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The Mystery Of Iniquity (Lakeland #2)

Bob Neumann, May 20, 2008

Seems like a strange title for anything, THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY.

One of the things that bothered me from the first time I heard of the “TORONTO BLESSING” until today is the painful cries of those who were “TOUCHED” in some way. Likewise, ministries that have come under scrutiny from news media or the Justice Department, that had dramatic falls in grace and rides to prison. People stand and watch dazed and confused baffled both in mind and spirit.

There are many questions that these people ask. They ask them with profound emotion, pain, and fear. I remember a story of an “evangelist” in the fifties and sixties that traveled across the country for years holding revivals. Very early in my walk I heard this story from a person I was fellowshipping with in a pentecostal church. It seems this “popular evangelist” had been exposed as a “closet alcoholic”. At the time I was more shocked at the repercussions among the local “brethren” than the sin of alcoholism. I actually knew many people who claimed to have gotten saved at one of his revivals. I was honestly shocked because I had never heard of the man or “his ministry”. What disturbed me was the flood of emotions that rose up. Many were grieved because, as they were interpreting the events, their own salvation came into question. Some were angry because they had gone to his revivals and felt “the spirit”.

So it began. Every time a ministry fell, was exposed, discredited, or slaughtered their followers this same avalanche of emotions would bury people in the wakes they threw up and left behind.

Confusion was always the first symptom. Then came doubt. Those that found salvation doubted it. Those who experienced healings, deliverances, and restorations were afraid… actually terrified in some cases. I actually saw people turn away from GOD in their turmoil of spirit. These people were hard to help, without direct intervention by THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT. The most troubling aspect was the bizarre division that has been growing for a long time.

On one side are THE DEFENDERS whose two war cries we all hear, “JUDGE NOT, LEST YEA BE JUDGED!!!” and “TOUCH NOT THE LORD’S ANOINTING!!!”. I know you have heard these BATTLE MANTRAS growing louder and louder. I remember years ago watching Paul Crouch, all emotional and seething, point a finger to the TV camera and literally spoke a curse upon “MEAN, RELIGIOUS SPIRITED, HERESY HUNTERS” who were attacking “god’s people”. What was most funny about his bad acting, phony zeal and emotion, but right then THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT triggered an old memory in my mind and spiritman. What I saw being replayed was the skit on MONTY PYTHON about THE SPANISH INQUISITION.

In away the other side does have people who would line up to start the fires around stakes. But those are the EXTREMESTS. Regrettably most of these THE INQUISITORS Attack everything out there that might be “unacceptable to whatever norm” they use as their “litmus test”. Most of these people deny the GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT across the board. Many will tell you “tongue talking” is of THE DEVIL. Like wise any healing and miracle that might occur is inspected and picked over. Usually labeled “THE DEVIL DID IT” when they are done.

Even atheist and agnostic skeptics give a more honest evaluation of healings and miracles. Some might be labeled as “frauds”, others as “uncertain”, and a few as just plain “unexplainable.”

So over the years, AMERICA has seen wave after wave of the PENTACOSTAL/ CHRISMATIC/ THIRD DAY/ PROPHETIC movements claiming healings, salvations, deliverances, miracles, restorations and all kinds of “manifestations” which are questioned and attacked intermittently.

What all I see are those lambs and sheep in confusion and doubt wondering whether a MOST HOLY GOD can cohabit with THE DEMONIC? Can the SANCTIFIED coexist with the defiled?

This is not a new issue to me. Ever time a fissure event occurs out there in AMERCA and the CHURCH I will get emails and phone calls about the latest confrontation. But this Lakeland event has set new records for the sheer numbers of people reaching out, calling for help that they can not find elsewhere.

As I have so often do, my first question to THE MOST HOLY SPIRT was a little “whiney”. “Why me, LORD?”. Now I waited over 2 weeks just deleting posts that THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT did not pull me to. Ever day I got more and more posts asking “what do you think?”, “what do you feel?”. Then one morning THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT pointed and I literally jumped into this mess.

So in prayer and meditation as I was being instructed in the facets about “SIGNS AND WONDERS” My LORD AND KING told me it was THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY? My immediate thought was “how does that fit?”. So here it all comes together….

