On spirit and the Secular Goldfishbowl

The demonic exercise of the control of the world populations doesn't seem to have changed much. Using different terminologies and different ideals and principles the framework is pretty standard. They rule through pyramid control. Because "the earth is given to man" they are restricted by the fact that they must have a nucleus who willingly and knowingly give themselves to their control. 

The rest who are locked in the leftbrain, are just minions in layers of the lower pyramid. Typically each village would have a Shaman who would exercise spiritual dominion throughout the society. The gospel is complete anathema since it says the whole human race is spirit, and can be equally in touch with the Creator who is Spirit. This is the last thing the demonic world want humans to realise, so using their people in all key areas, they have created this "beautiful almost watertight lie" that we are soul, living entirely from the leftbrain, only accessing that which our five material senses can access. But through the demonic control of the top of the pyramid, the whole secular structure can be gradually moved by stealth into complete Luciferian rule, while everyone is spiritually fast asleep. Drastic forms have already been rehearsed under 1800s Austrian police state, then Communism and Fascism, and Pol Pot's Cambodia. The effects of essential spiritual meaningless particularly after 70 years on the male population in Russia has been socialistic institutionalism , destruction of self- initiative, demasculinisation, and huge alcohol dependency. 

The bluff of the ages is largely twofold : that the nature of struggle is not twofold...Light v Darkness and to hide that fact by saying all root causes and human management is at soul level...hence secularism presents reality as an innumerable set of soul level struggles all vying for importance.

In Britain the pre-programming of schoolchildren through cadet schemes and Cubs and Scouts, and the Anglican Church, coupled with the hiding of the German nature of royalty, meant that by the time of Kitchener's poster, millions were ready to be gunned down by machine guns in the first world war. This and all the outcomes of Communism and the second World war created atheist disillusionment on a bigger scale than at any time in history. The natural belief level, even in fallen man, seems to remain at a fairly constant 70%belief level, but demonic control of the earth scored a direct hit, especially on the whole of the remaining Jewish population. Any time a generation strayed too far into spiritual territory of their own accord, and without Luciferian guidance, this could not be permitted in case humans find the reality of how the world is structured. Tavistock mindcontrol deliberately targeted the disaffected new youth culture of the 60s by flooding Woodstock with free drugs and preventing American police from making a single arrest all weekend. Many of the rest of the youth were deliberately damaged psychologically in the Vietnamese Conflict which was a complete demonically inspired construct, which achieved its aims.
By locking people in general life into leftbrain living, a leftbrain line of authoritarian control can be established that has been determined in Milgrams White Coat experiments, looking into how easy it was to create Auschwitz type conditions of people control and torture. None of this is possible with people who are mature in the Spirit, since these live from their insides, and ever since the Bible demonic control has sought to kill these before they exercise too much influence. Madame Guyon was burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic church she was a part of.
Marriages and most other types of breakdown do NOT occur because of soul level struggles....they occur because of sin which is caused and felt at spirit level...otherwise they wouldn't be nearly so offensive. Genuine soul level mistakes have no more impact than kids learning to walk by falling over...it's all the learning process and completely neutral.
 Analysis of a water tight lie :banning preaching in schools.
Definition of a watertight lie. This is an out and out lie that camouflages itself by appearing perfectly logical in an artificially bounded leftbrain framework.
Parallel example : Because a fishbowl contains water and that is all the goldfish knows, you then announce to the goldfish that all water is freshwater, in other words there is

no such thing as seawater. The fish doesn't need to know there is seawater. It's going to spend its life in a goldfishbowl, and anyway it's a freshwater fish.
So lets look at the ban on preaching in schools. Secularism states there is no such thing as spirit. Speech can either be drily and factually spoken. Dramatically spoken with emotion, or sung.

Possibly the only form of inspired or spirit speech a child will ever hear in his entire school life will be that of Martin Luther King : I have a Dream. Subtext. He is black. Their culture is like that. And for spiritual, because this is secular education, this is read as emotive speech instead anyway.
True Spirit speech is spoken by 3rd levellers who have reached a Father stage of maturity. Their speech is "tagged" underneath the articulation with Spirit. Teaching is the passing on of facts using speech. Preaching is the passing on of a Person (Jesus Christ), the Fire of God,Spirit, by means of speech. It is below/above the level of emotion or leftbrain meaning. By means of preaching people catch fire, they catch faith, they are caught up in a relationship with God.Not for nothing ENTHUSIASM = en theos or GOD INSIDE.

