The Final Silencing Of Your Voice

The Final Silencing Of Your Voice

3/21/21

Is it even conceivable that anyone or any being is out to completely annihilate anyone's voice to the point where it would disappear from all records?  Unfortunately, there are many people that have been spiritually influenced to accomplish such acts against others.  Of course, it is not a heavenly or godly influence that subscribes to such atrocious thinking, but to the enemy of God, which is our enemy as well.  We have learned a great deal about what Satan wishes to do to us, but do we believe it.  We do not have to find out the hard way folks, we can understand now and do our best to protect ourselves and our families through the provided Word of God.  God wants us to live in peace and harmony not only with others but specifically with Him.  There is an enemy who wants our voice to disappear and to go away and if we do not combat his tactics correctly, he shall succeed and destroy the plan of God for your life.

We have heard many stories and personal experiences from people who have been in desperate circumstances and realized that they had been incorrect on every level of their lives then cried out to God for help.  A good portion of these people have honored their cry for help yet there is a good number who just wanted out of the sticky situation they were in and as soon as settings returned to normal they also returned to their old normal heart placement.  This nation has experienced many dire circumstances in its history, cried out to God for help, and also has returned to its wicked ways afterward. How much can God give without calling upon His own Definition to set the standard again?  How many times are we going to cry wolf before God says, enough I do not hear you or see you any longer?  To be honest, I believe that we have arrived at this place, and what is frightening is that we cry to God but do not hear anything in return, and we do not even recognize He is not looking in our direction or hearing our cries any longer.  A very grave position to be in but once again we believe we are above God and no longer need Him and His guidance.

Along the same lines, many of us when we were younger heard our parents tell us that they did not trust us because of certain things we had done.  I know that some of my actions required my parents to say such words, yeah it made me mad at the time but I had no one else to blame but myself.  Yet, I did not like the fact that I was caught and I also had ignored many previous situations where I had done things that if found out would embarrass them tremendously.  Nevertheless, I finally figured things out and changed my life and habits before they became out of hand and ruined my adulthood before it had even really begun.  But as we scroll through news articles and blogs today we find countless people who have not learned and therefore must learn the hard way; however, to them, the hard way is more comfortable at times because they feel more at home in their actions instead of looking or remembering the consequences if found out.  Another human trait that is difficult to explain at times, but one that is very noticeable constantly.

See, when a person gets into a specific pattern it is that pattern that they must supply and feed.  Yes, they try and hide it but if anyone is listening they would pick up on such passions and then appropriately address them.  This sounds like a great idea but there is only one problem, the people listening to them and seeing behaviors be exhibited are most likely committing some other grievance against another fault; in other words, they are doing the exact same procedure that is just offensive.  So, they let it slide and continue on with their own journey encountering more friends or acquaintances with similar or deeper issues along the way, and if so many others are noticed performing such things I guess it is more common than I first believed, so it must be okay.  When this attitude arrives, we begin to seek out other vices that satisfy related curiosities and eventually incorporating them into our inner habits and wants.  This is the dangerous pattern reached that many of us are at today for we do not realize that we have been led to this point in our lives by a master and we have accepted it for so long that we do not see the pain it causes to the people around us and more importantly to God.

When debate becomes a one-sided dictation, parties begin to shut off their hearing and concern, leaving a divide that sometimes is impossible to resolve correctly.  A parent can only take so much anguish before they must act according to their status which usually means some type of punishment that hopefully wakes their child up.  Sometimes these methods of parents must be severe enough to grab the attention of their children while other times demand really tough love and the parents turn away for a while.  This brings us to our passage of Scripture which is the next verse in Micah 3, verse 4 and we shall see what occurs when God has had enough of the games that His people have played.  The passage goes as follows:

Micah 3:4

"Then they shall cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings."

Hebrew

"Then they will cry out to the Lord, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done."

Many times throughout the Bible, God has reiterated that He will never leave His people, but this verse shows us that while His presence is still there with them He does hide His face from them and for a good reason.  This verse is the culmination of why God was forced to do this act, one that may seem out of character for Him but when we understand what Judah was doing in the sin department, God had no other choice.  The previous three verses of this chapter in Micah sum up the sins that the leaders of Judah and the people of Judah voluntarily committed and had no intentions of changing their habits because they found that their actions warranted no reason to change in the first place.

