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Revolutionize Your Faith: The End Times
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3 years agoon
Episode Transcript
Lance: My friends, you’re living in the most exciting chapter of Bible history. Most Christians are anxious and nervous about the future. The truth is, God has privileged you to be alive at the time when the greatest events the Bible prophesies are all taking place and you’re called to have victory in this hour. You’re called to become a model of the supernatural kingdom of God. End time anxiety will leave in this program. I’m Lance Wallnau and welcome to the Lance WallnauShow.
Welcome to the Lance Wallnau Show. This is the very first in an experimental series of programs that I’m doing on Daystar and we’ll be able to show these probably on some of our other social media platforms. But the real thing that I’m trying to do tonight is to inspire you with the idea that you’re capable of doing a whole lot more than just watching the end times unfold. In fact, I think that there’s been a major deception that’s happened to the church which has this kind of nervously and anxiously watching things thinking that the only recourse we have is to kind of pray prayers and then watch things happen. Quite the contrary when you read the Bible the main actor in all of these events is the church. Jesus said, what was that verse? And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached throughout all the world and then the end shall come. What does that mean? That means that the initiative of end time events isn’t with the antichrist. It isn’t with George Sorrows. It isn’t with the one party or other party, the Uni party, Democratic Party, or Davos, it’s with the church.
I think we’re going to have to go through a cosmic upgrade, frankly, to get to the place where we’re actually the people that God wants to bring, shall we say, to heaven as a glorified bride. An overcoming church, overcoming what? Well, first of all, we’ve just been conditioned. We’ve been paralyzed by this belief that the church, this is some kind of a cosmic isolation over here and that’s why I do this the 7 Mountain things so much a friend of mine Floyd Brown said recently just about the time you get tired of talking about something that’s when it starts to sink in. I’m telling you I feel that way right now I’ve been talking for like over two decades like 20 years about 7 Mountains, 7 Mountains and there’s still people have never heard it but right about now people are starting to get what it is. I think what I’ll do is I’ll go over here to my flip chart and do it one more time but this time I want you to think about it this way.
Where are you on the map that I’m about to show you? Because your job is to go take territory. Your job is actually to acquire real estate. Going into all the world with the gospel means you should be having an impact on the world around you. Not waiting for them to come to you. You actually have to go to them. I remember a missionary from Thailand once was visiting me when I was pastoring a church and it was before 9/11. And he said something. He said, the call of the kingdom is to go into all the world. He said, I got a feeling about America. That if you don’t start to in as an end time church more aggressively into the world that the world’s going to start coming to you. And after that boom we had 9/11. Well, they came to us at the Twin Towers then we suddenly we’re over there in the Middle East. Now we have Mexico as an open border and what’s really strange is we’re finding not Mexicans and Central Americans and Guatemalans coming in, we’re finding that Africa Asia and China unusually enough, has a whole lot of people coming over our borders.
It’s like the world is invading us because I do think we’re reactionary. We’re more preoccupied with how to protect ourself than we are with going on the offensive and here’s the problem.Preachers for the most part are not trying to mobilize a militant end time church they’re trying to,let me put it this way. They’re trying to protect their church from the dangers of what’s out there and I guess that’s a good shepherd’s instinct. But Jesus said, he was going to build a church that would go up against the gates of hell and the gates of hell would not prevail against it. Now, that means the church once again is on the initiative going out, not holding on, not praying nervously, not wondering what Trump is doing in Mar a Lago, but actually going out and changing things.And I think God is a little bit jealous by the way that we look to political people for solutions that only heaven can bring.
Half the criticism that I hear from Christians, about political candidates is the candidate isn’t like Christian enough. Not their job to be Christian. I’m going to tell you something very profound that happened. First meeting with Trump at Trump Towers. All the Christians there were trying to get him to basically do something to deal with sin in America. Whether it was homosexuality or whether it’s abortion or whether it was something else, and he basically said, hold it, hold it, hold it. You don’t get it. That’s not my job. That’s your job. Even he understood it. He said, and if you don’t mind me saying so, the way that you guys are talked about, the way that you guys are treated, the way that you guys are trotting underfoot of men, you have become weak. You aren’t strong in culture. You’re weak and reactionary and he said that it was like a slap upside the head. The whole room of preachers went silent.
