This past Spring, Joel Rosenberg and I taught through the book of Joel as we led a prophecy seminar at The Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove. It was my privilege to give the first two messages that covered Joel 1:1 through Joel 2:17.
The impact on me was profound. Both times, when I stepped off of the platform, I knew God had spoken. The messages almost made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Why?
Because God was clearly warning that His judgment is coming on America and it's going to be ugly. I knew it then, and I know it now.
I believe Jesus is soon to return to take all of His followers to heaven with Him in the Rapture. While this will be deliverance for you and me, can you imagine the impact on our nation, let alone the world, when suddenly every single authentic Christian disappears?
Institutions will collapse. Banks will close. The Stock Market will plunge. Planes will fall out of the sky. Cars will crash on the road. Government in America at every level will disintegrate. Families will be torn apart. In the unprecedented turmoil, our nation will be vulnerable for our enemies to seize the moment and attack us. There will be mass chaos, confusion, fear, grief, despair, anger, threats, danger ... judgment.
Just as God allowed the Israelites, His people, to go through three of the 10 plagues He sent in judgment on Pharaoh and Egypt in Exodus 6-8, God may allow His people today to go through a time of distress and trouble before the rapture takes place. I believe we are in that time now. I believe it's time to not just pray. It's time to cry out to God on behalf of our nation and our world.
MAYDAY! MAYDAY! is an international distress call that signals a life-threatening emergency. And it's the call to cry out that I am issuing May 15-May 23. These are the nine days between the Day of the Ascension of Jesus and the Day of Pentecost that have biblically and traditionally been days of prayer and fasting for an outpouring of God's Spirit.
The purpose of MAYDAY! MAYDAY!:• To claim God our Father's promise of an outpouring of His Spirit in these days following extraordinary signs in the sky ... I will pour out my Spirit in those days ... The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord (Joel 2:29, 31).
• To implore God the Holy Spirit to compel the church to repent of sin and our nation to return to faith in the living God, that times of refreshing may come (Acts 3:19).
• To entreat God our Savior for an abundant harvest of souls for His kingdom in the remaining days. Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest (John 4:35).
• To delay or soften God's judgment that is coming on America and on our world. Who knows? He may turn and have pity and leave behind a blessing (Joel 2:13-14.).
• To implore God the Holy Spirit to compel the church to repent of sin and our nation to return to faith in the living God, that times of refreshing may come (Acts 3:19).
• To entreat God our Savior for an abundant harvest of souls for His kingdom in the remaining days. Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest (John 4:35).
• To delay or soften God's judgment that is coming on America and on our world. Who knows? He may turn and have pity and leave behind a blessing (Joel 2:13-14.).
One month after MAYDAY! MAYDAY! the Supreme Court will make a landmark decision on marriage. And four months after MAYDAY! MAYDAY! Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish Feast of Trumpets, will take place on Sept. 13-15. Soon after Rosh Hashanah, the fourth blood moon will occur on Sept. 28.
I believe God is signaling us to get our attention. The time is critical, and the time is now ... to pray!
Anne Graham Lotz is an author and founder of AnGel Ministries.
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