To my Brother in Christ, my Friend,
You are called as a leader of millions. After the work that has been recently accomplished, and the miracles of God we have witnessed, you have asked me, “What do we do now?” I am honored to be asked the question.
“People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.” Carl Jung
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” Carl Jung
The struggles we are face are never new. For the constructs of struggle are constant from generation to generation. It is simply the circumstances that the struggles are based upon that change. Recognizing this pithy truth, sadly does nothing to minimize its severity. For when we speak of struggles such as war, famine or pestilence; the primary swords of the later three horsemen, we can hardly conceive the brutality of such suffering they represent; unless we ourselves have been subjected to them.
Let us always remain aware that the charge of the three horrible horsemen of the apocalypse follow the first horsemen, “and he went out conquering and to conquer.” Over and over there are leaders who will convince the masses that there is an enemy to be conquered. Sometimes the enemy is real and the innocent defended. Sometimes there is no real enemy. How do we discern? And how do we proceed as Christians when our Savior has taught us to pursue peace? When must we lift a sword in defense of the innocent?
What we must be aware of is that the charge of the four horsemen are an allegory, describing that which occurs whenever controlling authorities corrupt. These corrupted authorities can be the devouring beasts of governing systems, powerful criminal organizations, or even the harlots of organized religious power selling the body of believers. The key is the apocalypse described in John’s Revelation is not just one final great apocalyptic event. It is also a recurring process. The charge of the four horsemen is a process circling throughout time. A form of helix, if you will, repeating itself, spiraling through time within all civilizations, over and over.
The Apostle John’s description was of an ongoing process and a pattern he had observed unfold over his many years of life. A lesson he first hand observed while young when corrupt authorities, both political and religious roused the masses to scream for Jesus crucifixion. Certainly these must have been all horrible people. Wrong! Many were good people who bought into ideological group think. Certainly anyone today would never have demanded the crucifixion of an innocent man, especially Jesus? Wrong! We can all be swayed by ideological group think.
How can a corrupt leadership convince a people to kill, to murder even the obviously innocent? In a word, ideology. Get the people to have the idea that they are in the right, absolute right, and the other, or others, are not only in the wrong, but a terrible threat to their safety, and to their loved ones safety, and it will get them to condone and commit murder. Get people to believe that the others are not even human, they are an infestation, contamination or irredeemable evil. Implant the idea the other people are not humans but insects, dung, or demons. Surely extermination is for the greater good. With an ideology firmly ingrained into the deeper psyche, anyone, yes anyone, can become motivated to murder.
We need to get people to understand absolutely anyone can be swayed by propaganda to accept an ideology that can drive them to condone and commit murder, mass murder, war, and genocide.
If we can get ourselves to accept this horrible realty about ourselves, and our own vulnerability to become influenced by ideological beliefs then we can humble ourselves before God. We must challenge our own ideologies. Then we can help others to question theirs. Where does this clarity to see through ideological beliefs come from? Only through humble appeal to God for clarity of truth in the face of the overwhelming delusional forces surrounding us.
This is the key. As human leaders we are never really the leader. We are being lead. We can be lead by God in humble submission to His plan and His will. Or, we can be mislead by “principalities and powers of this present darkness.” For throughout history there has been the Satanic throng who have taken positions over realms upon earth and then exalted weak human leaders. They influence them to join their evil goal of the destroying God’s creation with a special hatred for humans.
History is His story trying to teach us that we must all, “choose this day whom you will serve.” The choice is ours and always the same. Do we turn to or away from God?
Civilization is built on the positive conspiracy of good people, led by good leaders, coming together to live forth principles of God’s truth. Conspiracy is not a theory. Con “with;” spiricy, “like spirit.” Together we conspire to build and maintain civilization. Good organizations built upon principles of truth: schools and the educational systems; hospitals and medicine itself, local police and fire departments, civil organizations and greater governmental systems, church fellowships and organized religions, and so on. Good leaders and good people conspiring to do good by following principles of truth.
And here is the inherent difficulty. All human organizational systems are filled with fallible humans and will corrupt. The organization founded upon solid principles of truth. People gravitating toward these truths. Organization necessary to facilitate the implementation of the truths. For without organization there is chaos. But once an organizational structure is put in place those who rise up in power are not always as dedicated to the original principles of truth and good purposes of the organization. When they take control the organization becomes a Beast. An entity to be protected even ignoring the original principles of truth it was founded upon and to the detriment of humanity itself.
“What do we do now?” You asked. As my mentor Dr. Nick taught, “We outlive our enemies.” We must “walk humbly with God,” and lead the people to “walk humbly with God,” through the salvation of Christ, in the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Throughout His story God has shown when the people seek Him, and pray for leaders who will also seek Him, there will be blessing upon their lands.
666 is far less complex than it’s made out to be. With a simple reading of The Revelation, chapter thirteen it can be clearly understood. 7 is a number symbolically representing complete perfection. 777 in The Revelation is used as a symbol through out this writing denoting God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Perfection Perfection Perfection.
6 is a symbolic number of extreme power but imperfection. Chapter thirteen, Satan 6, corrupt authority 6; deceitful lies i.e. corrupt ideological propaganda misleading the people 6. There is no Satanic trinity, it is the fallen host leading humans to corruption, with lies. This is why it says at the end 666 “for the number that is of a man”. It is corrupted humans following corrupted authority, lead by evil, who can be swayed to destroy each other.
Does this mean all human leaders are evil? Absolutely Not! Are all human leaders fallible? Absolutely. This is why we are told clearly in scripture to pray “for kings and for all in authority.” Pray for leaders that they are guided by God’s truth, God’s will, God’s plan. Now this is imperative: We must ask humbly for God to clarify in our minds if our leaders are corrupt or good? We must do so knowing that there will always be dark spiritual forces that are working to delude us with lies. We must seek to “walk humbly with God.”
Ideological delusions are so powerful. Often people believe they are fighting corrupt authority and evil forces when in reality they are simply playing into the lies of the evil. And they will become violent, foment chaos and cause destruction. We must pray that their delusions be lifted as we humbly ask God that we not be deluded.
This is the harsh reality of this now imperfect fallen world. There are evil spiritual powers, evil people sold out to these dark spirits, deluded by their lies. This, sadly, is where the sword must drawn to protect the innocent in this fallen world. This is where we must “stand firm against principalities and powers of this present darkness.” It is where Christ’s sword will be drawn in the end, and we will witness the ultimate end of evil. Until the fulfillment of these times we must seek to “walk humbly with God.”
Until then my friend, as a man of God and a leader of leaders, continue to seek to “walk humbly with God;” worship Him, listen carefully to His words, speak in prayer to Him, fellowship with those who walk with Him, tell others of Him.
I thank God that we have good leaders such as yourself in our world. Pray you are kept safe from evil.
Your Brother in Christ, John
I started this letter long ago. The work mentioned was over a decade ago. I can not tell you when I actually began to write this letter. It was never sent. It was the last letter I had started to my brother in Christ, this amazing leader of so many.
What was unleashed upon me after our work was accomplished was a level of spiritual attack that is to this day is hard for me to describe. From pounding on the sides of our home through out the night with no one there, to extreme personal attack on my character, to an oppressive cloud of darkness, to being hit by a drunk driver at over hundred miles an hour.
So many years later, I’m still here by the grace of God, still the same fallible human I will always be, still seeking to “walk humbly with God.” This morning I came across this letter in my files and God put it on my heart to send it out now to all my brothers and sisters in Christ. I pray to God that we are all kept safe from strategic evil. In Jesus powerful name. Amen