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Church Age vs the Kingdom Age

by Del Hungerford

In 2020, I had an encounter with the Lord that lasted a full month. Intermixed with my teaching duties and other life happenings, it was like I lived in this place for the entire month of October, 2020. When it was all over, a book came out of it – Kingdom Shift: How to Prepare for God’s Global Reset. In the encounter, I was taken to an ancient document room in heaven where Yahweh put blank pieces of paper in front of me with titles on them. I was then instructed to go and research the information in the titles. I knew this information had to do with a global reset of sorts. And, this was before world governments began to talk about their version of a global reset. I knew I was onto something.

Here is a quick synopsis of that encounter with Yahweh in the document room in the heavenlies…

As I enter the room, I focus on the many books skillfully placed on the shelves in an ancient document section of a library in heaven. Many are bound with animal skins. Some appear thrown together with string-like threads connecting the pages. Others are simply rolled up scrolls written on parchment and animal hide. There are even cuneiform tablets, pictographs on slabs, and important writings on cave walls that were transferred to a recording device for storage in this room. I did not expect answers to my current event questions to be in this room.


In my spirit, as I peruse the books, I hear that books can be written on people’s hearts. When people die and go to heaven, books in their hearts are finally written and are now in this room. In the center of the room is a giant oval-shaped wood table that can seat about twenty. Strewn across the top of the table are piles of paperwork waiting for me to sort. Yahweh sits across the table from me, pointing out key pages to investigate. At the top of each page is a title that describes the contents of the document. (Chapter 1)

By the end of this month-long encounter, I had taken a list of titles on blank pieces of paper, researched the topics, and wrote the book. The key was to see HOW God was moving from our current “age” into what’s coming next. At the time of Jesus, they were moving from the age of Aries (bull symbol) to the age of Pisces (fish symbol). We now call it the “church age.” This is one reason the church adopted the fish symbol as a representation for Christianity. As we transition from the age of Pisces to Aquarius (water symbol), we must ask the same questions about what’s next. Many now coin this next age as the “Kingdom Age.” We are leaving the church age and entering a higher conscious level of functioning. How will that look? To get an idea, we revisit the transition from Aries to Pisces to gather clues. What will Christianity look like as we move into a new age?

The "great year" is a 25,000 year cycle that changes "ages" about every 2,000 years. Transitions from age to age are consistently filled with similar instances such as civil unrest, great advances in philosophy, political unrest, amazing artistic endeavors, scientific discoveries, religious transitions, advances of all types, natural disasters, pandemics, and much more. What’s happening in the 2000’s mirrors what occurred in Jesus’ time but with a modern twist. What can we learn from a previous age shift to prepare us for what’s coming next? The chart below compares the early church with the modern church based on the documentary and early church writings mentioned in the sources at the end of this article.

Where does this leave us in 2024? 

We can see from the comparison in the above chart that the way Paul structured the church is not the way the modern church functions. The "Pauline" church is the earliest form of Christianity. Why did it change from Paul's established protocols? Why was there a need to create a central church? Why did women lose the ability to be leaders? Why did Constantine take some books (letters to churches) out of his new Bible while adding others that weren't considered part of the original teachings? There are many speculations as to why this is the case. In order to answer any question best, we must look at human behavior for answers. A good question to start with is "who wanted the control?" 

In Moses’ time, God wanted to meet with the people as a whole. Yahweh invited everyone to go up the mountain with Moses. The people were afraid and told Moses to go for them. Meanwhile, they created the golden calf to worship because Moses was gone too long. They had a desire for someone else to teach them how to have a relationship with God. Fear kept them from understanding what God truly had for them. My guess is this is one reason they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. It's obvious from the behavior of the Israelites over time that they preferred to have a leader tell them what they needed to know. Remember, they'd been under a pharoah for 400 years so that's what they understood! The behavior exhibited by the Israelites does seem to fit human nature based on historical evidence in most cultures.  

