In Habakkuk it says that Babylon's god is their own strength. Babylon also means 'confusion: by mixing.' It's the mixing of our own strength with God's strength that causes Babylon, even though we might want to try and claim the verse which says "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me," even though the verse doesn't really say that in the Greek, as I have shown before. Herein we can also see how the power of the kingdom of darkness is actually just using and manipulating God's power through one's own strength. And there are different verses and passages in the Bible which also connect Satan and Babylon, and the Dragon and the harlot and Babylon, so we can see how Satan's kingdom 'procreates.'
The cross is supposed to be us dying to our own strength. We have not died with Him if we haven't died to our own strength, and we have not risen with Him if He hasn't done it for us.
The gap between dying to our own strength and resurrecting in His (and by His), is where sin can be placed on top of us on the outside, while we are righteous on the inside. The deception of Satan targets this to make it look as though we are really sinners, and thus Jesus was rejected. The incorruptible seed and Spirit (Both the Spirit of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit) holds us as the "Eternal Spirit" did when Jesus died. That includes already having the repentance for the sin on the outside, just as Jesus submitted to and was baptized by the Spirit of repentance before He became sin and died when He suffered and then died on the cross.
Though Jesus was God, He layed His Godhood down and God did everything for Him and gave everything to Him. Thus Jesus forces nothing, though He also still spoke with authority and severity. Because of the inward incorruptible seed (like being born again) the person does not sin inwardly though sin is on the outside, and they already have the repentance for what sin does become placed on the outside. And as I have said before, once we are born again, all of the sin we face, even in our own lives and flesh, is not us any longer, but is a work of the Devil; and we can still repent of it because it is possessing our flesh against our will, and because we can still take ownership of our flesh. This again shows the relationship between what Paul said in Romans about it no longer being us who sin, and what John said about us not saying we have no sin if we do sin. The 'trick' is to understand that our bodies can be full of light, and that we don't need to act as though we are sinners if we aren't sinning. That's how the church accepted the depths of Satan and condemned themselves.
Why do we have to create this window, opportunity, shadow, or place for sin, temptation, or the possibility or ability to be accused of sin, through walking with our cross, dying to our own strength, and having sin placed outwardly on top of us? Because God wants to be the one to do everything, giving us our gift, and saving us from this opportunity that sin has to prevail. Through this God is glorified and sin and any claim it can have is defeated in an open display as God also gets to be the one to consummate salvation and the giving of our gift. The whole entire example of the fall and preparing vessels of wrath is for God's glory in these ways. And a people yet to be created (as it says in the Psalms), who shall be born after the marriage of the Lamb in the new heavens and earth shall also know this.
Being justified by God's grace, because we aren't supposed to do things ourselves and just as justified means to be made righteous, as though I had never sinned- sin and the enemy's attacks are as a non existent thing- before, during, and after the gap of the cross.
To truly have the Spirit of Christ and be with Him we have to BOTH come to Him knowing we are incorruptible and we have to not reject Him 'just because' sin is being placed through the cross- ALL the while not being in our own strength, but dying to our own strength as He accomplishes everything.
We can read in the Bible about how God gives us His authority, but it is exemplified in the cross that we win back the authority the kingdom of darkness 'took' from God, along with everything they killed, stole, and destroyed, and we do this by first carrying the sins, darkness, and attacks on the outside, and then 'converting' these things into blessings, just as the cross is first a curse, but is made into a blessing. And we do this by dying to our own strength, and then God does everything for us, because in dying to our own strength what we are doing is 'casting' our crowns before Him. God gave Christ everything after He rose from the dead, and Christ is seated above everything, and we are seated with Him. It seems that the religious, both the 'secular religious' and the churchy religious, really both are Babylon, and you can see the 'mixing' of Babylon as both secular and churchy people believe in their own strength, whether they say they do or not- it seems that they hate and fear the cross and these types of things.
Grace leads us to die to our own strength, as grace means God does everything for us. Faith upholds us when we are weak because we are dying to our own strength, making it so that we don't make any 'vital' mistakes in the gap, because though we are to die to our own strength that doesn't mean that we have a free pass to just 'let go,' and let whatever is going to happen happen. Herein we have the trust of God which is also exemplified in us not rejecting Him, either for not believing in incorruption, or because sin is placed on the outsides through the cross. This trust is also exemplified in any relationship between people, like marriage. (We shouldn't trust in any man, but we can trust in God in a person and in what He has accomplished, is accomplishing, and will accomplish.)
Because grace saves us while we are still sinners and God does everything for us through His grace, as it is wrong to do anything in our own strength, His grace and faith is strength to us, just as His faith also saves us while we are still sinners, and is a free gift we can't accomplish on our own. In reading Psalm 93:1 we may find that just as the world is established and can not be moved and is thus strong, that God is even stronger, and so we don't have to fear or think that anything is impossible.
There is a gap between our strength and God's strength, between the Holy Spirit knowing us and us knowing Him, between our subconsious and conscious mind, between our inward thoughts and being able to express them, between our stirrings and promptings and having life manifest, and between conviction and repentance. There is also a gap between what is not or not yet established, and what is established (something being unestablished is not always evil). And there is also a gap between His written and spoken word.
Going to and fro, as I have spoken about throughout my book, bridges the gap, and we can thus grow in the knowledge of God, which is how we receive His great and precious promises, which is the substance of our faith. In going to and fro, we must be 'possessed' by the Holy Spirit and not in our own strength, which can only happen as we wait on the LORD and rise up on eagle's wings, which is a lot like dying to our own strength, and then God doing everything for us to raise us up resurrected.
