It is important as Christians that we come to understand that we “struggle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places” [Ephesians 6:12]. The following is a message the Lord gave to me prophetically about the state of America. It has been confirmed by other prophets and is a message of warning to the church.
The Changing of America
“He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it” Revelation 2:17.
The scripture above gives us a vivid picture of things to take place and are taking place in the End Times. In the opening of this verse, the Apostle John prophesies to overcomers. All throughout the Scriptures we are told that as Christians we are overcomers [Romans 8:35-39]. To describe Christians as overcomers is not so much saying that we have been faithful unto the end, although this is true, but rather it is an indication that any temptation we have resisted on a daily basis has made us an overcomer. It confirms we are no longer a slave to sin [Romans 6:6]. The life of an overcomer is a life that has changed its nature. It once walked in the flesh, a life of sinfulness and disobedience to God, but now the life has become born-again. The life of Christ has entered into the believer’s existence and given them a new way to conquer the very things that caused them to stumble in the past. They have become a new creature. The old way in them has died at the cross through the work of Christ and the new has come, the life of Christ in them. Therefore, in explaining the meaning of Revelation 2:17 concerning “him who overcomes,” it tells us those who are born-again into the new life of Christ are the overcomers described in the passage. As we continue to read the passage, we discover that the overcomers are given “the hidden manna.”
The Hidden Manna.
In explaining this passage [Revelation 2:17], the hidden manna that is mentioned becomes a significant part of the believer’s revelation of the life within them. What is this hidden manna? We know from the scriptures that the manna God gave to the Israelites in the wilderness had everything to do with provision and sustenance. The manna described in Revelation 2:17 speaks to provision however in terms of our spiritual life, the manna is the anointing of God’s gifts within us. This is a prophetic utterance, and it gives meaning to the revelation of the Lord in our lives. Prophetic revelation is never meant to stay hidden. The scripture tells us that it is hidden manna, and this is an indication of the gifting God has given in this manna is known to the one who receives it. However, the Lord imparts these gifts of manna to us for the work of the ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are never to hold that gifting or anointing within but rather we are to impart it to the body. Paul tells us in Ephesians 4:11, “And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ.” The gifting of the five-fold ministry that is the spiritual manna given to the body of Christ is to be revealed to the church and not to be hidden. It may be known to the receiver, but the receiver’s responsibility is to bring forth the revelation given to them in this manna. The manna we are discussing in Revelation 2:17 is of a spiritual nature. It manifests in the offices of the five-fold ministry [Ephesians 4:11]. The hidden manna is Jesus Christ who grants us all gifts through the Holy Spirit for the working of the Gospel message.
A White Stone
In the Scriptures a white stone is a symbol of innocence and acquittal. It is used to represent a person standing in agreement with an issue. In Revelation 2:17, Jesus promises a white stone to the believers who overcome, which represents the love of Christ. The new name written in the stone represents Jesus giving a new name to each who overcomes and receives a heavenly anointing. Every overcomer has a personal relationship with the Lord. So what is the significance of the “white stone” that Jesus promised?
In the time of the Romans and Greeks “white stones” were used as symbols of innocence or guilt [White stones for innocence and black stones for guilt]. In the original text of Revelation 2:17, the wording in the phrase “white stone” is ordered differently in the Greek. The wording actually reads “psiephon leuken.” The psiephon refers to a stone or pebble, and leuken means white. A “white stone” should be literally translated, “A stone, a white one.” This lays a particular emphasis on the color of the stone; “You are judged innocent!”
When a Roman trial concluded and a panel of judges had to vote on the defendant’s guilt or innocence, the judges registered their votes by casting a black or white stone into an urn. A black stone symbolized a vote for guilt and a white stone for innocence. When all the votes had been cast, the stones were emptied from the urn and counted one by one. If there were more black stones it meant the judges had found the defendant guilty, if there were more white stones it meant they found the defendant not guilty. This type of judgment was used in the days of the Apostle John, and it makes complete sense that the symbolism the Lord would give to him in Revelation 2:17 is the innocence of the believer by giving them a white stone. The Lord’s judgment proclaims, “I have reviewed all the evidence, and I have judged you not guilty!” The message to the church [overcomers] regardless of who they were or of what they had become before they came to Christ is that they are rendered innocent because of the cross of Christ and their acceptance of a born-again life placing Jesus as Lord. Jesus cast a “white stone” in their favor.
