Anyone who feels the urge can be a prophet.
There is a certain sense anyone with moral intelligence is a prophet. If your goal is moral intelligence, you can’t avoid prophesying. It’s hard to keep it inside unless you utterly fail to discover the moral necessity of caring for others. In a challenge to our Western mythology, I offer biblical symbols: men are shepherds and women are mothers, particularly as prophets. Neither will stand by and watch their charges be trampled by evil, unless those charges have adamantly chosen evil. Then we stand waiting to take them back when they come running, torn by evil. We always bear the means to heal, even as we are torn by sorrows ourselves.
That’s what it feels like when you develop a divine moral intelligence. You recognize the limits of your calling and bear the awful duty to stand by and watch people destroy their own world. That’s because, at the same time, we recognize this world means mostly nothing more than an opportunity to expose that moral fabric of the universe. We see it all around us; we see all things in terms of that divine moral imperative.
Today I see a crushing weight of sorrow coming upon the US, though surely others will suffer with us. It will be our fault at least as much as theirs, for our government has placed her hands on so very many whom God did not give her to rule, and in areas of life she was never supposed to rule. You would be deeply mistaken to think the Devil will win. That’s not the reason God allows Satan room to operate. God is there; He has not been silent and He is hardly inactive. However, His work is hardly what most people expect. That’s because most people reject His revelation. So God does what He does, and those who choose to see will recognize His hand.
What’s coming is not what most people expect. The forces of oppression are hardly united, but they are ferociously active. Their ravenous appetites have been set loose from all restraints. Moral restraint must be conscious to work; rip through that fabric and in due time it will return to strangle you. But it works far more slowly than most people can grasp. It’s been a long time coming. Antichrist is a spirit of destruction, not a single person in history. He comes again and again, only to pass for a time until some society calls him back.
We have in very real terms a large collection of plutocrats. Each wants their own thing. Many of them presume they can work together, but when you push too far beyond the moral boundaries, you lose all sense of proportion. That is, the genius becomes stupid — that’s how it works. As their lust rises, their craft and intelligence withers. That’s Satan’s real job and his demons are not idle. Their competence will decline rapidly and they’ll get far more than they can handle. The evil they pour out on others will overwhelm them because they lose their ability to measure things. Choosing immorality takes you farther and farther from reality. There comes a critical point where you can’t even see what’s plain before your eyes. You are so sure you have won, you cannot see the complete failure.
What we see coming, even in the next few months, will manifest this moral truth. Stand by and watch. Sharpen your own moral understanding so you can appreciate what’s coming. You’ll see with your own eyes. Yes, it will hurt us in our own flesh. That’s the reality of living in this fallen realm. Moral wisdom will mitigate things only so God can show who is His. He decides what it takes to glorify His own name. Our calling is to see with His eyes what He is doing. We will not leave as with the Exodus, but we are to exodus in place, removing our loyalty to a domain above. If our hearts belong to Heaven, we know the flesh is of little importance. This life is a temporary resource for a short-term mission of His glory, then is cast aside as a tool worn and broken.
When you see that, you are on the path to truth and will be in a position to speak that truth.
