MAKING IT ALL MAKE SENSE pt. 1 THE ARMOR of GOD

 

     We are living in the days that Isaiah prophesied that “darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the people.” Y'shua/Jesus said, “Unless God shortens these days none will be left alive.” The only way we stand is to understand we are in an all-out war. We aren't called to be innocent bystanders who end up becoming the casualties of war, but warriors, more than conquerors through Messiah living in us.
     When Paul was living in the house of Caesar in Rome, he used vivid illustrations to jar our minds awake to what it was he was he wanted us to know and understand. Paul's greatest teaching was "it is no longer us who live, but Messiah living in us!" This single revelation is the essence of being "born again", yet most believers neither understand much less walk in what that actually means. Likewise, Paul used the imagery of the armor Rome's Praetorian Guard to drive home a power spiritual truth for us to press into.

     Below is my interpretation of Paul's exhortation in Ephesians to "be on guard" against the continual attacks of darkness by being armored up.
     Finally, my friends, be strong in the Lord and the power of His might and not that of your own. As God has made you a mighty spiritual warrior, put on the complete set of armor He has provided you with so that you may stand against all wiles and deceit of the evil one himself.
     The war we are in is not fought with the conventional weapons like the ones seen used by human beings made of flesh and blood. No, my friends, the army we face we cannot see with our eyes. This army is led by powerful unseen beings from a world more real than ours; rulers of wickedness and purveyors of darkness who manipulate the unseen spiritual forces in the physical world who are more real than we can imagine. They are Lucifer's army of fallen angels and demonic soldiers.
     Therefore, put on the mighty armor of YHVH whose every piece being Y'shua Himself, gives you the strength and courage to stand in these dark, and very evil days. Hear me clearly... only by His armor will you stand!
     So let me say it again to you, STAND!
     Open the eyes of your mind as I tell you this... cinch tightly the belt of truth around your waist, which is Y’shua, who being THE truth, will protect your most vulnerable inner man from the enemy's attempts to pierce your soul itself. And put on your chest the breastplate of Y’shua’s righteousness, which will guard your heart. And cover your feet with the shalom of God, which came to you when you believed in Y'shua's death upon the cross. And DO NOT NEGLECT to pick up the shield, which represents your faith and confidence in Him and will quench every arrow of hell!
     My friends, remember this, it was Y'shua who began this good work in you and by your faith in Him it's Y'shua who will finish it. Your confidence and trust in God's faithfulness will act as an impenetrable force protecting you from every arrow of hell that has been dipped in the poison of lies and deceit, causing them to fall to the ground, ineffective.
     And on your head, beloved of God, put on the helmet which symbolizes your salvation bought with the blood of Y’shua. It will guard your mind from all doubt and fear.
     And last, but not least, hold tightly in your hands the sharp sword of Spirit of God, which for us represents His indestructible and immutable Word! A weapon of mass destruction against all darkness and those who oppose God. For with it you will deliver a fatal blow to all God's enemies. AMEN!
     Finally, my precious brothers and sisters, pray, pray, and pray again without ceasing, pray. Be proactive in having constant conversations with God. It's in this secret and most holy of place that you make your petitions known to YHVH as you seek to do His will.
     STAY ALERT and BE ON GUARD! For you are God's watchmen on the walls. Courageously defend His people as you constantly stand in the gap, making intercession on behalf of all God's children.
Ephesians 6:10-18

© 2023 Steven Bliss

THE HOLY

 

The fool in his heart says, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

Psalm 14:1‭-‬3

THE HOLY

I have seen the Holy 

And known the terrors of the dark

I have touched the Living Story 

The one of Him who changed my heart

I have trembled at the awful thoughts 

Of life devoid of light

Where blackness is an empty pit 

And hope removed from sight

I cannot fathom the resistors

Or the rational of fools

Who declare God's inexistence 

As if they know the truth

For once you've felt His presence 

And His breath upon your face

Wonder never leaves you 

And your quest becomes your grace

by Steven Bliss

c. 3/14/21

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

YOU MUST BE LIKE A CHILD

 