Jesus did a soul level mistake and so did St Paul both in courtroom situations because they did not know who was addressing them. The people addressing them ascribed these mistakes as "sin" but they were soul mistakes....and neutral.

Like for the goldfish, secularism provides a goldfishbowl: The leftbrain boundaries of the five senses which are called rational, because you can sense them. I can sense alcoholism, mind you,but that doesn't make it rational. This is a most peculiar definition. Forty years ago when our generation were deemed nuts, for calling into being all the new churches which you see in every town and city, because they couldn't see them, they said "You're nuts". At the time we had left our denominations and were meeting in rooms in houses. But what we were calling forth by faith was proper mature churches....it's just they hadn't arrived yet.
When Einstein dreamed of his thought experiments....nobody could then see all the inventions that have since resulted from his thinking and his maths...but that never meant they weren't rational. This is the stupid nature of a secular fool trying to devise education in their mould. Or worse....it is a demonic stranglehold on every school in the west, to prevent a child ever hearing the reality of God embedded by Spirit in the "folly of preaching". (God through Paul uses the phrase the folly of preaching, because it is spiritually discerned. You've got to have the Holy Spirit to really appreciate what it's going on about.)

They are all told there is no seawater. And the entire structure of academics is built round the leftbrain articulation of facts already known, by which exams are structured pretty well parrotfashion.
Particularly in science, but also in the arts, Luciferian facts are parroted back, many of which have dubious basis, but the best pupils are taken to develop the Luciferian systems of the future according to strict hamster wheel settings, lest they ever discover the whole picture that they are helping to form.
A Spirit person asks questions. Asks why Lucifer has to be in control? Asks why David Spangler, the spiritual advisor to the United Nations via lucistrust .org(formerly overtly LuciferTrust)should say no one can enter the New World Order without agreeing to serve Lucifer. This is the real "unbounded" reason preaching is not allowed in schools. lest people come out of their waking dream of thinking that secularism is real.

Sin does not originate in the soul, sin is a spirit level phenomenon. That is why secular living is so two faced. When they want they ascribe soul mistakes or mistakes they deem as non PC from their arbitrary laws as sin, but things which are actual sin, such as the rape of John Affleck in a children's home at 14, they acquit the perpetrator, and imprison the victim for losing his temper. This is how "secular" people behave.


There are blurred edges in secularism which cannot be passed off because they are too universal, so in typical "awkward facts" fashion, they are hardly discussed because they so easily start to chip away at the lie that secularism is. The secular lie is that we are just five senses ruled by a consciousness which is soul positioned somewhere in the electrical impulses of our brain mass. That these
things per se are true, nobody is contradicting. But mothers know other things too. They KNOW even when their five senses cannot tell them, when their child is in trouble in a completely different location. People often know when their job is on the line, even when nobody has acted any differently at all. People often know ahead of time when they are about to get married, even when a partner is nowhere in sight. People often know, even when still in apparent health when their death is imminent. People often know when nothing at all is visible, that behind the scenes politicians are meddling for gain or profit.People know instinctively, even when leaders protest otherwise, when their freedoms are being slowly and invisibly eroded. These are just every day experiences.
But then there are things like Reiki and so called spirit healing. These, Spirit-filled Christians maintain are spiritual principles that if anything have been usurped and removed from their Divine settings. John G Lake, an early modern pioneer in Christian healing, developed a sensitivity that just by passing his hand over a body he could determine which organ needed healing and from what. He appointed scientists to look through a microscope and watch bacteria die as he laid hands on people. USA records listed his city of Spokane statistically as the healthiest place in the whole of the USA.
Spirit picks up the hidden motivations of people's hearts. Spirit listens in on conversations that are damaging. Prophets in the Old Testament and today hear the secret conversations of Kings and rulers. Bob Frost was given President Clinton's phone number.
Spirit doesn't recognise geographical limitation. Terry Law was in America, when suddenly he found himself preaching in a Russian Church. John G Lake again was in South Africa when he was taken one night to pray for a woman in a Welsh cottage who was sick.
Churches in the Siberian woods during the time of Communist rule relied on the Spirit to know both the time and place of meeting. This type of gathering was impossible to penetrate.
People scorn Benny Hinn, but even I, some 5 to 6 rows back was in one of those waves of the Spirit's power that knock you all clean to the floor like rows of dominoes.
Even I have experienced pointing at a woman having an epileptic fit, and instantly an electricity passed through me, she keeled over. and came round after sleeping, two hours later totally and clinically registered as healed. The atheist French Government gave her her driving license back a year later.
In the spiritual realm, under the anointing of the Spirit, we speak the word and either within a short period they occur, or within a short period circumstances which set in train a longer period of fulfilment occur. Jesus said That which is bound on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and that which is loosed on earth shall have been loosed in heaven. Normal leftbrain speech does not achieve this. This is faith that comes from spiritual hearing, but the hearing mechanism is only created through hearing preaching of the Word, or repeated contemplation of the Word of God, or sudden revelation of the Word of God...which can happen just as easily in a church as in the bath, or driving. That which we "see" on our insides will come to pass. Paul McCartney was always told off in school for looking out of the window and daydreaming. His teacher said, "You will amount to nothing". This was said with the then current leftbrain understanding of how the world works, but the "world of spirit and seeing" controls the world that we see, and with Paul McCartney the rest is history. His "seeing" came to pass.

