There are unseen forces beyond the
tangible bureaucracies of the governments or politics on earth. King Solomon
said in Proverbs 21 verse 1 “the king’s heart is a stream of water
in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he
will.” St. Paul who was endowed with the spirit of wisdom and understanding
instructed his pupil, Timothy, concerning prayers in 1 Timothy 2 verse 1: Paul wrote “First of all, then, I urge that
supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men,2 for kings and all who are in
high positions, that we may lead a
quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way.”
Paul mentioned “for kings and
all who are in high positions,” so that they may have a quiet and
peaceful life. St. Paul understood the
wondrous hand of the Lord in guiding “a stream of water” which is referring to a ruler or a king
in a particular geopolitical region. In Isaiah Chapter 9 verse 7, Prophet Isaiah
delivered the prophecy concerning a ruler who would run off and conquered the Promised
Land, and that ruler was purposely allowed to rule over them as the manifestations
of divine punishment upon his stiff-necked “woman” (the
chosen people of God). That ruler was prophesied in an allegorical
phrase called “a
stream of water.” Verse 7 of Isaiah Chapter 8 revealed “7 therefore,
behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty
and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory.” King Solomon who was gifted with the spirit of wisdom knew
that the rulers on earth were in the hands of the Lord, thus he disclosed the
meaning of “a stream of water”
which referred to the heart of a ruler
or a king.
The fate of failing in interceding for “a stream of water” in
one’s nation
Every
“a stream of water” must be interceded
especially during the time of the approaching day of the Lord, and also during
the period of Judgment. In our anticipation
of the coming Day of the Lord, or simply
“a time,” it would be important to
continue in waiting for his Spirit to descent at our wicks of our spirit at all
times, so that every prayer would be equipped with the wings of dialogos. The descending Presence of the Holy Spirit would
accompany every believer in staying in the Spirit, so that ones might be
empowered by “Spirit of prayer.” It is
through the “Spirit of prayer” that every believer is strengthened.
The
Lord Jesus perspired droplets of blood, and was weakened by the realities of
the power of death brought forth by total sins of humanity since the beginning of
time till to the end of time which simultaneously transpired in his human-divine
Consciousness. These simultaneous
realities in Jesus’ consciousness during his prayer had caused him to be
consciously transpired the inconceivable agonies of the past, the present and
the future realities of sins: transpiring altogether at once in his Spirit. That
consciousness drained the energy of Jesus’ flesh. Those droplets of blood were his human-physical
reaction. St. Luke recorded that Jesus was strengthened
by the presence of angel sent by His Father.
Prayer is the source of strength for every believer. His Spirit
is the source of strength. Unless you
are inside your own chamber, then you are reduced into your own intellectual capacities,
and your spirit is alone without any helper. The strength of the flesh won’t
promise you any triumph, unless you are empowered by the presence of the tongue
of fire or else the presence of divine messenger. Jesus Christ was empowered by the presence of
the angel during his wrestling praying in the garden of Gethsemane, embracing
all the pains of the whole gamut of sins of the wounded mankind.
Every
ruler or king is like a stream of water in the hand of the
Lord. We know that when God ceases to
hold on the stream of water in His hand, then who else would hold their hearts? ; It would be
only by themselves, or else be inspired by the subtlest deceptions from the Old
Serpent. Sometimes, God allowed the Old
Serpent to hold the “streams of waters” of the rulers and the
kings, so that God would complete His handiworks of Judgments.
God
allowed the Old Serpent to strike every sign of blessing in Job’s life. Then,
Job’s miserable friends came to comfort him. After seven days and seven nights
of silence with Job, they broke their silence and began judging him
harshly. In Job’s enigma of justice, God
explained later to them that Job’s friends were wrong, and Job’s words
concerning God were right. Job’s faith was strengthened, and his traumas were
subsided when he saw God’s face. God’s
revelation-knowledge somehow inspired Job to rise from his ashes of mourning;
Job gained refined precepts from his sufferings. His miserable friends were
confronted by God because of their foolish understanding concerning the Word,
and they were demanded to reconcile themselves to God through the rite of
expiation; they had to give seven bulls and seven rams as burnt offerings unto
Job’s expiatory. So, the enigma of divine justice
was solved.