    When we die, there are no badges of honor given out because we owned a house. There are none given because we reached the highest position in our companies or acquired great wealth or amassed an array of possessions. There are no advancements to the front of the line for scholars or geniuses, nor are there any given for spiritual knowledge or superiority. Whether you go to heaven or you go to hell, there are no hierarchies or better positions because of the accomplishments you achieved while living here on the Earth. The playing field is leveled; what was no longer is. In the twinkling of an eye we are all on equal footing.
    Contrary to popular belief, shallow teachings and just plain narrow perspectives, the Kingdom of heaven is one that is contrary to the philosophies, ideologies, interpretations and standards of man and the world he inhabits. The truth about the Kingdom of heaven is, it is the Kingdom of opposite's where the weak are strong and the poor are rich; where the humble are exalted and proud are brought low. What we imagine and perceive to be good on this planet doesn't even measure up there.
    What would be God's-eye view of things? He sees the earth and humanity like this; those who are considered least amongst men are those God considers as having the most. The first shall be last and the last shall be first. Those who think themselves something are those who are destitute and poor. The King of Glory whose majesty and power is inconceivable [and let's be serious a moment, who can actually comprehend the majesty or the glory or the splendor of God?] stepped down from His throne and out of eternity, divesting Himself of royalty and power, and in the form of a fallen man, in man's most undignified broken down and destitute state, takes on his likeness and accepts the punishment and penalty for man's rebellion against his Creator and pays the ultimate price... death. Enduring the scourge, hatred, shame and humiliation at the hands of insane, blind humanity, the very ones He was coming to save, He took upon Himself their curse and gave His life willingly on the cross so that ultimately they could be not only forgiven, but restored to intimacy with their Father. Unbelievable!
    What god would do such a thing? Even more, what father would sacrifice their only son for people who hate Him and treat Him with contempt? Looking at man's terminal state, instead of washing His hands of the matter, He gave His own as a sacrifice to save them from the torment of eternal separation from Him! Why? They are created in His likeness.
    On the one hand you could consider it to be the greatest sci-fi story ever written. Right? It's the unthinkable and the unimaginable which makes it seem more fantasy than reality. It's no wonder man has struggled with the idea of God coming in the likeness of human flesh willing to lay down His Divinity and die in order to deliver him out of all his woes. Even ancient Israel thought it inconceivable that the Almighty would stoop to such a level.
    With God being creator and we His creation, why would He make Himself one us in the first place? Doesn't that go against His own commandments? To this very day, Isaiah's prophesy in chapter 7 verse 14, "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel [God amongst or with us"] is a very difficult concept to embrace within the confines of Judaism and the Jewish world itself. But He did and is coming again! Again we see it is the opposite of the way we think, the opposite of the way we do.
    We have bought into a system that perpetuates a perspective of thinking that is in direct opposition to God Himself. We struggle and strive to achieve success and reach for the highest heights without realizing it's the polar opposit of the Kingdom of God. We build our personal towers of Babel trying to become God but they will never be high enough.
    Our true purpose is so simple and elementary; KNOW God! Become intimate with Him and let go of this world and the things of this world. To find great pleasure in the knowing and deep satisfaction in the simple purity of such personal intimacy with Him. But the world bids us come... come to its delights, follow its ways.
