Tag: Enoch

494. What Enoch Teaches Us about Readiness and Change

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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482. Is Your Heart Aligned with God’s Kingdom or Culture?

Mike Parsons

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There are many questions we should be asking and signs we should be looking for. If God is doing something—like Enoch appearing or other unusual things—what is that about? I cannot give a hard, fast answer, but I do believe God is challenging us to think and to question what we believe. What are the foundations of our lives and the way we live? Are they kingdom foundations, or are they cultural?

If they are cultural and oppose God’s kingdom, which is love, then we must ask, where is my heart? Is it aligned with God’s heart, or with the culture where I live? I do not want to be known culturally as British. Yes, I was born in Britain, it is on my passport, but I do not want to be subject to the culture of Britain if it is anti-kingdom. I would never call myself a British Christian, or even a Christian. I just want to be seen as a follower of God, of the Father.

So, what might cause me to have views which may be contradictory to the kingdom? We need to ask: what has shaped my life, my thinking, my belief systems, my worldview? Are they aligned with God’s heart, or do they need deconstruction? I see three main areas where God is challenging people (there may be more): religious deconstruction, political deconstruction, and financial deconstruction. A friend of mine said God was taking him through those things, and I realised he was doing the same with me. I now know to look at things differently in those areas and make sure that I am not thinking in a cultural way that puts me into contradiction to God.
So, financially, my views have changed from religious rules about tithing to simply asking, “God, what do you want me to do?” Politically, I had to face assumptions about why I voted as I did. I had assumed God agreed with me, but he showed me I had never asked him. I had to be completely unravelled and deconstructed in that area. Now I ask, “Is there a way you want me to vote?” And if he says it does not matter, then I examine my own heart and motives. Each of us may have a different way of looking at that question.
God wants our whole mindset aligned with the kingdom and with one another, to become one mind, the mind of Christ. That requires major shifts, deconstruction, and honest questioning of why we think, believe and act as we do. Most people never really consider these things, but I believe it is part of the process God is taking us through so that heaven can be established on earth.

For the past ten years, God has been deconstructing most of my old assumptions. My thinking has changed in many areas. This does not mean there are simple answers, because each of us must discover what God is asking of us in our own sonship. But it does mean we must begin to make decisions based not on selfishness, economics or cultural conditioning, but on God’s heart.

Strong opinions are often shaped by culture rather than by God. Even in raising my children, I tried to let them think for themselves, yet they still reflected my political views. That made me wonder whether I had been more vocal than I thought. The key is not to pass on political perspectives but to help people find God’s heart.

Some people vote based on economics, others on compassion, but the real question is whether our choices reflect God’s heart or merely our conditioning. I am not convinced God is as invested in political systems as solutions as we might think. Much of the prophetic movement seems to have become politicised in a way it never was 20 years or so ago, perhaps out of disillusionment when promised revivals did not happen as expected. Whatever the reason, it seems to have become blind to the real issues in some way…

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