One of the issues with living in Babylon is thinking it is home and home is not Babylon in our mind.  This thinking is assisted by listening to ministers state over and over again, the United States is not mentioned in end time prophecy.  However, they stop short of finding a nation mentioned in the bible that might be the United States.

There is one nation written about in the bible that is characterized as the nation that rules the earth and a nation that is destroyed in a day while the whole world watches in astonishment.  It is mystery Babylon.  I have thought for a long time this nation might by the United States.  I remember as a young child of perhaps 8 to 10 years of age reading a passage in the bible about men being like women.  For some reason that stuck with me.  I have now lived to see that.  Things like that strengthen my exploration of the bible because I just don’t think these things come to mind after 42 years by accident.

A few months ago the Lord gave me a dream in which I saw various images of destruction in the United States.  In the dream, I heard Babylon.  I’ve also had 2 dreams in which I saw the president and he said in one, “I am the antichrist,” and in the other I heard antichrist as he took part in a mock communion.

Recently I stumbled onto this scripture.  I did so while thinking, “Lord, how can I be in Babylon and the president of Babylon be antichrist?  I mean, this is the United States isn’t it?”

Isaiah 10:5  O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.  6  I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.  7  Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

Now I’m meditating on this.  Here are some thoughts.  A Assyrian can be used to mean a heavy handed ruler over people.  Once in the bible I’ve found the king or pharaoh of Egypt referred to as the Assyrian.  I also note that the president has difficulty convincing anyone of his roots.  My wife and I have had dreams of terrible things coming to this nation while under his rule.  I’m meditating, praying and thinking of how many believe this nation can’t be taken down.  That leads me to the next scripture I’ll end with about mystery Babylon.

Revelation 18:7  How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

I woke from a dream in which miraculous things were happening frequently.

Then I began to think about “One Accord.”

After a few hours of pondering all the things satan has done to divide the body of Christ, I resolved the Spirit was leading me to think of the attitude in the upper room among those that waited on the Holy Spirit.

I think they knew they had to be in one accord to receive power.  I’m not a whole lot in this world but I know where the power is.  He has manifested it to me many times.  Every time He has done so, I was telling Him how needy I was of Him and how I needed Him to be anything.  Ie, Lord I’ve done enough trying to make life work on my own.  I need you. 

Psalm 34:18  The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Psalm 51:17  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Isaiah 57:15  For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Isaiah 66:2  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Back in my desperate days I put my head inside a bible and did not look up.  I became this wise after twice having a pistol a few inches from my head.  That was followed by months of depression in the bed.  I became so wise I didn’t care what anyone else gave me as advice.  I wanted to know what God had to say.  Now after many years have passed, I’ve learned man says a whole lot that God didn’t say and God says a whole lot that man doesn’t say.

It wasn’t too long after becoming fixated on God and His word in the bible that He began to talk to me, show me things to come, seemingly wrap His arms around me,  hold me through the night and introduced me to some men who spoke the truth.

I did not read and come to know this from man.  I learned it in experience with the God of all creation.  I am peculiar.  I am different.  I can’t be the same anymore.  I am bought and paid for.  I am His.

I recently listened to a prophet from India prophecy terrible destruction coming to the United States.  The Lord has been showing me hard times ahead and persecution also.  I have friends who are also receiving prophecies, dreams and visions of terrible times coming.

Here are some distinctive things that stand out to me in all this.  On one side I hear the people of the United States are too self centered to repent before the Lord thus possibly causing the Lord to turn his judgment from this nation.  The other side either doesn’t believe it will happen or that they will not be around for that; ie the rapture that didn’t happen before the civil war but will definitely come as preached in the pulpits before more destruction comes to the United States.

I have to submit the pressure is mounting on me every day.  Part of the pressure on me is the realization of  how difficult it is to even convince people of what humble means much less convince them to humble themselves before the great and terrible God who created the universe and holds their very existence in this hand.  Another part is somehow finding words to convey that the Lord draws near to a broken and contrite heart when there is nothing in their vision or eyesight to be broken or contrite about.  As Jeremiah prophesied, “every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.”  That is to say, there is no battle plan and no fear.