    Solomon said, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its way ends in death." Proverbs 16:25 John said, "DO NOT LOVE THE WORLD or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love IS NOT in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, IS NOT of the Father’s, but is of the world. The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does the will of God, remains forever." 1 John 2:15‭-‬17
    I want to make a qualifying statement because someone, maybe you, will ask this very important question, "does this mean we can't enjoy anything or have any sort of pleasure?" God is not, by any stretch of the imagination, opposed to us having things or enjoying the pleasures of this life while we are here. To enjoy the fruits of our labors. After all, He has given us the power to make wealth. He has given us incredible creativity to figure things out, to discover and inspire one another to build and create and master things. To enjoy the short life we have been given and use our gifts and talents to prosper and excel. Yet, it is not a contradiction that He calls us to a higher place of thinking. Nor is it one to say that this life is not it, it is by no means the end all. This is not as good as it gets; not even close... and to love it puts a wedge between us and God! Wedge? What wedge?
    That brings us to idolatry! The idea of idolatry from an ancient Hebraic perspective is quite enlightening. The imagery is simple and concept, childlike. Of the 10 commandments God said the first two are these: “You shall have no other gods before me." And two, “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, yet showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments." Exodus 20:3‭-‬6
    There is a lot of confusion about the idea of idolatry, but to the ancient Hebrews, and even on to the more contemporary rabbinical teachings, the understanding of what God calls idolatry is as simple as this; if you are focusing all your attention and affection towards God and you suddenly place something else in front of your eyes, whatever that may be, blocking your ability to see Him, then your focus will change from Him to the whatever that is (career, money, a person, a thing, etc.), it is at that point you have committed what God calls idolatry. It's like adultery. You allow someone else to become the object of your desire thereby taking your eyes off of your spouse. Jesus said, "but I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Matthew 5:28... even if the actual physical act never happens!
    Whether it's a golden calf in the desert of Sinai or in your personal life that takes precedence over your focus, your devotion, your relationship and most importantly, your intimacy with God, idolatry becomes the term relevant to your life. Only you can determine what those things are. God knows. More often than not we ignore those things that distract us because they bring us pleasure.
    Our problem is we don't grasp our mortality or that we are not of this world. This is not our home. This is not it for us.
    As good as you think this is, your wildest imagination cannot conjure up Heaven. Words cannot describe its splendor, its beauty or the peace that exists there. Our minds are limited and constained by death, pain and sorrow... by our end. But the kingdom of God has no end. What is there does not exist here, but there is a way to experience a drop of the eternal in the here and now... but that will require you to step outside of yourself, outside your comfort zone. To see through the lens of Jesus will permanently alter your view and change your mind forever. It will create a hunger for what you cannot see and a knowing that, beyond the shadows of doubt, it is real.
    The epoch of your tomorrows will become the essence of your todays; the authenticity of your forever.
    We all die! It's coming to each of us, like it or not. What matters here and what you will take with you is your decision as to whether or not you believe in what God offers you here through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus while you still have breath. Once the door closes, your story is over. I pray that like a child you come to God by faith. That He opens your eyes to see and believe. That by faith you surrender to the truth and give Him your life. That today you would choose life and the forgiveness of God which will live forever rather than that which is momentary, dies and exists no more.