I kid you not. At that moment, I said, this is like more like a Churchill or a patent than it is a statement. It’s exactly what he is but even having said that, it’s God raising up people like that that we should be looking for and not the person themselves because if you look at the person, they’re always going to disappoint you. I refuse to become the spokesperson for everything that Trump or someone else says that doesn’t add up to the Bible because it’s not their job to change America in terms of moral reformation. It’s the job. So, quit being the sideline Sanhedrin critic of everybody in in the public square and show up yourself. Show me how to do it. Every now and then, I’m reading some writing from somebody that’ll say, well, I don’t think the way that you tweet back to people. I had one actually complain. I have a gift for finding negative comments on me. I don’t know why it is. I kind of gloss over the positive was I fixate some kind of strange you know, neuron I’ve got. I go find the negative and it’s one preacher is watching. I’m exchanging with a troll.
Now, every now and then, I don’t delete a troll. I engage him and every now and once in a long while, I engage him to find out where they’re at, because I don’t have these people in my natural world around me but they come up out of nowhere in the cyberspace. I’m talking to this one guy and I’m realizing something? He’s actually now engaged in a conversation. He has a caricature of what a Christian is and so he’s been sold the caricature that’s been presented to him by articles in the Rolling Stone or The Daily Beast or some other ghastly sorrows funded left-wing rag that is out of touch with what’s actually happening with the conservative movement. And as I’m talking to him, I’m having, I’m trying different tactics and I get criticized by the Christian preachers watching what I say. I don’t think it was very Christian of you. I don’t think it was very charitable of you. Not even realizing. I’m experimenting with everything I could do to try to figure out how to flip this guy into maybe changing the way he’s interacting with me.
Now, how does that apply of this conversation here. We have to go into the system. We have to come out of where we are and go in to the territory. We can’t expect that they’re going to change simply because of our intercession or our prayer. Here’s another one. I’m happy for Asbury. I’m happy for Azusa Street. I’m happy for revival. I’m happy for every manifestation but revival is for the church. That doesn’t change the world. We keep on go God‘s center revival like a revival’s going to fall on people out of the church. Revival is for the church. What happens when the church gets revived is it’s supposed to engage. It’s supposed to go out and engage and here again, it’s like this is, the reason why I’m passionate about this. Is that this is not how we were taught to think. This is not where most of us are coming from. This is not the burden of most preachers in the pulpit to mobilize.
I remember I was talking to one big church up in New York and I was talking about how the businessmen need to go and get involved with taking the business mountain. I’m going to go to the board in a second and show you what I’m talking about. I said, they got to get involved with going out there and taking that ground and I said your educators and your teachers and your people are involved with the organizations. They need to be moving more and mobilizing other Christians to be a firewall against what’s coming into the school systems. They need to be talking more intentionally with local political leadership that reflects you. You got a MAGA church. You can affect this part of Long Island. But the answer I got was kind of interesting and it’s revealing.Because like I said, I’ve been doing the same message for 20 years. I was told, Lance the average Christian doesn’t go to church. When we get them in church, they come two out of four Sundays.They aren’t every weekend people; they’re coming 50% of the time. Why in the world when they’re here would I focus them out there when I’m trying to get them from out there to get here?I don’t want to focus them out in their call when business or arts or entertainment or media or government or politics or local. I’m trying to get them engaged to come to the house of God to get fed. Lastly, I want to do is give them an ambition to go take off and further disengage from the church. Do you hear what they’re saying?