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1 Corinthians 12 Fascism

This is hopefully a more light hearted post and before I start, if I crush a few toes, I really am not referring to anything I've just heard, or anything that has happened in my locality or on Facebook recently. But if the cap fits, wear it and chuck it in the bin!

I have written many posts about the positive and negative of 1 Corinthians 12.
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1 Corinthians 12 again

The fascism referred to in the title is the condition Paul is describing when a body part says that because another body part is different then it has no need of it.

Which is basically a humorous idea! It's hilarious. Meant to be.
Because if our own bodies behaved as we do in the Body of Christ, it would be extremely bad news for our existence on earth as an individual!!!

I'm sorry that as yet I have no categorical blueprint as to what the 12 characteristics of the tribes of Israel and the corresponding 12 character traits of the disciples are, so we'll have to work with personal observations of people types in churches as they come to the Lord and DON'T really get to grips with what God is actually wanting to do with them.

For you see, every single one of us is geared to having God live through them to excel in certain characteristics which they are particularly well suited for. But we also know something of darkness. We still have tendencies to carry on living in old now defunct  "independent self" mindframes, and in this condition we continue to impose "our way of thinking and seeing" upon other people as if it's a relevant guage of measurement for anyone else.

So how does this work?

The Musician and Creative Fascist
Well let's take me, a musician. Bono of U2 describes it well. We are divas. We love an audience. Because U2 have spent years battering the edges off each other (Except The Edge perhaps), Bono can speak lightheartedly about his tendencies.

You imagine, a musician who writes music and finds that it moves people powerfully. That they love it. That they love you for it.


Now if that's not intoxicating enough, imagine it all hyped up into the stratosphere as God anoints you with the Spirit, to sing songs prophetically off the cuff. To inspire you with songs that you just know you were not capable of writing....or at the very least...not to order. And that these songs are deemed worthy of publishing, or people buying CDs.

How incredible that is!  Then add to that that God Himself. The God of the Universe has determined that praisers and worshippers, musicians, creatives....like the Tribe of Judah....GO FIRST.

So take this into the independent self realm, and you begin to understand how the first worshipleader, Lucifer himself....gets it so wrong....completely oversteps the limit....and all his musical followers do the same.

Now imagine a whole generation like ours who God chooses to bring forth a new revelation about worship and praise through. The calling is legitimate ofcourse....BUT THE FASCISM ISN'T.

And so in this very day and age God is having to counteract this very fascism.


The Be all and End  All of Church is not worship in the form of singing songs. Worship is huge, and it is the subject of my new worship series. But that which God is bringing forth in his Church concerns the birth of His Son into every area of life.

There is however a natural filter system in life for musicians, creatives and prophetic people. Quite often they are inept at many practical sides of life and this is constantly pointed out.  The other thing is that outside the context of meetings and listening to music, music as a subject is nearly irrelevant, especially in a country as leftbrain as England is.

