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The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War-Week 1, 2019-Rick Joyner
On
December 14, 2018, I had a dream about various attacks coming upon our
country. I was also shown those who would be sent out to counter each
one.In the dream, I was waiting in line to be sent to fight one of these
enemies when I was approached by an angel and told that I had a
different assignment. I was then taken to a large device that was
showing “A History of The American Republic from Heaven’s
Perspective.”As I watched this, I saw that if I walked across the face
of this device, to my right the times progressed toward the present. I
decided to go to the end to see heaven’s perspective on what was
happening now. When I came to the present, there was a sentence written
in brilliant glowing golden letters: “The Second American
Revolutionary/Civil War is inevitable, it is right, and it will be
successful.”From what I had seen as I walked to see the present, I
understood why this Revolutionary/Civil War was “inevitable” and why it
was “right.” As I stood pondering this, feeling that this might be the
most important revelation I had ever been trusted with, I woke up. I
felt that I had been given access to this history of “The American
Republic” from heaven’s perspective, and that I would be going back to
it for more understanding to help us prepare for what is to unfold.We
are already in the first stages of “The Second American
Revolutionary/Civil War.” I know this leads to many questions, such as:
What are the sides? What are the issues? What is right about it? Most
important of all, what does success in this war look like from heaven’s
perspective? As the saying goes, “If we do not change our direction we
will end up where we are headed.” We don’t have to be a prophet to see
that we’re headed for civil war. Even so, before the dream I felt that
we still had a long way to go before it became “inevitable.” In the
dream, I saw that we had already crossed that line and it is now upon
us, so we must change our strategy from trying to avoid it to winning
it. To do this, we must have heaven’s view of what winning looks
like.From heaven’s perspective, we did not win the Revolutionary War.
From heaven’s perspective, that war was about more than just gaining our
independence—it was about liberty and a revolution in the government of
men that would establish and maintain liberty and justice for all. Some
significant things were accomplished in this war, but there were also
some very basic ways that it fell far short of what heaven viewed as
successful. If the Founders had truly believed that all men were created
equal—what they declared to be the reason for seeking independence—then
slavery would not have been possible and the Civil War would not have
been inevitable.If the Civil War had been successful according to
heaven’s perspective, then there would not have been a need for such
things as the Civil Rights Movement or many of the conflicts we are
still fighting. The Union may have prevailed in crushing the rebellion
and ended slavery, which was essential, but it did not prevail in a way
that established justice and equality for all. We will not accomplish
our purpose as a nation until there is justice and liberty for all. This
is why both the Revolutionary War and Civil War must be fought again
until there is a “successful” conclusion according to heaven’s
perspective.In the American Republic, liberty and justice are not just
skewed because of race, but they are also perverted by wealth, fame,
politics, and other factors. If liberty and justice are distorted at all
it will be in both directions. The wealthy may be able to afford
lawyers that can get them out of just about anything, but their wealth
can also make them targets. The same is true of the famous, the
politically strong, etc.Heaven does not expect anything on earth to be
perfect in this age. In fact, the Scriptures state that even the best on
the earth is but a shadow of the heavenly, and the best on the earth
now will still be but a shadow of what is to come. However, when we are
in the shadow of something, we are very close to the real. The American
Republic is called to be much closer to liberty and the justice for all
than we have yet attained. We are called to be an example of these to
the nations, not an example of the dysfunction of government that we
have now become.We must also have heaven’s perspective on war. We tend
to think of war as pitched battles between standing armies, but what is
unfolding will not be like the Revolutionary War or the Civil War in
that way. There are some parallels with those wars that will relate to
our times, but many will not. However, this does not mean that what we
are now facing will be easier. The whole world is entering the most
trying times there has ever been. What we will be given to face them is a
sure hope from above that the outcome will be “successful.”For at least
the first part of this year, I will be elaborating on the things I was
shown in this dream.
The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 2-Week 2, 2019-Rick Joyner
Heaven’s
perspective of war can be very different than our human perspective. We
tend to see the battles, which side prevails, and then which side
exerts its will over the other. Heaven tends to look at them as how
justice or injustice prevails. War is an ultimate evil, but war is
inevitable until the end of this age, just as we see them right to the
end of the Book of Revelation.There are times when an even worse evil
would prevail without war, and so there are righteous wars. In these it
would be unrighteous, and even evil, not to fight for what is right.
However, in most wars there is a mixture of good and evil intent,
prosecution of the war, and outcomes. In this age, there will be a
mixture of good and evil in virtually everything. Because of this, if we
wait to have perfect motives or perfect conditions, we will likely not
do anything. The best solution to an issue can be just a little better
than the worst solution. It takes wisdom to know what to do, but it
often takes even more to know when to do it.I fully understand that
without having the experience that I had in the dream, you are not
likely to have the level of conviction that I might have about some of
these things. Some you may agree with inherently, and some you may
disagree with. However, because of the nature of this dream, I must be
bolder than I’ve ever been about some things I am going to share.The
first part of this dream I was given was for understanding the strategy
that will be successful in this war. There will be champions raised up
that will go out to attack the specific evil strongholds in our nation.
These evils were things like bigotry, greed, selfish ambition, hatred,
rebellion, pride, etc. In the dream, all of these evils were in trees,
which speaks of them having roots and branches. To defeat them, one must
not waste time flailing at the branches, but rather put an ax to the
root of the tree.America is not the kingdom of God or the New Jerusalem.
I have searched our history for evidence that we had a special covenant
with God, and I have not found it. Men have made covenants with God for
the nation, but that is not the biblical criteria for a covenant God is
obligated to, even if made by a leader of a nation. Every covenant of
God originated with God not man, and there is a clear and supernatural
demonstration that He made the covenant. I may have missed it, but I
could not find this in our national history.That being said, there is
much evidence that America was dedicated to God. Dedications can
originate with man, and everything dedicated to God is holy, or
sanctified. There are special benefits and judgments that come with a
dedication. The favor of God is worth more than any earthly treasure or
other resource. However, because everything dedicated to God is holy, a
nation dedicated to God cannot do some things other nations may be able
to get away with.Purpose is the greatest favor of God that we have
received for this dedication. We were given a purpose to be a nation
that demonstrated the liberty and justice that all people were created
to have. It is written that “where the Spirit of The Lord is there is
liberty” (see II Corinthians 3:17). This is why The Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil was put in the Garden. There could be no true
obedience unless there was the freedom to disobey. Freedom and free
will is at the core of what we were created to be.Our founding documents
are not Scripture, but they were inspired by God in order to reveal and
lead us to our destiny. It is because we have this calling that when we
drift from it, troubles come. Having a clear vision of our destiny and
getting back on the path to fulfilling it is crucial to our continued
existence.Our discord increases the more we deviate from our purpose. As
discussed, one of our basic purposes as a nation was to establish a
place where it is understood that “all men are created equal” and also
practiced. In heaven, this, not independence, was the main issue with
the Revolutionary War. Because our main purpose was compromised and
hypocritically disregarded after the Revolutionary War, the Civil War
became inevitable. If the American Republic had really believed that all
men were created equal, then slavery, and even discrimination based on
race, could not have remained possible.The Civil War may have eradicated
slavery, at least in its most diabolical form, but it did not go as far
as establishing that “all men are created equal.” This is just one
factor in our mandate that has yet to be fulfilled. We can be thankful
for the progress that has been made in eradicating discrimination in
America, and there has been notable progress, but it is still far from
the place we are called to be. We have now come to the point where
increasing conflict is inevitable until we recover a clear vision of the
mandate we were given as a nation and resolve to fully obey it.What
does that look like?
