Katrina is hard on Big Easy (Part 5)

The Taco Bell presidency

Katrina is also revealing a spiritual problem that has plagued the Bush presidency (and America as a whole). As we have said before, president Bush has constantly looked the other way when it comes to truly securing the border with Mexico. The "Minutemen", a small group of civilians who organized themselves to watch over the border, have proven that it is possible to stop the tide of illegal immigration if there is an open willingness to do so. Yet, despite small improvements in border security, Bush has not made a concerted effort to stem the immigration tide across the Mexico border.

Unlike other people in Washington, Bush's "aversion towards anti-immigration" is not motivated by political reasons. Being a "Texan", Bush really likes Hispanics, and he has a deep soul-affiliation towards the Hispanic culture. This Canaanite attachment, however, is unpleasant to God, because it is an attachment that impedes righteous judgments.

Latin American culture is eminently Canaanite in its nature. It is a culture that emphasizes "emotional ties" such as "friendships" and "family", without much regard for "law and judgment". The Latin American culture takes pride in its "Latin passion", meaning that it upholds the philosophy that something is "right" as long as you have strong feelings in favor of it. This overemphasis on emotions and the downplaying of judgment-making minds has led to a very chaotic and disorderly Latin American history. Of all the regions on Earth, Latin America is undoubtedly the one blessed with the greatest variety of natural and human resources. Yet, it has remained an underdeveloped region, even when countries such as Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong have been able to grow and prosper despite their lack of natural resources. Western Europe was also able to rise from the ashes of World War 2 destruction through the help of the U.S.-financed "Marshall Plan". On the other hand, Latin America has not risen from its perennial underdevelopment, despite the billions of dollars that the U.S. and other developed nations have poured into Latin American economies over the years.

When "prosperity" has hit Latin America, it quickly goes into Hivite indulgence. Latin American pastors, for example, are people with very limited "spiritual" goals. They may believe in working hard for a time as they build up "their" church, but, once that is accomplished, they want to indulge in their success as they live out their "Hivite retirement". Latin American pastors enjoy hearing prophecies that have "Latin America" as a "light to the world", and they claim it as their "inevitable calling", but they rarely (if ever) exhibit a true selfless zeal for the nations of the Earth. They wouldn't mind God dropping "spiritual preeminence" on their fat laps, but they are not interested in paying a selfless price to see the nations bowing before God. If there is not an immediate, temporal retribution, believers in Latin America are slow to act "on behalf" of others. Obviously, this is a problem with pastors throughout the globe, but Latin America has shown such a radical and systemic manifestation of this Hivite tendency that God has cast it off as a region. In the latter days, as the rest of the world wakes up in a mighty latter-rain revival, most of Latin America (with the current exception of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay) shall be shown to the world as a spiritually worthless swamp. She shall be a "light to the world", but not for doing what was right; instead, she shall be a "light to the world" because she will be an example of what not to do.

Latin America also has strong Amorite tendencies. As you may know, Latin American history is riddled with dictatorships and ruthless tyrants. As we have said before, Amorites are "opportunists" by nature. Since they are "evangelists gone awry", they are quick to seize on any door of opportunity that brings personal benefit to them (evangelists are endowed by God with a seize-the-moment attitude because they are called to be conquerors unto God; Amorites, however, use this endowment to further their cursed little kingdoms). In some Latin American countries, people like to use the phrase "Hay que ser vivos", which literally means, "You must be 'alive'". However, the word "alive" here is used in the sense of "opportunism". In other words, to most Latin Americans, you prove that you are "alive" when you are quick to seize an opportunity that benefits you, even when that "opportunity" means breaking moral or legal codes. I have heard Latin American after Latin American use this phrase to justify their corrupt behavior. It is taken as one of the basic postulates of their culture. As you may know, a "postulate" is a truth that is accepted without question because of its "obviousness". Due to this "postulate" (cursed is Latin America because of it), Latin American history is plagued by "coup d'êtats" carried out by Amorites who take advantage of the smallest door to gain power and wealth, even if that power and wealth is obtained illegally and immorally.

Because of its Canaanite and Amorite roots, Latin American culture has a hard time respecting "invisible barriers" that stand in the way of their personal benefit. Concepts such as "abiding by the law" are irrelevant unless they see a "policeman" standing there who is waiting to punish them if they break the "invisible" law. This is the reason why students in Latin America (at all levels of the social scale) are quick to cheat whenever they have the opportunity. This is also the reason why software piracy is so common and accepted throughout Latin America. Their excuse is, "Hey, Bill Gates has enough dough as it is, so why should I be giving him my money when I can copy his software for free!" (fellow believer, I am not making up these quotes; I have heard words such as these with my own two ears from countless Latin Americans). In most Latin American nations, the idea of respecting a simple thing such as a "zebra crossing" (a "striped pedestrian crossing") remains an oft-ignored concept. Why? Because respecting the "invisible barrier" delineated by the zebra crossing seems worthless and of no personal benefit to them. Why have your car or motorcycle stand behind the zebra line when you can simply take up that open space ahead of you? The space is there for the taking, isn't it? So, why not take it? "If a pedestrian comes along, he can walk around me by going behind me!! What is the purpose of respecting that stupid white line?" This is how Latin Americans (in general) are prone to thinking.

All of this explains why Latin Americans are so quick to cross America's southern border with Mexico. America is seen as the land of the "dollar", and it is there "for the taking". Who cares about the legal issues involved? If there is no "policeman" to enforce the invisible separation between Mexico and the U.S., the barrier is simply not there, so why worry? The only worry is not getting caught!!

