When man was brought forth from the formative hand of God, there was already the heavens and the earth and all created things. Since departing Eden, scripture declares "the world" as the setting for the lives of Adam’s descendants. The origin and order of today’s world order was a process begun with Cain, who built a successful city, a worldly system, after killing his brother Abel:
“Then Cain went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and he dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Cain knew his wife; she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Then he engaged in building a city,” Genesis 4:16-17 concordant
Cain removed himself from the spiritually anointed presence of God to walk after his own carnal mind. He left to build a city, organized as a society of people living together in a civil manner that produced worldly systems for supplying the needs of man's life independent from God's presence. As Adam’s descendants began to multiply upon the earth, they formed civil states that governed the affairs of natural minded men, using violence to dominate.
This world order gradually was copied to form successful orders of government and civil development after the fall. They gradually became the prideful nations of today’s world. God’s viewpoint, however, is that the people in this world are controlled by the serpent spirit, as expressed thereafter:
“…once you walked in accord with the eon of this world, in accord with the chief of the jurisdiction of the air, the spirit that now is operating in the sons of stubbornness.” Ephesians 2:2 concordant
The serpent’s order of the world consists in the primary supply of natural resources which are the requirements for man’s existence and well-being: provision for food, protection from enemies, shelter from the elements, and the pleasure of entertainment. Now all civilized nations of the world have adopted standards that still provide provisions of food, clothing, shelter, means of defense to protect themselves from adversaries, and make allowances for forms of recreation and amusement.
Yet prior to Adam’s transgression, GOD WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING ALL THE NEEDS OF MAN, including nourishing food, relaxation in happiness, and defense. All was supplied abundantly by God's spirit in the garden of Eden. Today the corrupt cities of the world could still be described as being under the spirit of the wicked one:
“…be loving one another, not according as Cain was, of the wicked one, and slays his brother.” I John 3:12 concordant
The preposition “of” in “of the wicked one” is from the Greek word ‘ek’ meaning “out of.” Cain was OUT OF the wicked spirit — his disposition and thoughts came out of the murderous ideas of the serpent spirit, a lying murderous spirit from the beginning. Mankind is still subject to lies and deception by this same murderous spirit. Cain’s father was Adam and his mother was Eve. Nothing can be plainer than that in Genesis 1:4, yet Cain was used by the serpent spirit to murder and justify it in his own reasoning mind. He and all other natural minded men are liars OPERATING OUT OF THE SAME WICKET SPIRIT.
Scripture evidences that serpent ideas are formed and found to dominate within all worldly minded men. Cain was born of Adam and Eve, but he was dominated by vain selfish thoughts, subject to a pride that was murderous, subject to hating others, even his brother. Cain became an example of men marked by the serpent’s cruel intention to dominate others through brute force, intimidation, and deception, using cunning “beastly” intentions that are void of God’s dominating influence.
Yes, worldly minded men today are operating “out of the evil one,” the serpent spirit. They are busy fighting one another with carnal weapons, trying to build something lasting upon the contentious foundations that men have built upon but are already corrupted like the shifting sands of Cain’s crumbled city in the dusty land of Nod:
“If you have disgraced yourself by lifting yourself up, Or if you have schemed evil, put your hand to your mouth. For as the squeezing of milk brings forth clotted cream, And the squeezing of the nose brings forth blood, So the squeezing of anger brings forth a dispute.” Proverbs 30:32-33 concordant
The angry descendants of Cain produced the beginnings of the world’s present systems that supply the great needs for civilized human life, INDEPENDENT of God’s presence. The direct descendants of Cain were the three sons of Lamech. Lamech was actually the sixth generation from Adam. Men lived very long in those days, and generations arose rapidly in succession to one another, so Adam was alive when his great, great, great grandson Lamech was born.
Lamech then had three sons, and through these sons great worldly supply was rapidly developed for food and shelter, entertainment, and defense. The first son of Lamech was Jabal. He was the father of tent dwellers and cattlemen (Genesis 4:20). Tents and cattle go along way to supply mortal man’s provision for food, shelter, and clothing. His brother Jubal fathered successful methods of handling the harp and organ, to entertain. Tubal-cain was an instructor for every cutting weapon of defense.
Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-cain represent the beginnings of the world order that provided the resources for life in man’s civil order under corrupt men subject to the wicked one. Those beginning foundations of what the scripture calls the world also accepted carnal methods of worshiping God. They added ancient foreign rituals and ceremonies, built towers of babel, and programs for supplying man's need for religious activity. All major religions of the east were then, and are now, corrupted inventions of religious men. All are vain efforts at meeting man's spiritual lack in being APART FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD HIMSELF.