Finally, have you ever heard a musician or prophetic character talk naturally? Everyone else talks normally in a linear fashion. They say what they mean and build their conversation in easy to follow stages.

Someone like St John in his gospel represents this other type of person. They talk in parallel all at once. It's like having 5 completely different ideas land in the same sentence at the same time!!! It's as though while a normal person has a normal fuel feed  to his head, the creative has a huge thick fuel lead which in turn within it has five separate pipes, and people are meant to be able to follow  this simultaneous gush of information. Well, it may work in poetry, or in sung poetry, like Suzanne Vega, or Shakespeare plays, or in prophetic utterance, but it sure as anything won't get you far at Tescos!!!!  So this helps counteract Musician Fascism enormously!!!


The Teacher Fascist
In a leftbrain culture this has come to mean a leftbrain articulate person who can string together ideas in a logical fashion, even when they shouldn't be. And they impose this on other Christians.
They are really necessary so they are found in all areas of learning, including outside of pure education , in work environments, and the media.

Just as the musician is undergoing a role redefinition in the third level, so will the role of the teacher.
Daniel Yordy and I have already observed this some 30 years ago, so we are not saying anything strikingly new, it's just the rest of the church didn't know the third level exists so it comes as news to them.

In a Greco-Roman based world, teachers have a clearly defined leftbrain template. The Hebrew perception of teaching was far more rounded, as is understood in the Eastern world ; for it has to do with wisdom, or application of knowledge, and deep and penetrative insight into who we are as humans. In a secular environment where we are more or less understood to be thinking machines with no spiritual element , or if this is acknowledged it is more or less assumed to be part of the substratum of the same brain machinery, so much of what the Holy Spirit, who has come to lead us into all truth teaches, largely by revelation, is absolutely meaningless to Westerners.

Sadly in the first two church worlds, three, if you include the secular church world,
Level 0....cultural Christianity by philosophy
Level 1 ...the evangelical world
Level 2...the pentecostal/charismatic Christian world

teaching takes this sole leftbrain form.

Probably the extreme form of ludicrousy is when the Catholic Charismatic Renewal at Ann Arbor, followed by John Wimber in his dicipleship manual, tried to reduce teachings on the Holy Spirit-filled life to  a Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil format, eminently titled
Living in the Spirit Seminars.

Some measure of this was repeated through Selwyn Hughes teaching seminars.

I must stress, as in the modern day Alpha Courses which have penetrated traditional UK churches so effectively, that ALL of these courses have served a real function and were reflective more of where the church was at at the time. But overall it IS A FORM OF FASCISM to which the third level church, or mature version of church is not CALLED.  It's passing the GRECO-ROMAN mindset right through what is really a totally NEW CREATION that has never been truly seen on the Earth in any fulness....

A Body of multinational believers ALL IN UNION with their Saviour, expressing Him through spirit,mind,will,emotions, and body.

The Teacher already has his come uppance in recent years as the discoveries in brain research have begun to weaken their domination over the Body of Christ.  Frequently, and rightly, they are observed to be "anal" in their attention to the minutest detail. Now in some cases this is important, because of the phrase "the devil is in the detail". But teachers don't seem to be fitted with an off switch. They seem to have poor empathy skills, concerned primarily with getting their teaching across, whether anyone is even mildly interested or not.

Very rightbrained individuals and also very empathetic individuals who are also quite poor at articulating to any complicated degree, have suffered over centuries from teachers, who have been given way too much prominance in place of other humble souls who have got on for years helping others and serving them.

The Evangelist Fascist
I have yet to meet an evangelist who has the vision of the Body of Christ.
Paul Noble may be the nearest in recent years who has both, and in time past, I felt that Stan Warren of Emsworth had some perception of both. Stan was to have gone off with his wife to the Australian Inland Mission but a Divine Encounter with some traffic and a hospital bed for both of them arrested their plans, and they came to Emsworth and submitted into learning about how the Body of Christ really operates under the teaching and impartation of Ian McCulloch, Ed Miller and Jorge Pradas.

You see, neither David Hathaway,Morris Cerullo and Rheinhard Bonnke seem to "get" what the Church is?
Just about all the evangelistic people on Facebook I talk with have the same problem.
Their understanding of the Church is completely fascistic. It's somewhere to tuck their new converts so they never have to bother with them again, while they go out and blast new converts in.

