever to forget how fragile and receptive we are to deception and need His grace.  But meekness speaks of an inner strength and character that will never tolerate deception in the Name of grace or love, but rather to speak the truth in love. 

Paul says the following in 2 Corinthians 10.

2 Corinthians 10: 1

Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

Meekness often seems like weakness when in fact it is quite the opposite.  Meekness is who Christ is, and He was everything but weak.  It is the embodiment of authority, but with no intention of insisting on its own way, but seeks to serve both the Most High and His bride. The principal behind meekness is wisdom and prudence.  As we grow in the Lord, this very disposition is to be the underlining foundation of judging righteously, apart from His love.  At the heart of such meekness is also a disposition of diffidence.  Not in the negative sense of no self-esteem, but an unassuming and modest opinion of one’s estimation of yourself and your abilities, including your knowledge.  Never above being wrong and in fact, willing to be proven wrong even if fully convinced of being right.  It is a willingness to be taught as much as you are willing to teach.  No demand on being right.  This meekness, just like a tapestry with a perfectly and beautiful picture in the front, is woven with trials, tribulation and persecution at the back where no one sees.  Therefore with the truth it yields the sweet aroma of empathy, understanding and wisdom.  It is not puffed up in its knowledge, but the aim is to serve. 

The Word of God is called the Sword of the Spirit.  Somehow we have claimed it as ours and not His, to yield and smite the flock or just simply lay it down as if no responsibility for our actions is laid upon us.  It is the Sword of the Spirit and so we are to be guided in meekness of heart, by being in one mind with Christ how we are to yield it.  But yield it we must.  

The reality is that we are all guilty of judging others.  The real question is, are we judging righteously? 

Psalm 141: 5 portrays the heart of David, the man after the Most High’s heart.

Psalm 141: 5

Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

Leviticus 19: 15; 17; 31

¹⁵ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

³¹ Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

If anything, may the resounding message of this devotional be that it is not about my opinion or knowledge, but about the heart of God and the love of the truth.  May we understand that to us is given to subdue and expose the works of the enemy not for the sake of judging, but to rescue and protect the flock.  We are all engaged in spiritual warfare in various ways.  Some of these ways are in deep intercession, others in walking in love and truth, and then the command to expose the works of darkness.  If we do not protect the flock from the wolves, who will?  May we seek His face and strive to have a disposition of meekness so that He may have full play in us and through us.  This is our Kingdom mandate, to uphold, love and protect the truth in love.

OUR COVENANT WITH DEATH

OUR COVENANT WITH DEATH - AUDIO 

My prayer is that the Spirit of God will place upon our hearts the weightiness of what the Father is about in this writing.  That we will not dismiss it because we think we have heard it before, but that we will allow Him to minister to us afresh regarding this subject and that our hearts will be rent in absolute brokenness.  Because His heart is rent in brokenness.  Firstly, I want to start with a warning that it is not for the weak.  It is a very important message and I pray that you would endure it with me in order to hear what the Father is saying.  This has by far been the most difficult devotional I have ever written.  The audio not easy as well, but Father wanted me to do this and so I will obey. This devotional was birthed from a vision and from clearly hearing in my spirit the words…”Jericho walls”.  Then I saw a quick vision of the walls with a giant foot stepping on it, and crushing it.  I knew instinctively in my spirit what He was saying and where He was going with it.

The Jericho walls were quite impressive for that time.  According to Ancient Origins website, the city of Jericho sat atop a hill, surrounded by an embankment, supported by an enormous stone retaining wall.  Above this retaining wall was an 8 – 10 meter tall and 2 meters thick mudbrick wall as well.  This mudbrick wall lined the edges of the embankment.  Houses were built on the embankment.  As I have said in my previous devotional, the Canaanites worshipped Baal as the god of weather, rain, storms and the like.  They were dependent on him for their livelihood.  And the way the Most High destroyed them was by means of the weather.  If you have not listened to that devotional yet, please do. Laying The Axe To The Root

