The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 11
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.