Steven Bliss
©10/27/2020

POWER

When you face the devil and you know the Son of God as your Savior and the King of kings, you realize that there is no match against the power of God!

Once you actually "know" that to be true, then it's time to walk with the confidence that no weapon formed against you can prevail.

That whatever you face whether trial or tribulation, it's only for a moment.

That GREATER IS THE SON OF GOD WHO IS IN YOU than whatever the devil, hell or the world can throw at you.

So, if you're a believer in the Son of God and His death burial and RESURRECTION, then EMBRACE and ENGAGE who you are IN HIM! It's called POWER and nothing can stop it!

Instead of sitting in your car with the engine running in park, put the dang thing in gear and punch the gas. 

With Jesus, it's 0 to infinity in 0 seconds flat!

Steven Bliss
©10/26/2020

HIGH STAKES

 

    If Donald Trump loses, America is over. It will be a divine statement, a holy edict from God Himself upon this nation that judgment has come.
    First, it will immediately erode and destroy our relationship with Israel, and Israel knows it. This will be devastating to America. Why? For the 8 years of Obama's presidency America was in decline. Mainly because of Obama's position and stance with Israel itself and her leaders. Obama is a Muslim sympathizer and anti-Semite, as are Biden and Harris and everyone feeding their machine. The topic is discussed daily in Israeli news. It's no small matter with global implications.(1) Israel knows the blessing Donald Trump has been to Israel and it knows the loss it will suffer with his removal. (watch this video from Behold Israel) https://youtu.be/9sy29uUgh7w
    Second, there is no way a rational mind full of wisdom and discernment can look at and research Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and not see with clear eyes that what these two stand for will fundamentally change America OVERNIGHT. It will cause massive upheaval and extreme moral decay. They themselves are a breed of elite criminals, crooks and thieves. The mind that cannot see and discern such has been blinded and brought into a stupor. That should cause great concern in and of itself. Why? Because this is not just ignorance, which is inexcusable and bad enough, it is spiritual blindness where God removes ones ability to know the truth. This only comes from ones willful rebellion towards the righteousness of God.
    Therefore it will be without a doubt God's judgment upon America. And that should bring great fear in every heart and mind. God warned Israel over and over again to turn from her wicked ways, but she wouldn't. Finally it would get to the point He would severely discipline her. He did it many times. He has warned us here more than we will amidst. If He did it to Israel, He WILL do it here.
    On November 4th we will know where God stands because He will use human beings to bring about and enact His will.
    My suggestion: Fast if you can and pray to God. But at least pray.
    But, I will leave you with a positive that will come out of the potential negative... "the fields will be white to harvest." The deep despair and decline will open the hearts and minds of the masses to the Spirit of God. Like it or not, the eyes of the world are on America because they know, for good or bad, what happens here will effect the entire globe. There will be no greater time to change the souls of men for the kingdom of God!

Steven Bliss
©10/25/2020

1. https://www.newsrael.com/post/-MKVsZkz7li18cJhDmyF

* Special thanks to Behold Israel for their incredibly timed video. 

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TO THE VICTOR GO THE SPOILS

BATTLES: MY DREAM! TO THE VICTOR GO THE SPOILS
(to all who face incredible odds and are afraid; fear not, God is with you!)

    Recently I woke from a dream that had a series of scenes within it. Each one had huge fierce battles going on with what appeared to be a dark force that manifested itself like nature of some sort; whether it was extreme storms or whatever, intuitively I knew they were forces of unseen power raging against me in each battle and I had no choice but to stand and fight against each one ALONE, tearing things down and decreeing things as they should be in the name of YAHWEH, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the Father of Y'shua/Jesus, the Messiah.

    Each battle was fiercer than the one before it and with each battle I had no choice but to address it face to face; though at times I was deeply afraid. Just after I thought I had won the victory, the final battle came and it was the most intense of them all.

    Suddenly in the distance I could hear the sound of hooves thundering on the ground, beating like drums as they charged towards me. I started to run as I could see this dark warhorse arrayed for battle running towards me with great speed and determination.

    Even after all I'd just been through I was now deeply afraid... a feeling of dread and doom came over me! This horse was like none I'd ever seen... tremendous in power. Its eyes were like fire and its nostrils enflamed as they violently pulsed with each breath, drops of sweat and blood dripping from them being flung into the air as he thundered.

    I knew I couldn't outrun him. But just then, suddenly, I felt this great power come over me. I stopped and turned around to face this dread rushing towards me.

    As I stood there, he ran right over me... he literally passed right through me as I reached up and grabbed ahold of his mane and with all my might I pulled this giant beast down to the ground. With a tremendous exhale from its lungs, it hit the ground with a violent force as above me thunder and lightening roared. 

    Kneeling down over its monstrous head, I boldly leaned all the way down until I looked straight into its bulging eye and said, "I have all authority and power over you... today, you are mine"! To the victor go the spoils.

