6 December 2015
Dear Phyllis,
A month ago I wrote you, “The biggest news this past week was Paris”. Now today I must wrote “The biggest news this past week was San Bernardino”. News commentators in an attempt to be respectful to the US president call him incompetent. Incompetent is a very complementary word. Personally I feel they are mistaken. I don't feel he is incompetent at all. On the contrary I feel he is highly skilled and successful. I believe he is doing better than anyone could have expected. He has every right to be very satisfied with his accomplishment. To understand this view it is necessary to go back and review his close association with extreme anti-American radicals like Bill Ayers, and his close relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is a front for terrorists. His uncle is one of the leaders of an extreme Muslim terrorists organizations and has been hosted in the White House several times. When Barack Hussein O (as Rush Limbaugh calls him) went on his apology tour at the beginning of his presidency, the Muslim Brotherhood was an illegal organization banned in Egypt. Hussein O insisted that they be given the place of honor in the front row when he spoke in Cairo. When violent unrest broke out in the Middle East and pro-western governments were toppled, Hussein O hailed this as the Arab Spring. Reality was that this turned out to be a nuclear winter for stability in the Middle East. I would be reluctant to suggest that Hussein O is a terrorist at heart, but it is a known fact that he has strong ties to terrorists groups. And any object examination of his speeches, actions, contacts and obvious mentality would have to admit that Hussein O certainly is a Muslim at heart. It would take 10,000 words to write the introduction to any paper enumerating his philosophy. As complementary as incompetent may be I really don't think he is. I believe he is right on his agenda or somewhat ahead of scheduled. Few would have believed it possible to transform America so radically in seven years.
When the Lord was gracious in giving us Ronald Reagan, I said this is a Josian revival. Carter had taken America so low I was ashamed to call myself an American. But for the eight years of Reagan I was so proud that I put up an American flag in my yard. If the Reagan years were indeed a Josian revival that means that everything after that is down hill to the end. The Lord was good in giving us Bush but it was during his term that American blood and resources began to be shed in fighting what is probably her last battle. In commenting on last Thursdays attack in San Bernardino one specialist said this is an act of war. Unquestionably that is true. But it a type of war unknown in history. 9-11 changed America permanently. San Bernardino will have the same destabilizing effect. It is amazing that only two people can have such an impact on an entire nation. The significance of San Bernardino is that it could happen anywhere. And, no doubt, it will happen everywhere. My friend Paul was working with anti-terrorism and was on surveillance of a house in upstate New York. He observed some highly unusual activity and notified the FBI. They checked it out and found it to be a warehouse filled with thousands of military grade weapons. That was just one small house in a small town in upstate New York. The question is, what do they have stored in other places all over America?
Recently I have been much challenged by Josiah. It would appear he was one of the greatest kings in Jewish history. The Josian Passover was the greatest Passover held since the days of Samuel. That is saying something. Even David and Solomon didn't have a Passover as great as Josiah's. His reformation was the greatest ever held. There was no one as thorough in stomping out idolatry as Josiah. He not only cleaned out the Temple and put down Baalism, but he tore down the house of the sodomites next to the temple and destroyed three temples that Solomon had built to three heathen gods. That was amazing. Those temples had been standing since the days of Solomon. And the ultimate was when he went up to Samaria and destroyed Jeroboam's alter at Bethel. 2 Kings 23 is a fantastic chapter.
But the astounding thing is that Jeremiahs ministry began in the 13th year of Josiah; it went on for the next 40 years, and Jeremiah doesn't say one word about the Josian revival. On the contrary all Jeremiah talks about is doom and gloom. Josiah reigned for 32 years and Jeremiah was a prophet of 19 of those years. I was completely bewildered how it was possible for there to be such a revival and Jeremiah write about only judgment. I got a little light when the Lord showed me that the revival came when they discovered the Book of the Law in the Temple in the 18th year of his reign. That means for the first five years of Jeremiah's ministry idolatry was business as usual and the sodomites where having parties next to the Temple. They were still burning children to Molech (2Kn. 23:10).
After that great Passover the Bible says nothing about Josiah until the 32nd year when the Lord told him not to mess with Pharaoh, which he did, and got killed. The Lord gives Josiah high points with the testimony “there was no king before him or after him that turned to the Lord with all his heart” (2 Kn. 23:25)... “Notwithstanding, the Lord turned not from the fierceness of His great wrath wherewith His anger was kindled against Judah because of the provocation of Manasseh” (ver. 26). As great as Josiah was there are two things that stand out to me. One is that all his boys were no good. He had four sons that reigned after him. Two were for only a few months and two reigned for 12 years each. The last one was Zedekiah who was bad and got his eyes put out in Babylon. The second significant point is that when Jehoakim who took over a few months after Josiah, false prophets were in charge and idolatry was already flourishing. Obviously Judah went down hill badly in the later years of Josiah. Or in other words the revival was short lived.
