The Casual, the Compromised and the Clueless

I had a dream where I was a casual, compromised Christian. In the dream, I was given three hours to live. It shook me down to the core at the prospect of meeting God, but I had knew I never had an intimate relationship with God while I was alive. Soon after I had this sobering moment in the dream, the dream transitioned into me being enticed by two women and by their seduction, I was being lulled into immorality completely forgetting I had only three hours to live. I sensed God say, “this is the reality of my people today. There are flash moments of realization that we don’t have much time on earth, but my people are being lulled into spiritual slumber because of idolatry and immorality.”

I woke up in a cold sweat and when I fell back asleep, I dreamt the last part of the dream where I met an elderly lady who had recently gone through cancer. In the dream, I innately knew my time was about to expire and I pleaded with the woman to tell me everything she knew about God and what to expect at the moment of my death. I thought: “Surely she should know what to do before meeting God - she’s stared at death in the face before.” But to my utter horror, she had nothing to share with me. In my spirit, I knew that this was a someone who had never learned from their experience of coming close to death. While the prospect of death should have wakened her to live her remaining days serving God in mission, she was missing her opportunity because of her cluelessness to God’s mission. She looked to doctors for her deliverance, not Jesus. She was satisfied with the pursuit of comfort, not the pursuit of Christ.

This is the state of the majority of people on the earth today. Without the Holy Spirit to illuminate our minds and bring revelation of the purpose of our existence, we will be left clueless to God’s plans. One day our lives will expire and we will realize how we trampled under foot the grace of our Lord Jesus and instead of wholeheartedly following Jesus and saying yes to his mission, we ended up wasting our lives in living casually, compromised and clueless.

In the Old Testament Babylon was a city; in the New Testament Babylon is a spirit.

She is the empire that destroys Jerusalem, burns the temple and takes the people of God into exile. She is the beast that almost swallowed the bride; but in the end, she is judged, despoiled and thrown down.
Her destruction is announced in Isaiah 47.

In Revelation 17, John is carried away in the Spirit into the wilderness where he saw:

“a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.” 6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.” (Revelation 17:3–6 ESV)

The Whore of Babylon
The Whore of Babylon is the spirit of seductive culture, actively engaged in the deception and destruction of God’s people. That she rides upon the beast means that she is propped up by the forces of anti-Christian government.

Just like the beast, who was, and is not and is about to rise, the “Whore” keeps on rising from the dead! A particular brand of her seductive charm may fall into the dust and be buried by the sands of time, but just wait! Before you know it, she will rise again in another place, known by another name but waging the same destructive war against God’s people.

1. Culture is not neutral.
2. The devil attacks God’s people via the front door through governmental persecution.
3. The devil attacks God’s people via the backdoor through seductive, idolatrous culture.
4. No enemy of God’s people will finally stand. The Lord has a day and that day is coming.

Dream

The two seductive women who took my attention off of eternity and on them. It was familiar to me because I grew up in this kind of environment seduced by culture and enslaved by my addictions.

This is our culture today and it could potentially be speaking about your life. We all have an expiration date. No one needs to be a prophet to know this. Death is the great equalizer and it’s not a respecter of persons. Every. Single. Person. Will. Die. So the choice is yours, subdue the darkness or be subdued. Unfortunately too many even in the body of Christ have fallen for her seductions.

A friend of mine had a significant dream about me last year. She prayed for my deliverance and she found herself saying, “you are not Bruce Lee, but you are a Daniel.” Daniel was one of the exiles living in Babylon who did not bow to culture. Bruce lee was a man of human philosophies. Daniel was a man of God’s mysteries. The prayer was powerful and I was delivered. Her name is Mary and I believe God is about to birth a Jesus movement in America.

While we are under an oppressive regime and are being seduced by the culture around us, God is raising up a remnant who will not bow.