I don't claim to know what is coming. I do know that increasingly I hear God speaking of judgement. Some I respect as devoted servants of God have even said the time is past for us to pray for America. That may indeed be God's word to us right now: it wouldn't be contrary to what I'm hearing.
For the Church what I hear most strongly is "dividing." We have followed deceivers for nearly a generation, and their false teachings have led many brothers and sisters away. The time seems near when those who will hear Jesus' voice, who will set their hearts on following Him, may find themselves being separated from those following such false gospels as "Americanism," "conservatism," and "patriotism."
Called to follow Jesus, it's not a time for us to congratulate ourselves on our prescience, or superior spirituality, or good fortune. Those who separate to follow other gospels may yet repent: God does not desire than any of them should perish.
Our place in God's purposes has not changed, but our fervency must. Let us be more humble, and more grateful for His mercy to us. Let us more fiercely seek His rule in our life and the life of the Church. Let us cry more loudly to those deceived by the god of this world, "Repent, and follow Jesus Christ !!"
