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'''The Iowa Alliance for Reformation''' has emerged under God’s divine direction to release [[Direct revelation |
revelation]] into the state of [[Iowa]] and bring [[reformation]] into the church. This alliance exists to release [[Direct
revelation | revelation]] into the state, encourage existing leaders to pursue [[Direct revelation | Revelation]], and to
cause the [[Body of Christ]] of [[Iowa]] to hunger for greater encounters with [[God]].
==The Iowa Band: Iowa is the Key to United States Freedom==
As they started this alliance they had no idea they would be fulfilling a 150 year old mandate [[God]] had given to a group
called the Iowa Band. They recently found out the rich deep spiritual heritage of [[Iowa]] and God's desire for this state to
lead the nation into encounters with Him. Twelve men came to [[Iowa]] to bring [[reformation]] into the new territory opening
up in the 1840’s. Of the 12 only 5 truly felt a mandate to see change occur. These five started out from a Bible college in
SE Iowa. The original men had a prophetic word in 1842 from [[Lyman Beecher]], Father of the [[Second Great Awakening]], at
[[Charles Finney]]’s church in [[Oberlin%2C_Ohio | Oberlin, Ohio]]. That word proclaimed that Iowa was the key to the
[[United States]] freedom and future of the next generation of leaders to change the world. [[Iowa]] was known as a place of
creative release as many artists came to express and capture Gods handiwork.
==Reformation ends by Complacency==
One of these men was [[Charles Parham]], who while in [[Iowa]] got the [[Direct revelation | revelation]] of [[speaking in
tongues]]. He later would move away to [[Kansas]] as the church in [[Iowa]] made decision to reject the [[Direct revelation |
revelation]] of [[reformation]] occurring. He is best known for the father of the [[Azusa Street Revival]]. Because of the
decisions made by the church in [[Iowa]] the [[Azusa street revival]] would be birth elsewhere.
As the final two men traveled the state, [[revivals]] broke out and [[reformation]] occurred, until the church decided to
pursue other things than Gods presence. The move of [[reformation]] was ended by complacency. But not until [[Iowa]] was
known as the foremost sending place of ministers, 10,000 young people to be exact, had been trained and sent further west as
ministers. Also covenants were formed with the land that it would always be fruitful, which they see the outcome still
occurring today!
==Reformation is Returning to Iowa!==
They also found out the great parallels they are also reliving. They also had 5 men start the '''Iowa Alliance for
Reformation''' and now 2 remain to continue. They started from Jubilee School of Ministry in [[Fairfield%2C_Iowa | Fairfield,
SE Iowa]]. They were given a 1900 Tent stake as a prophetic act by their Bible students to make covenants with the land by
staking it were they go. Apostle Greg Crawford, the one who stated the Alliance, was recently in [[Oberlin%2C_Ohio | Oberlin,
Ohio]] to do a conference and found out this was the place of [[Charles Finney]]’s church. When he visited the church and as
he stood behind [[Charles Finney]]’s pulpit, God dropped things about reformation into his spirit concerning [[Iowa]]. These
are only a few parallels that have supernaturally occurred.
The question now before the state is will we miss the next move of [[God]] because of our complacency, just like the past?
Will we reject the [[Direct revelation | revelation]] that is already formed in the state and it be taken to another place to
be loosed? What about training our young people? What about the desire in Gods heart for our state that was present and seen
in creativity, [[Direct revelation | revelation]], and the desire for His presence? The promises of 150 years ago are in
place and still coming to bear upon us in this hour. This state will be changed and go through a reformation! Creativity and
[[Direct revelation | revelation]] will be loosed to change the nation. [[Iowa]] will be known as the key place for the
nation once again.
Qualities of Honorable Men & Women:
# Those in the same covenant and who participate in the same destiny commitment to finishing the same destiny. Connected
uniquely by sacrifice to be in covenant.
# Those who will go out in battle for each other and battle with us to fight our enemies. Helping others fight creates the
right heart attitude allowing freedom to interact in the Spirit to accomplish the task. They risk their own lives for the
dreams of others because they value them and wish to unlock them.
# Those who become a part of the strategy for [[Kingdom | Kingdom of God]] advancement using different strengths as the
strategy calls for it. People who join for [[Kingdom | Kingdom of God]] purposes and use their resources not for their own
empire and [[Saul]] structures but for the entire Body to benefit. Visionary!
# Those who exercise their limited authority but understand multiplied authority with peers. They understand the boundaries
of authority and do not overstep them.
# People that receive the leadership of Fathers. They treat leaders as they would a father rather than dishonor them as well
as [[God]]. True sons and daughters that walk a narrower pathway than others uniquely connected to the leadership.
# Those that know they are bought with a price and recognize that considerable investment has been made into their lives.
Honorable men and women are those who allow the investment and work to bring a return.
# Those committed to building the [[Kingdom | Kingdom of God]] together. They labor to the pattern already in heaven and have
a sure identity that allows them to belong.
The active Alliance Members are:
Greg Crawford Apostle
Jubilee International Ministries
[[Fairfield%2C_Iowa | Fairfield, Iowa]]
Gerald Knock Prophet
Gerald Knock Ministries
Tiffin, Iowa
==HISTORY==
'''Timeline of God’s Eternal Purpose in Iowa'''
Compiled By J.I.M. Ministry Base
Beginnings
1833- Among the First White settlers were [[William Sturgis]] and William Chambers who spied out the land and built cabin and
water power on what is now Cedar Falls. Both were professing Christians.
1830’s- Iowans were quick to organize churches.
1840s- The [[Methodist Church]] sent out circuit riders to travel throughout the settled portion of the state. Each circuit
rider typically had a two-week circuit in which he visited individual families and conducted sermons for local Methodist
congregations. Because the circuit riders' sermons tended to be emotional and simply stated, Iowa's frontiers-people could
readily identify with them. The Methodists profited greatly from their "floating ministry," attracting hundreds of converts
in Iowa's early years. As more settled communities appeared, the Methodist Church assigned ministers to these stationary
charges.
