Ch.10 The Aftermath of the Great Fall ~ Part II

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

Continued…

One of the most toxic and hellish lies being spewed by those at the very pinnacle of these mountains was that they (those on the pinnacle) no longer sinned (not that they had no sin - but that they no longer sinned) ~ that they had such a special relationship with God…that they were so mighty in their faith…that they had been able to conquer sin in their lives - completely. Their bragging and boasting (because this is what it was) was putting an unbelievable burden of condemnation and fear upon those who followed them - it was in affect, destroying them: But these narcissistic elites didn’t know - and if they did, they didn’t care: They just carried on happily, with seared consciences and without fear of consequences, living out their God complex***.  But this God complex flies completely and utterly in the face of the Apostle John’s words to BELIEVERS (not unbelievers) in 1John 1:8-9. We’re never supposed to step out from the shadow of the Cross of Christ! And I can tell you from experience (my own testimony); were it not for an acknowledgement of my own fallen state and continual need of the Lord’s mercy, I would NEVER be able to reach out…to reach down with the genuine empathy and compassion needed, to those also struggling in deep sin. This is why these pyramids and the teachings coming from them are so deadly - and why our simple testimony: sinners saved by Grace - is so powerful.}

“Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 5:19-20

What is Jesus saying here? He isn’t pointing to the Pharisees as the example…the righteous bar the needs to be exceeded…who appeared to do everything right on the outside, but inside were full of dead men’s bones and corruption. (Matthew 23:26-28)

No, Jesus is pointing to HIMSELF as the example: Because it is through HIM (his death on the cross) that we are made righteous, with HIS righteousness, in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

…And His Righteousness far exceeds that of the Pharisees - as far as the east from the west (see Isaiah 64:6) How easy it is for us to appear righteous on the outside, doing and saying all the right things (Matthew 23:23-24) We can make our bodies clean (read Matthew 15:1-20): But only The Lord can cleanse the heart.

“The Lord has given me a new heart and a clean slate!” These words came from one of the elites, who was speaking to a sea of people on a massive platform. (The subtle twisting here, of Ezekiel 36:25-27 was horrifying.) He continued: “And I have not defiled it…not once.” Then he whirled around on his sea of enamored, brainwashed fans and fired this accusation: “Can you say the same thing?”

So, in boasting to his audience about all the sins  he no longer committed, he did not realize that within his heart, he was operating under one of the most deadly sins of all: Pride: Creating a works-based theology, where ‘striving daily’ becomes the lifestyle, instead of “dying daily” at the Cross (see Galatians 2:19-21, Romans 6): This is a burden that Jesus had given everything, to remove from our shoulders. Could I believe my eyes? Like the Pharisees in the time of Jesus, for their own power, wealth and egos, these wolves in sheep’s clothing were now attempting to put this heavy burden back! Hypocrites!

Dare I go on to say that these teachings…these representatives of “Christianity” are a large part of the reason why so many, both in America and around the world - are hostile towards us, the Church? - Why they see us as hypocritical, arrogant, self-important, self centered and greedy?

{I saw Islamic and other theocratic nations; I saw the communist totalitarian nations: They were mocking the God of Christianity, because of what they were seeing and hearing from these pinnacles and platforms.} see https://undergod714.blogspot.com/2023/06/habakkuk-21-i-will-stand-at-my-watch.html

The Watchman the City and the Towers Part I

This mockery was not because of the Gospel of Christ! But these same ones would then parade themselves on the pinnacles as if they were being persecuted for Jesus! How insulting to people who actually are truly being persecuted for the Lord! - This is why these mountains will fall…and so will those on top of them:

These people, blinded and intoxicated by their own pride and sense of self importance, boasted of their calling from the Lord to unite the Body of Christ - and of what a great burden this was for them to carry - so great in fact, that only they - God’s anointed ones - could do it; that they had in fact, been specially selected by Lord for this purpose…(again please excuse the satire) 

They don’t realize that by their behavior, they aren’t bringing unity - they are actually preventing unity! In this next section I will explain why. 

A Way that leads to Unity…

I wept as I saw people who were still being brought - sometimes carried - off the Mountain of Media, who were repenting…turning away from their sinful practices - and towards the Lord.

