Voice of the Kingfisher speaks out …from a different perspective
by Elinor Montgomery
September 25, 2015
There is a moral nature in the universe, which has been corrupted by evil. That which is held steady and sure by God has been attacked successfully by Satan, the author of evil and darkness. All the pinions and undergirding, which He set in place, have been weakened to the point of breakdown.
Because there is freedom and liberty in God, man was granted the free will to determine his own fate. Having made the choice to ally himself with the dark side, God has determined to bring him back in line with His holiness and righteousness or rightness of nature. It is called the Way back to the tree of life.
In the midst of the universe, God created a unique and stable planet called earth where He placed His living beings, giving them life in His image of righteousness. They were to be partners in His plan for a family to create with Him a divine and holy universe reflecting the light of goodness instead of leaving it in darkness.
God will create a new heaven and a new earth when out of this creation He has shaped and molded the fallen human beings who will submit to His voice, the tool for His creation. He gave the world the sun, moon and stars, which, by His light, are signs of the stability to come in the light of His Son who is a participant in all of creation. In Him is found the love of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
But God also created the angels, with one created in perfection and beauty called Lucifer. When the iniquity of pride was found in him, he was cast out of the heavens taking a third of the angels with him, to become the vile creature he is known to be, as Satan, or the devil, who deceives mankind with lies. There are only the destructive forces of darkness in him, which seek to destroy the undergirding and pillars of the truth of God’s Word.
His new dwelling place was found eastward in Eden. It was here, east of Eden within the darkness, now found on the face of the deep of the universe, where God began the lighting of a new creation in a Garden of His own planting. The Light of the World would begin the long journey of the redemption of man, moving ever westward from the East. He will finally depart in the West when He has squeezed all the good and reflected light He can possibly squeeze from the darkness to come forth on the other side of the cross with Him as light, which will never submit to the darkness.
That Light of the World is the Son of God and Son of Man uniting His divinity and manhood into a one-flesh union of marriage, a partnership for the human and divine family of God. He will take His own from mankind – those who face the darkness of evil, yet, in the face of the lures of the devil, choose to live for God and to obey His words and His plan for a new heaven and earth, in which no sin shall be found.
He wants His family of man whom He will place in the command center of earth, to partner in ruler-ship over the new creation, to light the universe along the way wherever the Light of the World should lead. If man cannot pass the test of his earthly, human existence, he will not be fit for his heavenly commission. One must surely have the Spirit of life returned to him in an act of redemption from the death trap to which iniquity has led.
For the sun will set on this world as God takes back to Himself every vestige of light to leave the world in darkness (see Revelation 18:23). At this point, the destroying forces of evil under Satan, the devil and fallen ring-leader of fallen angels, are left to wage war among his own until all darkness closes in, causing self-destruction.
The earth will be shaken with a mighty shaking as God removes the pinions and structure, which were put in place at creation in harmony with the signs of the Light found in the sun, moon and stars. The sun speaks of the Source of light and life, while the moon and stars speak of the reflected light, which witnesses to the true Light, all together keeping the earth steady day and night.
Why is there such an array of signs, which are there for all to see daily? They were placed there as the prophetic signs of the presence of Jesus, the Son of God and Son of Man and of His witnessing voices from among the prophets, apostles and the bride of the church and those who simply believe on His name for salvation. Without a witness to the Light in the form of a voice for the God of the universe and for the Fisher of men, there would be no safety structure in this dark world in which man has chosen to live.
Those who refuse the redemptive work of the cross have no other recourse against the forces of evil when the world begins to shake, rattle and roll. Where will man hide in the darkness when the mountains begin to fall and the rivers pour out their flood waters? What power has the devil to fulfill any of man’s greatest needs in the face of death?
Who were the ones Jesus rebuked most while on earth? They were the religious priesthood and leaders called to be the light and voice for God’s Holy Scriptures, whom He called a den of vipers and sons of their father, the devil. They were no longer of Levitical heritage, but rather they had a high priest who was Roman appointed by the Roman Empire of the Babylonian system.
In all their pretentious goodness, flowing robes and religious costumes of position, they were least in the sight of Jesus, the Man of truth. But they had used their free will to choose the religious lies of Satan, which denied truth and supplanted it with the first religious system based on these lies. Today, it would be called Political Correctness, used to mask the truth with lies.
Within this group of the rejected by Jesus was the high priest of Judaism, Caiaphas. I wonder how the Lord looks upon his comparable partner, the Pope and Roman high priests of Roman Catholicism, only one part of the system of Christianity, which was birthed by the last of the empires of the Babylonian system of empires, the Roman Empire. I wonder how He will look upon all the other priests of religious systems, who are leading their flocks to destruction as well.
As the beast rises up out of the spiritual waters of the sea, another beast will come up out of the earth having two horns like a lamb but will have the voice of the dragon, called Satan, who speaks with a voice from the vilest of creatures, the serpent. Oh, do not think that those who parade as spiritual gods in high-priestly robes claiming to have the inerrant nature of Jesus are not, in truth, sons of the beast! Their office is established from the heart of Babel, itself, whether called Pope or Ayatollah; they all are Babylonian in nature, man appointed and not God appointed. In the end, they will cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
The blood bath has already begun and, though their horns or ruler-ship are like that of God and the Lamb in appearance, they really are but a dragon or beast in disguise with a false religious prophet as was the high priest of Jesus’ day, who served his father, the devil. But many will be deceived by him.
On the other hand, it will be easy for those who have ears to hear the voice of the Spirit and the bride calling the true church to her own exodus from out of the religious systems of man and into the light. As soon as we see the name of Jesus being abased, along with the works of the hands and the lies of religion being exalted, to the point that we consider religious cults worthy of our respect and tolerance, then it is time to look up. The Lord is getting ready to move in judgment on this dark world.
The devil will inflict his mark of 666 upon all the poor sods who have not had the wisdom or understanding to calculate the number of the beast, which is one with the number of man. It is the mark of the One World Order of one government, one economic system, and one religious system, all forced upon mankind so that he will fit into them. It is the same mark as that presently upon all apostate high priests, popes and other counterfeiters of the truth. It is the number of man in his iniquity of sin by which he accepts the religious lie, but will not accept the truth, concerning these three strongholds of Satan.
“In all your getting, get understanding (Proverbs 4:7)”, and in so doing, gain the knowledge of what religion really is, and always has been, as the tool of the Garden used by Satan when he deceived a woman who walked with God. You had better be able to tell the difference between the Word of God, which is truth, and the religion of Satan, which stands only on the lies of the serpent from the day he became the voice for the devil in the Garden.