I had a dream recently, a dream about what may well be the
War for America .
I believe we’ve been (or at least, I’ve been) thinking the
wrong way about the war that’s shaping up for America ’s future. We’ve been
thinking in terms of previous wars. I’m not sure we’ve been learning from the right previous wars, though.
I know that a lot of people are watching the changes coming
from the top down in America ,
and are thinking Germany went through when Hitler
came to power. And frankly, there are a lot of similarities, and this metaphor
is not completely wrong. But it may not be the main battle.
of the changes that
And I’m aware that there are a whole lot of people who are
thinking in the vocabulary of the American Revolutionary War, that a number of
people are thinking about a Second American Revolution. Frankly, there are a
number of similarities here, too, and this metaphor, also, is not completely
misplaced. But this, too, may not be the main battle.
If my dream last night means anything meaningful, the
primary metaphor may be more along the line of the Arab Spring civil uprisings
from 2010/2011. I suspect that this may be the model that a number of
government agencies most fear, and it may be the model that a number of
principalities may be most specifically targeting. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_spring)
This may be the war that American intercessors most need to
pray against.
The other part of the dream addressed more of the strategies
that the enemy (I’m speaking in terms of Ephesians 6:12) may be using in
preparation for an American Arab Spring revolution.
I saw minor battle after minor battle, skirmishes, in which
the enemy would attack smaller groups: occasionally geographic groups,
neighborhoods, cities. More commonly, the attacks came against social groups:
groups of friends, social sub-cultures, workplace communities. And
occasionally, these would be national in scope (eg. “The Gay Community”), but
more often the demonic attacks were much more localized in their scope (eg. “a
group of friends, many of whom are gay-friendly, who work in retail sales in
this county” or “Conservative Christians in this online community”).
The nature of the battles was interesting as well: the enemy
would come among their target people group an sow strife, dissention,
bitterness, accusations. And of course, the targeted people would respond, and
generally they fought back: fighting against the works that the enemy was doing
among them.
And very often, more often than I expected, the enemy would
be overcome, defeated, and would withdraw. But when he withdrew, it was always
with a knowing smirk, and I realized that his goal was not to win the battle.
His goal was to leave something behind among the people that he’d targeted.
There was nearly always less unity among the group the enemy
attacked, after the attack was over, and he had withdrawn. But more toward his
goals, there were spirits left behind, minor strongholds among the people,
unseen, like a fifth column (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column),
awaiting later, more significant battles.
In the dream, Fear was the most common stronghold that the
enemy was using against people, and he was sowing minor, even tiny, strongholds
of fear all over the country, in individuals, in small social communities, in
any people group he could influence. And while he waited for some sort of
greater conflict – and he almost didn’t care if it was a Second Revolutionary
War, or an American Arab Spring, or if some egomaniacal leader tried to follow
the model of Hitler and conquer the world – his minions of fear worked among
the people, and that was his real tactical objective.
Fear would manifest as suspicion of others, as dissention
from others. Fear would open people’s ears to his lies, and close their minds
to the truth. Fear made people hate and distrust and separate themselves from
other people.
I invite the prophetic community to judge this as a
prophetic word: do you hear something of God in this? I’m not so concerned
about every little detail as I am about the big picture: that the enemy is
sowing fear among people, specifically among the American people, at a
prodigious rate, often “below the radar,” out of the public eye: this is a
primary strategy.
And I invite the intercession community to take this before
the Lord, and ask Him how to respond: how shall we pray against these kinds of
things? More importantly, what, specifically, shall we pray for?
