Ch.9 ~ The Aftermath of the Great Fall! Part I

Introduction 

Written May 4, 2021

Why I believe the Church must endure tribulation:

I believe in a final great awakening...and as hard as I try, I cannot shake it off... it is in my DNA...

I saw the great eagle that is the USA suddenly arise like lightning from the earth, for (what I believe) would be her last, but finest hour... and at the same time, the gospel move like a great tsunami wave, across the earth, to the farthest islands of the sea, in a playing out of Matthew 24:14; 

I saw my own nation explode into the flames of revival; Europe was on fire; I watched as the continent of Africa ran red with the blood of Jesus...I saw other nations that I am not free to disclose...I saw people drop everything and run, run, RUN through the narrow gate - compelled by the deepest darkness the world had ever known...I watched the most hardened and vilest offenders stagger through this same gate and fall to their knees before the Lord...I saw in Africa, hands lifted up from souls that were literally drowning in iniquity, reaching out for forgiveness...and brave sold-out believers in Christ would grasp their hands and pull them to safety. I heard the ground shake with the voice of true Heaven sent, blood-bought freedom...it was a sound I had never heard before...bought from shear pain and anguish...but the sound of an Army...an Ecclesia who had come (and overcome) through great persecution; who had been winnowed, divided, broken down and brought down, on God’s great threshing floor...but had arisen again, pure, holy, fearless and united. I have seen a global move of repentance that began within families and understated gatherings...a turning to God from shore to shore...sea to shining sea...where no tribe or tongue is excluded....

But I  have also questioned the Lord: How can this be? No local revival has lasted more than a few years...much less a global one. Why? ...Because of course people cry out for Salvation in the hard times…but as soon as the pressure is lifted...well, we are prideful by nature...and we think we know better than you...we just cannot get ourselves out of your way...nor keep our hands off what you’re doing. Is this not how every revival in the past has died?

So surely for such an awakening as this to stand the test of time, you must keep the flame of refining trial underneath us...we the Church must remain continually in a place of Gethsemane (the Place where the anointing oil flows most freely)...where we have no option but to continually look to you (not ourselves) and rely on you for everything. We need to let go of compromise...because this is a place where the world hates us...wants us out of the way, whatever it takes...and our continual state is therefore one of humble reliance on You...where we “love not our own lives unto death” (Rev12:11).

This then begs the question: Is there anything in Scripture to even support such an awakening as I am talking about?...One that is global and inclusive...one that, even in the midst of the fires of persecution, cannot be stopped and will not die out until we are raptured out?

Yes...there is one place:

Read Revelation 7:9-17

(Written 05/04/2021)

To read original prophecy see link below: https://watchmanonthewall777.blogspot.com/2021/05/i-believe-church-must-endure.html

i Back Again in America…

“Some have sold riches for compromise 

Some have sold the truth for a pack of lies

Some have sold testimonies for fortune and fame

I just want to magnify and glorify His Name…”🎶🎵

As I listened to Michael Combs’ song and others going out over the Airwaves, I became aware of the missionaries who had been called to within the United States itself: People on motorcycles…bicycles…even on horseback…! They were going to and fro…from house to house. I saw people sitting in the back of trucks - with radios…small compact radios with antenna. They were moving these antennas around, looking for a signal. At the same time I could hear the familiar voices of gospel radio…songs, bible teaching and reading, prayer - even prophetic words: for this (short wave radio) will be the vehicle - the “frequency” through which the end times prophets will speak! And they will speak:*
I can’t describe it except that it seemed to be a much simpler lifestyle than the one we live in now. It was “quiet”, and I believe that this was not literal but symbolic, of the strange silence over the airwaves of Christianity after the crash of the Mountain of Media. 

