The Rod

Hidden beyond the sight of men the metal contours of an industrial landscape littered by many different factories shape the line of the horizon.
In these factories the mirrors of life are made and shipped to the merchants, who promote the mirrors in order to maximize their profits.

Before the mirror is made, the owners of the factory decide which quality standard will be used in the production process.
When the production process is set in motion, each mirror becomes the embodiment of this quality standard so that the reflection of the mirror is created in the image of the standard used for the production of the mirror.

And so it happens that the great variety of mirrors leaving the factories differ in the way they reflect images back at people looking in these mirrors.
Although all of them are different, there is one ancient standard which produces mirrors capable of reflecting an accurate vision of reality.
The great multitude of other standards have in common that they all deviate from this one ancient standard to some degree.

These deviating mirrors give birth to a distorted reflection of reality in accordance with the standard they embody.
Anyone who looks in these mirrors will see an image which does not have any bearing in reality because it is manipulated and deviates from reality.
Instead, they will see an artificial projection of themselves in the image of the mirror, a projection which is the result of the standard of the mirror.

If the standard appeals to them and they accept it, the reflection in the mirror becomes their identity.
If they reject the standard, the reflection in the mirror will not become the seed for their identity. 

The factories which produce the mirrors also manufacture compatible rods which come with the mirrors.
These rods are extensions of the quality standard used for the production of the mirrors.

Like the magic wand of a magician, these rods magically shape reality in the image of the standard.
Wherever a mirror is sold, a rod accompanies the mirror, and it changes the reality of life for the ones looking in the mirror in the image of that mirror and the standard it embodies.

In the capacity of reality shapers the rods become physical representations of the standards embodied in the mirrors.
The rod becomes the standard.

And so it came to pass that a man held up a mirror to the Pharaoh so that the ruler might behold his reflection in this mirror.
Because the Pharaoh always had identified with the image reflected by a different corrupt mirror, the image he saw in the man's mirror felt alien and uncomfortable to him.

So he rejected the image he saw in the mirror, and declared his own corrupt mirror to be superior.
Pharaoh's identity was built in the image of the corruption in his mirror.
It always showed him a pleasing and familiar image of himself, even if the reflection was artificial and a distortion of reality.
The Pharaoh enjoyed living in the fairy tale created by his mirror.

And so, to demonstrate the superiority of his own mirror, the Pharaoh summoned the men with the rods who worked in service of his mirror.
They assembled in the hall of the palace, all of them holding a rod in their hands, just like the one man with holding up the different mirror, a mirror they were not used to.
This mirror did not show any flattering images having their root in fantasy, but instead it reflected back at everyone the truth of who they were.
Nobody liked that.
They preferred the lie, for it was sweet as honey.

When all of them threw their rods on the ground, their rods turned into snakes.
People jumped back, frightened by the sight of these snakes slithering across the stony floor in the palace.

Yet a strange thing occurred.
One of the snakes was bigger than the others, and moved towards the other snakes crawling on the floor.
The bigger snake bit a smaller one, and proceeded to eat the entire snake.
After the bigger snake had eaten the smaller one, it slid forward to another snake which tried to flee from the bigger snake in vain.
After a while, the bigger snake had eaten all of the others, and it was the only snake left in the palace.
Then the man holding up the alien mirror stepped forth, grabbed the snake by its tail, and it became a rod again.

Truth destroyed the presence of the many lies slithering across the cold floor of Pharaoh's court.

This one standard of truth, representing the concept of the mirror the man Moses held up to Pharaoh and his magicians, annihilated the standard of lies which the Pharaoh embraced.
This one rod changed Pharaoh's reality, and to the degree that Pharaoh hardened his embrace of the dream reality he beheld in his mirror, the rod representing the mirror Moses held up to Pharaoh forced Pharaoh to wake up from his dream to the reality of Moses' mirror with increasing strength and intensity.

In the end, Pharaoh was forced to acknowledge the superiority of the standard of reality held up to him by Moses.
Because the identity of Pharaoh was so fully absorbed in the dream reality of the image in his own mirror, the manifestation of YHWH's mirror of reality ultimately reflected back at Pharaoh the image of his destruction.
As he sought to kill the escaping Hebrews, he found death staring at him in YHWH's mirror.