2 Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way.

This verse is in a long and intense portion of scripture that TALKS about THE END TIMES. (Verses 8 on down will be addressed in future teachings. ABBA personally told me it was on my to do list) But we are told that this MYSTERY OF INIQUITY was already “in force” back when Paul was writing.

My first question was just how this mystery affects us today, and I was told to look at all these posts I had been getting. All that THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT wanted me to focus on was the pain, fear, and confusion that these people were being attacked with. And I was told to return to Matthew 7 where I had previously ended.

Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven

Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works

Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity

Now verse 23 fills me with utter dread each time I read it. But then I am reminded “there, but by the grace of GOD, go I”.

First point NO ONE ENTERS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN WHO IS NOT DOING ABBA’S WILL. No one can argue that point. Selah and amen.

Second point MANY WILL GET CAUGHT IN THEIR SELF DECEPTION.

Third point THE KING JUDGES AND EXECUTES THAT JUDGEMENT…. THOSE WHOSE “DEFENSE” was “doing many wonderful works, many prophesies, casting out many demons”. JESUS DECLARES THEIR CRIME! “I NEVER KNEW YOU, ALL YOU WORKERS OF INIQUITY”.

Iniquity is a nasty thing. In HEBREW it is perversity, depravity. In the Greek it goes a little farther, the condition of without law, contempt and violation of law, wickedness. A long time ago in MIAMI an ORTHADOX REBBE explained to me that iniquity is not a sin but a nature. When someone knowingly prefers to do what is evil and not good. Actually prefers to do things for the sake of wickedness.

Looking at their crimes, and WHAT KING JESUS DECLARES I fail to see where HE denies their claims. Did they really prophesy, cast out demons, and perform many wonderful works? KING JESUS seems to ignore it, probably because they were not significant to HIM. This is where I got caught into circular argument that was kindly halted by THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT and pointed out of chapter 7 to 25. There he was, the shmuck given the one talent.

Now the WHOLE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS follows Matthew 24. So we are living it out right now, so to speak. And we all know the story…. or do we?

Mat 25:24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed

Mat 25:25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, [there] thou hast [that is] thine

Mat 25:26 His lord answered and said unto him, [Thou] wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed

Mat 25:27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and [then] at my coming I should have received mine own with usury

Maybe because THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT had it PLAYED OUT before me, with me, I can now understand it more clearly.

THE LORD over the three servants returns, unexpected, and asks for his accounts to be done. The first two servants are happy to see their LORD… forget happy, overjoyed! But then came the other guy, trembling, knees shaking… and out it comes… a declaration and an excuse.

The DECLARATION: I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed…. The EXCUSE: And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, [there] thou hast [that is] thine. In other words…. I did not loose it!.

For years I have wondered at the response THE LORD GAVE… [Thou] wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:

Now knowing THE SON and seeing HIM as the GREAT AND TERRIBLE GOD OF VALOR WHO MAKES WAR IN RIGHTIOUSNESS….i realize I missed something here. In HIS RESPONSE, LORD JESUS ignores the wicked servant’s evaluation of THE LORD as a HARD MAN. BUT HE AGREES with the assessment of HIS REAPING AND GATHERING. “HARD” alludes to THE LORD’S demeanor and personality. It is why “the wicked servant” was duly afraid. My first impression looking at this “real” view of things was that I could not blame the dude.

Which is when THE LORD, my KING and MASTER turned to me and asked, “ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT, DOG?”. HE turned and stepped away from me and turned back to face me. And it began….

I saw my SHEPHERD who I adore and love with all my being. Then there was THE CARPENTER, my REBBE, my TEACHER, my FRIEND. Suddenly there stood MY CAPTAIN, THE GREAT MASTER OF ALL WARFARE… Then there was my KING standing in HIS GLORY, HE SMILLED AT ME AND BEGAN A SLOW 360 to show me his hinder parts (private joke)…. and there was THE BRIDEGROOM. I so wanted to run over to HIM, but my feet would not move… And THERE WAS THE LAMB…. and I went to my knees trembling, once again.

