Shall we talk about Brexit next?
I actually nearly didn’t say this.
I had to talk to my husband about whether he
agreed. Thank God for godly husbands!
Let’s give a Biblical basis:
When God is using prophets -
and you read in Scripture (I’m going to be teaching our Emerging Prophets this next week)
- when you see what prophets are tasked to do -
they repetitively are tasked to tell nations
where the nation may NOT be in covenant with another nation.
It is a key function of prophets in Scripture.
The prophets need to know which nation aligns with which nation.
It’s part of our job description!
You see, HOW NATIONS ALIGN 
MATTERS DEEPLY TO GOD.
And God says to Israel,
Look, I rescued you from the power of a military machine when you were in
captivity. So my people, my sheep nations, I don’t want you to be aligned
to powerful, military machines again.
Don’t you dare become one of those nations!
And don’t you dare you align yourself with, or support, nations that use military might to oppress.
That’s what God gets his prophets to say.
And every nation wants to be a military power!
And what this does – it makes our nation, our god.
“We – this nation – will just take care of ourselves,
And every other nation can look after THEMselves.”
Does anybody know nations who think like that?
But God, in Scripture, says the ultimate call for any nation is this:
Not to be a military might or a military power but to be a Kingdom of Priests.
Which means that nation must minister to God and host His presence
and then God backs up their economy, their land, their protection, their borders.
That’s how a nation works in Scripture!
1 Peter 2 verse 9:
“But you are a chosen people,
a royal priesthood, a holy nation…”
Did you see that? The “Royal priesthood” becomes a holy nation!
“God’s special possession.”
In other words,
when you are a nation or a people who is a priesthood you become the possession of God.
How does a nation become a holy nation? 
It turns to be a priesthood nation.
It hosts the presence of God,
It ministers to God and God says,
“I will look after you."
And God always says to His prophets: “You tell the nations this:
‘DO NOT DARE amass huge amounts of wealth!’
‘DO NOT DARE build massive armies!’
‘DO NOT DARE do lots of political marriages!’
And yet, amassing wealth, building armies and
political marriages are the very
three things all nations want to do!’”
And so we have got to say as prophets:
“Who is my nation to be aligned with?
Where are the trade deals that my nation should have?
What are the international agreements and organisations that have the approval of God on them?
Are we wrongly aligned as a nation?
And so, many times, prophets are asked in Scripture to deal with that.
(And it is not saying, “Oh that nation is wrong” or “That nation is faulty” or, 
“The EU is an evil thing”).
It is not saying that!
It is about an understanding beyond any political ideology:
“Where will God bless an alignment and where will God NOT bless an alignment?”
It’s as basic as that!
(There’s not a lot of ‘Amens!’ so far… but I am going to reach a conclusion…)
I think THE big Scripture on Brexit is the six verses in Isaiah 20.
And the Assyrians are going to be used by God to bring pain to the Israelites because of their
sin. And the Assyrians have got a strategy. And they’re goanna pick off all
the military allies of Israel, all the countries Israel has been looking for
help from. Mainly Egypt and Cush. And God is going to allow the Assyrians to knock
them out so Israel has no military allegiances left
‘cos they never should have had them in the first place.
God says to Isaiah, loosen the sackcloth from your body,  take off your sandals,
strip naked and go barefoot. 
I want you to streak in the nude for three years!
as a symbol of what is going to happen to Egypt and Cush.
“Israel, you boasted in your partnerships with other nations!”
“You thought YOUR partnership was one of blessing…”
“You thought those other nations had your backs!”
“You made alliance with other nations! You relied on other nations and YOU DID NOT RELY on me!
You formed partnerships to protect yourself that I never once gave you permission for,
you thought that your partnership would stop you being destroyed
-  but because you made an alliance THAT I DID NOT CALL YOU INTO,
I am about to embarrass you and make you afraid.
That’s what God says to Israel.
And the words for “embarrassed” and “afraid” in the Strongs’ [Hebrew Lexicon]
of what God is going to do to the nation for its wrong alliances is this:
“I will make the nation anxious, dejected, confounded, ashamed, shattered, dismayed and broken”.
