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OUR FIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS SIMILAR TO JESUS’ FIGHT WITH SATAN IN THE WILDERNESS

(Excerpts from “Details of My Life on Earth” (PDF)) “Satan fought hard and long, and he fought in very subtle ways. He used Scripture in very sly ways, intertwined in a tapestry of deceit and lies, carefully woven together with logical, reasonable, understandable, sensible reasoning that appeared to be good and true. Satan knows the Word, yet he twists, he contorts and he connives. He adds a touch of truth with the lie in hopes that he can lure.

It looked so good. The things he hit Me with and offered Me were very appealing, and I was tempted! Just think, all the kingdoms of the world! That was an inviting offer! Here I was, the son of a humble carpenter. I was grieved with the poverty and injustice and the extreme conditions of the world around Me. My people were poor and persecuted under Roman rule. All about Me was a world of injustice and problems–so many problems. The thought of all the world’s riches and what I could do with them was very tempting. Maybe I could have made things better. Certainly it would have solved the financial difficulties. I could have used these riches to sort things out. That’s what the Devil told Me, and it did look inviting.”

Prophecy:  You see, I know what you are going through right now. You are being tempted just as I was tempted, and the injustice and problems of your world are much worse than they were in My day. It is not just Roman rule persecuting a small part of the world, but the Antichrists have the whole world in their grip and they seem unstoppable, undefeatable. They control absolutely everything and everyone through their “Mark of the Beast” system. “Who’s going to stop them?”…you find yourself thinking, and of course the Devil is right there on your left hand twisting and intertwining scripture into the tapestry of thoughts and feelings you have about certain unresolved issues that are related to promises in the Words of David; such as those that spoke of you and others being the prophets of the End and The Family being a financial power, not to mention all the amazing powers you’d be given to overcome the evil in the world during the last days. I understand how easy it is to swap or give all of those promises away for the riches of the world, and sad to say, many of your former brethren and My church children fell for his distorted, twisted, yet understandable logic. It’s the same trick Satan tried to lure Me with; “If I made you a financial power, you could do something about this. If you were like the churches, with mission stations in every country across the globe, just imagine the impact you could have.” Can’t you see the twisted reasoning of Satan in those lines? My Words of David are full of powerful promises that if misconstrued by Satan can send you off on a tangent that will have you taking second best and not the best.

I was the son of a poor carpenter; you were sons and daughters of David, and in many instances struggling on the poor mission fields of this world. “Where is the promise of financial power?” I often heard many of you say. Lots, and I mean lots, of Christians have fallen for this line simply because their eyes were not on Me and My Word, but instead they were on themselves. So many of My children start off poor in the world and then the Devil offers them this plan and that plan, this ministry or that ministry, a bigger church pastorate, a bigger music ministry, like Hill Song for example. It all looks good on the surface and the testimonies flow freely and are very appealing and these ministries gather millions of followers, but is this the sample I gave to the world? Where are the thousands that followed My miracle ministry? Where is the rich man today that came running to Me to ask Me what more must he do to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? I say to all My children what I said to the rich man in My day: sell all that thou hast, give it to the poor and come follow Me. I don’t need your riches to reach this world, I only need you.

So I smashed My Family into many little pieces. I took away all their accomplishments and grand plans, and I even took away My Word from them, all except the Word that they’d stored in their hearts. It’s still there in everyone’s heart, only it’s been covered by the deceitfulness of riches. They are the only ones who can buy the pearl back again. The Devil hasn’t taken it. He can bury it, but he can’t take it out of the heart –in a way, it is like salvation. They know what they must do.  I’m always whispering to them. I live in their hearts. I am married to them and am a faithful Husband.

As for you My loves, don’t look to the beggarly elements of this world for the strength and will to go on. Don’t look to the so-called successful Christians or worldly-wise for your inspiration, for that is building your house on the sands of this world. Don’t look at the fruit on the tree as many of your brethren did, for they were looking at the fruits of accomplishment. Now that the Family tree has been cut down, as was prophesied in the MO Letter “The Tree”, where are they today?  Remember what I told you: it is the fruit of the spirit that you should be looking for, and that can only be found in Me and My Word. You can’t climb this mountain, only I can. This is all about loving Me, just Me, that is, My Word. The only way you are going to find the strength and will to reach the top is by loving Me in the most intimate way you possibly can, by giving yourselves, your whole soul, whole body and whole mind to Me.

The cave mouth is where these thoughts and feelings to look outward are strongest; the cave mouth is where the tempter is. You look out at the world, to just take a peek…you say…and what do you see?. Well that depends on your motives. If you are one of those lifestylers that the Words of David spoke of, then you will find yourself saying something like, “Oh well, The Family mustn’t have been all that it was cooked up to be, and before you know it, you are making your way down the mountain and into that world…”Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: and when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.”