I have a few things I’m holding on to as tightly as I can.  God showed me at some point, the horses will turn around from going the wrong way, God told Raymond Aguilera one day, “Tell Byron, they ‘will’ believe him,” and the Lord showed me a Big Head actor head shrink while he stood in front of me and he turned in to baby.  I laid him down in the upper bunk of a bunk bed in the wilderness to care for him.

I loved this nation and stood to lay down my life for this nation and it’s people for 10 years.  I’ve had dirt from bullets hit me in the face, I’ve jumped from an airplane while watching tracer rounds come up from the ground to hit me, I’ve walked through dead bodies and held holes in my friends side and he bled and now God has sent me to talk to self reliant people who have need of nothing; the very people I put myself in harms way for years ago.

I don’t see how this hurt can go away.

In 2 Kings 9:33 we read,  and he said, Throw her (Jezebel) down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trade her under foot.  This was the physical death of Jezebel yet in Revelation 2:20  we read, Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou suffers that woman Jezebel, which called herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.  So we know the spirit of Jezebel infests the new testament church.

On 04/01/2015 the Lord gave me a dream.  In the dream I confronted Jezebel and she attacked me.  I saw her morph into a stressed looking woman.  Her face even changed right before my eyes and I recognized her as a completely different person.  She went for my throat as to strangle me.  I began rebuking her in the name of Jesus Christ.  I continued until she withered and all that remained was a wooden genie bottle with a top on it.

It is now time to bottle up the genie (spirit) of Jezebel and move on in the power of God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

1Kings 19:12  And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.  (that was the voice of the Lord)

Galatians 5:9  A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Early in 2008 I was a member of a bible study and was learning a tremendous amount.  The Lord had given me discernment but at the time, I was not practiced at stating specifically what I was discerning.  In a nutshell, I could merely say, “I feel something’s wrong.”

One day during bible study I felt something awfully wrong.  I didn’t know what it was nor did I know who it was coming from.  I went to the study leader and told him I sensed it.  This same thing happened in 3 consecutive bible studies and I reported the incident privately to the leader.  Each time he stated he would watch but he had not felt what I was feeling.

On perhaps the forth day, a man I had trusted made a statement about prayer that blew my mind.  In short He stated we tell people to be healed instead of asking that they be healed.  I sat in amazement as there began to be agreement with him.  There I sat.  The newest member in the group facing a situation to endure and stay or create separation with whatever had joined the group.  I chose separation.

Before the separation was complete, God had me warn the first man; the study leader.  I warned him about running with strange dogs.  That’s how God showed it to me.  I informed him to run alone instead of compromising and allowing the strange stuff (leaven) to rub off on him. 

The other man God sent me to I learned was hard core “name it and claim it.”  After I learned of what He taught, God told me “there is a time to be silent.”  So I stopped warning and moved away.

I’ve been away for 7 years.  Last night I stumbled into 3 videos the 2 men produced together.  I don’t know when they came to know each other but 7 years ago I know they didn’t know each other.  While listening I heard a blend of a Grace message while highlighting the prosperity gospel.  When I heard one of them praise the fact he had learned from Creflo Dollar, I hit the stop button and sat in shock.

I had just witnessed a man who God had sent me to warn to run on his own promote the Grace and Prosperity gospel together.  I’m sure I had witnessed the beginning of the slide 7 years ago and I’m now convinced God exposed it to me to show me what happens when we do not heed warnings, override the still small voice of God and allow leaven in to gain a larger audience. 

It is a sad world to view when we learn to pay attention to God and refuse to compromise.  God gave me a heavy appetite for His word and made me not care about what people told me the bible said.  I wanted to see it for myself and wanted confirmation from the Holy Spirit.  Even in bible studies today I ask people to slow down in an effort that I see the bible says what they say it says.

The road ahead will require sensitive hearing from the Lord, a hard head that refuses to compromise and strong faith in the Lord that He knows what He is doing even when our flesh (personal opinions) may differ from His instruction.

When we see a Christian brother or sister fall, we can look to Peter as an example of what took place.  It isn't about lack of love, determination, number of good deeds done, desire etc etc.  It's all about taking our eyes of Jesus and placing our faith somewhere else.  Peter "saw" the wind and sank.  There are many things we can see other than Christ.

It's all about faith in Jesus Christ the Son of God.  We received the Holy Spirit by faith in Jesus Christ not of works on our own behalf or our flesh.  And the Holy Spirit will operate in a person who has their faith in Jesus Christ.  This isn't simply a matter of faith that Christ is God's Son.  It is a matter that He supplies the power to help us along life's struggles.