While Adam and Eve were in the Garden, we read nothing of them needing defense, music, tents, or any need for building houses or raising cattle. In the beginning, God gave every herb bearing seed and the fruit of trees as His provision. Adam loved Eve and walked in the presence and spiritual fragrance of the tree of life — that was all the pleasure Adam needed. While in the midst of the garden, all the things Adam needed were supplied by God Himself.
God intended Adam to be the ruling factor for God in the earth, an intelligent person having dominion over the sea, the animals, over all the earth. Alas, Adam and Adam’s descendants fell into the sorrows of death. They were caught under the beastly lying spirit that used violent intimidation, even murder, to gain dominance over others, to climb up to an administration of governing creeds even in the dusty places of the earth.
They set up good welfare programs and performed many a dead ceremony with melodious jubilations that were then and are now under and out of direct Satanic influence. This influence makes men lie to gain honor in the eyes of men and to steal the provisions of the world. Men voice lies that judge others with condemning self-righteousness, tormenting other people like dogs that are trained in backbiting judgments to devour one another. We too have been tormented by those lacking wisdom!
The spirit to which Cain yielded has been leading men into national warfare for long centuries. When young, I served as an infantry advisor in warfare of callous hatred and savage killing, trained to use weapons of carnal warfare. The reality of killing led me to Christ where later I recognized that religious people also use carnal weapons that cause strife and division in the understandings of the Lord’s people.
The body of Christ, even familiar church practices, are not compatible with the truth of Christ ruling within us. Now older and wiser, I know God has allowed every attitude and action of His people within His church. God is in our personal lives and has formed our worldly experience on the earth by our family, race and national experience. He allows this on the level of commerce and community to bring us all to the brink of utter destruction under corrupt lying men and their governmental systems who use military weapons among the people on earth.
Oh, yes, national leaders form security interests and have many excuses for war, yet the most dastardly lies are put forth as reasons for going forth to destroy our enemies by carnal warfare. “The government requires me to do it,” we said. Like other time-honored cop-outs, “the devil made me do it!” We Americans explain that, “we have an obligation to our families, our communities, and our nation to defend our way of life.”
So we readily wield the sword, fire machine guns, bomb villages and cities into oblivion to destroy our enemies. Yet within them have been many innocents, yes, women and children blasted out of this life — and still we ask God to bless even unjust military campaigns. What strange beings we modern day Christians have become who profess to follow in the footsteps of Him who said:
“For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” Luke 9:56
God still does not send His Son into our lives to destroy our lives! Every son of God, like the first, is sent into the world in that same principle, to be saved and to save others, not to destroy men's lives with carnal worship or warfare. No son of God, no brother of Jesus is sent by God into this world to destroy even one life. Instead, the greatest ones of His kingdom become servants who extend His salvation to ALL OTHER MEN. I have no doubt about it, neither should you doubt that He is the savior of all mankind!
National leaders threaten to use weapons of atomic bomb blasts, loose germ warfare, and use chemical poisons that can kill innocent people by the millions. Americans have blasted plenty of their enemies out of this world, counting the bodies killed as a win. We present day Americans do not realize the awful depths into which the spirit of military warfare has carried us.
“THOU SHALL NOT KILL” is written in all men's hearts. When the leaders of nations disregard that to kill unjustly, they have blood on their collective hands. This brings suffering of deep consequences, darkening a nation’s collective mind. People do not understand the travesty of it until later. Unknowingly, men who have bloody hands are casting their people into hellish torments because they are responsible for the destruction of their fellow human beings.
God's mercy should first appear to the wretches who are war's victims, those who are innocent but were surrounded by reddened fiery flames, the wretched victims of war's ravages in the earth. Soldiers say “war is hell," and war is a form of despising others with enough hatred to kill. Hell is full of strife and bitter torment and every man on earth knows what it is. May I add, he who participates in destroying the lives of others in carnal warfare is therefore a minister of hell. Could it be otherwise?
