The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 2
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?