Dream: The Number of Perfection

Imperfection: Disorder

In this dream, I found myself just staring into heavens on a clear moonless night. After a few moments, it was like that suddenly woke up to realize that I was not staring at stars but rather they were actual numbers that were illuminated in the same manner as stars; and just as numberless as the stars in heaven were, so did all of these numbers appear numberless. I then thought to myself, how could numbers appear numberless? It did not take me but a moment to realize that there was no sequential order to these numbers that I was seeing. It also did not take me but a moment to realize that because there were so many of these numbers, it could take me eternity to try and find which one was the highest number.

I also observed many clusters of stars that were made up of so many different numbers that they appeared just like a constellation of stars. I then began to examine these numbers in these clusters to see if they had any kind of sequential order to them, but I just saw numbers like an #81, next to #3,that was next to #480,240, that was next #612, that was next to #50025, that was next to #9. I tried to examine these clusters to see if they might form some kind of mathematical equation or scientific formula that help me understand why all of these numbers appeared as they did, but to no avail. Then this great feeling of heaviness came upon me, as though I was required to know just what the meaning “all” of these numbers were, and I had no clue whatsoever. Nevertheless, I felt so compelled to understand these numbers that I gave my complete attention to trying to figure out what they meant.

From the very first moment that I tried to figure out the meaning of these numbers, my mind became immediately overloaded with confusion, and frustration, and hopelessness. Even though this was a dream, I could clearly see that every thought that was coming into my mind trying to bring forth understanding concerning these numbers was accompanied with the word, “impossible“. My mind was so frustrated by this impossible task that the frustration itself actually woke me up from the dream; and when I awoke, I found myself to be just as confused, frustrated, and hopeless as I was in the dream. I do not know how I knew this, but there was something telling me that the only way that I come to know that which I was seeking for was for me to go back to sleep and re-enter this dream. I also knew that if I didn’t, then all of these miserable thoughts would continue with me. As I later thought back on this, I was amazed to remember that as soon as I closed my eyes, I immediately fell asleep; and as soon as I fell asleep, I immediately returned into this dream.

But this time, instead of seeing all of these numbers sitting in their stationary positions like the stars do, I saw that many flying around in many different ways. Some of them looked as though they blasting across the heavens in the same manner that a shooting star would, while others seemed to be spinning and spiraling out of control. Some of these numbers were doing loops, while others were turning themselves upside down, and then back into their previous position. There were some that would suddenly expand up to 5 times their size, then quickly deflate back to their original size. I had previously thought that I had never experienced confusion, frustration, and hopelessness like I had experienced in the first part of this dream, but now I felt like I had entered into a much higher level of all of these feelings. I felt like I had now entered into another realm of confusion that was made up of complete chaos and craziness. It did not take me but seconds to realize that in this realm, it was even madness to try to even think that someone could make any sense of these numbers. In just those few seconds, I was again so overwhelmed with this chaos and craziness that now added to my confusion, frustration, and hopelessness, that again I immediately woke up without even one attempt at trying to understand what I had been seeing. And just like the first time that I awoke, so also was it like that again, in that my awakening did not allow for me to escape from any of the confusion, frustration, chaos, or craziness that I had been experiencing in my dream. And just like the first time, I also knew that I could not be freed from of these utterly miserable thoughts that were in my mind unless I again went back to sleep and re-entered this same dream. There was so much misery in my thinking that I thought that it would be impossible for me to go back to sleep, but as soon as I closed my eyes, I again re-entered into the same dream.

As I re-entered this dream, I found it to be just as it was when I left it; still full of chaos, craziness, and confusion. But then I began to notice that something strange was beginning to happen. I saw like the numbers move next to other numbers, and it appeared as though one number would divide itself into the other; and then the higher number would just disappear. Then I saw numbers like 30 go over to the number 900, and when it divided itself into it, the 900 would disappear and all that would be left was the number 30. I then saw the number 725 go over to the number 525,675, divide itself into it, and the 525,675 disappeared, the number 725 remained. I then saw the number 13 go over to the number 469, and divide itself into it; and just like the others, the 469 disappeared, and the number 13 remained. I then realized that all of the numbers that I at first dividing themselves into the higher numbers, were reducing themselves down until all that was left were the numbers that had a whole number square root to it. I observed this action as it was happening throughout all of the heavens before me. It was also like I was seeing a subtraction of numbers through division. I continued to watch this subtraction by division until all that was left throughout the heaven were nothing but single digit numbers. I saw that all that remained were the numbers 2 thru 9. Even though there were only these few numbers left, there still remained among them a lot of chaos and craziness among these numbers.

Then the morning came and woke me up; and as I awoke, I found that this chaos, and craziness, and confusion was also still with me. Unlike before, I now knew that the only way that I could be delivered out of this state was for me to go and pray, and ask the Lord to give me understanding of this dream. As soon as I began to pray, I found myself again re-entering this same dream. This time I witnessed these remaining single digit as they began dividing themselves by themselves until there all that was left were eight number ones. Then these eight number ones began dividing themselves by themselves until all that was left was one number one. As soon as there was only one number one left, all of the chaos, all of the craziness, all of the confusion, all of the frustration, and all of the hopelessness completely left me. I then had this incredible feeling of peace that comes when you feel that everything is just the way that it should be. Though I did not yet understand what I had happened, I knew that all order had been restored.

I was still praying when the Lord then quickened to me that which he had previously taught me about that which is written in Jeremiah 4:22,23 “For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are senseless children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form and void; and the heavens, they had no light.” Then the Lord enlightened the eyes of my understanding so that I could see that the heavens that I had seen in my dream was this very same heaven that Father is speaking of in this passage of scripture. The Lord had taught me that this passage of scripture defines how God sees all carnally minded Christians. When the Lord was teaching me this, he reminded me of the day that he saved me, and gave to me the gift of his Holy Spirit. The day that I was saved was truly an incredibly dramatic day for me because my atheistic mind possessed nothing but pure unbelief that even God existed. Then suddenly, his Spirit filled me with nothing but belief that God was real. But that was all of the knowledge that I received in that moment. I had not receive any knowledge about who God was, or any understanding that defined his divine nature. Who was God? What was he like? What were his desires and pleasures? What was his will? Though I had been saved and had received his Spirit, my understanding and knowledge of God could only be defined as that which the Lord said in this passage of scripture from Jeremiah 4:22. I was completely ignorant of God.