Yahweh’s desire is that everyone have a personal relationship with Him. This is the reason Jesus died on the cross. His death created a bridge we could cross for direct access to Yahweh, just like He had with Adam and Eve before the fall. No longer did the priests need to sacrifice animals in a temple for the atonement of sins. What would have transpired had the entire group of Israelites gone up the mountain with Moses? Would we have the Ten Commandments as we know them today or would they have looked different? How would the priests function in the temple had everyone agreed to meet with God on the mountain? Would the Israelites have made it to the promised land much sooner? 

Mankind strongly desires leaders, including religious leaders (and gods). The reasons for this vary depending on cultures. It does appear by looking at all the statues of gods throughout history, a need for a visual god might be due to our desire for God to be tangible. God didn’t want His people to have kings and gave them judges instead, of which one was a woman (Debra). Eventually, Saul was anointed king by the prophet Samuel after the Israelites pestered God for a king. From that point forward, Israel struggled. We find the situation to be similar to any current king, prime minister, or president in modern society. We can’t imagine what it would be like to function without these leaders because it’s all we’ve known. Similarly, we can’t imagine what it’s like to function without the structure of the modern church because we've never experienced a different way. In order to step into the Christianity of the Kingdom Age, it's going to require a shift in mindsets with an understanding that the Kingdom Age could be quite different than the Church Age.  

Looking back at the Pauline church, we see a family or group setting where everyone contributed equally. I’m guessing that people who didn’t want to pull their weight were uninvited from those communities. There was probably no sense of entitlement within well functioning groups. Entitlement comes when we want others to do for us that we should do ourselves. In Paul's time, it appears many pre-established communities morphed into something new once Christianity came on the scene. As the apostles traveled through various regions, they met with these communities to establish Christian basics and to help them correct doctrinal errors. 

Because these communities were often pre-established, it seems natural to assume the apostles arranged to visit, preached the gospel, and won them over to Christ. History shows "many were added to the faith daily." Therefore, it's not too much of a stretch to see how existing belief systems might have been a foundation for believing the gospel of Christ. These groups had some pre-established godly ideas that helped multiply Christian concepts. Consider what it would be like taking completely new concepts and letting people sink or swim with no previous knowledge of the ideas. For example, we couldn't possibly understand flying a group of people to the moon, dropping them off, and saying “now, go live your life.” They would have no previous knowledge of how to function in that setting and might not be able to survive. It only makes sense that Christianity spread quickly because many pre-existing groups (as suggested in the documentary) were already on a godly path even if some of their beliefs weren't Christian. 

I suspect a sense of taking what's known and shifting focus will continue as we move into the Kingdom Age. I envision the modern "church" acting as a bridge where people learn to understand Christian ideals and then begin to transition into something we don't yet know what it will look like. Some will stay on the church bridge to help newbies while those ready for more may fly over the bridge because they're primed for what's coming. I liken this process to the twelve grades in school. There are teachers at different levels to help students transition from one grade to the next. The church age is like high school where we learn basic doctrine and how to function as a Christian. For many people, this is as far as they want to go, which is fine. Those who want more will continue their "education" in "Kingdom School."

"Kingdom School" begins beyond the high school (church age) level, which is where I believe we're heading as the primary manner of functioning in the Kingdom Age. Kingdom college is about functioning as Sons of God, adding a deeper understanding of the supernatural realms and diving deeper into the mysteries of God through relationship WITH God in a way many are now experiencing. As a SPIRIT, soul, and body, we must learn to function equally in all "dimensions" of our being. We can't live totally by what we physically see, hear, sense, and feel. Even quantum physics says we live in a hologram! The Kingdom Age is about adding things "beyond what we see." Some call this the mystical realm, which has been prevalent throughout history. Many "mystics" were God-fearing men and women who believed and practiced what quantum physics is now discovering. The point here is many people understand there's more to being a Christian than what our physical senses tell us. It's about relationship with the One who created us so we partner in the creation process with Him. 

There has to be people at all grade levels of Kingdom School to help with the various transitions from Pisces to Aqurius. As we mature, we become partners in the business, "God and Sons" while studying in the graduate degrees of heaven. I discuss how this works in the Maturing as a Mystic (book) and Maturing as a Mystic: Workbook. To read about the books and order them in paperback or Kindle, click on the titles.