    I instantly awoke sweating with my heart pounding saying the Name of God out loud... suddenly I heard these words like a proverb spoken to me in my head:

"You must never turn and run

For battles are only won

When you face what you face,

Whatever you face...

Facing it head on!"

Steven Bliss

© 7/14/2020

YHVH IS...

   God is not who we think He is or who we make Him out to be. He is very different than we imagine. He doesn't fit into a box nor is He a containable, controllable force.
   Not to negate the efficacy of scripture which is immutable and indelible, but deep within the realities of conscious intimacy and conceivable thought, God's magnificence is far beyond the Bibles majestic descriptions.
   Imagine in your mind the Scriptures as a wall full of polaroids taped to it. Each one displays a glimpse, but not the fullness of the seven dimensional realities of His personhood. They are for each of us awe-inspiring invitations to come through the doorway and beyond the veil into the Holy of Holies, where the unimaginable and inconceivable Eternal exists in splendor and majesty!
   We are the living pages of the eternal Bible, created and written upon for the purpose of all those we encounter to experience and reveal, to the best of our limited abilities, the Creator of all things who was, and is, and forever will be God.
   The untouchable yet tangible who mysteriously, by inhabiting our every cell, immortalizes our existence as He intertwines Himself within us as the lover of our souls.
   As dust from the ground in this earthly fade, our senses open like Lily's to the sun only to slowly waste away, and yet God remains. We are for a moment, but YaHoVaH is...

FOREVER! 

Steven Bliss
© 4/25/2020

JUDGEMENT DAY

JUDGEMENT DAY

(A two minute mortality poem) 

You only live so long 

You only do so much

You write another song

As you try to keep in touch

But it's just around the corner

That day that can't compare

When the shadows fall around you

And you stare a dead man's stare

Your only hope is in the knowing

That you didn't waste your time

So that when you hear the reaper

You're ready for his rhyme

It's God who is immortal

It's man who has no say

So pray to the Eternal

Please save me Lord

Before the judgment day

Steven Bliss

©3/3/2019

THE ANTIDOTE

Peter said, “Now I know for certain that God doesn’t show favoritism with people but treats everyone on the same basis .
Acts 10:34
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Messiah Yeshua. If you are Messiah’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise. Galatians 3:28‭-‬29
    Question: if God who created man as equal is by no means about race, according to the above verses, and we, the family of man in His image are to be like Him, why would any believer in such truth associate themselves with anything that favors or promotes one race over another? According to the Bible, every single life matters to God; irrespective of their race, gender or their religious beliefs. There's only one who stirs up such dissension, division and diametrically opposed perspective, and he is not about life, fairness or justice, on the contrary, he wants death for all mankind.

    In light of that an even better question is, how much do you know about the organization Black Lives Matter? The groups black fist logo oddly resembles that of the radical 60's socialist organization the Black Panthers founded by two Marxist college students in Oakland, California. 

