The Media and Mental Traps.

 Given someone was a Christian, looking to grow in faith, a personal relationship with God, there have been "traps," in the media.  The World, the World which Christians are to reject, it sets men up for failure with God.  Someone may need to hate the world.  

More or less, there is a better and a worse way of finding God.  A Christian was baptized, and made a decision to choose The Lord Jesus Christ.  This isn't an infant baptism or something someone does because mom and dad would like them to.  Someone was making a decision to choose Jesus Christ, and start a new life.  

The Better Way -  

A man was choosing God, and choosing a new life in Christ.  He started removing media and distractions from his life.  He may have chosen to go through periods of fasting and isolation towards coming closer to God.  

In a Christian society, there should be day to day stimuli around a man helping steer him into faith, a personal relationship with God.  There may be Christian symbolism around him.  People wishing him God's blessings when they meet.  A man wasn't just going to Church once or twice a week, and then engaging in The World.  Faith was something he was participating in actively all day.  The goal is "Found God."  God is in someone's mind.  (2 Corinthians 10:5)  

The Harder Way -  

The World, that is, a World of sin and false perceptions, it put many people into a pressure cooker.  They hated their lives.  They may  have gone through depression.  Many may have been prodigal sons.  Our trials bring us closer to God.  God is long suffering.  Someone went  through the hard knocks of life, and was broken down, and seeking God.  He ended up finding God in a big way.  

The better way may take some mentorship.  Given those mentors were not present, something may have shifted and a lot of people were in darkness. It became harder for someone to find God.  

In the media in 2026, there are a lot of traps.  The Harder Way, it may not happen for everyone, and it may be a rarer thing without guidance.  A lot of people may have ended up complacent in sin.  

⁵ We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:5)  

 Someone played Warcraft.  They may have invested a large part of their life into some digital characters.  They may have becoming invested with their soul.  Given someone started a Warlock, Shaman, or Druid character.....those are all basically the same thing to God.  Being invested in those characters, someone wasn't seeking God.  We could go through a lot of different media from games to movies to music.  A lot of people may have been invested in something that wasn't good or Godly, and it was keeping them from being funneled into a relationship with God.  

There is a stripping process to growing in faith.  Things that someone loved or liked that were not Good or Godly, they were stripped away form someone.  This happens through God's Holy Spirit.  It can be Soul Crushing.  When someone has their soul crushed, he may feel like yelling or screaming into his pillow.....or worse.  It hurts.  A lot of people were set up for failure with God by The World.  He who loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  

I don't make a list of things that someone shouldn't watch or do.  There is freedom in the Lord.  A lot of people become very defensive.  This is a topic someone should be aware of, and pray about and reflect on while seeking God.  

Addendum  

Question:  Is it a sin to engage with certain media?  

A lot of people were ignorant.  Pride is a sin.  If I have corrected someone reading this, and they continued doing wrong, they were in  a sin of pride.  Engaging in the media isn't necessarily a sin.  

A lot of Christian people become too hung up on "Is this or that a sin," and they box themselves in wrong, looking to be "Holy" to their peers.  That is wrong too.  Given a man has God, he may become aware of how God judges sin.  Jesus chastises and rebukes those he loves.  (Hebrews 12:6)  

Spiritual Understandings - A New Age

 There spiritual has rules, and the spiritual works in particular ways.  Satan was a liar and a thief.  Satan was a liar with a paintbrush.  He painted certain spiritual things or truths into various belief systems.  In the media, given there was reference of "Something Spiritual,' there may have been something to it.  It may have been relevant, just not quite right.  John Calvin talked about predestination. There is something to predestination.  John Calvin didn't get it quite right.  I have written about Dr Carl Jung here a few times in this blog.  There was a something to some of the things he wrote.  It may have been relevant.  It wasn't quite right.  The theme today is "New Age."  

