美國第二次革命／內戰9
作者：雷克 喬納 Rick Joyner
摘自 喬納 word for the week, Week9, 2019
中譯：國度禱告網
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我最常被問到美國第二次革命／內戰的一個問題，就是何時會爆發。我還沒有領受時間，但自從刊登此異夢以來，我收到一些先知性朋友所得著的信息是：美國內戰將在2021年爆發。一些人會有這時間表的基本理由是川普將在那時再次競選，這將使分裂更加惡化引起暴力。或許是。
我經常聽到一些我不曾說的預言卻歸因於我，而且常與我所相信的背道而馳。這樣的事例打從有先知預言就不斷發生，我們也在許多聖經裡的先知看見此─他們不得不與其他反對他們的言論抗爭。這即是何以不單是尋求聽見主的話，更要聽見話語本身的主越來越重要。我們必須認得祂的聲音，並跟隨羔羊，而不單是先知性話語。
像 美國革命／內戰 這類的事太引人注目，影響太大，幾乎奪去其他事的光彩。然而，在我們國家正在揭開的最重要事件是另一次的大覺醒。有了大覺醒，我們可以期待復興會在美國各處發生，同時也會有極大的屬靈渴望來認識主。這比 美國革命／內戰 重要得多，而且將成為此衝突結果的主要因素。
在自然界發生的事常與靈界平行，在教會也會開始一場偉大革命。就像恢復憲法如同『美國最高法律』一般的革命，一場偉大革命將臨到教會，恢復教會生活，甚至是真實基督教本應有的堅固聖經根基。 目前，只有小部分的美國公民曾讀過憲法與人權法案。我們事工的律師曾在法律學校上過憲法法律這門課，他的班從未提過憲法，他們花所有時間研讀最高發院的決定，因為最高法院篡奪了憲法作為美國高法律的地位，如此做已經成為我們國家最大分裂的來源。 同樣地，教會充斥著教師，教導卻與聖經脫節；反之，教導多半基於人的思維與智慧。有一個很受歡迎的福音派期刊對所發行的刊物做了一項調查，發現不到百分之一所刊登的文章以聖經為其中之一的參考文獻，這是來自以致力於聖經為榮的教會運動。司布真曾說，他可以找到十個願意為聖經而死的人，好讓每個人願意讀聖經！這仍然千真萬確。
沒有任何事像天國的福音如此具革命性，未來也不會有。這是耶穌和祂門徒所傳的福音，但在他們以後就沒有真正地被傳過。沒有任何書籍像聖經如此具革命性，未來也不會有。正如我們可以指出，背離我們憲法已成為我們政府和國家的危機根源。我們同樣也可以指出，偏離健全的聖經真理已成為基督教和教會的重大危機根源。對我們國家和教會危機的主要解答，就是回到憲法和聖經的根基。
我們要為時候預備好自己，可以做最重要的事情是：
- 親近主
- 更加認得祂的聲音，作為我們個人的引導
- 找到我們在基督身體─教會中的位置
- 獲得我們在事奉上（這是每個基督徒都有的）所需要的教導、訓練與裝備
- 為我們自己更多熟知聖經
今日一些最受基督徒歡迎的教義並沒有在聖經中找到，許多甚至與聖經教導互相抵觸。彼得警告這樣的教導是：『那無學問、不堅固的人強解，如強解別的經書一樣，就自取沉淪』（彼得後書3:16）。如此多愚昧的人跟隨那些冒牌、遠離真理的人，造成我們正走向許多的沈淪中。
今日當一位政治人物挑戰某件事『違憲』，他們所提倡的東西往往違憲。同樣地，相同的也在教會宣稱某件事合乎聖經或違背聖經，通常與他們所言相反的才是真的。當問及世界末了的徵兆，主所說的第一件事就是『不要被迷惑』。許多其他關於這世代末了的預言強調，迷惑將是此時的主要記號。我們現在便處在這樣的光景。
解藥呢？遵守大使命並帶門徒，而不單是帶人信主而已。凡是不愛真理、不委身真理者─以及充滿智慧與尊貴的庇哩亞人，自己考查聖經，要曉得使徒的教導是與不是─將會被迷惑。首先研讀耶穌對門徒所說的話，一個真正的基督門徒認得他們的主人，學習祂的樣式，並變得像祂一樣，做祂所做的工，如同他們生命中最重要的焦點。這種狂熱、革命性的基督教類型將要再次被釋放在地上。為了預備將臨到之事，根據主所定義的，我們所能做最重要的事就是成為祂的門徒。
The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 9
Week 9, 2019
Rick Joyner
One of the questions I am asked most frequently about this coming Second American Revolutionary/Civil War is when it will break out. I have not received anything about the timing, but since publishing this dream, I have received messages from several prophetic people that have given words that civil war would break out in America in 2021. A rationale some have given for this is that Trump will be elected to a second term and this will exacerbate our divisions into violence. Perhaps.
