The enemy has executed on an effective strategy to pull people away from their faith. The result has been a systematic and wholesale rejection of God, who He is and what He did for us out of unconditional love. There is a growing societal dependence, individually and collectively, on someone or something else to meet our needs rather than “lifting [their] eyes to the mountains …” knowing that [their] help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.” (Psalm 121:1). A society left adrift, directionless, yet hungry for answers and looking in every place, and from every imaginable source, other than the Word of our Father. The reality is that apart from the Father there is no hope. And a lack of hope gives way to fear. Fear originates from “[Satan] a liar and the father of lies,” (John 8:44). Society is being deceived, conditioned to surrender to an invisible enemy based on fear of the unknown.

Like the men from “Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do…” (1 Chronicles 12:32), is there a remnant of high capacity leaders, committed to understanding our times and being led by the Holy Spirit, and used by Him to be a “a voice of one calling in the wilderness,” (John 1:23) committed to redirecting our culture toward our Father?

We find ourselves in uncharted territory. A societal slide toward not just an acceptance, but the advocation of behavior that is in complete opposition and disobedience to the Word of God. “… for you have magnified your word above your name.” – Psalm 138:2

Men Of Galilee was created hinged on the scriptural mandate of Acts 1:1-11: 1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3 After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. 4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” 6 Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” 9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. 10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”