More importantly than letting the signs cause curiosity or nervousness about the one world government’s cruelty in the name of peace is knowing the imminent instructions for this current time because we don’t know how long it will take to get to that season of evil. But this meeting at the Father’s table that will fully interrupt a day in which you are empty handed, frustrated, expecting humiliation, or otherwise empty from distress, will come upon you, at any time.

While it is a personal experience with personal characteristics to the occasion in circumstance, I believe there is going to be one common posture of “readiness” of which Jesus has been working tirelessly to ensure we have as our heart-posture before the Lord: frustrated, brokenhearted, hurting emptiness or barrenness (at least one, if not all of these emotions and circumstances.)

The purpose of this posture is to exhaust the pious out of us; the Spirit of Truth requires brazen honesty. But also, the specific purpose of this encounter is to get us acknowledging our disinterest in carrying things, little and big things. The purpose of this is so that we will STOP agreeing to carry responsibilities, and value ourselves enough to demand Jesus carry everything, even the littlest thing: a pencil, a paperclip, a tissue. If your hand will clench, it’s too heavy. 

If you are doing lots of stuff to help God but the result in your heart is a feeling that God’s used you as a road for everyone else to walk on because he’s made some people to be used as tools to get other people feeling loved, you might be making stuff up to do instead of living out your calling. God is big and you are small; he is the Father and you are the child; you do not sustain yourself but he sustains you. This is an important orientation for mankind like orienting a compass to the magnetic poles: we do not help God any more than we help the earth’s foundation keep the trees of a forest standing tall. Purpose is a horrible foundation for an identity. Before heaven comes to earth, mankind must accept this small and useless position until all our working is being filled with the joy of our relationship with Jesus, in pure “because he loves he I live” initiating all desires of mind. When we have received good things within relationship for no other reason than unconditional love so that we know him as Daddy, then we’ll rejoice at heaven’s arrival. Pride can’t take it and it hates God more than it hates food, sleep, and relationships that lack opportunity for social merits. But the spirit loves being loved, loves fun that is joyous, love food and living, and rejoices at things that are easy so that real living can shower out from you as a joyous expression for being alive, it might be creative, it might be exploratory, but it will all be celebration. Choose life. Let God eat your pride; it won’t hurt when he does it.

Many will go to him and cry “Lord, Lord,” only to be told, “I never knew you.” He spoke through Micah to tell us, “I know those who trust me.” I tell you, those who will received as children of God will run to him crying “Abba! Abba!” and receive their treasured presences as a Father prepares gifts for his children during a long voyage, away. The Holy Spirit said this my fearful heart, “Act like one his, and you will be treated like one of his.”

This encounter will come at a time of your emptiness so that you can find out how much you truly belong at the table of Lord to discuss with Father Almighty God, everything, in honesty and trust and rightful belonging until you no longer question your right to all-home within the throne of God: you must know that you belong when you are naked, bankrupt, hungry, needy, and in a bad mood. Once you know how much you belong to Him as a rightful and loved child of his household to honored by him, raised by him, and living on his abundance then no weapon can possible dent or burden or wound or come near to shake your identity and self-worth and place in the world and future.

If you can’t let go of pain that you’re carrying, just tell him.

Remember, the idols of old were tiny carvings that fit into the pockets of people. That is how small an item can be that will bend a person’s back from the troubles that come with its powerlessness. It can even be an idea that only occupies space in our minds. In the USA we don’t have temples or congregations of gathered worshipers for many of our prominent idols. So, we struggle to identify idols that haunt us, but have no names. God doesn’t require us to understand the history of an idol or a false idea before removing it from us. Many good things will happen at his table. And, it will all be felt as an easing of a weight, gently, removed off your back.

It sounds like, “I would gladly receive the outcome of that blessings, but unfortunately I cannot help you, in any way. If you want me to receive that blessing, it’s all you from here on out. You have to do every little step.”

“It will be GOOD for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, HE will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on THEM. It will be GOOD for those servants whose master finds them ready…” – Luke 12:37,38 NIV 

Luke 12:37,38 NIV (emphasis added)

You will know what Peter felt like when Jesus washed his feet, honored too much to receive while keeping any semblance of pride.