I felt a HAND on my shoulder pulling me to my feet. As I stood I saw “the wicked servant” over to the side awaiting JUDGMENT. But in front of me again stood my KING, and HE ASKED, “AM I A HARD MAN, DOG?”.

What came through my mind was “why is that dude so scared?”.

“AND THAT DOG, is THE MYSTERY.”

And THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT immediately brought to my mind, heart, spirit…

Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest

²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls

³⁰ For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light

AND I REMEMBERED! That is why I LOVE HIM, YEARN to SERVE HIM, KNOW UTTERLY THAT I WILL LIVE, DIE, AND LIVE AGAIN…. FOR HIM!

“YOU CAME TO HIM, MY SON, ACCEPTED MY REST. WHEN YOU WERE ABLE YOU GLADLY ALLOWED THE YOKE TO BE PLACED AND HAVE BEEN LEARNING EVER SENSE.”.

I was hearing ABBA’S VOICE and HIS FRAGRANCE AND HIS PEACE SURROUNDED ME.

“YOU WEAR MY COLLAR AS A DOG FOR THE SHEPHERD. YOU WEAR THE TORQ AND THE LIVERY OF A SERVANT IN MY HOUSE. SO DID HE”.

At that point I turned towards the wicked servant still moaning and groaning. It was then the entirety of it all came together. Over there was not just a servant, but a steward. He had been given a talent. He was expected to put himself to use working to increase that very substantial investment for THE LORD. Now all three servants had funds to invest with. All three lived in THE LORD’S HOUSE, ATE AT HIS TABLE AND WORE HIS TORQ AND LIVERY. Anyone who saw them, did business with them, knew they were dealing with THE LORD AND KING. So the real problem was here is a person who has lived and enjoyed all the KINGS protection, favor, and benefits… but did nothing for THE KINGDOM.

And suddenly I stood before and above multitudes shouting “LORD, LORD..”. They can not enter the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. They did not do ABBA’S WILL. SURE!, It does not tell us that they were called to some form of ministry. Many may have, but somewhere along the line, ABBA’S ORDERS and DIRECTIONS were placed aside, ignored, “improved on”, whatever…. Some may have figured it as a way to make a dollar. Some were following into the family business. (this is the base for another teaching down the line…)

Yes, they may have done all kinds of “stuff”. All that is important is that GOD IS SOVEREIGN.

Many ministries claim they have done 100’s of salvations, or healings, or deliverances… THE CLAIM what only THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT CAN DO. SO THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT DOES…. AND THE LORD KING HARVESTS, REAPS, TAKES WHAT WAS/ IS/ WILL ALWAYS BE HIS.

THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY is that in spite of SIN and INIQUITY defiling people and their works, ABBA FATHER’S WILL PREVAILS. THE HARVEST IS HIS.

And then THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT brought down to the BOOK of HEBREWS.

Hbr 6:4 For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

Hbr 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come

Hbr 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put [him] to an open shame

Many calling out “LORD, LORD” had once been “enlightened”. Had “tasted of the heavenly gift”. PARTAKERS of/with THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT. TASTED THE GOODNESS OF GOD… had fallen away.

This is not “sin”. We all sin. We all stumble and fall on our face. But we repent and are restored. This falling away is more than sin. And the two words echoing in my spiritman are INIQUITY and TREASON.

And I come to an end.

So all of you confused, frustrated, fearful of the events in Lakeland and in Pensacola and Toronto before it: turn to GOD. Forget about the journey to today and hold on to THE SAVIOUR’S HAND. Keep LISTENING TO and FOLLOWING THE GOOD SHEPHERD. “KNOW” HIM… begin or expand whatever relationship you have. Let THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT fill and use you. Enjoy the new levels of intimacy with THE GREAT AND MIGHTY GOD who loves each and every one of us.

The CIRCUS in LAKELAND is continuing. More and more flock there, for whatever purpose or reason.

If anyone is offended by my calling it a circus/carnival…. I was sent to LAKELAND in 1995 to witness the PRINCIPALITY. In 1998 it was written on a “tablet” and sent out…. established by THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WPA-Prophetic-Accumulations/message/33

GREAT AND TERRIBLE is our MIGHTY KING

Selah

Olddog

Bob Neumann

Marion, NC

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