SOP:
THE IMPORTANCE OF SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION
IN THE END
TIME –1
(SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION
SERIES-1980)
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The greatest powers of deception the world has ever known will be turned
loose in this end time. Revelation 12: 9-12 says that Satan will go on to deceive
the whole world. He is getting ready to rage against the inhabitants of the earth
because he knows his time is short.
A technique
known as ‘subliminal advertising’ is being used on television and in movie theaters
across the country that should be proclaimed illegal. (Perhaps it has been, but
is still been used.) A phrase or a sentence
is flashed on and off the screen so rapidly that you are not able to record it
consciously; however, you eye sees it, and it is registered in your subconscious
mind. In theaters, such statements as ‘You’re thirsty,” or “Go out and buy some
popcorn and snacks” are flashed on the screen so fast that you cannot see them,
yet they register on the subconscious nevertheless.
I can foresee the time coming when the statements will be something like:
“Vote for so and so for President,” or “The next time you come to the theater
be sure to buy enough goodies before the show begins.” I can also foresee such
advertising being used in clothing stores and large grocery stores nudging people
to buy more than what they need. It could be, that they
may find a way to even slide subliminal statements over the radio and/or maybe
even put them on cassette tapes, or records. Who knows to what lengths such technology
can go; maybe even into the atmosphere—with some kind of beam or vibratory pulse
generator.
I remember one time when watching
television with my three-year-old son. He got up from the floor and began to walk
away from the set. All of a sudden he stopped and instantly turned around to the
set, just before an advertisement. He turned before anything was even said,
it was as if someone had called his name. It stopped him right in his tracks.
He turned and immediately an advertisement came on in regard to toys for toddlers.
I recognized it instantly as a subliminal ‘pull’ that was trying to impress his
subconscious mind. I immediately called him over and laid my hands on his head
and put filters on his spirit. I then turned
to the television set and bound that controlling force and loosed judgment on
the spirits behind the influence.
There are more technologies
our government is aware of and experimenting with that is deliberately being held
back from the public. They already know how to control weather patterns—so you
can just imagine what other kinds of technologies are being implemented. I know
of one study where they are actually attempting to transfer thoughts in the way
of knowledge, behavior and emotions from one monkey’s brain to another. They even
have experiments where they take certain fluids from rats and then interject them
into other rats in an attempt to transfer knowledge. Rats are used because they
are closer to the human makeup than monkeys. I am not
trying to scare you—I just want you to be aware that there are things going on
out there in the world with specific mal-intent and purposes toward controlling
the lives of people on this planet. Almost as where Hitler left off, certain ones
(Nephilim and Watchers) in governments are continuing
on. Paul said that we are not to be ignorant of the enemy’s devices. We are also
not to be fearful when these things begin to surface more and more. We are encouraged
to look up for our redemption draws nigh.
This is a day of subtle deception.
It is a day when financial conglomerates, secret societies, paid-off scientists
and masterminds will try to control the thinking of whole nations, maneuvering
people to do what they want them to do. Do
not think that this is not possible. At
the present time, politics in American are as corrupt as they can be. There is nothing honest about the promises that
are made in the campaign speeches. This
should be obvious to a five-year-old, yet the American people seem willing to
believe these promises, as though they were mesmerized by the spirit of the thing.
Not any one political party is responsible; all of politics has reached
a dreadful low.
How can our nation survive?
How can we make progress when we continually have that kind of corruption?
You do not have to be a prophet to know that as the population explosion
takes place, there will be more and more means of controlling people’s thinking
and their motivation. It will become such
a science that no one will be able to think freely for himself unless he comes
into a real deep spiritual deliverance.
The vital importance of spiritual
perception in the end time is wrapped around the need for New Testament churches
where there are prophets who can speak the Word to keep a people free. If science
can figure out a way to transfer knowledge from rat to rat, then God’s end time
army should be able to appropriate the revelation of how to impart divine knowledge
and wisdom by the laying on of hands, and/or by a Living Word. I am not only speaking
about gifts and attributes of the Spirit I am also speaking about skills, talents,
abilities, genius and the like. Wouldn’t that be fantastic? Can you imagine it?