Provisional thoughts and plans for war still dominate the leading minds of every nation on earth. This present world order has worldly thoughts and carnal (beastly) methods to protect themselves that are devilish in nature. As ambassadors of the Kingdom of God, we have pledged allegiance to being PEACEMAKERS and are under higher authority than any earthly government. Any man who fights as an instrument of national warfare and at the same time professes to be a Christian will be divided within, stressed with troubling torments of war’s sorrow:
“Happy are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” Matthew 5:9 concordant
“Love your enemies, and pray for those who are persecuting you; so that you may become sons of your Father Who is in heavens: for He causes His sun to rise on the wicked and the good, and makes it rain on the just and the unjust.” Matthew 5:44-46 concordant
Ambassadors of Jesus Christ do not lie, cheat, steal, or kill unjustly, nor promote national fears leading to warfare, nor promote any carnal conflict. Christians should not use their carnal minds, but rather learn to promote peace. The ambassadors of the kingdome of Christ Jesus are yet subject to the political constitutions of the countries we pass through on our earthly journey.
I thank God, we Americans can be granted conscientious objector status as immunity from serving as an instrument of carnal warfare. The King we now represent is clearly commissioning us to LOVE OUR ENEMIES, “to bless and curse not,” to “see that none render evil for evil to any man.” We Christians are to:
“…walk worthy of the vocation wherewith we are called with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering.” Ephesians 4:1-2
“Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind.” Colossians 3:12
“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” II Corinthians 10:4-5
These kinds of instructions directly oppose the thinking and spirit of national warfare going on in this present world order. Under the old covenant, Yahweh required that His people Israel should go to war, fight to kill, even slaughter the innocent women and children, but that covenant has been done away for us. We are under a NEW COVENANT whereby the law (nature) of God's grace is written upon our hearts. The weapons of our warfare are now NOT carnal, but SPIRITUAL.
Christians are in a spiritual warfare yet are not using carnal weapons of strife by arguing and being contentious. We are not willing to destroy others to get the resources of the world going our way. God supplies us insight that recognizes how carnal (fleshly) the citizens of the world can be. Yet, within Christians is a spiritual might of righteousness that can pull down every stronghold of lies, every injustice, and all unrighteousness that has resided within the heart of mankind.
Natural minded men are convinced they need weapons to protect themselves, their wealth, and their countries, and that we are safe only when fully armed. Yet, we must let God confirm the truth of His sayings:
“And it will come to pass in the latter days, the Mount of the House of Yahweh shall be established on the summit of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills. And all the peoples will stream unto it. Many nations will come and say: Come, and let us ascend to the Mount of Yahweh, and to the House of the Elohim of Jacob, and He shall direct us out of His ways, so that we may indeed walk in His paths.
For from Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem. He will judge between many peoples, and arbitrate for staunch nations afar off. They will pound their swords into mattocks, and their spears into pruners; Nation shall not lift the sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more.” Micah 4 :1-3 concordant
Jesus is the High Priest of peace and righteousness, after the order of an endless life. His is a righteousness with gracious love that eventually will control each of us from within and reconcile all of us unto a salvation that is perfect. He proves His love even for His enemies! Is it right then for a follower of Jesus, a son or daughter of God, to participate in the carnal savagery of national warfare? Many men and women worldwide are plunged into tormenting conflict by yielding to the wicked ways of this world.
Meanwhile, God is actively working to raise up a Kingdom of Priests after His order of Life. These Kingdom Priests USE SPIRITUAL WEAPONS ONLY. They are appearing on mount Zion as SAVIOURS. They are unconditionally serving God and do not consent to today's carnal warfares, the war machines of the nations. Those readily willing to destroy one another can go into warfare only because they are brainwashed into the national frame of mind.
Men are commonly brainwashed by military leaders to participate in military struggles. Men instill into their citizens a sense of duty, an outrage of hostility leading them to confront their perceived enemies. Yet the Lord has established a PEACEFUL KINGDOM, teaching us not to fight with weapons that are carnal. We are taught, instead, to plow up the fallow ground in men with His truth, and trust God to prune all devilish inclinations within us.
In our American Civil War they killed 23,000 soldiers in one day! Most were Christian soldiers on each side, some baptized in the Holy Spirit. As members of the body of Christ, they were spiritually instructed to care for one another, to esteem others with a pure brotherly love, yet they marched out on battlefields at the command of their politicians and worldly minded military leaders to kill each other by the thousands.
Christian brothers shooting their brothers, each side having faith in Jesus. Ponder the facts of international wars over the past 2,000 years, where professing Christians have been killed and been killing by the millions, while other major religions have done worse. I have no hesitation in saying that carnal warfare is one of the most devious deceptions that works to inflict the inhabitants of this planet.
God Himself was man’s defense in Eden, typified by the wall and gate that surrounded Eden. Now the spiritual realm of the Kingdom of heaven is also walled and gated. When Cain departed from God’s presence, he no longer had God's wall of security as his defense. Therefore, he commenced to establish his own defense with swords and other carnal weapons.