“Amber Waves of Grain…”

“We must delight in each other; make others’ conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, as members of the same body. So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. The Lord will be our God, and delight to dwell among us, as His own people, and will command a blessing upon us in all our ways, so that we shall see much more of His wisdom, power, goodness and truth, than formerly we have been acquainted with.” John Winthrop 1630

I thought again about the crash and the fall…the redistribution of wealth; the great provision that was now going out to the nations of the world: 
“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from Heaven and heal their Land” (2Chronicles 7:14)…and that was when I saw the “land” of the United States of America:
I don’t know what was happening with the land…the soil - but I know that crops…produce of all kinds was growing even in places where it was not supposed to grow; I saw that the people of America - now thinking and understanding according to Deuteronomy ch. 8 (that their substance and provision came from the Lord alone) - were crying out to God for provision: And the Lord was providing!
I saw fruit trees, vines, an array of crops…
I literally saw (according to the song) “amber waves of grain”, as the Lord responded to the broken, humble prayers of the people; and the land - yielding it’s produce - responded to the Word of the Lord: In like manner, I saw the seas and Great Lakes, as if coming alive and providing in many diverse ways. I saw clean, fresh water bubbling up from seemingly nowhere…and literally everywhere. I couldn’t help thinking of Exodus 17:1-7 - and then again, Deuteronomy ch. 8. The Lord was truly providing: 

What happens when a nation turns back to God? I realized that, truly and finally, I was seeing the fruit of 2Chronicles 7:14 in the United States of America.
…and I found myself doing the inevitable- and singing with sheer relief, joy and gratitude:

America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

ii Give us this day our Daily Bread…

Exodus 16:13-31

21 After this the people gathered the food morning by morning, each family according to its need.

Matthew 6:19-34

34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

People were now taking these scriptures literally, not only for provision, but for favor, protection, wisdom, patience and also for healing: 
Give us this day our daily bread,(Matthew 6:11)…and this “bread” included healing. (See also Matthew 15:26) People were literally trusting in the Lord for everything…on a daily - and sometimes hourly basis: and this was producing a humble, contrite and beautiful people:
A people who knew their God and would stand for him…even though it cost them their lives. See Daniel 11:32

This is why the teaching of the Lord’s Prayer had become so vital. (*I will write more about this in part 2 of this chapter.)

Again I heard: “Give us this day our daily bread”… This prayer of Matthew 6, was being prayed DAILY, as the saints were learning how to trust him - to walk with him daily. And again – reverting back to Daniel 11:32: He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.

How do we know him? Through daily: 

Repenting (turning to him), surrendering and trusting…through the mercy of the Cross.

“Forgive us our trespasses…as we forgive those who trespass against us.” (Matthew 6:12) 

This too was being prayed and practiced on a daily - sometimes hourly basis.
After all, we were only meant to walk with him one day at a time! I remembered how burdened down I had become with prayer; through trying to take care of too many tomorrows, instead of allowing today’s troubles to be sufficient. (Matthew 6:34) 

But He holds our today’s- and our tomorrow’s. Tomorrow does not belong to us…today doesn’t even belong to us: If we belong to Jesus, then all our days belong to him! It was when the people began to realize this, that the heavy weights of this world were lifted from their shoulders and they began to develop an intimate, loving and faith-based relationship with the Lord…and this in turn was filtering out into the secular world and beginning to set them free!

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30

And people were coming! First the believer; then the unbeliever…

Because, whether we realize it or not…whether we want to believe it or not: the soul of this nation (the USA) is tired, weary and starved of the Spirit of the Lord and the Truth of His Word. 

“You have lost your Way Beloved: The light you think you have is no light…and the rock upon which you stand…that which you have thought to be unshakable…is actually sinking sand. You must move now…to separate yourselves…to “higher ground” (See Volume I, Ch.3)

For, the Lord is not a taskmaster, sitting at the helm of some great smooth running machine (See Volume 1,Ch.1). He is the God of great compassion and mercy; who “daily bears our burden” (Psalm 68:19-20 NASB), and whoever the Father sends him, he will NEVER turn away (John 6:37-39)

“You hem me in, in front (my tomorrow) and behind (my yesterday)…” Psalm 139:5

This scripture too, had now become a revelation and a reality for the Saints.

iii “…will HUMBLE themselves and PRAY…”

As I have previously said, every platform was gone…every high place leveled; and this had in itself created a strong culture of unity and community amongst the believers, who now were operating in something that looked like a relay race: where the baton of the Gospel was passed from one person to the next: Sometimes it would be passed to a well known individual, who would then pass it to someone whose name had never been known; it no longer mattered. Now we were all on the same team, working together on the same level; every barrier in the Body of Christ - including the abomination that had kept groups of elites insulted and above the rest of the Church, was down. I will cover this topic more thoroughly in this next section. 
The time of adherence to the old adage: “Preach the Gospel - and when necessary use words”1, was over: And Yes, of course actions speak louder than words…and yes Faith without works is dead! But there has to come a point where the offense of the Gospel is preached - to everyone; otherwise there can be no true Salvation from sin. This Gospel must be heard, which means people must be sent - which means we must be strong and very courageous. See Romans 10:14-15. 