In the first portion of this verse, it is obvious that something has triggered a change in the minds of the people, for it says that the people cried out to God.  This word for cry out is "yizaqu" and it is third person plural which means it is not just one person doing the crying out but many are doing this act.  This word is a proclamation status of some type of ill-fated condition that the people can no longer handle, they are not happy because the tables have turned against them and are no longer able to contain the growth of such patterns. However, at this time in their lives, they do remember to cry out to God but the verse also says that God does not answer them.  This is a sad predicament they have gotten themselves into when God says nothing about what has happened in their lives and nation.  God just does not do this unless there is a huge unrepentant reason present in people's hearts.

The next portion of this verse hits home hard because it states who the cries of the people are toward "to the Lord"  At least they have turned around and began the walk back to Him, right?  Wrong!  Things for some reason have gone terribly wrong and even though they are returning back to their Creator, the next portion of Scripture says what God does, "the Lord but He will not answer them."  Now, it was common knowledge that sometimes God "took His time" in answering their prayers and cries, but there was something different about the presence of God this time.  It seemed like God was not to be found and that their prayers fulfilled the emptiness of their hearts and ended up nowhere in the eyes, heart, or face of God.  In other words, they vanished into thin air.  Furthermore, this passage proclaims "at that time He will hide His face from them".  This is an incredible statement that should rock anyone's world and cause them to truly fall on their faces and repent for everything that not only what they personally have done but to proclaim the sins of the entire nation as well.  A gut-wrenching release that would make one feel totally helpless in any type of response given by any party involved.

And before anyone could begin to blame God for not answering their cries and prayers, God gives the reason why He has done such a thing "because of the evil they have done."  Once again, God gives His reasoning in a short and to-the-point statement, no beating around the bush at all.  Plus, when God speaks something you can count on the fact that it is the truth and that truth He speaks comes from His heart and it is directed solely and straightly to your (our) heart.  This is what He said to the people who were crying out to Him for help, He did not leave them at all but because of the sin, they took on as their own God could no longer look or hear what they were saying.  This saying from God says that everything that was presently occurring in Judah's land was strictly due to their own actions, NOT His.  God was also reinforcing the Truth when He had stated to them many times over in their past that sin has its consequences, consequences that cannot be averted from coming to pass.

What is God saying to us here, folks?  He is saying that it is through our own acceptance of the world and its products that if not left behind shall follow us until one day these sins that we love to keep and display shall be the sole reason that we shall have no voice to God when it is time for those sins to be called into active fruition.  God has provided us with the best tool to use in our defense, one so powerful that it operates as an offensive weapon as well.  A parent never stops caring for their child and will find as many avenues as possible in order for the safety of their child to be known; however, if deeper influences are around and not correctly taken care of those influences will eventually tear away this child for their cause.  This may sound a tad harsh but you need to take the blinders off of your eyes and understand what is going on here.

Micah tells us and presents to us a vivid picture of how Israel lived, total rebellion against God.  This verse is an accumulation of events that have been presented to God in the three previous verses all of them ugly and represent defamation toward God.  God is the Creator of all humanity and when anyone slaps God in the face with the sin they carry, no other word can define such an act as defamation.  God's actions here in this verse demonstrate that He no longer can stand to hear their sinful voices project into His direction; therefore, He has no option left but to turn away and allow their sin to consume them to the fullest.  It is this level that Judah purposefully reached, ignoring the fact that the sins they harbored would bring them to this point sometime down the road.  Both God and Satan knew this and the people had been shown that this path would cost them greatly too, yet they chose to sin and look what it led to.

This passage of Scripture clearly involved the children of Israel but one cannot read and study this passage without believing that they are also reading about our nations today.  We carry so many similar sins within our hearts that this verse and the previous three verses in Micah 3 could be changed to the USA and no damage be done to the magnitude of either national condition.  God's Word is for all nations, past, and present and it is with this truthful fact in place, we can honestly say that this nation is on the same path of destruction as Judah was.  Also invigoratingly horrific lies the fact that we have the same type of leaders (Church) that are manipulating their own private enterprises with the world instead of ministering to those who are in need of Jesus.  Even worse, is that in both situations they had no idea that God was in control of each setting and did not back down from His eternal parental position.  It was evident that Judah and Israel did not want to have anything to do with God or to hear His voice in any way, and today our nations have identical feelings.

