Today I had an epiphany
when I looked back at a magazine that I used to read. It’s called, “Teaching Tolerance” and I used to read it faithfully. Originally, I was committed to it’s beliefs. But now that God has changed my heart, through the revelation of His Word and the transformation of my mind, I’m seeing how misleading it really was. Holy Spirit, Are you speaking the truth in love, to me, through the “Teaching Tolerance” magazine? Father, am I really a member of the church of Thyatira? “I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. But I have this against you, that you TOLERATE that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works. But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden. Only hold fast what you have until I come. The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. And I will give him the morning star. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." Revelation 2:19-29 Father, I repent at once. I got it wrong again! Help me to navigate this thing that I call the Jezebel cake! Help all of us Lord! The Jezebel cake has been baked, and America has been eating every piece of it. We swing between two political extremes, and forget about the letters that you had written to the Church. Republican and Democrat does not exist in the Kingdom of Heaven, nor does Conservative or Liberalism! There is no division of class or race, and there certainly is no man or woman raising a fist. There is no talk about left or right, or right or wrong - there is only the following of Your Holy Word. Human abuse through domestic violence, homicide, human trafficking, poverty, and any kind of police brutality, defiant profanity, or oppressive system is absolutely condemned, and this type of heart will NEVER enter the Kingdom of Heaven! But this is only one side of the human pendulum that slices through the Jezebel cake that you have made known to me as the self-centered heart. The other side of the self-centered heart represents a false form of love. This is deception at its worst! People don’t even realize this kind of evil - what looks like love to us can be an abomination to God. If He is not Master of your universe, than no matter how morally good you are, you are still operating under the curse. This is the Land of Balaam where idols prevail - and we all get to be the god of our own world. This is the world of morally good, where people focus on human forms of love. TOLERANCE of Jezebel is squeezed through the tiny little dark cracks of selfishness, like that of a cockroach. There is no truth in love, because in the Land of Balaam there is no one true god. Without the Word, also known as the Son of God, there is no such thing as pure love. Everything in humanity, is conditioned by evil intent, and that is why we have to understand God's mercy! You can love all you want, but if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, then the Word of God says that you are going to hell. In an effort to fight human oppression, we have swung to the other side of the pendulum - non-authoritarianism; where liberal ideas get injected into society and before you know it, everything is tolerated, and the only one persecuted is the Christian who believes in the Word of God. God, how patient you are! How do you even deal with us? You have such compassion, and faithful endurance to put up with us. We are truly a mess on our own! I am so thankful for the testimony of John. Thank you God for this revelation. Help me to pay better attention, and help to gain Holy Spirit strength and wisdom. Its feels like judgment is coming soon. It feels like I’m a foreigner living in this world. It’s feels like America is about to be attacked because we have digested all of the Jezebel cake. Lead me not into temptation and help me NOT to adopt the theology of Ephesus, which seems to be the opposite theology that was held by the church of Thyatira. “I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance. I know you don’t tolerate evil people. You have examined the claims of those who say they are apostles but are not. You have discovered they are liars. You have patiently suffered for me without quitting. But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lamp stand from its place among the churches. But this is in your favor: You hate the evil deeds of the Nicolaitans, just as I do." Father, I hear you. I have ears to hear your Spirit and I understand what you are saying to the churches. Help me to be victorious and give me the fruit from the tree of life that is rooted in your paradise.” Instead, I pray for humility. Help me to be like the church in Smyrna. “I know about your suffering and your poverty but you are rich! I know the blasphemy of those opposing you. They say they are Jews, but they are not, because their synagogue belongs to Satan. Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil will throw some of you into prison to test you. You will suffer for ten days. But if you remain faithful even when facing death, I will give you the crown of life.” Father, I have ears to hear and I will listen to your words, reverentially. I will seek to see your face and I believe that I won’t be harmed by the second death. Only your Spirit can deflate the Jezebel cake, and take all of the puffiness out of it! Father, I lift up America, and I stand in the gap and hold the cake up to you. Remove the yeast that perpetrates our hearts, and bring us back into relationship with you.
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