POLITICAL BABYLON AND RELIGIOUS BABYLON
POLITICAL BABYLON AND RELIGIOUS BABYLON
Sunday, January 31, 2016, the Year of Our Lord
Pastor Carolyn Sissom
Tomorrow in Iowa, we will know the results of what can be compared to a gladiator battle in an amphitheater larger than anything Rome ever imagined. The warriors have been raw meat for the news pundits. Americans have watched in live time to see who drew blood and who left the platform bleeding.
We can also identify the news pundits with the prophets of Baal. They have consistently tried to control this election through mind control.
As Christians we know there is a battle going on in the heavenlies for the soul of America. Throughout history, the Lord has consistently used the spirit of the Assyrian to judge nations who set up human government without God. Judah and Israel gradually deteriorated until Israel was taken captive by the Assyrians. The fact is we have had an Assyrian in the White House these past 7-years whose ideology and agenda is to protect and defend the Muslim religion.
Rejecting the Word and Way of the Lord and lapsing into idolatry and apostasy will result in deterioration of a nation and then captivity. Throughout 11 Kings, the increasingly failing throne of man is seen finally abolished. This is the ultimate result of shutting God out from the government of man. The underlying cause of the failure of human government is the lost consciousness of God.
We are watching in live time as it appears our federal government is in chaos and there is no one in whom we have confidence to lead this nation.
The failure of man upon the throne of earth is assured when he loses his vision of a Throne in heaven.
As Christians our faith is sure that God’s Throne is above all earthly thrones. Kings succeed or fail according to their relationship to the heavenly throne, and their response to the Word of the Lord as it flows through the ministry of the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven.
Throughout the Holy Scriptures, the Throne of God is seen filled, while the throne of earth is sometimes vacant or occupied by bad and even evil rulers. The Throne of God is permanent and stable while the thrones of men increasingly fail.
All forms of human government without God are doomed to fall. The Word of God gives us an analysis of the kings of Judah and Israel. The Bible judges their reign and legacy by stating they were good or bad kings; and who their mother was.
This week on face book, I posted The Legacy of Barrack Hussein Obama by: Carolyn Sissom. I did not give an opinion or judgment. I simply stated his policies toward the Islamic regimes, the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman, protecting the unborn, protecting Christians and the Second Amendment. I kept the list short. The failure of man upon the throne of earth is assured when he loses his vision of the Throne in heaven.
It appears to me the Lord’s objective in narrating the history of the Jewish monarchy is first to give the history, establishment and glory of the united Kingdom---then the history of the disruption of the Kingdom into two houses, two kingdoms, and their declines.
All the kings of Israel and Judah lined up under two “standard men,” David the Godly king and Jeroboam the ungodly king. Kings in Israel produced carbon copy sons who duplicated their father’s evil ways.
All forms of human government without God are doomed to fail. God, being left out of the government of men, reigns independently of them instead of with them. God causes man’s rejection of His government to work itself out into its evil consequences. This is where we are.
We have before us an opportunity to elect a man whom God has chosen. We have forever settled in this church fellowship the question as to God’s anointing both “civil” and “spiritual” leaders. That is not a matter of discussion according to the Word of God. The battle in the heavenlies is two-fold against political Babylon and religious Babylon. If they were wearing white hats and black hats, it would be easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
Whether they can quote the Word of God and preach like a Pastor is not a measure of one’s heart whether preacher or president. The Lord knows the heart of man and the true ambitions of his/her heart. Even if a man desires the Office of President with the true heart of a patriot and is called by God, that does not mean he will not be tempted to succumb to the pressures of corruption.
Christian how often have you made the Lord a promise in the middle of pressure whether financial, physical or family, but when the pressure was removed and you were again walking in blessing, forgot the promise.
I made a promise to God when Kelly was born. I knew I had a call on my life, but didn’t know what that meant. Her arm was injured at birth. The diagnosis was if the nerve did not regenerate itself the arm would not grow. I got on my knees and told the Lord I would give him the rest of my life, if he would heal her arm. I’ve kept my promise and the Lord healed her arm. Did I have to make that deal? No! But God knew what it would take to get me where he wanted me to be to become who He called me to be. By his grace, I have never waivered.
God knows exactly what kind of pressure to put on His Man to get him to where he needs to be. If they forget the promise they made to God, He knows exactly what kind of pressure it will take to jog their memory.