I had an incredibly large hunger to know who this God was that had come and saved me. It was not long after this that I started visiting churches. And when I started going, I was puzzled as to why no one could feed me anything that would satisfy my hunger to know who God was. Many tried to feed me with their opinions, but I found out that man’s opinions are really worthless when it is used to try and satisfy the hunger of him who truly desires to know God. In fact, not only were any of man’s opinions able to answer my questions about God and his words, they only worked to confuse and frustrate me because I found that even from those who I sought my answers from, there was hardly any agreement among them at all concerning the questions I was asking. I was in that state where I believed that God and Jesus were real, which the demons also believed, but I still did not know anything else about them to believe on. One of the first things that the Lord opened my eyes to see was that laws and the doctrines of men do not reveal anything about God at all because all of their focus is on man’s righteousness and the works of men. So, it was with these questions that I set out on my quest, regardless of how long that it might take, to come to know and understand who my God and his son Jesus Christ were.

Matthew 11:27,28 “Jesus said, “All things have been delivered to me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father; and neither does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him to.”

Jeremiah 23:23,24 “Thus says the Lord, “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let not the mighty man glory in his might, and neither let the rich man glory in his riches; But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the Lord.”

It was not until the Lord gave me his interpretation of Jeremiah 4:22,23 that I first learned what the heavens and the earth represented in this passage of scripture. The Lord first showed to me that the earth in this passage represents the state of the first man, that his body is earthy because it was formed from the dust of the earth (Genesis 2:7). It is in this first man that you will find that which is written in I John 2:15-17, that natural man is born subject to the lust of his flesh (to do his own will), the lust of his eyes (to be right in that which he sees), and the pride of his life (that which he accomplishes of himself), fulfilling that which is written in I Corinthians 15:47 “The first man is of the earth; earthy.” Then the Lord showed to me that the heavens in this passage of scripture represents the mind of man; the mind where all of the imaginations dwell that are ignorant of God and all things which are of God. Just as the night star is dark, so also is mind that has no understanding or knowledge of the truth about God. Just as it is not possible for a man to number the stars in the heavens, so also is it impossible for man to number the imaginations that bring forth the opinions that can conceive about God, and his words. All idolatry is conceived out of man’s ignorance of God because the best that ignorance can do is to form his own opinions about God.

Acts 17:29,30 “Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent…”

Ephesians 4:17,18 “This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.”

Psalm 94:11 “The Lord knows the thoughts of man that they are vanity.”

I Corinthians 8:2 “If any man thinks he knows anything, he knows nothing as he ought to know.”

I Corinthians 2:11 “For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so, the things of God knows no man, only the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the Spirit of the world (which is the spirit of man), but the Spirit which is of God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”

II Corinthians 4:6 “For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

Ephesians 1:16,17 “Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.”

It was also when the Lord began interpreting Jeremiah 4:22 for me that he opened my to see clearly that the scriptures themselves confirmed that which the Lord had been teaching me when he led me to that which is written in I Corinthians 3:1-3 “And I brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with meat; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able because you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?” Here was this church that not only believed that God was real, that Jesus was the Son of God, but they also were walking in the gifts of the Spirit, yet Paul is saying to them, “You are still carnally minded and walking as men; that is, these were they which were spoken of in Jeremiah 4:22, they believed that God was real, but they did not know him. It was also with that passage of scripture that I began to realize that there was a spiritual realm that I had not walked in or experienced at any time in my walk; a spiritual realm wherein dwells a new heaven and a new earth, or rather, a new mind and a new heart. I was not only surprised and shocked by this revelation, but I was also stunned because in all of the preaching that I have heard, in all that which I had seen on Christian TV shows, in all of the teachings and the Bible studies that I had been previously involved with, and in all of the Christian conferences and meetings that I had attended until then, I not once heard anyone speak about that which Paul had said to the church are Corinth, “I cannot speak spiritual things to you because you are still carnally minded.” The envy, the strife, and the divisions that Paul found in the thoughts of the church at Corinth, I was well familiar with because that is all that I have ever experienced in the churches that I have visited or attended.

What could possibly be these spiritual things that Paul could not even speak in the ears of those who were walking in the gifts of the Spirit? I then remembered that Jesus himself said to his own apostles, “I have many things to tell you, but you are not yet able to hear them.” I was now completely persuaded that there was truly a spiritual realm that one could obtain in this life; a realm where the spiritual things of God are known. I knew this because Paul himself had this spiritual knowledge, and he wanted to speak it, but he knew that if he spoke these words, they would only become twisted and perverted when the carnally minded tried to interpret them with the imaginations of came forth from their natural wisdom and understanding. It was also at this church that Paul made what I personally consider one of the most profound statements written anywhere in the scriptures; that which is written in I Corinthians 8:2 “If any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.” Try telling this to those who esteem their opinions of the scriptures to be the truth. Even so, this verse also worked to confirm for me that which the Lord was teaching me about Jeremiah 4:22, that God was speaking about his “own people” when he called them foolish for not coming to know him.

Romans 10:2 “For I bear them record that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge; for they being ignorant of God’s righteousness have gone about and established their own righteousness, having not submitted to the righteousness of God (Matt.6:33)….11:7 “What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks, but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded…”

I myself then considered how and why I could have possibly thought that I was spiritually minded, when in truth, I was so far, far away from it. Then the Lord quickened the answer to me. It was the religion of my self-righteousness; that religion that is established when a man leans to his own understanding for interpretation of the scriptures. It was my own opinions that had deceived me into believing that I was spiritually minded when all I was just religious. Is this not what all hypocrites think about themselves, seeing that the focus of all self-righteousness is self, even though it is written that righteousness only belongs to God? It was here that the Lord began to enlighten my understanding to comprehend what the Lord was really saying in Jeremiah 4:22 “My people are foolish, they have not known me….” This was it! I saw that religion has nothing to do about “knowing God! My eyes were opened to see that religion only requires for you to come to know that religion, and not God. In fact, in most of the churches that I had attended, I was discouraged from seeking to know anything about God that was above or beyond that which was taught in that church.

Isaiah 29:13,14 13 Therefore the Lord said: “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me; and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men. Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work among this people; a marvelous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden (for it is their religion that keeps them from drawing near to know God).”

Luke 11:52 “Woe to you, lawyers (so called experts in the laws of God)! For you have taken away the key to knowledge; you did not go in yourselves and you hindered and prevented those who were entering.”

I was now beginning to see how the Lord was using this verse to reveal to me exactly what the spiritual things were that Paul could not speak to the carnally minded, or rather, the religious church…the spiritual things that revealed the spiritual GOD! For it is as it is written, “God is Spirit”. I was also beginning to see that it is impossible for a man to use his worldly wisdom, his natural understanding, and the opinions of his carnal knowledge to interpret and know God; but when he uses these natural things to interpret the scriptures, then it is impossible for him to come up with anything other than his own religion. Is it any wonder that that there are so many different denominations and sects that are established on man’s carnal reasonings of the scriptures? They all profess Christ, but they all require their followers to come to know the faith of their religion, but to “know” God, they only work to hinder. As the church at Corinth was, full of division and strife, so also are all of denominations and sects that remain carnally minded.

