This is the one that will be the last. The name of it will be Gideon's army. God has a people who go all the way with him. They hear his voice. They are crucifying the flesh and believiing the whole word of God . They are non- denominational in that they follow no traditions only Jesus by the infilling of the Holy Spirit. They are being perfected and walking in his fulness. See Eph. 4:11. They are baptised in Jesus name and speakin tongues. They will do Jesus greater works Jn. 14:12. They are removing all worldly props, and walking in total faith and trust in God and his word. They believe by commitment to all truth. They are obedient to the word and are anti idolatry. They are the bride of Christ. They are his body. They overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of the testimony. Rev.12. They fight the good fight of faith to lay hold of eternal life. They meet as the body of Christ. Best of all they have a personal relationship with Jesus. Count the cost and choose the cross. Total discipleship. It is possible to be God's elect by remembering he is the author and finisher of our faith. Heb 7:25 He prays for us as our great high priest--my words. They don't walk in repentence they overcome sin. 1Jn.1:9 I call this apology if we miss it. This walk of faith takes a lifetime but must get started.
Another revival is on the way.
On what basis is this going to be the last revival?
And where do you see they will be speaking in tongues?
Yes it seems this would be more workable if we could get some follow-up questions answered? Or is it a 'let those who have an ear hear' kind of a prophesy? Woe unto as many of us who have more questions than understanding then.
Or does SI really have to have (or to reinstate) email notifications for thread replies? So we know in timely manner when someone have replied to a thread we follow?
IDK if Thicket is a oneness Pentecostal but his joined reference to being baptized in Jesus name and speaking in tongues makes me wonder. If so there is a common belief among those (whether T2 is one or not) that one is not saved if they don’t speak in tongues.
Saints,
Instead of being critical of this brother let us rejoice in the scriptures he shared and the hope of one last great revival before the coming of the Lord. E.M. Bounds and Leonard Ravenhill believed in one last great awakening with 1 billion souls would be saved.
"E.M. Bounds and Leonard Ravenhill believed in one last great awakening with 1 billion souls would be saved.”
Thank you Brother for your post. I agree with everything that you said and I am not a member of any denomination, only the Body of Christ.
Revival fires are burning in various places. The Lord is doing a great work in California right now.
Some of you brothers ought to be fanning the flames instead of criticizing a brother that is on fire for Jesus.
"E.M. Bounds and Leonard Ravenhill believed in one last great awakening with 1 billion souls would be saved.”
Thank you Brother for your post. I agree with everything that you said and I am not a member of any denomination, only the Body of Christ.
Revival fires are burning in various places. The Lord is doing a great work in California right now.
Some of you brothers ought to be fanning the flames instead of criticizing a brother that is on fire for Jesus.
"Instead of being critical of this brother let us rejoice in the scriptures he shared..."
To ask the poster a few question to try and clarify what he was trying to say is imo not the same as being critical.
Cambridge Dictionary: critical, adjective (NOT PLEASED) meaning "saying that someone or something is bad or wrong"
Paul wrote: "but test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good..." 1 Thess. 5:21 NLT
Quote: Another revival is on the way.
34 years ago God spoke to me about a Move of God.
Quote: This is the one that will be the last.
This Move of God will prepare God's people to face the antichrist and be Victorious.
Quote: The name of it will be Gideon's army.
The name doesn't matter when I heard it from Heaven - It was called the Joshua people, but as say it doesn't matter about the name.
Here is the key words "Victorious People" to describe the people...
Now I did recently share my testimony on the subject and I mentioned my meeting with God in it.
Testimony starts at 30mins into the video and continues for around 40mins.
Saints,
Instead of being critical of this brother let us rejoice in the scriptures he shared and the hope of one last great revival before the coming of the Lord. E.M. Bounds and Leonard Ravenhill believed in one last great awakening with 1 billion souls would be saved.
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Exactly! There is a lot to learn from the chapters about Gideon in Judges.