Did
God purposely allow Bildad, Zophar and Eliphaz, as if their “stream of waters” were appointed by God
to become the judges of Job’s righteousness? I don’t know! But, to the end of
Job’s miseries, God proved to be the only Judge who judged in equity! If we were Job, God’s silence
would surely cause us to stagger in our walk of faith! But, God answered Job out of the
storm. Job was deeply acquainted with the Divine Creator. His relationship with the Divine Spirit manifested
by Job’s words in Job 28: 28 “The fear
of the Lord―that is Wisdom,.” Job’s understanding was far beyond the precepts of his older
and experienced friends who kept babbling with their human wisdom. Job spoke
the things of the Spirit of God; he spoke about the gift of the Sevenfold
Spirit. His older friends were not astonished at all by Job’s spiritual wisdom
because their precepts were tied up with the traditional wisdom which says “we
reap what we have sown.” Thus, their judgmental predispositions were somehow
validated by the absence of the signs of divine blessings in Job’s life. Their
spiritual eyes were unable to see the truth of Job’s words concerning “the fear of Lord.”
The
rulers in campaigning for the popular ideology of relativism may emulate the
same reasoning in demoralizing and conquering the saints. How could the “wheat” prove to the “tares” that they would be the problem
solvers of all the conflicts on earth, when they (saints) are lacking the signs
of divine blessings in their lives?
AntiWord ideology like “Communism” says that
religion is poison. Scientific minded
men say “the hand of God does not necessarily be in the big bang,” and the
economists say “God never rain down money from heaven.” God allowed the hearts of the Assyrian, Babylonian and Mede
Persian Emperors to run off the Promised Land in fulfilling their ambitions in
conquering the people of God, and yet they received punishments from God as
well. Therefore, as long as the Lord
endows us mercy and enduring loving-kindness, those “streams of water” all over the earth would be streaming down to you,
bringing forth blessings or at worst, they are coming as plagues, deaths,
scarcities and various forms of injustices.
And the blessing of the Lord brings forth wealth. And he adds no sorrow to it. But, if the “streams of waters” of the leaders were left without divine
interventions then, the worst possibility would mean that their hearts were in
the hand of the Old Serpent. When the woman and her offspring enter into the
“desert,” the Old Serpent would spew out the hearts of the rulers as the
“streams of waters,” so that the diabolic agendas could be fulfilled through
their hands. Beware! The ruling beasts of
the earth might turn out to be the “mouths”
of the Old Serpent on earth. God allowed
it to take place, so that the Word
would be fulfilled. The beasts as the
“mouths” of Lucifer on earth were prophesied in Revelation 13: 5 & 6.
5 And the beast was given “a mouth" uttering haughty and
blasphemous words, and it was allowed to
exercise authority for forty-two months; 6 it opened its “mouth” to utter
blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those
who dwell in heaven. 7 Also it was
allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them.8 And authority was given it over every tribe and people and tongue and nation,8 and all
who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written
before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was
slain.9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. (Revelations 13: 5-9)
Therefore, it is
very important to pray and intercede for the rulers of the nations, so that we
may understand His “name.” It would not
be necessary that God would lift up the sufferings because we know from his
past “names” concerning Judgment that God purposely allowed the hearts of the
emissaries of the Dragon to rule over His own people. So, we intercede for the rulers, so that we
may understand what is going on as according to God’s eyes. Unless, we enter into the Spirit of
intercession, then we won’t know the reason why have the “fires” wrapped up God’s own peoples. Anticipating for positive answer is very normal. Do not be troubled! Because we were already
foretold that during the "without daytime and without nighttime" period, Judgment, the hearts of the rulers were allowed to
execute their desires for a certain period of time! The phrase “It was allowed” was twice revealed from
verse 5 to verse 9 in Revelation 13. It was God’s consent. Whereas, the phrase
“it was given” was the Adversary’s
power.