When the devil—or any person—tries to throw a stone of judgment against you by mentally tormenting you about past actions we’ve already been forgiven. Knowing this, we can boldly answer, “Christ has already cast His vote, and He has judged me NOT GUILTY!” Any sinful actions we have committed in the past, present, and future have been washed away by the blood of Jesus Christ at the cross.
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“How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God [the glorified Lamb], cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? Hebrews 9:14.
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In Revelation 2:17 when Christ promises “a stone, a white one” to the believers who overcame, He was announcing freedom, forgiveness, and acquittal from our sins and He was proclaiming to the Father that His vote is for you. The white stone declares that Christ has found you not guilty and that He has placed His full support in your life. He is for us! “What shall we say then to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?” Romans 8:31.
The Hebrew name for the white stone is “Yahalom.” It is symbolically represented as an overcomer. Literally meaning to gain entrance. The High Priest of Israel wore this stone on his tunic when entering the Holy of Holies without it he would have died in the presence of the Ark. The white stone gained him entrance without the fear of death. Not only does the white stone proclaim our innocence but it also allows us entrance into the Most Holy Place and before the presence of the Father.
In Joshua 4:3 twelve stones are placed in the Jordan River as a memorial of where Israel had been [the wilderness] and where God is bringing them [The Promised Land]. The wilderness represents our sinfulness, the Jordan River is the cross of our salvation, and the Promised Land is our new life. The stones are placed there to remind us of how we gained entrance.
A New Name
“A new name is written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it” Revelation 2:17. The latter part of this verse tells us no one knows who receives the new name except those who it is given to. Our salvation is known by our hearts and unless we have confessed it to others and proclaimed the mystery of so great a revelation, no one will know of our salvation except us who it has been given to. We are to proclaim it! This is what the purpose of revelation is. We must never keep prophetic revelation to ourselves. It is meant to be revealed and shared.
When given a new life and doing away with the old, the Lord gives us a new name. Sarai and Abram [Genesis 17:5, 15] when given a new life were now known as Sarah and Abraham. God added His name to them. His breath, the YAH, of who He is was placed upon them. Their aged bodies, 80 and 100 respectively, were now ministering in the bodies of twenty-year-olds. The result birthed Isaac, God’s original intention to supernaturally intervene in the formation of Israel and His people. They were to be God’s creation and intent established from the Everlasting Covenant without any human interference.
Jacob, Abraham’s grandchild and son of Isaac, became Israel [Genesis 32:28]. Jacob known as Israel has through his line passed his name to Jesus [Matthew 2:15]. Jesus is called Israel.
Simon is now called Peter [Mark 3:16]. Peter is known to Christ as the rock [Petra; little stone] because he proclaimed Jesus as the Christ.
Saul becomes Paul [Acts 13:9]. Paul’s name is defined as humility in its meaning. He is the lesser by his own choice. He was determined to live all for Christ giving no recognition to himself.
In every instance of the name changes of these hallowed saints, there was an assignment given and a ministry ensued. It should be understood that when we became believers and overcomers, God not only gave us a new name that is wrapped in the life of Jesus Christ but an assignment in the kingdom was commanded [Matthew 28:19-20] to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to all the nations making disciples of them. We are disciple makers!
By giving you a new name the Lord is responding to prophetic revelation, and He expects us to speak out the revelation that He has placed in us.
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“To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, and a new name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an Everlasting name which will not be cut off” Isaiah 56:6.
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1-The Importance of Prophetic Revelation.
When the Lord imparts given revelation into our lives it is essential especially from a prophetic point of view to release that revelation into the atmosphere. In other words, make the proclamation to the church of the importance of the spiritual anointing that God has released into your life. We must step into our calling and speak out the revelation. The true calling of a prophet is to release the word that God has given to them under the unction of His Holy Spirit.
In 2013, the Prophet Kim Clement received a word from the Lord about the Kennedy family in America. It was concerning America’s spiritual future, and the effect the Kennedy’s would have on the outcome. Just recently [August 2024, some 10+ years after Clement’s word] Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made a pronouncement about the need for America to get back to God. He spoke about the 2024 Presidential election cycle having everything to do with the nation turning to God’s righteousness. Prophet Clement spoke the hidden manna given to him by the Lord concerning the Kennedy family. We have witnessed it coming to pass. This is a confirmation of the importance of releasing prophetic revelation to the church.
