Freedom 250: Why I Have Hope for America

I promised three weeks ago to leave the negativity of the media and cultural war to celebrate Freedom 250.

It is an amazing time to be alive and trust God for revival in our time.

Twenty-nine centuries ago, Israel’s greatest prophet–Isaiah–spoke truth about encroaching sin/judgment in his generation. Those messages take up the first 39 chapters of the book of Isaiah. He called the people to repentance (change)–the first move toward God for any person or nation.

Then Isaiah ended the Bible’s second largest book with 27 chapters of  hope for the Jewish people. He encouraged their faith–the second step of salvation (Mark 1:15). 

Here’s why I have hope for America in this generation.

Freedom 250: Why I Have Hope for America

I heard a message recently on how “words create worlds.”

The first verse of Genesis describes God creating the world by speaking it into existence (Genesis 1:1). His second greatest “speech” sent His Son into the world to save it. John 1:1 describes Jesus as the Word of God.

Thus, the beginning of the universe and the plan of salvation both came through the power of speech (communication).

I later pondered how the completion of the Bible in 382 A.D. was another great leap where “words create worlds.” The Bible helped form our amazing Western Civilization, Christian Europe, and the Reformation. 

As Indian/American scholar Vishal Mangaldi points in his landmark work The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization, the applied words of Scripture created today’s free nations.

None more prominently than the United States of America. 

If creation is the first case of “words creating worlds,” the coming of Jesus the second, and the Bible third, then I think a case can be made that the “words” of 1776 form the fourth largest example of “word power.” The Declaration of Independence gave the American people the right to govern themselves under God. The Constitution created a Bible-based republic that led to the world’s greatest faith-based nation.

American has championed the propagation of Jesus’ Good News over the past 250 years to the ends of the earth.

Today 120 of the world’s 201 countries are majority Christian–changing billions of lives and elevating many countries into peace and blessing via biblical truths. 

Despite America’s faults and weaknesses, we are still a shining light on a hill whose 21st century awakening could impact  billions more.

That’s why I have great hope. 

First, two caveats. No nation on earth is permanent or eternal. They will all pass away when God consummates history and creates a new heaven and earth (Isaiah 65 and Revelation 21).

America and all other countries will see an end.

Second, a part of that ending is the Revelation-prophesied one world government at the close of world history (Revelation 20:4-6). All nations (as independent states) will end when an antichrist figure (0r AI robot?) rules mankind for at least seven years. This is a brief time that God knows is coming. Almighty God will use it for an end-time harvest, righteous judgment on sin, and the triumphant Return of Jesus.

Only God knows when that end will come and as Gene Edwards says, “he never tells.”

Despite those certainties, I have great hope for America in the 21st century.

Here why. 

1. God has brought wondrous revivals to our nation in the past and can do it again. There is great precedent in our history for a 21st century awakening.
2. Our republican structure of government allows for course corrections (national repentance) every two-to-four years. God has used that strength to guide many changes in our nation over the past quarter millenium.
3. We remain the lead nation in world evangelism with no other country on the horizon to take our place. That’s a major reason why God is being merciful to America (please see my message Who Will Stand Up for Freedom?). We are a tool in his providential hands for great good.
4. The “Baptism Revival” continues to sweep the nation in individual churches and mass baptisms in the ocean. My home church is on pace to baptize over 100 converts this year. On May 24, a Jacksonville, Florida church brought 14,000 people together to witness 2500 people get baptized. It’s happening all over the nation.
5.  A growing prayer revival continues to mushroom in the USA through ministries like Intercessors for America, Turning Point USA, and national events like Rededicate America on May 17.
6. Victor Davis Hanson (and many others including me) believe the current administration is a counter-revolution to the rise of evil in the USA  and worldwide. We have neutralized (and hope to liberate) Iran. Our navy controls the world’s main shipping lanes creating more safety and security. Business investment is streaming into the U.S. and the dollar is increasing its dominance. President Trump consistently points our nation back to God.
7. Most encouraging is God is stirring the young generation back to the values that made America great.

In “Can Generation X Save the West.” Richard Shinder makes the case for renewal (Shinder describes the rise of “classical liberalism” in a good sense, not to be confused with “regressive progressivism”):

And this is where Generation X, a small and forgotten cohort barely registering with the intelligentsia, has a ready-made opportunity to turn the cultural tide. Might we be the Irish monks of our day?

As Generation X takes fuller command of the levers of cultural power, it can reintroduce the wide spectrum of classical liberalism — free speech, free markets, the rule of law, individual responsibility, the primacy of the nation-state over unaccountable globalist institutions, and all the rest — to replace the barbarism of the modern-day Visigoths currently beating a hasty retreat. Younger generations’ exposure to the woke era requires that Xers make a sustained effort to entrench liberal values, as the collectivists will mount rearguard actions to reverse any such gains — and their control of the institutions will undoubtedly prove slow to give way.

While framed here as a mostly American phenomenon (particularly the significance of generational differences), the challenge to classical liberalism as a governing philosophy is a global one. As the last redoubt of Western Civilization, the U.S. has an opportunity to demonstrate to other polities that have largely capitulated to relativism and secular ideologies suffused with religious fervor that the barbarian hordes can be repulsed.

At the Freedom 250 rally on the Washington Mall on July 4, 2026, President Trump shared these inspiring words:

“One out of every 100 Americans gave their lives in the fight for independence… These flags remind us of who these heroes were and what they gave us…At 250 years, we may be the oldest constitutional republic on earth, but our country is just getting started, because the best is yet to come.”

“This is only the dawn of the Golden Age of America, and on this 250th 4th of July, we declare, just as they did two and a half centuries ago, that for our country, for our children, for the cause of liberty, we are going to take our country to new levels, to levels not reached.”

Many people believe that we are already in the beginning of another great awakening in our nation and possibly the world. It is Isaiah once again that teaches us that revivals often come when God’s judgments visit the earth (Isaiah 26:9).

My favorite end-time parable of Jesus is the “Wheat & the Tares.” Yes, the “weeds” will grow on earth until the end. But so will the wheat (great harvest & revival).

There is great hope in God  in the year of our Lord 2026.