The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 3-Week 3, 2019-Rick Joyner
What
I was shown in my dream was specifically for “The American Republic,”
but I was also shown that many of the same battles we will be fighting
will also be common to many nations. Basically, these battles in the
nations are for determining whether they will be a “sheep” or a “goat”
nation. The Great Commission was to disciple nations, not just
individuals, not just teaching them to believe all that He commanded,
but also to obey all that He commanded.The Reformation was a major step
forward in recovering biblical truth, but its emphasis was more on
believing the right things than actually doing them. All nations have
fallen short of their purpose, including Israel, as the Scriptures make
clear. One reason the nations have fallen short is because there is so
little demonstration of what actual obedience to the truth looks like by
the church. This is why “judgment begins with the household of God”
(see I Peter 4:17).As heaven’s perspective on history and current events
can be very different from ours, our basic devotion must be to see with
The Lord’s eyes, hear with His ears, and understand with His heart.
This was what The Holy Spirit was given for, and this is how we are led
into “all truth.”Most of us have witnessed spiritual battles that
resulted in everything from church splits to divorces, and God was on
both sides. God hates divorce, and He hates war. He usually has sons and
daughters on both sides, and in many ways He can be on both sides. He’s
not confused about the issues, but He is for people more than
politics.God is not a Democrat or a Republican, a liberal or a
conservative. We can be right in our political beliefs, but be wrong in
spirit. We can likewise be wrong in our politics but have a right spirit
of love, faith, and humility that pleases The Lord more than those who
have right politics. This is why, to the confusion of many historians,
there can be evidence of divine favor on both sides during a war.
Abraham Lincoln discerned that our Civil War was God’s judgment on both
sides. This might explain why the Union was obviously on the right side
of some of the crucial issues being fought over, but the Southern armies
experienced some of the greatest revivals in American history during
the war.Perhaps The Lord moved so mightily upon the Southern armies
because “where sin abounds grace does that much more abound” (see Romans
5:20), and He was seeking to change their hearts on the issues. Perhaps
it was because it is often true that those who can be right on issues
are wrong in spirit, and God will always resist the proud and give His
grace to the humble. It was likely a combination of both. The point is
that we like to have all issues neatly in black and white, but human
issues are far more complicated than that. We are in desperate need of
heaven’s perspective. The higher the place that we can see from, the
more sense it all makes.In the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, both sides
were fighting for parts of the divine mandate. It was the arrogance of
the victors in both of these wars that blinded them to just and
righteous issues for which the other side was fighting. Neither side was
totally right or wrong, but the victors disregarded the consideration
that the losers might have been right about some of the issues. Such is
human politics. Since the victors always write the histories of such
conflicts, the just issues on the losing side are often buried after the
war. We can bury them as deep as we want, but when they are a divine
mandate they will not go away. Rather, they will rise again and be in
our face until they are resolved by our obeying them.It is also easy to
see how these same principles might apply to all human relationships. We
can win an argument because we are mostly right, but be wrong about
some of it. Those issues will very likely surface again later, and often
as a bigger problem. The revelation of the great conflict of our times
includes principles that may illuminate the basis for our conflict in
other more personal relationships, such as our families, jobs, or
neighborhoods. We cannot expect to resolve the great national and
international conflicts if we cannot solve them in ourselves, our
families, or in the church.When I spoke to a number of senators and
congressmen in Washington a few years ago, entreating them to show
courage, one of them took me aside and said, “You would see a lot more
courage in Washington if we saw any in the church.” He was right.It’s
been said that “Courage is the first principle of leadership, because
without it nothing else will stand.” We have come to a time when courage
is rare, and that makes it even more valuable. Perhaps this is why the
cowards are the first to get thrown into the lake of fire at the end of
the Book of Revelation. We may think that love and faith are more
important, and they are, but courage is the evidence that one has love
and faith.As we are told in I Corinthians 13:8, “Love never fails.” This
could have been interpreted as “Love never quits.” We will quit for any
other reason but love. This is why the foundation of those who will be
on the winning side will be love for their country and for their
countrymen. However, most of all it will be love for God who has given
us something so wonderful, even if it yet has flaws.
The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 4-Week 4, 2018-Rick Joyner
Wars
have been fought for different reasons. There have been religious,
political, and economic wars. Some have been just for conquest. Some
have been fought because one monarch was insulted by another, which is
why Napoleon invaded Russia. Many have been fought over combinations of
the above. Some of the most ugly and devastating of all have been racist
wars.Every war is the result of some failure in human relations.
Potentially great and devastating wars have also been avoided by
remarkable statesmanship. The Lord has a special heart and place for the
peacemakers. These should be esteemed more in our history than those
successful at war, but they are not. Even so, as we are told in
Ecclesiastes 3, there is a time for war and a time for peace. If it is
time for war, then those who do not fight are the ones out of step with
the times.As we see in Scripture, there will be war until the end of
this age. It is right to seek peaceful conclusions to our disputes,
until war begins. Then we must fight, and we must fight to win. If we
are going to win from heaven’s perspective, we must also fight the right
way.Some of the most touching stories of war are things like the troops
on both sides in our American Civil War and in World War I singing
Christmas carols to their enemies in the trenches. It brought a poignant
realization that brothers in Christ were facing each other, and the
next day would try to kill each other. How could this be right? War is
an ultimate human failure. War is one of the devil’s biggest victories.