The election of 2024 is not about Democrats or Republicans. It is about the church of Jesus Christ. It is not about the White House or politicians. It is about the church. We are in a battle just as Elijah was against the forces the god Ba’al. Evil spirits that Lucifer [now Satan] has assigned over America are seeking agreement. Evil is on a mission to change the name
of America and to change the name of Israel. These evil spirits are seeking to establish the god Ba’al to reign explicitly over Israel and America. It was no different in the days of Elijah when Jezebel set out to convert all of Israel to Baalism across the nation [1 Kings 18]. Ba’al means the master possessor who is seeking to control all things. It wants to control the church and to control you.
2-Two Opinions—Ba’al v. YHWH
At Mt. Carmel in 1 Kings 17, Elijah battles the false prophets of Baal. There were two distinct opinions at this place, and they were in complete opposition to one another. Queen Jezebel was a princess, and her father was King over Pia and Cyan which worshipped the god of the Asherah pole called Ba’al. The agreement for marriage with Ahab was to allow her to bring her god worship into Israel. Not only did she want to bring the false god Ba’al into Israel, but she was also set on making that god the only worship in Israel and her intention was to destroy the worship of YHWH and the Jewish temple rites replacing them with Ba’al.
On the other hand, Prophet Elijah was chosen by God to bring righteousness and His authority throughout the nation. This brought Elijah into direct opposition to the false prophets of Ba’al and Jezebel directly. In the nation began a conflict of two souls: Ba’al worship on the one hand and YHWH worship on the other. These two opinions are no different than the Christian who battles the desires and sinfulness of their flesh while seeking to bring the righteousness and authority of the Spirit in their lives. The flesh wants to control the spirit just as Jezebel wanted to control YHWH worship and ultimately eliminating YHWH completely from Israel. That is the battle!
Our soul/spirit seeks to find agreement. We clamor for like opinions. In both good and evil the task of finding agreement becomes a main ingredient in determining our destinies. At the Tower of Babel [Genesis 11] the evil desires of men sought to build a giant tower to the heavens. Their agreement gave them the motivation to complete this task even though it had angered God. In the battle of our minds, the flesh gives in to temptation and decides to walk in a manner unworthy of the cross of Christ. The devils of hell tempt us in our minds [the battlefield of sin or righteousness] and there our decision is made to either follow the temptation and give in or to resist the temptation calling on the name of Christ to overcome it and lead us into righteousness. These spirits are seeking agreement with our fleshly desires in order to engage in sin. The Holy Spirit gives the power to overcome the flesh and to walk in the Spirit leading to righteousness and in doing so glorifying the name of the Lord.
At Mount Carmel, the Israelites had a choice. Either to follow the false prophets of Ba’al thereby pleasing Jezebel or to turn back to the Law and make sacrifice to the God of Israel and receive the Lord’s blessing. The actions of Elijah at Mt. Carmel convinced the people of Israel that Jehovah is God and the false prophets of Ba’al were moving them into a life of sinfulness, degradation, and unrighteousness. The peoples’ choice to follow Jehovah caused the death of the false prophets, the end of Baal worship, and the end of human sacrifice at the altar of Molech. The end result was the death of those false prophets and revival coming forth in Israel because the people had repented and turned back to God.
3-The Soul of the Church
Just as the Triune God is likeminded in all things, so must the church be likeminded through the power of the Holy Spirit in Christ. When the church seeks its own way and ignores the unity that God calls us to by obedience to His Word, the church will garner many different opinions, the opinions of men, and begin to build its foundation on this false narrative. The disunity that is displayed in the Christian church today causes, at times, an ineffective Gospel. We are fighting each other on doctrine rather than agreeing to preach the gospel for the salvation of souls.