I watched as through the washing of the Word, they were beginning to submit to God and resist the devil - and I noticed something else: That in their resisting against temptation, people were not resisting alone: For…God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.. Psalm 68:6 (BSB) - 

Now everyone on the narrow Way, to one degree or another, was opened up, exposed and undone before the Lord…no more pretending - no more hypocrisy.

Now through the unity of the Spirit, we had the Lord ~ and we had each another!

Again I saw again the fulfillment of the scripture from Psalm 133 Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity: 

It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard – on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes. 

~ and I thought about this oil…and the pressure through which it was coming ~ the pressure of the Olive Press.

People now fully aware of their sin and the Lord’s mercy, were living out their lives by scriptures such as Matthew ch 7:1-5, James 5:16, 1John 1:6-9 (and Revelation 3:14-22)

This in turn was generating such an empathy, compassion and Love in the Body of Christ - for the Lord and one another, which in turn was beginning to impact the world around us:  

 John 13:24-35

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

And…

Matthew 7:3-5

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

“…then you can see clearly”  - and at last we were seeing clearly!

Because here on this narrow way, we were all on the same page - a flat line before the Lord: We all recognized the same plank in our eyes: The plank that is called sin! We were all sinners…and we knew that we were all sinners - facing the same battle together: This is why it was no longer hard to “confess our sins to one another - and to pray for one another”. This was now the source of our unity: Through the Holy Spirit convicting us of our sin, His Righteousness and the devil’s coming judgement (John 16:7-11), we truly were beginning to live in the unity of the Spirit, through the bond of peace.  From within the Olive Press our unity was growing - and so was our love.

James 1:25

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

🎶My sin—oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!—My sin, not in part but the whole, 

Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!🎵

“It Is Well With My Soul” Horatio Spafford (1873)

Many things were being nailed to the cross at this time, lust, greed, jealousy, self pity, resentment: I myself had to nail rejection and self-loathing to the cross again, before I was able to move on - but no matter where I moved on to - I never left the shadow of the Cross. I noticed that from within the Olive Press, none of us did. This is what Paul meant when he said “I die daily” ~ 1Corinthians 15:31.

 Groups of people would nail their sins - their hurts - their entire lives to the Cross - and then, arm in arm, sometimes holding one another up, they would continue along the Narrow Way. “Where is the strength in this?”, you may ask. “Where is the conquering, victorious church, we have persistently heard about from the Mountain of Media?”

“America, our strength was never meant to be in a few super heroes…the few who had “made it.” Our strength comes in our understanding that we are ALL weak and desperately in need of Jesus: Here is unity: coming through our solidarity with one another - because of our weakness - through which in turn, was coming - not our strength - but his!”

Seeing the United States of America like this, brought me to my knees again, with tears of utter joy: This was flying directly in the face of everything secular America stood for - and which large parts of the Mountain of Christian Media had taught: strength, power, prosperity, dominion, exceptionalism. 

But now - this kind of strength…this kind of unity…was beginning to shake and impact the other nations of the world - as more and more of them looked on…at the true face of the United States of America!

1John 1

5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

7 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.

Again I thought about Psalm 133: The oil: the product of intense pressure - coming down on the priest - except this time I didn’t see Aaron: I saw the One whom he symbolized…the One to whom he pointed: Our Great High Priest Jesus Christ: 

The oil of our suffering…our submission…our surrender…our unity…was pouring down on his head…his beard…his priestly garments…

“…that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” John 17:21

The people clustered around - clinging to - the Cross of Christ, never dissipated - and nor did the metaphorical sound of the hammering of the nails as people lived out Galatians 2:20; Although I did notice now, that for the more mature disciples of Christ (those who lived, moved and had their beings within this narrow Way) this “hammering” became less and less. And this was why - no matter what a person’s calling was - or where - they never left this Narrow way - but gradually became more accustomed to it - more one with it: In through the Cross…and out through the “eye of the needle”. We never left the shadow of the Cross. Because (and here is the Gospel) we either die now with Christ, to be resurrected with him for eternity - or we die later at the judgment seat - for all eternity.

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)

Here at the Cross…at this place of confession- and crucifixion - was where we, the Ecclesia were becoming pure and becoming one! We were like clay in the Hands of our Potter - going round and round on his great wheel, every moment, his hands on our fragile, but surrendered lives, shaping us more and more into his image. Not stopping until…1John 3:2.

