The Lord’s justice in an unjust age

I’ve been carrying something heavy in prayer—heavy in the way only the Spirit can make something heavy. Not the weight of anxiety, but the weight of witness. The weight of seeing patterns return. The weight of watching language get polished while truth gets buried. The weight of hearing promises spoken with confidence while righteousness quietly bleeds out in the background.

And I’m writing this at the end of January 2026, and the world is appearing to break out in taking our interests and in some cases, even by force. It feels like the ground is being renegotiated in real time—borders, influence, resources, sovereignty, values—while people watch and wonder what will happen next. Some are cheering. Some are terrified. Some are numb. And many are simply confused because the words being used sound noble, while the fruit being produced feels dark.

Before I go any further, let me say this clearly: I am not attempting in any way to make political statements. I’m not writing as a partisan voice, and I’m not trying to recruit anyone into a human camp. What I am doing is making spiritual statements into the atmosphere—because the atmosphere we tolerate, the atmosphere we celebrate, and the atmosphere we excuse will shape what unfolds. This atmosphere will very much determine what happens in the near future. We are not merely watching headlines; we are discerning spirits, weighing fruit, and returning to the plumb line of God.

And in the middle of that noise, I keep coming back to one simple plumb line—ancient, clear, and unbending:

“He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8)

Not to talk justice.

Not to brand mercy.

Not to perform humility.

But to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly.

Micah 6:8 is not a soft suggestion for personal devotion. It is Heaven’s measuring rod for nations, leaders, institutions, systems—and yes, for churches. And in this hour, that measuring rod is cutting through the fog. Because we are living in a time when nations, institutions, movements, and even church structures are tempted to trade that plumb line for something shinier—something that feels strong, looks clean, sounds moral, wins applause… and yet quietly produces captivity.

The Echo of the 1930s: When “Strength” Replaced Righteousness

The mid–late 1930s were filled with speeches about restoration, renewal, stability, and strength. To many, it sounded like hope. But underneath, a spirit was forming that didn’t just want order—it wanted ownership. Not just leadership—lordship. Not peace—control. And the world learned, at unimaginable cost, what happens when power outruns humility, and when nations decide they can secure their future by dominating someone else’s.

I’m not saying history repeats in identical detail. I’m saying the patterns return:

• truth becomes negotiable

  
  
  
  

• conscience becomes inconvenient

  
  
  
  

• scapegoats become useful

  
  
  
  

• mercy becomes mocked

  
  
  
  

• humility becomes weakness

  
  
  
  

• and justice becomes whatever advances “our side”

  
  
  
  

And let me say it plainly: this is precisely what happened in the 1930s—more than one nation lost its way in trying to exert its strength on the rest of the world. Strength became a substitute for humility. Expansion became a substitute for righteousness. And “peace” became something enforced rather than something rooted.

And it often arrives wrapped in slogans that sound great—simple phrases that stir a crowd and feel like hope: “Make us great again.” But here is the discernment test: greatness is not a slogan; it is a standard. If “great again” means stronger without humility, richer without mercy, safer without righteousness, and united through scapegoating, then it is not greatness in God’s sight—it is a counterfeit. Heaven does not measure a nation by how loudly it shouts its future; Heaven measures it by whether it does justice, loves mercy, and walks humbly with God.

If humanity continues down that path, it will not simply repeat yesterday’s tragedy—it will amplify it. The world now has more power, faster propaganda, deeper manipulation, and greater capacity for harm than previous generations. That is why we require the Lord’s intervention. We are not awaiting the brilliance of man—we are awaiting the mercy of God. And I believe with all my heart: He is coming soon. Not to applaud injustice, but to judge it; not to endorse darkness, but to end it. So this is not the hour for the Church to sleep. This is the hour to align with the plumb line of Micah 6:8.

The Watchman’s Burden: Warning Without Hatred

A watchman isn’t motivated by drama. A watchman is motivated by love—love that refuses to stay silent while destruction is forming.

So hear my heart: I’m not writing to stir fear. I’m writing to stir sight.

Because we are living in a time when many policies and movements look godly and good on the surface—moral language, righteous branding, religious vocabulary, “values-based” promises—but the Spirit keeps asking one piercing question:

What did it ultimately lead to?

Did it increase justice—or did it excuse oppression?

Did it produce mercy—or did it normalize cruelty?

Did it cultivate humility—or did it enthrone pride?

Did it protect the vulnerable—or only protect the powerful?

Did it restrain evil—or did it simply relocate it and rename it?

This is where we have to be honest: in this hour, the Church is tempted to confuse familiar language with spiritual alignment. But Scripture never taught us to follow a banner. Scripture taught us to follow Christ. And Christ does not partner with crooked scales—no matter how righteous the slogans sound.

A watchman does not merely identify “bad guys.” A watchman identifies patterns, because patterns reveal spirits. And the spirit of the age is always trying to pull the people of God into a fog where we can no longer tell the difference between righteousness and revenge, justice and domination, protection and possession.

