Living in the Matrix!

 

Dear Saints,

Forgive me, but this will be more of a personal rant than anything. I'm weary. I'm weary of the news. I'm weary of the predictions for the rapture, I'm weary of the blatant evil of this world. I'm weary of the gross immorality. I'm weary of trying to find something to watch on TV that doesn't have sex, nudity, or blasphemy! I'm weary of Christians who have no clue what's going on prophectically. I'm weary of Christians who love this world more than Jesus. I'm weary of immature believers whose lives look exactly like the lost, who are selfish, consumed with pleasures, and complain about every inconvenience. I'm weary of false doctrines and false teachers and prophets. I'm weary of worrying for my own lost and lukewarm loved ones, of praying and fasting for them constantly. I'm just plain weary. 

I want to go home.  

I hope and pray that most of you reading this have at least one other person in your life who has their eyes open. One other person who loves Jesus and sees Biblical prophecy playing out right in front of them. Someone you can share with, be consoled by, and pray with together.  Someone to walk through the matrix with, hand in hand, so you don't feel like you've lost your mind.

If you don't, then, like me, you may often wonder if you are just a weirdo, an eccentric conspiracy nut who has everything wrong. It certainly would explain the odd looks I get whenever I try to point out something prophetic happening. Which I don't do very often anymore. 

I am continually surrounded by family members and friends who constantly talk about the future. My kids, my husband, my siblings, etc.

I constantly hear things like:   

• When my kids go to college...
• When we are old and gray...
• Next year, we're flying to Hawaii...
• I can't wait to have grandkids...
• We are buying a new home with a pool next year... 
• Why don't we save up to redo the kitchen?  
• When I come for a visit at Christmas...

And on and on it goes. This is after I've told everyone of them that the rapture is close and the Tribulation is at hand. They just continue with life and plans as if what I said went in one ear and out the other. So, I just nod and smile and say nothing more. 

Some of you might be familiar with The Matrix. It's a scifi movie that might not be your cup of tea, but I highly recommend it for the prophetic and spiritual underlying content. The general theme is that everything we see, feel, touch, and taste in this physical realm is all fake. It is part of a digital simulation... like a video game, in which the rulers of the world, have placed people to live. The problem is, their life is not real. It's digital. And their real physical bodies are in a giant warehouse somewhere being used as a power source. I know, sounds gross. 

  

But the overarching problem, the heartbreak, was that all these people were going about living their lives year after year, not once realizing that none of it was real... that real life exists outside of the digital world. Just as real life for us, exists outside of this Earthly, physical realm. Paul tells us that we see through a glass darkly. 

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 1 Corinthians 13:12

AND

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 1 Corinthians 2:9 

If you've ever listened to anyone who had a NDE or a vision/visitation of heaven, they all say that it is far more real and more beautiful than anything they ever saw on Earth. Often, these people can't put into words what they've seen because there aren't words! 

The truth is, we actually do live in a digital world. Scientists are now just beginning to understand what our reality exists of and that we only exist in 3 dimensions (4 if you count time) out of at least 20 more dimensions.

But I digress. 

The hero of The Matrix (Neo) finally wakes up to the truth of his digital reality and he is whisked outside of the video game into the real world. This is where the movie alters a bit from Scripture because the real world is a devastated and dark Earth after what must have been a nuclear destruction.

However, after some training, the hero can enter back at will into the digital world. As he walks the streets and watches everyone going about their lives, he KNOWS that it is all fake. He knows the truth. But he can't just tell them. They won't believe him. He has to show them, he has to wake them up, one by one. 

There's a lot more to the movie, including "agents" that represent demons and how we can use spiritual powers to defeat them. 

I'm saying all this because I often feel exactly like Neo. I know more than I wish I knew, actually. I know in part the depths of evil in this world, in our own government, the child sacrifice, the pedophilia, satan worshipers, the lies and deceptions. I know how most of the news is fake, how all the people in power are just actors on a stage, that anyone with fame or fortune sold their souls to Satan. I know they are spraying us like bugs, poisoning our food and medicine, and that the upcoming "alien" disclosure is all about demons and fallen angels. I know that the AI revolution is about complete control over every person alive. (If this is all a shock to you, then you are still in the Matrix)  I know Satan is in charge of this world. I know Bible Prophecy is being played out line by line right in front of us. I know Jesus is returning soon... the rapture quite possibly this year. The second coming seven or less years afterward.

I know that all the plans my friends and family members are making will not come to fruition. 

Yet... I've tried to tell them. I've tried to wake them up. but they all just go about their lives like nothing bad will ever happen and life will just go on and on. Believe me, I grew up believing everything I learned in school and everything I knew about the world was true. It's not easy to break out of that. Why? Because lying in the bed of lies they have created is comfortable and peaceful. 

Whereas the truth is frightening, painful, and discouraging. 

  Here in America, we are even more prone to something called Normalcy Bias. Aside from Pearl Harbor and 9-11 (Both planned and carried out), our nation has never been attacked. We've never suffered war, famine, lack. Because of the great number of Christians here, God's hand has blessed us. Most of us have never been hungry or homeless. Our grocery stores are full of more food than people in some other nations see in a year at their own markets. As I grew up, I believed most people were good, that if I worked hard enough I could get a good job someday, get married, buy a house, and have kids. The Great American Dream was alive and well. And I believe most Americans still believe in it, despite the wickedness surrounding them. 

So, it becomes easy to believe that the wars going on now are far away from us and won't come here, that the economy will rise again like it always has in the past, that new jobs will open up, new opportunities for our kids and grandkids, that with God's grace, a spiritual revival will bring many people back to church. My own husband believes everything moves in cycles. He believes that even the gross immortality of our present age will shift back to a Biblical morality eventually.  

Nothing bad can ever touch us here. We are the greatest nation on Earth! 

Until one day in the near future, one day...one hour.. when everything changes. And life as we know it ceases to exist. But that's a very hard thing for people to believe. 

Regardless that it is written in the Holy Scriptures! Even if some people know Biblical prophecy, they will say, No, that has to be for another time, another generation. Not ours. That's years away. Nothing to worry about. 

Yet, if they really wanted to know the truth, they'd clearly see how everything is converging, all the signs are here, all the prophecies happening everywhere. Even ignoring all that, the calendar tells us we are close! 

So, I have to conclude that most people don't want to know the truth. They like their comfortable lives. In the Matrix movie, there is a character who was awakened to the truth, who left the digital fake world and lived in the real world. But it was a hard existence. He didn't have the comforts he knew in the fake world. He missed life as he once had experienced it. So, he willingly betrayed his friends and went back into the digital world to enjoy a good meal and a soft bed, EVEN KNOWING that it wasn't real.  

I never understood that and to this day, I still don't. I'd rather know the truth and live in squalor with Jesus than go back into the world with tons of riches.  

 For our light, momentary affliction, this slight distress of the passing hour, is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!,
Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal, brief and fleeting, but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.  

2 Corinthians 4:17-18