America is a country founded on immigration. Latin American immigration, however, is very different from immigration from other regions. A great majority of the Europeans who migrated to America were motivated by their desire to flee religious, political, and even "cultural" persecution. They were after an atmosphere where they would be free to think and act as they saw fit, and where the culture would foster their personal growth rather than stifle it. To most of these immigrants, heading for America was, in a way, a rejection of the culture they were leaving behind. Obviously, many of these immigrants did not "hate" their past culture, but they were quick to admit the fallacies of the culture they were leaving behind. As they crossed the Atlantic Ocean, they became physically and emotionally distanced from their countries of origin. Many decades ago, communications were not as developed as they are today, so leaving your European country of origin usually meant that you would never see most of your relatives ever again. They saw this as a painful but necessary "break with the past". They were thinking about their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren who would have the opportunity to live and grow in a free nation that would help them to be all they could be. They acted like Abraham, when God called him out from among his country and family:

"¹Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: ²And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: ³And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." (Genesis 12:1-3)

[Notice the Lord's emphasis on the long-term, eternal benefits of Abraham's painful "break with the past". In other words, Abraham's descendants would be blessed on account of the long and difficult sacrifice he was about to embark upon. All "families of the earth" (v3) would be blessed as he broke from his own family. We are now known as "sons of Abraham" (Galatians 3:7) because of the break from Canaanite attachments that Abraham made.]

To a certain extent, the same things can be said about immigration from Asian countries such as China and Japan. Many of those who crossed the Pacific Ocean to reach America knew that they would face discrimination in a very distant and strange land. Yet, they made the trip because they recognized that their current environment would not foster their growth or the growth of their descendants. Just like the Europeans, most of the Asians who migrated to America lost contact with their relatives. Even so, they relished the chance of living in a free environment that had "opportunity" written all over it, and to them, the word "opportunity" meant more than making a few dollars. European and Asian immigrants were quick to embrace America as their "homeland", and they were grateful for the opportunity they had been given. They did their best to adapt to America's good ways rather than have America adapt to the stifling culture they had left behind. They reached America in order to be given an opportunity to contribute in ways they had been unable to in their countries of origin.

With Latin American immigration, however, things were very different. There is a strong "anti-American" resentment ingrained in the Latin American culture. Many, if not most Latin Americans, are resentful against America because of its success, which they are quick to blame on American "imperialism". Even though America did engage in many "imperialistic" sins in Latin America, it is safe to say that America has succeeded despite those "imperialistic" sins, not because of them. However, Latin Americans have used the few episodes of American imperialism as an umbrella to hide from their many failures. Despite having America as the official scapegoat for many of their failures, it is amazing how Latin Americans are quick to cross the border into America when they have a chance. This means that their migration is generally not motivated by a desire to escape from the Latin American culture but rather as an opportunity to "make money" that they can send home via "Western Union". They constantly complain of America as a "cold" and "materialistic" culture, since they miss the Canaanite "family communion" they enjoyed back home. In other words, when they cross the border into America, they are physically leaving their culture, but their heart remains with the culture they are leaving behind.

In many ways, the flight of Latin Americans into the U.S. is a spiritual manifestation of "Cain's flight west". As we have shared before, the black horse attacks regions in the "spiritual west" where Cain (turned into a wandering Balaam) flees to escape from God's laws (revealed through "pestilent" red-horse riders). Just like Cain, Latin Americans try to escape from the consequences of their corrupt culture without admitting to the ingrained flaws in that culture. Therefore, it is not a "coincidence" that the company most used by illegal immigrants to send money back to Latin America happens to be called "Western Union".

Latin America's geographical proximity has accentuated Latin Americans' attachment to their culture. Of all the immigrant groups throughout American history, Latin Americans are by far the ones who have maintained the closest and most constant contact with the relatives they left behind. Latin Americans have worked hard to preserve their language and traditions. This is why they have channels such as "Univision" and "Telemundo", and this is why they constantly demand the "right" to be spoken to in Spanish. As we briefly mentioned before, immigrants (most of them Hispanic) were protesting in front of hospitals in New York City a few months ago. Their protest was motivated by the fact that these hospitals did not have enough personnel that could speak to them in Spanish! They angrily declared that to be an act of "discrimination"! This is a prophetic figure of how illegal Latin American immigration has created a Canaanite influence over America that has delayed its revival. As we have said before, God has declared New York to be the starting point of that revival, which will turn the Church in America from a hospital that caters to the unrighteous into a military camp that enables those who seek after God's righteousness; this latter-day military camp will have a spiritual "hospital" that cares for those wounded in righteous spiritual battle. By demanding that New York hospitals cater to illegal immigrants (who didn't worry about learning English before migrating to an English-speaking country), Hispanics were, in a spiritual sense, demanding that America remain as a hospital for the unrighteous rather than a military camp that will spread God's righteousness across America and the world. The flow of Canaanite influence from Latin America through illegal immigration has been an essential component in satan's effort to delay America's restoration.

Hispanics have also organized other marches where they demand the U.S. government to respect the "rights" of illegal immigrants, such as the "right" to drive and the "right" to government-funded health care! It is interesting how Canaanites, who abhor and ignore "law and judgment", are quick to "remember" legal words such as "rights" and "fairness" when it is convenient to them. It is like a thief who "works hard" to break into a house to steal a TV set, and who then sues the house's owner because the TV set was not a "High Definition" set, claiming that the owner was denying him his "inalienable right" to watch HD TV! As we have said before, the Canaanite spirit leads to "spiritual lunacy". Canaanites' rejection of judgments leads to an automatic rejection of "mind processes" (since "mind processes" are judgments), which causes Canaanites to believe in the most absurd and self-contradictory ideas simply because these ideas appeal to their carnal emotions. 

