How does one fight a battle against unseen forces? It helps to know some of the enemy’s strategies. Once you know the strategies, the players begin to emerge, and as the players emerge, you know who and what to resist. What has been so heartbreaking for me in this war we have been forced into, is that I was disappointed and heartbroken, disgusted and abhorred by the players. There are the active players who create the strategies of war and gather their enforcers, there are the enforcers, there are the blackmailed, compromised, complicit pawns in the war, and there are protectors, defenders and liars in place to keep the war perpetuating. Then there are the ignorant, who, not wanting to rock the boat, or learn things that would shake their paradigm, keep their eyes closed as the victims fall by the hundreds of thousands, and before long, millions.

The evil is so vast, so corrupt, so ancient, so generational, and so pervasive that as a Believer in Truth, it is hard to think there is anything I can do about it. I am not minimizing prayer here as that is one of our greatest weapons against evil as Ephesians 6 tells us who our enemies are. Taking up the shield of faith and the Sword of the Spirit is also part of our arsenal. Then there is the instruction to “Stand”. What does it mean to stand?

I think Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego and Daniel could tell us what standing looks like. It means not eating from the King’s table when it violates one’s conscience. It means refusing to bow when the music plays, or show any reverence for the idol in front of you. It looks like opening the windows to your home and praying three times a day even when a “temporary” decree forbids that kind of intimate communion with God. Standing looks like action.

I traversed the rabbit holes of the enemies plots and schemes, and for the past three years I have mourned and wept over what I did not know, what I ignorantly supported, what I had refused to look at, and what I refused to hear. In vain, it felt, I tried to warn others of the plots unfolding, and the steps being taken. Like many others, I spent hours, and days in prayer and intercession, weeping, praying, asking God for strategy, help, forgiveness, and wisdom to walk out of this siege.

God began releasing the tongues of victims to be able to speak and He introduced me to a few. One I had known for years, but never heard her story. One I had only known a few months, but became so dear to my heart. Their stories were what I would have considered unbelievable five years ago, but after all God has brought to light, their stories are sadly more common than I ever knew. I wept.

There is no need to become an expert in evil, since evil will invent new ways to be abhorrent every time you turn your head, but that is still no reason to be ignorant of the devil’s schemes. A friend asked me “What does it matter if I learn what the Enemy is up to? He has been at it for thousands of years? How would that change what I do on a day to day basis which is to love my family and love my neighbor?” It was a sincere question. For me the answer was, “It would change everything.” Because for me it did.

If you watch the movie “The Sound of Freedom” you will get an introduction to some of the evil we haven’t “seen”. If you begin asking the hard questions, you will find your strategies for not only getting yourself out of the siege of ignorance, but taking your families and neighbors with you. You have to be willing to be offended, disillusioned, deeply saddened, repentant, and willing to do something different. It’s not just the lust-driven man or woman in an obscure neighborhood that participates in evil. You will find out that possibly one or more of your favorite singers, actors, preachers, presidents, priests, gurus, politicians, churches, social movements, universities, professors, educational programs, school boards, unions, lodges, clothing designers, fast food restaurants, military branches, television networks, newscasters, theme parks, talk-show hosts, professional athletes, sports teams, therapists, jewelers, game developers, local and federal government agencies, morticians, car salesmen, doctors, surgeons and pharmacists are active participants in the evil. It is organized, it is extensive, and it is right under our noses.

If you ask the hard questions, you will meet the victims. Some have been trafficked through churches. Some satanically abused at the hands of medical professionals in “secret meetings”. Many will tell you of the networks that stretch throughout their home towns. Those who have so far survived the horrors might be the one sitting next to you in church, or work at your place of employment. They might be living on the streets of your city, or living a lifestyle that they hope will numb the memories. They must be believed and we must learn how our ignorance gave their perpetrators power. And we must change.

