Matthew 21:43 "Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be ...
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Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. Holman Christian Standard Bible

This is the only thing that comes up when I google that, and this in itself may be prophetic for the Walk.

I remember from my first awareness of what was happening around me, that I was a part of something special. We weren’t like other churches. We were the REAL church. The one with the LIVING Word. All other churches were “of the world” and “dead” and I can’t even remember all the words used to describe things that would “fall away” as the Kingdom was “brought forth.”

We were all “called” for a different purpose. Some of us were “Scouts.” Those would be the ones that “prepared the way” for God’s People in the Earth. Some of us, were “Settlers,” the ones who would “hold the Kingdom” once it was conquered. I, well, I was something special. I was a “Warrior Spirit.” It was up to us, we Warriors, to follow behind the Scouts and do the spiritual “battle” that would clear the realm. It was us that would do all that conquering in the first place. Without us, the Settlers would have nothing to settle and all that Scouting would go to waste.

I was even more special than that though. I was THIRD GENERATION! I cut my teeth on the knowledge that my peers and I were the ones God’s Chosen People had been waiting for. Everything that had come before was in preparation for us. The Kingdom would actually come into the earth during our time and because of us. All that demon slaying, all that incessant intercession, all that prophecy was for us. So that we could freely “move” in God’s Living Words and “claim” his Kingdom throughout the land. Heady stuff, that. We got to damn things to hell and know it was really happening. We slayed demons left and right. We loosed spirits of “discernment”, "brought forth revelations" and helped our prophet, John Robert Stevens “break through” to the “next levels.” We stood in Triad in the middle of service and proclaimed the end times into existence knowing that our “fruits” would be the ones that ended Babylon once and for all. We were the chosen of the chosen, the Sons and Daughters of Israel, and WE would inherit the earth. We leaned into the Spirit. Oh, yes, we leaned in. (And people wonder where the arrogance came from?!?)

Of course it wasn’t all fire and fury and giddy glory. There was work to be done to bring it all about too. There were potatoes to peel in the kitchen, fields to tend, meals to serve and clean up from. We needed dorms to house The People. We needed tunnels underground and places to store arms and provisions. Because the “End Times” were imminent, we needed to grow, can, preserve, save, stock up and become totally self-reliant so that when "The Call" came we would be ready for “The Final Battle.” It was coming and we loosed it with all our hearts!

We worked in the Kingdom businesses making candles and “golden threads” clothing, and paint rollers and more. Child labor was cheap, but those businesses were going to become the biggest in the world as Babylon continued to “pass away” and we rose to replace them. We were the literal, physical body of Christ, doing his work in the earth and we were proud to do it.

It took a lot of time though, and “distractions” were many. With two or three services per week, work to keep up the compound, I mean commune, I mean community center and camp, preparation for the End Times, and, of course, Kingdom School, we needed to stay “focused.” Anything that interfered with that was "satanic."

The first sign of trouble for me came when an innocent birthday present from a relative (of The World, not The Body) was deemed to have a "bad spirit on it." After much prayer, "confirmation" came down. It was "not from God." In fact, my new record was "satanic" and had to be "cast out" as a distraction from "God's Will Over My Life." It was The Eagles, Hotel California album. It was burned in our back yard before I'd had it a week.

I do know that God is ready to punish all disobedience whenever whenever our obedience is complete. By the word OUR I mean whoever God's people are, I believe that, whenever God’s people are obedient, whenever the Bride of Christ is ready, He will come for His Bride. He will marry His Bride, and set up His Kingdom. WE are not going to give birth to, or bring forth, or create it.

Now, with the particular sect that we were involve in, we had our ideas about what obedience is. We could have read ALL of Romans 8 and realized that walking in the Spirit is more than demanding things from God. That is the same blab it and grab it mentality as you see on TV. In the phase of that sect that I was in, it was all about demanding from God to fulfill our will. He said nope. End of story. What we were demanding God to do with us and for us was not in God’s will. He showed us who was boss. I accept that. Some people think that it was not fulfilled because we did not have faith. No, it was not fulfilled because we were a sect of people that wanted our fleshly desires fulfilled. We wanted to BE Christ in the Earth. Does that sound like someone else we read about in the bible. Somebody that wanted to be as God?

INVISIBLE


I apologize for any confusion. Hopefully I can lend some clarity.

My previous comment to you was in response to your statement, “I believe the work of the cross in our lives is to love Him,” (Larry Bobo). I was addressing specifically the ‘work of the cross’ as it relates to ‘loving God’.

The examples you point out are excellent, as is your final statement, “Not all victims blame God for what happened to them.”

I believe there is much confusion regarding the phrase ‘work of the cross’ as it pertains to the ‘responsibility issue’: 1) something imposed upon us by some outside force, or, 2) facing the consequences of our own choices (school of ‘hard knocks’). I referenced the Prodigal Parable as Jesus’ explanation for the latter scenario.

With regards to any confusion about ‘home’, it is interchangeable with ‘HEAVEN/KINGDOM/GOD/LOVE’, as in, “this world, not my KINGDOM (HOME)”, and, “I go to prepare a place (at HOME/HEAVEN), so that where I AM, you will be there also . . .”

With respect to being ‘wronged’ by either someone close (family/brother/shepherd) or by someone we view as an ‘enemy’, FORGIVENESS is still applicable in all situations. If it applies to a wrongful execution, it makes it difficult for us to justify any exceptions.

Jez - I remember all those 3rd generation sloagans. Wow, some I'd forgotten too. Hubris maximus!

BTW, I recently watched on Netflix a documentary film on the history of the Eagles. It is quite excellent. They talked about how Christain charismatics seemed to find the Hotel California album to be satanic. It was banned in certain church groups. The Eagles thought the whole thing was silly.

JezTheBelle

Wow. Put together very well. And looking at ‘it’ from a distance, it’s no shimmering light (Hotel California that is) but it’s the Twilight Zone.

There are current rumors that NetFlix may resurrect the “Lost in Space” series. I think we may have been lost in space ourselves. I went to a class reunion for my high school last week, everybody always catches up on each classmate’s history. I keep my “Walk Days” a secret, not knowing how to explain it to inquiring, rational individuals.

"You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave."

That album should NOT have been burned in your yard--how misguided. It was prophetic!

FCSLC, Yes how do you explain to old friends how you just disappeared off the scene? Just vanished from everyone and hid in a cult for 30 years? Some old friends and family members I really burned bridges with. I don't think I can explain it very well. And those bridges never got rebuilt. Too much time has passed.

"We haven't had that spirit here since 1969"

I lived across the street from the Valley Church from the Spring of ‘77 until the Summer of ‘78. Back then, there was no school or ‘HolbrookLand’, but just three ramshackle old farm houses and the herb processing shed. On one lazy Sunday afternoon there were a few of us in the back house, minding our own business, chillaxing and listening to the Eagles’s Greatest Hits. In comes one of the more overzealous ‘intercessors of the Kingdom’ (who posts on this forum), and reads us the riot act, not for listening to the Eagles, but for even owning albums at all. The beat-down was so bad, all of us gathered what collections we had, went out onto the front lawn, and destroyed everything.

I guess we were all considered to be desperados . . .



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JezTheBelle--I left the walk probably before you were born, and had never heard some of the things from your last post, like the attitude of the third generation. Wow, wow. Also, I thought I was the only person that privately refers to Shiloh as a compound. But I never heard talk of "arms" before. What did you know or hear about "arms?" The thing about music goes way back. I had to sneak around to listen to Queen, and I saw people with their thumbs up, judging Jesus Christ Superstar. Brother. I hope you keep posting so I can keep learning.