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Dissambiguating the Kingdom of Darkness

Apostolic Teaching Notes from Apostle David vonAnderseck
Second 8th Week University

Disambiguating the Kingdom of Darkness

Dear Brethren,

The church has now entered into an exciting time of transition through Apostolic Governance from the priesthood of the flesh back to the priesthood of Jesus Christ, from the Gospel of aspiration to the Gospel of the knowledge of truth. This transition is causing a transformation, healing, and great glory as the church again stands as a memorial of Christ in word and in deed and government again stands as ambassadors of Christ bringing the word of reconciliation.

Yet the time of transition presents many challenges as God brings the kingdom of darkness into sharp focus and it is this focus that I’ll be sharing with you as I disambiguate the kingdom of darkness to liberate your faith.

The Church has many areas to overcome to make the transition back to the New Covenant of Jesus Christ, to His Headship, and to true believer's priesthood. These are all things that must take place in order for the Church to be without spot, wrinkle and blemish (in her doctrine and discipline). Truly the final move of God is now being experienced as the Second 8th Week Apostles of Christ return the church to the purity and unity of the Faith.

Questions for consideration before you read on:

1. Can we overcome the kingdom of darkness if we are unaware of it and how Satan uses darkness to rule the soul?
2. How many times were you told that Satan is the devourer and that he devours your blessings and that you can succeed in overcoming him and hang on to your blessings? Yet you continue to suffer lack.
3. How many times were you told how Satan comes to attack you and steal your peace and how you have to hang onto it. Yet you continue to suffer conflict of soul.
4. How many ways have you learned to do warfare against Satan, yet you continue to suffer under the bondage of sin, yoked with guilt and shame?

In this study we are going to contrast the kingdom of light against the kingdom of darkness and make the same kinds of distinctions that early apostles made. Beginning with Col.1:13, “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.” This is what the Bible says, yet we know that when apostle Paul wrote this he was writing from the standpoint of the authority of his calling and the stewardship of the knowledge of Jesus Christ. As an apostle he was responsible to instruct the church on their deliverance and translation from the kingdom and power of darkness. So then, the experience of the church would be equal to the knowledge he was giving. That means that there is equity in faith. You are not reading one thing and experiencing another.

I was reflecting on this very thing today when the angel of righteousness prompted me with this spiritual sacrifice: “The integrity of the righteous is made sure by the testimony of the Lord.” Let’s look at that for a moment. The integrity of the righteous is the integrity of Christ. By that God reveals how everything concerning our faith is sealed in Jesus Christ and carried by the Spirit and how Jesus qualifies us for the grace of God. Nothing can be taken from Christ nor added to Him, and no contradiction can stand before Him.

Jesus Christ is the Oath of the Lord and cannot prove false to Himself. Therefore He caries our faith in power and this power is experienced daily by the righteous because they use those spiritual tools Jesus poured Himself into. The testimony of the righteous reflects this work in equity, where no principle is heard, no aspiration is seen, and no darkness abides. The testimony of the righteous reflects this work in power, where the appetite of the soul increases for grace and remains anchored in truth.

The righteous stand to the righteousness of Christ and this is reflected in their spiritual sacrifices, which testify of His knowledge and His continual work. Even God testifies to the integrity of the righteous by His reciprocation.

The integrity of Christ is seen in the faith of the righteous on all levels. I will explain two:

1. The integrity of the righteous is made sure as we advance with the knowledge of Christ; for by our contact with Him we gain experience of Him and grow in trust.

Trust: The mutual consent of the Spirit, we have to mutually consent with the Spirit to build with the knowledge of Christ. Confidence is born with each cycle of growth and trust is formed for what God consented to He is faithful to oversee and carry by His own power. The Spirit is assisting us in this translation from darkness to light. We have returned to the covering of the Spirit for grace and truth shields our conscience.

