The Word of the Lord for 2024

With a look around the corner for the year to come, I heard a reprise of a word given me earlier: 

“WAR IN 24”

Understanding the present as perspective opens on the year to come must be the base for understanding the future.  1 Chronicles 12:32 King James Version (KJV) "And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment".  For as the word for 2024 is given, one must recognize what is already going on in the world. Without this review one might miss the turns to come.

WAR IN 24    
There are many fronts where this is already true.

• The decade long war with no hope of stopping in the Ukraine where Russia is attacking will continue.  
• The Middle East War between so far Israel and the Iranian puppet states of Hamas and Hezbollah.  Don’t expect this to end soon.  Israel is a country, no different from Japan or India and if it is attacked, the responsibility of the leaders is to defend itself.  
• China is rattling swords and Japan is responding.  The Philippines are under this shadow as well.  There is Taiwan which the Chinese communists are swearing to take back.  This three front war that is already in motion is enough. But that is not all in 2024.  
• Recognize the global threat of Iran.  The support of terror around the world under the guise of a religion, Islam, is akin to the religion of Nazism in Germany.  The murders that set off the Israeli incursion into Palestine are exactly like what the Nazis did.  Hitler would be proud of October 7.
• North Korea is launching missiles.  They are becoming increasingly emboldened by our current governance.  We seem weak and distracted; Perfect time to attack.  We are vulnerable to an EMP by a rouge nation like North Korea.  

WAR IN AMERICA
In North America, the war is between factions of the population.  One is far left with Antifa, BLM and Pro Hamas terrorists. The other is far right.  The far right radicals are not as open, but still there. The two are in constant tension.  Prophetically the tension is driven by the willingness of the left to push the envelope.  At some point it is too far.  The radicals on both sides have caused pushback.  There is a white revolution against the DIE and CRT programs.  Even among white liberals, the recognition that I can’t get into the college of my choice because my place was given another because of their race is beginning to cause real outrage.  Expect this to intensify in 2024.
 

POLITICAL  WARS

Then there is a political war.  The leftists and the right are trying to bring each other down. The left is using Lawfare (warfare using the law as a weapon).  When we see what they are doing in attempts to stop Trump, you see the level of warfare that exists in the world.

There is a change in world leadership that because of unrest in the global community is swinging right and more populist.  There are several elections other than the USA coming in 2024.  They will be like a war.  Already the new President of Argentina is seeing the streets filled with warfare because of his election. He is a pattern.  Watch this unfold, the western world is being overrun by illegal immigration.  This is a reaction to that reality and the resultant unstable economic conditions.  Trump’s first term was a guidepost to many in the world.  They are following suit.
 

WAR IN THE CHURCH

There is war in the church of Jesus.  The Catholic Church is in civil war.  The same is true of some denominational churches.  I have not seen this level of schisms in my lifetime.  Yes there have been scuffles, but not like today.  Whole denominations are succumbing to the idea that we have to be culturally sensitive to the LBGTQ 2% to serve God.  There a few that are not, but fewer all the time.  The trend will continue.  In the mean time the enemy is working overtime to challenge faith in God.  Expect things to arise that will cause even the elect to fall back.  Those who are already deceived by false teaching will find themselves staggered by these new claims.  Some will revolve around Aliens.  UFOs.  The Promise of Digital Eternal Life (yes this is a thing).

Those who have been able to walk by faith and not by sight or false teachings will see what it happening with clear eyes.  There are warfare spirits out to destroy people’s faith that are rampaging in the world.  If a person is just a church goer without a solid foundation in faith, they are most vulnerable.  In the days to come a person will need to have their own genuine solid faith in the real God, in Jesus the Christ.  This can't be borrowed.  It must be personal.

With all this, depending on the idea that Jesus is going to come and bail everybody out is a defeating belief.  War is always the end of something and the beginning of something else.  It is the end result of circumstances that led to this.  No one is coming to bail us out, HE already did.  At the Cross. You are free of the consequence of sin and death. You have eternal life.  As people with that kind of faith we will not fear what might come.  We must do all we can to find hope, but real hope is only found in Jesus.  You are a part of the answer to every prayer you pray.  We are here to do battle, to fight the good fight of faith, to recognize that our warfare is not against flesh and blood but against principalities.  There are indeed principalities in high places that are driving this.  We even know their names.  But there is one name MUCH higher than any other name.  As these things happen,  some will look up to recognize, we are already seated in heavenly places in Christ.  Find the rest that only HE can bring in these times to come.

WAR FROM FEAR

There is real fear in the Body of Christ.  That fear causes many to fall back and try to hide from what they should be facing head on.  Not being informed is not warfare. We are not supposed to be ignorant of the devil’s schemes.  He never changes, but we can end up like the frog in the boiling pot as the enemy advances and we accept a little bit, then he advances again.  Look at how gay marriage became almost a sacrament where 50 years ago it was unthinkable.  The insidious drip drip drip of evil happens until even good bible believing Christians accept the situation as “normal”.

There are things that cause many Christians to fear.  Some is worth fearing, most is not. Among them are: Artificial intelligence.  Robots.  Digital Currency and the End of Green Money.  Prophetically I can tell you that you are already using all three and doing so willingly.  The drip drip drip has already taken place.

AI
Google is a slow form of AI.  Alexa ditto.  They are tools.  They help you find out things you need to know.  Of course there are abuses.  People manipulate the way truth is distributed.  Big tech censorship is almost legendary.  Yet we use it and understand its limitations while at the same time we can recognize the force multiplication we receive by using it.  It’s a tool. Remember, spell check took the place of the big fat Websters you used to have.  Does anyone use paper maps to navigate any more?

ROBOTS
Robots are in use every day and you probably used one in the last few days.  Yes it will cause disruption in the job market.  Who today wants to go to school to become a checkout clerk in a grocery store.  That robot, the self checkout, is displacing the clerk.  That person hoping to get a job taking orders at McDonalds at the drive thru is out of luck.  In a few years we will only talk to a robot to place our order.  Of course, asking for no ketchup on your hamburger won’t be possible.  Robots are tools. They make life easier yet different.  It does mean that many jobs will disappear.  But someone will need to keep all those self checkouts operating properly.  New jobs will arise. How can it be that with all the AI and Robots that the unemployment rate is so low.  The most menial tasks will be taken over by robots. Roomba has a competitor, it is a robot that will clean your toilet.   This is already being used in some hotels.  The most distasteful and boring jobs are ideal robot tasks.  At one time on the Auto Assembly line the job of putting nut A on bolt B over and over again as the cars went by was an actual job.  Now it is gone.  