Well, honour where honour is due. Unless the gospel is preached how are people going to hear? And evangelists up until now know that most churches develop this insular, navel-gazing approach, and never actually reach people, so you can understand their total frustration.

My frustration ,and I think it's born from God's own heart, so it is also His frustration is that
EVANGELISTS DON'T PREACH THE GOSPEL.
They preach forgiveness.Now Jews used to preach forgiveness too, all  while killing Jesus. Forgiveness represents approximately one tiny third of the gospel message.
Some are actually starting to understand that God IS ABOUT RECONCILING the world to Himself
since that is what HIS SON HAS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED.
But that also falls short of the whole picture.
The whole picture MUST INCLUDE what went wrong in Genesis 3, and how completely and effectively the Cross has met that problem head on. I haven't yet met an evangelist who gets that to anywhere near the level that Norman Grubb defines in his lifelong faith resume here:

So evangelists in their current form are relics from a first and secondlevel church period, that manage to get the seed of Life into someone's heart, but really don't have the first clue what they just did, a bit like a sixteen year old who gets his hapless girlfriend pregnant, and they both stick the newborn child in some social adoption programme, to be raised impersonally and without any clear identity to who they are....which is ofcourse the church as organisation ...or as pile of unrelated bricks...which is the format we have on the streetcorners the world over.

So ofcourse evangelists become quite fascistic in their almost robotic, military herding style of scooping as many unsuspecting individuals into the herding pens as possible.

MOST EVANGELISTS HAVEN'T A CLUE THAT THEY ARE BIRTHING JESUS CHRIST IN AN INDIVIDUAL, THAT WERE THEY ACTUALLY TO  GROW PROPERLY WOULD BE MORE THAN ABLE TO REPRODUCE CHURCHES OF THEMSELVES ALL OVER THE GLOBE WITHIN ONE GENERATION.....

there is a catch....

you actually need to have revelation about what all the New Testament letters are on about and not just head knowledge learned in a factory farm like
YWAM
or SEMINARIES
or Alpha Courses....

The CARING FASCIST
This is the social justice person gone mad....gone to the nth extreme.
There's a whole load of these on facebook. They are people who rightly, are frustrated at being totally overlooked in churches by imperious teachers and pastors, who, paid tithes, swan around in arecognised way in the communities, whereas often the people quietly getting on with Kingdom caring and pouring out themselves for others, are unfunded, poorly articulate themselves, and are often just taken for granted.
So, in reaction, they in turn become as fascistic in their approach to helping people as other ministries are in their areas. In the carers favour I have to say that the Bible says nothing about pastors or single figureheads heading up local churches. This is pure human invention and has no part in God's Melchizedek Church.
There are elders in God's church by virtue of knowing who they are in God, and being "elder" in the faith until the others around them become elder in their faith!
There are NO hard and fast guidelines to supporting or not of ministries. If you are being greatly used for a time, then you are going to find it hard to hold down a normal job....but perhaps things will steady out, or God will call you aside, and you can get some normal sort of employment again. Everything is fluid. St Paul went to virgin areas and wouldn't let any of them say that they paid for the gospel in any way....he completely funded himself, particularly in the early founding stages of a work.
Back to Carers.
Now I have some authority to say this because I have been a musician in many forms of God's church in the 70s and 80s, and twenty years ago felt to lay the whole thing down....partly to learn the third level, but more directly to learn that Chris Welch is Chris Welch. I was beginning to get an identitiy that was too wrapped up in the creative or prophetic things God did through me....but had to learn whether God never does a thing like that through me again, I am still God's Chris Welch. He in me is my identity and that is enough.

Most carers types I have met are doing their stuff for mixed motives. Some part of it is naturally "them". That is, as God created them. Some part of it is just works. They are driven to do something in a church system which largely exploits this in order that the pastors or church leaders can then "look more successful" as a church.