Can you image it in your consciousness, where one member of the Body needs or
desires to come into certain abilities that by going one of the brethren he/she
can appropriate the need by way of impartation? Can you reach into the Lord with
an appropriating faith that says, “Yes, Lord, thank you for letting us have the
revelation of the ‘greater works than these shall you do.”
Is this not the days of reversal? Is this not the days when ‘your sons
shall be as grown up plants even in their youth’ as the Psalmist proclaimed? Is
this not the day when we will have authority over time and space? Is this not
the day where we are presently appropriating the breakthrough to the unlimitedness of the Lord? Take it, you oracles of God, take
it and loose it into the earth. Loose the Kingdom into the earth, begin to appropriate
your immortality. Christ has already won the victory, now we go in and take the
land. Do not be caught up in some dispensational pattern. Christ already won the
victory. There will be Christian’s who have a glimpse of the new day and still
put it off to the future. Even if it appears Scriptural, the truth of the matter
is that all the yeas and amen’s are in Christ. Paul spoke
in Colossians abut competing the sufferings of Christ. That is a pretty bold statement
considering that Christ said it was finished. But when you consider certain Scriptures
like Isaiah 61 you come to realize that when Christ spoke the words in the temple
as to fulfillment He stopped half way through, that is
because the Body of Christ is meant to complete the rest of that prophecy. Read
it and ask the Lord to reveal it to you. If Paul was completing the sufferings
of Christ in his ministry, then we as the Body of Christ are completing the completing
of the completing of that accommodation that is eternal in the heavens.
We are reaching into a greater
faith-appropriation and are going to have that boldness to reach into the future
and bring it into the present. Is this Scriptural? Yes. In John 8: 56 The Lord
said: “Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and was very glad.” The Lord
was proclaiming a spiritual principle that blew the mind of those religious spirits.
He proclaimed that Abraham could be in any age he wanted to. Somehow Abraham reached
into a dispensation yet to come and brought it into his present. Enoch and Elijah
did the same thing. They had a vision of Christ’s visitation dispensation in the
YasHUA host, reached into the Cross provision and appropriated
the finished mystery. They brought its affect right into their present and claimed
immortality. God loves that. God loves to see that kind of audaciousness—a faith
that moves the hand of God.
When the Master was at the
wedding feast and the host needed wine it was the Lord’s mother who moved the
hand of God before its time. She approached the Lord and said: “They have no more
wine” and He replied: “What is that to me my time has not yet come!” She then
instructed the servants to fill those large containers with water which motivated
Christ to reach into a future fulfillment and bring it into the present. Audacious
faith moves the hand of God. Those six water pots represent MAN. Six is the number
in the Bible for ‘MAN’ or humanhood. Water is the symbol
for ‘soul’; Christ transformed the water into wine. Wine is the spiritual symbol
for ‘spirit.’ Isn’t that beautiful? The first man Adam was from the earth, earthy
and became a living ‘soul’ the second Adam is from heaven and is spiritual and
is a life giving spirit.
Prophetic Prayer: [Father we stand before thee
humbly yet boldly proclaiming your wonderfully mysteries. We come against that
thing within our own spirits, hearts and minds that become complacent with only
part or half a measure. We come against that thing within us that holds back from
reaching higher into Thee, from believing in the promises You have set before us. We repent oh Lord, but we do not wallow
in self-condemnation. We turn away from those levels of unbelief that we have
tucked away in our hearts, those pre-conditionings, those
little foxes that spoil the vine. We appropriate a greater purity, a greater level
of Your righteousness. We refuse to be a part of this
age. We refuse to be polarized between conditionings and preconceived ideas. Open
our hearts and minds oh Lord, reach down and let us walk in those works that You
foreordained that we should walk in. Yea, oh Lord, for we are Your workmanship
that you have raised up in this hour that we should be that Word that goes forth
to proclaim Your wonders, that manifest Thy glory under the Lordship of your Son.
Loose us into thy greater works of Lord, loose us to manifest them unto Thy glory.
We care not if we are looked upon as a peculiar people. We know that we are a
royal priesthood, a precious diadem even in thy crown. We prostrate ourselves
before Thee oh Holy One, our desire is to do Thy Will, to speak thy Living Word.
