The Chosen are a Mess
(So they must not be the chosen)
Throughout history God has raised up certain people to bring about change and revival – this is still not in the power I have seen, but this is just to point out that God chooses certain people here and there to bring the word of God back into the earth. The phrase “many are called, but few are chosen” comes to mind. Now – God spoke here making a distinction Himself between two groups of people – the called and the chosen. So, we know there is a distinction here between two groups of people. What are those two groups of people? I could be wrong, but this is how I see it. As I see many people come to the Lord and be saved and all are offered and given certain spiritual gifts they are saved and serving in that respect, but are not in a category of “Chosen”. Chosen ones are a select number of people God specifically chooses to fulfill a position more and different than those called. This IS NOT about elitisms or being above others – it is simply about God having a group HE has called chosen, and another he calls “the called”. I look at my own brother who is saved. There is little doubt in my mind concerning that. He is called and saved. He has no depth for spiritual things and would not know how to minister to another human except on a very basic level. He has no knowledge or understanding of the prophetic or much of the other spiritual things that surround kingdom issues. Then there are others who have tasted of the spiritual realm and can relate in terms that are all altogether foreign to my brother. Though these may fall yet into the category of matured “called” and not necessarily categorized “the chosen” simply because they have a deeper understanding of the kingdom of God – but then there is yet another level where it is hard to conclude such people ARE NOT chosen. They are unique in their spiritual understanding and they are unique in the fact that almost entirely they have been trained by God alone and not by man. And I have to ask this at this point – if God so took the time to train such individuals would it not make sense it would be for a “reason”. Would it make sense for God to have given me these visions of the fullness of Christ upon the earth only to say there will be no such thing? Is God that flaky? Does he give visions that mean nothing? Would he give visions about what it would be like to walk in the full nature of Christ while still upon the earth if it is not something that is going to be, whether in me or in others – I have to ask – what sense would that make?
Those “chosen” of God seem to have been ordained before the foundation of the world. They seem to already have a call upon them from the womb. They seem to be a “different” kind of people. They think different. They see things different and it seems they are plagued with (for a lack of a better term) an assignment against their life. They seem to have come through some of the most horrendous trials in life. They seem to have come through a multitude of things that would have killed the average person.
The Bible says that Jesus “waxed” in wisdom. What does that mean? We often have the preconception that Jesus knew who he was from birth, but as I study what the Bible says – as he divested himself of his former glory it seems that he even divested himself of the knowledge of his former state until it came time for his ministry to manifest. In this same kind of way – it seems these “chosen” ones wax in wisdom and understanding until the day comes like a kiros moment for their ministry to begin. They are chosen people for a chosen time. We are told to believe for great things, but then I see that when someone believes for something that is on the scale of profound there is a quick response by preachers who have preached to believe in the profound to then say they should not believe in such things, as it is too much. Is there such a thing as believing in God TOO MUCH? It is wise to know not to believe in what is out of God’s will – that is not wisdom and it is not being in the will of God enough to know his will, but – if this company of people I speak of are within the original plans of God from the beginning and in his will, then why should I, or anyone else, be discouraged from believing in it. It is true; I have seen many wrongly apply this to themselves supposing themselves to be chosen when they were not. They had that perception because of their own desire for power, as might have been the case with Simon the sorcerer, but do we throw the whole seemingly scriptural doctrine out because of those who falsely assumed to be the fulfillment of such things? Just as in the time Christ came (and ever since) many thought themselves to be the messiah – deluded of course, but was that to say people should not have looked for the Messiah? Jesus wept over Israel because they did not look for him enough to have found him. So then is the promise of the Manifest Sons of God. Since so many have risen up who were deluded to think themselves the manifest sons of God – do we then throw that all out and NOT look for the manifest sons of God? Why does the Bible say that even creation groans for the manifestation of the sons of God if it were not a coming reality at some point? Many have fallen to the delusion they are the two witnesses of revelation – an obvious delusion for many, but does that negate the truth that at some point those two who are the real Two Witnesses will yet walk and minister in the earth? The manifest sons of God can be no other than a company of Chosen of God people who cannot achieve such a fullness in Christ by their own effort. It cannot be so. If that were true than many throughout history, by effort, should have become manifest sons of God. It can only be a transformation from the corrupt into the incorruptible by a miracle transformation by the power of God that these can come forth – otherwise they would, as the Bible says, have reason to boast. They will be no different than any other Christian. They shall be sinners who were chosen by God for his purposes. We all fit that description as it is by the Grace of God he has not killed us all by now – and the fact that, in these corruptible vessels he not only allows us to live, but allows us to preach - is amazing in itself.