DIGITAL CURRENCY AND THE CASHLESS SOCIETY
Many Christians (including me) have distaste for the coming Digital Currency and Cashless Society.  There is too much potential for corruption and control.  The prophetic issue is, it’s already here.  If you have purchased anything with a credit card in the last week, you are already using digital currency.  Sure it’s backed by “real” money, whatever that is.  The world seems to be running headlong into this.  I don’t fear it but I don’t feed it. I always carry a lot of real cash in my pocket, like my dad did.  Yet I am an anomaly.  My neighbor never carries cash.  Most people under 30 seldom pay with cash.  They pay with their phone or credit card.  I know many people go immediately to “no man shall buy or sell except he has the mark of the beast”.  Remember I said that the devil has schemes, he uses this one over and over again.  As nations rise and fall you will see the initiation of new currencies.  Oil is now being traded in other than US Dollars.  That is not a danger to you and me, that is a danger to those nations.  It’s like selling Manhattan for a pocket of beads.  With all the wars going on as victors emerge new currencies will too.  Some will be digital, some not.  The attempts by corrupt governments to control commerce by currency has been tried since the times of Jesus and failed.  When it becomes necessary people will devise a method of barter or trade off.  During the great depression, no one had money, but they traded.  Here’s the real question, do you believe that a hundred years from now your great grandchildren will buy and sell and will be paid in little green pieces of paper in their pocket?  Already many fewer people receive and actual paychecks.  The money shows up in your account, and then without your intervention you are auto paying your mortgage, car payment and who knows what.  DIGITALLY.  You could be dead and still paying your bills digitally.

THINGS TO COME
I have a sense that the month of May in 2024 is a pivotal month.  It is the month when Kings go off to war.  Invasions happen often at the end of May.  Coups.  Collapses.  Here are some thing that I sense will happen in or around the month of May.  

President Biden will be forced to a decision by situation, health or death.  It won’t happen until May.  There will be much scrambling for position which will lead to an open convention in Chicago. AUGUST 19-22, 2024.   This is almost prophetic in positioning.  A city in collapse in the worst possible time trying to pick a potential leader is emblematic of the chaos to come.  None of the usual suspects will arise.  I see a dark horse coming to the fore and becoming the candidate. One who can get popular support but still toes the party line.   I don’t have a name right now, but the Lord knows who that person is.  We will soon enough.

Vladimir Putin is in trouble. Those directly under him recognize it.  Because of that I see him leaving office, dead or alive.  There is a Presidential Election in March 15-17 in Russia for President in 2024.  Putin has much opposition, but the Russian Elections are about as fair and free as those in the USA.  What makes this dynamic even more important is the reality that the Russian people hate this war.  They vocally say they support it, to do so otherwise is a problem for a Russian. If you lost sons and husbands for this foolish venture you hate the war and hate the man who started it, even if you can’t say so.  The vote will be close but Putin will win, and then, the Month of May is not his friend.  I see him gone.

Short Takes:
Climate Change Fearmongering has proven to be an overreach and will fade away in the year to come.

The unmasking of the evil of racists, particularly those who are full on haters and antisemites will cause a backlash from right thinking people.   This will shape the year to come as they are exposed.

The US economy will do fine until June, when because of some errors, it will suffer until just before the election.  2025 is going to be more difficult than people "In the know" are forecasting.

I wish I were wrong, but I can’t see Trump becoming President in the fall of 2024.  I also think any hope of a “Red Wave” is full on silly.  It will be a real battle. The forces of the left are powerful and the fear of the right by them is real. And we have a left wing news arm that supports this.  I don't know how this will turn out, but I suspect a twist or turn is yet to happen.  As I considered the future, I didn't see Donald Trump. 

The good news is 2024 will see advances in areas we didn’t know were coming. Cancer cures.  New treatments for things that were terminal and better weight loss diabetic control drugs will be revealed.  New forms of energy will emerge.  Clean water will become more available to more people.  Murder rates will fall nationally. Yes there will be area hotspots, but attention to this will restore some order.  The truth about climate change and CO2 will come to the spotlight and much of the push toward un-renewable renewables will be slowed including electric cars.  An increasingly unwillingness of people to tolerate corruption in government will lead to needed change.  

While the Kingdom of God is ever expanding in the world, it is not so much in the western world, yet.  If we were to experience a resurgence of faith, we need to understand why the conflicts from Iran, the war in Israel, Ukraine and Russia, The China Threat and a potential EMP from North Korea, is a powder keg on which we are living that might go off any time. THEN the western world will say, WHERE’S GOD? Real revival comes from desperation.  When we say, "bring revival Father", we better mean what we say.  I’m not convinced the western church or most of western Christianity could survive a real revival.  What happened after 9-11 still haunts the vision.

Here’s the net of all this for the believer.  Fear is not helping anyone.  There is much turmoil and change in the world.  Things are clearer when we take the blinders off and walk by faith. We can give thanks to God for the things that are getting better every single day.  There are challenges.  There are setbacks.  What is certain is the tide is turning.  The enemy is giving it his best shot.  It won’t be enough.  We are victorious in THIS LIFE.  People often say, “I have read the end of the book and WE WIN!”  That sentiment is not theologically correct.  More accurately one should say I have read the whole book (including the end) and HE WON.  He won at the cross and the victory banners are flying.  The Kingdom of God is expanding.  We are the victors in Christ. The enemy knows it which is why he is trying so hard to stop us.  

Stop praying for intervention and start giving thanks for every victory in your life.  As we live our lives we are living epistles read of all men. Let them read yours and say to themselves, I want to be like HIM, or HER.  Even among lost souls deceived by the enemy and carrying out his plan, keep remembering this flesh and blood perceived enemy is not our real enemy, they are just a manifestation of the evil one.  When such a one is won to faith in the one true God, they become zealots like Paul the Apostle.  

The word of the Lord is, War in 2024.  Be an instrument of peace for the Sauls of the world such that they become Pauls and expand the kingdom even more.  “Behold I do a NEW THING, have you not seen it?”

Be Brave and Courageous, Now go forth as light into the world.  It is your assignment in the Body of Christ.

Word of the Lord for 2023

 My Peace I Give to YOU in 2023

The world, the news, the wars, the corruption, the evil that is all around you are flaming arrows sent to rob you of your peace and neutralize your purpose.  

The peace I give you is beyond your understanding. I am your Sabbath rest.  Understand what you see and hear but take heed to who I am in you.  Undefeated.  

Fear is a demonic tool to rob you of your joy.  I did not give you that spirit of fear.  Rely on ME in the days of trouble to come.

The voices in the year to come will be loud and insistent.  They have a purpose, to create distance between ME and you.  

The state of your economics will insist that death is at the door.  I haven’t failed you yet and I never will.

Terror of wars in diverse places will cause great distress for many.  Yet even though there are fallen on both sides, I am with you.  My name is a sanctuary.  Run to it.

I have placed you in this place, in this time in history to be an over-comer when many seem to be overcome.  That is not your portion.