This disunity allows the like mindedness of evil demonic influences to bring deceptive practices into the house of God. This evil is seeking to have control over the church. In March 2020, the world was hit with an international pandemic. In the United States the pastors of our churches caved to political pressure in the name of science and many churches were shut down and never re-opened their doors. The pastors folded to government pressure. This was an all-out evil attack of the enemy against the people of God. As Jezebel set out to do in Israel with Baal worship, the spirit of Jezebel was set to take control over the churches in the nation. There is like mindedness in the realm of the principalities and powers of evil to have soulish control over America. It is a Python and Jezebel spirit trying to strangle America. It wants to change the power of the Constitution by using WOKE Culture, the Educational System, our family dynamic [mothers and fathers no longer the authority over children], and genderism. They want boys to be girls and girls to be boys by deceiving their minds and permanently damaging their God-given gender and identity. They are forcing Americans to give in to these type of deviancies through the passage of law and the courts to uphold it. The strategy of the demonic powers is to shame Americans into believing we are judgmental, unloving, and scripturally wrong by the use of science in order to accept these demonic precepts.
The Python spirit strangles the Christian doctrines and beliefs that are protected in the U.S. Constitution causing a change to the heart of the beliefs set forth by our founding fathers. The spirit Jezebel means non-cohabitant without obligation. She is a fantasy space—a lifestyle. Jezebel was the daughter of the king of Pia and Cyan. Their native god was Ba’al. This worship was derived from the goddess Asherah, which tried to rule over Israel for many generations in order to nullify YHWH worship. When Jezebel arrived in Israel as Ahab’s bride, she brought 450 false prophets with her, and they placed their temples in every city that Elijah had established a school of prophets. Jezebel demanded equal rights and access to the altars set up for YHWH. Her intention was to root out YHWH worship, the temple, and the priesthood and replace it with the false worship of Ba’al. She wanted the devil in charge. Lucifer, now Satan, never stops trying to fulfill Isaiah 14 and raise his throne above God’s. But he is a defeated foe established at the cross of Christ [John 19:30].
When the church gives in to unrighteousness and allows any outside influence to determine its authority, power, and manifest destiny then the door is open for the spirits of Python and Jezebel to run in. This is the present state of America in 2024. God is calling us to take our rightful place in America and be the voice He intended us to be; a pillar of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
4-The God of America is Jesus Christ
Our nation was founded on this belief in the 1600’s. The following founding fathers and many others were of the opinion of the following statements written by John Adams and Patrick Henry.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”—John Adams [John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.229].
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”—Patrick Henry
I cannot emphasize it enough! “…this great nation was founded…on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”—Patrick Henry. This is a teaching of historical fact that the Socialist Marxist’s who govern our school systems and who influence our politicians with money and votes will never allow our children to be taught this fact! Our complacency on their [our children] education has allowed these truths to be covered up and indeed removed from the history books of American education. The strategic move of Jezebel is to instruct the Python spirit to twist itself around the truth of America’s history and choke the life out it. Then she replaces it with the Ba’al worship now known as Marxism. She wants equality with Jesus Christ as Lord over America. It is a battle replayed once again like that at Mt. Carmel [1 Kings 18]. The Ba’al v. Christ battle is taking place in America as I write this. It is transcending generations since our founding fathers and will not cease until the church takes its rightful place in our society. Our Christian beliefs MUST be at the forefront of all things American from politics, government, and our society. We cannot be complacent in this process but rather we must be as diligent in the struggle for Jesus as the Marxists are for the god of Ba’al.
The Presidential election of 2024 in America is not so much about who is in the White House or who controls the government as it is about the forces of Ba’al seeking power to change America against the gospel of Jesus Christ to preach and save souls for His kingdom. The church must remove its slothfulness and be the overcomers [conquerors] that God has intended us to be. Jezebel, as she did in Israel, is seeking to augment an absolute monarchy to eliminate Jesus Christ from our American fabric and history.
Israel’s role
The spirit of Python and Jezebel have engaged in a two-fold battle front; the inner attack on American society for the purpose of a change toward Marxist ideals [anti-Christ] and the outward attack on Israel, from the river to the sea, with the intent to accomplish its complete annihilation. Win America, defeat Israel. Win America, crush YHWH worship. Are not the American people standing between Israel and the world? Our strength is allowing Israel to represent a Republic democracy to the Middle East. The Christian support of the nation of Israel, the scripture tells us so: “This is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.” [Romans 11:27]. The church stands in this covenant with the nation of Israel as described by the Apostle Paul in Galatians 3:29, “And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.” If the Marxists in this 2024 election succeed in winning the White House, then Israel will stand alone in the world [“…and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud covers the land.” Ezekiel 38:16 & “It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord God…” v. 18].