So, as God obliged their wishes in this Old Testament passage so shall He do again in today's societies.  Many shall not understand what God will be doing or they will completely ignore the fact of His hand moving; to be honest, His process is already in motion and we all know that once we push God to this point He shall not stop until holiness is reached once again.  In addition, their selfish, sinful, and manipulative "godly lives" were no longer a point of attraction to God.  This type of lifestyle blinded them and deafened them to the warnings that God placed in front of them before they reached this point.  Sound familiar?  It should because today's world is in the same predicament and has followed the same path as Israel did in Micah 3.

At the beginning of this short series in Micah, we saw that it was the leaders of Israel that took this path first and then as a cell moving through the veins of a body, infected every heart within the kingdom.  It is clear by the language used in this passage that God had had enough and it was time for His presence to change.  Church, God is currently performing the same act today.  You want to know what comes next?  Read this passage and other Holy passages that describe what God allowed t occur to both Israel and Judah.  And if you do not think that He shall do the same to this nation, please think again for if He did so for His chosen people who are we to believe that we are any better.  Church, you are sick, spiritually sick, and spiritually anemic and you need help immediately.  I do not know what holds for our future but we better be ready to stand and fight when things turn.  Satan shall be amazed at what he has done to us but he shall not stand idly by and watch things unfold quietly.  He shall attack and attack harshly, harder than ever before.  It is time to change Church, and change fast!

Just as the leaders of Israel failed to recognize their position in this passage of Scripture, we too have allowed ourselves to become alive to the world and dead to God.  It is this condition that we currently live in and thus our cries to God are silenced to His ears because of our sinful beating spiritual hearts.  There is no true and eternal connection to God and since there is no further communication present God has no other choice but to turn away due to the fact that Satan has successfully silenced your voice.

DLB

Consumed

Consumed

3/15/21

When we think about this word we cannot help but imagine that after everything is said and done, there is nothing left of us to fight back with for there is nothing left of us at all.  We do not have to be or to succumb to this type of state, there is a defense that keeps us healthy and strong all we must do is to adhere to its standard and grow in its covering.  The alternative to living is death, a state that our enemy desires for us to meet as soon as possible, and our choices along our life's journey either represent this consumed condition or flags it and allows God to defeat it.  It is our responsibility to keep our leaders in good standing with God so that we are not fooled into the wiles of the world, for if we do not this setting of being consumed shall come to pass and our eternity set into motion without any chance of salvation.

Most people have heard about the atrocities that the Nazi Party accrued upon many lives around the world and especially in Europe.  There have been some highly promoted incidences, and rightly so, that have detailed some of these horrific events that were taken out for outrageous ideas and causes.  One of the most atrocious events occurred as a retaliation measure against the Czechoslovakian people after one of the highest-ranking members of the Nazi Party was assassinated.  It occurred in a small quiet village named Lidice where all the men of the village over the age of 15 were executed on the spot, while all of the women and children under the age of 15 were systematically taken to concentration camps to work and die.  These people did absolutely nothing in regards to the action against the German leader but were chosen to be made an example of public defiance toward the German occupation.  A heinous crime in which still haunts the halls of human history as it should have back then, today, and forever in our future.

Why tell such a gruesome story and use it as an example of how human minds behave?  It is because it is through these human minds that Satan uses in order to complete his will against your life.  It does not matter how he gets his job done, it is just all about getting it done and if he can get other humans to assist in this process, then all the better.  Furthermore, the reason that this story is so useful is that when the toll had been taken out on the innocent, German occupiers actually erased the name of the village from the current maps, historical maps, books, and all other forms of literature.  They were making sure that the village of Lidice, Czech Republic was never even known before.  One small problem with such a demand, Germany was under the lies of that same human enemy as to believe that they would be allowed to win the war and dominate the entire world according to their ways and means.  Keep this image of Lidice in your mind as you read this article's content for our enemy has not changed any tactic at all, he is still ruthless enough to want your entire life to be stricken from any Book of Life that is available.