His intent is to kill and destroy, and nothing accomplishes this in a
bigger way than war. So why don’t we refuse to fight them? Because the
devil, and those controlled by him, will not. To refuse to fight in an
inevitable or right war is not choosing to do what is right. Rather, it
is to submit to evil. There are righteous wars. When it is right and
time to fight, we will be in rebellion if we do not do our part.Even The
Lord says repeatedly in Scripture that He, our Leader, is a Warrior.
Israel left Egypt as “a great mixed multitude,” or a mob, but before
they even got to the Red Sea they were “marching in martial array,” or
military order. Presently, the body of Christ is one big mob, with some
groupings and associations but lacking in overall definition and
discipline. This will soon change for the remnant that is left.In every
civil war, Christian leaders from both sides have claimed that theirs
was the right side. This can be confusing. We must resolve to be sure we
are fighting on the right side and for the right cause. When this is
established, the most merciful way is to fight to win decisively and as
quickly as possible.Harry Truman was right when he said that “Most
people are defeated by their secondary successes.” This means that they
got distracted from their ultimate objective after achieving lesser
ones. There are many examples of this in history, and Truman was likely
correct to say this happens to “most people.” It was true in our
Revolutionary and Civil Wars. How do we avoid this deadly trap? We must
determine now what the ultimate objectives are—anything less than these
would be a defeat.I have an opinion of what ultimate victory in the
unfolding Revolutionary/Civil War looks like, but I don’t want to share
it and I don’t even want to have it. What we need, and what I’m begging
for, is heaven’s perspective on this. My dream on December 14, 2018 was
just a small beginning of this for me. It does not matter how mature we
are in Christ or how successful we have been as a steward of His
mysteries—it is a terrible presumption to think that He is just like us
and that His opinions are the same as ours. I am a religious
conservative, and I try to keep in mind that it was the religious
conservatives that were the worst enemies of Christ when He walked the
earth. Why? If you look at their doctrine, the Pharisees were generally
correct in most of their beliefs. They were the most devoted to being
faithful to the Scriptures and were carrying the greatest hope for the
Messiah. Yet, they resisted Him more than any other group when He came!
Why? Again, we can be right in our politics, our policies, and our
beliefs, but have pride that is more deadly than the evil we are
fighting. Pride caused the first fall and virtually every fall since. We
can be right but not be righteous. For winning the present war, it is
crucial to not just fight for what is right, but to do it in the right
spirit. We must fight for right and we must do it right.In the
Revolutionary War, the “Patriots” who wanted independence were about 30%
of the population. The “Loyalists” who wanted to remain British
subjects were also about 30%. The other 40% were undecided, or tended to
switch sides according to who was winning. Today, we have about 30% who
are liberal, 30% conservative, and the 40% that are still undecided or
wavering. Soon all will have to choose a side. Now is the time to
resolve what we believe in.
The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 5-Week 5, 2019-Rick Joyner
In
the dream that I was given about the “Second American
Revolutionary/Civil War,” the first part was about the strategy for this
war. The symbolism may seem odd, but if you stick with me for a little
bit, it gives important insights into what we must do now.The dream
began with a long line of people waiting to tee off at a golf course.
After each one teed off, they were told about the enemy they were to
look for to destroy. This enemy was in the trees along the fairway. I
was waiting in line for my turn when an angel came up to me and said I
had a different assignment. That’s when I was taken to the device that
revealed the history of the American Republic from heaven’s
perspective.Golf, like many games, can mirror an aspect of life. The
goal is to get the ball in a hole that has a flag, or standard, over it.
Each hole on the course is different from the others. No two shots will
be the same, so you must judge several conditions on each shot, such as
distance to the hole, wind, and elevation. You may know exactly what
you should do, but actually doing it the way you want is another matter.
To be successful, you need to stay in the fairway, or let’s say “the
way.” If you go too far to either the right or left, you will go out of
bounds and that brings a serious penalty.I don’t want to bore you with a
golf lesson here, but having played golf for many years, this part of
the dream made perfect sense to me as a strategy for winning the
Revolutionary/Civil War. To some degree, if we are going to understand
prophetic symbolism, we must learn that The Lord likes to use puns. We
are told in Psalm 2:4 that He “sits in the heavens and laughs.” This may
be because He thinks they are funny, but they can also powerfully
convey understanding.In this dream, those who were teeing off were going
to find the enemy they were assigned to destroy. This is insight about
what “tees us off” will be what we are called to fight. For example,
those who are the most disturbed and agitated by human trafficking
should take that as a sign that they are called to fight this enemy. For
others, it could be things like racism, or the sowing of immorality in
school curriculum. These are not random provocations intended to
irritate us; they are calls to action. We must all consider how we can
be a part of fighting what provokes us the most and what Scripture
defines as evil.Again, for Christians the Scriptures are clear that our
battle is never against people, but rather against the demonic forces
that are manifested through ideologies and deceptions that bind, and
ultimately, destroy them. Our victory is not to kill and wound, but to
heal and lead people to the path of life. We are not fighting to conquer
people or to just win the argument, but we fight to establish the truth
that sets people free.How does that work when a spiritual or
philosophical war breaks out into violence? These are the kinds of
issues we need to settle in our hearts now, because the confused are
almost certain to be casualties in what is unfolding.We may also think
that if God hates war then His people should stay out of the conflict.
God does hate war, but as we touched on before, He is declared to be a
warrior in a number of Scriptures. No doubt that if we followed Him more
fully, our disputes would not come to war. However, as we are told in
Ecclesiastes 3, there is a time for war. There are times when war is
inevitable, and times when it is right to fight. What I was shown in the
dream is that this Second American Revolutionary/Civil War is
inevitable, it is right, and it will be successful.At this writing, I do
not know now what or how it happened, but in this dream I knew that
somehow we had just crossed a line that made this second
Revolutionary/Civil War inevitable. There will not be a peaceful
solution to the conflicts that have arisen in our country. Even so, I
will continually pray that this be won decisively and with the fewest
possible casualties and the least damage as possible.Why this is called a
Revolutionary and Civil War is important. Much of what we need to
understand the great battles of our times lies in understanding these
conflicts because so many of them were fought over in these wars, but
not settled.Also, wars come in many forms. The Cold War brought about
the greatest geopolitical change in history, but it was not fought with
traditional weapons, but rather with banks and currencies. It was an
economic war more than a political or military one. Just as in the
Revolutionary and Civil Wars, many of the issues that the Cold War was
fought over were not decisively defeated, and now they have risen to
face us again.We must not forget that the most powerful weapons of all
are the “divinely powerful weapons” that we have been entrusted with.
Truth articulated under the anointing is more powerful than any bomb.
