Power Belongs to the Kingdom

Lots to write about today.

God is teaching me lots of stuff. The more you pray in the Spirit, the more you learn. The Bible starts to make sense. You see the hidden meanings in things. When strange events occur around you, you discern the supernatural underpinnings. You can actually ask God things while praying, and the answers will come to you.

I’ve been thinking about the weird behaviors people are demonstrating. Remember the “Causeway Cannibal”? I’m referring to the young man who lost his mind and tried to eat another man’s face. New facts have emerged.

The assailant, Rudy Eugene, was not on drugs when he committed the crime. Blood tests showed that he had used pot in the past, but he was not on “bath salts” or any other detectable drug when he attacked.

His victim, Ronald Poppo, has recovered well enough to speak, and he has told us things we didn’t know. His credibility is damaged by his mental issues, but it’s still interesting. Poppo says Eugene was singing “Lover’s Concerto,” and he said, “You’re going to be my wife and this is going to be a lover’s concerto.”

If you’re not familiar with that song, you may want to look at the lyrics.

How gentle is the rain
That falls softly on the meadow
Birds high up in the trees
Serenade the flowers with their melodies

Oh, see there beyond the hill
The bright colours of the rainbow
Some magic from above
Made this day for us just to fall in love

Now I belong to you
From this day until forever
Just love me tenderly
And I’ll give to you every part of me

Oh, don’t ever make me cry
Through long lonely nights without love
Be always true to me
Keep this day in your heart eternally

Someday we shall return
To this place upon the meadow
We’ll walk out in the rain
Hear the birds above singing once again

You’ll hold me in your arms
And say once again you love me
And if your love is true
Everything will be just as wonderful

You’ll hold me in your arms
And say once again you love me
And if your love is true
Everything will be just as wonderful

Just hold me in your arms
And say once again you love me
And if your love is true
Everything will be just as wonderful

You’ll hold me in your arms
And say once again you love me
And if your love is true
Everything will be just as wonderful

I found that chilling. It’s not unlike the Song of Solomon.

Here is what many Spirit-filled Christians believe: the church is the “Bride of Christ,” and Jesus is preparing us for his wedding by cleansing and transforming us through the power of the Holy Spirit, who falls on us like rain.

The Bible can be interpreted in levels. First, there is the face-value level. Example: if God uses a word like “rain,” he may mean water that falls from the clouds. The Jews recognize two higher levels. One level involves hints, and the other involves mystic revelation. Speaking in symbols, God could use “rain” to describe his blessings or the baptism with the Holy Spirit.

Christians like me believe we are experiencing a “latter rain” of the Holy Spirit. When the church was born, the Holy Spirit fell on men en masse (the “former rain”), but Satan managed to stamp it out and inject anti-Holy-Spirit blasphemy into doctrine. Over the last hundred years or so, there has been a new rain, starting in places like Azusa Street. People are speaking in tongues again. We believe we are being transformed by the Spirit. Our carnal natures are changing. Our iniquities are dissolving. We are being imbued with supernatural power, in the form of the gifts of the Spirit. Eventually, the world will reject us (because we are foreign), and we will be taken away to join Christ’s wedding feast, while the world below is judged.

Rudy wasn’t on drugs, so what happened? People who knew him don’t describe him as violent or troubled. He was not a hardened criminal. He was a churchgoer, whether or not he knew the Lord. He was carrying a Bible when he attacked Poppo. He is alleged to have accused Poppo of stealing it. Pages of it were found scattered at the crime scene.

The Bible tells us we are surrounded by hostile spirits. There are angels who used to live in God’s presence, and they rebelled and were rejected. They hate us, presumably in the same way that older children hate spoiled younger siblings. We are receiving all the good things they lost, and because we receive by grace, we don’t have to work all that hard to get them. Meanwhile, our predecessors are headed for eternal punishment and humiliation.

There is also considerable evidence that a second type of evil spirit exists. We call them demons. Ancient accounts tell us that fallen angels had sex with women and gave rise to extraordinary human beings, some of whom were giants. Legends say they were extremely violent, they ate human beings, and they had very high body temperatures. Some accounts say one purpose of the flood was to rid the world of these beings, and that their spirits remain here to torment men.

Look at the cannibal case and the various bath salts cases. For that matter, look at people who overdose on cocaine. They strip naked because they’re hot. Often they attack people. They commit sexual perversions. Eugene Rudy and at least one other person who made the news attacked with their teeth, and Rudy chewed his victim’s flesh as though he were eating it.

If Poppo is right about what Rudy said, the parallels go further. Rudy allegedly spoke of rain and an everlasting marriage, just as the scriptures speak of the Holy Spirit rain and the marriage of the Lamb.

When the Bible calls us the Bride of Christ, it means we are Christ’s flesh in the earth. The Bible says a man and his wife are one flesh, and it says a man should treat his wife well, because no one will hate his own flesh. The Bible uses the term “Body of Christ” to describe us. We are supposed to be like Jesus’s members. Like the members of a human body, we should move at the head’s command and do what Jesus tells us to do.

The Holy Spirit is like the nervous system. He gives us wisdom and knowledge (1 Corinthians 12:9). He speaks through our mouths, through prophecy and tongues (1 Corinthians 12:10). He governs us through the fruit of the Spirit, as the brain governs the body (Galatians 5:22-23).