But because you love heaven and you love your soul, and to give your soul a gift would be to let your soul enter heaven, like Peter allowing Jesus to watch his feet, you will accept the honor for the trust that God’s minimum gifts are elevating to the highest regard in creation; to accept a little from God you must accept 100% from God: that’s his nature.

And only Jesus can initiate the encounter. I believe, this is a unique encounter with Father God by being brought to his table. His table is the court of heaven. It’s just you and him. The timing will be precise. It will happen to you at an unknown hour. 

Expect the months before this to be a slow ceasing of fulfilling duties. Especially duties for religious purposes, meaning: someone made you fear the loss of God’s love or help if you ever pause, forget, or out-right refuse to perform the ritual task, will become heavier and too stress inducing to continue. He is intentionally rising the feeling of the failure until you’re arriving at his table so empty handed all you might possible have when you sit down to speak with the Father God Almighty in regards to your soul’s enteral judgement is exclusively His mercy. You will be raw emotionally so that you can’t lie, easily. Like Job and Jonah, the idea is get you tossing caution to the wind, letting God see and hear your honesty opinions on the matter of discussion without concern for the future of your soul, speaking with exposure as though the test was already taken, the paper is in it’s place and ready for review, even though you’re not sure when you took the test.

The day and time will be unknown. Stay sober. You need your wits for this one. But sipping communion, daily, won’t get in your way, so long as you keep it to a sip at a time. NOTE on home style communion, if you don’t have a person of authority to bless your bread and wine, I find it helpful to ask the Holy Spirit to “make communion in me.” There is a feeling of communion like my spirit dances in my belly, feeling heaven while my other senses perceive the world. This will sustain you father than you could otherwise go. But even taking communion, expect this small reminder of your establishment in Christ Jesus to fade and the exhaustion to be unsustainable if not unbearable.

I strongly encourage everyone thirsty for God’s help to become stronger and favoring enough to make your soul forget struggles until your days are abundant joy and if you had an audience with God you’d give him a piece of your mind, and if he gave you one more thing to do, you’d set it back in his lap and refuse by simple fact that you don’t have the strength, so if he loves you and wants good things for you then it’s up to him to do everything needed to get that blessing into your life, stay sober until you have this encounter: you will want your wits so that you can easily speak and listen.

And you will greatly benefit from perceiving this encounter.

First, we must understand the Biblical meaning when Jesus of Nazareth references a term, not with endearment but with harsh non-association. That term is when he calls part of man’s society “the world.”

Although there will be physical changes to the planet (animals will stop eating other animals,) this is important because when Jesus of Nazareth says “the world” will end, he’s probably talking more about the societal false decrees wrongly attempting ways of righteousness, which think to use evil for good and only increase in evil for lack of knowledge about good for failing to ask the only truth, creator God. Lies are coming to an end. Evil will be forsaken by the people. And the truth will be revealed. Those of us already alive in the truth are excited to have more of God, to see Jesus rule the systems of government, which has only God as king, father, teacher, doctor, and comforter for each individual.

Essentially, “the world” is a human ideology with many faces that conducts ways of living that are built to foster independence from God. As a result, this age is one with heavy battles and the next is an age apart of battles in the spirit and the flesh: there will be no more negative thoughts and no more sickness and no more war, the list continues.

After one thousand years, the children of God, having learned how to wield his or her authority in Christ in preparation, will fight in a final battle with Satan and all his demons, and all his evil priests. I don’t think it’s going to feel as difficult after living a thousand years of training as it might feel if the battle came early. Jesus will make sure we’re ready. But the final battle will be rooted in the understanding of this sword-slice that is written into the law for our benefit, “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”

It’s appropriate to laugh. You can go ahead and start laughing. Don’t live in dread of a final battle with our enemy. The victory is going to be so swift, it’s laughable.

