WARNING: IT'S ALL HANDS ON DECK

 

     What is wrong with American so-called Christianity? It's become weak and feckless. It loves its 501c3 status and will do whatever it takes to avoid being taxed. It claims to trust God but has a form of godliness only without POWER! It's powerless!
     Ask yourself, where are the "greater works"? Where is the "sell your cloak and buy a sword" mentality? We are in the world but not of it, but if I didn't know better I'd swear the world is far more a part of the church than the church even wants to admit. We are not to love the world or the things of this world. If we do, we will eventually be compromised and rendered useless and ineffective! Paul asked, "What business does the Messiah have with Lucifer? Or believers with those who don't? None! Yet that's what we see here in America and throughout Western Christianity. A sleeping with the enemy as it were.
     Is it any wonder people don't find anything good or desirable in modern Christianity? Is it any wonder there is no power to deliver or demonstrations of the Spirit of God that compel people to repent? Is it any wonder people aren't pouring into churches, or for that matter, on street corners or restaurants or parks or malls, even night clubs and bars and experiencing the deliverance of Jesus? Christianity looks too much like the world it's supposed to be separate from.
     I say this with great confidence, the end is here and the time has come! It's time for new wineskins and new wine. The old dry, cracked and brittle Christianity of the past hundred years can no longer hold the ever expanding new wine God is pouring out. As the new expands and the old skins cannot contain it. It's time to lay down the old ways and say like Mary, "May it be done unto me as You will!" 

     Even now we're watching the shaking of God in His house. Will we recognize it and stop church as usual? Will we repent and fall on our knees and cry out for mercy? Some will, many won't. The signs are all around us. The WARNINGS are pressing in from all sides. The coming of Jesus is nearer than you want to believe!
     My friends, it's time for radical expressions of faith in God and His Son! Ones that aren't about performance or fame, money and notoriety. Bigger is not better. Going lower is ascension! Only from a position of humility can we discern the difference between a demon and a self exalted human spirit. We need to function in a radical new faith where the real power of God is not just being talked about, but demonstrated and experienced. Where God is taken at His word and His word is acted out in real time! 

     Paul's greatest message was that it is "no long I who lives, but Messiah in me." Jesus wants to live not just in you but through you and the only way that happens is a revelation in your understanding that recognizes the difference, and submits to the Holy living within you. It's real and it's serious. Less of you and MORE OF HIM! No ethereally or metaphorically, but Him in actuality living Himself out through you. This takes a consciousness and determination to act on what you know. Have you ever heard words come out of your mouth as you spoke to someone about something pertaining to God or a spiritual encouragement to them that just falls from your lips and you think, "where did that come from? I wasn't thinking that at all." Awareness Him becomes engagement with Him and, through our surrender to Him becomes the power of God living out through you.
     These are the days of Elijah and Elijah's voice reaches out through time and pierces our hearts with these words "How long will you waver between two opinions? You can't serve YAHWEH and Baal at the same time. Choose today whom you will serve... do it NOW!" 

     The business of churchianity is now coming to its tragic end and the whole world sees it. I'm telling you, God will not be mocked. His judgments always begin in His house first! Commercialism, performance, pride and arrogance and all the world's ways have permeated the church and are anti-Kingdom. They are in direct opposition to Him and only diminish the holy. This is no game. Open your eyes and look around you. It won't be long and all you've known will disappear. If that scares you, it should.
     "AWAKE O SLEEPER!" There is work to be done. It's all hands on deck. Repent and return. Don't be afraid of God's goodness and mercy. We/you are His army. We are the misfits and the broken who He is assembling like, the worst of the worst who David gathered to himself and became as the Mighty men of Israel, to wage war against the forces of hell. GET UP and dust yourselves off! Anoint your heads with oil and put on the armor of God you were designed to wear.
     What's coming comes and can't be stopped, but greater is He who is in you... it's time!