We appropriate the seal of the Spirit upon our heads, the anointing that binds
us together as Your great company. Our very presence is the manifestation
of Thy Spirit within us. Where we go, yea Lord You go, if any reject our Word
they are rejecting Yours, if any receive our Word, or presence, yea Lord they
are receiving You for you have forged your very Word by Your Spirit on the fleshly
tablets of our hearts and we have become they Living Epistles to be read and know
of all men. Now, oh Lord we appropriate great boldness to speak and live Thy Living
Word; to proclaim Thee. We enter into the realms of spirit and take back the land
that is our inheritance. We set everything in Divine Order, we take the principles
and mysteries, we bind the principalities and powers over to Thy will of God,
we bind the principalities and powers that have tried to come against Your
remnant oh God and we cast them to the pit. We prophesy their demise and we go
into the inner realms of Your spirit and take the land. We care not if they think they
have squatter rights, we proclaim the new law of the Kingdom: “Either submit to
the King of Kings and Lord of Lords or be cast into the abyss”. Yeah, oh Lord
for we are not only Thy great army of worshipping prophet-priests, but we are
Thy reconcilers as well. For you shall have mercy upon whom You shall have mercy
through us and You shall have judgment upon whom You so choose also through us
for You have given us the authority to remit those sins that should be remitted
and/or to retain those sins that should be retained. You have all authority in
heaven and earth and You are progressively imparting
that authority to us. To hear the Word of it is to have appropriated it. To hear
the Word of it is to have appropriated it. To hear the Word of it is to have appropriated
it. We the oracles of God and we proclaim our Sonship. We proclaim our Lord and
His Lordship over us. We take authority over this country. We are the Saviors
out of
Do not think that we are going to go along mouthing
the same things the world is saying. As we come into the perfect will of God for
the remnant in the end time, we are not going to be conformed to this age; we
are going to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. And that will not be
easy to come into, when deception is so prevalent. False Christs and false prophets will arise,
and if it were possible, they would deceive the very elect. (Matthew 24:24).
In a prophecy that Paul gave
for the people in the end time, he said that evil men would become worse and worse,
deceiving and being deceived (II Timothy 3:13). Daniel prophesied, however, that
the wise would understand (Daniel 12:10). People will be led like sheep to the slaughter,
in the great world system that is being brought unto judgment, but another people
will arise and walk with real liberty. A Christian may believe that since he is a child
of God, nothing can deceive him, however, in this restoration move we know better.
And if we do not, we soon will. We
can look back and see that there were many people who thought they would never
be deceived, yet they have been deceived and led astray from the things that God
is saying and doing in the earth. We have
seen that happen to people who showed great promise.
It does not make much difference what wonderful experiences
you have had; that in itself is not enough.
A quality of spiritual perception is absolutely necessary.
With fasting and prayer, we
should cry for God to open our eyes to see, to give us spiritual sight as we have
never had it before. We must be able to
see the spirit realm so clearly that when the multiplied deceptive activity of
devil power comes against us, we will not be deceived. Yahshua called the Pharisees
“blind leaders of the blind.” He said that all would fall into the ditch together
(Matthew 15:14). That is exactly what happens when spiritual perception is absent.
Religious leader often write
books and articles giving their opinions and advice, trying to show people how
to manage their lives; yet their own lives are corrupted and full of disorder.
Like the Pharisees in Yahshua‘s day, they are blind
leaders of the blind. Disruption and havoc come out of their own lives. Others even profess that they are not really
believers. People in
What can we do? In the first
place, we will have to come to a deep dedication, because perception is based
upon certain principles. For example, the circumstances and the conditions of
today will be completely misleading and will never be a basis of sound judgment.
When people cry, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come
upon them (I Thessalonians 5:3). Conditions will never be just as they appear.
When the devil is ready to launch his greatest attack, he will try to lull
you to sleep so that you will not be ready for it. The subtle attacks of the enemy will be great.
The conditions that are in the world, even the circumstances in your own
life, will be very deceptive.
How does Satan deceive people
in this restoration move? It has happened
repeatedly that certain people in the church found that if they pulled away and
left the church all their troubles ended. They would say, “You are foolish to
stay there in that church under the tests and trials. You can go to some other
church where you can be blessed, where you can be joyful. Everything will be wonderful;
there will be no more tests or trials.” Such advice is deceptive, but it is very
convincing. Suppose someone is going through a wilderness experience, through
a deep work of the cross, as God is trying to teach him how to walk with Him.
