One week later, today, the Lord nudges me again about the phrase “Angel of death, Passover, Mexico.” I was laying in bed this morning and this phrase came into my spirit again. It has been a week and I still did not know what the Lord was saying. Now this morning, the Lord reveals to me what He was saying. The angel of death of Mexico is Santa Muerte, she is a folk saint in folk Catholicism and Mexican neopaganism. She is a female deity, cult image known as our lady of holy death. She has a scythe and a globe as her symbols. She is the personification of death and her cult has 10-20 million followers in Mexico alone. She is the reason behind the day of the dead celebration in Mexico. This cult is said to the be fastest growing new religious movement in the America’s. (Wikipedia)
The scythe is a harvesting tool and associates her with the grim reaper. The globe represents death’s vast power and dominion over the earth. But she is also associated with prosperity and healing. It is so amazing to me, how the mixture is accepted, why do you need to prosper or be healed if you are worshipping a death cult image? As I pondered these things this morning, I realized again, before we were born again, our master was sin, we were all slaves to sin and the wages of sin is death. Sin’s mastery over our lives produces death in our lives and then in this case people are celebrating death for that is who their master is. The harvester of death, represented by the skull, even when the skull is with beautiful colors, it still is representative of death and is connected to sin.
Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but through Him. The devil, the ancient serpent, Satan is a counterfeit, he can only present/offer you the opposite of all Jesus offers you. But you have to choose this day and everyday whom you will serve. Sin is death, no matter the sin we chose not to let go of, only Jesus Christ and His blood shed for us is life. The days of one foot in and one foot out are over, we are making statements about who our master is, for some it is sin/death and for others is Jesus Christ/life. You can’t live in sin and claim you are alive. The angel of death will passover you if you leave your life of sin and fully abide in the one who is life, Jesus the Christ. The choice is yours. Life or death.
I was blind but not I see, I was lost but now I am found, I was dead but now I am alive and I can tell you from experience, life is so much more rewarding and fun than death. Living for Jesus is the best decision I made and I will never change my mind about Him or His word. Life on every level is the greatest gift we have been given and John 3:16 still applies if you choose to accept it.
Lisa Great 