In the past year you have seen me expose plots, cabals, evil intent, and corruption in high places.  I have only begun.  Rise up against the evil deeds, cry aloud and spare not.  When my people become apathetic and passive as evil invades, evil wins.  The culture all around us that has fallen. It fell because good kind loving people called by my name remained silent in the face of the rising darkness.

In the year to come will be fresh news of pestilence, disease, decay and death.  I have preserved you to this day and will in 2023.  Trust me once again.  I never fail.

Your trust in me will drive you to great JOY in the year to come.  There is a new age dawning, one like you have not yet seen.  Embrace the good and reject the evil. Hearts are being changed.  Victory is on the warpath.  The pigpen is beginning to stink to the prodigals.  They are coming home to ME.  Look for them as they return.  Then receive them by My spirit.  

Many will come out of decadence, decay, sexual confusion, cultural rottenness and degradation.  As these things are exposed it will be as a pig’s stench in their nose.  Allow me to work thru you to restore them to wholeness.

You are my body, my hands, my feet, and my voice in the earth today.  If you are silent and still in the face of the evil days to come, so am I.  I gave you power to defeat the works of the enemy.  Without you, I can do nothing.  Within you I can do all things by the anointing resident in you.  I need you to breath.  I need you to move.
There are those I have placed among you that are wise.  Seek truth and wisdom from those carry it for the difficult days that are to come.  But be wise when you hear. Some who call themselves my servants are not among the wisdom I send you, not everyone who says Lord, Lord is from me.  I don’t know them.

Be careful about where and who you place your trust in.  When My people place their trust in mere men, even great men, they are disappointed.  There is a curse attached to trusting in the arm of flesh.  My hand is the one to be trusted. The arm of flesh will fail you.  I have placed leaders among you that do my will, but not all leaders are the same.  Political leaders will let you down.  Yet too many of my people have placed trust in them only to be disappointed.  They are the arm of flesh.  

I have dispatched warring angels all around you.  They do battle, they accompany you and they move as you speak and act according to my word.  They can not do anything contrary to my word.  When you are obedient to My Word, Angel Swords are wielded.

My Kingdom is all around you and in you.  Seek it.  It must be found of you.  There is peace and joy in my Kingdom. It is ever expanding.  It is not of this world, but it is in the world.  My grace and abundance is right there as you seek to find it.  Seek, Ask, Knock.
It is invisible but it is real.  It is just right there.  

Know that just as the year that is closing has seen many of you in loss, personal, family, friends, fortune and health, yet you are overcoming.  That is my portion for you, to be an overcomer in the face of loss.  You can’t do this by your own strength, but by MY spirit I placed in you.  

The past year has held many defeats and disappointments.  Yet have I not told you that I work all things together for your good when you are called by my name and purpose?  I will make what seemed to be severe defeat turn into a victory.  Every giant that roams the land blaspheming my name must come down.  I only need a few small stones in the hands of a skilled warrior.  Be that one.

Look to 2023 with eager anticipation, even enthusiasm.  Look at what I have already promised you.  It is by giving thanks for what I promised you in by MY word and in MY word that you can give thanks for.  It is by the giving of thanks in all things that those promises are manifest into being.

Give thanks for the year that has now passed, and give thanks for the year that is coming. In spite of what appears to be a rising darkness, MY light shines in the darkness and drives the darkness back.   That light is YOU.  Shine my sons and daughters.  Shine before men and the darkness will flee.  Don’t ever be discouraged.  I said I will never leave nor forsake you.  I am the way, the truth and the life.  I am that bright light shining in you.  The darkness is trembling.

Shine in 2023.  A perfect year.  2+0+2+3=7

Word of the Lord for 2022

 

GEO-POLITICAL

Covid is over.  The last gasp (omicron) has already taken place.  Natural immunity saves the day.  The attempts by corrupt leaders to try to capitalize on fear are collapsing.  Tyranny is being exposed.   The tool is demonic fear.

 China teeters on collapse.  This means danger.  Taiwan is in the crosshairs.  A wounded tiger will strike.  It is depending on Russia to be its partner but that will fail.  This is a danger.  Russia will slowly become an ally in practice to the USA.  It knows that China is an unstable, even dangerous partner.  We will see the beginning of this in 2022.

 European leadership will fall as populations become less and less tolerant of the decline.  They will be replaced by even more right wing leaders or far left.  No middle of the road. 

 There will be events in the climate that will cause many to attempt to create fear again.  As the pandemic subsides, the need to use fear as a control will cause leaders to try to capitalize on another intangible threat.   There will be a drought in certain key commodity production regions, perhaps in the USA.  This will be the worst we have seen globally for 40 years.  Commodity prices will rise as stocks stumble.  It is impermanent, but painful for many. 

 Countries that oppressed their people radically will find themselves in a state of near civil war.  Canada, New Zealand and Australia are going to end up in a change state that is overdue.  Some countries will drift into near communistic decline, Brazil and Chile.

 The elections of 2022 will be wild but will follow the familiar pattern.  Reversals of fortune for those in power will happen.  The prophesied red wave will be smaller than we think.  There will be corruption and contested results.  It will still bode well for change, but the political scene will be messy.  Voter fraud will be accused and found.

Biden will still be alive at the end of 2022 but there will be a move to replace him after the 2022 midterm elections.  Not with Harris.   A dark horse replacement will be found.  Someone most are not thinking of right now. The pressure to displace the President will not root in his incompetence and age, but in the darkening scandal surrounding him.

The Epstein secret records will be finally be released and many will be exposed.  Maxwell will spend time in jail.  She is in danger.

 

ECONOMICS

The US economy will prosper but inflation will become a big problem.  Crypto currency will rise and fall, rise and fall. The confidence many have in Crypto currency will be shaken by its volatility. By the end of 2022 there will be looming regulations and a settling out of value.  Predictions of a wild bull run will disappoint many.

 The stock market will see a 25% correction as inflation increases.  Then come back slowly.  Inflation will cause many to consider other options.  The recovery will be 1/3^rd as slow as the fall but the opportunities presented to the brave will be significant.  Gas prices as the pandemic subsides will reach $4 per gallon and hold until production catches up.  Shortages of all kinds will continue to plague the economy.  Instability.

 

CULTURAL CHANGES

Racism accusations on the part of the victimhood cult have peaked.  It becomes apparent that the noise surrounding all of the accusations is overwrought.  Black Lives Matter and all the associated groups will lose whatever credibility they had.

 Violence and lawlessness on the street will of necessity be dealt with harshly.  Cities will cry for help.  There will be objections, but the population is fed up.  Watch New York City to take the lead.  The people’s nose is full of this.  Cities have become war zones.  The battle to take them back will ensue in 2022.

 Liberal delusional insanity will intensify as standard of righteousness in the bulk of the population will become such an obvious contrast until no one will believe people ever fell for such things.  The cultural left is becoming a pariah.  Trust in the left leaning media is collapsing.  CNN has become a laughing stock.  That will spread.

