Voice of the Kingfisher speaks out …from a different perspective
by Elinor Montgomery
October 13, 2010
Disaster is coming to America, a nation that has developed an attitude of entitlement. It fills the void caused when there is no attitude of gratitude. Gratitude disappears when we no longer know the God to whom we owe our gratitude.
Concepts and theories, such as evolution, develop when the Word of God is taken from us and from our children. We no longer understand that from dust we came and back to dust we shall go, unless we have the breath of life in us. The truth of the matter is that we became spiritual beings before living beings because of God’s breath of the Spirit.
The secular world wants to tell us otherwise. It tells us we have evolved from a lower state of creation, as that of the beast without intelligence, into a higher state, as that of the living being with intelligence. Of course Satan is the beast and wants us to believe that he, and not God, brought us into being. This leaves us with a problem, for there was no understanding in the beast. It is not a reasoning creature. It acts upon instinct and physical needs. Should this message be true then, in our present state, we have acquired intelligence from nowhere and, therefore, owe gratitude to no one.
We simply exist as beings of intelligence, with the source for the existence of the beast left still very much in question, as well. The source for its evolvement seems to be from who knows where, perhaps, as the popular theory suggests, from a big bang or from possibly some slime? Yet all scientific research leads us to understand that the universe is functioning in perfect harmony with an earth, run in precision format, each and every part of the universe subject to a divine intelligence infinitely superior to that of man.
All the answers, which describe this superior intelligence, are found within the Word of God, who gives us the proof of His truth in prophecy, validating itself with the fulfilled prophecy appearing within the same biblical pages. It is sad for our children that we have allowed the educational system to drop the teaching of truth in favor of promoting a lie. God is exactly who He says He is – And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you (Exodus 3:14).’”
This is the name of God forever and this is His name to all generations, for He is eternal. He is above the dust of this earth and He is before it existed. Before you were, there had to be dust, and before there was dust there had to be God. We have the evidence of death to show that it is back to dust we go, exactly as He said would happen.
Which came first, the creature or God? The secular philosophy that the creature came forth without God and that we simply appeared or evolved as a living being, is the kind of trash we are teaching our children. We, in fact, are teaching them to believe that they are a kind of god within themselves. Such ideas lead to an attitude of entitlement because they come to see themselves as little gods, and behind entitlement is the notion that they exist from the power that dwells within themselves.
Hence, we have the New Age movement, promoting the power of positive thinking, which does not require God for life. One inevitably will conclude that one does not need to be grateful to anyone, especially to a higher power that comes from outside of oneself.
Now take the water from our bodies and we can see that a pile of dust would remain alongside of a few skeletal bones, which eventually would also disintegrate back to dust over time. So, we have to ask ourselves just how important water is in our lives. Is it not the water that keeps us alive? If it is also the breath of life from God that gives us life, we can begin to see the powerful correlation between the waters of this world and the Spirit of life that comes from God. Is it possible that we really could owe God a debt of gratitude for both?
Only with this understanding can we even begin to understand what God is talking about in Genesis, chapter 2, when He writes about the rivers. Only with this understanding can we begin to understand why in the world John the Baptist came preaching water baptism. Only with this understanding can we understand why Jesus made the declaration He made to the Samaritan woman at the well. Only with this understanding can we see why water and blood came forth, side by side, from the body of Jesus when He was pierced.
Once we recognize that the water in our body and the breath of life from the Spirit both came from God and that they are foundational to the lives we live, only then will we ever be able to develop an attitude of gratitude to God.
Satan knows this well, as does he know well the Word of God. Therefore his target is to get rid of any knowledge of God and His Word if he is to bring America into his One World Order with the rest of the world, which would make him ruler over it all. He cannot tolerate a people who worship God, and whose nation is founded on the Word of truth. It makes it pretty simple to discern who exactly is ruling over America by whether or not such rulers want to preserve or destroy the Word in this country.
Satan worship of self and the devil is filling our country at this time, while witchcraft and witches are on the rise. Is there a business today that is not involved in training programs based on the New Age concept of positive thinking? It has become the new religion of business. Does it not have its roots in that woman Eve, the first witch who took all of mankind with her back to the dust?
Satan had filled her mind with thoughts that produced an attitude of entitlement. Did he not put the idea into her head that she could be like the Most High God and that He did not mean what He said? She merely needed to accept the first religious belief system offered to man, the lie, which leads to the concept of man-gods (the source of all religious idolatry).
Compare Adam to Jesus! Adam was a pushover who would have accepted the offers of Satan in the wilderness, which he subsequently offered to Jesus who refused them. Adam, who miraculously came from dust to have never lived through the childhood of those years in which we are meant to grow in understanding, came face to face with Satan whom God had told him to avoid. However, it just takes one touch of the stove to get burned and God knew that which man did not know. As supreme Ruler, God had given His commandment directly to Adam on matters of life and death, but Adam, in direct disobedience, ignored His words and regulations or laws of his time. Hence, the beginning of the rebellion of man.
It is my strongest feeling, not based on anything other than feelings, that Adam arrived at that day when death would consume him, the very one God had created with eternity breathed into him. He discovered too late that every part of his being would regret the fact he had not heeded the Word of God. He is never wrong, as opposed to Satan who lies; He speaks only spiritual truths, and He never lies about them. It is my firmest belief that Adam would have looked to the heavens, feeling the same futility as Solomon felt and wrote about many centuries later.
In my heart of hearts, I believe Adam felt, in every fiber of his being, overwhelming regret that he had not heeded the Word of God and had not been grateful for the incredible gift of the Spirit of life, which God had chosen to impart from His womb to the womb of Adam.
Surely, Adam could have seen that God had brought forth a woman from him, flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone, a comparable partner with whom he could share the life-giving power of God, something Satan hated. Adam ignored the truth about his relationship with God as his Creator, which was under attack by Satan. He wanted to destroy the fruitful marriage bed, the institution established by God to include man in the life-giving process of creation.
How is it possible that man would listen to Satan when God was speaking to him? Is it possible that Adam and Eve, like America today, merely lacked an attitude of gratitude and were open to the deception that preys on that pride within every one of us, which tells us we are entitled to something, which we did not earn but were freely given? It is called an attitude of entitlement.
Wake up, America, to the fact we are creating monsters of our children; they don’t know which end is up. They are like little, beastly, dead ones walking, with none of the light of understanding in them. How can we ever instill an attitude of gratitude in a child who does not know the Word of God and so has learned to believe he is entitled to both life and the good things of the here and now? The truth is that God, alone, stores up treasures for us in heaven.
Until we return the Word of truth to our children, they will never know why the waters of the world are becoming raging floods. At the same time, if they are to survive them, they must change the waters in their lives, hence the concept of baptism.
They need to know that without the living water they are merely dust, but with the right kind of water they can become living beings created in the image of God, requiring the breath of the Spirit of life to actually bring eternity back into their lives.
Life abundantly, is available to our children, if only they could learn to be grateful for this incredible gift offered to us all through Jesus, and not because of any goodness within ourselves. It is a gift of mercy, which comes from God. We are not entitled to it, but rather we earn it, by making the right, life choices. The Word of God, alone, dictates the righteousness, or lack of it, in the choices we make. Let us be grateful and give praises to the Lord!
The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein. For He has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the waters (Psalm 24:1-2).