By John Sweeny
Abraham (father of many) Lincoln (link-on) put our nation back together as shown in Zechariah 1:17 – (when Peter told us that no scripture is of private interpretation he meant that all things must be revealed (1 Cor 4:6b) by the spirit (1 Cor 12:11), we must rightly divide the word and only the Spirit can do this as proven in scripture by 1 Corinthians 2:14-16)
Continued – Abraham Lincoln was our eighteenth (18) president. Nine (9) represents completion. Eight (8) represents new beginning. Two (2) nines (9) represent a witness being the number eighteen (18). The next president, Ulysses S. Grant, was able to rest in that victory – the number nineteen (19) represents ten (10) human judgment or law and order plus nine (9) the number of completion or finality.
Zechariah Chapter 12 is certainly prophetic concerning national Israel, but even more so a prophecy concerning America. America is not a place as some believe but it is an idea that if and when followed will bring peace and liberty to all men from sea to shining sea. This idea of America was not of any man or group of men but is the heart of the gospel and perfect mind of Christ. In 1776 we declared our independence from tyranny (a type of Satan) and that same year the mission of San Luis Capistrano rang its (4) victory bells at its completion. The kingdom of God was established at the east sea (Atlantic) the same time it was established at the west sea , the Pacific (peace). Not only that, but also in 1776 at the site which is now the bridge (Jesus is the bridge over troubled water) that links Needles, California with Arizona (a picture of the gospel reaching the Indian nations of America) Father Garcias visited the Mojave Indians. God has given us a perfect witness for the plans and purposes of this nation – to spread the gospel to the whole world. National Israel failed its job, will America? God gave Joseph a double portion and thereby Israel was composed of 13 tribes when we include the priestly tribe (Levites). Our nation started out with 13 colonies which represent the 13 tribes of Israel.
King Ahab and Jezebel were both empowered and removed by the mighty hand of God (PS 2:1-4). If we continue as a nation in our sins of abortion and homosexuality, then Psalm 2:5 will be our portion and America will surely burn as did Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19:28).(Author’s note: Much of this revelation I received from a Bible scholar named Bruce, I believe, whom I met in Needles, California. He was water skiing and waiting in a restaurant for a ride.)
Abraham Lincoln once stated:
Our first president, George Washington (Wash-ing-ton), while reflecting on the peril of our union at Valley Forge was visited by an angel of the Lord, who by way of an open vision showed him the results of three wars: firstly, the War of Independence; secondly, the ‘future’ war of the north against the south (Civil War); and thirdly, a future war also on American soil, which I would term this war as World War III. We would do well to look at our own history."The world has never had a good definition of the word Liberty (2 Cor 3:17) and the American people (New Israel), just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for Liberty but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing (Eph 4:13)" (Author’s note: These words of our eighteenth president ring even more true today than at that time.)
Because Jesus Cares,
John Sweeny
P.S. A good friend of mine told me that if one were to go into the recess
of a cave that no one had entered for hundreds of years, and at the end
of that cave see a small speck of dust that had remained for hundreds of
years on a rock shelf, that dust only remains there because God’s eye,
which is on the sparrow, was also holding that speck of dust in existence
(Heb 1:2,3; Jn 1:3). God still loves and is waiting to forgive
America (2 Chr 7:14).
Editor’s note: This paper was written by John Sweeny. I, Mark Gabrielson typed the paper for publication at John’s request. I have made several editorial and spelling changes which I hope do not change the message John is delivering. The title of the paper was added by me and is based on what felt the main message of the paper was. Please pray to the Lord for Wisdom concerning the message this paper presents. Referenced Scriptures: Zech 1:17
17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
(KJV)1 Cor 4:6
6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
(KJV)1 Cor 12:11
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
(KJV)1 Cor 2:14-15
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
(KJV)Zech 12:1-14
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
(KJV)Ps 2:1-4
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
(KJV)Ps 2:5
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
(KJV)Gen 19:28
28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
(KJV)2 Cor 3:17
17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
(KJV)Eph 4:13
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
(KJV)Heb 1:2-3
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
(KJV)John 1:3
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
(KJV)2 Chr 7:14
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
(KJV)