Seduction of young minds : A fiction

[Prophetic Voice]

 Poisoning of the young minds: A parable

 

Kingdom of Light is being ruled by King Holy One and is being built by an army of faithful soldiers under the Captains Apostle, Prophet and Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher. Kingdom of Dark is being ruled by King Evil One and is being built by an army of faithful soldiers. Both the kingdoms are at war with each other. The gates of Dark Kingdom never prevail against the gates of Light Kingdom. As the soldiers of the Light Kingdom fight the Dark Kingdom through the two-edged Sword of Gospel, King Evil One and his army are being stripped of their power to reign and are thus being handicapped to hold on to their Dark Kingdom. They are mostly on the defensive war but fly their arrows against the Light Kingdom through breaches.

As the two-edged Sword of Gospel is winning over the territory of Dark Kingdom, King Evil One summons his captains of the army and reviews their work, giving appropriate instructions to infiltrate into the Light Kingdom. The captains of the Dark Kingdom are able to perceive and identify some breaches on the wall of the Light Kingdom. These breaches are caused by the captains of the Dark Kingdom. They are known as Captain Untruth and Captain Deceit.  Both these captains are directing their soldiers to fly a fiery dart namely Prosperity Gospel and hit the faithful soldiers of the Light Kingdom, especially the battalions under Captain Evangelist and Captain Pastor, through these breaches. However, Captain Apostle and his faithful battalion are relentlessly fighting against the Dark Kingdom by venturing into the interior territory of King Evil One. As such, the arrow thrown by the Evil One has not fallen on the battalion of Captain Apostle because this battalion is already inside the Dark Kingdom. However, the arrow being thrown by King Evil One wounds some soldiers under Captain Evangelist and Captain Pastor because these soldiers are fighting the army of the Evil One from the territory of the Light Kingdom. King Holy One has given first position to Captain Apostle and his battalion in the entire war. But Captain Evangelist and Captain Pastor do not follow the path laid by Captain Apostle with the result that there is no coordination between the battalions of Evangelist and Pastor and the battalion of Apostle. Captain Prophet and his battalion are not given due positions on the front by Captain Evangelist and Captain Pastor as instructed by King Holy One. Captain Evangelist and his battalion occupy all the front positions in the battlefield relegating to the background the battalions under Captain Prophet and Captain Teacher. There is no coordination between the battalions under Captains Evangelist and Pastor and the battalions of Captains Prophet and Teacher. These breaches could not be closed by the faithful soldiers of the Light Kingdom because Captain Lethargy of the Dark Kingdom is waging a war through his battalion against the battalions of Captains Evangelist and Captain Pastor. These breaches were widened due to lack of coordination between the battalions of all these five Captains.

The faithful soldiers of the Light Kingdom are terribly maimed by the Prosperity Gospel with the result that there is tardy progress in the construction of the Light Kingdom.

King Holy One while reviewing the work of His captains calls Captain Prophet and directs him to use the services of Lt. Discernment for equipping some young soldiers who have the call of discernment for countering the fiery dart, Prosperity Gospel, from the Dark Kingdom. King Holy One also directed Captain Prophet to always take with him Lt. Prayer and his praying battalion for being positioned in the rear of the army and to avail the services of the battalion of Captain Apostle whenever needed.

Lt. Discernment, a mature army officer, finds and identifies a group of young minds, calling them “Prophetic Ministers”.  Lt. Discernment in a hurry to train and equip this group of young minds neglects to avail the services of another army officer Lt. Prayer. Due to this lapse, the news of equipping the new brand of young soldiers reaches the ears of King Evil One through the breaches.

Upon receiving the news, King Evil One summons one of his trusted captains, namely, Captain Deceit and entrusts the work of poisoning the minds of young soldiers branded “Prophetic Ministers”. The following is the gist of conversation between King Evil One and Captain Deceit.

King Evil One: What is your strategy of entering the Light Kingdom?

