Discovering The Soul

What is the soul as described in the Bible? Given you understand what The Soul is in the Bible, someone may begin to understand exorcism. They may understand spiritual warfare. (2 Corinthians 10:5) They may come out with greater understanding of creation and God.

To measure if we are describing The Soul right, someone can internet search “The Soul and Bible Concordance,” and quickly come up with a lot of Bible verses referencing The Soul. Given we are getting it most right, we may be flush. We will be flush or level like in construction.

The Basis of Christianity

• 5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might… (Deuteronomy 6:5)
• He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” (Luke 10:27)

What is a Soul? A soul is a person. Given The King of Salem had 50 Souls, he had fifty persons or servants. How did they identify themselves? Possibly as a servant of The King of Salem in some way. Loving The Lord with all your SOUL, may have to do with identity. Who was someone serving? Was someone a Servant of “Something Else” or a Servant of God? A child of God? A son of God? These may be good things to be as a Christian looking to love God with your Soul or identity.

A couple years ago I lived in walking distance from Duke University. Given someone was a Duke fan, or Duke Alumni, or had a lot of Duke Paraphernalia, they may have loved Duke University. How did they love Duke University? They loved Duke with their Soul or Identity. Someone with a Duke T-Shirt may be saying something about who he is, or was, or would like to be. When Duke wins or has done well in basketball, someone who loved Duke with their Soul or identity, they may have rejoiced. They felt good. In their soul, they rejoice, and feel a sense of happiness. That is where the soul is. Given anyone has been a sports fan at some point, and has identified as a fan of ___________ , they rejoice in their soul when their team does well. Given I was to look up Soul in a Bible concordance, there are many of these feeling or sensing type verses where the soul is a place inside someone where there is passion. Someone loving God with Their Soul in a world of materialism and commercialism may have given up their Nike and Adidas, to be more as “Plain as John the Baptist.”

The Soul and Identity.

True Statements:

• The Song of Songs is in the Bible as a representation of God’s Love for Israel or The Church.
• In the New Testament, The Church is a Bride for Christ.
• Christ is to man as a man is to woman or Christ is the head of man as man is the head of woman. (1 Corinthians 11:3)

Marriage has been an important part of The Bible and Faith and growing in understanding.

• Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, (1 Peter 3:1)

Woman is meek before her husband. Man is meek before God. A woman loving her husband with her heart and soul may have taken his name. She is forging a new identity as Mrs. _____________. A married woman with a hyphenated last name is one foot in, one foot out? Who or what does she love more? Her husband or Feminism? Maybe she didn’t quite want to leave her family and her old identity behind as a single female or “Daughter of?” Feminists tend towards socialism. Is a woman really married to her husband or more married to The State? Woman is meek before her husband. A man is meek before God.

Spirits

Given we are coming into an understanding of The Soul, what are Spirits? Spirits effect motivations. Here is a short list of some spirits mentioned.

• Deaf and dumb spirit (Mark 9:17-29)

• Lying spirit (II Chronicles 18:20-22)

• Perverse spirit (Isaiah 19:14; Romans 1:17-32)

• Seducing spirit (I Timothy 4:1)

• More at: https://www.christcenteredmall.com/teachings/evil-spirits.htm

What are these Spirits doing? They are influencing. They are effecting motivations. Someone with a seducing spirit or spirit of prostitution may have been on tinder in the wrong way? Someone with a lying tongue may have been a habitual liar? Someone with one of these spirits, their character may have been molded a certain way. Their soul, who they are, may have been molded to something. Part of their identity, even if it was subconscious, may have been molded to something. Some Spirits are generational. They may have been passed down from Generation to Generation. There may have been generational curses on some families. (Deuteronomy 5:9) Some spirits someone may have picked up by being in sin, and being unrepentant. Someone's Soul or character may have been molded around something.

Given someone has God's Holy Spirit, they say "Jesus is Lord." They may tend to think about God, and talk about God a lot, and be prone to God-centric activities. Their Soul, and God's Holy Spirit, overtime, may have entwined. They are "One with God" leading towards an understanding of Theosis.

Conceptual Bible Study - Heart of Stone vs Circumcision of the Heart

 

There are a lot of interesting concepts that run through the Bible, through multiple authors. These concepts are succinct. This could be a long post. I am going to show you some verses, and gives some context.

• I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26)

• For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me  and let me heal them. ¹⁶ “But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear. I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, but they didn’t see it. And they longed to hear what you hear, but they didn’t hear it.

God is love. (1 John 4:8) God's love is forever. Young people, they tend to think about marriage a lot, or things associated with marriage....like sex. How do they think about it? It is healthy to appreciate beauty. It is may be healthy to think about marriage and be curious. Given someone was thinking about using people outside of marriage, in sin, that separates someone from God. Someone with a Heart of Stone may have loved and lost....a lot....like someone in hook up culture at college, or someone who had a lot of wicked friends in high school. In the Bible, pagans near Israel were prostituting young girls in Baal Worship. These things may have developed a Heart of Stone.....like the Rolling Stones song by Kabbalist Mick Jagger.

Having Eyes to See and Ears to Hear is a major theme in the Bible. (Ezekiel 12:2)(Proverbs 20:12)(Isaiah 42:7) Have you ever heard that masturbation makes you go blind? For a young man, learning about how to look at girls, given he was lusting after girls, that separates him from God's fatherly love. He may have become blind and deaf in sin.

• Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,     circumcise your hearts,     you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my wrath will flare up and burn like fire     because of the evil you have done—     burn with no one to quench it. (Jeremiah 4:4)

• But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Romans 2:29)

A man was around 30 years old. He had loved and lost. He had been in hook up culture. Life had been rough in his 20's. He became callused. Said man, he starts seeking God with all his heart and soul and strength and mind. He had been baptized. He loves The Lord Jesus Christ. One day, said man feels suddenly like a New Born child. Stimuli, like tv and movies or music, he had been hardened against, they suddenly affect him like he was a child. He felt like he was experiencing everything for the very first time. He had a circumcision of the heart.

I have highlighted some concepts for you, and given you context for them. There may be a treasure trove of understanding here for someone with God's Holy Spirit. God bless.

The Body of Christ

Christians are a Body of Christ. When they take communion they eat of the body and drink of the blood. In the Body, some are the hands, some the feet, some the mouth, some the eyes. Some are Apostles, some are Prophets, some are Pastors, some are Evangelists. We all have a function in the Body. A society of believers. We are a Body of Christ, an Organic Society. (Ephesians 4:11-16)

Where this is profound for teachers and understanding:

Atomism - A belief that society is made up of a collection of self-interested and largely self-sufficient individuals or atoms, rather than social groups. (Liberal Belief on Society)

Organicism - A belief that society operates like an organism or living entity, the whole being more than a collection of its individual parts. (Conservative View on Society.)

(“Political Ideologies An Introduction” Third Edition by Andrew Heywood.)

What is an organic society exactly? The US Army may be an Organic Society that has been separate from Civil Society to some degree. In the US Army, there has been Infantry, Medics, IT Guys, and Mechanics. These categories represent a role or function someone is playing in an organic society. Mechanics have a role to play in The Organic Society or Body of People being The US Army. Given they were not doing their jobs well, it may hurt The Body as a whole. People in other functions in the Body may have difficulty getting from point A to point B and completing their tasks. A private, a Sergeant, a Lieutenant, and a Colonel all have functions in The Body. Given Private Jody was fraternizing with Sergeant Battle's wife, that potentially created problems and issues. It creates conflict. Given said conflict is not addressed and fixed, it could potentially lead to some explosive situations that hurt good order and discipline, and people become injured or die. It could potentially lead to a lot of corruption.

