Clouds with Water Appear Dark (Vol. 2)

In Jude 1:12, the Apostle paints a vivid picture: "These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots." This imagery speaks to individuals who project an appearance of care, love, and concern yet, upon closer inspection, lack the substance that reflects true godly character.

In modern terms, this could describe a narcissistic personality—someone who gives the impression of love but lacks empathy, compassion, and mercy. Such individuals are adept at pointing fingers and assigning blame, often saying, "You, you, you," but never reflecting inwardly. They may appear dynamic and engaging, but there is no evidence of spiritual fruit—no manifestation of the Holy Spirit's work, such as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, or self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). Jude’s warning is timeless, reminding us to discern those who might infiltrate with selfish motives, appearing as part of the community but ultimately serving only themselves.

Jesus told His disciples that He must go so that another Savior - the Holy Spirit can come (John 14:16). The word Jesus uses in this verse for Savior is the Greek word “Paraclete” – one called alongside to help. He includes the word “another” with Savior, which should have us pause and ask what Jesus was honestly saying. Is the Holy Spirit “another Savior”?

Jude tells us there are spots in our “Love Feast.”  He is addressing the individual to look within themselves. There are three feasts of the Lord to discern our relationship with God (Leviticus 23). Passover – being born again, Pentecost – married to Jesus Christ, and Tabernacles – consummating the marriage. A love feast is about Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came upon the people. They were already saved and delivered by what Jesus did at the Resurrection, but now they needed to grow up in the unity of one body in Christ Jesus. There is a fifty-day journey from the Passover Feast to the Pentecost Celebration. Jesus appeared many times from the unseen to the visible realm for forty of those fifty days, preparing them for the unity of marriage with the Holy Spirit. In the upper room, 120 received the kiss of the Holy Spirit, uniting the Spirit of God with them in their natural bodies (Acts 2).

Jude describes this wedding feast as having blemishes like clouds without water. In Jeremiah 3:3, we read, "Therefore, the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. You have had a harlot's forehead. You refuse to be ashamed." 

Do you know what a harlot's forehead is? Our forehead represents our thoughts. Paul tells us to be transformed by renewing our minds (Romans 12:2). We're talking about the mind of Christ. If we consider ourselves Spirit-filled believers but speak from a position of “someday,” our thoughts are being led by a religious spirit or harlot mind. 

The disciples gathered for ten days after Jesus ascended and before the day of Pentecost, or when the marriage of the body of Christ and the Spirit of Christ united. When couples take their marriage vows, they are joining in covenant oneness. Their name and nature are merged from that day forward. So, it should be for believers who know they have the Holy Spirit with them and in them. It is a marriage with Christ as one body, with Jesus as the head – the husband. 

A harlot mind is like a cloud with no water to nurture the earth. The scriptures are quoted, and the belief in what Jesus did at the cross and resurrection is there. The believer may be able to speak in another prayer language, but they don’t have the assurance of God going with them and in them wherever they go. Jude is not shunning them but establishing a place of growth that John shares in 1 John 4:17, “As He is, so are we today in this world.” 

There is a mixture of someday when they get to heaven and not yet. In the meantime, they are living out of their egos, thoughts, and humanity. Isaiah 1:21 describes Jerusalem, which was known as the city of God, became a city of a harlot. “Oh! Can you believe it? The chaste city has become a whore! She was once all justice, everyone living as good neighbors, And now they’re all at one another’s throats. Your coins are all counterfeits. Your wine is watered down. Your leaders are turncoats who keep company with crooks. They sell themselves to the highest bidder and grab anything not nailed down. They never stand up for the homeless, never stick up for the defenseless.” (MSG).

You see, a harlot's forehead is not a committed bride woman ready to take on the name, nature, and identity of her beloved. It would be a spiritual understanding that I know the word, I've memorized it, but there's no anointing. There's no name, nature, or identity that's being reflected in that person because that person is still married to their old system. An old system that says I'm a sinner. An old system that says I'm never going to be good enough. And that's not what God is saying.

God is saying you are a new creation in Christ and that those clouds that may look good may be fun to watch, maybe giving you some shade from the intensity of the sun, but there's fear in those clouds. 

When voices from our past challenge who we are today by questioning, “If you are a child of God, a son or daughter of God, then do these things.”  These are the same temptations that Jesus dealt with for forty days in the wilderness. That's what those kinds of clouds do. They're not the cloud of witness of the presence of Christ right now in you, but a cloud that says, "Well, one day when you reach heaven."  They're thieves of your future, and they're thieves of your past. God is omnipresent, He's omni-powerful, and He's omni-knowing, and He's here right now.

If you're living in and contemplating the religious perspective that says, “No, you can't have all the goods now. You receive a little bit now, and then you get the rest on the other side,” ask yourself the same words God asked Adam, “Who told you?” (Genesis 3:11). Throughout the Scriptures God’s voice rings out from a position that says, "Why do I need to give it to you on the other side when the earth is filled with the glory of ME now and the earth belongs to ME?"

The earth is our inheritance Jesus left for us to take dominion, multiply, and fill with God's Kind (Genesis 1:27-28). God is a consuming fire – the Holy Spirit in you that is not destroying but refining each of us to unveil who we truly are in Christ. He's consuming this old mindset to pour into us new wine in new wineskins, that the old man is gone (2 Corinthians 5). We can ask the Lord for rain during the time of the latter rain, which is now. We are learning that we possess the power to speak life and death into our town, and this power comes from the Holy Spirit within us, being released through us. However, if the words we speak and the meditations of our hearts do not align with what our minds are saying, we will speak with a double tongue. We cannot legally be married to Jesus Christ while functioning in our union with the dead husband of yesterday (Romans 7) and expect the anointing of the power of the Holy Spirit to flow in our natural flesh.

