Bear with me on this one. I’m processing a bunch of thoughts and I don’t really know where this is going to end up in the long term. This is one of those 2-sided issues that has valid reasoning on both ends. It’s also something I knew nothing about until around 2011 when I had to zero out everything I thought I knew and start over (for the first time). As you probably guessed, this has to do with positions and ranks that we can be promoted to in a system God established billions of years ago in His Kingdom. If what I’m going to discuss here is new to you, scroll back in my blogs because I’ve already been dealing with this at different levels. Ok, remember this is only my personal thought process which is not yet finalized but, I believe there is value in putting this out for the benefit of others who are thinking the same things.

The Early Years – My Basic Tendency

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 (KJV)

When I was in the Air Force, I had the mindset that all I wanted to do was fly airplanes. I did not care about promotions, ranks, statuses, leadership or any of that. All I wanted was to do what I liked doing, do it well, and stay out of all the other stuff. I never pursued any ranks / positions as a cadet at the Air Force Academy and I never did while on active duty and the reserves. I’m really a person who just likes to be something like a technical expert at a thing, be recognized as being good at that, and that is it.

For the most part, that is how I lived my life before the things you see me writing about began. There were a few exceptions but, overall, I was not a person who wanted anything much to do with the spotlight or any unusual public focus – not in a large nor small scale. In the one sense, the calling to become a technology inventor fits perfectly into what I’m describing so far. Except that I’ve also had another element to my basic personality that I like to do my own thing without any undue overhead involvement. What I mean is, I like to be independent and be left alone. Just do my thing, do it well, and not be bothered unless by rare exception.

All that sounds great except that, along with my calling as an entrepreneur and inventor is the fact that I am going to be the CEO of my upcoming corporation. So that now starts to undercut what I was saying above. That starts to make it look like I have to be in those leadership positions that I never really wanted anything to do with in my past military career. Truthfully, I really never cared about rank that much. Yes, I had it as an officer and I retired as a Lieutenant Colonel but, that was only by the grace of God. I really never actually thought I’d make it to that rank ever in my life. Not that it’s that high but, it was notably higher than I ever expected to go.

I usually treated the enlisted people as if they knew more than I did (which was true very often). Having to be called “sir” or “Colonel” and all that stuff made me feel rather awkward at times. I mean, it was nice to have but, it also put me in a box. Usually, it made me feel like there was a barrier between me and the others when I just wanted to be a normal human being, and relate to everyone in the same way. Of course, that meant for those who ranked higher than me, I was usually glad it was them and not me. They dealt with things I never cared about, nor wanted to be involved with. Again, I just wanted to be a technical expert at my job and leave it at that. Of course, that was supposed to be in the context of flying airplanes (which as I’ve said before did not work out in the military due to a minor eyesight problem that could not be fixed).

When I was around the 18 year point in the Air Force, my commander came to me and asked if I wanted to try for promotion to O-6, full bird Colonel. I was happy to be asked that, and I thought about it for a short time but, I really knew that was not for me. I knew that was going to force me into a position that was not me. It was not going to work no matter how I considered it. So, ultimately I said “no thank you”. Two years later, God used circumstances to force me to put in my retirement papers and that was the end of that chapter in my life. None of it went as I had hoped but, I knew God wanted me to do my full 20 years and get my retirement status.

So all this brings me to what has happened in the last 10 years since I retired. Did any of what I’ve said above change, or am I still the same person as before?

God’s System Of Kingdom Promotions

And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever. According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

2 Samuel 7:16-18 (KJV)

This is the part I am processing through. On the one hand, I’ve been learning all about being a king in God’s kingdom and I have been shown various higher-level ranks that God wants to promote me to. I’ve learned what it takes for God to promote you and how completely opposite it is from the way we get promoted here on earth in the military or business, etc. Up until 2011, I did not even know anything about the Kingdom of God or that there was a such thing as a “spiritual general” or that anyone in ministry even had a “rank”. Not one time in my previous 40 years of church had I ever heard such things.

