Friday 4 November 2022
Awake at 430, and on the beach with Luke before 5, in the quiet darkness.
The skies are clear when we start our walk, stars and constellations lighting our way. A dense fog then overtakes us, almost like a blanket, obscuring the stars and any lights from the shoreline.
We finish our walk and are sitting in the truck warming up. The thoughts of a “healthcare industrial complex” larger and more perverse that the military industrial complex is heavy upon me. I can’t stop thinking of the prophetic accuracy of President Eisenhower’s words, in his farewell address to the United States.
“… In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”[1]
What he foretold of has come to pass, and our so-called healthcare system has become more massive, more broken, more corrupt that we could imagine. It has nothing to do with the health and well-being of the citizens of our nation and everything to do with money and power. Worse, evil forces have created a negatively reinforcing feedback loop of sickness, pharmaceutical onslaught, and a vicious cycle of people never getting well – of people being killed, maimed, families and communities – our entire nation – being torn apart.
My mind is racing, thinking of the huge array of governmental, industrial, technical structures connected together in hidden complex webs.
“Father, the magnitude and scale and scope of all the systems we have created seems overwhelming. Help us, Lord.”
He waits until I am home with my notebook before speaking an answer:
I created in you the thirst for understanding, the curiosity of the world around you. I created in you the ability to discern safety and danger, and to trust in Me, that I have provided constancy. You call it gravity or tides, sunrises and seasons, and My world reflects My loving creation of planting, growth, harvest and regeneration. You trust instinctively that the blanket of air and moisture over you actually hugs the earth surface and is not simply cast outward by the earth spinning. Your breath and your hearts beat to a frequency older than time.
Yet your curiosity beckons, as I desire. Consider how the works of your wonderful hands and minds have transformed your world.
What do you say you know and don’t know, child?
I try not to over-think any answer, just to let something flow out of me. “I know that you love us fiercely, Lord. I know we have built and made so many things, and we have populated the earth by some trajectory that seems unknown. I know that the pace of everything, by the understanding you have given us, is unsustainable.
I don’t know how to visualize or understand how to change that trajectory, because my everything tells me things will break, badly, without intervention.
I know we are in a war, Father, and I don’t know the magnitude, and can only see the human physical effects.
I know that the wisdom of our native tribes is what you’re showing me. I know that what we called a “controlled burn” may have to occur in our systems and our government, as I think you are showing me.
I don’t know, I don’t understand why I hear your prophets – many – say words of restoration, renewal, rescue, change, abundance, blessings – yet I experience no movement. We experience no healing, no inpouring of the restoration. Why? I don’t know your direction yet, individually or as a family, in a community, in a free nation. I don’t know – exactly – how you want us to move forward. What to do and with whom? What giants are you telling us to take down and what giant systems and things are you going to take down?
I don’t know what all these people are going to do when they’re not in the military or healthcare industrial complexes.
Father, I know you love us, more than we can understand.”
My child, your observations of My world tell you with certainty about you cycles of growth and regeneration. You are right to observe that My trees do not grow to 1000’s of feet, that My oceans have boundaries. Right to know that the cycles, and compounding cycles of your consumption, output and waste have become infected by evil, by an enemy older than time.
Hear Me, child, and now you may know this: What you observe as a “Heavenly course correction” or “Control of God” will be described as a “crash” or “collapse.” For all whose hearts and thoughts are focused on Me, the profound changes will feel almost dream-like in peacefulness.
Remember and know that I have more frequencies of sight and sound than are known to you. Sounds unimaginable will be as a balm of Peace, calming your minds. New tastes, smells and sensations will make you whole again.
Yes, child, I will end this war and I will show you, one and all, what it is to experience peace unimaginable. That is when My wisdom carriers will come forth.
Do not lose heart even in this moment of your experience of unmovement, because I call you to keep your observational perspective in the Spirit, in spite of the noise, chaos and warfare all around you.
Remain calm in Me, even calmer now, even more secure in Me. I have commanded you before and I say this again. Yes, and see yourselves as I do. Consider all those many dimensions of yourself and remember what I have told you:
That I am beyond time and dimensions.
Child, if I put My words in you, put My Spirit in your breath and heartbeat, let your trust and faith reflect outward. Are you not an obedient one? For I do know a heart that can count the cost.
Speak this, then: It honors me when you ask Me if you are doing the right things. You can and you must question everything and continue to ask of each other and of your leaders, ‘Are the things we are doing in true service to others and to the Lord Almighty?
You may be attacked for questioning everything, yet the desire to become compassionate and not self-serving will change consequences. Those who will listen now, I know by their hearts. Those hearts will be protected in the coming restoration.
Do you hear the thunder again? Do not try to imagine how far away it is by its volume, for it is the frequency I want you to pay attention to.
[1] January 17, 1961, “Eisenhower’s Farewell Address to the Nation”