It is not possible for me to separate between my personal convictions and a broader teaching of Christian Mysticism. From the very beginning, I have said that my blogging was a matter of sharing my personal faith journey, with the hope that God will use some of what I write to touch others. I never wanted acolytes. I’ve always prayed that my message would somehow move people to find their own path.
So it’s very healthy that some of you have written to object to parts of my blog messages. I take no offense at all. I’m quite proud of you for knowing your own convictions and being able to express them. But did Paul back off his commitment to visiting Jerusalem simply because genuine prophets of God warned him it would result in arrest? That you may foresee bad consequences down the road is not sufficient cause to back down from my commitments.
I see those bad consequences, too. My prophetic vision isn’t blind to that. Have some of you forgotten that I teach my life was forfeited long ago to the cause of the gospel message? Have you forgotten that a very primary element of Christian Mysticism is the otherworldly orientation? I would much rather be dead in the flesh and Home with the Lord, but I have a mission and the firm assurance He will carry me through. The saints of God will tribulate; that’s our natural element. Paul mentioned how some folks lacked the courage to resist sin to the point of their own bloodshed.
Keep in mind that few prophecies are written in stone. The vast majority of them are conditional — “if things don’t change, this will happen.” The point is that if things do change, then the outcome will be different. And often enough, God Himself will change things to adjust the outcome. The idea is that a prophetic gift allows you to see how reality works according to His Word, and that you will know when to share what you see, and when you should silently watch and learn. It’s a talent for seeing how God operates in this fallen world; it’s way of acquainting you with His personality. And like any real person, God sometimes changes His mind on things, for reasons we could never understand.
He doesn’t change His mind the way humans do, and certainly not for the same motivations. But God has revealed that He keeps the door open until He sees how people will respond, and your individual response is rarely the deciding factor in things.
Often enough, He will change things in your path based on something you could never know about in the flesh, but He’s responding to someone else whose choices affect His work with you. Sometimes it is direct, and sometimes indirect. He has on occasions granted me the privilege of sensing this directly in my spirit. For example, before the 2016 election, I knew that Trump had compromised with Zionists and that he would fail his primary mission as God’s scourge on globalists. I had hopes Trump would still carry out at least some of his mission, but it looks more and more like he failed substantially. By my initial cynicism has been justified; something in the fabric of reality itself changed, and God allowed me to sense it. Then He warned me it would happen often in the coming days of tribulation, and that He would be selective in what He showed me.
And all the way through this, I’ve been saying over and over: I can tell you what He wants me to do, and you’ll have to work it out for yourself what He wants from you. It’s not a wide open gift, but I can sense ripples in the fabric of reality when they affect my mission. I’ll grant you that my flesh does too often hinder my ability to make sense of it, but the perception of change in the Spirit Realm is quite vivid to me. You don’t have to listen to what I make of it, but you should learn that it is possible for God to communicate this way to His people. And I remain utterly certain that all of you should be able to receive some form of guidance in your own convictions.
God’s will is not something written in stone. It will surely vary between us. We cannot rightly seek to know God’s will for the human race as a whole, aside from what is already revealed. What we can know from His direct guidance is what He expects from each of us. I’ll share what I know for me because that’s part of my mission and calling. I know that some of what I share will resonate with all of you in different ways.
So don’t hesitate to share back with me what He tells you. And never let any of us presume to know what God requires of any other. Make certain in your own heart and mind only what He requires of you, including what you must say about it. Leave the results in His hands.
“So don’t hesitate to share back with me what He tells you.”
He tells me that you’re a nut but, not to worry He says the same thing about me so, that makes us nuts, plural, not the condition of “nuts” which is, the condition of our leaders in government and big business. Unfortunately, being a psychopath is a requirement for leadership in large long lived institutions. “You are not safe” Rick Grimes (fictional character in TWD)
Serving the Lord with any degree of fervor qualifies one for the label “nut” as commonly understood.
The term “prophecy” trips people up. They get it confused with something like what Nostradamus did, which was to predict future events. There was no moral aspect to what he was doing, all foretelling. The moral warning part is the most important, and it gets annoying when apologists focus too much on the magical predictive part of prophecy, which is really not a large component in what scripture was, and downplay the moral warning part. I mean, the information itself the apologists present isn’t wrong, but skeptics will always find a way to refute it, since it’s a cerebral argument, not a moral one.