Shalom, to you my Friend and Co-Minister in the Great Commission...
As we begin the new year, it is important to take note of where we are prophetically. I wrote The Avatar, not only to open up the mysteries of our time, but to open the prophetic moment in which we stand. I shared the link of Jehu to Donald Trump. The story of Jehu in the Bible is not ultimately about Jehu, but about God - the hand of God and His purpose in raising up Jehu in the first place. What was it all about?
The context of the story was Israel's apostasy. The nation was on the verge of passing the point of no return. Had the House of Ahab continued on the throne, Israel's course and apostasy would have been sealed and the nation consigned to judgment. That is when God raised up Jehu. It was not long ago that America was approaching a similar point of no return. Virtually every institution of American culture had been or was being taken over by an anti-biblical agenda and ideology. That is when Donald Trump ascended on the nation's political stage. Why? In the case of ancient Israel, Jehu represented God's rolling back of the apostasy. So too, with the rise and return of Trump to the White House, we have witnessed a rolling back of the anti-biblical agenda and ideology that would have sealed the American apostasy.
But the rise of Jehu was more than that - it was a window. God was giving the nation a window of time to repent and return to Him. In the same way, America has been given a window of time for the same purpose. If we change the government but do not change hearts, then the unchanged hearts will change the government back - the window will end and the apostasy resume toward judgment. God can and does use governments, politics, and leaders. But these alone cannot save a nation. The only thing that can save America is God and the only means, revival. Without revival, America as we have known will be lost. Revival is not a nice thing - it's the only thing.
We have a window of time - but that window and time will pass. And we may not have it again. Let us commit to pray for revival as never before, believe for revival as never before, minister for revival as never before - and let us choose to start actually living in revival as never before. If we do so, the revival will start with us - and then it can spread to America, and the world. Let us commit to do this very thing in this first month of this new year. And may God greatly bless you as you do!
Your brother and co-laborer
in His love and service,
Jonathan