Of all the groups of people that have (willingly) migrated to America, Latin Americans are the most defensive about their culture. They get very edgy when anyone says anything "unpleasant" about Latin American culture. Even when you explain to them the facts that reveal the evils of their culture, they are quick to say, "I don't care what you say about my culture; I love it because it is mine, and that is that!!". In other words, they grudgingly admit that Latin America provides less opportunities to "make money" than the U.S., but they are unwilling to admit to the cultural roots that have provoked Latin America's lack of prosperity in the first place. A land where corruption is always rationalized will never prosper, spiritually or materially. Latin American nations are for the most part poor and underdeveloped because of their endemic corruption at all levels. Yet, Latin Americans are unwilling to accept the "You are corrupt" verdict. They hate the palpable fruit of their corruption seed, but they continue sowing that seed. To them, the problems in their societies can be blamed on "American imperialism" or on "the government", but never on their own cultural actions. God wanted to do great and mighty things with Latin America. Latin America was called to be the launching pad for the latter-rain revival, but she chose not to reject the sins in her culture. When it came to choosing between being an instrument of God and defending her culture, Latin America chose her culture. When the Lord saw this, He said to her,

"For you have loved your culture and your Canaanite ways more than Me, I will leave you to the deceit of your culture, and I will now use it to destroy you, for, even though you did not know it, your Canaanite culture was cursed unto destruction from before I came unto you, and now you are cursed along with it."

A few moments after I typed the words above, the Lord led me to watch a commercial that was airing on TV station WNBC (New York's Channel 4). The commercial was about "Hispanic Heritage Month", and it featured a Hispanic chef who was talking about Hispanic cuisine. At the end of the commercial, he said, "We have very deep roots in our culture and heritage, and we just don't want to let go". This is prophetic confirmation of what we are sharing above!!!

Michael Chertoff, the current head of "Homeland Security", has followed Bush's policies by not dealing with the "southern border" issue. It is known around the world (including the Middle East) that entering the U.S. through the border with Mexico is relatively easy, yet the Department of Homeland Security has acted as if the terrorists will never take advantage of this. Why? Because accepting the threat would mean denying Latin Americans their "illegal right" to enter the U.S. While the Bush administration looks the other way, however, terrible Canaanite influences from Latin America are filtering through America's spiritual borders, and these influences have already worked to delay America's latter-rain revival. A few weeks ago, Fox News analyst Bill O'Reilly used the word "clueless" to describe Michael Chertoff. "Coincidentally", this is the same word which the Lord had impressed on our hearts regarding the Church's leadership. The black horse of the Apocalypse has come to expose the "cluelessness" of the leadership which indolent believers (and citizens) have placed their trust in.

From all that we shared at the beginning of this section, we can conclude that Latin America has terrible Canaanite, Hivite, and Amorite influences. As we shared before, New Orleans is dominated by precisely the same evil spirits. This means that Latin America (especially the Latin American "gospel") is gripped by the same "spirit of ease" that has ruled over "Big Easy". Therefore, it is not surprising that the Katrina destruction was caused by waters that overran Big Easy's levees, which correlates with how America is allowing herself to be overrun by illegal immigration from the southern border. This is the reason why the Lord used Katrina to embarrass the Bush administration. Even though the majority of the blame in the relief fiasco belongs to the corrupt mayor of New Orleans and the inept governor of Louisiana, the Lord made sure that the Bush administration would look bad as a result of Katrina. God sent Katrina to overrun Big Easy's borders while Bush was "taking it easy" during his vacation at Crawford, Texas. This is a spiritual figure of Bush "falling asleep at the switch" when it comes to border issues.

Bush's border negligence has also been manifested in the Iraq war. Immediately after Baghdad fell, the U.S. spoke in menacing terms against Syria, and the Syrian regime became fearful that it would be the next oppressive regime to fall in the Middle East. However, instead of sending troops towards the Syrian and Jordanian borders immediately after the fall of Baghdad, president Bush backed down from his menacing tone against Syria (at the behest of Tony Blair and Colin Powell), and he became oblivious to the tide of Arab terrorists that began flooding into Iraq through the Syrian and Jordanian borders to wreak havoc on the Iraqi people. This tide of terrorist "immigrants" has made Iraq's restoration much more difficult than it should have been, and it has delayed the rise of Iraq as a free nation, just like Latin America's Canaanite influence through the southern border has delayed America's revival as a nation spiritually free from the Old Covenant.

Interestingly enough, while the unrighteous are flooding in through unguarded borders, there are many righteous who are flooding out to escape unrighteous regions. As we have said before, the Lord has sent the red horse of the Apocalypse to "split" the Church and to cause the righteousness seekers to flee out of the matriarchal Church's spiritual borders. However, as these righteous have tried to enter into "cities of refuge", they have been denied at these cities' gates. While the unrighteous are allowed to flood in through the wide gate, the righteous who are trying to enter through the narrow gate are left outside, tripped up by an "institutional spirit" that imposes meaningless regulations at the narrow gate.

As we said before, U.S.'s FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) has been very "generous" with its help to cheating scoundrels while at the same time showing "stinginess" towards many people who truly need their help. Individuals not affected by disasters have been able to collect thousands of dollars from FEMA, while many others who were affected have been caught up in much bureaucratic red tape. In the same way, America is very "liberal" with its policy on illegal immigration across the southern border, while at the same time "tying up" those who want to enter the U.S. legally and who have much to contribute to America. There are many, including many Latin Americans, who deserve an opportunity to enter the U.S. but who get tied up in the immigration red tape. America needs to overhaul its immigration policy so that people of character and integrity may be allowed into the country (no matter where they are from). Those who want to migrate to America as they escape from oppressive environments should be allowed in. Those whose migration is not motivated by "money" but rather by virtuous, intangible values should be allowed in, while those who carry their "past culture" inside their luggage should be left out. Those who do not want to break with the unrighteousness of the culture that they are leaving behind should be held back at the border. This commandment from God applies to America as a country in a literal way and to the Church in a spiritual way.