I Corinthians 2:9-11 “But as it is written, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so, no man knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”

After I had recalled all of these things, I was then meditating on how the heaven having no light might relate to the heavens that I was seeing with all of these numbers. Then the Lord said to me, “All the numbers that I saw, they each represent an imagination that dwell in the thoughts of all those who are carnally minded. It is of these carnal thoughts that you the enmity that is against God, where the law of sin and death cannot subject itself to law of life that is in Jesus Christ. It is impossible for death to subject itself to joy, or love, or peace, or patience, or goodness, or any other spiritual thought that is subject to the law of life. Out of the darkness of man’s ignorance of God comes forth the false images of man’s opinions of God; and out of the opinions of man come forth all of the reasons that overcome the counsels of God; and out of these reasons come forth the doubts, the unbelief, the hesitations, the self-justifications, and the fears that make the words of God to be powerless. Out of these reasons comes forth the unbelief of God’s words, the doubts about Father’s love, the hesitation to follow him, the excuses that men use to justify their disobedience, and the pride of that thinks that God can be pleased by the good intentions and the best efforts of men. It is in these reasonings that comes forth the enmity that dwells in the carnal mind.” The Lord continued saying, “These numbers that you saw in the heavens, they represent the countless imaginations that pass through the thoughts of the carnal mind, leaving behind the reasons that always work to keep my people from drawing near to unto God. It is the enmity of this reasoning that keep my people from coming to know me so that they may partake in communion and fellowship with me. It is also the work of these reasonings to keep my people from enjoying the blessing’s of Father’s love. As it is written, “A man’s enemies are not flesh and blood“, but they are reasonings of these wicked imaginations that are at work to deceive him.

Genesis 6:5 “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

II Corinthians 10:3-6 “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds and casting down imaginations (reasonings) and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ, having a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”

Is it not written that I said, “Follow me”? But then one answered with reason #80,094, “Lord, let me first go and bury my dead father first”; then another answered with reason #19 “Lord, I have a wife that I must first take care of; and another answered with reason #3,804, “Lord, I will follow you, but it is the time of the harvest, and it is first needful for me to bring in that which I myself have labored for.” Do you see how I said one word, but there are many, many different reasons that men may use to excuse themselves from obeying my words? How then can a man hearken to the instructions of God if he first bows the knee of his heart to keep and obey the instructions of his own reasonings? Is it not written that no man can have two masters; for he will trust one, and doubt the other; and he will love to do one while he makes light of the other? A man is tried and tested when the instructions of God’s words come face to face with a man’s own reasonings.

I Corinthians 15:1,2 “Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.”

Mark 4:14-20 “The sower sows the word. And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; and have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution arises for the word's sake, immediately they are offended. And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirty-fold, some sixty, and some an hundred.”

Matthew 8:18-22 “And when Jesus saw great multitudes about Him, He gave a command to depart to the other side. Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head (the mind of Christ that completely follows God).” Then another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Then the Lord gave me a vision in which I saw a man standing and praying. Then the Lord appeared before this man and said, “Follow me”. I then observed as this man appeared to do just that, and he had a countenance on his face that seemed to be so joyous and willing to do follow the Lord. But then almost immediately, I saw this dark void came up from behind him like some kind of large storm cloud. And then from this void of darkness came forth many, many long skinny arms; arms that were so skinny that they more resembled some kind of tentacle rather than an arm. But I saw that at the end of each arm was a hand with long skinny fingers; and they were all trying to grab hold of this man to keep him from following the Lord. I then saw located in the palm of each hand was what appeared like some kind of retractable fang; and as soon as one of these arms was able to get a hold or grip on this man, this fang would immediately then spring out and pierce his skin. As soon as it pierced his skin, I saw what appeared like some kind of poison being injected into him. I then observed that as soon as this poison was injected into him, his entire countenance changed; joy had fled from him and unwillingness replaced his willingness. He then told the Lord that he could not follow him at that moment, using these that were being injected into him to justify himself in not obeying the word that the Lord had spoken to him that said, “Follow me”.

John 19:21 This he signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, “Follow me“.

Matthew 8:18-22 “And when Jesus saw great multitudes about Him, He gave a command to depart to the other side. Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head (those who are “beheaded“ for the testimony of Christ).” Then another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Luke 6:46 “Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?”

John 10: 26-28 “But you do not believe because you are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give to them eternal life. They shall never perish, and neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”

John 12:26 “If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall my servant be. If any man serve me, him will my Father honor.”

I was still looking at this man with all of these hands from the darkness holding onto him, when to absolute amazement, the Lord zoomed me out to where I was now looking at this man from a far distance. I was stunned when I saw that this what appeared as this dark void was not a void at all, but it was actually Satan’s head. And these long skinny arms that were taking hold of this man were coming right out of Satan’s brain. This scene completely resembled the pictures that I have seen of that mythical character known as Medusa; only this was not at all any kind of mythical scene. It was amazing to think that Medusa had snakes coming out of her head, while I was also seeing these long, skinny arms with a fang that resembled snakes. It was then that the Lord enlightened my understanding to comprehend that I was seeing Satan, our adversary, at work. It was also quickened to my remembrance something that the Lord had said to me years ago, “Mitt, Satan is not adversary to keep you from doing your own will, but he is adversary that works to hinder my people from doing my will.” Then the Lord said, “The lies of reasons are the words that Satan speaks to overthrow my words; reasons that work to hinder or prevent my people from following me.” I then realized that all of the reasons that had entered into this man that was before me, they were thoughts that were actually coming from Satan’s own mind. I have always taken heed to the scripture that identifies Satan as our adversary, but I had not once considered, or seen so clearly, how reasonings could be used as such a powerful weapon to overcome all of the counsels and instructions of God as I was now seeing. I reckon that I had not seen this clearly at all because of how justified I have felt in my own mind when I myself had used reasons to justify and excuse myself from following after the Lord.

Then two things immediately came into my mind. First, I have never met a man, including myself, that was not willing to give you a reason or an excuse for just about anything they have ever done, but especially for his mistakes and errors. I remembered also that the Lord had once told me that there is no skill that the carnally minded are more skilful at that the skill of finding reasons and excuses to justify himself with. It is the wide and easy path that Jesus warned us about that many will follow after that leads only to destruction. Not only is it easy to do, but it just seems so easy and comfortable to do. It used to be that men would offer up reasons and excuses for what they said or did, but these days, it seems that others are now demanding an excuse or a reason for any word spoken or any deed done that does not meet their approval or acceptance. And now here I am seeing with my own eyes that all such reasons and excuses are birthed right out of the mind of Satan. Is it any wonder that the Lord said, “Your thoughts are not my thoughts”?