Someone who wanted to believe that Society was Atomistic may have wanted to believe that his actions had no effect on anyone else. He may have been in sin, and he wanted to believe that his actions belonged to him, and he wanted to be in denial of the pain and suffering he may have caused people by doing wrong. He who sows of the flesh, from the flesh, sows destruction.

The Body of Christ is an organic society. We all have a function in the Body. Given your left hand causes you to sin, cut it off. Being cut off may mean an excommunication or exile?

 

 

Being and Doing

 There may be a lot of interesting things on this blog.  Things that are scary and entertaining. Things that hurt and things that heal.  Things that may help inspire and help someone find God in a big way.  The last few years I have been around more academic people online.  There tendency has been to "view things from the outside."  They would like to be outside observers, and talk about things in more of a vacuum.  That has been part of why many have had no legitimacy or authority.   They have not been actively engaged in something.  Given we are bearing our cross, and loving God and our neighbor, we are "doing" and "being."  Loving God may not have started as soft love feelings someone has.  Loving God may be more doing.  Love is a two way street.  Jesus bore his cross.  Have you been bearing yours?  God's plan is God's Kingdom.  Lets build the Kingdom of God together. 

Post:  Power of the Tongue  

I can teach someone about The Power of the Tongue.   The Power of the Tongue, I learned, through God, by doing. I was in The Holy Spirit.  The Spirit of God is like a train at a constant rate of motion.  The destination?  God's Kingdom.  Given we are on the train, we may be able to see where God has been, and where God is going, at God's pleasure.  Everything may start with prayer.  We pray. 

God I would like to give my life to you if it would bring you Glory.  Then you go about your business. 

Given we are in The Spirit of God, on the train, it may be like everyone else is moving in particular ways, and connected together, and we are on The Outside.  We may get a "feel" for certain things.  Feeling and perceiving, and The Holy Ghost is how we more develop The Power of the Tongue. 

In understanding The Power of the Tongue, at times, I have felt "More of The Spirit of God."  When I was "More of The Spirit of God" I could not write like this.  My words felt like hammers, and anything I wrote was short and to the point.  I tended to "write in Bible."  I may have needed a scribe to write certain things.  Given we are 100% going for complete power of the tongue, that is where we are going to be.  Some days I may have felt more of the Spirit, and some days, God let me go a little, possibly, towards being able to write some things, and give some testimony while living alone. 

Working to understand some spiritual gifts, some people may have awesome testimonies. In The Parable of the Minas there are unequal rewards based on someone "doing."  Did God give you something?  An idea?  That may have been a mina.   Invest your minas.  Some people may have seen or heard some testimony and been down like, "That will never happen to me," or envious comparing themselves off of someone else.  Lets not do either of those.  Instead, we look to be the best we can be and compete with ourselves.  We are happy working to build The Kingdom of God in God's plan for us.  Given we receive some awesome things on our journey, we give testimony about it.  Said testimony may edify the Church, and help others go high or higher.  

Working for God may be like being on a race track.  Everyone has a lane. At times, it may have been a rely.  Just being on the race track is a blessing. 

Given God gave someone something, is someone stepping on someone else's shoes and why?  In brotherly love, we don't do that.  Stay your lane. 

God is love.  God's love is fatherly. 

Jesus gave them this answer: "Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. (John 5:19)

• “Cat's In The Cradle”

• The Killers - “The Man”

The Book of Enoch

 

The Book of Enoch is Apocrypha. I personally submit to standard Church doctrine on that. I have found that it is incomplete. The Book of Enoch does work with the Bible in certain places. This is Bible study.

Cyrus

Cyrus the Great is mentioned in The Bible 22 times. He is prophesied in Isaiah 45. The Hebrew people felt pretty good about him in The Bible.

Cyrus the Great had 10,000 Immortals. 10,000 Immortals like in The Book of Enoch.

And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of ⌈His⌉ holy ones To execute judgement upon all, And to destroy ⌈all⌉ the ungodly: (Enoch 1:9)

Enoch is mentioned in the Book of Jude.

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: "See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones

Nothing new happens under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9-19)

Cowboys

Another part of the Book of Enoch I found profound is where he starts to compare men like Cattle or to animals. The Lord is a Shepherd. (Psalms 23) A Priest has a flock. Are you in The Fold?

Given men are cattle, then we have Cowboys instead of shepherds, and a whole different understanding and perspective of life.

I have some songs I found to celebrate your new understanding.

Ghost Riders "The Outlaws. Technically, The Internet is in the Sky.

"Cowboys from Hell." Pantera For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.(Ephesians 5:8)

Sing unto The Lord a New Song. (Isaiah 42:10)

Song of Prophets and Cowboys. God is Hard.

"American Outlaws." Whiskey Myers.

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The Meek and The Bold

• The Meek [before God] shall inherit the Earth.

• Fortune Favors the Bold.

King David has or had a heart after God. He was meek before God. King Saul was God's anointed. King Saul wanted to kill David. David had the opportunity to kill King Saul but did not kill him. King Saul was God's anointed, and David feared God. That shows meekness to God.

David was bold. Faith is a knowledgeable dependence. How did David grow in faith?

But David said to Saul, "Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. (1 Samuel 17:34-35)

David had a relationship with God. He grew in faith, a knowledgeable dependence as a shepherd leaning on God tending his flock. When Goliath mocked God and Israel, David was quick to answer the challenge? He was bold. He was meek and bold.

The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion. (Proverbs 28:1)

Someone full of God's Spirit may have been more like Saint Nickolas. He had a zeal about him.

A Episcopalian reads this and points out Romans 3:10.

As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one;there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. (Romans 3:10,11)

Meekness towards what or too what? A Utilitarian Episcopalian who was more of a liberal theologian may have brought up Romans 3:10,11 in context of knocking someone's feet out from other them in the course of an argument. Towards what? Someone being meek to The Episcopal Church and Liberal Theology? Was he more of a Christian or a Utilitarian?

for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes. (Proverbs 24:16)

"The Pursuit of Happiness" with Will Smith may have displayed a type of righteousness. The main character had a lot of rough things happen. He was a traveling salesmen who invested heavily in a pursuit that was failing. He was not doing well in his business. He had marital issues. His wife left him. He was facing homelessness. There were a lot of trials. He got back up and didn't quit. This may be seen as a Kind of Righteousness. In the same context, someone like Spartan King Leonidas may have characteristics about him that made him more righteous.

All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. (Isaiah 64:6)

God's Righteousness comes through God's Holy Spirit. Someone is working as a servant of God towards God's plans.

Not one being righteous may have been a rhetorical or even "Power of the Tongue" spiritual device towards getting men to let go of false perceptions and the idea or perspective that there is righteousness outside of God. It may have been true at a time. This is partly, why someone reads The New Testament from an Old Testament Understanding.

Song: Happiness.

Honor and God's Holiness

 What does it mean to be Holy?  Does being Holy mean someone is a "good person?"  What is good?  Is there an objective definition of Holiness reading our Bible?  As an introduction to this subject, I have a short video from the Bible Project. 

Short Video:  "Holiness."

In the video, God being like the sun was used.  The sun is something good that helps bring life.  The sun is also dangerous.  Someone getting too close to the sun could be destroyed?  Man is made in the image of God.  Have you ever heard the term "He is the spitting image of his dad?"  Man is made in the image of God.  Anything a man does or feels may be a reflection of something.  God Almighty is relatable.  Only God is Holy.  Given a man was working to be more like God, and have God's Spirit in a big way, what may that look like in an understanding of Holiness?  

