He didn’t know why he’d been arrested. Stumbling around one faceless bureaucracy after another, he could not discover the charges against him. Unable to find justice. Every line of inquiry resulted in bizarre conversations and more questions. In the end, he perished at the hands of abusive authorities. This dystopian world is the landscape of The Trial, an Orson Welles–directed film version of Franz Kafka’s novel of the same name.

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Kafka’s work became a picture of anxiety and abuse of power. The horror of the world he depicted is the random yet pointed unleashing of that power to destroy those who step out of line with the regime’s priorities.

There are no heroes in the novel or the film. Even the Church is depicted as impotent, irrelevant, and faintly evil in the film. Every institution fails the protagonist, Josef K.

Fortunately, this world is not ours. For we do have a hero — the Lord Jesus Christ — who has overcome the world. In the face of evil on earth, He is raising up brave men and women who choose to step out of situations, institutions, and regimes to blow the whistle on wrongdoing.

After years of inexplicable excesses of evil authority, we are at last hearing truth in several circumstances. Those who have not been bewitched by the non-truth-telling media have known about the true origins of the COVID-19 virus — something the rest of the world is waking up to.

Similarly, most IFA readers have been “read into” the truth about the Biden family influence-peddling, but recent whistleblowing by a former colleague of Hunter Biden’s before the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, run by Rep. James Comer, R, Ky., has confirmed it. FBI and IRS whistleblowers have confirmed the agencies’ obvious bias against social and political conservatives. And whistleblowers have outed the administration’s overt censorship initiatives with social media platforms.

The Lord is emboldening some to come forward to tell the truth — the objective truth — not their “personal truth.” Without a doubt, this comes after much prayer by IFA intercessors.

Our praying has dislodged enough legislators from the House of Representatives to install conservatives like Comer and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in powerful committee positions. This has encouraged whistleblowers to take the risk of coming forward.

There had been revelations prior to the midterm elections, but those who dared step outside the iron embrace of the governing woke culture were quickly canceled and even hounded.

Consider Dr. Joseph Mercola, a vocal critic of the ways medical and government institutions have addressed the COVID pandemic, who has recently been stripped of his banking account and privileges at Chase.

Consider Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, of True the Vote, who worked painstakingly to document widespread voter and election fraud in the 2020 election. At one point, they were arrested. Later, True the Vote racked up millions in legal fees in a lawsuit from Konnech, Inc., before the charges were finally dropped. (Catherine will recount her story of answered prayer IFA’s upcoming 50th anniversary celebration and gala. Find out more and register at IFA50.org.)

There are several dynamics at work amid this current wave of whistleblowers. One of those dynamics is linked to the theory author Malcolm Gladwell  has advanced in his book, The Tipping Point. There comes a point, Gladwell theorizes, when enough momentum has been generated to enable substantive change to occur. This dynamic is well known to those in transformation businesses. Therapists talk of the Stages of Change Model, which asserts that pre-contemplation and contemplation of change comprise almost half of the entire change cycle. Addiction counselors talk of counting the costs of kicking the habit. When the costs finally outweigh the benefits, the addict is better positioned to move seriously toward sobriety.

Certainly, the typical U.S. citizen has seen enough gathering darkness to understand that the status quo in 2023 America is no longer tenable. It’s time for a change. That reduces the risk that a whistleblower will be ignored or punished for speaking up.

But it takes more than societal swamp conditions to bestir the whistleblowers we’ve been seeing lately.

It takes a move of God.

He who is the very definition of power specializes in exalting those who are small in the world’s eyes. He carries them to the seat of power and speaks through them words of truth and revelation.

Consider Moses. He was born into slavery, and Pharaoh’s daughter lifted him up and raised him in luxury. Fleeing Egypt after he’d murdered a slave driver, though, Moses then served as a shepherd for years. Finally called out of hiding, Moses was sent back to Egypt to speak truth to power — in and for the name of the Lord.

Consider David. He was scorned by his brothers, but the Lord honed his faith and his fighting spirit from the time he was a teen shepherd. David, who spoke truth to power and raw might in the form of Goliath, prevailed against him in that battle — in and for the name of the Lord.

Consider Mordecai. He was a Jew in middle management in the Persian court, though he was detested by the king’s favorite adviser, and he spoke out about and uncovered a conspiracy against the king. This whistleblowing seemed to be of no benefit to Mordecai, uncle to the Persian queen, Esther, until the Lord disturbed the king’s sleep, causing the sleepless monarch to review the royal record and discover Mordecai’s role in saving his life. This was, again, in and for the name of the Lord — who brought victory to the truth teller.

Truth has been much maligned in recent years.

In The Return of the Gods, Jonathan Cahn writes about America’s slide and, more recently, headlong rush away from truth. “If one’s personal truth contradicted reality, then it was reality that would have to be bent into conformity.”  God calls us, however, to join Evan Roberts, a catalyst for the Welsh Revival of the early 1900s, in his regular prayer: “Bend me, Lord.”

Just as cultural reality-bending threatens to break America’s back, the Lord is raising up more people like Moses, David, and Mordecai. Not perfect people, certainly. And surely not all, if any, following Jesus — not yet. But truth tellers, nonetheless. Whistleblowers. Those in the know, revealing the creepy-crawly creatures populating “the swamp.”

Perhaps the most horrific creatures: Multiple writers attempting to deny away some 2 million children being used as sex toys by craven, evil servants of Satan — just to try to sink the powerful, truth-telling film Sound of Freedom. Are their minds so depraved, so twisted, and so warped with hatred of anything of the Lord’s that they can no longer see what is evident and obvious to everyone else? Perhaps more horribly, they themselves directly participate and financially benefit from the trafficking trade.

This could be discouraging — but intercessors know better.

We know what the Lord Himself has proclaimed:  “… The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation (Exodus 34: 6–7).”

This Lord — our Lord — is preparing to render His judgment and mediate His justice.

He has allowed evil to rise to the tipping point. He is raising up truth tellers. He is anointing whistleblowers.

In mid-January, during the protracted negotiations over who would become speaker of the House, IFA President and CEO Dave Kubal called us to pray that 2023 would be a year of truth and justice. This prayer direction is proving prophetic as whistleblower after whistleblower speaks truth.

Certainly, there is more truth to tell. And there are more whistles to blow. Kubal has also spoken of a “whistleblower anointing.” Could the Lord be anointing these individuals with the courage and the truth?

Today, we need that whistleblower anointing more than ever.

We also need a “justice-bearer anointing,” for it is time — just past the midpoint of 2023 — to call into being the second aspect of Kubal’s January prophecy: This is to be a year of truth and justice. So let us cry out to the Lord Almighty for more whistleblowers to be anointed and for more justice-bearers to emerge, to be installed, to be empowered — and to act to bring about justice wherever injustice has governed.

These may be humans moved by the Holy Spirit to execute justice fairly and appropriately. These may be angels moving at the Lord’s command to enforce His heavenly verdict. It is our task to ask for justice, and it is God’s place to choose the means of that justice.

Lord, bless You for the truth tellers. Thank You for anointing whistleblowers. Thank You even for bringing America to the tipping point, so that evil is being called out. Let truth be told, and let justice reign. Implement Your justice on earth even as it is in heaven. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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New York City–based Joyce Swingle is an intercessor and a contributing writer for IFA. With her husband, Rich, also a contributing writer for IFA, Joyce shares the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world through theater, speaking, writing, and film. Prior to going into full-time ministry, Joyce worked for about 20 major magazines and now works in pastoral ministry and Christian counseling. Read more about Joyce’s work at www.Richdrama.com. Photo credit: Getty Images.