Rick Joyner

Rick Joyner has authored more than fifty books, including The Final Quest Trilogy, There Were Two Trees in the Garden, The Path, and Army of the Dawn. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of MorningStar Ministries, a multi-faceted mission organization which includes Heritage International Ministries, MorningStar University, MorningStar Fellowship of Churches and Ministries. Click here to take a look at Rick's latest Rant #ricksrants

Unity in Reality—Heritage Brief 24

We are the United States of America. Whether looking at our history or the present, one might think we are more divided than united. Actually, we are united in much more than we are divided about, and always have been. To have fifty independent states join together as a nation is a historic anomaly...

6-16-20

The Bridge—Heritage Brief 23

The true nature of a person is determined by their actions, not just their beliefs or their words. Beliefs and words are important, but there is a reason why Jesus said we would know people by their fruit instead of by their beliefs or their words. If everyone was completely true to their beliefs...

6-9-20

The Great Debate—Heritage Brief 22

Like Christianity, science has a history of almost constant persecution from the institutions and governments that claimed dominion over it. With the birth of the American Republic and its devotion to liberty, threatened scientists found a haven in America just as the persecuted Christians had...

6-2-20

Treasure Hunting—Heritage Brief 21

Some of the greatest treasures of wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and inspiration are found in history. Studying history is like mining for gold. It is work and requires patience, but what makes something a treasure is that it is either rare or hard to get to. That which is common, or easy to...

5-26-20

The Highway—Heritage Brief 20

As covered, with the development of the free market, ideas became the most valuable assets. Those who had valuable ideas were a small percentage of the population, but the opportunity to invest in them, and thereby profit from them, was open to all. Multitudes in “the free world” did just that...

5-19-20

The Winds of Change

In Revelation 7:1 an important paradigm is given that is a key to understanding world history, as well as the present:
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth....

Understanding these “four winds of the earth” can make clear the forces that have shaped the development of civilization, as well as those impacting our own times. We will briefly look at these and how they apply to what is now unfolding in the world today, including the coronavirus crisis.

Winds often speak of change in literature and Scripture, as in “the winds of change.” We have heard much recently about how the coronavirus has brought about a radical change to the world. No doubt it has, but little has been defined about how. History testifies that those who grasp the impact of change are those who will control the future.

The "four winds of the earth" in Revelation 7:1 are the four great powers that shaped civilization. These are worldly powers, “winds of the earth,” not heaven. Each of these winds dominated one of the four major epochs of world history. They are Military, Religious, Political, and Economic powers. The sequence in which these became dominant saw the construction of civilization in that order.

Friday, April 24, 2020 - 00:00

The Trap—Heritage Brief 19

The development of the free market sparked the creation of many new products and services by releasing people to take initiative and be creative. As the main currency of this new and bold economy became stocks and bonds of the companies that produced and marketed these products, the stock and bond...

5-12-20

The Choice—Heritage Brief 18

At the time of The American Revolution, every other nation was built on the principle of controlling the people as their first duty. The sovereign and his nobles owned everything, and virtually no one was free to choose the course of their life, where they lived, or even their vocations. Before The...

5-5-20

Free Trade—Heritage Brief 17

You can have an economy without a government, but you cannot have a government without an economy. The economy is more basic than government as it is built on basic human transactions, trading and interchange. This is what binds people together into communities. The majority of all communication...

4-28-20

Freedom Creates—Heritage Brief 16

For the nearly six thousand years of recorded history, wealth was measured in such things as property, livestock, precious metals, precious stones, and later coins issued by governments. In the Middle Ages, bank notes started to be issued as currency. In just the last couple hundred years, an...

4-21-20

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