Satan’s Silenced You. Here’s How to Stop Him.

Do not leave quietly. Those four words possess untold power.

First, they are a command to launch the life you were born to live. Second, they are a warning of the perils of remaining silent.

You are at a fork in the road. You must choose wisely. One road leads you to horrendous punishment. The other takes you to untold rewards. That is why leaving quietly is the worst thing you can do.

Mordecai sent a message to Esther that contained another four words that jump off the page:

“If you remain silent.”

We have heard so much about the danger of speaking out. We are buried under words of advice designed to compel us to mind our own business.

We know all about the dangers of speaking up, but rarely do we consider the cost of remaining silent.

“If you remain silent.” Mordecai is telling Esther that disaster is looming. She is a key to preventing the disaster. And finally, disaster will come to her if she remains silent.

That is what I am also telling you, dear reader. Disaster is imminent in our nation, and you are a key to averting that disaster.

Here is the entire message to Esther from Mordecai:

Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than all the Jews. For if you remain silent at this time, liberation and rescue will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and your father’s house will perish [since you did not help when you had the chance]. And who knows whether you have attained royalty for such a time as this [and for this very purpose]? (Esther 4:13-14 AMP)

Here are the specific words of Mordecai to Esther that are the heart of this message:

For if you remain silent at this time, liberation and rescue will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and your father’s house will perish [since you did not help when you had the chance] (v. 14 AMP).

He is warning her about what will happen to her if she does not speak to the king. In essence, Mordecai is saying, “Here is what is going to happen if you leave quietly: the life you are trying to protect will be destroyed. The possessions you are hoarding will be taken from you. In short, what you fear the most will come upon you. And the only way to protect everything you love is by facing evil head on and not running from it.”

God is saying the same thing to an elite core of American Christians. Esther faced a menace, and now so do we!

What is happening in America is not a conspiracy theory. A puppet president’s cognitive decline is being censored from the news. Any story or event that proves that the Leftist-Socialist narrative is a lie is being silenced. When thousands take to the streets to protest tyranny, it is blacked out by the news media. When you speak anything that opposes this Socialist takeover, Facebook and YouTube will ban you. The FBI hunts down parents who speak out against the sexual perversion and racism being taught to their children in classrooms. Those who oppose the vaccination are being fired, shamed, and led away.

Your lukewarm Christian friends tell you that things are not that dire, insisting that “it is all in God’s hands.” They abuse truth by denying that God needs willing vessels to save people from evil. We the Church are His body. We are His hands and His weapon to destroy the works of the evil one.

Then we hear the tired excuse that, “We should be preaching the Gospel, not politics.” Almost always that excuse comes from pastors who have been preaching everything but the Gospel.

Suddenly, they are evangelists!

But the true evangelists are the first to call for action against political tyranny. They realize that if freedom dies, we will not be able to preach the Gospel. Andrew Wommack said, “First we must preach the Gospel. Then we must fight to preserve the right to preach the Gospel.” (Later in my book, Do Not Leave Quietly, I deal directly with the subject of politics in the pulpit.)

But Esther was in no condition to receive this message from Mordecai, because her life was still a fairy tale. And she was in denial. We know this because she was aware of the genocide that Haman planned against the Jews even before Mordecai told her.

Esther 4:4 says this, “When Esther’s maids and her eunuchs came and told her [what had happened], the queen was seized by great fear. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai so that he would remove his sackcloth, but he did not accept them” (AMP).

Mordecai is wailing in the streets dressed in sackcloth. But Esther is still in denial and sends nice, clean clothes to Mordecai. She thinks that by dressing him up, it changes the situation. Denial loves outward appearances. I call those clothes “glad rags.”

Esther is a wonderful person, but in her current condition she is a threat to her own people. So it is today that we have wonderful preachers with good hearts, but in their current state of denial they are a threat to both the Church and America.

They know what our government is doing to the Church. They know very well the agenda of tyranny that is unfolding in our nation. The lockdowns, masks, forced vaccinations, control of the media, and sponsorship of looters and rioters are all clear to them. But still they persist in preaching sermons that put glad rags on Christians.

Again, I am not talking about bad people. I am referring to good people who are in denial. Yet even a righteous preacher can be poisonous! Proverbs 25:26 says, “Like a muddied fountain and a polluted spring is a righteous man who yields and compromises his integrity before the wicked” (AMP).

It is not the first time in history that this has happened. Wanting to look good in the eyes of an evil culture has been the downfall of many preachers. Charles Spurgeon said, “It is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout, ‘Well done,’ to the Christian man.”

Other Christians think declarations of authority, entitlement, and victory exempt them from the war to free our nation. “We’ll sit back and just watch God work.” This too is denial.

They nurse a myth that Communism cannot happen here. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the famous Russian novelist, said, “There is always this fallacious belief it would not be the same here; here such things are impossible. Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.”

Not only can Communism happen here, it is happening here.

And to deny it is madness.

But we also cling to the subtle and deceptive delusion that it cannot happen here because somehow American Christians are more valuable than Christians in the underground Church.

This tragic mutation of victory and blessing is rooted in defeatism. That is why they never take it to the streets. Much of the Church is like a platoon that has barricaded itself in the barracks and has never gone to war. Why? Because they secretly believe they cannot win. They can only carry on a continuous rehearsal for war.

Why will Esther’s punishment be so severe? The next phrase says it, “Since you did not help when you had the chance.”

Here is the truth! Of all the reasons God will punish the compromised Christians of America, this one stands out the most: “You did not help when you had the chance.”

The Church is crippled by two contradictory doctrines that frame America as either “not needing to be saved from tyranny” or that say, “America is too far gone to be saved.” Both extremes are the worst thing to say. They are the natural enemy of reformation and revival.

The Church in Germany, Russia, and China had one thing in common: they did not recognize the threat when they had the chance. They did not act while there was still time.

By the time you read this, the term cancel culture may be passé. I will use it anyway, because satan is using it, more than anything else, to destroy our freedom and our witness.

Do not be fooled by the fact that cancel culture seems currently to be more about books, words, and politics. Satan is doing something we see in old movie plots. The husband kills his wife, but also kills two other people chosen at random in order to make it look like there is a serial killer in the neighborhood.

If the Leftists were to openly cancel Christianity, it would be too controversial. So they cancel other things on their way to us. But make no mistake, we are the target, and we have always been the target.

When I wrote the book Vessels of Fire and Glory, it was to call a remnant out of the compromised Church. A key verse for the book was 2 Timothy 2:20-21:

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

It is a fact that many nations throughout history, when they faced a grave threat, built elite fighting forces. God does that too. Vessels of Fire and Glory summoned that elite force out of the great house, the Church, that Paul said had vessels of both honor and dishonor. The promise was that if anyone would separate themselves unto God, they would become vessels of honor, “prepared for every good work.”

My goal in that book was to explain that God was drawing a core group into special intimacy with Himself in a way that would unlock strategies to save our nation. They must become an entirely new weapon. But what is that weapon supposed to do, and how is it supposed to do it?

If that book called you out of something, then this is calling you into something—the fray!

It was not fair that Esther should have to face such a massive threat. And it is not fair for you, either. But there it is.

As Shakespeare said:

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”