In Joshua 5 we see that the Most High required that Joshua circumcise all the young men of the past generations from their 40 year journey in the wilderness.  In my post “Our Covenant God", I discussed the process of covenant of which the greatest and most important is the cutting in half of the heifer and other animals.  Without a sacrifice there can be no covenant.  So the cutting off of their foreskins were symbolic of not relying on the flesh, but also to “cut” a covenant with God.  In Joshua we read of how the Priests were to carry the Ark of the Covenant into the midst of the Jordan before they could pass over.  The word ark comes from the Strong’s number H727, which means a box or chest, from the root word H717, which in turn means to gather and pluck. The word covenant comes from H1285 which means cutting and to make a league.  The Lord God is a God of Covenant and this has not changed.  There are two parties involved in a covenant and both have to do as the other.  Yeshua was cut in half, so to speak on the cross, but we are to cut off the foreskins of our hearts in covenant with Him.  That’s the deal.  When you do not, you break covenant.  And as we know, He came to inscribe the New Covenant upon our hearts to give us the grace to enable us not to break covenant with Him. 

Jeremiah 4: 4

Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

God is not after foreskins, He is after our hearts.  And so the young men knew that with the cutting off of their foreskins they were cutting covenant with God.

Psalm 50: 5

⁵ Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Here we have the word gather (ark) and the word covenant together, as well as the word sacrifice.  Those who make covenant with the Most High by cutting off the foreskin of their hearts are the ones that will be gathered. From this we see just how the cutting of covenant is binding. 

Having said all this, we need to understand that the enemy works on the same basis with all the covenants made in the spirit, which always includes a sacrifice.  He, contrary to the Most High that wants our hearts, wants blood.  The Canaanites worshipped Baal and therefore if they are to receive anything from him, it would also have to be by covenant.  His desire is blood and we see this in the account of the prophet Elijah and the prophets of Baal that cut themselves in order to have him answer their desperate cries for fire.  The Canaanites were brutal people that truly embodied the murderous spirit of their god.  As per my previous devotional, I explained that Baal means owner, master, husband and lord.  The people were often worked up into great frenzies at the prospect of displeasing Baal.  But he was also known by the Canaanites as Molech.  This word means king and therefore he was also worshipped as Baal Molech.  Their king that required of them to sacrifice their firstborn. 

During such sacrifices Baal would be standing to one side, his two hands extended over a bronze brazier made extremely hot.  The priests would beat drums and sounded flutes and other instruments during the vehement cries of the burning children to drown out the cries of the anguished parents.  For them it was to protect the sacrifice from being saved by the distraught parents.  The priests danced around altars chanting frantically and cutting themselves with knives to inspire the attention and compassion of their god.  Adults would gather around the altar of Baal.  Infants would then be burned alive as a sacrificial offering to the deity by placing them into these flaming hot hands.  Amid horrific screams and the stench of charred human flesh, congregants – men and woman alike – would engage in bisexual orgies.  This ritual was to produce economic prosperity by prompting Baal to bring rain for the fertility of “mother earth”.   This ritual done in ancient times were called “the act of laughing” and it is believed that whilst the body was consumed by flames, the limbs contracted and the mouth opened, seemed almost as if the child was laughing.  This “grin” is known as “sardonic laughter”, since they died laughing.  The remains would be collected and placed in special small urns and then buried.  Such was the fear that Baal and his lightning and earthquakes inspired amongst his worshipers.  This is what the Lord God meant when saying that we shall not cause our children to pass through the fire as early as the book of Leviticus.

Leviticus 18: 21

And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

The enemy feeds off fear and pain.  Baal is very much still alive today. Today this is still the case in the occult when it comes to various industries from film, music, sports, politics and any elite platform in the world.  Where family members are required to kill each other in order to go higher up the ladder of fame and fortune.  There can be no covenant without a sacrifice. Going back to the defeat at Jericho, the Lord God gave strict instructions through Joshua to those who were to encompass the walls in silence. 

Joshua 6: 18 – 19

¹⁸ And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

¹⁹ But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the Lord: they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.

