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THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIALISM
Kriston Couchey

THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIALISM
In my nation there is a movement toward socialism in all levels of government. Many Christians have begun to react with fear and anger over this trend that seems to threaten the freedoms they have been given in the constitution of the United States. The reactions of both Christians and non-Christians opposing these changes in government have sometimes been a reasoned response, and at times shameful and ungodly. But, there is more going on then just an earthly government changing it's policies and practices, there is a spiritual cause that if not recognized and removed, will continue to bring a great many people into bondage.

THE EFFECT AND ROOT OF SOCIALISM
Socialism is defined by some as the equal distribution of wealth among people. In practice, Socialism is the transfer of personal liberty, responsibility, and authority to govern oneself over to the control of a centralized government institution (leadership structure). Socialism is DEPENDENCY upon government (leadership structure) to direct and take care of you. The move towards socialism in institutions of men is a manifestation of the spirit of Anti-Christ. The spirit of Antichrist opposes and denies Christ come in the flesh. The expression of Christ come in the flesh today is you and I, His hands and feet on earth. Anti-Christ means "instead of" or "in the place of" Christ.

SPIRITUAL SOCIALISM
The children of Israel afraid to hear God at Mt. Sinai told Moses, "You hear God for us and tell us what He says and we will do it". Like the children of Israel, many in the church have abdicated their personal liberty, spiritual responsibility and authority over to "leadership" that hears God for them and tells them what to do instead of hearing and obeying God themselves; Spiritual Socialism. The Lord is clearly exposing in this hour the dependency upon men (spiritual socialism) that has hindered the church from entering into it's destiny. This dependency on man's leadership has effectively hindered the formation of Christ in His people as they have relinquished their liberty, responsibility, and authority in Christ to a leadership structure. The church has become socialist in it's governance, and the nations of the earth are manifesting the state of the church. The church has enabled socialism to flourish in the world through it's own failure to overcome the spirit of Antichrist. The Antichrist spirit has manifest in the church as people have depended on men's leadership to take care and lead them "instead of" Christ.

SPIRITUAL TOTALITARIANISM
From Joseph Stalin to Fidel Castro, we have seen that the abdicating of power and authority over to "centralized" leadership to "care for and guide" the people has given men a "systemic" doorway to abuse power and enforce totalitarian rule. Spiritual Socialism (dependency) in the church is the doorway to Spiritual Totalitarianism. Take as an example the Roman Church.

The zenith of the Antichrist spirit's power in the church was during the dark ages. These were the days in which the Roman Church was supreme in it's ruling over church AND state. All men and women of the western church were in TOTAL dependence upon the church system for spiritual life, even for forgiveness. This bondage of the church to the Antichrist spirit manifest in the world as feudalism; Lords and slaves, landowners and serfs, rulers and subjects. This was a time when the expression of Christ in the common people was rare. This dependency (spiritual socialism) upon church leadership systemically enabled corrupt men to rule over the masses in the the church with totalitarian rule. TOTAL-itarian means TOTAL rule.

While much has changed since Luther's 95 thesis on the Wittenburg church door, western church structure and function is still patterned closely after it's mother; the Roman Church. Moves of the Spirit have brought refreshing, reformation, and revival. But, throughout history, the Antichrist spirit reacts and tries to preempt each move of God. It still has a hold on the church, as dependency and the rule of men over the affairs of the church rather then Christ still replace and hinder the full expression of Christ in His people.

MOVES OF GOD OPPOSED
A recent example of this spirits work was the 1970's charismatic movement, the "shepherding" teaching squelched the work of the Spirit in God's people. It did a good job of it. Every time there is an expression of Christ in His people the Antichrist spirit tries to use a inappropriate leadership hierarchy to "swallow up" the work of the Holy Spirit and oppose the expression of Christ in His people.

I am not writing to following to be critical or condemning to the church that Jesus loves passionately. I am writing this to bring light to the state of affairs in the church to help bring healing and deliverance to His beloved Bride. In the last 15 years I have personally witnessed and heard testimony of numerous organizations and individuals devastated by abominable leadership teachings that rob the people of God of their dignity and freedom in Christ. Much of this is done in the name of "Apostolic" ministry. As one example: the moving of God's Spirit in the mid 1990's was followed by a totalitarian response from the Antichrist spirit in the unbiblical "covering" doctrine, a carryover of the shepherding movement. It is one of MANY false leadership teachings that have leavened today's "apostolic" movement.

