The Soul of America
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the event that took place in Judges 19. If you haven’t read it yet, to do so would be worth your time. The Compromise of Judges 19.
I probably owe Ruth an apology. Had I kept to my regular reading pattern I would have read all of Ruth and would be well into 1 Samuel by now.
I’m not. The weightiness of Judges 19-21 has caused me to pause my reading plan. I began to press in, and listen to just what God is saying, at least to me.
Allow me to share it with you.
The nation Israel was outraged by the acts of the people of Benjamin at the city Gibeah. (Judges 19) When confronted with the evil, Benjamin was unrepentant. The Nation Israel prepared for war.
The horrific act in Gibeah demanded justice. Four hundred thousand fighting men of Israel prayed seeking council from God. They got the green light. Go up against your brother Benjamin.
Twenty-six thousand men of Benjamin plus seven hundred from Gibeah came out to do battle.
I call it the three-day war.
At the end of day one, Benjamin stood victorious having killed twenty-two thousand men of Israel.
Israel again went to God and asked if they should continue. Again, God gave them the green light.
At the end of day two, Israel had lost another eighteen thousand men.
As you can imagine, the people of Israel were wondering why God would send them into fight their brother Benjamin and allow Benjamin to win the battle. With prayer and fasting, they went to God a third time. Israel did all they knew to do. They offered sacrifices to God. Burnt offerings and peace offerings.
God told them to go into battle a third time. Judges 20 verse 29 tells us they had a plan. God’s plan for victory.
The third day would be different. With a plan hatched by God, Israel defeated Benjamin in three skirmishes. The biggest fight killed eighteen thousand; the second, five thousand; the third, two thousand. A total of twenty-five thousand men of Benjamin had fallen.
Stay with me. I am about to make a case.
It is notable that Benjamin went into the fight with twenty-six thousand seven hundred men. They lost ninety-seven percent of their army on day three.
I have wondered, thought about, and prayed about this war for days. I have read and re-read it countless times. What I have come to believe is the first thing that came to me when I read it last month.
I believe that God has a plan to restore justice and righteousness, not only in the United States, but the entire world. The world is God’s. He created it, it belongs to Him. The powers of darkness, Satan and his minions, have pretty much had their way for a very long time. It is about to change.
God has chosen Donald Trump to lead America back to righteousness. He is the man for such a time as this. It is not just my opinion. It is validated by the Cyrus anointing of Isaiah 45.
Just as Cyrus the Great, a pagan king was used to defeat Babylon, Trump has been chosen to defeat the spirit of Babylon that has ruled over America and the world for centuries.
Day one of the three-day war is prophetic as it relates to the election of 2020. Donald Trump lost the battle to evil in what the world now knows was a stolen election. The reasons are many, but it showed that wickedness, like that of Benjamin, prevailed on day one.
While God told Israel to fight. He did not tell them the victory was theirs.
There is little doubt that God’s choice in November of 2020 was Donald Trump. Evil was allowed to prevail in both battles. Day one of Judges 20, and the election of 2020. (I’m sure that the 20s are just a coincidence, right?)
Day two of Judges 20 can be seen as a foreshadow of the election of 2022. Like the events of Judges 20, the fight went to the wicked. Evil won the day. The losses for the people of God were great. We’ll get to why in a moment.
Day three of the Judges 20 record has yet to be played out in our era. The good news however, is that evil will be defeated. Judges 20 tells us the victory has been won.
Considering only America for a moment, I wonder what government, media, education, religion, and the other mountains of culture will look like when ninety seven percent of the corrupt and evil leaders, the warriors so to speak, are defeated.
It will take a while. The fight we’re in now won’t end in one day. But the end has been determined. Just as it was in Judges 20. God has a plan. He had one then, and He has one now.
We are at verse 34. ”…and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not know that disaster was upon them.”
In America, the cracks are beginning to show. There is light being shined into the darkness. Wickedness is being exposed. The fall is imminent.
I heard recently, one opinion regarding the “never Trumpers”. It was said that their hearts have been hardened. Even when they see the end, they will not want to believe it. I’m certain there were many in Babylon who refused to believe that a Persian king would conquer wicked Babylon and set free the captives taken from Jerusalem.
We’re left with the why. Why, in the first two days was Israel defeated so soundly? God had clearly told them to fight. They were ‘in’ the will of God.
I’m no bible scholar, but I have an opinion. I believe it was much like today. Israel lost because they had allowed wickedness to grow in their own family.
God, through His prophet Jeremiah said, ‘He delights in lovingkindness, judgement, and righteous in the earth’. God, before punishing Benjamin, had to judge Israel for the festering sin that culminated with the tragedy of Judges 19.
America has allowed a slow erosion of values. Evil has been allowed to creep into our culture for decades. We have drifted away from God into all manner of idol worship. The deaths due to abortion alone are near eighty million.
Once God had exacted justice for evil, He allowed His covenant nation Israel to prevail. I believe that The United States, also a covenant nation, is now in that judgement.
The resurrection of the soul of the nation comes on the third day. When the nations debt for spilled blood has been paid.
I would certainly like it to happen.