"And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force." Matthew 11:12 What did this mean?
First understand that the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God are the same thing. The Greek interpretation for the words "Suffer Violence" means: the use of force. The word "Violent" means: the strong and forceful. The word "Force" means: to seize. Therefore...what I believe this means is; until then the spiritual understanding of man...or the consciousness of mankind was controlled by violent or forceful thinking. It seized people's minds which I believe was an act of survival. Allow me to further explain....
The ministry of John the Baptist prepared the way of the Kingdom of God. In that moment in history...based upon our understanding of time...a major shift in consciousness had begun. It is was what I will call "Power verses. Force" as taught by Dr. David Hawkins.
Hawkins explains that "Force" is a lower vibration of energy that has to be constantly fed by more energy like a gas has to be fed into a car to make it run....but "Power" is like Free Energy which comes from within universe in a constant state of being...it does not have to be fed...it just is!
So the verse above is declaring that the consciousness of man's awareness was making a shift out of force the of darkness into the light of God's power.
Today the level of mankind's consciousness is collectively moving into the levels of Power which begins when man understands that he is NOT a victim, there is no one to blame for what is....we have to power to change what is into what we truly desire. It is at this moment we begin to release our attachments to this world and move into the Kingdom of God.
Hallelujah!!!
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Steve Hart