HOW I KNOW THAT GOD IS NOT FINISHED WITH AMERICA

A Surprising Encounter with the Holy Spirit Changed Everything

By 2010 I had come to the place where I thought God was finished with America. I had given up hope that America would ever see another great national spiritual awakening such as I had written about in my book, 2000 Years of Charismatic Christianity. The revivals of the 1990s, it seemed, had turned inward, becoming self-serving, and were powerless to stem the cultural and moral decline of the nation.

Although I believed there could still be individual and local revivals, I had reluctantly succumbed to the popular eschatological idea that there would not be another great revival and that America’s time in the sun was over and done. But then, I was surprised by the Holy Spirit.

Surprised by the Holy Spirit

Without any expectation of such a thing happening, in September of 2010 I experienced a seven-hour visitation of God that completely upended my thinking in this regard. It began on a hot summer day in Tulsa, OK when I began a two-hour drive to Kingfisher, OK where I would be preaching the following day in a Sunday morning service.

Without any warning or anticipation of such a thing happening, the Holy Spirit seemed to fill my car and I suddenly felt enveloped in God’s presence. At the same time my mind and heart began to be flooded with thoughts of hope and faith that America “could” see another great, national spiritual awakening that would impact the culture and alter the course of the nation.

As I drove along the highway, I was hardly aware of my surroundings. By the time I arrived at my hotel, my heart was so full I could hardly contain myself. I could hardly wait to open my  PC and began writing down the thoughts that continued to flood my mind. That experience lasted far into the night as I sat on the hotel bed and prayed and praised God and wrote.

The Fruit of That Experience

This was a defining moment and changed the course of my life and led to the writing and publication of several books that document how the First Great Awakening had a direct bearing on the founding of America and the ending of slavery. The first book was America's Revival Heritage and then came Pilgrims and Patriots.

In 2019, I sensed the Holy Spirit stirring my heart to write a book about how it was the Great Awakening that brought about the end of slavery in America. I therefore, wrote, 1726: The Year that Defined America and Abolitionist Founding Fathers. Somewhere in the midst of all this also wrote and published The Faith and Vision of Benjamin Franklin and 5 Pillars of the American Republic.

More than once I have been amazed at how I was providentially led to resources to confirm the vision I had seen and to fill out the historical narrative to document America’s spiritual birth. This was important for as the noted historian, Carl   said, “When a nation goes down or a society perishes, one condition may always be found: they forgot where they came from." 

This research and writing has solidified in me the truth that was revealed to me that summer day in 2010. God brought forth America for a special purpose, and that purpose is not yet fulfilled. We are people of Destiny and have a God-given task to fulfill.

God is Ready to Do it Again

Jonathan Edwards once said that when God determines to do a thing in the earth, He first sets His people to praying for the very thing that He has determined to give. It is obvious that there is a new hunger stirring across the body of Christ for a Divine awakening from heaven. Not something skillfully worked up by a religious maestro, but a Divine visitation that is prayed down from heaven.

Recently, I was providentially led to Zechariah 10:1, which reads, Ask the LORD for rain in the time of the latter rain. The LORD will make flashing clouds; He will give them showers of rain, grass in the field for everyone. It was a fresh prod from the Lord to ask for the rain of the Holy Spirit in these days of the latter rain when God is pouring out His Spirit on all flesh as prophesied in Acts 2:17-18.

Yes, I am convinced that God is not through with America and that a fresh wind from heaven is already beginning to blow across the land. 

Dr. Eddie Hyatt is a historian, Bible teacher and ordained minister. He has a passion to see America reconnect with her Christian roots and experience another great, national spiritual awakening. To contact him about sharing his "1726" PowerPoint presentation to your congregation or group, send him an email at dreddiehyatt@gmail.com. Check out his books on Amazon and visit his website at www.eddiehyatt.com.

A MESSAGE THAT IS BURNING IN MY HEART ABOUT THE HYATT INSTITUTE

Here is a truth that has been burning in my heart for the last 24 hours that I must share with you. This is the perfect time in God’s plan for the launch of the Hyatt Institute, an online Bible and ministry training site that is geared for an international audience. Consider the following.

Galatians 4:4 says, But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son . . .. This phrase means that Jesus's birth occurred at the perfect, divinely appointed moment in history. It was when the time was ripe, when all things were prepared according to God's plan. 

