March 17, 2026

Why is the main battlefield for our souls the “mind” [our thinking]?  “Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” rom 15:5-6 nkjv   Notice specifically here that your mind and mouth [confession] are directly connected… whatever [whoever] directs your thinking will also cause you to espouse their mindset. Consider the implications of this scripture:

“But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” rom 10:8-10 nkjv

Peter says, “to rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;” What has the “revelation” of Jesus Christ done? We are told to be “renewed” in the “spirit of our minds.” The scripture reads, “Christ IN YOU, the hope of Glory!” Understanding this… is what the revelation of Jesus Christ has done. Is Jesus Christ in YOU, YOUR hope of Glory? The hope of Glory is the expectation of being resurrected by Him, in Him, and in His “likeness.” And to live this life understanding that peace… He has overcome death, hell, and the grave, none of those things can defeat us if our faith is kept in Him… that is why our “mind/thinking” is the main target of demonic forces rampant on the earth today. Their objective is to obstruct Biblical truth and draw us into the “hive mind” of alternative temptations, sold to us as benefits and opportunities… not unlike the serpent’s question to Eve, “did God say…” Yes He did, but if we focus on the lie/distractions, we will get lost in the stickiness of evil temptations. Here is the key:

“And do not be 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.” rom 12:2 nkjv

If there was ever a time when our “minds” have been assaulted unceasingly and so aggressively, it is now… think, the distractions of the “digital age.” And certainly with the advent of the cell phone… think about it. I grew up in the transition from slide rules, mechanical key calculators, digital hand held calculators, desktop computers, etc… I began studying computer coding, in “GW-BASIC” programming, in the 1970’s… fifty years ago. The change and progress the internet has brought us to now is mind boggling; now we have come to the “Artificial” [mind] Intelligence” age of man. The determined goal of the adversary of our soul is to hijack our minds, take the “mind of Christ” out of our soul and convert us to a “hive mind” of devilish self-willed thinking… You must understand, you WILL [like it or not] yield your mind to one or the other… which one will you surrender your mind to? For sure, evil will let you have “part” of Christ… Christ will not share with a divided soul [double minded man]; only death to self and fully given to Christ will work. Falling down and stumbling in your faith-walk is not a “divided soul,” it is unfortunate, but confession of an honest and sincere heart, and asking forgiveness, will heal the breach. Yeshua is always willing to forgive and restore us. Let me share with you a very insightful comment of Paul…

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

”37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” rom 8:35-39 nkjv

I believe Yahweh put these specific words in Paul’s thinking… and all but one of the things trying to separate us from the love of God existed until the past few years, that being, “any other created thing.” This element has now come to the forefront of nearly all technological concepts. The “created thing” [creature, KJV], is the Greek word, Strongs g2937,  and can include man created… think, transhuman, robot, AI in all its uses, and the combination of them all, and then some. I think this includes “post human” man made artificial intelligence creatures as well; as in Revelations 13:15,  reference to:

“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”

So, as we look at the times in which we live, what do you think about the Biblical prophecies and last-days warnings of Yeshua in Mat chpt 24, Mark chpt 13, and Luke chpt 21…  And Where do you think we are on Daniel’s timeline scriptures of his visions and message of the angle explaining the visions to him… all recorded in Dan chpts 7-12.  Is not Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians speaking about them not being deceived? And what was the essence of his concern? Notably, it was people not having a “love for the truth.” Has there ever been a time when the truth has been more distorted than in this day in which we live? What does the battle for truth involve…? Is it not your thinking [mind] and what you do with what you believe? Who is tempting you to follow “another Jesus?”

In the book of John, chpt 5,  Yeshua has a confrontation with the religious leaders, who dispute His claim to be the Messiah… one of the most powerful understandings in His comments was when He said this:

  “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. 44 How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God? 45 Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”  bold emphasis by me.

Note carefully, they were deceived because they did not believe Moses [the Torah] they were self-absorbed in their own religion… I think many are, and will be, deceived in these turbulent times when truth is so distorted. In order to navigate the stormy times now, and coming in days ahead with even more force, we need the truth of the writings of Moses [Torah], so we know the very nature and instructions of Yahweh… Yeshua’s coming as the “Word/Torah in the flesh,” was God’s way of showing us His very likeness… and men preferred to receive honor from one another [a fundamental fault of denominational theology, men do things their own way].

“There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.” prov 14:12 nkjv

Yahweh foresaw all this… and He gave us the Holy Spirit to counsel us in the truth by providing us the Word of Truth and how we should understand it. Moses still shows us the foundation for “mind sanctity.” Jesus [Yeshua] walked out the Torah, He is our mentor and example. It is up to us to ingest Him as our daily bread; God’s Word is food for our soul to prevent spiritual dementia that results from our carnal nature feeding on profane thinking if left unattended. If we ingest the increasing AI dogma and its evil convenience and influential mysticism, we will languish in a cosmic illusion of carnality and spiritual darkness. We must decide who’s mind we will embrace for our destiny. There are only two choices… what will you decide?

Shalom, John