The entire message of Jesus and the remaining portions of the New Testament detail one eternal point and that is you have an enemy that is out to destroy you completely.  The Old Testament has the exact same message but uses different methods of explanations because the times were different than those of the New Testament.  Even though the times may have been more primitive in the Old Testament the goal of our enemy was still the same, to completely consume your life so that it shall never have eternal life.  Our Scripture verse for this article is the next one in Micah Chapter 3 for it continues the strong message God wants us to understand exactly what our enemy wishes for our life and it reads as follows:

Micah 3:3

"Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron."

Hebrew

"You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like for the cooking pot like meat in a kettle."

As individuals, we present ourselves as individual ways to be attacked, a variety of targets and opportunities that Satan will use in order to achieve his wicked plan.  It does not matter how or how long it takes for Satan to complete his plan either because once it starts we usually allow him easy access in order to gain "relief" from our issues.  See, Satan understands that it is easy for people to be sued by God and he also knows that we know this truth as well, but why is it so difficult that we tend to forget such a process can be done to us or through us toward other people, or worse, have bad things done to us by other people even those in leadership or commands.  Let us look at a few words of this verse and it will become clear exactly what Satan thinks about you and what he wants your life to end up like.  Remember, Satan is a spirit so he fights on the spirit level in order to influence and demand from the physical; this folks, is the bottom line definition of spiritual warfare and it must never be forgotten for when it is it is our eternity that dies, which means we do as well.

In a previous article, we learned about how the leaders of Judah were out to deceive and to trample over the people that they were over.  Micah leaves no imaginable setting out when he described what was occurring in Micah 3:2 and here in this verse he further demonstrates exactly what the leaders wished for their constituents.  We will be studying a few of the words that Micah used to describe in-depth what the leaders were doing and to what extent their actions were led by and directed by not only the enemy of the people of Judah but for themselves as well.  It is a description of Satan himself and how much he desires that you are totally obliviated from any record of your existence and to what length he will use others to achieve this goal.  While the words of the King James version are magnificent I will be using the exact Hebrew words in order for you to understand the magnitude and gravity of how Satan feels about you.

First off, we must know and accept the fact that the people that are being consumed in this verse are ones that are familiar with those in charge and have allowed them to take control over their direction and lives; in other words, they are one of them, family, close friends or neighbors, ones that they know on a casual and general level.  These are not strangers to them or physical enemies that have invaded their lands and taken them captive; oh no, that portion of the story is still yet to come for this is an inner invasion and one that many were led to believe that was the "right" path to take.  A very nasty opportunity was taken that spiritually crushed those that took heed and then listened to what was being served.  This is NOT an exaggerated passage of Scripture and unless we understand that this spiritual process leads to such physical demise, we shall never figure out precisely how our enemy works and operates against us.  We can also apply this verse and setting to those who have been completely sucked into the plan of those controlling the situation, they too have become leaders of such atrocities.

"You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin". This phrase is bad enough to end any type of doubt of what Satan wishes to do with you and your life.  This is a torture method that was common in the ancient days and in Medieval times, and it took a very cruel and sadistic heart to label a punishment such as this on anyone and an even darker hearted person to execute such methods.  It is a pretty good measure of ensuring that anyone who disagrees with your point or plan is erased from all types of present and future rebellion for once news like this reached the public, it would have caused a great deal of fright.  This is a process and it took time to complete, so think of it as a process that occurs when Satan attaches himself to our spirit and performs the same procedure spiritually.  What is left? The spirit is defeated and ready for further torture without any inhibitions or hindrances.  See, Satan knows what you believe in and how doors to your life are wide open for his entrance and he will use these passages to obtain secret passageways deeper into your spirit.  While this tactic may seem bad enough, wait for there is a more sinister desire from our enemy yet to come.

