I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. (Romans 12:1-2 KJ2000)

In the above passage the Greek word νους (nous or nooce) is translated as “mind.” This Greek word occurs 22 times in the New Testament, a very interesting number, for 22 is the number for light. (References: click here and here) God created light and separated it from darkness on the first day of creation. As a parable this shows us the goal of all creation, to establish the rule of light in place of the darkness which currently rules men’s minds. I encourage you to do a search of all 22 references to the Greek word νους so that you will see on your own how the renewing of our νους (mind) ties into this study.

Now, before proceeding, if you find it difficult to understand spiritual things, the things which I write, or which you read on my links at the right, then pray that Jesus will “open your mind” according to the following verse:

Then opened he their understanding [mind], that they might understand the scriptures. (Luke 24:45 KJ2000)

I depend utterly upon the LORD giving me understanding concerning what I write. I do not read other men’s opinions regarding the Scripture and I do not regurgitate their ideas as my own. I attempt to discern Christ’s mind about certain Scriptures he draws my attention to and then convey that understanding to others. He gave my daughter a dream about Armageddon, she shared it with me and her Mother, and her Mother and I have sought the LORD for his explanation of it. I believe God has given us light about at least some of the dream’s meaning and that is what I am sharing here. So, let’s review the one Scripture in the entire Bible which mentions Armageddon.

The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. 13 And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. 14 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. 15 (“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”) 16 And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. (Revelation 16:12-16 ESV)

Now let’s review my daughter’s dream.

Chava dreamt that she and some others strategized and “killed” Armageddon, who was at that time the most evil person in all the earth. After the assassination Armageddon’s followers determined to kill everyone involved in that conspiracy, but they could not kill these saints directly. Instead they had to somehow take control of their minds and bring them to the point where they would kill themselves, suicide themselves. They did not want to kill the conspirators themselves for “political reasons.” These demons then captured my daughter and her sister. They stood before them taunting them in order to strike fear into them, but she told them, “You are not going to get me to commit suicide.” The demons then marched the girls up a hill. Then Chava awoke.

Interpreting the dream now, the Battle of Armageddon represents the battle for our minds. The prophecy in Genesis 3 of Jesus crushing Satan’s head, the story of Jael piercing and crushing Sisera’s head at Megiddo, and Jesus’ cross puncturing Golgotha (the place of the skull) all speak of destroying the Satanic mind, the evil mind, the carnal mind. Chava dreamt that she and others had killed Armageddon because she represented a faithful Christian in this dream, someone who has “the νους (mind) of Christ.” (1 Cor. 2:16) Anyone possessing the mind of Christ walks in victory over Armageddon (the mind of Satan).

We all know, however, that our battles do not cease once we believe Jesus Christ and walk in his ways. Demons, through evil thoughts, still assault us. These demons are Armageddon’s followers in the dream. Revelation 16 calls them “unclean, demonic spirits, like frogs,” which proceed from the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. The dragon represents Satan, the beast represents all the satanic governments which rule the earth, and the false prophet represents all religious leaders (Mystery Babylon – include church & other religions, media, actors, and music and sports idols here) who lead their converts and fans in patriotic loyalty to their beast governments (just as German Christian leaders counseled their people to obey Adolph Hitler and take part in his beast government, as most media idols lead their fans in worship of Barack Obama and his government today, and as Islamist governments persecute and kill Christians today).

Most governments and false prophets of those governments do not advocate killing God’s faithful people outright. That would be bad for politics. Instead, they create a world designed to drive insane those who believe in the truth. Insanity may then lead someone to suicide, but that really makes no difference to the followers of Armageddon at that point. They will have won because they will have destroyed the mind of Christ in that person. In her dream Chava determined that these evil men would never drive her to suicide. This means that she committed herself to putting on and keeping on the mind of Christ.