God is Loving and gently guides us through any transformation process. As we enter the Age of Aquarius, I suspect that the modern church will act as a “bridge” that leads us into the Kingdom Age but once we get there, it’s going to be very different than how we're used to seeing the church function. It seems Paul understood the direction of the church (ekklesia), but man’s desire for bishops and pastors changed the course because the responsibility for leadership was taken from the people and put on these revered men. 

This decision put us back under Old Testament law. That's obvious by looking at the Catholic church where sins are forgiven only by a priest during "confession." In order for us to function as we were intended, it seems we must first disengage from the laws set up by the Constantinian church.  

Holy Order

I must first mention here that order is needed. Just like a military, there must be some form of "rank and file." However, this comes with responsibility from people at all ranks and levels. No one person or level is more important than the other because an organization can't function well unless everyone at the various levels is doing their part. Based on my 50+ years of being in the church, major adjustments are needed in our paradigm of order so we're prepared for what's coming during the age transition. The modern church has put too much empahsis on single leaders as our "savior." When those leaders go through "moral challenges," it often destroys an entire congregation or movement like we saw in the 1980's and 1990's. Had those organizations been under sound "order" to begin with, there would have been less "fall out." Why did this happen? People worshiped the minister, not God.  

How does God want relationship with us? Jesus’s death triggered an earthquake where the veil in the temple ripped, exposing the Holy of Holies to those other than priests. This act allowed mankind direct communication with God which meant we don’t need priests or bishops to tell us how to act and live. We can meet personally with God on our own. However, we need community to provide checks and balances to keep us focused, which was the Pauline way. A church “covering” is the community at large where we honor one another equally with the gifts within each of us so we function as the “body” of Christ. Our "protection" is within a community that know each other, not necessarily a prophet, apostle, bishop, or pastor that we don't have personal relationship with. This is evidenced in how Paul and the other apostles set up the "churches" that were run by both men and women within the community, many holding positions of leadership to assist with the needed checks and balances. 

Based on history, once the Age of Aquarius is fully established, I suspect what we know as "church" will transform into something new as everyone steps into a deeper personal relationship with God where we co-create with Him. If we don't learn to transition, we'll go around the mountain again, just like the early church did when Constantine basically set us back into Old Testament law. How a transition looks, only time will tell as communities come together without relying on a single leader directing spiritual traffic. 

We must become responsible for our own spiritual health and question what's taught by discovering what's true from what's hype or false. We must honor leaders without worshiping them. We know we're worshiping someone when we do what they say no matter what. In a sense, they become our conscience. Those who worship pastors or bishops will do anything to get on the good side of those people. When told to "jump!" man pleasers respond, "how high?" We were given the ability to think and process through what's been presented so we don't become brainwashed. How else do you think the German people were completely indoctrinated into the ideals of Hitler in less than ten years? They blindly accepted and believed everything the German government told them. Cults are formed when people follow leaders without questioning the ideals. Reason with one another to find truth and "spit out" what doesn't line up with God's character. 

When God invited the Israelites to, “come to my mountain as a people,” they had an opportunity to establish a new precendent as a community. They chose one person to lead them rather than going to the mountain of God as a group, which cost them personal relationship with their Source. Nearly 3,000 years later, we have that same opportunity to do what the Israelites chose not to do. We're at a transition point, which is the perfect opportunity to assess where we want to be. Will we live by fear as we move from one age to the next or will we step into a Perfect Love that feeds our faith that then catapults us into how we’re to function as Sons of God in this new age?

Be sure to take some time to peruse through the sources for this post. As we all should, it's our responsibility to look at what's presented to us and discover our own answers rather than believe everything we hear or read. I've added key points from the sources in this article to create a sense of curiosity within you for further study. You decide what to do, how to think, and how to act. Your very life depends on it! As we mature into Sonship, we govern our own lives within a community of believers to help keep us in balance. We're responsible for doing the work rather than relying on a preacher to dictate what we're to believe. If we don't question what we're being taught, we'll never fully understand a truth. Many sources (below) are mixed with non-Christian beliefs but adhere to Christian ideals. What the materials point to is HOW the early church functioned and what beliefs led to what we know as the church today. 

