With every shaking there is accountability. There is no doubt that God is shaking the world and shaking the church, but not in the way that you might think. It’s not a political shaking, it’s not a moral shaking, it’s not an economical shaking, but rather a shaking loose of the things that people assume is on the forefront of God’s mind.

God’s mind is not on politics, His mind is not on moral decay, His mind is not on the collapse of economic systems, His mind is on His call to come into the ark of the covenant He made through Jesus. There is no peace, or refuge, or shelter outside of Him.

The Lord gave me a word of knowledge “age of accountability” in response to ministry leaders who gather to hear a word from the Lord to reveal what this time is all about. Tim Sheets said that he wants to know, “What is He [God] saying and what are His strategies for these times?”

We know that God does not hold people accountable for something they have not heard. Sheets and many other ministers who gather to hear the word of the Lord have already heard what God has been saying to this generation as He prepares a remnant to return to their first love. (Rev. 2:4)

Romans 10:18
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

When ministers gather to hear a word from God it isn’t because they haven’t heard, but rather that they failed to obey. And this is what the Apostle Paul brought out in Romans, saying, “they have not all obeyed the gospel.” (Rom. 10:16)

Apostle Eric vonAnderseck recently posted on X saying, “False ministers will only recycle the same rhetoric with new wrappings to appear to be in the inner circle of God’s counsel. But the Lord says, His circumcision begins in the high places, for these put a yoke of iron on the necks of the church.” (Jer. 28:16)

Ministry leaders like Tim Sheets and Chuck Pierce are looking for a path around God’s revelation for this time. They’re falling in line with the idea that if you don’t like what you hear, just wait; because if you wait long enough, you’ll hear something you do like – and you can accept that as your marching orders.

So, this is the time of accountability. Let’s look further at what God is holding believers accountable to.

This time, or age of accountability is the time where God is pressing upon ministry leaders and believers alike that they cannot force His hand or change His agenda to suit what they perceive their needs to be.

Why are ministry leaders driven by need?

It’s just the nature of man to design the gospel after the human condition. When Jesus’ disciples saw a need, their only thought was to fill that need, but Jesus taught them that if all they saw was their immediate need and lack that they would be at cross purposes with God. God was preparing them for transition and arming them with discernment.

We see this in Mark chapter 8 where Jesus, speaking of the transition of the covenant to Himself and the change that would take place, charged them, saying, “Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.”

Jesus took note that upon hearing Him give this charge, the unskilled disciples “reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.” (Mark 8:16)

We can see that same mindset dominating the church today, as the same thing is happening in ministry circles and networks where ministers, looking at their current situation and need, think that God is going to talk to them about the politics of the day and where their religious ambitions might fit into His plan.

But Jesus held His disciples accountable to what they had already heard from Him to break the habit they had of “reasoning within themselves” to debate their needs.

Mark 8:18
Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

Jesus taught His disciples through contrast. They were to beware of the “leaven” of the Pharisees and the “leaven” of Herod. The leaven was their voices and agendas for God. Their hostility toward Jesus stemmed from the fact that Jesus did not confirm their agendas for God.

The Pharisees controlled the minds of the people by retaining their focus on the news of the day. How would God expel the Romans from their cities, how would God prosper their nation? How would God return them to the glories of Solomon? How would God provide a leader like they saw in David and a hero like Samson? How would God send a prophet like Samuel, or Jeremiah? They wanted to be the voice of social and political reform.

Seeing all that had befallen Israel, how could God not have a plan to restore them to their glory days! But Jesus was right there in their midst. He lived what they lived and He saw what they saw, but He didn’t preach what they preached.

Jesus’ gospel was not about the current social ills and how to get God to move. Jesus came to transition the covenant to Himself and His word was the true bread for the people.

Jesus came to reprove the scribes and Pharisees and Sadducees, the lawyers and doctors of the law. And God is reproving the ministers of the false religious system today. Those who have adulterated the gospel of salvation to where believers are no longer living the fullness of the redemptive work Jesus sealed to His covenant.

The transition of the covenant was a boring subject to the Pharisees and they didn’t see how they could rally people around such a message because it excludes the loud shouting and boasting of the goals being pushed by those who want God to give them social control valves. Transition to covenant requires silent submission to grace.

Why were the Romans occupying Jerusalem in the days of Jesus? It was because the people had forgotten the covenant God made with them through Moses. The state of the world today is the result of ministry leaders having forgotten Jesus’ covenant.

The message that is shaped around the social ills of today’s world is causing people to lose their minds. To feed people’s fears and anxiety and to push them into a state of anger and outrage is a sin against God.

Today, God re-establishes His authority in the church through apostolic stewardship. For those who respond in faith the eyes of the blind are opened and the deaf can hear what the Spirit is saying. But those who choose to hold fast to the error of the false church, will remain yoked to their aspirations and not hear or understand the mystery of Christ.

Acts 28:26-27
²⁶ Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:

²⁷ For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

In this time of accountability, the restoration of Jesus’ covenant to the church through His sanctified spiritual government remains on the forefront of His mind. Many ministers have fought against God’s selection, saying, “We all have value,” yet God set value first in Jesus and His covenant, which all those who love Him partake of and share therein.

Ministers of unrighteousness construct fables from the stories of perceived victories, successes, or tokens of God’s compassion – turning these into recipes that promise promotion, increase, healing or perceived favor.

Apostle Paul’s warning is very similar to Jesus’ warning in Mark chapter 8, and the same warning comes through God’s restored government today, to beware of the leaven of such ministers whose teaching and prophecy center on the news of the day.

Countless books have been written that promise believers all sorts of victories and increase, yet fail to direct them to the very covenant of our true inheritance, deliverance, healing, and salvation.

2 Timothy 4:3-4
³ For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

⁴ And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Ministers continue to preach on how to overcome the struggle of life in their messages, prophecy, and declarations. But God is holding them accountable to the restoration of His appointed stewardship through whom His truth has been restored to the church today.

Matthew 11:16-17
¹⁶ But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,

¹⁷ And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.

As the Pharisees, Sadducees, scribes and lawyers rejected Jesus as they stood blinded by their own pride, so history is repeating itself today as church leaders draw close to hear what the Lord is saying through His restored government, only to reject Jesus again for not mirroring the expectations of their own hearts, hardened in pride.

But blessed are those who bow the knee in humbleness of faith to receive this divine re-education as the Pharisee Saul once had – for they too shall escape God’s wrath, and instead rejoice with His saints in the excellency of the restored knowledge of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.

Philippians 3:8
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,