What happens to the Christian faith in America if we lose our religious freedom to continue in the faith, such as ...

The freedom to proclaim the gospel … I street preach in Compton, California

And of course, the freedom to worship as we believe correct … ?

The  freedom  to practice life saving civil disobedience to obey Scriptural commands

Here I’m arrested (along with others) by Dallas police after blocking the Fairmount abortion clinic doors to delay or prevent the customers from entering to kill their babies. This obeys the command in Prov. 24:11--“Rescue those who are being taken away to death.” Twenty arrests and months in jail taught me a lot about courts and jails. Many unborn lives were saved. I must say I don’t compare my penalties with the genuine hardship suffered by many believers throughout the ages.

We “continue in the faith” when we have freedom. But what do we do when our faith becomes illegal? What, in the good ol’ USA? Do you remember COVID? The majority of churches were forbidden to meet – and didn’t. We can lose our rights, people. We did during COVID.

California is at it again and this is wild even for them!

California further clamps down on religious freedom by Governor Newsom signing AB 1803 into law on Sept. 27^th, 2026. It further strengthens the state’s hate crimes law, and get this, by prosecuting you for using the wrong pronouns! And there’s no religious exemption! The law lets the state’s Civil Rights Commission define just what a “hate crime” means. As of 10/12/2026 the penalties for disobeying this law are fines up to $1,000 and up to six months in jail, making it a misdemeanor. But evil always wants more. Should that California law become the law of the land then it sends your pastor and maybe you too to jail for defending the Bible’s teaching on homosexuality. If they’ve gone this far what stops them from passing new laws to confiscate your church property? That would make your church a de facto underground church – if you stay faithful. How can we still be a real church in God’s eyes if we don’t preach what the Bible says?

What's coming?  Be it from a financial collapse, Islam conquering America, nuclear war, or mega powerful, nationwide earthquakes shattering our electrical grid, folks, we’re going underground -- if we choose to stay faithful. Our commitment to spurn God isn’t just risking His terminal judgment, we’re demanding it. We’ve passed the point of no return. We will lose the Constitution. And we’re not ready! As of 10/26 only about six American seminaries or Bible colleges teach how the church can deal with persecution. Acts 1422.com helps you learn what no one else teaches. This includes pointing out often overlooked verses showing America’s judgment/collapse is now inevitable. When is this judgment/collapse coming? I have no idea. So I’ll show you the Biblical theology supporting this in my ebook (listed below) but center on practical steps helping you to survive.

Some of the sins destroying us are abortion that still butchers over a million a year, homosexuality and its wicked offspring transgenderism, pornography everywhere, gambling, and on and on. We’ve largely accepted these for decades. Worse, there’s little more than feeble protests from most churches. God doesn’t tolerate these things forever. He destroys nations after warnings. If He destroyed His chosen nation Israel (2 Kings chapters 17 and 24), why should He spare America?

Acts1422.com is challenging and warning the American church to take practical steps NOW to help your church survive the coming persecution. In an underground church, how do you keep your church location secret, cope with betrayal, deal with Islam, courts, and prisoners? Your church will have to shut down long running ministries and traditions exposing you to religious police. So goodbye to the special Christmas and Mothers’ Day services – events by which your community knows you. How would you conduct church discipline and accept visitors – who could now be spies -- while keeping your church hidden? These and everything else your church does will have to change quickly.

One way I want to prepare you for what’s coming is to speak to your church, take questions, and show you how to survive persecution by sharing real life experiences of myself and others in the American pro life movement and of believers overseas. It’s time for us to be like the men of Issachar, “...who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do.” -- 1Chron. 12:32.

So my name is Jim Phillips. I hold a Master’s in Communications from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth (1984) and in the ‘90’s pastored Church of the Open Door (now closed) in Ft. Worth. In 2004 I was a support team member of the Walk Across America where we as part of Operation Save America trudged from the West Coast to the White House calling the nation to repentance. It took us about six months. We had more trouble from our horse and donkey (to be explained later) than any police. This photo shows me (on the far left) and part of the team somewhere in the Mojave Desert. I have also street preached in 37 across cities in the U.S. Today I’m an active member in good standing at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Amarillo, Texas.

I've written an ebook, Light in the Shadows, that covers my talk. This book downloads to about 60 pages on your computer and runs $9. To get your copy go to books2read.com/u/mv5068. You’ll be directed to a list of online book vendors to choose. Choose any, they all make the same offer. Please leave an honest review with the specific vendor you chose. 800,000 new books are written each year. Reviews help me improve the book and I’ve already updated it four times as of 10/26.

I've Had It with Revivals!

We’re there. America is about to fall. We’ve destroyed our foundation. Without slowing down we have passed the point of no return in our relentless rebellion against God. No revival is coming to bring us back to God. I’ll be explaining why. His payback is near. If God destroyed Israel (2 Kings chapters 17 and 24) why would He not judge America? A nation destroying judgment is coming. When? I don’t know. God’s patience with our rebellion has limits but we overlook that.

Repentance is necessary for conversion for only by that can you turn from sin. The great English preacher of the 1800’s, Charles Spurgeon, said repentance “ ... is a discovery of the evil of sin, a mourning that we have committed it, a resolution to forsake it.” True repentance can be humiliating and painful when we’re totally exposed by the powerfully bright, surgery operating room lights of a holy God. But now that would be most unwelcome with comfortable American Churchianity. So we quietly accept sin into our national fabric and give it a place at the table. A former destroyer has become our friend. We turn to Band Aids revivals when we need the major surgery of repentance.

