There is a Spiritual war waging in the invisible, yet it is extremely real. The war in Ukraine presses on even when the two nations involved have interest in peace talks. Isreal gets hammered with rockets, forcing a retaliation that cost thousands of human lives. Closer to home, lies propagated through the pandemic still have a lingering effect on millions...killing trust in systems and fellow countrymen. Crisis after crisis the enemy marches forward with his battle plan. The psyopp of dehumanizition has infiltrated behind the line. Our once strong and fortified institutions have been eroded by his cunning use of words and human emotion. Under the false narrative of "freedom," he entraps the spirit of motherhood with each abortion, he mutates the human body with gender reassignment surgery, and removes the sacredness of the wedding bedroom with porn. Under the battle cry of "freedom," he has entraped us in a matrix that promises utopia, but is just an illusion. Lies that mascrade as truth, and we are on the mind numbing path that leads to a slow death. The weapons of our enemy eat us from this inside out. Our spiritual teeth are rotting within as we treat the surface and smile as if nothing is wrong. The most cunning adversary is the one you don't think is there. The prowler is a master of Spiritual Camouflage, using it to form an assult in the metaphysical battleground.
The devil and his army attack humanity on one main front! Take out the true men!
The sin matrix of the man made world is ruled by the ruler of the air. Eph 2:2 you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
Paul tells us that the world structure is as such because the spirit of the disobedient one runs it.
There is a black bear in a petting Zoo on the Oregon coast that represents how easy it is to fall under the control of such a sin matrix. I don't remember his name, but I do remember him. He was super overweight, lazy, and looked depressed. The one thing that did arouse him was visitors, not because of the interaction, but because he knew if he did something cool, like wave, they would throw treats to him. Looking into the eyes of this bruin was embarrassing. His soul was ashamed. There was a hint of something lost. The wild beast, the God given purpose had been repressed.
Black Bears are created to be free. They are powerhouses from birth and rely on fury to make it through their created order. Huge claws demolish logs looking for grubs. Mighty teeth split the largest of bones to get at the life giving marrow inside. Stumplike legs, ripple with muscle and tempered tendons moving the bear miles through miles of the untamed wilderness. The bears life is filled with danger and work, but it's also filled wild freedom. This bear at the zoo was none of that. He lived in pen that was measured in feet and he was reduced to making cute gestures for treats....far from what he was created to be, and he knew it.
When I look in men's eyes today, I see the same shame. Their ties to the lust this world has to offer, the matrix has domesticated them. McDonald's and Modern Warfare games have trapped them In zoo with our bear. They have become fat, lazy, and can care less about what they should be doing. They know they have sold their soul to the matrix creator and are ashamed.
Shame in this instance is good. It means that there is something left. There is still a spark of manhood. An inkling of the wild heart that God placed in our chest. It has been smoldering and repressed just like a zoo bear, but also like the zoo bear the repression is easily overcame! In the zoo all that held the bear in captivity was a small fence, a hot wire, and the brain washing thatdomesticated the beast. If you are convinced the tiny fence and hot wire are impassable or that you have to rely on your handler for food you are easily removed from your created order, and merely a shell of what you are really meant to be. You are created for more and you know it.
Gen 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
We were given a great honor! We were given dominion! That is what we are made for, but in a move of unbelief and allowing the pride of knowledge to over come us, we handed it all to the enemy! The cool thing is! You can get it back. Jesus made a way! 2 Cor 5:21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. With that one act on the Cross Jesus reconnected us with God and our created purpose. Live no longer like a caged bear, but a wild one! Let the blood of the King pump through your veins, empowering your DNA to be like Him. Ephesians 5:14 ESV — “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Be the light in a dark place... Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Like a free bear ENGAGE!!!! We are at war. Ephesians 5:12 we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places, and live out your Created Order!