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The Dark Pool Anointing: Prophesying by the Light of Idols

Response to the Prophetic Debacle over the 2020 Trump Election Defeat

 

Heb. 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom we must answer.

I Cor. 14:24 …[I]f all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an outsider enters, … 25 the secrets of his heart are disclosed; ….

Rev. 1:12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And …13 … I saw one like a son of man, …16 … and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword;… 2:12 …The One who has the sharp two-edged sword says this:…14… I have a few things against you, because you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, … 16 Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.

Lk. 19:22 NKJ “Out of your own mouth I will judge you,…”I Pt. 4:17 For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; …

Rev. 2:23… and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds… Ezk 14:4 NKJ… I the Lord will answer him who comes, according to the multitude of his idols, 5 that I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from Me by their idols.

Many months have now passed since the onset of the prophetic mayhem over Donald Trump’s removal from power in face of the numerous prophecies confidently declaring his re-election. In all this time, the chaos has not subsided nor has the church moved on. Rather, the lines of prophetic division have deepened between the “repenters” and the “diehards”—between those confessing that their prophecies were simply wrong, and those digging in to believe Trump’s presidency will still sovereignly, supernaturally “rise from the dead” to fulfil the prophecies.  

We are witnessing a rift in the mainstream prophetic never before seen in the 35 year history of the movement. The festering of this schism begs for further instruction from the Lord under the exhortation, “Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Hearing what the Spirit is saying through this storm requires understanding of how God strategically speaks far beneath the superficial level of factual fulfilments that we commonly associate with prophecy. Perception only at that level is responsible for the continuing rancor. The turbulence over whether Trump was truly re-elected is reminiscent of the consternation that first beset Israel over Jesus. Was He or was He not the Messiah?

 

Jn. 7:12 And there was a great deal of talk about Him in secret among the crowds: some were saying, “He is a good man;” others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He is misleading the people.”… 25 So some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, … 27 … we know where this man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from.”… 41 Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” But others were saying, “Surely the Christ is not coming from Galilee, is He? … 43 So a dissension occurred in the crowd because of Him…10:20 Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?” 21 Others were saying, “These are not the words of one who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of those who are blind, can it?”

 

When Jesus speaks, He speaks at a certain level that only those truly tuned to the Father can hear (see Jn. 17:7). The rest—that is, all the “untuned”—hear Him at another level. Those that don’t hear Him at His level are thrown into turmoil. All dialogue between Jesus and men in John 5 through 10 is marked by this split in communication frequency.

What the modern church must learn though, is that nothing has changed in the differential between how Jesus now speaks and how His people hear Him. Today, Jesus still speaks through the prophetic, yes. But that does not mean the church or even the prophets themselves have heard Him at His level. And if not, then consternation must and will arise, and that for strategic purposes intended all along by Him.

 

The Sword of the Prophetic Word

The divisive effect of Jesus’ words on the multitudes leads us to the thrust of the scripture trail that heads this article. These scriptures, when read as a single thread, reveal prophecy’s true nature and purpose from God’s viewpoint. Contrary to the superficial grasp now fueling the present discord, prophecy’s primary purpose is not to give “accurate words” about facts and events that are or will happen. Rather, it is to lay bare what really drives the hearts of God’s people. It’s to this end God speaks—an end that tests the hearts of the very prophets through whom His word comes.

The story of Jonah’s “failed word” against Nineveh offers a commanding example of this. We know in hindsight that God did give Jonah a true word, while the principle of “conditionality” is used to otherwise explain why God did not ultimately fulfil it. Fine. But in the end, the real focus of this story is not on proving how Jonah’s word could still be true though it “failed.” Rather, the whole episode is centered on God’s proving to Jonah the truth about the deficiency of what was in his own heart wedded to that word.     

God thusly crafts His words very carefully, such that His meanings can turn on nuances that the carnal mind just breezes over. Those nuances serve as intentional stumbling blocks to expose and divide the presumptions of men with an agenda from the humble hearing of true holy listeners who refuse to hold any agenda attached to God’s words. As we proceed, we will see this to be the very case regarding God’s purpose behind the “failed” Trump prophecies.

Before we approach that though, we must thoroughly understand how God fundamentally uses prophecy to test the hearts of His people. Beginning with Hebrews 4:12, the scriptures identify God’s word as a “sword” that divides spirit from soul to thereby prove the real nature of human thought and intent. (Paul echoes this in his instruction to the Corinthians about prophecy.) The question always is, in each encounter with that sword—will we remain dominated by the intents of our own souls, or will we submit to those of the Spirit beyond and above our soulish longings?

The word of God is designed to expose our mixture of soul and spirit to then split them apart so that the soulish intent may surrender to the Spirit’s intent. As the word collides with this mixture—as it reveals the gap between God’s will and our will by offending our soulish vision—it demands a constant state of repentance to where we lay our soul’s intent at His feet to say yes to the Spirit’s perfect will. This is the purpose of God behind every word He speaks, whether we read it through scripture or hear it by prophecy.