The Bible calls it repentance. Turning away from the sin and turning towards God. We must allow our eyes to follow His. We must bypass the food on the “King’s table”–the things we believe we deserve, even though it is rich, and delicious, and we have access to it. We must live by a different social, spiritual, and even in many cases, physical diet. We must ignore edicts that are designed to separate us from God and we must bravely face the consequences of our actions. We must pray. Crying out to God for mercy, protection, strategy and wisdom for our world, our nations, our cities, our neighbors, our families and for ourselves, is the beginning of intercession. And then we “having done all to stand, (must) stand firm.” Stand in the street, stand in the furnace. Stand in the palace and stand in the lion’s den. Stand between the victim and the perpetrator. We must all learn to stand.

This brings me to that moment David stood before Saul. David made his pitch to be the man to fight Goliath. David was incensed that the Giant of the Philistines would dare to provoke and taunt the God of Israel. David was perplexed as to why, when there was a cause, wouldn’t anyone challenge Goliath? He made his appeal to Saul in 1 Samuel 17:31-37.

³¹ Now when the words which David spoke were heard, they reported them to Saul; and he sent for him. ³² Then David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

³³ And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”

³⁴ But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, ³⁵ I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. ³⁶ Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.” ³⁷ Moreover David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”

And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!”

Peter sat at the table with Jesus feasting in what would become known as “The Last Supper” when Jesus came to wash Peter’s feet. A very intimate conversation ensued between Jesus and this disciple when Jesus told Peter in Luke 22:31-34:

³¹ And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. ³² But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.”

³³ But he said to Him, “Lord, I am ready to go with You, both to prison and to death.”

³⁴ Then He said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster shall not crow this day before you will deny three times that you know Me.”

Peter made his pitch to Jesus. He was a man of high ideals, that included fierce loyalties and with great emotion and bravado, I would imagine, Peter swore his unyielding faithfulness to Christ–even to death. Yet, Jesus knew better. He knew that Peter would be sifted. He knew that Peter would face an ultimate test of faith in the midst of the fear of death. He knew Peter would not pass this test the first time, but Jesus prayed for Him and had confidence in Peter that he would recover and become stronger in his faith.

As the story continues, we discover that when Jesus is arrested, accused, and sentenced to crucifixion, Peter three times denies having anything to do with him. Peter wanted to save his own skin at that moment more than he wanted to follow Jesus to the death.

There is something I can contrast between these two stories that I want to highlight. Both of these men (young men) loved God. Both of these men believed in justice, faithfulness, courage and righteousness. Both of these men faced a great moment of adversity–a “Goliath”, but only one had the strength and will to fight.

One man had a history of doing the right thing, the hard thing, the brave thing while defending sheep against predators. When no one else was looking, David built a history of faith and trust in God and honed his fighting skills. When David saw Goliath, he saw another predator that needed to be killed. The other man, Peter, had yet to build his history of faith. Peter had high and righteous ideals, and was pretty quick with a sword (as we read later when he cuts off the ear of a soldier arresting Jesus), but lacked the courage to face his greatest fear–death. Up until this moment, Peter’s faith had not been tested to that level.

Proverbs 24:10 says:

¹⁰ If you faint in the day of adversity,
Your strength is small.

Jeremiah 12:5 says:

⁵ “If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you,
Then how can you contend with horses?
And if in the land of peace,
In which you trusted, they wearied you,
Then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan?

I hear so many believers in Jesus talking about the “End Times” as we are watching the events of the world unfold before our eyes like the pages of Revelation, Daniel, and Ezekiel. The talk about the “Mark of the Beast” being the one thing that Christians “will not take!” becomes the chatter in some circles. The proclamations with much emotion and bravado speak to the high ideals and righteous desires of most believers. My question is, “How will you have the courage in the face of adversity and the threat of death, to make your ‘NO’ strong and with conviction? How do you prepare for that?”

