As spiritual warfare continues to trend across social media, God is setting the record straight, reproving ministers who have left you vulnerable—prey to the wolf—by teaching a toothless gospel and passing on declawed warfare, void of the power God intended for your faith.

Though ministers celebrate professions of faith, God exposes the foundational error: the gospel they preach is stripped of covenant. A gospel without Jesus’ covenant is a gospel without Jesus. How can your faith be sustained outside the environment God created to nurture it? It can’t.

The signs appear early—but are rarely discerned. A spiritual dullness creeps in, and believers begin asking: “Why do my prayers feel dry?” “Where did His presence go?” They are told it’s a phase, or a test, or that God is teaching them to stand without feelings. But this isn’t spiritual maturity—it’s spiritual neglect masquerading as growth.

The advice given by ministers is from their own experience in the covenant void. It has been said that “God is weaning you off the ‘tingles’”, as if the grace of God can be reduced to some surface emotion rather than the ongoing depth of God’s contact.

False counsel teaches that losing contact is part of progress, as though grace is only meant to stir emotion and not anchor the soul. In this covenant void, the ache is misdiagnosed—and the hunger misled.

• Reducing the power of grace to a “tingling feeling” reveals that ministers never understood the grace of God.

Apostle Eric vonAnderseck commented on this on X saying, “The fake church has to counsel its victims with further doctrines of error and to fit scripture with psychology. Mixing spices to sweeten the sour bread.”

It’s true. From the very beginning of one’s faith being awakened, people are victimized by a covenantless gospel. The “tingle” theology—measuring God’s presence by fleeting sensations—betrays a shallow understanding.

Grace was never meant to peak and retreat; it was designed to govern, to work with the anointing to sustain. Though you can explore its nine distinct operations in the IDCCST Course, what matters now is this: grace is ongoing because God’s contact is ongoing. Without covenant, that contact is severed—and believers are left chasing spiritual warfare tactics instead of abiding in the foundation of truth.

• The apostles of the Second 8th Week are mapping the spiritual trauma to its doctrinal root.

When the gospel changed from God’s call to covenant to professing faith in Jesus outside His covenant, Satan removed Christ’s propitiation and found a substitute for it. The devil engineered a false Christian life in the void and developed spiritual warfare tactics to give the illusion that believers were progressing and maturing as they shadow boxed him on his terms.

This toothless gospel stands in strong contrast to the experience of believers equipped in Jesus’ covenant power tools under the oversight of real apostles, as Apostle Paul wrote: “I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:” (1 Cor. 9:26).

Apostle Paul spoke from the position of authority God placed in the calling, and drawing from living connections and covenant experiences he gained on the battlefield of faith God has called us to. God sprinkled Jesus’ sanctifying blood upon the spiritual contact points of His new covenant to know Him by the fruit He creates in us.

As God brings reproof to substitute warfare, He again provides light through the apostolical character to pierce the veil of ignorance. In the night, the Lord revealed the cry of His people and the depth of sabotage they suffer, ministering by dreams the gravity of the wound and the necessity of apostolic restoration.

Let me share the two divine dreams the Lord gave me on July 20th 2025, both ministering the depth of damage God is addressing.

Two dreams. Two lives on the brink. Two cries with the same root. Both dreams have to do with “spiritual suicide” and I want to unpack this with great sensitivity so we can address the cry for help and the instruments of self-sabotage that Satan designed and put into the hands of believers through his false ministers. These dreams are God’s diagnostic and His call to rescue.

The first dream: In the first dream, I came across someone in a state of desperation, ready to hurt himself. I rushed to his aid and rescued him. Later, when he was able to talk, I asked why he would want to take his own life, and he answered: “I did not want to do it, but the influence upon my mind was so strong.”

The second dream: was a mirror image of the first and once again when I asked about why the person wanted to harm himself, the answer was the same—he did not want to die, but the influence was so overwhelming.

Upon awaking, the Lord spoke to me a word of knowledge saying, “Spiritual Suicide”.