1840- The first of the Bands started to enter [[Iowa]]: (Bands were named after the seminary they went to)
The Yale Band ([[Illinois]]) :Led by Asa Turner established schools for [[Illinois]] including [[Knox_College_%28Illinois%29
| Knox College]] and [[Illinois College]], and later moved to [[Denmark]] to start a school there.
1843- At the same time the Iowa Band came to [[Iowa]] from the east. Theologians state that out of the 5 bands that traveled
to the west, the Iowa Band was the most impacting and successful of them all. The Band went with the attitude of making a
covenant with the land and God and working that covenant out in all the inhabitants that lived in Iowa. They were the first
organized group with a mandate from God to reach out the [[Sauk and Fox]] (Mesquaki) .
[[Iowa]] was known for its beauty and drew many a large group of people due to the testimonies of those that had seen it.
Iowa was famed by its beauty. Many artists and writers helped bring the pioneers to this land with the facts and drawings
stating that, in all the free world, there is no place that freedom is expressed or seen with such creativity; as if [[God]]
had set this territory aside for his glory and creativity to draw men to him. The creativity of God was said to be in
fullness in [[Iowa]].
[[Iowa]] actual means beautiful place in many native tongues and even holds the idea of the great Creator of the world’s home
and resting/ dwelling place.
==The Iowa Band==
The Iowa Band knew all of these things and set out with the mission to establish God’s Glory and His Word in the Beauty of
His Holiness.
* The spirit with which these home [[missionaries]] went forth was ably expressed by one of the Iowa Band when he said: "The
understanding is among us all, that we go west not for a temporary purpose, unless the great Head of the Church shall make it
so. We go to remain permanently -- to live and die there -- and [[God]] grant us grace to carry out this purpose."
* The group was made up of 12 ministers, all trained at [[Andover Theological Seminary]], who agreed to carry the [[gospel]]
into a frontier region. The twelve original prospective home missionaries were Daniel Lane (leader of the Keosauqua Academy
were he stayed and trained young people), Harvey Adams, Erastus Ripley, Horace Hutchinson, Alden B. Robbins,
[[William_Salter_%28minister%29 | William Salter]] (started [[Iowa College]]), Edwin B. Turner, Benjamin A. Spaulding
(stationed in [[Muscatine]]), William Hammond, [[James J. Hill]] (Missionary to [[Mount_Pleasant%2C_Iowa | Mt. Pleasant]]),
Ebenezer Aiden, Ephriam Adams (scribe) and C.E. Brown who came earlier in the [[Maquoketa%2C_Iowa | Maquoketa]] area. (Bates
was an Iowa native that joined.)
* The group arrived in 1843, and each minister selected a different town in which to establish a congregation. Many stayed in
the above mention towns while others continued on west past [[Iowa]] into [[Kansas]] and [[Nebraska]].
* Out of the 12 men, 5 were [[apostles]] and [[prophet | prophets]], and 2 of them oversaw and pushed forward the work of
[[God]] (Brown and Bates). The Iowa Band's motto was "each a church; all a college."
* After a number of years when each minister worked independently, the ministers collectively helped to establish Iowa
College in Davenport. Later church officials move the college to Grinnell and changed its name to [[Grinnell College]]. The
letters and journal of [[William_Salter_%28minister%29 | William Salter]], a member of the Iowa Band, depict the commitment
and philosophy of this small group. At one point, Salter wrote the following to his fiancee back East:
"I shall aim to show that the West will be just what others make it, and that they which work the hardest and do the most for
it shall have it. Prayer and pain will save the West and the Country is worth it, "Let God arise, let his enemies be
scattered. "
Reformation in Iowa
The Iowa Band is also known as the most influential group of leaders in the reformation of 1830-1900. They alone were the
group of individuals that established the reformation in Iowa.
While attending [[Lyman Beecher]]’s Church (Oberlin, OH) in 1842, 5 of the 11 men received a prophecy that was the mandate of
the puritans and God’s purpose for America. Beecher prophesied,” if this nation is, in the providence of God, destined to
lead the way in moral and political emancipation of the world; it is time she understood her high calling, and was harnessed
for the work." First one had to recognize that "it is equally plain that the religious and political destiny of our nation is
to be decided in the west and hinges on Iowa. There is the territory, and there will soon be the population, the wealth, and
the political power. Whatever we do, it must be done quickly; for there is a tide in human things which waits not -- moments
on which the destiny of a nation balances, when the light dust may turn the right way or the wrong. And such is the condition
of our nation now. Mighty influences are bearing on us and a slight effort now may secure what ages of repentance cannot
remove away. We must reveal the [[Kingdom | Kingdom of God]] to the whole nation while we may. All -- all who are alive must
be enlightened, and reached by the restraining and preserving energies of heaven.
These 5 men took that confirmation of the call and with Beecher’s laying on of hands, went to [[Iowa]] in 1843, were set
apart in a school in [[Keosauqua]], and set out for the NE corner to establish, “ God’s Living Word in the hearts of all
men”.
1845 - 3 of the 5 men of the Iowa Band moved on further to the west, reason for either God or Gold, leaving 2 men to
establish what God purposed in this great land; Charles E Brown, and John Bates, a apostle and prophet team.
1846-1857 - New leaders arise in [[Iowa]]. Bates and Brown establish [[Maquoketa%2C_Iowa | Maquoketa]] as an [[Antioch]] for
all passing through missionaries and preachers. [[Iowa]] begins to have the reputation of being a land were, “the evincing
the power of the Word and Sprit of [[God]] is, to awaken the conscience and lead men into all truth”
1857 - [[Strawberry Point]]; [[revival]] breaks out. Eye witness accounts state, “some remarkable manifestations of Divine
power, not only in conversions, but in leading converts to scriptural views of his [[kingdom | Kingdom of God]] and
ordinances”. This year marks a year of unusual revival and prosperity. In one meeting alone there were over 600 salvations,
and baptisms (acts 2 style) came to a very unpopulated area. Many were [[Native Americans]]. At this time, Waterloo was only
around 75 families large. (375 people approx.)
