Saturday morning, April 25th at midnight, I awoke from the following dream:

I saw the Watchmen, asleep in their beds. They were all over the nation, stationed there by the Lord. I heard the shofar blow, it reverberated across the earth, it shook the houses, it awakened the watchmen and they arose. The Lord was waiting for them as they entered their prayer closet. He had orders in hand; He needed them executed to the letter. The prayer must go forth as the matter was urgent. Now was the time. The watchmen blew their shofars, this sent out a call to others; war was on the horizon. It was time to pray.

Others came, first a few, then more, five, fifty, a hundred, more, they rose and lined up until the nation was surrounded by the watchmen. I realized as I turned a full circle, I was hovering several hundred feet over the nation viewing this spectacular event from its center. As I turned, I saw them, they’d heard the shofar and answered the call, it was the Return of the Watchmen.

I woke up

Before anyone panics and feels like the Lord showed me actual war, that was not the war I saw in the dream although, the result would be similar. The war is for the soul of this nation, the next generation and what the enemy is doing to destroy it from within.

Later that day…

The Explosion:

At noon, on my way back from taking my grandson to his guitar lesson, I heard and felt an explosion coming from the northeast. It rocked my entire body as I sat in my truck. It felt so real I looked for plumes of smoke, I listened for sirens, but I heard and saw none. It seemed so real.

I stayed in prayer for most of the day. All I knew was that something was coming and prayer was the only thing that could intercept the plans of the enemy.

Saturday, 5:36 PM my time, 8:36 ET Cole Allen raced from his hotel room through the lobby with two loaded guns and several knives, his goal was to assassinate President Trump and as much of his cabinet as possible. Had he succeeded, this would have sent our nation into utter chaos. It’s clear, the Left sees President Trump as the enemy.

However, President Donald J. Trump is God’s plan to get our nation back on the path set for us by God. He was created for such a time as this. He is the only one with the boldness, the clarity, and the fortitude to take down the globalists, resolve the threats against America, and secure this nation for the future. Clearly, the enemy is doing everything he can to intercept God’s plan. Only the watchmen can ensure God’s plan succeeds.

Movies depict watchmen or guards as goofy lackies who often fall asleep on the job while the spy slips by. In Biblical days, the watchman could be killed if he failed in his duty.

The ancient cities had walls to protect them. Contrary to modern voices, walls are Biblical. Watchmen were placed in ramparts or towers along the wall, so they could see far beyond the landscape and warn of potential attack.

The Hebrew Word for “Watchmen” is tsaphah. It’s the idea of holding watch from a rampart-- an elevated place enabling one to lean forward to peer out into the distance. They endured intensive shifts. Yet, the entire community relied on their readiness to perform and they understood fully the responsibility they carried. If the enemy made it to the King’s palace it could be catastrophic and war and/or captivity of the citizens would follow.

Tsaphah or watchmen in the Scriptures, conveys the importance of vigilance, discernment and faithful reporting.

Every time the Lord called for the Watchmen, He was using an example the prophets of Israel understood in a parallel to refer to the importance and the purpose of His Watchmen, the Prophets and Intercessors who He called to stand guard over the nation of Israel. The same call exists today. Social media has diluted the impact of the prophetic message, but let me tell you, we as prophetic intercessors should not allow that to influence us and impact how we pray. We are called to vigilance, discernment and faithful reporting.

Remember, the watchmen lean forward; peer into the distance, scan the horizon, and anticipate movement to announce what is seen to those within the city walls so they can respond accordingly. Watchmen are trained to think critically, strategically, they can perceive and discern what they see in front of them.

As watchmen, we must do the same. We must capture both the physical act of looking across the landscape and the mental act of interpreting what we see. As an intercessor elevated to watchmen status, this includes interpreting what is seen from a spiritual lens. The watchmen must stand on the Word of God and pursue truth without hesitation. Why?

In Ezekiel 33:1-6 we read of the accountability placed on the Watchmen.

If the watchman does not see what he has been sent to see and report on, the blood of everyone he was sent to watch over will be on his hands. That’s a hard word to receive, however, it is true. When the watchman takes his responsibilities as seriously as they are, he will see, act and report. His report will shape strategic military decisions of the nation in which he guards. For us, this is at the very heart of prophetic intercession, and it is a calling.

Isaiah 21:4-6

Last week, I shared that the Lord told me a new commission is coming: it is the Return of the Watchmen and with a commission higher than they could fathom.

 
Our responsibility as Watchmen for America is insuring America fulfills her commission. Briefly, what is America’s Commission?