Through Katrina, God created a tide of desperate "refugees" in need of "cities of refuge". God did this to portray the plight of His prophetic remnant in the spirit realm. The institutionalized Church in America has refused to act as a "city of refuge" for God's remnant. This is why He has flooded America's landscape with literal refugees to expose what the Church should have been doing in the spirit realm. The institutionalized Church is "good" at doing "literal" work in the natural realm, but she is overly inept when it comes to doing invisible work in the spirit realm. There was a remnant crying out for help, but she turned a deaf ear to her cry. Therefore, the Lord has cast off the institutional Church in America, and He will raise up a new Church that will operate under a completely different paradigm. This new Church will grow independently of the institutionalized Church. As the new Church grows, the institutionalized Church will fade away like "morning vapor", for she was given a chance to act on behalf of God's remnant but she passed it up without realizing what she missed out on. Because of her busy schedule of human activities, the institutionalized Church thinks that she will stay around until the fulfillment of all things, but she will disappear into the spiritual "nothingness" of the works she is currently performing:

"¹³Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: ¹⁴Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. ¹⁵For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. ¹⁶But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. ¹⁷Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." (James 4:13-17)

As you may know, Taco Bell is known for its slogan "Make a run for the border". This slogan applies to what is happening in the spirit realm. There are many Canaanite unrighteous who are making a run to enter through borders left unguarded by indolent gatekeepers, while, at the same time, there are many righteous who are making a run for the border to flee out of unrighteousness, but who are being denied access to enter into their assigned "cities of refuge". There is a great deal of "border running" going on in the spirit realm. President Bush has not realized this, and his inability to understand this has greatly hurt his presidency. As the Lord prompted us to say before Bush was reelected, his second term would be plagued by "many bitter failures" if he did not "shape up his spiritual act". Unfortunately, he still has not done so, and the Lord has made sure to fulfill His prophetic word against him. This is why so many bad things have come against America during Bush's second term.

When Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shapham, ruled at Mizpah, God drew Jeremiah and the dispersed remnant unto him and to the land of Israel. There was a lot of "running to the border" during those days:

"⁵Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go. ⁶Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land. ⁷Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon; ⁸Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men." (Jeremiah 40:5-8)

"Coincidentally", Katrina and Rita were hurricanes that hit the U.S. from the south through the Gulf of Mexico. The Lord is saying to Bush, "Watch the southern border with Mexico", and the Lord is saying to the Church in America, "Live up to your Mizpah calling; give refuge to My remnant and reject the Canaanite influence that is holding you back from My calling".

On August 28, 2005, the Sunday before Katrina hit, the family of a 76-year-old man named Gerard Williams fled New Orleans. Gerard chose to stay behind because he wanted to go to church that day. After church, he went back home and fell asleep, thinking that he still had "plenty of time" before Katrina hit. He slept through the entire day, and Katrina hit New Orleans in the early hours of the next day (August 29). Gerard was still in his house when it became flooded, and he was forced to take refuge in the attic. He took a gallon and a half of water up to the attic with him, and he was forced to stay in the attic for 18 days until he was rescued. Amazingly, he was still alive when they found him. As they drove him to a medical facility, they passed by a Taco Bell, which prompted him to say that he was hungry for Taco Bell. I was surprised to hear this story, since the Lord had already prompted us to write about Katrina and "Taco Bell". When Gerard Williams craved "Taco Bell", he was, in a spiritual sense, admitting to what he had denied earlier. Through His red-horse shout, God had called him to "run for the border", to get out of "church" and to have a direct relationship with him, but, instead, he chose to disregard the red horse and to attend church and "take it easy" on that Sunday morning; in other words, he chose to stay within the borders of religiosity. When he did this, he was forced to face the black horse in Katrina. After 18 days of black-horse scarcity, he finally understood that he was to make a "run for the border". This is why he wanted Taco Bell.

The issue of black America

As we have said before, the Katrina disaster was a manifestation of God's black-horse attack against America, and it was the 5th major black-horse disaster that He unleashed around the world during August 2005, "Black Horse Month". Therefore, it is not surprising that Katrina has brought the issue of "Black America" to the spiritual surface (to be honest with you, I prefer the term "Black American" over "African American" because the continent of Africa includes countries such as Algeria, Libya, and Egypt, which are populated by non-black Arabic people).

The left-leaning Democratic Party is the party most supported by black Americans. A closer look at that party reveals that it is filled with "left-handed" people of a "prophetic" and "pastoral" ilk. Americans with a prophetic endowment (i.e.- who believe in "fighting for causes" and who believe in "challenging the powerful to defend the poor") have a natural attraction towards the Democratic Party. Americans with a pastoral endowment (i.e.- who believe in "soothing" and "nursing compassion") are also lured into the Democratic Party. However, the Democratic Party has glorified "left-handedness" and has abhorred "right-handedness", which has caused it to lack a strong "right-handed" apostolic influence of justice and judgments. Therefore, the Democratic Party is mostly filled with prophets who have gone "anti-judgment Canaanite", and it is a party plagued by Hittite chaos and disorganization.