My concern is for the believer who has not practiced saying “no”. If you haven’t said no to pornography, witchcraft, lust, drunkenness, fornication, drug abuse, cursing, or lying, what history of “fighting” predators of your life will you reflect on to give you courage in that moment? If you haven’t ever resisted evil coming against you, your family, your children, your neighbor, your nation, or your government, with what determination will your “NO” resound? Worse yet, if you have not set an example of “No” for your children to follow, what makes you think your children will step up to the guillotine when the moment of choice is thrust upon them between God and the Beast?

My point here is that we need history. Believer, you and I need to have fought a few fights and won if we are going to be able to stand against the onslaught of evil barreling down upon us. We need to have fought our lion and our bear–when no one else was looking. Our private life needs to bear the marks of someone who resisted sin, submitted to God, fought the devil and won. Goliaths must look to us as “just another predator that needs to die.” Our ideals are not enough to carry us in adversity and in the threat of death. Faith in Christ will.

What if we have very little or no history of putting our faith into action resisting Satan?

We start by repenting. This is what Peter did. Realizing he had betrayed Jesus in the moment of truth, Peter wept bitterly. Jesus, after His resurrection, restored and forgave Peter. Jesus forgives and restores us too. Ask Him.

James 1:21-25 says:

²¹ Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

²² But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. ²⁵ But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

Do something for your heart and read Psalm 103.

Secondly, we receive the power of the Holy Spirit. If you read the book of Acts you will see that this same Peter I am referring to in this blog became a changed man when he was filled with the Holy Spirit in the upper room in Acts chapter 2. Peter was so transformed that his preaching brought thousands to Jesus. His shadow imparted healing to people who were infirmed, and when it came time for Peter to be martyred–on a cross, Peter asked them to turn his cross upside down because he didn’t feel worthy to die the same way His Savior did. Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit moved from a man with high ideals, to a man of conviction and bold faith.

The Holy Spirit will infuse you with courage, faith, and even give you the “want to” to resist the Enemy.

In Acts 2:38, transformed Peter says:

³⁸ Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹ For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

Which brings me to the third step which is ask God for wisdom and go to war.

James 1:5 says:

⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

James 4:7-8 says:

⁷ Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 

Ephesians 6:10-14 tells us how to go to war when it says:

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. ¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.¹³ Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Lastly, we count our lives as nothing as Paul said in Acts 20:24:

²⁴ But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

²¹ For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. (Philippians 1:21)

We must face our fear of losing our reputations, our jobs, our friends, our social circles, and our lives, and realize that there is a greater loss than dying or being left out, and that loss is “gaining the whole world and losing our own souls.” (Matthew 16:26)

Practice your “NO” now against the enemy attacking your children, neighbors, nation, and the world. Dust off your prayer life and become someone with a life of prayer and fasting. Pray for one another and encourage each other to walk in obedience to the Lord no matter what the consequences are. There is so much at stake, and believer, you are needed in the battle now.

Believer, we haven’t seen the bottom yet. This year we will watch many ministries crumble. Many towering faith leaders will topple onto the same burning heaps that CNN is smoldering in as God sifts His church. Unthinkable evil will be exposed and many of our “heroes” will be unseated from their positions of honor in our hearts and in the world. I write this to prepare you.

When Jesus said “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” (Matthew 6:24), it wasn’t a metaphor. Many men and women will, and have sacrificed Truth in order to keep their incomes. Many will and have forfeited the value of people who are made in the image of God in order to collect from a seductive income stream. Even if their deeds have been hidden for years, months or days, the secret will no longer stay in the dark. The political moves, the ever-increasing woes of rushed inoculation, and the rise of truth-tellers will shine spotlights on deep secrets in the days and months to come. It has happened and continues to happen now.