Although in this vision, I did see people leaving the Olive Press, falling in as a mighty army, the truth is that the Olive Press never left them!

Prepare the Way

Luke 3:16-17

John answered them all,saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the HolySpirit and fire.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

How greatly has this “baptism of fire” been misunderstood - especially amongst those upon the Mountain of Media: Amidst all of their smoke and mirrors; their claims of signs, wonders and miracles (and again, this is NOT to undermine those that are genuine) the TRUE fire of God was not falling - not on their high places - nor on the altars they had raised upon them…

The true fire of God was falling in the only place it possibly could: In the pressure of the Olive Press…in the Cross.

Let the reader again take head: Because there are true signs and wonders: through a Reformation that comes about the same way as those before it: a hunger for the Word of God…

And there are false signs and wonders: See Revelation 13:11-17.

How we protect ourselves from the false, is to not pursue them…and MARVEL at them - or those who perform them (Matthew 12:38-40; Rev.13:3,13) - but to pursue the Lord through the Truth of his Word.

This is why the seven mountains of dominion must and will come down. (And with it, the pursuit of signs, wonders and miracles - and of those who allegedly do them!)

This requires wisdom from God (Psalm 111:10, Proverbs 9:10) and unfortunately, one thing I know for certain: There was no Fear of the Lord on top of the Mountain of Media. 

Idolatry 

Exodus 20:2-3

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

“You shall have no other gods before me.

I heard weeping and much repentance - especially among those so weak they were being carried off the mountain. I know and had seen, just like so many others on the Mountain of media, how these deliverance ministers had been using slight of hand to manipulate and twist the Word of God to support their own doctrine. How did they get away with it? 

In just the same way as the “prophets” did: Through the assumption that none of their followers would do as the honorable Boreans did in Acts 17 - and check what was being preached against the plumb line - the Word of God. 

“People prefer to believe what they prefer to be true.” Francis Bacon (Statesman and philosopher - 1561-1626)

So why didn’t their followers check?

I saw for a number of reasons - but the most tragic among them was the idolization of these ministers by their followers…who valued…who feared…the minister, more than the Lord and His Word. Indeed to many of them, these ministers had become God! - This was the repentance I was now hearing - repentance from idolatry!

Again: I am not against deliverance ministry…I am against the deliverance industry. 

And this is not written to offend or upset those who have genuinely been delivered - and who know they have been delivered, through a permanently changed life. If this is you the reader, then I say with all sincerity “praise the Lord”! - and I ask that you please don’t take personally what I am about to write now:

There are certain parts of Africa, that are shrouded in demonic superstitions and where witchcraft of all kinds is common practice; 

And there are places like India, where literally thousands of gods are invoked and worshipped:

Here, is where mass deliverance among converts to Christianity is common practice - and it is very necessary. 

But in the United States of America…? 

a developed, civilized nation with Christian foundations…?

where I now saw literally masses of people hopelessly distracted from the Gospel; 

all of a sudden, at the word of the “deliverance minister” - and as if under some kind of hypnotic spell - frisking themselves all over and within for demons - frantic for deliverance. 

I saw the Blood bought Body of Christ being driven…almost whipped…into a belief system, through a form of cult-like manipulation, that I learned was called gaslighting.***

And…honestly?

Deliverance from what? 

Exactly what is it that masses of Blood-bought Christians, in a nation like the USA, all of a sudden think we need deliverance from?

Colossians 1:13 He (Christ Jesus) has delivered us from the domain of darkness (sin) and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 

14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

This had now become the testimony of those going through the Olive Press (Revelation 12:11)

Again I can only write what I saw: With the realization that the fundamentals of their issues were not because of demons - but because of SIN…at the preaching of the Gospel and the rightly dividing of the Word of God, these same people were “delivered” gradually, completely and miraculously by the Word of Truth - John 1:1…who is also the Spirit of Truth. 

Again: It had become so simple: 

The silencing of the Media Mountain and The pressure of the Olive Press was drawing us to an altar of true fervent prayer - and genuine hunger for the pure milk of the Word. (1Peter 2:1-2)

Cults: Leaders and their “Armor Bearers” 

As I continued to watch the endless stream of casualties being carried off the Mountain of Media, I heard another word: “Cult”. 

~ So blinding and intoxicating, is the temptation to follow someone who appears greater than ourselves…into a movement that appears stronger and more powerful than anything in our own lives. 

