Day 1608 MARCH 31ST – PROCESSING THE NEW PATH!
NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN…Lylloyd Phillips – : In early November 2024, I was praying for an upcoming conference at which I would be speaking a few days after the presidential election. I felt the Holy Spirit tell me to get a sheriff’s badge to take with me to wear. I like when the Spirit speaks such things, and the treasure hunt that ensues to follow His lead, not knowing precisely how to fill in the mysterious blanks of what He has in mind. He led me to a store in town that stocks all kinds of oddities, surprises, and party favors, where I bought a bag of sheriff’s badges. While traveling to the host city of the conference, I asked the Lord what the badges were for. He simply said, “There’s a new sheriff in town, and He’s going to need deputies to carry out His plans.”
Confirmation seemingly followed just as I pulled into the city limits and Bob Dylan came on the radio. He started to belt out the classic song, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.” The song begins, “Mama, take this badge off of me. I can’t use it anymore … I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door.” I was beginning to get a message. I gave badges to the conference leaders, then shared publicly a prophetic word: We had experienced a sea change with the election of Donald Trump. “There will be a new sheriff in town,” I said, “and God is deputizing those who would knock on heaven’s door to see that His plans are implemented.”
In the classic Hollywood Westerns, a new sheriff would show up to bring law and order where outlaws had been running the town. The new sheriff would lay down the law, warning the bad guys to get out of Dodge or he would call them out at noon for a showdown. I felt the Lord was saying President Trump was going to lay down the law to those who had been running roughshod over this nation, and he wouldn’t stand for it any longer. We are entering into a time of reformation, of meaningful societal change, tearing down things that shouldn’t have been built and rebuilding on the strong foundations upon which our republic was originally built. I felt the Lord was saying we can be deputized to knock on heaven’s door to help bring law and order to our nation and help in the transformation and the reformation now unfolding.
We have an opportunity to join with Him as He answers our many prayers for the salvation of our nation. Not long after I returned home from the conference, I saw an interview with one of President Trump’s senior advisors, who remarked, “There’s a new sheriff in town.” I laughed excitedly, hearing him say exactly what the Holy Spirit had spoken to me. Since the inauguration, I’ve heard that phrase repeated so often by so many people that it’s almost becoming a byword. Most recently, Vice President J.D. Vance emphatically told European leaders at the Munich Security Conference, “There’s a new sheriff in town.”
Rather than the sheriff telling the outlaws to get out of Dodge, it’s DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, telling them to get out—and to leave the money behind. Just the other day, I heard the president give Hamas until noon to release the hostages or, in a warning reminiscent of Marshal Wyatt Earp, declare that “all hell is going to break loose.” The Earp brothers—Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan—were known to strike fear into the hearts of outlaws. Likewise, Trump and his band of deputies are having the same effect on the entrenched criminal bureaucracy and deep state that has infiltrated and plagued our republic. “When justice is done, it is] a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers” (Proverbs 21:15 ESV). But that’s only part of the story. It’s much bigger than just having a new sheriff in town.
Looking back to see ahead
Back in Spring 2020, I had a dream that I believed was about the presidential election. In the dream, I heard a heavenly voice say clearly, “1984 or 1984.” As I considered its meaning, I felt it could signify either an election like the 1984 presidential race or a prophecy of a time like that described in George Orwell’s book 1984. Ronald Reagan decisively won reelection in 1984 after running against a Democratic former vice president with a female running mate. Similarly, in 2020, Trump ran against a former Democratic vice president with a woman as his running mate. (I wrote about that in The MorningStar Journal, May 2021.) Reagan won 49 of 50 states in 1984.
Likewise, according to the CIA website that tracks elections, Trump had won 49 out of 50 states as of midnight on Election Day in 2020. (Notably, the Supreme Court’s 1997 unanimous decision in Foster vs. Love, ruled that Election Day means Election Day, and only ballots received by midnight on Election Day may legally be counted.) Of course, it didn’t end there. Many irregularities and suspicious events unfolded in the following days, weeks, and months, ultimately leading to a loss for the president and the beginning of a dystopian four years. Only now are we beginning to see relief.