Well, if you’ve been following this series, then you know how much changed when God put me into what I call my “supernatural awakening”. I began learning all about ranks, status, positions, authorities and all that in the Kingdom of God. I learned why it matters that you earn those positions and what happens if you never achieve any of that here on earth. I began to see that my former church training had been totally wrong on almost everything. And that caused me to start thinking about ranks and positions in a different way. At least to a certain extent.

So, in the last 6 years or so, God has been using dreams to show me hints of what He wants to promote me to. At first, there were references to a “divine emperor”, which in eternity, gives you rule over an entire planet that has yet to be created (or revealed). I was first shown the rank of a 1-star general (spiritually) and then a few years later, I saw the rank of a 3-star general (repeatedly). I was then, in 2024 shown the rank of an eternal king (which is the same status king David and the first apostles were given).

Truthfully, I was not exactly sure whether I was already promoted to some of those ranks at the time or if they were yet in the future. In the military, when an officer is promoted, there are 2 steps to that. First, the officer is notified that they were selected for the next higher rank by the promotion board. Then, several months later, they pin on that rank. If you look back at king David, you see a similar thing, although with a very long time delay between step one and two (20 years). Same thing with Joseph in Egypt – he had dreams of a high level position as a 17 year old but, it was not until he was 30 years old that he was promoted to that second-highest position in Egypt.

Promotion Criteria & Personal Challenges

And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

Luke 22:25-26 (KJV)

Having spent 20 years in a system where the rules for promotion were very clear, and having spent decades with my personality tendency as explained above, it’s been rather difficult to retrain myself according to God’s system of promotions. Truthfully, I still have many days when I’d rather just go right back to how I was with wanting to do my own thing, do it well, and not be bothered with. To this day, I still do not like undue attention, especially when it has anything to do with a set of rules that I am still adjusting to.

My thought process is that, having spent so many years in one system (which God required me to be part of), suddenly having to change many of my ways now in very different ways, I’m not so sure how well that will ultimately work out. Even after the last 10 years of being immersed in true Kingdom of God teaching, I still end up going back to the foundation of my previous decades. When things come up that rub me the wrong way, I almost always return to how I lived most of my life. I still find myself, at times, being forced into situations where my former way of life is not very easily changed. And when the pressure rises high enough, I will always say the same thing – “if God did not want me to be in the military for 20 years, He would not have put me there… which means, that’s how I was trained and that’s how I do things – period”.

I’m just saying… whether right or wrong, that’s the truth and that’s how I see things much of the time. And… I’m still trying to resolve the fact that God has shown me all these spiritual ranks and positions in this time now and in eternity that operate by rules that do not always equate with that former life which God called me to. I’m just saying, this is a process I’m learning through and I really have no idea where all this is going. I have many personal limitations, due to my personality, past training and whatever else that does not like to be challenged. I have tendencies (with good reasonings) that do not easily bend. Not all of those are consistent with God’s system.

So, as I’m describing here, this has required me to go through a process of challenging my past, transforming those things that can be modified, and leaving a few other things to the process of time which will hopefully work the rest out. I do get annoyed by things that go against my former career training (and my personality). It can be very hard to deal with things that I feel are “forced upon me” which totally contradict all that I have learned in my past decades.

I get the idea that you see where this is going. This is just the tip of the iceberg and I do not (yet) find the need to get into any specifics. The casual reader will probably misunderstand some of what I’m saying and totally miss the point. Well… I can only say so much here. Not to mention, as I said at the beginning of this series, I only tell one small piece of the story a little at a time. Don’t be that idiot who reads 2 of my episodes and thinks they know what’s going on and deceives themselves into thinking they can tell me what to do.

So… let’s come back to this another time – there is much more to say! Not to mention, let’s see where all these dreams of promotions actually go. Some I already have (the eternal king), others I’m not sure about. Let’s hope God’s training process keeps me on the right track and I get all that He wanted for me, despite my own personal limitations and tendencies to return to my former self. Thank you for reading this and considering how it applies to you as well. We will return to this topic.

To be continued…

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