In Babylon, But Not Really Of It

Over the past few years, I have been following so many different alternative Christian channels exploring scripture and their sharing of hopes and predictions about what is to come.  They have ignited such anticipation for me and others, as well as been a breath of fresh air compared to the in-person groups I had been part of. After finding smaller channels some time ago involving more questioning along with hours of studying; scripture, extra books and historians, I have felt relief identifying with their spirit of seeking truth compared to any of the bigger conglomerate megachurches that now turn my stomach in disgust.  

Despite some smaller ideological differences amidst these smaller channels, what has attracted me to continue either tapping in, or diving in again, is related to the passion and love I hear coming from them.  Can you imagine spending 10-12 hours a day reading scripture?  Or hours meditating on certain passages?  Or imagining in more detail what the life would have been like for any one of the people written about in scripture?  We are definitely “out there” in our passion if you can relate, but it’s because we love our Savior, our Father and the Holy Spirit, and want to know them more, especially as this Babylonian world tightens its grip on us.  Remember how God let His people be taken into Babylonian captivity in the Old Testament to see who will turn to Him more after so many generations of looking elsewhere? We who are Seekers and so sensitive to that grip of Babylon today, plunge even deeper into His love, His Word and any meaning we can find into what may be coming. Our human mental state wants to have some structure, and the institutions of this world had given it to us previously in varying degrees.  However, we have become disillusioned and outright lied to from them, that we need some other kind of structure in the interim as we transition more deeply into surrendering to faith and not really knowing.  That has become so clear to me when listening to the different interpretations of The Bible; each well backed by this verse and that one and sometimes spoken of with a kind of certainty needed for the structure of knowing.  I still love it when I hear a Believer share of a dream they had about Jesus coming, whether it be His 2nd or 3rd coming, or God pouring out His love on us. I hope for it to be true because I too have had those dreams.  My spirit longs for it! To get out of this world of evil controllers and NPCs who have no clue of what’s happening, would be such relief.  Or even if it would be heaven coming to earth as others adamantly state.  I’ll take it!

Are you also scrambling to listen to the next podcast, announcement, revelation or newly found secret disclosed on the internet?  You’re not alone.  But I suspect, like me, you also need to take breaks from them from time to time and just be more present with what the day to day life is showing you. Sometimes it involves doing an act of kindness, and other times it’s again being reminded of how different you feel in this world.  

Interestingly, I’ve been getting more small jobs throughout my city in SW Michigan and have noticed the increase of surveillance cameras going up. These aren’t those black Flock cameras I’ve been learning about, but those white ones that are high up and on almost every street light corner. They have little to do with safety and are way overboard.  I’ve even noticed a megaphone high up on one residential corner.  When I asked a few guys who were selling BBQ nearby if they were aware of these things, they looked at me baffled and just shook their heads no.  They didn’t want to engage with me, that was obvious.  I wasn’t part of their neighborhood.  I’ve also been seeing more guarded communities, primarily for seniors; a new cancer facility; offices for those mysterious ailments and injuries which people around me attribute to just life and getting older. And then how about the bike paths throughout the city that are not improving traffic flow or parking; the millions of dollars for an events arena when homelessness and bad roads abound in certain areas.  I’ve posted a bit about these in my YT Playlist, Questioning the Historical Narrative. 

Then how about the manner of people communicating.  Has it always been like this and I hadn’t noticed, or is it getting worse?  We have the superficial greetings, jokes and gossip; not only in public, but threaded throughout home conversations I overhear from my work.  Did you know that the word “saint” has been used to describe a person who can live with another who has an opposing political belief?  Whether a Believer or not, people are entranced with being busy in appointments and things to tick off their list, keep their yard and home in order, and routines to give security in a changing world.  The grip on these norms is pervasive, especially as I’ve seen repeatedly in older people’s lives.  

I have been wishing and hoping for something big to happen to shake people up, but life continues on, even when another person online shares that they feel something big is coming.  I agree to that feeling and still long for it at times.  Then I also remind myself to practice gratitude for what is in the mundane, especially if being in Babylon could entail coming famines, dying by the sword and gnashing of teeth.  After the night of my first encounter where I was flooded with love from the Holy Spirit and felt my spirit transported from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of Light, I felt  that I would be on a mission to share my testimonies of God’s goodness from that and other experiences that followed.  But He’s had me more in refinement, especially as I live mostly amongst unbelievers.  Sharing about Jesus, healing, and God’s goodness is so alien to them, whatever little I say gets a reaction of rolling eyes.  I have to live a simple life of not saying much, even about the trance of the media.  You don’t need to be a Believer to know it’s witchcraft hypnosis ad nauseum.

In the anticipation and hopes I go through from listening to another podcast, new video post or online Bible study, my day to day life shows me a parallel world building as shown to some extent in the old predictive programming movie of Wall-e. There are others for sure, but I’m not as well versed in movies anymore to name them.  I have also been seeing more video Shorts on Instagram of a resistance mobilizing.  People are sharing videos of FBI agents visiting their doorsteps and/or stopping them in their cars for inappropriate postings on social media or saying something "unacceptable" in a public place. Are people really starting to report on one another in addition to AI informing feds?  Could be robots in future. Whether it be in the United Kingdom, Australia or in the US, it appears to be happening. Reality checks like this have more significance than getting Views, Likes and Subscribers.  Nonetheless, social media has its place in the mobilization for sure.  We wouldn’t know of the resistance outside the orchestrated divide by the Babylonian controllers if it wasn’t for the alternative movement escalating on social media.  Or even learning from Westerners themselves about the increasing numbers moving abroad for remote work, or retirement, in such places as Albania, Croatia, Cambodia, Vietnam and The Philippines due to more affordability and friendliness compared to their home country.

Things are changing, and this is just a fraction of all the tentacles at work that catch my attention.  And it's so very different from people like my brother-in-law who is convinced things are getting better in many ways because of technology, the needed censorship for foul language, and human freedoms still at work because of our Constitution. 

No matter what you are doing or believing, whether it be holding onto certain people to keep Following for the next revelation, or a certain belief to have about what’s coming, know at this moment, to hold them loosely. Having a belief and knowing there are others in a community that share that same belief is a comfort, but it may well be only for a while. Hold them loosely because we really can’t know outside of building a firm foundation in God through it all.  Tune yourself to some times of silence every day to know His promptings in our spirit as we move through this world. I’ve gone through different beliefs in my lifetime and even more since getting saved.  It has seemed like an accelerated course of learning He's taken me through for sure.  God will be showing us ways we may not have anticipated, so knowing how He communicates with us is important. Uncertainty is hard to live with, and at times I wonder what I’ll say and do if agents come to my door questioning why I don’t have the proper registration for my car, why I haven’t filed my meager taxes in years, or what I’ve posted here or there that was “offensive”.  God doesn’t want us all to be hidden, and comfortable on social media or even in our homes even though the Babylonians do.  But for today, I again remind myself to take things and people one day at a time.  Respond to what and who is in front of me either firmly or in friendliness, and know that our heavenly Father and Jesus are still the ones orchestrating things amidst the growing, insane grip of Babylon.