Beloved, today GOD CAN BE OUR DEFENSE! Our inner spiritual man has access to A POWER WHICH DOES NOT HURT OR HARM OTHERS because God Himself has become our defender. Come now! All Christians are called to come close to the spiritual order of the New Jerusalem until they have turned their weapons of destruction into instruments of blessing for their neighbors.
“Nation shall not lift the sword against nation, Nor shall they learn war any more.” Micah 4:3 concordant
This is a true word of God to be fulfilled in the coming days for all the people of the world today. It has begun within the hearts of overcoming sons of God who are being raised by Christ’s resurrection to be spiritually shaped and fitted into His peaceful kingdom. This is a people who make peace and bring the fruit of righteousness to everyone else.
Divine characteristics are flowing from people on spiritual Mount Zion that are from the sacrificial Lamb who fills us with the power of love. WE ARE TO BE ARMED ONLY WITH THE WORD COMING FROM HIS MOUTH. The sword of the Spirit is truth that will make peace, the Word of God that makes us alive. Sons now standing with the Lamb on mount Zion have surrendered their human ways of being aggressors.They wait for God, they do not destroy with the weapons of strife and carnal warfare. Out of their mouth comes no gossiping guile.
We are now following the Lamb to the place He wants to take us, being given the mind of the Father, having received the nature of the redeemed. We are shod with good news of everlasting peace, only fighting to pull down murderous falsehoods, lies masquerading as truth that are an abomination. We are no longer able to argue and fight in any carnal way, nor use any of the carnal practices of religious warfare that kills, maims, and destroys.
Those standing on Mt. Zion do not agree with any attitude of murderous rage among the nations. They are not consenting to the use of weapons of mass destruction. God has made covenant promises to display a full and complete salvation within all men under the revelation of scripture. The spiritual principles of it are explained in Jesus’s sermon on the mount.
Now the real foes of Christians are still found in high places of ordered worship, where man’s own reasonings must yet be exposed. This is where men have wickedly twisted the scripture, striving to accomplish their own ambitions. Yes, many are holding to natural minded understandings of scripture that oppose the mind of Christ. We have wrestled to be free of these untrue thoughts about high things in heavenly places:
"…we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against sovereignties, with the authorities, with the world mights of this darkness, with the spiritual forces of wickedness among the celestials." Ephesians 6:12 concordant
Oh, we must take the whole panoply (armor) of God to be able to stand upright in this wicked day when the whole world has become so maddening. We are girded about with His truth to produce nothing of ourselves, but to enter His REST and disperse the message of His righteous peace.
We have faith in God’s love for all, with a spiritual mindset which God’s sons are now expressing. We are bringing the mind of the Father into every confusing matter, using the sword of God’s Word to declare truth in every matter of our personal lives, in the lives of our family, our friends, our businesses, our countries:
"Be not loving the world, neither that which is in the world. If ever anyone is loving the world, the love of the Father is not in him, for everything that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of living, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world is passing by, and its desire, yet he who is doing the will of God is remaining for the eon." I John 2:15-17 concordant
Thank God! The planet earth and our solar system will remain, while the world — the present systems that supplies for man's needs — KEEPS PASSING AWAY, and with it, the worldly struggles, worldly methods, worldly fashions, and worldly institutions. Thank God we are no longer subject to worldly ways and lifestyles! The world’s mentality is not for us. The spirit that rules the world is not for us.
We are different because we are born of God's Spirit, called to know higher spiritual things. Now we who are led by the Spirit of God are peacemakers drawn out of this world's passing ways. Those apprehending God’s upward call are overcoming the world’s hatred on every level and shedding the ways that sow sorrow, death, and disease in the carnal mind of man.
Jesus said:
“I have conquered the world." John 16:33 concordant
John wrote,
“For all that is begotten (born) of God is conquering the world. And this is the conquest that conquers the world: our faith. ” I John 5:4 concordant
Peter admonishes,
“So has all of His divine power, that tends to life and devoutness, been presented to us through the recognition of Him Who calls us to His own glory and virtue through which have been presented to us the precious and greatest promises, that through these you may ‘become’ participants of the divine nature, be fleeing from the corruption which is in the world by lust.” II Peter 1:3-4 concordant
Even now we are led by God’s Spirit to embrace the Father’s mind, to walk in the ways of sonship, to know the Lord’s voice, to be conformed to His image, to be given the nature, glory, and authority of NEW HEAVENS THAT POSSESS SOMETHING NEW IN THE EARTH beyond former days that have passed.