Steven Bliss
© 4/2/2022

THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF JESUS

 

     It's hard enough to live out one's faith in a world where we're constantly bombarded with every temptation that appeals to our fleshly urges and desires. It's a whole new ballgame when faith becomes the vehicle for which one makes their living in Jesus' Name. But it happens every single day. What's worse, our bold justification of it being all under the guise of ministry! It's a tricky business and a very thin line the commercialization of Jesus.
     What an insult it must be to Almighty God to watch the gifts He's given to men to proclaim His glory and praise as well as His merciful kindness become a means by which one attains wealth and status. It turns into the very thing He warned Israel not to do.
     Y'shua Himself tore through the money changers. It's difficult to even have an open discussion about it. No one wants to admit they are peddling the Son of God! But that's exactly what has happened and it is rampant in the church. I'm not lumping all into one pot, but the genuine is very hard to find, if not non existent. The Tony Robbins ideology and methodology has captured Christianity and we now have an aberration of the pure. Y'shua wasn't a power of positivity motivator... quite the opposite. All the power of positivity can't embrace Y'shua's words, "in this life you WILL HAVE much tribulation". Overcoming the world and mastering your destiny are two very different things. Chew on this for a while: "Don’t set the affections of your heart on this world or in loving the things of the world. The love of the Father and the love of the world are incompatible. For all that the world can offer us—the gratification of our flesh, the allurement of the things of the world, and the obsession with status and importance—none of these things come from the Father but from the world. This world and its desires are in the process of passing away, but those who love to do the will of God live forever." 1 John 2:15‭-‬17 TPT
     I'm firmly convinced that if Y'shua showed up today and called a special leaders meeting where He addressed the commercialization of God, there would be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.
     No one, not one human, no matter who you are or what level of status you've achieved, is never, not ever supposed to be exalted. God says in Isaiah 48:10-11 that He will "not allow His Name to be profaned nor will He share His glory with ANYONE."
     Motives are tricky because no one can honestly assess their own heart. Jeremiah said, "The heart of man is deceitfully wicked, who can know it?" What's the old saying, "The Road to hell is paved with good intention?"
     Ah, that illusive character trait, humility. The excuses basket must be overflowing on the desk of God [as if He has one]. Many will say to Him in that day, "Lord, Lord, didn't we do all these wonderful things in Your name?" His response is staggering: "DEPART FROM ME, I NEVER KNEW YOU!"
     We've turned worship into a concert performance, salvation into building programs that through guilt and manipulation of God's word bilk the faithful out of more and more. I know, a workman is worth his wage, but no one talks about the fact that the apostle's worked to earn their livings as they seeded the world with salt and light? When will we learn that it's a broken and contrite heart that God does not turn away, but welcome in?
     We have been seduced! Seduced into doing the Lucifer shuffle. We are so blinded by our own self-righteous ambition that we can't see the light of truth for the darkness of the forest right in front of us? After all, it's fallen human nature to worship the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever praised!
Admission opens the door to confession and repentance breaks down the walls of pride. The arrogance within the stardom of Christianity is repulsive but its so like God to allow our pride to fester until we finally realize there is no place we can hide.
     The money changers have never left the Temple courts, they just wear cool clothes as their choice of sackcloth these days. The problem is rampant, the solution, one dimensional: REPENT!
     “Because these people approach me with empty words, and the honor they bestow on me is mere lip-service; while in fact they have distanced their hearts from me, and their ‘fear of me’ is just a commandment of human origin — therefore, I will have to keep shocking these people with astounding and amazing things, until the ‘wisdom’ of their ‘wise ones’ vanishes, and the ‘discernment’ of their ‘discerning ones’ is hidden away.” Woe to those who burrow down deep to hide their plans from Adonai! They work in the dark and say to themselves, “Nobody sees us, nobody knows us.” Isaiah 29:13‭-‬15 CJB
     “Yet even now,” says Adonai, “turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping and lamenting." Tear your heart, not your garments; and turn to Adonai your God. For He is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in grace, and willing to change His mind about disaster. Who knows? He may turn, change His mind and leave a blessing behind Him." Joel 2:12-14a
     And finally,"if my people, who bear my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face and turn from their evil ways, I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14 CJB
     Jesus isn't a commodity. He's not a commercial product to be sold on QVC or through Amazon. He's not a chia pet or a bobble head doll for the back window of your car. He is GOD and He is holy! Judgment begins in the house of God and it has begun. The old wineskin is broken and that wine now vinegar poured out on the ground. Do you hear His voice? The Kingdom of God is at hand.

Steven Bliss
© 10/30/2021

ALTERED

 

(I originally wrote this article on July 17, 2018. As I read it I thought, how timely and uniquely appropriate it is to what is now happening all around us. What inspired me then has now become a monster amongst us. God is calling us to wake up and be sober. To repent of our sins and turn from any agreements we might have with what hell is peddling on the earth. Life as it was is never coming back. If you don't know Jesus as the One who died for your sins and was raised from the dead so that you too can be delivered from death, then I encourage you to ask Him to reveal Himself to you and your desperate need for Him to save you from the sins that separates you from God, and with His great love and mercy He will heal you and deliver you wherever you are!)

