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The Future War of the Church

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Chuck Pierce is a voice crying out in the wilderness, "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord."

There is a prophetic voice emerging out of mainline Christianity today and Chuck Pierce is one of those Prophets. He captures, in one volumn, the heart of God and what Christ is doing in the hearts of this generation in preparation for His soon return.

Chuck Pierce opens a window into the Spiritual realm easily understood by anyone. He speaks of intercessory warfare and explains God's strategy in tearing down strongholds of the enemy.

He talks about and explains the coming Apostolic Church Government and the raising up of Prophets who will and are admonishing us to prepare our hearts before God.

Chuck Pierce has defined in depth what God means in His Commandment to 'Love God first with your whole heart and soul, and your NEIGHBOR as yourself.' Jesus Christ longs to share the fire of His love with us. Embrasing Him intimately is key to our growing up in Him.

Chuck Pierce shows us the way. One small paragraph sums up the whole of his prophetic message here:

"As we learn to operate in our gifts, the Body of Christ will function as it was meant to. No demonic force, including lawlessness, will be able to stand against a fully functioning Body of Christ. Operating properly in the gifts will lead us back to love (1 Cor. 13:1010), where we can work together according to the heart of God." (Page 203-204).

Now, I respect Dutch Sheets, and since he has ministered with Chuck Pierce, I have given Chuck the benefit of the doubt since he seems to meet with Dutch's approval; however, I was not interested in reading about Chuck's dreams and then interpretations of those dreams, which is basically what this book is all about.

Now perhaps, as dreams are the means which many prophet's receive from the Lord, it seems to me, unless one is the John the apostle, relating all the details of the dream is a little bit superfluous for most folks. I get that God talks in dreams at times, and to His prophets in dreams at times. However, re-telling all the dream details doesn't really excite me. Just get to the point, if possible, of what is thought to be the interpretation, and then get to the point of what the application is to your readers lives. If those points were made in this book, I have long since forgotten them from when I first read this book and found the endless detail of the dreams too much information for me to digest and then sift through what may have been the really important stuff in there.

I think it says somewhere in the bible, let someone tell their dreams, but let him who has the Word of God speak as well. The body needs clear direction, clear vision from above. To whatever extent a dream is blurring, and unclear, it fails to serve it's purpose, if it's doesn't get translated into a Word which can be acted upon in faith. If anything, the prophets need to give clear Words, or go into their closets until what is unclear becomes explained.

I cannot recommend this book.

AWAKE!



The cry of Chuck Pierce book, The Future War of the Church is for the Church to awake! While I am a quick reader, I was still surprised last night I read this 300 page book in full. I could not put it down because in it is an urgent message for members of the body of Christ, particularly those who are still finding God asking them to align and not abandon the local church - even if the local church has abandoned them. Originally written in 2001 prior to 9/11 (and revised/updated/re-released in 2007) the prophetic words are rich with punctuation now of how the Spirit of God is supplying the ministry and message given to Chuck Pierce and Rebecca Wagner Sytsema.

We, the Church, the Body of Christ, must not run and hide, nor fearfully reject the non-traditionalism move of the Holy Spirit. That which we don't understand, can still be quite grounded in the Word of God. The Church NEEDS its gifted apostles and prophets just as much as it needs its pastors, teachers and evangelists! Who is man, apart of the Spirit, to determine what is of God and what is not? Is not that the office of the Holy Spirit to confirm or deny a moving of God? Too long has the members of Christ who are gifted in Apostolic and Prophetic ministries been sidelined, removed, stripped of authority, and denied access to the local church.

What are We afraid of - that the Spirit of God might take control of equipping His people for the work of the ministry? Is it that leaders in churches do not want to see God's power distributed freely as He chooses, in the manner He decides, in the timing He ordains, in the way He designs, through the vessels He deems? Is the controlling spirit so strong in the halls and office of pastoral staff? Are they afraid God might call them to serve and minister to the very disciples of Jesus that are not contained by tradition and conditioned by seminary schooling, and therefore not rendered controllable by administrators or executives of the hierarchal norm found in the majority of denominational churches?

God has a plan! He is preparing new wineskin! God is on the move! We either join Him or we quench His Spirit to empower and release supernatural ability to harvest the lost and captive to the father of this world. Since we don't fight against flesh and blood, why do churches attempt to lead in it! The Future of the Church and its powerful role to defeat lawlessness and to bring God's order to the earth depends on our readiness. This is War! We must be disciplined in the ways of spiritual battle. The fight against darkness has its key focus on prayer for standing strong in the very real battle that we are already surrounded by. Is the Church willing to be used? Are you positioning yourself to be prepared for the day God calls you to "Fear not, and tread forth!"? Is this is your heart-cry? If so, read this book by Chuck Pierce and Rebecca Wagner Sytsema and awaken your mind and spirit to God.

We read and discussed this for our wednesday night bible study. We all loved it. And I recommend to all who are interested in what God is doing and about to do for his kingdom.

Chuck Pierce and Rebecca Wagner Systema do an excellent job in both forthtelling the up and coming and detailing how we can be active participants in building the Kingdom and defending it from within and without. Every spiritual warrior needs this reference book in their library.

This is a "real" life stirring book. It is present truth, scripturally sound. I found it to be a manual of prevalent information; Christ-centered and prophetic in its content. I found myself praying much of what I was absorbing from its pages - it is actually, to me, a intercessory handbook for this season. I couldn't put it down. Bought copies for friends. It is well written, an eye opener - NEVER boring! I recomment it to anyone who feels desert dry - it is an oasis!

Everyone in the world needs to read this book.

Information of great significance to prepare the Church for the future war, which we are in. Could not put this book down, bought one for my Pastor and I'm reading it again. This is NOW.

We need to understand what is happening & this book will explain how we got where we are & tools for today. If We {those of us who Love Jesus} don't get busy about our Father's business we will not advance His Kingdom. Chuck hears from God & is a great leader for today, get his books & read them. I do recommend his worship warrior book, we will need to praise our way through the enemy.

If you are looking for an indepth look at how the church must restructure in order to accomodate a calling to a higher level of maturity, then this book is an excellent thought-provoking guide.