Twelve men were gathered outside the tent.
All of them had carved the name of their tribe on the rod.
After giving their rods to Moses, he laid out their rods in the tent

Twelve rods were lying on the ground all night long.
Yet the next morning when the rods were brought out of the tent, one of those rods had sprouted, and it bore blossoms and ripe almonds.
The other rods were carried out of the tent just as they were brought in, as barren rods.

This one rod destroyed the standard embodied by the other rods, the standard of arrogance and rebellion.

Yet there also was a time when a rod was used to strike the face of an innocent man.
He had done no evil, yet the pain caused by the rod reflected a corrupt image at Him in the mirror which the agents of falsehood held up to Him.

Yahshua had to endure the pain inflicted on him by the rod of falsehood as it shaped the physical reality of his body, attempting to shape the mental and spiritual reality of His Soul and Spirit in the image of the rod.
He had to tolerate the blows of the false reality where those dressed in garments of authority, even religious authority, applied the rod of falsehood in the name of YHWH's standard of truth, even unto death.

Ultimately this rod of falsehood served the purpose of letting the abused Man use His rod of iron to smash for once and for all the corrupt mirrors of falsehood manufacatured by the unseen powers beyond our world.
Although the rod of falsehood seemed to prevail over YHWH's rod of truth for a fleeting moment, it was only permitted to happen so that YHWH could deal the death blow to the Satan's house of false mirrors.

Up to this very day the factories are still running, shipping their multitude of false mirrors to nations, institutes, schools, universities, corporations, offices, churches, synagogues, families, individuals.
These mirrors are hung on the walls and doorposts so that everyone is forced to look in these mirrors and subject themselves to the magical reality-shaping powers of the rods belonging to the mirrors.

The magical powers these rods have lies in their ability to induce a sleep state in the ones looking in the mirrors the rods are part of.
The sleep-state becomes the fantasy world they relate to as reality.
It turns them into zombie creatures whose souls have merged with the puppet costume and its strings, carrying an identity rooted in a fantasy world.

Yahshua destroyed the power of these mirrors.
His people suffer on a daily basis from having to walk through the maze of mirrors projecting false images and manipulating their circumstances to reflect the false standards of the mirrors.
For a season they may lose themselves in the image reflected back at them by these mirrors, a false image of who they truly are.

Yet, in their hearts there is a part which simply does not belong in the reflection in the mirrors of falsehood.
The image they see in the external mirror clashes with the image they see in the mirror of their spirit.

When the moment comes, they learn to discern the false elements in the reflection of their image in the mirrors of corruption.
As they learn to identify with the contrasting reflection in the mirror which YHWH holds up in their hearts, the falsehood begins to lose its power.
After all, the corrupt mirrors reflect elements back at them which are not part of their new-found identity in YHWH's mirror.

They begin to stand out as deviations from the norm of the mirrors of society, and like Yahshua they too have to learn to endure the lashes of the rod of falsehood when they choose YHWH's reflection instead of the reflection of the image in the corrupt mirrors.

But ultimately, Yahshua is the One holding the rod of iron.
Just as He prevailed once, He prevails time and again in us, smashing the falsehood in the images the mirrors hold up to us.
He will return to break the power of the maze of mirrors for once and for all, destroying all false images with His rod of iron, the unbreakable standard of YHWH's truth.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim.
And the Word became flesh and manifested the purity or Elohim in a world of corruption.
When the Word spoke, His words became a rod of truth shattering the images of falsehood and dashing to pieces the stronghold of lies. 
Then the Word went back to Heaven and became the pure Word of YHWH in the hearts of men in the flesh who believed, shattering the presence of the lie in and through them.

Now the Word will return to confirm the Word in the hearts of men and make it manifest on the earth, changing the entire world into the image of the Word with the rod of iron.
Yahshua's words will become the sword, and the sword will go forth like lightning striking at the heart of darkness, destroying it forever.
They will thunder from above announcing the end of the Lie and the beginning of a new day.
Then the rain will come.