For the first time there was a universal language for communication and a universal infrastructure for travel. The Romans had conquered the world militarily and put in place an infrastructure of roads, shipping lanes and a common law for all, making travel relatively easy. The Greeks had conquered the world linguistically and culturally so that anywhere one went in the Greco-Roman world you would find people of all races and ethnicities who spoke Greek. It was the perfect time for a new message to be propagated to the world.

There is a similar truth today that is directly related to the upcoming launch of the Hyatt Institute. The internet has connected people of every tribe and tongue. English is a universal language. Although not everyone speaks English, you can go anywhere in the world and find people who speak English. Just recently I talked with a pastor from Beijing who spoke very fluent English.

So, as we are putting the final touches on the Hyatt Institute for launching in early fall, there is a deep stirring in my heart that this is God’s time for this online Bible and ministry training site. I believe it will play a part in fulfilling the Great Commission of Matthew 28:18-20 where Jesus said, Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations . . ..

Thank you for your prayers and support for this strategic and timely endeavor.

For more information, contact Eddie Hyatt at dreddiehyatt@gmail.com or Rhonda Klug at rhondaklug@hotmail.com.

WHEN THE BIBLE WAS KING IN AMERICA

The Bible was the most cherished and the most quoted book in early America. America’s founding generation found in the pages of the Bible its moral compass, its guide for ethics, and the lens through which it viewed and interpreted all of life. It is, therefore, not surprising that the second most popular book in early America proposed a ceremony making the Bible America’s king.

In January of 1776, Thomas Paine published his very popular book, Common Sense, in which he presented compelling arguments for independence from Great Britain. The book sold 500,000 copies, which would be like 60 million with today’s population.

The book played a primary role in convincing the colonists to declare their independence from Great Britain. In the book, Paine suggested a public ceremony that would show that Americans had replaced King George with the Word of God as their king.

Paine suggested an Independence ceremony in which America’s founding charter would be placed on a Bible and a crown placed on the charter. This would be a public demonstration that in the new nation the Law of God would be their king. He wrote,

But where says some is the King of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain. Yet that we may not appear to be defective even in earthly honors, let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the charter; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve as monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING.

This exact ceremony did not occur, but the same message was conveyed 11 years later when George Washington took the first presidential oath of office with his hand on a Bible. This act showed, that for Washington, the Bible was Supreme. When someone swears an oath, they swear by something greater than themselves. For Washington, the Bible was the highest tangible authority by which he could swear to uphold and defend the Constitution.

A ten-year study to find where America’s founders got their ideas for America’s founding documents, found that they quoted the Bible far more than any other source. America’s second president, John Adams, one of the most learned men in America, believed that if the Bible were truly king, it would produce a utopian paradise on earth. He wrote,

Suppose a nation in some distant Region, should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. In this Commonwealth, no man would steal or lie or any way defraud his neighbor but would live in peace and good will with all men—no man would blaspheme his Maker or profane his worship, but a sincere and unaffected piety and devotion, would reign in all hearts. What a utopia, what a paradise would this region be.

The major role of the Bible in the founding of America was highlighted in a 1982 article in Newsweek magazine, entitled “How the Bible Made America.” The authors, in vivid fashion, showed the Bible’s impact on the founding of America and wrote,

For centuries, the Bible has exerted an unrivaled influence on American culture, politics, and social life. Now historians are discovering that the Bible, perhaps even more than the Constitution, is our founding document: the source of the powerful myth of the United States as a special, sacred nation, a people called by God to establish a model of society, a beacon to the world.

America is in trouble today. Sixty plus years of vehement attacks on the Bible and its removal from the public life of the nation have produced a large element in our culture that is crude, cruel, selfish and intolerant. America must revisit the role of the Bible in her rise to prominence and in defeating slavery at a time it was being practiced around the world. This is what I do in my soon-to-be-published book entitled, The Book that Made America Great. Watch for it.

Dr. Eddie L. Hyatt is the author of numerous books on America's overt Christian origins, including 1726: The Year that Defined America, which documents how the Great Awakening, which began in 1726, had a direct bearing on the founding of America and the ending of slavery on this continent. His books are available from Amazon and his website at http://www.eddiehyatt.com.

THE DISTORTED THINKING BEHIND THE RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES

When Freedom is Turned into Lawlessness & Anarchy

Political supporters of the violent protestors insist that they are exercising their First Amendment rights of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Assembly. This is a blatant distortion of those rights and America's founders warned this would happen with an amoral and irreligious people.

