Turning the Perilous Times on its Head

2:34am Feb 25/2021

Last night, I started seeing how multiple prophetic puzzle pieces started clicking together.  If we are in “Perilous Times” as Perry Stone and Kay Nash and others say, then it makes sense why this is the Year of the Distinction between the Righteous and the Wicked. It makes sense why the watchmen are warning ourselves to “Come out from among them, that you do not partake in Babylon’s plagues.”  It requires that we “separate ourselves from the heathen” like the returning remnant from exile in Nehemiah’s day in chapter 9. It makes sense why Bobby Conner pointed out that this is the year WE decide what we want based on what comes out of our mouths. Will we decree righteousness or passively and fearfully align with wickedness? Just because it’s the “Perilous Times” doesn’t mean we need to participate with it but rather be a walking piece of Kingdom of Heaven here on earth.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 KJV –  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 NLT –  But understand this, that in the last days dangerous times [of great stress and trouble] will come [difficult days that will be hard to bear]. 2 For      people will be lovers of self [narcissistic, self-focused], lovers of money [impelled by greed], boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane, 3 [and they will be] unloving [devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane], irreconcilable, malicious gossips, devoid of self-control      [intemperate, immoral], brutal, haters of good, 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of [sensual] pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [outward] godliness (religion), although they have denied its power [for their conduct nullifies their claim of faith]. Avoid such people and keep far away from them.

Let’s do a contrast here to clearly define the distinction between the two.  

Lovers of Self                          vs         Love your neighbor as yourself

Lovers of money                     vs         Generous and Lovers of God.

Boastful                                   vs         Humble, modest, unassuming WORDS

Arrogant                                  vs         Humble, modest ATTITUDE

Revilers                                   vs         One who praises & extols & respects (God, people, nation)

Disobedient to parents         vs         Obedient to parents (Father God’s commandments)

Ungrateful                               vs         Grateful, thankful

Unholy & Profane (unclean) vs         Holy, righteous, set apart for God reverent

Without natural affection     vs         Natural affection, gentle, humane

Irreconcilable                         vs         Making Peace, Finding common ground

Malicious gossips                 vs         Speak praiseworthy of others

Devoid of Self Control          vs         Self-controlled, disciplined (in words, thought, actions, attitude)

Brutal (violent)                       vs         Gentle, Humane

Haters of good                       vs         Lovers of Good

Traitors                                    vs         Loyal, trustworthy

Reckless                                  vs         Careful, cautious, prudent

Conceited (vain)                     vs         Modest, putting others first

Lovers of sensual pleasure  vs         God first before self-gratification

Outwardly Religious              vs         Personal, inwardly intimate relationship with the LORD

Deny Holy Spirit’s power      vs         Embrace and Manifest Holy Spirit’s power

Now honestly allow the Holy Spirit to assess where you land, take communion to bring every shred of unrighteousness under the blood of the Lamb of God, and make the effort in thought and deed to align yourself with righteousness so your life can shine brightly in a crooked and perverse generation.  (Phil 2:14-15) Copy and print out this list to keep it before your eyes to remind you now and in the coming days how to conduct yourself when the fire gets hot. Decree God’s righteousness into the earth as His oracles – one who CREATES with His words (vs prophetic that foretells the future) His Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven.

Numbers:

I received this at 2:34am. When I searched on this number set, up popped Strongs G234 = Pollution and H234 = Memorial Offering. Also, there were 234 entries for “Thick Darkness.”