     The acrimony between darkness and man is as ancient as the stars. The bitterness over the "higher seed", which is man who was created in the image of God, and the usurped ranking of the angelic order and God's slamming gavel against Lucifer's rebellion birthed such jealously and rage, such vehement disdain for those created in God's likeness that from the Garden on only one objective overtook and possessed the mind of Lucifer: destroy the seed at all costs! Why? Because the seed was expressly created to destroy the fallen angel and all his accomplices, as well as those who reject the promise and enter into his rebellion. 
     If the seed of those created in the Likeness of God is their DNA, and within the DNA's double helix is the GOD chromosome, what better way to attempt to destroy the image and Likeness of God from the planet than by marring the seed from the inside rendering it unable to reproduce itself? It's the Trojen Horse! Through persuasion you breech the gates and one molecule here, another there until you not only change the original, you change the entire future of the seed itself. The perfect would no longer exist, only the tainted!
     We truly live in a scifi state of consciousness. The advances in medicine, especially genetics, have taken on a whole new set of realities not seen in the Earth since the days of Noah. The waters have become murky and our willingness to compromise is now unrestrained. But as Lucifer's illusion blurs our eyes and the lie thickens our cerebral cortex, we become comfortable with our journey into the forbidden under the guise of the advancement and betterment of humankind. And what better lie to weave than by reverse engineering DNA we will cure all diseases? Who will argue the demise of human suffering? Fix it before it fires bad. What you don't like in yourself or your ancestors, you change. Don't like brown eyes, make them blue. Hate black hair? Turn it blond! Don't want to be short, then be tall... and on and on until it's all just right. Become the masters of our destiny, the creator... no longer the the clay, we become the Potter. But isn't it interesting that they never say they'll cure death only prolong life?
     We encroach upon the secrets of God; those things so deep, so profound to the point that just like a David Copperfield illusion, reality disappears right before our very eyes. Suddenly and sublimely we imagine ourselves to be something we are not... GOD! Darkness knows what corrupts the seed because darkness is itself corrupt. 
     Such insidiousness, such cunning. Do it long enough over a long span of time and you desensitize the masses. Truth becomes whatever you want it to be. 
Here's a question to ask yourself in this new norm of societal maniacalism. Is it sanity when a child is told if it doesn't like the gender it was born with that it's fully acceptable and within the rights of that child to explore the idea of gender dysmorphia? To tell a child that sexual transgenderism is normal is in itself a clear indicator of a mind that has been corrupted to the point that it is no longer capable of perceiving or receiving truth. To willingly, as a parent, abandon all reason and instruct your child in such a way is not only wrong, it's pure evil! You have agreed with Lucifer himself and led your child away from the truth and the living God! You marr the image of the innocent. And to those who do such I repeat the words of Jesus, "It would be better that a millstone be hung around your neck and you were cast into the sea than to lead any of these innocent ones away from Me and the truth!" Luke 17:2 
     2021 has revealed the Trojan Horse. The image has been breached. Mass corruption begun. Don't you wonder why the mandates? Why the threats and punishments? The determination to vaccinate the entire planet when the survivability rate is over 98%? Why the fear-driven campaign to promote a so-called vaccine that prevents nothing? Is it lunacy or an insidious planned deception?
     Shut off reason, turn off the governor to what is right and wrong and you weld shut the door to truth. The spirit of truth can no longer communicate with you. The conduit to the Divine is severed and the enslavement and control of thought has been achieved. Enter the reprobate mind. It looks like a human and even acts like one, but in appearance only! At this point the likeness and image have now been permanently... 
     ALTERED!

Steven Bliss
© 10/18/21

LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD pt. 1

 