Sergeant Major around the US Army may have been "some form of righteous" given he was doing the right Army things.  Sergeant Major may have been promoted to his position by keeping the standards, and going through various trials and tests.  Someone getting too close to Sergeant Major in the wrong may die?   Someone doing the wrong things in Sergeant Major presence may die?  Given Sergeant Major walks by someone, Sergeant Major may have had a bit of edge to him, and someone's hair stands up a little bit on their arm?  Maybe.  Sergeant may have kept "The Army Standards."   Jesus chastises and rebukes those he loves.  (Hebrews 12:6)(Revelations 3:19)  This suggests God has standards.  Were you aware of the standards?  These may have been standards for good living.  These may be standards for Holiness.  God has standards.  

Jesus throwing out the money lenders may be an example of God's Holiness.  The money lenders may have been committing usury, or degrading the temple area.  Jesus became righteously angry and tossed them out.  Saint Nicholas, likewise, displayed something similar when he chased some pagans out of their own temple.  Looking at various men of God from history, in an understanding of being "more holy" we may be looking for similar examples.  This understanding of Holiness gets into Thumos or Righteous Anger in the context of God and God's Holy Spirit. 

Previous Post:   Thumos and Holy Fire - Logos

Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.  (James 1:12) 

Song:  Rocksteady. 

Is there a danger here talking about Holiness and Righteousness?  A Pastor saying "We are Holy" or "We are righteous" may have been doing wrong.  The Bible says Christians are to be a Holy Priesthood.  There is a context to Holiness.  Was the Church working to be Holy and seeking God, or just claiming a label?  When a Church has claimed a label, they may have been putting stumbling blocks or worse between them and God.  In some experiences with God, an understanding that I was a man, and less then, may have been a start to receiving more.  I had been a life long Christian, and I was not Holy.  I was not a lot of things. 

Follow me:

God is good and Holy and Separate from sin.

I am a man. 

Does that make me evil?  

 As a man outside of God, I may have been evil.  Someone like Apostle Paul or Saint Augustine were the worst of sinners?  In an addressing and acceptance that I was less than, and not Good, may have been the start of receiving more.  God is good, and someone working in The Spirit of God is good?  

Song:  "Shackles."

What does it mean that someone was given over to dishonorable passions?  (Romans 1:18-25)  A Priest or Pastor should have been a good man?   A man of God?  Given they were doing gross or filthy things and sowing of the flesh, what happened?   It may be that they had more of a tradition, and didn't have the Holy Ghost.  It may be that they had bad theology.  It may be that they were rejecting God and his Goodness and Righteousness.  Did someone adopt "worldly" ideology?  Philosophy is important.  Someone like Saint Thomas Aquinas didn't like philosophy, and there was spiritual warfare going on between Greek Philosophers and Gnostics and Early Christians.  Given someone accepted "Liberalism" or "Socialism" or some other ideology, they may have been rejecting God for something worldly.  I was part of /r/TrueChristian for awhile.  That sub on Reddit should be more conservative right?  Around 2016, someone asked about sex before marriage, and there were some people shrugging their shoulders at it.  A variety of "more Conservative" Christians may have adopted or conformed to Marxist, Christ denying, Second Wave Feminism, and other worldly attitudes.  There may have been adultery and other things going on in or around that Church.  Jesus Chastises and rebukes those he loves.  (Hebrews 12:6)(Revelations 3:19)  To chastise and rebuke, there are standards.  Were you aware of the standards? 

Voices

In the media, in what context has "Someone hearing voices" come up? Why? By media, we could do TV, movies, books, music, or other. People online have tended to have short attention spans, especially on Reddit, and not many people are into doing homework. Short songs may work best at this time. When someone has referenced hearing voices where and why? In what context?

Cadence: "In The Early Morning Rain."

Song: "Thorazine Shuffle."

Both examples referenced a "monster inside." Does that make sense in a Christian context? It can. Someone may need to be careful. God is not a monster. Lets look at some themes.

• Your Body is a Temple. Jesus dwells in a man through his Holy Spirit.

• Man is made in the image and GLORY of God. Man is God's Glory. (1 Corinthians 11:3)

I am a man made in the image and Glory of God. What is Glory? Glory may be David standing up for God and Israel against blasphemer Goliath. Glory may be an artist creating a piece of art. Glory may be a man's bride on his wedding day. Glory may be a new born child. These things are glorious. Man is God's Glory. As a man created in the image of God, anything that you do or think or feel could potentially be a reflection of something. What are we reflecting?

Song: "Asshole" Dennis Leary.

The Spirit of God is a gentleman. A Christian society is a polite society. The song "Asshole" by Dennis Leary may have gone too far, or in some other direction. There may be something to it. Given someone was serving God most right, they may not exactly fit in. People may hate him because he challenges the thought of the day, and potentially exposes corruption. They hated Jesus first. (John 15:18) The song "Asshole" may be both on to something, and showing how someone could take something too far, and in the wrong direction.

Given someone was hearing a voice, what was the character of said voice? God has a character. Did said voice line up with the character of God? You will know them by their fruit. (Matthew 7:16)

Song: "Losing Your Mind"

Zakk Wylde has claimed to be a devout Catholic. I don't know that I care to do a complete breakdown of Black Label Society at this time. We have a song about potentially hearing voices, and other songs that references spiritual things by Zakk Wylde. In what context?

Given someone was hearing a voice does that make them "Crazy?" They need to be centered on God. They may have ended up "Servant to their Sorrow." They need The Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is a teacher and a Councilor.

Helpful Links:

• Servant to One's Sorrow

• Understanding and Growing in Faith

• Spiritual Logic and Paradoxes

Is the above understanding dangerous? If it were easy, anyone could do it? A lot of people have been promoting equality. Real equality may come with an equality of trials. (James 1:2-4) Given someone doesn't care to be that equal, I don't know that they have to be. They should be content in their station.

Here I am. Send Me!

 
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"  (Isaiah 6:8) 

  Song:  Call on Me 

Part of spiritual warfare has been a war of words and a war of thoughts.  How does someone perceive God?  How does someone perceive themselves? 

Kingdom of God Infinity War

 Kingdom of God Infinity War was originally posted to a Christian forum, of which, I have been banned from. 

Link:  1 Timothy 2:12

I went to watch "Avengers Infinity War" a day or so after it came out.  After watching it I wrote or posted, through God, Kingdom of God Infinity War.  Given I was on ifunny days after, I may have found a lot of meme with Shrek or Jesus with an infinity gauntlet.   Coincidence?  That had been my life since 2014.  I was on top of things and seeing what God was doing. (or Satan.)  I worked to stay on point.  

Given someone likes this blog, I may still have a blog there, and it may have been tailored more towards an audience there. 

Kingdom of God: Infinity War

For today, I am Skrek. Why Skrek? The Spiritual or Principalities have layers. It has layers like the atmosphere. Some of these layers have been like God's Clothes. (The Emperors New Clothes?) We shouldn't expose the Father's nakedness? (Genesis 9) Someone pulling back the layers for you, so you can see, may be an Ogre.

Shrek beats up Thanos. Shrek takes the Infinity Gauntlet like a warrior from the Iliad taking the armor of a Hero he vanquished as a trophy. Skrek now has The Soul Stone. What exactly is The Soul Stone and what does it do?

Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' (Matthew 22:37)

Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.(Deuteronomy 6:5)

Christians are to love The Lord their God with their Heart and Soul. Before Christ, this may have come partially in the form of Nationalism. Jacob's name was changed to Israel. God Almighty is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Isaac was a child of promise. God promised Abraham sons. Isaac is special. David defending Israel against Goliath was an act of National pride and patriotism. It was an act of love and faith with God. Loving God with your heart and soul, in terms of the Old Testament, may have come in the form of identity, like identity politics, how someone identifies and sees themselves. It was tied to a form of Nationalism.

