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End Time Scenario

(Jas. 3:14-18). With others there are secret and pre- Plus God
sumptuous sins – but they are not hidden from God
(Psa. 19:12-13). There are also the deadly sins of gos- The annals of sacred history are filled with
sip, backbiting, talebearing (Jas. 3:2-13; 2 Cor. 12:20). accounts of God’s undefeatable minorities. To the
All of these God hates (Prov. 6:16-19). They close His worldly-wise they appear foolish, weak, con-
door of blessing and hinder His answer to our prayers temptible. But – plus God, they have become mighty,
for our home, our community, our nation and the invincible, unquenchable and triumphant! They
world. have time and again altered the course of history,
and changed the face of nations. Without strength,
“Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it can- they have wrought prodigious works. Without influ-
not save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: ence, they have transformed their generation.
But your iniquities have separated between you and Of such was the Apostle Paul, Luther, Wesley. Thank
your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, God their tribe has not perished in these – our times.
that He will not hear.... Your hands are defiled…your
tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for What would happen today if Christians would cease
justice, nor any pleadeth for truth” (Isa. 59:1-4). to trifle and go all-out for God? What if we would
obey the Lord and fast and pray day and night, that
We need God! We tremendously need a revival of the we might be avenged of our enemies (Luke 18:7-8)?
supernatural. Nothing but a great visitation of the What if we would get right with God, and with each
grace of God can in any wise redeem these present other? Without doubt this would bring a visitation
perilous hours. Impending disasters warn us. God’s of God.
Word warns us. The Holy Spirit warns us. “It is time I pray you do something today about the evils and
for Thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void Thy dangers all about us. It is a time for fasting and tears
law” (Psa. 119:126). “Revive Thy work in the midst of and prayer unceasing. Begin today! If you will, we
the years” (Hab. 3:2).
shall have one of the greatest visitations of all time!
I believe this is God’s hour for the Spirit’s outpour-
ing. But God’s great present purposes in grace are de- Revival Is the Beginning of a New Obedience to
pendent upon the whole-souled response of us – His God
people.
“If ye walk in My statutes, and keep My command-
Therefore it is of vast importance to us whose hearts ments, and do them; then I will give you rain (revival)
have been stirred about a visitation of God – that we in due season, and the land shall yield her increase …
leave no stone unturned in ourselves, meeting con- and ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall
ditions for revival in our own heart, in our church, before you…And five of you shall chase an hundred,
our community, our nation and the world. and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to
flight” (Lev. 26:3-8).
Even if we cannot find in Scripture a specific promise
of God’s mercies to us in this hour, there is, in almost
every divinely sent message of judgment, the promise r
of salvation and deliverance if men and women will
humble themselves and seek the face of God in http://www.heraldofhiscoming.com/Past%20Issues/2010/August
repentance and in faith.

Think of the salvation of Nineveh, that wicked
heathen city of ancient times. God’s prophet Jonah
was sent with the message of doom, “Yet forty days,
and Nineveh shall be overthrown” (Jon. 3:4). No
mercy was promised. But the king and the people “An hour is coming,
must have reasoned like this, “If God had no gracious
thought toward us, He would not have sent us this and it is now,
warning.” So they repented in sackcloth and ashes
and with fasting cried mightily unto God, and God
was moved to mercy and revoked His edict of when the dead will hear the
judgment (Jon. 3).
voice of the Son of God,
If the God of all mercies would do so much for
heathen Nineveh, when she repented, will He not do
as much for His own people, if we repent and turn
from our worldliness and selfishness to seek the Lord and those who hear will live”
till He come and rain righteousness upon us
(Hos. 10:12)? (John 5:25).

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