They were given strict instructions to kill every mother, father and child.  Every old man and woman, and all their animals.  Not one living thing was allowed.  The spoils of gold was to come to the Lord’s treasury.  However, they were told not to touch the accursed thing.  What is this accursed thing?  The massive idol upon which they would sacrifice their firstborns would have been on a high place and not in the midst of their dwelling.  However, in those times they would have had images of their gods in their homes to which they would pray to.  Amongst them would without a doubt have been an image of their most important and revered god, Baal. The Israelites were warned not even to touch it, and not to bring it into their tents.  A curse was spoken over whosoever would build the foundations of Jericho again after its destruction, over their firstborn and the son that would finish the building project with the gates.  Such was the case with king Heels who rebuilded Jericho and who sacrificed his firstborn son Abiram and his youngest son Segub.  This is an explicit reference to what are called "foundational sacrifices".

The occult originated when the fallen angels taught men witchcraft, sorcery and how to make weapons and the like, as per the book of Enoch.  The flood came and made an end to that for a time, but it was revived during the building of the tower of Babel.  Mankind left to their own, embodied the lust for power and wanted to make a way into heaven by building this tower up into heaven.  In fact, the Baal religion began with Nimrod.  Nimrod means, ‘he rebelled’ or literally, ‘he returned to Baal’ or Satan. The people of Babylon built the Tower of Babel, which was a tower to their god Baal. Today, Nimrod is held in high esteem amongst the Freemasons, revering him as the Master Builder. Nimrod is also synonymous with Baal.  This is also why some masons feel honored to become Freemasons, because it all refers back, not just to Solomon’s temple, but to that very first attempt to ascend above the Most High, the tower of Babel.  The Freemasons are not a cute club that loves to build nice buildings, but rather at the heart of it is the worship of Baal, or satan.  Initiates are sworn to secrecy with the threat of a gruesome death, after being invited to join their “club”, this only after they have successfully proven themselves trustworthy in the first degrees.  Many fall for this, as all their needs are met by these seemingly “nice” people.  No bait has ever tasted bad.  So what are they building then?

Nimrod incorporated into his worship the practice of cannibalism, where the priests were required to eat the sacrifices.  The word cannibal comes from the word "Cahna-Bal", where Cahna means priest and Bal refers to Baal.  In other words priests of Baal, which makes cannibalism directly linked to Baal. 

Builder’s rites:

According to Wikipedia, “Builder’s rites are ceremonies attendant on the laying of foundation stones, including ecclesiastical, masonic or other traditions connected with foundations or other aspects of construction.  One such custom is that of placing a few coins, newspapers etc. within a cavity beneath the stone.  Should the stone later be removed, the relics may be found.  Though this traditions is still practiced, such memorials are deposited in the hope that they will never be disturbed.”  A rite in the dictionary is defined as a ceremonial action which celebrates a transition in a person’s life, like a Bar Mitzvah, baptism or wedding.  So a rite like these builders do, is a ceremonial act of claiming not only the building of the structure, but also what is placed within, is directly related to the builder, thus claiming ownership.  It is a ceremony.

In Halley’s Bible Handbook, author Henry H. Halley describes the religion of the Canaanites, those of Jericho, as foundation sacrifices.  Remember sacrifices are ceremonies or rites.  It says the following:  “Under the debris, in this ‘High Place,’ Macalister found great number of jars containing the remains of children who had been sacrificed to Baal.  The whole area proved to be a cemetery for new-born babes.  Another horrible practice was what they called ‘foundation sacrifices’.  When a house was built, a child would be sacrificed, and its body built into the wall, to bring good luck to the rest of the family.  Many of these were found in Gezer.  They have been found also at Megiddo, Jericho and other places. 

After a while this ceremony became distasteful to the generations to follow and from around 814 BC people began to buy children for the purpose of sacrifice instead of offering their own.  Special ceremonies during extreme crisis saw up to 200 – 500 children of the most affluent and powerful families slain and tossed into the burning pyre for their own personal gain.