I don’t write this to glory in the toppling. I write this to warn you the believer that your heart is being sifted too. My heart is being sifted. All of us are experiencing pain and loss. To what are we running in our grief, pain or struggle? Have we found it easier to numb our senses than to run to God? Are we spectators of evil for so long that we have forgotten how it has seeped into our own hearts? Did we notice when our appetites changed, and we went from people in pursuit of God’s glory to pursuing things gory, dark, forbidden? Have we noticed our children in torment both in nightmares and hellish indoctrinations through our media sources?

Oh church, search your hearts. Oh believer, let the Holy Spirit burn with conviction and eradicate everything in you and me that does not look like Jesus. God will not spare our “heroes” from this process, and He will not spare us from this process either. Romans 2:4 says this: “Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that His kindness is intended to turn you from your sin?” (New Living Translation)

Like David in Psalm 139:23-24, we must pray: “Search me, God and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Let’s fall on His mercy now, let Him deliver us, heal us, restore us. As the author of Hebrews wrote: “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race that is marked for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before Him He endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:1-2)

Like sailors in a prolonged storm, we must throw off the excess cargo. We must secure and man the lifeboats, we must rescue the perishing. The pleasure cruise is over. The work of redemption must start in our own hearts and then spread to our enemies, friends, strangers, and family.

Don’t be distracted by the rubble when things topple. Everything that can shake will shake, but everything planted solidly on the foundation of Christ will withstand it all. Let that be you and me. Jesus said, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)

We are waking up to a world where doctors and medical professionals in England and Israel are beginning to exclaim “My God, what have we done?!” As the data from a year of experimental MRNA gene therapies is slowly leaking into the public purview, the effects that could not have been known without “trying it on the populous” are being revealed for what many predicted them to be, and it’s not good.

It’s been a two years of censorship, coercion, threats, canceling, deleting, and besmirching of the truth-tellers in medicine, media, health-care, social media, and in the church. It’s been two years of people hoping to see the “good” in the government and maligning those who have called out the governments of the world on their abuse and nefarious agendas against their people. Those who “rock the boat” are considered un-Christian, un-tolerant, dramatic, or even misguided, yet the blind short-sided hope of the quiet plays into the enemy’s hands smoother than buttercream frosting. It looks so righteous. It feigns holiness as it leaves people to “live and let live” all the while humanity is slipping into the grips of a hell we never thought we would face in our lifetimes.

Writing this troubles me in the same way Daniel was troubled when he was called on to give the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in Daniel chapter 4. The King was anxious to hear the meaning of his troubling dream of a giant tree reaching to the heavens that was suddenly cut down chopped, scattered, and made to live like an animal in the wild. Daniel was faced with one of the most life-threatening moments of any man of God–to tell the King the truth. “Oh, if only this dream applied to your enemies and adversaries”, Daniel lamented. But the interpretation of the dream would implicate Nebuchadnezzar. He was the tree. He was big, beautiful, successful, and at such a place in life that many lived in the shelter of his successes–but he was proud. He couldn’t repent of his sins because it would tarnish his reputation among the people. He wouldn’t bow his knee completely to the God of heaven–he did on occasion, and seemed to hope he could live on some kind of “worship installment plan”. He was certain his fame and reputation would carry him on further and life would continue as planned. But it was not to be.

We are that tree if we do not repent.

Cate, are you being a pessimist? Are you saying that everything from here on out is going to be bad?

What I am saying is that the prognosis is not good. There is no going back to what we were using the same methods and methodologies we have implored to this point. There is no healing, restoration, redemption, liberation, or freedom outside of the Blood of Jesus. There is no forgiveness, fresh-start, life abundant or hope of heaven without repentance and a return to Christ. We will not ride into the glorious sunset on our reputations among our friends or fans. We will not skitter into God’s presence on the coat-tails of the people around us who are believers. Like the virgins in the story of Matthew 25, there are wise people who have gone through the hassle of carrying extra oil all of their lives, and there are foolish people who assumed we would all arrive to the party together whether or not they themselves took responsibility for their hearts, actions, sins, failures, or the metaphorical “oil” they were supposed to bring along on the journey.