Not only will I bring you to your knees
and humiliate you, Isaiah your nakedness is a sign of what
I will also do to Egypt and Cush your partner nations because neither side
should have made that alliance.
And Egypt and Cush, you’re going to be led into exile
with your buttocks bare and you’re going to be ashamed as much as I bring
shame on you Israel. Because I am determined that I will be the God of nations,
rather that you backing each other!
Isn’t it a shocking Scripture?
I hope you’re starting to see parallels.
…’cos I’ve not given you a prophetic opinion yet!
I’ve just read you Isaiah!
But I do believe God is saying this:
“I am not interested in what is happening
in your Houses of Parliament, as much as I am interested in you getting back your
your right covenant with me. 
Prophets, don’t you dare give me weasly, pathetic
commentary on the day to day political situation. I want you to give me the
underpinning word of the Lord that holds the nation together rather than
me reading any political comment of what a politician did in a day.
And I believe that God loves Europe. And I believe that we ARE Europeans – most of us in this room
are all Europeans – we’re not stopping that.
But God is saying to the UK and the UK at this time only:
“Look, you made a covenant with a whole bloc of nations
where you squandered your alliance with me and you went to them to back you up,
rather than me to back you up!
And I will do what I did in the days of Isaiah.
I will shame you and I will bring disarray to your leaders until I break
the ungodly covenant that I never asked you to form in the first place.”
And the Europeans are going, ‘uh-oh!’ Now I know the Danish and the Swiss and some of the
and some of the others in the room see this very, very differently. You gotta hear, this is not
anti-Europe. This is NOT anti-Europe. This is not even anti-the EU, 'cos there
are some brilliant things about it. We've
got to have that said. It is about OUR
nation that went into covenant when God
had not told it to do it.
And while we're juggling hot potatoes...
Let's talk about Scottish independence!
- why don't we do the whole lot!
I hope you understand biblically why some things are happening
the way they are happening.
And some of your nations may be quite
right to align with the EU. I'm not
commenting on other nations' alignment
with the EU. I'm commenting on MY nation's
wrong alignment with it.
So I believe that the the word of the Lord is that
God is going to oversee a Brexit that is
going to have exactly what we read in
Isaiah: a shame, a shatteredness, a dismay, a brokenness.
But then God will rush
close, in our brokenness, and He will
rebuild our nation. But let me tell you
that in that moment the prophets better
know how to prophesy the right
alignments so we don't repeat history
with the wrong alignments that are not
God ordained for us! I actually believe
God will have us reconnect with Europe
but in alignments that are right and in
the right order; that do not usurp and
undermine the covenant with God.
And I believe that Scotland will not be
independent. If it is I think it
will be against the will of God; that God
has said, 'Scotland,
you are like a sibling to England. You
are an irritating, provocative sibling
that will be like the grit in the oyster
of England. And you are not to separate
yourself from her but you are annoying
to annoy England into her destiny! And if
you separate yourself from them England
will not have her destiny, and Scotland
will not have her destiny - because I have
aligned them as sibling Nations in the
earth for Kingdom purposes'.
And I believe that is a, 'thus says the Lord.'
(Jennifer, you felt similarly - do you want to prophesy on the back of that?) I'm putting her on the spot!
[Jennifer] I wrote this down - I
want to read it as the Lord said it.
Would that be all right? Does anybody
have stones?!
Tomatoes? Nothing? I was flying from
Ireland to Scotland and while I was in
the air, far above the nation, the Lord
said, 'Scotland is the linchpin. And while
the eyes of Europe are on Ireland the
eyes of God are on Scotland's future.' And
Lord says, 'As Scotland goes, so goes the
United Kingdom. Cry out for unity,' says
the Lord, 'Because I have not called for a
separation at such a time as this'. And
the Lord says, 'Many have been the
attempts to sever Scotland but the time
is not at hand to divide but to stand
strong against severest separatist
agendas.' And the Lord says, 'Scotland's destiny
is tied to England and England's tied to
Scotland.' Hallelujah!
[Emma] Well, weigh and test
the words of the Prophet...
...then talk to my husband if you disagree because he said it was okay!