We tell time in Before Christ and in Anno Domini.  Why?  Jesus Christ changed how the spirituals works.  When God makes big changes in the spiritual, it may have meant that a New Age started.  When Adam and Eve sinned, and God made pronouncements, that would be a New Age.  After Noah and the Ark, God made pronouncements.  That would be a New Age.  God the father made pronouncements through The Lord Jesus Christ.  

Jesus Christ changed how the spiritual works.  The only to the father is through the son.  (John 14:6)  Could someone come to father without the son previously, or in some other way or fashion?  Something changed. Satan was kicked out of heaven with his angels.  Angels were created being with a functions.  Satan being kicked out of heaven with his angels is a major change or shift in the spiritual.  

What is the cause and effect?  Prior to Jesus, many nations were pagan.  After Jesus, paganism effectively ended.  People tend to like their traditions.  It took awhile for people to catch on, and the Good News to be spread.  Christianity has been preached around the world in 2026.  Something changed.  

In 2014, a New Age started.  I don't care to write a lot about it, at this time.  It may be considered boasting.  Can you see the cause and effect?  

Addendum  -  

Question:  Is this the same as dispensationalism?  

No.  

Nothing new happens under the sun.  (Ecclesiastes 1:9-11)  Night becomes day, and day into night.  The moon wanes and waxes.  Spring comes and goes.  Time goes in a circle.  Can you read the signs of the times?  (Matthew 16:3)  

This understanding is rooted in a Spiritual and Prophetic Understanding that was not 100% shared by dispensationalists.  There may be some similarities, but it is a different type of thinking, rooted differently.  

Shepherded Towards Dealing with Hard to Handle Spiritual "Things."

 The Question:  To successful deal with hard to handle spiritual things.....where may someone need to be at in their walk with God?  

Given it is in God's plan for someone to deal with spiritual things, he may shepherd someone towards that.  Someone may ask.  There may be price to pay.  

The Eye of the Needle -  

Joseph and Daniel both went through the Eye of the Needle. Joseph was loved.  He may had a favorite meal his mom made him.  He enjoyed herding his father's animals, and hanging near the fire with his brothers.  He had a coat of many colors.  Suddenly, he was a slave, and he lost everything.  He may never get to see mom and dad again, or taste mom's special holiday lamb roast.  He had to hold Tight to God.  

What does someone love more than God?  A lot of people are safe and comfortable in their routine.  They liked watching their show at 8:00 pm on Tuesdays, and have their breakfast at 7:00 am.  Would they sacrifice their routines?  Does someone have a lot of junk in their garage?  Do they love their junk more than God?  Your cellphone?  Your car?  What do you love more than God?  Going through the Eye of the Needle, someone doesn't necessarily have to be poor or take a vow of poverty.   They may need to rid themselves of excess towards only what they need.  They are built back up in God's way.  Joseph and Daniel became two of the most powerful men in the world in their respective times.  They were built up by God.  

Dealing with Spiritual Things -  

Growing in faith with God, someone needs to go through the Eye of the Needle.  Did you make it that far?  They may be set up for success wherever God needs them.  Hard to deal with Spiritual things may be being in direct confrontation with Satan, and Satanic Entities, like Satanic Cults.  Evangelizing pagan Rome is different than dealing with fallen Christianity.  There have been people who knew of God, and chose other.  Knowing of God, there may have been some knowledge of the spiritual and God's inner workings a cult was exploiting.  To deal with these things successfully....someone has to be Harder.  

Did someone feel pride in being White, Black, Asian?  Scottish, Greek, Chinese, Japanese?  Someone has to let go of that.  Some people they were passive aggressive egotistical, where they learned to hate themselves, and where they came from.  That is also prideful and bad.  You can't be that either.  Someone has to let go, and not care, in understanding of being for God, and God's Kingdom.  

What do you WANT?  A Satanic entity, like a cult, they may offer you  money or jobs, vacations, views on the internet, a car.  They may offer you hidden knowledge.  What do you want?  Given The Lord is your shepherd, you shall not WANT.  (Psalms 23) God provides.  