The days are approaching when more and more people will be desperate to here of the Salvation of the Lord; but if we are not ready or willing to proclaim this Salvation - to fill this void - than Satan will fill it, and he has no shortage of vessels or materials with which to do this! 

{This final separation was a sacrifice…it was unto Holiness…and it was TOTAL: 

At that point America’s Remnant  were no longer looking to this world, but had become as a Bride, looking for an eternal “city without walls”, and I saw the words “Holiness unto the Lord” written upon her. I knew that the Church would now be reliant upon the Lord and Him alone… Excerpt from Volume 2, Ch.5 ~ the Great Reformation: see link #4}

The Mountain of Media will be taken by anti-Christ2 - for a season: And we must go, with our feet: we must speak face to face…we must open the Book - the Bible - and begin to turn its pages…(see 2Kings 22) 
And now, in the midst of America’s “strange silence”, with the protection…the insulation…gone, I heard the Spirit of the Lord say to His Remnant in the United States: “Who is on the Lord’s side? Let the Redeemed of the Lord SAY SO - let them say so NOW!”
“Strange silence..” see link #1

*Hidden Prophets
Who these were, I couldn’t see - nor could I say where they had come from: because the prophets of this hour were completely hidden: nameless and faceless, the Lord has decreed that his prophets be used mightily at this time…
But ONLY - and as long as - they remain hidden in Christ Jesus - and choose to remain utterly and entirely anonymous: This was one of the major reasons for the collapse of the Media Mountain. And it is at this point, that I will revert back - to before the unraveling described in the previous chapters: to one final time, confront what has become the biggest stumbling block to the Church of this hour: The New Apostolic Reformation and their Dominion theology:

Part 2

i {The Seven Mountains of Influence in the American Church} ~ the aftermath of the Great Fall!

Luke3:2-9

…the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. 

And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,

“The voice of one crying in thewilderness:

‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low,

and the crooked shall become straight,

and the rough places shall become level ways,

and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”

He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 

Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. 

Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

Read Matthew ch.23

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.” (vs.13)

For I recognized that the same thing was happening now with this New Apostolic Reformation: These self proclaimed pillars of the Church were lording it over the people; restricting their access to the Truth of the Word so that they could incorporate their own “truths” and exert their own authority. This was likewise the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation of the late 14 to 1500s. (which was a true and God-ordained reformation)
I thought back to a scene from a previous vision: the foyer of a church: table upon table…laden with books…books and more books: with the authors’ names high and elevated above that of the Lord - and without an actual Bible anywhere in sight.
And yet, for over two millennia, people have been imprisoned…beheaded…fed to lions…crucified…drowned will millstones…burned at the stake…hung drawn and quartered: for promoting, distributing, defending, teaching, translating this very Book, that we now appear to be throwing out of our churches, in favor of the “visions”, “revelations”, “prophetic downloads” and “apostolic mandates” of MEN!{What about you?, you may ask: Is not your writing based upon extra-biblical revelation? The answer is yes. Much of my writing is extra biblical revelation, but I have tried to the best of my ability to make the Word of God its final source.

What  I can with conviction tell you, is that it is NOT my desire to make money…it was NEVER my desire to make for myself a name…and it has never, EVER been my desire to distract people from the One and only Book that really matters: The Bible. I hope that as you the reader progress through my writing, you will realize this: I do not know how or when this will be published…how or when you the reader will find yourself reading this; whether it will be read by the multitude - or by the one person selected by God to read it…this doesn’t matter to me: God knows and He is all that matters…

ii Back to the Olive Press
I saw again, the pastor and apologist who had put his arm around the one from the seven mountain doctrine and walked with him. (see Ch.1 The Olive Press ~ link #2) He was now teaching this one who had fallen…teaching him the oracles of God - the fundamentals of Christianity - Repentance from sins - the Gospel - as if from the ground up! 
Had this fallen one never known in the first place…? 
Had he never really been saved…? 
How many more were like this…? 
…and how many who were following them..?  

