Prophecy to a Nation (3)

This problem is worse with prophecies to a city or nation or state. These entities have a strong tendency to turn away from God, so they rarely need encouragement and mostly need warning and correction. Christians living within them need a clear trumpet sound, so they know what they should do.

If the trumpet makes an uncertain sound,
who will prepare for battle? (1 Cor 15:8).

To often, Christian’s who have learned their craft bring encouragement in personal prophecies try to step up and bring prophecies to their nation. If they do not understand the difference and make a transition to the different level of operation, they will oftenbring spiritual warm fuzzies when the nation really needs a clear trumpet call.

When I assess a prophecy to any nation, I expect to see at least a couple of the following questions being answered.

• What is going on in this nation?
• Has the season changed?
• What do the people of the nation or its leaders need to do to turn things around?
• What is God doing in the nation?
• What do the people of God need to do, to be a part of what the Lord is doing?

Some will be surprised that none of these questions refer to predictions about the future? The truth is that I would sooner know what God is doing now and what his people should be doing now, than what will happen in the future.

Knowing who will be the next President will not help us at all, if we do not understand what is happening in the nation that has caused God to give us that particular President.

Most prophecies for a nation that I read on the internet do not measure up. They just carry on the encouragement model that is typical of personal prophecy. This provides plenty of spiritual warm fuzzies, but a clear trumpet call is rare.

I probably sound like I am hard to please, but choosing to speak for God is a serious business. He is not honoured by spiritual mush.