Though there will be physical conflict in what is now unfolding, the
most important issues will be the spiritual and moral ones, especially
our devotion to liberty for all—that everyone be treated equally and
fairly under the law and with opportunity.
The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 6-Week 6, 2019-Rick Joyner
Even
a cursory study of history reveals that many of the issues over which
the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars were fought are not settled.
These issues have continued to be points of conflict in our country.
Many of the issues have evolved and are not in the exact same form, but
basically, our present struggle continues to be about independence,
liberty, freedom from the bondage of oppressive government, and equal
justice under the law—for all.How does this fit with the next Great
Awakening that so many have prophesied, including myself? The First
Great Awakening preceded the Revolutionary War. The Second Great
Awakening preceded the Civil War. It is easy to see a direct link
between the messages of these Great Awakenings and how they ignited
these wars. Their light exposed darkness to the degree that it could no
longer be tolerated. Likewise, the light already being revealed from the
emerging Awakening in this time is causing great agitation in our land.
The issues have morphed in a lot of ways, but they are basically the
same ones that were fought over in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.Some
historians concluded that the American Revolution began when George
Whitefield was forbidden to preach in the Church of England and began
preaching in open fields to the common people. This was in the 1730s,
almost half a century before the Revolutionary War, but sometimes seeds
take a while to germinate, sprout, and bear fruit. So how did the light
that Whitefield brought sow the seeds of American independence?
Whitefield began preaching to the common people in a town of coal miners
that were considered lowly. They considered themselves too unworthy to
even have a church in their town. To the shock of all who heard
Whitefield, especially these miners, he began to declare that they were
the true royalty in the earth—“the royal priesthood” if they gave their
lives to Christ and followed Him. In the class sensitive England of the
time, this was shockingly revolutionary.These lowly miners could not
fathom being allowed to get within sight of the royal family, yet
Whitefield was telling them that if they were in Christ, they were of
even higher royal stature than the British royal family. This seed
became the doctrine that “all men are created equal,” and that who we
are in spirit, in relation to Christ, are more important than any
earthly, human lineage. As the Apostle Paul wrote, we should therefore
no longer judge people after the flesh—after externals—but after the
Spirit. As Martin Luther King, Jr. later paraphrased this, he had a
dream that we would not judge each other by the color of our skin, but
by the content of our character. That we would be a nation where this is
true, the real “American dream” and one that heaven has given to us.So
Whitefield’s messages implied that the poorest miner who followed Christ
was of a higher stature than earthly royalty. These miners gave their
lives to Him by the thousands. Soon Whitefield, who had filled many
churches with the hundreds who sought to hear him, now had trouble
finding fields big enough to hold the thousands who sought to hear this
message. It was not just Whitefield’s remarkable ability as an orator
that drew the crowds, but also a foundational aspect of the Gospel that
for centuries had not been so articulated. Once again “the poor had the
Gospel preached to them.” There is nothing on earth as revolutionary as
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When it is preached, revolution is
inevitable—even where it is claimed to already be Christian.When
Whitefield brought to the colonies this message that so elevated “the
common man,” the crowds swelled to tens of thousands. Many of his crowds
were larger than the population of the cities in which he preached.
People would travel for days or even weeks to hear him. They drove their
buggies, rode their mules and horses, and even walked to hear the great
evangelist when it was published that he would be in a certain city on a
certain date.Whitefield also preached in humble, small churches. He did
not seem to be a respecter of people or crowd size. Some of these small
meetings may have had as much impact on the destiny of the nation as
the larger ones. When he spoke at the Polegreen Church just north of
Richmond, Virginia, the little church of less than a hundred people
later became known as “the womb of the Revolution.”Sitting in that small
audience were some destined to be called the fathers of the nation.
Patrick Henry was one of those. He lived only a few hundred yards from
the Polegreen Church, but the passion for liberty born in him that day
would soon fire the nation.Again, the main seed that sprouted and became
a revolution was the Gospel that elevated the common man to being sons
and daughters of The King of kings. This was the seed that became the
message that “all men are created equal.” This led to the previously
unimagined concept that government existed for the people and not the
other way around.In the world at that time, there was no other place and
no other government that considered this concept. This was the basis
for what is called “American exceptionalism.” To be exceptional does not
necessarily mean better, but rather just different. In this case, it
was better. The American Republic became the exception to every other
government in the world.This is why many historians believe that the
First Great Awakening was the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
However, the Revolutionary War did not win this freedom for all and did
not result in all men being treated equally. A whole class of people
were still treated worse than the coal miners that Whitefield had first
preached this message to. This made an even more devastating war
necessary, and the revolution continues to this day.
