“Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you…”
~1 Samuel 12:23a~
The prophet Samuel declared that it would be a great sin for him to fail to pray for the nation...
Shall we fall into that same sin?
Moses went even further. He took the sin he did not commit upon himself...
The next day Moses said to the people, "You have committed a great sin.
But now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your
sin."
~Exodus 32:30~
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
~Exodus 34:9~
Ezra. Oh Ezra. He makes me feel shame for my lack of fear of the Lord. He really takes it all on himself. Ezra had not personally committed most of the sins he came to the Lord about, on behalf of his nation, but he fully placed himself within the sins
of his people. He tore his garment. He plucked out some of his
hair. He Fasted. He fell to his knees in shame before the Lord!
After these things had
been done, the leaders came to me and said, “The people of Israel,
including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites. They have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, and have mingled the holy race with the peoples around them. And the leaders and officials have led the way in this unfaithfulness.”
When I heard this, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled hair from my head and beard and sat down appalled. Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me because of this unfaithfulness of the exiles. And I sat there appalled until the evening sacrifice.
Then, at the evening sacrifice, I rose from my self-abasement, with my tunic and cloak torn, and fell on my knees with my hands spread out to the Lord my God and prayed:
“I am too ashamed
and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are
higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
~Ezra 9: 1-6~
~Ezra 9: 1-6~
The Lord is calling our Nation, America, to REPENTANCE! Make no mistake! He is looking for intercessors to call this nation to their knees. Will he find none? I stand before you in perfect honesty, I am not worthy of the Lord my God. I stand here not looking down upon you as one better. This message is for me as well as you. I have not recently torn my clothes and been too ashamed to face the Lord for the sins of this country. How sinful we have become. What a lack of fear for the Lord our God! The Maker of heaven and earth. The One. The Only. The I Am.
He is looking for intercessors!! Will we have one? Just one?
“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.”
~Ezekiel 22:30~
At this years Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast the speaker stood, unapologetic, and called this nation to turn from their sin and repent! It is 35 minutes long. I urge you, take the time and watch it! I will include the transcript as well. The time is now! The hour is here!
Two VERY important key parts...
1. "Our
culture has grown increasingly godless, vulgar, darkened. We now, too
ridicule, mock, and blaspheme the name of God. It wasn't that long ago
that American television closed its broadcasting day with sermons about
the Lord. Now, our televisions and computer screens are filled with
words and images once unimaginable and God and Jesus have now become
objects of comedy and mockery. It's as if a spiritual amnesia has
overtaken America and the Lord asked Israel "can a nation forget its
God?" And yet, Israel forgot and now we, too, have forgotten. America
has forgotten her God. And, we too, as a nation, have partaken in the
darkest of sins tomorrow is also a milestone of history. Tomorrow marks
the 40th anniversary of the day America legalized the killing of its
unborn children. Forty years tomorrow. Israel offered up thousands of
its children. America has offered up millions. Fifty million souls are
not here today. Fifty million will not be here watching or cheering at
the inauguration. They are silent. For, their lives were legislated out
of existence. Even from this city. And, in order to hide the magnitude
of our moral descent, we redefine words and change their meanings on
this and other sins. And, yet, a thousand apostate ministers swearing on
a thousand Bibles will not change a jot or tittle of the Word of God.
Though silent, they cry out in bearing witness to the darkest of our
sins and God hears them. And, as He spoke to the ancient prophets in
Israel, so His words echo down to us: "When you lift up your hands to Me
in prayer, I will not listen for your hands are covered in blood"
2. "And, to all who will come He will receive and He calls out "Come, for
all you who hear this message and you dwell in darkness, it's time to
come and you will not be turned away." And for all you who know Him,
you, His people. It's time to put away any shade of darkness and
compromise and take up the mantle of your calling. It's time to be the
salt of the earth and the light of the world you were called to be in
truth, in power, in love. It's time to light up the darkness. It's time
to be strong. It's time to be bold. It's time to be radical. The
watchman is crying out. The trumpets are sounding. The voice of the Lord
is calling to this nation, saying "Return! Return!" Let the world go
forth, let the power of God be seen in this land! Let revival burst
forth like a mighty river! The voice is calling - prepare the way of the
Lord, make straight His path, let every mountain and hill be cast down,
and every valley be lifted up and let the crooked way become straight,
let the rough way become smooth, the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together. For the mouth of the Lord has
spoken "Qum e ore iki va oret." Arise and shine, for the light has come
and the glory of the Lord has risen on you in the name above every name
Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus the Messiah, the King of Kings, the Lord of
Lords, the Light of the world, the Hope of America, the Lion of the
tribe of Judah, and the glory of His people, Israel, Amen and amen and
amen, to Him be the glory."
“Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He
is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and
to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”
~Isaiah 55:6-7~
I have included the entire Transcript below my sign out. May we all turn our face towards the Lord and may He at least find one worthy to intercede on behalf of this nation.
Living In His Mercy,
Melissa
But, how do we do that? how do we pray for this nation? do we pray
for riches, for power, for the success of national agendas?
In Ancient times, there is a nation known as the kingdom of Israel.
It had been founded on God's word, dedicated to His will, consecrated
to His purposes, and God blessed it with prosperity, power, security,
peace, and a place at the head of nations.
But, the people of Israel made a fatal mistake. In the midst of
their blessings, they turned away from their God. They began to remove
Him from their lives. Step by step, they ruled Him out of their culture,
out of their government, out of their economy, out of the public
square, out of the instruction and lives of their children. They ruled
Him out of the kingdom. They would still at times invoke His name. But,
increasingly, it rang hollow and meaningless. They had made themselves
strangers to the God of their fathers and their foundation.
And, as God was driven from their lives, they brought in foreign
gods and idols to replace Him - gods of sensuality, materialism,
violence; idols of wealth and carnality, sexual promiscuity. They
abandoned the ways of God, the laws, the standards of God and... for
immorality. As the prophets cried out to them, they now called evil good
and good evil. What they once knew to be immoral, they now celebrated.
What they once knew to be right, they now warred against. It was a
culture turned in upon itself. It is a civilization at war against the
very foundation on which it had been established. And, the righteous,
who simply remained true to what they had always known to be true, were
now vilified, mocked, marginalized, labeled as intolerant, increasingly
banned from the public square, and ultimately, persecuted.
The nation's culture grew increasingly vulgar, godless, and, and
darkened. They now ridiculed, mocked, and blasphemed the name of God. It
is as if a spiritual amnesia had overtaken the kingdom, as if they had
never known God or His ways. And, they descended into the darkest of
sins of nations that surrounded them: they offered up their children as
sacrifices to the gods on the altars and the fires of Ba'al and Molech,
and they now stood under the shadow of judgment and in danger of
destruction and God called out to them to return, come back, be saved
from destruction. HE sent to them seers and prophets to wake them up,
call them back, but they wouldn't listen. They mocked the prophets.
They persecuted them. And, they hardened their hearts and finally,
something happened that brought them into the first stage of judgment.
America would become the most blessed nation on earth, a refuge for
the world's exiles, a light for the world's oppressed, a beacon against
the dark forces of tyranny that threatened to engulf the world. America
was blessed with prosperity, with peace, power, security and a place at
the head of nations. America had been blessed as no nation in the
history of this planet has ever been blessed. [applause, "amen"]
BUT...
Something happened to the city on the hill. As the people of
ancient Israel, in the midst of their blessings, committed a fatal
error, so have we. We too, as a nation, have turned from God. We too, as
a nation have removed Him from our lives. Step by step, we too have
ruled Him out of our culture, out of our government, out of our economy.
We, too, have ruled Him out of the instruction and lives of our
children. We, too, have made God a stranger. And though we still, at
times, invoke His name as a nation, it becomes increasingly hollow and
meaningless. We have made ourselves strangers to God. And, as we have
driven God from our national life, we have brought in other gods and
idols to replace Him - gods of sensuality, violence, wealth, carnality,
sexual promiscuity. And, as did Israel, so too, we have abandoned the
ways of God and the laws of God for the ways of immorality.
