The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 5
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.