The second thing that came to mind was the story of how Peter responded to Jesus after he had just told the apostles that he was going to Jerusalem, and there he would be delivered up, suffer many things, and then be killed. Then after Peter had considered what he had just heard, and having loved Jesus, he drew near to him, and with the best of the intentions of his reasoning, he tried to overthrow the will that God had prepared for his only begotten Son. But Jesus knew where the words of this reasoning were coming from, and so he first rebuked Satan for his lies, knowing whose head these thoughts had come from; and then he rebuked Peter for having agreed with Satan’s lies. What was really interesting to me was that Jesus identified that Peter was rebuked for thinking as men think, yet it was Satan himself that had brought forth these lying reasons.

Matthew 16:21-25 “From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day. Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!” But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things (the reasons of men’s imaginations) of men.” Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”

This knowledge then brought me into a deeper understanding of man’s captivity to sin; for it is as it is written in I John 3:8 “He that sins is of the Devil, for the Devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the Devil (the lies of reasonings).” What is sin but the lies of the Devil that refuse to believe or hearken unto the voice of God’s words? Who was Jesus speaking to when he said, “You are of your father the Devil, and the desires of your father you will do”? Are these desires of the Devil the lies and reasonings that he brings forth in his attempts to overcome the words of God? I do not know about you, but many men, just like what Peter did, have tried to overthrow the counsels of God’s will for me through the use of reasonings. Are these the children of the Devil fulfilling his desires through them. I know that I myself, out of my own ignorance, have done the very thing that Peter also did; and just like Peter, the Lord corrected me also with rebuke. He did not cast me off, or reject me, or punish me, but he corrected me in his love. It is when God reveals to me the things that go deep, like showing where the reasonings of men comes from, that they are the very thoughts of the Devil, that it makes me so thankful that I am under the blood of the Lamb and in the grace of Father’s love; and I will remain there until the Lord finishes this work that he has started in me, casting down all of these wicked reasons and evil imaginations that oppose God and that contend with the voice of his words.

John 8:44 “You are of your father the Devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources (reasonings), for he is a liar and the father of it.”

Jeremiah 16:9 “Thus says the Lord,..12 “And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one follows the imaginations of his own evil heart so that no one listens (hearkens) to Me.”

Hebrews 3:7,8 “Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness.”

II Corinthians 10:3-6 “For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t war after the flesh: for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds and casting down imaginations (reasonings) and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ, having a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”

I also remembered that Paul had rebuked the church at Corinth for this same purpose, for thinking as men thought. And what did Paul reveal to this church that the fruit of their carnal thoughts were: envy, division, and strife. What do men argue and strive about but when the reasonings of their opinions do not agree? James even identifies envy, strife, and divisions are the fruits of wisdom of this world; the wisdom that is earthy, sensual, and of the Devil. So many are deceived into thinking that have been set free, yet they are still walking in the disobedience of unbelief because they are still in bondage to obey the counsels of their reasonings rather than the words of God. If any man thinks that he is free, but he is using reasons and excuses to justify himself with, then he is deep in bondage to the lies of Satan, and does not even know it. I then thought how interesting it was to see that when Jesus rebuked Peter, he rebuked him for being mindful of the things of man; but it was Satan himself that was first rebuked for bringing his reasonings into Peter’s mind. I then perceived then that Jesus was implying that the mind of Satan and the carnal mind of man are one and the same: minds full of adversarial imaginations and reasonings that always stand ready to overthrow the counsels of God’s words.

Ephesians 4:19,20 “This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their hearts.”

Romans 8:7 “For the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.”

Nahum 1:11 “There is one that comes from out of you that imagines evil against the Lord; a wicked counselor.” Thus says the Lord, “Though they are safe and likewise many, yet in this manner they will be cut down when he passes through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more; for now I will break off his yoke (the imaginations of his reasonings) from you, and burst your bonds apart.”

When this vision was over, the Lord returned my focus back to the dream that he had given to me. Then he said, “Did I not say that if any man was going to serve me, then he would have to follow me? And if any man will follow after me, then let him take up his cross, dispossess the reasons of his mind so that he may follow me down the straight and narrow path that leads to abundant life. It is this path that Satan has laid his snares and weaved his deceitful webs with the reasonings that attempt to ensnare the foolish with his lies. On snare may baited with reasons #148, #60,008, #5,020, #7,760, #300, and #42; reasons that are formed to turn my people away from the path that I have chosen for them to follow. Then there may be a web that Satan has weaved together with reasons #448, #6,920, #82,888, #12, and #940, 660, all designed to turn one away from the counsels of my words. Have I not declared in the heavens and the earth that I love you, that I will never leave you or forsake you? Yet, when things do not go your way, here come reasons #4,004, #386, #98, and #54,812 to deceive you with their lying reasons to believe I do not love you, and that I will leave you and forsake. Then Satan may bait that trap with reasons #744, #8,644, and #66, lies that are designed to join with the others that try to further persuade you into believing that I do not love you, and that I will leave you and forsake. Are you beginning to understand now, that the heavens that you see are not the heavens at all, but it is the darkness of the enmity that dwells in the carnal mind, the darkness that is full of all manner of reasons why a man should not trust God, or believe on any of the instruction of his words?”

I Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

Psalm 52: “You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah. You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue. God shall likewise destroy you forever, and he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.”

I then asked the Lord what were the clusters of numbers that I saw that resembled constellations of stars. He answered and said, “Did I not cast one demon out of a man, but before I did, I asked him what his name was? Did he not answer saying, “Legion, for we are many”. And you yourself know that I have cast out many different spirits of fear out of you also, and though they all had a different nature, and counsels of reasonings that differed from one another, they still all worked to torment you continually with stress, and worry, and anxiety. Just as in a constellation of stars there are multitudes and multitudes of stars, so clusters of numbers will you multitudes and multitudes of different kinds of fears, but they all work together to keep your mind troubled with the lies of their reasonings: “What if this happens? What if that happens? What if nothing happens?” It is these types of reasonings that bring the confusion, the frustration, the craziness, and disorder into the thoughts of the carnal mind; thoughts that spiral out of control, that turn upside down, and that bounce all over your mind. Just as there are no two numbers that are alike in this cluster of numbers, so also do the thoughts of those who are in bondage to these fears hear many different kinds of reasonings that agree with that particular spirit of fear. One cluster of numbers, but many kinds of reasonings that work to keep you troubled, miserable, or tormented in your thoughts.

