Get ready for the battle

We are now officially entering into the next critical series of disruptions that will shape this nation’s future.  The combination of political unrest and economic turmoil that is coming in the next 12 to 36 months will be of the kind that is unprecedented in modern times.  There are only two other periods in this nation’s history that are comparable. Neither were times of peace.

There is a confluence of events occurring that, depending on the magnitude of each, will determine just how rocky our future path to liberty – or increased tyranny – will be.

They are:

1) Political turmoil. The Republican establishment has officially “lost it” over Christine O’Donnell’s victory in Delaware.  They tolerated Rand Paul and Sharon Angle.  But O’Donnell is too much for them.  So far the Republican establishment refuses to acknowledge the Tea Party (which is really only made up of true, old style conservatives and libertarians) as a constituency that they need to include in their “big tent.”  That is problematic enough.

However, if they join the Democrats in marginalizing the Tea Party patriots and demonizing them, they risk the wrath of the one group of Americans who are bent on restoring limited government and liberty once again to this nation – by any means necessary. While there is no talk of open revolt at this time within the mainstream Tea Party, it is being whispered in private by more people than they care to admit.  If these people do not find the Republican party willing to give them a voice, in 2012 they will form a third party.  If they are ruthlessly attacked in 2012 while simultaneously growing in membership by the month, then the whispers move to action.  We pray it does not move to that outcome, however right now it looks more likely by the week.

2) The economy. It is only a matter of time before the sovereign debt crisis envelopes the globe. This may happen in 6 months or 2 years, but come it will.  With an economy that is in deep depression, the Federal government will feel all the more emboldened to step in and control everything.  This just when the Tea Party is dedicated to get government out of everything other than what the Constitution delegates.  See the problem?  Bad economy, government growing more tyrannical (for the nation’s good of course), and increasing push back from freedom loving patriots.  We have a volatile mix.

3) Energy crisis.  Simultaneously we have a looming energy crisis.  China knows it.  Germany knows it (their military published a paper outlining concerns over a depleting global energy supply).  The United States may know it, but refuses to deal with it.  Make no mistake, wars will be fought over energy if it becomes either scarce (Peak Oil) or more expensive (geopolitical crisis – Israel/Iran war).

4) The next Great Awakening.  this is probably the most significant of all. The Christian community is waking up.  Slowly.  More slowly than I’d like to see, however, they are.  I have heard more messages of repentance, standing against tyranny, standing for God’s truth, and education of our Christian heritage, being preached in the last 6 months than at any time in my lifetime.  If there is another Great Awakening, we only need to look at history to see what followed.

As the light pushes into the darkness, the darkness does not give up easily.  Increasing persecution will accompany Christians who dare to speak against the pop culture and re-assert “no King but King Jesus.”  The result of such proclamations in the past was nothing short of war.  First the Revolutionary War, then the Southern States’ War for Independence (aka the Civil War). Along the way, Christians will make mistakes.  Burning the Koran is one in particular that may serve to move the conflicts we are dealing with now from a nation vs. nation conflict to a religious one.  Many would argue that the war on terror has always been a religious war.  I’ll refrain from my thoughts on the justification for this war and say that while that assertion may be true, it is more manageable if it is framed as a conflict among nations. It makes the conflict much less emotional than if it is openly declared a religious war. The latter would bring very unpredictable consequences.

Americans refusing to acknowledge this set of realities and prepare for some very difficult times will be caught in a vortex of exploding reality.  The current world view of most Americans, that being a U.S. dominated global community, is going to be shattered within three years, possibly much sooner.  In the wake of that explosion, God’s Word will be the only guide that will take us through the resulting turmoil.

I do hold out hope that, by God’s grace, we have the only government whereby we can transition from today’s paradigm to the new one without going through the worst case scenario.  However, I am also a realist. God’s judgment is overdue on this nation, and we may have to endure it in order to be purified from the horrendous national sin we have fallen into.

Give all you can to the effort to avoid the kind of conflict history shows us is around the corner.  At the same time, make your final preparations to go through it.  We have no guarantee, or even likelihood that it can be avoided.