Sounds familiar?  Child trafficking is rampant in this time we are in, as just in the United States more than 800 000 children are missing every year and worldwide close to 8 million children.  This excludes children born and bred in pedophilia networks, without birth certificates and immigrants coming from across borders.  Many after they have been discarded are killed or their organs are harvested on the black market.  Like I said, Baal is still very much alive and well.  Business is booming in the Baal Industry.

What I believe Father’s aim is with giving me the vision of Jericho, is to bring across to us that the enemy is indeed building and has not stopped building since the tower of Babel.  He is a master builder.  But, contrary to our understanding, that which he is building cannot be seen with the naked eye. In fact, that which is seen with the naked eye is merely a diversion as with the case with all the masonic symbolism all around the world.  It is easy to miss the forest for the trees.  But his master plan, his blue print, has always been his single focus and as per his wicked nature, done in secret.  Just like Baal’s method has been from the beginning to incorporate foundational rites, that is to say, ceremonies with the building of actual walls by the shedding of blood and child sacrifice, his 'modus operandi' has in fact not change with his building of the latest tower of Babel, unseen by the naked eye.

Now at this stage you may have endured what I have written and are still able to stomach it, but I believe that the whole world, and I include myself here, have been hypnotized into a state of cognitive dissonance.  Cognitive dissonance is amongst other things, our ability to know a truth and consciously or subconsciously, choose not to allow it to affect us.  We often do this because the truth is too much to bear or simply an unwillingness to get involved.  Sadly we grow used to it.  At this point, I have to ask.  What type of people were the Canaanites and the generations  that followed, to have been able to sacrifice their children, enduring their pitiful pleas and agony, and engage in sexual orgies whilst their children died a cruel death at their own hands?  What kind of parent does this?  Yes, they lived in fear, but how was it possible that this was tolerated and endured?  Year in and year out these people grew accustomed to their vile and satanic practices to the point where they accepted it.  They may some not have liked it, but accept they did.  I cannot imagine the psychological implications of having to endure something horrendous as this, not to mention the demonic control and veils over their eyes.  Today, the same is true for us.  Why do I say this?  In this day and age, cognitive dissonance and hypnotism is achieved on a global scale when it comes to seeing deaths, rituals, abuse and all wicked things on media.  We tell ourselves that this is not real blood.  We are impressed with their excellent acting and the accuracy of the bullet that goes through the head, the sword that slices the neck and the arms or legs ripped off the body in the name of war, whilst eating our popcorn in delight of the brutal show for our entertainment.  And this is not enough as we gorge on our bloodlust even further with computer war games, or even zombie games.  But of course, we do not begin there, we begin with strategic games like Age of Empires and the like.  We learn to become expert snipers as we aim for the kill, but we make sure that we silence the swearing, as to console our conscience.  Unaware that it has already been seared by a lifetime of “murder by entertainment”.  Unaware that the enemy has successfully dulled our conscience in cognitive dissonance so that when we hear and see brutal reality of such murders on the news, we somehow ascribe to the dislike of the horror of these practices, but not enough to be deeply moved and distraught.  It does not drive us to our knees and it sometimes sadly does not even cause one single tear.

Having said this, my question to you now is, “are you going to choose not to read or listen to what I have to say further, because you prefer by will your cognitive dissonance?”  Or, “are you choosing the veil to be lifted and see it for what it is?”  For either choice we will be held accountable.