Captain Deceit: Lt. Prayer is also sleeping in the Light Kingdom. The watchmen of the gate of the Light Kingdom can be easily deceived by me and I can enter the Light Kingdom because I will be in disguise as an angel of light.

King Evil One: You should now carry a bag with you called “Bible” and in that bag you should have three medicine tables called Arrogance, Hatred and Unrighteousness. In that bag, you should also carry a one-edged sword. If you present yourself at the gate of the Light Kingdom with your bag “Bible”, the watchmen will not check your credentials.  Just tell them, “I am a healer from the Kingdom Hades and want to heal the soldiers of the Light Kingdom who were maimed by the fiery dart “Prosperity Gospel”. You now find Lt. Prayer sleeping and Lt. Discernment missing at the gate. You should wait, watch and enter when both of them are found missing.

Captain Deceit finds the opportune time of his entry and deceives the watchmen. He now enters the Light Kingdom and identifies the young minds.

In the meantime, the young minds “Prophetic Ministers” rebelled against Lt. Discernment and did not want to be “controlled” and mentored by the latter as they wanted a free hand to do whatever they wanted. As they kicked Lt. Discernment out of their camp, the latter was not with this group of youth army.

Captain Deceit now slowly but steadily approaches the camp of this group and attacks them in their vulnerable area of knowledge arena through his one sided sword “Fruit of the tree of knowledge”. He befriends this group and exhorts them to become “good” soldiers of the Light Kingdom by consuming the tablets of Arrogance, Hatred and Unrighteousness. The knowledge faculty is the outer court of every young soldier i.e. body and mind. The soul of the young soldier which was saved by King Holy One is the middle court.  The inner court which is the seat of King Holy One is the Most Holy Place.

Let us now understand that man is a triune being, created in the image of God (Gen.1:26).

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow (body), and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart (Hebrews 4:12).

We can compare the human body to the Temple in Jerusalem which has three parts i.e. the outer court, the middle court (Holy Place) and the inner court (Most Holy Place).

When a sinner is saved from death, his soul and not his body is saved. (James 5:20). The mind with its emotions forms part of the outer court. A sinner hears the gospel in his outer court and his soul is saved in the Holy Place. The Holy Spirit takes an abode in his spirit in the inner court. The first Adam was made a living soul and the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit (I Cor.15:45). The soul dead in sin is revived in the spirit realm because the Holy Spirit quickens and dwells in the spirit realm of the saved sinner. The great deception is that which is of the soul realm looks so much like the realm of spirit. As and when the soul is quickened by the Holy Spirit, the soul of the sinner is saved and the Holy Spirit takes His abode in the spirit of the redeemed sinner. He becomes a spiritual man when his soul is controlled and directed by the Holy Ghost seated in the Most Holy Place.

The Holy Place is the place of spiritual activity and not the Most Holy Place. The Holy Ghost reveals Himself to the saved soul from His abode in the Most Holy Place i.e. spirit realm and not from the outer court. But, the Holy Ghost reveals Himself to an unsaved sinner from the outer realm or the outer court where the sinner hears the gospel. The soul with its faculty of mind hears the gospel and gets saved.

Temptation of a saved believer takes place in the outer court where his mind is open to the knowledge reservoir. In the Holy Place, his soul is secured by the Blood of Jesus Christ and the indwelling Holy Spirit. But in this very place, he is susceptible to the deception that enters through the outer court i.e. knowledge realm. He is tempted in the outer court but succumbs to the temptation in the Holy Place where there are spiritual activities. Our soul in the Holy Place needs to be preserved by our daily walk with Jesus and our obedience to the dominance of the Holy Spirit in the Most Holy Place.