'''A Point of Decision'''
During this time the church was at a decision point: Prophet Bates addressed every denomination and leader in the state at
the time; “Brethren, we need more of the spirit of [[God]], more of a [[Missionary]] spirit, individual zeal, and enlarged
benevolence in sustaining Sabbath Schools, and a better support could and ought to be given by the Churches to those
ministers who labor in word and doctrine. Let us take heed that we are not absorbed too much in war. We are Christians as
well as patriots. The first honor is to be self-denying and ready to die as [[martyrs]] in the cause of [[Christ]]; the next
honor is to be self-denying and ready to die as patriots in the cause of our county.”
The Church in Iowa never made that decision. Instead of embracing [[martyrdom]], they embraced causes of social and personal
injustices, rather than [[Kingdom of God | Kingdom]] advancement. Ministry to the natives stopped and so did Ministry to the
Lord. The [[Saul]] structure and man’s purpose began to establish themselves in [[Iowa]] and the people’s heart. This is the
veil that was over NE Iowa. [[Iowa]] entered a stage of politics and growth without the plans of [[God]] as a corporate
unified church. Men’s agendas began to take hold, and the covenants of the pioneers and the Iowa Band were soon forgotten due
to war with God’s purpose and war with brothers ([[Civil War]]).
Few know, but a Mr. Robert Parham from [[Muscatine]], was in this meeting. Robert had a desire to see [[Iowa]] become the
place of God’s glory like so many others that were touched by the mandate of God. Robert had a son named [[Charles | Charles
Parham]], the father of the [[Pentecostal movement]], who moved to [[Kansas]] to take his [[Direct revelation | revelation]]
of tongues to a people and land that desired the works of God. Iowa missed her destiny as the creative land of [[God]]
between the two rivers, often called the living waters, to have the purpose of the baptism of the Holy Spirit be restored to
the church. But that was not the whole purpose. As we know, the whole purpose was to establish a land of creativity and
training so the [[Glory_%28religion%29 | Glory of God]] and His Living Word would go forth to all nations!
1859 - Marked the year of destitution C. Brown states, “It has been a year of very limited spiritual fruitage, and great
destitution, the church has fallen asleep”. Churches were burned and the out reach to the native Americans was ceased due to
war. The Church lost its cause of [[martyrdom]] and the [[Kingdom of God | Kingdom]], and chose the cause of patriotism.
Politics entered the church in NE Iowa, and hope became deferred. Innocent blood was shed in war and pride. Darkness and
sleep entered the church.
'''God's Mandate'''
The Iowa band came with the mandate of Is. 25.6-7, and Is. 2.2-3:
Is. 25.6-7
6And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of
fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all
nations.
Is. 2.2-3
2And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the
mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the
LORD from Jerusalem.
It is Iowa’s destiny to be a mountain for God. The church broke the covenant and mandate with God 150 years ago. Now it is
being restored for such a time as this.
What the Iowa Band Established:
[[Oberlin College]] (Ohio) 1842
[[Iowa College]] 1846
[[University of Northern Iowa]] 1845
[[Grinnell College]] 1859
First Christian State Convention 1845
Over 600 churches
200 schools and bible classes
A sending center at the church in [[Maquoketa]] 1845
Organized the civil government in [[Burlington%2C_Iowa | Burlington]] and [[Iowa City]] and [[Des Moines]]
Established a sending and training center for young people in; [[Keosauqua]], [[Denmark]], [[Maquoketa]], [[Burlington, Iowa
| Burlington]], and [[Muscatine]]. 1845 - 1857
Trained almost nearly 10,000 missionaries and leaders for the cause of Christ
All in a 12 year span of time
==Dutch Sheets and [[Chuck Pierce]]: Prophetic Words over Iowa==
God is restoring the 150 year breach of the church and its slumber and is awakening her to the covenants and purpose of God.
Every man that worked the ground as a pioneer and a minister cut covenant with [[God]]and [[Iowa]]. [[Iowa]] is productive
and the largest supplier of natural food not because of the natural soil, but because of the men and women’s lives that were
poured into the land. God will restore the breach and 150 years of creativity and [[Direct revelation | revelation]] will
flow forth once again from this chosen state to the nation and the world.
[[Iowa]] is a [[Jericho]]; it must fall first for the rest of the nation to fall to God’s purpose once again.
The restoration of 5 fold function will appear in fullness in [[Iowa]].
[[Iowa]] is a [[Direct revelation | revelatory]] state, It will export [[Direct revelation | revelation]] to the nation and
the nations to bring change.
[[Iowa]] is an [[apostolic church | apostolic state]] that will loose strategy and the sound of heaven to the nation.
The Next [[Great awakening]] would come out and be birthed in [[Iowa]]
[[Iowa]] has the finishing anointing to finish the cause and destiny of our nation
'''Covenant Blessings'''
* Because, if God is comparing this state to [[Jericho]], [then] one of the things [that] HE [is] saying [to us] is that HE
wants to begin bringing forth covenantal blessings from this state.
* HE [hasn't] said that to any other state, by the way. I've not said that anywhere else we've been. Don't get the idea
[that] we get this hot, fresh, wild teaching and then just go sprinkle it everywhere. This is special! This is very special!
This very word should be treated as holy!
* HE said, “I'M taking back MY earth!” Iowa … “And I'M going to arouse, from here, the sleep. [[Direct revelation |
Revelation]] is gonna' flow out of [[Iowa]] that awakens people in the nation and the nations of the earth. It's MY
covenantal heartland.”
* “From Iowa, I want to feed the nations of the earth, and not just physical food, but the Bread of Heaven! I want you to
glean, from the four corners --- and then the center --- of this state, the wealth of Heaven! And I want you to export it to
the nations, so I can awaken a people! So I can bring forth MY Covenant! So I can bring Jubilee into the Land and let the
oppressed go free --- to set at liberty the broken and the bruised. I want to restore! I want to let the captives go free! I
want somebody to run throughout the land and say, ‘FREEDOM! LIBERTY !'” Ring the bell of freedom.
