Posted: 10/24/2016 at 9:05am
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God’s
Real New World Order
By
Ron McGatlin
(Note
from Ron: This article is a bit longer than usual largely because the scripture
is included. It contains truth from God that explains much of the situations of
our world today. Please set aside the time to digest what God is saying to us
in this word.)
We,
meaning you and me and all who love God and His kingdom, are greatly blessed
beyond measure to be a part of what God is doing in our world today. Far more
than we could imagine or even dream is taking place in our time. The earth and
all that is on it has been groaning in bondage waiting to see that which we are
a part of in our day. (Rom 8:22). Great men and women of the Bible longed for
this time of the reality of being a part of the transformation of this world
out of darkness and death and into the light and life of righteousness, peace,
and joy in the Holy Spirit. (Rom 14:17). A new world is coming forth replacing
the old world that is being dissolved. (2 Cor 5:17).
The
old world is passing away, and the new world is coming forth.
Even
a casual observer of fundamental world systems is struck with an impression of
general deterioration and decay that appears on a course toward complete disintegration.
World economies threaten to collapse. Governments are buried in debt. Moral
decay is mind boggling as lasting values that have served to strengthen
families and nations for centuries are being thrown away.
Agrarian
lifestyles that fed and nurtured people throughout history have been traded for
energy dependent systems of production that cannot sustain life of the masses
without massive amounts of oil and other energy sources. Already numbers of
people starve to death daily in parts of our world. Any extended interruption
of energy flow could cause millions of people to starve.
Corrupt
leadership continues to be exposed in big business, governments, and in every
area of human activity. Western world family structures continue in decay.
Violence continues to increase, and terror is a factor worldwide. Religious and
political strife threaten to engulf the world as militant religious political
forces seek to intimidate or eradicate all others.
Our
planet is changing. Forests are shrinking, deserts are growing, and ice caps
are dwindling. These planetary changes are disrupting patterns of weather that
have been relatively stable for millennia. Agriculture suffers from these
changes and is affecting the world food supply. Animal species are threatened
with extinction, and oceans experience depleting numbers of living creatures.
This
is not the world order and conditions that God designed for Planet Earth and
mankind.
GOD’S
ORDER BRINGS PEACE AND PROSPERITY
The deteriorating world conditions are the result of
mankind’s decisions to order life apart from the provisions of God’s love,
wisdom, and power.
God
loves this world and gave His only begotten Son to redeem it from the
destructive ways of fallen man. (John 3:16). God is not burning His beautiful Planet
Earth that He loves; He is redeeming it.
The
devastating world situations are not because God is angry and sending punishment.
They are entirely the result of man’s fallen ways.
God
created the earth and created man to have dominion on earth. God knows what
will make the planet and all that is on it prosper. He has provided all that is
needed to manage the world in such a way that life would be sustained and
greatly blessed on earth.
God
is, in our time on earth, preparing a pure and holy people in whom Christ Jesus
fully abides to replant the new world with the righteous ways of His kingdom of
peace and prosperity.
THE
FALL OF BABYLON AND THE REVELATION OF NEW JERUSALEM
Great
authority and revelation of truth has come from heaven announcing the fall of
Babylon. The revelation of New Jerusalem as the Bride of Christ. The kingdom of
heaven potential in God’s people now is preparing the way for the end of the
Babylonian rule in the world. (Rev 21:2) (Rev 21:9-10).
New
Jerusalem coming forth on earth is in God’s people in whom Christ dwells, bringing
forth His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
There
is great conflict on the earth. Babylon that is now ruling in the world is in
opposition to the New Jerusalem pattern city.
New
Jerusalem is the ruling city of the light of God. Babylon is the ruling city of
the darkness of the enemy. When and where Babylon’s patterns rule, there is
darkness, deterioration, and death. When and where the New Jerusalem patterns
rule, there is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit, true
prosperity.
BABYLON AND ALL IT HAS BUILT IS BURNING?
Babylon has already
fallen spiritually and became a habitation of demons and every foul spirit
imprisoning or locking up and preventing the order of God from ruling in the
land.
Rev 18:1-2: “After these things I saw another
angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was
illuminated with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a loud voice,
saying, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling
place of demons, a prison (a guarding) of every foul spirit, and a cage (a
guarding) of every unclean and hated bird!”