@deogloria has a point I would say. The intention here is not to prove the poster wrong but to be sure it is something worthy of saints' heed. And the questions we have are areas of doubts we would wish to have addressed prior to taking comfort in the prophesy. While I have been enabled (of God) to speak in tongues, I had yet to believe that all that are truly baptized in the Holy Spirit of God are given the same ability. Or is it so - because the text (in question) seems to suggest that those that do not speak in tongues are somewhat sluggish in their faith walk, and should pull up their socks?
The OP posted some very challenging words, lets not stumble over minor issues.
When Jesus said, they will speak in tongues, and Paul remarks do all speak in tongues? be happy if you do and leave it there. No need to strain out gnats. I do speak in tongues, but I need the fire the brother described, I want to join Gideon, leap water the right way, go out in my weakness while trusting for God's strength and provision to come as I go.
Well said, Narrowpath. As you may expect, I also do hunger after a great work of God. And would therefore have to be greatly conforted by prophesies such as that of the OP. The cause of concern is mainly to try and ensure that the posted prophesy is not another one of the enemy's schemes. Because you know that such come not but to steal, kill and destroy (by accusing brethren, etc). And therefore should ever be promptly refuted, if by any means doing so may interrupt the evil purpose thereof. Asking the said questions was therefore aimed at trying to work out the spirit the prophesy may be of. If it is God who gives and withhold tongues at his discretion, then why would those who speak in tongues be impliedly held in much honor than those who do not?
1 Cor 14:29 And let two or three prophets speak, and let the others discern.
When I posted, I was backing up what the original poster but the point seemed to missed.
The Original poster used the term "Gideon's army", when God spoke to me about "not the last" but "the Greatest ever Move of God to come" It was the book of Joshua that God used to speak about this Move of God.
For me Gideon's army or the Joshua people it doesn't matter.
I also can agree with the term "last" as one of the purposes of the Greatest Move of God ever is get God's people ready to face the antichrist and be Victorious and so surely it will be the last.
You find these people mentioned in
Rev 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Many years ago in the summer of 89 I had a divine meeting with God, it was the day that I would start my Christian walk and during that divine meeting God spoke to me about the Greatest Move of God that is coming.
I recently shared my testimony, if you take the time to listen to it you'll be blessed - 30 mins in you'll start to hear testimony 60 mins I start to speak about the Greatest Move of God that's coming, it's all a part of my testimony.
https://www.youtube.com/live/H5n2QVYW1i8?feature=share
Now to back up what I am saying I would refer you to another brother called Dutch sheets
Dutch Sheets - Open Visions of Revival - UNSTOPPABLE REVIVAL!!!
The thing I like about this is that Dutch Sheets turns to John Kilpatrick and says - "Brother this Move of God will be difficult to Steward"
I heard it from Heaven in 1989 that the Pastor's will struggle in this coming Move of God - why because God is going to raise up his people - what will the Pastor do when John Smith prays for someone and they are healed and thousand people turn up at the church.
I tell you - the strength of the Move of God is the people.
It truly will be unstoppable...
I posted Tommy Hicks vision of a great endtime revival, and I believe that this will happen. Darkness will increase and cover the earth. The world will get worse, but the glory of the Lord will be on the Church.
"I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh.” I wonder if we real- ized what he meant when God said, "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh.” I do not think I fully realized nor could I under- stand the fullness of it, and then I read from the book of Joel: "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain -” (Joel 2:23). It is not only going to be the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, but he is going to give to his people in these last days a double portion of the power of God!
I posted Tommy Hicks vision of a great endtime revival, and I believe that this will happen. Darkness will increase and cover the earth. The world will get worse, but the glory of the Lord will be on the Church.
@murrcolr, I did peronally notice your previous post on the subject. Its just that when you mentioned that the name you were provided with differed from the OP's, the weignt of the harmony impliedly dropped significantly. Just wondering if God is not capable of ensuring the the name is kept identical accross mulltiple prophets who are given the same prophesy. Or may someone best explain why God would purposefully use different names (seemingly to our/my consfusion)? I mean Josua and Gideon are are literally two different Characters (though certainly were both of the same Spirit).
Hi
Quote: I mean Josua and Gideon are are literally two different Characters.
Joshua and Gideon are types of Christ.
Christ our Saviour and Christ out deliverer.