My prayer for this election is the Lord will choose the President of the United States for his Kingdom purposes. There is no remedy of the evil consequences of the rejection of God’s government, except by a return to that government.
Political Babylon and Religious Babylon are engaged in this battle for the President of the United States. They can fight side-by-side. Ahab in the Old Testament represents political Babylon and the Jezebel religious Babylon. Elijah reveals a prophetic ministry of restoration that speaks to the destruction of political and religious Babylon. Though Elijah’s actions seem impulsive, his movements are actually based upon the Word of God.
Not interested in halting opinion, Elijah calls for a showdown with the prophets of Baal atop Mount Carmel.
We have watched as the “strong-man” in Donald J. Trump is single-handed obliterating the mouth of Political Babylon. Is the “strong-man” in Donald J. Trump of God or from a secret ambition to rule the world? At least he is not a Muslim or has the spirit of the Assyrian. Is he an opportunist who recognizes there is presently no strong world leader? He has no fear and is not afraid to risk it all for principle.
Senator Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee appear to be men of understanding and wisdom who are sincere men of Faith.
The contest on Mount Carmel between Elijah and the prophets of Baal reveal the supernatural, end-time conflict between God’s Kingdom and the Kingdom of darkness. Elijah prophesied the destruction of Ahab, Political Babylon; and Jezebel, religious Babylon (1 Kg. 21: 17-29). John prophesied the destruction of spiritual Babylon – Rev. 17-18:
The spirit of Babylon is “mingled” with the nations of the earth. Rev. 18:3-5: “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. I heard another voice from heaven, saying, come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you do not receive her plagues. For her sins have reach to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities… (vs. 24) in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.”
The underlying cause of the failure of human government is the lost consciousness of God. Man loses his consciousness of God by his idolatries, which are actually attempts to substitute God.
The Kingdom of God is based upon the Prophetic Word that flows in Life and power from the Throne of God.
In 1 Kings 22, is the story of the prophet Micaiah who teaches that truth is not dependent upon a majority. This is a measure of a true leader and authority. Will he/she bend to popular opinion and pressure, or stand on truth.
This is during the reign of Ahab. The primary prophet to Ahab was Elijah. But there is also Micaiah. Ahab ruled in Samaria for 22 years. His wife was the infamous Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal who brought Baal-worship with her from Zindon. Ahab was servile to Ben-Hadad of Syria. Elijah prophesied the death of Ahab and Jezebel. King Jehoshaphat of Judah came to visit. He had married Ahab and Jezebel’s daughter. He invited Ahab to go to war with him against the Syrians. Ahab gathered 400 of his false prophets to get the Word of the Lord. They all told him to “Go up, for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.”
22: 7-18 Jehoshaphat was uneasy. “Is there not a prophet of the Lord?” Ahab answered, ‘Micaiah, but he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil’.” The two kings sat on their thrones and brought all the prophets before them. The 400 all agreed except Micaiah.
He mocked Ahab and his preacher/pundits. Micaiah relates a vision of the heavenlies (Vs. 19) Jehovah asked, “Who shall persuade Ahab that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead? A “spirit” stood before the Lord and said, “I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets! Jehovah did so and decreed in His sovereignty that this lie would prevail. Zedekiah went near and smote Micaiah on the cheek. “Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto you.” Isaiah’s hands may have been bound, but not his Word! Behold, you shall see in that day, when you shall into an inner chamber to hide yourself.”
That evening Ahab died and the battle was ended.
Following King Solomon, there were only a few notable leaders among the kings of Judah. These included Joash, Hezekiah, and Josiah, all of the northern kingdom’s kings. Most of the remainder of Judah’s kings were lacking in spiritual leadership. Nevertheless, what the kings lacked in moral influence was made up for by the great prophets. Most notable among them were Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, and Jeremiah before the exile. Ezekiel and Daniel during the exile. Zechariah and Malachi after the exile. Ending with Ezra and Nehemiah, who led in the days of restoration. Israel’s history is a parade of men of God who were instruments of His-story.
We continue to be led to study Ezra at the Tuesday Bible Study. It is believed he wrote 11 Chronicles. Ezra the priest led the remnant of Israel into revival and restoration. Nehemiah was the governor who undertook the reconstruction of the city and was encouraged by the reforms of Malachi.
Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries Church
Scripture from K.J.V.
I entered into the labors of Principles of Present Truth 1 & 11 Kings by: Kelly Varner. Comments and conclusions are my own and do not reflect the views of Brother Varner.