It’s not love to embrace a tolerance that does not address sin. It is not love that allows the generations after us to suffer under the severe persecution and complete destruction of livelihood because we didn’t think we needed to do anything about what was coming expecting God would work it out if He wanted to. We are toying with the sin of Hezekiah that was willing to let the next generation suffer punishment just as long as our generation didn’t have to see it. Let us not beg God for 15 more years of life if we are going to use those 15 years to live in apathy and sire a Manassah.

Repent, be washed in the blood of Jesus. Then suit up in the armor of God. Take your stand against the devil’s schemes. Having done all to stand, stand firmly. Confront the enemy assailing your children. Confront the evil destroying your neighbors and friends. Stand in the gap for the perishing and for the generations yet to come. Be a living intercessor for mankind, and a living sacrifice for God almighty. Use your shield of faith to quench the fiery arrows of the wicked one, stop using it as your hideout from the confrontation. Your brothers and sisters in Christ need you. The persecuted churches of China, Iran, North Korea, and even Australia and Canada need your solidarity and the encouragement of your faith.

Open your eyes beyond your immediate world and see the world worth fighting for. Let your great-grandchildren tell the stories of your faithfulness and tenacity against all odds as you resisted the enemy in the darkest days of our lifetime. Come on believer, let’s go!

Esther 4:1-8

When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly. ² But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it. ³ In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

⁴ When Esther’s eunuchs and female attendants came and told her about Mordecai, she was in great distress. She sent clothes for him to put on instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them. ⁵ Then Esther summoned Hathak, one of the king’s eunuchs assigned to attend her, and ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why.

⁶ So Hathak went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king’s gate. ⁷ Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews. ⁸ He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict for their annihilation, which had been published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain it to her, and he told him to instruct her to go into the king’s presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people.

Right now in nations all around the globe there is wailing, fasting, weeping and prayer. Australians are being imprisoned in their homes or forced into “quarantine camps” against their will. Children are being taken from families who refuse the jab. Innocent citizens are being beaten and shot at by their own police force when they show any resistance to their governments over-reach. All this past week I received messages from Italy asking for prayer as its citizens are deprived of the right to work without the jab since October 15th. They cannot make a living for their families, and are greatly restricted in their towns and cities from participating in daily life. Hospitals are refusing to see un-jabbed people, and basic medical care is being denied those not in step with the government. Have you heard their cries?

Mordecai heard the cries.

To fully understand what was happening, Mordecai needed Esther to read the edict. She was living sheltered from the outside world. Her favorite evening news channel didn’t tell her about the overbearing, penalizing authorities in Italy, Germany, Australia, Canada, Israel, and the US. It didn’t mention the atrocities in China or the persecution of believers in Afghanistan. She wasn’t aware that a medical procedure being mandated in her country had killed over 17,000 people in the past 9 months.***She never saw the data. Mordecai needed her to see in black and white the words that was creating the doom of the Jews.

What if Esther’s Brand or Instagram vibe was positivity? What if she had a reputation for always being up-beat, positive, and optimistic? Why should she look at something negative or scary? What if her theology caused her to say, “I don’t need to know these kinds of things. After all, God is in control”? She had the right to keep the “good energy” of her reputation in the kingdom her priority. She shouldn’t have to bring herself down by learning about an evil plot–besides, that would just be a spirit of fear, and we all know God doesn’t give us a spirit of fear. What does it take to get someone to look at the evil being perpetrated all around them?

For many it has to come from someone up close and personal. Until you have friends or family immobilized or killed by a two-phase jab, you may not have any interest in reading www.openvaers.com or other similar sites. Until dear friends in other nations beg you to help in some way by getting the word out about what is happening in their country, you don’t actually look at other parts of the world. Maybe.
There are a lot of voices out there. “I don’t know Mordecai, how can I be sure this information is the information I should act on?”