Del, June 2024

Sources

The third source (below) will take a very long time to go through but appears to be a complete list of accepted scholarly materials written and available at the time of the early church, including Gnostic sources. It's important to understand the mindset of those living at the time of Jesus to grasp how the church was established to begin with. Therefore, many of the writings are from non-Christian sources but do provide an historical perspective. Happy researching!

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Water Memory, Thoughts, and Intents

by Del Hungerford

Did you know that our thoughts and intents are carried in our cellular memory? How is that done? Through the water in our bodies. Water carries a memory of everything around it and since we’re made up of nearly 70% water, it would only make sense that what we see hear, and feel would be captured into the water within our cells.

Over on the Healing Frequencies Music website, I have four articles on the subject of water memory. If you want to know more from the scientific end of things, I recommend that you read those articles and watch the suggested videos. All four articles are on the Blog page. We’ll assume from this point on there’s a general understanding that water carries the memory of what it comes in contact with.

Although I mention the story of Jacob and Laban in Water Memory: Part 3, we’ll dig into the spiritual side of that story here. For your reading pleasure, here is that story taken from the New Living Translation on the website Biblehub.com of Genesis 30:37-42:

Then Jacob took some fresh branches from poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled off strips of bark, making white streaks on them. 38 Then he placed these peeled branches in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, for that was where they mated.

 39 And when they mated in front of the white-streaked branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

40 Jacob separated those lambs from Laban’s flock. And at mating time he turned the flock to face Laban’s animals that were streaked or black. This is how he built his own flock instead of increasing Laban’s.

41 Whenever the stronger females were ready to mate, Jacob would place the peeled branches in the watering troughs in front of them. Then they would mate in front of the branches. 42 But he didn’t do this with the weaker ones, so the weaker lambs belonged to Laban, and the stronger ones were Jacob’s. 

There are questions that immediately come to mind:

  • How did Jacob know that he could even change the way his flocks looked?
  • Where did Jacob get the knowledge on how to do it?
  • How did Jacob understand that by putting something in water, it could affect the way his flocks looked?
  • Why is this story here and why such detail?

Some of these questions, I have vague answers to and others, I’m still waiting for more revelation. What I do know is that when something jumps out at me saying, “Hello! Look at me!” from scripture, it’s probably a good idea to see what’s up. It takes time and persistence but I’m doing the full body plunge into this. The key for you when you do the same is to keep going back for more revelation!

If you’ve read my previous blog posts on this site, you’ll understand that I’m learning how to engage the kingdom realms on the other side of the veil. I call this “practice.” It’s not only practicing being in the presence of YHVH but learning how to function as a Son of God through relationship. Like everything else, it takes practice. No, I don’t have a special gift. If anything, I have the gift of persistence because I understand consistent practicing.

Back to the story… In watching some of the water memory videos, a minister talked about a study involving holy water and casually mentioned this story. My mind immediately started thinking, “Yes! There’s something to this… an example of water carrying memory from so long ago!” To say the least, I was a bit excited. And, to have knowledge of something that long ago that science is just beginning to understand? Priceless!

I know that in order to fully understand scripture, it’s necessary to look at the original text in Hebrew. This is something I’ve also been delving into for quite some time. Armed with my limited knowledge of Hebrew, I wrote out the Hebrew words for these verses.

I then looked up the meaning of each letter in every word. I have several books that provide excellent descriptions of the meaning and properties of each Hebrew letter. That information along with listening to Rabbis (and others with good knowledge of the subject) teach on the letters allowed me to put together a somewhat coherent meaning of these verses.

Here’s the cool part… after I had done the research, I "engaged" the story so I could learn more about what really happened. You know, it’s that “I’d like to be a fly on the wall so I can watch” thing. In other posts, I talk about using Bible stories as a launching pad to seeing in the spirit. Well, that's all I did here. With a sanctified imagination, I stepped into the story to "see" spiritually what Jacob did. And, I wanted to see HOW he knew what to do.

I didn’t know what to expect but I was confused for quite some time at the beginning of the engagement and thought I was way off. The long and short of it – I ended up in a laboratory in heaven, a place I’ve never been. I watched some “experiments” and learned more about intents, words, and frequencies. Not only did I gain a better understanding of this situation but about how color, sound, words, intents, and desires all work together in harmony when they’re based on the same “fundamental.” Remember, because I’m a musician, God often talks to me using language that I understand.