Do you feel attached to your parents?  Family? Friends?  Those are things someone may use against you.  Someone needs to let go.  A man holds tight to God.  

Did someone not confess their sins?  Given someone has skeletons in their closet, assume someone will find out, and try to use those skeletons as blackmail.  Confess your sins.  

Dealing with certain Spiritual Things, someone needs to be harder.  Given it is in God's plan for someone, he may shepherd someone there.  There are "States of the Soul" someone may need to gain.  

Addendum -  

Question: Is there such a thing as a moderate Christian?  

Was someone taking pride in being moderate?  

Moderate would be Luke-Warm.  Jesus pukes or spits out the Luke-Warm.  Luke Warmness is how corruption worms its way into the Church.  

Israel, coming into the Promised Land, was a nation surrounded by enemies.  They were meant to be a Holy people, separate from their pagan neighbors.  They were not to make entangling alliances.  They need to be Vigilant.  

Christians are to be Vigilant.

Moderate or Luke-Warmness is complacent or........pridefully working to make other people less vigilant and more complacent.  Chipping away at what Christians need to be.    

Question:  Levites were not allowed to own land.  Is that "A Something?"  

In 2014, I felt tied to God's rules for his priestly class towards Holiness.  Not owning land is one of the things I picked up on.  Living alone, like a hermit, if I went to jail, needed to have nothing that could be leveraged against me.  Not owning land, like a home, or having much property is one thing came to mind at first.  Dwelling on God's law with God, some other reasons to not own land were discovered some other things.  

For a lot history, wealth was in land ownership.  Owning land, someone may owe the government something, like a tax, or the government is regulating land use in someway.  There is an issue there with "Who is the government, and who is the government serving?"  There is also an issue with serving anything other than God.  

There are taxes, rules, home owner associations.  The government could create new regulations or stipulations.  Regardless of if the government should or has the legal authority to do certain things.....given someone is serving God 100%, being in that world is taking away from serving God more.  

Given someone is "Harder," not owning land may be part of it.  Is the government going to come for your property through eminent domain, or something, and leverage that against you?  Don't own anything you wouldn't feel sorry about losing.    

Hangups

 Today's Question:  Given someone ended up being shepherded into growing in faith similar to you, are there some potential hang ups?  

Yes.  

It was June 2014.  I was laying in a hotel bed.  I had been going into homelessness, and maxing out my credit card as I worked to stabilize myself.  I was working for God on my iphone4.  I was suffering servant.  I was a Penitent Man.  I had saved my sins.  I worked to confess them publicly, and if I hurt someone, ask their forgiveness.  

I was laying in the hotel bed.  Suddenly, I couldn't feel.  I was numb.  Something was taken away from me.  It was horrible feeling.  As a servant to my sorrow, I started working through all my old girlfriends.  Jesus Christ is the Bridegroom.  I was a bridegroom looking for a Bride like I was "Black Jesus" Everlast.  I would find an old friend, and I would work to marry her.  My heart and intentions were in the right place.  I would allow myself to love her.  This alleviated  the numb.  I ended up working through about half a dozen old girlfriends over the next month or two.  I would work to marry them till I didn't see a way forward, I would kick her out of my heart, and move on to the next one.  

Where something was taken away from me, and I felt numb...that would be a hang up.  Given someone didn't make the right choices, they may have been hurting.  There were a few such hang ups or "guardian angels" I found.  I had to make the right choice or potentially suffering or death.  Said guardian angels are there to keep weirdos out of gaining high levels of spiritual authority. It is not something I can hold someone's hand through.  They need to make the right choices.   

Addendum - 

Question:  Was Everlast Prophetic?  

No.  

He was into some Freemasonry or something.  God cannot be mocked.  Someone delving into that, he may have been doing or saying some particular things that aligned with something spiritual.  It may have been relevant, but not quite right.  

