BLUES AND GRAYS
Over the past several years I have had the opportunity to travel to many different countries around the world. In every country Christians are telling metheir churches are being divided. Some leaders are saying this division is necessary. Christianity is about to be purified through a civil war, they say. Is this behavior indicative of a revival as some claim? Or is this exactly what occurred in the past when enlightened Christians became the manifested sons of God?
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Not long ago I read an article written by Rick Joyner called the Coming Civil War in the Church. In this article, Joyner stated he believed a civil war would soon be breaking out within the church. He stated: “There is a huge portion of the church which is being held bondage to the same religious spirit that manifested itself to the Pharisees, and it will attack any new movement that arises in the church. The more anointed the new movement is, the more these traditionalists will be threatened by it, and the more vehemently they will attack it.” [1]
Joyner’s solution for removing the people who opposed this “anointed new move” sounds rather militant. Listen to what he said:
“The longer we continue to compromise with such institutions which use manipulation or control for the sake of unity or for any reason the more it will ultimately cost us to remove the cancer from our midst.” [2]
Mr. Joyner then went on to describe how the conflict in the church will develop:
“The coming spiritual civil war will be between the Blue’s and the Gray’s. In dreams and visions blue often represents heavenly-mindedness, and gray speaks of those who live by the power of their own minds - which is equivalent to the brain’s gray matter. This will be a conflict between those who may be genuine Christians, but who live mostly according to their natural minds and human wisdom, and those who follow the Holy Spirit.” [3]
This spiritual elitism based upon those who are following the Spirit and those who are not, is sweeping the world. Although not everyone is familiar with the concept of the two camps - the Gray’s and the Blue’s - churches all over the world are certainly experiencing the fallout from this kind of a divisive theology.
I am concerned where this idea of labeling Christians - Blue’s and Gray’s will end. During the Latter Rain movement of the 1940’s groups of people throughout North America were saying something very similar. They said God was doing something new. This new breed was called the Overcomers, Joel’s Army or the Manifested Sons of God. Eventually these spiritual giants separated themselves from other believers entirely. Some even stopped praying to Jesus. They themselves had become so spiritual they considered themselves to be God.
The civil war created by the Latter Rain of the forties devastated Christian families, churches and fellowships. It seems to me history is repeating once more. Is the coming civil war that is being predicted a sign true revival is ahead or is this just another sign we are in the apostasy the Bible says will happen in the last days?
I am Roger Oakland. This has been a biblical perspective to help understand the times.
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[1] From May 17, 18:51:21 1996 taken from the Morning Star Prophetic Bulletin, May issue 1996
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.