Mordecai was her uncle. Mordecai had raised her and fulfilled a father role in her life. She trusted him. She loved him. Esther had choices to make. What would she more fiercely defend? Her reputation? Her own life? Or her people about to be swept away by an evil, fearful edict?

***Parabolic phrasing

I don’t know if you have considered this question before. “What do you do to stop a genocide?”. I have thought about it from time to time, especially when reading WWII History and the annihilation of the Jews by a Nazi regime. Everyone wants to believe they would do something to stop that if they were alive in that era of time. I have hoped to be that kind of person.

Mordecai was faced with that question. He heard something. He learned of a plot that would end his life and the life of his family–including Esther who was at this time the new wife of the King– being the winner of a beauty pageant he held in order to choose his new queen. The king didn’t know his new wife was a Jew. The king didn’t know that the man he had exalted to a high position for saving his life was a Jew. He didn’t fully understand the edict he signed and put into effect. But Mordecai did.

How do you stop a genocide?

Paraphrasing the words of modern day Evangelist Mario Murillo, “Any influence you have is a line of credit to be exhausted in the act of telling the truth.” Mordecai was already living by these words, and he passed those words on to his niece–the queen of Persia when he said to her:

Esther 4:13-14 “…“Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. ¹⁴ For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”

Esther, use your position, your influence, and your integrity to speak up. Find a way to have your voice heard on behalf of your people.
Sure, God can raise someone else up to do it Esther, but you are uniquely positioned, and if you are silent, you won’t be spared. Your beauty pageant win will be recorded in history, but maybe you have come into the kingdom for something else? Maybe history will record your bravery in the face of certain death?

There was no way to know the outcome of Esther’s bravery. She could be killed, banished, or imprisoned. The risk for her in particular were very high. The certainty of death to all her people was a penalty even higher.

Is speaking up worth it? What if no one likes you? What if you are unfriended? What if you are banned, silenced, shunned, talked about, threatened or even killed? Esther, what will you choose?

He was a good Jewish man living in the kingdom of Persia. Having first been conquered by the Babylonians, the people of Israel were taken captive to a kingdom they did not build, only to continue their lives in foreign land and customs. Later conquering Babylon, the Persians became the dominating kingdom. They absorbed the people and power of the Babylonian kingdom and Babylonian captives and carried out their dynasties for a period of time.

It was during this period of time that a girl named Esther is born, and ends up being raised by her Uncle Mordecai. Just a small Jewish family in a Persian empire, but God would change their destinies.

Mordecai serves at the gates of the kingdom and this is where many business transactions take place, where judges decide legal matters, and where plans are made. When he one day hears of a plot to assassinate the King of Persia, Mordecai alerts the king, saves the king’s life, and receives a promotion. Not bad for a Jewish man with integrity! Integrity is rewarded, and Mordecai is exalted until jealousy ensues by a man named Haman who would prefer people worshiped and exalted him. Haman serves in the king’s courts, and devises a plan to remove Mordecai from his position, but not just Mordecai–he plots to completely murder the Jewish race of people to which Mordecai belonged.

See, it isn’t enough recognition for people to speak to you using the pronouns you prefer, and giving you accolades you have not yet attained by integrity when your heart is set on exalting itself. When you need praise, props, and significance through fame and power, you don’t just belittle the integrity that threatens you, you destroy it. You completely get rid of every hint of the fragrance of anyone close to the competition. Genocide isn’t a far-fetched idea when you need power and position and you have no integrity with which to win the hearts and trust of people.

Use your influence through money and coercion to buy help in your plot. Work your way up to a position of power and rub shoulders with the highest political influencers until you have enough familiarity to hatch your plan. Make up a story that pits a group of people against the King’s honor, and then convince the king that genocide is the best answer. This was Haman’s strategy, and this is where he nearly succeeded.

