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