Dear Doves,

 

This is a letter I wrote to a friend, sort of a meditation about the world as it is today.  I believe it was given to me by the Spirit of God.  I’d like to share it with you all, even though I may be “preaching to the choir”.

 

 

Come out from among them, and be ye separate, says the Lord.

 

I’ve had some interesting thoughts lately.  It’s basically very simple, and I’m not going to say anything that you don’t already know.  I have received more clarity and understanding of what is going on all around us. 

 

I’ve always looked on the world as the place I was born in, I’ve lived in, and life goes on, as it always has.  I am a member of the human race, one of 7 billion people on this planet.  One day I became a Christian.  I have some Christian friends, but most people I know aren’t Christians.  But we’re all living here together on this planet.  Someday, I know I’ll go to heaven.  I don’t know about those other non-Christians.  But, I basically didn’t see much difference between us and everyone else.  We’re wheat and tares growing alongside each other.  Lately, though, we are having more and more conflicts, Democrats vs Republicans, conservatives vs liberals, trying to get along.  We are grating on each other’s nerves, sometimes violently.  Things are falling apart all around us.  They’re hating us more and more, passing more laws against us. We used to be their friends.  Now they HATE us and literally want to round us up and kill us.

 

Now, I feel a very sharp distinction between Christians and those of this world.  We are definitely not one of the inhabitants of this world, this is not our world, it is not our home.  We are very, very different from them.  I’m no longer “the same as them, with just this slight added distinction of being a Christian”.  It makes all the sense in the world to me now, with Satan the god of THIS world, running everything on HIS system of hate, greed, lust, sex, perversion, destruction and death.  The earth-dwellers, unless they have become citizens of heaven, are servants and followers of Satan.  They are HIS people.  That’s why they will never, ever, ever like us or embrace us.  And that is why they will go to Hell; they have chosen to go there because they want to be with their lord, Satan, and that is where he will take them, just as Jesus will take us to heaven to be with Him where He is.

 

They are always trying to make us stumble and fall and become one of them again.  We are totally different creatures, a different SPECIES, we just “happen” to look alike.  They take great pleasure, and work very hard at proving that we are hypocrites when we stumble and fall because we’re still human, trying to make us renounce our faith out of shame and failure.  They love to “expose” the dirty sinful secrets of people, the heroes of history, people we’ve looked up to, people who were good.  I just learned that Eleanor Roosevelt was a lesbian.  Not that I necessarily “looked up to her”, but she was a part of a great era in America’s history, and I didn’t need to know that.  You read this all the time.  “Mother Dearest”, exposed Joan Crawford.  Dirty secrets of Grace Kelley, John Kennedy, and Princess Diana were exposed after their deaths, to the humiliation of their living children.  You know what I mean.  I think they’ve even tried to prove Abraham Lincoln was gay.  They’d love it most of all if they could prove something against Jesus.  They just want to slime everyone with their filth, whether they’re alive today, or lived long ago.  History has to be rewritten for their own new textbooks of sin.  I see Satan’s cloven hoof-prints all over everything today.

 

We are citizens of Planet Heaven.  Heaven is a REAL planet, a real place, a real “country”.  And we’ve earned our citizenship to be welcomed to Planet Heaven by receiving a Pardon from King Jesus.  Now we are new creatures, born again, actually, but we’re still living down here on Planet Earth, a very real and very wicked place.  I see a GREAT distinction between the two kingdoms now.  I haven’t seen this until just recently.  I feel like they are all strangers to me now, and I don’t feel like I’m related to them anymore, at all.  I’m wary of them, cautious, they’re all our enemies unless they become one of us.  None of them can be trusted, no matter how sweet and genuine they may appear to be.  It’s like they’re all little Satans disguised as human beings to look like us.  Unless they turn to Jesus and are born again, their father is Satan.  We’re living on a very hostile planet, and it has now become very, very dangerous for us to live here.  We used to be able to live among them, side-by-side, with very little outward distinction between us.  We all looked alike and lived alike.  But now the world has turned very dark and evil, and we stand out like neon lights against a black sky.  It looks like the wheat and the tares are fully ripened, and it is time for their separation and harvesting, the wheat taken into God’s kingdom, and the tares left behind to be burned up.

 

If we really and truly love our King Jesus, we won’t hide our lights in shame or fear, or try to disguise ourselves so we can “blend in” among “them”.  If we deny Him before men, He will deny us before His Father.  We don’t blend in anymore.  White cannot “blend in” with black and still remain white.  Jesus tells us to “Come out from among them and be ye separate.”  Amen to that!  Maybe that is what is happening inside me now.  I am separating myself out of the world, renouncing it entirely.  It is becoming plain to see.

 

Perhaps this isn’t all about my own understanding that’s taking place, but it is my observation of the whole world as it has been transforming into a very dark and evil place.  The presence and workings of Satan are more and more evident.  He is taking over, destroying everything on earth that human civilization has built that is good and noble and pure.  The distinction between the two “camps” is striking now.  I never noticed a difference before; evil wasn’t “in your face” before.  “Back then”, you had to go looking for it in dark alleys and slink into dirty theaters, to find so much evil.  Now it’s poured out on us in an endless stream of vomit that we have to walk through every day.  We have to shield our eyes and our ears everywhere we go now, so that vomit won’t get inside us.

 

Look at what the church has done!  They’ve turned off all their lights so they don’t shine like beacons of holiness and faith in a sin-darkened world.  No, instead they are polluting themselves so they can “blend in” with the evil.  They don’t want to “offend” anyone by taking a stand for Jesus.   They’ve gone so far as to become brothers with the enemies of Jesus, embracing Islam and calling themselves Chrislam.  Light has no fellowship with darkness.  Even churches that don’t go so far as to embrace Chrislam, have become seeker-sensitive entertainment centers and social meeting places, with rock music and Starbuck’s coffee bars in the lobbies.  I heard of one church that even has a tattoo parlor in it, and that is a biblical abomination!  They’ve lost their faith and their witness, and they’ve lost their fear of the Lord.  They are so far lost, they don’t even realize that they’re lost.   They are “wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.” [Rev 3:17]  “Depart from me, I never knew you”, says the Lord.

Oh, Lord, help me always keep my lamp filled and burning brightly for You.  Give me strength, faith, and courage as I must walk these last few days in a den of roaring lions seeking whom they can devour.

 

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

 

Diane Gilbert

April 13, 2012