This is I’m telling you now, this is the mentality of a whole lot of preachers. The concern is that they’re going to lose people by focusing their energy outside but what did we lose as a result of not focusing our energy? We lost the nation. In the same period of time that we had our Toronto and our Brownsville’s and our charismatic movements and outpourings on our Bible colleges that have been exploding and growth. We’ve lost the very states in the areas around where these places are located. You go to Toronto after the Toronto visitation and John Arnold will be the first one to tell you that. I mean, he’s honest about it. There’s no cultural change in Toronto except for the restaurant industry and the hotel industry that was hosting a lot of conference traffic. There’s no real local change. In fact, you might even found that I found this out when there was a Lakeland revival period going on. The local people in Lakeland were anxious for the revival to end because they felt it was a disruption. I’ll tell you the truth. Probably the people in Asbury in the community are relieved to see they don’t have ten thousand, 15,000 peoplemarching up and down their streets.
So, how do you actually engage a movement that is a visitation from God that goes out and I would suggest to you, it starts with a different mentality. If we don’t go, then the enemy will come but if you out and if you go on the offense, if you actually go into the system, then you become of a resistance against the enemy. In fact, according to Jesus, “I will build my Ecclesia and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. I’ll build my church. The church will actually become a fortified force in the earth and it will go up against the enemies”.
Let’s take a look at how this looks. We’re going to go over to the board. On my what’s coming next chart. Let’s see what this looks like. To begin with, we’ve got you over here trying to figure out how do you engage the world around you. As an end-time Christian, you’ve got just a couple of choices to how you’re going to get by doing this. One of those choices is you could be hoping that you’re just going to go up in a rapture and you have no idea how many believers, their number one strategy for taking ground is leaving it. I got news for you. The way that you take ground and win a war isn’t by evacuating, it’s by occupying. We’ve got others and they see this is going to be, well, I’m going to pray. That’s primarily what I’m going to do and the problem there is that the faith without works is dead and prayer without corresponding action is dead.
Now, think about this. If I pray for God to give me a job but I never go for a job interview. If I pray for God to send the money but I never show up at work. If I pray for God to give me a healing ministry but I never pray for the sick, the disconnect is prayer isn’t a substitute for the action. Prayer is what opens up and energizes the opportunity for the action. Does that make sense? So, your prayer actually is going to call you to go and do something. Go do something. Alright, so then I’ve got the rapture idea here. I’m going to exit. I’ve got the prayer idea which is I got to I’m going to pray and then maybe it’ll change the situation and then we have our revival focus. And this is the other third, the third rail of what many Christians are talking about. Pray for revival. Pray for an awakening. Pray for revival. Pray for an awakening and here’s the error there. If I look at this thing effectively like this, and this is the United States of America here. Puta flag there, the church has a visitation over here.
Let me change my colors. The church has a holy spirit download here, boom, there’s revival. But if the church just focuses on itself and it doesn’t actually go into the dysfunctional education system, the education system is raising up an army against you. You could argue and say that Charlie Kirk is absolutely right. hen a young guy like that says, what’s happening on the campus right now is going to end up happening on the streets within another 5 to 10 years, because they’re being educated to do something. So, you got your education over here. Are we going in and changing that? Are we actually involved with government? I’m going to give you an example of my frustration with government. Like anyone else, I’m going to be involved with the whole of the presidential battle that’s going to come up. Who’s going to be president competing visions, competing dreams?
But here’s the reality. I’m focused actually on election integrity. I’m one of those people that believes that in Fulton County, Georgia, in Maricopa, County Arizona, my own hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, did you ever watch that this is a special 2000 Mules? My gosh, he pointed out there’s like 1000 of them. We’re in the Philadelphia area itself has there been any investigation of that, has the Republican Party even RNC with its $80 million, $100 million dollar budget even gotten involved with any of those three counties and I didn’t even mention Madison Wisconsin. How is it that I know the names of these counties and I’m coming out as a bible guy and I know the of the counties, because I kept digging and digging and digging and saying, why is it that we have the challenge that we have? Because we’ll never going to be able to see a change in government at a national level unless you deal with certain strongholds that are operating in local areas, local levels. Does that make sense?
