THE POWER OF MYSTERY (Babylon)
By
Dr. Stephen Jones: Jul 20, 2018
Other
than the timing of the manifestation, the difference between Babylon and
Mystery Babylon is the “mystery” factor. Babylon was clearly seen as an empire.
Mystery Babylon was hidden. The Greek word musterion, “mystery,” means
hidden or secret.
That
simply means that the average person will not see it, even though it exercises
power over them. No doubt the mysteriousness of this modern
manifestation of Babylon is possible only because it takes advantage of blind
people—or creates blindness by its policies and practices.
As
I have written elsewhere, blindness is part of the Law of Tribulation in
Deuteronomy 28:28. God blinded His people at least as far back as the days of
Isaiah, a prophet who saw the fall of Israel and the deportation to Assyria
(Isaiah 29:10; 42:18). The only way to avoid blindness is through Jesus Christ,
because He is the Mediator of the New Covenant. The New Covenant removes the
veil of blindness over the people, as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 3:14, 15.
The
fact that most of the church is blind (without realizing it) shows us that the
church functions largely under the Old Covenant. In other words, it thinks that
salvation comes by the will of man and by his own vows of obedience. Israel
thought the same in Exodus 19:8 when the Old Covenant was instituted in “the
church in the wilderness” (Acts 7:38 KJV).
Though
God also gave them the New Covenant in the days of Noah and Abraham, and again
at the end of their forty years in the wilderness (Deuteronomy 29:1, 12, 13),
when God made a second covenant with them. That covenant was based upon the
will of God, His vow, His promise, all patterned after God’s promise to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Most
of the people did not understand the difference, so their mindset did not
change. Their faith focused upon their own ability to keep their vow, instead
of having faith in God’s ability to keep His vow. The same is true in the
second church, the church of the Pentecostal Age.
Nonetheless,
the potential to remove this Old Covenant veil has been with us since the
beginning, and, in fact, now that the long captivity (tribulation) is ending,
that veil is being removed. Not only is the New Covenant being revealed and
preached in the world but simultaneously, we are seeing Mystery Babylon being
exposed for all to see.
The
coincidence between these two factors is striking. Removing the veil removes
the mystery from Babylon, both internally and externally (politically). In past
years men have tried to expose the secret government that has been ruling the
world since the early 1900’s, but they have been frustrated at the blindness of
the people. I have watched their frustration for nearly 50 years since I first
began to become aware of it. It is now clear that the only way to expose
Mystery Babylon is by the unveiling that comes only by revealing the New
Covenant, as Paul says.
The Power of Mystery Babylon
Mystery
Babylon has been able to exercise power through the power of blindness. Blind
people are quite helpless, because they must depend upon other people who may
do things without the blind person seeing what they are doing. This dependency
works in any scenario.
By
not understanding the nature of the flesh and its “old man,” we blindly follow
the dictates of the flesh which commands us to sin (Romans 7:23, 25). Only by a
change of identity can we change our identity (consciousness) to a “new man”
that has been begotten by the Spirit. This new man does not sin, for Paul says
in Romans 7:22, “I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man.”
In
the external world of governments and nations, the same holds true.
Because the
veil has been spread over all nations (Isaiah 25:7), the nations have not
concurred with the laws of God but have set up their own laws that give men the
right to sin. Sin is “normal” to the flesh. A good illustration of this today
is where men are now trying to normalize pedophilia.
A
Medical student in May 2018 gave a TEDX speech claiming that pedophilia is
natural and likened it to heterosexuality.
Mirjam
Heine, a medical student, was the speaker at the University of Würtzberg for
TEDx, in which she claimed that pedophilia, in her view, is a natural sexual
orientation not unlike heterosexuality.
Those
influenced by Mystery Babylon have already normalized fornication and adultery.
In the Obama years they normalized homosexual relations and gay marriage. Now
the push is to normalize pedophilia, led in part by Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, who has long advocated bringing the age of consent down to the
age of twelve.