What I would focus your attention on is the people behind these men, the First Post was about Gideon's army, if you were to spend any time with me you'd hear me talk about a victorious people.
The Joshua people / Gideon's army are a people who have been victorious.
That's the common theme..... and that my friend is what God will do.
I sincerely get confused by the prophesies that see a billion being added to the church in the last days revival linked to Joel’s latter rain statement and Jesus’ prophesied great falling away or apostasy in the church in the last days where there are "many” lost because of the increase of evil and seemingly not restored before His coming. Seems a strange juxtaposition. Any help from Scripture or wisdom and revelation?
Basic question is how can so many be added to the church and yet very many in the "church” lost. Not being cute here. The overwhelming trend of the passages of NT prophesies and concomitant warnings seems to be towards a sifting out with a few remaining.
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First of all I will say that the church is going through the Tribulation - we ain't flying away. I know this can be contentious issue but God has made it easy for me, when he spoke about the people he will raise up, he also spoke about they will face the antichrist.
So simply put the church will go through the tribulation. We have to change the way we think about the time that is nearly on us. The Great Tribulation is God goodness to this world. The tribulation will purify the church, it will cause the Christian to wash there robes in the blood of the lamb and become the pure and Holy Church.
Then on the other hand you'll have those who will fall away Scripture says - They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. 1 John 2:19
Scripture spells it out for us - a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb.
This world is going to shake brother and when the judgments of God are upon the world, multitudes of the inhabitants of this earth will learn righteousness.
A Multitude from the Great Tribulation
Rev 7:9:17 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” 11 All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying:
"Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom,
Thanksgiving and honor and power and might,
Be to our God forever and ever.
Amen.”
13 Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, "Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?”
14 And I said to him, "Sir, you know.”
So he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Got to focus on work but here is a message from David Wilkerson.
This is what it says as introduction to the message, it the message you'll hear from me Victory!!!!
Quote: For the Church of Jesus Christ we will not go out in fear, shame or reproach. We will go out in VICTORY!
I agree the Scripture says there is a great multitude coming out of the tribulation but that doesn’t have to imply it’s due to a great end times revival. It does speak to a coming in of the Jews though. So, the Revelation reference isn’t really a Scriptural prophesy confirmation. The point still stands that the great preponderance of prophesies concerning the last of the last days church is towards a falling away and not towards great increase. I’m not saying it’s not possible but merely noting that the Gospels and epistles do make specific and clear prophesies about the specific things that happen in the church and yet none of them make such prophesies like a billion person in gathering or similar huge increase. Why not if indeed we should be expectant of it and preparing for it as is the case for prophesies helping us prepare for and be expectant of the great apostasy. Seems to be a legitimate question. Why didn’t Jesus prophesy directly or through apostles and prophets of huge revival when he was prophesying of end times great and significant falling away ?
What is ahead for the church of Jesus Christ? This is a question of great concern to believers worldwide. As cataclysmic events take place all over the globe, many are wondering, "Is the Holy Spirit going to revive the church before Jesus returns? Will Christ’s body leave this world with a whimper or with a shout?"
The New Testament is filled with predictions of a last-days falling away. False prophets will rise up and lead many astray. Wolves will come in sheep’s clothing, bringing powerful deceptions to "deceive, if possible, even the elect of God." Wickedness will abound, causing once-hot believers to lose their first love. With the flood of iniquity to come, the love of many will grow cold.
Jesus prophesied these very things. And his warnings were meant to challenge our faith. As overwhelming iniquity floods the earth, he asks: "When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8).
Think about it: Christ knew everything we would be witnessing today, from horrifying school shootings, to the rise of militant homosexuality, to terrorist acts taking place throughout the world. In the midst of these things, he asks us, "Will you continue to believe, though things wax worse? Will you faint in your confidence when things don’t happen as you thought they would? Or, will you continue to trust in me?"
You see, despite the rise in iniquity and great calamities, Jesus knew there would be a great last-days revival. The Holy Spirit inspired Isaiah’s prophecies, and he knew full well about the prediction of a revival as the end draws near.
Isaiah said there would be a great, worldwide awakening just prior to Christ's return.
This prophecy is found in Isaiah 54 and is summed up in these verses: "Thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited" (54:3).