    
     We're living in a world that has drastically changed right before our eyes, in a moment. New things are unfolding every day faster than we can perceive or respond to, and we're learning things we have no idea of at a breakneck pace. But much of what we are discovering has more to do with deception than it does with truth. But, there is an ancient truth for us to see that cannot be denied that bears heavy weight. This truth, above all others has more meaning and value to us as individuals and the entire human race that has been created in the image of God than all truths put together. God says something to Moses 3500 years ago that has more relevance today due to its implications and our current condition that cannot be ignored.
     God told Moses, "The life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life." Leviticus 17:11 What is amazing about this obscure verse is that it was not until less than 100 years ago this truth became fully known and understood scientifically. Science only a short time ago discovered that in our blood is our life! Even into the early 1900's bloodletting was a common practice at the attempt to heal someone.
     Allow me to break down and most vital statement God follows it up with: 'I have given it to you ON THE ALTAR TO MAKE ATONEMENT for your souls; for IT IS THE BLOOD that makes atonement BY REASON OF THE LIFE." At that time God instituted animal sacrifice as the payment for sin. He would only accept blood because of the LIFE that is in it. Life for life. It was a picture of what was to come when He would offer up the greatest and most precious sacrifice for the entire human race... His only Son, Y'shua/Jesus.
     Ultimately what God offers as the perfect atonement is His own blood. How could that be you may ask? Y'shua said, "When you see me, you've seen the Father, for I and the father are [echad], one!" Understanding this then amplifies the meaning of all things pertaining to the blood of Y'shua. Especially in the words of the Revelation, "They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives even in the face of death." Revelation 12:11 So then statements like there is power in the blood of the Lamb take on a whole new meaning when infused with this indelible truth. Here are a few truths from scripture to back up what I'm saying: We were bought with His blood Acts 20:28, Reconciled and made at peace with God by His blood Colossians 1:20, Redeemed by His blood Ephesians 1:7, Purified from all sin by His blood 1 John 1:7, Saved from God's wrath by His blood Romans 5:4; just to name a few.
     As you can clearly see, blood has the intrinsic quality of life in it to the point we don't exist without it, even more importantly, we have no relationship with God apart from it.
     So if you were the devil, Lucifer himself, and you were devising a specific plan to destroy man, by what means would you seek to destroy him? After all, man is created in the image of God, so how would you best commit the murder of the image of God? Some form of mass suicide? And being the devious Lucifer, the master prestidigitator that he is, what nefarious plan would you cook up to stealthily get man to annihilate himself without him even knowing he's doing it? War? Nope that hasn't worked in 7000 years. People always survive and repopulate. It has to be far more sinister. Something, unseen shall we say.
     In these last months since covid began to sweep the globe eighteen months ago there have been some very interesting as well as unsettling revelations to appear. Autopsies have been performed on the bodies of those who have died after getting the mRNA so-called vaccine. What is now clear is that the effects of whatever is in that shot are mind blowing to say the least, lethal at best.
     From pathology to ophthalmology the discovery is, and I'll make it as simple as I can, the spike proteins in the shot create two things in the body, inflammation of the vessels and clotting of the blood. The immediate results are scary, the long term reality has the potential for genocide on a global scale.
     If the life of the flesh is in the blood, then for Lucifer's to wipe out his greatest threat he must destroy the blood and thereby mare the image. And isn't interesting to you and wouldn't inquiring minds want to know why these so-called vaccines have a chemical in them called Luciferase which causes the cells to illuminate? Luciferase? They aren't even hiding it yet they don't want you to know that. Of course no one in their right mind would put something in their body that would kill them, right? But if you create an atmosphere of paralyzing fear through the insanity of the release of a deadly virus worldwide and then convince people everywhere that you have the fix, which now we know fixed nothing at all, then you could convince the masses to participate in an experiment that could become globally lethal in a short period of time. What better way to throw a net around the whole of humanity at one time.
     The book of revelations says that one third of the entire worlds population will die of plague just before Y'shua's return. There's way more to this. Don't just take my word for it, do the research yourselves.
There are no coincidences my friends. Certainly something to consider.
Y'shua/Jesus died for you. Now is the time to consider His offer of eternal life. It's free!


Steven Bliss
© 8/25/2021

WAR

 

"Listen, peoples, all of you! Pay attention, earth, and everything in it! Adonai Elohim will witness against you, Adonai from His holy temple. For look! Adonai is coming out of His place, coming down to tread on the high places of the land. Beneath Him the mountains will melt, the valleys split open like wax before fire, like water poured down a steep slope." Mikhah 1:2‭-‬4 CJB

     We are in a war! A war with darkness itself. A blackness that is swallowing up whatever possible light it can.
     It's time for those who stand for righteousness, for truth and justice; for the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to be warriors, not cowards. Greater is He who is in you than the fiercest of enemies you may face.
     We have been given ALL AUTHORITY, yet most believers live in a basement with no windows too afraid to fight back. They don't trust God, though they claim they do. They are liars!
     Nothing in this world is greater than Yehovah! NOTHING! SO GROW A SPINE! If Y'shua was unafraid of anyone or anything He faced in His deity-laid-down human flesh, then why aren't you? Does He live in you or not? Well, DOES HE?
     When you realize who you are and who you belong to, then and only then will you walk in a level of power He has bestowed; power that even demons cower to and fear. Until then, you are no threat.
     The Kingdom of God suffers violence and it's only the righteous warriors who know how to make war against the forces of hell that will take what belongs to them!
     You want peace? Then fight in Y'shua's holy Name!