A closer look at the "other" party, the Republican party, reveals that it is filled with "right-handed" people of a "teacher" and "apostolic" ilk. Americans with a teacher endowment (i.e.- who believe in following "methods and procedures" and who believe in "perfect organization") have a natural attraction towards the Republican Party. Americans with an apostolic endowment (i.e.- who believe in enforcing "law and order") are also attracted by the Republican Party. However, the Republican Party has lost the "first love" of its Frémont-style founders, and it has become a party of legalistic Jebusites (i.e.- distorted apostles) and traditionalistic Girgashites (i.e.- distorted teachers). Because of its Girgashite influence, it is an "emotionally dry" party that is more concerned about "traditional values" than about people. Due to several spiritual reasons, right-handed people and nations have a natural tendency to become more economically prosperous than left-handed people and nations. Therefore, the right-handed Republican Party has a greater percentage of "economically powerful" people, which attracts a strong Amorite influence over it. That creates a streak of Amorite pride and "aloofness" within the Republican Party, a pride which the left-handed Hittite prophets in the Democratic Party are quick to point out and deceivingly exaggerate. The combination of Amorite and Girgashite influences in the Republican Party also produces an abundance of "rigid clods" who act as arrogant imposers of human traditions.

As opposed to the Democratic Party, the Republican Party is very "organized" and "disciplined" (because of its Girgashite, Jebusite, and Amorite influences). It strongly emphasizes the importance of "systems". This is why the believers of "economic laissez faire" are for the most part Republicans. They believe in the "capitalist system", and they believe that market forces should be allowed to operate freely, which, in their view, will cause all problems to automatically take care of themselves. Because of this inordinate faith in the "system", "fairness" is defined by the system. This morning, shortly before typing this paragraph, the Lord led me to listen to a believer in laissez-faire on television. He was asked about the "gouging" of gas and oil prices, and he replied by saying that all the talk about "gouging" was "socialist ranting" because those prices are determined by the "market". This reveals their unconditional faith in the "market" system. If the "market" says that the price is so and so, that must be the fair price. He was completely unconcerned about the question of whether that "market" is truly a free market. Issues such as the fact that OPEC artificially controls the supply of oil were irrelevant to him. As long as the price was set at the place where the demand curve and the supply curve met, he cared little about the moral motivations of the forces moving either of those curves. Moral questions that in any way question the validity of the "system" are simply ignored. When you are an inordinate believer in human "systems" (and in those who run the "system"), you become a "machine" with no feelings. This is what happens to Girgashite-Jebusite-Amorites, and this is what has happened to the Republican Party in general.

During the 1980s, Ronald Reagan, a Republican President, instituted an economic policy that emphasized low taxes and fewer government regulations. This led to a strong growth in the American economy, despite an ever-increasing budget deficit, which was caused by the political unwillingness to deal with the roots of unrighteous spending. When asked about the deficit, Republicans would argue that free-market prosperity would "eventually" take care of it, which again reveals their unquestioning faith in the "system".

During Reagan's administration, many in the Democratic party also criticized his economic policy because they saw it as a "blatant disregard for the poor". Republicans would counter this criticism by speaking of the "trickle-down theory", which claimed that prosperity for the rich would inevitably "trickle down" to all levels of society, including the lower classes. Even though there is a certain truth to this theory, it again reveals the Republicans' mechanical unawareness of the "human element". Ronald Reagan was a great speaker, a man with a prophetic anointing about him that inspired people with his sincere words of conviction and hope. However, he never used his oratory skills to inspire and offer hope to black Americans trapped in lower-class poverty. He surrounded himself with arrogant and aloof politicians who never cared about the poor, which added to the false impression that Reagan was insensitive towards certain groups of people (which he wasn't, for, in his private life, he showed himself to be a very caring man who recognized the value in all people). In the eyes of God, we are accountable for the people we surround ourselves with, which means that Ronald Reagan was held to account by God for the false impression that he gave others because of those around him.

As Reagan and the Republican Party remained "indifferent" to the issues of black America, buffoons such as the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson (cursed is he) and Louis Farrakhan (cursed is he) filled the void with rhetoric that fostered the "victim complex" in black America, blaming the sins of black America on the "white man" and on past discrimination. Black America was quick to believe the "Blame-it-on-the-Rain" doctrine, especially when they saw that the "white, yuppie Republicans" acted as if black America's problems were irrelevant. The Republican successor to Reagan, Bush-41, only made this problem worse by his total indifference and aloofness regarding "social" or "human" issues. This is part of the reason why a young and inexperienced opponent such as Bill Clinton was able to defeat him so easily in the 1992 elections with his "I-feel-your-pain" attitude.

Unfortunately, George W. Bush continued with a subdued version of this "Republican indifference" throughout his first term. Midway through his first term, the Lord impressed upon my heart that He wanted believers to pray for an awareness within the Republican party regarding the restoration of black America, and He began calling me to declare judgments against organizations such as the NAACP and against idiotic and/or misguided black leaders such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Charles Rangel, Kweisi Mfume, and Louis Farrakhan who are doing more harm than good to black America. Some time after that, the Lord exposed racially insensitive words spoken during a "private party" by Trent Lott, a Republican senator from Mississippi, which led to Trent Lott's demise as "Senate Majority Leader". The Lott scandal stirred a short debate on the Republican party's policy regarding black people. Unfortunately, the debate did not last very long. In the meantime, the Lord also exposed scandals within the NAACP, including their vitriolic and personal-attack speeches against George W. Bush and their illegal fundraising for Democratic candidates.