The Lord prophecies in Ezekiel 39 that Israel will be restored after those days of terrible war however there is no scripture or prophecy that declares a new rising of America after the Marxists run its Republic into a communist regime. The Marxists will take over the philosophies of our schools, they will change the American family as we know it, they will declare atheism [anti-Christ spirit] the new religion and the government will be our god. They will close the Christian churches and force us to worship in secret places and the birth of an underground church will come forth much like that of China, Russia, Indonesia, and Laos. Be aware saints, this election has consequences!
A Prophetic Warning
Many Christians will believe the lies of the political Left in this election year because their spiritual eyes are not open, and they are deceived. God will allow this deception to remain on those who have already hardened their hearts to righteousness and morality should they not repent from the evil that has become the rhetoric of the Marxist Left in this country.
When Christians who have been deceived and refuse to walk in Christlikeness vote for the politicians who are touting Leftist views, they are in actuality voting to kill babies [the unborn], to accept transgenderism and sex changes, transgender boys in their daughters and granddaughters bathrooms and gym locker rooms, the promotion of LBGTQ+ ideals of immorality and unrighteousness, the advancement of Marxist WOKE culture ideals placed upon their children in our educational system, and the weakening of our military by pushing these changes rather than being trained to stand battle tested warzones. When the saluting of our military personnel to a man in a dress becomes more important than the discipline required to walk a military life, we have reached the beginning of the end of our nation. The Christians who believe the Left to be of God and say they have heard from the Lord to do this then they see that the deception has taken root. “For I the Lord, am not a purveyor of unrighteousness and immorality! I will smite the partakers and the nation who walk and talk falsely in My name. I will give this generation over to its decadence and I will pass by this generation as I did the Israelites of old who never saw the Promised Land once having left Egypt. As for those who believe I will interfere with their free will and choice for righteousness or unrighteousness, I say this, “Remember Israel. The choices they made to choose disobedience rather than the covenant of the Law opened the way for the Babylonians, and again after 70 years of captivity they chose disobedience in defiance to the Law and the Egyptians enslaved them once again, and a third time their disobedience brought the Assyrians upon them. Their history of disobedience brought the Medo-Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans to their doorstep enslaving them for many generations. So it will be with America if the church chooses unrighteousness.”
5-The Five-fold Ministry Must Act
In 1 Kings 18, Elijah took an adversarial position when it came to the false prophets of Ba’al. Elijah mocked them saying “where is your god?” We, the church, must mock the Jezebel/Python spirits. We must go on the offense because we have the TRUTH! The Gospel message is the only way to salvation. We are entering into a time of the great harvest; we must not be silent. We must in the prophetic and apostolic ministries mock WOKE culture, MOCK gender ideology, MOCK anti-Christian education and culture, MOCK the ideas and teaching that America is no longer a Christian nation. We are allowing our politicians to give in to the Marxist changes to our history by tearing down our statues and removing Columbus statues, Robert E. Lee statues and others from our town squares forgetting that Columbus planted the Christian flag on the shores of the Dominican Republic claiming the land for Jesus Christ. We have forgotten the deep faith that Robert E. Lee had in Christ. Is this a promotion of slavery? Absolutely not! It is speaking to the heart of these men to love God even though they were missing the true intent of God to bring freedom and liberty into the lives of all men through Christ. I ask you, if you vote for the Marxist Left in this election does that mean you do not love the Lord and call Christ your Savior? Of course not, but it does show that you are intent on your own purpose and agenda and not the Lord’s desire for righteousness in His American church.
There is prophecy coming forth even now from America, from Canada, from the UK, from France, and from the underground churches of China and Russia. These prophecies will break the Ba’al spirit. The Elijah anointing will re-build the altars of our forefather Jacob, and the former years will move the heart of God. We will dose water on the offering of the Jacob altar and as did Elijah call down the fires of the Holy Spirit from the throne of God. There is no doubt after the prophetic time of mocking these false gods and philosophies the fire will fall from heaven to prove God is God. It will be a time of great harvest. There will be the greatest evangelical movement and revival as this nation has never seen, not even in the days of the Great Awakening in New England. The church will reap a harvest in these latter days.
Dr. Steve Rocco Ministries 