Don’t forget the third pillar of disentanglement.
Dear reader, my heart is burdened for you. Sometimes I hardly know where to start. Can you follow the quantum logic I use here? Have I explained it well enough and often enough that you don’t get lost? It’s okay if you reject what I have to say, because influence to a particular end has no place on this blog. I began the first post with the intent only of unloading the divine burden, and I am content with blabbering only to myself. But with that blabbering is a sense of burden from God that I offer to share my joy and madness with others.
For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit, tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age, and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt. (Hebrews 6:4-6 NET)
When you enter the world of spirituality and mysticism, the whole idea is to encounter God directly, inasmuch as it is available to us on any terms. We want to partake of the Holy Spirit and taste the miraculous powers of the Age to Come. Such cannot be confined to human intellect; it requires that fourth level of awareness.*
Apostasy is just a fancy word for turning away from the Spirit Realm in favor of worldly and fleshly concerns. It is allowing ourselves to be seduced, but implies a much wider loss of commitment that is hardly believable. How can you taste the Spirit Realm and then turn away? The writer of Hebrews doesn’t say it happens, but struggles in words with how it could be possible and then what it would have to mean. If you could engage the Spirit Realm and then turn away, if you can allow all of that to die again within you, there would be no turning back again to the Spirit. It’s the same as crucifying Christ again. That should make you shudder.
It’s mystical; it’s a warning to avoid pulling back from the full commitment to the spiritual agenda. So yesterday’s blather was all about not allowing yourself to be seduced by something that is truly not a matter of spiritual conflict. It is entirely worldly in nature. Don’t be deceived. God most certainly does appoint times and places in the affairs of men, and seldom reveals His counsel on such things. That has more to do with our obtuse lack of spiritual sensitivity than to His lack of interest in telling us anything. When people persistently and vociferously confuse spiritual things with worldly concerns, God quits trying to tell them anything.
Most of the people involved on Bundy’s side will express varying levels of Christian profession. They will insist they are involved in God’s work by showing up in large numbers and with sufficient means to resist. They aren’t just wrong, but damned wrong.
It’s not as if God wouldn’t allow it to turn to bloodshed. It came very close, and only the residual restraint of generations of habit prevented that. And I don’t doubt the feds would still come back and slaughter the Bundy family and their cattle if they could pull it off with sufficient safety to themselves. I’m pretty sure the federal moguls calling the shots were caught off guard by the size of the response from the resistance, but they wasted no time in making sure to notice and catalog everyone who showed up. You should imagine they are processing the facial recognition footage. You’ll know “It” has started when those resistance folks start getting entangled in serious trouble back home.
The feds aren’t going to pull a confrontation just yet, not until they can reduce resistance by some means to a manageable level. That will happen, or at least they will try. That much has been published if you bothered to look. Don’t listen to the hype from the so-called alternative press. It’s a no-win situation because the resistance is scripted, too, and the instructions are passed down through that controlled opposition mouthpiece.
However, the notion that we could somehow reassert our original constitutional republican form of government is a nasty delusion. That will not happen; it’s a lie of Satan. God has decreed the end of the US and has yet to reveal what will follow behind it. The spirits of delusion and destruction now have control of those who bear the effective power in this country. We have little idea how close we came to attacking Syria and igniting another world war, as it would surely have done. Now we are in it over Ukraine and a series of provocations domestically. On top of this, few understand how close we are to an open revolt within government among the various factions of power that have almost nothing to do with political parties. We have come dangerously close to a military coup several times in the past decade. It cannot be put back into the box.
Be aware of it, but don’t get wrapped up in it.
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*Levels of Awareness: This is merely a clinical expression of spiritual truth. (1) We are aware of the demands of our body. (2) We are aware of sensory data and process it with some measure of reason and logic. (3) We are aware of things intuitively; it’s not necessary to process concretely and logically to get valid results. It’s a sort of pattern recognition on the level of logical processing that shortcuts the formal process. (4) We are aware of moral demands from the Spirit Realm by developing a sensitivity to imperatives planted within us by the divine Presence. This awareness overrules mere reason.