 

THE GOLDEN AGE - CREATING A SPIRITUAL WASTELAND

We are moving into a golden age in our nation, but a spiritual wasteland. We are losing the culture war and the world is happy for itself. Look at what is happening. 

 We are coming into a Golden Age in a secular sense:  Fusion energy is coming, Small form Nuclear Plants and are becoming accepted as a solution to climate change, space travel is ramping up from private money leading to Mars colonization, the pandemic has changed how we work and where (not as much commuting), ANTIFA, BLM and the other thuggery is being rejected at all levels.  Lawlessness is still rampant but that is now on the radar of even democrat leaders, the complete collapse of the trust in news media has created better critical thinking not that the illusions are gone. A satellite network will free people from censorship (Starlink), China is losing manufacturing that is moving back to the USA.   We have learned to deal with pandemics in record time and also with therapeutics, e-bikes are changing everything, we are in much better health on average than we have ever been, The pandemic is changing to being endemic, we are living longer and better, standards of living are at an all time high, there are few actual world wars anywhere (there are armed conflicts and threats).  Robotics is being used more every day.  The Smart Phone has revolutionized our life.  Even our health care monitoring is done by phone and watch.  We carry in our pockets the gateway to a global library of information.  Some is misleading, but we know more about our health and well being than ever before.  We have never had it this good before, this is the best we have ever seen. We have never been healthier or more conscious of it.

 A SPIRITUAL WASTELAND

Yet with all these developments we seem to be stuck in the world of the western Church.  The changes with on line church services replacing gatherings are counter to the admonition not to forsake assembling together.  The on line component isn’t going away.

Social media has replaced fellowship and in person relationships.  Church exists in the metaverse.  Millennials are abandoning organized religion.  They want it but find what the Church offers to be insipid.

 Western Christianity is changing.  Most won’t recognize it after the transformation.  It is becoming fractured and informal.  There will still be Churches but they won’t look like we remember 20 years ago.  Ministry and fellowship will be all that hold them together. It will be elemental discipleship that builds the body of Christ. 

 There are signs of awakening in various places, but the great awakening is not yet on the horizon. This is the result of becoming too comfortable.  In countries with pain, Jesus is King, in western cultures He only an ornament celebrated seasonally.  Atheism, agnosticism, people that don’t have room for God in their lives is a luxury that results from the peace and prosperity as we have in the west.  The question is what Father will do to bring people back to Him.  Do we really want to see that?   I see this as happening in 2022.

 Spiritually we are in a dangerous place.  The Prophet Isaiah wrote to Judah and Jerusalem in the first 9 chapters regarding the danger the nation was in when prosperity was strangling love for God.  But as the time matures and justice reigns, there is a hope and a promise.  We are there again.  Can we avoid the tragedy that accompanies this national apostasy?  I don’t think so.  Prophecy moves in large deep and long cycles.  We are there again.  The word of the Lord from Isaiah to Judah and Jerusalem was for them, but also to us in our day.  Hear the word of the Lord. Review those first 9 Chapters for yourself.  You will hear the voice of God speaking to us today:

 The children I raised have turned against me.  Oxen and donkeys know who owns and feeds them, but my people won’t ever learn.

 Your country lies in ruins; your towns are in ashes. Foreigners and strangers your land while you watch.

 Your leaders have rejected me to become friends of crooks; your rulers are looking for gifts and bribes.

 They have endless treasures of silver and gold; they have countless ammunition and war machines.

 Everywhere in the country they worship the work of their hands, what they have made.

 The Lord All-Powerful has chosen a day when those who are proud and conceited will be put down.

 He will let children become your rulers.

  You will each be cruel to friends and neighbors. Young people will insult their elders; no one will show respect to those who deserve it.

 Though you are God’s people, you are ruled and abused by women and children.  You are confused by leaders who guide you down the wrong path.

 Women are proud and strut around, winking shamelessly. They wear anklets that jingle and call attention to the way they walk.

 I will take away from those women all the fine jewelry they wear on their ankles, heads, necks, ears, arms, noses, fingers, and on their clothes. I will remove their veils, their belts, their perfume, their magic charms, their royal robes, and all their fancy dresses, hats, and purses.

 Their large and beautiful homes will be left empty, with no one to take care of them. 

  You are in for trouble! You get up early to start drinking, and you keep it up late into the night.   At your drinking parties you have the music of stringed instruments, tambourines, and flutes. But you never even think about all the Lord has done for you

 You think you are clever and smart.   And you are great at drinking and mixing drinks. But you are in for trouble.  You accept bribes to let the guilty go free, and you cheat the innocent out of a fair trial.

YET there is a promise

 Those who walked in the dark have seen a bright light.  And it shines upon everyone who lives in the land of dark shadows.

  Our Lord, you have made your nation stronger. Because of you, its people are glad and celebrate like those at harvest time

 You have broken the power of those who abused and enslaved your people. You have rescued them and saved your people

 We can rise above this decline as we focus on what is real.  Jesus doesn’t live in our time or our culture.  He is the real culture.  He orchestrates time.  He isn’t surprised by anything we see today.  He is preparing the way out. Don’t be lulled into thinking there is no hope.  Don’t become entranced by the seem riches of this world that take your eyes off the eternal.

 Spiritually and Culturally we are in the best of times and in the worst of times.  May God have mercy on us all.

 

Word of the Lord for 2021

As this Word of the Lord is given, it is important that we consider the landscape of our lives today, after this past year, to prepare ourselves for the days of 2021.  We must do so with sober minds.  Things have changed a great deal, some for better, some for the worse.  In order to do battle in the spirit as soldiers of the cross, we must be well armed.  In that regard there are a number of things the Lord would have us know to equip us:

IT’S A NEW WORLD AT THE START OF 2021 

The world of 2021 is not fair.  It never has been. Our enemy has used lies and deception to keep us in chains. His evil intent is bold and therefore vulnerable.  He is exposed.  He no longer tries to camouflage his strategies.  Those with eyes to see and ears to hear can spot him.  The blind will not.  Some even as professing Christians are among the most deceived.

Fighting the good fight is not optional.  You were not placed here at this time, in this day, in the year 2021 to be passive.  Ke sera sera, (whatever will be will be) is a defeated mindset.  We are not here to be passive.  What you allow in to your heart will form what you will give out. 

The desperation of those living in fear has shown weakness of faith.  Much of that passivity comes from fear.  Fear of disease, fear of conflict, fear of poverty.  Those voices are uncovering those weak in faith who need a fresh word.  The Lord is calling you to gird up your loins and be bold.  Now is not the time to live in desperate fear.  You were not given that spirit by the Lord.

Our duty is to do battle for future generations

There enemies of our mind and damaging to our spirit are in full force.  They take the form of light bringers disguised as news and reports.  Many of these reports you think are enlightening are actually of the devil designed to put you on the defensive and in defeat.  They come as “Angels of Light” but in fact are snakes in your grass.