The Plumb Line: Micah 6:8 in Three Pillars

Micah 6:8 is God’s standard for public life:

Do justice

Justice means honest scales—truth, integrity, impartiality, dignity for the weak. It means the rules do not change depending on who has power. It means the law is not weaponized to silence conscience and protect corruption. Justice is not merely a legal category; it is a moral structure.

Justice means the weak are not trampled.

Justice means the poor are not exploited.

Justice means the innocent are not treated as disposable.

Justice means leaders do not use people as tools.

Love mercy

Mercy means restraint. It means we refuse to become cruel. It means we refuse to dehumanize. It means we refuse to reduce people to stereotypes, enemies, problems, or numbers. Mercy does not erase truth. Mercy does not deny consequences. Mercy simply refuses to let judgment become savage.

Mercy is the evidence that a society still has a soul.

Walk humbly with your God

Humility means reverence—knowing no throne is above God’s throne. It means leaders do not act like they are the final moral authority. It means nations do not act like they are accountable only to their own ambition. It means we remember that the Judge of all the earth sees what is hidden, weighs motives, and requires alignment.

When humility leaves, restraint leaves.

When restraint leaves, injustice multiplies.

And the reason this is urgent is simple: many things “work” in the short term that are spiritually destructive in the long term. Micah 6:8 protects us from short-term victories that produce long-term collapse.

When Nations Take What Doesn’t Belong to Them and Call It Theirs

One of the oldest expressions of injustice is this:

Nations taking what doesn’t belong to them and calling it theirs.

Land. Sovereignty. Resources. Borders. Rights. Dignity. Freedom.

And then it gets baptized with words like “security,” “survival,” “historic claim,” “national interest,” “stability.”

But Heaven is not impressed by what a nation can seize.

There is a sentence that keeps burning in me as I pray:

“Do not call it yours if God did not give it to you.”

And we have to say it plainly in this hour: nations right now are planning—even at the expense of death—to take things that don’t belong to them to themselves, and they are calling it “protection.” They are framing aggression as security, and conquest as necessity. But Heaven is not confused by the language of men. If it requires blood to obtain it, it is not protection—it is possession. If it requires intimidation to sustain it, it is not peace—it is control. And if it is driven by fear, pride, and the appetite for power, then what is being advanced is not righteousness—it is darkness.

And in many cases—or in some cases—these nations attempting this will even call themselves “Christian” in nature. But we must be bold enough to say what Heaven says: anything that flies in the face of God’s justice is not Christian in any way, shape, or form. You cannot drape the cross over injustice and call it holy. The name “Christian” is not proven by a label—it is proven by alignment: justice, mercy, and humility before God.

Not every national claim is a divine assignment.

Not every conquest is providence.

Not every victory is righteousness.

Not every “right” is right.

And if it requires dehumanization to defend it, it cannot be holy.

If it requires propaganda to sustain it, it has already departed from truth.

If it requires cruelty to maintain it, it is not the peace of God.

This is why the watchman asks again: What did it ultimately lead to?

Because stolen things do not create stable futures. What is taken unjustly becomes a seed of future conflict. And blood cries out to God whether nations want to hear it or not.

Peace With a Price Tag: When “Aid” Becomes Extraction

I keep hearing the Spirit ask a sobering question: Is this truly peacemaking, or is it profit with a peace label? Because there is a kind of “help” that is really a contract—security offered like an investment, stability offered for a return, protection traded for extraction. And when peace becomes a transaction, the vulnerable often become the currency.

All the resources in the world cannot purchase one soul. The Kingdom of God does not build peace by leveraging a people’s desperation. The justice of God does not require hidden deals, crooked scales, or a quiet transfer of what belongs to the many into the hands of the few.

Micah 6:8 is still the plumb line: do justice, love mercy, walk humbly.

And any peace that’s built on blood and bargaining will eventually demand more blood. Let me say it plainly: this is outside of the Lord’s will, and it is injustice at its height—because it treats image-bearers as leverage and nations as marketplaces, while calling it “peace.” And this grieves the heart of God and is an abomination in His sight.

Because God does not call exploitation “strategy.”

God does not call intimidation “wisdom.”

God does not call bloodshed “necessary.”

And God does not call a transactional covenant “peace” when it is built on coercion.

The Counterfeit Test: How to Discern in This Hour

The enemy rarely offers naked evil. He offers counterfeit good.

So test the fruit—personally, prophetically, and biblically:

• Does it require fear to function?

  
  
  
  

• Does it scapegoat people to build unity?

  
  
  
  

• Does it reward lies as strategy?

  
  
  
  

• Does it crush the vulnerable “for the greater good”?

  
  
  
  

• Does it punish conscience and call it rebellion?

  
  
  
  

• Does it shame mercy and celebrate cruelty as strength?

  
  
  
  

• Does it demand loyalty that begins to resemble worship?

  
  
  
  

If those ingredients are present, the root is wrong—no matter how moral the language sounds.

And the Church cannot afford spiritual laziness right now. We cannot be led by emotional relief—“Finally, someone is doing something!”—if what is being done is building a house on crooked foundations. Scripture does not permit us to celebrate “results” while ignoring righteousness.