Waiting
in the wings is the push for the normalization of bestiality. The degradation
of Mystery Babylon is clearly seen by those who are not lawless, those who
identify with the New Creation Man. But I will admit that the medical student
(above) was quite right in a sense. All sin is “normal” to the old man of
flesh. The old man is, at first, encrusted with the rules of past religious
culture, and for this reason the old man has been restrained in the past. But
when government removes those restraints, the old man shows his true colors.
While
Mystery Babylon thinks that lack of restraint is “freedom,” Paul makes it clear
that the need and desire to sin is in itself “bondage” (Romans 7:14). True
freedom comes only when we no longer are compelled to sin, and when sin does
not appeal to us. Sin appeals to the old man, but righteousness is the natural
desire the new man.
I
teach these things in order to expose the secret nature of Babylon, so that
people have the opportunity to avoid the ill effects of Babylonian citizenship.
First we must understand the difference between the old man and the new man and
how to change identity from flesh to spirit. Second, the lessons drawn from
this internal situation reveals also that which is external in the national,
political scene. What we do as individuals is also reflected as a group or
nation.
The Solution
The
solution must begin internally, of course. One cannot change the nation full of
individuals without first addressing the internal problem of Mystery Babylon.
The change of identity, which begins by being begotten by the incorruptible
seed of the gospel, is the beginning point. That holy seed is the New Covenant
word of God, wherein we believe (have faith in) the promises of God and are
assured that He is able to fulfill His promise. In so doing, we follow the
steps of the father of our faith, Abraham himself (Romans 4:16, 21, 22).
We
cannot be children of Abraham apart from following His example (Galatians 3:7).
To be a son of Abraham is not about physical genealogy. It is about having a
spiritual resemblance to Abraham and doing the things that he did. That is the
Hebrew concept of sonship.
For
this reason, the solution can only come through the Holy Spirit. I believe that
the only way to turn things around is for the Holy Spirit to be poured out into
the earth. This has happened many times over the centuries, but it was never
sufficient to make a permanent change. We need the greatest outpouring ever
seen in order to institute a change, break the bondage of Mystery Babylon on
every level, and replace it with the Kingdom of God ruled by Jesus Christ.
The
need itself prophesies what will happen.
I
am encouraged by this. When I look at the chaos happening in America today, and
when I hear the wails of the merchants of Babylon who are losing their grip on
power, it does not make me angry. It encourages me, because I know that God is
moving, and that victory is ours. We are privileged to live in the time of the
end of a long captivity of “seven times.” The prophets often spoke of this day
and wished that they could live to see those times.
Days of Elijah-Elisha
In
September 2007, while we were holding a conference in Hilo, Hawaii, God
revealed to us that we were entering the time of Elijah, but that we would have
to wait another year for this to begin. In 2008 we experienced another delay
until the following feast of Passover in Manassas, Virginia. The delay allowed
us to get further clarification on the revelation, and that is how we
discovered that this was not actually “Elijah” but “Elisha.”
So
on April 12, 2009 the Elisha ministry was launched, and we then began to see a
progression of the 16 miracle-signs of Elisha in the book of 2 Kings. So far we
have seen the first half of those signs manifested in the world. We yet await
the start of the second half—the double portion, which was given to Elisha (2
Kings 2:9, 13).
John
the Baptist was “Elijah.” We are of the “Elisha” company, because we are being
given the inheritance (double portion) as our Birthright. So far, we have
received eight signs, which only equals the “Elijah” portion (Elijah performed
eight miracle-signs.) We are poised to receive the double portion when we see
signs 9-16.
While
I do not know when this will occur, I do have confidence that the timing will
be perfect. I think it will coincide in some way to the start of the outpouring
of the Holy Spirit that we expect. The ninth sign is about provision, both
spiritual and physical, to do the work that lies ahead. That work has to do
with bringing the New Covenant to the rest of the world, which will remove
blindness and overthrow the power of Mystery Babylon wherever it is found.
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