Showing posts with label Noah. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Embedded Evil, Culture and Birthing - Morris Ruddick


Embedded Evil, Culture and Birthing -Morris Ruddick

 Jesus observed that the sons of this world are more shrewd with their own kind than the sons of Light. That shrewdness seems even more pronounced when darkness is leveraged within the culture.

Coincidentally, Jesus pointed to religious leaders, who should have known better, but instead were short-sighted in their grasp of reality, referring to them as blind-guides. Ones who missed the forest for the trees …. in prioritizing the leveraging of Light within the culture. Instead, they lowered the bar embracing the lures and delicacies that reduced their standard to that of the world’s system.

The stumbling block to leveraging Light; and the shrewdness in capitalizing on darkness is tied to the same factor: embedded evil. Embedded evil within the culture. It is the corruption not only hidden and dormant; but the acceptance of the overt that results from the age-old alliance of Babylon and Chaldea, the world’s system and the occult.

Yet, on record in scripture are heroes of faith whose leadership became a voice to the world. Ones who penetrated pagan cultures, with God’s people arising to reset the standard with the culture of the Kingdom into what it was designed to be.

From the foundations God laid out to Moses in the Torah; to David’s unique leadership in bringing unity within the diverse tribes of Israel; to strategies He gave to ones like Daniel, Jeremiah, the apostles and all who sought to walk in alignment with Him, the priorities needed and the ability to culturally overcome the evil lurking in the infrastructures of the link between the world’s system and the forces of darkness find power in the ability to be of one mind, with the Lord.

Countering the cultural shrewdness of the sons of the world, Paul imparted pivotal wisdom to the Philippians: “Let this mind be in you that also was in Christ Jesus.” Jesus had long prior rebuked Peter because of his short-sighted thinking: “You are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

The Standard to Process Reality
This distinctive thinking marks the foundation, being the distinguishing characteristic of the prophets and heroes of faith: the alignment of their mind-sets and priorities with God’s. Yet sadly, until recently in today’s world, those considered the masters in terms of being culture-shapers, most would agree as being voices from politics and the media.

However, since God has had a people, the defining factor between people of God and people of the world has been the influence in shaping the culture. The essence of Kingdom culture being that its uniqueness results from a cooperative effort between God and those known by His Name. The mandate of Jesus has a starting point of “You’ll be in the world, but not of the world.” Yet, the moral standard is not the goal, but a fruit of the cultural priorities being shaped by God. The religious practices of the people is not the goal but rather the means of becoming aligned with God’s thoughts and priorities. These are demarcation points from which “more” is required.

The cultural framework is what should establish the identity and standard embraced by a people. It is from the culture that the power to prosper and protect society holds residence. A culture with God at the center and the people praying, hearing and walking in the authority from hearing and obeying.

The Priorities and Power for Change
So it is, when the authority and prayers of God’s people amasses to dispel darkness and change begins, God’s power is released. Isaiah presciently discerned that with the release of His power, that Light will disperse long-term embedded evil. It is the momentum and movement we are witnessing underway around the earth today.
“Arise, shine for the Light has come and glory of the Lord has arisen upon you. For darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples, but the Lord will arise over you and His glory will be seen upon you.” Isaiah 60:1-2

Since May of this year and during the month of July I’ve been overseas, in Israel and Vietnam where I’ve spent significant time in years past imparting and investing my Kingdom message, the message of the influence of Joseph and Daniel and of God’s economy to foster change. Strategies of change.

Together with the momentum and movements underway across the globe, my reflections from these recent collaborations with key players in these key nations is that there is a groundswell of the birthing underway from on-High.

An advancing pregnancy leading to God’s people becoming increasingly united in prayer reflecting a Kingdom-impact at the cultural level.

The Unusual Impact at the Hands of a Remnant
From the times of Enoch, Noah and Abraham, the Lord has done remarkable things through the hands of a remnant. Unusual things to preserve and give relevance to Kingdom culture. Seeds sown to produce a movement within the culture.

Even when faced with the embedded evil represented in the culture that overwhelmed his nephew Lot, what arose with Abraham was a righteous remnant aligned with God that set in motion the strategy …. providing the sufficiency for the Lord to turn the tide to actuate change.

This strategy of change was the Lord’s underlying instruction and seed to sow in Jeremiah’s obedience: “You are my battleaxe and weapon of war. Through you I will break nations in pieces. Through you I will destroy kingdoms and strongholds.” Then with his remnant doing their part, the Lord concluded His instruction with: “And I will repay Babylon and Chaldea.”

