Posted on 04/05/2015 9:41:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
Recently, while announcing his 2016 presidential bid in front of 13,000 onlookers at central Virginia’s Liberty University, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz garnered tremendous applause, saying, “I believe God isn’t done with America yet.”
I think he’s right. Though the forces of evil may try, there are many Christ followers who intend to see spiritual revival break out in this, one of the two greatest nations on earth. “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14).”
Before its foundation America first flew the Appeal to Heaven flag. It was the banner George Washington used on his navy ships to signal that their only hope against British rule and religious persecution was an appeal to heaven. The crusade continues today.
Indeed, pockets of revival are breaking out under the appeal to heaven banner across the nation. Some are expecting the next great move of God to emerge under this banner that pictures an evergreen tree on a white flag with the words “An Appeal to Heaven” across the top.
“Our nation is in crisis. It has grown darker over the past six years. It will continue growing darker until we turn back to God as a nation. The good news is when we do, we’ll see a Great Awakening and many souls will come into the kingdom,” says Jennifer LeClaire, senior editor at Charisma magazine, contributor to BarbWire.com and author of “The Next Great Move of God: An Appeal to Heaven for Spiritual Awakening.” “I’m blowing the trumpet. I’m sounding the alarm. There is hope for America, and that hope lies in the body of Christ rising up to do as Jesus commanded: Occupy until I come.”
I want to encourage my readers to pick up “The Next Great Move of God.” LeClaire has become a rising prophetic voice for revival in America. The wisdom she’s been given by the Holy Spirit and the vision she has for God’s move in America is something to which every Christian (and non-believer, for that matter) should pay notice. Jennifer is a fearless voice for Christ’s truth, in love, and has earned my tremendous respect in the years we’ve known each other.
“Sparked in part by a revelation Dutch Sheets received over the course of 12 years,” notes LeClaire, “the nation is being called back to prayer for a Third Great Awakening.” Through in-depth interviews, eyewitness accounts, transcribed speeches and prophetic visions from noted leaders such as Billy Graham, Reinhard Bonnke, the late Steve Hill and others, LeClaire’s “The Next Great Move of God” serves as a means to not only fan the fires of revival unto this awakening but also equip you to sustain it.
“For every prophecy about judgment on America, there seems to be another prophecy about a revival, renewal or awakening. The Lord has spoken to me – and many others – about another Great Awakening,” writes LeClaire. “He told me it would grow darker before the light shines brightly in this nation again. It has indeed grown darker. I believe it will grow darker still, but the darkness will not overpower the light. I see an emerging move of God – the next great move of God; a Third Great Awakening.”
To that I say, Amen.
Events in Indiana, Arkansas and around the world have shown that, as Christ warned, anti-Christian bigotry, hostility and persecution will rise to a great crescendo as we approach the end times. We are witnessing this now. In the Middle East and across the globe, many of our brothers and sisters face great persecution – what I call “hard persecution.” Here in America, radical secularists and Islamists are quickly moving us from a softer persecution into comparable hard persecution. As does LeClaire, I believe that this can be reversed and that we may yet witness a great revival – a Third Great Awakening.
Pick up “The Next Great Move of God” and read fascinating accounts and prophetic visions as to how many of your favorite faithful believe these events will unfold.
I believe we are seeing the first glimpses of religious revival. Hopefully...
That backlash will have to be initially led by Conservatives that see solutions to massive problems the Democrats have created. It will take someone like Cruz to present this to voters before they will rebel against the Left.
That’s why I support a man like him, for without them, there is no conviction in the public’s minds that there is a better way.
This has been the major missing component since Ronald Reagan. There has been very little vision on the right, and even less presentation of it at the top.
That’s the massive problem California has. Look what an absence of Conservative principles at the top has created there.
How do you know whether or not pastors such as John Cotton, Wesley or Whitefield were not inspired to make those observations???