One of the most difficult things to explain these days is the power to overcome comes from the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit works where there is faith in Christ to supply all.  There is a song, "He is all I need."  It's true.  If we experience failure or if we witness failure in a Christian’s life we must conclude the Holy Spirit was frustrated somehow and didn't do what He was sent to do.  The single thing I have found in all cases is where is your faith?

Here are some examples.  "I know Jesus is the Son of God.  I know he is my savior.  Even though I know this, I still struggle to overcome sin and other things."  "I know that man loved God and Jesus Christ.  What could have happened?"  The answer is... we or he or all of us took our eyes of Jesus Christ to supply our every need.

Some of us were convinced it was an accountability partner and we took our eyes of Jesus.  Some of us went into "freak out" mode, left Jesus behind and bulldozed our way through tough times, not without scratches.  Some of us were taught to pray more, study more and the list could go on and we put our faith in our doing over faith in Christ to supply the power we need.  I did not just say don't pray and don't study.  I said don't take your eyes of Jesus and put them on praying and studying.

Paul wrote to the Galatians, "Who has bewitched you."  In context Paul was stating, "Who told you you could be righteous by doing stuff (in your flesh)?"  Righteousness comes from faith in Jesus Christ.  Initially it is imputed and we are immediately justified in God's sight by that faith.  Then we find we still have a war going on inside us.  We want to do good but we proved our whole life we'd mess it up.  That is why we must maintain our faith in Christ for it all.  He already won the victory over sin in the flesh.  His power, the power that even raise Him from the dead is available to us.  That is in the Holy Spirit.  But, it operates by faith not doing or works.  The spark that provides the ignition is faith in Christ.

All those wonderful ideas people share with us have no power.  Even the law of God is Holy but is also powerless.  The power is in the Spirit of the Living God and that power is ignited by faith.  We can huff and puff and do everything man told us to do and learn over and over again we are powerless in the struggle.  But, by faith in Christ, we can be more the conquerors.

Here is my belief on the working of the Holy Spirit in one's life.  I came to this belief in an elementary level in 2008.  Nothing has changed since 2008 to change this belief.

I believe I am helpless to do anything to save myself.  When I came to that conclusion way back a long time ago, I trusted Jesus Christ as my savior.  At that very moment I felt light as if I would lift up off the ground and that everyone in the world would want that same feeling.  Over time something changed.  I no longer felt that way. People told me the new was just wearing off and a bunch more stuff.  My struggle to live for Christ landed me in a horrible situation.  I was in a pit I could not get out of.  Sin was everywhere and my life was not even close to what I had expected.  I wanted to kill myself.  In an act of desperation, I cried out to God and He heard me.

God sent me to a group of men who taught me things I had never clearly understood.  If you would have asked me if I understood them earlier in my life I would have said yes.  But, I only thought I understood them to my own endangerment.

Here is a quick view of what they taught me.  "Byron, when you came to Christ, you were helpless.  You knew you needed help and you couldn't save yourself.  Now Byron, let's look at you now.  If you were helpless to save yourself and needed Christ, what makes you so confident you can live your life as you think it should be lived? Basically, the only difference today from yesterday is God has saved you through His Son Jesus Christ and put Christ in you in the form of the Holy Spirit.  So Byron, you are still Byron.  You were helpless yesterday and you in and of yourself are still helpless today.  Here's the only difference Byron.  The Holy Spirit is in you.  God sent Him to live through you and teach you.  But, He can't help you if you don't keep your faith in Christ for everything.  Placing your faith in what you can do will stop the Holy Spirit working in you in the way you need Him to work.  We recommend you, that is in your mind, maintain an attitude of helplessness in yourself and ask God to lead, guide and direct your every move by the Holy Spirit.  That's how it works Byron.  The moment you turn to anything other than Christ, you frustrate the operation of the Holy Spirit in your life.

They told me that over 7 years ago.  I have tried to keep it simple since then.  I think of Peter walking on the water.  When he took his eyes of Christ, he sank.  Because of this, I'm not one to grab a hold of new ideas and ways of living.  The Holy Spirit is like my training wheels on my bicycle.  I'm scared to take them off.