We've now reached the point, this day, when a minister was driven
out of the public square, banned from praying at the Inaugural for the
simple reason that years ago he had preached a sermon simply saying that
the Bible clearly has always said that is sin. It is a new America in
which one can be banned from the public square simply for believing the
Bible, where profanity is treated as holy and the holy is profane. A new
America where the Bible is treated as contraband and nativity scenes
are seen as dangerous.
Our culture has grown increasingly godless, vulgar, darkened. We
now, too ridicule, mock, and blaspheme the name of God. It wasn't that
long ago that American television closed its broadcasting day with
sermons about the Lord. Now, our televisions and computer screens are
filled with words and images once unimaginable and God and Jesus have
now become objects of comedy and mockery.
It's as if a spiritual amnesia has overtaken America and the Lord
asked Israel "can a nation forget its God?" And yet, Israel forgot and
now we, too, have forgotten. America has forgotten her God. And, we too,
as a nation, have partaken in the darkest of sins tomorrow is also a
milestone of history. Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the day
America legalized the killing of its unborn children. Forty years
tomorrow.
The city on the hill has grown darkened. Its lamp has grown dim, its glory is fading, for God is not mocked. No nation can war against the very source of its blessings and expect its blessings to remain. And, as it was with ancient Israel, the city on the hill now stands in the shadow of judgment.
How does judgment come to a nation? After defying all of God's calls and warnings, the nation of Israel would experience something unprecedented. It was the opening stage of national judgment. God removed one of Israel's blessings. Years before its destruction he allowed it's hedge of protection to be lifted up. He allowed an enemy to make a strike on the land. It was a wake up call. To avert national destruction, to wake them up. Nothing elese would reach them. The strike was limited and temporary. The nation was now given a period of time to turn back to God or enter into judgment. The first opening Biblical sign of national judgment is this: the initial removal of the nation's hedge of protection.
So, it comes to pass that in America on September 11th, 2001, its
hedge of protection was lifted. An enemy was allowed to make a strike on
the land. It was temporary and contained. It was the wake up call - we
all sensed it, even if we didn't say it - and for a short time, it
looked as if America would wake up, as if we were on the verge of a
national revival. People flocked to churches and spoke of God. And then,
a few weeks later, it was all over. There was no revival. There was no
change of course because without repentance there is no revival. America
continues down its spiritual descent. But now, it did so with even more
fervor. Eleven years, now, after 9/11, the nation stands not closer to
God, but much farther away.
The Harbinger was released last year. And, from the first week, it
became a best-seller, spreading across the nation and now even it's
reaching into Capitol Hill. The revelation of The Harbinger is this:
There exists and ancient mystery that lies behind everything from 9/11
to the collapse of the American economy, a mystery so precise that it
actually reveals the actions of American leaders before they take them,
the exact words of American leaders before they speak them, a mystery so
exact that it gives the actual dates, even the hours of some of the
most dramatic days in recent history.
In the last days of ancient Israel before its destruction, 9
harbingers - 9 prophetic signs of national judgment - appeared in the
land. Those same nine harbingers are now reappearing on American soil.
Some have appeared in New York City. Some have appeared here in
Washington, D.C. Some have involved the highest leaders of the land,
even the President. They've touched every realm: political, economic,
cultural, spiritual, affect every American and every American's
future.
The harbingers are revealed through an ancient scripture, the vow
that Israel made after that first strike of warning. It appears in Isaiah 9:10.
instead of repentance, they responded to God's warning with defiance.
They said this: "The bricks are fallen down. Biut, we will rebuild with
hewn stone. The sycamores have been cut down, but we will plant cedars
in their place." What they were saying was this: "God, you won't humble
us. You won't cause us to return. We're going to continue down our
course. We will continue to abandon Your ways. We'll defy you. And, even
more than before, we will do so by our own efforts. We will rebuild and
we will come back stronger than before. This vow of defiance would seal
their fate, usher in their destruction. And, it's the key to the 9
harbingers. We don't even have the time here to begin to open up the
mysteries of the harbingers, except to say that they are all manifesting
to America. And, just to touch quickly on a few.
The fifth harbinger is.. in the book... is "the stone of judgment".
For this to manifest, a particular kind of stone must be chiseled out
of mountain rock and placed on the ground of destruction where the
strike occurred. Three years after 9/11, this stone of judgment appeared
and was lowered in the pavement... on the pavement of Ground Zero. A
ceremony took place around it. American leaders proclaimed vows of
defiance over the stone.
