Greg Lancaster

3 Things You'll Learn
What the REAL ID Act of 2005 set in motion for state driver’s licenses and federal access.
How enhanced licenses with RFID and biometric data fit a wider push for unique digital identity.
Why Revelation 13’s warning about buying and selling calls for wisdom, not fear-driven decisions.
 
Description:
Rick Wiles walks through the REAL ID Act, passed by Congress in 2005 after 9/11. The aim was for every state driver’s license to function as a biometric identifier and, in effect, a national ID card. Early opposition was strong. State legislatures resisted. Years later the Department of Homeland Security began telling states that licenses not meeting REAL ID standards would not work for federal buildings and, starting in January of the timeline they discuss, for boarding aircraft.
Greg goes to the Homeland Security site and finds enhanced driver’s licenses with RFID chips and biometric appointments: fingerprints, retina scans, and related identifiers. He notes testimony dating to March 19, 2009, technology refined in Iraq and later shared, including with China, and India’s Unique Identification effort that had already enrolled about 200 million people by 2012. A unique number, they said, so no one has more than one, framed as inclusion and as a way to route government benefits to the right person.
Then the room turns to Scripture. Revelation 13 describes power to force all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on the right hand or forehead so that no one could buy or sell without the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Greg does not tell you to panic. He says this requires wisdom. He prays for protection, for God to show what His people should not be tied to, for an end to abortion, and for revival and a third great awakening.
Notable Quotes
"Your driver's license is gonna become the national ID card. Now, they didn't say it like that, but that's what it was."
"It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark... so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark."
"If any man lacks wisdom, let him ask of it, because you give it liberally."
#REALID #Wisdom #Revelation13 #WatchAndPray #GregLancaster
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© 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries

3 Things You'll Learn
Why Jesus told the church in Pergamum they lived where Satan’s throne is.
How the altar of Zeus, Antipas the martyr, and later Berlin and Nuremberg are connected in this teaching.
Why the real war is spiritual, and why refusing to call any man or system “lord” still matters.
Description:
How many struggles in your life look like people, systems, or circumstances, when Scripture says the real fight is spiritual? Ephesians 6:12 says our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, authorities, powers of this dark world, and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. This episode takes that verse to Pergamum, the city Jesus called the place where Satan’s throne is.
John wrote from Patmos to the church in Pergamum. They held fast to Jesus’ name even after Antipas, the faithful martyr ordained by John, was killed where Satan dwells. The teaching walks through the city’s temples, the great altar of Zeus that many scholars identify with that throne, and the Asclepion of the serpent god Asclepius, where patients slept among snakes and clay body parts were offered for healing. Antipas would not call Caesar lord. He was sentenced on that altar and, according to the account shared here, roasted inside a hollow bronze bull while he prayed for the church. Greg then follows the altar’s later history with teaching from Jonathan Cahn. After Antiochus set an idol of Zeus on the Temple Mount, a massive altar of Zeus rose in Pergamum. Unearthed in the late 1800s and rebuilt in Berlin, it reappeared as Germany became a nation, modern antisemitism took root, and Adolf Hitler was born the year the reconstruction finished. When the Pergamon Museum opened in 1930, the Nazi party surged. Albert Speer later designed Hitler’s Nuremberg podium after that same altar. From that stage came the Nuremberg Laws and the first public use of “Final Solution.” Greg warns that the German church treated Hitler as a Christian and misused Romans 13, and that healing belongs to God, not to a twisted serpent staff. Greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world. Do not bow the knee.
#Jesus #Revelation #SpiritualWarfare #Pergamum #BibleTeaching #GregLancaster
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© 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries

3 Things You'll Learn
Why a great awakening is more than a revival. It changes the structure of how a society lives and why it lives that way.
What Amos 5:21-24 says God wants when religious meetings, songs, and offerings no longer please Him.
How acts of justice done with the right heart become worship that can touch God for a third great awakening.
 