The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 7-Week 7, 2019-Rick Joyner
The
ultimate issue of both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars can be summed
up in one word—LIBERTY. True freedom requires liberty and justice for
all. We are still fighting for these, and this war will not be over
until they are realized as fully as they can be on this earth. To pursue
this is the calling and destiny of the American Republic.The Divine
wisdom given to our American Founding Fathers that became our
Constitution and Bill of Rights was for a government structure that
contained built in relief valves—ones that enabled the peaceful settling
of injustices and infringement on our freedoms. Departure from the
wisdom in these founding documents is the reason for virtually every
conflict and crisis we are now facing as a nation. These will not be
resolved without reconnecting to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
For this reason, the ultimately successful strategy in the Second
American Revolutionary/Civil War will be to fight for their restoration
as “the supreme law of the land.”Both major American political parties,
the left and the right, are guilty of failing to keep their vows to
defend the Constitution. Neither party is now capable of recovering what
has been lost in our “constitutional republic.” A new movement is
coming that will restore the Constitution to its rightful place so that
we can become the nation we are called to be. The Second American
Revolutionary/Civil War will be to complete what was begun by the first
ones.As stated previously, the First and Second Great Awakenings
preceded the Revolutionary and Civil Wars respectively. The messages
that came out of those Awakenings caused those wars. They also presented
an even higher way for those wars to be avoided. If the political
leaders of the time had truly embraced the truths of those Awakenings
and had the courage to obey them, both of those wars could have been
avoided and the trajectory of our nation toward our calling and destiny
would have been much easier and cleaner. As we see from the beginning of
history until now, men rarely choose the easy way.Great Britain, which
lost the American colonies to a large degree because of the hardliners
in Parliament, learned their lesson. While led by some of the same
people whose hardline response to the grievances of the colonies caused
the Revolutionary War, they softened to the message raise by Wilberforce
about the evils of slavery and eradicated it in the Empire without a
great war.That which can be accomplished without war is always
preferable. However, when the political leadership is not capable of
this, then war is preferable to allowing evil to prevail. We must come
to grips with this truth once again.We can expect the voices that arise
calling for the New American Revolution to be blamed for the rising
discord, just as Elijah was called the one who troubled Israel. Yet, sin
and corruption are the true cause of the trouble, not what exposes
them. Unity is a wonderful thing, but not when it comes at the cost of
tolerating or allowing evil to subjugate the people. There is a point
when it is no longer possible to avoid conflict. When that line has been
crossed, our strategy must change from keeping the peace to winning the
war. That line has now been crossed in “The American Republic.” It may
take a while for others to see this, but it will soon be obvious.When it
is settled that the “Second American Revolutionary/Civil War is
inevitable, right, and will be successful,” the next step in our
preparation is to determine what is “right” about it, and what
“successful” looks like from heaven’s perspective.According to I
Corinthians 13 we see in part, we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
All I have is part of the picture. I will present all that I have in
this series, but I understand that this is just part of the whole
picture. When I inquired of The Lord about His vision and purpose for
our nation, His response was that He gave it to our leaders in the
beginning. It was articulated in our founding documents, and it is in
them that we must see them.About two decades ago I began a study to see
if I could find a special covenant or mandate that God had given to our
country. My prayer for this was Psalm 90:16-17: “Let Your work appear to
Your servants and Your majesty to their children. Let the favor of the
Lord our God be upon us; and confirm for us the work of our hands; yes,
confirm the work of our hands.” I asked to see His hand and guidance in
the founding of our nation, and by this understand His purpose so that
our work and prayers for the country would be toward the fulfillment of
His purpose, not just certain political goals.In my study, I was
surprised by how obvious His handiwork could be seen in our nation’s
founding. It was also easy to see the serious trouble we suffered as we
deviated from His purpose for us. We are now entering the worst crises
in our history when it will be determined if we will live or die as the
Republic we have been called to be. If there is anything worth fighting
for in our life, it is God’s purpose. If there is anything worth
fighting for in our nation, it is God’s purpose for our nation.
The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 8-Week 8, 2019-Rick Joyner
Over
the last 30+ years, I’ve been given dreams that I now understand relate
to the reason for the Second American Revolutionary/Civil War. I did
not see them as such when I received them, but since my dream on
December 14, 2018 they have all come into remarkable focus. I will share
these in this study where they fit to help us relate to what is now
unfolding.In 1987, I was shown in a prophetic experience that we had
been turning to the left as a nation for a long time. I was also shown a
coming sharp turn to the left. I was not shown whether this was good or
bad, just that it would happen. I was then shown a reaction to this and
a turn back to the right. I saw that we would never again make a sharp
turn to the left, but there was a danger that we would go too far to the
right.I wrote about this in my book, The Harvest. That is also when I
was told that an eagle needs both a right wing and a left wing to fly.
When the weight shifted to the extreme on either wing, it would crash.
So the warning was that extreme turns to the right or left could bring
us down.A few years after this, I thought that the extreme turn to the
left was with the Clinton Administration. Then I was sure it had to be
the Obama Administration that turned the country much further to the
left than Clinton. The Trump Administration seems to be the beginning of
turning back to the right. Now we have the rise of the new socialists
that seem even further to the left, but at this point they do not have
the influence to turn the country. What they can do is cause a reaction
to tempt us to go even further to the right than we should. The extremes
on both the right and the left are enemies of what we are called to
be.So will the right or the left lead us to our destiny, our Promise
Land? Neither will. Something much higher than either of these is
coming. With the increasingly extreme political clamor, it is going to
take a new generation of transcendent leadership to both see and steer
us toward our destiny and purpose.I’ve studied history for over half a
century, and I’ve never seen such remarkable leaders gathered in one
place at the same time as I saw in our Founding Fathers. With the
possible exception of a mature Lincoln, who he was at the end of his
life, it could be argued that we have not had such transcendent leaders
since our founding as a nation. What we need now, and what we will be
given again, is not just one transcendent leader, but another group of
them so that together they will be considered the “new Founding
Fathers.” We can also expect some of these to be mothers. The mother
element is necessary to see the full vision of what we’re called to
be.Somehow we must stop thinking right and left, and start looking up,
back to our roots. We also need to see our place in The Scriptures, such
as Revelation 12:13-16:And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down
to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the
man-child.But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman,
so that she could fly into the wilderness to her place, where she was
nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the
serpent.And the serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth
after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away with the
flood.But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and
drank up the river which the dragon poured out of his mouth.Until the
Advent Movement of 1844, this text was almost universally believed by
Protestants and evangelical movements to be speaking about America. The
woman here is considered to be who the Apostle Paul referred to as
“Jerusalem above who is our mother.” The male child who will rule the
nations is Christ, who was born through the nation of Israel and is now
being born through the church of those who have been born of Christ by
the Spirit. During the Inquisition, the worst persecution against
Protestants and Jews in which it was estimated that as many as 50
million in Europe were tortured and killed, the “earth opened” with the
discovery of America. This flood of persecution was then swallowed up as
the nations of Europe gave their attention to populating this “new
world.”Of course, the symbol of the United States is the eagle. In the
text, we see that “two wings of a great eagle” were given to help the
woman, the church, who was carried to a wilderness, which is what
America was at that time. Many, if not most, of the first colonists were
Protestant Christians and Jews fleeing the persecution in Europe.For
this reason, it seems that one of our basic purposes as a nation is to
be a haven for the persecuted Christians and Jews. To this day,
Christians and Jews remain the most persecuted people of all. This is
not to say that we should not be a haven for other persecuted peoples,
but a main purpose that we have is to be a haven for persecuted
Christians and Jews, the people who have carried the seed of Christ—the
“man-child.”For this reason, the American Republic is called to be a
Judeo-Christian nation. We are not a post-Christian nation, we are a
pre-Christian nation. Wait and see.
The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 9-Week 9, 2019-Rick Joyner
One
of the questions I am asked most frequently about this coming Second
American Revolutionary/Civil War is when it will break out. I have not
received anything about the timing, but since publishing this dream, I
have received messages from several prophetic people that have given
words that civil war would break out in America in 2021. A rationale
some have given for this is that Trump will be elected to a second term
and this will exacerbate our divisions into violence. Perhaps.I
regularly hear words that are attributed to me that I never gave. Often
they are the opposite of what I believe. This has been the case with
prophecy from the beginning, and we see it with many of the biblical
prophets—they had to contend with words from others that countered
theirs. This is why it is increasingly important for us to not just seek
to hear words from The Lord, but to hear The Word Himself. We must know
His voice and follow The Lamb, not just prophetic words.Something like a
Revolutionary/Civil War is so dramatic, and its consequences so great,
that it can overshadow almost everything else. However, the most
important event now unfolding in our country is another Great Awakening.