📝This is a word from February 11, 2021, that God gave me, concerning the false prophesies that came came out of the Charismatic Movement concerning the recent presidential election. I was trembling as I wrote it.

“For you have built for yourselves walls - high and lofty walls - in My House - that I did not permit you to build: You have separated yourselves in ways that I did not permit - within My Body- and at great cost to My Body. So now in this season, I am bringing your house down - the house you built for yourself will fall as if it were a house of cards (Matt7:24-27). Then you will know that I AM the Lord - and I will not be mocked. Is not My Name being mocked in the nations because of you? I am  giving you time to repent. It is hard to kick against the goads...for this is exactly what you are doing. How long will you continue? Therefore separate yourselves unto Me” says the Lord. “Humble yourselves under My mighty Hand, that My House - not yours - may be full; that I may send my Spirit and heal your Land. I am waiting- for you”

Read 1Corinthians 3

Please...if you are in any way involved in the above - separate yourself unto God and repent. 💔 I believe this “elitism” in the Body of Christ is what has hindered revival. It is a stench in His nostrils.  

As for the rest of us - we need to pray for these, that they would repent. We also have to separate ourselves- to stay repentant and humble- hidden in Him. Why? Because Judgement begins at the House of God. (1Peter4:17) 📜 

See link https://watchmanonthewall777.blogspot.com/2021/02/is-word-god-gave-me-concerning-false.html

I have spoken before about The Evangelists. It was such as these, that having come through the eye of the needle and out of the Olive Press (see link #2), now ran towards what was left of the Mountain of Media and began scrambling over the rubble to rescue those who were still lost within it. It was as I looked at them, that I was reminded of John the Baptist.

iii “Deliverance Ministry”

Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

Before going any further I wish to stress that I am not against deliverance ministry: I’ve been involved in deliverance ministry - I have seen demonization up close and firsthand - and I know it to be real! However, what had been occurring here on the Mountain of Media wasn’t a ministry - it was an industry; and as with any industry, people need to buy into the product in order for the industry to be successful. And here on this Mountain of Media - where people were devoid of the whole and complete Word of God - this is exactly what was happening: 

John 2

14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.

16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”

I had been watching and listening over the passage of time, to the different generations on the pinnacle of this Mountain: With each new generation, the sickness of pride and egocentricity seemed to get worse and worse. This next one - a “deliverance minister” - left me stunned, to the point where I myself felt sick:

“The Lord has singled me out to be on a stage and do deliverance. This makes me different to the rest of you. This puts me in a position of leadership and authority over you (the Body of Christ): and I like it…I like to do this. Deliverance has become almost a hobby to me…”
It was at this point that I suddenly realized: It wasn’t just that this “minister” was deceiving people - all be it not deliberately: It was the fact that Satan was actually deceiving him! 
How can one stand on a stage in the House of God and unknowingly utter such prideful blasphemy? 
Simply because he did not realize what he was saying: He actually thought he was speaking for God. Pride, power, popularity and prosperity had completely blinded him - and others like him. (Revelation 3:14-22) I also saw that this particular “preacher” was bloated, sick - and bound (there were chains around his head) - bound by the very demons he was claiming to regularly drive out of others…that he was claiming others had! I thought again about the other religions in other countries; that were mocking the God of Christianity because of what was spewing from these Mountains. (see link #3) Again I began crying out “how long Lord - before they come down?”

A.W. Tozer is reported to have said the Devil fools the church and the world with two matters: one is to believe he doesn't exist. The second matter is to get people so obsessed with the devil that they see him under every rock. 