With God, we discerned what was profound, and what wasn't.  There was a lot of interesting Spiritual things hidden in plain sight.  

Question:  Is there a strong association between what has been prophecy, and Freemasonry?  

God gives irrevocable gifts.  Freemasons were on the lookout for anyone particular blessed by God, to include anyone with the gift of prophecy.  A man blessed by God may have been successful and fruitful in everything he did.  Such men, they ended up taking oaths, and serving The Fraternity.  The Fraternity may have been lead by overt Satanists like Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn types of people who produced Wicca and Aleister Crowley.  

Part of giving prophecy well is working to be aligned.  (Philippians 2:2)  Freemasons were looking to assert their will over "something."  They were looking for control.  Given they found enough people with the gift of prophecy, and those people took oaths, Freemasons were in control.  I had to align myself with certain people, and then take it away.  It is like being on a race track.  You draft someone, and run behind them.  Then you can take it away.  I aligned myself, and may have, through God, fulfilled some of their prophecies, and then we can take it away, and use it how God needed it used.  

Mary had a little lamb.  Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.  There may have been a prophetic gene, and it was passed through the female line.  This is where we have "Bloodlines."  My mom was the daughter of a Freemason.  It wasn't something she talked about, or something I was aware of growing up.  I became aware of something working for God.  

Technology: How Far is Too Far?

 Can technology be taken too far?  Given it was taken too far, what may be the outcome?  Technology has been expanding very quickly lately.  In an understanding how God, and God's plans....how far is too far?  

Spirits effect motivations.  How is someone motivated, and towards what ends?  Given someone had a lying spirit, they may have been motivated to lie.  Given they gave into the motivation, their soul may have been molded around something.  In someone's soul they may have gained a proclivity towards wickedness.  

In the car and truck industry, right now, there are a lot of $50,000+ vehicles sitting on car lots.  They have a lot of bells and whistles.  Certain vehicle companies were motivated to make their vehicles so complex that someone would have to go to the dealer to have them fixed.  A regular man wouldn't be able to do fix his vehicle on his own, and the automaker doesn't want him to.  By design that vehicle has to go the dealer.  There is some blow back from this.  A lot of men wouldn't mind a 1995 Ford F150 with original body style, no computers.  He has a computer with his cellphone.  He didn't need it in his truck. A 1995 F150 may have sold for $15,000-$25,000 or so.  A 2026 F150 was $65,000- $100,000 or so.  

In what Spirit.....have a lot of corporations been in?  A lot of CEO's have been working to force their will on consumers rather than provide consumers a product they really like.  AI took off like a rocket ship.  Is there really a demand for it?  

It is really easy for certain people to demonize CEO's, and corporations for greed and excess.  There has been a "Something else" there for the last decade or so.  Where there has been an evil spirit, some CEO's outside of God's blessings and protection, they may have been leading their companies, and the public, down some dark paths.  It is a "Frame of Thought."  Their thoughts and motivations were molded around something evil.  There is a big picture there.  It didn't really matter what industry it was.  It appears to be everywhere like a lot of CEO's were in a buddy system, and were involved in some Eyes Wide Shut Occultism.  

God's Judgement of War, Famine, and Plague has been set over the world like an executioners ax ready to strike.  A lot of rough things may happen.  Given technology was taken too far, to include AI, and Trans -Humanism, people developing biological weapons, and other things......it all may culminate in a lot of ugly.  I don't know that there is a lot that may be done about it, at this time.  It is worth mentioning, as we watch and see.  There may need to be some corrections and hard lessons are learned.   

Demonic Strongholds - Usury and American Slavery

 Slavery as an institution has never gone away.  All the ancient empires, the Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans and so on, they kept slaves.  The Muslims kept slaves.  The Chinese kept slaves. African tribesmen kept slaves.  When people think about slavery, why do they focus so much on American Slavery?  The Democratic Party has liked to call slavery as "America's Original Sin."  There may have been a Demonic Stronghold regarding American Slavery.  We will work to shed some light on this today.  