The word of knowledge, “spiritual suicide” is that cry for help. God is revealing the cost of denying Jesus’ covenant—not in theory, but in the reality of daily consequences. We’ll talk about the profound deadly influence in the false gospel that robs faith of its true power with God and how that deadly influence has quietly woven itself into the fabric of what many still call faith.

God is naming ministerial influence that has kept His people vulnerable as prey to Satan’s power by sowing a false gospel in the earth. The influence of this false knowledge upon the mind is overwhelming. One by one, believers have thrown in the towel.

As we unfold the ministry of the Spirit, it is important to note that God is building a cognitive runway—you’re not watching the saboteur from afar anymore, you’re seeing how the sabotage has touched you.

In these dreams, I stood in the role God set first in the church—the apostolic calling. This stewardship is not honorary or historical, but living and active, to restore Jesus’ covenant in the hearts of believers.

Apostolic stewardship is a crucial missing link in the false church body, as the Bible is taken as their authority apart from God’s due order of stewardship bearing the measure of grace to establish believers in the record and pattern of Christ. (1 Cor. 12:28)

Real apostles are God’s key by which the holy scriptures are accurately unlocked in God’s perspective to give the saints a covenant mindset rather than a self-centered mindset.

The suicidal persons represent those who believe in Jesus, but have not accepted His covenant. Death is present in the serpent’s knowledge and only the apostles can reverse that curse. Jesus passed His stewardship to them—not only the first 12, but all real apostles, called and equipped by Him, bearing the key of knowledge as masterbuilders.

Even as Apostle Paul later attested to, writing in 1 Corinthians 3:10, “According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.”

So, though a minister may warn of Satan’s strategies of isolation, distraction and fear; suggesting we must remain in community, support one another and refuse to let the enemy convince us that we are weak or worthless—in reality, true isolation speaks of a separation from God. As long as covenant remains untouched, so does the soul.

Satan understands the power of this misdirect. He knows the covenant is what Jesus’ blood sanctified for reconciliation with God, having our worthiness assured by the covering of His righteousness.

God describes the counterfeit terrain: a stage set by Satan, framed by imagination, where scripture is weaponized to serve self. Let’s now unmask the illusion by framing how the imagination has become a rogue interpreter.

Ministers attribute many struggles to spiritual warfare, from fatigue to financial strain, and then direct believers to scriptures that speak of our strength in Christ. It all sounds riveting. Yet the battlefield has not changed. Speaking scripture is not spiritual warfare – it is false doctrine.

Scripture, unanchored from covenant, becomes a mirror for the flesh—not a window to Christ. These verses, spoken in the void of Jesus’ covenant, do not slice darkness—they rob your identity in Christ. Human imagination is not just ineffective, but actively deceptive.

• God shines clarity on spiritual sabotage, drawing His church back from the brink.

God does not empower the dead letter, but the Living Word—Jesus Christ—His living presence in the tokens of His covenant. The dead letter emboldens imagination but never sanctifies the soul.

• As we know, human imagination (joined to scripture) is still the carnal mind.

It’s still the natural man trying to do spiritual things for God, trying to mature without the Jesus covenant that God sanctified for us to prepare kings and priests for glory.

Keeping believers shackled, fighting the devil on the wrong battlefield is not just wrong, it’s deadly.

God is speaking of a profound deadly influence and self-sabotage. While Satan inflames the imagination to assume the identity of a spiritual warrior—believers are in effect left beating the air, not making a dent in the forces of wickedness.

Why? It’s simple: Removing Christ’s propitiation from His spiritual tools, one’s imagination bonds with scripture as a substitute. Keep in mind that even the devil quoted scripture in tempting Jesus, yet Jesus was able to discern how Satan twisted desire into need, and used scripture to anchor the deception and Jesus refused to follow the devil’s example.

begins with framing what God said… did God say? This was the devil’s approach with Eve and this was the devil’s approach with Jesus… did God say? In both encounters—with Eve and with Jesus—his tactic was identical: ignite longing, isolate need, and offer scripture as the counterfeit foundation.