I regularly hear words that are attributed to me that I never gave. Often they are the opposite of what I believe. This has been the case with prophecy from the beginning, and we see it with many of the biblical prophets—they had to contend with words from others that countered theirs. This is why it is increasingly important for us to not just seek to hear words from The Lord, but to hear The Word Himself. We must know His voice and follow The Lamb, not just prophetic words.
Something like a Revolutionary/Civil War is so dramatic, and its consequences so great, that it can overshadow almost everything else. However, the most important event now unfolding in our country is another Great Awakening. With the Awakening, we can expect revivals to break out in different parts of the country as well as a great spiritual hunger to know The Lord. This is far more important than the Revolutionary/Civil War and will be a main factor in the outcome of this conflict.
Things in the natural often parallel what is happening in the Spirit, and there is also a great revolution beginning in the church. Like the revolution that will restore the Constitution as “the supreme law of the land,” a great revolution is coming to the church to restore it to the solid biblical foundation of what church life is intended to be, and even what real Christianity is.
Presently, only a small fraction of U.S. Citizens have read the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Our ministry’s lawyer took Constitutional law in law school and his class never once referred to the Constitution. They spent all of their time studying Supreme Court decisions because the Supreme Court has usurped the place of the Constitution as the supreme law of the land, and by doing this has become the source of the biggest divisions growing in our country.
Likewise, the church is filled with teachers and teaching that is disconnected from The Scriptures; rather, the teaching is based mostly on human thinking and wisdom. One popular evangelical journal did a study of what it was publishing and found that less than one percent of the articles they published had even one reference to Scripture. This is from the church movement that prides itself the most on being devoted to The Scriptures. Spurgeon once said that he could find ten men who would die for The Bible for every one that would read it! It’s still true.
There has never been anything, and never will be anything, as revolutionary as the gospel of the kingdom. This is the gospel that Jesus and His disciples preached, but it has not truly been preached since. There has never been anything written—and never will be—as revolutionary as The Scriptures. Just as we can point to the departure from our Constitution as the root of virtually every crisis in our government and country, we can likewise point to the root of the great crises in Christianity and the church to our deviation from sound, biblical truth. The main answer to the crises in our country and the church is to return to the foundations given to us in the Constitution and The Bible.
The most important thing we can do to be prepared for the times is to 1) get closer to The Lord, 2) get to know His voice better for our personal guidance, 3) find our place in His body, the church, 4) get the teaching, training, and equipping that we need to function in our ministry (which every Christian has), and 5) get to know The Bible for ourselves.
Some of the most popular doctrines embraced by Christians today are not found in The Bible, and many are even contrary to its teaching. Peter warned about the teachings that, “the unstable and untaught distort, just as they do The Scriptures, to their own destruction” (II see Peter 3:16). The foolishness of so many to follow those who are pretenders and disconnected from the truth is the cause of much of the destruction that we are headed for.
When a politician today challenges something as “unconstitutional,” more often than not what they are promoting is unconstitutional. Likewise, the same is true of church leaders declaring something to be biblical, or not, when the opposite of what they’re saying is true. When asked about the signs of the end of the age, the first thing The Lord said was “Don’t be deceived.” Many of the other prophecies about the end of this age highlight how deception will be a primary mark of this time. We’re there now.
The antidote? Obey the Great Commission and make disciples, not just converts. Those who do not have a devotion to and love for the truth—and the wisdom and the nobility of the Bereans who searched The Scriptures for themselves to check out what the apostles were teaching—will be deceived. Begin by studying what Jesus said about His disciples. A true disciple of Christ has knowing their Master, learning of Him, and becoming like him, doing the works that He did, as the greatest focus of their life. This type of radical, revolutionary Christianity is about to be released on the earth again. The most important thing we can do to prepare for what is coming is to become His disciple, according to His definition of what that is.