One of the greatest revivals in modern time was the Lewis awakening under Duncan Campbell in 1954. In 1977 I was talking with Allen Redpath, who knew Campbell and the island of Lewis very well, and asked him what ever happened to that island. I was shocked when Redpath told me that the island was a dead then as it was before the revival. He said hundreds were saved and went out as missionaries but the church died out. Something like that must have happened to Judah. Those who win the prize with God are not those who blaze like rockets but those who continue on. That would explain Jeremiah's doleful message. It was great for a while but soon died down.
If I am right that Reagan was a Josian revival that is very frightening. Ronald Reagan was fantastic! He was one of the greatest – if not the greatest president America ever had. Much of his staff were Christians and they say Bible studies and prayer meetings were common in many departments. As great a man as Ronald Reagan was his impact went only as far as his hand could reach. The slaughter of babies continued as it had ever since the Supreme Court made a law legalizing it. Reagan couldn't stop it. Pornography continued to gush out. Reagan had a commission on pornography and Jim Dobson was on it. But they couldn't stop it. Demonic rock music continued its meteoritic climb and he couldn't stop it. Reagan was a tremendous breath of fresh air but America continued its fatal plunge that started when five evil judges ruled that the Word of God and prayer to Jesus was banned for the US education system and many public places. Evil judges ruled that the Ten Commandments and other witness of the Bible were removed for government buildings. From 1981 to 1989 were possible some of our greatest years. The spirit of America returned to America. We walked with our heads held high, but I fear God had pulled the plug and there was no recovery.
What has happened since then was unthinkable in 1989. No one could have imagined that 26 years later the Supreme Court would make a law that sodomy and sexual perversion would be the law of the land and Christians could go to jail for not cooperating with it in their business. And the president would have the White House light up with rainbow colors celebrating the triumph of unmentionable immorality and sexual perversion. No one would have believed that the Attorney General of the USA would be a lawless man who spent more time prosecuting outstanding sheriffs than terrorists. No one would believed that we would have an administration that refused to close our borders allowing millions of illegal immigrants in and then there would be illegal foreigners suing states to grant them drivers licenses, the federal government granting them rights to vote, free education, food, and housing. In every other country but America if illegal foreigners are found they are either put in jail or deported. But in America they demonstrate for rights. And in 1989 who would believe that the man at the helm as the leader of America would be a Muslim at heart with an agenda to bring America down?
As we look at the political situation it is tremendously encouraging that there should be such a slate of truly outstanding men campaigning for the presidency. Any one of the top eight men would be incredible. Three are born-again deep men of God. What a salvation if the Lord would give to the states a man like that to take the helm. But if Ronald Reagan was indeed a Josian revival that means he was the last one. I fear there are many disastrous things that could happen. Ben Carson has suggested that it is not inconceivable that there may not be an election in 2016. That is highly possible. There are several things that could bring America down before then and it is a wonder that it hasn't happened already. There is a very large pool (cease pool) of the American population that are totally illiterate of history, politics, or morality. The only thing on their mind is drugs, sex and a free handout from the government, and they will support the candidate who will promise that. There is a strong possibility that the Republican establishment may mount an anti-Trump campaign blocking him as a candidate – pushing him to start a third party. If that happens the bad guys win. There are a lot of bad things that could happen in the next year. We are totally cast upon the grace of God. But if God has pulled the plug on America the day of grace is over and the thunder of the judgment of God may be upon us.
It makes me sick to my stomach every time I see a victory for evil. The Lord has reminded me that there is a lot of far more bad things to come. Very soon the very incarnation of the devil himself will win a resounding victory and there will be great celebration. Perhaps we should join in the celebration too – for a different reason. When that happens we know that he won't last two terms. He only has seven years. God has set the limit on that. And that is the beginning of the clock to Armageddon. Praise God! That is when Jesus wipes out evil and His Kingdom will be established on this earth. Oh praise the Lord we are close.
I might be completely mistaken. The Lord may have another 100 years for America and we could see a real man of God turn everything around. We could see evil people swept from power. But I doubt it. But praise the Lord, our Father has written the script and I am sure it will play out exactly as written. Someone once asked John Wesley what it would be like at the end of the world. He answered, “The end of the world... man, the end of the world will be the glory of God.” Amen!
Even so come Lord Jesus... quickly;
bill
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