Whether in Eden or the wilderness, Satan’s method did not change: start with doubt, stir desire, then weaponize the word. This is Satan’s deadly game: to seduce your logic into examining the scriptures in the light of self. The devil’s influence is in the false gospel. He uses God’s word to lead believers to self-sabotage.

Only the Living Word, sealed in His covenant tokens, carries God’s power to regenerate. Jesus is our example. He did not use the scriptures as a landmark or foundation because He was the living Word and living landmark and living foundation.

• The illusionary battlefield feeds the aspiration, stokes fear, and keeps faith superficial.

This battlefield is constructed in Satan’s shadow, where verses become props and warfare is rehearsed like theater—while spiritual death quietly deepens into despair.

Though believers flock to buy each new book or attend yet another conference—their faith never transitions to Jesus’ covenant where the battlefield changes. The illusion of spiritual warfare fought in the imagination stands in sharp contrast to the reality of covenant-based engagement.

Believers have long felt the sting of abandonment in the covenantless gospel and recognize it as part of their own spiritual story. The battlefield shifts only when faith crosses the threshold from imagination to covenant—from illusion to real transformation.

No longer shadow boxing with death, the believer steps into the sanctified cycle of growth. Not because they ‘spoke the Word’ but because they received Christ through the tokens that bear His name.

God describes the landscape of transformation—where Jesus’ tokens restore order, renew perception, and equip for real warfare. The fog lifts when the weary disciple steps off Satan’s stage and enters into Jesus’ covenant. Here, the weapons aren’t crafted by the mind, but received through sanctified contact. Jesus, not imagination, defines the field of engagement with Him and the power He gives in His own name.

God shows the pursuit of life in the things of death (false knowledge bears the venom of the serpent’s bite) always ends the same way –spiritual suicide.

Deliverance ministers cannot reverse the curse of death when the knowledge they consume is poisoned. Though they point to Bible stories—encouraging, true, even triumphant—those moments are extracted as fables, reduced to spiritual lessons that become props.

This is event-theology: a doctrine of borrowed victory, severed from covenant contact that cannot empower your faith because it cannot anchor your soul. Outside of covenant, the Bible becomes a collection of disconnected triumphs—used to inspire in the covenant void.

The symbolism of spiritual “suicide” also represents a habit to self-afflict. Whenever the imagination presses meaning from scripture, it’s in the environment of need that Satan created in the covenant void.

The devil targets your nature.

Anything in your life that conflicts with what you want God to do for you is seen as a barrier. And here’s where scripture (unanchored from covenant) acts like a mirror, not to reflect Christ—but the ache of unmet desire.

What you see in the mirror is distressing and Satan names it—it’s a barrier. It’s not Christ-like. You should die to this and then that will crucify the flesh and open the right door.

The habit is to self-afflict—to try to die to self on your own terms which is to surrender to death’s presence or the influence of Satan that is presence in the false gospel. True crucifixion of the flesh is designed in your daily growth cycle. It does not come from relentless self-examination—it comes from union with Christ through covenant, where death is swallowed up in life. (2 Cor. 5:4)

This is the joyous time we find ourselves in today (which God prophesied of long before as the Week of Righteousness) wherein believers are being rescued from the brink of disaster through the restoration of real apostles to the church. This is God’s gift to His church to restore His people to Jesus’ covenant provision, without which so many have suffered the despair of a form of Christianity apart from Christ’s present empowerment.

When ministers fail to embrace God’s stewardship and terms, the knowledge they preach is self-referencing, inevitably carrying Satan’s influence, casting a shadow of darkness upon the soul. As a result, believers remain outside of the house of Christ’s covenant in which the reality of His presence gives substance to hope through living contact with God for divine increase in the soul. Without this, Satan’s influence goes unchecked.

But instead of humbling the heart in faith, we see ministers hide behind the pride of their own principles, bringing out teachings to normalize the blatant lack that God is highlighting in the current Christian culture.