Days before the 2024 presidential election, Elon Musk wore a hat on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast that read, “Make Orwell Fiction Again.” It was a nod to the bleak reality created by the Biden administration. He expressed the viewpoint—shared by many—that if President Trump did not win the 2024 election decisively, elections would cease to matter, as one party would dominate and control all future elections through illegal means. But how would that happen? By January 2021, the party that controlled the White House had opened U.S. borders to millions of illegal aliens and used public funds to support and sustain unconscionable activities, including efforts to change the demographics of future elections to keep their political party in power. The administration actively organized citizens of other nations to surge across the border or flew them into the United States from foreign countries, called them asylum seekers, and then granted them sanctuary status while providing them free healthcare, free cell phones, free housing, and, in many cases, free college. None of these actions were legislatively approved in Congress.
In Orwellian fashion, the Democrat-controlled government contrived many schemes to delegitimize its opponents. It colluded with friendly media outlets to influence and subvert freedom of the press, attacked free speech on social media platforms, and subjected its opponents— conservatives and Christians, mostly—to what has become known as lawfare. That is, it used government prosecutors to punish otherwise innocent groups or individuals that were seen as a threat to any narrative the regime promoted.
This included using laws meant to fight terrorism to enable the FBI to investigate parents who spoke up at local school board meetings, and to convict and incarcerate a 75-year-old woman for protesting abortions. Meanwhile, real terrorists crossed the borders illegally; we still don’t know where they are. In Afghanistan, the administration transferred billions of dollars of military equipment to the Taliban, one of the world’s largest sponsors of state terrorism.
The regime colluded with state and local officials to demonize, impoverish, and imprison thousands of conservatives, and helped to bring numerous charges against the former president to try and disqualify him from running for office. Not even Hollywood could write a script this bad. I could go on, but the point is just how extremely Orwellian the regime acted following the 2020 election.
Return of the King
In 2 Samuel 15-18, we find a story of a rightful king who had his kingdom illegitimately taken from him for a time, and after a time, he was able to reclaim his rightful seat of authority. When Absalom, King David’s son, usurped the throne, David was forced into exile for a time and faced serious danger. However, the Lord used this time to reveal to David who was against him in his own court, something David needed to know to purge the threats from his kingdom once he regained his throne. He learned from his time in exile who could be trusted and who could not. President Trump endured a time of exile that he rightly should not have had to experience, but during that time, he learned much about those who worked against him in his first administration.
This greatly influenced his choices regarding whom he has chosen to work with him in his second administration. He learned the seriousness of having the right people with him in his cabinet and how the wrong people had “deep state” influence. In his second administration, not only has he chosen outsiders from the political swamp of Washington, D.C., but has in many cases has chosen those who, like himself, have been abused, persecuted, and prosecuted by the bureaucracy. Now, those trusted advisors have been placed in key positions to reform and correct a corrupt system. The great king Nebuchadnezzar experienced a period of exile, but of a very different kind. The Lord decreed that he would spend seven years in a spiritual exile, living among the animals in the wild, “until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom He will” (see Daniel 4:32 ESV). At the end of the seven years, Nebuchadnezzar praised the Most High: “Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just, and those who walk in pride He is able to humble” (Daniel 4:34 ESV).
In a similar fashion, President Trump experienced a form of exile, and he, too, emerged glorifying God, telling the world that God is sovereign. It wasn’t the O.K. Corral, and it wasn’t the wilderness of Babylon or En Gedi, but rather on a stage in Butler, Pennsylvania. After being shot by an attempted assassin’s bullet, he was a different man. By his own account, “It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening. We will fear not, but instead remain resilient in our Faith and defiant in the face of wickedness.” In his second inauguration speech, he added, “I felt then, and I believe even more so now, that my life was saved by God to make America great again… I will not forget our country, we will not forget our Constitution, and we will not forget our God.”
It took Nebuchadnezzar seven years to come back and glorify God; it took president Trump less than four. President Trump seems to have even more energy and a renewed conviction and vision to accomplish the task before him. Caleb was only two years older than the president is now when he declared his readiness: “I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim [giants] were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said” (Joshua 14:11-12 ESV).