We are called to be a father to the Nations, to be a Nation of light from which the Gospel would pour out over all the Earth, to protect Isreal, and to be an End-time Refuge. In other words, we were to be a light unto all the earth. We were supposed to demonstrate the love of God to the nations. When our nation was formed, Israel was lying dormant, awaiting the Ezekiel 36:24 prophecy to be realized and America was being strengthened to stand as her ally. Since the birth of America, 193 other nation states have been formed as well, nearly 30 of them have Constitutions framed after our very own U.S. Constitution. In internet terms, America’s Constitution was trending! America’s birth was a catalyst for something significant in the earth, and we were created to represent the Light of God to every nation as it came into existence. That was Israel’s responsibility until they lost their way; they will have their awakening before it’s over.

I want to be clear here, who was to be the light? The Church, the Christians who reside in this nation. We cannot be a light without God and to retain and maintain that light requires consistent prayer and Word life.

There has been a strategic effort to pull our nation out from under the covering of God. While not intentional we walked right into their trap. We became too busy with life and lost sight of our commission as a nation. However, the responsibility for this lies at the feet of the Body of Christ.

How? Why? These attacks came through the culture and penetrated the Church. Where were the Watchmen? Busy. Not all, but enough to make the nation vulnerable. This was methodical and pulled us out from under the covering of God. The Church is directly responsible for this situation. Acts 20:28 puts the role of the watchmen at the feet of the Church. Church leaders are supposed to lead the way and watch over the commission of God upon the Body and the nation that we watch over. In this case, America.

While we were distracted, waiting for the Lord’s return in the 80s or building up our churches in the 90s, or avoiding hate-speech accusations in the 2000s, communism infiltrated our schools, our media, our financial institutions, our government, and did exactly what they promised, weakened the Church and turn the nation against God.

They knew they could not march into these institutions as Communists, they had to take the milder approach, they had so slowly creep in with the Socialism mask and implement the same policies via Cultural Marxism. I’ve given significant talks on this issue over the last several years so for the sake of time, I will not cover it again now.

The extreme result of the Church losing its way, and the infiltration of Cultural Marxism, is the Cole Allens, the Thomas Matthew Crooks, and the Ryan Rouths. Three others have not made it close enough in proximity to qualify for much media attention: Austin Tucker Martin, Michael Sanford, and Gregory Lee Leingang, for a total of six attempts on President Trump’s life over the last decade. This does not include the many ricin letters mailed to him since 2016, the foiled Iranian plots we never hear of on MSM, or the viable threats that force his motorcade to abruptly change direction.

The next generation has been rewired to embrace political violence as a viable option to resolve our differences. Consider Tyler Robinson who is currently facing trial for the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Or Vance Luther Boelter who is accused of attempting to assassinate John Hoffman and his wife, 17 bullet wounds later they survived, but he then drove to Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman’s home and successfully assassinated both she and her husband. Melissa, incidentally, was fighting to stop state funding of low-income medical insurance for illegal immigrants. Right where the Minnesota daycare fraud is being exposed today.

If you remember, in the message entitled: “Charlie Kirk, God’s Marker of Love for a Nation” I shared that the Lord spoke to me audibly the moment they announced Charlie’s death, “an ideology killed Charlie, never forget that!” The Lord’s words were like a sword piercing my soul as He spoke, I will never forget them and given the conspiracies surrounding Charlie’s death, I cannot tell you how much I lean on His words to me that day. However, those words depict a larger picture than I realized, we live in a society where conspiracies dominate the airwaves, and justified killings per Marxist ideology dominate the mindset of our youth. Together, they are a recipe for war.

This is Marxist ideology and it has infiltrated and rewired this next generation. Marxism justifies and condones political violence and even assassinations to resolve their differences. Thus, the war for the soul of this nation and the next generation.

The mouthpieces of this ideology:

• Media. Consider the deceptive, hate-filled messages about Trump and conservatives these days. From the morning show to the late-night talk shows, to the stars that stun on the red carpet, to musicians, they each provoke their audiences to hate President Trump, even touting various methods of physically harming or ending his life and those who support him.
• Academia. Cole Allen was a teacher here in California. He had been accepted at Cal-tec, he was an engineer, he had the brilliance to take him anywhere, but the indoctrination led him to methodically plan out, for at least a year, the assassination of President Trump and his entire cabinet.
• Communist Politicians aka democrats. Consider the physical threats encouraged by the likes of Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer and many more, each declaring they want to punch Trump in the face and encouraging their constituents to take their frustrations out violently, if necessary, on any MAGA people they see in public. Waters all but called for a civil war upon America.
• Religion. Consider pastors who spew hate-filled messages about Trump, his policies, Israel and America’s support of Israel, the Iran conflict, and so on. If they knew anything outside of what legacy media or social media influencers told them, we’d see it in their messages.