So, how’s the church going to affect that nationally? Once again, you could pray about it. You could be looking forward to the rapture. You could be focusing on revival and praying for soul to get saved. But if they’re all hiding out with you over here, this area here is going to get taken over. Education gets taken over; government gets taken over. And what do you think is going on with media on these here days? Do you think it’s becoming more objective? I’m looking at two or three news items right now that if it had been somebody else covered in the news right now, you would see every if it was for instance back to Trump. If Trump was involved with some kind of financial issues involving foreign governments and Donnie brokering deals that benefited the family business. Oh my, it would have been every station 24/7 covering the conflict of interest.They tried to say that Trump had a conflict of interest with his own businesses, but they couldn’t find it because he turned it all over to Eric and separated himself.
But my gosh, you got the news right now, nobody in the major media’s covering it. Why? Media won’t go there. And media won’t go there and now I’ve got my new area over here which is science and technology. What’s happening with science and technology? I won’t even discuss that except to say you don’t want to see another pandemic down the street. Because what we found out is that science and technology and government love to link up in order to increase the power of surveillance, control, and monitoring of your liberty. Because when people are in fear,they give up their control to the power of government. And finally, business which is become a woke enterprise. By the way, banking is part of the business system. Do you think that there’s some connection between the collapse of like Silicon Valley Bank and maybe 100 other banks in United States and the way that the banking industry is designed? And perhaps big business and banking is something which once again the church, the believers need to get involved.
Let me ask you a question. do you think there are any Christians that have the ability to teach and to do education? Of course. Do you think we have people that can run in government and be better legislators or a better voice or an advocate or even in the court systems? Of course, do you think we have competent journalists and people that can cover the truth and speak the truth? I love talking about being ideologues like you know you got your Fox News perspective in CNN how about neutral and just interested in truth? Of course. Do you think we have people that can protect us from pharmacies gone wild and hold the companies responsible for testing their solutions or their vaccines out and revealing the data and being accountable for what they do? Of course, we’ve got the ability. Do you think we can have Christians that can get involved with business and banking and not just endorse a woke enterprise or world that actually ends up destroy competitiveness globally?
My point is this, America’s going down not because the devil’s gotten stronger but the church is isolated itself. Church over here, family over here, we pretty much circle the wagons in this world over here. Nothing wrong with Christian schools or Christian isolation in terms of like protecting our families and our kids but when we don’t go into these other areas, we leave them wide open to the devil. Does that make sense? A lot of people are hearing this for the first time. That’s why I’m tired of my own message but I’m realizing well a lot of people never heard it. So,when you talk about “Go ye into all the world”, it’s a little bit more than just going trying to die bombed into like Mozambique or Nigeria or which by the way some of those places like Nigeria.
The Christian churches there are doing a heroic job facing off with Muslim extremists that are killing them. They’re being murdered. We’re not even discussing that. But the fact of the matter is the church is boldly in these nations doing what it’s got to do for survival. But where are we supposed to go in America? Where you can have religious liberty? Well, what you have to do is you’re going to have to go into education. But where do you go? Where do you think the gates of hell are located? This is where our teaching and our theory of the case is different than a lot of other places. We say that the gates of hell are at the top of these mountains. That when we’re dealing with the government, federal government, the Department of the DOJ. So, if you got a department Justice or if you’ve got the NCS, if you got the National Security apparatus, you got the FBI. When they become weaponized against you, you’re in big trouble. History tells you that. Once again, where’s the church go? The church has to aim for the forehead of the giant. We’ve got to go for where the enemy is actually located at the top of these areas.