Promises made, promises kept
“Promises made, promises kept” has become a motto for the present administration, just as it was during Trump’s first term in office. However, this time, the president is reaching back to promises made by Ronald Reagan that have been unfulfilled until now. Reagan defeated one-term president Jimmy Carter to become president. Carter was the longest-living former president in history, and, for most of his life, was known by many as the worst president in U.S. history. That was until one-term President Joe Biden, who a majority of Americans now consider the worst president in U.S. history. During his single term, Carter created the unconstitutional Department of Education, purportedly to bring equality to public education in America. He created the Department of Energy to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil. He paid Panama to take control of the Panama Canal and, in an extreme act of betrayal, forced the replacement of a U.S. ally, the Republic of China (Taiwan), with Communist China as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. This council was originally created from the World War II allies of the U.S.; Communist China has never been, and is not currently, an ally of the U.S. Reagan promised to change some of these policies, particularly to abolish the Department of Education, which was less than four years old when he became president. However, by the end of his presidency, his position had moderated, and it remained.
Trump has now promised to end the Department of Education and return the supervision of education to the states. When the Department of Education was created, U.S. students ranked among the top in the world. Today, it ranks 40th globally, despite spending more money per student than any other nation. Since the creation of the Department of Energy, the only time the U.S. was free from dependence on Middle Eastern oil was under the policies of Trump’s first administration. Biden reversed those policies, but President Trump has promised to make the U.S. an exporter of energy again. Likewise, he has promised to restore the U.S.’s legitimate authority over the Panama Canal. Panama was once a province of Colombia, and in return for U.S. support of Panamanian independence, the U.S.was granted sovereignty over the Canal Zone. America then accomplished what no other nation could by completing the canal and linking two oceans. It is yet to be seen what President Trump will do concerning the betrayal of the Republic of China, but we can rest assured that he will protect Taiwan and American allies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Justice is coming
First Lady Melania Trump has a way of communicating messages though the clothing she wears. At President Trump’s second inauguration, she stood out in a navy-blue silk suit with a stunning, wide-brimmed hat. She came to slay the evildoer, and this was the beginning. Her brim was pulled low, casting a shadow over her eyes—much like a gunslinger in an old Western. She could see her enemies, but they could not see her eyes. It wasn’t a western outfit, but it was American-made and designed to send a message: Justice is coming, and there may be hell to pay. There is a new sheriff in town! We are witnessing the beginning of a reformation. It will not be smooth, but it may be deep and extensive. It will transform not only the power structures of America but of the world. In his second inaugural speech, the president said: “Our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous and free. America will soon be greater, stronger and far more exceptional than ever before. I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change is sweeping the country. Sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before. But first, we must be honest about the challenges we face. While they are plentiful, they will be annihilated by this great momentum that the world is now witnessing in the United States of America… Our liberties and our nation’s glorious destiny will no longer be denied, and we will immediately restore the integrity, competency and loyalty of America’s government. Over the past eight years, I have been tested and challenged more than any president in our 250-year history, and I’ve learned a lot along the way. The journey to reclaim our republic has not been an easy one, that I can tell you. Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and indeed to take my life just a few months ago. In a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear, but I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason.
I was saved by God to make America great again. … Together, we stand on the verge of the four greatest years in American history. With your help, we will restore American promise, and we will rebuild the nation that we love, and we love it so much. We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.” We have an opportunity for a new birth of freedom and liberty. We are looking at the possibility of four golden years— or forty golden years! Whether it is four years or forty depends not upon the government but upon the church.
There is a new sheriff in town, a new order. The Lord is looking for disciples he can deputize to fight for the new order of liberty in our land. Put on your badge and get ready to ride!
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All of us desire to know what truth is; what happens after I die; or what is my purpose for living. Young and old go through these various struggles. The Bible states in Isaiah 1:18 – “Let us reason together”. It states in Hosea 4:6 – “My people perish for lack of knowledge”. God wants us to know Him in a personal way and He desires for each of us to discover our purpose and destiny in life! Why not start a movement to directly help parents, grandparents, youth pastors, campus leaders to train and equip our young people and “PRODIGALS”? Why not create a “Spiritual Journey Devotional” to bring back prodigals, but also prevent the younger generation from becoming one. I (Rick) have worked on University campuses for years talking with countless young people (thousands) discussing and debating issues regarding God and the Bible. Opportunities to debate with representatives of other religions, atheists, agnostics, liberals and philosophies have been numerous. Also many liberal professors challenged me. Out of these experiences seems to arise a constant flow of redundant questions and topics. I have come to conclude that the questions and answers must be given to our young people.
PRODIGALS: Many in your congregation or sphere of influence have children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces and spouses who have become prodigals. Many wonder what happened as they were brought up in a Christian home. Can this be addressed directly in our churches and homes???
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