I saw that this was happening to large factions of the American church, through these deliverance ministries - and not only was it distracting them - but like poison on a drip, it was actually weakening them.
How? Why? Because It was diminishing the Power of the finished work of the Cross in their lives.
I realized especially with deliverance ministry - that so much of the “deliverance” was really nothing of the kind. Looking at these long lines of followers, waiting to be “delivered”, I could now see that for many - if not most - their problem wasn’t “a demon” - their problem was SIN ~ and a total lack of knowledge and understanding on how to recognize it ~ much less deal with it ~ because their lives were largely devoid of the complete Word of God. This was the state of so many on the Mountain of Media.
I saw emotional and even psychosomatic manifestations ~ and from those “ ministers” themselves I saw a performance of convoluted man-made, man-centered doctrines…doctrines of demons and strategies for dealing with demonic strongholds - that seemed to multiply…and multiply…the further they led their followers down into it! They knew how to make full use of the placebo effect3; and this they did - very, very well.
(And of course, who can forget the usual string of exaggerated stories and downright lies, that drew every ounce of attention off the Lord and onto these charlatans?)
And because psychosomatics and emotional experiences are usually temporary, the same people were coming back for more and more “deliverance” over and over again - and bringing their friends…and their finances. It was for so many, a hamster wheel: Having received deliverance, they then realized that they needed to go back for more…and more…and then to Christian counseling…and then to therapy…and then back for more deliverance…
Of course, I am not at all against Christian counseling, or therapy: But as I watched this play out in the lives of born again believers over and over (not just through the Spirit - but actually around me in the natural) - I realized that it was getting their attention further and further away from the the Word of God and the Cross of Jesus Christ: and more and more onto themselves, and the “demons” that they needed “deliverance” from.
It was also making them more and more reliant on those doing the deliverance. I saw this through the Spirit - but I have also seen this first hand in the natural!

Mark 5:25-34

And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, 

and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. 

This is what I saw with those among the rubble on the mountain after its collapse: They were so worn down ~ weakened by the continuous gaslighting4 of these so called ministers ~ and the demon-slaying treadmill they had been placed upon.
Again, this is not an attack on deliverance ministry, but on the deliverance industry 

iv The Evangelist and the Cross 
Read Acts 2:14-41

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%202%3A14-41&version=ESV
This is how these Evangelists, who had come out from the Great Olive Press, through the “eye of the needle” (see link #2) were now preaching. They ran towards the rubble of the Mountain of Media - and to those who still struggled beneath it. People were trapped under the rubble, in the same way that they had been trapped under these deliverance ministries. Then the Truth of the Gospel ~ the Cross ~ of sin and righteousness and judgment ~ set them free! 
In effect ~ this is now where the TRUE deliverance was beginning!

I saw how many had forgotten about the Cross ~ had severely backslidden because of the distractions ~ the pea soup5 ~ spewing out from this mountain! 
Some received the Gospel from the rubble of the mountain…some afterwards: But once these had left the Mountain of Media and through true Repentance, entered the Narrow Way…embracing the Cross of Christ (the Gate), I saw that these “deliverance ministries” vanished ~ I never heard or saw anything like that again…all I saw was the Blood-bought penitent Body of Christ ~ crucified with him. The preaching of the Gospel…the exposure and conviction of sin…the cutting to the heart…was enough to gradually and completely “deliver” all who received it ~ and to draw them into the Cross ~ through the Cross ~ and along the Narrow Way. This reminded me of the work of Philip in Acts ch.8, preaching the Gospel in Samaria. People were delivered of demons having heard the Gospel (We have also seen this for ourselves when preaching the Gospel in Kenya and we know it to be true) 

Psalm 32 

1 Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, 

whose sin is covered.

2 Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, 

and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

3 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;

my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.

Selah

5 I acknowledged my sin to you,

and I did not cover my iniquity;

I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,”

and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

Selah

6  Therefore let everyone who is godly

offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;

surely in the rush of great waters,

they shall not reach him.

7 You are a hiding place for me;

you preserve me from trouble;

you surround me with shouts of deliverance.

Selah

8 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;

I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

9 Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,

which must be curbed with bit and bridle,

or it will not stay near you.”

10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked,

but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.

11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous,

and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!       