Description:
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said America needs a spiritual awakening and that government cannot impose one from Washington. He pointed to the Second Great Awakening, when a move of God helped produce abolition, women’s suffrage, and other deep shifts in the nation’s life. Greg says revivals are wonderful, but a great awakening remakes the DNA of a culture. The answer for America is not political. It is a third great awakening.
Worship is at the center of that cry. George Barna’s work is cited: about 80 percent of regular church attenders treat worship as if it were about them, not the Lord. Worship leader Jeremy Riddle defines worship as any thought, act, or deed done as unto the Lord that brings pleasure to His heart. God is not moved by religious activity for its own sake. In Amos 5:21-24 the Lord rejects festivals, offerings, and noisy music and says, “Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream.” Greg reads the same passage and the Message rendering. Fruit exposes whether worship is real. He points to people suffering injustice, poverty, and persecution while the church turns the music up. International House of Prayer came to half prayer and half acts of justice. Dr. King echoed Amos. God prefers obedience and love of neighbor over songs that never become a river of justice.
The call is to care for the poor, the wrongly treated, and those who cannot afford an attorney. Redeemability matters. David and Paul were more than their worst act. A just God will not ignore an unjust church. Acts of justice with a right heart are worship that can release a third great awakening.
Notable Quotes
"Worship is any act, it's any thought, it's any deed that's done as unto the Lord that brings pleasure to His heart."
"I hate your show and pretense... Instead, let there be a mighty river of justice that flows."
"Let justice thunder down like a waterfall, let righteousness flow like a mighty river that never runs dry."
"If men aren't redeemable, we're not redeemable."
#TrueWorship #Justice #Amos5 #GreatAwakening #GregLancaster
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3 Things You'll Learn
What Perry Stone said the Holy Spirit showed him in May 2008 about riots and burning in at least five major U.S. cities.
How David Wilkerson’s earlier words about fires, race riots, and welfare cutbacks line up with what Perry described.
Why the Holy Spirit wants God’s people not to be in darkness about what is coming.
 