* We're seeing the fullness of HIS five-fold grace gift anointing being released. And so, I don't want to say much about this
one, but just to say that I see, at [[Jericho]], the picture of what will happen when we come to the fullness of ministry
gifting. There is completion of Jubilee, inheritance, the enemy being taken out, taking the Land, and all [of this] is
connected to the restoration of the ministry anointing of [[Jesus]] [which will] be fully flowing through the Church in
[[Iowa]].
* And in these cornfield states, I feel like God's putting an anointing on you to set a course that no one else can set for
our nation. You're farmers… You're called to get up early… It's part of the inheritance of these states. And so, you have the
authority to come into agreement with God and set a whole course for this nation.
'''A Grass Roots Movement'''
“In the southwest corner [there] was going to be a grass-roots movement that would begin to emerge and bring political change
into the very center and the very heart of the state.” And then HE said that the Church is going to blossom. And there's
going to be a move of God in the northwest corner of the state. The Spirit of God is going to come down. And where it's never
blossomed before, all of a sudden, the Church will begin to blossom with [[Direct revelation | revelation]]. There will be a
break through of worship in the northwest corner.
Then HE showed me the southeast corner and said, “Much weeping will begin to cause a river to arise and tear down a throne in
the southeast corner.” HE said that there is a throne there that has been erected, “but the weeping of MY people will cause
the throne to decay and fall.” Then HE says that there is a kingly anointing rising up in the east [portion of the state]
that will affect the [[Middle East]].
'''A Veil is over the North East of [[Iowa]]'''
There's a veil over the northeast [portion of Iowa ]. God wants that veil lifted, because that means [that] there's great
[[Direct revelation | revelation]] [that] HE wants to bring into the northeast [corner of the state]. But there's a veil
holding it. Something [is either] in the atmosphere or in the land, whether it be bloodshed or covenant breaking. There [are]
four things to look at: bloodshed, covenant-breaking, idolatry, or immorality. [If one or more of these things] has occurred,
[then it] has affected the land. And it's caused the land to be veiled. Therefore, God's purposes are not breaking forth.
And, for God to show us that veil, that means HE wants us to break [through with] HIS purposes and rip the veil off.
And then, when I looked at the state from the heavens, I saw the northeast was totally bailed. It was desolate. There was a
blockage from a movement of the [[Holy Spirit | Spirit of God]]. And it was actually causing an influence into the very
center or heart of the state. The LORD said, “I want to lift the veil in the northeast.” I saw a sword come down into the
government. And I saw this sword begin to divide and create confusion. There was confusion in the courts [and] in the systems
of government here. And it caused the government, where it's always been underneath the veil, to begin to rise up in a new
unity, a new sound, and a new release came into the civil government. Then the LORD said that there was a drought that was
trying to surround the very heart of this state. But from the corners, you'd be able to penetrate the heart of the state.
And, [since] the drought that was forming would not be able to take hold, there would be such a release. “And that what has
been released this year, for the cornfields to blossom, will [bring] a greater release next year,” saith the LORD.
'''Change is now coming'''
Change is now upon this state.” What was will no longer be. “What has been asleep, now will wake up,” saith the LORD. “For I
say, ‘I will have a people that begin to rise before the sun and make decrees, so that the order that I have for this state
will be made.' I will have a praying group that rises every morning in the north, south, east, and west corners. They [will]
begin to rise up and make a decree. And from their decree, I say [that] I will bring to birth MY very purpose in this state.
And even though you've been submerged under [[Michigan]] and [[Wisconsin]] , I say [that] [[Iowa]] is now rising to the
attention of this nation.
Even the leaders [who have not already done so] are going to begin to move into intercession. They are going to begin to
preach with a new unction and a new anointing. The heavens are going to be opened up by the very [[Holy Spirit | Spirit of
God]], and the Word of God is going to begin to flow in ways that have, up to this point in time, been blocked.
And signs and wonders are going to begin to take place on the [school] campuses of Iowa --- at the high schools and junior
high schools and the college campuses. The LORD says, “I AM inviting them with a Spirit of [[Direct revelation | revelation]]
and the miraculous signs and wonders. The signs and wonders will get their attention. The veil will lift, and I will bring
revelation to them. And what you could not do in decades [on your own], I AM going to do in a day.”
The LORD says, “It'll be even upon those who are bound by tradition, lifelessness, and religious spirits.” The LORD says, “I
AM coming to break that off of this state, and Iowa will be known as a wild place in the Spirit --- a radical place of
revolutionary warriors, who move in radical zeal and boldness.
And right then, the full anointing shall break forth from the plains of Iowa . The fire of MY Spirit is going to begin to
burn through the dross, to colorize wounds and heal [the hurts]. It's going to heal, not only physical and emotional wounds,
but the Body of Christ is going to be healed in [awesome] ways… There is coming a Spirit of healing, harmony, and unity that
is going to be by the fire of MY Spirit, because I AM no longer going to be persuasive and speaking in ways that try to woo
MY people into this, but,” the LORD says, “I AM coming with a Holy Fire that is going to literally burn down walls that have
separated and divided! And I AM coming with Holy Fire and passion [to] break into MY Church, even in places that they have
not asked ME to. I'M going to do it anyway. I'M gonna move in and crash through walls and barriers. I'M going to lift fatigue
and weariness off of MY people. MY leaders are going to be filled with fresh zeal, fresh fire, and fresh oil from MY Spirit.”
==REFERENCES==
The Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association:
Elmer Ellis, The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Sep., 1935), pp. 231-250
This article consists of 20 pages
THE PALIMPSEST VOL. XV ISSUED IN JUNE 1934 NO. 6
IOWA HISTORICAL RECORD VOL. X. JULY, 1894. No. 3.
