300 and 86 years ago, the ship called the Arbela journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean to the new world aboard that ship was John Winthrop, who would pen the founding vision of the civilization to be called America.
If we would follow the ways of God, he wrote and he shall make us of praise and glory, we must consider that we shall be as a city on a hill.
That vision would come true.
America would become the most blessed, prosperous, powerful nation the world had ever seen and a praise and a glory in the earth.
America’s founding vision was based on the template of ancient Israel.
In the history of this world, only two civilizations came into existence on the solitary foundation that God’s calling and purpose was the reason.
The first was Israel, the second was America, but as ancient Israel turned away from her God in his way.
So too as America, the city on the hill founded for the purpose and glory of God drove God out of its government out of its culture, out of its public squares.
It celebrated on Godliness and called evil, good and good, evil.
It lifted up the most innocent and helpless of its inhabitants and slaughtered them on the altars of self obsession.
The last time we gathered here on this hill was the day after the Supreme Court heard the case to decide the future of marriage in this nation.
Two months after we gathered here, America’s highest court struck down the order of God.
And the day on which it did was the ninth of Tomos.
The ancient day of mourning that commemorates the day that Israel’s hedge of protection was removed in the approach of judgment.
And so it must be asked this day, Supreme Court justices, where did you get the authority to overrule the rulings of the most high and by what authority did you strike down the laws of the Almighty?
You are neither the highest court nor the final authority.
There is a supreme judge with a supreme justice that does not sleep forever.
And Mr President, when you assume the office of your presidency, do you not lay your hand on the word of God and swear before him?
So help me God. And yet on the day that the Supreme Court struck down the order of God, you issued the order that the White House be illumined by the colors of the rainbow to celebrate that striking down Mr President by what authority did you take the sacred colors of God’s covenant, the colors of his throne and the sign of His mercy in the face of judgment and turn them against the purposes of God and the word of God on which you swore your oath.
The city on the hill has grown darkened, it has forgotten the God of its foundation.
The temples of its culture have been expunged of his presence and are now filled with idols in his place.
It’s forgotten the warning that was embedded in the vision of the city on the hill.
For it was also written and prophesized if our hearts shall turn away, so we will not obey but shall be seduced and worshiped other gods, our pleasures and our prophets and serve them.
We shall surely perish. In other words, we will stand at the precipice of judgment.
And so we’ve come here to Capitol Hill this night because as long as God lives, there is hope and we here place our trust in that hope and we declare that good is stronger than the evil.
The light will overcome the darkness.
We resolve that we will not yield to that darkness, but we will hold to the light and we lift up that light and shine that light into the darkness.
We will stand against the night. And if the dark grows darker, we will shine yet brighter.
We have come to Washington DC, not to seek the agency of government, but the agency of the Holy Spirit, not to lobby those who occupy high offices, but to beseech him who occupies the office of the most high and not to invoke the authority of men, but to call forth the power of the Almighty for revival.
For there is no other hope but revival.
And we now commit ourselves to pray for that revival and not only to pray for that revival, but by the power of God to live and walk in that revival, we have come to the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob to the God of Moses and the God of Elijah to the God of the Red Sea and the resurrection to the God of the impossible.
We have come to the throne of the sovereign almighty living God of Israel and we cry out, have mercy, have mercy, have mercy on this land.
Lift up again, your eyes upon this land and have mercy. Let your power again be seen in this nation.
Let it fall upon the Heartland, let it fall upon the coast land, let it fall upon the cities.
Let it fall upon this capital. Let there be revival in this land.
Let the loss be saved and let the seed be revived no matter what it takes.
Let there be revival in the land for the rock upon which this city on a hill was built, is not politics, not economics and not the power of man.
It is the name of Yeshua Hama Jesus, the messiah, the name above all names.
The only answer, the only hope.
The only way that the city on a hill will again shine sign of redemption and once more be a praise and a glory in this earth.
So help us God. Amen.