Mike Parsons –
I do believe that God speaks to us. And if He is sending someone to speak, then He has something for us to hear. I would say that message is: get ready.
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I do not really look at the appearances of the cloud of witnesses, or Enoch, or anyone else, as though they are meant to mark out some new era of rest or shift in season. In reality, since Jesus came, we should be living in a time of rest. This is the age of the Kingdom. I have never been much for dividing things into different ages, or assigning each one to a different period of maturity, because I think some people have walked in maturity from the very beginning. Still, I do believe that God speaks to us. And if He is sending someone to speak, then He has something for us to hear. I would say that message is: get ready.
Enoch, after all, walked with God. And he still is walking with God. The only difference is that he is not doing it here. So, if there is any message in the reports of Enoch showing up to people, I think it is the same: be ready. Be ready for whatever happens, and be listening for what it is that Jesus, or the Father, is saying to prepare us for it.
Now, I do not believe we are waiting for a Second Coming, or the end of the world, or anything of that kind. What I believe we are waiting for is the restoration of all things. And in that process of restoration, things on earth will need to change. If we are going to see “on earth as it is in heaven”, then earth as it is now cannot stay the same. But God is not going to wave a magic wand over creation and simply make everything different. People have to change.
For the world to change, people have to change. Not just political systems or social structures, but people. And for people to change, they must find a reason to do so. So I believe that everything humanity has placed its trust in – everything that keeps the world as it is – will be challenged. Those things will no longer feel safe or secure, and people will start looking for something more solid. What they should find is the manifestation of God’s Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven, the revealing of the sons of God who carry heaven’s light into the world’s apparent darkness.
There may well be shakings of systems that cause people to lose trust in them. That could take many forms, but I believe God prepares and warns us beforehand. So why would Enoch in particular be appearing? What is it about him that is significant? Perhaps nothing beyond this: Enoch walked with God, and still does in the heavenly realm, and retains a body that allows him to function in this realm. That alone sets him apart from most of the cloud of witnesses who have laid aside their earthly bodies.
I have engaged with Enoch a number of times, and on several occasions God sent him with what he called “quests” for me to fulfil. Enoch understands the nature of walking with God in both heaven and on earth, and so he carries insight into how those two realities intersect. When it says Enoch walked with God, I do not think it means merely that God showed up on earth to stroll with him as He did with Adam in the garden. I believe Enoch walked with God in both the heavenly and earthly realms, and at some point God took him fully into that heavenly realm for a particular reason.
When he came to me in what I now call the chamber of destiny, he gave me specific quests that brought significant changes to how I did things. Each one opened up a new level of understanding and maturity, another way in which God wanted to operate through me.
I think right now many people are having experiences of God – some mystical, heavenly – but they do not always understand the purpose of those experiences in the context of restoration. What difference do they make on earth? They are enjoying their encounters, but are those encounters transforming the earth through them? Are they manifesting heaven on earth through their lives? That is what needs to change. And I believe God is about to accelerate those changes.
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