I do want to add; there are solid pastors training up powerful people of God who see the events in front of us through the lens of the Lord and I honor them for their stand.

 
These mouthpieces I mentioned, Media, Academia, Government (politics), Religion, are four of the five weights the Lord showed me weighting down our nation in the 2020 vision of the Eagle, the Flag, and the Weights our Nation Bears.

When the Church loses its way, it has an impact on unbelievers. They enter into greater chaos. They lose sight of truth, because the beacon of Truth, the Church, has dimmed. Truth then becomes relative, convoluted, and deception swirls like a tornado ready to touch down.

This is why we needed the watchmen to return.

Some have asked me: “why are you so focused on America? What is so great about this nation?” I would respond with “this is the nation God chose to assign to me; I love it like a son. If you are here, as a Christian, an intercessor, a warrior, a watchman, you are called to cover it as well.”

If we do not understand our call, we cannot fulfill our call. Before God created the heavens and the earth, He knew us and what our calling would be. He decided on when in time and where on this planet each of us would be born. He knew where we would live out our days, and to which nation we would be assigned to minister in. Whether or not we answer that call will be dealt with by the Lord, however, for those who choose to answer, there should be no doubt, no hesitation when asked, “what is so great about America.”

In the end, America impacts the nations of the earth. This is the position God chose to give it on the world scene.

Given what the Lord showed me in the Return of the Watchmen, I want to briefly bare my heart and share some of the burdens and concerns I have for the Nation, the intercessors, the Church, and so on in our own fight to save this next generation. Following are some questions and even challenges for us to consider moving forward:

-Can we pull out of the distractions to really engage with the Lord in His fight to save this next generation? They must be set free from the grip of the enemy’s indoctrination. Without going through all the details of the Communist Manifesto, remember, Cole Allen and the others I mentioned are products of that manifesto. They need to be set free. Jesus holds the key.

-We must repent and return. This is the call of 2 Chronicles 7, the very passage President Trump read from last week, how will we—as the Church—respond?

-We must turn our nation back to Truth, it begins with us. We must set aside conspiracies, they are rumors, full of gossip, deception, darkness, and most of those who sparked or embraced these messages years ago, have lost their way and some are spiraling out of control and taking hundreds of thousands, millions even, with them. Why? They believed the lie and have been given over to the lie. We need to pray for them to come out of this deception.

-Will we commit to the fight for truth? We have descended into a fractured nation, and we almost lost our nation last Saturday because of it. What are we going to do about it? The Watchmen, must cling to truth, His Word is Truth and we need Truth restored. Truth in politics, truth in media, truth in academia, truth in the Church. We must call this nation back to truth.

Every morning I go for a walk and pray. The Canadian Geese one of my absolute favorite birds since I was a child, fly overhead in great numbers, encircling me and then landing on the schoolgrounds where I spend so much of my walk circling and praying. I did not know then what I know now, they are a prophetic sign of the Lord’s Watchmen.

Sunday, April 26, 2026, the Whitehouse was on lockdown. News cameras captured the intensity of the scene in vivid color. Armed guards searching through every vehicle, no one was going in or out, even lingering on the sidewalk, without the express permission of the secret service. It’s a powerful agency to witness. What the public would not see or understand is the prophetic symbol of the Lord’s Watchmen that were inadvertently caught on camera that day. The Canadian Geese, blanketed the Whitehouse Lawn. They are on duty; they represent the prophetic intercessory protection assigned by the Lord who responded to the call to guard our President and this nation in prayer. Last week I told you the next six months in prayer will be critical for our nation from a political perspective and that a new commission would come for the intercessors to enable us to succeed. It’s here, it is the Return of the Watchmen. This provides a higher anointing and greater authority in the spirit and it’s available, in part, because you’ve been trustworthy with the call to intercession over the nation.

Back to the Canadian Geese at the school…recently, when I walked these grounds, I’ve seen metal foxes, cayotes and wolves placed on campus likely to deter the geese due to the debris they leave behind. But, they continue to come—just like the Lord’s Watchmen! This morning all I could think if was “you can send in your foxes to distract us, you can send in your cayotes to try to chase us, and you can send in your wolves to try to eat us, but we will remain, we are called, we are chosen, we are the Watchmen and we will continue to Return to our post!” I’m going to stand, what about you?

Blessings & love,
Ricci Johnson-Wilson