What In the World Is Going On? Part 1
We’re in a supernatural time.
Rashad R. Smith
Say it with me: “We’re in a supernatural time!”
There is a lot we’re not going to understand about what’s going on in the world if we:
- Are not attentively listening to the Spirit of God
- Are speaking from an old well, an antiquated source
- Are speaking for the sake of speaking
- Are configuring ideas from the soulish nature of mankind
5784 is a supernatural, mystical time – or at least the beginning of it. Human intellect, human will, and the old way we’ve received revelation are insufficient.
It’s a time we’re coming to and [are meant to] crossing over thresholds into a new dimension of who we are and what God has for us.
Out of the Whirlwind
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: “Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge? Now prepare yourself like a man. I will question you, and you shall answer Me..." - Job 38:1-2 (NKJV)
God gave Job revelation that he hadn’t had before, as well as all the discernment, knowledge, revelation, and understanding he possessed to the point.
Job was a skillfully learned man of astounding understanding and spiritual perception. I don’t think he’s accredited enough for that.
Nonetheless, he received revelation into matters, even matters of the supernatural.
When we look at his book, we see that it wasn’t difficult for God to connect and recount supernatural beings and occurrences to Job’s memory and spirit man. Selah.
Spiritual Maturity: From the Old Wineskin to the New
Yet, there came a time when God beckoned Job to cross over a threshold into more significant revelation.
A new place, a place he’d not been before. God was speaking in dark sayings.
In Matthew, Jesus advised against babbling or speaking simply to speak (or from vain imaginations). It could also be understood as speaking amiss or from a place of entitlement, but no weight is held, no transformation transpires, or revelation comes forth.
The man Job knew a lot. Still, he had a lot more to understand. Job thought he understood God, but God had four additional manners of Himself to reveal to Job:
- His omnipotent nature
- His intimate nature
- His redemptive nature
- His preeminent, ancient nature (quite ironic since Job is stated to be the oldest book of the Bible by some. Yes – Yahweh is much older than even that.)
The Spirit of Man
Our human spirits have more capacity than we realize and, again, that we accredit for.
"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding..." - Job 38:4 NKJV
I gather a few things from Yahweh’s question and probing Job, but I’ll share two:
- Job’s spirit remembered witnessing God’s awesomeness at the dawn of creation, but through the fallen nature and the fallen world, Job’s soul and body superseded his spirit.
- There is sarcasm and discipline from an authority head in verse 4. “Job, did you create all of this?” “Job, if you know Me so well, did you know the immensity of My power?”
Our spirits are supernatural, and part of who are is to know intimately our Creator-Lover-Champion, Warrior God and can easily connect with Him and the spirit world.
Nevertheless, we must offload all that’s in our spirits so it can be revealed. This is where we are at the edge of time and space. Do you perceive it?
Many cannot find the words, but there’s something they’re longing for, something for which they’re groping that is causing a holy dissatisfaction–it is, undoubtedly, the emergence of the human spirit.
But…just how do we cause our human spirits that interface with Holy Spirit to leap up and out into the next bringing along with it our souls and bodies?
Crossing the Threshold(s)
That only happens through the desire of discipline and desiring to unpack the human spirit, God’s eyes witnessing our efforts and approving them, tests, maturity, and humility—precisely with Job.
Like Job, we tend to harbor a lot of information and knowledge about God or what we think we know. And don’t get me wrong…much of it is good and holy.
Yet, as God elevates us to see Him in a new aspect – and boy, what an immense aspect Job saw Him in – we must be confronted like “men” (grown, mature, adult Christians) to answer Him (reason with).
Therefore, considering the current season where everyone feels God isn’t speaking or there is a “missing piece”, we must know that what’s missing is:
- The new – we haven’t been here before
- It’s supernatural – we cannot reason with the human mind
- It’s supernatural – we cannot reduce the supernatural to logic
- It supernatural and mystical – we cannot reduce God’s ways to a formula that nicely fits into our dimension’s paradigms and rules
- Fancy words, flashy lights, “lip service” is beyond outdated – we’re not going to really hear the “meat and potatoes” of what God is saying and wants from archaic methods.
In doing the latter, we’d be just like Saul, where God has removed His voice because His anointing has been removed also, so we go and chase sources to receive revelation. This is called divining. And there is a bunch of divining occurring in current times within the Church.
God is after mature sons – those who will be put through the ringer, through fire and torrential rains and still can stand before His awesomeness and His terror and worship Him.
Acknowledge Him as almighty instead of lessening His Godhood.