He finds that when he runs away from it, suddenly everything is sweet and blessed.
But no one bothers to tells him what the latter end will be.
Walking with God may seem to
be a rough and bumpy road but there are ‘refueling stations’ all along the way,
certain oasis’. People may decide to leave that road
because it is too rough. Then they get over onto the nice smooth freeway, but
it has no filling stations. They zip down
that smooth road, singing and having a wonderful time, until they run out of gas.
Many people I the move do not realize how well they are being fed here. If they decide to draw away, they will have
to live on their spiritual fat, and soon they will become spiritual skeletons.
They will be self-consumed because there is no longer any life coming to
them.
SONG: Hear the sound of trumpets
in the distance,
Hear the sound of many
marching feet.
Hear the sound of the Lord’s great
army
trampling every foe that they meet.
Hear the sound
of singers in the forefront
with songs of praise they’re worshiping the Lord,
They shall conquer everything that stands in their
path
with a song and the Spirit of the Lord.
SONG:
Another mountain has been removed. Another tree
cast
into the sea. The fig tree that bore no fruit
is gone; Another realm has come to be.
Another glory
is ours this day. Unveiled we stand
before our great King. He is revealed as Lord
as Lord of all. The ruler of everything.
SONG: We’re moving into a new land. By
faith we
are entering in. We’re
breaking
the old ruts. We’re blasting the old
dams, by
God’s might Spirit within.
New life is coursing through us.
The
life of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
We are moving into the presence
of the Lord.
We are moving into the presence
of the Lord.
One of the most deceptive things
that could happen to anyone in this day is that he would regard circumstances
or conditions as a basis of judgments. You have to go almost entirely by a Word from
God, by a revelation from the Lord, and disregard practically every other source
of a conclusion
or judgment on your part. If you do not,
you will be in trouble. If God set you in a restored New Testament church, He
set you there; and you sit there! Do not
decide to unsettle yourself until God does it, and then you had better be very
sure that it is the Lord.
True intelligence is just that;
the ‘intelling’ of God via the Still Small Voice that
from the Spirit to your human spirit then impresses your conscious mind. You cannot
through mind alone comprehend the things of God. When Paul spoke in Corinthians
that the natural mind cannot know the things of God he was speaking a great truth.
All the wisdom of the world cannot approach the things of God for they are spiritually
discerned. The literal Greek concordant for that particular word used in Corinthians
is the word for ‘soul’ (psuche). In other words, the ‘soul-ish’
person cannot comprehend the things of God. We
are therefore, admonished to not lean upon our own reasoning faculties for understanding,
but to trust in the Lord to direct our course.
The living Word that comes
to fee you results in miracles in the lives of the people. This is why we continually grow. We do not follow the same practices and rituals
year after year. We are in a state of progress.
God is doing a quick work in the earth, and He is cutting it short in righteousness
(Romans 9:28). You are under an intensive
program. God is forcing you to the very limits of human capacity in order to make
you grow and change and develop. This is being done so deeply, almost secretly
and unobserved in your life, and if you get away from the place of feeding or
from the foundational ministries, you are in great trouble.
Even though you believe in
the restoration and in a walk in the Spirit and you are determined to walk in
it, you should be warned that if you assume that you can do it by yourself, you
are very much mistaken. When Christ ascended on high. He gave gifts to men. He gave some apostles,
some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, for the equipping
of the saints, for the work of the ministry, to help them grow up and be no more
children. (Ephesians 4:11-12). God is restoring the very ministries that will
accomplish this. If you forsake you dedication to the apostolic ministry or to
the ministry of the prophet or any of the foundational ministries, you are forsaking
the means by which you will arrive at the goal.
Walking with God is more than
a set of doctrines. Other churches have
talked about the restoration, claiming to be New Testament churches, but they
are entirely different from the true pattern. It is not the doctrines of restoration, not
even the doctrines of this move that are important; it is the living ministry
from the foundational ministries, and the flow coming to you through them, down
through the elder ministries. As a result,
you receive ministry from the elders that you cannot find anywhere else.
It may not be spectacular in your sight at first; but if you stay under
it a while, you will be amazed at how completely adequate that ministry is to
get the job done. This we must see; our faith must be based upon it.
