Hijacked!

And now that God has answered the prayers of the saints and torn down strongholds, bound demonic spirits, opened blind eyes for the November 5, 2024 election and given us Donald Trump instead of Kamala Harris as our next President, which is not who the American people deserve, because we are such a wicked nation of people—now that God has looked passed our faults with a heart full of grace and mercy and saw our needs, as well as the needs of the whole world by giving us Donald John Trump to be our next President for four years and a conservative majority in both the House and the Senate; now that God has given us a president that will not interfere with our efforts to conduct a powerful and effective nationwide revival, a man that will also work hard to reform our government, reform our public school system, and reform our judicial system, and the other essential institutions of America—I have a question for the Christian readers of this book, a question that is most essential for the church in America to reflect on and answer with all sincerity. And the question is this. How many more chances does America—how many more chances does the church in America believe that God is going to give America to fall in love with Jesus Christ and save America from destruction? So even though President Donald J. Trump may work very hard to reform the government, the school system, the judicial system, and other essential institutions of our society—the reformation won’t last very long if it is not accompanied by a genuine nationwide revival of the church and the spiritual renewal through faith in Jesus Christ of a most significant number of unbelieving American people. This is explored in great detail in my book Hijacked! How Dr. King’s Dream Became a Nightmare, volume 4, The Recovery. On pages 34–35 of Hijacked!, volume 4, The Recovery, I wrote the following: It is not enough to just initiate a nationwide revival. But it must be wholeheartedly sustained [through the effective discipleship of new and old converts alike] in order for the reformation of the government and other cultural and societal institutions to remain reformed or transformed so that America can recover from the hijack, and thus the nightmare can be replaced with the dream. If the revival is quashed shortly after it is initiated, the nation will revert back to a government and cultural and societal institutions that will quash our freedoms and our ability to remain spiritually renewed. And so, we would eventually lose what was gained spiritually and return to the nightmare or a wicked nation. R. C. Sproul, the theology professor at Knox Theological Seminary and author of numerous books, explained some of the dynamics between revival and reformation most clearly in his book The Spirit of Revival: Discovering the Wisdom of Jonathan Edwards. This is what he said: As the etymologies of the words suggest, revival describes a renewal of spiritual life, while reformation describes a renewal of the forms and structures of society and culture. It is not possible to have true reformation without first having true revival. The renewal of spiritual life under the power of the Holy Spirit is a necessary condition for reformation but not a sufficient condition for it [to be sustained]. Therefore, though it is not possible to have reformation without revival, it is possible to have revival without [also having] reformation. Why is that the case? There are at least two reasons. The first is that revival brings with it the conversion of souls to Christ, who are at the moment of conversion spiritual babes. Infants have little impact on the shaping of cultural institutions [which includes the government]. It is when vast numbers of converted people approach maturity in their faith and sanctification [or are effectively discipled] that the structures of the world are seriously challenged and changed. If vast numbers of people are converted but remain infantile in their spiritual growth, little impact is made by them on society as a whole [thus the need for revival, renewal, or spiritual growth to be wholeheartedly sustained until people mature in the faith or are effectively discipled]. Their faith tends to remain privatized and contained within the confines of the arena of mere religion[if converts are not effectively discipled]. The second reason concerns the scope and intensity of the revival. If the revival is limited in scope and intensity [doesn’t cut deep], its impact tends to be restricted to a small geographical area and also tends to be short-lived. R. C. Sproul states that “it is possible to have revival [or to initiate revival] without also [simultaneously] initiating reformation”—but such a revival won’t last long unless reformation is shortly thereafter achieved. And It is extremely difficult to sustain a genuine revival for any significant amount of time without reformation of the government and other institutions, which then makes it almost impossible for reformation to ever occur. The two must go hand in hand in order for both to be sustained for long periods of time. This means that the timing between the initiation of a revival and the initiation of the reformation of the government is critical. Moreover, this means that revival must include immediate follow-up and discipleship of new converts and immediate maturation of older converts that have been dragging their feet in the past and not making themselves available for spiritual growth. In other words, there is no time to lolly gag after the revival has been initiated or after a reformation has been initiated, because reformation and revival feed on each other. Thus, we see why King Jehoshaphat did not waste any time in immediately reforming his government after he led the Israelites in a nationwide revival. In 2 Chronicles, chapter 19, verse 4, King Jehoshaphat “brought them back to the LORD God of their fathers.” And then immediately afterward in verses 5–11, King Jehoshaphat conducted an extensive reformation of the government. Verses 5–6 says, “Then [after the nationwide revival was initiated] he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah. and said to the judges, “Take heed to what you are doing, for you do not judge for man but for the LORD who is with you in the judgment.”