G234 = Pollution, Condemnation

• Prophets like Anita Alexander, Jeremiah Johnson, Amanda Grace, & Robin Bullock have been warning over the last couple of years about the pollution / mixture that needs to be purged out of the body of Christ. 
• I released a word Nov 19, 2019 about “Why are we bringing the Unclean into the House of the LORD?” The body of Christ needs to regain their distinction between the clean and the unclean, the holy and the profane.
• The GREEK mindset exalts the mind (soul) and the tree of knowledge of good and evil leads to pollution and condemnation.
• Acts 15:20 KJV – But that we write unto them, that they abstain from POLLUTIONS (G234) of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
• Malachi 1:6-10 -NLT   6 The Lord of Heaven’s Armies says to the priests: “A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am your father and master, where are the honor and respect I deserve? You have shown contempt for my name! “But you ask, ‘How have we ever shown contempt for your name?’ 7 “You have shown contempt by offering defiled sacrifices on my altar. “Then you ask, ‘How have we defiled the sacrifices?[c]’ “You defile them by saying the altar of the Lord deserves no respect. 8 When you give blind animals as sacrifices, isn’t that wrong? And isn’t it wrong to offer animals that are crippled and diseased? Try giving gifts like that to your governor, and see how pleased he is!” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 9 “Go ahead, beg God to be merciful to you! But when you bring that kind of offering, why should he show you any favor at all?” asks the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 10 “How I wish one of you would shut the Temple doors so that these worthless sacrifices could not be offered! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “and I will not accept your offerings.
• Romans 12:1 NLT – And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.
• John 3:16-19–  16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
• Romans 8:1 – There is therefore now NO condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk NOT after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• Galatians 5:19-24 –  19 Now the practices of the [i]sinful nature (*the flesh) are clearly evident: they are sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality (total irresponsibility, lack of self-control), 20 [j]idolatry, [k]sorcery, hostility, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions [that promote heresies], 21 envy, drunkenness, riotous behavior, and other things like these. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit [the result of His presence within us] is love [unselfish concern for others], joy, [inner] peace, patience [not the ability to wait, but how we act while waiting], kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the [l]sinful nature together with its passions and appetites.

H234 – Memorial Offering, the portion of the meal offering that was burned, that which calls to memory.

• The prophets like Patricia King, Che Ahn, Kay Nash, and Bill Johnson among others have declared a baptism of fire is coming. Others have called 2020(s) the year or decade of fire.
• H234 -azkarah – is us calling God to memory. It is rooted in H2142 – zakar – which is often used with God remembering HIS covenant with US.
• Lev 2:9 – And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial (H234) thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is AN OFFERING MADE BY FIRE, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
• Lev 2:16 – And the priest shall burn the memorial (H234) of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
• Lev 5:12 – Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial (H234) thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: IT IS A SIN OFFERING.
• Malachi 3:1-4, 16-18 -“Behold, I am going to send My [a]messenger, and he will prepare and clear the way before Me. And the Lord [the Messiah], whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; the [b]Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of hosts. 2 But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderer’s soap [which removes impurities and uncleanness]. 3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi [the priests], and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the Lord [grain] offerings in righteousness. 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in ancient years…. 16 Then those who feared the Lord [with awe-filled reverence] spoke to one another; and the Lord paid attention and heard it, and a book of REMEMBRANCE (*H2146, from root H2142) was written before Him of those who fear the Lord [with an attitude of reverence and respect] and who esteem His name. 17 “They will be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts, “on that day when I publicly recognize them and openly declare them to be My own possession [that is, My very special treasure]. And I will have compassion on them and spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.” 18 Then you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not serve His

Why would God do this?

• Isaiah 42:16 – And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness (H4285) light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
• H4285 – Mahsak – dark place, darkness, secrecy – hiding-place, dark region, grave, Hades
• Cr Ref: Ps 74:20 –  Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark H4285 places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