I for one certainly see the type/anti-type biblical application of the physical to the spiritual, as did they. They saw a nation in the wilderness not led by a cloud or pillar of fire, but by the Holy Spirit. Who are you to assert that was not an inspiration?
Clearly our foundations as a people and nation can be seen in the first fifteen verses of Deuteronomy 28. Or will you assert also that book only applied to Ancient Israel?
As such, it is an opinion.
That is the kind of pride that would assert Peter's vision was also 'just an opinion'.
Today, missionaries are coming here.
Not all of us. Some of us still go out to the nations where the Name of Christ has not been heard.
It is an interesting argument - that the Word of God means what “smart” people think it means
That's a great twist by an intellectually superior person. As a fool and simpleton, perhaps it would have been wiser if I used the term, 'more humble' to describe the intelligence of the Patriarchs of our nation that saw and understood what enlightened persons today do not see or understand.
This is not a support for stealing from Israel that which was given to her by God.
"Stealing"?? Ancient Israel is gone and lost. How is this "stealing"?? So God's blessings and cursings for obedience and disobedience are finite and can only be applied to specifically-stated persons or nations He declared them to?
Interesting.
Repentance is always correct. It “starts with the household of God.”
Considering the Patriarchs and Founders of our nation insisted that the church influence the culture in order for the nation to prosper - what you see happening today with our decline as a nation is a direct result of the curses you can read about in Deuteronomy 28 that I assume you assert only applied to ancient Israel.
God’s timetable is His alone.
Can we not read the signs of the times?
“How do you know whether or not pastors such as John Cotton, Wesley or Whitefield were not inspired to make those observations???”
If their words and writings were inspired, they would be part of the canon of Scripture. They are not.
“Who are you to assert that was not an inspiration?”
It isn’t about me. It is about the closing of the canon of Scripture, unless you intend to add to it. I don’t think that is your intent.
“Clearly our foundations as a people and nation can be seen in the first fifteen verses of Deuteronomy 28. Or will you assert also that book only applied to Ancient Israel?”
Israel. Just because your opinion is that there are parallels does not mean it is about us.
“That is the kind of pride that would assert Peter’s vision was also ‘just an opinion’.”
Peter’s vision was given by God and recorded as part of Spirit-inspired Scripture. Fact.
“Not all of us. Some of us still go out to the nations where the Name of Christ has not been heard.”
Oh, we are sending many still.
“Stealing”?? Ancient Israel is gone and lost.”
Israel exists today. Jews who have covenant promises exist today.
“How is this “stealing”??”
Stealing is taking what does not belong to you and doing so without permission from the person it belongs to.
“So God’s blessings and cursings for obedience and disobedience are finite and can only be applied to specifically-stated persons or nations He declared them to?”
God’s specific promises to a specific nation are for them alone. Stay away from identity theft and theft in general.
“Considering the Patriarchs and Founders of our nation insisted that the church influence the culture in order for the nation to prosper - what you see happening today with our decline as a nation is a direct result of the curses you can read about in Deuteronomy 28 that I assume you assert only applied to ancient Israel.”
Of course they applied to Israel. In general though, righteousness exalts a nation.
“Can we not read the signs of the times? “
We should be aware. We do not know.
best.
We're not discussing the canon of scripture or the adding or subtracting to scripture.
I'm asserting that blessings, cursings and principles found in scripture, can be applied to nations and peoples not specifically addressed to those whom the tablets of stone were given to. You are asserting they cannot.
Israel. Just because your opinion is that there are parallels does not mean it is about us.
Did not say it was only about us. Your methodology sadly, is how a people create two different Gods from one book. This is why some will say the old God is done away, and nothing in scripture applies to us today - only what is written in the letters to the churches, whom men incorporated as canon while scripture itself is 'nailed to the cross'.