Today, Baal requires still the sacrifice of newborns.  Planned parenting is the high places of Baal worship all over the world.  However, he requires no longer for the sacrifices to be burned, but rather that the newborn and unborn babe be subject to torture.  And of course, we are told that these beautiful creations that has the breath of God in them, are only fetuses and not children yet.  Cognitive dissonance at its best.  Now when it comes to abortion we have most of us heard the very cruel methods by which the innocent is ripped from that which is intended to be a source of life and safety, the womb.  However, the main purpose for abortions is to supply the vaccine industry of Baal.  The requirement for vaccines is of another nature.  The baby has to be alive.  Ten weeks after conception the baby’s heart can be heard.  From the age of 12 weeks the baby’s vocal chords are complete, and the child can and does sometime cry silently.  Between 20 – 30 weeks, a baby’s ability to experience pain is heightened.  This means simply that it has had the sense of pain long before.  The component in the vaccines made of human fetal tissue, the diploid cell lines are called MRC-5 or WI-38.  Because the babies have to be alive in order for it to fulfil its purpose in the vaccines, pre-arranged abortions has to be made, so that the researchers is available to immediately preserve the tissues.  In order to sustain 96% of the cells, the live "tissue" would need to be preserved within 5 minutes of the abortion, according to Dr. C, Ward Kischer.  This is because the cells would start to deteriorate, rendering the “specimens” useless.  Remembering that these babies are alive as cell strains are taken from the lungs, skin, muscle, kidney, heart, thyroid, thymus and liver from 19 separate abortions in an experiment done specifically for vaccines.  One has to be careful not to dissociate from the fact that the baby must have grown to the point to have all of these organs to be able to abstract and rent this little body for all of them.  Like a pack of wolves in white coats.  This was all done for research for the developing of viral vaccine cultivation.  In other words, the end justifies the means in their eyes.  The organs are sent to various laboratories.  In fact in 1964, not really that long ago, doctors encouraged mothers to abort their unborn for the greater good, to supply the necessary cell lines to curb the outbreak of the Rubella Virus.  In Sweden they would and we can safely say that right around the world they are still, puncturing the sac of pregnant woman at about 14 – 16 weeks, and then they put a clamp on the head of the baby, pull the head down into the neck of the womb, drill a hole into the baby’s head, and then put a suction machine into the brain and suck out the brain cells…for vaccines of course.  Their greater good.  This information comes from “The fetus as a transplant donor the Scientific, Social and Ethical Perspective” written by Peter McCullough – nothing ethical about that perspective.  This for babies between 7 – 21 weeks when it was legal in those days.  Now in some places a baby can be aborted in full term.  Fetal liver and kidney is rapidly removed and weighed.  Also opening the abdomen of the baby with no anesthesia to take out the liver and kidneys. 

You may ask me whether this gruesome and horrible truth is really needed to make my point.  Unequivocally my answer is “YES!”  Because this is the type of information we tend to browse over, not willing to take a hard look at the truth, because we can simply just not handle it. And the truth is, we don't want to.  There is nothing more that the enemy wants than for us to only hear and see in part, in order to disregard the whole.  He wants us to sympathize, but not wake up from our cognitive dissonance.  As long as we do not see his blueprint.  Neither does he want us to know the part we have played in fulfilling his blueprint of his master building project. 

So before we go about and point fingers to all those we deem crazy to take the present vaccine on the menu, we are to know the following:

Most think that this evil has only been a reality with the present vaccine. However, it has been the case from the beginning with all vaccines. The vaccines for polio, measles, mumps, rubella, measles-rubella, rubella only, rabies, hepatitis A, hepatitis A-B combo, chickenpox, Ebola, smallpox, HIV, sepsis, Influenze (flu), and I can safely add, the Carona, all have human fetal cell line within them.  (www.cogforlife.org)

This is not to guilt trip anyone as I have had my jabs as a child.  And in this day I have a 16 year old daughter with 4 disorders thanks to these jabs.  What I stand guilty before the Most High today is the fact that I did not do my due diligence as a parent to find out about vaccines and their ingredients, but in my cognitive dissonance, chose to believe the government and their sorcery, to only have my good in mind, even if it was to protect my child, not bothering with the means myself.  And so also our parents who subjected us to this as well.  There is no way pass this I am afraid.  Our generations are guilty of not making it our business to know by our willfull ignorance and we stand before Him who have seen the slaughter of the innocent daily over and over.  “I did not know” is not going to cut it in this day and age of information.  The blood of the innocent is crying from within the walls of our DNA, just like they did from the very walls of Jericho.  It seems to me that He was speaking to us all along regarding this evil and wicked practice, that which the enemy intended from the beginning.

