For fifty years I have had dreams, visions, and revelations about the coming revolutions and civil wars in the church. I have written extensively about these, and my most popular books have been about them. What I understood, but did not give too much attention to, is how closely events in the natural parallel what is happening in the Spirit. Connecting these better will help us prepare for both.
When we begin to glimpse the kingdom of God and the city that God is building, it is hard to consider anything happening on the earth as important—but it is. We must give it due attention because much of it is happening in preparation for the coming kingdom of God. The emerging spiritual awakening is also imperative for the Revolutionary/Civil War to be successful in the natural. As our national Founding Fathers declared, the Republic they gave to us only works for a moral and religious people, and they admitted that it was “inadequate for governing any others.” There is no way to have a successful outcome in our country’s coming Revolutionary/Civil War if the one in the church does not precede it.
We can reconnect our government to the Constitution that embodies God’s wisdom for government, but without a spiritual Awakening in America, it will not be long before it is disconnected again and lawlessness prevails. Our Constitution is not a law that forces righteousness, but it is the construction of a limited government that protects its people from evil and promotes liberty. The Founders were right: this Constitutional Republic can only work for those who want to do what is right because of a strong religious and moral compass in their heart. Therefore, they are given the ability to choose what is right because they love God, righteousness, and justice, and also love, honor, and respect one another.
This may sound too good to work for any civil government, and it is without devotion to God and high moral principles by the people governed. In this age of increasing lawlessness, immorality, greed, and all other forms of darkness, this may seem even more unrealistic. It is more than unrealistic—it is impossible without God.
“Nothing is impossible for God.” He is not challenged by what may seem difficult or impossible for us. Biblical record and history reveal that He does His best work when the challenge is the most impossible for us. The Christian life He has called us to is not just the most difficult life we can live—it is impossible. No human being can live the Christian life we are called to without Christ! He designed what He called us to as impossible without Him.
No human life on this planet can be successful without God. He made man to need Him. We can accomplish what is in our heart without Him, but if such get the chance to ponder their life on their deathbed, they will know it was frivolous, empty, and a failure at what was truly important. Has there yet been anyone on their deathbed who had remorse that they did not make more money, build or accumulate more stuff, or get more of the accolades of men?
God is asking us to do the impossible. He wants the American Republic to be a government that will not work without Him. Like Israel of old that had to learn over and over that they could not survive without God, we are now there ourselves. We will not last much longer without Him.
As we see in Revelation 11:15, when the seventh trumpet sounds, which is the seventh and last message that goes forth, the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord. There is a transition being prepared, a bridge to the age to come. This is why we are told in Isaiah 40 that we prepare the way for The Lord by building a highway. This highway is God’s “higher-way.” He has a higher way, higher than even man’s greatest wisdom, to do just about everything. This includes government, education, business—everything. To the degree that we align ourselves with His ways is the degree to which we build upon His kingdom that cannot be shaken.
The Founders of the American Republic developed a Constitution for a republic that would limit government, not promote the expansion of it. They understood that anything the government did for its citizens beyond three basic areas would come with strings attached that would ultimately have the people in bondage again. The three areas they believed civil government needed to have authority over was for the common defense, foreign affairs, and interstate commerce. All other authority in the Constitution was remanded “to the states and to the people.” When our federal government went beyond its Constitutional mandate, virtually every crisis we’re now facing began.
As C.S. Lewis wrote, “When you make a wrong turn and get on the wrong road it will never turn into the right road. The only way to get on the right road is to go back to where you missed the turn.” We may think that it is impossible to go back to those now. It is if we’re looking to the right or the left, but not if we’re looking up. Remember, “Nothing is impossible for God.”
