Scripture for Today, 5-10-19: Church's Condition

The Church as We Know It in the West
​ Is About to Die
"...I have set watchmen on your walls; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent."

Isaiah 62:6; Ezekiel 3:17-18, 33:6

5-10-19, * -- The church, as we perceive it in the West, is about to die. This is not something to rejoice over. Even though it may be far from the church that Jesus will build, it has accomplished much and will die in honor. It is a parallel of the life of Rachel, Jacob's wife, who died when Israel's last son, Benjamin was born [Genesis 35:18]. Benjamin represents the last sons of God to be born on the earth. Like Rachel, the church will give birth to the"Son of His right hand" [Luke 22:69], but it will take her life. So this means she will have been a mother to the last-day ministry, and we honor our fathers and mothers.

The [Martin Luther's] Reformation helped the church dig its way out of a deep darkness, but even as far as Christianity has advanced over the last 500 years, we have much further to go. [1 Timothy 2:5 4:1; Acts 4:12] Everything is speeding up. 
However, what will happen will not happen through the continued reformation of the present model of the church. There's a new breed of ministry about to be released. It will be a people who walk in radical, revolutionary faith and power. This is such a new wine that the old model cannot contain it [Luke 5:38]. For this reason we should not despair when the old model dies, but rightfully honor the “Rachel” that carried and given birth to the new breed.

Once we see our purpose, we can see how the church in America has deviated from its calling and how the same thing has happened in our civil government. "We the people" in America are the sovereign. The government of the republic is designed to be subject to us; therefore, primary blame for having our authority usurped lies ultimately with us for allowing it to happen. The people will also be the ones who wake up and recover what has been lost. [..snip] A new breed of radical, revolutionary patriot will arise in America, and not just America—in nations around the world. God established the nations and gave them boundaries. He said anyone who moved the ancient boundaries would be cursed. [Deuteronomy 19:14; Proverbs 22:28; Job 24:2] 

The Lord's first warning about these times was, "Do not be deceived." [Luke 21:8] Deception is far more common than truth today [in the government, media & the church]. The message of the typical American church today would be unrecognizable to the apostles of the first century. [Example: Prosperity & Chrislam ‘gospels’]  The disconnect from truth has come the same way in the US government and media that it has in the church. Of course, this is not true in every church or the entire government or media. It's easy to see in the current media how there's a tendency to report what they want to be true rather than what is true. Isn't that also how the false churches have changed God's Gospel? How they 'want' it to be rather than how it truthfully is? 

True humility is being teachable and responsive enough to change or to expand our concepts and beliefs. This too is repentance and it is coming. [Proverbs 11:2; 29:23; Luke 14:11; James 4:6]

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Ephesians 2:8; Romans 11:5; Galatians 1:15; Titus 3:7; Ephesians 1:5-6; 2:7; Romans 5:21

*Excerpted and adapted full original message from Rick Joyner here and here