As with all cults, these people I saw, had been conditioned to believe:

1. That they were God’s chosen generation; raised up for such a time as this; 

2. Through them, the Lord would do far great exploits, more earth shattering things then had ever been known before …

3. That everyone not of their group was wrong, a dangerous influence, outside of the will of God and all ties should therefore be severed with them. {I have seen this among my own friends and acquaintances, to the point where even marriages were destroyed - because one spouse believed that the Lord was “calling” them to something “higher”.}

4. They had been selected by the Lord to be his warriors in a great and epic battle before the end of the world; a battle in which they would need to rally around the cult leader. (In this case, the “apostle” and the “prophet”) This was the reason I learned, that some of the most loyal followers of these deceivers were called “Armor Barers”. This title (and others like it) made these “disciples” feel important, included, valuable and strong. These deceivers knew how to get the most out of their followers. 

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{Excerpt from Volume II, The Watchmen, the City & the Towers Part 2 ~ A Shocking Conversation!

“The Apostles and the Prophets are saying “Unity”

…That if we want Jesus to come back, we must be powerful…we must be influential…we must be One People” 

“Who is telling you these things?”, I asked.

“The Apostles and the Prophets - up there in the towers.” (She gestured upwards towards the two highest towers in the city: The most ornate and beautiful towers I had ever seen…towers that seemed to reach to heaven) “We must do as they tell us. They are the only ones who can usher in the Kingdom”

“How will they do this?” I questioned again.

“They will pull down the principalities and powers that stop us taking dominion…Only they have the power to do this…Once we have dominion, Jesus will return and the whole world will know who we are…” Genesis 11:4

See Link #1}

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And then there were the stories…

“You are people being raised up…to participate in the greatest revival - far beyond the book of Acts…”

I heard this kind of thing over and over again from those on the media platforms, as they would launch their listeners into exaggerated stories of past revivals; that were one-sided and not historically accurate: However, by telling these stories over and over again, with the emphasis on signs, wonders and miracles, the cult leaders would be able to attach themselves to the described events…owning them in fact; and in doing so, they would appear to their enamored brainwashed followers, as ones who had actually been there, (in the spirit of course) and had experienced these events themselves on a regular basis. I quickly realized this was because these deceivers had no testimony of their own…so it was easy enough to borrow someone else’s; especially because these people were answerable to no one.

These deceived ones had also been conditioned to believe that theirs was the generation that had been chosen to unlock and reveal hidden mysteries and secrets - not revealed to generations of the past: This was done of course, through direct ‘revelation’ from God to their leaders.

Again I must emphasize this wasn’t the Mormons or the Moonies - this was going on within the circles of orthodox Christianity - on the Mountain of Christian Media.  

{I wish I could more accurately describe this to you the reader: the slow pacing up and down the stage…the humble posture of leaning up against the lectern…the pause for applause - and dramatic effect…the group in the “Amen corner” whom I believe in some cases were actually being paid to produce the “Wow”…and the “Come on” right on cue: It was astounding…because it was so, so FALSE. ~I am writing from a place of shock.}

Anyone who questioned these “anointed ones” would be immediately countered with “touch not the Lord’s anointed!”, and told they had a Jezebel spirit, a Religious spirit^, a Serpent spirit, a Python spirit, a Deceiving spirit, a Pharisee spirit, etc, etc, etc. This was one of the ways that apostles and prophets worked hand in hand with deliverance ministers (who would eventually graduate to become apostles themselves), in a monstrous form of mind manipulation and fear, that I could hardly believe I was seeing under the banner of Christianity…I am still shocked…

^Religious spirit. Not supported anywhere in scripture, but a figment of the imagination of these cult leaders, who have cast off all restraint. In the New Testament, the Book of James tells us that not all region is bad - in fact, true pure religion is a very, very good and honorable thing to the Lord!

Note: I don’t claim to have all the answers, but for a better understanding of the office of apostle and prophet, see links below.

https://awatcher777.blogspot.com/2023/10/appendix-7-apostle.html

https://awatcher777.blogspot.com/2023/10/appendix-4-office-of-bond-servant.html

I saw again- So many prophets…people who had been used by God for a specific SEASON - for a specific REASON…to deliver a specific message on the Mountain of Media: but they now didn’t want to come down! They didn’t want to let up, and so were now engaging in gaslighting, mysticism, story telling (which went from exaggeration to flat out lies!) and the usual ambiguous messages, throwing the already hopelessly distracted masses into even more of a frenzy of expectation and hunger - for everything it seemed, except the pure Word of God.

