“HOW DID WE GET HERE?” - The One Word Order 8.8.20

THE ONE WORD ORDER

Kolyah

August 8, 2020


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“HOW DID WE GET HERE?”

Think back to our spiritual journey just 12 months ago. How many hours a week/a day did most of us spend in serious, focused, prayer? How many of us participated in prayer conference calls … let alone participating in 4 calls per week?  How many times did we deliberately encourage people each day in the Lord; being totally conscious (and announcing the fact) that ALL of us are totally dependent upon YHVH moment by moment for our health, safety, and truth? Let’s admit it! We were feeling pretty secure as we went about our lives; personally embracing the comfort of YHVH’s grace in the midst of our rebellious world. At the same time, most of us probably felt as if something was going to happen soon that would shake things up. The atmosphere in the Spirit felt like we were reaching critical mass in regard to the level of sin, rebellion, and corruption upon the earth.  We figured (as it happened with the 9-11 attacks) that the coming shaking would appear suddenly without warning. And yet … what happened to us so many years ago … and what has happened to us since the beginning of March this year … was actually planned and developed over several years. The warnings appeared as blips on the screens of our lives, but nothing really fired us up to the level where we would stop strolling through normal life to urgently, publicly, and clearly address the dramatic changes that needed to be made in our world right NOW. It was as if something was rotting in a deep place underneath the foundations of our society … including under the church and synagogue … but we didn’t note the true reality of the stink, or of the stagnant buildup of evil, which was about to become very evident. 

Just as a thumbnail recap of life today: In less than 6 months, our nations (the USA, and all of our nations, if you are outside the USA) have been turned upside down with the release and dissemination of the COVID-19 virus across the world. As a result of this plandemic, we have seen freedom curtailed, businesses, churches, and schools shut down, and our economies crashed. We’re walking around muzzled in public, and some people are being closely tracked. Now we are seeing vicious, outrageous riots of anarchy raging in our streets; demanding the shutdown of police forces. We even heard of a group of BLM protestors demanding the entitlement of financial reparations to be given to people of color from all those of pale colored skin. Incitement! Fear! Division! Accusation! Manipulation! Intimidation! Control! Violence! Extortion! And all of this is happening while common sense, wisdom, and truth are being mocked, set aside, silenced, or trampled. And now it has become obvious that these crisis situations were weaponized and politicized to bring down the Judeo-Christian foundations of all nations … to replace them with the values and practices of satan’s kingdom. Demonstrating the fruit of this conspiracy, we have insane censorship, along with the firing, and the vicious discretization/slander of physicians, who are calling for the use of a readily available, proven-effective, curative/preventative medication to combat Covid-19 (hydroxychloroquine). Simultaneously, we have seen statues of historical leaders, like Abraham Lincoln and George Washington (who were servants of the Lord in the establishment and preservation of the USA, as a YHVH-created nation) are being attacked and threatened with destruction for being offensive to people of color. Seriously!?? 

But most of you know all of that information. The questions that people are asking right now are: “How did we get here so fast?”  “Have we always been walking at the very edge of a high cliff … on the edge of disaster … unaware of the threats … thinking that all was well?  If so, how is it possible that we didn’t see the tragedies and conspiracies coming together in our world?”  I would ask an additional question: Were we really blind to the fact that the level of moral decay, growing under the foundations of our nation, would eventually take us down? Recently, we heard employees of Planned Parenthood (here in the USA) admitting (in recorded testimony) that they have been harvesting the beating hearts of living, aborted, babies … along with other organs and glands … to be sold secretly. Now that we’ve heard the testimony, how much outcry did we hear from the populace; vilifying that horrific activity? We heard very little news about it in the media, but even with the level of reporting, which we did have, there was very little outcry. What is wrong with us??  Have we just accepted the killing of the unborn (abortion) merely (as those, who are spewing the Godless humanistic spin declare it to be) as just the removal of unwanted, undifferentiated, tissue, but not a living child? Legally killing babies in the womb, when Roe vs Wade (1973) was voted into law by the US Supreme Court, was a massive assault on the heart and sovereignty of the Lord. How much of an assault was it on the hearts of those in the church and synagogue in 1973, when that ruling to allow abortion was first passed? In this season of the culture, when feelings reign supreme over truth and logic, where were the agonizing outcries … the emotions of horror, and the feelings of grief … over this abortion atrocity at its onset?  The people of the Bible should have risen up en masse and shut down the country with protests; proclaiming that abortion is the shedding of innocent blood that would inspire YHVH’s wrath of judgment against this nation. The silence was deafening.  It still is in many regards.