With the Awakening, we can expect revivals to break out in different
parts of the country as well as a great spiritual hunger to know The
Lord. This is far more important than the Revolutionary/Civil War and
will be a main factor in the outcome of this conflict.Things in the
natural often parallel what is happening in the Spirit, and there is
also a great revolution beginning in the church. Like the revolution
that will restore the Constitution as “the supreme law of the land,” a
great revolution is coming to the church to restore it to the solid
biblical foundation of what church life is intended to be, and even what
real Christianity is.Presently, only a small fraction of U.S. Citizens
have read the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Our ministry’s lawyer
took Constitutional law in law school and his class never once referred
to the Constitution. They spent all of their time studying Supreme Court
decisions because the Supreme Court has usurped the place of the
Constitution as the supreme law of the land, and by doing this has
become the source of the biggest divisions growing in our
country.Likewise, the church is filled with teachers and teaching that
is disconnected from The Scriptures; rather, the teaching is based
mostly on human thinking and wisdom. One popular evangelical journal did
a study of what it was publishing and found that less than one percent
of the articles they published had even one reference to Scripture. This
is from the church movement that prides itself the most on being
devoted to The Scriptures. Spurgeon once said that he could find ten men
who would die for The Bible for every one that would read it! It’s
still true.There has never been anything, and never will be anything, as
revolutionary as the gospel of the kingdom. This is the gospel that
Jesus and His disciples preached, but it has not truly been preached
since. There has never been anything written—and never will be—as
revolutionary as The Scriptures. Just as we can point to the departure
from our Constitution as the root of virtually every crisis in our
government and country, we can likewise point to the root of the great
crises in Christianity and the church to our deviation from sound,
biblical truth. The main answer to the crises in our country and the
church is to return to the foundations given to us in the Constitution
and The Bible.The most important thing we can do to be prepared for the
times is to 1) get closer to The Lord, 2) get to know His voice better
for our personal guidance, 3) find our place in His body, the church, 4)
get the teaching, training, and equipping that we need to function in
our ministry (which every Christian has), and 5) get to know The Bible
for ourselves.Some of the most popular doctrines embraced by Christians
today are not found in The Bible, and many are even contrary to its
teaching. Peter warned about the teachings that, “the unstable and
untaught distort, just as they do The Scriptures, to their own
destruction” (II see Peter 3:16). The foolishness of so many to follow
those who are pretenders and disconnected from the truth is the cause of
much of the destruction that we are headed for.When a politician today
challenges something as “unconstitutional,” more often than not what
they are promoting is unconstitutional. Likewise, the same is true of
church leaders declaring something to be biblical, or not, when the
opposite of what they’re saying is true. When asked about the signs of
the end of the age, the first thing The Lord said was “Don’t be
deceived.” Many of the other prophecies about the end of this age
highlight how deception will be a primary mark of this time. We’re there
now.The antidote? Obey the Great Commission and make disciples, not
just converts. Those who do not have a devotion to and love for the
truth—and the wisdom and the nobility of the Bereans who searched The
Scriptures for themselves to check out what the apostles were
teaching—will be deceived. Begin by studying what Jesus said about His
disciples. A true disciple of Christ has knowing their Master, learning
of Him, and becoming like him, doing the works that He did, as the
greatest focus of their life. This type of radical, revolutionary
Christianity is about to be released on the earth again. The most
important thing we can do to prepare for what is coming is to become His
disciple, according to His definition of what that is.
The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War Part 10-Week 10, 2019-Rick Joyner
For
fifty years I have had dreams, visions, and revelations about the
coming revolutions and civil wars in the church. I have written
extensively about these, and my most popular books have been about them.
What I understood, but did not give too much attention to, is how
closely events in the natural parallel what is happening in the Spirit.
Connecting these better will help us prepare for both.When we begin to
glimpse the kingdom of God and the city that God is building, it is hard
to consider anything happening on the earth as important—but it is. We
must give it due attention because much of it is happening in
preparation for the coming kingdom of God. The emerging spiritual
awakening is also imperative for the Revolutionary/Civil War to be
successful in the natural. As our national Founding Fathers declared,
the Republic they gave to us only works for a moral and religious
people, and they admitted that it was “inadequate for governing any
others.” There is no way to have a successful outcome in our country’s
coming Revolutionary/Civil War if the one in the church does not precede
it.We can reconnect our government to the Constitution that embodies
God’s wisdom for government, but without a spiritual Awakening in
America, it will not be long before it is disconnected again and
lawlessness prevails. Our Constitution is not a law that forces
righteousness, but it is the construction of a limited government that
protects its people from evil and promotes liberty. The Founders were
right: this Constitutional Republic can only work for those who want to
do what is right because of a strong religious and moral compass in
their heart. Therefore, they are given the ability to choose what is
right because they love God, righteousness, and justice, and also love,
honor, and respect one another. This may sound too good to work for any
civil government, and it is without devotion to God and high moral
principles by the people governed. In this age of increasing
lawlessness, immorality, greed, and all other forms of darkness, this
may seem even more unrealistic. It is more than unrealistic—it is
impossible without God.“Nothing is impossible for God.” He is not
challenged by what may seem difficult or impossible for us. Biblical
record and history reveal that He does His best work when the challenge
is the most impossible for us. The Christian life He has called us to is
not just the most difficult life we can live—it is impossible. No human
being can live the Christian life we are called to without Christ! He
designed what He called us to as impossible without Him.No human life on
this planet can be successful without God. He made man to need Him. We
can accomplish what is in our heart without Him, but if such get the
chance to ponder their life on their deathbed, they will know it was
frivolous, empty, and a failure at what was truly important. Has there
yet been anyone on their deathbed who had remorse that they did not make
more money, build or accumulate more stuff, or get more of the
accolades of men? God is asking us to do the impossible. He wants the
American Republic to be a government that will not work without Him.