When the birthing of a movement within the culture takes root in manifesting, the dynamic foreseen by Isaiah of “arise, shine” is accompanied with His glory. It is then that embedded evil is subjected to being scattered and dispersed. It suggests the disruption of the “birth pangs” described by Jesus in Matthew 24.

Yet, the end-result is best understood as Daniel discerned and interpreted the dream of Nebuchadnezzar: a stone cut out without hands struck the image of worldly powers on its feet of iron and clay and broke them in pieces, decimating the foundational powers, with the wind dispersing them until the stone became a great mountain, filling the whole earth.

What Daniel foresaw was more than a cultural reshaping, but a momentous transformation of reality. It reflects the enormous potential residing in a movement, which so often is set in motion by a remnant.

While in Israel, I was honored to participate in a neighborhood prayer meeting; sensing the significance of its impact along with those of others who regularly gather to pray. These are those creating the groundswell; whose faith has been storming the gates and reaching for the birthing and change of such a movement within the soul of Israel.

It is not unlike the home-church movement that against all odds has reshaped the course of Vietnam to now have alliances with Israel and strong, influential believers ensconced in the highest levels of its national infrastructures.

Catching the Glimmers
There is indeed a momentum gaining in this process of birthing that is underway across the earth.

It is not without significance with these movements …. and the potential represented by the simplicity of obedience of believers in embracing their part in praying and reaching for more ….. that I’ve been drawn to better understand the gift of giving and its part in this equation.

Following this thread, I’ve been reminded of the models, the “shifts of resources” that have been used to undermine embedded evil and corruption at the cultural level. Models in which God used ones like Joseph the Patriarch to harness worldly resources to stave off the impact of judgment and tribulation and release redemption.

The birthing currently underway ties into the simplicity of agendas triggering a sovereign transfer of resources. It’s not unrelated to the timing in my reconnecting in Israel and Vietnam ….and their alliances, together with making deeper inroads in terms of alliances in sub-Saharan Afrika. In each case, these alignments represent a process that has been many years in taking root.

All toward the tapestry of alliances on a global-scale …. that knit righteous remnants with the persecuted and the oppressed in the movements and birthing in support of the restoration of Israel. Unusual but evident in this process is this dynamic of sowing, not unlike the time that God instructed Isaac to sow during a time of famine.

What has distinguished the Vietnamese since losing their freedom in 1975 … and the eventual scattering of darkness across the land has been their resilience in discerning the glimmers needed to reach for the Light. Amazing faith has been demonstrated in their over-arching resilience to continually reach higher; to pray for their leaders and for ones with very different cultural backgrounds; as believers in the North and South have united in their support of one another.

The deep darkness they faced after 1975 was not unlike that foreseen by Isaiah. Economically, it had a severe impact not only on the South, but the North, as evidenced in 70 percent of the boat people being those fleeing the North. Yet the purity of the prayers from village to village, as well as from high-levels in their society eventually resulted in a series of significant spiritual awakenings and persecution-related policy-changes enhancing the movement that is still underway.

While there has always been a deep love in drawing me to work with and keep returning to Vietnam, there’s something about the “reach” of these people who live on the cusp of miracles …..whose purpose in life is so tied to the Lord and His Kingdom, that it overshadows everything else. It taps the roots of building and restoration discerned by Isaiah (in chapter 58).

Evidence of Movements Dispersing Embedded Evil
When the birthing of a movement within a culture sinks its roots, the result will be building and restoration. With it will come the dispersing of embedded evil. It is accompanied by the role of key game-changers, like Joseph and Daniel, ones with princely anointings.

In the short period of my most recent overseas visit, I witnessed unusual alliances that deeply penetrated bastions of embedded evil: rescue efforts from human trafficking; a Christian brand of the “Ronald McDonald’s House” program sending ripples of hope and prayer to families with kids needing critical surgeries; communities uniting to strengthen the faith of their youth; leaders putting their own safety at risk in standing against increases in persecution against high-profile leaders; generational legacies that are enhancing the movement; sensitive mentoring among leaders in need of fresh vision and restoration.

The Significance of Sowing in Bringing Change
As such movements gain momentum, there will come the intentional focus of an increase in sowing. The sowing of Light; the sowing of righteousness; the sowing of upright voices; the sowing that births agendas that foster positive cultural change …. sowing that yields building and restoration and the momentums of movements.

It is the level of sowing described by Amos (9:13) as being a time when the sower overtakes the reaper ….denoting a continuum in the process underway.

A time when unusual resources are made available to the righteous, especially those prepared with princely anointings for cultural-level, national alignments and shakings. For unlocking prisons of darkness, deep darkness as well as furthering the movements rather than fostering institutional hierarchies.