Lockdowns, new threats, governmental bullying and resultant changes to our life will be part of the year to come.  Complying is a choice we make.  Choose carefully on which hill you will fight. 

There will be attempts to impose restrictions that can and will be met with resistance.  Some will not be worth the battle.  Some will be those you might die for.  Save your power for those. 

Ignorance is our enemy

Be wary of the indoctrination of modern entertainment.  Music, Movies, TV are designed to discount the value of our Republic.  Hamilton, the recent stage musical, is an example of diminishing the wisdom of our founding fathers. It is only one.  There are legions.

The push by governments to encourage and even outlaw gasoline vehicles in the name of climate change, as is happening in Europe, Japan, China and some states is a tool of tyranny.  If they can track and restrict your mobility they can keep you subservient.  Your ability to only travel a couple hundred miles in effect places you in their control.  Even when there are more charging stations, there will be effective control.  No man buying or selling, or traveling. Be a late adapter to these systems.  The Mad Max movies show what the freedom of portable fuels can provide.  We are living in that day.

Are we losing the battle for the 7 mountains because the mountains resist change?  That may mean we aren’t fighting hard enough.  There is some progress being made, but the evil of the culture is like an octopus hanging on to every vestige of power.  Make decisions based on taking the mountains.  They are real, and we have to do better.  It is our purpose in Good Works to take them back.

We are in a war with enemies seen and unseen

The real news is that the news no longer is.  News we used to get was at once information.  It is now nearly 100% indoctrination and propaganda.  This is from every side of the political parties.  If you are foolish enough to believe news you see or read on the internet, they have succeeded in indoctrinating you.  You are being lied to.  Truth is very hard to find.  Be careful what you believe.  The battlefield is your heart and the weapon is information. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter control what you are allowed to see.  They do not have your best interest in mind. Moving to more forgiving platforms is what they WANT you to do. Move to an echo chamber of silo news is convincing no one of anything.  Stay in the fight.  You might be the one who helps people blinded by the fake news to see the truth. In every war, information and propaganda are tools implemented to control the populace.  We have seen this in 2020.  Resist the temptation to accept every lie that passes before you.  Even if it lines up with your confirmation bias.

Be careful of worldly prognostications in print or from the pulpit about what God is about to do.   God isn't about to DO anything. He already done all he is going to do.  The work is finished.  Jesus said so.  Do you believe Him? We are his hands and voice now.  Don't expect divine intervention, we are the divine Body of Christ now on earth.  Patterns exist for our understanding, not in preparation for some future event. If it’s to be it is up to ME and YOU.  We have the world we have because we allowed it.  The battle in the Heavenlies is fierce.  The victory is ours.. but we let the battle wear us down.  There is no upcoming event that will bail us out.  That is what the demons want us to believe.  The battle is the Lords but we are the Warriors. We must teach our hands to war.

There are lies, liars and false reports.  It is a battle for our mind and soul

The demon known as "form of Godliness" is rampant and growing. There is a concerted effort to keep our children from Godly influences like healthy books and movies and TV by replacing them with the demonic. It is a scheme we must understand.  Much of it happens in the public classroom, entertainment and music.  The same people who dance and sing in church at the top of their being are also making demonic decisions in what they allow and support. This is why we see so much degradation.  Some of this is driven by the woke culture that justifies evil because of “Systemic Racism”.  On the other hand others will allow the evil of White Supremacy in the name of “God” and bring that into the Church. That is the form of Godliness that is alive today.  The cultural revolution and secular religion worships science as God.  It has replaced the Holy One in many peoples eyes.  OF course there are other supplanters.. politicians, Musicians Entertainment.  The devil is always craving worship in whatever way he can find it.

Government and Politics have divided us.  It is the single biggest mountain that stands today.  Yet there are many that think that by prayer alone they can defeat it’s evil influence.  What we have is a kleptocracy for a government.  Our leaders are wholly inadequate for the day.  Our leaders are cynical. They treat us like pawns which until we mount up against them. We must set them down.  There is a deep state, it is not just democrat or republican. It is a web of unelected tyrants that is using lawfare to dominate the population.  Fight back.  If you are able, run for school board, run for city council.  Some will rise to greatness.  We need righteous voices to lead.

Don’t let the divisions among us cause us to lose focus on the Body of Christ’s mission on the earth.  Divide and conquer is how wild dogs cut out the weak ones and make the herd less powerful.  Much of what we see in the political arena is an open contest between equally evil choices. They make us choose the perceived lesser of evils and therefore divide us all.  Unity in these situations is impossible.

Victory is possible, but we must know we are in a war

In the early 1960s Khrushchev said he was going to bury us.  Russia is still an enemy of sorts but the real enemy is China.  The battle is no longer for Land and power; it is now won or lost on the economic front. We are no longer a world filled with various nations; we are a world filled with various economies.  These economies fight for dominance.  Land as was fought over in WWII is no longer the prize.  Economic domination is.  We are losing this fight because we don’t understand it.  The Chinese are winning because we have leaders in power who are puppets of the Chinese government.  Some at the very highest levels. We must recognize that China is NOT our friend.  It is an enemy.  They intend to dominate the whole world and at the present it looks as if they will. Russia will only decide to back and partner with the winner.  China already dominates many European countries.  Much of Africa is now an extension of China.  Some of South America is now under Chinese influence. We are at war with China, not a shooting war, yet.

There is a hope.. read on.

 

THE WORD OF HOPE IN 2021:

“Fear Not” is still the gateway to finding faith.  Faith and Fear cannot exist in the same space.  The fear many good Christians express means they are unwilling to face their fears with faith.  There are bad things that happened in 2020, some will continue to 2021 but fear will only immobilize the believer.  If you don’t believe in miracles you aren’t being realistic. Have Faith in God and the faith OF God.  Nothing happened in 2020 that shocked HIM.  It shouldn’t shock you either.  Stop the fear.

Degradation is wearing itself out

The exhaustion from the degradation means only improvement can result from this depth.  Thing have become so degraded in this time that many people think there is no turning around. There is a way out. A way up.  A way to goodness and righteousness.  Degradation of so many things and systems has reached a point where there is nowhere downward left to go. Our challenges are not done, they will change. They must.  You are the leaven of change for better.  You are the light the world needs.

A Golden Age is Coming

There is a Golden Age on the horizon. The devil can't stop the golden age to come.  God will take all we have known and there will be a golden age. It will be far better than you can imagine.  But you are PART of the solution to usher in this age.  Stand strong for goodness, mercy and righteousness.  Reject compromise.  Resist when you must.  Be who God created you to be.  You are the fitted stone of the unfolding golden age to come. 

