Rick Ridings: America at the Crossroads in 1997

America at the Crossroads: Judgment or Full Revival?
A Prophecy Concerning America
Received by Rick Ridings
at 2:30 a.m., April 17, 1997



Tell America that My judgment has been pronounced upon it for the same root sins as Sodom: they were "arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy" (Ezek. 16:49). These root sins have resulted in such fruit sins as:

1. The sin of selling your youth as slaves to Babylon; caring only about yourselves and right now, and sacrificing their future to your present.

2. The sin of sacrificing the unborn to Molech upon the altars of convenience and greed.

3. The sin of prostitution: losing all sense of shame and loving immorality to the point of packaging it through your media, and making it one of your major national products. You have pumped it throughout the earth, almost like a water filtration plant that decided it would pump out sewage rather than clean water. You have determined to not only defile your own land, but to pollute and defile the rest of the earth with your abominable immorality.

4. The sin of greed: grinding the faces of the poor under the heels of your shoes, snuffing out their dim light as a man would snuff out a cigarette butt.

Tell America that because of such root sins and such fruit sins, judgment is coming as soon as they finish filling that bowl to the point of over-flowing, and it is very close to that point.

BUT, in My great compassion, I am giving one last chance to America to turn from her love for sin, and lack of the fear of the Lord. This last chance is in the form of a national revival and spiritual awakening.

If their turning is complete, there is the hope that I will relent of this judgment, for there is yet one thing in your favor: the spirit of generosity in a small remnant to give of themselves to take My gospel to the nations. If there is a true, wide-spread, and deep turning, allowing me to pull out roots, and not only fruits, I will relent of the judgment and destruction that I had planned for America.

But if the turning is partial, if the awakening is just to a state of drowsiness, only to turn over and go back to sleep again, to return like a dog to its vomit, then I must be consistent with My judgment pronounced upon Sodom, and allow the fire of war to cleanse the spirit of defilement from the land.

I sent revival in the late 1850's to give America the opportunity to totally turn from the same roots of pride, arrogance and greed, and the fruit sin of slavery. There was an awakening, but only to a state of drowsiness, not one allowing Me to go to the roots. Therefore, rather than that revival leading to the full turning that would have allowed Me to withhold the cup of judgment, it could only serve a lesser purpose: That revival strengthened the remnant to be able to stand as I , with a broken heart, poured out the overflowing cup of judgment in the fires of the Civil War.

Even now, as I pour out revival, if you are satisfied with only enough to fill your churches, and then turn over to go back into your comfortable sleep again; if you do not seek Me to reveal and pull out the deep and strong roots of evil, then, with great sorrow of heart, I will be forced to remove Your candlestick and send such economic disaster, that your remnant will no longer be the oil supply feeding the lamp of missions that they have been for so long. I have already raised up other candlesticks, and I will divert the oil of My resources to those that are awake to Me and My purposes at the end of the Age. I do not need America to accomplish My end-time purposes. I own the earth, and all of it's fullness, and I am fully able to resource My work.

If this revival does not lead to a full turning to Me and seeking Me to pull out the evil roots and heal the land, then, in great sorrow, I will be forced to allow the over-flowing bowl of judgment to be poured out in the fires of war in order to cleanse by fire the defilement of the land. But the partial revival will have served to strengthen the remnant to be able to stand during this awful baptism of fire.

But the land will be cleansed of its defilement by a fire far greater and more destructive than the flames of the Civil War. The land will no longer be able to export such floods of filth and defilement to the nations, but will be burnt over; and dark, heavy clouds will rest upon it in darkness and desolation, and it will be only a faint shadow of the great land it once was.

But I am the Almighty. I will resource My great work of bringing the knowledge of My glory to the ends of the earth, with or without America playing the major role I had offered to it. The choice is before her. The choice is before My church in America.

Therefore, seek Me while I may be found, and call upon Me while I am near.