The
translation of these verses make it sound as if the demons inhabiting Babylon
are in prison. Actually the demons and foul spirits are the prison guards
holding mankind, the rightful God-given authority of the earth in bondage while
Satan continues his false inordinate rule on earth by the authority taken by
trickery from man.
The
same Greek word that is translated prison and cage means “a guarding.” Looking
into the Greek allows us to see that the demons and foul spirits are guarding
the prisons and cages instead of being in them. Some of the tools of the
imprisoning evil spirits causing bondage in Babylon are pride, greed, lust,
coveting, competition, addictions, strife, and violence, to name a few.
Rev 18:3: "For all the nations have drunk
of the wine of the wrath of her (Babylon’s) fornication, the kings of the earth
have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become
rich through the abundance of her luxury."
THE GOOD NEWS BEING REVEALED
The
good news (gospel) is that Christ Jesus has defeated the enemy and all of his
deception and trickery over God’s chosen authorities (mankind) on earth. The
prison doors are opened! The captives are set free!
Isaiah wrote it this way, “The Spirit of the Lord God
is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To
preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To
proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who
are bound,” Isaiah 61:1.
The
devil has no real authority on earth. All authority is given to Christ Jesus
the Son of God. (Mat 28:18). Mankind in Christ and Christ in us has full
authority on earth.
WHAT IS MYSTERY BABYLON?
Some
have believed religious systems to be the whole of Babylon. Yes, the religious
systems are infected with mystery Babylon. However, Babylon is much broader and has captured much more than just religious
systems. Yes, the infected church systems bear much responsibility
because they should have been the force of the kingdom that prevented Babylon
from taking over the world systems of business, education, media, government, entertainment,
and more.
Babylon is a spiritual and universal ruling pattern spirit city of Satan’s
design bringing his governance over the kingdoms of the world that fell into
his hands through the fall of Adam. Fallen Babylon is now burning with fires of
God for destruction of the enemy’s ruling city from domination of the world.
Rev 18:4: And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "COME OUT OF HER MY
PEOPLE LEST YOU SHARE IN HER SINS, AND LEST YOU RECEIVE OF HER PLAGUES.
Fire
reduces to ashes leaving only those things that will not burn. The fire of God
brings destruction to evil and that which evil has built. The same fires of God
bring cleansing from Babylonian ways that have infected the people of
God.
The
presence of God causes real holiness in the people of God. Pure and holy people
of God become filled and empowered with the joy of the Lord to bring forth the
New Jerusalem pattern of life replacing the dissolved Babylonian rule.
Rev 18:8-11: "Therefore her plagues will
come in one day; death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord
God who judges her. The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived
luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning, standing at a distance for
fear of her torment, saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty
city! For in one hour your judgment has come.' And the merchants of the earth
will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore.”
The New Jerusalem pattern city of God is coming
forth.
Rev 21:9: Then one of the seven angels who had
the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with
me, saying, "Come, I will show you
the bride, the Lamb's wife."
Rev 21:2-4: Then I, John, saw the holy city,
New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud
voice from heaven saying, "Behold,
the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall
be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. "And
God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death,
nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have
passed away."
Rev 21: 7: He who overcomes shall inherit all
things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.”
Mat
5:5: “Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.”
Mat 5:10: “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
1 Cor 6:9-11: “Do you
not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor extortionist will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some
of you. But you were washed, but you
were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and
by the Spirit of our God.”
Rev 21:27: “But there shall by no means enter it anything
that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written
in the Lamb's Book of Life.”
CONSUMMATION
God has chosen to give dominion to mankind and will not intervene
without the agreement of mankind on earth. The world is reaping what man
has sown.
There is a remnant who are of the seed of Christ being prepared to
re-seed the earth with Christ and rule and reign with Him, the true Head of the
body.
The old world of evil is being destroyed, and the new world is the
redeemed and cleansed earth filled with the kingdom of heaven.
All things are being made new. However, we must first see the
burning or dissolving of the old - the clearing of the land in His people and
then in the world.
This is not a time to hold back or hide
out. This is
the time to run fast out of Babylon and toward New Jerusalem. Seek the kingdom
of God in the Spirit. Repent and be cleansed of old Babylonian ways and be
filled with the ways of Christ Jesus.
Father, Your kingdom come and your
will be done on earth as it is in heaven! Amen and Amen!
Love never fails, and His kingdom never ends.
Ron
McGatlin
archive.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net
Edited by Ron McGatlin on 10/24/2016 at 9:07am
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