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will abound? Why make this wickedness your focus? It will only bring trouble to your
spirit. Instead, focus on Christ. He will put every enemy under His feet. He will rule
the world with a rod of iron, and He will use His saints to accomplish these things.

Follow Yahshua’s own example when people came to Him to disturb Him with news
of a conspiracy being birthed by King Herod to capture Him.

Luke 13:31-32
Just at that time some Pharisees approached, saying to Him, "Go away,
leave here, for Herod wants to kill You." And He said to them, "Go and
tell that fox, "Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and
tomorrow, and the third day I reach My goal.'”

The Pharisees wanted Yahshua to be manipulated by fear. They wanted Him to
change His plans to avoid the schemes of wicked men. But look at Yahshua’s
confidence. He would not allow fear to rule for even one minute. He would not focus
on the schemes of wickedness. Instead He declared that nothing could be done to
Him until the time set by the Father. He said, “I cast out demons and perform cures
today and tomorrow, and the third day I reach my goal.” Herod could not change the
timetable of God by so much as a second.

This is the confidence that God would have the Elect to walk in today. Know that it
is the Father that orders the steps of the righteous. The Elect are not at the mercy of
scheming men or fallen angels. Their lives are kept in the palm of the Father’s hand.
Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ: not tribulation, distress,
persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword, neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor
depth, nor any other created thing. We are always kept in the love of God. No New
World Order, no secret society, no international banker, no world government, no
scheme of man, can do anything to alter the plan of Yahweh for our lives. He alone
orders our steps, and He will bring us forth victorious over all.

I am not saying that we should be ignorant of the day and time we live in. It is well
and good to know that things are marching forward to a great confrontation between
good and evil, between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness. There is
nothing wrong with being aware of what is going on in the world, but we should not
make it our focus. We should make Yahweh our focus, and we should know what He
says about these days. Let the nations rage and peoples plot futile conspiracies.
Yahweh’s predestined plan will be accomplished right on time and in the exact
manner that He has determined.

You can know that you live in stormy times without making the storm your focus.
What possible benefit is there in staring at the wind and the waves, looking intently