The Lord will create flashing clouds. He will send showers of rain and provide grass in the fields for everyone. Look, those dark clouds are the backdrop of God's presence among us, signaling that He is preparing to do something powerful and beautiful right here with us. Ezekiel said, "Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the lightness of the glory of the Lord. So, when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one speaking." (Ezekiel 1:28 NIV).

In Exodus 24:17, we read, "The sight of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel." And then Paul tells us because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ in Colossians 1:27, “The glory of God is not just on a mountaintop, but it's in you, that Christ is in you.” This hope of glory Paul refers to is not the hope of, "Oh, I hope you get the glory." No, it's the hope that the glory comes out by the words that you speak, by the meditations of your heart, by love being released into the world. To love your enemies and to pray for them. To send out loving thoughts. To send out the love of Christ. Not counting your own life.

When we arrive at that place, we often encounter situations where we feel the need to validate or justify our conversations. But if we pause and reflect, asking ourselves, "Wait a second. What is this conversation about, and who is truly being glorified?" Perhaps the whole presence of the conflict that appears as darkness is merely an opportunity for Christ within us to proclaim, "Let there be light."

“The Lord our God is a consuming fire. He's a jealous God” (Deuteronomy 4:24, Hebrews 12:29). He's jealous because He wants all of you, not just a little bit here and a little bit there. He wants the beautiful facets of how He formed you and created you in His thoughts before you were conceived in your mother's womb. We are at a season that Peter talked about when he gave his message at Pentecost. This is “that.” What you are seeing is “that” what the prophet Joel spoke (Acts 2:16). This is the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's not merely a time for hoping to go to heaven. It doesn't only involve accepting Jesus as your personal savior and waiting for the earth to be destroyed. Because this is the destruction of the earth. It's not that I'm facing death; it's the ego within me. It's not about my individuality but the shared experience of moving into the one body of Christ and working together as many members in unity.

Paul talked about humanity being one body in Christ with many parts, but all parts of the body are necessary. If I am an arm and someone else has a hand, there must be a connection for the blood to flow and carry LIFE to the hand. If the hand says, "I won’t join the arm," or the arm says, "I’ll join the hand, but I’m going to be in control," the hand may rebel, causing pain and suffering for both while claiming to believe in the power of the blood of Jesus.

We are in the season of joining the body of Christ all around the world. We don't have to travel; we don't even have to go anywhere. Today, we can unveil the glory of the frequency Presence, the light of Christ in you, to make a difference or a shift change in the whole atmosphere just by being who you truly are and not who the world says you are. Yes, you have titles. Yes, you have positions. Yes, you have certain things. All of these are just tools to be used; they don’t take anything away but rather serve to open doors for you.

What I'm finding is that the body of Christ, which has been operating in a state of fear and money, is entering a new season. This new season involves freely operating in the gifts that God has given us in ways that are not about denominations, cultures, money, politics, or gender issues. We don't have to protect ourselves from the world with an attitude to escape someday to heaven. The enemies of God are out there, but greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. When we Love our enemies the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit will put a hedge of protection to where our enemies have no clue of where we're at because all they see is a dark cloud.

This kind of teaching is a new way of starting this new season we're going into, a spring season. In Ezekiel 21:28, he said, "With a sword against the Amorites, a new son of man prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord God concerning the Amorites and concerning their reproach and say a sword, a sword is drawn, polished for slaughter, for consuming, for flashing.'" 

When we think of a sword, we think in terms of slice and dice, but this sword - the word of the Lord, is a consuming fire. "For the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than a two-edged sword piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow and as a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of our heart” (Hebrews 4:12). This word is within you; it's the discerner and the intent. Out of the mouth, the heart speaks. But is it speaking as a double-edged sword that produces life and death? Or is it speaking with the authority of oneness? Because you know who you are in Christ, you're married to the Lamb of God, and you can carry the name, nature, and identity of oneness; as He is, so are you in this world. God will honor that because you're unveiling the kingdom of God in this world.

In Revelation 1:15 -17, "His feet were like fine brass as if refined in a furnace and his voice as a sound of many waters." We are the water of the word, "He had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead, but he laid his right hand on me, saying to me, 'Do not be afraid.' I am the first and the last," because we are in one.

Yes, there's a humility. Yes, Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, but it's like a bride preparing herself for the coming of the Lord, and that coming is emerging from within you. It doesn't matter whether you're male or female. It doesn’t matter whether you're heterosexual or homosexual; it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white, red, or yellow. It doesn't matter what your skin color is or what your culture is. Christ in you is a multifaceted, dynamic power of light, life, and love, embodying who God is. And Jesus Christ is the head of this multifaceted body, where we each work together.

That dynamic power, when united, surpasses even the destructive force of a hydrogen bomb. All of creation is groaning for the sons of God to emerge. Reflect on this. Consider what I'm sharing, reread the scriptures I've provided, and invite the Holy Spirit to inspire you, prompting you to say, "Wow, I want to change. I don't want oppression. I don't want depression. I don't want to be living with that recording that has been in my head of my past." 

Every time you try to let it go on your own and fail, remember that a dead man can’t fail again. However, the new creation in Christ Jesus can remove the influence of that accuser's voice because of the anointing power that breaks the yoke. This isn’t only because you're saved, or a Christian; the Holy Spirit is moving and guiding you. You’re being led by the Spirit of God, carrying the same Divine power that Jesus had while performing miracles on earth before the cross. That power is now within you because He lives in you. 

“The word became flesh, and dwells among men.” (John 1:14).