Change of Hearts and Minds

The minds of men are being changed.. even among the ungodly.  Many have become weary with the path of darkness they see.  The goodness of men of good will is being displayed.  Acts of kindness. Acts that are demonstrating how a transformed heart brings light to the world. Finding our way out of the darkness means taking the path of light.  In HIM there is no darkness at all.  So when you encounter darkness.. choose light. He will show you the way.  It is more important than ever to believe the report that matters. There is only one.  The report of the Lord.   The strategy of indoctrination resulting in ignorance will be exposed in the year to come.

Death, where is your sting?

Much of the action during the past year has been trying to avoid death.  Faith or Fear, Productive or Protected are responses to death and disease.  So in trying to stay alive we have ceased to live.  God wants you to know, death is not the end.. it just means abandoning time.. for eternity.  Be bold and strong even in the face of death.  There have been times much darker than this and people emerged from them stronger.  Be one of those victors in life.. or death.

Faith and Hope will be enough

There will be difficult days.. yet the future belongs to those with hope and faith.  Faith is the Substance of those things made up of genuine hope.  If you have faith in the substance of the thing you hope for it MUST exist.  It is a spiritual law.  Faith is more than confession, it is conviction and confidence.  Faith is not saying out of your mouth what you don't believe in your heart.  Much bad theology has resulted from such.  Learn to have hope and then put your faith to create substance in the Hope.  Guard your Heart and Mind for in those two are the building blocks of life.

How the Enemy sees YOU

The enemy sees you as bacteria to be stopped or killed.  Look at China.  It sees Christians as a problem.  So the government tries to suppress it.  It doesn’t work.  The church of Jesus still grows.  It acts as an antibiotic in the culture.  The real bacteria is the form of godliness and atheism from a state controlled church.. be the antibiotic and stop the growth of evil.

Time Has Been Slowed Down

Time has changed for all of us.  2020 has distorted our perspective.  In this year Kobe Bryant was killed and Trump was impeached.  It seems like that was an eternity ago.  We must understand the value of time and perception.  It is the new reality that now exists.  There has been a shift.

Every Action has a Reaction

There will be a reaction to the time we are in.  There will be a rebound in many things that will looks in some ways like the days after the Spanish flu of 1918.  Think roaring twenties.  Think also of Puritanism that resulted in Prohibition and follow on gangsters of the 30s.  Those same spirits are there.  Be careful in the days to come.  There will be great change beginning at the end of 2021. 

There will be Suddenlies

Things will change quickly as the year moves on.  You will see the hand of God doing things in remarkable ways.  The suddenlies will become routine.  Watch for them in your life.  He will move men to pour into you and for circumstances as the angels do battle in the heavenlies on your behalf.  Expect good things.  They will be there.

Understanding this means you believe that Romans 8:28 is true for YOU

 

A PROPHETIC VIEW OF 2021

Very little of what was will ever go back to the “good old days”.  Our life has been changed (without your consent) forever.  YET.. we have the power to make a new and better future if we have a vision for all that can come as we walk out the days to come.  Longing for days of yore will make your heart sick.  They are gone forever.

Fortune is out there 

There will be huge fortunes made that fill in the blanks left by businesses and services no longer with us.  Restaurants and small businesses will find a new way.  Those ready and able to find a new path in this new world will become among the respected and prosperous of their generation.  The equal and opposite danger and opportunity is on full display today. This is a wealth transfer that the wise can take advantage of.

Bankruptcy of the heart will drive many to ask the eternal questions.  We have the answer, help them find it.  This hunger will cause some who tried to fill it with sex, politics, violence and hatred to discover reality.  Reality has a name.  JESUS.  We have the answer to their uncertainty and trepidation.  Share your hope.

Be careful WHO you listen too.  

We have leaders in the public who will try to lead from despondency and despair.  This comes because they are not equipped to offer hope.  It also makes many easier to control as they describe how bad things are and how only they can save you. We will need hope and promise in the one true God.  Look for hope as those you listen to as leaders speak.  Reject those who talk down to your potential.  Despair is the tool the devil uses to put people in bondage.  Beware of that scheme in 2021.  Minds are being poisoned every day.  Don’t be a victim.

Institutional Ignorance

There is a spirit of ignorance that comes from wokeness and book banning.  It is anti-intellectualism.  It is intentionally dumbing down our population and worse destroying our children.  Much of it comes from out public institutions. 2021 will not be better, but won't be worse.  Teachers unions are our enemy. There is still a long way to go and the result will be very different from what you think.  Speak out against ignorance.  The spirit of poverty and oppression lives there.

Things have Changed, some forever

Families have become used to being together.  This will continue. Much will be take out or delivery. Some will be at home cooking.  But this time is causing a shift.  Stay at home will persist.  Restaurants will slowly recover but not to prepandemic levels for years to come.

Work and education at home will persist thru 2021.  Schools will not change enough, but will have to. Teaching will slowly undergo needed changes. Zoom won’t matter as much as packaged curricula.  There will be mentoring, but only after the teaching. This will begin in 2021 but we are seeing a change, much of it welcome in education and work.  This also puts a demand on the home furnishing to accommodate such.  We are remodeling our lives.

Travel will NOT return to anything approaching normal in 2021.  This will put a great strain on an industry already hurting.  Cruises will all but be dormant.  Even with vaccination passes, travel is changed for at least 3 years. 

Governments will continue to suggest and even enforce behaviors that they claim have a potential for helping the spread of disease.  Social distancing is not going away soon.  Even after the ebb by late summer many will still wear face masks.  Habits of 2020 will die slowly.

Traditional gathering places will change.  Bars will thrive. Even though alcohol consumption has increased in the home during the last year, the need for human interaction will drive people to places like Bars, Nightclubs and Fitness Centers.  It will also drive people to return to Churches.  The need for human contact is significant.  It must be provided.  People are anxious to gather again. 

The economy will continue to grow, but then late 2021 will stumble.  The artificial stimulus will be withdrawn at some point and the result will be difficult.  Stocks will hold, but be tenuous. Be prepared.  

Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies are going to increasingly part of the world to come.  How it will manifest is not yet determined. Great fortunes will be made…and lost as the value seeking goes on.

There will be results from the Pandemic on the health care sector.  It will be much better in the future. We know how to fast track a vaccine at Warp Speed.  We do telemedicine now.  If government doesn’t get in the way there will be great payoffs from this. 

For the Church at large this has been a refining period.  Many have stumbled and will not recover.  Many others will find new life in the Spirit together.   A genuine hunger not seen for decades now exists to see a supernatural manifestation of the Fruit of the Spirit in the Body of Christ.  Are we ready?

Truth is being held above propaganda.  People in the year to come will desire real truth.  As such many evil things hidden to date will be revealed.  Sacred cows will be sacrificed.  Liars will be exposed. 

Justice will prevail

There will be recompense for those who have attempted from within to do us harm, particularly as a nation.  Near treason has been committed by some. The evil afoot will be exposed and those players will be treated to the proper retribution.  This is a war in the heavenlies.  Expect supernatural intervention by the angelic as things are revealed.   Those we thought we could rely on and trust will be exposed for who they really are.   The love of money and power is the root of this evil and will be dealt with, even at the highest levels.  A curse is on them.