In Ezekiel 23, Israel and Judah are like two sisters God married. They prostituted themselves with foreign gods and foreign nations. That is multiculturalism. Someone with a heart for God is Zealous like David was. Zealous in defending his brothers and his God. Love of money is the root of all evil, and those looking to make money with foreigners or looking for foreign titles or foreign acceptance would be a multiculturalist and prone to sin and idolatry to fit in? Jesus is a Bridegroom looking for a Bride. Men are to love their wives as God loved the Church. The Church is said to be a Bride for Christ.

Identity has a lot to do with the make up of the soul. Where is someone's heart and soul? Someone should identify themselves as a Child of God. They should work to build The Kingdom of God. That is where their soul should be. The Counter Culture is Satanic and based on Marxism and Crowley. It works to splinter and divide man, divide nations, divide the Church. Christians should reject it zealously.

Men who tend to love God and love God's law tend to be traditional people and Nationalists. In Britain, for example, a lot of the coronation of the King or Queen and the symbolism is based on Prophet Samuel and the Anointing of King Saul like the King of Britain is God's Anointed. The Queen is God's Anointed and the head of the State Church, the Anglican Church? Love of God for many British would look like Traditional Nationalism? Multiculturalism would be like drinking a harlots wine? (Ezekiel 23)(Revelations 17)

The head of man is Christ, the head of woman is her husband. (1 Corinthians 11:3)

Christ is to man as man is to woman. (1 Corinthians 11:3) The head of man is Christ. The head of woman is her husband. God is said to have married Israel or Jerusalem in the Old Testament. The Greater Church is a bride for Christ.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her (Ephesians 5:25)

There is a 16 year old girl. She starts dating. She has a boyfriend. This is her first boyfriend. She loves him. They end up in sin together. She molds and changes for him. She sees the two of them as a couple. She works to build an identity as a couple. Her identity is shaped by the relationship. As she is shaping their identity together, and because they were in sin, they became "one flesh," she has a Soul Tie. Their souls are tied together.

He dumps her after a 9 months. He didn't really take the relationship that seriously, and may be headed for an extended adolescence. The US Government says he is not a man till age 26 for reasons to do with Healthcare, and he may not understand responsibility and manhood and know who he is due to a variety of factors till around that time anyway. He wasn't ready for that type of commitment.

The 16 year old girl is now a hurt woman. She is damaged. She has to build an identity outside of that relationship. She hates her ex. She ends up a feminist. She wants a career, and she hates men. Her identity around feminism starts to form. That is what she is loving with her soul and her heart.

In college she meets has a new boyfriend. He doesn't like all that feminist stuff. She likes him. Her plan is to be married by 25. Her biological clock is ticking, and he came along at the right time. She drops a lot of the feminist identity to forge a new identity with that relationship.

Kingdom of God

The Avengers movie came out recently. Someone has The Soul Stone. Given someone had the Soul Stone, he could make Captain American a Captain Russia. Captain America's Identity and what he loves and fights for is tied to his patriotism and love of country, what he loves with his soul. It is tied to the pre-Counter Culture value system of what makes a man. With the Soul Stone, someone could make Captain America Captain Russia. His identity and what he loves is changed. How Captain America perceives himself is changed.

When David defended God and Israel against Goliath, he Loved God and Israel with his Heart and Soul. David is a Patriot. God in the Bible is God of Israel, Isaac, and Jacob, God of David's Ancestors who lead his people out of Egypt and slavery. God gave David victory over the lions and bears that would try to steal David's lambs away as he was shepherding. Surely that Philistine stood no chance?

As Christians we are Children of God. Christianity is transformational. Someone accepts in the Spirit of God, and is baptized. They become part of The Body of Christ. The Family of believers. They become a Child of God. That means something. As a Christian, they are important, and play a role in the Body. They should love God with their Heart and Soul. My Father has a House.

Song: "In my Father's House." All are welcome.

We are neither Jew nor Gentile. God will take a servant who fears him from any Nation. God likes Glory. Would you like to work to bring God Glory or work for God's Glory?

Songs from for The Kingdom of God: Infinity War sound track:

"Spoon Man"

"Green Machine."

"Off the Side of the Road"

"Neo's Ballroom Blitz"

Dark Night of the Soul and Various Mysticism

 Around Fall 2016, I discovered Christian Mysticism.  I didn't know much about it prior to.  I had been having supernatural or mystical experiences.  Through God, we decided to own it one day.  

Talking to a Evangelical person about "Christian Mysticism" and they may have thought "occult, freemason, bad."  That may have been the first thing that came to mind to many of them.  Talking to a Catholic about Christian Mysticism, and we may have found some mystics or received "Oh....one of those people of whom I am not."  This is interesting in itself.  Around Fall 2016, I discovered Christian Mysticism, and through God, worked to own it.  I may have experienced a variety of things, and found reasons why, or people who experienced something similar later. I learned a lot, and did some compare and contrasts between different mysticism.  I may be able to break down a variety of things, in time.  Today's topic is "The Dark Night of the Soul." 

Wiki-article:  "Dark Night of the Soul." 

Where do you feel at peace?  Some people go walk in a garden, and smell the nice flowers, and this is a nice experience.  They are looking to be at peace and looking for beauty and looking to God.  Inside, I may have been going at 1000 miles an hour.  Your average person may have defaulted towards strolling to be at peace.  I was a 50% Disabled Veteran with an anxiety disorder. Inside, I may have been at 1000 miles per hour, and at peace.  There is a vast difference there.  In writing this, I am comparing and contrasting what I was going through with the testimony of certain Saints.  Also, I had the internet.  This made a big difference.  Someone with the internet and The Spirit of God may have been super powered.  God may have set some things up for someone to walk into. 

"The Dark Night of the Soul" has been misused by some.  On /r/Christian, and /r/Christianmysticism, one day I found someone proselytizing a type of mysticism.  It looked good, and was dressed up in Christianity, and it took awhile to uncover what was wrong with it.  He linked some material, and I had to really dig through it to find what was wrong.  He also used "The Dark Night of the Soul." In some question and answer, I asked him if a Muslim or a Buddhist could also have this type of mysticism.  He said "yes."  That was the end for him. 

“Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says ‘Jesus is accursed!’ and no one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except in the Holy Spirit.”   (1 Corinthians 12:3) 

 Investigating various testimony of people who have claimed to have cause and effect mystical experiences there have been certain themes that have popped up.  Someone who was in some "New Age" mysticism could have gone through something similar to a Dark Night of the Soul.  Given they were not centered on God, they probably ended up a possessed person.  What spirit were they of?  Jesus casts out spirits.   A Dark Night of The Soul may have been a stage in someone going through an awakening.  Legitimate Christians are of The Spirit of God, and may have ended up with things in common with the Prophets and the Saints.  

An easy way to break down different mysticism may be like this: 

• In Christianity someone's body is a temple.  Jesus dwells in a man through his Holy Spirit. 
  
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• In other mysticism, someone's body may have been a vessel.  A vessel for what?  Jesus casts out spirits.  

Are you familiar with the Christina Aguilera song "Genie in a Bottle?"  When that song first came out, I considered it a pop song, and didn't think about it much.  The song may have been very spiritually profound.  Christina, in the video, her body was a vessel.  A genie has been an Arabic demon who gave wishes like deals with the devil.  Someone rubs her the right way, and they get something?  Ewww.   Can you scrunch your nose, and shake your head back and forth?  It was a song about possession from someone that came out of Freemason influenced Disney.  Given someone has been following Christina, she has been on "The Voice," and other shows, what has been her fruit and character?  

Comparing and contrasting different mysticism, some themes have come up.  Someone very centered on God, with the Holy Ghost, may be able to see God and "other things" through God.   

Prophetic Intercession Part II

 I have a lot of testimony of profound things happening Summer 2014.  Summer 2014, for me, started about June 1.  What happened just prior?

Post:  Biblestudy:  The Holy Grail.  

