WELL, THERE’S ALWAYS DIFFICULT TIMES THAT ARE AHEAD OF US AND SO ANY TIME YOU’RE LIVING IN A NATION THAT I BELIEVE IS UNDER SOME FORM OF JUDGMENT — AND THERE’S VARIOUS DEFINITIONS OF JUDGMENT. MY DEFINITION OF JUDGMENT IS ANY TIME GOD LIFTS HIS HAND TO THE DEGREE HE LIFTS HIS HAND, SATAN IS ALLOWED TO COME IN. IF HE LIFTS HIS HAND A LOT, SATAN COMES THROUGH A LOT. JUST A LITTLE BIT, THEN SATAN COMES IN A LITTLE BIT. I BELIEVE THE UNITED STATES NEEDS TO EXERCISE ITS SPIRITUAL BACKBONE AGAIN. WE NEED TO BE THE BACKBONE OF WHAT THIS NATION HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO DO AND TO BECOME. I BELIEVE WE MAY BE THE ONLY NATION THAT WAS FOUNDED FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES. WE WERE FOUNDED TO CAUSE A LIBERTY TO HAPPEN, OR TO OPEN UP A WAY FOR GOD TO MOVE IN OUR MIDST. THE GOVERNMENT ISSUES AND CHURCH ISSUES IN EVERY ASPECT. NOT CONTROLLED BY GOVERNMENT, BUT GOVERNMENT RECOGNITION THAT THERE IS A GOD WHO IS ACTIVE IN THE AFFAIRS OF MANKIND. WE HAVE LEFT THAT AND SO THE CHURCH NEEDS TO STAND UP AND BECOME A BACKBONE AGAIN IN THIS COUNTRY. AND WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE ANSWERS AND POWER AND WISDOM AT LEVELS THAT RIGHT NOW WE’RE NOT EXHIBITING. WE NEED TO EXHIBIT THAT. THERE WAS A VISION AND DREAMS. AT FIRST I DIDN’T REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT BECAUSE ANYTIME THAT I’VE TALKED ABOUT THESE TYPE OF THINGS HISTORICALLY, PEOPLE WOULD — WHEN DIFFICULT TIMES ARE COMING, PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO HEAR THAT. THEY WANT TO HEAR EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE GOOD. SO I DIDN’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT. I WANTED TO KEEP ON DOING WHAT I HAD BEEN DOING, ENCOURAGING PEOPLE IN THE LORD, ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO KNOW JESUS CHRIST, WORKING ON PROPHETIC EVANGELISM AND DOING OUTREACHES. BUT THE LORD REMINDED ME OF THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH I WAS BORN AND PART OF THAT PURPOSE WAS AN 11TH HOUR TYPE OF MINISTRY THAT WOULD SEE THINGS, KNOW THINGS, BE SHOWN THINGS THAT WOULD HAPPEN BEFORE THEY TOOK PLACE. HE BEGAN TO GIVE ME THESE DREAMS AND VISIONS AND BEGAN TO TELL ME I NEEDED TO TALK ABOUT THESE THINGS TO VARIOUS PEOPLE, TO CHURCHES, TO CONFERENCES WHERE I WOULD SPEAK AND THEN TO EVENTUALLY WRITE ABOUT THEM. AFTER ABOUT A YEAR I EVENTUALLY SAID, YES, I WILL DO THAT. IN 2008, AT THE END OF 2007, I BEGAN TO TALK ABOUT IT. I WOULD TALK ABOUT IT PERIODICALLY. I WOULD SAY AROUND 2010, DIFFICULT THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN. AS THIS DECADE WINDS DOWN, THINGS ARE GOING TO GET MORE DIFFICULT. IT’S DESIGNED TO GET PEOPLE BACK TO GOD. IT’S DESIGNED TO GET PEOPLE TO KNOW GOD IS THE ONLY HOPE. BY AND LARGE, I KNOW THERE’S EXCEPTIONS TO THIS, BUT THE CHURCH AS A WHOLE IN AMERICA, WHEN YOU HAVE ENTIRE CHURCHES THAT ARE ACCEPTING HOMOSEXUALITY AS LEADERS IN CHURCHES, WHEN YOU HAVE THE IMPLEMENTATION AND ACCEPTANCE OF MORAL INFIDELITY, WHERE MARRIAGE IS MORE A CONVENIENCE THAN A COVENANT, THINGS ARE BREAKING DOWN. WHAT THE LORD TOLD ME HE WAS GOING TO BE DOING IS ALLOWING THESE THINGS TO HAPPEN TO GET PEOPLE TO CRY OUT TO HIM AGAIN.THE WHOLE THING IS ABOUT DRAWING PEOPLE CLOSE TO HIM.JUDGMENT IS NOT LIKE, I HATE YOU, THIS IS GOING TO COME. JUDGMENT IS TO DRAW THIS NATION BACK TO HIM. THE OVERALL EMPHASIS WAS FIVE AREAS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE STORMS.FIVE THINGS WILL COME TOGETHER IN VARIOUS WAYS AND AT VARIOUS TIMES AND IT WOULD RESULT IN DIFFICULTY FOR PEOPLE. THERE WOULD BE FINANCIAL ISSUES THAT WOULD COME; THERE WOULD BE RELIGIOUS ISSUES THAT WOULD SURFACE; THERE WOULD BE POLITICAL ISSUES THAT WOULD SURFACE, AND THERE WOULD BE WAR ISSUES THAT WOULD SURFACE. SO IN THIS, YOU HAVE THE GEO-PHYSICAL REALM, THE CHURCH REALM AND THE WAR REALM. HE BEGAN TO TALK TO ME ABOUT THINGS THAT WERE GOING TO HAPPEN TWO AND THREE YEARS AGO.
