Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj, November 2008
As I was praying, an angel of the Lord appeared to me. And the angel I recognized was the same angel I saw, I think in the year 2000… the chief prince angel of the United States of America. And he visited me that morning, and he told me Obama will be elected to office. I was shocked. I said, “That’s not what we want.” … Then he said, “Days of captivity are appointed for this nation, and he is the man who will carry it out.” … And I pleaded with the angel; I said, “Look, how can that be? What about all the prayers that are going on in this nation?” (Although largely the church doesn’t pray, there are pockets of people who sincerely take hold of God here and there and there.) He looked at me with, I don’t want to use the word amused look, but, the look on his face was like he didn’t believe what I was saying. He said, “You don’t know what is actually going on in the Christian tradition in this nation. They don’t actually pray, taking hold of God, but they are just playing church, playing praying. And he said, “This is the message I want you to bring to the church: days of captivity.”
… I fasted for three days. On the third day, as we were flying from New Jersey to Chicago, I was pleading and praying. In that moment I was caught in the spirit to a heavenly council. It was a long conference table. And on one end of the table I saw the patriarch Abraham, and just across him I saw Moses seated there. And I came and I sat there and I was praying and pleading on behalf of the US.
… I have been blessed by the mercies of God, to have seen these heavenly patriarchs and prophets many times in the last thirty years of my life, in the heavenly realm. And you know these patriarchs and prophets have such a spirit of humility and meekness, especially Moses, but on that day when I stood there before them, there was such a sternness on their face. Their humility, the meekness that I had known, which is the mark of their character, was not there. It was so stern. And I went on pleading and pleading and praying.
And there was a huge file before Abraham. Just like the files you all have, the office file…. And he didn’t show me what was in the file, he was just holding it, tapping it on the table. And he looked at me and he said, “No, your request cannot be granted. It has been decreed, and this is what will take place. And then he said something that’s going to come as a big shock.
I want to tell you something. Why did America vote for Obama? Two things, you know if you read USA Today. I read from cover to cover today to see why America voted for him. From the first page to the last page of the newspaper, when the journalist interviewed the people, they all said two things: one, they felt that voting for Obama will bring prosperity to the nation. The economy will turn around for good or better. Secondly, they are sick and tired of the war in Iraq, so they want the forces to be pulled out. These two can be summarized in one word, the magic mantra of Obama: change.
… My dear brothers and sisters, at this heavenly council (I have seen heavenly councils many times in the past, but that was the first time I sat with them like their equal. And I pleaded and prayed ardently till the last moment. I pleaded and pleaded for the United States of America.)
Abraham very sternly told me, “This nation will go into a recession. And they are thinking they are going to get prosperity. It’s not prosperity that will come; and then they will realize the man could not do magic. Instead of prosperity the nation will go into recession.”
And then I prayed , “What about all the Christians? What about the churches? What about the righteous people?” And this is the word of promise; he said, “We will take care of them.” The Christians will be taken care of. The churches that walk rightly and in the fear of God, they will be looked after. So all those saints of God who walk before God with a godly fear, you will be taken care of by God. Your bread, your water will be sure. It will not be shaken. Just like it says in the book of First Kings, when there was famine in all the land, God took care of Elijah and God took care of the widow of Zarephath. Even in the midst of famine, she did not withhold her giving, she gave liberally.
Now this is another mistake you don’t want to make. You don’t want to make a mistake by withholding your giving. If you withhold your giving, thinking that in the period of recession, you don’t want to lose your money, you are entering into unbelief. If you enter into unbelief, then the supernatural providence of God will not work for you. Remember the widow Zarephath. In the midst, she had nothing, just a little meal. Yet she was willing to give to a prophet of God. And you read in Genesis 26 that Isaac sowed in famine, while there was famine everywhere. The land had become hardened. There is no way you can sow in land that is so hard and breaking up. But he believed God, and he sowed in famine, and he reaped a harvest. So if you believe God, walk with God, God will take care of all your needs. Walk as if everything is normal. We don’t live by the economics of the world; we live by the economics of God. And the economics of God are mind-boggling.
… So the first message that was given to me is “days of captivity”. Now the second message is this: “days of persecution”. This is the second word the angel brought unto me.
Tell them these two things. The nation will go into captivity. The church will go into captivity, but it is for good. Out of the captivity the fire will separate the wheat from the tares. See, this is the ultimate goal that God has. See, in our limited understanding we are thinking we want a righteous man, a Christian man in office. A Christian man, of course, he will not persecute the church. He will not make a decision that will bring the church into captivity, but then the church will grow from lethargy to lethargy. She will grow from blindness to blindness. She will go on more holding up her wealth in a lustful manner. So how to purify the church? So God has to put someone in office who will make life difficult for us. And when life is made difficult for us, we will be forced to bend our knees and cry out to God….
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