Just prior to Summer 2014, I went through a particular trial, and ended up receiving an anointing from God.   Between March 17 and May 24, I had spent a lot of time in jail.  March 17 I was felt done with what God was having me do on Twitter.  God told me to go celebrate.  I walked about a mile to the bar.  I was at "Gentleman Jim's." This particular bar was right next to Middle Tennessee State University, and particularly close to Fraternity Row.  I sat in there by myself, and drank a few pitchers of cheap college beer.  I don't know that I talked to anyone other than asking the bartender for a drink.  I sat in there quietly, and kept to myself, and then I paid my tab and left.  Walking home, I ended up confronted by the police.  I was on Vine St.  My apartment was between Main St. and Vine St.  I could get to my apartment off either streets.  Vine St. was quiet, and dark, and Main St. was well lit with some traffic.  I chose to walk down Vine St.  In eye shot of my apartment, a police car pulled up behind me and tried to pull me over like I was a car.  I kept walking.  Suddenly, I was confronted by two cops.  At this point, I was fed up with dealing with any law in Tennessee.  I was sickened by them based on some passed experiences over the last few months.  I was looking to go home, and they had no business talking to me.  In eye shot of my apartment, I ended up arrested for public intox.  

Being arrested for public intox, the bail was not expensive.  I had money to pay my bail.  Lets say bail was $1000 or $100 with a Bail Bondsmen.  A man pays that $1000, and that is collateral to make sure he shows up at court.  He shows up at court, and he gets his $1000 back.  I offered to pay my bail multiple times and was denied.  To get a bail bondsmen, a man needs a co-signer.  I was in Tennessee alone.  I didn't have family or anyone I had known prior to within maybe 500 miles or so.  I didn't care to call my parents, and it is like twisting arms to try to part them with any money.  I was alone.  I was denied bail multiple times, not by a judge, but by the guards.  I ended up held in jail for 27 days for walking home from a bar. 

Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor's crown.  (Revelations 2:10)

 I have a lot of interesting testimony about Tennessee, and some occultism that God showed me was there after the fact.......I didn't know or perceive it till I had left Tennessee, but that is another story.  Given someone would like to read more about what I was doing prior to Tennessee and leading up to being there:  "The Perfect Country Western Short Story."

 Due to being in jail a couple times over minding my own business, and injuring the Honor of the State of Tennessee, I ended up homeless in North Carolina.  Going into homeless I was receiving visions from God.  I was growing in Faith.  I was seeing how far certain things could be taken, and how to lean on God. 

Things going on during Summer 2014:  

• I have not been a big soccer fan.  The World Cup was happening, and was something that I kept an eye on.  Song:  "La La La"
• I saw that the Church may have developed certain people who were released into Secular Music.  Song:  "It's on Again." (Did some artists do wrong, and get caught up into somethings?  Possibly.) 
  

• I ended up discovering some Spiritual Relevance to Rammstein and posted three of their songs on Facebook.  About a week later, Germany won the world cup.   If The Lord is your Shepherd, you shall not want.  Song:  Ich Will  
  

 The following testimony also happened the first two weeks of being homeless in North Carolina: 

Post:  Dark Night of the Soul Testimony

What did hanging out in hotel rooms June 2014 most look like?  I don't 100% like this video as 100% correct.  There is something to it like the author was on to somethings. 

Song:  Fucc The Devil. 

The spirit of God is a like a train at a constant rate of motion.  I was on the train.  I was that God sometimes sets up miracles, and needed someone to walk into them. I ended up traveling all over North Carolina.  I was in Raleigh, Fayetteville, Wilmington, and I ended up hitting the bottom, I ended up maxing out my credit card, and my truck broke down, in Rocky Mount.  How did I end up in these places?  I was a servant to my sorrow, and I was perceiving things through God.  I was looking for signs.  Given I ended up in a particular city, I may have been looking for songs, and other things that seemed relevant and worked in a "No Leaf Clover" type of way. 

Ezekiel 37

Song: "Savages"

 That particular song worked extremely well with things from the past, and things God had been shepherding me into and towards, God working through me for his Glory.   

When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."  (John 8:7)

 John 8:7 does not say "don't throw stones."  It infers, "Don't be a hypocrite."  During Summer 2014, I found that I had saved my sins, and worked to confess them, often publicly over the internet.  Honor is important.  I may have had small infractions that hurt my honor.  Maybe I had a conflict with someone, and didn't resolve said conflict most correctly, or the conflict was hurting my honor.  I worked to resolve some things from my past.  Maybe I had some issues from childhood aquientences, I found them on Facebook, and worked to resolve any issue through God.  I worked to confess my sins, and clean my honor.  For a period of time here I was reminded of "The Penitent Man" like Indiana Jones.  I walked around with my head slightly bowed, and was a Penitent Man.   

I  found that dealing with smaller conflicts from my past, or around my hometown, God may have given me more.  I dwelt with something from my past, and then God shared with me something about Barrack Obama or other people on a higher level, and I would go back and forth.  I also found that through God, I tended to soak up mocking and hate.  I may have gone to some Atheist or Feminist Facebook Pages and talked to them about God.  My words felt like hammers through God.  I would soak this up through God, and then start tossing said hammers like Thor in the hammer throw.  I would soak things up, and redirect all that energy somewhere.  

Song:  Harvester of Constant Sorrow.  (That song happens to be newer, but it covered a few themes I may have been working on through God.) 

As a servant to my sorrow, I ended up in Durham.  That was where the VA Hospital was.  I ended up homeless there for six or seven weeks sleeping in my truck till I received an apartment through the VA.  About mid August, the VA helped me into an apartment, and offered to pay my rent for a few months.  Was there more going on Summer 2014?  The testimony gets deep.  This is good for today.  

 

Prophetic Intercession

 There are currently forty four blog posts on this blog.  Working to understand Prophetic Intercession, someone may have needed to take the time, with their Bible and God, and gone through each blog post.  This probably may take someone several weeks with prayer where they are doing dedicated Bible Studies and thinking about God.  There has been a learning curve.  Did someone stop and think "This is too hard," or make some excuse to not have to come to grips with hard truth?   See ya? The goal is The Kingdom of God, and someone is working in God's plan for them.  No one necessarily needs this blog post; however, given we are working to understand the Spiritual, and Prophetic Intercession, I have testimony.   This needs to be understood in the context of the blog. Towards understanding that testimony best, someone may need the other posts.  It doesn't matter if someone was a life long Christian or not.  I was life long Christian.  There has been a learning curve, and that learning curve may not necessarily happen over night.   

Through God, Prophetic Intercession ended up being developed.  I didn't know about Prophetic Intercession prior to 2013.  I barely knew what a prophet was other than Jesus and Moses were prophets.  I received a calling Fall 2013. I was a regular man, and had been a life long Christian.  I believed in the supernatural, but I cannot say that I was super interested in it, nor had many experienced that I was aware of.  I received a calling Fall 2013, and I started feeling smarter.  I started to feel like I could comprehend complex questions and issues better than before. I started receiving somethings from God. I started having profound supernatural or spiritual experiences.

Around January 2014, I started having ears to hear and eyes to see. I started compiling a list of songs where the lyrics or sounds started to catch my ear.  A lot of these songs I may have found searching Youtube or other similar websites where I could look up a song, and find similar or related music.  Some of these songs were found on Pandora Radio listening to "Lincoln Durham" or similar themed radio where there was a good mix of blues, rock, folk, and gospel.  Some of these songs I may have like previously, and suddenly God opened my eyes and ears, and I saw the song in a new light.  I compiled a list.  

I ended up with an idea for a Christian Radio Station.  Not necessarily Christian genre music or worship music, but Christian themed music.  I went to Church one day and pitched the Christian radio station idea to two people even.  A day or so later, I was back home, and thinking "God gave me this great idea, why wait?" 