As the year turns and as time has slowed, those things that matter now carry more weight.  What REALLY MATTERS?  What is really important? Little that seemed important a year ago matters much today.

Security is now measured in relationship and health, not money or wealth.  People are beginning to realize what is real.

People are more ready to find truth: spiritual, physical, emotional and relational.  What matters is being aware of who we are.  The questions people have asked for centuries are being reviewed in a new way.

These trends will usher in the Golden Age.  It will be remarkable.  Very different.  Less opulent.  More real.  Like the old rock and roll song we won’t be fooled again.  Corrupt practices will fade as they are exposed.  Instead of 3 channels and a controlling press, we now have a million independent reporters anxious to unveil the truth.  The internet made is possible. Hiding places are disappearing.

2021 will not be a better year, it will be a year of transition from where we have been for the last 10 months to where we are going 2 years from now.  A new kind of life.  Those who know how to fit into it will find great joy.  Those who live in the past will become bitter.  This word IS for YOU.  He is putting new streams in the desert of your heart:

 

Isaiah 43:15-21 NLT (Prophet Edit)

 

“I am the LORD, your Holy One,  Your Creator and King.

I am the LORD, who opened a way through the waters,

making a dry path through the sea.

I called forth the mighty army of Egypt with all its chariots and horses.

I drew them beneath the waves, and they drowned,

Their lives snuffed out like a smoldering candlewick.

 

“But forget all that—

it is nothing compared to what I am going to do.  For I am about to do something new.  See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?

I will make a pathway through the wilderness.  I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

 

The wild animals in the fields will thank me,  the jackals and owls, too,

for giving them water in the desert. Yes, I will make rivers in the dry wasteland so my chosen people can be refreshed.  I have made you for myself, and you will honor me before the whole world.”

 

He will do all this thru YOU as YOU carry out YOUR role in the Body of Christ. 

May the year to come be blessed and you be a blessing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Word of the Lord for 2020

As we look at the year 2020 with eyes of faith and the Spirit of Prophecy, there is a change that has and is taking place.  Here’s what I see:

There is expanding faith in Christ emerging around the world.  Even in pagan Europe and much of the USA there is a hunger for reality.  I won’t call it revival.  It’s more than that.  It’s an awaking to the Truth.  You see it in countries many times in open opposition to faith in Christ. In the USA it’s not happening inside the church.. it is happening in arenas the church has never been able to reach nor accept.  Kanye West is the crack in the door that is opening.  Many doubt of his conversion.  This is not good.  We can’t know. We can only look at the fruit of his evangelization.  Downplaying this will cause a cloud to hang over him as he does what he believes is right.  The next move of God is ALWAYS rejected by the last one.  It’s high time for a fresh wave.  There are many ready to take the place of those who came before and they will do it better than we did.  The baton is being passed into good hands.

Many in the public arena have begun to openly declare their faith in God.  The godlessness of our society is taking a toll on families and children in particular.  While it seems desperate, there is always a powerful reaction to the vacuum created by faithlessness.  The God shaped hole in the soul is a real thing.

In addition to the reaction of society in the USA to the emptiness now apparent in our culture, there are reactions taking place to the rapid normalization of things only a couple decades ago would have been considered aberrations.  These are not yet pushed back but there is an Ebenezer stone standing against such.. even in secular culture.  The culture is waking up.  There is a turn.  A shift.  A new wave is coming.  Much of the establishment will decry the cultural rejection of many of those things that are now openly accepted.

It is as if there has been a great plague of locusts that has invaded and destroyed our nation from within.  They have eaten away at things that were intended to stand.  They have become the norm.  Many simply accepted these things or hid their head in the sand.  They turned away from the invasion of locusts and therefore let it happen… as the hoards chewed away.

Normalized in the last quarter century by this hoard of locusts:

1. Accepted open Homosexuality
2. Homosexual Marriage
3. Transsexuals as normal
4. Open and legal pot use
5. Abortion becoming almost a sacrament, reinforced by the supreme court
6. Cancel Culture -  trying to destroy people with opposing worldviews
7. Racism real and imagined.  Too many false alarms by the locusts degraded .
8. Increasing acceptance of Socialism as a solution for America which has failed every time it’s been tried.  The locust of lies.
9. Changing anything that makes life tolerable in the vain hope that we can control our climate which is always changing.  A phantom menace locust
10. Sustainability fraud that has become a near religion along with climate change.  The whole green energy fiasco.  It can’t work unless we go back to the dark ages.  No one who doesn’t encourage the use of nuclear energy isn’t serious about being sustainable or green.   In fact is the locust of control and taxation
11. Acceptance of fraudulent voting particularly by those not citizens
12. An openly corrupt biased and deceitful media landscape is a key locust
13. Movies and TV that once would have been horror shows not normal.  Violent and  degraded movies are now the norm. 
14. The idea that owning a gun is somehow immoral and needs to be stopped. This is a locust that will get people killed. 
15. The argument by some locusts that pedophilia is normal and should be accepted.
16. Fear based anything is now being rejected.  We have had too many false alarms, doomsday predictions and pronouncements like “We are running out of oil” 
17. The whole “WOKE” culture locust is being rejected by the masses
18. Recognizing that the idea that internationally we can all get along by sacrificing ourselves is now in full retreat.  This is a compromise locust.
19. The so called resistance and its brown shirt locusts, the ANTIFA mafia is being rejected.  They don’t represent anyone except anarchy.  This goes for many groups that started out with good intentions but have morphed into evil purposes.  The southern poverty law center is one such.  Many race based groups are now simply anti establishment without a purpose and people are rejecting this action.
20. The war on Christianity, Christmas Easter and all such by the secular culture is being rejected.  Even secular people have had enough of this chewing locust.
21. Morality as a lifestyle, keeping your word, staying clear minded and upright.  The single motherhood trend is reversing.  Not enough fathers have stepped up.  But some will.  The locust of bastard culture is being identified. 
22. Open immorality which manifests itself in movies, TV, entertainment, music, stage plays and a sewer on the internet is being seen for what it is, a virus that must be corralled.  It is a pornography locust.
23. The concept of Borders, Culture and Language is beginning to be recognized by many as the benchmarks of a civil society.  The open borders, all cultures are equal and multi linguistic USA is a locust that has impoverished us all.
24. Acceptance that politicians who go into office flat broke come out as multimillionaires and there is no corruption.  This is a fraud locust.
25. Protecting criminals because of ethnicity and allowing them to continue to steal, kill and destroy is a satanic locust.