These are NICOLAITAN teachings. Nicolaitan means: "Subduing or lording over the people". The church has become in many cases (NOT ALL) a state in which leaders are TOTALLY depended upon for things spiritual. A "lay person" (an unbiblical term applied to the church) that hears God speak differently then leadership is liable to be cast out as a rebel. As a pastor told some friends, "I don't need to hear what God is speaking to you, I have high level prophets that tell me what God is saying."

TRUE LEADERSHIP
But Jesus called them unto him and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and those that are great wield power over them. But it shall not be so among you, but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant,

God is bringing a greater revelation of the purpose, heart, and function of the ascension gifts in this new day. There is coming a great diminishing of the positions and titles of men in the church, simply because God is putting the church back into order, HIS ORDER. While God is establishing apostles in His church; God is NOT building an apostolic hierarchy of superiors and inferiors. He is building (forming) Christ in His people. The church is not a structure of dependency upon an apostolic network, it is a world wide family that is becoming in nature and authority the expression of Christ on the earth. It is a kingdom of Priests. The job of apostles and prophet is to SEE TO IT Christ is formed in people, that means teaching people to be dependent on HIM, and letting Christ be expressed as He wills through His people.

JUDGMENT FIRST IN GOD'S HOUSE
...casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. ~Paul~

Full obedience to Christ in the church will signal judgment on all disobedience. God is come to His church and is cleaning house now in this day of transition. We are not in a position to judge the world until our own house is in order. We go deeper into bondage and deception if we attempt to take a splinter out of another's eye when we have a log in our own. I have seen one person attempt to deliver another who had the same bondage as the one they were trying to deliver. It doesn't work. The church as individuals and a corporate entity has no divine authority to confront the strongholds in the world they themselves are overcome by. Bondage does not beget freedom, freedom begets freedom.

God is bringing deliverance from the oppression of the spirit of Antichrist IN His church.We must see our sin before we can repent of it. Praise God the tide has shifted and is going out now. Being exposed on the beach are "unseen" places where we have been mired in chains and muck. It is a body wide revelation God is bringing to free us ALL from what many have not begun to recognize until now. Now is the day of our release, the sun has risen with Healing in His wings. He brings deliverance for His people from the spirit of Antichrist that has enticed men to usurp the Lord's rightful place as head of His household. Judgment has come to the house of God.

He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. ~Father God~

In His Love
Kriston Couchey

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Sept. 14th 2009
Kriston Couchey

ANGRY AT THE MISTREATMENT OF MY SON
As I spoke to the school principle about the way my son was being bullied by a bigger boy who kept my son in fear and anxiety during his recess times, I suddenly in anger said, "If you will not do anything I will come during break and take care of the problem myself!" The thought of my son, who is slight of build and walks with a prosthetic leg, being tormented again for another year on the school playground evoked a burning anger in me that I could not keep in check. A year of inadequate dealing with a problem student who hounded my son each recess trying to kick his private parts and punch him over and over had brought me to the point of saying this year, "No More! If those given responsibility will not protect my son, then I am coming to take care of it myself!"

After my episode with the principle, the Lord spoke to me and said, "Now you know how I feel about my children!" The Lord's deep presence came. The fierceness of my anger in dealing with that principle felt strangely like the fierce anger of the Lord I once felt directed toward a congregation while I was leading worship. I was shocked by the fierceness and depth of anger flowing from the Lord's presence toward those who were unwilling to hear and obey what the Lord was trying to speak to them. I stopped and began crying out for mercy for the people.

THE FLESH OF MEN
I was watching the animated version of the "Prince of Egypt" in which God spoke to Moses that He had heard the people's cries and had come down to deliver them. I wept like a baby during that movie as the Spirit of God spoke to me and imparted a deep burden of the Lord. It was that weekend at a conference the fire of God rose in me and I gave a word to a pastor that said, "LET MY PEOPLE GO! You have enslaved my children to do YOUR WILL, and if you do not repent I will remove you and give them to another!" The confirming power of God in that word caused the intercessors to start falling out in the Spirit.

