Word for the month of November

THE WARNING, THE BACKLASH, AND THE WINDOW

Shalom, to you my Friend and Co-Minister in the Great Commission...
   I'm writing this before the elections and before November. When you read this, I will be leading a tour to the Holy Land. You will likely know the results of the election before I do. But, it is crucial that I write this now.
   Ever since the reelection of President Trump, I have been led to give a warning. I even gave it eight days before the election at a gathering in which Trump was present. When ancient Israel departed from God, God in mercy, gave the nation windows of grace, times to repent, and to return to Him. But if the nation did not return to Him, it would resume its descent to apostasy and judgment. So America, like Israel, was a nation that knew God, but departed from His ways. And we, like Israel, have been given a window of grace.
   In the days of Israel's apostasy, one of those windows was during the reign of King Jehu. Trump is a Jehu. Like Jehu, he is wild, unpredictable, a paradox, and one who, despite himself, has been used as a vessel of God. His reelection was a second chance, for America to turn back from the agenda and course of apostasy that was taking over, virtually, every institution of its national culture. And in many ways, that agenda has been rolled back. But the battle is far from over.
   At the beginning of this year, the first message I gave on these pages was about the Window of Time, the chance we have been given to turn back to God. And now, there are warning signs concerning the closing of that window.
   Without that, we're only buying time. I have warned since then that if we change the government, but don't change people, the unchanged people will change the government back again. If we turn laws, but don't turn hearts, the unturned hearts will turn the laws back again. And if we drive out an agenda of darkness, but don't fill the void with the presence of God, then what was driven out will come back with a vengeance.
   It's something to note that although there has been a rolling back of an anti-God agenda, the anti-God forces and segments in America have only gotten more radical. While pro-life laws have been enacted in some states, more radically anti-God agendas have been enacted in others. And, while Christians have been placed in positions of power in the present administration, others radically anti-Christian, socialist, or anti-God have risen up in other places.
   Beyond voting, let us pray diligently and fervently for revival. Without that, the nation is lost. But with that, all things are possible. And May God greatly bless you as you do!

Your brother and co-laborer

in His love and service,


Jonathan