“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall,” Proverbs 16:18.

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!” Luke 13:34.

“This nation will be brought to its knees. For the darkness will come. It will cover the land. For your days are numbered, oh land that was once called the land of the free and the home of the brave.

You have entered into a time where you cannot turn back. The glory has left the land. For your riots and civil unrest will continue. Woe to those who call violence good, and march to the boldness of the one who has dominated your TV screens for months.

Pride goeth before a fall. The peacock will fall on that day. The splendor and his arrogance will bring about his ruin.

You have been led down a road and listened to a message from a piper who has played a tune that has led many of you astray.

The violence in the streets will continue. The only way to make America great is to get on your knees.

You were once a divided nation many years ago. You were divided from north to south then.

But now your divisions will spread from east to west, from rich and poor, from the strong and the weak, from the old to the young. Churches will be split right down the middle. And those who speak from the pulpits will have a message all their own. There is so much violence and hatred. The cause is not just.

But if you would return to Me, then I could heal that which is broken. But how many times have I asked you to do this? You say that you would return to me and yet your hearts are taken to another.

Oh, that I would have gathered you up in my arms. Oh, that I would have comforted you. Oh, that I would have made your borders like silver and sapphire. But the jewel has lost its luster.”

~ Stephen Hanson

Stephen Hanson of In His Truth Ministries came to the Lord is a special way in 1975 and has been prophesying regularly since. In these end-time birthing pangs we are to be reminded that judgment must first begin with the household of God. Will we be prepared and ready?