We were deeply saddened by the fact that the debate caused by the Trent Lott scandal was so short-lived, but we knew that God was already at work, for He had been the One who stirred our hearts to pray for Republican awareness of black America's plight. Immediately after Katrina, the Lord spoke to our hearts that part of Katrina's purpose was to awaken America from its indifference towards the spiritual problems in black America; through the Katrina aftermath, God was giving America a prophetic figure of the solution.

A European newspaper wrote that Katrina made America wake up to the "Third-world country" that is living inside its borders. While many Americans saw this comment as another example of European anti-Americanism, it is a spiritually accurate statement that exposes an unsolved spiritual problem inside America. While activist Democratic politicians want to throw more money at the problem without dealing with the unrighteous attitudes in black America, Republicans and the rest of America seem not to care about the problem at all. To most, the problems of black America seem to end at the line where the ghetto borders with the rest of the city, as if to say, "out of sight, out of mind". Even so, the Lord has had many of His remnant believers praying for a restoration of black America. The issue shall be hidden under the rug no more!!!

Because of this, we were not surprised by the "out-of-nowhere" speech by George W. Bush on September 15, 2005, where he spoke of the Katrina disaster in terms of a broader plan to fight poverty in America. Finally, president Bush, who is a very caring man in his private life, showed public concern for the need to develop a strategy to fully restore black America. This was the Lord's working. Shortly after his September 15 speech, Bush was criticized by many Republicans for sounding too much like Democrats FDR and Lyndon Johnson. Other Republicans (like Mississippi governor Haley Barbour and Fox News analyst Sean Hannity) revealed their close-mindedness by interpreting Bush's words in terms of "compassion for victims of a natural disaster". It has still not dawned on most Republicans that you shouldn't need a Category-4 hurricane to have compassion for the millions of souls wasting away in America's ghettos. Without going through a "natural disaster", these souls have already been suffering and wasting away for years. Those who do care (the Democrats) have the wrong answer (the "sin-condoning money catapult"), and those who could provide the righteous answer (the Republicans) simply don't care.

Giving to the poor

To understand the righteous answer for black America, we must first understand what Scripture says about the "poor":