How did we allow Godless entities like Amazon, Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Microsoft, Monsanto, CNN, Hollywood, Twitter, et.al achieve the power to control the information, the supplies, the narrative, the economy, the freedom, the health & safety, and the moral standards of entire nations? We allowed these wicked, godless, global entities to acquire their power bit by bit, because we did not recognize their seductions, nor their sleight of hand moves to addict us to what they offered. Why didn’t we recognize them? The answer: It was because we didn’t acknowledge YHVH as the premier authority of our personal lives and of the nations. Believing ourselves to be wise without Him, we became colossal fools. We set YHVH aside as a focus and as a priority in the public arena. We sidelined His word. The Lord sent us warnings about the dangerous road we were walking, but we turned our back on the obvious signs that the foundations of our lives, families, institutions, and nations were beginning to fracture. We didn’t pay attack to the stench that was arising in the spiritual realm to permeate our culture and our world. Too often, when things seemed to be breaking down, we simply put some sort of accommodating, man-made, patch on the breaches, and went on to live without making the vital and necessary changes.

Let me stop right here to share something from my own experience that is happening right now to make this point. Again, sometimes it’s not easy to live with a prophetic calling/anointing because at times the Lord needs us to personally experience something unpleasant. He does this so that we get a clear parable, or a visual example, right before our eyes; making a point crystal clear, so that we can see the problem, learn from it, and then teach others about it.  Here is the latest parable that is painting a 3D picture for me; illustrating some lessons about our world’s condition. 

A couple of weeks ago, while doing some laundry in our basement, I noticed that there was some standing water in our floor drain. No water had been spilled on the floor, so I found the puddle in the drain to be puzzling. After conferring with my husband, it was decided that perhaps the drain was plugged and needed to be cleaned out professionally. Before contacting a plumber to roto- rooter it out, I asked the county sewer inspector to make sure that that public drain near our home was not plugged up with debris; thus, making it difficult for our drain to convey water freely through the pipe running under our home. The inspector announced that the problem was not on the street, but was within our own drainage pipes. So, the plumber was called. When he arrived, the man suggested that the cleaning cable should free any clog in about 10 minutes. I was relieved when he began the process of sending the power-driven, rotating cable down through the pipe; thinking that our problem was soon to be resolved. After more than 30 minutes, the plumber reported that he was unable get the cable through the pipe. But then the really bad news came. He told me that when he pulled the water out of the drain, he got lots of MUD. It was then that he discovered, the curved portion of the drain pipe under the house was in pieces. He suggested that in 40 years of doing this kind of work, he had only once before seen a PVC pipe shattered like that under a house. He said something very hard and very heavy, like a crowbar, would have had to be put down into the drain, and bash the curved portion of the pipe. Furthermore, he said that with the amount of mud down there, it was likely to have been broken for years … even from the time the house was built. The stench that was now arising after the roto-rootering attempt made it clear that something had to be done to fix this pipe and drain very soon. Letting this brokenness continue was not an option, now that it had been uncovered. What this means is that, this Monday, a portion of our basement floor will have to be jack hammered, so that the workers can dig down 2.5 feet under the house foundation to install a new pipe.  That will require hauling out all that disgusting mud and enduring the stench of it. It will involve checking for mold that may have grown under the foundation as a result of the constant moisture. Given that the floor drain is right next to our furnace, and also next to our water heater, both of those appliances could be disturbed and even damaged by the jack hammering vibrations, by the flying concrete shards, and by the ensuing deep excavation. Insurance will cover the majority of the work, but we will have to produce more than $700 out of our own pocket, and out of budget, to cover our deductible and the cost of the initial exploration of the problem. A special heap air scrubber might have to be rented to deal with the rising stench and polluted air. It could be possible that, even after the new basement floor is cemented in to cover the excavation, the horrible odors may require us to seek out a hotel for a night or two … again, not covered by insurance. This is NOT something we wanted to experience by any means, and yet the Lord is using this to teach some very important things about this season of the earth. So, let’s unpack this “parable” and apply it to our present national, personal, and cultural situations in which we all find ourselves.

#1: At the time of our home’s construction, something, that was meant to safely convey flowing (living) water under the foundation, was flawed/broken and then covered over. The USA was established by a group of bible-believing, God-fearing men, and yet, many of the founders were practicing members of Free Masonry. That fact was concealed and covered over, so that few understood the vulnerability that existed (and still does) under our national foundations. How many other western nations were established with Free Mason rituals, covenants, and practices as part of the underlying foundations? How many founding fathers/mothers covered over the pagan or occult practices that had laid claim to the territory on which their new nation was being built? Some unseen, wicked, things could be operating underneath the foundations that we are able to see.