The Romans were a slave society with a slave economy.  Some different economies may be capitalism, socialism, a slave economy.  In American South, Cassius Clay was an American abolitionist who didn't like the South's slave economy, believing it was holding the South back.  Rome had a slave economy.   In the this paragraph, we traveled through some big ideas really fast.  If you are lost, or thought of Muhammad Ali when you read Cassius Clay, you should take a minute to internet or YouTube search somethings.  

Christianity is evangelistic.  Christianity in Ancient Rome, it had a moderating effect on slavery.  Slaves were given rights, and allowed paths towards freedom. The United States is about 250 years old.  There is a lot of Christian history over the last 2000 years.  The Pagan Vikings, they kept slaves.  The Normans, or Christian French-Vikings, they didn't keep slaves.  

A Christian may be a Bond Servant of Christ.  He has a master, The Lord Jesus Christ.  A Christian owning another Christian as a slave, that may be wrong in authority.  

6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.  (Ephesians 6:6)  

Out of the Reformation usury started to be allowed.  Usury brought with it the stock market.  Christian men started serving Mammon. With usury, and an extreme pursuit of wealthy, came slavery.  Christianity is evangelistic.  Christians owning slaves, they may given their slaves Jesus Christ.  Were Christians doing evil to other Christians?  This is where we may have Demonic Strongholds.  

 Christians owning Christians as slaves, they were potentially doing wicked things to each other which may bring about God's punishment and curses.  Demonic Strongholds regarding American Slavery were built.  

This is a complicated topic.  Someone may need to pray for vision on it.  They may need to be viewing history more as God views history with a big picture view.  Why, in the US, is American Slavery so on the forefront of American minds?  It may have been due to a demonic stronghold created by Christians doing evil to other Christians.  

 

 

Identifying Demonic Strongholds

 Demonic Strongholds are something that may have been over an individual, a family,  a city, a nation.   There may have been layers of them.  We are working on identifying some demonic strongholds.  

Previous Post:  "Demonic Strongholds" On In God We Trust Blog.  

Given someone is a God fearing Christian who has been looking to be right, he should be blessed and fruitful.  Given a man was a life long Christian, who brought his family to Church, he should be having blessings of God.  Given his children experienced divorces, broken families, depression, and other issues......there may have been something wrong.  Was he a Freemason or dad or grandad was?  There may have been a Demonic Stronghold.  

We have town that is Small Town America.  It has a population of about five thousand.  A lot of people go to Church.  Given that small town was more right, people may not have locked their doors.  People were prosperous.  There were good things in the town.  In another town, people looked run down.  There was drug use.  The town and the people look dilapidated.  This is a sign of "hidden sins," and family secrets in the town.  Part of that may have been demonic strongholds.  

Sometimes appearances may have been deceiving.  A town that looked blessed, it may have had a particular type of occultism.  Something was off.  This is a different topic.  We may come back to it later.  

If we go to Martin Luther King Jr Hwy or Blvd in the US, in any US city, they are usually run down and crime infested places.  Martin Luther King was a Democratic Socialist.  Was he more of a Socialist or a Christian?  People who tend to be Socialist, they tend to be immoral and engage in debauchery.....which is what the FBI alleged about MLK Jr.  Around MLK Jr, there have been some demonic strongholds.  

In Nigeria, there was ancestor worship in their traditional religion.  Ancestor Worship may have been a demonic spirit that lingered over a particular family.  Given someone didn't realize this, said demonic spirit may have still been lingering over certain families and cities.  

Identifying Demonic Strongholds is a different way of thinking.  The door is open for someone to see.  There may be some hard truths there. The Truth hurts.  Knowledge brings sorrow.  Ignorance is bliss?  The goal is to remove these demonic strongholds towards Christians gaining the full blessings of God, and building The Kingdom of God.