The Rewind & Third Hour

Written: September 8, 2026

Back to the beginning. That phrase has been instructional since Roots and Rumbles. This decade, we were called as a people to remember. Open your mouth and declare the truth is what the people of God were called to do during 2020–2029 as an intentional season.

“You have become a relaxed people,” says the Lord. “Your ignorance and tunnel focus are causing you to perish.”

Tick, tick. I could hear the minute hand on the clock slowly inching forward. I turned to look toward the sound. Two chairs sat in front of a lit fireplace, and on the mantel sat the ticking clock. I walked over to the chairs. Jesus sat in the chair on the right. I took the left. He continued to stare at the fire. We sat in silence.

Jesus glanced at me and then started to talk as He looked at the mantel clock. “This entire decade has been about the hearts of the people. People act surprised that we have issues. Abortion isn’t new, homosexuality isn’t new, racism, hatred, rebellion, selfishness, political self-focus. The generations are getting softer and looking for a cause because they’ve never dealt with resistance. The generations started getting softer for this time and season after World War II.”

He stood and touched the hour hand on the clock. I looked around. We were going back in time.

“Men came home from the war,” He continued. “Women went from managing work and home as they supported their families while men fought to protect their home. It didn’t matter if you were against Hitler or Japan, you went to war. Even if you didn’t pick someone to dislike, you went out of duty and to protect your home. Women had to rise up and figure out how to do an outside-of-the-home job and manage the hearth and family. Kids pitched in and suddenly had to grow up.”

He touched the hour hand. I could hear cheering… “Victory!”

“This is where it starts to slip for your time in history. Men came back angry, women felt unappreciated, and the children desperately wanted to feel freedom. Rebellion came and knocked on the door like a vacuum salesman. Behind the picket fence, the disintegration of the home began. It wasn’t loud; it was subtle and quiet. Deception began to sell as well. Freedom is putting yourself first. Freedom is no restrictions. Freedom… is you.”

I looked puzzled. “Freedom is you?”

He nodded. “Let Me put it this way: ‘I want freedom to say whatever I want. I want freedom to ingest whatever I desire, and I want the freedom to never be told no. I want to take the guidelines of the Bible and toss them. I want the freedom to have pleasure with whomever I want, however I want, and I want the freedom to choose how I handle the consequences. It’s my body, my life, and no one can tell me what to do.’”

I sat quietly.

“This isn’t a sudden problem. It’s been building. People have gone to sleep.” He touched the clock again. We were back in the room again.

“There have been revivals, but social, political, and religious progress had parasites, and they were ignored. They would be dealt with tomorrow, and now tomorrow is here. Generations have been born since the beginning of this wave, and the deception and rebellion birthed the spirit of ‘Need.’ People no longer know who I Am, so they need to find a spiritual path that feels right to them. They no longer know who they are, and everyone should be free to discover and rearrange who they are inside, and outside, like a puzzle. It’s fine, it’s freedom. People no longer know the truth because the truth is so distorted. Wrong is right, and Wrong demands justification, and people will gladly feed it. The moment people began to put themselves before Me for their own pleasure and glory, decline began.”

“Doesn’t every generation since Adam have… issues? History is rather redundant and stupid,” I asked, looking at Jesus. He smiled. “Yes, people are sheep. Not always bright and finding themselves in a thicket.”

He looked at me. “You are a shepherd, you have literal sheep. When a storm is coming, what do you do?”

“I try to take them to safer areas and the barn.”

“Do they listen?”

I raised an eyebrow. “Most of the time, no. They have a mind of their own, even if it will cost them their lives.”

He nodded. “I did not make the connection between My people and sheep randomly. I’m smart.” He tapped His temple and smiled at me. He turned to face me.

“This decade is the result of decisions made five generations ago. This spiritual war is the result of 100 years of decisions.”

I told you to prepare for the third hour. There is a rattling coming. Give thanks in the hard season and get your house in order. Remember Me. The first month is a call to repentance. Get your spiritual and emotional house in order. The second month, bring in the harvest and clean house and get it in order. Physically and spiritually. The third hour is the rattle. The weather will declare the war in the heavens.

“I will prepare a table for My people in the middle of giants, but not everyone will receive an invitation to the table. If you do not know Me, I will not know you. If you are in rebellion, I will not acknowledge you. If you ignored My instructions and have gone your own way, I will not allow you a seat at this table.

“You demand this country and the world be redeemed, but you don’t even see your own plank. You can see everyone else’s sin, but your own. You demand that truth be heard, but you yourself don’t even know the truth. Can you quote all of the Scripture references tucked away in what I have been saying? Know Me, know truth.

“If you do not heed My warning, the divide will become more visible. The Giants of Destruction and Deception will walk the third hour along with Redemption and Truth. Light a candle and remember Me. There will be seven days of shaking, remember Me.”

I watched Jesus disappear before my eyes. I sat in the chair, alone, listening to the minute hand tick. We were on the clock.