Last night, we had a true bright spark moment at The Road. Pastor Steve, and his wife, Liz walked through three prophetic dreams. I am a curmudgeon skeptic and resonate more with ‘Prophetic Integrity’ by R.T. Kindle than the unauthenticated drivel that too many spew out as supposed dreams and prophecy. But there a few who I pay immediate attention to, and Steve and Liz are a Word rooted couple at the top of my queue.
Dream 1 by Steve - dark clouds and ominous / tough times… Then Covid hit. I was there one of the first times Steve talked about these clouds. Next thing you know, COVID arrived, the Governor was shutting down churches, but letting liquor stores and Marijuana shops stay open. Steve led us in staying open and defying the Governor. Steve’s warning from his dream gave us courage and helped us STAND.
Dream 2 by Liz - In car, it turns left on a detour… Warning is nation would turn left. We turned left in the 2020 election that followed. Voice in Liz’s dream said this was for the purpose of a great harvest.
Interlude - 8 months before it happened, Liz dreamed Roe v. Wade would be overturned. What we’ve seen since from the left is 2 Th 2: 10-12 that declares, ‘They did not love the truth… And were sent a great deception.” We see this playing out across our nation. Our Constitution gave us the framework for the Supreme Court returning our nation to life, but that Constitution and life are still under attack.
Dream 3 by Liz - At beach, dark wave on horizon approaching that is massive and man-made. Message was to seize the high ground.
There are a lot of details I did not catch in my notes. Last night, I went from a painful, distracting migraine in the crowded sanctuary to my horizon suddenly expanding. The noise and migraine fell away as I think I linked Steve and Liz’s dreams to the present.
The COVID events that came true after Steve’s first dream authenticated his prophetic dream…
And led to the second dream by Liz. However you think it happened, COVID turned the car left and Biden stole / won the 2020 election… That authenticated Liz’s dream.
Let’s prepare the ground for the third dream. Last Friday, I read a long post on LinkedIn about Cyber-attacks in 2023. I agreed with the author’s analysis that 2023 was one of the worst years in Cyber history. There were identity system breaches, a genetic company breach that might have exposed bazillions of human chromosomes, cryptography compromises, financial system attacks, massive rip-offs… and so on.
The main point is that these known 2023 attacks were what we call ‘Attack Surface’ events. That said, I will speak to that briefly then get back to my main point of walking from the Mundane to Beyond Space Time.
Cyberspace is a network of components. These components include all of the sensors, processing systems, communications paths, input and output devices, and human operators that enable cyberspace. The concept of an attack surface applies to all technical components of the cyber domain, computers and telecommunications systems. It also applies to the humans that operate and use the components of the cyber domain. Each component can be attacked. The attack surface of a given component encapsulates all potential avenues of an attack against that component.
The thing that interests me - not as much as making users add more characters to their passwords - are Attack Vectors
Regardless of the type of cyber-attack or its objective, the attack must be directed against a component of cyberspace. Broadly speaking, there are four vectors for directing an attack against a cyberspace component.
The attack may be directed against a vulnerability in a component of the system.
The adversary could direct an attack against a human in cyberspace by convincing them to commit an act that subverts one or more of the security principles, such as installing computer code of the adversaries choosing.
Perhaps the attack is directed against a component of the system that is configured in a way that allows an adversary to compromise one or more of the security principles.
Lastly, the adversary may specifically create a component that allows them to compromise one or more of the security principles and, through some subterfuge, have the user install the component in their infrastructure.
Apologies for that brief trip into Geekdom but my point is that of these, attack vectors imply the existence of cyber campaigns by coordinated enemies and criminals. In other words, man-made ‘Cyber Attack waves.’
Key is that Steve and Liz’s first two dreams were authenticated by events. In this amazing husband and wife pastor team, that is grounded in God’s word, I see these fulfillments aimed at making sure we soberly view the third dream of the man-made deadly wave and its approach. That brings me to the purpose of my fun techno geek trip through attack surfaces and attack vectors.
In the early 1900s, two core discoveries took our nation to amazing health and productivity. They were cheap electricity and clean water.
For all the spin around cyber-attack waves (man-made), I believe the ultimate end game of our enemies is not to render our ATMs inoperable. Our enemies want to obfuscate, hide, and Deceive the Sky while they get into our proverbial cyber grid underwear. In Army speak, that is called, ‘Critical Terrain.’ One purpose might be to turn off our lights and water. That would bring death, martial law, and possible cancelation of Elections next November. (Heard that theory on a Podcast about cyber-attacks and the Intel community.) We are in the fourth major constitutional crises of our national history, and one must wonder if that Creator inspired document will survive. Pray for those defending our Constitution to be among the faithed filled boulders and cliffs that turn back the man-made wave.
Add this swirl together, and we will find out next November if that wave is drowning us and our freedom… Or hitting the rocks and cliffs of resolute, faith filled people and receding back into the sea.
Bottom Line: In my opinion, the dark manmade wave in Liz’s dream will be something deadly but simple. Possibly as simple as light switches that stop working and faucets that have no water.
I believe that across their three dreams, the first two authenticated by events, the sovereign purpose of eternity is to generate the effect of a massive and glorious harvest.
Now comes the hard question - What are all our ‘city-fied’ churches doing to be part of working in that Harvest as opposed to being Victims when the wave hits?
Christ is risen, he is risen indeed, and he is coming again!
Jay Inman
First Monday in 2024 of Prayer and Fasting for our Nation.
44 more Mondays until 4 Nov, the Monday before National Elections