ANNALS OF IOWA Volume 6 January, 1904 No. 4
FRONTIER CHURCH GOING—1837
BY GEORGE C. DUFFIELD
ANNALS OF IOWA Vol. XII Iowa City, April, 1920 No. 4, The Iowa Band, Ephraim Adams, 1870
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*[http://www.jiministrybase.com/ Jubilee (JIM) Ministry Base]
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revelation]] into the state of [[Iowa]] and bring [[reformation]] into the church. This alliance exists to release [[Direct
revelation | revelation]] into the state, encourage existing leaders to pursue [[Direct revelation | Revelation]], and to
cause the [[Body of Christ]] of [[Iowa]] to hunger for greater encounters with [[God]].
==The Iowa Band: Iowa is the Key to United States Freedom==
As they started this alliance they had no idea they would be fulfilling a 150 year old mandate [[God]] had given to a group
called the Iowa Band. They recently found out the rich deep spiritual heritage of [[Iowa]] and God's desire for this state to
lead the nation into encounters with Him. Twelve men came to [[Iowa]] to bring [[reformation]] into the new territory opening
up in the 1840’s. Of the 12 only 5 truly felt a mandate to see change occur. These five started out from a Bible college in
SE Iowa. The original men had a prophetic word in 1842 from [[Lyman Beecher]], Father of the [[Second Great Awakening]], at
[[Charles Finney]]’s church in [[Oberlin%2C_Ohio | Oberlin, Ohio]]. That word proclaimed that Iowa was the key to the
[[United States]] freedom and future of the next generation of leaders to change the world. [[Iowa]] was known as a place of
creative release as many artists came to express and capture Gods handiwork.
==Reformation ends by Complacency==
One of these men was [[Charles Parham]], who while in [[Iowa]] got the [[Direct revelation | revelation]] of [[speaking in
tongues]]. He later would move away to [[Kansas]] as the church in [[Iowa]] made decision to reject the [[Direct revelation |
revelation]] of [[reformation]] occurring. He is best known for the father of the [[Azusa Street Revival]]. Because of the
decisions made by the church in [[Iowa]] the [[Azusa street revival]] would be birth elsewhere.
As the final two men traveled the state, [[revivals]] broke out and [[reformation]] occurred, until the church decided to
pursue other things than Gods presence. The move of [[reformation]] was ended by complacency. But not until [[Iowa]] was
known as the foremost sending place of ministers, 10,000 young people to be exact, had been trained and sent further west as
ministers. Also covenants were formed with the land that it would always be fruitful, which they see the outcome still
occurring today!
==Reformation is Returning to Iowa!==
They also found out the great parallels they are also reliving. They also had 5 men start the '''Iowa Alliance for
Reformation''' and now 2 remain to continue. They started from Jubilee School of Ministry in [[Fairfield%2C_Iowa | Fairfield,
SE Iowa]]. They were given a 1900 Tent stake as a prophetic act by their Bible students to make covenants with the land by
staking it were they go. Apostle Greg Crawford, the one who stated the Alliance, was recently in [[Oberlin%2C_Ohio | Oberlin,
Ohio]] to do a conference and found out this was the place of [[Charles Finney]]’s church. When he visited the church and as
he stood behind [[Charles Finney]]’s pulpit, God dropped things about reformation into his spirit concerning [[Iowa]]. These
are only a few parallels that have supernaturally occurred.
The question now before the state is will we miss the next move of [[God]] because of our complacency, just like the past?
Will we reject the [[Direct revelation | revelation]] that is already formed in the state and it be taken to another place to
be loosed? What about training our young people? What about the desire in Gods heart for our state that was present and seen
in creativity, [[Direct revelation | revelation]], and the desire for His presence? The promises of 150 years ago are in
place and still coming to bear upon us in this hour. This state will be changed and go through a reformation! Creativity and
[[Direct revelation | revelation]] will be loosed to change the nation. [[Iowa]] will be known as the key place for the
nation once again.
Qualities of Honorable Men & Women:
# Those in the same covenant and who participate in the same destiny commitment to finishing the same destiny. Connected
uniquely by sacrifice to be in covenant.
# Those who will go out in battle for each other and battle with us to fight our enemies. Helping others fight creates the
right heart attitude allowing freedom to interact in the Spirit to accomplish the task. They risk their own lives for the
dreams of others because they value them and wish to unlock them.
# Those who become a part of the strategy for [[Kingdom | Kingdom of God]] advancement using different strengths as the
strategy calls for it. People who join for [[Kingdom | Kingdom of God]] purposes and use their resources not for their own
empire and [[Saul]] structures but for the entire Body to benefit. Visionary!
# Those who exercise their limited authority but understand multiplied authority with peers. They understand the boundaries
of authority and do not overstep them.
# People that receive the leadership of Fathers. They treat leaders as they would a father rather than dishonor them as well
as [[God]]. True sons and daughters that walk a narrower pathway than others uniquely connected to the leadership.
# Those that know they are bought with a price and recognize that considerable investment has been made into their lives.
Honorable men and women are those who allow the investment and work to bring a return.
# Those committed to building the [[Kingdom | Kingdom of God]] together. They labor to the pattern already in heaven and have
a sure identity that allows them to belong.
The active Alliance Members are:
Greg Crawford Apostle
Jubilee International Ministries
[[Fairfield%2C_Iowa | Fairfield, Iowa]]
Gerald Knock Prophet
Gerald Knock Ministries
Tiffin, Iowa
==HISTORY==
'''Timeline of God’s Eternal Purpose in Iowa'''
Compiled By J.I.M. Ministry Base
Beginnings
1833- Among the First White settlers were [[William Sturgis]] and William Chambers who spied out the land and built cabin and
water power on what is now Cedar Falls. Both were professing Christians.
1830’s- Iowans were quick to organize churches.
1840s- The [[Methodist Church]] sent out circuit riders to travel throughout the settled portion of the state. Each circuit
rider typically had a two-week circuit in which he visited individual families and conducted sermons for local Methodist
congregations. Because the circuit riders' sermons tended to be emotional and simply stated, Iowa's frontiers-people could
readily identify with them. The Methodists profited greatly from their "floating ministry," attracting hundreds of converts
in Iowa's early years. As more settled communities appeared, the Methodist Church assigned ministers to these stationary
charges.