Description:
Perry Stone said the Holy Spirit showed him at least five major cities in the United States with rioting and fighting in poorer sections among ethnic groups, cities literally burning. He dated that word to May 2008 at a Partners Conference in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
He then set that vision beside David Wilkerson. In 1985 Wilkerson wrote about a coming Russian attack after an economic collapse. In 1992 he wrote of a recurring vision of a thousand fires in New York City and race riots exploding, with federal and state welfare cutbacks as the spark. In March 2009 Wilkerson warned of an earth-shattering calamity, riots and blazing fires in major cities like Watts, looting, and cities worldwide. Perry said a friend was told privately that Wilkerson’s warning came through an angelic visitation. He pointed to cities on the verge of bankruptcy and to cutbacks in unions, police, and benefits as the kind of pressure that could ignite fighting and burning like America has not seen.
Greg ties the words to a systematic unfolding that polarizes and divides so a nation can be steered a new direction. The point is not panic. The Holy Spirit wants His people awake, not in the dark.
Notable Quotes
"I counted at least five major cities. They were cities in the United States. There had been rioting and fighting... They were literally burning the cities down."
"Federal and state welfare cutbacks will be the spark that ignites the fuse."
"The Holy Spirit wants His people not to be in darkness toward anything that's gonna happen."
#Prophecy #PerryStone #America #WatchAndPray #GregLancaster #Faith
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Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.
You don’t want to miss this journey.
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3 Things You'll Learn
What campus administrators in the investigation did when students called the Constitution a trigger.
Why Greg ties that footage to reports of Christian students leaving the faith in college.
Why he urges listeners to read the Constitution and the Declaration for themselves.
Description:
What happens when a student walks into a college office and says the U.S. Constitution is a trigger, that it causes panic, and that seeing it on campus feels unsafe? In the undercover footage Greg plays, administrators at Vassar and voices at Oberlin do not send the student away. They treat the Constitution as harmful, talk about removing it from campus life, and agree to put a copy in a shredder because it might be “therapeutic.”
Greg notes that Vassar was founded in 1861 as a highly selective liberal arts college. He also repeats the report that about 70 percent of Christian young people who go to college leave their faith. Now some of the same campuses treat the founding document as oppression. Professors in the clips call the Constitution flawed, not sacred, and discuss limiting, confining, or talking back to it. Greg’s counsel is simple. Get a copy. Read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution until they are inside you. Most people never have. If that document goes, the rights people assume will not stay. There is wisdom God allowed this nation to receive, and much of it is written there.
#Jesus #Constitution #Faith #Discipleship #BibleTeaching #GregLancaster
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3 Things You'll Learn
What the cited college statistics say about young people leaving the faith.
How a Great Awakening and Azusa Street sat just before the Civil War and World War I.
Why Greg calls this a time to share the gospel and ask God for a third Great Awakening.
Description:
Parents send their children to universities that were founded to teach the Bible, and many come home without their faith. Greg cites reports that about 70 percent of Christian students at secular campuses turn away from God, and about 50 percent at Christian campuses. Then he asks a harder historical question. When the church cries, “End abortion, send revival, send a third Great Awakening,” what has often come just before great loss of life?
Before the American Civil War, a Great Awakening prepared hearts. Then 625,000 to 850,000 Americans died. Before World War I, the Azusa Street revival touched the world. Then about 38 million lives were lost. Greg’s point is not that revival causes war. It is that God has poured out His Spirit to prepare people before tragedy. This is the time to make Jesus Lord, share the gospel, and cry out for awakening on campuses that are shredding the Bible, the Constitution, and the hearts of the young. He prays for hunger for God’s presence and Word, for forgiveness where we ignored both the Bible and the Constitution, and for God to prepare us for what is ahead.
#Jesus #Revival #GreatAwakening #Faith #Discipleship #GregLancaster
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3 Things You'll Learn
Why meat has become the most stolen grocery item as food prices climb.
How John Paul Jackson’s headlines about food inflation and a 40 percent food budget line up with what is being reported.
Why Greg compares the Constitution to an aquarium, and what futile thinking costs a nation.
Description:
The number one stolen item in American supermarkets may surprise you. It is meat. Reports in this episode say about one in eleven people walking past you in the store will steal something, and rising beef prices have pushed protein theft to record levels. Greg connects that headline to prophetic words already given, not to stir fear, but to wake the church up.
John Paul Jackson’s prophetic headlines included food prices leading nations into escalating inflation, and food nearing 40 percent of the family budget, with talk of guards on delivery trucks. Greg also cites a poverty figure of 46.2 million Americans, about 15 percent of the population, and a four-person household at roughly $23,000 or less. He uses a simple picture. The Constitution is the glass of the aquarium. It holds the water in place. Fish that want the glass shredded do not understand they will die on the carpet. Romans 1 describes futile thinking when a people are given over to their own way. Parents have used children to steal because children are treated differently in court. Prices, drought, printed money, and shredded foundations are not random. Get Prudent Preparation at vfntv.com through the Torch newsletter, think outside the box, and remember God tells His people these things because He loves them.
#Jesus #Prophetic #PrudentPreparation #Faith #BibleTeaching #GregLancaster
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Jesus didn’t just call us to believe in Him. He called us to follow Him.
Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.
You don’t want to miss this journey.
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3 Things You'll Learn
What Ted Koppel reports about a cyberattack on the power grid and how unprepared civilian agencies are.
Why two or three days of supplies is not the same as months without power.
How prudent preparation and prophetic warning belong together in this hour.
Description:
What if the lights did not come back on in days, but in weeks or months? Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out describes a cyberattack on the U.S. electrical grid and a nation unprepared for the aftermath. Greg sets that reporting next to what the Lord has been saying about prudent preparation, because a prudent person sees danger and gets ready.
Koppel tells Charlie Rose that Russia and China are already inside the grid. Former Homeland Security secretaries admitted there was no real civilian plan. FEMA and Red Cross guidance talks about two or three days of food and water. A grid-down event could last far longer. No light, no heat, no cooling, no running water, no working toilets, and cities with almost no stored food. Admiral Mike Rogers and General Lloyd Austin said it is not if, but when. Greg points listeners to the VFN Torch newsletter and the gift teaching Prudent Preparation, and to a ninety-day readiness posture. Steve Kalashevsky then shares a night vision: driving down a steep hill he could not slow, steering to stay on the road while animal carcasses covered the way and fell from the sky. The call is not panic. It is to see what is coming, prepare practically, and recognize the hour.
#Jesus #PrudentPreparation #Prophetic #Faith #GregLancaster #Discipleship
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Jesus didn’t just call us to believe in Him. He called us to follow Him.
Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.
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© 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries
 

