According
to the Russian media, China's People's Liberation Army
dispatched the Jinggangshan amphibious dock landing
ship and the vessel was seen passing through the Red
Sea towards the Suez Canal, the waterway in Egypt that
leads to the Mediterranean Sea and waters off the
coast of Israel, Lebanon and Syria. China has
sent other warships to that region as a show of force!
These
are clear warning signals that the U.S. would not just
be engaging Syria, but two of the most powerful
military forces on the globe, Russia and China.
As
I write you these words, I carry
with me a deep burden for
America, the church and how this
will impact people in every
nation. This burden from
the Lord stays with me 24/7 and
I am often awakened in the
middle of the night to cry out
to God, interceding for this
nation. The reality is
that America is about to enter a
period of indescribable horror
and these are horrors that could
unfold before the wrath of God
is poured out, during the seven
year Tribulation Period. I
am not saying the church will go
through the Tribulation Period,
but I am saying that without
genuine repentance, the church
in America is about to face the
judgment of God.
I
want to be very precise with my words. I believe
that the Bible gives us God's end time prophetic
program. No one can alter God's end time
prophetic program! I am not suggesting in any
way that it is possible to change what God has decreed
in His Word. God's Word is our final authority
in all things! Throughout the Bible, God deals
with both nations and people as an individual.
In many cases, not all, God hears the prayers of true
repentance from His people and either delays or ceases
His plan for judgment upon a nation or people.
When Abraham was talking to God about the judgment
coming upon Sodom, God determined that He could not
find enough righteous people to stop His
judgment. In other cases throughout the Bible,
God has canceled out or delayed judgment, if His
righteous conditions are met.
God's
hand is still upon America, but it is lifting.
None of us know how much time we have left, but time
is running out for America. I believe God is
giving us one last opportunity to repent and change
our ways. However, God is not waiting for the
people that do not know Him to repent! The Word
says, "Judgment begins in the house of the
Lord." That means when God judges a nation, He
begins with the church.
God
has given the church in America the Keys of the
Kingdom. If individual Christians and the church
truly repent in sufficient numbers, I believe the Lord
will delay judgment and give America more time to
fulfill God's original plan for America which is to
preach the Gospel, make disciples of all nations and
occupy until Jesus Christ comes! The reason God
has prospered America and the reason God gave America
the right to "Freedom of Speech" and "Freedom of
Religion," was so that the church could fulfill the
Great Commission. Tragically, a large percentage
of the church in America has become apostate and has
rebelled from the Word of God. The result is
that God is now taking away the prosperity and rights
we once had. There is a direct correlation
between the two.
The
reason we have not seen the revival, restoration and a
Great Awakening that we have been praying for, is
because the church has not met God's righteous
requirements. This following acts of repentance
must happen immediately to postpone judgment and to
see whatever degree of restoration the Lord will grant
us.
1.
Individual Christians and the church must be
ruthlessly honest before a Holy God and admit our
collective sin of "playing church," rather than truly
repenting before God.
2.
The "Evangelical Church" must admit before God that it
has allowed false prophets, false teachers and false
teaching to fill the house of God from coast to
cost. There must be specific repentance of this
sin and there must be immediate action to no longer
allow false teachers, false prophets and false
teaching in the House of the Lord. We have
sinned and offended God.
3.
We must now come before God individually and
collectively in our churches and confess our personal
sins and our collective sins. We must truly
repent! We must cry out to God with all our
hearts for mercy. We must weep before the altar
of God. If our sanctuaries are not filled with
the sound weeping, crying and sobbing, then our hearts
are still hard! Our pastors must lead the way
into this deeper repentance, or the people of God must
stop following them.
4.
The hour is urgent and our church services and worship
services should reflect the sobriety of the
hour. Our pastoral leadership, elders and the
people must confess the primary sin, which is we have
rejected the Word of God and His laws for the
humanistic teachings of man and New Age
mysticism. All across America pastors and
teachers no longer teach from the inspired and
inerrant Word of God, but they teach a false gospel of
psychological-motivation, humanism and
mysticism. We have sinned before God by
rejecting His Word and following false teaching.
We must repent and must immediately stop this sin
before God. If we say this is not a sin before
our Holy God and attempt to justify it before the
Lord, we will suffer the judgment of God. This
is unacceptable worship!
5.
As individual Christians and as the church we must
fall on our faces before God and confess that we are
filled with pride, carnality, immorality and
idolatry. God is merciful and He will cleanse us
of all sin, if we truly ask Him to.
6.
We must cry out to God in humility and confess that
our nation is perishing because of our sin, the sin of
the church! The sin in society, politics and
entertainment is simply a reflection of the sin in the
church. We must humble our selves before God and
call on the name of Jesus Christ to purify us with His
Word and to set us aflame with the power of the Holy
Spirit. We cannot win a spiritual war in the
power of the flesh. That was the sin of Saul and
David was able to conquer Goliath because He was
anointed with the Spirit of God. Apart from God
we can do nothing. We must ask God, believing
that after we have allowed Him to sanctify us; He will
set us on fire with the power of God.
7.
As we cry out to God to send us His power, we must
vigilantly guard ourselves from the silliness,
clown-like behavior, strange noises and actions which
are counterfeits of the power of God! As we cry
out to God for His deliverance and strength, we must
be prepared to receive it when it comes. There
will be a sense of divine holiness like we have never
known before. None us will doubt that we have
been transformed by the glory of the Living God and we
will rise in the power of the Spirit. As we rise
in worship and respect to which we call our Lord, we
will rise like the tide of vast oceans. The land
will shake and tremble and with the knowledge that the
Lord of Hosts has come again into this land and all
His purposes will be fulfilled.