#2: Just over a week ago, I noticed a sign that something was wrong. The first indication of something amiss was stagnant water hovering in the floor drain, and becoming rank.  What is it that is not flowing properly in this nation (or in your nation, if you are not an American)? Truth is not flowing (it’s lying dead in the streets) … freedom is not flowing … unity and reason are not flowing … the true gospel of Yeshua the Messiah is not flowing in many places. The “pipes” (the church, the legislative bodies, the judicial authorities, academia, etc.)  those agencies which were created to convey life (the truth, the laws, the priorities, and the word of YHVH) under our nation, have been broken for a long time. As a result, these institutions and conduits of social values are out of Godly order and outside of His design.  Rather than prospering in Godly function and flow, these “pipes” are producing dysfunction and disorder; causing a hidden mess under the nation. Underneath daily life, there is corruption and danger putting all of our lives at risk, but few have noticed the stagnation until recently.

#3: My nose detected a nasty stench arising, so I checked to see if something beyond our own house was the culprit. How many times have we looked at the stinky dysfunction in our nation’s operations, or in the affairs of our own lives, but wanted to blame something/someone outside of our own responsibility? Often, when there is a problem, we look outside of ourselves first. Sometimes we ignore the first scents of a bad odor, thinking that it will pass on its own without our intervention. Sometimes we get used to the stench, and consider it normal. How long have we allowed the first hints of foulness to go unexplored and unattended? What stench have we grown accustomed to by tolerating it?

#4: We tried to solve our drainage problem in the simple, expected, convenient way, but the brokenness, hidden out of sight, was too great to allow for a quick or cheap fix. It’s always more comfortable to have the easy solution … the one that doesn’t cost us too much … the one that is completed quickly, and which doesn’t disrupt our lives much. But when it comes to sin … whether it’s personal sin or national sin … the quick, cheap, easy, non-disruptive solutions usually accomplish very little. To get to the bottom of sin and brokenness, is takes some work. It costs us something, even if it’s only our pride, excuses, and delusions.  The Lord always wants to do a complete work. He’s not in a rush because He wants us to go deep, so that the defilement at work in us is completely rooted out; so that the repairs for the damage can be completed perfectly.

#5: When the mud was disturbed under our foundation, and when the nasty, underground, environment began to be exposed in its truth, the stench became nauseating to the point that the problem finally had to be dealt with. Once uncovered, we couldn’t pretend that it didn’t exist, and that it was of no consequence. There was no way that we could just cover it up and leave it to the next homeowner! It demanded OUR attention NOW. Even during these days, since the problem was diagnosed by the plumber, that which was stirred up under the house is emitting an unpleasant odor throughout our house. Windows have to be left open to vent in the outside fresh air (even when it’s 90 degrees outside). I’ve had to purchase a small air purifier for the bedroom so that I can rest at night. When the Lord exposes wickedness in a nation (or even in a family, business, church, etc.) He wants us to be uncomfortable … to not ignore it. Sin is deadly. It impacts or invades every part of our life eventually. God forbid that we would be accustomed to the stench of sin, so that we stop being aware of its deadly presence!  And yet, haven’t we gotten used to some stench of sin in our nations and even in our personal lives? Could it be that this COVID-19 situation is being used by the Lord to reveal to us the very dangerous level of sin and corruption present in our government officials/agencies, in our media, in our health agencies, and in our pharmaceutical companies … just to name a few? How about the level of false religion, false doctrines, and false gods that we have become accustomed to tolerating, in order to avoid conflicts with the “political correctness police” of our secular humanistic society?