3 Things You'll Learn
Why the original intent of the church is relationship, not a come-to-the-building system.
What changes when a church becomes a go-ye people instead of a come-ye crowd.
Why Jesus’ words in John 15 about abiding in the Vine are the heart of the Vine Seminar.
 
Description:
In difficult times the church does not need a more complicated religion. It needs the original intent. That intent is relationship: loving one another, patience, kindness, and time together. Discipleship is caught in relationship better than it is taught in a classroom. The first believers met, ate, devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and walked in the fear of the Lord with signs and wonders. They had not failed to invent a huge complex. They were being the church.
Jesus said, “Go ye into all the world.” Much of modern church life is come-ye: come to my building, my meeting, my event. When the church will not go out, darkness goes out instead. Greg describes learning to walk as a go-ye church, even if it takes years. God loves that pattern. One man compared it to stepping out of a flowerpot into Acts chapter 4. There is one church, and Jesus is the Head. He wants His church back, loyal to His voice.
The Vine Seminar was built to share that journey. In John 15 Jesus said He is the Vine, the Father is the Gardener, and we are the branches. Fruit is impossible apart from abiding in Him. Seating is limited. If God is calling you to walk this way, sign up and come.
Notable Quotes
"We just go back to the original intent of the church. It's not as complicated as religion has made it out to be."
"Discipleship's taught, caught in relationships better than taught in some particular classroom-type setting."
"There's only one church, the church under Jesus Christ as the head. He wants His church back."
#VineSeminar #Church #John15 #Discipleship #GregLancaster
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Jesus didn’t just call us to believe in Him. He called us to follow Him.
Step into the life He designed for you through Emmaus Road’s The Commands of Jesus. This is more than learning. It’s an invitation to walk with Him, obey Him, and experience Him in a real and powerful way.
You don’t want to miss this journey.
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© 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries

3 Things You'll Learn
What the First Amendment actually says versus the phrase “separation of church and state.”
How Hugo Black’s Everson opinion changed how religion and government are treated in public life.
Why Jesus said you know people by their fruit, not by a label, a roster, or a sheet.
 
Description:
People repeat “separation of church and state” as if those words were written in the First Amendment. They are not. The First Amendment says the government shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. This episode traces how a very different meaning got written into American life, and how it still shapes what you can say, pray, and display.
Greg walks through the account in Senator Mike Lee’s book. In Birmingham, a Klansman murdered a Catholic priest after the priest married his daughter to Pedro Guzman. Attorney Hugo Black led the defense before a Klan-packed courtroom. The killer walked free. Black later joined the Klan, spoke at well over a hundred Klan meetings, was elected senator from Alabama, and was appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin Roosevelt as the New Deal was forced through. In Everson v. Board of Education, Black voted with the majority so he could write the opinion. That opinion flipped the First Amendment. Instead of protecting the church and the people from the federal government, it began to treat the government as needing protection from religion. Greg’s point is pastoral and sharp. Jesus said you know them by their fruit. Burning a cross is not the gospel. He died on a cross. He did not burn one. The church must tell the truth about this history, repent where we stayed silent, and love the nations, the ethnos, instead of merging with power.
#Jesus #FirstAmendment #ChurchAndState #Discipleship #BibleTeaching #GregLancaster
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© 2026 Greg Lancaster Ministries