These sort of folk are the worst...oh especially when they are evangelistic as well.
They are the worst form of Salvation Army types.
But they also exist in most churches.
There will always be these tensions between all the different functions in the Body of Christ. Jesus Christ seems to have formed His church with the need for masses of Cross experience just to interrelate as His Body.
All kinds of tensions were running beneath the surface in the Gospels as the disciples learned to live together.
You even had Judas piling the pressure on when Mary "wasted" a whole years wages in perfume on Jesus feet. That money could have been given to the poor Jesus. (Then it hints that his real motivation was that he was the treasurer!!!) 
Carers will always be putting pressure on to meet the very real needs of folk. In God this is right. When it's not God though it's a false fascism that ties up the rest of the Body who should be really getting on with what God is doing through them.

The LEADER/SALES/ADMINISTRATOR FASCIST
Now in any bunch of people leaders emerge.
They just think on a bigger organisational scale.
I was going to do a whole post just on this alone two years ago but never got around to it.
I was going to call it the QUARTERMASTER SYNDROME

This is an identifiable type that profit from other's hardship. In Dad's Army it was the spiv type character who always knew where the bargain offers were. Monetarily these people always station themselves in between supply and customer. It's a natural entrepreneurial streak. This would be the person who got the Quartermaster position in the services.  They'd be in control of who got what.
On the large scale the 13 luciferian dynasties have positioned themselves at the gateway of all the main areas of our international dealings....education,monetary,political, artistic, etc etc A secretive council of 300 rule the entire world behind a glassfrontage of people we know, like President Obama, and our English politicians.

In any church the prophetic seems to fall foul of leadership.Leaders, as I said are the invention of God, because they have this natural flare for administration which works extremely well when you have a whole group of people trying to assert their own rights and needs.

One of the worst aspects of leader fascism is this FEEDBACK LOOP they get themselves into.
It works like this:
God honours leadership
God put me here
I am honoured

What may actually be happening is:
God has honoured this person as leader
I must submit faithfully to this leader
I get my identity in the reflection that comes from my relationship to this leader
He/she is honoured

Prophetic people who get their self-identification more from their quest for absolute truth
are a real pain to leadership fascists, because they seem quite rebellious, and don't seem to be
honoring that "very serious honour bestowed me by God Himself".

So instead of realising and honoring God in their own innate flare for getting a handle on the larger picture, the leader fascist sees everyone else through his own distorted lens of whether they have as much ability in leading. The ones who don't ofcourse are in some way lesser.

In other words the leader fascist measures everything by the size of pyramid of which he is the peak.
This is particularly dodgy in first and secondlevel churches.

Why so?

As we read in John 6, there comes a time in every Kingdom leader's life where they have to face the question of what the Gospel really is about. If they flunk it, they effectively lead the church in a 40 year wilderness journey which is totally without meaning and simply avoids the path designated by God to get them into the Land and exercising godly authority in their local area.  Jesus DIDN'T Flunk IT, but to the leader fascist He behaved like a complete dork, because He lost all His multitude, except for 12 lonely looking disciples.

There are many very successful churches numerically on Facebook. There are many leaders who are experiencing great and encouraging additions to their flock. I have had leaders really looks down at me and calls into question my own "fruit". But I look straight at them and say "Yes, but have you actually ever spelled out John 6 to your own congregation?"

Ofcourse no first and secondlevel church have, they simply haven't had that revelation yet. This is the territory of the "exposure of the independent self"....and it is the one all fascist leaders back away from because it is not faced in their own lives.


To conclude then, there is ONLY ONE LIFE going on in the Universe. God. Who is self-giving Love.
If we live one iota outside of this Life expressing itself through us, then those assets which  are our natural strengths and abilities start crossing the borderline that enters into a form of fascism. And it is this very fascism that hinders the Body from building each other up, and instead dissipates the power and the glory of the Body into the fractured mess we see today, with various relics of different very real moves of God distributed on every street corner.

"You DO NOT DISCERN THE BODY OF CHRIST ARIGHT. For this reason many of you are sick and some have already DIED."

The Deathly Hush surrounding Marxism

When those born in the 1950s were growing up Marxism was huge. I remember now with total embarrasment how I as a born again Spirit-filled person in 1974 said these words...

"I don't follow Marxism, but if I did, I would not follow the the form practised in Russia, but would favour the model as practised by China."

Friends, to see how wrong this was I recommend you all read Mao The Unknown Story.

