The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 17
Rick Joyner
The church as we perceive it in
the West is about to die. This is not something to rejoice over. Even though it
may be far from the church that Jesus will build, it has accomplished much and
will die in honor. It is a parallel of the life of Rachel, Jacob’s wife that
died when Benjamin was born. Benjamin was the last son born to Israel and
represents the last sons of God to be born on the earth. Benjamin means “the
son of the right hand,” and the right hand of God is called “the right hand of
power.” Like
Rachel, the church will give birth to the “son of His right hand,” but it will
take her life. So this means she will have been a mother to the last-day
ministry, and we honor our fathers and mothers.
The
Reformation helped the church dig its way out of a deep darkness, but even as
far as Christianity has advanced over the last 500 years, we have much further
to go. This does not mean it will take another 500 years. As we are told in II
Peter 3:8, “But do not let this one fact escape
your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and
a thousand years like one day.” This means He could do in one day
what we think will take a thousand years.
It
probably will not happen that fast, but everything is speeding up. However,
what will happen will not happen through the continued reformation of the
present model of the church. There is a new breed of ministry
about to be released. It will be a people who walk in radical, revolutionary
faith and power. This is such a new wine that the old model cannot contain it.
For this reason we should not despair when the old model dies, but rightfully
honor the Rachel that carried and given birth to the new breed.
Likewise,
a new breed of radical, revolutionary patriot will arise in America, and not
just America—in nations around the world. God established the nations and gave
them boundaries. He said anyone who moved the ancient boundaries would be
cursed. That’s because He wants the nations preserved. Again, God’s unity is a unity of diversity, not a
unity of conformity that earthly men are trying to impose on the world.
God’s unity will prevail, and patriotism is going to win around the world. In
this way the heritage and inheritances will be preserved, national and cultural
identities will be preserved, and the great unity of diversity will be
possible.
Once we
see our purpose, we can see how the church in America has deviated from its
calling and see how the same thing has happened in our civil government. “We the people” are the ones that are
primarily responsible for this because here, the people are the sovereign. The
government of the Republic is designed to be subject to us. The primary blame
for having our authority usurped lies ultimately with us for allowing it to
happen. The people will also be the ones who wake up and recover what has been
lost.
This is a
prophecy of what is coming, but it is also a forensic study of what went wrong
so that we can correct it and don’t keep making the same mistakes. If we do not
understand this, we will fall again because what caused the fall has not been
corrected. Just as Spurgeon once said that he could find ten men who would die
for The Bible for every one that would read it, we too can find many who would
die for the Constitution. Far more may have died for it than have read it.
As I
shared before, our ministry lawyer took Constitutional Law in law school and
they never once referred to the Constitution. The entire course was spent
studying Supreme Court decisions, obviously under the delusion that the Supreme
Court was the supreme law of the land and that anything it would do must be
constitutional. Those who claim to be “constitutional lawyers” can be the
most ignorant of what is actually in the Constitution. When a politician
today says that something is constitutional, you can almost be sure that it is
not. When they claim that something is not constitutional, you can almost be
sure that it is.
That is
how twisted things have become and why The Lord’s first warning about these
times was, “Do not be deceived.”
Deception is far more common than truth today. This is why things reported in
the media are now more likely to be false, or at least distorted. Why is this?
You can also now count on the same from most of the pulpits in the American
church. The message of the typical American church today would be
unrecognizable to the apostles of the first century.
The
disconnect from truth has come the same way in the media that it has in the
church. Of course, this is not true in every church or the entire media. It’s
easy to see in the media how there is now a tendency to report what they want
to be true rather than what is true. Is that not how we have changed the
Gospel, the church, and even our concept of God into what we want them to be
rather than how they are?
One of the basic characteristics of true humility is being teachable
and responsive enough to change, or to expand our concepts and beliefs. This
too is repentance, and it is coming.