One such minister wrote, “These conflicts don’t affect mature Christians… What they do is they affect baby Christians.” He went on to suggest that the confusion, controversy and disappointment many Christians feel toward modern ministry can be put down to immaturity in faith (victim-blaming).

Spiritual suicide is getting harder for ministers to mask. Another distraction strategy in the false church, is the use of emotionally manipulating music to feign a feeling of God’s presence in their services, conferences, and video posts. Failing to instruct believers in God’s due order for the work of regeneration to truly birth His substance within the soul leaves the soul starving for substance.

Isaiah 5:12-13
¹² And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

¹³ Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Although people cry out to God for change, it can only come by the hand of God—and His provision in Christ begins with His new apostolic stewardship, re-educating believers in the operation of God within the elements of the gospel of Christ. This holy knowledge is the spiritual flesh and blood of Jesus which truly satiates the soul’s hunger and thirst.

• Believers gain the refuge of true stewardship, teaching the hidden things of God, even as Jesus had done in the synagogues, unveiling mysteries the religious didn’t fathom.
• Believers gain His spiritual altar for the proper functioning of Jesus’ priesthood that pleases the Lord and consents to His work in the soul.
• Believers are armed against the onslaught of the adversary in divine discernment wrought by the anointing—which far exceeds perceptions gathered from scriptures under Satan’s guidance.

We are in a time of accountability where God’s corrections are laid upon the dead works of ministry leaders and their willful neglect. They continue to feed the people with half-truths and partial truths because they refuse instruction that comes from the steward of God’s house. Even in this, we see history repeated, as Jesus prophesied it would be.

Luke 11:52
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

The manner in which the two dreams mirrored each other also speaks of how God in the timeline He unveiled to His prophet, Enoch, divided the 8th Week period into two weeks—the First 8th Week when Jesus had His earthly ministry—and the Second 8th Week (which we are currently in) when His Headship is restored to the church before the Great Tribulation.

There is a direct parallel in how both periods of time centered on the same goal, which is for His apostles to establish believers in the covenant of Jesus Christ through the pillars of His sanctified stewardship to bring believers into one house and spiritual priesthood—working His life within the soul through divine fruit bearing.

Just like in the First 8th Week, now also, we see the power of the truth of Christ to bring hope to those that are dead in sin. Jesus’ covenant knowledge is the foundation for faith which He placed in the hands of living apostles to lay in believers’ hearts as the true scale for discernment and one blueprint for faith.

This is why God-appointed stewardship is a refuge for believers, as they access sound instruction by which the influence of death has no power to rule in their hearts and minds.

1 Corinthians 15:55-56
⁵⁵ O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

Apostle Eric vonAnderseck in Lesson 2 of his mini e-course, “The Second 8th Week” brings out the following, under the heading, “The Apostolic Calling Reborn in the Second 8th Week”:

This is a great time of liberty for the church! This contrast to divide the false and fake callings from the true apostolic calling is vital in order for the church to move on to perfection…

…As the calling of the apostle was much disputed in the First 8th Week as it is now, Paul began his epistles identifying his calling. Not as a missionary, not as an evangelist, but as an apostle. In the words of Jesus, to ‘open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in ME.’ (Acts 26:14-18)

The commission to give sight to the blind and bring them out of darkness into the light of Christ’s covenant knowledge is visited upon the church again today, as the Lord set this time aside to restore true apostles, bearing the key of knowledge to set His people free, by offering the life of Christ through the power of His resurrection and the door for this life is His covenant.

Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Through Jesus’ empowerment of the apostles of the First 8th Week and the apostles of the Second 8th Week there is true power and life in the house of the Lord as the veil of ignorance is rent. Believers are once again coming to the light of Christ, learning how to walk with God and to prosper in fruit bearing, daily overcoming self, Satan and this world. They are being fed the knowledge of Christ’s covenant, and strengthened by grace to take up the responsibility of His priesthood.

John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.