	The "kingly" calling of the "poor" As we have said before, the "poor" are related in Scripture to the kingdom-conquering evangelistic anointing.   "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:3)   In monarchies, the king is more than a "big leader"; he is considered the "owner" of his kingdom. Therefore, when the Lord says that the kingdom of heaven is "theirs" (i.e.- the poor's), He is saying that the "poor" are called to be spiritual kings in the heavenly realm. In the natural realm, the "poor" are forced to be the slaves of Amorite kings, but the Lord has come to give the "poor" the "good news" of their spiritual liberation. As you may know, the word for "gospel" in Greek is euaggellos (i.e.- "evangel"), which literally means "good news":   "18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19To preach the acceptable year of the Lord." (Luke 4:18-19) [The phrase "acceptable year of the Lord" in verse 19 refers to the "year of jubilee", when slaves were to be set free from their masters (Exodus 21:2, Leviticus 25:8-16)]   Therefore, it is evident that God's attitude towards the "poor" goes beyond giving them "something to eat" that will get them through the day. He has come to raise the "poor" up so that they can be free from all Amorite oppression and live out their calling as "kings".
	Giving of ourselves for the "poor" When speaking to a certain ruler, who was very wealthy, the Lord said the following to him:   "Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me" (Luke 18:22)   The ruler walked away sad because his riches were very important to him. In a sense, his riches were his life. Therefore, when the Lord was telling him to sell all that he had and give it to the "poor", He was telling him to sacrifice his temporal life in order to reap in the eternal realm. As we have said before, the prophetic anointing prompts us to sacrifice ourselves for the Lord's sake.   When Zacchaeus fully converted to the Lord, he said the following:   "And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold." (Luke 19:8)   Under the anointing of the Spirit, Zacchaeus was prompted to give 50% of his goods to the poor. As we have said before, we are called to proactively produce "50%" of the prophetic anointing we are accountable for. Therefore, the passage above speaks of a proactive prophetic sacrifice spawned by an initiative from within. Notice that Jesus did not "order" Zacchaeus to give half of his goods to the poor. It was birthed from within Zacchaeus himself as he yielded to the prophetic prompting of the Holy Spirit.    Therefore, true giving to the "poor" goes beyond giving a "nice donation". It involves a prophetic giving of ourselves. When we give a one-time contribution to a business enterprise, we are not likely to care too much about the future of that business. However, when we give of "ourselves" to a business enterprise, we will be giving more than just "money". We will give our time and our emotions. We will become concerned about the progress of that business. We will cry when the business is failing, and we will rejoice when the business is succeeding. When we give of ourselves, we enter into a long-term "spiritual contract" where we figuratively "live and die" with the enterprise. In the same way, when we give of ourselves to the "poor", we will become emotionally attached to those who are struggling to fulfill their spiritual calling but who are being hampered by unrighteous surroundings:   "12Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; 13Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. 14Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. 15Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:12-15) [Notice the focus on helping the "saints" (v13), which correlates with washing the feet of the saints (i.e.- the seekers of righteousness). The reference to "hospitality" (v13) speaks of being willing to host "strangers" (Hebrews 13:1-3) whose trustworthiness can only be discerned by their invisible anointing, not by visible human labels.   The word "bless" in verse 14 is translated from the Greek word eulogeo, which is derived from the prefix eu meaning "good" and logos meaning "word". Therefore, to "bless" someone is to give him or her a "good logos". As we have said before, the word logos is intimately associated in Scripture with God's judgments (Hebrews 4:12, Romans 9:27-28, Romans 15:18). Therefore, to truly "bless" someone is to pronounce judgment word on that person for that person's own good. It must be clarified, however, that God's judgments only destroy unrighteousness. Therefore, if a person is abiding in righteousness, His judgment logos will unleash destruction upon all the unrighteousness that is getting in that person's way. When you truly "bless" someone, you are clearing the "unrighteousness brush" that is getting in the way of that person's path that leads to the fullness of his or her divine destiny. That "brush clearing" will bring destruction upon any unrighteousness inside or outside that person. Therefore, if you truly "bless" a person who is unrepentant, your blessing will ironically lead to that person's destruction. Why? Because that person's unrepentant unrighteousness will be getting in the way of someone else's destiny. In that sense, your blessing will turn into a curse.   When people actively "persecute" you, they many times do it because they believe that you are acting "unrighteously". Therefore, their persecution of you is revealing a misguided zeal (Romans 10:1-3). In that sense, they are to be "commended" for their dedication to their misguided values. When you "bless" them, you are releasing judgment word into their lives that is geared towards redirecting that misguided zeal. When the Lord tells us not to "curse" those who persecute us, He is saying that we must not automatically cast them off and condemn them simply because they are persecuting us. We must recognize their sincere but misguided zeal, and we must make an effort to redirect that zeal through judgment word, with the fervent desire that these misguided people not miss out on their eternal calling. However, if the persecutor becomes unrepentantly entrenched in his or her "misguidedness", our blessing will act as a destructive curse upon him or her. This is the reason why the same man (Paul) who wrote the passage above also wrote the words in 2 Timothy 4:14-15, Romans 2:5-11, 1 Corinthians 16:22, and Galatians 1:8-9.]   "And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it." (1 Corinthians 12:26)
	Those unrepentantly bent on unrighteousness cannot be called "poor" The Lord says the following with regard to giving to the "poor":   "6But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 7Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 8And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: 9(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. 10Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) 11Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. 12For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; 13Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men; 14And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you. 15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift." (2 Corinthians 9:6-15) [The word "men" at the end of verse 13 does not appear in the original Greek text. In other words, verse 13 should say "... and unto all". The word "all" was translated from the Greek word pas, which has a slightly different connotation than the word "all", as it is generally used in the English language. Throughout the New Testament, the word pas is used to denote the "inclusion of all types". In other words, it refers to a lack of "discrimination" or "special privilege" to any particular type. Therefore, verse 13 is speaking of a distribution that did not discriminate in terms of humanly visible categories or divisions. Also, it must be noted that the word "all" in verse 13 is being spoken in the context of the previous verse, which refers to the "saints". In other words, verse 13 is referring to "all types of saints". Any attempt to insinuate that verse 13 includes the seekers of unrighteousness would be intellectually (and spiritually) dishonest.]   Notice how verse 9 links up God's giving to the "poor" with His righteousness enduring for ever. Why? Because God's giving is designed to lift up the righteous who are currently being hampered by unrighteousness. His voluntary giving is an investment that allows "repressed righteousness" to be manifested. Notice also how verse 12 emphasizes giving to supply "the want of the saints". This emphasizes the fact that the word "poor" is generally used in Scripture to refer to those who are seeking after righteousness but who are being hindered by unrighteous circumstances around them.   Notice also how this passage links up giving to the "poor" with the concept of sowing and reaping. This means that you are accountable for the places where you sow. If you continue sowing in an infertile land, you become accountable before God for wasting His resources. God always sows where there is potential for restoration, which means that He automatically discards "unrepentant unrighteousness" as a field to sow in. He is willing to invest in the middle of unrighteousness (not into unrighteousness), if there is a "righteousness potential" hidden inside. However, if the field refuses to fully "respond" to His seed, He will eventually cast it off and stop sowing into it:   "6He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 7Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? 8And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: 9And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down." (Luke 13:6-9)   When "giving to the poor", we must discern the field we are sowing into, and we must discern the appropriate seed for that particular field. Some fields may need "money"; others may not need "money", needing "strong judgment word" instead. Other fields are so spiritually polluted that they don't deserve any type of seed anymore. Our "giving to the poor" must enable the righteous, not condone unrighteousness.   "25But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints. 26For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem." (Romans 15:25-26) [Notice once again how Scripture emphasizes giving to "poor saints". When God uses the word "saint", He does not use it "lightly". He uses it to refer to those who have consecrated themselves unto Him and who seek after His righteousness. The word "saint" that appears throughout the New Testament is translated from the Greek word hagios, which literally means "holy", and is the word used when referring to the "Holy Spirit". In other words, giving to the "saints" means investing in others so that the Holy Spirit may be fully manifested in them. Those believers who consciously repress the Holy Spirit's manifestation in their lives cannot be called "saints", even when they "go to church" every Sunday. Therefore, a "matriarchal" believer can never be called a "saint", because "matriarchal" believers repress the Spirit in an effort to have the soul rule over the Spirit. On the other hand, those who long for God's righteousness and judgments can be called "saints", because their heart is after God, even if they are struggling with unrighteousness. Their struggle and discomfort with unrighteousness reveals their admission that they need God, and those who admit their need shall be helped.]   In the spiritual sense of the word, the word "poor" is never used in Scripture to refer to those who are comfortable in their unrighteousness. The word "poor" denotes "hunger" and "need". Those who are comfortable in their unrighteousness are therefore not "poor", because they don't "hunger" or "feel a need" for God and His righteousness:   "17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." (Revelation 3:17-18)   Notice that the word "poor" is not necessarily related to "material lack". It truly refers to an attitude of the heart. Those who are comfortable in their unrighteousness see themselves as "rich", because they feel no need for God's righteousness. When the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32) left his father's house, his father did not send a servant to follow him to make sure that he would be "taken care of" at all times. When he fell on hard times, his father did not have someone there sending him any help. His father's help was made available to him only until he realized that he was nothing but a "needy fool":   "14And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. 17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. 20And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him." (Luke 15:14-20)   The father waited until his son came back home with a repentant heart. It was then that his father opened his arms and showered him with restoration. Before he came to his senses (v17), the prodigal son was "rich" and in "no need of the father", even when he began working as a "swine feeder" (v14-16).
	The "poor" must be proactively remembered There is an interesting passage in Scripture that preachers rarely preach about:   "9And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. 10Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do." (Galatians 2:9-10)   Notice how verse 9 speaks of grace while verse 10 speaks of "remembering the poor". To "remember" something implies a constant repetition in an effort to keep that something fresh in one's mind. Therefore, God is saying that, when we are showered with the riches of His grace, we must make a proactive effort not to forget those who are still in need. Just as He has blessed us out of our "Sheol experiences", we must remember those who are still left behind in Sheol. As we have said before, Scripture calls us all to be like shepherds who lead others from behind, constantly making sure that no one gets left behind.   "1Let brotherly love continue. 2Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body." (Hebrews 13:1-3)   Most of God's remnant is currently trapped in Sheol prisons, suffering material and emotional hardship because of the unrighteous structures in the matriarchal Church and world. God has called us to spiritually share in our remnant brethren's pain. It is easy to forget those who are trapped in the anonymous darkness of "Sheol prisons". As we said above, many believers simply say, "Out of sight, out of mind". However, we must proactively search out the Sheol prisons in the Spirit, and we must pray for the liberation of the righteous ones trapped in those spiritual (and literal) prisons.