A Word to Christians About Support and Discernment

And as Christians, we must be careful what nations and what leaders we support, even when they enact what appears to be godly policies. We must ask harder questions:

• Do they do justice, or selectively apply it?

  
  
  
  

• Do they love mercy, or celebrate cruelty as strength?

  
  
  
  

• Do they walk humbly, or demand loyalty like worship?

  
  
  
  

Because if they grow unjust in other areas—especially where it costs them nothing personally—then the Church must not become a blind cheering section. We are called to be a prophetic people, not a partisan people.

One “good” policy is not a license to ignore oppression, theft, intimidation, corruption, or dehumanization elsewhere. Micah 6:8 is not a menu. It is a plumb line.

And that plumb line cuts both ways. It is not just for “their side.” It is for every side. It is for our house. It is for my heart. It is for the Church that claims to represent Jesus in the earth.

Every Sphere: The Spirit of Injustice Isn’t Picky

The spirit of injustice doesn’t only operate in government buildings. It seeks any place power exists.

It shows up in business when profit eats people—when “growth” justifies exploitation.

It shows up in media when truth becomes a tool—when narratives are crafted to control, not to clarify.

It shows up in culture when conscience is rewritten—when virtue is mocked and moral restraint is treated as weakness.

It shows up in families when authority becomes domination—when leadership demands fear instead of cultivating safety.

And yes, it shows up in church systems too.

And Yes—Church Organization and Church Politics Too

There is a way to “take what doesn’t belong to you” inside church organization:

• taking people’s voice and calling it unity

  
  
  
  

• taking conscience and calling it submission

  
  
  
  

• taking money through manipulation and calling it faith

  
  
  
  

• taking labor without honor and calling it service

  
  
  
  

• taking freedom and calling it covering

  
  
  
  

• taking reputation through whisper campaigns and calling it discernment

  
  
  
  

Hear the watchman’s warning:

The spirit of tyranny does not disappear at the church door. Sometimes it simply learns Bible vocabulary.

If a church policy requires fear to function, it is not the order of Heaven.

If it survives by silencing the wounded, it is not the shepherd heart of Christ.

If it protects reputation more than people, it is not righteous.

If it demands loyalty without accountability, it is not biblical authority—it is spiritual politics.

God is purifying His house—not to destroy it, but to restore it. Because a compromised Church loses moral authority, and a compromised Church cannot confront a compromised world. But a purified Church becomes a lighthouse again—clear, steady, fearless, compassionate, and true.

A Prophetic Picture: The Scales and the River

In prayer, I saw a courtroom—official, polished, confident. But in the center sat a set of scales, and the weights looked identical while being different sizes. The appearance was “order.” The reality was fraud.

And I heard the Lord say: “They call it justice, but it is fraud.”

Then I saw a river—strong, cleansing, unstoppable—and this Scripture thundered:

“Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” (Amos 5:24)

God’s justice isn’t only punishment—it’s purification. It’s God restoring reality. It’s God setting things straight. It’s God defending the dignity of the image-bearers He created. It’s God exposing the lie that power can redefine righteousness.

The Call: Become the Contrast Again

So what do we do?

We refuse cynicism.

We refuse cruelty.

We refuse selective righteousness.

We refuse to be discipled by slogans, fear, outrage, or tribal loyalty.

We return to Micah 6:8 as a lifestyle:

Do justice.

Love mercy.

Walk humbly with your God.

The world does not need a louder Church. It needs a clearer Church. A cleaner Church. A braver Church.

A Church that tells the truth without hatred.

A Church that confronts injustice without becoming unjust.

A Church that carries authority without arrogance.

A Church that loves mercy without excusing evil.

This is a watchman hour. Not to scream into darkness, but to light a fire on the wall and say:

Wake up. Return. Align. Repent.

Because what we allow in the atmosphere will become what we live in tomorrow. And the Lord is calling His people to stand in the gap—clear-eyed, tender-hearted, and unmovable.

A Refrain for This Hour

Any system that takes what doesn’t belong to it—and calls it righteous—has departed from Micah 6:8. Much love.

Prophetic Declarations

• I declare that the plumb line of God is being lowered, and crooked foundations will be exposed.

  
  
  
  

• I declare that unjust decrees and hidden bargains will be confronted by Heaven.

  
  
  
  

• I declare that propaganda will not outlast truth—light will break through manufactured darkness.

  
  
  
  

• I declare that what God did not give cannot be claimed in peace.

  
  
  
  

• I declare that any “protection” built on blood and intimidation will be exposed as darkness.

  
  
  
  

• I declare that the fear of the Lord is returning to leadership—and where it does not return, exposure will come.

  
  
  
  

• I declare that the Church will be a contrast—pure, courageous, and clear.

  
  
  
  

• I declare that justice will roll like a river until righteousness becomes normal again.

  
  
  
  

• I declare that Jesus Christ will be revealed as King—and every throne will answer to His throne.