America’s Founders knew that the success of the nation they had formed hinged on the moral character of its citizens and their ability to govern themselves. For example, President John Adams, in a 1798 speech, warned,

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

From the beginning, political liberty and Christian virtue were linked together in the minds of America’s founding generation. This is why John Dickinson, Founding Father and chairman of the committee that produced the Articles of Confederation, warned that, “when states lose their liberty, this calamity is generally owing to a decay of virtue.”

Virtue is defined as "moral excellence" and America’s Founding Fathers all agreed that only a virtuous people could handle freedom. They also knew that such a people would be the fruit of a vibrant Christianity. This was made clear by John Adams in a letter to his cousin, Zabdiel Adams, a minister of the Gospel, two weeks before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He wrote,

Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure virtue . . . You cannot therefore be more pleasantly or usefully employed than in the Way of your Profession, pulling down the strongholds of Satan.

When the Founders speak of “religion” they are speaking of Christianity, and they saw Christianity as offering the only moral and philosophical system that would undergird the nation they had formed. George Washington made this clear in his Farewell Address of 1796 after serving two terms as America’s first president. Washington warned the young nation to guard against separating freedom from faith.  He wrote,

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.  

Far from having a hostility or even indifference toward Christianity, America's Founders counted on a vibrant Christianity to be a rejuvenating moral and ethical force in American society. 

They knew that unless the American people were a virtuous people, the freedoms they were implementing would be turned into anarchy and societal chaos. This is exactly what we see happening today with the violent anti-government, antisemitic, pro-Hamas protestors and their supporters claiming a constitutional right to free speech. This is the distorted thinking that is fueling these riots.

It is time for the American church to step up to the plate and be the spiritual rejuvenating force the Founders counted on her to be. Only then will our constitutional freedoms be preserved, for faith and freedom must coexist in America if either are to be preserved.

This article was derived from Dr. Eddie Hyatt's books, 1726: The Year that Defined America and Pilgrims and Patriots, both available from Amazon and his website at http://www.eddiehyatt.com.

Making the Most of Your Priestly Privilege

When Jesus died on the cross, the Old Testament priesthood came to an end. This was signified by the fact that the heavy curtain which separated the Holy of Holies from the rest of the temple was rent from the top to the bottom at the very moment of His death. Matthew 27:50-51 says,

And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up His spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple was rent from top to bottom; and the earth quaked and the rocks were rent.

This veil was about 30 feet high and four inches thick. No one was allowed past this veil except the high priest who went in once a year before Almighty God to offer a blood sacrifice for the sins of the people of Israel. It was a fearful thing, even for the high priest, to venture into the presence of God hidden behind this veil.

This veil was so strong and thick that the Jewish historian, Josephus, stated that even two oxen could not tear it. However, when Jesus died, it was ripped from the top to the bottom.

This was an obvious act of God. It was God saying, “The way has been made. The ultimate sacrifice has been offered. The redemptive price has been paid. You are welcome to come into My presence.”

At that point, the Old Testament priesthood ended. There was no longer any need for a human priest to mediate between the people and God. The veil was rent, and all could not now enter freely into His presence.

Modern churches that maintain a priestly ministry to mediate between God and the people are completely out of sync with what Jesus accomplished for us at the Cross. Because of what Jesus has done, we have become a kingdom of priests, as John wrote in Revelation 1:5-6, To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father.

“The Priesthood of all Believers” was one of the platforms of the Reformation. It means we do not need a human mediator to go before God on our behalf. Neither do we need a departed “saint” to pray for us. We are completely accepted by God when we come to Him through faith in Jesus.

There are NOT many paths to God. There is only One. Jesus Himself said in John 14:6, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Paul echoed this truth some years later when he wrote, For there is one God and one Mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus (I Timothy 2:5).

What a wonderful privilege we have in this New Covenant of freely coming into the presence of Almighty God through Jesus and His atoning death. The writer of Hebrews spelled it out when he wrote in 4:16, Let us therefore come boldly to throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need.

Yes, the veil has been rent, and even now God Almighty welcomes you to come.

This article was derived from the book, Discovering the Real Jesus, by Dr. Eddie L. Hyatt. He is the author of around 30 books, which can be found on Amazon and his website at www.eddiehyatt.com.

TWO GREAT AMERICANS SUPPORT PETE HEGSETH 'S PENTAGON PRAYER SERVICE

Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, was inundated with a flood of criticism after leading a prayer service at the Pentagon. Critics accused Hegseth of trying to impose his Christian faith on others and warned that it was an expression of Christian Nationalism and a violation of the First Amendment.

This kind of response, however, merely highlights the ignorance of the First Amendment and America's history that pervades our country. The First Amendment bans Congress from ever establishing an official state church. It does not ban prayer by public officials, which was common in America for the first 150 years of her existence.  

