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Back in the Spring, God spoke to me that the revival of Mike Tyson would be prophetic. That caught me off guard. Tyson has never been a godly man. Nevertheless, God speaks and moves in mysterious ways so I didn’t dare discount what God was saying.

Only a few people responded to my simple prophecy concerning this. I didn’t even understand it myself. I just knew God was using Tyson to speak to me. So, I followed the story line concerning Tyson’s announcement that he was going to return to the ring and fight again.

When the time came, I paid for and watched the match in late November.

The fight was entertaining but…I didn’t come away with anything.

The days following the fight, I pondered on it and leaned in with my ear to the Lord, hoping to hear something more. I was still unsure, other than a motivational, feel-good, comeback tale.

Then, unexpectedly, late in the night—last night—the Spirit of the Lord came on me. I experienced a vision. It was like God replayed part of the pay-per-view event, wanting me to watch with fresh eyes.

I saw the locker room door open. I saw Tyson emerge into the hallway. Then, I saw his T-shirt. One word on the front of his shirt:

BROWNSVILLE

As I watched Tyson walk toward the ring, in my vision, the Lord highlighted what was written on his shirt.

Now, after time spent in the Spirit, after a prophetic vision, after hearing from God, after faithfully stewarding the initial word, after time in prayer and listening…this is the prophecy I feel God has given me:

1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

A major revival happened in the 90’s known as Brownsville. Coincidentally, Tyson’s fall and decline began in the 90’s. Now, Tyson is back. And although, his T-shirt didn’t really have anything to do with the Brownsville revival from the 90’s, God had already told me this was going to be prophetic. Hence, it wasn’t just Tyson emerging from that locker room. It was revival. It was prophetic that revival is about to break out. The spirit of revival that moved during the 90’s at that Brownsville church is about to walk down the aisle…AGAIN.

Also of note, Tyson’s shirt was black. Tyson is black. Tyson has always wore black. Black shorts and black shoes. Accordingly, I sense that this wave of Revival will be especially strong within the black church.

James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

But, revival is always available for the humble, repentant, hungry hearts that are willing to…go after it.

Matthew 6:33
“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”

On Friday night, only a few hours from midnight, when the date became 12/12, and a prophetic time stamp was 12:00 12/12. It seems Trumps’ last hope of reversing the apparent election results were over. News broke that The Supreme Court rejected the Texas lawsuit, the one that Trump had called “the big one.”

I grew up Pentecostal. I know first-hand that Pentecostals, Charismatics, and all those who are Spirit-filled believers often feel like many people in this world—even the religious world—view us as the orphan stepchild.
We sometimes feel treated like the folks from the wrong side of the tracks. We sometimes feel looked down on and made fun of. We’re accused of being crazy, emotional, sensational, radical, tongue-talking holy rollers, and snake-handlers.

So, when a President came into office with the consult of a charismatic woman, it mattered. When spirit-filled pastors and worship leaders were regularly invited to pray at the White House, it mattered. It became more than just the religious right supporting a pro-life Republican. This President unintentionally enlisted the fiery passion and emotion of Charismatics and Pentecostals…something that had never happened before.

The euphoria of this season felt magical, or God-ordained and anointed. The orphan stepchildren stigma was lifting. We became Cinderella.

So, in thankfulness, we brought gifts. We brought prophecies to amplify the moment. We prayed prayers, sang songs, wrote books, made videos, and declared decrees to express appreciation for God’s chosen leader.

Never mind the fact he has been divorced several times. Forget the fact nearly 30 different women have accused him of rape or sexual assault. All of his bankruptcies don’t matter. His bad, abrasive, arrogant, insulting attitude doesn’t matter. His course language doesn’t matter. His rising number of legal problems doesn’t matter. He has paid off multiple accusers, but that doesn’t matter. He even paid big money to a porn star to keep quiet about their fling, but that doesn’t matter. Tens and Tens of thousands of people feel his actions and words are racist, but they’re definitely wrong…so that doesn’t matter. Being overly friendly (or fearful) of Russia doesn’t matter. The risk of impeachment doesn’t matter because we have prophecies saying he won’t be impeached. Then, he was impeached, but that doesn’t matter because those Demoncrats are evil. And, It’s ok, we have new prophecies saying he’ll win by a landslide. Wait. Ok, so he lost by over 7 million votes. We were wrong, bad wrong.

What time is it?

The magic of the Cinderella story was temporary. She was able to go to the Capitol. She felt special. But, she had to come back to reality by midnight. She had to return to the truth, to humility.

Hurry now. Your prince will be looking for the real you.

Don’t be angry. If the shoe fits…

Let go of that man. You’re engaged to Jesus. And Jesus loves you still.

Allow me to spin a prophetic tale.

