Last week we noted that Chuck Pierce was hailing the midterm elections as the nation was finally turning back toward God.

But it seems that Rick Joyner of The Oak Initiative is not quite as confident because, as encouraging as the elections results may have been, God recently spoke to him in a dream to reveal that the foundations of the nation are being destroyed and that only the preachers of America can save the nation from going up in flames and finding itself in “terrible bondage and darkness” forever:

On November 2 the people of the United States spoke very loudly and very clearly—refuting the Obama agenda. There is reason to hope again and to expect the kind of changes that most Americans do believe in—freedom, smaller, less intrusive government, lower taxes, and sound management of the people’s trust and resources. It was a very encouraging victory, but by no means the end of the fight—it is the beginning. Too many times Christians have seen their candidates take office, and have gone back to sleep while the slide into the moral and economic mire we are now in continued. We are too close to the precipice to let this happen again.

In Scripture and history some of the worst defeats came right after great victories. Just as Joshua took the seemingly impregnable fortress of Jericho but was then defeated by the much smaller Ai, the size of the enemy may not matter as much as the integrity of our own army. America is vulnerable right now. The movement to take back America and restore her moral and constitutional roots is also vulnerable right now.

As I wrote several years ago every future election, including mid-terms, would be more crucial than the previous one. This has proven true to date, and it will be true in the future. Even so, the biggest threats to our future will not be overcome by Washington regardless of who is in office. I had a dream recently that highlighted this.

On October 22, 2010 I dreamed I was walking through a log cabin that was the United States. Every room was a different part of the country. Small fires started breaking out in every room, which were easy to stomp out. As I started to walk to the door another fire ignited that I went over to put out. I saw that it had burned through the subfloor so I looked through it to see if I could determine what was causing these fires. The entire foundation of the house was covered in hot burning coals. I knew the house was about to go up into flames so I started to turn aside to grab my laptop. When I started to turn I heard the voice of the Lord say, “You don’t have time for that. Get your wife, and the fire hose.” The dream ended.

INTERPRETATION: Our national problems are much worse than we realize, the whole foundation of our nation is being consumed by a fire that is much bigger than we can now see. It is this bigger fire burning the foundation that is causing the little ones to break out continually. We look for and put out the source of these little fires now breaking out. My wife represents the church, and she alone has what can put out this fire—the truth, which is represented by the water from the fire hose.

APPLICATION: It was the pulpits of America that woke up America so that she could throw off the tyranny being imposed on her to become a free and independent nation. It is going to take the same kind of courage, boldness, and willingness to sacrifice to save our nation that it took to found it. It is going to take the preachers of America, the prophetic voices that are here for such a time as this—to again arise and stand for the truth, and to encourage all who have been entrusted with the truth to arise and stand for it without compromise. The battle for our future is far from over—it has just begun. The fire that is threatening to destroy our house is attacking the whole foundation and it is yet unseen by most. We have to wake up to this immediately and pour the truth out like never before or our country will very quickly go up in flames.

2011 is going to be one of the most trying years in our history. We are not fighting an enemy that can be defeated by elections, and there are times coming when it will look like a victory just to have an election in 2012. If the church awakens to her purpose by the end of 2012 we can be back on the course to a future brighter than any time in our history. If the church does not arise, and become the prophetic voice she is called to be, America will go into a terrible bondage and darkness.