{Who are these “righteous”?…these “upright in heart”? - refer back to verse 1-2}

v The Way that leads to Life…
Because in order to experience real Life, there must first be a death (to our fleshy, worldly desires) The example for this has been set through our Chief Shepherd and Cornerstone, Jesus Christ; who came announcing “the Kingdom is here” - and then, in accordance with Daniel 9:26, he died. To many of his followers, who had interpreted the Kingdom of Messiah as a physical kingdom (liberation from the Romans) Jesus’s death would have been absolutely shocking. They did not understand that the Way to true Life was through death (read Romans ch. 4-8) …that the problem was not the Roman Empire: the problem was their captivity to sin (read John Ch.8) - the wages of which were death…And the only Way to be released from this captivity was to die to it.

Likewise in America: the Kingdom of Heaven is not physical but spiritual: It does not come through life, but through death - and we who are part of it must follow in the footsteps of Jesus (Galatians 2:20) to enter it.
The only way to New Life is through death to the old - there is no other way…

We place such value on earthly things: house, land, car, career, social status, financial security: Do we not understand that in these end times, these (our attachment to things of this world ) will be the very things that Satan will use to ensnare us - to compromise our faith: This is why our eyes must be on the invisible, eternal treasure of Heaven - not earth. Because where our treasure is, there will our hearts also be.
If we cling to this world will we not surely be judged with it?

But:

Psalm 34

7  The angel of the LORD encamps

around those who fear him, and delivers them.

8  Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good!

Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

9  Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints,

for those who fear him have no lack!

10  The young lions suffer want and hunger;

but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

Thinking back again to the Separatists of the Mayflower, may each and every one of them be remembered - who would rather risk their lives for Jesus - lose them in fact (which many of them did) than hold on to them for this world.

Matthew 10

28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 

29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 

30 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 

31 Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. 

32 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 

33 but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven. ….

38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 

39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Back among the rubble, I saw many people repenting of pride and rebellion. I believe that this has been one of the major causes for demonization within the Church (people who were “Christian” by name, but unregenerate in nature - largely due to them NEVER being exposed to the TRUE Gospel!) Now, through the silencing of the Mountain of Media, was coming the TRUE Gospel…and through this TRUE Gospel was coming TRUE and sincere Repentance…and through this Repentance was coming a True and REAL Salvation! HALLELUJAH!

vi The Gospel of the narrow Way 
The voices of Teachers, Evangelists, Pastors, as they taught the fundamentals ~ the milk of the Word of God, were now ringing out loud and clear in the midst of the Olive Press: 
I heard the four Gospels, the book of James, 1Peter 5:7-10, Romans ch.4-8 Galatians 5:16-24 - and Colossians 1:13-14
The Lord’s Prayer from Matthew 6 was also being taught.*(See previous section) People from the Mountain of Media ~ and other mountains were being taught…reconditioned…on how to pray! And in doing so, the heavy yolk of trying to “decree their destiny over their lives”/or “speak their dreams into existence” was broken from off their backs.6 (See Matthew 11:28-30)
And they too, were being broken, humbled, thoroughly cleansed and then transformed literally step by step…to become like calves released from the stall…like children in the Presence of their Father (Matthew 6:9) For to know ~ and to trust ~ the Lord in His sovereignty, is the truest, most liberating form of Faith…
And to know and trust that the Work, in its entirety, was FINISHED at the Cross, is the only Way to true and eternal Rest. {Only when we understand this, and are able to apply it to our own lives, can we then like children, trust the sovereign will of our Father.}

“My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” Matthew 26:39

(Note: Jesus is not “speaking his destiny/his dreams into being” here…but is simply “entrusting Himself to the One who judges righteously” ~1Peter 2:23)

O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;

    my eyes are not raised too high;

I do not occupy myself with things

    too great and too marvelous for me.

But I have calmed and quieted my soul,

    like a weaned child with its mother;

    like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Psalm 131:1-2

I saw obedience…submission…PEACE…and through this, was coming character…hope… and courage!
Things had suddenly become so simple…and with every step the Church took onward along the Narrow Way of Faith, following in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus Christ, the stronger, freer and more full of Joy she became!

The steps of a man are established by the LORD, And He delights in his way.

When he falls, he will not be hurled down, Because the LORD is the One who holds his hand.

Psalm 37:23-24

I saw again, for so many coming from the Mountain ~ their problem was not a demon: Their problem was the very thing that Christ defeated on the Cross…the very thing that Peter, Paul, John and the other Apostles, through Christ’s victory on the Cross, were exhorting us to resist: SIN.