Next, the words "and breaking their bones" appear in line and serve as a reminder that the skin (spiritual skin) is now gone and the bones are totally exposed, vulnerable to any and all other methods of destruction.  A bland and bare skeleton cannot do much to protect itself for all of the necessary connective and movement actions have been stripped away.  So the enemy decides to break the bones that are set before him for he cannot perform the next task until they are of a specific measure making them ready for the next step of destruction.  If you ever have had a broken bone you know how much pain is incorporated after that bone or those bones have been broken, it does not go away and until that bone heals correctly the pain shall continue.  It is painfully obvious that the condition of the spiritual skeleton is in no position to resist or to fight back, it is totally helpless and cannot defend itself any longer.

But our enemy is not through with us yet, for all he has in front of him is a bunch of broken bones lying around not doing anything.  This is where we must put on our thinking caps and remember that the spirit realm is constantly moving, it never ceases.  Many believe that this realm is not alive, but it is alive and it is waging an eternal war for your life which means it too must seek out completion on every level no matter which side of the spirit realm you see or experience.  "You chop them up for the cooking pot like meat in a kettle". Here lie the end reason and cumulation of the goal of Satan and the energy that he demands from our dead spiritual lives, the most horrendous revelation about spiritual death that anyone can imagine.

We have no idea nor can we fathom the amount of energy it takes to wage war within the spirit realm, but it is obvious from this single verse that we can summarize that it takes an immeasurable amount to use and to complete spiritual battles.  It is this point that God wants us to know and to grasp because as long as we do not understand this fight there is no way possible that we can properly defend ourselves as the fight for our lives rages.  The enemy chops our spiritual skeleton so small and so thorough that it resembles meat being chopped up for it to be placed into a pot for soup and consumption.  Why would anyone wish or enact such destruction such as this on anything?  It is the goal of our enemy to do such an act to us and when he has successfully placed our entire spiritual body into a pot for consumption, what do you believe will be next?

Satan always starts out small with his trickery and then maintains this pattern until growth in his service is strong enough to deploy to others.  This portion of the verse provides us with this fact, for when our bones are placed into the pot for cooking there is a purpose and that purpose is for him to completely devour our lives as meat for his kingdom.  Or spiritual deaths is what Satan's kingdom thrives upon and uses as protein or energy to advance his kingdom.  His entire plan and kingdom is your destruction and what better way for this to occur than to have you at his mercy with no way of a true change of direction or outcome.  When anything becomes this incapacitated before an enemy that enemy has you completely dominated and you are now at the total mercy of your captive and to the one that you are about to be consumed by.

At this point, your spirit has been completely and eternally consumed by the enemy that you were warned about so many times during your life.  When your spiritual life has been exhausted there is no way that your physical life can withstand any attack against the kingdom of this world.  You have no eternal and holy connection any longer to give you guidance or hope, it has been stripped away and in this state, you are a sitting duck.  Church, where are we at?  We are the ones who should be warning others about this process and what will become of them if they do not understand exactly what is at stake here.  God is the ONLY One who can offer eternal life through the blood of His Son and is the ONLY One who can provide enough strength to combat and defeat such a terrible and selfish enemy.

Instead, we (the Church) have played doctrinal butchers for centuries and have spiritually encouraged and cheered on Satan and his eternal goons with their procedural death processes.  We have been the ones stoking the fire underneath the kettle so that complete dissolving of the bones will be done and peak protein-energy received by the consumers.  Why?  Why have we allowed ourselves to be placed into such a position, why have we allowed ourselves to be swayed away from the truth about our lives, both spiritually and physically?  I thank God every day that I do not have first-hand knowledge about Hell, and I am thankful that I cannot have any true concept of what actually transpires in the spirit realm, but I can get a good glimpse of what processes of battle entail in this verse.

God wants to know if you can see this as well?  And if you can do you believe that such a process is ongoing and is directly fought over you?  We are the most precious creations of God, He has given us His Spirit for this purpose alone and it is our responsibility to share this Truth with as many people as possible every day.  As you can see, we are not mistakes or washed-up beings that have no purpose in our existence.  God has a purpose for each one of us and it is this purpose that our enemy seeks to strip off of us, break our spirits and then place us into a boiling pot so that he can devour our lives in order to give him the strength necessary to overcome God and His Kingdom.  It is time we repent Church and then send this message of repentance to those who need it.  No stopping can be done, it is a direction of eternal placement and life that is at hand.  Be consumed by God and not Satan, this is the message God wants to hear from our hearts.

DLB