2. The integrity of the righteous is made sure by their cycles of growth where the righteous continue to delight the Lord by reciprocating to God the gift of Christ that is equal to Him. Their experience reflects the testimony of Christ, which is life; for they experience grace unto grace, faith unto faith, and charity unto charity. Their fellowship is sealed by this divine reciprocation: our soul to God’s soul, our soul mirrors what is in God’s soul.

The kingdom of darkness is the opposite of Jesus Christ for the spirit of Antichrist opposes God by taking the things of God and twisting them so that they no longer reflect the integrity of Christ.

Point of Discernment: Present Christian education focuses believers on the idea that Satan comes to steal their blessings and cause problems in their lives. The power of darkness was understood in this context and faith was then errantly viewed as the opportunity God was granting to win back blessings and keep Satan from advancing into their life. Liberty in Christ is then brought down to this level of the flesh where believers are expected to outwit Satan by thinking positively about their blessings and how God wants them to be happy.

This thinking is darkness because Jesus is no longer the integrity of faith. Rather He is viewed as our problem solver. Instead of experiencing cycles of growth, Satan rotates your attention from problem to problem, from issue to issue.

Let me explain how that happens. When Balak king of the Moabites hired the prophet Balaam to curse the children of Israel he took Balaam to different vantage points to view the Israelites encamped in the wilderness. At each place Balak entreated Balaam, “Perhaps you can curse them from here?” And when Balaam refused, Balak took him to another place and entreated him again, “Perhaps you can curse them from here?”

Satan does the same thing, he probes the perimeter of your soul looking for a weak point, looking for what you want and addresses you on these points of your desires and fears. The desires of your pleasure becomes your breach because the desire of your pleasure is with your imagination. If our imagination enslaves us we are servants to sin. And being a servant to sin we are always going to be seeking for equity, looking for things that define us and establish a memorial of our existence in the hearts of other people. This is part of the God-Code, to establish a memorial of one’s self, but it is joined to unsanctified things and will not prosper the soul.

This search for equity and a memorial of oneself is Satan’s false journey for the soul. We will either use faith and grace to subdue the imagination or the imagination will subdue us and in the end the imagination will say, “But I was just your thoughts, I counseled you according to your desires and here is your reward—which is nothing.”

Darkness is the opposite of Jesus Christ, carries another knowledge form, follows another system, produces other fruits that God will not receive back to Himself. What we are going to do is break the kingdom of darkness down so that we can discern it and refuse it.

Below is a table that contrasts the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness. As you study the table you’ll see the integrity of Christ in His kingdom of light and how He focuses His work in righteousness, joining faith to Himself, justifying our activity of faith by purging the conscience of sin, and increasing our appetite for grace.

In contrast, we’ll observe the corruption of Satan in his kingdom of darkness and how Satan introduced a whole system to represent darkness and how he focuses his work on distorting truth, bending faith to human aspiration and principle to justifies the flesh and drive the soul with its own appetites.

Let’s look at the specific contrasts between these two kingdoms. In order for the church to benefit from these distinctions it is necessary to reset truth to the record of Christ, which will reset the appetite of the soul to the grace of God and Satan will not be able to deceive, nor kill, nor destroy; for he has no part in the knowledge and tools of Christ.

 KINGDOM    OF    LIGHT

KINGDOM    OF    DARKNESS

Inspiration
of the Holy Spirit: works grace in the soul to bring forth the fruits of
righteousness.

Inspiration
of Satan: works corruption in the soul to bring forth fruits of darkness

Gods mercy is
overseeing our growth: His mercy is released in our lives when we use the
tools of Christ and our faith is measured against His righteousness and our
experience is equal to His power.

God’s mercy
is withdrawn from the knowledge and tools of darkness. Works of contrition
are measured against sin, working against guilt and shame and our experience
is equal to the power of sin and death.

 

Application
of faith in the priesthood of Jesus Christ, feasting at the table of the
Lord, reflecting His knowledge, which works righteousness, temperance and
peace.

Application
of faith in the priesthood of the flesh, feasting at the table of indulgence
– 3 f’s of flattery, finance, and fantasy, which works sin in emulation,
envy, and strife.