It embraces prophecies made by this ministry in the 90s that point to days in which great alliances harness resources providing refuge during times of turbulence. A time when those prepared with the GIFT of giving are released to do exploits considered supernatural and strategic.
Just as in the days of Joseph and Daniel, God will bring out mighty works at your hand. As you are led into the midst of the world, kings, rulers, leaders will be converted and humbled. You’ll work beside them and your counsel will be heeded for their good.”

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Morris Ruddick has been a forerunner of the Joseph-calling and God’s economy message, being an international voice for the higher dimensions of spiritual game-changers and intercessors since the mid-90s. As founder of Global Initiatives Foundation, the Strategic Intercession Global Network [SIGN] and designer of the God’s Economy Entrepreneurial Equippers Program and the Jewish Business Secrets YouTube series, Mr. Ruddick’s messages equip leaders and economic community builders with strategy where God’s light is dim in diverse regions around the globe.

He is author of “The Joseph-Daniel Calling;” “Gods Economy, Israel and the Nations;” “The Heart of a King;” “Something More;” “Righteous Power in a Corrupt World;” “Leadership by Anointing;” and “Mantle of Fire,” which address the mobilization of business and governmental leaders with destinies to impact their communities. They are available in print and e-versions from www.Amazon.com, www.apple.com/ibooks and www.BarnesandNoble.com.

Global Initiatives Foundation (www.strategic-initiatives.org) is a tax-exempt 501 (c) 3 non-profit whose efforts mobilize economic community builders imparting influence and the blessings of God. Checks on US banks should be made out to Global Initiatives and mailed to 3838 South Wabash Street, Denver CO 80237 or by credit card at https://strategic-initiatives.org/donate/

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Thursday, November 23, 2017

Jerusalem & Friends - The Camels. Now Think On This by Steve Martin

Jerusalem & Friends
- The Camels

Now Think On This
Steve Martin


“Then Rebekah lifted her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from her camel.” (Genesis 24:64, NKJV)


Rebekah was a natural. Being she was raised among camels, the normal means of desert travel, she certainly knew how to get on and get off properly. She probably never gave it a second thought. A camel girl well trained!

On any tour to Israel one thing you really enjoy looking out for are the roaming camels. These beasts of burden have been around since before Noah I would imagine, who would have had two on the ark. Abraham and his two sons certainly had many, being rich in favor. Jacob and his boys accumulated herds of them, roaming the deserts of the Promised Land under the watchful eye of the Living God of Israel.

Each time I have had the opportunity to ride the touring bus through the Land, my camera was always ready, hoping to catch the Bedouin’s camels walking in the nearby hills along Highway 1 headed down to the Dead Sea from Jerusalem. You can often see these created creatures among the black tents of these desert people or corralled within a makeshift fenced-in area nearby on the sloping, sparse landscape. To both young and old, seeing a camel out in their natural habitat is a real delight.

My first experience in riding one didn’t go so good. It was at a tourist restaurant stop on the way to Beersheva, with its robed owner awaiting any tourist, even the not-so-knowledgeable ones. Anyone ready to give him $5 for a few short laps, or at least two, around the food stop parking lot. My thought, “I can do this. Get the camera out and watch me ride!”

Already down on his really thick knees, head proudly held high, this camel gave me a look, and stayed somewhat still while I pulled up onto his single hump, covered with multi-colored blankets and some leather under them to serve as the saddle. I was given a few instructions on how to hang on, and then slowly walked around the parking lot. Not a big deal, until the dismount.

What I failed to hear, or even to be told, was most likely thought by both owner and camel one of two things. I was either a seasoned rider, or I was smart enough to figure it out - how to properly prepare for the upcoming, or down coming, dismount. Being I hadn’t paid any attention to others I had seen on other occasions, or because they typically had a platform to get on and off from, I had little idea how it would happen.

The camel did his normal thing. He stopped, bent his front knees forward, and dropped down to the blacktop. HARD.

As for me? My head jerked back at first, and then before I could say, “Help!” I flew over his brown head. Down I went, flying head first into the hard ground.

No, it wasn’t a “10” on the dismount. Maybe a “2”.

My glasses smashed first, giving no cushion for my head. This photo tells the result. At least I could still smile!

Would I do it again? Why certainly! But now a bit wiser, and paying attention to the fact that you must lean way back, hang on tight, and act like a rodeo master when on the back of a camel just naturally preparing to let you down.

When you make it to Israel, hoping for that opportunity and provision to come, go ride a camel! The ones along the road in the desert are just waiting for you to show them you have what it takes to ride ‘em!