Hegseth merely wants to acknowledge our national need and ask God for His help. In this regard, he has the support of America 's two greatest presidents. He also has precedence on his side for the American army was a praying army from the very beginning.

Washington Ordered Every Day to Begin with Prayer

George Washington took command of the ragtag Colonial Army in May of 1775. Knowing they would need Divine help in facing the mighty British war machine, he immediately issued an order that each day was to begin with prayer led by the officers of each unit. He also began appointing chaplains throughout the different units.

Washington was not trying impose a religion on anyone. He knew that "religion" would not save them from the British. His command to pray was based on the fact that he knew that unless they had help from Heaven they would be devastated by the British forces and they and their children would remain British subjects for generations to come.

This is why he also ordered that, unless their duties required them to be elsewhere, every soldier was to observe “a punctual attendance of Divine services, to implore the blessing of heaven upon the means used for our safety and public defense.”

Washington also forbade profanity, swearing, gambling and drunkenness, explaining, “We can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms if we insult it by our impiety and folly.” He went on to express his desire that, “Every officer and man will endeavor so as to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier” (Hyatt, 1726: The Year that Defined America, 114).

Not only was there corporate prayer in the ranks of the Colonial Army, but Washington engaged in private prayer on a regular basis. This was confirmed by the Quaker, Isaac Potts, who lived near Valley Forge, and happened upon Washington alone at prayer in the forest. He said,

I heard a plaintive sound as of a man at prayer. I tied my horse to a sapling and went quietly into the woods and to my astonishment I saw the great George Washington on his knees alone, with his sword on one side and his cocked hat on the other. He was at Prayer to the God of the Armies, beseeching Him to interpose with his Divine aid, as it was ye Crisis, and the cause of the country, of humanity and of the world. Such a prayer I never heard from the lips of man (Hyatt, 1726: TheYear that Defined America, 115).

Not only did Washington and his troops pray, but the Continental Congress also opened each of their sessions with prayer. They also issued no less than fifteen proclamations for national days of repentance, prayer and fasting during the war. The Catholic scholar, the late Michael Novak, was correct in saying, “In all moments of imminent danger, as in the first Act of the First Continental Congress, the founding generation turned to prayer” (Hyatt, 1726: The Year that Defined America, 109).

Amazing Answers to Prayer

It was a grueling seven years of war, but the prayers of Washington, his troops, and the American populace prevailed. This was acknowledged in a dramatic way on the same day the British commander, General Cornwallis, ended the war by surrendering to Washington on October 19, 1783.

Washington immediately appointed Israel Evans, a chaplain in the Colonial Army, to deliver a Thanksgiving sermon to the troops that same day. A massive crowd from the surrounding region gathered with the troops to hear this sermon.

Evans exhorted them to give thanks to God, knowing that their victory was not the result of their own strength and prowess. He also declared that the same God that fought for Israel in days of old had fought for them. In poetic verse, he declared,

To Him who led in ancient days,

the Hebrew tribes, your anthems raise.

The God who spoke from Sinai’s hill,

Protects His chosen people still,

Not in ourselves success we owe, 
By Divine help we crushed the foe.

Are Hegseth’ s Critics too Proud to Pray?

So, Washington’s orders for prayer were not an attempt to impose his faith on anyone. It was an act of desperation knowing they had no chance against the British forces apart from Divine help. God answered their prayers, and a great new nation was born.

The critics of Hegseth fit the category of those President Abraham Lincoln admonished in his Prayer Proclamation issued at the height of the Civil War. He said that too many Americans had become “too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us” (Hyatt, 1726:The Year that Defined America, 185)!

Pete Hegseth has no desire to impose his faith on anyone. He realizes we are not sufficient in ourselves and he wants to publicly acknowledge the need and ask God for His help. In this, he has separated himself from the modern critics and joined the ranks of great Americans such as Washington and Lincoln who were not too proud to acknowledge our need for God.

This article is derived from the book, 1726:The Year that Defined America, by Dr. Eddie L. Hyatt and is available from Amazon and his website at http://www.eddiehyatt.com.

A HATRED HATCHED IN HELL

Here's Why there is Such World-Wide Hated of Jews and Christians

 

The young Jewish couple above, engaged to be married, were murdered in cold-blood as they were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.  last night. The gunman shouted “Free Palestine” as he gunned them down. 