No matter how different the reasons are that provoke you to fear, they all designed with one purpose in mind, to turn you from the straight and narrow path that I have called you to walk in. Do you not remember hearing the reasonings that have spoken in your thoughts that have said, “If you do what the Lord says, then will you not look like a fool?”. Or, “If you hold fast to the counsel of God’s word, then will not those agree with his words reject you?” Or, “If you follow the Lord, then what will your family think?” Or, “What if you trust the Lord and he does not provide for you and your family?” If, if, if, if…this is THE single word that Satan uses to introduce the counsels of his reasonings into the thoughts of those who are carnally minded. Satan uses the “If” to open your mind to entertain the confusion and insanity of his lies. No one is of a sound mind that trusts in any such like reasonings. Those who follow me do not at all follow any reasonings. Do not the reasonings of fear forecast nothing but the suffering, or the doom and gloom, or pain, or the injury that is certainly going to come to you if you follow the Lord? There is no certainty in the lies of reasoning, but there is certainty in the truth of God‘s word; for you can be certain that if you follow after me, then you will see the good that I desire to bring forth in everything that you do; even in those things that may even first appear as though nothing but suffering or evil will come forth.”

Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”

Then the Lord said, “Another one of these clusters of numbers that you saw, it might represent all of the different reasonings that men may use to interpret my words with. They are all opinions, but just like the stars in a constellation differ from one another, so also do the opinions that men have of my words also differ from one another. Though there is only one truth of my word, Satan has deceived men into believing that they can discover the truth through their own reasonings of my words. It is through these reasonings that lies of opinions are formed; and it is then through these opinions that all false images, false teaching, and false doctrines are established. When the reasoning of Satan and the scriptures are joined together, it brings forth iniquity (self-righteousness) and hypocrisy (play-acting Christians). As many different opinions there are of my words, so also are there just as many different images of Christ that have been conceived and brought forth from the reasonings of men. As I have told you before, it is impossible for the opinions of men’s reasonings to discover the truth of God; the truth is revealed from above to those who seek for the truth.

Romans 11:25 “For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.”

I Corinthians 11:19 “For there must be also heresies (opinions) among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.”

Heresy: [Vines Dictionary of New Testament words] "a choosing, choice" ; then, "that which is chosen," and hence, "an opinion," especially a self-willed opinion, which is substituted for submission to the power of truth, and leads to division and the formation of sects.”

I Peter 1:1,2 “But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words (the reasonings of their own opinions); for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.”

II Corinthians 2:17 “For we are not as many, which corrupt (deal deceitfully) the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.”

Let me remind once again, that when I, the truth of God, came into this world, I came in the form of God, but I came also in the likeness of sinful flesh. The world did not know me, and neither did my people receive me because their reasoning could not comprehend my appearing. I was accused, criticized, despised, mocked, beat, scorned, condemned, and crucified because I could not be explained or defined by the reasonings of men. Even though I was the word of God made flesh, I was rejected because my doctrine did not agree with the doctrines that are formed from the reasonings of men. Those who use their own reasonings to interpret the scriptures with are the very ones that used my words to testify against me; the lies of their opinions of the scriptures verses the truth of God’s words. Their reasonings of the scriptures led them to judge, accuse and condemn sinners to death, while the truth of the scriptures led me to show mercy, compassion, and forgiveness. The light shined in the darkness, but the darkness could not reason it. As it was then, so also is it now. For as many as the numbers are that you saw in these clusters, so also are there just as many different denominations or sects that follow their opinions of the scriptures rather than following me. And today, even though the reasonings of their opinions continue to differ from one another, they still continue to use their reasonings of the scriptures to testify against me, the truth God’s words. Again I say to you, that it is Satan that brings forth all these different reasonings so that is able to seduce my people according to the different images their opinions make me out to be. The reasoning of men does nothing but twist and pervert the scriptures, to keep them from coming into the knowledge of the truth. There is only one truth, but many, many different opinions that are formed that bring forth an image of the truth; or rather, an image of me because I am the word of God made flesh. All false doctrines come forth from the reasonings of Satan, the architect of all lies; and his reasonings make my words to be powerless when his lies are believed to my truth.

II Timothy 4:3,4 “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”

I Timothy 4:1 “Now the Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron (no longer able to discern the truth of God from the reasoning of men).”

Mark 7:6 “Jesus answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: “This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.” For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do.” He said to them, “All too well you reject the commandment of God so that you may keep your tradition…13 making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

Isaiah 47:10 “For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, “No one sees me”; Your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you. And you have said in your heart, “I am“, and there is no one else besides me.”

II Peter 3:15,16 “And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.

Psalm 56:5 “All day they (the hypocrites) twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.”

II Peter 2:1 “But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies (opinions; reasonings), even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.”

II Corinthians 2:17 “For we are not as many, which corrupt (deceive) the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

Proverbs 21:16 “The man that wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”

Before I testify in the next paragraph more about what the Lord showed to me about these “reasonings”, let me share something with you that Father had previously revealed to me about “blessing and cursing”. We all know that it is written in James that the Lord says, “The tongue is an unruly (without order) evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith we bless God the Father, but we curse men who are made after his image. Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing; and brethren, these things ought not to be so. I was asking thinking that for a man to curse another, he meant that he was speaking of evil him, and surely this is truth. But then the Lord said to me that he then defined cursing as “coming against one another”, and blessings “to be for one another”.

Then the Lord continued saying, “Do you see this cluster of numbers, the one that appears as though it is the largest constellation in this heaven? It is out this cluster that Satan brings forth the multitudes and multitudes of reasonings that men use to judge, accuse, and condemn one another, thus bringing destruction upon their own heads by judging other according to seemingly “just” reasons that come forth to counsel you judge, accuse, and condemn one another rather than to love one another like I commanded. As I told you before love always loves while reasons find fault with and point the finger of accusation at others. It is of these multitudes of Satan’s reasonings that the lies forth to entice all who carnally minded to judge others, blinding them to see that they are bringing destruction and condemnation upon their own heads. Again, all of these thoughts come directly from Satan’s mind, the god of this world, he who himself continually accuses the brethren and condemns the inhabitants of this world. As he uses his reasons to satisfy his desire to judge, to accuse, and to condemn, so also will all of the children of the darkness also desire to do the same.

Revelation 12:10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.”