Now, is that so far field from what Jesus has planned for the church? What was God telling Abraham in the Old Covenant it. He said, “You will be the head and not the tail above and not beneath”. When God had his way in Israel, what did he show us about how it can work? We already have an Old Testament model. We have David’s kingdom expanded. Solomon’s empire occupied and you see the wisdom of Solomon, you see the acquisition of the territory that David had and then you see the laws and covenants creating a prosperous nation. Up until Solomon compromised His integrity with God and lost what God gave him. The point is this, the Bible shows us that God has a way of prospering a nation. He has a way of building and blessing a nation and it’s through the acquisition of wisdom and that wisdom will work as long as you have a fear of God. What do you think made the United States such a great country? For the years in which post World War II, there was no nation like us. Because our military capacity had been exploded as a result of World War II. Forcing us into the bomber industry and into building the tanks and the jeeps. We literally retrofitted our entire Detroit capacity for automobiles and we provided like a 5–1 greater capacity of manufacturing and productivity than any other nation.After World War II Russia was bombed out and hollowed out. Germany was hollowed out. Great Britain was bankrupt. France was decimated. Japan had to be rebuilt and the United States through the Marshall Plan had the industrial and military and economic power to recreate the world and since World War II 1945 1950 till today. We’ve been what we call a superpower. We could project our military and our economic capacity all over the world.
But what didn’t we do? We didn’t go into all the world with the gospel and occupy these territories. We didn’t go there We went with missionaries. We planted churches. We went there with missionaries basically and planted outreaches. We didn’t actually teach them to go in either. They replicated what America does. You know what we lost? We had the whole world impacted by globalism. America’s concept of free enterprise, democracy, freedom of speech. It was trending. 70 nations since 1948 became democracies along with South Korea and Singapore and Israel becoming a nation. All of these nations came to fruition in the era of the United States and now we’re watching the end of the Gentile era and that great the pinnacle of Gentile Success the United States of America. We’re watching it set in the sun. And what do we found that the wisdom of God can help you build a nation but if you don’t occupy what God gives you if you don’t retain the fear of the Lord, you can lose what you got and now, we’re watching a world order that is in that adjustment cycle.
So, where do you fit in? Where are you going to go? I’m going to propose to you that there is an alternative to all of this and that there’s a fourth area and the fourth area I’m going to say is you go ye into all the world. We actually go forth into the system and you go in there realizing that you may not be able to change an entire mountain. You may not be able to change Wall Street,but you can certainly change your street. You may not be able to change the White House, but you could change what’s going on in the local government in your own house. You can go in your own backyard. You have territorial authority and this is what we wrote about 2 years ago.Which is that we’re entering the period that beautiful interesting period when Nehemiah, Ezra, the outpouring of Tabernacles, the power of the Holy Spirit is going to actually occupy territory.And in the midst of the breaking down and shaking down, God‘s going to be raising up a unique expression of the church because you are going to be on exhibition. You’re going to be forced into this whether you like it or not.
That’s why I’m kind of like giving you the warning buzzer. Right here, I’m telling you, God is preparing you to be stronger than you’ve ever been, more confident than you’ve ever been because of the grace of God that is working with you and you’re going to see territory taken that you’ve never seen taken before but watch the local territory. There’s a great verse that says that “God is going to cause you to occupy the sphere that he has assigned you to”. You can go to the Corinthians chapter 10 verse 13. “Don’t go beyond the sphere”. You don’t have to aim for something bigger than you’re called to, but you’re called to take the mountain God gave you. You’re called to occupy the territory as for you and I have absolute confidence that that’s the nature of the move of God‘s coming now. We’re seeing thousands of people come to Christ and thousands rise up in local territories to become the ecclesia of God.
Alright, we’re going to come back next week and cover part two, but what I want you to catch is break controlling spirits. Any mindset that has you on retreat, backing up, worried, anxious, looking at the news cycle, break it. Break that and the way that you break the controlling spirits is you want to get a hold of this series and combine it with this one. It’s my most popular spiritual warfare series on Leviathan. Leviathan’s a strange subject. It’s a spirit that actually goes to work to twist communication. You know what you’re going to discover? That as God is working with you to break the power of in an intimidation and misinformation off your life. As you begin to move in what God calls you to, you’re going to have your relationships tested. It’s like the devil will come and try to divide the most strategic relationships will be in warfare. By the way,husbands and wives this is important, families important. And the way that you do that is you go to “Lancewallnau.com/Breakout” and your gift or love offering of $39 or more will get you both of these products. You can also call the number that is on your screen.
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