We know that it
was no longer concerning the battlefields between God, and the Adversary in the
hearts of the rulers. It was clearly revealed that God allowed as disclosed by
“it was allowed,” and “it was given” refers to the Old Serpent’s power in
empowering the rulers. But, God allowed it for forty two months only or
3.5 years. It was foretold that the
rulers who have received the ‘mark” would become the “mouths” of the dragon. They fulfill
the wills and desires of Lucifer on earth, manifesting not only in the form of 'AntiWord-enforced
Laws,' but also in various forms of anti-Word manifestations. It won’t be astonishing to see 'wind of
teachings' sweeping across the globe which was already sped up by the inventions
of electronic-networks. They (the rulers) would teach antiWord’s
doctrines through amendments of Laws with endless deceptions; St. John revealed
that “to worship the beasts” mean to be tied up with their Laws and antiWord-precepts.
Pray for the rulers
of the nations. Intercessory prayers for the rulers are not necessarily intended
in converting the hearts of rulers, but merely the expressions of our faith in
God that he is in control of everything. It means we do believe that “every
stream of water” is in the hand of the Lord. King Solomon said “the king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of
the Lord;
he turns it wherever he will.” Unless,
we enter into the Spirit of prayer, then we never know how the Lord is working
out his handiworks through them. Nehemiah
wrote that he “prayed unto God,” when he disclosed his desires to Artaxerxes I
who was in his 20th year of reign. We don’t know whether God
answered our desires, unless we have disclosed them to the rulers. Unless we are told in the Spirit of prophecy,
then we won’t know whether God has given the heart of man unto the ruler or
vice versa. Prophet Daniel knew that
Nebuchadnezzar would be given “the heart of man” after the completion of
seven-year insanity of Nebuchadnezzar which led him into abandonment in a
remote place called Tema. The prophets
knew the secrets and the things to come because they enter into that Spirit of
intercessions for the beasts (rulers). In the same way, we enter into the
spirit of intercessions for the beasts of the earth, so that we may understand
the meanings of the surroundings events of our times.
Your prayers may
change “the
watercourses or the the streams of water” as according to the Divine
revelation-knowledge or the Spirit of prophecy.
Or, at worst, we may know the reasons behind the “fires” that are engulfing us.
Political analysts vs.
Spirit of prophecy/Spirit of Wisdom/Spirit of understanding.
Political
analyst is a secular political expert who synthesizes the digests of the whole
gamut of politics as related to the ideologies, religions, the mechanism of bureaucracies
and societal institutions on earth. They
could provide any conceivable details of every event. But, their assessments might be deprived of
the wholeness of the truth due to their inability to access into the Sovereign
Spirit of understanding, and the spirit of wisdom who knows everything: the Word of the Lord. God does not leave his
people clueless concerning what is to come. He blessed his people with
prophecies and revelations concerning the future, so that we may believe in Him
more. Though prophecies may not be as
details as reported by the expertise of the secular journalism, prolific
columnist-historians, futuristic scientists or as details as what were video-taped
by any modern technology such as the advanced cameras of a high tech-satellites,
but they are sufficient and undeniably accurate in predicting the things to
come in the future. So that, when you see stupefying fires engulf the world,
you may not be troubled because you were already foretold about them..
He is creatively
omnipresent in every event of human history of the wounded men; he touched those
whose names written in the book of life. Not even a single blade of grass was left
withered without the traces of the Spirit of the living God. The sovereign transcending
creative power of God defies all rulers, powers and authorities in the history
of mankind. Men only see what they
understood through their five senses, and perhaps with
extra-occult-information from beyond, but God fills every elect with spirit
of understanding. For not from the east or from the west and
not from the wilderness comes lifting up;7 but it is God who
executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another. Each
accession of a ruler is known by God. He
may allow it to take place, or else he may disclose one’s downfall. God even allowed an evil ruler to rule for
certain period of time. Men were in
sorrow and sufferings when ruled by evil rulers, but God may allow them to rule
for an appointed time.