The “eviscerality” behind God’s word is portrayed directly through Revelation’s presentation of the Lord Jesus, out of whose mouth emerges that very sword unto “searching the hearts and the minds” of all, to finally give to each of us according to our deeds. That is, Christ will reward our responses to His prophetic words by whether the responses manifest surrender to the Spirit’s purpose in them, or if they manifest our own soulish possession of them “in Christ’s name.” (Soulish responses to prophetic words will count for nothing. It is not enough to merely have or believe what may be a true prophetic word.) 

 

Christ Wages War against His Own Prophets       

The sharpness of sword by which the Lord proves the hearts and judges men’s responses to Him comes not only through the prophets to test the church, but, as we saw with Jonah, it comes to the prophets so as to prove what is in the prophets themselves. This is made especially clear when we spiritually understand what Jesus told the church at Pergamum together with His answer to the delinquent slave in the parable of the talents.

At Pergamum, Balaamite prophets were seducing the church into “eating things sacrificed to idols” and into “committing sexual immorality.” These charges relate to false prophetic doctrine (see Mt. 16:6, 11-12) that teaches the church to esteem this world’s carnal values and personages (“gods”), and to “mate”—that is, redefine—the holy identity and mission of God’s people with / by the world’s nations, its cultural ideals, objectives and aspirations.

Draping today’s church buildings with rainbow colored flags would be just one overt real-time example of this. Closer to home however would be prophetic doctrines such as “faith-for-cadillacs” teaching and, on a grander level, “seven mountains” and other “kingdom now” / dominionist teachings that redefine God’s kingdom by this world’s systems, especially here in America. (Now we are starting to close in on things. Are you there yet?)

Hear then what Jesus says about these Balaamite teachers. He says that if they don’t repent He will come and will “fight against them with the sword of My mouth.”  What does this mean? We have already established that the ministry of prophecy itself proceeds as a sword from God’s mouth for the purpose of laying bare the thoughts and intents of the heart and for giving to every one of us the just desserts according to our responses to His word.

So what Jesus is saying is that He Himself will raise up the spirit of true holy prophets to fight against those who soulishly prophesy out of the same corrupt spirit of cultural idolatry, compromise and fornication as Balaam did. We have already witnessed this in the modern prophetic church by the conflict between genuine self-denying discipleship prophets (such as Ravenhill and Wilkerson) and the mainstream American “culture prophets.”

 

Falling on the Sword of One’s Own Mouth

As stark as has been that prophetic conflict the last thirty years, it remains that culture prophecy has continued plaguing the mainstream prophetic church. As well, a newer generation of younger budding prophets and prophetesses has since arisen who have not been so well schooled, informed or tested over the conflicts of the past.

Especially in light of the failure of the older voices to repent before the sword of true prophecy, the Lord has yet reserved to Himself another option to laying bare the truth about these prophets. And that is to fight against them with the sword of their own mouth.

The Lord’s option to fight against recalcitrant erring prophets by their own prophetic words is illustrated in the parable of the talents. There, the Lord tells the worthless slave that “out of your own mouth will I judge you.” This prophetically shows that God can use the words He speaks through the prophets themselves to expose and judge their own real thoughts and intents. (We ultimately see this occur with Balaam who is at last executed in judgment by the nation whose ascendancy He was inescapably moved to prophesy. See Num. 24:8-9; 31:8, 16)

How then does God fight from out of their own mouths the soul-centered prophets who persistently refuse to allow God’s Spirit to correct their false kingdom paradigms, who keep mingling Christ’s virtues with Babylon’s values? He simply does what He told Ezekiel He will do, and that is to “answer them according to the multitude of their idols.”

“Idol answering” is the key concept we discussed in our last direct article regarding the Trump prophecies. But now, in this article, we want to build out our understanding of just how and why God did this regarding the Trump prophecies in such a way as to perpetuate and multiply the prophetic turmoil long past the inauguration of President Biden.

Two Dimensions of “Idol-Answering”

God has more than one way of answering a people according to their idols. In the first way, He can send a lying spirit of delusion to simply tell an idolatrous “prophetic” people what they want to hear. Such words have no objective truth attached and God has no intention of fulfilling them in any way at all. In this dimension, God simply reflects the people’s desire back to themselves as a mirror.

This is well seen in the story of Ahab and Micaiah (I Kings 22). Here, Micaiah, the true prophet, tells Ahab that all his other prophets have been given a lying spirit from the Lord to tell him what he wants to hear, but that it will not happen. The sense of such lying prophecy is conveyed in Jeremiah 23:16,

This is what the Lord of armies says:
“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.
They are leading you into futility;
They tell a vision of their own imagination,
Not from the mouth of the Lord.