This devotional is not about whether the vaccine is the mark of the beast.  Although we cannot loose sight of the clear difference between this vaccine and the others, which is the patent number of 666, the Luciferace substance within and the nanobots, with the MRna as well.  This devotional is about the heart of the Father.  I had a dream about two weeks ago, in fact it was 3 dreams after each other about the vaccine.  The last one I would like to mention here because of the way I felt, which is relevant to how the Father feels to a degree with regard to His children’s attitude. Please keep in mind the agony of the Father with regard to what I have shared thus far. 

I dreamed my husband bought lots of new furniture and plants.  This was not new to me because that is just how he is.  But this time they were standing all over the place.  The house was a mess.  As I looked outside to where our swimming pool is, I could see that he has already prepared the ground adjacent to the pool, whilst at the same time stacking these wooden blocks against the wall.  He was going to place these wooden crates, just the sides of it, next to each other side to side, to divide the different plants from one another.  I wanted to go play with my dog, but the place where she runs usually was full of furniture.  I could not believe my eyes.  I was heartbroken that my husband did not even consider me in all these changes.  Why would he do all this and not ask me?  I saw him talking to my mother, boasting about this very nice table he bought and how the place where he put it, was perfect.  I was amazed at the fact that they were so impressed by all of this, whilst all along my opinion did not matter.  I cried, feeling completely disregarded and in fact unimportant.  They again, looked at me as if I was completely ungrateful for something that was added to the house that would only improve it according to them.

The interpretation of this dream is as follows.  My reaction to all of this in the dream is the heart of the Father, albeit in a miniscule way.  My husband and mother resembles the children of God.  The house, resembles the temple of God, His house, which is our bodies.  The wooden square racks resemble the DNA building blocks of the body.  Their attitude towards me is that of those who foolishly believe that adding to the house of God is no “biggy” and that most children of God should be grateful for the provision of a “cure” to the present day virus.  Even if they know that the DNA structure is changed.  My heart broken by this, is His heart.  Not only in the disregard of Him and taking it, but also in the disregard as to whose house it is.  His house.

1 Corinthians 3: 16 - 17

¹⁶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

¹⁷ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

When we consider the terms used for DNA, we can see how this forms the idea of something built.  Such as, building blocks, structure, walls etc.  These are all terms synonymous with a building project.  And indeed it is this case.  Coming back to my vision of Jericho and the foot of God destroying it, we can now see why God is indeed vexed.  For at this moment with the information given, the whole of the world is partaking in the worship of Baal to some degree.  And a whole lot have been victims as well.  Jericho is a type and shadow of the destruction of Babylon that will fall in one hour.  God is angry.  He is very angry and the blood of the innocent have been crying from the walls of our DNA for years, as well as the innocent ripped from their mother’s womb.  Our ancestors before us have in ignorance subjected us to these vaccines, but in turn we have followed in their steps and have subjected our children.  This is not to point any finger.  The Most High is the judge, not me.  And I confess that I am guilty. 

Coming back to the enemy’s blueprint and master plan.  The tower of Babel was built in one place, Babylon. A new tower is built all over the world, with the building blocks of DNA.  With the invisible technology of Nanobots and who knows what more, every building block of DNA, with the sacrificial blood of the unborn as foundational rite within the walls of the DNA, is stacked together not just in a single person, but as a network all over this world.  All to be linked up to the World Wide Web, a technological tower of Babel. People all over the world ensnared in her web and none the wiser.  This time the tower will indeed reach the heavens at the moment of the press of the “RESET” button when as one in religion, government and monetary system, the DNA blocks of mankind are connected with one another, but also to the queen bee as the hive follows her at every beck and call, even to the pits of hell, controlled by the grid.  The Freemasons of this world, her willing subjects and priests who feeds on the children, has come to the point where this tower will soon function under the dictatorship of their god, Nimrod.  We also need to remember that Nimrod also required the eating of the sacrifice, and it is interesting to note that the CDC website has a page giving advice on what to do during a zombie apocalypse.  All these things are being already advertised in the predictive programming in the movies and so we can be assured that this same murderous and cannibalistic spirit that was in Nimrod, will be in his children.  Those who from part of his building blocks.  Those who were willing to allow the building blocks of their DNA to be changed.