Shalom and ahava (peace and love in Hebrew).

Now think on this,
  
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People, Inc.

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One of my favorite camel photos! Near Eilat, Israel at the Camel Ranch. (Oct. 2008)


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Monday, September 11, 2017

The End of the World is Coming, Again?! - David Lazarus ISRAEL TODAY

The End of the World is Coming, Again?!

Monday, September 11, 2017 |  David Lazarus  ISRAEL TODAY
The end of the world is coming again and people wonder, “Is it true this time?”
This year’s doom’s day prediction is scheduled for September 23rd based on an alignment of the stars called Virgo, the constellation of a woman that will be in position over the moon and under 12 stars. As with most end-time predictions, the date corresponds to this year’s Jewish calendar and believers are saying this rare alignment of stars represents the last days woman found in Revelations chapter 12 with “the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.”
What are we to do? With the Jewish holidays just weeks away, we could spend our remaining days and hours (or until next year’s predictions) trying to calculate what the Bible says about the end of the world and wait to see what happens.
But the truth we so easily ignore, and which is often concealed behind these annual doom’s day predictions, is that the end of the world is coming for all of us - and it could be any day, at any hour. By September 23rd, millions around the world will die in car accidents, disease, overdose or in one of the many hurricanes and natural disasters now visiting the earth. Are you ready?
Can you get ready? The idea that we are at the end of the world can be scary, and if so for you, hold that thought for a minute, and ask yourself, “What am I afraid of?” When you discover the answer, think about what changes you could make in your life, where you might better invest your time and how you can make things right with God, and with yourself. Nobody knows better than you what you need to do to get your house in order.
If you clean your house just once a year it becomes an overwhelming task to face. The time you need to clean it, and the energy you would need is so great that you probably give up before you even start. Our lives are not much different than a dirty house. If it hasn’t been cleaned for a long time it's easy to give up. It would be far better to clean regularly, take the garbage out every day, wash your clothes when they are dirty and fix things when they break. Maintain your life, correct, repair and be ready for the end of your world. It could happen any day.
These end of the world scenarios remind me of the safety exercises that are supposed to make us ready for fires, bomb attacks and earthquakes, so that when the real thing happens we won’t become confused and disorientated and get lost. In the Israeli army we use a saying from Alexander Suvorov, the greatest Russian military strategist: “Hard in training, easy in war.” Practicing to be prepared for the coming of our Messiah, or to meet him sooner than we thought, is always a good idea, even if you wonder about the sign of a 12 starred constellation.
Exercise kindness, unselfishness, sympathy, decency, good will and live an upright life before God in your daily life and perhaps the end of the world (or the end of our world) might not be so terrifying. The only way to cope with the disquieting fact of our pending mortality is to practice daily the skills of faith in God and a moral lifestyle until these become so much a part of who you are that you don’t even have to think, or worry, about it anymore because you are prepared.
The Apostle Paul in his First Letter to the Corinthians (chap.13) reminds us that we prophecy in part, but faith, hope and love endure forever (not doom, gloom or red moons). One more thing. Remember Noah. The end of his world came true even as he boldly warned the people through his words and actions. How many believed and repented? How many missed that boat?
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Saturday, September 9, 2017

Roots - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

Roots

Now Think On This
Steve Martin


“It was beautiful in its greatness and the length of its branches, because its roots went down to plenty of water.” (Ezekiel 31:7, Complete Jewish Bible)


In 1977, and again in 2016, Americans were fascinated by the TV mini-series Roots, the well-done dramatization of author Alex Haley's book detailing his family line, from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement beginning in Africa to his descendants' liberation in the United States. 

The website Ancestry.com sure saw its page visits shoot up during those seasons, and our fascination with our historical roots continues to this day.

People want to know their roots – where they have come from – to give them some indication of the who, what, where, why and so what questions all have had. You and I can be fascinated with shows like Who Do You Think You Are? on the TLC TV network. I know Laurie and I are. I am sure we have watched every episode!

And now today, you can get your DNA tested for only $69. When it hits the low, low price of $19.99 then I will too!

What nation are you from? Who are your descendants? Who do you think you are?

Now think about this. Do you realize that all of us must have imbedded genes from Noah and his family? They were the only ones of the human race who were not destroyed during the great, world-wide historical flood. After death and destruction were complete, these eight, if my math is right, were the only ones left to repopulate the earth.

So that makes you and I related. Right? That means my family and your family are truly brothers and sisters in the Creator’s immense family. True? Do you believe it? I certainly do.

Let’s go to the Scriptures, which are the solid, firm foundation of all truth, upon which anyone who will stand upon them will know the truth, from the very beginning. The roots of mankind are revealed in these truthful words of God.