What I can share about this experience involves realizing that Jacob understood something because he had spent time in his heart where he met God learning about such things. Back in his day, they didn’t have the technology that we do today (or did they?). In a sense, they understood relationship with the God-head much better than we do. We depend way too much on what’s around us in the world for answers. That being said, just like I was able to, Jacob could "ascend" (turn inward toward his heart in his spirit) at any time to learn how to function from the heavenly perspective first. He could then bring the revelation of that into to the earth realm and release it to come to pass. I believe this is what he did in this situation. There is no scientific explanation other than Jacob understood that water carries memory and was able to utilize that technology.

It's literally about water carrying the memory of what it comes into contact with. If you read my posts concerning water memory on Healing Frequencies Music, you’ll understand that science is still fighting over the validity of such claims. 

However, there seems to be credible evidence pointing towards the fact that water carries the memory of what’s put in it. Does it seem so much of a stretch that Jacob understood that if he put something into the water of his flocks that it would affect them?

Read Genesis 30, starting in verse 25 where Jacob tells Laban his “wages” will include keeping all the spotted, striped and speckled flocks. Obviously, he had some knowledge about what to do by verse 25. Then, he implemented his plan. He tells us in verse 37 what he did to carry out the plan, and with some decent detail.

A key point in this story involves the importance of thoughts, intents, and actions. Jacob was given a blueprint of what to do and how to do it. That, there’s no doubt only because of the detail provided in the story. He also had an understanding that by “putting the face of the flocks” towards the truth, they were able to produce what was in the truth. Notice in the story that not only did the flocks drink the water but, they also looked upon the rods (branches in this translation). In those rods was the truth of what was to come to pass.

How many times are we instructed in scripture to put our face towards the truth?

Now, let’s look at the other obvious bit. Jacob put branches and specific tree pieces into the water. It’s been known for thousands of years that plants have certain properties for specific purposes. In this case, the water became the carrier of the desired properties of those specific trees. That intermixed with Jacob’s intent and the blueprint he received from God, created a governmental positioning for what he desired to come to pass. Although scripture doesn’t mention it, I have no doubt that Jacob did quite a bit of declaring and speaking over the flocks and the water “recipe” he’d created for this occasion.

My main point? This story shows a couple of things: 1) words, intents, and desires frame a reality. Jacob framed that reality in the kingdom realms and released it on earth. 2) Water was the vehicle used to put that blueprint and reality into motion. And, it was long-term, continuous, and persistent. There was no “I’ll try this for a couple of days and see what happens” mentality. Jacob knew that he knew the instructions and didn’t waste any time in carrying them out.

How can this help us? I think it’s important to understand the power of our thoughts, intents, and desires. Once we frame them up, there are many “carriers” to help bring them to pass. Secondly, I believe this story shows that water is a powerful carrier. Why else would our bodies be made up of nearly 70% of it? I believe this is one reason that flower essences and music essences work. Our intent and desire for them TO work intermixed with the intent and desire of the person (or company) who creates such things “arc” together to bring us the desired result. Even in quantum physics, we see that intent changes everything.

Because water carries memory, and our bodies are full of it, it’s not a stretch to understand that what we think, say, and do will be imprinted within the water of our bodies. I believe that’s one reason why it’s so important to be mindful of what we say, watch, listen to, and do. I believe that if we changed our “thought and word” life, we’d be healthier. Jacob understood this. His flocks were healthier than Laban’s. Add some flower essences, music essences and healing music into that mix and you have a great recipe for assisting in bringing the body, soul, and mind into their intended position as a Son of God.

Remember what Proverbs 18:21 says? "Life and death are in the power of the tongue." Do your words create life or do they create death? It's a choice so make the right choice. 