Satan will search the land for one child of God who will give him some attention thereby giving him some power since he won’t have his own. And he will not find one person willing to entertain him. The end. The end of evil and the continuation of heaven on earth. There will be no shadow for a demon to reside in.

WATCHMEN AT THE READY

I saw a meme of a woman standing in her driveway and squinting hard into the distance with a caption, “Just checking to see what chapter of Revelation we’re in, today.” And I think, many of us are thinking, “For real, though.”

I have been in fear of the end of the world since after a season in high school when I became obsessively fascinated with the concept of prophesy. To me, I had fun with the idea that God not only gave a man an interesting dream relevant to his own life, but God painted a scene for him and eventually that painting would unfold within reality. At first, I had fun with it, but eventually anxiety rolled in like a thick cloud. And, with it came a haunting sound of screams. 

Since then, I have struggled with dread and questions, “How bad is it going to be? How will we survive? Four months of unbearable pain for the remnant, killing off all the rest of humanity; all of humanity? Who is ‘them?’ What did you say, God? And the haters, still, won’t change their minds? How come they don’t like good things? And the miracles from the believers will arise like the world has never seen, but so will the Magician?”

As a result, God has been bringing up the subject every few years. I’m going to share what he’s been telling me. And as I hear more, I’ll add another part to the subject.

HOW SOON?

Many of us are growing antsy with nervous anticipation watching some impossible prophesies become possible within recent decades; things we thought sounded literal in the language of the prophesy but unfathomably impossible. Namely, I am thinking of the prophecy of visual information travelling in real-time. But also, that visual media would be received globally at that incredible speed. I was born before the internet and social media wasn’t a concept until I had graduated high school, but even fifteen years ago I remained skeptical at the saturation of smart phone technology reaching real-time speeds, globally. I don’t doubt that anymore. 

More wondrous than that everything will become global. And now, the entire earth has shared one common experience: a global pandemic. Call it what you will, everyone on the earth gets to have an opinion on the same experience because it affected everyone, everywhere. The only other global event I have heard mentioned in history is the great flood God sent upon the earth in Noah’s day. 

To say the least, the bride is watching.

PERPARE 

What I want to begin with is the concept of preparedness. How are we meant to be prepared; the posture? Posture in kingdom seeking circles is, simply, a fancy word for attitude. I don’t encourage anyone to think about any part of the sanctification process like it’s yesterday’s undone to-do list; you don’t have to worry if winter will come, when it comes it’ll be there.

Before diving in, eat this snack, just a morsal: Jesus spoke comfort to his disciples before saying scary things about God, intending to frustrate the scorners. 

Jesus said to his disciples, “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”

The Father’s attitude remains the same; and the kingdom is for us, too.

WHY PREPARE?

We know we’re called to be watching for Jesus’s return. We’re meant to have our lamps burning, extra oil with us, and not to give away any of our oil for the journey because what we’ll have left over after watching and waiting for his return will only be enough for ourselves. We know that the bridegroom will come when we least expect him. We know it could be at night or any time of day. We know we’ve been told not to grow weary with doing good while we wait. And certainly, if we begin to beat our servants, our names will be blotted out of the Lambs Book of Life, which is the worse eternal punishment. 

But that’s not very specific. 

So, I have been given the charge to explain how we’re meant to expect to receive him, our generation, which I believe is a generation invited into great miracles and gifts from God, like he’s not done before. And it’s available to us on an individual basis; no age bias included. 

BEING “FOUND WATCHING”

Being found watching is being “ready.”

Jesus spoke these words, “It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready…” – Luke 12:37,38 NIV 

What you want is to be found watching. God’s definition of good is better than our definition of good. Our definition of good doesn’t even bump the Richter scale. And this is the blessing for those of his found watching:

“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, Which made heaven and earth.” – Psalm 121:1-2 KJV

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE “FOUND WATCHING”

It’ll come like on a day when you have utterly arrived empty handed. Maybe, you’ll be at work, arriving to a meeting and, suddenly, realize you don’t know what the meeting is about because you didn’t read the email. And if there was anything you needed to bring, your bag is empty of the necessary contents. As a result, you will feel useless. So much so, you might consider going home. But with hand on the door, you feel Jesus with you. 