You might be one of those that sincerely want to do good in the world and desire in your heart of hearts to see change. You want to make a difference in the world, just like I did. That’s what I wanted to do and be; I wanted to be a world-changer, which is a wonderful thing, but you must remember that Satan will attack these types just as much as those seeds that fell among stony places, or on the footpath or among thorns. Of course the first group is easier to dispose of than the second group. So with those in this second group he uses more subtlety in his blend of words. The second group, if not very careful, will eventually leave the cave too. They will go out and perhaps join another more successful rising star, or start a CTP ministry, for example.  Of course there are other examples and one form of reasoning works for some and not others, but Satan is resolute in his mission to defeat Me and rule the world unhindered, so he keeps chipping away determinedly. The mistake you can make and that those in the two categories in My example did make is that they didn’t follow My example whilst I was on earth. They didn’t follow the doctrine.

Of course Satan wants you to go the system way, the obvious way, the way everyone goes. So he uses your human tendencies against you. He tempts the carnal mind and flesh. In the midst of battle, your mind can at times lose the clarity of thought required to see the deception. Your mind becomes confused and you lose focus on even the most obvious. Of course he was fighting Me then and you too now because of who we represent. He wants to extinguish the Light in us. We are only the vessel. It is the light that gives that vessel its power, and that’s what he’s after. He wants to replace the light with his light. If he can entice you into his counterfeit world of riches as he has done to millions and millions before you, then his system will do the rest. As I said in My testimony, he’s full of subtlety and deceit, so he’s agreeing wholeheartedly with you when you tell him you are one of My brides, My children, My called and chosen, yet as he nods his head in agreement, he’s slipping into your mind his plan of how best to accomplish your goal. Many Christians use Me to get what they want, whilst saying to themselves, “This is what Jesus wants.” But without a very strong belief in My Word and obeying what it says in My Word by truly living it, how can they know what I want? 

If I had taken Satan up on his offer, I would have fallen for the bait; I would have yielded to My pride. Pride is what caused Satan to go for the “kingdoms of the world” plan, and he believes without a doubt that everyone else will go for it too. And in fact millions upon millions did. Now you must stop and think about this a little deeper. If I, the only begotten Son of God, chose to take the other path, the path of humility and meekness, then shouldn’t you too? Then why did millions upon millions choose to take the “kingdoms of the world” path, and that includes one third of all the angels? Pride is a generalization; let’s talk specifics. We have the lifestylers who take the world for the beer; we have those with good intentions who are perhaps thinking, “If everyone else is doing it, then it must be the right way.” To these Satan offers many ways of doing it, but as I said, steering them well clear of the Father’s way. But whether you are a church, or a member of a church doing whatever good works you are doing, or whether you work under one of the UN umbrellas, or just have your little NGO, it is irrelevant because all come under one big umbrella. That umbrella is called “the way of man, the world, the beast, the system” and as you have been told umpteen dozen times, it’s the Devil who’s holding that umbrella and he’s totally consumed with trying to stop the reign of God.

So in disposing with your pride and taking on the cloak of humility and meekness, you are on the right track. And that part of it is why I must deal with you the way I do. I smashed everything you thought you were doing right. I took away all the high ideals and works trips that you were all into and I brought you down to My level. “Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy–laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” The mistake the good guys in the world are making, and I must say have always made, is that their motivation is not one-hundred percent pure. It is tainted, just as churchy water is tainted. There’s something mixed into the true and good intentions…to generalize this once: it’s called the pride of life, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes.

You see, My sweetest of sweet love doves, I need you more than you will ever know in this life, but the hard truth is, I don’t need your works or good intentions; I need your yieldedness, your absolute dedication and devotion to My Father’s Word and will. And although this has always been the case, here’s the truth again: His ways are not your ways, or the ways of man. He has another way. He can, will and does do great and mighty miracles, but He’s not flashy about it. Man is flashy and loves to be seen of other men and hear their name well-spoken of, and to sit in the high seats of this world. But man forgets that that high seat belongs to Satan and he will not share it with anyone. All that he gives man…his worldly wisdom and witty inventions, his riches of this world, are all a ruse to get man to worship him and not the Father. The world will never take the humble road, the road to Calvary; the worldly will never take the way of the blue angel, the way of transparency. Satan and his do not want to disappear into Me, to be possessed by Me. They want to be seen. The way up My loves, is down, down to self and the ways of self. Let it all go. I’m not at the cave’s mouth; I’m in its deep recesses. I’m in the darkness, where you can’t see but only hear, I’m in the still small voice in your heart. So listen, My loves, and take the humble, transparent way of the true bride of Christ. Don’t worry, I am here. You may not see Me, but you can certainly hear Me, if you are listening. “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” John1:5.

Satan really truly doesn’t understand the deeper magic, the deeper darkness; he’s very twisted in his understanding of the ways of My Father. However, that is another subject which we won’t get into now, but I will leave you with the following verses to mediate on; as you read them, notice where the darkness spoken of in these verses leads to.

Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light: 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness: 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

(Reading from “Details of My Life on Earth”) (PDF) But Satan knew I really wouldn’t quite go for that right off, because after all, My Father’s riches were far greater. So he had to try to get Me to doubt My Father, to doubt He really would help Me and come to My aid. Satan tried to get Me to think My Father had shut Me out of the halls of Heaven and abandoned Me on Earth. After all, Satan told Me, if My Father had abandoned Me and had disowned Me, then why not take this next offer of all these riches of the kingdoms of the Earth? Pretty sly trick.  Here I was in My fleshly body, and life was sometimes hard. I had grown up seeing the poverty and despair of the people, the plight of the poor, and the oppression of the Roman rule. Things around Me were pretty desperate. Now think about this. Think about what Satan was offering Me–all the kingdoms of the world! That was a pretty big job offer! You talk about System jobs–that was the humdinger! I could have ruled it all! It was tempting, very tempting. But deep in My heart, the voice came to Me, “It is better to eat herbs than a stalled ox, or to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.” During that time I spent in the wilderness having it out with Satan himself, I learned where the real battle was. The battle was in My heart and mind; it was over My very soul, and the Tempter was using these doubts to attack Me. For one, he was trying hard to get Me to doubt My Father’s blessing and His riches. He was trying to get Me to doubt My inheritance. He sought to slay Me through so many doubts. But by crying out in desperation to My Father, and in asking Him to fill Me with His Truth, I was able to clearly see His plan. I was able to see that all the wealth of the world was nothing. I did not know it at first, but as soon as I made the decision, as soon as I said yes to My Father, as soon as I cried out to Him in total desperation, pleading for deliverance from the doubts that were trying to take hold of My mind and My spirit, He delivered Me. And it was from that time on that My eyes were opened, and I could begin to see more clearly the true battle that was raging. I could see the hypocrisy in it all, that all these riches and kingdoms of the Earth were going to come to nothing. They were nothing but a facade, hiding the heinous reality behind them. My eyes were opened from that point.”

Prophecy continues:  And that is, in essence, what I need you to do. I need you to make the decision to forsake it all once and for the last time in this, your life on Earth. I need you to accept that the path that My Family was on was the right one, but for many reasons, some which we’ve discussed above, everyone let it all go because it seemed to them that things weren’t going the way they’d envisioned. Some said it was the Words that were wrong, the LOL that was wrong, that people couldn’t live it, it was too difficult, it was this and that, it was impossible to live communally etc. The Devil had slipped in whilst you were asleep and sown the seeds of Sevelgion and other tares into My Family culture, and those tares had a field day. Don’t blame My Word, sweet brides, for that is the light the tempter is after.  

Now I’ve told you this before, but I know it is easy to forget things in the multitude of Words I’ve given you, so let Me give you a brief. I’ve likened My Family to something in a test tube in My laboratory. You were like a new culture, and this culture was sitting in a petri dish, but every now and then I would add a heavenly foreign body to the Family culture; let’s call the foreign body a revolution. The last foreign body I dropped in was the Reboot, and believe it or not, I’m happy with the result. And I’m also very happy to announce that the experiment is almost over, and as I said, I’m very happy with the final culture…you. Your belief in and upholding of the Torch of Revolution is like allowing all the foreign bodies I’ve placed into your culture to stick and take root. Very soon now, but not before I make a few more final tests on My culture, I am going to take you out of the petri dish and place you into a real-life situation. 

I’m cleaning up My laboratory now, putting away all the utensils I used in the experiment. For you, it’s like putting away all the things that clutter up your life, all the old mindsets and hang-ups, all the oughts and wrong attitudes. That’s you cleaning up your part of My laboratory. I’m not asking those that have left My Family culture to do this; I am asking you to do it. You’re what is left; you are the culture. You are the ones I’m using to change the course of history, and you are doing that by doing it My way not man’s way or the church way. You are following My still small voice, just as I followed My Father’s voice all the way to the cross. It was humbling, yes; and it hurt a whole lot, but it was the best way, the only way. And because you are following My way, you will be the ones I am going to use in the Millennium. You are My Millennial task force, remember? I know life can seem so real and the hurts and the knocks and bumps are designed to be so, but they are not truly the real thing. Life on Earth is a school, a place of learning for what is up ahead… that is the reality. The Millennium is going to be a big experiment also, a real-to-life school with theory and practical courses. You are going to be the teachers. All your mistakes and blow-its are part of the big lesson that teachers must go through. Thank you with all My heart for holding on, for coming back and not forsaking Me when all others forsook Me in this what could be called My Family’s darkest hour. And because you all are My lovers, brides and wives-to-be, that made it My darkest hour.

Are you ready to go Our way, the way the truth and the life? Watch out for the leaven of the Pharisees as we pass through these last, few, very tight mountain passes. It’s a squeeze indeed, but you’ll make it. Just let go of the rest of that stuff in your duffel bag. I love you. (end of message from Jesus)

 

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