1840- The first of the Bands started to enter [[Iowa]]: (Bands were named after the seminary they went to)
The Yale Band ([[Illinois]]) :Led by Asa Turner established schools for [[Illinois]] including [[Knox_College_%28Illinois%29
| Knox College]] and [[Illinois College]], and later moved to [[Denmark]] to start a school there.
1843- At the same time the Iowa Band came to [[Iowa]] from the east. Theologians state that out of the 5 bands that traveled
to the west, the Iowa Band was the most impacting and successful of them all. The Band went with the attitude of making a
covenant with the land and God and working that covenant out in all the inhabitants that lived in Iowa. They were the first
organized group with a mandate from God to reach out the [[Sauk and Fox]] (Mesquaki) .
[[Iowa]] was known for its beauty and drew many a large group of people due to the testimonies of those that had seen it.
Iowa was famed by its beauty. Many artists and writers helped bring the pioneers to this land with the facts and drawings
stating that, in all the free world, there is no place that freedom is expressed or seen with such creativity; as if [[God]]
had set this territory aside for his glory and creativity to draw men to him. The creativity of God was said to be in
fullness in [[Iowa]].
[[Iowa]] actual means beautiful place in many native tongues and even holds the idea of the great Creator of the world’s home
and resting/ dwelling place.
==The Iowa Band==
The Iowa Band knew all of these things and set out with the mission to establish God’s Glory and His Word in the Beauty of
His Holiness.
* The spirit with which these home [[missionaries]] went forth was ably expressed by one of the Iowa Band when he said: "The
understanding is among us all, that we go west not for a temporary purpose, unless the great Head of the Church shall make it
so. We go to remain permanently -- to live and die there -- and [[God]] grant us grace to carry out this purpose."
* The group was made up of 12 ministers, all trained at [[Andover Theological Seminary]], who agreed to carry the [[gospel]]
into a frontier region. The twelve original prospective home missionaries were Daniel Lane (leader of the Keosauqua Academy
were he stayed and trained young people), Harvey Adams, Erastus Ripley, Horace Hutchinson, Alden B. Robbins,
[[William_Salter_%28minister%29 | William Salter]] (started [[Iowa College]]), Edwin B. Turner, Benjamin A. Spaulding
(stationed in [[Muscatine]]), William Hammond, [[James J. Hill]] (Missionary to [[Mount_Pleasant%2C_Iowa | Mt. Pleasant]]),
Ebenezer Aiden, Ephriam Adams (scribe) and C.E. Brown who came earlier in the [[Maquoketa%2C_Iowa | Maquoketa]] area. (Bates
was an Iowa native that joined.)
* The group arrived in 1843, and each minister selected a different town in which to establish a congregation. Many stayed in
the above mention towns while others continued on west past [[Iowa]] into [[Kansas]] and [[Nebraska]].
* Out of the 12 men, 5 were [[apostles]] and [[prophet | prophets]], and 2 of them oversaw and pushed forward the work of
[[God]] (Brown and Bates). The Iowa Band's motto was "each a church; all a college."
* After a number of years when each minister worked independently, the ministers collectively helped to establish Iowa
College in Davenport. Later church officials move the college to Grinnell and changed its name to [[Grinnell College]]. The
letters and journal of [[William_Salter_%28minister%29 | William Salter]], a member of the Iowa Band, depict the commitment
and philosophy of this small group. At one point, Salter wrote the following to his fiancee back East:
"I shall aim to show that the West will be just what others make it, and that they which work the hardest and do the most for
it shall have it. Prayer and pain will save the West and the Country is worth it, "Let God arise, let his enemies be
scattered. "
Reformation in Iowa
The Iowa Band is also known as the most influential group of leaders in the reformation of 1830-1900. They alone were the
group of individuals that established the reformation in Iowa.
While attending [[Lyman Beecher]]’s Church (Oberlin, OH) in 1842, 5 of the 11 men received a prophecy that was the mandate of
the puritans and God’s purpose for America. Beecher prophesied,” if this nation is, in the providence of God, destined to
lead the way in moral and political emancipation of the world; it is time she understood her high calling, and was harnessed
for the work." First one had to recognize that "it is equally plain that the religious and political destiny of our nation is
to be decided in the west and hinges on Iowa. There is the territory, and there will soon be the population, the wealth, and
the political power. Whatever we do, it must be done quickly; for there is a tide in human things which waits not -- moments
on which the destiny of a nation balances, when the light dust may turn the right way or the wrong. And such is the condition
of our nation now. Mighty influences are bearing on us and a slight effort now may secure what ages of repentance cannot
remove away. We must reveal the [[Kingdom | Kingdom of God]] to the whole nation while we may. All -- all who are alive must
be enlightened, and reached by the restraining and preserving energies of heaven.
These 5 men took that confirmation of the call and with Beecher’s laying on of hands, went to [[Iowa]] in 1843, were set
apart in a school in [[Keosauqua]], and set out for the NE corner to establish, “ God’s Living Word in the hearts of all
men”.
1845 - 3 of the 5 men of the Iowa Band moved on further to the west, reason for either God or Gold, leaving 2 men to
establish what God purposed in this great land; Charles E Brown, and John Bates, a apostle and prophet team.
1846-1857 - New leaders arise in [[Iowa]]. Bates and Brown establish [[Maquoketa%2C_Iowa | Maquoketa]] as an [[Antioch]] for
all passing through missionaries and preachers. [[Iowa]] begins to have the reputation of being a land were, “the evincing
the power of the Word and Sprit of [[God]] is, to awaken the conscience and lead men into all truth”
1857 - [[Strawberry Point]]; [[revival]] breaks out. Eye witness accounts state, “some remarkable manifestations of Divine
power, not only in conversions, but in leading converts to scriptural views of his [[kingdom | Kingdom of God]] and
ordinances”. This year marks a year of unusual revival and prosperity. In one meeting alone there were over 600 salvations,
and baptisms (acts 2 style) came to a very unpopulated area. Many were [[Native Americans]]. At this time, Waterloo was only
around 75 families large. (375 people approx.)