February 2014, I started a Twitter Page. I had been given an idea for a Christian Radio Station. Not playing just Christian Music genre or worship music, but Christian Themed music. I started a Twitter Page to teach people about God. I tweeted music videos, mostly, with a few words to key people into things. Words or Bible verses with a song. The first day I may have made 15 Tweets in no particular order so I believed. DMX had been in the news a year or two prior for creating some God themed rap music.  I tweeted three of his songs with a wide variety of other music.  I ended up with DMX following me for a few days.  The audience I was working to hit was a "general internet audience."  DMX ended up unfollowing me.  I perceived that the music was not black enough for him, and he had some issues. 

After the first day on Twitter, I started receiving a theme or a song, and would put together more of a lesson plan. Every day God may have given me something. The first week or so I would create something a day ahead of time, and then quickly tweet them all to grab attention. I became good at perceiving through God's Holy Spirit, and started tweeting them more as they came to me. Around this time, I also started working for God full time.

Sitting at my computer desk, I became good at perceiving through God's Holy Spirit, and perceiving things. I may have got a feel for a world wide Twitter audience. I may have perceived threats at times and dealt with them. I was perceiving. Intuitive.  

March 17 I felt the Twitter was done.  I had been tweeting almost every day as things came to me.  I had 360 sum tweets or so.  I had grown a lot in faith and discovered some interesting things about music and God.  I felt like a teaching mechanism had been built, and that if someone took the time to review all the songs, they may have their eyes and ears opened as well.  March 17, I felt I was done.  I was accomplished. 

During this time I had a variety of supernatural experiences. That may be another testimony.

May 24, 2014 the following event happened :  "Bible Study: The Holy Grail."

After said event, it may have been like God shifted some stuff around in my head. Some things were rotating. I am not a doctor or scientist. At the end of the trial, I was different. I became aware of more like I was part of a group of people who could communicate, and was communicating with people.

I was perceiving through God's Spirit, and tweeting to a world wide audience. After said trial, I was different.

Linked and pinned to the top of the Twitter was a link to Facebook Page Champions for Christ with a message that said something like "For more, go here." On Champions for Christ, how Prophetic Intercession ended up developed. Many of my tweets went to @ Youtube because I was using Youtube videos, and didn't know where else to send them.  I also tweeted some governments or government agencies as something came to me and compelled by God, or saw something in the news.  I may have gained attention.  I had been gaining attention by tweeting certain entities, the "Holy Grail Testimony" happened, and I felt like I was being watched after May 24.  Kingdom of God Shadow War started or I became aware of it, and in it.    

Working for God, I would posting things I was receiving on Champions for Christ. I would receive questions, and through God, I would work to answer the questions. I was developing The Power of the Tongue, and learning to speak with or through God's Holy Spirit. I found that If - Then statement were helpful for finding truth or writing with God.  I would write some things out, and if I was wrong, it may have felt like there was an invisible barrier under my thumb or finger keeping me from making a post because it was off.  Sometimes I would post something, and immediately feel God.  I would feel God, and God's honor, and if it was off, I would quickly correct it.  I often made spelling or grammar mistakes so those were often quickly corrected, but given I was dealing with complex or deep spiritual questions or issues with people, that is more what I was concerned with. 

Honor is important.  God has honor.  I felt tied to God's honor. 

 On Facebook Page "Champions for Christ," (Dread) I would receive questions.  I would feel honor bound towards working some things out, and answer questions. I had to beat some people down prophetically with God, make rules, explain that it wasn't a game. We ended up with "Christian Fight Club" for a little while.

In general, I may have been tied to God's Honor, and may have ended up honor bound to write or explain certain things.

Does it have to do with the calling God gave me?

Does it have to do with end times?

Was it already covered somewhere else, and you have some research to do?

It is not a game, there are a lot of people in the world. Go see a Priest or Pastor?

Certain persons may have been given some priority due to their relationship to God or the work he has had me doing.

My mind may have ended up tied to Twitter or Facebook or Reddit for a time where my perceptions and what I was receiving was there. God may have shifted where I was at times.

Song: Our World Our Times.

Song: No Leaf Clover.

Have you noticed how sometimes I have commented on my own blog post?  Prophetic Intercession.  I don't know that I care to do that a lot here.  It has been done, and there has been about six years of proof.  It is possible that someone asks God for something or what is posted after this on this blog may relate. 

Short Video:  Hannah Montana Coon Repellent. 

Matter of America Continued

 

 Living day to day, some more Matter of America was put together based on what I was receiving any particular day.  There is a lot someone could do with Matter of America.  

How old is Matter of America?  About two and a half years or so old maybe.  It may be possible some other people receiving something similar around the same time.  As an idea, unless someone did something, it has been public domain as far as I have been aware of.  It is hard to take ownership of certain things working for God.  I am a servant. 

We have some more Matter of America, and it tended to come in segments of three songs.

Matter of America plays on enduring Spiritual themes. Working for God, he has had me do a lot with music and music videos. This may be seen as “Signs of the Times” or Prophecy at times.

Continuing with “Matter of America” there is a lot someone may do with it. I have three songs meant to be watched in order in order to give a vision and/or tell a continuing story through content free online that I didn’t produce. I saw something with The Spirit of God, and worked to arrange it in a specific order.

Matter of America Continued  

• The Band Perry - Gentle On My Mind

• Chris Stapleton - Parachute

• Collective Soul - To Where The River Flows w/ lyrics

   

  Matter of America Part II

  Don't Matter To Me

  Hell on Wheels

  Wayfaring Stanger

   

  Matter of America Part III

  Song: Heavy Is The Head
  Song: Rusty Cage
  Movie Trailer: True Grit

   Matter of America Part IV

  Almost Matter of America Part IV.

  This one may take some previous knowledge to fully see or get. These are links to previous posts around reddit.

  • Letter of Marque

  • Kingdom of God Shadow War

  • Man is the Head, Woman the neck turning the head.

  • Circumcision of the Heart.

  Question: Why Almost?

  I don't know that I like this one, but through prophetic intercession, I have been receiving or seeing somethings. We may see.

  Song: Johnny and June.

  Song: Crossfire.

  Song: Long Legged Guitar Picking Man.

   

Matter of America

The following relates to Meditating on God's Law.  There are a lot of music videos arranged to tell a story or express something.  Someone engaged in this should sit back, and relax, grab your favorite drink, and treat this like watching a movie.  

What is Matter of America? 

Matter of Britian - King Arthur and his Knights.  

Matter of France -  Charlemagne and his Paladins. 

Matter of America. 

Matter of America

Matter of America is something God had me create one day.

" - The paradox which emerges from the fact that the reader cannot understand any part of the text till the whole is understood, while the whole cannot be understood till the parts are understood." ("Hermeneutics" Nasrullah Mambrol.)

As a whole, Matter of America is a story. Each individual song may have a story or understanding of its own. Matter of America as a whole is a story. There may be themes connecting all the songs. I felt inspired by God, and through God's Spirit a variety of Matter of America content was arranged.

7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. (2 Timothy 4:7)

With Matter of America we were looking to create something that inspired a man with themes of Fire and Fortitude. The Holy Ghost is unquentiable Fire. By the end of the playlist, or at the end of their journey, they should like or feel some emotion with the the song "Angel Band" Southern Gospel Revival.

A good story needs a beginnning a middle and an end?

Prologue

"The Spirit" The Wood Brothers.

The Beginning

20Jesus replied, "Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." (Matthew 8:20)

Drifters do not step into mud puddles (Sin) because Deuteronomy 8:5. Fear of God is a good thing. Takes away your fear of man. God's love is fatherly. Perfect love knows no fear?