John 8:10-12 “When Jesus had raised himself up and saw no one standing there but the woman (who was caught in the act of adultery), he said to her, “Woman, where are those who accuse you? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I accuse (judge; condemn) you; go and sin no more.” Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

It is of these multitudes and multitudes of various kinds of lies that Satan uses to keep the carnally minded supplied with reasons to judge, or to accuse, or to point the finger of guilt, or to mock and scorn, or to blame, or to gossip, or to speak evil of, or to be envious or jealous of, or to criticize, or to find fault with one another, or to hate, or to slander one another. These are the various manners that the tongue uses to curse other men. Is it not written that I said, “Judge not lest you be judged; for with what judgment you use, that will be the manner of judgment that shall judge you. Those who judge without mercy are also they who shall be judged without mercy. Bless those who curse you.” Do you see how your adversary the Devil works, to supply you with the reasons that tempt to do that which I warned you not to do? Remember that I told you before that Satan is not the adversary to your will, but he is the adversary to my will, and all those who desire to do my will. Have you not considered the children of perdition, those that Satan has deceived into believing that they have the right to sit in the seat of judgment over the lives of others, using Satan’s “just reasons” to curse others? But unlike God, they sit to judge unjustly, and unmercifully, and without forgiveness, completely unaware they are only laying up wrath, destruction, and condemnation for themselves on that day when they shall be judged according to judgments they have used to judge others with; or rather, to be judged with the reasoning they used to curse others with.

II Thessalonians 2:3,4 “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”

Romans 2:1 “Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.”

Matthew7:13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.”

He is ugly; she is to short; he thinks only of himself; she is fat; he does eat right; she does not take proper care of herself; he is does not agree with me; I do not like the clothes she wears; I am better than him; she does not measure up to my standard; he is wild; she is of a different nationality; he is of a different race; she is stupid; he is ignorant; he scares me; she offends me; he is a thief; she took advantage of me; he is an adulterer; she is a whore; he talks to much; she lies; he is a bastard; she is a bitch; he is lazy; she is tramp; he wears his hair to long; she wears too much make-up; It is his fault; she is to blame; he is different; she is friends with the wrong people; I do not like him because of the way that he looks at me; she is stuck up; he is boring; she is obnoxious; he is mean; she is wrong because she does not see it my way; his politics are perverted; they are raising their children the wrong way; be suspicious of her; do not turn your back on him; she is ruthless; he hurts people; she does not believe in God; he is a sinner; she will not listen to my counsel; his doctrine does not agree with mine; she does not pray right; he does not tithe. Are these not just but a very few of the multitudes of reasons that Satan uses to keep the carnally minded supplied with reasons to curse others? From where come the arguments, the divisions, the fighting, the divorces, the strife, and the wars that common to natural man, but from the reasonings that come forth from Satan’s own thoughts?

Matthew 7:1-5 “Judge not so that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank (the reasonings that blind) from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

James 4:11 “Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?”

Matthew 12:31 “Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Then the Lord said, “Now do believe the scripture that says, “And God saw that every imagination (reasonings) of the thought of their heart was only evil continually.”? And do you now believe my word that says, “My thoughts are not your thoughts; for as high as the heavens are above the earth are my thoughts above your thoughts”? Remember that which I told you, “He that walks in darkness walks in the curse of blindness, desiring to have “just reasons” to justify himself and to curse others with. He that walks in the light of God’s love walks in the light of Father’s purposes: to do good to all, to bless all, even those who curse you, to show mercy, and to forgive from the heart all those who offend and sin against them. Make sure that the light that is in you is not darkness. My Father so loved this world that his loved purposed to send me into this world, not to judge, or to accuse, or to condemn it, but to save it”, says the Lord.

Luke 9:53-56 “But those in the Samaritan village did not receive Jesus because his face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?” But He turned and rebuked them, and said, “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.”

I then sat there for moment, trying to comprehend the magnitude of the words that the Lord had just spoken to me. I could do nothing but marvel at the fact that the Lord had just revealed that the enmity of the carnal mind, it is filled not with reasonings that man conceives, but they reasonings that are conceived out of Satan’s own thoughts, then passed on by him to carnal mind. I then thought about how the scriptures identify Satan as being the god of this world, and at that which is written that says that those who are of the world speak of the world, and the word hears them. One of the first things that the Lord taught me about himself when I began to seek after him was how much he hated the excuses and the reasonings that men use to justify themselves. If you had sinned, you just confess it”: period. If you had faults and weaknesses, then you just acknowledged the truth: period. God does not need to hear the explanations of men’s excuses or reasonings, and now the Lord was enlightening my eyes to see that God hates these words because they are all crafted in Satan’s own mind. Yet, these are the very words that the world speaks of, and that the world hears. Really, is there anything that seems to come more natural to man listens than the reasonings that men use to explain why they do what they do?

I John 4:4-6 “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”

Then he brought the dream back into my remembrance. I then began to consider again al that which I had seen, and then asked, “Lord what were all of these numbers that I saw that seemed to be just disappearing?” The Lord said, “These are the numbers/reasonings that you have judged to be evil, having seen that they are reasons that counsel you to do that which is contrary to my words. Once you recognized these lies for what they were, you took up your cross to disagree with them, refusing to bow the knee of your heart to believe them. But it was not until you called out to me saying, “Father, not my will be done but your will be done”, that you allowed for me to come and fight for you against these lying spirits. Know this, that every time that you see these reasons come against my will for you, know that I will come when I see that you desire to do my will rather than your own will. It is then that I will come and cast out these reasonings that seek to counsel you not follow me or the counsel of my words; whether it be reasons for you to doubt the faithfulness of my love for you, or the reasons that tempt you to curse others, or the reasons tempt you not to believe my words, or the reasons that tempt you to yield to their fears, or the reasons that tempt you into justifying your weaknesses and sins. It is only when you were willing to lay down your life, a life whereby you served the lies of Satan’s reasonings, that I am able to send my will to you to free you from serving Satan through the lies of his reasons.

II Corinthians 10:4-6 (AMP) “For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One), being in readiness to punish every [insubordinate for his] disobedience, when your own submission and obedience [as a church] are fully secured and complete.”

The more you offer to me the lies of Satan’s reasonings, the more I will come you to set you free. Know this, it is only the lies of Satan’s reasons that has brought disorder into this world; the disorder of chaos, foolishness, craziness, uncertainty, confusion, frustration, evil, vanity, unrest, and trouble. The disorder in the numbers that you saw in this dream represents the disorder that Satan has established in this world through his reasonings. You will recognize this disorder in those who disobey the counsels of God’s word; in those who make light of God’s word; in those who put their cares, their business, their family, and their pleasures ahead of God; in those who do not believe God or his words; in those that contend with God; in those that think evil of God; in those that do not respect or honor God; in those who esteem their opinions to be of more value than the truth of God; in those who do not trust God; and in those that do not love God or the truth of his words. This is the disorder of this fallen world of darkness, where men follow after the reasons of Satan rather than the truth of God.