'''A Point of Decision'''
During this time the church was at a decision point: Prophet Bates addressed every denomination and leader in the state at
the time; “Brethren, we need more of the spirit of [[God]], more of a [[Missionary]] spirit, individual zeal, and enlarged
benevolence in sustaining Sabbath Schools, and a better support could and ought to be given by the Churches to those
ministers who labor in word and doctrine. Let us take heed that we are not absorbed too much in war. We are Christians as
well as patriots. The first honor is to be self-denying and ready to die as [[martyrs]] in the cause of [[Christ]]; the next
honor is to be self-denying and ready to die as patriots in the cause of our county.”
The Church in Iowa never made that decision. Instead of embracing [[martyrdom]], they embraced causes of social and personal
injustices, rather than [[Kingdom of God | Kingdom]] advancement. Ministry to the natives stopped and so did Ministry to the
Lord. The [[Saul]] structure and man’s purpose began to establish themselves in [[Iowa]] and the people’s heart. This is the
veil that was over NE Iowa. [[Iowa]] entered a stage of politics and growth without the plans of [[God]] as a corporate
unified church. Men’s agendas began to take hold, and the covenants of the pioneers and the Iowa Band were soon forgotten due
to war with God’s purpose and war with brothers ([[Civil War]]).
Few know, but a Mr. Robert Parham from [[Muscatine]], was in this meeting. Robert had a desire to see [[Iowa]] become the
place of God’s glory like so many others that were touched by the mandate of God. Robert had a son named [[Charles | Charles
Parham]], the father of the [[Pentecostal movement]], who moved to [[Kansas]] to take his [[Direct revelation | revelation]]
of tongues to a people and land that desired the works of God. Iowa missed her destiny as the creative land of [[God]]
between the two rivers, often called the living waters, to have the purpose of the baptism of the Holy Spirit be restored to
the church. But that was not the whole purpose. As we know, the whole purpose was to establish a land of creativity and
training so the [[Glory_%28religion%29 | Glory of God]] and His Living Word would go forth to all nations!
1859 - Marked the year of destitution C. Brown states, “It has been a year of very limited spiritual fruitage, and great
destitution, the church has fallen asleep”. Churches were burned and the out reach to the native Americans was ceased due to
war. The Church lost its cause of [[martyrdom]] and the [[Kingdom of God | Kingdom]], and chose the cause of patriotism.
Politics entered the church in NE Iowa, and hope became deferred. Innocent blood was shed in war and pride. Darkness and
sleep entered the church.
'''God's Mandate'''
The Iowa band came with the mandate of Is. 25.6-7, and Is. 2.2-3:
Is. 25.6-7
6And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of
fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all
nations.
Is. 2.2-3
2And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the
mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob;
and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the
LORD from Jerusalem.
It is Iowa’s destiny to be a mountain for God. The church broke the covenant and mandate with God 150 years ago. Now it is
being restored for such a time as this.
What the Iowa Band Established:
[[Oberlin College]] (Ohio) 1842
[[Iowa College]] 1846
[[University of Northern Iowa]] 1845
[[Grinnell College]] 1859
First Christian State Convention 1845
Over 600 churches
200 schools and bible classes
A sending center at the church in [[Maquoketa]] 1845
Organized the civil government in [[Burlington%2C_Iowa | Burlington]] and [[Iowa City]] and [[Des Moines]]
Established a sending and training center for young people in; [[Keosauqua]], [[Denmark]], [[Maquoketa]], [[Burlington, Iowa
| Burlington]], and [[Muscatine]]. 1845 - 1857
Trained almost nearly 10,000 missionaries and leaders for the cause of Christ
All in a 12 year span of time
==Dutch Sheets and [[Chuck Pierce]]: Prophetic Words over Iowa==
God is restoring the 150 year breach of the church and its slumber and is awakening her to the covenants and purpose of God.
Every man that worked the ground as a pioneer and a minister cut covenant with [[God]]and [[Iowa]]. [[Iowa]] is productive
and the largest supplier of natural food not because of the natural soil, but because of the men and women’s lives that were
poured into the land. God will restore the breach and 150 years of creativity and [[Direct revelation | revelation]] will
flow forth once again from this chosen state to the nation and the world.
[[Iowa]] is a [[Jericho]]; it must fall first for the rest of the nation to fall to God’s purpose once again.
The restoration of 5 fold function will appear in fullness in [[Iowa]].
[[Iowa]] is a [[Direct revelation | revelatory]] state, It will export [[Direct revelation | revelation]] to the nation and
the nations to bring change.
[[Iowa]] is an [[apostolic church | apostolic state]] that will loose strategy and the sound of heaven to the nation.
The Next [[Great awakening]] would come out and be birthed in [[Iowa]]
[[Iowa]] has the finishing anointing to finish the cause and destiny of our nation
'''Covenant Blessings'''
* Because, if God is comparing this state to [[Jericho]], [then] one of the things [that] HE [is] saying [to us] is that HE
wants to begin bringing forth covenantal blessings from this state.
* HE [hasn't] said that to any other state, by the way. I've not said that anywhere else we've been. Don't get the idea
[that] we get this hot, fresh, wild teaching and then just go sprinkle it everywhere. This is special! This is very special!
This very word should be treated as holy!
* HE said, “I'M taking back MY earth!” Iowa … “And I'M going to arouse, from here, the sleep. [[Direct revelation |
Revelation]] is gonna' flow out of [[Iowa]] that awakens people in the nation and the nations of the earth. It's MY
covenantal heartland.”
* “From Iowa, I want to feed the nations of the earth, and not just physical food, but the Bread of Heaven! I want you to
glean, from the four corners --- and then the center --- of this state, the wealth of Heaven! And I want you to export it to
the nations, so I can awaken a people! So I can bring forth MY Covenant! So I can bring Jubilee into the Land and let the
oppressed go free --- to set at liberty the broken and the bruised. I want to restore! I want to let the captives go free! I
want somebody to run throughout the land and say, ‘FREEDOM! LIBERTY !'” Ring the bell of freedom.
