True Alchemy

Dear Friends, Shalom!

Alchemy? What is it? Historically, from the middle ages, it was an attempt to convert base metals, like brass, into gold, and metaphorically, an attempt to convert “base” reality into “spiritual” reality. Often associated with an ungodly search for “power,” it showed up in my dreams two nights ago.

In my dream, I saw “alchemists” at work all over the USA, transforming people bionically, transforming nations and substances, DNA and flesh. The vaccine was a form of alchemy, as were poverty and anger, chaos and confusion, all designed to restructure mankind into something the “enemy” considered more special, more precious than the “basic” way God had created us. Fools gold.

As I continued to rest, the LORD took me on a journey, back into my past, into my childhood, to a mom who was often working, a grandmother who tried to take care of me, a father who loved me but worked very hard. I ached. Alone. Lonely. Little. Then I saw the enemy using my loneliness to work his “alchemy,” turning my heart bitter, vindictive and ugly, hitting every wound with his arrows, creating his “masterpiece” of misery out of a basically happy childhood. Fools gold.

I sat up in bed, hurting. I prayed to the LORD for healing and repentance, but I was silently screaming. Then true gold happened. Godly repentance took over, and peace like a river, joy and celebration flooded my being. The LORD was working His alchemy, turning my brass into gold, lifting me up into the soaring expanses of heaven, causing me to fly with the angels, to sit, in holiness, on Daddy’s Lap. Real gold.

Later in the day I had an emotional/practical challenge and I forgot to love. Plummeting downwards, the enemy’s alchemy took over, Bam! Bam! Ouch! You fool! I intentionally returned to love, and was immediately soaring through the heavens again. It was simple, painless and instant. An old union song came to mind, “Which side are you on, boys, which side are you on?” As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. True gold.

God is at work, transforming our base nature into His Holiness. Meanwhile, the enemy is at work, transforming our base nature into evil. Choosing is a constant demand upon our lives. It is a necessity that is always before us.

But why did God bring this up now, in a dream?

We have won a major victory overturning Roe vs. Wade, and the enemy has won a number of “partial,” not fully successful, victories recently. Now, Biden will be going to Israel to discuss the Abrahamic Accords, etc., from July 13-16. The evening of July 16 is the beginning of the Straits of Tammuz, the season, on the Biblical calendar, when Jerusalem’s walls were breached, and when both the First and Second Temples were destroyed. This timing IS significant, serious and noteworthy. Will we allow God’s physical walls to be more fully breached during the Straits of Tammuz, causing more chaos, violence, murder and deceit? Or will we stand for His love at all costs? If we give Allah the place where God will place His Throne, (the Temple Mount), God help us all! If we give Allah the Land where much of Scripture occurred, where God met His people, again and again, God help us all! But if we guard God’s Land for His purposes, if we pray to defuse the powers of darkness through God’s glorious power of LIGHT, of LOVE, of TRUTH, shouting His Name, declaring His Victory with joyous confidence and surrender, God WILL help us all! That’s God’s alchemy.

Two strong prophetic voices in israel have recently spoken out about the coming Straits of Tammuz. One, Rick Ridings, suggests that the way to win this current and upcoming moment of attack is through exultant, high praise. I believe that. God inhabits the praises of His people.

Another prophetic voice indicates that our history with the Temple Mount is crying out to the LORD for vindication, that we gave away the Temple Mount within hours of winning it back, during the 1967 war. (The Temple Mount is where the Holy of Holies was situated, and so it was the place where Israel, during Yom Kippur, repented on a yearly basis for their sins.) Then, during Yom Kippur, six years later, six being the number of man and thus mankind’s decisions, we were attacked, and it was a shock to Israel’s system. Giving away the Temple Mount for appeasement was fools gold.

Counting from 1973, the year of the Yom Kippur war, it is now its Jubilee, and the Jubilee is when all things come to their fruition, and are returned to their rightful owners.

Will God’s Throne be returned to worship for God? Or will we reap the consequences of our lack of stewardship and care? I find myself trying to imagine the pain in God’s Heart when we gave away His physical home. I can’t. But I realize how necessary our repentance is. It is no small thing to give YHVH’s throne to Allah.

So, both our high praises and our profound repentance are required during these Straits of Tammuz.

I feel compelled to pray:

To honor God

To never grieve the Holy Spirit

To protect what He gives me to steward

To trust Him when things get tough, and not look for shortcuts

To love all people, period.

To become His gold.

On a personal level, if my love is growing, if I can reach beyond my limitations with peace-filled joy, God’s Alchemy is taking me higher into His Kingdom. If my fear and judgment are growing, if I’m struggling for breath, the enemy’s alchemy is taking me deeper into his kingdom.

On a more global level, God warned me in 2018 He was done with mixture. I wondered what would happen.

What I have seen is that evil has been allowed to flourish.

Yet God’s glorious Presence has grown stronger and stronger.

God’s Hand has not been removed from the world.

Yet God is allowing evil to have much more control.

The goals of both sides are being sharpened.

People are being transformed by love or by something unspeakable.

People must decide, now, from their heart of hearts, whom they will serve.

Gold or fools gold.

The last day of the Straits of Tammuz is called Tisha b’Av, the exact date when both temples fell. The coming test will be real. If we stand with Him and watch Him work, praise Him, repent and declare His Victory through Tisha b’Av, I believe He will take down this next strike. It will shatter to nothing. But if we don’t, I believe it may very well succeed, and woe be to mankind for the coming season!

Let us pray for the victory of God’s Love to be accomplished on that date. Let us pray that “Merciful love and truth will meet, righteousness and peace will kiss.” (Ps 85:10)

I don’t really know how to communicate how sober I feel, and yet, how joy-filled. My words are failing me … But I will pray. His salvation is near for those who fear Him.

Dear LORD, thank You for the opportunity to represent You in the world, during this season and always. Thank You for giving us hearts to worship and praise You, to declare Your Victory, and to see You create what YOU CHOOSE TO CREATE all over the world. Let us learn, more and more, how to stand by You and with You during this season. And always. May we always be being transformed closer and closer into Your image, and may Your Gold shine brighter within us, day by day … Amen and amen.

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