All scripture is given by inspiration and for use in instruction, reproof, correcting and training. If the blessings and cursings upon a nation of people who call themselves by His Name only apply to Ancient Israel and not to anyone else today - it explains how and why there is no fear of the Lord among even His own people today.
Israel exists today. Jews who have covenant promises exist today.
Not exactly. The tribes of Israel themselves are gone and lost. What exists as the state of Israel today are made up of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi - what was the Southern Kingdom of Israel. Jews. The Northern 10 tribes were taken into captivity by the Assyrians and lost to history.
Stealing is taking what does not belong to you and doing so without permission from the person it belongs to.
As if the blessings and Judgments of God were finite. I imagine the Pharisee converts in the first century would share this view in terms of whom they asserted the promises only belonged. They too saw gentiles grafted into the Vine as 'stealing'.
In general though, righteousness exalts a nation.
If blessings and cursings as outlined in II Chronicles 7:13-14 and Deuteronomy 28 only apply to Ancient Israel - how can righteousness exalt any nation except Israel?
Wouldn't that be 'stealing'?
“If blessings and cursings as outlined in II Chronicles 7:13-14 and Deuteronomy 28 only apply to Ancient Israel - how can righteousness exalt any nation except Israel? Wouldn’t that be ‘stealing’?”
The passages I listed and others show God’s GENERAL principle that righteousness exalts a nation.
You cannot “steal” a general priciple. It is universally true, as revealed by God.
You can steal promises from covenants that are not made with you.
The specific blessings and curses we referred to were part of the covenants of Israel - part of the Abrahamic. Solomon specifically refers to them in his prayer. They are not for any nation but Israel alone. God gave the covenant and walked between the pieces of sacrifice, entering into the covenant with Israel.
Our nation and no other has made a covenant with God as Israel did.
“Did not say it was only about us. Your methodology sadly, is how a people create two different Gods from one book. “
Then you misunderstand my point. Perhaps it is the medium of an online forum.
There is one God. He made a specific covenant with one nation.
“Not exactly. The tribes of Israel themselves are gone and lost. What exists as the state of Israel today are made up of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi - what was the Southern Kingdom of Israel. Jews. The Northern 10 tribes were taken into captivity by the Assyrians and lost to history.”
I can’t resist this. There are no lost tribes to God. He knows every single member and promises to regather them again instantly when Christ returns on the clouds.
All of that is an interesting opinion.
As to Ancient Israel - I did not say they were lost to God, I said specifically, they are lost to history - and lost to us.
They are no longer a nation.
As such, you cannot ‘steal’ something from an entity that no longer exists, despite your opinion.
Well, as long as you found some scriptural promises laying unused by the side of the road, finders keepers!
Ha! Sorry FRiend. Still theft. Why go back to the OT promises to Israel, tin cup in hand, when He has given us such rich blessings in Christ?
God isn’t done with Israel yet. They exist and He knows exactly who each person in each tribe is. Every promise will be kept, down to the smallest punctuation.
God is always faithful.
Because we were talking about the application of II Chronicles 7:13-14 to a nation of people who call are called by the Name of God. That would include Christ, His Only Begotten Son of whom this people in this nation call "Lord".
You say no - the OT no longer applies to nations or people today unless God specifically names them. You have a big surprise coming.
” Because we were talking about the application of II Chronicles 7:13-14 to a nation of people who call are called by the Name of God. That would include Christ, His Only Begotten Son of whom this people in this nation call “Lord”.”
If you take the passage out of context, truncating it and then claiming the parts you wish to claim as a promise, you have done it violence.
“You say no - You have a big surprise coming. “
Well, I don’t think so. Righteousness exalts a nation. Historically, God judges nations - eventually. I certainly won’t be surprised.
I will correct one part of what you wrote...
“the OT no longer applies to nations or people today unless God specifically names them.”
The issue is just taking a passage that is part of Israel’s covenant. It was written just to them. God’s covenant was with Abraham and his descendants.
In any case, we agree that America should repent.
Best.
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