Doubtless, much of the prophesying regarding Donald Trump’s re-election and second term through to 2024 was derived from lying spirits sent from the Lord to so answer people according to their own idolatry of the man.

          - “Quail Prophecy”

But there is another more excruciating dimension of idol-answering God performs. In this aspect, God indeed answers with a true word that promises to satisfy a lust, but the word, while true in its nuanced fulfilment at a certain level, does not come to pass in any way as to actually satisfy that desire. Rather the fulfilment works against the people, designed to cut more deeply to reveal the true nature of their idolatrous thoughts and intents for what they are. 

That God will paradoxically answer people with a true action according to their wish while yet failing to actually fulfil the desire behind their wish is first demonstrated in the well known story of the quail in the wilderness (Numbers 11). There, Israel lusted for quail, they cried out for quail, so God sent them the quail they wanted, but in their mouths it turned into a plague.  Spiritually, Ps.106:15 describes that event this way: “So He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.”

This story typifies how God can send words that appear to promise the fulfilment of one’s own lust, but which turn back upon people as a “plague.” He can “fulfil” such words in any way at any level He chooses, yet in a way that does not actually satisfy the craving. Possibly the fulfilment may at first appear to satisfy the craving, only to see the craving smitten with a cursed outcome. Such true words end up proving and even reinforcing delusion in God’s people.

 

Eating Quail: Swallowing the Sword of the Trump “Re-election”

At this hour and as we speak, the prophetic split widens over the veracity of the original Trump re-election prophecies—a divide completely consistent with the operation of the prophetic word of God as a two-edged sword. Had Trump lost outright beyond any conceivable margin of error without any signs of election interference, we would be able to chalk all the failed prophecies up to lying spirits sent to answer the prophets according to their own idolatry of the man—prophecies that could demonstrate no objective truth attached. And if that had happened, the conversation would essentially be over.

But no! Instead, much evidence has continued to come forth—both positively on the face of the research and negatively by the power of suppression—to prove that Trump did indeed win the election, but that the election process underwent massive fraudulent intervention so as to prevent him from continuing in power just the same. As a result, the turbulence has mushroomed wherein the American prophets have now been thoroughly divided between

1) those who, having prophesied Trump was to win, believe he is still to come back, offering more ever-changing “prophesies”  of this even though everything they unconditionally prophesied of his seamless inauguration proved false; 

2) those who, having prophesied Trump was to be re-elected, have repented of a word they believe to have been completely false because their own intrinsically attached expectation of Trump’s re-inauguration failed; and 

3) those who, having been of no opinion or who possibly prophesied or believed that Trump would lose, contend that all the prophesies of Trump’s re-election were false and never from God at all.

 

This is indeed a marvelous state of affairs! How it reminds us of the controversy over Jesus’ words in John 7. (“He was re-elected”…”No he wasn’t!”...“was too!”…. “wasn’t!” … “But it was stolen!”… “Doesn’t matter!”….) 

But in light of what we have now studied about the nature and real purpose of prophecy, and especially now the phenomenon of quail prophecy, we should no longer be in the dark about what really happened and why! You see, this prophetic sword and the debacle produced thereby never was—from God’s point of view—about whether the man Donald Trump would be re-elected as president!

From God’s viewpoint, this prophetic shame was calculated to prove through their own mouths the thoughts and intents of the hearts of God’s prophets. God sent a true word about Trump’s re-election, yet one given at a nuanced level whereby He would not actually fulfil the idolatrous desire aroused by that word. Yes, Trump was re-elected. Yes, Trump won. But as Elisha would have said it, “Behold, you are going to see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it.” (II Ki. 7:2).

God sent this cryptic word about Trump’s “re-election” as a judgment starting at His house on the Balaamite teachers and Jezebelic prophets who have for decades been serving us doctrine offered to the idols of American heritage. He sent this “quail” to expose and divide the worshippers of America and Trump from the humble, repentant virginal followers of the Lamb alone—those He will be able to take into the true Promised Land of glorified immortality atop the real Mount Zion. He brought this sifting about to separate who He can spare through the nearing Great Tribulation out from the unrepentant ones He must throw into the bed of that Tribulation (Rev. 2:21-22).

That is what this has been about, and its ripples will multiply over the coming season as “His terrible swift sword” keeps doing its work. The message to all of us amidst these things however remains:

“Little children, guard yourself from idols.”

This article is not written to cast stones. It is only to remind us that we are all being sifted relative to what is happening. May we all take up the position of humble unadulterated worship the Lord seeks from all his aspiring bridal followers. The door of repentance into God’s ark is still open for those who fell on this sword. But it is closing quickly….

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

 

Chris Anderson

First Love Ministry
- a ministry of Anglemar Fellowship
http://www.firstloveministry.org
07/21

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