Captain Deceit starts working in the knowledge arena only through his powerful weapon i.e. “Fruit of the tree of knowledge”. Captain Deceit simultaneously gains access to the Holy Place of the young soldier and there he feeds the young mind with his three tablets. Captain Deceit is in a hurry to feed them with three tablets so as to equip them for the destructive work of the King Evil One. Since he uses his sword which is similar to the two edged sword in the hand of Lt. Discernment, the young minds are not able to discern the one-sided sword. The final battle of the King Evil One lies in the middle court of the soldier i.e. the Holy Place. Once he gains control of the Holy Place i.e. the soul, then the young soldier will be totally controlled by King Evil One through Captain Deceit. And the seat of the King Holy One in the Most Holy Place will disappear. This will be the backsliding state of the young soldiers and the King of Righteousness will judge them ultimately.

First, the deceiver deceives us in the outer court because we listen to many voices, unable to discern the voice of the Evil One. Then, a battle takes place in the outer court where the deceiver attempts to blind our spiritual eyes but we should hear the voice of the Holy Spirit in us by humbling ourselves before God and man. In our soul, God reveals Himself to us and not in the outer court.

Our mind is the outer court whereas our heart or soul is the Holy Place. We have to guard our heart against the deceptions that come from the outer court i.e. knowledge realm. “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man” (Mathew 15: 18). It is the heart of a man that is deceived and wicked. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jer.17:19)

Captain Deceit uses the services of an army officer of the Dark Kingdom, namely, Lt. Doctrines who will feed the young minds with select messages from the knowledge reservoir of the Light Kingdom so that the young minds may get seduced to such “wonderful messages” of some senior soldiers under Captain Prophet. The ulterior motive of Lt. Doctrines is to veer away the young minds from the simplicity of the Gospel and to entrench their brains on such messages that emanated from the Light Kingdom.  This is a great deception because Lt. Doctrines uses the products of the Light Kingdom to seduce the young minds. The young minds are not mentored as disciplined soldiers by such senior soldiers of Captain Prophet but are being seduced merely by the messages of such soldiers. These messages turn them away from their love towards the army of King Holy One but create hatred in their hearts towards the maimed soldiers of the battalions of Captain Evangelist and Captain Pastor and the elders in the army. Can we expect the young soldiers to be trained by some doctrines or some instructions in the absence of a trainer?

Captain Deceit now surreptitiously invites Captain Untruth to the outer court of the young soldier of “Prophetic Ministers”. Captain Untruth also enters the Light Kingdom in the same manner as Captain Deceit entered. Captain Untruth is adept at collecting all the negative aspects from the lives of the soldiers of the Light Kingdom who were maimed by the Prosperity Gospel. Captain Untruth has the pictures of all kinds of abominations and secrets in the lives of the maimed soldiers. There are some fallen soldiers also in the Light Kingdom. Captain Untruth uses to collate all the details concerning the lives of these maimed and fallen soldiers both on their positive and negative sides, exaggerate their negative aspects, delete their positive aspects and then feed the same in the young minds. Captain Untruth thus feeds the young minds with his powerful tablet Hatred. Upon this, the young minds start hating the maimed and fallen soldiers of the Light Kingdom with utter impunity.  The Watchdog Ministers thus start attacking the soldiers already maimed by the Prosperity Gospel.  Instead of reviving the fallen soldiers, they start killing the fallen or dead soldiers by becoming mouthpieces of Captain Deceit, propagating the past sinful stories of such soldiers. No words of comfort but words of condemnation and unrighteous judgment emanated from their mouths, pouring venom against the army of King Holy One and His elder soldiers.

The second tablet of Arrogance, which is the main trait of Evil One, makes them arrogant placing them on a high knowledge pedestal. They now assume that they are the most perfect ones in the Light Kingdom. One of them now attacks the mature and father like Lt. Discernment with his boot by making some allegations against the latter using the one edged sword. There is no elder in this camp to mentor the young minds because all of them want to sail together in the same boat which is being directed by Captain Deceit. They have learnt to make allegations or accusations against the elect of King Light without any evidences or with false/concocted evidences or with partial true evidences using the most vituperative languages.

