Full Restoration
Acknowledging the aforementioned Harbingers, Judgments, and Convictions, the Bible again reveals the pathway to Full Restoration:
Identify, Confess, and Repent
After 70 years in Babylonian captivity, the people of Judah were released and allowed to return home (538 B.C.). Over the next 100 years they departed in groups and began rebuilding the City of Judah. In 458 B.C., the priest Ezra returns from Babylon and brings with him the Torah (first five books of today's Old Testament). Studying the Torah, it became clear to the Israelites how ungodly practices had infiltrated their lives and those of their ancestors (See Nehemiah chapters 8 and 9). In response, the Israelites deliberately set aside a day to address these sins:
They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors. They stood where they were and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day (3 hours), and spent another quarter in confession and in worshiping the Lord their God.
The remainder of Nehemiah’s book describes the reestablishment of the covenant between God and His once exiled people. It is from this Tribe of Judah that the promised Messiah, Jesus, would be born.
Today, America and her Army must do the same if they wish to continue their existence. Recall the words from America’s founding covenant by John Winthrop is 1630:
We are entered into Covenant with Him for this work… We shall find that the God of Israel is among us… So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.
After the earthly mission of Christ Jesus, Jesus’ half-brother, named James, wrote in roughly 47 A.D what would become the first chronological book within the New Testament. James addressed this book to the 12 scattered tribes of Israel which included the following instructions:
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
While this verse is frequently quoted in today’s western Church, many do not grasp the depth of its context. To the Jew reading this nearly 2,000 years ago, confessing one’s sins was a detailed, thorough, and deliberate process. Hebrews 9:9 references this Old Testament process for the confession of sins as an illustration for the present day, the only difference being we now have the perfect blood of Christ for forgiveness, cleansing, and healing. Prior to Christ, the Israelites relied on the blood of bulls, goats, and other animals, which remained inadequate (Hebrews 10:1-4).
As Moses once lifted the serpent in the wilderness for a people’s sins, The Messiah Jesus was also lifted, but for the sins of all those in the World (John 3:14-21). Today, if one wishes to open the door for full restoration, he/she must truly turn from their wicked past, confess their sins, confess the sins of their ancestors, worship the Lord, and believe with obedient faith in the finished work of Christ.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance. No king [General] is saved by the size of his army; no warrior [Soldier] escapes by his great strength. But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.