Also, compare this with aspects of Watchman Nee's bio by Angus Kinnear

So if you consider having your tongue cut out by Red Communist guards is a good option, because your anointing is so great whole swathes of prison population were turning to Jesus.... well , by all means.....be my guest....go with Marxism.

Richard Wurmbrandt, the pastor imprisoned by Communists behind the Iron Curtain, traces the unknown history of Marx before Das Kapital. He also makes the point that for a supposedly humanist philosophy , it is amazing how Christianity was specifically targeted.

Other prisoners of a jail had a rough time....but only the Catholic priest was found crucified upside down on one of the prison walls.

Now , if atheism is as many have it, just a neutral position, why would the worst of the worst atrocities ever committed against humans be only effected against believers in a religion. And only the Christian religion.

The point of this post is to raise the curtain on the otherwise now silent stage that was communism. Frau Hannelore Noack, afriend of my parents, has been doing the same on the subject of Nazism in Germany. Her writings are studied in German Universities.

The same question emerges. How can an intelligent nation, perhaps THE most intelligent nation on Earth....sorry Brits....you don't even compare with this nation of intellectual heavyweights....How could such a nation stoop to the attempted mass genocide of the only people on Earth that are commonly known as the People of God, and certainly the nation who gave Christianity their Saviour?

And of Communism, a similar silence hovers among the world's intellectuals. How could such a seemingly noble humanist set of aims fall so quickly into mass killing machines on a level in China and Russia that only a newly mechanised 20th century war machine could accomplish.

This is why I believe there is such a silence in the Universities, on Radio 4, in Prospect magazine (which by the way provides much of the direction for the BBC) and among all the world's particularly atheistic or agnostic elite.

You see if a nation as clever as Germany, whose very language structure lends itself to deep intellectual analysis....

If such noble aims as are expressed in Das Kapital, although erroneous in its conclusions about how all people are "equal", if the enactment of these can lead to such extreme horrors...(GENERAL NOTE All people are not equal-1 Corinthians 12:22those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. This is about as far from Communist practice as you can get)

what is that saying about learning

about left-brain articulation and analysis

about our rather more complex make-up as humans.

Have you noticed the deafening silence in the open analysis of these questions.

What Simon Sharma, David Starkey and many more are not saying is how more than anything else, 20th Century history shows there is NO MIDDLE POSITION.

The intellectual elite fall for the same lie all these thousands of years later that the devil sowed in the Garden. (a, that he doesn't exist by the way) and b that we as gods have this independant posture that can think our own way between the knowledge of the good, and the knowledge of the bad. Not ever as it says in Romans 1, coming to the self-knowledge that it is the lie of our independant posture that gives the devil the fulcrum to move us in any which way he will. And so in analysing history you get the hubris of the intellectual detaching himself from history and making grand patronising statements about "these poor people from the past"...in the same way that Romans 1 analyses the different people judging one another...but unable and unwilling to realise they are of the same spirit.

You see, if we are stuck in this "independant" thing...we are so deceived we don't know we're in it."If the light within you is darkness then how great is that darkness." This by the way is a verse you will never ever hear in 1st and 2nd level churches...because they are themselves stuck in this spirit of self-delusion.

Who can deliver us? 16But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18

So, thinking that all we need is more "knowledge of good" humanity stumbles on in its attempts to raise up a world government of beneficence for all!!! Not knowing that each "unborn again " step that is not taken knowingly and deliberately in Union with the One True Spirit of life, is doomed to failure from the word go.

So for this reason and practically only this reason MARXISM must fail.

You could be forgiven for thinking that Marxism bears a significant resemblance to New Testament Church Life in Acts. Because that's where it was nicked from.

The proliferation of Marxism was through cell-groups. Where was that nicked from? Methodism.

Now here's the rub. We spent 6-10 years trying to live New testament Church Life as Spirit-filled Christians. And a lot of it was like Marxism.

Why? because there is no MIDDLE POSITION. Even when you are a Christian.

You either have broken through in revelation and practice to the REST that Paul talked about...or you are still in sin!! Hurting the people you are living with.

Neither marxism nor charismatic Christianity can live Acts of the Apostles.

Everyone needs a spirit change on the inside of them. Not just sufficient to get you born again. Not just sufficient to get you prophesying with the best of them in meetings....

BUT TO GET YOU LIVING!