Satan has never had an original idea, but he knows a good idea when he sees one. He knows a lot about the Body of Christ, and he is doing whatever he can to stop it and to construct something similar. This is what “Antichrist” means. Jesus is building his flesh in the earth, and this is the thing that scares Satan most. He will let you run a milquetoast church that gets people saved, but if you start talking about the unification and empowerment of the Holy Spirit, he will come after you, because he knows the Body will wreck his kingdom.

This is why the Bible says we are to test the Spirits. Any Spirit which denies that Jesus is “come in the flesh” is the Spirit of Antichrist.

People misunderstand. They think “come in the flesh” refers to the original incarnation. That’s stupid. Even Satanists admit Jesus was born as a man. Foul spirits won’t deny that. What they deny is that Jesus is assembling his flesh through tongues and the power of the Holy Spirit. This is why backward churches teach that tongues are Satanic. They are under Satan’s influence.

Jesus is assembling a coordinated, cleansed, powerful body in the earth. Satan can’t think for himself, but he can copy. He knows he needs something similar. So, in my opinion, he is increasing demonic activity. And the demons know what’s going on. This is why the spirit that took over Eugene Rudy tried to be cute, making cryptic references to marriage and rain. This spirit of antichrist probably thought no one would understand. Sadly for him, he was wrong.

I think Satan is going to use demons to control people, more than he has in the past, and he will also use electronics. He can’t copy the Holy Spirit, who is omnipresent and all-powerful, but he can make a crude copy using Iphones and the Internet. We’re already seeing test runs, in the electronically coordinated flash mobs, which commit crimes just like those that took place in the days of Lot and helped bring about the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah.

When persecution increases, we will see electronics used against us. Drones will locate us and fire at us, like the locusts of Revelation 9 that torment unbelievers. The Internet will track us and spy on us. Cell phones will be used to denounce us to the authorities. And demons and fallen angels will work inside our enemies, giving them favor, supernatural powers, and corrupt motivations.

We have taken our eye off the ball. We talk about Jesus as though he were a social worker. That’s completely wrong. He was a military recruiter. We are fighting to finish the battle he started, and it’s very serious. If we get caught up in trying to receive blessings and healings, we’re missing the point. Those things are side effects of a life submitted to the Holy Spirit. Walk into a Navy base and ask for fifty dollars, and they’ll tell you to get lost. Rise through the ranks and become an admiral, and you can walk in and ask for a billion-dollar ship, and they’ll trample each other, trying to get it for you. The kingdom of God works the same way. The cooperation you get from God depends on the extent to which you belong to him and work to establish his rule.

Weak Christians say Jesus conquered the king of this world long ago, and that all we have to do is believe it. Can people really be that stupid? Does the world look like it’s fixed? Jesus wrote our Constitution. He gave us rights. It’s up to us to enforce those rights and destroy Satan’s kingdom. Sometimes an eviction notice is not enough. Sometimes you have to get the sheriff to go in and remove squatters by force. We are supposed to be fighting evil spirits every day, so the kingdom of God will grow in as many people as possible. We should be undoing the conquest Satan has been working on for thousands of years (Matthew 11:12).

Paul said our weapons were not carnal, but mighty THROUGH GOD to the pulling down of strongholds (2 Corinthians 10:4). “Through God” means “through God’s supernatural power inside us.” “Not carnal” means “not our own natural intelligence, character, and power.” It means, “through the power of the Holy Spirit.” Nonetheless, we listen to people like Rick Warren, who tell us to suck it up and build God’s kingdom through human effort. We do that because it feels good to earn things. It takes away our feelings of guilt. But we’re not supposed to be free from guilt. We’re supposed to remember the evil that we’ve done, so we can be humble and grateful.

We need to pray in tongues, seek the fruit and gifts of the Spirit, fast, study the word, and learn to bless and curse. We need to cast out spirits. We need to get on God’s team and receive real power. We need what my pastor calls a “kingdom mindset.” We were born to be warriors. We need to devote our lives to war. To do anything else is to chase our tails and surrender by default.

In other news, my faith is telling me I’m not going to be in Miami much longer. God has opened a door. I don’t know where.

My church is opening a branch in Winter Haven. I’m going up on Saturday with a team that will be celebrating the opening. For a long time, I’ve fantasized about living in Central Florida. I want to have some land around me, and I want to get out of Miami, which is a pretty slimy city. I’m going to drive by some real estate listings in Winter Haven. Maybe something will click. Property prices are great up there.

I think cities like Miami are oppressive for Christians. Satan is in charge here. The people are rude, violent, greedy, and coarse. We even have sick forms of idolatry, like voodoo and Santeria. I don’t expect that to change. God is probably going to start withdrawing from places like this and put his people where they can have a little peace and get something done. You may think God is all excited about sending his people into the filthiest places, but judging by what Jesus said, you would be wrong. He told us to go in, spend a certain amount of time working on people, and then leave, shaking the dust from our feet. Miamians know the score. I don’t think God is going to wrestle with them forever, when people elsewhere could be reached more easily. And I think God puts limits on the ostracism and abuse his people have to endure.

I may provoke people by saying this, but Cubans aren’t much interested in church. I’ve been a member of three charismatic churches, and I haven’t seen many Cubans around me. My present church is full of Puerto Ricans, but Cubans are sparse. Miami is a Cuban city, so it’s a place where churches don’t do well.

I’m praying for instruction on supernatural warfare. I believe it’s my purpose in this world. As I grow better informed and stronger, I expect to be moved and put places where I can accomplish things for God.

Take it for what it’s worth. I believe what I’ve written is correct.