True
repentance = True discernment

 

True
repentance brings the soul into covenant and under the stewardship of
Apostolic Governance:

 

·      
Discerning Jesus in His
government

·      
Discerning Jesus in His truth

·      
Discerning Jesus by the work of
His Spirit

·      
Discerning Jesus by the tools
of His covenant

·      
Discerning Jesus in the
elements of the Gospel

·      
Discerning Jesus by the
manifold graces of God

 

False
repentance = False discernment

 

The soul is
not brought into covenant with God through the seal of the Spirit and
repentance is not sealed in Christ. Conversion then takes many different
paths of faith outside the covering of Jesus’ headship:

·      
No discernment of truth

·      
No discernment of error

·      
No discernment of faith

·      
No discernment of sin

·      
No discernment to sow

·      
No discernment to reap

 

 

Led by the
appetite of grace the Spirit inspires by its validation of the record of
Christ.

Driven by the
appetite of the soul with its own record to find completion, which Satan
inspires for self validation.

Hears the
voice of God’s grace, which remains consistent to the record of Christ to
produce the mark of Christ within the soul

Hears the
voice of Wilson:

·      
The voice of the conscience

·      
The voice of the signature
angel

·      
The voice of reason

·      
The voice of fear

·      
The voice of lack

Remains
consistent to the record of the natural man to produce the mark of iniquity
within the soul.

Separation
from the Kingdom of  Darkness by the circumcision of the Spirit giving value
to the record of Christ.

Separation
from the Kingdom of Light, standing outside the restrictions of the covenant
of Christ, giving value to the record of the soul.

 

Receives the
record of Jesus Christ for faith to build faith in His image.

The natural
man lives after the record of its own flesh to build faith in its own image.
The record of the soul:

·      
False knowledge

·      
Soul Signature

·      
God-Code

·      
Moral Code

·      
Fruits of Iniquity

 

Lives after
the Spirit

Lives after
the flesh

Dictates
peace by the purged conscience: True equity between soul and spirit as both
are united in grace and assisted by the Spirit of God who tethers the soul
to Himself.

Dictates
peace by the defiled conscience: False equity takes place when the heart
takes hope in opportunities to make things right to appease the conscience.

 

Daily
issuance of grace for: the strengthening of the will, healing of the soul,
purging of the conscience.

 

Void of
grace: the soul draws upon false knowledge and the will is weakened by its
exercise with vanity, the soul is corrupted by the fruit of iniquity, the
conscience is defiled.

 

Daily
issuance of grace: An understanding, clarity of mind, perceiving Christ.

A foolish
heart, weighing truth by emotions having the understanding darkened.

Righteousness
by Christ: Our expectation of faith meet Gods expectation perfectly. The
virtue of His record is what we express to experience the virtue of His
power, whereby we experience the liberty of Christ.


Self-righteousness: Our expectations for faith falls short of the glory of
God for it is a self reflection. The virtues of sin are expressed by the
record of the soul, which generates cycles of bondage.

The Mystery
of Christ: The revelation of His plan, which we partake of and glorify God
by and increase by.

The Mystery
of Iniquity: Partaking of false knowledge, which glorifies the flesh in
hopes of increase by that power.

What is
concealed by God in Christ is revealed by God daily for our nourishment and
growth. As God unfolds Christ we behold the face of the Lord and God beholds
Christ in our faith.

Faith is
separated from Jesus’ government and truth, and joined to things God does
not sanctify. Jesus remains concealed and God does not behold His Son in
their faith.

What God
authorizes for Faith – God sanctifies through grace  

Makes that
which is Holy common and unclean.

Law of Grace
and Truth – sustains the Law of Liberty

Law of
condemnation – and Restlessness in the Soul

Obedience –
then Deliverance

Neglect – and
Project

Observe – and
Do

Boastful –
prideful

The righteous
follow due process of their cleansing, service, and communication with God

The ungodly
desire the reward by taking a short cut to divinity, rejecting all
responsibility to Jesus’ covenant.

