Right about now, at the beginning of the New Year, everyone tries to make their prophetic predictions concerning what is coming for 2008. Who will win the presidential election? What notable events will happen in 2008? What about this and what about that?
Prophetically oriented believers like me are no exception. I’ve read a number of prophetic articles on what various Christian leaders and prophetic types are saying about 2008. This article isn’t to judge or discern what others are saying. Instead, in this article, I want to offer you what I see as my primary prayer agenda for 2008. I offer this article to you my readers and partners to discern for yourself what God is saying (if he is speaking) for 2008.
First, in order to understand my prayer agenda in 2008, we need to look at what God has been doing in 2007.
In 2007, we saw God release some stunning answers to prayer. In Taiwan, God shook the Island with signs and wonders. In Korea, God shifted the courts and declared that Lee Myung Bak was innocent of bribery and corruption charges. As the result, Korea now has a president that is a born-again believer. Meanwhile, in Venezuela, President Chauvez suffered his first electoral setback in his ruling history in attempting to change the constitution and become the eternal president. Meanwhile in an undisclosed Muslim nation, against all political odds, the court ruled against a Muslim ruler allowing an apostolic ministry center to remain open and release the gospel of the Kingdom into hard to access areas in Asia. Meanwhile in Kansas City, God released prime real estate property (worth millions of dollars) along US 71 IHOP-KC for free. All of these may seem very unrelated, but they all have a common link.
The United States and the nations of the earth are facing God’s judgment for the shedding of innocent blood.
During The Call Kansas City, Lou Engle laid out the scriptural foundations regarding the Judgment of God that comes upon a nation for shedding of innocent blood. The video is available at www.thecall.com When innocent blood is systematically shed by a national government, that nation comes under the judgment of God (2 Kings 21:16; 24:4). In the Old Testament, the only way to atone for premeditated shedding of innocent blood (murder) was for the one(s) who had murdered to be killed (Genesis 9:5-6 Numbers 35:33). God requires blood to be shed to satisfy the demand for justice when innocent blood has been shed. Jesus warned Israel’s leaders about the judgment that was coming on the specific generation for shedding of innocent blood and killing the prophets in Matthew 23:35-36.
Since ALL of the scripture is important for us today, we must consider the judgment of God for the shedding of innocent blood in the womb. We all know that 600,000 people died in the civil war. Abraham Lincoln believed that the civil war was a judgment from God for the issue of slavery. Slavery was justified by the Church as slaves were viewed as property, not human beings in the image of God. Abraham Lincoln said in his second Inaugural address in 1864, “Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
If the civil war was God’s judgment upon slavery (where many were killed in Trans-Atlantic travel aboard slave ships), what are we as a nation be facing if God brings judgment for 50 million babies who have been killed in the mother’s womb? What type of judgment are the nations of the earth facing when 50 Million babies are killed every year? Society justifies abortion by saying that a fetus in the mother’s womb is not a person (sound familiar?).
In 1 Corinthians 10, Paul instructs us to look at Israel’s history to gain understanding how God deals with the nations of the earth. Israel was greatly blessed when they turned to the LORD wholeheartedly. Meanwhile, when Israel went astray through bowing down to idols, and the associated sins of shedding of innocent blood and gross immorality, God sent discipline and judgment. The most severe judgments in Israel’s history were always associated with national captivity and foreign nations oppressing them. God always gives a people or a nation the desires of their heart. When a nation or people reject God, God gives them over to what they are choosing instead of Him resulting in base depravity (Romans 1:18-32).
The rising up of the spirit of Anti-Christ across the nations of the earth...
In looking across the nations of the earth at this time, it is clear to me that the spirit of Anti-Christ is arising. Revelation 13:9-10 indicates that God will raise up the final Anti-Christ oppressor in a specific generation as an instrument of divine justice and judgment upon the nations. The word “anti” in Greek means more than just being against something, it also implies replacing something. The spirit of Anti-Christ replaces the genuine (Jesus Christ, the anointed one), with something fake or false.
Currently the strongest expressions of the spirit of Anti-Christ on the global level is Communism (It replacing the apostolic life of the Church in Acts 4:32-36; Acts 6 a fake version with oppressive management vs. true apostolic leadership), and Islamic fundamentalism in terms of religious doctrine and apologetics.
(Note, I do not believe these expressions of the spirit of the Anti-Christ are the final form of this final global empire under THE Anti-Christ in Revelation 13. Even as Islam thrives on replacement theology, I believe Islam will be “replaced” from its current doctrine and expression.)
I just recently got an email from a friend in Kenya about the trouble occurring in this nation that it is likely partially being fueled Muslim extremism. Meanwhile there is much shaking in Pakistan after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. (It’s was natural to believe that the current military government is responsible for this, but I we now know something else going on.) Communism in North Korea with its horrific inhuman treatment of its own citizens operates under the spirit of deception and Anti-Christ as I witnessed first hand while at the DMZ and visiting South Korea. President Chauvez continues to desire to make Venezuela and much of Central and South America communist.
In 2008, there will be a collision between two civil rights movements in the United States. It is the 40th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. Only one civil rights movement will prevail in America. Will it be the Anti-Christ “civil rights” movement (the legalization of open homosexual marriage and other sexual perversion) or will it be a godly civil rights movement (the right of babies in the mother’s womb to live)? I also believe radical Islam will infiltrate deeply into our government unless we pray. The destiny of the nation is at stake!
Is there a remedy for America? Is there a mercy strategy on the heart of God for the nation's of the earth? I believe the answer is clearly yes!
Under mercy through the Blood of Jesus,
Jess
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