Steven Bliss
© 11/8/2020

OY!

     What a year! 

     Last January I lost my J... that left the rest of my year J-less. Appropriately, February until now, with only 3 weeks left, became an OY year! I know I can get an amen, but it's deeper than that. Oy is right!
     Pressure proves character... and this has been a year of characters to be sure. In all the years of my life I've never seen such pathetic displays of lovelessness, EVER! The absurdity and hatred. And you know what's even more disturbing, the vitriol, hubris and complete lack of humility. Utterly shameful!
     I've been meditating in some of the most difficult verses in the Bible lately which are in 1 John. Now I'm far from perfect, but this hits home when it comes to my personal observations of what the pressure of this year has revealed in the hearts and minds of many as the bitter chill of winter sets in on us.
     John said, "he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes." And again he said, "If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?" 1 John 2:11 & 4:20
     Oh the justifications! Oh the righteous indignation! Oh the hostility and fierce contempt! But even more, oh the deception! A good question to ask yourself, is your brother only your blood brother? Or is it far greater?
     I don't see positive things coming, only extreme disappointment. I see what is being exaggerated to intolerable levels.
     But hey... it was all worth it, right? Sure!
     Measure yourself by the thoughts and deeds of others and you will imagine yourself just and fair. Measure yourself against the Almighty and you'll find you don't measure up at all. It doesn't matter what you think of me or the things I've said because in the end it will only matter what the Holy One thinks.
     If you want to measure up then you have to humble down. That requires abandoning your vain imaginations and surrendering yourself to the Living God! 

     May the "J" return to all of our "OY's"!


Steven Bliss
© 12/8/2020

WHAT IT'S REALLY ALL ABOUT

     I find myself getting stuck in the minutiae and I start to spin out into despair because I want things to go the way I think they should go. After all, I'm not hoping for anything but righteousness, justice and truth. Isn't that good? Isn't that godly? Yes... but this story is way bigger and has been going on far longer than my brief existence. So then the only thing that will bring me peace is understanding the bigger picture and it starts with this... No matter what, our answers and our hope is in God and His decision. Period!
     He already knows the outcome. He knows the strategy. He knows what the left is planning and what they will execute given the opportunity. HE KNOWS IT ALL!
     God inspired the men who birthed this nation... even they themselves had no idea its full meaning or purpose. And I can tell you with great confidence, they never saw an Israel coming in the future nor did they imagine the role America would play in its rebirth and the return of Jesus to the earth. But, that's exactly why this nation was born. With the Bible and the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus as it's bedrock and foundation, these Divinely inspired men created a nation where freedom and liberty would effect the entire world for God. If it wasn't for America and Harry Truman in 1948, whose best friend was a Jew, Israel wouldn't exist.
     It's God's story, not man's that's being played out here. Jesus is coming back... and sooner than anyone wants to believe.
     Trump is beyond special to God. He is not just another president but perhaps the greatest of them all because of his stance on justice, law and order, righteousness, the unborn, liberty and freedom, and above all, Abraham's seed, the land of Israel and the covenant God made with Abraham. Even the peace agreements, which no one has been able to achieve in the entire world until Donald Trump, are called "The Abraham Accords".
     Most will never see it like this, but this is an ancient story being played out right before our eyes. I'll explain. God loved and favored Isaac as the son of promise. He was the seed through which God would bring Messiah, but He loved Ishmael because he was Abraham's seed as well. So much so that He kept him from dying and promised him that he would become a great nation.
     What's happening in these peace agreements is the restoration of Isaac and Ishmael, the brothers. This is, to me, a telltale sign of Jesus's return. It was always part of the end of all things. One New Man! The cross made the two brothers who were divided into one, by breaking down the wall of division between them.
     And it's Jesus' return that finishes the story!
     All that said, Trump is the one God called and anointed for this time for the purpose of showing America and the world profound possibilities when God is King and to prepare Israel and the world for the imminent return of the King of kings.
     So I pray this... Your Kingdom come, Your will be done! Come Lord Jesus! Come!


Steven Bliss
© 12/12/2020