Power Vacuum

In political science and political history, the term power vacuum is an analogy between a physical vacuum and a political condition: When a leader has lost control of something and there is no one in line to replace them. Such a situation can occur when a government has no identifiable central power structure or authority or is one that is weak.  The analogy explains that in a power vacuum, other forces or another power will "rush in" to fill the vacuum as soon as it is created, perhaps in the form of an armed militia, insurgents, a military coup, a warlord or a dictator.
 
During or following a civil war there is often a power vacuum of some sort. A power vacuum can also occur following a constitutional crisis in which large portions of the government resign or are removed, creating unclear paths regarding succession to positions of power.
 
Throughout history, power vacuums have been dangerous. They lead to great uncertainty and apprehension as people wonder what will happen next.  A power vacuum results in a lack of vision!  This is recorded in Proverbs:
 
Proverbs 29:18. 18 Without a prophetic vision, the people throw off all restraint; but he who keeps Torah is happy.
 
Within nations, it may lead to social unrest, chaos, or anarchy! The result may be outright civil war, as non-righteous, wicked individuals step forward to grab power.  Internationally, they can lead too regional conflicts or even worse world wars as non-righteous nations see opportunities to gain more for themselves at the expense of their weaker neighbors.
 
This is a biblical, scriptural, heavenly concept.  When there is a lack of righteous, Kingdom leadership, a power vacuum arises that is quickly filled with evil, wickedness, and deceit.  
 
II Timothy 3:1-5.  Moreover, understand this: in the acharit-hayamim will come trying times. 2 People will be self-loving, money-loving, proud, arrogant, insulting, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, uncontrolled, brutal, hateful of good, 4 traitorous, headstrong, swollen with conceit, loving pleasure rather than God, 5 as they retain the outer form of religion but deny its power. Stay away from these people!
 
There is an attempt to change America’s history, to remove Adonai from our birth and foundation as a nation.  To separate ourselves as a nation from God is to deny the power of Adonai known as apostasy: From the Greek word Apostasia, which in ancient Greek culture means open insurrection, political revolt, rebellion, wholescale defiance against Adonai, His Kingdom, His word, and His Son! Its open rebellion and sedition against the Commands, Mitzvahs, and instructions of Adonai! It’s rejecting His word, His Son, His Ruach HaKodesh, and His Kingdom!! It’s a Political Revolt against His Theocracy! This is the enemies age old plan, to thwart the Kingdom of God and establish his own demonic kingdom upon the earth.
 
Denying the power of God results in a power vacuum that is quickly flooded with evil, wicked, and unrighteous power.  It is far harder to remove it once it’s become entrenched then to stop it before the vacuum is created.  We have a biblical history that records the effects Power Vacuums:  
 
Judges 2:10-15.  When that entire generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation arose that knew neither ADONAI nor the work he had done for Isra'el. 11 Then the people of Isra'el did what was evil from ADONAI's perspective and served the ba'alim. 12 They abandoned ADONAI, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, selected from the gods of the peoples around them, and worshipped them; this made ADONAI angry. 13 They abandoned ADONAI and served Ba'al and the 'ashtarot. 14 The anger of ADONAI blazed against Isra'el; and he handed them over to pillagers, who plundered them, and to their enemies around them; so that they could no longer resist their enemies. 15 Whenever they launched an attack, the power of ADONAI was against them, so that things turned out badly - just as ADONAI had said would happen and had sworn to them. They were in dire distress.
 
We are at a crossroads as a Nation, a generation is arising that doesn’t know Adonai nor His previous blessing upon us! They are abandoning Him. The “get it done” generation that sacrificed their lives, livelihoods, and lifestyles to unite against a worldwide onslaught spread of tyranny, terror, hatred, Anti-Semitism, and socialism/communism that threatened freedom around the world is gone. This year we lost the last surviving sailor that was onboard the USS Arizona on Dec 7th, 1941. A generation that rationed food, fuel, clothes, and personal comfort to resolutely, in complete unity defeat a global enemy is gone, my own 100-year-old father passed away in August 2023. He was literally one of the last! A generation that relied on God, that prayed in school every morning, had bible study in school, started every government meeting and every sporting event with prayer.  A generation that placed morality, righteousness, and holy living above all else. The generation that added “Under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. They are all gone!
 