#6: The suggestion that someone had sabotaged this portion of the plumbing before we bought our house (or perhaps someone just did a very careless or sloppy job of construction 40 years ago) … the knowledge that it wasn’t our fault … made no difference in the course required to fix this damaged conduit. It was OUR problem now. Looking back 40 years to fix blame on someone would be a waste of time, focus, and energy.  It is what it is. It’s time to deal with the brokenness. How many of us have suffered loss and pain because of unrighteous acts of others, which have negatively impacted our lives? So many people don’t do the work of healing and of getting repaired, because they want someone else to be responsible for their mess (for their life situation, challenges, and choices). They want the person, who caused the harm (or whoever they perceive to have denied them something), to pay compensation for it … to be made responsible for it. They think that if they forgive, it gives the message that what the perpetrator did was OK. That is an incorrect conclusion. Forgiveness give US freedom to heal, grow, and move on. It breaks our casualty covenants and judgements set up against others that very often keep them from coming to awareness, to repentance and to wholeness.  As a result, holding on, the perceived “victims” will wait in their anger and hurt for years, rather than undertake in the provision, provided by the Lord, for them to heal and prosper now. I suspect some of these protestors have some genuine losses and pain fueling their demonstrations, even while many others are portraying themselves as victims for political gain and power, with their goal being anarchy and hostile takeover.  It’s very important to know that holding people hostage to our rage in the present day, for things that other people might have done to us in years past, is a waste of soul. What is truly broken must be repaired now. However, the kind of repairs that our nations need in this moment, are not accomplished by human beings. We need the Lord to accomplish what we cannot. We need Him to show us the way to healing, wholeness, and unity founded in truth. When a human soul is on a rampage … when human emotions are given the power to dictate the narrative and the solutions without Divine input, no good thing comes from it. People must make changes based upon the guidance of the Lord. Without Yeshua, there is no true and enduring justice … social, racial or otherwise. People tend to say that they have a right to speak their mind. Well, what the scripture indicates is that first we are to acquire the mind of Christ, and then speak His mind through our mouths … that is if we want to bring forth wholeness, righteousness, peace, and truth.

#7: In order to repair our subterranean broken pipe, a 3-foot by 6-foot section of our basement flood must be destroyed. Getting down to the level where the repairs and replacement can begin, is very disruptive, very time consuming, and very disturbing. Jack hammering is noisy, and destructive. Having to move all the things in the basement that now occupy (or are adjacent to) the surfaces to be broken up is time consuming and laborious. We don’t want to do all that work, but it has to be done before the plumber can begin to bring forth the necessary changes; restoring wholeness to our house. The corruption and sin running wild in our nations won’t be addressed successfully, until we can move all the distractions, and competition for the space, away from the target site. Our lives have been so busy, so full, so packed in with all sorts of things, sitting on top of the hidden brokenness, that we have actually been giving cover to the dysfunction. If we were just busy enough or distracted enough, we found that we could give ourselves permission to not explore the stinky odors that we would occasionally smell.  Disorder and dysfunction have been going on for years, but we were too busy to move things around so that they might be exposed. Covid-19, in many ways, cut off some distractions, so that shifting things around to accommodate the new “rules” being given to us, gave us the chance to investigate the nasty whiff in the air, and what we have been neglecting to notice before.

#8: Exposing a large area of sticky, moldy mud … and then removing that sludge … will be both unpleasant and potentially hazardous; but it has to be done for restoration and wholeness to occur. The sludge was built up over many years. The removal of that mud, which resulted from the broken pipe, will take the amount of work/time that is commensurate with the time that the broken pipe was allowed to operate in dysfunction. Our national politics, our media, our moral values, etc. have been steeped in corruption for a very long time. It’s going to be smelly and messy to muck out the exposed corruption, perversion, and rebellion. In some cases, whenever the Deep State will be exposed and hauled away, it will be dangerous. However, there is no other option. The corrupted soil that now exists under our national and personal foundations must be hauled out and replaced with clean support material after the repairs are made.

#9: Vital appliances that could be affected by the breaking up of the basement floor, need to be protected … but even then, internal damage could result in the water heater and furnace from the violent shaking of a jackhammer. We need to be prepared to face some collateral damage from the necessary shaking that brings exposure to the underlying, formerly hidden, brokenness. The same goes       for the operations that have begun in our nations right now. The Lord is shaking things. The shaking will increase before it’s over. We are to cover the things that are healthy and good, but also keep in mind that even with protection, some good things might be damaged in the process. We trust the Lord for protection, but also proceed wisely with necessary cover for the fragile and vulnerable things and persons. If collateral damage occurs, we trust that the Lord will supply the needed restoration.

10: The deeper the pipe was implanted by the builder, the deeper the plumber will have to excavate under the foundation, to be able to get underneath the broken part, to remove it, and to put in a new, strong, replacement pipe. The deeper the construction workers dig, the greater will be the amount of polluted, moldy mud removed from the hole, to be replaced with the same quantity of clean, dry, supportive, soil when the new pipe is installed. We need to prepare ourselves for some major excavation in our nations and social structures. Perversion, rebellion, corruption, and lies have gone down deep into our nation’s soil. The Lord established deep conduits of righteousness under our nations at the beginning to support a blessed life for us, but largely, we have rejected them, replaced them, or ignored them. We are suffering the consequences.  When YHVH is done with the shaking, the digging, the repairs, and the hauling away of the nasty stuff, YHVH will bring in fresh support material to undergird our nations. I believe that He will bring an awakening through revival, and through encounter with Him to properly position His Righteous Remnant, in our supportive positions, to uphold His truth, way, and will.