“For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made." And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him. Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.

So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 

And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark…” (Genesis 7:4-13, NKJV)

So if I read this simply as it is stated, very plain for all of us to understand, ONLY Noah and his family were the remaining humans, along with the gathered animals, birds, reptiles and insects in that massive boat, who were left after the total destructing flood. (The fish had their own safety habitat!) And then it rained, with the massive flood coming, destroying all else.

I am glad these words aren’t fairy tales or Sunday school stories, taught to kids, to “convey” some made-up story about God and how we got the rainbow (which, by the way, is the Lord’s creation, not some wicked taken-over symbol of sinful men and women.) These things really happened. Read the true scientific facts, which abound in proven publications from all over the earth. And then watch TV to see how water can yet destroy today.

“The flood continued forty days and the waters rose and lifted the ship high over the Earth. The waters kept rising, the flood deepened on the Earth, the ship floated on the surface. The flood got worse until all the highest mountains were covered - the high water mark reached twenty feet above the crest of the mountains. Everything died. Anything that moved — dead. Birds, farm animals, wild animals, the entire teeming exuberance of life - dead. And all people - dead. Every living, breathing creature that lived on dry land died; he wiped out the whole works - people and animals, crawling creatures and flying birds, every last one of them, gone. Only Noah and his company on the ship lived. The floodwaters took over for 150 days.” (Genesis 7:17-24, THE MESSAGE)

In going a step further, that means people all over the world now are family. Good ol’ Ralph is related to Ingrid, who is related to Ming Sun Lee, maybe even the 43rd cousin of Abdul, from the family branch descendant of Japeth, or Shem, or Ham. Or even Noah and his wife himself. Make sense? Sure it does!


Going a step further, if you call yourself a Christian, then do you know who your family tree is? Who are the roots from which your life of faith has been built on?

It is the Jews! The roots of our tree, the olive tree, are the Jews!

Continuing down through the lineage of Noah, through Abraham, then King David, with Yeshua being of the tribe of Judah, along with the Jewish disciples of Mattityahu (Matthew), Yohanan (John), and Ya'akov (Jacob)…all Hebrews/Jews…the roots, both natural and then spiritual…brought forth the olive tree from which Christianity emerged. These are our roots, our Jewish roots.

The roots of our faith, which the Lord God Almighty Himself created, were delivered to us through the Jews. Deny the Jews and you are ultimately denying the very One from Whom salvation has come.

The Apostle Paul, formerly known with his given name Saul, being a Jew from birth - who believed in Messiah (Christ) after his awesome revelation and confrontation with Truth, in the person of the resurrected Savior, Yeshua - makes it clear as to whose roots make up and supply the vast olive tree from which you and I, believers in Yeshua (His Jewish/Hebrew name even today as He is seated in heaven), grow out of. Written Scriptures, inspired by the Holy Spirit through Paul, were recorded as letters by him to Jews and Gentiles, who had become believers in Yeshua.

“For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in." Well said. Because of unbelief, they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 

And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?” (Romans 11:16-24, NKJV)

Understand? (as my boss would say). The Jews are the olive tree, roots and all. Believing Gentiles are grafted-in branches, who, if having called on the Name of the Lord, Yeshua HaMashiach also, believers in the Jewish Messiah, the Christ of the world, by faith are the wild olive branches grafted into the natural Jewish olive tree. And without the roots, no branch of the tree will survive and flourish.

Bottom line (part of my accounting roots lingo), Paul says that the natural branches, the Jews, in time will also be grafted back onto their own olive tree. The time will come when they will acknowledge that their very own brother, the Lamb of God, the soon coming Lion of the tribe of Judah, is indeed the long awaited Messiah. He came once to His own, the Chosen Ones, the Jews, and He is coming again for them, and all of us who have believed.

Yet to come along and be grafted in are all those who will also come to repentance from sin, come to the saving shed blood and everlasting grace of Yeshua, Jesus, and be included.

Without roots, no plant can survive. The necessary watering channel and delivery of nutrients from the deep ground up must occur for ongoing life. From the beginning, the Lord has chosen the Jews to be the roots of the tree. Without the Jews, no Bible would have been written. No Torah would have been scribed. No Savior would have been born.

Image source: Radionomy

That’s the way God planned it. That’s the way God meant it to be! (Is that a song I remember…?)

I am most thankful for my Jewish roots. I trust you will be too.

Shalom and ahava (peace and love in Hebrew).

Now think on this,
Steve Martin
Founder/President
Love For His People, Inc.
  
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