The Lord said to Moses, 

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout their generations they are to make tassels for the corners of their garments, and put a blue cord on the tassel at each corner. 

These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the Lord’s commands and obey them and not become unfaithful by following your own heart and your own eyes. 

This way you will remember and obey all My commands and be holy to your God. 

I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” Numbers 15:37-41

Going back to the woman in Mark 5: We know from Numbers 15:37-41, that the fringes on the garments were to remind the people of the perfect Law of God - and humble them with the realization that they were under it;   And this woman recognizing the fringe of Jesus’s garment, lunged at it…
(Read Leviticus 15:25-33)

Here we see a paradox: It wasn’t that she broke the Law in pressing through the crowd - this woman already knew she had broken the Law! (see Psalm 51:5) She knew she was already unclean…born into sin;
but she also knew, as did Rahab in Joshua ch.2, that in Christ there was redemption…That:

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 
(But)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:8–9
“Against you - and You alone have I sinned…”King David ~ Psalm 51:4

Therefore, to honor the Law is to acknowledge that we have broken it.
In touching the fringes of the Lord, she was not only honoring the Law but  throwing herself on the mercy of the One who wrote the Law - and who would fulfill it to the letter; who would, through her confession of her fallen state, cleanse her from the curse of it (Galatians 3:13)…and not only externally ~ but INTERNALLY.

I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” 

It is the Lord who sets us free: 
In lunging at the Lord’s tassels, she saw past the external (her weak and broken body ~ see Matthew 15:11); She knew where the real healing was needed: her heart.
In short, she was not afraid to gaze into God’s perfect (fulfilled) Law and recognize her need for mercy. Compare also with Rahab in Joshua ch.2 and to the bronze serpent on a pole in Numbers 21:4-9 -see link #5

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At the preaching of the pure truth of the Word of God, this was now exactly what was happening, right in the midst of the Olive Press. See James 1:23-25
I couldn’t help but compare the tremendous teaching I was hearing from the Olive Press to the pea soup5 that had been coming out from the Mountain of Media. Things were vastly different now ~ the tables had turned; and through being exposed to the Truth of the Word, the confrontation of the Law, just like the women of Mark ch.5, the Body of Christ was truly being healed! (For further Bible study see: “The Tabernacle Tour” at http://sarahshalom777.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-tabernacle-tour-2.html )

I noticed too that as the Word of God was spoken, the people received it like children: As pure milk ~ untainted by the fables, opinions, exaggerated stories and flat out false teachings and prophesy that had been spewing out from the Media Mountain. Read 1John 1:8-9!

{…my eyes went back to the narrow gate at the beginning: And I realized: The narrow gate was the Cross of Christ…and in order to pass through it, one must first embrace it…denying themselves…opening up their arms and allowing themselves to be truly crucified with Christ…buried with him. This is what had been happening as people went through the gate: A true baptism of repentance ~ into a true and complete Salvation…one from which there would be no turning back. See link #2. For further Bible study see “The Tabernacle Tour” at http://sarahshalom777.blogspot.com/2021/09/notes-bible-study-lesson-1-anchor.html}

Still more and more people emerged from the rubble ~ and I saw how, just like in the ministry of John the Baptist, through the Power of the Holy Spirit, these people were being brought out of hiding by the Remnant Church, and into the Light ~ to be confronted with their own sinful state, convicted of it…and forgiven of it: see 1John 1:8-9

Again, if a person has no knowledge of their own sin, how can they repent of it? ~ And if there is no repentance, how can they be forgiven?
…But once they are forgiven: 

“You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with shouts of deliverance.”
Psalm 32:7

We cannot hide in him, if we are hiding from him. And there are few who describe this better than the apostle John, who writes:

“If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” 1John 1:6-7
John then goes on in ch.2 to say: “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.” 