The third tablet of Unrighteousness, which is also a trait of Evil One makes them judge in an unrighteous manner the lives and works of the maimed soldiers. They are quick to judge and not to discern. They want to teach and not to learn. They call the faithful soldiers (who still remain faithful but with all their imperfections caused due to the attack of the fiery dart “Prosperity Gospel”) as false prophets, using the one-sided sword given to them by Captain Deceit.

King Evil One knows that these young minds in their outer courts are not susceptible to grievous sins that emanate from illicit sex, lust for money and lust for wealth, whereas they are easily susceptible to secret sins like pride, hatred and unrighteousness.

During my childhood, I saw a picture of man’s bad and good heart during my Sunday class studies. When the Evil One is cast from the sinner’s heart, the sinner becomes a saint and his heart is described as full of light. But the same heart turns into an evil heart when the Evil One slowly makes his abode in this heart by driving away the “Dove”. The heart is likened to the middle and inner court. The “Dove” seated in the centre of the heart is the abode of the Holy Ghost in our lives. When the evil one re-enters our heart and fills us with pride, hatred and unrighteousness, the Holy One leaves our heart because the Spirit of God cannot strive with us for ever and the Holy One and the evil one cannot co-exist in our hearts.

As we study the outer court, the evil one is entrenched in the hearts of sinners who commit all visible and invisible sins and abominable sins. The Holy One saves the sinner, enters his heart and makes an abode in the Most Holy Place i.e. centre of the heart. In the heart of a saint, the evil one attempts to plant hatred, pride and unrighteousness because a saint with his soul saved normally does not discern these three kinds of invisible sins.

For Lt. Discernment, the camp of the young minds is “his beloved vineyard”.  Lt. Discernment still loved them and fought with Captain Deceit and Captain Untruth who were let in by the “Prophetic Ministers”

When King Holy One came to know through Captain Prophet, He was grieved in His heart and became furious. Instead of healing His wounded soldiers through the Balm of Gilead, they are being attacked by His own young soldiers through their one edged sword. King Holy One, while reviewing the work of Captain Prophet, finds that the latter did not avail the services of Captain Apostle and also the services of Lt. Prayer under Captain Apostle. Captain Prophet, apart from taking the assistance of Lt. Discernment should also have taken the assistance of experienced soldiers of Captain Apostles in equipping the young soldiers who had not been trained in the evangelical warfare. Captain Prophet merely rushed Lt. Discernment to the camp of young minds, who were immature and not trained in evangelism. Lt. Discernment should not have “suddenly” laid his hands on the young soldiers and ordained them into the army without allowing them to be mentored by some trained soldiers under Captain Apostle. The young soldiers needed to be put to rigorous training in evangelism and prophecy.

Let us now meditate on Isaiah 5th chapter, 1 to 5 verses. It is a song to my "well beloved" which Captain Prophet and Lt. Discernment were supposed to create and plant in the Kingdom of Light.

"When I looked that it should bring forth grapes of love, humility and righteousness, it brought forth the fruits of arrogance, hatred and unrighteousness." In place of a group of young army that would be a catalyst for the maimed and fallen soldiers, it became an accusing camp, falling into the hands of the Evil One, described as accuser of the brethren. It is like a shepherd rearing a puppy dog in his backyard feeding it with milk and meat to make it a protector of his sheep but the puppy turning into a ravenous wolf after growing in the backyard and ultimately attacking his sheep and ultimately the shepherd.

"...I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof and it shall be eaten up and break down the wall thereof and it shall be trodden down. And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it....." (Is. 5:5).

King Holy One ultimately commanded His Captain Apostle and Captain Prophet to work together to close the breaches on the wall of the Light Kingdom by posting permanently Lt. Prayer under Captain Apostle and Lt. Discernment under Captain Prophet on the gates of the Light Kingdom and to heal the wounded soldiers through the Balm of Gilead i.e. the Blood of the Lamb. The wounded soldiers are to be restored and mentored by the apostles, the prophets and the teachers in the Body of Christ.

(This is purely a fiction with a view to driving home certain truths for the growing disciples of Jesus Christ. The names of persons and places are imaginary).

Job Anbalagan

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