A Remnant Has Risen. Will You Join It?
A movement has begun.
Historically, American awakenings precede a crisis, like the Edwards and Whitfield revivals leading up to the American Revolution or the Finney revivals before the Civil War. Sometimes they follow, such as the revivals in 1948 after WWII.
What is happening now is an Awakening of a different sort; it occurs during a crisis of national unraveling. An unraveling made up of issues that are not just cultural but political because politics has become the ultimate enforcer of morality in an all-or-nothing, zero-sum game of power. Those who said, “you can’t legislate morality,” were wrong. You can’t make someone righteous by legislation, but you can legalize lawlessness and persecute the righteous by lawless decrees. This awakening is on a collision course with these lawless powers engineering America’s collapse. It is inevitable that the Kingdom of God will collide with forces destroying the nation. The new awakeners are not engaging in politics because they are political; instead, they push back on government because the political sphere became religious. The new awakeners didn’t choose to get involved with politics; politics decided to get involved with them when it transgressed into the territory of religious liberty.
In such an hour when the situation is desperate, but the saints are not, God sent a man named Mario Murillo. No armchair evangelist could have written this book. Its pages breathe with the fire of someone on the front lines of the conflict. Mario wrote while tending the fires of this very awakening. He has had to expand his tent as thousands find their way, often across fields and through rain and biting cold to get to his meetings. In Mario’s tent and writing, he pulls no punches. The gospel is preached, and signs and wonders break forth to confirm the supernatural power behind the message. Multitudes come to the altar, sometimes more than once in the same meeting. His message in the tent and in this book is nothing less than a battle cry for saving America! Perhaps one of the elements that compelled me most was that in upstate New York, during one of Mario’s crusades, over a thousand pastors and leaders gathered together, moving as one, to take on the battle for seeing transformation in their state. If meetings like these are indicators of what’s rumbling in the Church, truly a remnant is rising up, unified, organized, and committed to push back against the insidious agendas seeking to disciple our nation.
At the passing of Billy Graham, I witnessed an unusual convergence. I recalled how a prophet and friend of mine named Kim Clement spoke of God raising new vessels with the anointing of Billy Graham. I thought of this as another instrument of providence named Donald Trump tapped on the pinewood coffin of the great statesman evangelist, lying in the capitol of Washington D.C. The President prayed that God would raise a new generation of male and female Billy Grahams. I believe Mario carries an anointing that answers both Kim’s prophecy and the President’s prayer. Furthermore, I think others will light their torch from the torch he carries.
In these days of America’s Revolution, Mario’s manuscript will have the same effect as Thomas Paine’s pamphlets to the Continental army. Paine’s booklet Common Sense breathed such life into Washington that he insisted his officers read it to his soldiers during the brutal winter of Valley Forge 1776. Those words inspired Washington. As a result, he decided to turn the long tide of colonial defeat into a stunning, unexpected victory by crossing the frozen Delaware river and smashing the Hessian army in a surprise Christmas Eve attack. The psychological effect of this victory shifted all 13 colonies and reinvigorated the entire war effort, leading to ultimate success.
Mario is a prophet with a pen, an evangelist with a message and a prototype, the forerunner of a move of God on the eve of a great comeback in our second American Revolution.