Dark Sayings
So, God speaks in dark sayings to help us reach maturity, continually seeking and shedding off the old nature (shifting into the new).
Dark sayings are just how they sound: they cover up the true meaning of what’s been said. This isn’t occultic or demonic; this is heavenly.
And what a fantastic invitation to hunger and thirst, grope, and yearn for the voice and presence of the Lord. To discover Him. To unravel His nature. When God spoke to Job out of the whirlwind, He was the dark saying.
Yet, Job grasped God’s mysterious speech…because Job’s spirit was at attention. Job knew!
He knew the voice of His Creator. He knew his spirit man needed to be unloaded from the depths of all it held.
And there in the holding grounds, the God-nature in Job was reawakened in present Job to experientially know the tangible, omnipotent God in front of Him.
Can you imagine standing in front of a massive whirlwind and listening to and heeding the voice of all voices?
Dark Sayings Cont’d
So, what in the world is going on?!
We think we have wisdom. And we think wisdom is plain…normal. Wisdom is supernatural.
Job said that God has perfect wisdom and from that comes might, counsel, and understanding. If we truly had the extent of wisdom we needed for this hour, we’d see the others flowing freely.
It’s interesting that Proverbs is either for kings, about kings, from kings’ mouths, or to kings’ children. We are in a time where we must act like kings. It’s a time to be kingly. With that, kings must have wisdom. Think of chess.
What In the World Is Going On?
God is calling forth His kings in this hour. He’s calling forth His mature sons who’ve endured His discipline to be refined and reproved.
He’s separating and setting apart the faithful from those in error. That may even include those who once had a glimpse (or an excess) of what was happening then.
He’s saying lay it all down, surrender, and ascend higher.
We’re in a fast-paced world. No matter what nation we’re in, and that includes the Church.
We often overlook our need to measure ourselves to the plumb line of truth.
Unfortunately, we miss what David caught, “Search me, O God, and test me. Know my anxious thoughts. Rid me of all that doesn’t belong to You” (Psalm 139: 23-24) [paraphrased].
We’ve become entitled. Entitlement brings impotence. God is ready to bring His kingdom into the earth, and His kingdom is replete with power.
His kingdom belongs to the servants, not the know-it-alls. His kingdom belongs to the disciplined, not the stubborn – those stuck in an old wine’s skin.
The kingdom of God belongs to the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek, the seekers of justice and righteousness, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, and the persecuted for Jesus’ namesake (Matthew 5:3-12).
Have we grown so lukewarm that we’ve forgotten the weightier things?!
Vanity
Vanity! Vanity! All is vanity!
We’ve become people who build conferences, TV programs, schools, networks, etc., but we’re devoid of God’s power.
The kingdom of God is not in word or deed but in power. The kingdom of God is not in observation but resident in the children of God.
It is not in proving others wrong on social media. It does not relish sharing “the latest and greatest” or in amassing a cult or cult-like following.
We are supposed to allow the kingdom of God to flow from us like streams of living water. Yet, we’ve been locked up, stale lakes due to spiritual pride like the Laodicea church.
The Good News
Wisdom calls to all men including the sons of God…to heed instruction, knowledge, and understanding. These things birth the fear of the Lord.
No, dear brothers and sisters. Wisdom isn’t a small matter of human volition. Wisdom interprets spiritual issues – the ones God conceals.
In this hour, where there is a concealing of His plans, we’ve got to cry out for wisdom. For it was wisdom that Joseph and Daniel used to decipher supernatural, mystical things.
We’re in a supernatural season!
With that, God conceals and hides matters…profound ones.
Kings must search out God’s deep things (Proverbs 25:2). Knowing mysteries is the bread of the children of God (Matthew 13:11).
In order to understand and decipher spiritual matters in this hour, we need the help of the Spirit of God (Ephesians 2:10-16). We should not rely on ourselves or past equations.
And I hear the Spirit of the Lord say, “Do not think that I am not speaking in this time. For I always speak to My prophets. I always prepare My people. For you will have to step up, come up, and mature up in this season. It is a time of the mature sons, not the sons of yesteryear where you say what you wanted to say. For I am exposing liars and thieves of the anointing, even [thievery] of My voice and My face. Will you seek My face? For I am bringing heaven’s reality to earth, and I need My sons to see and express then prophesy My presence in their midst.”
Like Paul, who understood the mysteries of God when no other disciple or apostle could, are you willing to press in and pursue them deeper?
This is so enlightening. And quite helpful.