Homesteading has been a way of living for centuries. In fact, it didn’t even have a name back in the day—it was simply the way society lived. In 2016, something shifted. Not just physically, but spiritually, something caused the term “homesteading” to begin to become main stream. This is when I started Homesteaders of America, and planned our first homesteading conference in 2017.
When I first began Homesteaders of America (HOA), I had no idea there was actually a call on my life to help steward such a large movement. I say “help steward” because I am not the only one. There are other generals in this movement, such as Joel Salatin, and Shawn and Beth Dougherty. I cannot claim responsibility for something people have been teaching and doing for so much longer than I have. But as I sit back and think about when HOA began, I am in awe of what God did, and continues to do.
Homesteading is not just a trend or a movement, it is a calling. Just as Joseph prepared ahead of a famine. Just as Noah built the ark. Just as Agabus prophesied a coming famine in Acts (which came to pass). The kingdom of God and the homesteading movement move hand in hand. God moves on the heart of man to accomplish His will within the earth—and for what the future holds, there is always an “out” for those who follow Jesus.
If you have followed me for any amount of time, you know that I have had my own prophetic experiences with God. I know that war is on the horizon. I understand the times that we are seeing unfold. And more than anything, I know that God wants us to prepare ahead of them. I believe the homesteading movement is exactly that—the out. It doesn’t take a prophet to see these things—the times are right before us laid out like a map on a table. It’s simply obvious now.
Let’s talk for a moment about America. America was created to be the land of the free and home of the brave. It was not created to be a nation that stifles the freedom of its citizens. Yet here we are, hundreds of years after its conception, paying the highest taxes we’ve ever paid in the history of America, and having homegrown food outlawed. We have government corruption like never before. Even here in my state of Virginia for our upcoming governor race, the governor is supposedly Christian, but the lieutenant governor candidate running with her is an openly homosexual man. Where are the christian values in that? The world will do what it wants to do, I do not condemn the world. But you cannot run on “christian values” with mixture in your camp.
During republican candidate Nick Freitas’s run for congress, he was winning by a land slide. Suddenly, a thumb drive appeared at the last minute with 15,000+ votes that threw his democratic opponent into instant victory. We could talk about stories like this all day every day, but the general consensus is this—there is no more truth or integrity in upper levels of our American government any longer. I don’t care who it is or what they “say”, we have reached the point on our timeline of life where we have officially entered into the era of the New World Order. A beast system that will one day rule the world and its inhabitants. Even the elect will be deceived.
I don’t want to vote for the “lesser of two evils” any longer. So what is the answer?—Create the system you want to have. One of truth, integrity, and Jesus. One of community and sustainable practices. One of wealth, not riches. Change the culture, and you’ll change the world.
“And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.” ACTS 4:33-35 NIV
The kingdom of God was never created to be a quiet, lay low kingdom. It was created to take territory by force through wisdom, knowledge, mass amounts of salvations, a confirming of the word through miracles, signs, and wonders, and a spirit of generosity. Quite literally, the kingdom of God advancing in the book of Acts looks exactly like the homesteading movement.
How brilliant of God to create a back to the land movement that He knew would be malleable in His hands in order to advance His will and kingdom within the earth. It’s not just believers, it’s non-believers as well.