Every Christian, it seems, should be groaning in spirit for the redemption. To live in this corruptible vessel is anguish to me. I look forward to my redemption whether it is here or after I die. If nature groans for the manifestation of the sons of God – does nature then groan in vain if it is not within the plans and will of God that this company of people should not manifest at all? Why would the Bible tell us to look forward to things if such things should not be looked forward to?
I must make clear another scriptural precedence I see. As Christ asked “whom do the people say I am” then said, “whom do you say I am” – it was Peter only that spoke he was the Christ and Christ said, “Blessed are you for man has not revealed this to you, but my Father which is in Heaven”. Now we see that as Christ was coming forth it was not a widespread revelation that came to a lot of people, but rather only to a very few. In this case only Peter had the living word. When God is bringing about his special plans he does not seem to take out a front page ad in the New York Times, but as Christ again said, “I thank you father that you have revealed these things to the common man and not the so called “learned”. If you do not at all believe in the coming manifest sons of God – bear with me in this thought – if such a thing were in the plans of God would he likely be as discrete about it as he was his own son? I think so. God is bringing forth a company and he has not made known his purposes in these matters in any “blanket way”. They have been “hidden ones” even as I believe Christ himself was a “hidden one” until his time came. These chosen people are obscure individuals who have been trained in the way the Lord waxed in wisdom – by the leading of the Holy Spirit. And these who preach “great things to come” and then say don’t look for great things to come – why do they preach at all? And none of what I write is about “power and position” – it is about preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all the nations before the end comes.
I wish I had more feedback from people on this issue, but it is by nature a “hidden topic”, only understood by some. Again, some people are going to think by my statement here it is about elitisms. It is not. It is just the nature of God that he does not reveal his plans to just anyone or to everyone. He first tells his prophets what he is up to before he does it. If you don’t believe in prophets than one has to conclude, rationally, that you don’t believe God is up to anything anymore.
I wanted this writing to be fruitful and not just rambling gibberish. I am not sure if I accomplished that. I had a need to write it for myself if not for anyone else because I am inseparably attached to the whole topic even though I have tried to separate myself from it. And it seems the more I have tried to divest myself of this concept the more God has verified it through yet more visions on the matter. If I were on some mind altering drug I might have an excuse for such far reaching ideas – unless I have some sort of mental illness of which I am unaware, or as some doctor might suspect – some tumor in my brain that is giving me these visions.
I have a need to challenge anyone to tell me what these visions are about or for if not for those reasons I have stated.
No one is chosen by his or her own will. It is only by the will of the Father if any man be chosen, but we already know that SOME ARE CHOSEN, because he already said, many are called but few are chosen. It says “FEW” are chosen – it does not say – NONE are chosen. If my explanation of these things is not acceptable then one is still stuck with the dilemma that these “chosen” ones are still about something one needs to identify if not to identify them as I have here. Who do you say they are then? I know I will get a lot of very watered down explanations from some as in – many are called, meaning the gospel goes out to everyone, but few are chosen, meaning those who go into seminary so they can stand behind a pulpit – those being the chosen, to determine that to mean just those who “chose” to go into ministry.
I cannot help what God keeps showing me or the visions he keeps giving me. If there is someone with greater understanding to these issues than I welcome the input. It is for sure I don’t have all the facets to these things all figured out. I am persuaded there are things in the plan of God that are well out of our realm of “expectancy”. They did not expect Christ to come as he did. “Is this not JUST the carpenter’s son”? If these manifest sons are being raised up I would expect they would seem no different than the usual person in the midst of many others. Nothing seemed to stand out about Christ that others would suspect he was special. He wasn’t even good looking. Like when the Prophet Samuel sent to anoint one of the sons of Jesse to be king over Israel and Jesse paraded all his sons before him, and the prophet Samuel said, “Gee – it’s not anyone of these good looking guys – don’t you have any more sons, and Jesse says, “yes, but just this scrawny little red head out in the fields with the sheep, but he is of no importance.” – Yet, that was the one who was anointed to be king over Israel. And look at his life as well – most of it would look anything other than “anointed king of Israel”. It would have been a justifiable thing for any around him, who were looking at his circumstances to simply say – “You are so deluded David, you and your followers to think you are anointed king for Israel – look at your circumstances – you can’t be the anointed king – your situations are a mess and so are you”. = Point made.