And then he says, “Okay, it’s time. I have prepared you and now you’re going to be at His table. He’s ready to meet you. And I’m ready for you to meet with Him.” To which, you might feel a pained sinking in the pit of your stomach as though you’re about to take the most important test of your life and you haven’t studied.

RIGHT HERE: this moment, this is the time I’m wanting to catch any do-gooder perfectionists to warn that the WRONG response would be to run away and go read your Bible, attempting to study as though God is going to mention specific phrasing from the book of Deuteronomy or Numbers as a short quiz.

Enter the space, physically, that has brought you into that feeling. If you feel Jesus bring you towards the Lord’s table, just through that door, go through the door. You will be the only person aware of God. Forget about the people and the supposed to, and accept your meeting with God at his table.

Let me tell you, Jesus has worked to bring you EMPTY HANDED. Not only that, but with an attitude of NO MICED WORDS because of being DONE with jumping through hoops, brought to fatigue, enduring delays, being stretched thin, so that your honesty will be transparent. Don’t be afraid to be sassy or resistant. 

Instead, fear being judged a liar.

Think of it more like, Jesus is the one being tested because you are his homework; you are the work of his hands: his assignment, his mission, his bride. If you are called his righteousness, it glorifies Jesus. That being said, there is an initial question. The only thing you need to remember is your Sunday school education: the answer to the first question is… Jesus. 

The question will be, “Who brought you, here?” 

The answer, again, “Jesus of Nazareth,” bonus points if you can remember his hometown 😉. 

After that, keep in mind with whom you’ll be speaking: the Spirit of Truth, All-knowing God. He values honesty. Also, he already knows your thoughts. Just answer every question as honestly as possible.  If you’re having a panic attack, be honest about that and tell him you’re having a panic attack. He will help you.

• Be honest about what you don’t feel able to perform
• Arcuately asses your energy level
• For anything he says you need or anything you must do, confess how you feel about your expectation of yourself accomplishing those things without help because this is the place you ask for what you need
• Ask for what you must do to be done on your behalf by Jesus 
• Expect to learn how to minister to the Lord, here
• Being empty and tired and alone and unable and honest about how you feel is the RIGHT posture
• Ask
• Talk
• Ask, more
• Tell him, “It’s all on him.”
• Whatever Jesus wants, Jesus has to do
• Whatever you’re asking him for, Jesus must give to you as a gift
• A loan is not a gift
• You will not be able to repay what is given, this glorifies the giver; it is good for God to give you more than you can repay, and it is good for God to give you without expecting you to repay, anything
• God has no needs, no lack, no deficiencies; God’s wants are: he loves you
• Talk to him about where you would prefer to tithe
• Tithing is sewing for increase
• God never uses extorsion 
• He gives and then we are made able

This is the table where you receive from God. He’s not interested in receiving any gifts from you. If he asks you to give him, it will be an evil that is holding you back from experiencing or believing in good things, like a word spoken about your personality or lie spoken to you about God or any wound or any memory that is hurting you. If you reach out your gift and discover that you can’t let go, ask for help. It might take time, but he will help you release the evil.

Noticing this experience as it interrupts normal life is being “found watching.”

Reminder: I would have found this encounter very difficult to engage within in order to speak to God, feel like I was in his presence, listen to God, or perceive what the Spirit was communicating in whispers and intuitive gleanings had I been drinking any alcohol. I believe wine is better suited for celebrating. While you’re waiting on this encounter, the nearer you feel like it’s coming by the deepening need for Jesus to change the world, fully, I encourage you to refrain from consuming alcohol, even if it takes a year of waiting.

Peter said it this way, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”

This encounter will begin an understanding of just powerless devils and idols are compared to Christ Jesus.

The devil has no weapons great enough against a child of God who knows he or she is loved: the matter of soul, enticement, pride, desires, and destination will be closed as the court hearing books. He’ll continue to try but that’s because he’s arrogant and dumb, decaying continually, which is why he has no new ideas. It’s not that he stands a chance.