* The white church. *The Pentecostal Church *The Spirit-filled Church *The Charismatic Church *The American Church

…has been a type of Cinderella. She has went to the [Republican] Party. She was given an invitation to visit the highest house in the land. This adventure was meant to be a visit. It always had a time-clock, a tick tock countdown. A curfew was always looming.

The magical moment wasn’t meant to last, not now, not on these false terms

The church is betrothed—engaged—and must only marry for love. The church must only marry in humble truth. And, the Church must remember…

A higher love awaits her devotion.

So, the most recent goings-on have been short-lived, contrived of a false portrayal. Therefore…

Hurry! The clock is about to gong. Rush! Get out of this make-believe hypocrisy, this playing of a part. Get out of this worldly party.

Run back to humility. Go back to truth.

The hand of God is coming to the ungodly party that has been going on at the highest house of the land. The writing finger from Daniel 5 is coming swiftly to address that wall. The proud-man king hasn’t softened his heart. So, he will no longer benefit from the church’s wine glasses. And the false prophets he has surrounded himself with will not have a word, nor any understanding to help him.

A spiritual sickness is about to firmly grip the heart of this unwholesome leader.

His time there is up.

As for the church, your prince is coming…to find the real you.

So, clean up your act. Get right. Believe in love. God is love. Your story isn’t over.

I never thought of myself as a preacher of judgment. Of course, I have preached and warned of Hell. But, I’ve never been someone to declare God’s judgment every-time there was a hurricane, sickness, or earthquake. Nonetheless, My spirit man has been on full alert in 2020. I’ve never really been one to panic, or quickly consider end-time scenarios. Still, I truly believe Holy Spirit has been heightening my senses. Something timely and prophetic is afoot. I believe we are seeing a form of judgment in the earth right now.

Sin has consequence. And beyond the natural, logical repercussions, there are also instances of calculated renderings from the gavel of God.

Our God is a just judge.

He is certainly a God of love, grace, and mercy. Yet, The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom (Prov. 9:10a). And there’s that time that Jesus… “Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market-place!’ – John 2:15,16

But, let’s look at judgment more personally. Jesus came here to go to the cross (suffering). And he invited us to embrace our cross.

The early church suffered, endured, experienced tribulation ( 1 Thess 1:6), were sometimes beaten, imprisoned, martyred, and exiled.

When Christ taught about the coming days, His bullet points were warnings. When John had a revelation on the isle of Patmos, God highlighted sins and shortcomings in the churches. This included warnings of judgment.

Also in Revelation, God revealed a time of coming trumpets, judgments. The New Testament speaks occasionally of coming wrath—which believers will be rescued from.

Before that, there will be an apostasy, which I believe is a turning away from the true Gospel, to a re-imagined, deconstructed, progressive gospel that exaggerates grace, removes sin, and eliminates Hell. It is here.

I also believe the man of sin, the lawless one, the chaos factor, the wrecking ball, the son of perdition…is among us.

The earth is groaning and I am convinced we have been experiencing Matt 24:8 “But all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come.”

The current time of judgment is a trembling in the land and on the people. Its like the temperature is rising toward a boiling point.

Many people can believe in judgment as long as it is something that will happen in tomorrow, but not ever…

However, Christ was broken and spilled out. And He called us to follow.

There is great, intentional mystery concerning the end. We are not at the end point (2 Peter 3). Nevertheless, we are accelerating toward that hour. We are in the hastening. Things are happening. Prophecies are being fulfilled.

We can probably see our moment of judgment hinted at in 2 Peter 2. Here, we see false prophets. Hence, We are reminded of when God released judgment in Heaven against His angels, and on Earth against His creation. The chapter then shows a separation happening between the godly and the unrighteous. This is speaking of our time.

It is similar to the parable of the sheep and goats in Matt 25. Judgment sifts and separates. We are in this kind of judgment right now. The separating.

Matt 3:12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

The harvest is ripe. The separation is becoming clear. Amidst deception, strong delusion, false prophets, and false versions of everything holy, there is a tension in the air.

We are not in control. This is God’s hour. We would be wise to draw as near to Him as we possibly can.

Amos 8 happened around the time of harvest. The vision was a bowl of ripe harvest fruit. Yet, there was a famine in the land for hearing the true word of the Lord.

In Judges 6-8 the Midianites would attack at harvest time, pilfering all of Israel’s goods. Their is a tension related to harvest. That’s what you’re feeling.

The harvest is a time of judgment. The good is brought into the barn. The bad is tossed out. The tension and warfare surrounding the hour of harvest and judgment is upon us. The sifting and separating is underway.

I believe God has been giving me a prophetic word concerning our time.

As we moved into the second half of this year God began making me aware that there has been a shortage of significant, accurate revelations. Accordingly, I was reminded of Amos’ prophecy about a famine for the word.

This chapter of Amos begins with a vision and vision test (“what do you see?”)

