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The battle which is termed “armagedon” by the Christians is one that will be fought within us. Sure, there is going to be a battle outside of the body and it will continue until the people are so sick of killing each other that they will study war no more. But the battle that must be fought, and has been won already, is the Christ within us rising versus the Anti-Christ within. A battle between the Spirit within and the flesh. Everything in our lives up until the point of a “new birth” serves the flesh, which brings us to the realization that we are more than just this body. And we are — we are a Spiritual being trapped in a fleshy body — we are not fleshy bodies trying to attain a Spiritual one. Those who don’t come to the realization that we are the body of the very one we seek will have a bad day when the flesh dies. We must first rise before we die in order to see the Kingdom of God.
Those who come to the realization that this life, if we can call it that, is one that must be lived by “walking after the Spirit” are the ones that have been fighting the fight and allowing the Christ to rise within. Those are the ones who set the example of a life worth living. What is “walking after the Spirit”? First, we must truly identify what is seen in order to identify what is not seen. The flesh must be torn apart and identified. The flesh must be exposed for what it is in order for the Spirit to rise within us.
So, go ahead and take a look at yourself. What are your ulterior motives in this life? What kind of a person are you, really? Are you able to identify and release the emotions that you don’t like or are you projecting those emotions onto other people in your life? For example, when you feel anger or hurt, do you say hurtful words to another in order to project the anger onto them so they will feel the same thing you do? Do you justify yourself or use the bible to justify your hurtful words to another or are you sorry for those words? Or do you tell someone “I love you” and then say “but”? Love and love are two different things. Whenever the word love is proceeded by the word “but”, it’s not Love. The lower case “l” in love is not Love. Do you like what you see when you look at yourself? If you do, then you are “proud” and that, too, needs released.
To be continued…
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