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were Messianic believers, i.e., Jews who had embraced Jesus (Yeshua) as the Messiah. Yaron had purchased a ring and planned to propose to Sarah in Jerusalem later in the year and introduce her to his family. Their lives were snuffed out be a demonic-driven hatred that must be confronted on every level--spiritually, politically, lawfully, and rationally.

Two People Groups With Whom God Has Made Covenant

There are two people groups in the earth that are hated by Satan and this couple represented both groups: Jews and Christians. This demonic hatred is because these are the two people groups with whom God has made covenant. Satan cannot get at God, so he viciously attacks those whom God has chosen to advance His purpose and cause.

It is a fact that the same people who hate Jews also hate Bible-believing Christians. In a recently surfaced clip, Mahmoud al-Zahar, a Hamas official, declared that after their successful takeover of the globe, the world would finally be rid of “Zionism” and “treacherous Christianity.”

Such hatred is so irrational, which is why I say it must have been hatched in hell. It must be demonic. The Hamas Charter makes it clear that it exists for the purpose of killing Jews and destroying the state of Israel. There is no hint of tolerance or a desire to live peaceably with the Jewish state, but only loathing and hatred.

Satan hates Jews because he hates God and God’s purposes. Any human instrument of God's favor and blessing to mankind will become a target of demonic attacks.

Here’s Why Satan Hates Jews

Satan hates Jews because God made a covenant with Abraham and promised that through his descendants the entire world would be blessed, and through his descendants would come the Messiah and Savior of the world.  

The world has been incredibly blessed by the Jews. For example, can you imagine a world with no Bible, no Ten Commandments, no Psalms, no Abraham, no Moses, no King David, and no Elijah. Can you imagine a world with no Isaiah, no Jeremiah, or other prophets who prophesied such wondrous and glorious things to come.

Can you imagine a world with no New Testament, no Gospel, no Sermon on the Mount, and no “love your neighbor as yourself.? Can you imagine a world with no Jesus, no Cross, no Resurrection, and no hope of eternal life?

Now, all these wonderful blessings that have touched people of all races, languages, and ethnicities have come to us through the Jewish people. No wonder that Satan hates the Jewish people! He cannot get directly to God, so he attacks those whom God has chosen to carry out His plan and Purpose.

The restoration of the modern state of Israel is a providential act of God. No one has ever heard of a people without a homeland and scattered throughout the earth suddenly returning to their original homeland and becoming a nation once again after 2000 years. But this is exactly what happened on May 14, 1948 in fulfillment of many Old Testament prophecies.

Does this mean that the Jews cannot be criticized? Of course not! In the Old Testament God raised up prophets to rebuke the people and nation for their moral sins and idolatry. Israel can be criticized but those calling for the murder of Jews and the destruction of the state of Israel are pitting themselves against God and making themselves instruments of hell.

Here’s Why Satan Hates Christians

Yes, both Jews and Christians are being persecuted all over the world. In northern Nigeria Christian pastors are being murdered, their church buildings burned, and Christian children abducted and forced into Islam. Open Doors, an organization that tracks the persecution of Christians around the world, says that last year over 5000 Christians were martyred for their faith in different parts of the world.

Satan hates Jews and Christians because they are the two people in the earth with whom God has made a covenant and used to advance His purpose in the earth.

Just before He was crucified, Jesus inaugurated a New Covenant, based on His redemptive sacrifice at the Cross, for all who come to Him in faith and acknowledge Him as their Lord and trust Him as their Savior. God is continuing His purposes in the earth through this New Covenant people, made up of both Jew and Gentile.

God’s eternal purposes are at work in both people, whom He is calling together into one body through Messiah Jesus.  Paul wrote of this in Ephesians 2:14-16 where he said of Jesus, 

For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation . . . that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.

Yes, God has worked through the Jewish people to bring so many blessings to humanity, including the Messiah and Savior of the world. Since the Bible, the Messiah, and Christianity itself would not exist without the Jewish race, real Christians will love and support Israel and pray for her salvation.

And, by the way, support for Hamas is not protected speech under the U.S. Constitution. The Founders were in agreement that the freedoms they were implementing could only be maintained by a moral and virtuous people. Hamas is anything but that. John Adams, America's 2nd president, said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious [Christian] people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other" (Hyatt, 1726: The Year that Defined America, 168.

The only explanation for the cold-blooded, irrational murder of Yaron and Sarah is that their murderer was motivated by a hatred that was hatched in hell. 

Dr. Eddie Hyatt is a Bible teacher, historian, and revivalist. His numerous books are available on Amazon and his website at http://www.eddiehyatt.com.