A while back related to Gayle’s work we received a very significant prophetic word that it was a ‘back to the future’ sitatuation… this morning I had an article sent me from a very different perspective entitled back to the future. Marty McFly went from 1985 to 1955 with all that entailed – we all laughed back then when 30 years prior to his time the suggestion that the actor Ronald Reagan would be future president was extremely bizarre. The article looked at 2024 and travelling back 30 years to 1994 and perhaps the suggestion to Doc that Doc that “the casino guy with the gold-plated toilets who left his wife for the Wrestlemania girl” would get elected president would be as bizarre. Those were the humorous part of the article, the rest was much more profound and disturbing. Humour for sure, but..
1994 Nelson Mandela just elected as South Africa’s president; Yasser Arafat returns from Exile and begins the ‘peace process’; Ukraine gives up its Soviet based nuclear weapons with part of the deal between Russia and the West being that the Ukraine will not be invaded by either party… that and many other ironic observations were being made. The aritcle ended very poignantly with
What does 2054 Marty see during his visit to our world? What seeds are we planting, and can we possibly know what harvest they’ll bring?
[For us charismatics we might also add in 1994 and what became known as the ‘Toronto Blessing’… seeds sown then and 30 years later? Now what seeds are being sown for 1954?]
On the global (middle eastern) scene in 2054 we would travel back to 2024 to realise that so much came in 2024 to destabilise… we would read that there was not only conlfict in Gaza, but that was the year that the border to the occupied West Bank was closed shutting out the 150,000 Palestinian workers had been crossing into Israel regularly for jobs in agriculture and construction, causing something around 30% unemployment in the West Bank. Tied to the Middle East 2024 was the year when 15% of all global trade stopped using the Suez Canal thus adding to global costs enormously… who knows whether those events will help someone in 2054 make sense of their world?
Can we affect the future? The future is always rising from the seeds of today.
I’d just read the blog,flipping over to CNN news.Literally minutes between, a clip from Back to the Future! What timing.Could this be sign?Kidding.But then again….
The 1990s seemed like quite a positive time to me. Since then things seem to have declined and become so divided. There was an optimism somehow I felt during that decade and an innocence. We are now descending into populism in political terms and it’s hard to find a centrist stance on much. What do you think of the Toronto Blessing? One of my sister’s is not sure about it being of God? So many ministries were birthed there though so if that was the case might be problematic or maybe as you always say God works with us where we are. Since there is so much division in evangelical Charismatic circles and the type of political stuff that’s been encouraged by them particularly in the USA more recently , it makes you wonder? Thank you for this fascinating post Martin.