"Mud Puddles" Lincoln Durham

7to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness. (Isaiah 42:7)

"Awake O'Sleeper"

The Middle

"Deliverance" Shawn James

The Holy Ghost is unquenchable Fire. The video relates a man that can talk to God historically. He may hear other voices. Which voices? Possibly spirits.

"Fire" Barns Courtney.

God talks to his Angels Telepathically.

God Almighty. Awesome God. Spectacular.

"Radar Love" Golden Earring

Ezekiel's Angels Ezekiel 1.

"Wheel in the Sky" Journey

"Grit, Sweat, and Love" The Brothers Bright

"I heard the Angels Singing" Eric Bibb

The End

"Angel Band" Southern Gospel Revival

"Further on Up the Road" Johnny Cash

Epilogue

Words of Warning. The theme of Angels is very strong in this. Angels are servants. Someone needs to be focused and centered on love of God.

I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God.

"With a Little Help From My Friends."

Halo on Fire

The Bible describes specific things or concepts. The "signs of the times" are a specific thing or concept. To understand the signs of the times, someone may be reading or seeing what God and/or spirits have been doing. What are spirits exactly as defined by The Bible, and how have they worked? People who are seeking Truth may be very interested in this topic.

The following are True statement referenced in the Bible describing how God works, and how Spirits have worked.

• God hardened Pharaoh's heart. (Exodus 9:12) Hardening someone's heart may effect their decision making.
• God took away King Nebuchadnezzar's sanity. (Daniel 4:28-33)
• God appears to have a court. A spirit volunteered to put deceiving words in false prophet's mouths. (1 Kings 22:22)
• The Bible lists a variety of spirits. Link: Evil Spirits. Spirits effect motivations and thoughts.
• God has given people visions in dreams like in Daniel 4.
• Part of Spiritual Warfare has been a war of words or a war of thoughts. There may be a learning curve for that. For more on it: "How have some people on Quora been working to build demonic strongholds over people?"

Spirits effect motivations. God talks to people through dreams and visions. Some of the spirits someone may be receiving may be because they are believing in lies. (Romans 1:18-32) Those spirits may be working in particular ways, and motivating people in particular ways just as Romans 1:18-32 says they may.

People's thoughts, dreams, and visions may be connected to something spiritual. In terms of media, there may be signs of things in the media. The media may be music, movies, books, video games, anything. Someone had a dream or vision. That dream or vision was translated into some form of media. An artist got drunk one day and woke up with an epiphany. A man mowed his lawn, and was daydreaming. Someone was at Church and received something. A writer at a coffee shop is observing people, and having food for thought. In all of these example, what someone is receiving may be from God. Reading the signs of the times, may have to do with understanding what is in the media.

and in the morning, 'Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. (Matthew 16:3)

The signs of the times may also be read by what is happening in the news. An understanding of politics. Of understanding who God is, and understanding the prophets and prophecy.

Harlotry has been an ongoing theme in the Bible. (Ezekiel 23)(Revelations 17) There is a succinct theme that runs through different men who wrote things through time and space. The Songs of Songs, for example, is in the Bible as a representation of God's love for Israel. In the New Testament, The Church is a Bride for Christ in the same way. (Ephesians 5:25) In The Old Testament, a major theme among the Prophets was Israel and Judah's harlotry. In Ezekiel 23, Samaria and Jerusalem were like two sisters God married. They prostituted themselves with foreign gods and foreign nations. That may be multiculturalism as it has often been promoted today by the political elite. In Revelations 17, there is a great prostitute making the nations drunk on her wine. What is wine? It may be teachings. The teachings of Secular Humanism, and people who have rejected and turned away from God. What is the fruit, or what does such teaching produce? The things mentions in Romans 1:18-32 such as being given over to "Dishonorable" passions. Given someone didn't understand the word honor, it is possible they were given over. The Bible works in a very succinct and specific way, and so does the Spiritual. Reading the signs of the times is a specific concept.

Is any of this new? No. Christian philosophers and mystics and prophets and teachers have taught about it through the last 2000 years or so. The allegorical interpretation of the Bible, such as understanding The Song of Songs, someone may find from first century Rabbis, or early Christian philosopher Origen.

God in Metal Music

Sing unto The Lord a New Song. (42:10)


Themes and allegories could be used a number of ways. One of Metallica's first big songs was "The Four Horsemen." The Four Horsemen are something that God does. They are in the Old Testament. They are in the New Testament. (Ezekiel 5:17)(Jeremiah 24:10)(Revelation 6:8) It is something that God does. Hernan Cortez could be said to be God's First Horsemen in his Judgement of a Wicked people who performed human sacrifice and other abominations similar to but different than the people in Canaan.

Metallica plays on a lot of spiritual themes throughout all their albums. A more recent song would be Metallica: Halo On Fire (Official Music Video)."Halo on Fire" takes a bit of commentary to better understand. The video begins with a woman. Why? Some famous Protestant Evangelists have stated they were Brides For Christ. Christ is to man as man is to woman. (1 Corinthians 11:3) Has nothing to do with sex. The Spirit of God is manly and virile. It is also said the Church is a Bride for Christ. The theme of The Light and the Dark comes up in the song. (Ephesians 5:8)(1 Thessalonians 5:5) Jesus Christ is The Light of the World. What is the song saying about him? What else is the song saying on a spiritual level? The Holy Ghost is a teacher and a Councilor.

On a differnet rock level, I like the Kings of Leon “Pyro” for something of God. Why? The stone rejected by the builders becomes the chief cornerstone. (Psalms 118:22)(Luke 20:9-19)(Acts 4:11)(1 Peter 2) It is a brilliant video about a Prodigal Son. Similar to “My Dying Time” Black Label Society? Similar to “Ballad of a Prodigal Son” Lincoln Durham? (Ezekiel 37)That would be sign of the times?

• and in the morning, 'Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. (Matthew 16:3)

Someone that sees the spiritual may be said is crazy. He isn't. There is reason and logic to it. He may have been said to have had divine madness. How many metal songs do you know are about madness? What spirit was the singer or writer of?

God's Secret Council

What is God's Divine or Secret Council?  The following is a short video by the Bible Project for an introduction. 

Short Video:  "The Divine Council"

I don't know that I 100% agree with said video.  There may have been more to it.  I don't, at this time, have a critic on the video.   I have testimony that may reveal some things.  

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Immediately after that event I started "picking things up" like I was a "radiohead."  God talks to his angels telepathically.  There may have been "Angelic Airwaves."  I ended up in said airwaves.  Given someone has a radio, they could walk around with an antenna and pick things up.  I was picking things up.  In said airwaves there were things "not God" or Godly.  A good article towards possibly getting a better visual of this may be "Spiritual Realms" Kingdom Watchers. God was talking to me.  Not me praying, but God was speaking to me or through me, and I was picking up God.  I also became aware of other things.

It was Summer 2014, and I became aware of a fraternity of men.  These were The Pigs.  I had been a prodigal son.  I am not Jesus.  Not the Christ.  Not the Messiah.  I became aware of a fraternity of men that were like "Animal House" Kevin Bacon.  They would wake me up around around midnight......mentally........I had been homeless or alone, and I would be woken up, and I would start to given prophetic intercession through God's Holy Spirit.  I fed the pigs.  What did that look like?  There may be examples on "Champions for Christ" Facebook Page.  Some of the things seen on this blog may have been from that time, but there were fewer words.  I knew it was profound, and that it came from God. 

Short Video:  Kevin Bacon Fraternity Scene. 

Sometimes I received willful people that were rude, like occultists, and I would work to break them down through God and Prophetic Intercession.  My thoughts had aligned with God.  My will was brought low to be in accordance with God's plans for me.  God would give me things towards building the Kingdom of God and bringing him Glory.  I would go through iterations of Spiritual Warfare where God would shepherd me to declare Jesus Christ, and the Kingdom of God in such away, showing a particular character, that may have brought attention.......I would end up finding certain people or entities, and through God, we would break them down. 