Conclusion

Jacob understood a truth that we are just now beginning to see scientifically. The only way he could access that information was through the “come up here” principle of entering into the kingdom realms, ascending, or whatever other term you want to call it. Simply put, he turned into his heart, where his spirit resides. Remember that the spirit is at the top of our personal mountain where we're seated on the throne of our life in Christ. When we're on that seat of rest, we can see not only everything below the mountain but everything above and beyond the mountain itself. When we operate from our spirit FIRST as standard protocol, we're doing it from our position "in Christ" as we hear, sense, see, and feel His thoughts. We can't do that when we function from the soul, which is lower down the mountain.

Again, I usually visualizations, just like Jesus did with parables. This brings pictures to your mind so you can see the positioning of how things work in a language you understand. Most of it's not my original language; it's that of the forerunners who've gone before me. I've only tweaked things a bit to make them a bit more understandable. After all, that's what teachers do.

Finally, Jacob also understood the power of words, truth, heavenly science, and how to imprint that into water. As we learn to function in the same manner, we’ll not only build a stronger relationship with God (Yahweh) but we’ll be given keys to things that will unlock what we need for living life abundantly on the earth. Now, that’s what I call awesome!

Blessings!

Del
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A Model Coming Out of the Pacific North West

This blog post is from a dear friend and someone we consider a part of NW Ekklesia. Yes! It’s a new template for worship, intercession, and intimacy with God that will go around the world. He doesn’t say it in the post, but, our leadership and his worship team have been asked to go to India next year to teach the leaders of spirit filled churches. By the way it’s a network of 4,500 churches. To read more of his posts please go to: http://ecclecticecclesia.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-model-coming-out-of-pacific-north-west.html

So you hang around with the “prophetic” crowd and you hear all kinds of things. You SEE all kinds of things.  And you pray that you might get to be involved in what’s coming…
Nearing 20 years ago I heard someone say that there was going to be a movement that would originate in the PNW and go around the world.
I got excited.
Then I got involved in worship, each team showing a higher skill level as well as a higher tolerance for…  the out of the ordinary, which was good for me, because I detest the ordinary.
Even in high school, if my choir director handed us a sheet of music that wasn’t hand written I was kind of miffed.
Through the years I began to find myself in positions where I was invited as a guest, of sorts, to play at a few native american reconciliation events, a party  collecting bicycles to give to a village in Africa so that the kids could get to school safer and quicker.
I began to see the value of rhythmic intercession and was mc at a few drum circles that gathered folks together for purposes of intercession for unity in our city, evangelism, some were initiated to explore the possibilities.
We started a circle of musicians, meeting in a barn for the express purpose of stretching ourselves into playing for an audience of one, although we all played together and fought to protect the sanctity of our offering. (It’s hard to get people on board with “No Agenda” when they have always been part of the machine and can’t find the clasps holding their garments on)
Now let me tell you about this region- hang onto your hats…
New Age. Not just New Age, but a 300 year old warrior spirit who channeled (until recently) through a woman in a small town that had the world come to visit… and just New Age.  Mountains will do that to you.Buddhism- Buddhist monks aren’t all sunshine and goodness, nor do they all respect YOUR belief systems when they are engaging in their own satisfactions.
Islam- They aren’t militant, but they are represented.
Progressives- they don’t do anything remarkable except fix things that aren’t broken… and sometimes break things so they have something to fix.
Wicca, Pagan, Animism- Hindu’s, well, why not, everyone else is here.
All that to say that all the world is here.
And why does that make a difference?
How else do you reach every tribe and tongue- you must become relevant to them. You make room for the sound of their voices.
I have not learned to play tabla with any skill whatsoever, but I am ready for someone who has- I have room for them.
I HAVE learned to play a native american flute on a very basic level.
I am LEARNING to throat sing.
I have some proficiency on a djembe
I keep a watchful eye out for those who are proficient where I lack, and I make room for those whose sounds are beyond my scope.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear mixtures of cultural melodies, rhythms and instruments that are proving unity in the earth, making room for a unity that goes beyond doctrines and fears.
This region begat Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones and Nirvana, it is fraught with diversity (there is actually a band from Vancouver Canada called Delhi to Dublin- can you guess what they are mixing?)
Why would it not come from here?
Why would just such a movement be born here?
And why would it not be borne from where ever you are sitting?
Let’s DO this!!!!!!!!