Peace and
equity rule the soul.

Oppression
and vexation unto frustration and confusion rule the soul.

Healing and
Deliverance

Removed from
God’s care. Only by God’s compassion are prayers answered, yet the reward of
faith is absent.

Trust  and
confidence

Suspicion and
fear of lack

Faith and
patience

Covetousness
and riotousness

The righteous
abide in the will of God knowing what it is and abound in the blessings of
the covenant daily.

The ungodly
reject Christ’s covenant and spend their life seeking and searching for the
will of God, but never finding.

The righteous
place God’s purpose in Jesus Christ and fulfill that purpose perfectly.
There are no paradoxes in Christ.

The ungodly
place God’s purpose in the record of their own souls and fail to find
fulfillment. Fulfillment is paradoxal: with conflict, inequity, and
prejudice.

The righteous
exercise prudence with long discernment being taught of God to suffer the
death of their aspiration to live by the power of God.

The ungodly
are short-sighted and follow their aspirations, receiving counsel from
seducing spirits who confirm the joining of the aspiration to knowledge to
direct the flesh to rectify fear and lack.

The soul
accepts this evidence of Jesus Christ and through each choice of faith
testifies to the hope of the soul to increase by the knowledge of Christ
that is empowered by the Spirit of God to rule over fear and lack. This is
the testimony of the righteous.

The soul
accepts this evidence (self-verifying witness) and testifies to the hope of
the flesh to increase by the knowledge that is empowered by the spirit of
the world to rule over fear and lack.

 

Distinction
is placed in Jesus Christ for our sanctified separation unto God.

Distinction
is set in the flesh for unsanctified separation from God.

Meekness and 
Temperance

Prefer
profane and vain babblings

Gentleness
and Goodness

Devouring one
another with words of  iniquity

Diligence and
Consistency

Natural man
walks by vain imaginations and the fear of lack to fabricate false peace and
security

Longsuffering
– Endurance of Time

Live for the
moment with restlessness

As the soul
rehearses and reflects upon the record (knowledge) of Jesus Christ:

The Spirit of
God bears witness to Jesus Christ to:

•     Direct
the heart in faith

•     Confirm
the building blocks of Christ to sanctify our labor with God

•     Verify
Jesus Christ

•     Build
confidence

•     Issue
peace

•     Bind the
soul and spirit to God in peace

•     Bring
equity between soul and spirit of man

The righteous
accepts this evidence of Jesus Christ and through the priesthood sacrifices
keeps their heart full of faith testifying that Jesus is the bread of life,
that He gives strength to the soul, He waters the soul with His life, and
cleanses the soul with His truth. This is the testimony of the righteous.

The soul
reflects its own fruit and carries this mark:   Christ

 

As the soul
rehearses and reflects upon the record (knowledge) of sin and death,
relationships, issues of life, etc.:

Satan’s
building blocks produce the testimony of death. The soul accepts this
evidence and testifies to the hope of the flesh to accept the scaring of the
soul and champion many self-help courses that promises comfort through
empathy in hopes of ruling over sin and death and to restore the soul apart
from covenant and faith. The soul follows the pattern of the offence
laboring with a false yoke to cover frailty, using the tools of the world
for closure, thus continues to testify of its own condition. The soul
reflects its own shame and carries this mark:

Idolatry ●
Sin ● Death ● Condemnation ● False Testimony

Prudence and  Zeal 

Driven by
appetite – and aggressive with iniquity

Preparation
of truth brings – service, understanding, and a promise

Preparation
of the world is with the wisdom of the world.

Fruit unto
Virtue

Sin unto
Death

Light unto
Life

Corruption
unto corruption

In closing we can see how much we are thankful for. God has preserved us from the power of darkness and preserved us in Himself by the power of His grace even as Jesus prayed, “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil” (Jn.17:15).

“The integrity of the righteous is made sure by the testimony of the Lord.”

In His Grace,
Apostle David
Second 8th Week University

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