Esther 3:12-15 NIV

¹² Then on the thirteenth day of the first month the royal secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each province and in the language of each people all Haman’s orders to the king’s satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples. These were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed with his own ring. ¹³ Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods. ¹⁴ A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so they would be ready for that day.

¹⁵ The couriers went out, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered.

“The city of Susa was bewildered.” What in the world was so urgent that the eradication of the population needed to happen? What was the threat that these people posed that required their sudden and complete annihilation? They were confused. Why were they being coerced to kill their neighbors with federal grants, job bonuses, chants of duty, and messages of good citizenship? Why when the questioned whether or not it was the right thing to do, they were threatened with the stripping of their livelihoods, positions, freedoms, and ultimately their own lives? The city of Susa was bewildered.

But Mordecai read pages 18 onward of the Rockefeller Lockstep plan and the confusion dissipated. He understood what was happening. He sent a letter to Esther. Much like the letter that Cardinal Vigano sent to to President Trump in 2020. If she needed more convincing, he showed her a video clip from 6 years previous of the International Conference of the New World where Haman’s plans were made known in a more public setting.***

What did Mordecai hear?
Read the links above to know why the city of Susa was bewildered, but not him.

***This paragraph is parabolic

‘A railroad track ran behind our small church and each Sunday morning we would hear the whistle from a distance and then the clacking of the wheels moving over the track. We became disturbed when one Sunday we noticed cries from the train as it passed by. We grimly realized that the train was carrying Jews. They were like cattle in those cars!

Week after week, that train whistle would blow. We would dread to hear the sound of those wheels because we knew that the Jews would begin to cry out to us as they passed by our church. It was so terribly disturbing! We could do nothing to help these poor miserable people, yet their screams tormented us. We knew exactly what time the whistle would blow and we decided the only way to keep from being so disturbed by the cries was to start singing our hymns. By the time the train came rumbling by the churchyard, we were singing at the top of our voices. If some of the screams reached our ears, we’d just sing a little louder until we could hear them no more. Years have passed and no one talks about it much anymore, but I still hear that train whistle in my sleep. I can still hear them crying out for help. God forgive all of us who call ourselves Christian, yet did nothing to intervene.'” (http://theleaven.org/are-we-like-german-christians-singing-through-the-holocaust/)

Big tech can censor the cries of people facing severe adverse reactions from the C-19 Jab, it can scrub the data reporting the deaths. They can hide the fact that in the past 30 years combined of all inoculations for adults and children the average death toll was 150 a year, and in just nine months of 2021 C-19 Jab, the death toll has far surpassed 17,000 people. People can deny open VAERS data and call it “inaccurate”, but you cannot stifle the cries of mothers and fathers who have lost their children. We are about to be swept away in the tears of parents whose children became the victims of a jab that was authorized for their little bodies without cause.
Big Tech might sing louder, but we, the people of God, should not.

Matthew 2:18 NIV

¹⁸ “A voice is heard in Ramah,
    weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children
    and refusing to be comforted,
    because they are no more.”

www.openvaers.com

Wow, what a year it has been!
I finished my book “Beyond the Siege” and published it in February 2020. I had no idea then that the book would be a field guide for the evil that descended on our country in the form of a virus just a month later. I’ve spent the last year researching, digging, watching and evaluating what has been happening–not just to America, but to the known world, and as I see it, we have been under siege. It is comprised of real enemies, real threats, and real consequences, but woven into the “enemy’s” plan is the psychological warfare that has caused people to feel forced into decisions they never would have considered before.

The enemy came on the scene with video footage of Chinese men and women dropping dead in the streets, collapsing on their desks in their places of work. Then video of Covid victims being carried out of hospitals in body bags in India was played on the national news. In China, bodies were taken directly to incinerators so that the “plague” could be stopped. The stories horrified us all. We began bracing for the worst and we expected it to happen just as we were shown.

This is step one of a siege. Threaten, back up your threats with consequences, and keep the threats coming.