If we see this, we will become
dedicated to stay with this move that God has created, regardless of illusions
that might be created to draw us off, regardless of any satanic lie, regardless
of the pressure Satan puts upon us psychically. Regardless of any force coming against us, we
will determine to continue in the thing set before us. People know this instinctively, though they
sometimes forsake it. Many come great distances
to receive personal ministry and direction in a Word from the Lord.
They know this is something they cannot find in any other church.
They recognize it as something special.
It is not special because of the individual who does the ministering; it
is special because of the gift that the ascended Christ gave to the Church for
its perfection and maturity. We will not
reach the restoration apart from the means that God has given to obtain the restoration.
Do you see the importance of
spiritual perception in the end time? Do
not let any circumstances or conditions today mislead you, as you set your heart,
determined to go on in God. God is demanding
that you be dedicated to the ministries. God has raised
up ministries to work together on your behalf and you dare not focus on their
individual human frailties or peculiar personality traits. Paul knew what the Corinthian church thought
of him—that his letters were weighty and his bodily presence contemptible (II
Corinthians 10:10). Yet he was the apostle
who had stared the church.
We cannot get to the place
where we become preacher samplers or we become partial. That is a sign of immaturity. When anyone says,
in effect, that he is of Appolos, or of Cephas, or of Paul (I Cor. 3:4), it indicates
that he has some growing up to do. Accept the ministries that God has give us—every
one of them. When He sends other apostles
and prophets and other ministries that are essential to the perfect development
of the church, do not compare one against another to the exclusion of anyone.
Accept carefully what God say. Try
those who say they are apostles and are not and find them liars (Rev. 2:2).
There may be the possibility
that you could be deceived by false apostles, false prophets, false Christs, false
teachers and false signs and wonders. You
could really be taken in. But do not give
up. Would you rather be a victim of things that are taking place in the world
and be a partaker of is judgments? God will open our eyes and our ears.
He will give us a Word, if we really seek His face with all of our hearts.
Of course, there will be difficulties in the path, but who ever said it was going
to be easy? It is life; it is deliverance. I do not know of any other way through this
time we are facing, except in a restored New Testament church. We do not have
a choice.
The Word that God is giving
you is becoming continually richer. It
seems to kick you in the teeth and bless your heart at the same time. The Lord is opening up houses of bread. He is feeding his people. What about the situation in the rest of the
Christian world? It is a little difficult
to find any meat at all on the religious radio programs. Have you known years of wondering around, looking
for one good spiritual meal, yearning for meat when all you were getting was a
bread and milk? Have you known that yearning
year after year for one more step in God? People tend to feel inadequate because there
are things presented here that they are not yet able to walk in. However, this
is not like the dog chasing the wiener on the stick, without ever being able to
catch up with it. You will find God always
sets before you something just beyond what you have attained. There is always a little more light to scratch
for. There is enough truth to keep you
really humble. Just about the time that
you have attained something and could get all swollen with spiritual pride, the
Lord shows you how little you have, and suddenly you are reaching out for more.
It is wonderful to have such
a rich diet set before us, but it is also a great responsibility. We know by the
grace of God that more will be ours, one step after another. With the great deception of the end time already
working in the earth, let us really contend for the faith that was once delivered
to the saints (Jude 3). Let us anoint our
eyes with eye-salve that we may see (Rev. 3:18). Let us cry to the Lord for spiritual
perception above everything else.
Many things will help you to
sharpen your spiritual perception. If you
lean toward being a mystic, God will teach you disciplines of meditation and contemplation
and waiting on the Lord that will help you to deepen your perception.
The practical people will learn ways by which they can sort out and evaluate
the spiritual impressions that come to them, and determine whether they are of
God or whether the enemy is trying to deceive them.
I do not profess to have all
the answers, but if you study these lessons, and digest and follow them, you will
be so far more perceptive spiritually than you are now. We must have eyes and ears that can see and
hear spiritually. We must have these faculties
developed. Doors are opening up. We are
reaching into something more. This is certainly
no time to become discouraged or to listen to a lie of the devil or to anything
that would cause you to be distracted. Do not get your eyes on yourself or on
anyone else. Keep your eyes on the Lord and continue crying unto Him, and He will
really help you.