Exodus 3:7-8 " I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians..." The Bible clearly tells us what Egypt represents, it represent the flesh of men. Isa 31:3 "Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit." Let me clearly state that which has enslaved and brought the people of God under fear of men rather then the Lord is LEADERSHIP in the church. It has made God's children slaves to men's will and agendas.

THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS COME
The Lord has said, "I will delay no more, I have personally come now to take back what is mine and has been stolen by men, those who have taken my people as captives to their own wills will stand in fear of ME!" Father is come in power to take back what is His, and those standing in the way will see His displeasure. He is saying to the apostles and prophets and leaders who like Pharaoh have built their houses on the backs of His Children, "LET MY PEOPLE GO!!" I tell you this in all sincerity and without bitterness, God has come down and we are going to see NOW His vengeance for the sake of His sons. Not only has leadership taken advantage of men and instilled the fear of men and doctrines of pleasing and following men in people; many who know better are doing nothing about it.

The Lord NOW comes with the fear of the Lord, necessitating great repentance and change. There is coming a great diminishing of the positions of men in the church. All of this is simply because it is God putting the church back into HIS order, not the order of hierarchy and title, but the order of Love for God's Children. Father is raising up in this hour shepherds who will not fleece the sheep, but lay down their lives for them.

GREAT CHANGE
There is coming such a change to the church that some will not be able to make the transition. Now is the time to fast and mourn and seek the Lord for His mind and heart. The fear of God is sweeping the church with a fire of God's presence we have not known before this day, but the day of God's vengeance is here!

In Him

Kriston Couchey

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BEGINNING AND ENDING
Kriston Couchey


JACOB'S TROUBLE, THE TRANSITION
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

In Genesis 32 Jacob is making a journey from being a servant in the house of Laban to becoming master of His own destiny. In this journey of transition, Jacob has trouble before him in his brother Esau, and behind him in Laban his old master. Yet this trouble was the crucible of His life to bring him into the beginning of a new day in which He entered the land promised to his forefathers; and end of his days of laboring in the house of Laban. It was also a day of name change for Jacob from that of "supplanter" to that of "prince of God".

Prophetically we have entered the day of "Jacob's Trouble" (tribulation) in which transition is shaking and removing all that offends from the kingdom. Transition brings a beginning and end within the hearts of God's people. It bringing shaking and tribulation that ends sin, rebellion, religion, and the world's systems that have held captive His church. It is also the beginning of the fullness of the rule of God within the hearts of His children; the kingdom of God come to earth. This tribulation is a result of the kingdom being established in and through God's people. This transition will truly turn "supplanters" into the "princes of God" who will inherit the kingdom and be a source of great shaking; changing the very expression of what we call church today.

God is bringing great upheaval and change to the church today. It is a very good thing, and also a very hard thing. God has determined in this hour it must be done, and we are going to experience right now the transition that brings many sons into glory. I am not talking about years from now, I am saying RIGHT NOW God is doing this. Power and initiative is being released from the throne to bring this transition and God will sovereignly bring change that will cause the rise and fall of many.

PURIFIED WITH FIRE
Judgment comes first to God's own house and then to the world. It is through much tribulation that we enter the kingdom of God. The day is here Now! God is setting into order his house and He is determined to to bring forth a pure and Holy Bride; a people mystically united with Him in heart and deed. It is the kingdom manifest in God's people that will also bring this purification (tribulation)of fire to the earth and it's inhabitants in order to restore and renew the planet.

WRESTLING FOR YOUR INHERITANCE
The difference between Jacob and Esau was that Jacob valued the birthright while Esau was concerned with taking care of his fleshly needs. He was not valuing the promises given to his forefathers. Many today are feeding from and focused on fleshly needs and happenings that are the price they pay for their birthright. It's time to fall on our faces before God and repent. We must fall on His already available mercy and like Jacob not let go till He blesses us with a new name and a place in the land of promise.

Kriston Couchey
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