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| Harbinger #6 - the sycamore at Ground Zero |
The sixth harbinger, the sign of the sycamore, a Biblical warning
of national judgment. For this to manifest, a sycamore must be struck
down in the ground of destruction. In the last moments of 9/11, the last
tower came down, crashing down it sent a shockwave and a beam and it
struck an object. The object was a tree. The tree was a sycamore. The
biblical sign of national judgment, the sycamore, is fallen.
The seventh harbinger in Hebrew is called the "erez". The sign of
judgment, this one appeared in the sky at the corner of Ground Zero two
years after the calamity.
The ninth harbinger is the vow of judgment. The vow of bricks and sycamores, Isaiah 9:10
the very... in the very utterance, its very utterance in the last days
of Israel would lead to the nation's destruction. For this harbinger to
manifest, an American leader would have to proclaim the vow and from the
capitol city, proclaim a vow of judgment, and it would be linked, it
would have to be linked to 9/11. If you see this happen, know that it is
stunningly clear that your nation is in danger of judgment. On the day
after 9/11 the United States Congress gathered at Capitol Hill, not far
from here, and they gathered there, the place where the Inauguration
will happen today, to give America's response to the calamity, just as
ancient Israel had presented its response to the calamity in Isaiah 9.10.
The man appointed to speak for the nation was the Senate Majority
Leader, Tom Daschle. He makes his way to the podium and presents the
nation's response. At the end of his speech, the words of the ancient
vow that bring national judgment came forth out of his mouth. He says
this: "There is a passage in the Bible from Isaiah that I think speaks
to all of us at times like this." He says "the bricks have fallen down,
but we will rebuild with dressed stone." Then, he speaks of the tree
that is struck down. He speaks it without even realizing there is an
actual tree at Ground Zero that's being discovered that day. He speaks
of the stone of judgment that will go up. It will come to pass three
years later.
He has no idea what he is doing, but the vow of judgment is
pronounced. Israel's vow of judgment becomes America's and is recorded
in the annals of Congress. It is ominous. It will set the nation's
course. It will lead to the next national shaking that will not involve
buildings, but will be the implosion of the American economy itself, the
collapse of America's economy that still affects everone to this day.
In "The Harbinger" it's call "the second shaking". And, behind this
second shaking, this economic implosion, lies a stream of ancient
Biblical mysteries. We don't have time to speak of these now, except to
mention one mind-boggling reality.
There was a day given in the Bible, called on the Hebrew calendar
the 29th day of Elul. Once, every 7 years on that date, Elul 29, the
nation's financial accounts were wiped away. All accounts of credit and
debt wiped away. It was originally meant to be a blessing, but as the
nation had driven God out of its life and pursued idols and wealth, a
sign.. it became a sign that was condemning the, their rejection of God
and that struck the financial realm. The peak of the collapse of the
American economy took place at the end of September, 2008. On that day,
the stock market crashed 777 points, the greatest crash on Wall Street
in America's history. When did it happen? The greatest collapse in Wall
Street history took place on the 29th day of Elul, the exact day given
in the Bible to strike a nation's financial realm that has driven God
out of its life. And, the same exact day, the same exact hours.
But, Elul 29 is part of a seven year mystery. What happens if we go
back 7 years from the greatest crash in American history? It takes us
to September, 2001, the month of 9/11. But, something else happened.
That month. The other greatest stock market crash in American history to
that date. When did that take place? The other greatest stock market
crash in America took place on the exact same Biblical day appointed to
strike a nation's financial realm that is under judgment.
The two greatest collapses in American history up to those dates
both happen on the exact same Biblical day, at exactly seven years apart
to the Biblical day and hour. And there's a prophetic mystery here.
Behind everything we're seeing, God is alive. There is a prophetic
warning in this and that is: if America does not return to God, it's
prosperity, and we will see the end of the prosperity and the end of the
American Age as we know it.
