It never fails to thrill me that the Messianic vision and mission contains a solid feminine component.  All the testosterone and male dominance of the past is in serious conflict with the majesty of Christ’s mother, and sun and moon are seen in surprising clarity, with no room for darkness.

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;

Revelation of John 12:1

Misplaced moonbeams

The appearance of signs on heaven (Rev. 12:1, 3 and 15:1) bring us to contemplate the incarnation, the career of the devil,  and the last plagues.  The first sign is explicitly  named great.  The signs appearing 13:3 and 15:1 are labeled “other”  (αλλο) but are of the same kind, namely, great.

The moon in this vista is certainly not providing light and it must be clear that to a woman clothed with the sun and crowned with twelve stars the moon’s light is inconsequential, even as its effect on earth’s waters continues. A light source “under foot” is not going to be helpful for the travelers. In Yeshua’s doctrine, a lamp under a container is useless (Luke 8:16).

Motherhoods merged

If we do not care for s-turns and or u-turns then the unveiling of heaven’s best is sliding right by us.  The fact that Christ did not come to destroy anyone’s tradition does not mean that everything continues as usual.  He could only be successful by introducing change.  Here the moon is under foot but is a great light in Genesis. It is shortsighted to think that Christ changes nothing, or that moonlight is of any relevance when one is clothed with the sun and one’s head is crowned with a dozen stars.

Children like the mother

Here the lamp is atop a woman. In addition, her head is host of twelve stars (suns). You have to be seriously disturbed to have a source of information that raises questions about what Christ has done. There is no theory about priesthood, royalty or messenger that is in this ballpark. The amount of light in this revelation extends to the CHILD and the children. There is a blinding array of light in the mother of the Lord Yeshua that makes the devil and his tide of lies masked by a disgraceful “moon for our day” offer.

Many Christians have committed themselves to proud and suicidal theories. They invent prophetic authority when it is clear that CHRIST closed the shop with John the Baptist. They follow the patterns of an irrelevant, discriminatory and proud priesthood hoping to find divine righteousness when only the donkey riding king has salvation according to Zechariah 9:9.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

One does not have to look far to see design samples of madness and divided loyalties. It is not possible that a divided house persists. It is normal in the church, in politics, and in our families for our inconsistencies to get called out. Opposite views of loyalty land us in rubberneck territory. Today it is ok to coerce people to but never will it be ok to threaten people if they do not believe in your God, believe there is no God, or smile at how stupid some wise people actually are. Let is not be said that religious extremists are crazy. That is too kind a label, because crazy also defines good and exciting things. What most people cannot stand is the kind of unreliability that flips between unreliability without any signs of growth

The rubbernecks of our times are not much different from the tested people of antiquity or the people who engineered the modern world. Have you surveyed the 14^th century BC experience as recorded in the Bible? Here is an overview of the experience.

Domination by the enemy

1. So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies. Judges 2:14
2. Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years. Judges 3:8
3. And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim. Judges 4:2
4. So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites, Judges 10:7

Rescue by the Lord

1. Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. Judges 2:16
2. Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them. Judges 2:18
3. But when the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. Judges 3:9
4. Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, and the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab. Judges 3:15

The damage from mental instability

People are not stumbling into pits and ditches. Someone is tripping them up, feeding them the same junk that has kept generations in the dark, and set communities biting and devouring one another. Look no further than the capital of your own country to see the crude attempt to legitimize a system of governance where election rules establish an official opposition. Look no further than a local house of worship. Not one can deny the phenomena of global deception and the role of religion in calming revolutionary zeal and in intentionally insulating the people from the society in which they live and work. Look no further than Jerusalem for a picture of schizophrenia. It used to be Yahweh or one of the Baals, today it is quite clear that Jerusalem’s gods are the Baals plus the idols of democracy, a hypocrisy-laced attempt to convince the world that a pluralistic society exists in the Levant. Then we wonder why people become disillusioned, apathetic, violent, suicidal, and homicidal.

We have never seen a pastor authorizing an execution of a offending church member, have we? Why is that not a thing when governments and religions all over the planet authorize events that put people to death or at least ostracize and shun the offender. Christ said that his Father, the God of the Hebrew patriarchs, has an interest in bringing people from the dead, in saving lives, and in doing these things without regard to ethnicity, social status, gender or sex.

The healing of fractured realities

Schizophrenia best describes the wisdom that tries to sell a Judaeo-Christian package of morality and civic governance. No-one of sound mind believes that justice in the modern world (bearing in mind that personal morality – corporate entities have no moral foundation or seed-bed – and justice have long been divorced) can be achieved following the Law of Moses or the . Christians do not create tribal ghettos because we are designed to do the opposite. We do not hold our noses at people who are different or even weird. We do not issue fatwas and hold public or private executions. Our children are free to engage or not in matters of faith. Our faith is not a political manifesto.

A devastating awakening will come when, after comparing religions, we can see what is respectful of others, how far love goes, and how messengers of God are not God, but men like the rest of us. This generation treats parents and family with contempt and professes undying and intense loyalty to complete strangers like religious leaders, politicians, and the armed public servants. A follower of the Word of God who has trouble reading is more likely to be a member of Satan’s mafia. The schizophrenic wants to to hitch a ride on the leadership train when he quite literally never had a ticket to board as a follower.

There ought to be a balm in every city. The hundreds of healers are obviously ineffective as long as people are still dying.

Ask the guardians of the courts of justice about grace and they will tell you that grace reversed was not grace in the first place.  Ask the practitioners of faith – I do not mean holding a set of beliefs – about its rewards and they will tell you that faith allows your eyes to see things that do not exist. While the tears of grief are running down your cheeks your faith contradicts the evidence and offers you neither a handkerchief nor a hug.

And Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith has made you well.” Immediately he regained his sight and began following Him on the road.

Mark 10:52

Faith is not merely expressing a strong desire when the divine energy is absent or pointed in a different direction.

The kind of faith that always makes you wait is likely not a faith God bestows. If faith is believing the impossible – from the human perspective – is going to happen then it is most certainly not imagination.

We cannot deny that people can and do restore vitality to many malfunctioning facets of human life, but those who have seen a person grow limbs and who have seen funerals interrupted by returning life can relate to faith that works with divine love supervising. Having “authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy” and a shield against injury (Luke 10:19) it is a curious phenomenon that presents itself when we see faith healers decreeing and declaring deliverances and the end of all injuries and loss|, for which there is usually little or no evidence, unlike the case of the man in Mark 10:52 (cited above). For the record, there is not a single case of an individual falling down for a healing at Yeshua’s hands.

A faith operating where human willpower and capacity are authorized can only be called comedic. God does not do what he expects of us.