Like Israel of old that had to learn over and over that they could not
survive without God, we are now there ourselves. We will not last much
longer without Him.As we see in Revelation 11:15, when the seventh
trumpet sounds, which is the seventh and last message that goes forth,
the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord. There is
a transition being prepared, a bridge to the age to come. This is why
we are told in Isaiah 40 that we prepare the way for The Lord by
building a highway. This highway is God’s “higher-way.” He has a higher
way, higher than even man’s greatest wisdom, to do just about
everything. This includes government, education, business—everything. To
the degree that we align ourselves with His ways is the degree to which
we build upon His kingdom that cannot be shaken. The Founders of the
American Republic developed a Constitution for a republic that would
limit government, not promote the expansion of it. They understood that
anything the government did for its citizens beyond three basic areas
would come with strings attached that would ultimately have the people
in bondage again. The three areas they believed civil government needed
to have authority over was for the common defense, foreign affairs, and
interstate commerce. All other authority in the Constitution was
remanded “to the states and to the people.” When our federal government
went beyond its Constitutional mandate, virtually every crisis we’re now
facing began.As C.S. Lewis wrote, “When you make a wrong turn and get
on the wrong road it will never turn into the right road. The only way
to get on the right road is to go back to where you missed the turn.” We
may think that it is impossible to go back to those now. It is if we’re
looking to the right or the left, but not if we’re looking up.
Remember, “Nothing is impossible for God.”
The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 11-Week 11, 2019-Rick Joyner
The
Great Commission was to make disciples of all nations, not just
individuals. The Lord said that when He returned He would divide the
nations into “sheep” or “goats.” The sheep are good and the goats are
bad. We have come to a time when nations are determining ultimate issues
that will result in them being a sheep or goat nation. In this series, I
will continue to unpack the dramatic dream I had about the American
Republic that deals with ultimate issues of our purpose from heaven’s
perspective. Regardless of what country you are from, there will be a
level of civil conflict coming in your nation too. Many will be similar
to what is unfolding here. Therefore, even though this is
American-centric, in many ways it addresses the same basic issues all
nations will be facing, as these are all connected to what The Lord said
would come at the end of this age.As covered previously, the first two
Great Awakenings in America each preceded wars, the Revolutionary War
and the Civil War. As we study the primary messages that came from those
two Great Awakenings, we can see a direct link from the Awakenings to
the wars. So did these great spiritual awakenings cause the wars? In
some basic ways they did. The light from these Awakenings exposed the
darkness, and this required that it be confronted until it was driven
from the land.Could the darkness have been driven from the land by
spiritual warfare so that the physical conflicts would not have been
necessary? Perhaps. That certainly would have been desirable. However,
what I saw in my dream included physical conflict. I saw the nature of
this, which I will share later in this study. Even so, it is my
conviction that to the degree that evil strongholds in our land are
destroyed spiritually, the degree of the physical conflict will
lessen.As we enter the Third Great Awakening in America, we can expect
the same kind of light to expose the great darkness in our time. When
powers of darkness are exposed, they rage. When they are cast out of
their high positions they come to the earth with great wrath, as we see
in Revelation 12. God’s provision is to send us great champions of the
truth to face specific evil strongholds in our time. They are being sent
to completely destroy these strongholds, not just defeat them and push
them back. What is happening in the Spirit will be reflected in the
natural with rage and conflict.It is always a tragedy when our
differences degenerate into violence. It has been a great hope of
Western Civilization to rise above war, to eradicate it completely from
the earth. That is a noble hope, however, as we see up to the end of the
Book of Revelation, there will be increasing war right to the end of
the age. As we see in Revelation 7, for a brief time the winds of war
(winds of the earth) are held back so that The Lord’s bondservants can
be sealed, but this is a short time and the winds are released again. To
be prepared for the times we must understand that violence has already
begun, and it will get worse for a time. Again, this may be reduced by
spiritual victories, but there is now a level of violence that we will
not be able to avoid and we must be prepared for—spiritually and
physically.A major reason we can expect increasing violence is because
of a contingent that not only does not want open debate, but cannot
tolerate it. This is the fruit of an education system that no longer
educates, but rather indoctrinates. A generation has been conditioned so
that if you disagree with them they will be offended, and being
offended has been elevated to the level of being considered almost worse
than a physical assault. That many are so easily offended is a major
cause that will make the physical violence unavoidable. As we are told
in Proverbs 18:19, “A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong
city.”One of the most important things we can do to prepare for the
coming conflict is to refuse to be offended. This is basic Christianity
and is called “forgiveness.” Jesus forgave the ones who had Him
crucified and even those who nailed Him to the cross. Learning to be
quick to forgive is basic discipleship and basic to following Christ. To
stay on the right side in what is unfolding, we must not engage in the
rage and bitterness that is fueled by unforgiveness. We must learn not
to react to personal offense, but take the actions that we do because
they are the right thing to do.To make it through what is coming upon
the world will require all Christians to follow Christ more closely and
be more like Him than we ever have. We must guard our hearts, especially
from the evil stronghold of unforgiveness and offense. The Lord will
help us get ready by allowing opportunities to learn to forgive quickly
and totally. Don’t waste these trials. Embrace them as the opportunities
they are, especially when you are persecuted for doing what is right.
The Lord promised a special blessing for this. See these as an
opportunity to get closer to The Lord by bearing your cross to identify
with Him, and getting closer to Him will be the greatest blessing of
all.
The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 12-Week 12, 2019-Rick Joyner
As
we began to cover last week, one of the biggest evil strongholds now
growing in the U.S. is causing people to be offended by just about
anything. The penalty for causing someone to be offended is getting
increasingly severe and has even been proposed to be a criminal offense.
This has led to people being increasingly controlled by the fear of
offending someone to the point of almost completely shackling free
expression. This is a basic assault on one of the two linchpin freedoms
that all of our other freedoms stand on—the freedom of speech.This has
led to another growing bondage in our land—the “tyranny of the
minority.” This is how a tiny percentage of people can claim to be
offended by something and by this take away the rights of everyone else.
This is how prayer was taken out of our public schools, which fueled
the assault on just about every other religious expression, a very basic
violation of the Constitution. Led by the increasingly dominant thought
police, lawmakers and judges have sided with this basic and final
assault on our freedom. They are now even proposing that almost anything
that is contrary to liberal political correctness is “hate speech”
deserving of criminal prosecution.A law was proposed in the European
Union recently that would make it a crime to criticize E.U. immigration
policy. There have been even more onerous laws proposed in the United
Nations that would have been binding on all member nations. It hasn’t
happened yet, but that is just one step away from making it a crime to
criticize any policy, which is just one step away from the release of a
worldwide Gestapo.We may think that America would never fall that far,
but we have tended to only be a few steps behind such trends in Europe.