A generation is arising that doesn’t know the pain of sacrifice! A generation that isn’t unified or resolute in defeating the rising tide of global aggression, hatred, anarchy, and antisemitism.  A generation that is self-loving, money-loving, proud, arrogant, insulting, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, uncontrolled, brutal, hateful of good, traitorous, headstrong, swollen with conceit, loving pleasure rather than God is quickly rising to prominence!  As in Israel’s history:
 
Judges 17:6. At that time there was no king in Isra'el; a man simply did whatever he thought was right.  
 
Remember, in a righteousness power vacuum, evil and wickedness quickly flood the void. The previous generation, the do it generation sent their political candidates running for office to the men and woman of God to vet and bless them.  Today Americas society rejects God, they know not the God that delivered us twice from the British, who built this nation by His providence, who saw us through the bloodiest war in Americas history, the Civil War!  The same God who carried us through WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII!  They know not the God who made us the richest, strongest, and most blessed nation on the earth! We are warned:  
 
Deuteronomy 8:11-19. "Be careful not to forget ADONAI your God by not obeying his mitzvot, rulings and regulations that I am giving you today. 12 Otherwise, after you have eaten and are satisfied, built fine houses and lived in them, 13 and increased your herds, flocks, silver, gold and everything else you own, 14 you will become proud-hearted. Forgetting ADONAI your God - who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you lived as slaves; 15 who led you through the vast and fearsome desert, with its poisonous snakes, scorpions and waterless, thirsty ground; who brought water out of flint rock for you; 16 who fed you in the desert with man, unknown to your ancestors; all the while humbling and testing you in order to do you good in the end - 17 you will think to yourself, 'My own power and the strength of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.' 18 No, you are to remember ADONAI your God, because it is he who is giving you the power (Koach: capacity, means, strength, power, might) to get wealth, in order to confirm his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as is happening even today. 19 If you forget ADONAI your God, follow other gods and serve and worship them, I am warning you in advance today that you will certainly perish.
 
God knew that when a society, a nation becomes rich, wealthy, and safe that it tends to focus inward and away from Him!  That it begins to think, in their blessed environment of safety, security, and wealth given by God that they obtained it by themselves!  That they would become proud hearted and forget who brought them through all the trials and tribulations, who blessed our fertile land and brought rain at the right season.  Who cleared that land of vermin and pestilence?  Who increased our flocks, our crops, and made us the wealthiest nation on earth!  Now we choose to turn our backs on Him and were experiencing odd weather phenomenon, wars and rumors of wars, ethnic wars, famines, pandemics, people betraying each other, vile polarization of our nation, while our love grows cold because of increased distance from Torah, everything has warned us that He will do if we forget Him!
 
Verse 18 contains a whole other message! Adonai doesn’t just give you everything.  He gives YOU the power, the capacity, the means, the strength, the ability to gain wealth.  He has given you gifts, wisdom, knowledge and power to work, tithe, and change your stay in life! You must work for it. He’s not giving you everything on a silver platter.  Yeshua talks about the power struggle in:
 
Matthew 12:29. "Or again, how can someone break into a strong man's house and make off with his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? After that he can ransack his house.  
 
The power vacuum doesn’t just happen by accident.  The enemy can only come in if the strong man is bound!  Who is that?  It’s us, it’s you, it’s me, it’s every believer in the body of Messiah.  It's every believer that remains silent in the face of wickedness and evil.  Its every believer who fails to vote with a biblical world view, its every believer who would vote for someone who is pro-abortion, every believer who would vote for someone who stands against Israel, its every believer who doesn’t vote according to biblical morals and ethics. It’s every believer who is part of the silent majority, every believer who won’t stand up and raise their voice for justice.  Every believer who falls into the trap of political correctness. Every believer who will not stand for the Kingdom of Adonai, truth and righteousness. Every believer who won’t share the Gospel! The late Elie Wiesel, Jewish author and survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps said: “The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness; it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy; it’s indifference.” It all causes a power vacuum.
 