Interestingly, we are in the year 2020, which has made for an oft-mentioned reference to 20/20 vision.

This chapter of Amos is a judgment against God’s people. Therefore, let me be clear…I fully see our times as an overlay of Amos 8. I believe God’s people are under judgment. America, the Christian nation, is under judgment. The church has embraced nationalism and wrongly married itself to politics. Thus, the judgment against America is also a judgment against the American church.

The first judgment in this chapter is on their songs. Mourning, death, and silence is prophesied.

Of note, America has been the hardest hit country this year by a so-called plague. More than 250,000 are dead. No live music, no music festivals, even the church has sometimes been asked not to sing.

The second part of judgment is specified to come on the palace. This is likely the Bethel temple of idolatry.

I think it’s no coincidence that the first half of this year God moved upon me to cry out against America (and the church) for its pride and political idolatry.

Then, I was shook as the President and his family were struck with the sickness. Next, the sickness infested his staff and many who are connected with the White House (palace).

Continuing on in this Amos chapter, a judgment is even released on their mourning…speaking of corpses and casting them forth in silence.

Likewise, this year and this plague have caused extra grief (grief on top of grief) because the sick haven’t been allowed to have visitors during their suffering, and funerals (grieving) have had to limit who /how many could attend, as well as limitations to physical touch in regards to consoling, comforting.

Another judgment is spoken because of the wealthy, unsympathetic abusers of the poor. Alas, the land will tremble and render grief.

And, as Tom Stolz pointed out to me, a corrupt materialistic lifestyle is seen in the people being judged in Amos 8.

I’m afraid this characteristic is also very-much true of America and the church. So…

is our land being judged?

Consider these concerning 2020:

1. Most named storms ever.

2. Most Tropical storms ever.

3. Most Hurricanes ever

4. Record Wildfires

5. Record flooding in MI

6. Record heat in Phoenix

7. Record # of natural disasters

Another judgment in this chapter speaks of days with shortened sun, and extended darkness. In Bible times, the sun represented working hours. It was a judgment on their work, economy, and business.

Meanwhile, this year America’s economy, businesses, and jobs have terribly suffered. Countless businesses have had to close down, no longer able to operate/work.

Lastly this Amos chapter speaks a judgment against idolatry, idolatry and worship of a golden calf was notorious in the mentioned regions of Samaria, Dan, Beersheba.

Hmm…

Anyway, I felt after this year’s election that my burden from crying out against idolatry was finally over and we could begin to move forward. Mind you, for four years, God has had me playing a song. I felt led one day to play this Johnny Cash song on my phone. And, as strange as it may sound, God has spoken to me over and over again to…play it again. Out of obedience, and as a prophetic act, I’ve been playing this foreboding American folk song. Recently I thought my task of playing the song was complete.

I was wrong about that. I have awakened (wide awake; alert) at 8am for seven days in a row. That’s an early (odd) time for me since I live on a night-shift schedule. Then, understanding hit me. Through the prophetic language of God repeating Himself, I realized He was trying to get my attention. He was simply, yet emphatically, urging me to read Amos 8 again.

And Yes, the song has started playing in my head…again.

Throughout this year, a sweeping force of judgment against pride and idolatry has blown back and forth through the land. Statues/idols, have been toppled, removed, destroyed. Likewise, influential real-life leaders in the church community and conservative right have fallen. Many associates connected to the President have been arrested:

1. Steve Bannon

2. Roger Stone

3. Michael Flynn

4. Paul Manafort

5. Rick Gates

6. Michael Cohen

7. George Papadopoulos

8. George Nader

God’s Gonna Cut You Down 🎼.

Concerning the idolatry and golden-calf-people: the last phrase of the Amos chapter says, “they will fall and not rise again.”

I’m praying in holy reverence concerning this. I deeply feel—and yes…prophesy— that God’s judgment on America is not finished. God’s judgment on the church is not complete.

Make America Great Again Read Amos 8 Again

Timely wisdom can be gleaned from recent teachings by Joe Rigney and Jonathan Boegl who have been trying to help the church to trust, embrace, and even joy in God’s judgments.

But, for those who harden their hearts, those who don’t find repentance, those who evade humility, those who double-down in their devotion to political idolatry…God is going to cut them down. Shame is coming. Great shame. I see a Cinderella comparison where many, especially the spirit-filled and charismatics, are going to run out of time being in lofty places with lofty people. As shame and conviction brings the Cinderella wanderers back to humility, the love-hungry Prince will come and save.

God doesn’t stay angry forever.

2 Chronicles 7:14 contains principles found throughout Scripture showing us what God is looking for.

Humility

Repentance

Seeking His Face

Then…healing can begin

Revival comes to the humble, hungry, desperate, broken, contrite, repentant ones.

God’s judgment is helping us to get to that place where we re-discover our first love.