No repentance, no conversion.-- and no revival. In the NASB the word repentance appears 23 times. Nowhere in the Bible does it come from man and even his anguish, tears, and national proclamations. God grants – grants -- repentance in Acts 11:18 and 2 Tim. 2:24. So God decides which individuals and nations repent. That’s hard to accept but that’s what the Word says. God is still gloriously granting repentance to certain individuals, churches, and ministries, but to our country? No. Our sin still rages and expands into every corner. For decades America has seen events slapped together and touted as revivals only to fizzle, one after another. They’re not working. Let’s look at some.

SO-CALLED REVIVALS THAT DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE

Take The Call, a Washington, DC National Mall rally in 2000. Supposedly 400,000 mostly young white people gathered there. Have we heard of it since? Anyone read any stories of changed lives, lives still radically different now 25+ years later? I haven’t.

Remember the “Reset” Event of July 16, 2016 where many thousands of again mostly young white people gathered at the National Mall in D.C.? You don't remember that? That's because nothing happened after it. In looking at their website you don't see the all important word, repentance. Without repentance there’s no lasting fruit, the proof of conversion.

The people sponsoring the 2016 Reset didn’t learn anything and tried again with the Together 2018 rally/whatever at Texas Motor Speedway, (the greater N Texas area) on Oct. 20 and 21. On Oct 24, 2018, their website home page said the event “trained, equipped, and commissioned” people to go out and live the faith. Come on … you say you can raise up and mold thousands for that task in only two days? And perhaps many of these brand new missionaries were converted at this event? If you have ever made a serious effort to disciple a new believer you soon found it can take a lifetime.

There's no spiritual maturity by microwave. If the event organizers really believed this is discipling, well, it suggests to me that they, the people trusted by many, weren’t themselves saved. True conversions and revivals are born of God but false conversions are born in manipulated emotions.

From the Survey Center for American Life  adapted from the article by Daniel A. Cox

The Illusion of America’s Religious Revival November 13, 2025

“The Asbury Revival of 2023 in Kentucky was touted by many as a true movement of God. After all, weren’t there continuous crowds over 16 days in 2023? College students and community members engaged in uninterrupted worship—singing, praying, reading Scripture, and sharing personal testimonies. Thousands of worshipers came from around the country.

“Bible sales across the U.S. jumped 42 percent between 2022 and 2024. App downloads about “Religion and Spirituality” leaped by 80 percent and streaming of contemporary Christian music rose 50 percent since 2019.”

Those are impressive numbers. All well and good. But three years later, ARE WE HEARING ABOUT TRANSFORMED LIVES? No. I maintain that even several hundred new believers radically following Christ would make at least local news. But I don’t hear any such reports.

The article discussed at length the increasing disappearance of young women from churches. But a real revival would draw them and everyone to Christ. From an admittedly cursory internet search I also do not see believable reports of genuine revival at any time in the 1900’s. Oh, I expect there were some bursts of religious fervor here and there, but like the seeds falling on the rocky soil in the parable of the sower in Mark 4:1-20, nothing lasted. And that’s what we look for!

People, we’re confusing religiosity with revival. Conversion with emotional manipulation. Rebirth with revision. Reborn with planned retooling. We’re substituting flashy fireworks events for the faithfulness prized by God. Faithfulness emerges by a sacrifice accepted, taken up, paid for, and slowly hammered out into lasting fruit each day as it's ingrained into a personal lifestyle. False revivals, begun with false conversions, are now the norm. We’re not grappling with the utter depths of the depravity of the human heart, so it’s like we take our car with serious engine problems to a car wash instead of a repair shop.

Think how America would really look if these “revival” events were genuine. After years of being told to “just say no” to offers of drugs we’d overnight see much less or no drug addiction. Then much less crime and divorce. Prisons would be half empty or more. Little or no porn. People planning divorce would call to cancel and divorce attorneys would go out of business. Strip joints and bars would close. Ditto abortion clinics. Homosexuality and so-called transgenderism would slither back into the closet. I could go on but you’d see a nation so drastically changed just by these alone that you’d wonder if you were seeing the same country.

Along with these huge changes you’d see waves of thanksgiving for salvation, public remorse and anguish for sin, and peace, safety, and even quiet returning to neighborhoods. Across America people would insist on paying restitution for their wrongs. People would be clamoring to attend churches, often arriving early to stand in line to get in. You’d hear and see about this all over social media. Books would be written about it and talk shows would show the stunning changes. But no, none of this has happened in your life time. Such a peaceful land remains as distant and alien to us as an unseen galaxy.

So all of this leads us to ...

It’s time to be honest. After all these phony events listed above it’s clear we’re not pleasing God and that He’s not going to grant repentance. Did you know The National Day of Prayer began in 1954? In those now 70 plus years we’ve kept trotting out 2Chron. 7:14 about national repentance but never coming to grips with it while we descend further into a foul smelling hell. Have things gotten better since then? No. We’ve gotten used to the dark, haven’t we?\

God has warned us. Look at His warning judgments in Deut. 28. His judgment will be utterly shocking, searing, and thorough. The organized American church has lost its saltiness, is now largely useless, and has no desire to warn us. Our national judgment/collapse will force churches underground as the government changes and the faith is declared illegal.

In my ebook Light in the Shadows (listed on the website main page) I go into more depth on the theology, God’s justification you might call it, that explains why His judgment is coming. While America is not specifically named in the Bible I’ll show you often overlooked verses further calling for our judgment. I also teach at length how your church can survive the coming persecution from taking practical steps based on real life experiences.  I'd be open to teaching this in the format of a live talk before your church or group.  Let me know in Contacts!

We’re there. We have passed the point of no return.