We have a chilling similar biblical account of another power vacuum in David’s day.  Saul was so distracted, so busy trying to kill David that he failed to properly protect and defend his people and nation.  One can be so mired in the minutia of special interest politics that they fail to properly do their job of protecting and defending the nation and its citizens.  This is what Saul fell into and it cost them dearly when the Philistines attacked and routed Israel:
 
I Samuel 31:6-10. Thus Sha'ul, his three sons, his armor-bearer and all his men died that same day together. 7 When the men of Isra'el who were on the other side of the valley and those who were on the far side of the Yarden saw that the men of Isra'el had fled and that Sha'ul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; then the P'lishtim came and lived in them. 8 The following day, when the P'lishtim came to strip the dead, they found Sha'ul and his three sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa. 9 They cut off his head, stripped off his armor and sent these all over the territory of the P'lishtim to carry the news to the temples of their idols and to the people. 10 Then they put his armor in the temple for the 'ashtarot and fastened his body to the wall of Beit-Sh'an.  
 
The Army of God, the men of Israel fled when they witnessed Saul fall.  They abandoned their cities while the Philistines came and lived in them.  Saul’s death was mocked when the Philistines placed his weapons in their temple.  Saul’s dishonor had reached its climax, defeated, beheaded, and his body and those of his sons hung on the walls of Bet-S’hean.  The Philistines were known to mutilate the bodies of their enemies to disgrace and shame them just as Hamas does today.  This Vacuum set the stage for Davids Kingship but not immediately, crowned King of Judah David, he ruled from Hevron until the other tribes finally came together and made him king of all Israel years later. I pray following will help you know if you are living in a Spiritual Vacuum:  
 
Seven Signs you are living in a “Spiritual Vacuum”
 
1. You talk about Yeshua but haven’t genuinely experienced him. He’s distant and unreal in your everyday life.  You know of Him, but you don’t KNOW Him, you don’t SEE Him.  You talked about Him more than you talk with Him.  You’re not hearing is voice!  
 
2. Your spiritual walk with Yeshua is more of a weekly service event, vice a daily, 24/7 walk with Him.  Religious services define your experience with Yeshua vice Yeshua defining your life experiences.  He is not a reality every day of your life!
 
3. Your walk with God is a façade of religion while the power is denied.  You may do and say all the right things, avoid all the wrong things, but you are not demonstrating the Power of God.  Your walk is an outward appearance of religion, going through the motions while not experiencing and demonstrating the Power of God.  
 
4. There are no supernatural, transformational changes visible in your life or there hasn’t been any life change experienced in a long while.  Your Godly relationship has plateaued even though you’re doing all the right things.  It’s impossible to genuinely experience Yeshua and remain unchanged!  No personal change is a profound sign that your spiritual life is in a spiritual vacuum.  World revival begins with personal revival!
 
5. You are more concerned about God fitting into your life and desires vice aligning your life to align and fit into Gods will and desire.  
 
6. You live unnoticed as a believer by the people around you such as neighbors, work associates, school mates, friends and family!  The people around you can’t tell you follow Yeshua by being around you!  You’re not visibly different than those around you because there’s nothing to notice.  You’re not sought after for advice or help when their lives are in turmoil because they don’t see Yeshua in you.
 
7. You live for the moment vice establishing your life in eternity.  You live by and in the world vice being in it but not of it. You don’t have a global messianic vision.  You are not an agent of change in this world.  
 
I pray you have a transformational year of renewal and dunamis power! May you be world changer wherever you go! May you experience a Road to Damascus encounter with the Most High God this year!  
 
Blessings and Shalom,
 
Rabbi Eric S Carlson  

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