* We're seeing the fullness of HIS five-fold grace gift anointing being released. And so, I don't want to say much about this
one, but just to say that I see, at [[Jericho]], the picture of what will happen when we come to the fullness of ministry
gifting. There is completion of Jubilee, inheritance, the enemy being taken out, taking the Land, and all [of this] is
connected to the restoration of the ministry anointing of [[Jesus]] [which will] be fully flowing through the Church in
[[Iowa]].
* And in these cornfield states, I feel like God's putting an anointing on you to set a course that no one else can set for
our nation. You're farmers… You're called to get up early… It's part of the inheritance of these states. And so, you have the
authority to come into agreement with God and set a whole course for this nation.
'''A Grass Roots Movement'''
“In the southwest corner [there] was going to be a grass-roots movement that would begin to emerge and bring political change
into the very center and the very heart of the state.” And then HE said that the Church is going to blossom. And there's
going to be a move of God in the northwest corner of the state. The Spirit of God is going to come down. And where it's never
blossomed before, all of a sudden, the Church will begin to blossom with [[Direct revelation | revelation]]. There will be a
break through of worship in the northwest corner.
Then HE showed me the southeast corner and said, “Much weeping will begin to cause a river to arise and tear down a throne in
the southeast corner.” HE said that there is a throne there that has been erected, “but the weeping of MY people will cause
the throne to decay and fall.” Then HE says that there is a kingly anointing rising up in the east [portion of the state]
that will affect the [[Middle East]].
'''A Veil is over the North East of [[Iowa]]'''
There's a veil over the northeast [portion of Iowa ]. God wants that veil lifted, because that means [that] there's great
[[Direct revelation | revelation]] [that] HE wants to bring into the northeast [corner of the state]. But there's a veil
holding it. Something [is either] in the atmosphere or in the land, whether it be bloodshed or covenant breaking. There [are]
four things to look at: bloodshed, covenant-breaking, idolatry, or immorality. [If one or more of these things] has occurred,
[then it] has affected the land. And it's caused the land to be veiled. Therefore, God's purposes are not breaking forth.
And, for God to show us that veil, that means HE wants us to break [through with] HIS purposes and rip the veil off.
And then, when I looked at the state from the heavens, I saw the northeast was totally bailed. It was desolate. There was a
blockage from a movement of the [[Holy Spirit | Spirit of God]]. And it was actually causing an influence into the very
center or heart of the state. The LORD said, “I want to lift the veil in the northeast.” I saw a sword come down into the
government. And I saw this sword begin to divide and create confusion. There was confusion in the courts [and] in the systems
of government here. And it caused the government, where it's always been underneath the veil, to begin to rise up in a new
unity, a new sound, and a new release came into the civil government. Then the LORD said that there was a drought that was
trying to surround the very heart of this state. But from the corners, you'd be able to penetrate the heart of the state.
And, [since] the drought that was forming would not be able to take hold, there would be such a release. “And that what has
been released this year, for the cornfields to blossom, will [bring] a greater release next year,” saith the LORD.
'''Change is now coming'''
Change is now upon this state.” What was will no longer be. “What has been asleep, now will wake up,” saith the LORD. “For I
say, ‘I will have a people that begin to rise before the sun and make decrees, so that the order that I have for this state
will be made.' I will have a praying group that rises every morning in the north, south, east, and west corners. They [will]
begin to rise up and make a decree. And from their decree, I say [that] I will bring to birth MY very purpose in this state.
And even though you've been submerged under [[Michigan]] and [[Wisconsin]] , I say [that] [[Iowa]] is now rising to the
attention of this nation.
Even the leaders [who have not already done so] are going to begin to move into intercession. They are going to begin to
preach with a new unction and a new anointing. The heavens are going to be opened up by the very [[Holy Spirit | Spirit of
God]], and the Word of God is going to begin to flow in ways that have, up to this point in time, been blocked.
And signs and wonders are going to begin to take place on the [school] campuses of Iowa --- at the high schools and junior
high schools and the college campuses. The LORD says, “I AM inviting them with a Spirit of [[Direct revelation | revelation]]
and the miraculous signs and wonders. The signs and wonders will get their attention. The veil will lift, and I will bring
revelation to them. And what you could not do in decades [on your own], I AM going to do in a day.”
The LORD says, “It'll be even upon those who are bound by tradition, lifelessness, and religious spirits.” The LORD says, “I
AM coming to break that off of this state, and Iowa will be known as a wild place in the Spirit --- a radical place of
revolutionary warriors, who move in radical zeal and boldness.
And right then, the full anointing shall break forth from the plains of Iowa . The fire of MY Spirit is going to begin to
burn through the dross, to colorize wounds and heal [the hurts]. It's going to heal, not only physical and emotional wounds,
but the Body of Christ is going to be healed in [awesome] ways… There is coming a Spirit of healing, harmony, and unity that
is going to be by the fire of MY Spirit, because I AM no longer going to be persuasive and speaking in ways that try to woo
MY people into this, but,” the LORD says, “I AM coming with a Holy Fire that is going to literally burn down walls that have
separated and divided! And I AM coming with Holy Fire and passion [to] break into MY Church, even in places that they have
not asked ME to. I'M going to do it anyway. I'M gonna move in and crash through walls and barriers. I'M going to lift fatigue
and weariness off of MY people. MY leaders are going to be filled with fresh zeal, fresh fire, and fresh oil from MY Spirit.”
==REFERENCES==
The Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association:
Elmer Ellis, The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Sep., 1935), pp. 231-250
This article consists of 20 pages
THE PALIMPSEST VOL. XV ISSUED IN JUNE 1934 NO. 6
IOWA HISTORICAL RECORD VOL. X. JULY, 1894. No. 3.
ANNALS OF IOWA Volume 6 January, 1904 No. 4
FRONTIER CHURCH GOING—1837
BY GEORGE C. DUFFIELD
ANNALS OF IOWA Vol. XII Iowa City, April, 1920 No. 4, The Iowa Band, Ephraim Adams, 1870
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