John 8:31,32 “Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

There is no light of God in this disorder, only the darkness where the children of this world serve Satan’s reasons rather than the will of God. The more you take up your cross to crucify this world, denying your citizenship that requires of you to serve the lies of the god of this world, the more I will come to cast out the lies of his reasonings that continually tempt you in your thoughts not to follow me. I will come and remove this disorder that has no fellowship, or relationship or communion with me. Did I not create man for these very purposes? The more you allow for me to restore the order that I created you for, the more you will see me dissolve the disorder of confusion, and frustration, and chaos. Then you will witness as I begin to establish my kingdom within you; and when I establish my kingdom within you, the peace of God will come to rule in the thoughts of your mind and the motives of your heart. The more order that you allow for me to restore; and the more you allow for me restore my order within you, the more my love will come to fellowship, to bless, and to commune with you”, says the Lord.

Proverbs 16:3 “Commit the work unto the Lord, and your thoughts shall be established.”

Romans 12:1,2 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

Ephesians 4:21-24 “If indeed you have heard him and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conversation, the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.”

Galatians 6:14 “But God forbid that I should glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.”

John 3:30 “He must increase (the new man); but I (the old man) must decrease (the lies of Satan‘s reasonings; the numbers that I saw in this dream).”

Colossians 3:10-14 “Put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all. Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.”

Then I asked, “Well, Lord, after I saw all of these numbers, or reasonings, disappear, all that I saw left was the number 1, what does that represent? The Lord answered me and said, “God! Perfection! God alone is perfect. God is one. There is only one God, one Lord, one Spirit, one Truth, one Wisdom, one Love, and one Life. When all things have been reconciled unto God, then shall all things shall be perfected in God though Jesus Christ. When all things are of God, made to be one with him through Jesus Christ, then shall all order be restored. It was in the beginning that Jesus Christ made all things were created and made to be one with God through in agreement and purpose. And as it was in the beginning, so is it now, that by Jesus Christ shall all things be reconciled to God, to once be created and made to one with God through him. The DNA of God is one; and the DNA of all things that are of God is one because there is nothing that is of God that was not made according to his purpose. Can two walk together as one unless they agree in the same purposes? Only when all things have become one with God shall order be restored; for when order has been restored, then all things shall again be of God through Jesus Christ. The same Jesus Christ that created and made all things to be one with God is the same Jesus Christ that shall restore the order of all things.

Reconcile (Vines Topical Bible Dictionary): “to change, exchange“; “to change from enmity to friendship, to reconcile.”            

John 17:20-23 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in me through their word; that they all may be one, as you, Father, are in me, and I in You; that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And the glory which you gave me I have given them, that they may be one just as we are one: I in them, and you in ye; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them as you have loved Me.”

Matthew 5:48 “Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

Ephesians 4:3-6 “4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”

I Corinthians 8:5-7 “For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.

However, there is not this knowledge in everyone; for some, with consciousness of the idol (SELF), until now eat (the words of reasonings) it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.”

Ephesians 3:8-11 “To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

II Corinthians 5:17-20 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.”

Ephesians 2:10-16 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that he might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And he came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.”

Philippians 2:1-2 “Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.”

It was in the fall of Adam and Eve that the darkness entered into the hearts and minds of Adam and Eve, when their thoughts became one with the reasonings of Satan. It was in the fall that Satan began to live his life through Adam and Eve, filling their thoughts with his own reasonings. It was when this darkness entered into fallen man, that the enmity of Satan’s reasonings began its work to keep man alienated and separated any life of fellowship and communion with God. Though there are many are under the grace of love, they are still in bondage, serving these lies of Satan because they have yet to seek to know my truth. When you see a brother who does not believe my words, then know that you are seeing a man that has not yet been reconciled unto me, and Satan is continuing to live his life through this man’s thoughts. When you see a brother that doubts my love for him, then know that you are seeing a man that has not yet been reconciled unto me, and Satan is still living his life through this man’s thoughts. When you see a brother judge and accuse another, then know that you are seeing a man that has not yet been reconciled unto me, and Satan is still living his life through the lies that give him this man reasons to judge and accuse others. When you see a man that justifies his weaknesses and sins with excuses and reasons, then know that you are seeing a man that has not yet been reconciled unto me, and Satan is still living his life through this man’s thoughts. When you see a brother form opinions about my words, then know that you are seeing a man that does not know me, and Satan is living his life through the reasonings that this man uses to form his own opinions. When you see brother bowing his down his heart to serve the anxieties, the worries, and the stress that the reasoning of fear have brought upon him, then know that Satan is still living his life through this man’s miserable thoughts. Though they may be still under the blood of Jesus Christ, they have not sought for or asked for me to purge them of the dead works that Satan’s reasonings brings upon them.

Matthew 6:33 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (things that are trusted in).”

Romans 6:15,16 “What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves servants to obey, you are that one’s servant whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?”

Hebrews 9:14 “For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, then how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

I John 1:8,9 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Know this, that in the disorder, reasonings rule and rebellion reigns. Reasonings do not follow the Lord. Reasonings do not understand or know God. Reasonings do not believe on the Lord. Reasonings do not trust God. Reasonings do not obey God. Reasonings do not put any faith in God. Reasonings do not draw near to God. Reasonings do not love God. Herein is found the disorder of thoughts that have ruled in the darkness of the carnal mind. Those who choose to follow after all such reasonings are those who seek to save their life, choosing to hold on to the reasonings of Satan. Remember that it is written that a man is that which he thinks. God is the Word, and the Word is truth. The DNA of God is one because there is only one truth, while the DNA of Satan is the disorder of all these lying reasons. Satan’s DNA is always found in the enmity of reasonings that dwell in the thoughts of the carnal mind; in the lies that oppose God and in the reasons that exalt their counsels to be more righteous than the counsels of God’s words.

Isaiah 65:2 “All day long I have held out my hands to a rebellious people, who walk in ways not good, following their own imaginations (thoughts); a people who continually provoke me to my very face…”

Romans 8:7 “The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, and indeed, it cannot be.”

Multitudes, and multitudes in the valley of decision. Multitudes and multitudes of lies ready to give you their just reasons as to why you should walk in the ways that seem right in your own eyes rather than to seek the way that is right in the sight of God. Multitudes and multitudes of lies waiting for the opportunity to give to you their just reasons as to why you should trust in yourself with the cares of your life rather than in God‘s love. Multitudes and multitudes of lies waiting for their opportunity to give you their just reasons as to why you should find fault and point the finger of guilt at others rather than to love them. Multitudes and multitudes of lies waiting for the opportunity to give you their reasons about of those things you will suffer or lose if you follow after the Lord. Multitudes and multitudes of lies waiting for the opportunity to give to you their just reasons why you should remember the sins of those who have offended you rather than to forgive and forget them. Multitudes and multitudes of lies waiting for the opportunity to give you their just reasons as to why you should take control over the circumstances and situations that arise in your life rather than to surrender them into the hands of God. Multitudes and multitudes of lies waiting for the right opportunity to give you their just reasons that will tell you why God will not be faithful to his words towards you. Multitudes and multitudes of lies waiting for the opportunity to give to you their just reasons as to why you should justify your weaknesses, your sins, and your disobedience rather than to ask God to cleanse and forgive you. Multitudes and multitudes of lies ready to give their just reasons as to why you should seek to satisfy the pleasures that come from you doing your own will rather than to seek the will of God. Multitudes and multitudes in the valley of decision; endless numbers of reasonings all vying for and hoping that you will choose the lies of their counsels to be that which you follow after rather than the counsel of the One: the truth of God.