    Who are these people and where do they get their funding? Are they actually a grassroots street moment or is there something far more sinister and nefarious that rides on the underbelly of this emotionally charged, supposed civil rights movement? Do you know? Have you done your due diligence to check into the realities of what's behind the beast? I'm pretty sure that most don't and fall into the category of the emotional charged ignorant thinking that the agenda they push along with their comrades in arms, Antifa, are just trying to set the world straight. Well they're not.
    It takes money to move the mountain and wherever the money is, that's where you'll find the heart of the matter. So I'll make it clear for you. I've done the digging and I've done my due diligence and I know what's behind the doors. And it is both expected and truly ugly. Whether you want to accept it or not is your choice, but I will lay the facts bare naked in front of you to do with what you will.
    Black lives matter was created on the back of a lie. It comes under the premise that blacks are targeted by police and therefore discriminated against rampantly throughout the country. And that discrimination deserves a push back. They want to associate themselves for the purpose of justification with the demonstrations of the sixties with Martin Luther King, Jr., but that is not only balderdash and pure unadulterated deception, there is no resemblance whatsoever to the message or methods of Dr. King. But rather than me retelling the entire story I'm going to post a link to a very well written and factually based article from four years ago from the New York Post. https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2016/09/06/the-lies-told-by-the-black-lives-matter-movement/amp/
    If this information isn't enough to make you see something is awry, then the next little morsel just might take you to the next level and make you realize that BLM is not all that it's cracked up to be. As the old saying goes, follow the money.
    BLM is funded by an organization called Borealis Philanthropy. Sounds philanthropic doesn't it. Well if you get the shovel out and start digging down deep enough you always come across buried treasure. And in this case it turns out to be one of the people on this planet that is behind more insurrection and anarchy than any other human being around. If you want to make a contribution to BLM, your contribution will be funneled through an account called Act Blue. This is where the money goes after you contribute... and it isn't to the cause of Blacks. https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1270875601549787144?s=19
    The man? George Soros! A multi-billionaire whose personal "philanthropy" is for the advancement and the destruction of humanity. A Hungarian Jew who during WWII as a member of the Hitler youth sold his own people into the ovens of the Nazi killing machine without remorse. He like Bill Gates, the Clinton's and others who have more money than they will ever know what to do with, finance their own agendas using fronts and human beings to hide behind and accomplish their wicked will. BLM is an organization flush with cash and front for something far bigger, far darker than your everyday 'kids with a cause in the hood' movement. Along with Antifa they are the brute force anarchy arm of the uber progressive anti-God, anti-human elites whose sole purpose is to create the illusion of cause when in actuality their agenda is chaos. So rather than go on and on in my own words again I will post an article from 2016 in the Washington Times that is rich with insight and knowledge.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/16/black-lives-matter-cashes-100-million-liberal-foun/
    [To add to the dramatic reality of this article and the articles you just read, let's bring in a dose of reality. Out of the mouth of one who lived within the system and had their eyes opened to what was really going on. Listen to a voice of reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR8SSPxVxSI] (So I'm going to leave this as is. This video was yanked as its content was damning to the agenda of those it exposes. This is the wickedness of the time in which we live. Freedom of speech is gone. Truth is snuffed out. To all who read this... let it be a warning. We live in unprecedented times. Be careful who you say things to. In the times of the early Christians in Rome it was the same. The Ichthus or the fish was not what it has become. It was the sign of the Fisherman, Kefa (Peter); a secret sign. If you were talking to someone you didn't know you would draw half of the fish on the ground. If the other person didn't complete it, you gave up no more information as it could mean not only your death, but the imprisonment and death your family and fellow believers.)
    For those of you reading who don't know there is a God, there is. He also has a Son named Jesus whom He sent to die in the place of all humanity which, steeped in sin, disobedience and rebellion deserved the sentence of death that He took upon Himself. And oh yes... there is an actual devil. His name is Lucifer and he is the author of all lies and deception, who in fact hates all of humankind because it was created in the image of God Himself. Lucifer's hatred is unquenchable and insatiable and as a result his sole agenda is the destruction of all mankind because he knows, man was created by God to bring about his own demise. Sounds sci-fi right? Nonetheless, it's true.
    In the Bible the prophet Isaiah said that in the last days, "Darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the people." In a time when knowledge will increase beyond comprehension, deception will reign over the hearts and minds of men and women everywhere. That deep darkness in Hebrew refers to the human intellect being so deceived that it cannot perceive truth and as a result it will pursue the lie instead and stumble headlong into destruction.
    This article was written to give you information and insight for the purpose of enlightenment for all those who are willing to humble themselves and seek the truth in the light of God. He is the antidote to all the lies and insanity this world finds itself in until He comes.
    May the Lord bless all who read this with understanding, and may all who don't know Him repent and give their lives to Him as they see light of truth as these days grow ever darker. And may those who say they believe and yet walk in direct opposition to Him, wake up and run back home. 


Steven Bliss
©6/2/2020