234 Entries of Thick Darkness

• Exo 20:21 – And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness (H6205) where God was.
• 2 Sam 22:8  – 8  “Then the earth shook and quaked, The foundations of the heavens trembled And were shaken, because He was angry. 9  “Smoke went up out of His nostrils, And devouring fire from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it. 10  “He bowed the heavens also, and came down With thick darkness (H6205) under His feet. 11  “He rode on a cherub and flew; He appeared upon the wings of the wind.
• Isaiah 60:1-3 – “Arise [from spiritual depression to a new life], shine [be radiant with the glory and brilliance of the Lord]; for your light has come, And the glory and brilliance of the Lord has risen upon you.2  “For in fact, darkness (H2821) will cover the earth And deep darkness (H6205) will cover the peoples; But the Lord will rise upon you [Jerusalem] And His glory and brilliance will be seen on you. 3  “Nations will come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.
• chôshek, kho-shek’; from H2821; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness:—dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
• “deep darkness will cover the PEOPLES (H3816)” – a people, nation, folk

“234” VERSES

Ps 23:4-5 (AMP) – 4 Even though I walk through the [sunless]]valley of the shadow of death,  I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort and console me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You have anointed and refreshed my head with oil; My cup overflows.

2 Chron 34:

• Josiah made King age 8, sought the LORD 8 yrs later (age 16), began to purge high places, Asherah worship & idols, burning the bones of the priests on their pagan altars after 12 yrs of reign (age 20),
• He purged and cleansed Judah & Jerusalem (Cr ref Mal 3)
• 18th year of Reign (Age 26), he began rebuilding the temple with the money collected from the remnant& High Priest Hilkiah (“My Portion is Jehovah”) found the Book of the Law (meaning it had been LOST, even within the religious leaders)
• King Josiah WOKE UP to the reality of the wrath of God upon them for breaking God’s commandments, tore his clothes in grief over their sins, and humbled himself. Huldah (“weasel”), the prophetess and wife of Shallum (“retribution”) prophesied that because he humbled himself and the people, the wrath of God would be delayed onto the following generation.
• He gathers everyone from greatest to least and read aloud the Book of the Covenant which was found in the House of the LORD.
• King Josiah led them into covenant with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• He removed all the repulsive things from the land and made everyone who were present in Israel to serve the LORD their God.
• **Notice that the seeking of the LORD, tearing down, purging, and rebuilding of the temple happened BEFORE their hearts were opened to the Law and BEFORE they had entered into covenant with the LORD.

2 Kings 23:4 – 4 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers to bring OUT of the temple of the Lord all the articles made for Baal, for [the goddess] Asherah, and for all the [starry] host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel [where Israel’s idolatry began]. 

2 Sam 23:3-7 – 3  “The God of Israel, The Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘He who rules over men righteously, Who rules in the fear of God, 4  Is like the morning light when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, When the fresh grass springs out of the earth Through sunshine after rain.’ 5  “Truly is not my house so [blessed] with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured. For will He not cause to grow and prosper All my salvation and my every wish? Will He not make it row and prosper? 6  “But the wicked and worthless are all to be thrown away like thorns, Because they cannot be taken with the hand; 7 “But the man who touches them Must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear, And they are utterly burned and consumed by fire in their place.”

– Cross reference with blogpost “Identify Your Thorns. There’s a Blessing Underneath.” May 22, 2019

Who is armed with iron?

• Rev 2:26-27 – 26 And he who overcomes [the world through believing that Jesus is the Son of God] and he who keeps My deeds [doing things that please Me] until the [very] end, to him I will give authority and power over the nations; 27 and he shall shepherd and rule them with a rod of iron, as the earthen pots are broken in pieces, as I also have received authority [and power to rule them] from My Father; (**Church of Thyratira – Overcoming Jezebel & the depths of Satan; cross ref clay pots with Jer 19, Isaiah 30)
  
  
• Ps 2:8-10 –  8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. 10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

Who are the thorns?