Here John is talking about deliberate, willful sin - But even when are indeed walking in the Light - in true and unbroken fellowship with God, not deliberately and consciously sinning, we still live in these corrupted human bodies; our spirit is continually at odds with our flesh. This is why John goes on to say: 

“But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” 1John ch2:1

When we read scriptures such as these, we realize how important it is to remain open and honest before the Lord; not hiding from him, but through trusting in the Blood of his Son, coming into the Light and allowing him to cover the shame of our nakedness (See Genesis 3:7-10, 21; Ephesians 5:8-17 & Revelation 3:17-18) and cleanse our hearts continuously from all unrighteousness.

 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 

And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ Matthew 7:21-23

How do we know Him
Through the Cross: The place of honest confession, where we realize that we are in fact, naked and undone…and where we daily and consistently turn to Him (Repentance) that He may cleanse us from our sin…and clothe us in His righteousness. Apart from the sacrifice of the Cross, we are dead; (Genesis 2:16-17) But through the Cross, the work in its entirety is finished (John 19:30, Hebrews 4)
And just as a sheep will not stray far from the shepherd, a true disciple never truly leaves this place. (1Corinthians 15:31, Matthew 6:11-13)

 Psalm 103 

Bless the Lord, O my soul,

    and all that is within me,

    bless his holy name!

Bless the Lord, O my soul,

    and forget not all his benefits,

who forgives all your iniquity,

    who heals all your diseases,

who redeems your life from the pit,

    who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

who satisfies you with good

    so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

The Lord works righteousness

    and justice for all who are oppressed.

He made known his ways to Moses,

    his acts to the people of Israel.

The Lord is merciful and gracious,

    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

He will not always chide,

    nor will he keep his anger forever.

He does not deal with us according to our sins,

    nor repay us according to our iniquities.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

    so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

as far as the east is from the west,

    so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

As a father shows compassion to his children,

    so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

For he knows our frame;

    he remembers that we are dust.

As for man, his days are like grass;

    he flourishes like a flower of the field;

for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,

    and its place knows it no more.

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,

    and his righteousness to children's children,

to those who keep his covenant

    and remember to do his commandments.

The Lord has established his throne in the heavens,

    and his kingdom rules over all.

Bless the Lord, O you his angels,

    you mighty ones who do his word,

    obeying the voice of his word!

Bless the Lord, all his hosts,

    his ministers, who do his will!

Bless the Lord, all his works,

    in all places of his dominion.

Bless the Lord, O my soul!

A.h.W.

To be continued…

Footnotes

Link #1

https://undergod714.blogspot.com/2022/04/ch_13.html

Link #2

https://undergod714.blogspot.com/2024/03/john-1220-among-those-who-went-up-to.html

Link #3

https://undergod714.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-mountain-of-media.html

Link #4

https://undergod714.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-great-reformation.html

Link #5

http://sarahshalom777.blogspot.com/2020/12/where-is-jesus-3.html

1. A quote that has been falsely attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, who through all his writings and documentation from contemporaries is evidenced to have never said such a thing. Although he was undoubtedly the epitome of living out the Gospel, he never lived it without also Preaching it! It has also been marked by some scholars as a slight to those who openly talk about their faith or who have been equipped by the Lord to Biblically preach and teach the Gospel…as if talking should be a last resort - not a first.

2. ”The placebo effect is when a person’s physical or mental health appears to improve after taking a placebo or ‘dummy’ treatment. It is triggered by the person's belief in the benefit from the treatment and their expectation of feeling better, rather than the characteristics of the treatment itself…” 

“If the person expects the treatment to work, the chances of a placebo effect are higher, but placebos can still work even if the person is skeptical of success. The power of suggestion is at work here.”

(Quote: Better Health Channel)

3. Gaslighting:  

1. psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one's emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator

2. the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one's own advantage

(Source: Merriam-Webster)

4. anti-christ world order: not so much referring to the literal person of Revelation 13, but the type of regime that is already openly in existence- and will become more and more prevalent throughout the world as time goes by.

5. Pea Soup: An old English term, used to describe a fog so thick that you cannot see through it.

6. I do not believe that speaking things over our lives, is wrong - as long as what we are speaking is the Truth - and we are confident that we know and understand what is God’s will for our lives. This kind of confidence and knowledge can only come (I believe) through the refining of the Olive Press. {The putting to death of everything we want - and think that we need.} Again: “Not as I will, but as You will.” (Matthew 26:39)