Ultimately this dream, like all of Scripture, concerns the salvation of the soul (not the spirit!). God calls us to submit our soul (our mind, our will, and our emotions) to him. When we do that perfectly (and he who began a good work in us will see it to completion) then we will be one with him and will begin to rule with him in his Kingdom. This is the calling of every overcomer, every son of God.*

* Interestingly, the day that I wrote and posted this writing was the very day that prophet Ken Visscher posted his newest treatise which includes the following excerpt:

The Overcomer found now in a glorified eternal body exempt from death and dying will have no harm come to them. They will be completely restored in both power of thought in the mind and in their reasoning abilities. The very mind they use will be the mind of Christ and the mind of Christ will be their mind in exchange. What I mean by that is that as one Overcomer in a glorified body thinks, so the entire mass of Overcomers and Christ will think. Their thoughts and the thoughts of Christ’s own mind as it is now will be the very same thought in a continuance, they will all be of the same thinking mind with no part of that mind ever being outside the full measure of Christ’s mind and power of thought. It will be a mind that thinks with the thoughts of the Father and of His will which is the life of the ages. Jesus said “For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. John 12:49-50. So then, the commandment or “mind” of the Father was LIFE EVERLASTING. From the writing in The New Jerusalem chapter #29 called “The Gate of Asher”, and from the writing in The New Jerusalem chapter #30 called “The Gate of Manneseh” comes the following visions to confirm these words. This was a foretaste of the glorified body I had at that time experienced.
(Visions)
“From the place wherein I was held in the atmosphere I could behold within the City the Mount Zion and upon the top a fire enfolding in upon itself and within the billowing fire a Throne set and ONE who sat upon the Throne, even the Ancient of Days. As I entered into oneness with the company of those who were HOLY I found that I had come into a pre-taste of the Glorified Body. For this was a company who walked in the earth in bodies of light and glory which was promised by our inheritance in our Heavenly Father. The same body of light and glory which Jesus arose with from the tomb and which is promised to those who would inherit everlasting life. These who took part in the 1st resurrection were in these bodies of glory. And I looked out through eyes of my own glorified body and beheld the cursed earth and the spiritual entities of principality and power who were round about the earth’s inhabitants. As I looked out through these eyes in the new body, I could see both the natural realm of this creation as well as the world of spirit at the same time. I saw the influences of spirit upon those who dwelt on the earth in natural bodies. These influences were both from the power of carnality and principality as well as Holy or demonic forces which pulled each person into a walk of instability. I could see men walking as though they were in a wrestling match with themselves, being torn this way and that by the influences of that which was good verses that which was evil. Great wrestlings in the world of spirit were taking place over the life of each one. The thing I noted about the spiritual eyes in the glorified body was that I could discern accurately each thing which came into my vision. It mattered not if it were that which God had originally formed from dust, or if it were that which had come from the realm of spirit and all the entities therein. This discernment was not based on time but on continual knowledge of that which was of God and that which was of this lower element in the earth.

At the same time I was aware of the life of resurrection flowing through my new body of flesh, the very life of The Lord Jesus Christ flowing through the veins of this body. That the animations of my body were according to His animations and His workings, that which He in sovereignty purposed to be done in full accord with the Will of God was passed, and that which was the final perfection of His life in a vessel thus glorified was the force of life that flowed through my being, even in my veins.

What interested me the most was the thoughts of the mind in this new body. For the thoughts of the mind were implicitly accurate and complete, there was no partiality or anything that was not in full faculty. As I had seen the Ancient of Days upon the Throne, so I had His thoughts. My mind in this Glorified Body was MY MIND, and I could think as I willed to think. But the thoughts I thought and the choices I made WERE MADE IN PERFECT UNION WITH HE WHO SAT UPON THE THRONE. As God thought, so I thought. As I thought, so God thought. Within this mind was the power of thinking which had no limitation or restriction or falseness or shadow of lack or lack of understanding. Each thought was resilient in the Wisdom of God without any measure of restriction. This was a mind much more intelligent than the one I possessed on earth in my first natural body. The thoughts in this mind were the very thoughts of God, or rather, God thinking in me.” (End Visions)