Joel 3:14 “Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will diminish their brightness (These Lord showed to me that these represent the lies of reasonings that we once esteemed as the light, the enlightened counsels that dwelled in the high places of the carnal mind that the blind live their lives according to).”

II Timothy 2:24-26 “And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient; in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves (the imaginations of their reasonings); if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, so that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil, who are taken captive by him to do his will (his reasonings).”

Proverbs 16:3 “Commit the work unto the Lord and your thoughts shall be established.”

I told you that your fight was not against flesh and blood, but it is against principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness, and the wicked spirits that dwell in the high places of the carnal mind: the enmity that is the enemy of God. But know this, it was not until you made the lies of Satan’s reasoning to be your enemy that you allowed for me to make them my enemy also. Even in those times that you made yourself to be friends with the enemy, when you agreed with the reasonings of their doubts, their contentions, their unbelief, their confusions, and their fears, I still covered you with the blood of my love. I never once thought to make you to be my enemy because you continued seeking for me. But when you began to see the enmity of Satan’s thoughts as your real enemy, seeing them to be nothing but lies that worked to keep you from drawing near to me, you then prepared yourself to wage war in the battlefields of your own mind: the lies of Satan’s reasonings verses the truth of my words. It then became very pleasing for my ears to hear your that you had made the battle cry of your faith in me to be, “Father, not my will be done, but your will be done.” it was when I heard this cry, that I made your enemies to be my enemies. The words of your prayers had become precious in my hearing because I then knew that you were making the enmity of these carnal thoughts to be your enemy so that you could become my friend.

Colossians 1:21,22 “And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight.”

James 4:4 “Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”

John 7:18 “He who speaks from himself (from the reasons of his own mind) seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.”

I Corinthians 4:5 “Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring the hidden things of darkness and the counsels of the heart; then shall every man have praise of God.”

Ephesians 6:10-13 “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”

James 2:23 “And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.”

You have waged many battles when these reasonings appeared in the imaginations of your mind to oppose and exalt themselves against the counsels of my words; and many, many times you have seen my strong hand come and triumph over them, casting them out, setting you free from their bondage of Satan’s will. Just as you saw the numbers in this dream decreasing, so also have you seen these reasonings decreasing in your thoughts as you called on my name to free you. Though the end of all things is near, be mindful that Paul fought the good fight right up until the end of his life, holding fast to my words and keeping the faith that continually called out on my name. I never left him nor once failed him, just as I have done also with you. Now the end of all things is at hand, the end of this fallen world; but the end will not come until all of the lies of Satan’s reasonings have been overcome and cast out. It is as it is written, that if there is a little bit of darkness, the lies of Satan’s reasonings, then it is all darkness. When you hear me say, “Arise, shine, your light has come, then know this is the end of your captivity. Again I say to you, the end is at hand.”

Psalm 41:11 “By this I know that You are well pleased with me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.”

I Corinthians 15:24-28 “Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death (the death that dwells in the thoughts of the carnal mind). For “He has put all things under His feet.” But when He says “all things are put under Him,” it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted. Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all (One).”

My Father so loved the world that he sent me into this world to save the world. But the world hated me because I did not bow down to serve the reasonings of the god of this world, even when he tempted me by offering the kingdoms of this world to me. But I took up my cross and crucified all of the lies of his reasonings, even in the garden when I battled, refusing to choose to submit to the reasonings of Satan’s will rather than to obey my Father’s will. Then the god of this world and his blind followers nailed me to their cross and crucified me. If any man will follow after me, then let him know that the only way for him to cross over from the death that reigns over carnal mind into the life and peace that reigns over the spiritual mind is for him to do as I have done, take up his cross and crucify the same reasons that the god of this world tempted me with. I am way, the truth, and the life, and I give myself to those who crucify unto themselves the way, and the lies, and the death of Satan’s reasonings. You must first be willing to die to this life of disorder before you can experience the abundant life that God has prepared for all of you to be partakers of. Now it is your choice; choose whose will you desire to be one with. If you be for me, then know that I, my Father, and all of the kingdom of God will be for you”, says the Lord.

John 10:17 “Jesus said, “Therefore my Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from my Father.”

II Corinthians 4:3-5 “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which do not believe, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light (the truth) to shine out of darkness (the lies f reasonings), has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

When all things have been become One, then all things have become of God; for God is One. And when all things have become of God, then shall you be filled with the fullness of God. And when you shall be filled with the fullness of God, then shall you be equal with God: you in him, and him in you. And when you are filled with his fullness, then know that as the Father is, so shall his sons be. And when his sons become as their Father, then shall it come to pass that which is written, “Be you perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.” Only God is perfect. God is one. God is love, and only his love makes you to be one. God is love, and when his sons have been made perfect, they shall you be made perfect in love. Love is accompanied with all of the power and authority of God. The life of God is love. The light of God is love. The righteousness of God is love. The goodness of God is love. The truth of God is love. The holiness of God is love. There is no fear in love. Love does not lie. Love is merciful. Love forgives. Love believes all things. Love trusts. Love is faithful and true. Love is loyal. Love thinks no evil. Love is good. Love is humble. Love is bold. Love gives. Love blesses. Love is the light of life. Those who have waged warfare against the darkness, these are the one that are hungering and thirsting to hear me say to them, “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of God has risen upon you.”

Hebrews 9:28 “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”

I John 3:2 “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be like: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.”

I Corinthians 13:1-10 “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.”

I have told you before, “I am love; and if I do not love, then I have no purpose of being. My purposes are my will. My will is for you to become one with me; to be filled with my fullness so that as I am, so shall you be. For every good father desires for his son to be like him. The purpose of my will is to love, and when you are perfected in me, filled with all of my fullness, then your purpose of being will be just as mine: to love. When that which is perfect is come, then shall my will be done on earth as it is in heaven; and my love shall reign forever and ever. When my love comes, then shall all things be one, for only my love makes all things to be one; one with God in will and purpose. Then comes the end of disorder, and the beginning of the order of God when all things shall be restored on earth as it is in heaven”, says the Lord.

Matthew 6:10 “Your kingdom come; your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

Word given to Mitt Jeffords

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