Can I make it any clearer than this, that the Most High’s wrath is on all vaccines, but particularly on this one?  With all our outcry against this current vaccine, the enemy has blinded us to the blood on our own hands and that of our ancestors.  We are now the living stones, covered with the blood of the innocent Lamb of God who was slain for us.  We are God’s building project, built up in Him and in unity we too humbly submit to Him as our King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  When Joshua said to not touch the unclean thing, we are to understand that the Most High will not tolerate us to bring it into His sanctuary, His temple.  We are indeed to repent and break every curse that has come through our generations because of these vaccines and cry out for those who think that they can bring the accursed thing into His temple, their bodies.  If we think He will tolerate the practice of the vaccine industry for the sake of the “greater good”, whilst the blood of the innocent is tearing His heart to pieces, we’ve got a thing coming.

1 Peter 2: 5 - 9

⁵ Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

⁶ Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

⁷ Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

⁸ And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

⁹ But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

We are His royal priests, holy and set apart.  They were sent to go before Israel with the Ark of the Covenant into the Jordan River.  Remember ark means to gather and covenant means to cut and a league.  By our covenant we have made with Him by sacrifice of the cutting off of the foreskins of our hearts, and the sacrifice of His Son’s blood, we can as priests step into the Jordan River.  I asked Father why was it that the Jordan River opened up when they entered with the Ark of the Covenant to divide the waters.  His answer was short and very sweet.  “Life entered into death and death had to flee”.  Our covenant with our God, is a covenant with Life.  Life is within the blood. And He is the Way, the Truth and the Life that abides in His temple. The covenant that this world is presently making with the taking of the vaccine is a covenant made with the blood of the innocent, with Death.  But on the cross, Life swallowed up Death and to him we can truly say, “Oh Death, where is thy sting!”  We can know that when we come on the basis of our covenant with Life, and ask forgiveness for our ignorance and sin against the unborn, His blood will cover us afresh.  

Before posting this devotional I asked Father what else there is He wanted to show me as I felt that I was still missing something very important.  And this is what He showed me.  Grafting is a technique that joins two plants into one. In general, a wound is created on one of the plants, and the other is inserted into that wound so each plant's tissues can grow together.  We are grafted into the Vine, which means that our life comes from His life.  And we know that life is within the blood.  When we are reborn, we are born into the family of God.  This is when we are grafted into Him.  And as per my previous devotional I have shown how His Name is encoded into our DNA.  Our DNA is our book of life.  However, when we get saved, our names are then written in the Book of Life. The Word says that we are His living stones, built up in Him.  We are His Body and we live from His life and being grafted into His body as His body, our names are written in His Book of life...the DNA of the Son of Man...covenant.  Those who made covenant with Him by sacrifice.  That Life that entered into the Jordan River and Death had to flee.  Whilst the enemy is building his tower of Babel with the lives of the innocent and technology, the Most High has been building His kingdom from living stones with the blood of the Lamb of God.  What an immense honour to have received the grace to not reject the Chief Corner Stone, to be built up in Him.  

There is forgiveness to be found for those who are in Christ.  For those who have made covenant with Him by sacrifice.  Our Father awaits us in this day to cry out to Him for forgiveness for ourselves and our generations before us for making this covenant with Death, even if it was done in ignorance. But we are also to cry out for the unborn and those held in captivity.  Will we continue to remain quiet over the broken heart of God? Will we dare make as if we have no part in all this, when in fact we all fall far short of clean hands before Him. Indeed we are to cry out in deep repentance for mercy and our hearts to be rented over the wrath of the Most High over this world that said it would be better for a millstone to have been tied around a person's neck and thrown into the sea, than to harm the least of these little ones. 

Psalm 106: 23 - 48

²³ Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

²⁴ Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

²⁵ But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.

²⁶ Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

²⁷ To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

²⁸ They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

²⁹ Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.

³¹ And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

³² They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

³³ Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

³⁴ They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them:

³⁵ But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

³⁶ And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

³⁷ Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

³⁸ And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

³⁹ Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

⁴⁰ Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

⁴¹ And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.

⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³ Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

⁴⁵ And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

⁴⁶ He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

⁴⁷ Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

⁴⁸ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the Lord.