WHY WATCH FOR JESUS TO INITIATE THIS ENCOUNTER?

After Jesus spoke many scary prophecies about the end of the age, adding that they would not come soon, he encouraged his disciples with these words, “When you see all these things happening, look up, for your redemption is near.”

A great place to begin a study to understand the word “redemption” is the book of Ruth in the Old Testament. Ruth marries a man named Boaz. He acted as her redeemer. That meant, in order to marry her, he was required to purchase your inheritance, which the land owned by her deceased husband, and all her debt. Additionly, Ruth’s reputation was under the cover of Boaz’s reputation. So, she suddenly became a woman of good repute. And because he was a wealthy man, she became a prominent woman of influence in the region. All in the moment of signing a document with a crowd of witnesses (one of which had first dibs, but he snubbed his nose at wanting a wife.)

Ruth becomes truth when she marries the cross. Little play one words, there, but I think something Jesus is just having a laugh with us, even while he’s being serious.

Getting ready for the end of the age is getting ready for your redeemer to come and bring you into his home to prepare you for a wedding. Listen to the story of Ruth and hear the voice of your redeemer calling, “As a beggar, you are special, and you are wanted. I am worthy, if you’ll have me. And I am wealthy; I can afford you.”

When you feel his presence, oh so palpably, and feel fully dowsed in cold clarity by the shock of an occurrence of arriving with only yourself, empty handed, don’t clean yourself up. Come as you are. Become all the more aware of your lack, your emptiness, even to the point of feeling ashamed or embarrassed. This is exactly how Jesus wants you to feel because you are spiritually bankrupt and you need him, and he is ready to help. And you need to become acutely aware of how weak your body and your heart truly are, so you’ll ask Jesus to do EVERYTHING. 

When you’re thoroughly exhausted, wanting life as a system to radically resemble heaven so you can rest, and you’re contemplating giving up on succeeding in daily life and life goals and your vision of an impressive societally satisfactory life provable as a showcased trophy before the neighbors and the committee and the board and the magazine and the publication and the museum (wherever else you might be noticed,) instead of apologizing to God for getting tired, get watchful. 

Tell Jesus you want him to change your life. Even if you’re the only person living in a heavenly experience, you’ll endure the shame cast on your name by the prideful who demand all humanity “earn” what they get and then give away more than they earn to prove they have worth on the inside, too. Blah blah blah, get behind me Satan. God has the right to love his children. We have the right be treated like children of the Most High God. Heaven is a place where God’s giving has no dimness but shines at max volume. God defines the word generous. And he can’t lack. He just talks and more is made. There is enough for each of us to have heaven sized lives, on earth as it is in heaven. Allowing God’s love to shine on your life will shame you before the prideful. But if you’re tired and hungry enough, I say, let Jesus’s generous gifts fall like a monsoon rain. If you enter his heavenly kingdom, and you’re the only one, that’s an increase to the earth of good. Don’t be ashamed to take what Jesus gives you. 

But I warn the needy to wait on a true encounter with God because heaven is more than things and before you can enjoy the things, which he plans on giving you and the life he plans on giving you and all the circumstances that will increase joy in your heart, he will lift you up in spirit as into the clouds (like the rapture, but in spirit before it’s in the body.) And he will make you to breathe in His righteous, which sustained him. And this is a life worthy of living for an eternity and it is so good, it leaves vitality smoked in the grave as a dead man’s best idea to endure a painful ever-dying death as a request, simply to die more slowly. But no, vitality is not life. Vitality has nothing on righteousness. It’s his and it’s good. And you will wear it like a garment. Heaven is not a place where anything is earned. Neither is his righteousness earned. 

We are commanded to make many requests of God and of various requests. Ask for things. Ask for changes in your circumstances. But also ask him for joy. Ask him for wisdom, but not without joy. And ask him to bring you into his righteousness. Ask him for a better life, but don’t neglect to ask him for freedom, too. 

When God gives a gift, it is complete.

And it is always at the measure of what he can give, and what you are willing to receive.