	The "kingly" calling of the "poor" Black America must be seen, not as a "poor victim", but rather as a group of "conquerors" whose potential must be liberated. God abhors patronizing help, which is what Amorite-Canaanite pastors (i.e.- "wolves") are prone to doing. Pastors love to "help" people in "need", but, after helping many "needy" people, a silent sense of Amorite superiority begins to creep in. As these pastors stand at the pool of Bethesda (John 5:1-18), looking over all the lame people lying around them, they begin to feel "superior" because they are the only ones "standing". When this happens, it becomes "counter-productive" for them to have the lame people around them regain their "walking independence". When Jesus helped the lame man at the pool of Bethesda, He did not give him something to eat; He gave him the ability to walk on his own. This is why Jesus left the man after healing him so that he could "fare on his own". Jesus the man was an enabler, not an "enslaver".
	Giving of ourselves for the "poor" Black America cannot be restored "by default". Most Republicans believe that black America will be restored as prosperity automatically "trickles down" to them from above. This naive mentality ignores the spiritual issues that must be dealt with within black America. If those issues are ignored, prosperity will never trickle down to black America.   Therefore, it is necessary that America's leadership (both spiritual and governmental) take up the issue of black America as a long-term investment (Ecclesiastes 11:1) in which all Americans have a vested interest, whether they live in a ghetto or not. As we said above, when you give of "yourself", you are giving more than just "money". You are investing your life, and you will be on a constant lookout to see how your investment is faring. God is raising up men and women in the darkness of anonymity whose hearts long to see black America restored. Through these praying men and women, God will do what the inept leadership of the Church (and government) have been unable and unwilling to do, for the end-times are here, and God's purposes shall be fulfilled.
	Those unrepentantly bent on unrighteousness cannot be called "poor" The help to black America must be geared towards those who want to be free from their surrounding unrighteousness. It must be a "discerning help" that distinguishes between black Americans based on their moral character and integrity. Those who want the "system" to finance their unrighteousness must be automatically discarded and denounced.   Any plan that wants to be "politically correct" will never work. The plan must be projected forth by red-horse people who are not afraid to "stir the waters" and cause controversy as they confront the old paradigms that have clearly not worked. They must be willing to confront the "old" leaders who promote these cursed paradigms, and they must be willing to confront those in black America who refuse to recognize their own unrighteousness.   During the evacuation of Houston (as Rita approached), government officials were criticized for not enabling inbound lanes for "contraflow" traffic. As the highway lanes leading out of Houston were completely jammed, the adjacent lanes going into Houston were empty but unused. This is a prophetic figure of how the useful ophelos remnant has been left to "stand idly", and it is also a prophetic figure of how the leadership (in the government and the Church) have made black America's problems worse by avoiding "contraflow", i.e.- by avoiding rubbing any anti-judgment Canaanite the wrong way. In order to stem the tide, you must be willing to swim against it. There's no two ways of getting around that!!! He who is willing to bear this truth, let him bear it.   Those who ignore the red horse are forced to face the black horse in a destructive way, and those who refuse to heed the black horse are forced to face the green horse in an utterly destructive way, and, when that happens, prophetic callings are lost forever. God sent Katrina to reveal the black-horse judgment against black America. If black America refuses to heed the red horse (which prompted the black horse to come against her in the first place), she will face the green horse, and her prophetic calling will be thrown into the Gehenna pit of aborted dreams, just as Latin America's calling has. Cautious "political correctness" simply will not cut it!!!
	The "poor" must be proactively remembered The plan to restore black America requires leaders who are vocal about the need for that restoration. It requires leaders who are constantly reminding all Americans of the need not to forget those who are trapped in the inner cities of America. It requires believers who will not forget their brethren left behind once they themselves are out of their Sheol prisons. It requires believers whose spirits are constantly circling over America's ghettos in an effort to see if anyone who is "rescueable" has been left behind. This is the prophetic reason why God forced rescue teams to have helicopters hovering over flooded New Orleans in search for survivors. This is what we as believers should have been doing in the spirit realm all along.