Jim Bakker Show - America's Fourth Crucible Has Begun - Dr Lance Wallnau on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2019-10-02
Duration: 02:55


=== Defining Moments in American History (02:16) ===

[00:00:00]  We should have freedom for all, not just freedom for half the people.
[00:00:04]  America is divided and a nation divided.
[00:00:08]  I've read it on the show yesterday.
[00:00:09]  A nation divided cannot stand.
[00:00:13]  Well, so what you're quoting is both Matthew and Abraham Lincoln.
[00:00:20]  And so what's interesting about Lincoln is that he came into the nation at a time when the nation was in the process of dividing.
[00:00:28]  And one of the things that, Jim, we've talked about is that there are four crucibles that are in the history of the United States.
[00:00:37]  The Revolutionary War was a defining moment for who we were as a people.
[00:00:40]  The Civil War was a defining moment.
[00:00:43]  World War II, the Great Depression was a defining moment.
[00:00:47]  And every one of those happened within 70 to 90 year cycles.
[00:00:51]  And so we are now in the next cycle.
[00:00:54]  This is based on research that was done in a curiously documented book called The Fourth Turning.
[00:01:00]  And the writers predicted before 9-11 that right around now in American history, America would enter the crucible.
[00:01:07]  And we would be once again in a crisis defining who we were as a people.
[00:01:11]  God provided Washington for the first crucible.
[00:01:15]  He provided Lincoln for the second crucible.
[00:01:18]  And regardless of your thinking on FDR, he was the perfect person for the assignment for the Second World War, working with Churchill and the Alliance.
[00:01:28]  And Donald Trump happens to step on the scene.
[00:01:32]  And as far as I know, you could try to go back in history and recalibrate these individuals as evangelicals.
[00:01:40]  I can't prove that from history, but I could say that their principles and their sentiments aligned with the Word of God and they quoted the Bible.
[00:01:50]  So God provides what's called common grace leaders for the crucible of this nation.
[00:01:56]  And we are entering into this unraveling, and it's happening in all these directions, and the Lord has given us leadership right now that is standing at that juncture.

=== Step Out of Accords (00:53) ===

[00:02:07]  But where would Britain have been without Churchill?
[00:02:10]  Where would the United States have been without Lincoln?
[00:02:13]  They were peculiarly gifted for the crucible that they were in.
[00:02:18]  And I wonder, where will we be without the strength and the determination and clarity of agenda that Trump has?
[00:02:28]  Because this president, I mean, think about the nerve it takes to step out of NAFTA, to step out of the Paris Climate Accords, to step out and to move the embassy to Israel.
[00:02:41]  Wow.
[00:02:42]  And to take on China and the tariff wars and what's happening there, which most Americans still don't understand, where they're at war with us economically.
[00:02:51]  And so this guy is uniquely positioned, Jim, for the role he has.