Watch Focus Sept. 18, 2026 A Prayer to Restore and Maintain Righteousness Under the Law.
The Lindsay Clancy trial has the whole world watching a jury of 12 people deciding whether a woman who kills her three children in a calculated manner should be acquitted of the penalty for murder.
On the 14th anniversary of the capture and destruction of Jerusalem, Jesus appears to Ezekiel and takes him on a detailed tour of the rebuilt future Temple and the restoration of glory. For four chapters, like an attorney in court, with a measuring line in His hand, He shows Ezekiel the evidence of what is to come. At the center of the promised future glory is the installation of a new priesthood. Of them He says in Ezekiel 44:23-24, “And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the unholy, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. In controversy they shall stand as judges, and judge it according to My judgments…..”
Two factors stand out in the Clancy mistrial: a lone juror who refused to acquit; and the perversion of justice by the defense, by ‘gullible women’ with a political agenda (Paul joins such to sorcerers in his instruction to Timothy), and a potentially compromised judge who does not want a retrial happening in his court because of the local social fallout.
The spectacle is an indictment of perversion of our moral code and the undoing of our legal system.
The hold out juror is a black Catholic Republican man who is being pilloried in the press for refusing to call evil good. It is an ironic judgment against the general subversion of truth done by the woke left since the George Floyd riots.
This scenario is being played out in many places, including our own city where inmates have been relabeled as “residents” and criminals are being released onto the streets with ankle monitors instead of being locked up. From the purely biblical point of view this directly impacts the nation and the church:
Isaiah 1:4-8, “Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the Lord, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away backward. Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints. From the sole of the foot even to the head, There is no soundness in it, But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment. Your country is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire; Strangers devour your land in your presence; And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, As a hut in a garden of cucumbers, As a besieged city.”
We were present in the home where a group of Christians launched the anti-abortion movement almost 50 years go. The scripture we chose for the first distribution to the public and the church was from Isaiah 1:5: “…The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints.”
The legally justified murder of millions of children by abortion has come full circle. The biblical viewpoint is a cycle of apostasy, oppression, judgment, repentance, deliverance, restoration…and eventually the cycle repeats. Our prayer is that God in His hesed, mercy and loving-kindness, will grant us our petitions and give us, our nation, and the church a “season of revival.”
Ezra 9:8, “And now for a little while grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage.”
2 Timothy 3:6-8, “For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;”
Daniel 9:19, “O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”
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