11: We have been told that this repair will be a lengthy process. Not only will the excavation and replacement need to take place, but then a new cement floor will need to be laid down, leveled, and dried. Once restored to wholeness, we will have to labor again to put things back into place that needed to be temporarily set aside and relocated so that the work under the foundation could be accomplished. In the process of moving things around for the repairs, we have discovered some items that we don’t need to keep anymore. Some things are no longer useful and no longer applicable to this season. As a result, we will lighten our load; making necessary changes to make room for the new things that may come later.  The same thing is true for our nations and personal lives that are going through the upheaval of our present challenges. We need to allow time for some new groundwork to be laid in place, leveled, and dried before we start stomping around on it. The Lord will tell us when it is time. Meanwhile, we can take an inventory of that which has been displaced, moved and sorted in the shaking.  It’s time to jettison what is no longer useful … to lighten our load so that we make room for what the Lord yet has in store for us.

12: This basement excavation and repair will be an unexpected, personal expense for us. It is something that we never thought would be needed. While it doesn’t seem fair for us to pay the price of someone else’s careless workmanship, life in this world is not fair. Sometimes, all of us pay a price for someone else’s dishonesty, corruption, or laziness. Our job is to make sure that we do all things well and with integrity, so that others don’t have to suffer because of our lack of skill, sin, or faulty character. At the moment we have to open up our savings account to provide for the expenses not covered by our insurance, we also must trust that the Lord will not leave us lacking anything that we need. Some “wants” may need to be postponed, but our needs will be met right on time. We trust Him for that. Likewise, our nations and personal lives may pay a price for wholeness to come, but it will be a good investment. If we do our part, and trust YHVH to do what we cannot do, all will be well at the end of the day. We have a very faithful God.

So … that is what I sense the Lord wants me to share with you in this writing. Again, I’m finding it hard to do intercession as usual. Nothing is usual right now. The Lord is doing some new things. As a result, He is asking us to go with Him, wherever He leads. The form and format of doing things in the past … and that includes how we do intercession … is changing. Right now, He wants us to hear His wisdom and guidance as well as feel His love.  As the weeks and months unfold, we will find ourselves being changed in amazing, Kingdom, ways. The old is deteriorating. The hidden is being exposed. The shaking has begun. The excavation of human hearts and of human institutions is underway. It’s going to get very stinky at times. There will be some uncertainties, I’m sure. But in and through it all YHVH IS LORD, and He is doing something in our world that is both necessary and marvelous.

**Pray for the Lord to reveal, in mercy, all that needs to be revealed to us … in our nation, in our institutions, in our faith communities, in our families, in our personal lives, etc.

**Pray that He will give us the courage, the strength, the faith and the where-with-all to go through whatever is necessary for our wholeness to come … for His glory to be revealed.

**Pray for righteousness and truth to prevail in all the difficult situations we face personally and as a nation.

**Pray that we will not shrink back, cover-up, blame, or accuse in the midst of the shaking.

**Pray for to see beyond the unpleasantries, and into the restoration to come.

**Pray that we will be willing and able to pay the price for restoration to be accomplished.

**Pray for mercy to hold back collateral damage of the innocent and fragile ones during the shaking.

**Pray for us to do the work of moving the clutter and obstacles out of the way, so that the necessary work can be done.

**Pray for us to make good and wise choices about the changes that need to be made to bring, and to maintain, wholeness. 

**Pray that we will have the willingness, the discernment, and the courage to let go of the things that no longer serve the Kingdom purposes in our lives. 

**Pray that all will be able to forgive and let go of the past offenses, pain, and errors.

**Pray that we will be willing support material, available to be positioned to uphold what the Lord is bringing into restoration.

**Pray that we will have the wisdom and patience to wait for the new thing to solidify before we start walking all over it. Let the new thing season and mature until the Lord says, “Now arise and dance upon this new creation.”

As a personal prayer request: May the Lord bring this drain pipe brokenness, currently under our house, into a state of wholeness with the least amount of collateral damage, stink, and expense. Please pray that our health will be protected and unaffected by the nasty stuff, and by nasty vapors, being released in this project. Having said that, I am fixed upon the truth that I will be able to praise Him IN ALL things, because HE IS with me. Just receiving these revelations of the Lord regarding our various nations, and lives, as reflected in this parable of our broken plumbing, is a blessing. Being able to share the revelations with you is a double blessing.  If you are moved to cover this Monday’s excavation and repairs with your intercession, I would be most grateful. This too shall pass. In the meantime, there will be glory to reflect!

Blessings and love,

Kolyah