The church age is over! The Kingdom age has been formed within a people now released from heaven in a wonderful expectancy. Tens of thousands of saints in the unseen are about to appear among the Lord’s people on a world-wide basis. We identify with that expectancy, having heard His voice throughout the length and breadth of this land:
"Come up Here! and I will be showing you what must be occurring after these things." Revelation 4:1 concordant
God calls His people out of the candlestick church realms in order to reveal the Kingdom that has the glory of God. It is placed within the spirit of just men, perfecting a body of people that are mature in Christ in an unprecedented way. A host of heavenly messengers have been stationed to bear a glorious everlasting message:
“And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all mankind together will see it, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it” Isaiah 40:5
Those who think the things of this world are going to continue on as they are are deceived because the world is passing away NOW. This planet is facing the greatest climate change, political change, and economic upheaval since the beginning of creation. Not too many years ago, both the century and the millennium changed history’s ‘odometer’ from Adam to begin the 7th thousand years — the beginning of the "seventh thousand year day" since Adam was banished to sorrow from Eden’s bright portals.
We are now in the third thousand year day from the advent of Jesus Christ. There is great spiritual significance in “third day truth”, but that means nothing unless we have heard the voice of the Lord to follow on to learn what the Spirit says to the church. We are becoming what He is in His Kingdom now by the Spirit. He is coming by the Spirit, bringing new and wonderful deliverance in heaven and earth.
A manifestation of God in His prepared sons is unfolding. As God is accelerating His kingdom program, it will affect the earth’s nations to enter an era of peace. Spiritually we are raised into the light of the City of God. What a great change is flowing from Mt. Zion to bless all the families of the earth. It completes the complement of deliverance for the Lord’s New Day.
The gospel preached today in many churches was for a former day and that gospel in the church age was powerless to dislodge carnal warfare within its converts. The course of man’s carnal warfare will not be changed merely by another revival, more missionary outreaches, or by election of Christian politicians trying to solve the immense problems in the man-dominated systems of the world.
Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and all the other "isms" of the world have not yet brought the people in the nations to perfect peace. Just expressing the thought of taking away an "ism" means war to some. What will bring peace to the people warring in the Middle East? What will bring blessing, peace, justice, righteousness, prosperity, healing, life to the blighted masses of mankind? Nothing short of the manifestation of God promised to the firstborn Son, the High Priest, in a host of kingdom priests after the order of Melchizedek! In them is found the Spirit that will prevail.
The Third Day of the Kingdom will shine brighter and brighter to those He has prepared until eventually all the nations will be impacted by the power and glory coming from the people in God’s City. Immortality and incorruption will spring forth from within all those drawn to Mt. Zion. The Lamb’s voice shall roar out of these people who have the Father’s mind in Zion!
Jesus is being revealed now within His great body of followers. He is head of a great HOST in the unseen that is built into a unified glorious multi-membered body to minister God’s MERCIFUL judgments. It is now the DAY of the Lord. The light of HIS GLORIOUS LIFE has arisen, unveiling within the spirit of His called out people. He assures us that His new age has broken on the horizon with a new divine dispensation coming swiftly. He has judged us ready partakers, as doers of what that spirit of Christ reveals.
Jesus said,
“I have given them Thy word. And the world hates them, for they are not of the world, according as I am not of the world.” John 17:14 concordant
Jesus was not of a worldly mindset, yet He was ministering to those in a worldly mindset. We are of that same pattern. Our loving Father sent Him into the world to redeem the world, TO BUY IT BACK! In the above verse are expressions, “the world hates” but we are “not of the world.” We have found the secret accord of how not to hate, but to work as Jesus worked as “not of the world.” God is manifesting the secrets of life and peace through the example of Jesus. We are following Him while here upon the earth.
Jesus overcame the power that rules this world to witness against its error: the shame and the sham, its static religions, the corrupt governments, its impotence to know and please God. He was not of the world, but rather was found devoted to a heavenly origin. He was the manifestation of God in a Son entirely independent from all that the world promotes, imposes, and presses into its children to cherish the religious principles of the law.
Jesus came to bring deliverance from keeping religious laws, to save us all, and is now bringing deliverance from the tyranny of tearing beastly teeth that bite and devour their enemies with carnal weapons like raging beasts through worldly mindsets that makes war with the saints.
The world will hate YOU if you follow Jesus. In this age God will bring down the pride of man to abolish the ruling orders of fleshly men. Surely the love flowing from the LAMB will teach us to end our own fleshly wars, and we will learn to make and abide in peace, love and joy. Those of us who do will be joined to the greatest body of people anywhere, as the sons God is manifesting among us.