However, the American Republic is not going to fall that far, not
because we are so much smarter or stronger, but because of the grace of
God. A major pushback is coming against all of the PC madness that has
sought to bind and micro-manage people until they are compliant
automatons.In II Corinthians 3:17, we are told that “where the Spirit of
The Lord is, there is liberty.” The subjugation of the people is always
an attempt to hinder the moving of The Spirit of The Lord, and the
spirit behind the PC madness and the subsequent laws is an attempt to
inhibit the coming greatest move of God that there has ever been.It is
now easy to see the factors that are causing the internal social
pressures to increase until they explode. A major factor that we need to
see and address is how the church is responsible for this. What we
release in heaven, or from our high position, gets released on the
earth. What we bind in the high position we’ve been called to will get
bound on the earth. Is this basic intolerance of freedom of speech or
freedom of thought not dominate in most of the church? The seeds of
intolerance now expanding in the world were sown by the Pharisaical
spirit in much of the church. Even with the great movements that were
born out of a revelation that recovered and restored biblical truth to
the church, almost all quickly became intolerant of any who did not
agree with them, or presumed to go even further in the pursuit of the
truth. That is the spirit that operated in the Pharisees, not Jesus.This
is not to imply that we should let anyone teach anything in the church.
We must have a devotion to adhering to sound biblical teaching, but we
must do this because we love the truth, not because we are threatened by
those who see some things differently. The spirit of intolerance is
evil regardless of where it is found. The counter to this spirit is not
tolerance of anything, but rather a love for the truth that defends and
protects the truth in the Spirit of Christ.The church is responsible for
allowing many evils to be released into these times by what we have
tolerated, but the church will also be the source of what breaks the
power of this evil. A new revolution is coming to the church, and then
through it. The result of this will be the release of great champions of
the truth that will be some of the most powerful messengers to walk the
earth.As we see in Revelation 12, when Satan is cast out of heaven, or
the high positions he controls, he will come to the earth with great
wrath. Because Satan dwells in darkness, just his exposure by the light
begins to break his power, and he will react to the coming light with
all of the violence he can muster. There are now many conditioned
reactionaries who will come in great violence who must not be confused
with the righteous revolutionaries. Presently, most of our divisions
have been cast in political terms, either liberal or conservative. There
are other alternatives to these two. There is a transcendent truth, a
transcendent cause that is beyond politics, and it will ultimately
prevail. Just as a basic military strategy is to take the high ground
and fight from it, we must do the same. We must not get pulled down into
the low ground of smaller issues.
The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 13-Week 13, 2019-Rick Joyner
It
is basic military doctrine that you cannot defeat an enemy you do not
see. Seeing the enemy implies understanding him. Just as the most
effective military leaders are those who learn the ways of their
adversaries so they can counter them, we are commanded not to be
ignorant of the enemy’s schemes.After studying our nation’s founding and
being convinced that the hand of God was in it and that our founding
documents were inspired by wisdom from above, it was easy to see how the
enemy would seek to destroy us and thereby destroy God’s purpose for
our nation. In my dream, I saw one word in large caps that summed up our
purpose: LIBERTY. This was followed by “and justice for all.” We cannot
have true liberty if it is not for all, and we cannot have true justice
unless it is for all.One of the primary linchpins holding our
Constitution together has been under relentless assault by the enemies
of our freedom. This assault has come primarily through the courts by
activist judges. Their ultimate target has been our religious liberty,
and a main strategy has been to set us adrift by a false interpretation
of the relationship between the church and the state established in the
Constitution.It is very possible that none of these judges really knew
the impact of their decisions and how they were an assault on our
Constitution and therefore our Republic. Just as Jesus prayed for those
who crucified Him to be forgiven because they did not know what they
were doing, this is often the case by those used by the devil. This is
why we are told that we do not war against flesh and blood, but against
the principalities and powers using people to do their work. Even so, we
must see the strategy to counter it.Nowhere in the Constitution is
there mention of the separation of the church and state. This is a major
fallacy and deception by which the enemies of the truth have worked to
destroy a linchpin of our Republic—the freedom of religion. Most
Americans, and even many conservatives who promote adherence to the
Constitution, believe this lie. What is actually stated is that
“congress will establish no religion, or prohibit the free exercise
thereof.” This was intended to keep the federal government out of the
church, not the other way around. The Founders even argued that the
Republic could not last without the influence of the church.Again, the
term “separation of church and state” is not found in the Constitution
or any other founding documents. Those who say that it is are only
revealing their ignorance of the Constitution. This term was coined by
Thomas Jefferson in his letters to the Danbury Baptists. That term, and
his letters, were intended to ensure them that the church would be
protected from the intrusion of the state, not the other way around.
This false interpretation of the Constitution and its wrong application
has resulted in the attempt to use the government, especially the
courts, to inhibit the freedom of religion in America. This is itself a
serious violation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.We can see that
in the year this began to be wrongly applied by the Supreme Court to
remove prayer from public schools, America began its present meltdown in
morality, righteousness, and justice. By this decision, the Supreme
Court allowed a tiny fraction of the population that were atheists and
agnostics to sever one of the most basic and important provisions of the
Constitution and violate the religious liberty of the rest of the
country.For this to be allowed to stand—and the way that it was done
through the Supreme Court without even being contested—has led to the
eroding of many other basic liberties, and now has our continued
existence as a Republic in jeopardy. It did this by allowing the
judicial tyranny to go to a new level of intrusion on the authority of
the other branches of government, the states, and the people.As
application of Supreme Court decisions have become even more intrusive
into these domains, it has brought us to the crisis point where it will
be determined if we live or die as a Republic. To be the salt and light
that Christians are called to be, we must resolve to stand against evil,
injustice, and tyranny. We are called to be “freedom fighters” and it
should be fundamental to all Christians to fight for “liberty and
justice for all.”Stewardship is one of the basic ways we will be judged
as faithful or unfaithful to The Lord, as Jesus explained in the Parable
of the Talents. This is not just about stewarding our money or stuff,
but also stewarding all that God has entrusted to us. As Americans we
must be good stewards of the freedoms that have been entrusted to us.The
only commandment that God gave with a promise attached is to honor our
fathers and mothers. The promise given for doing this is that it would
“go well” with us and that our days would be prolonged. What could be
more dishonoring of our national fathers and mothers than to lose what
was entrusted to us on our watch, that which was paid for by such a dear
price? America has been called “the home of the brave,” and we have
been preserved by the courage and sacrifice of many. Now it is our
turn.Courage is the greatest need we have today in our Christian and
national leadership. When the first apostles were threatened by the
Sanhedrin they did not pray for more wisdom, protection, or even more
power; they prayed for boldness. Boldness is the fruit of courage. We
are about to see a bold new breed of leader arise.