What was he saying? He was saying "America's blessings are based on
its relationship with God. If America ever disregards or forgets or
turns away from the eternal rules of order and rights, the laws, the
precepts, the standards, the ways of God, if America ever departs from
these, then the blessings of God will be withdrawn from the land. This
is the prophetic warning embedded in our national foundation. And, it is
coming true in our day. We are now witnessing America increasingly
disregarding the eternal rules of order and right which God has
ordained. And, the warning is, that if we do so, the smiles of Heaven
the blessings of God will be withdrawn.
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| The Chapel at Ground Zero, which averted destruction because of the sycamore. |
Where did it take place? It happened in the nation's capitol. But,
the capitol then was not Washington, D.C., it was New York City. Where?
The place where they dedicated America to God on its first day as a
nation. America's consecration ground is Ground Zero. America was
dedicated to God at Ground Zero. The ancient mystery the calamity
returns to the ground of the nation's ground of consecration. And, it
was on that ground that the harbingers appeared. It was in the soil of
America's consecration that that sycamore grew and was struck down. It
was there that it all happened. And, on 9/11 a shock wave went forth
from ground zero and struck and object. It struck Federal Hall, the very
place where Washington was sworn in and where he gave that prophetic
warning of what would happen if America ever turned away from God. And,
it struck the foundation of America and put a crack in the very
foundation of Federal Hall. But, all around Ground Zero, every building
was ruined. They were destroyed. Except one. Which one? It was the
little stone chapel in which they dedicated America's future to God.
And, why was it protected? It was protected because there was an object
outside the chapel which absorbed the full force of the calamity. The
object was the harbinger - the sycamore.
You see, the purpose of the harbingers is not to consign a nation
to judgment, but to waken it to redemption. It's a message of return.
The voice of God is calling this nation to return in prayer, in
humility, in repentance, and in hope. And, here we stand today, on the
21st day of January, 2013 in the capitol city on this same day, the
continuation of that first inaugural day, and on that first inaugural
day, they gathered together in prayer and consecrated America's future
to God, and here we now are, who are of that future for which they
prayed. And, we are now gathered together in the prayer gathering of
that day, before the Almighty. And, we stand here, centuries later, in
witness to God's hand of faithfulness and blessing on this land. But, we
stand here also, in witness to the fact that America has done exactly
that of which the.. the we were warned that first day by Washington
never to do. We bear witness that we have turned from His eternal ways
and the order of right. We have turned and are rapidly turning as a
nation away from His face. We all know it.
So, Lincoln set forth this call to America to repent, to turn to
God, to seek His mercy and soon after that call went forth, the tide of
war began to turn that would ultimately lead to national healing. The
words of Abraham Lincoln ring out to us today that those nations only
are blessed whose god is the Lord. Has this nation grown so far from God
that we cannot even imagine a president doing so today? Mr. President,
if you seek, if you look to Lincoln as your model, then dare to follow
him in his actions.
[applause]
For, all the politics and all the parties and all the inaugural
balls and all the voices of political correctness and all the, all the
sounds of applause will grow silent and still and we will be left, each
of us, all of us, to stand before the Almighty. And it will not matter
then how may votes we won or how much praise we garnered. Only the we
were faithful to Him and to His word. The voice of Lincoln now cries out
to us and pleads with us let us humble ourselves confess our national
sins and pray for forgiveness. As it is written in the Word of God - "If
my people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and
seek my face and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from
Heaven, I will forgive their sins and I will heal their land.
[applause]
We have come here on the 21st day of January, 2013 to the capitol
city on the day of the Presidential Inauguration for that purpose, to
humble ourselves and pray and to seek his face and to turn from our evil
ways. The time is late, the hour is critical. A great nation proceeds
in rapid spiritual descent and these, the signs of warnings and judgment
are manifesting in this land. The shadow of judgment is upon us and for
those who would ask "how, in light of judgment, can one be saved or
safe?" we give the answer: The word in Hebrew for safety and salvation
is Yeshua. Yeshua is the name, which we know in English as "Jesus".
Outside of Him there is no safety. But, inside of Him there is no fear.
It was for Him. And in His name that this nation, this civilization,
this city on the hill, named America came into existence. And it's only
in Him and in His name that its problems can ultimately be answered. He
remains the answer, the light, in the darkness, the hope when all other
hopes are faded and gone.
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