 

While many wonder why these things have become normalized like the invasion of locusts it is, the truth is there has been prophetic silence on this except for a few.  Pulpits remain mute.  These changes took place right under our spiritual leaders noses without so much as a peep from them.  Shame on them.  We have a highest number of churches in Chicago and the highest crime rate in the USA.  There is a problem. These churches do not provide divine guidance, and worse in some cases justify the rebellion on the streets by social justice sermons.  Therefore:

When people do not receive divine guidance, they run wild. But whoever obeys the law is joyful.  Proverbs 29:18

There are many things that in the New Year will be welcome.  There are continual health advances.  There will once again be breakthrough discoveries and introductions that will promise longer and more fruitful lives.  As the Baby Boom generation continues to age.. This will change the face of aging even more.

The world is a more peaceful place than ever before.  It will continue.  We have just experienced one of the best decades in human history.  We are blessed to be alive at this time.

There will continue to be exposures that will rock the political, media and entertainment world.  The guardians of evil will try to protect those with ill intent but without success. 

Many will find themselves in alignment with people they never thought they could be.  Culturally, economic strata and ethnicity will matter less and less. 

There will come a rebellion in the spirit against all those things that war with the Body of Christ.  Make no mistake, the war is real and it is heating up.  Deciding what side you will take will require you to reject the mainstream culture that media and entertainment pushes down your throats. 

There is a force in the world that wants to corrupt you and your loved ones.  It is in direct opposition to the Divine Nature of Jesus in you:

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.  Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;  and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.  2 Peter 1:3-7

There is much to be thankful for in the year to come.  When we see past the news of the day and the drama inherit it, the constant repeat of tragic events, you will see the goodness and provision the Lord is being provided right now.  You are on the earth for a special time.  This is your call.. live and be a representative of all that is Christ.

Things that will come to pass.  Europe will find new leaders and new direction.  The former power structures cannot stand in the face of a renewed bold populace.  Look for Italy, France, Germany and Portugal to make a fresh start for the better.

China will continue to be a threat to the free world but will also demonstrate that it is in fact weaker than anyone understands.  Yes they have a great army and a great economic engine, but it cannot afford to wage war on its best customer.  The current policy of keeping them at bay is critical.  They are linked to North Korea which will rattle sabers but without effect.  China cannot afford a war there…again.  The efforts for reunification will come up.  The demands that Kim will make will stop any potential.  He can not relinquish his power and would require a unified Korea be under his influence.

The middle east will continue with eruptions of violence but at some point will become more peaceful.  Turkey continues to flex its muscle and will try to establish dominance.. without success.

Africa that has been so backwards and lost for so long will start to find new footings.  It is now the number one continent on the planet for Christianity.  That is about to make changes in the culture.

Venezuela will finally fall.  It will come from within and without.  This is like a giraffe balancing itself on the head of a pin. It can’t hold.

Hatred of Jews and Christians is going to increase in many places.  Mostly driven by an anti Christ spirit and the cult of Islam.  There will be calls to stop it, but the dominant culture really doesn’t want it to stop.  Secretly they want Christians to shut up.  Make no mistake there is no compromise with the culture that hates you and what you stand for.  This overt and direct persecution will purify believers and result in building the kingdom even more.

Education in the western world will go through a decline in acceptance.  This lack of  support for the indoctrination of young people without providing an actual education will result in more and more calls for the public sector to remove itself from this arena. 

Entertainment Media will try to shock in 2020.  Yet.. at the same time successful faith based movies and TV shows with compelling redemptive themes will emerge.  Not yet reversing the curse.. but pushing back.

Political upheaval at all levels of government is in full force.  Once again the plan of God in placing President Trump in his position will demonstrate what corruption there has been.  Much will be revealed.  Some not favorable for the President.  There will be continued attempts to silence him, some even physically.  He will not.  There are too many who pray strong prayers of protection.  Many of the old guard will be replaced, too few however.  The political and cultural divide will deepen but those who stand with the President will prevail.  

Discredited news media will suffer more and more with a doubtful eye.  Newspaper, TV, Cable and internet are now becoming sources of misinformation and propaganda.  This trend  will result in new outlets.. some not even yet understood to keep proper information flowing.  It is imperative for the Child of God to seek truth and reject lies.  There are so many.  Some coming from supposed godly sources. Not everything that comes from these shadowy sources is credible.

The traditional Church in the West has a serious illness.  They are dying of lack of viability and influence in its realm.  Many of these churches are closing.  In 2020 more than 5000 churches and parishes will close for lack of support.  At the same time in 2020 more than 4000 new church plants will spring up.  Many megachurches will absorb the diasporas of members and some of the new church plants will become statistics for closing in 2021.  The mainline and denominational churches will suffer the most closures.  This is actually healthy overall for the Body of Christ.  Life Death and Rebirth is the theme of the Kingdom.

The family in America will continue to find its new identity.  Right now unmarried couples living as family, many times blended is becoming a cultural norm.  Single Motherhood while on the decline will still be dominant in some circles.  Children raised without a foundation of faith will find themselves gullible to the wiles of the devil.  There is a need to restore the honor of marriage and family.  This used to be the mission of the church, but today we have churches with members and even those in leadership living in sin without recognition.  Marriage seminars are meaningless to the unmarried.  The family in the west and even in the church is in crisis.  This will continue because the culture has diluted the message of children and family from the Pulpit. 

The economy and business in 2020 will be volatile, more volatile than 2019, yet prosperity has a long tail.  There will be difficult, even frightening times in 2020.  Yet there are Godly men and women in business who will show themselves strong in the year to come and take a stand for righteousness.  Certainly there are charlatans, but those with honor and good intent will shine.   Look for open declarations of faith from more and more businesses.  Boycott will not be effective.  It wasn’t in 2019 and that lack of economic power the enemy has tried to wield has now been show to be empty.

The Child of God must stand in this time.   I hear the Lord giving this instruction to his sons and daughters:

Stay pure and walk in love.  The enemy is full of hate.. the antidote for this is

Our great desire is that you will keep on loving others as long as life lasts, in order to make certain that what you hope for will come true. Then you will not become spiritually dull and indifferent. Instead, you will follow the example of those who are going to inherit God’s promises because of their faith and endurance.  Hebrews 6:11-12

Be ready to give an answer when you are confronted by those against My Will:

 But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.” But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope you possess. But respond with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.…   1 Peter 3:14-16

Do not compromise with the enemy.  I will deliver you.  In 1 Samuel chapter 11 there is a story that speaks to the danger of compromise.  The enemy wants you to compromise so he can disgrace the Kingdom.  Don’t fall prey to it.  Stand firm. 

Speak to the culture and those lost in it.  Use words of hope, not condemnation.  The enemy will condemn, I call to them.    They no longer are persuaded of their sin, but they are persuaded by their lack of hope.  Call to they by the Hope you have.

Do not believe in every lying spirit, old wives tale and conspiracy that you hear or read. Many of them are plots of the enemy to discourage you.  Do not be afraid for I am with you.  Victory is yours.. and you can walk in it despite the lies the enemy is using to try to stop you.

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