The Revolution Brigade

Righteousness is the most central issue of our day.  If you haven’t already noticed, most of the problems that our nation faces today are as a result of moral bankruptcy in the land.  The economy, the state of the church, and the political turmoil in the nation are all related to spiritual compromise.

In Nehemiah chapter 13, we see a dialogue about mixed marriages between the people of Judah (people of praise) and and the people of Ashdod (a Philistine city), Ammon, and Moab (all enemies of Judah).  Nehemiah, whose name means “comforter,” and who is a prophetic picture of the work of the Holy Spirit in the modern church, begins to address the situation:

²³In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab. ²⁴As for their children, half spoke in the language of Ashdod, and none of them was able to speak the language of Judah, but the language of his own people.

The result of an unsanctioned union between the church and the world will always be offspring who cannot speak the language of the Lord.  We wonder why our young people are so far gone, so morally bankrupt, so apathetic and disinterested, yet we fail to consider that they are the offspring of generations of compromise between the church and the world.

The church at large continues to sacrifice at the alter of Baal (the god of prosperity) even in this hour, when the world financial systems have been shaken.  Have we not yet considered that the failing financials of our nation have everything to do with a lack of purity and separation between the church and the world?  Are we not selling our children into slavery for the purpose of getting grain (See Nehemiah chapter 5)?

²⁵So I contended with them and cursed them and struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take of their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

We must bear in mind that the Holy Spirit will do violence in order to cause us to separate ourselves from the world.  He will not allow us to prostitute our geneology and remain untouched.  We are to be pure and holy before the Lord, and the Holy Spirit will jealously protect us from defiling ourselves by any means necessary, even if He must shake everything that can be shaken.

It’s not judgement!  It’s the principle of seed time and harvest. You can’t sew immorality, nominal committment, and moral compromise and reap prosperity, wholeness, signs, and wonders.  It simply doesn’t work that way.  We must learn to be ‘in’ the world without being ‘of’ it.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. (2 Corinthians 6:17)

We must be spiritually developed enough to discern the great harm that is done when the church becomes ‘married’ to the world.  We must repent and fall upon the mercy of the Lord.  This is the only course of action that will result in a restored nation. You might not be part of the cause, but you must be part of the solution! Perhaps this is why 2 Chronicles 7:14 ties the healing of the land with the willingness of the people to be broken and humbled before the Lord:

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)