The following was a Fox News report that was very important and illuminated about the state of the church in America:

         What is the Spirit saying to the churches? Jesus. It is always about Jesus. As our friend Peter Lord used to say, “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing,” and the main thing is Jesus.

     I almost never go to cities or churches without picking up on things they’re dealing with. Sometimes I come with very clear and high-level revelation, but I rarely tell them about it unless I know that the Lord has set up the situation or conversation to do this. What I do is ask the Lord for teachings or other ministry that can help confront problems or be light that casts out the darkness. 

         This week we will continue with Revelation 6:3-4:

   When He broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come."

    And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from the earth, and that men would slay one another; and a great sword was given to him.

         In the Lord’s message to the Ephesian church, we see a pattern followed in His message to each church, or church age. He begins with a commendation followed by a rebuke. Then He gives them a promise and a hope of the reward they will receive for repenting and overcoming their mistakes. This is called “a critique sandwich.” If this is how the Lord speaks to each of the churches here, isn’t it likely that this is the way He will speak to His people today?

We have briefly discussed how the democratic principles born out of the church during the Protestant Reformation have blessed and set free many nations in this age. It is also the form of government which, when applied to the church, is considered by many to be one of the great inhibitors to the freedom of the Spirit to rule in the church. Certainly this can be the case, but it need not be. Historically, it was the Reformers applying democratic principles to church government that fired the greatest advance of the gospel since the first century through the Protestant Reformation.

The recent earthquake and tsunamis that struck so many countries in the Indian Ocean are taxing the whole world’s relief efforts. In human life lost, it will go down as one of the worst natural disasters in human history. It does have important prophetic significance that we need to understand, which is highlighted in Joshua 3:3-4,14-17:

Last week we discussed how it will be for those who esteem truth as if it were the greatest treasure, and how they will receive understanding and be kept from “the man who speaks perverse things” (Proverbs 2:12), which is a reference to the man of sin. We also see this established in II Thessalonians 2:8-10:

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that the aid the United States was giving to Israel was not aid, but the repayment of a debt. My reasoning for this is because a little known fact about the Revolutionary War is that George Washington’s Continental Army was chiefly financed by a Jewish man named Haim Solomon. Solomon did this because he foresaw that the United States would become a haven for the persecuted Jewish people. Solomon died destitute because he had expended his entire fortune for this purpose.