I knew the Lord had given them warnings, but those warnings, if heard, had gone unheeded. Such was the God complex*** on top of this mountain. I knew and could hear the warnings: “Silence your voice now, or your voice will be taken from you.” And now that is exactly what had happened.

This was when it dawned on me:  The downfall of the Mountains wasn’t just about the silencing of their voices; for many of them, this was about their hidden sin being exposed…

Their victims were not just confused: They were utterly and totally lost - that is until…this Mountain came down!

Now, in the midst of a dust cloud of devastation that (with the utmost respect) reminded me of 9/11, I saw these people; ashen faced, walking around almost like dead men and women, at the fall of their heroes: I saw these weak, confused and lost, now were being captured by the Evangelists - like fish in a huge net - and were in droves, being carried off the mountain. Because the Lord God loves these people! 

“He sent his Son to die for your sins…not these prophets…or those apostles…or that deliverance minister! - HE SENT HIS SON”

I was crying these words up to those who were still resisting, on what was left of this Mountain of Media!

Something else I noticed was how hostile some of these people still were, at the sight of the Evangelists who were coming to rescue them. They had been zealous in preaching their “gospel” - of “new sounds”…of “new revelation”…of “taking dominion”…of “bringing unity”…of “ushering in the kingdom”…of signs, wonders and miracles; so much so, that they had become extremely hostile to anyone who questioned or opposed them, treating these - their brothers and sisters in the faith, who were trying to help them - as though they were apostates! (Another classic cultish sign)

The Cross of Jesus Christ was nowhere in this ‘circus’! Repentance was nowhere in their ‘gospel’. They were so many, headed on a wide road to hell - and taking multitudes with them - yet they thought that they were the ones serving God: 

Yet I knew they were being primed for something far more evil ~ Read Revelation ch. 13. {Friends, do we not realize how dangerous a snare this is?} I fell on my knees and began to thank God again, for the collapse of these mountains - which had brought an end to all of this…

And now amid the rubble of this great collapse, we were truly seeing signs, wonders and miracles…and the first and greatest of these was Salvation!

Romans 6

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

21 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 

And here, in vs 21, is the key: just like with Adam and Eve, people must be made aware of their sin to be conscious and ashamed of it. How would they otherwise be able to cry out in desperation for God’s mercy and forgiveness. And this is clearly what has happened in the Roman Church, whom Paul is writing to.

vs. 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

“See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you” read John 5:1-15. How could he do that. Because this paralytic, just healed by Jesus,  knew that nothing short of a miracle had taken place in his life: His death sentence had been cancelled; he had suddenly and miraculously been forgiven of a debt that was impossible for him to pay… (the word forgiven - “aphiémi”: meaning to release, let go or permit to depart.)

For surely a sinner who turns to Christ is the greatest miracle of all.

An army unto revival…

I noticed how many of the Evangelists coming out from the great Olive Press had actually come from the Mountain: Some had been among the teachers and apologists who had been directly opposing the false prophets and teachers, using the scriptures to do so; many others had been among those being deceived; and some had been among the deceivers!

Glory to God…!

The Evangelists themselves were rapidly multiplying - more and more of them coming out of the Olive Press and running toward the harvest. (So also were the numbers of salvations) They had become an army - unto revival! 

…And now I couldn’t help but see the irony here: That the “revival” that these superheroes on top of this Mountain are always shouting about, was happening right here - at the collapse of their mountain…indeed, revival was happening largely BECAUSE of its collapse: 

And, in just the same way: 

The true unity that these apostles and prophets had insisted was not going to happen without them, was in fact, happening absolutely without them! In the rubble of their great fall.

…Because: see 2Chronicles 7:14

To be continued…

A.h.W.

Footnotes:

*** The God Complex

noun, Psychology. a conviction that one is infallible, merits special attention and privileges not enjoyed by other people, and can achieve anything one wants: a nonclinical name for narcissistic personality disorder.Compare superiority complex ( def ).
source: Dictionary . com

Link #1

https://undergod714.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-watchmen-city-and-towers-part-ii.html