Often times, when I wasn't engaging in spiritual warfare, I felt I was receiving "Catholic Priests" from Summer 2014 on.  There was a big difference in character, and the approach.  They may have suggested things to me, and I would look them up in my Bible, and think "Alright."  We were on the same team.  It took several years before I was able to walk or find protestant type people with that type of knowledge, and when I did, they were often either Willful individuals wanting or demanding things now, or there were part of the occult.  (I am not a baptized Catholic.)

Posting some things online through God, every so often, I have gained attention.  This may be a work in progress.  Posting something like this publicly,  it may have ended up edited as I was shown some errors or given things by God. 

Soul Development and Christianity

The Soul has been a complex topic that many people have confused. We are looking at what The Soul is as defined by The Bible. We are looking at The Soul in cause and effect ways. Imagine a white board in a classroom. Take a black marker and draw an outline of a person. Not a stick figure, an outline like the police chalking a body. The outline of a person on the whiteboard may represent a Soul when a person is born. Why white? White like "Sins made white." White like a virgin bride on her wedding day. White like Jesus will dress us in white. White represents innocence, and the person may not have made any decisions, or experienced anything.

When a person experiences something, or makes a decision, that may leave a mark on the soul. A mark on the soul may be a teacher giving a compliment that builds someone up. It may be a bully at school being abusive. It may be celebrating Christmas with family. Both good and bad things may have left some sort of mark on the soul.

Have you seen the movie "The Butterfly Effect?" In the movie, the main character has the ability to time travel, and start all over. He was working to stop a horrible event that scarred some people he cared about. Every time he did, things became worse. One tragedy lead into another. The main character's main love interested had The Same Soul. Due to environment factors, things she experienced, and decisions made after, she was a little different each time. During one time travel, she may have been a pretty regular person. During another, due to things she went through and environmental factors, she ended up on drugs and a prostitute.

In the DC Universe, there are other dimensions or Universes. Superman in one Universe is for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. In another Universe Superman loses Lois Lane, and he loses his head. He experienced something that was traumatic to him, and became evil and Totalitarian. Superman losing Lois Lane left some sort of mark on Superman's soul. He ended up making decisions afterwards in sin and anger that also left things on his soul. The problem may have been a wound. It hurt to lose Lois. Superman's decision making afterwards was off when he lost his head, and allowed anger or rage to fuel him.

There are two Concepts here:

• Decisions made. Freewill.

• Things experienced that someone may not have had control of like a tragedy or an authority figure. It may have been something that just happened by fate, coincidence, or God?

Man makes a decision to go have ice-cream at the ice-cream store one day. He made a decision that he believed would make him feel good. He ends up meeting his future wife. He made a decision. Something unexpected happened?

Spirits

The Bible mentions Spirits. Spirits effect motivation. Here is a short list of some spirits mentioned.

• Deaf and dumb spirit (Mark 9:17-29)

• Lying spirit (II Chronicles 18:20-22)

• Perverse spirit (Isaiah 19:14; Romans 1:17-32)

• Seducing spirit (I Timothy 4:1)

• More at: https://www.christcenteredmall.com/teachings/evil-spirits.htm

What are these Spirits doing? They are influencing. They are effecting motivations. Someone with a seducing spirit or spirit of prostitution may have been on tinder in the wrong way? Someone with a lying tongue may have been a habitual liar? Someone with one of these spirits, their character may have been molded a certain way. Their soul, who they are, may have been molded to something. Part of their identity, even if it was subconscious, may have been molded to something. Some Spirits are generational. They may have been passed down from Generation to Generation. There may have been generational curses on some families. (Deuteronomy 5:9) Some spirits someone may have picked up by being in sin, and being unrepentant. Someone's Soul or character may have been molded around something.

In Christianity, keeping this non-denominational as much as possible, in general, a Christian to be is repenting of their sins, they go to Church and do what the pastor guides them into, such as baptism, and accepting in The Spirit of God. They are being cleansed, and their souls may be refreshed. Jesus heals people of their wounds, and the bad marks on the soul. When someone repents, and accepts in The Spirit of God, they are praying, they are studying their Bible, and they working to develop Godly character. Those other spirits are exorcised, and someone has The Spirit of God. They work to develop Godly Character. The Spirit of God wraps or entwines into someone's soul.

I have liked the concept of Thumos as a holistic way of looking to develop Godly Character.

Post: "Thumos and Holy Fire."

Thumos as described by Plato get deeper into what it means to be a man. Someone is doing a character study of God in the Bible. They are seeking God with all their heart, and SOUL,(Identity) and strength and mind. They are growing in Reason and Faith. Part of thumos being how a man reasons.

One of the reasons thumos has been most profound has been "Spiritual Warfare" attacking men, and what it means to be a man. Identity politics and Political Correctness have been form of Spiritual Warfare attacking how men view themselves and view God. Man is THE GLORY of God. What is Glory? Something glorious may have been David standing up to Goliath. Glory may be a man producing a work of art through God. Glory may be a new born child. Getting into Thumos, a man may be developing the creative energies of Logos through God's Holy Spirit in meekness to God.

Heart and Soul and Strength and Mind

• 5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.. (Deuteronomy 6:5)
  

• He answered, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" (Luke 10:27)

Song to Preface this: Heuy Lewis "Heart and Soul."

A year and a half ago I lived in walking distance from Duke University. Given someone was a Duke fan, or Duke Alumni, or had a lot of Duke Paraphernalia, they may have loved Duke University. How did they love Duke University? They loved Duke with their Soul or Identity. When Duke wins or has done well, they rejoice? They feel good? In their soul, they rejoice. That is where the soul is. Given anyone has been a sports fan at some point, and has identified as a fan of ___________ their soul rejoices when their team does well.

What is a soul? A soul is a person. In the Bible, given a King has fifty souls, he possibly has fifty servants or subjects. How do those subjects or servants identity themselves? Part of their identity may have been “A servant or subject of King Solomon” or “member of the Tribe of Judah.” They loved something with their Soul. Given someone loves or identifies with one Political Party of the other strongly in 2019, they may be loving something with their identity. Someone identifying with The Democrats, regardless of if they have believed in Jesus or not, may care more about what their friends think, and be prone to certain attitudes that lean towards ungodliness. Are their bad people on The Right? Yes. The State of Tennessee has been known to be Conservative. It is also the most politically corrupt state in the Union, and has accepted more liberal views on morality? There may have been ugly things going on behind closed doors in the State of Tennessee? What was the root of the problem? False teachers and false Prophets promoting sin and immorality, like “Sex Week” at the University of Tennessee, and societies general acceptance of it, in a “Whatever floats your boat” way.

There is a stripping process to growing in Faith. Someone growing in Faith should identify as a child of God, and work to build God’s Kingdom. Someone rejecting the world, and working to please God may end up hated. Faith is not easy.

The Soul and Identity.

• The Song of Songs is in the Bible as a representation of God's Love for Israel.

• In the New Testament, The Church is a Bride for Christ.

• Christ is to man as a man is to woman or Christ is the head of man as man is the head of woman. (1 Corinthians 11:3)

Marriage has been an important part of The Bible and Faith and growing in understanding.

Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, (1 Peter 3:1)

Woman is meek before her husband. Man is meek before God. A woman loving her husband with her heart and soul may have taken his name. She is forging a new identity as Mrs. _____________. Someone with a Hyphenated last name is one foot in, one foot out. Who or what does she love more? Her husband or Feminism? Feminists tend towards socialism. Is a woman really married to her husband or more married to The State? Woman is meek before her husband. A man is meek before God.