• Num 33:55 – 55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, and they will attack you in the land in which you live.
• Matt 13:7, 22– 7 Other seed fell among thorns, and thorns came up and choked them out…. 22 And the one on whom seed was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the worries and distractions of the world and the deceitfulness [the superficial pleasures and delight] of riches choke the word, and it yields no fruit. 
  • What are the “cares of this world”? G3308. “Through the idea of distraction; cares/anxiety, to be drawn in different directions.” Prophets warning about distractions and to push to focus ourselves. We do that by meditating on Him and His word. The song comes to mind: ‘Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In the light of His glory and grace’

• Heb 6:7-8 –  7 For soil that drinks the rain which often falls on it and produces crops useful to those for whose benefit it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God; 8 but if it persistently produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.
• Isaiah 34:11-13  11 But the pelican and the porcupine will take possession of it; The owl and the raven will dwell in it. And He will stretch over it (Edom) the measuring line of desolation And the plumb line of emptiness. 12  Its nobles—there is no one there Whom they may proclaim king— And all its princes will be nothing. 13  Thorns will come up in its fortified palaces, Nettles and brambles in its fortified cities; It will be a haunt for jackals, An abode for ostriches.
• Eze 28:20-24 –  20 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 21 “Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her 22 and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, And I will show My glory and be glorified in your midst. Then they will know [by personal experience] that I am the Lord when I bring judgment and punishment on her, And I will manifest My holiness in her. 23  “For I will send virulent disease to her And blood into her streets, And the wounded will fall in her midst By the sword upon her from every side, And they shall know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord. 24 And there will no longer be a briar or a painful thorn to prick the house of Israel from all those around them who treated them with contempt; then they will know [with clarity] that I am the Lord God.”
• Judges 8:4-7 –  4 So Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over [the river], he and the three hundred men who were with him—exhausted, yet [still] pursuing [the enemy]. 5 He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who are following me since they are exhausted, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.” 6 But the leaders of Succoth said, “Are Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hands, that we should give bread to your army?” 7 Gideon said, “For that [response], when the Lord has handed over Zebah and Zalmunna to me, I will thrash your bodies with the thorns and briars of the wilderness.
• **Previous Blog post – Identify your Thorns. There’s a blessing underneath.
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  • Song of Solomon 2:2 – 2  “Like the lily among the thorns, So are you, my darling, among the maidens.”

Deut 23:3-6  – 3 An Ammonite or [b]Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the Lord; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall ever enter the assembly of the Lord, 4 because they did not meet you with bread (food) and water on the road as you came out of Egypt, and because they hired [to act] against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. 5 Nevertheless, the Lord your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God has loved you. 6 You shall never seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days.

• Matt 25:41-46 – 41 “Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Leave Me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels (demons); 42 for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink; 43 I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me [with help and ministering care].’ 44 Then they also [in their turn] will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or as a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ 45 Then He will reply to them, ‘I assure you and most solemnly say to you, to the extent that you did not do it for one of the least of these [my followers], you did not do it for Me.’ 46 Then these [unbelieving people] will go away into eternal (unending) punishment, but those who are righteous and in right standing with God [will go, by His remarkable grace] into eternal (unending) life.”
• **Look at this through a spiritual lens.  Churches that failed to give the Manna from Heaven, whose impotent anti-Holy Spirit doctrine prevented them from releasing the living waters that flowed from their bellies to quench a spiritual thirst, who withheld the fine linen garments of the righteous acts of the saints – the covering of the covenant of God’s commandments, and withholding the keys to the prison cells by teaching Balaam’s doctrine that there is no longer a definition of sin by tossing out the Law of Moses on its ear.  

Isaiah 23:4 – 4  Be ashamed, O Sidon [mother-city of Tyre, now like a widow bereaved of her children]; For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying, “I have neither labored nor given birth [to children]; I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 = Purim begins at evening

Purim starts this evening. Fiery judgment meant to annihilate the Jews backfired and killed Haman and his family and those who came against the Jews. Haman and King Xerses lusted after the wealth the Jews had (promise of 10k talents of silver that would be confiscated from the Jews). The boomerang result was the fear of the LORD descending upon them and the Jews grew in number (Esther 8:17).

Prophets have telling us to celebrate the victory before we see it. (Chuck pierce, Hank Kunneman, Tim and Dutch sheets)