We were born into a world of sin and brought up in it. Therefore, it’s not too difficult to see why we may not think that we are in immediate contact with our Living God other than the fact that as children, we have the innate ability to see the world through His eyes. As we get older, believing in something that we can’t see begins to appear strange to us. After all, we can’t see our soul, but our soul is the most significant way that God can communicate through us. Hence, there exists what we can’t see on earth, but what we literally walk around with, our very souls. This anointing that I’m feeling right now is evidence that we are walking around with a soul that we can’t see, and lest for some reason this anointing would leave me, I would need this very reminder myself that this is actually happening. As it continues, I begin realizing more of what I have already known to becoming more evident, that of what our expectations of society are, to what is actually being accomplished. After all, we can’t just gauge our accomplishments on technology, but how we operate as a society. As in that it takes both volts and amps to create watts, we need both things of society to create true advancement. How does that proverb go, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts (Aristotle).” Yet we don’t want interference in our lives from government or corporations or other people.

So how does this conflict ever get resolved in that we have enough trust in each other to accomplish the things that we expect of ourselves as a whole? The answer is never; as in Jeremiah 10:23, "O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps." As technology grows, the positive expectations of what we expected society to do is just being revealed as a double-edged sword with one side being for sharp and one dull, but we would not want to trade the sharp edge for the dull one, and we can’t have the dull edge without the sharp one. We yearn for honesty and truth as something tangible, but in this world, they just appear as winds of shadow. The contrast is a pure Truth and a pure Law that is above this world and has to be above it for it to remain to its intended form. If we were just to follow this Truth and Law, perhaps that would be enough for society to accomplish many great things, but it remains obscure in the fog of sin.

Perhaps an analogy to this, would be that if we worked somewhere where there is a foul odor, we begin getting used to its smell and our indifference to it, but if we are lucky enough to live somewhere with little pollution, we may not smell it again until we return to work, and then it becomes strange to us again. So, for at first, we complain, but then don’t do anything about it because we don’t remember it until the next day (inject anything here such as procrastination, isn’t my problem, someone else will get it, are children are smarter than us so they will figure it out, etc.). So, it is this way with sin, but even a worst-case scenario, because we never have the chance to remove ourselves from sin/foul odor. So, it becomes normal and when someone teaches us the Word, this seems strange and unusual. Within the following passages that I will show, I would encourage one to try and see things from a third person perspective or the “God’s Eye” view.

Examples such as when driving a vehicle to just stick to your schedule, go to and from work at the proper speed limits, and driving defensively. While you are doing this, put on a Christian radio station, think of something constructive, and watch the other diver’s driving behaviors. Perhaps better in a metropolitan area, but congratulations, you have just experienced your first God’s eye perspective! When speaking to people in a casual conversation, try not to use any of the words of “I”, and listen to the other person without trying to impress. We get all caught up into so much of “marketing” ourselves to others continuously. Just listen, interject when you have something positive to say and look to how others will try to impress you. How many times they might say “I” or how many times they will interject with or for an alternate reason, but remain neutral, and sticking to the point. Again, not doing this experiment while in church setting but perhaps more with an acquaintance or co-worker.

Go an entire month without watching the “news” on television, or related form of video, and get your news from the AP or other reliable sources, then every week/month compare what is said on the televised news to what is said in the AP news. It may be revealed how much we are being “steered” by the media to how we should think or behave, and of course this always includes the “noise” of marketing, from which it is getting more difficult to escape, or as I like to call, “forceful marketing.” If you just practice little things like this, it might start becoming clearer as to there being a major difference between how we view things in this world of sin from how God wants us to see His path to righteousness. Perhaps one of the largest tests of how we view things on earth to how we should see them from God’s perspective is to not get comfortable with the idea that people who are homeless being a problem for society, but rather that there is a problem with society, hence a reason why there is homelessness.

Of course for Christians walking in the light of Truth, we see these differences. We would be remiss if we didn’t say anything about how to achieve some of the things that God wants us to do within the short period of time that we have left, that is putting action to this plan of being saved, and I would be remiss to not use the Word itself for this purpose perhaps beginning with Ephesians 4:14, “that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting.” This also sounds a lot like the present. It makes me think of how again social media or media in general is used to keep the people from having a direction of their own. Each day that goes by, we are being increasingly controlled by only a few. Ephesians 4:15, “but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head-Christ-“. So, as they say, the truth will set us free. Ephesians 4:17, “This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,” and look how great that is the word gentiles is capitalized, not a typo.

Ephesians 4:23-32, “and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness." Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,’ for we are members of one another. Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil. Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need. Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”

It is interesting that in Ephesians 4:26, it says to "Be angry..." and then in Ephesians 4:31 it says to not be angry. The second part is meant to say don't be angry in your heart, and the first "Be angry" is meant to say be angry at sin. One could say that when He is saying to be angry against sin, that that is also a sign of the end times, as in Isaiah 11:6, "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;". The "young goat" is also the child-“tender root” (The One who has much to learn). One can see how the hierarchy/chronology proceeds from being called a worm, to young goat, to child, to prophet, to messenger, to high priest, and so forth, but that during the end times the lambs will be able to define their “borders” more aggressively.

I would also recommend reading 2 Corinthians 6:1-10, “We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed. But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings; by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.”

Mark 8:24, “When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” Revelations 2:2, “I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;” Revelations 2:19, “I know your works, love, service, faith, and patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first.” Also notice here that the “last are greater than the first”, that is yet to come, but wait a minute, isn’t this in Revelations, the end times?

Lastly just for another interesting observation, Isaiah 52-53 are highly contested chapters for who they are referencing as to being The Lord Jesus Christ or the coming Son of Man, who by the way also does become glorified. Look at some of the key words in the preceding paragraphs such as: stripes, distressed, tribulation, longsuffering, report, sorrowful, as poor, rich, imprisonment, dying, servant, kindness, knowledge, armor of righteousness for both right and left hands, cross, patience, labor, truth, and peace as in the beatitudes which I left on the page. There are more cross references to Isaiah 52-53 as well such as the order that the deities go out during the Abomination of Desolation moment, Isaiah 52:12, “For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight; for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.” Alright so who is the person in the middle? Actually nobody is in the middle, here the God of Isreal is the Son of Man manifesting into what He is supposed to become, but I won't get into that right now, notice the word “flight” as later this Son of Man is referenced as being in the beast form of an eagle for later descriptions the end times. Matthew 24:28-29, “For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together.” I could go on, but that is why I left the rest of the work to you all in the form of the previous article on the aside.