I believe with a number of Bible scholars that Isaiah’s prophecy has a dual application. It speaks not only about natural Israel after captivity in Babylon, but also about the spiritual Israel that was to come: the body of Jesus Christ, the church of the New Jerusalem. Paul quotes from Isaiah 54 when he refers to the "Jerusalem which is above...the mother of us all" (Galatians 4:26). Paul saw Isaiah’s prophecy as directed "to the children of promise," those in Christ by faith.
If Isaiah addressed his prophecy only to natural Israel, it would mean his promises haven’t yet been fulfilled. In short, it has not yet come to pass that "thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles" (Isaiah 54:3). Yet that word was clearly fulfilled in Christ, at the cross and at Pentecost. Think about it: when Isaiah delivered this message, some 42,000 Israelites had come out of Babylonian captivity. By the time of Jesus, their number had increased only to about 3 million.
Isaiah refers to his prophecy as a promise from God, a sworn word from heaven. We see the Lord swearing by the mountains and even referring back to his covenant made with Noah. He says, in essence, "As surely as I won’t allow another Flood on the earth, I tell you there will be an awakening of my church in the last days."
In these last days, the Lord’s eye is not fixed on world powers but on the church of Jesus Christ.
God is not focused on the economy, on the rise of world religions, on the roaring of the heathen. According to Isaiah, the nations are to God "as a drop of a bucket" (Isaiah 40:15). They are all under his sovereign rule and reign.
He knows all about terrorist threats, wars and rumors of wars. His Word warns that the heathen will rage, secular powers will try to outlaw Christianity, and fast-growing, anti-Christ movements will boast they’ll rule the world and destroy Jesus’ followers. The Bible says this about it all:
"The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us" (Psalm 2:2-3). In short, "Let’s cast away all moral hindrances, all moral landmarks of the past."
Here is God’s reaction to these earthly powers and demon-influenced men: "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision" (2:4). No matter how desperate things look, everything remains under God’s full control.
I’m thankful for this word from the Psalms. More and more, we hear reports of secularism wiping out the evangelical church in Europe, of Islam being the fastest growing religion in the world, of homosexuals hijacking entire denominations, of Christ’s church growing so weak it no longer has any impact on society. Yet God’s Word declares, "On Christ the Rock God will build his church."
"And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matthew 16:18). Nothing from the bowels of hell can hope to destroy Christ’s church. His eye is always on his people, and through everything he warns Satan and his hordes, "Do not touch the apple of my eye." "Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake" (Isaiah 54:15). Do you see what God is saying here? "The devil is going to come at you. Enemies out of hell will gather together against you. But Satan will not succeed."
Let the devil do what he pleases. Let hell open its bowels and spill forth every vile thing. It won’t have any impact whatsoever on God’s last-day plan for his people. Glory to the Lord, his church cannot be destroyed!
Everywhere we turn in the last days, we will see God’s glory breaking forth in a last revival.
Christ’s church will stretch beyond all former limitations to spread the good news: "Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited" (Isaiah 54:2-3). Simply put, the church will gain strength and raise up multitudes in Christ.
As we look more closely at Isaiah’s prophecy, we see it is meant not only for the church body but also for individual members. I know godly servants, friends of mine, who have laid hold of this prophecy as a personal word from the Holy Spirit. And they have built up their faith by its promises: "Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more" (Isaiah 54:4). Isaiah makes it clear in this verse: God’s church will not go out under reproach.
Yet just a few verses down, we read this warning to the last-days church: "O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires" (54:11). We are told we’ll be afflicted, tossed with tempest. Yet we are also promised a foundation made of sapphires. What does this mean, exactly?
As believers, we can be under covenant with God, carrying in our hearts his precious promises of no fear, no shame, no confusion, no reproach. Yet, it is still possible for us to be tossed about by personal storms, to experience loneliness, to have no one to comfort us. In short, we are allowed to be buffeted by Satan.
In verse 16, Isaiah gives us a picture of our adversary at work. God says, "Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy" (54:16). Here is an image of a blacksmith, pumping the bellows on his fire to cause a white heat. He then uses that heat to beat and pound out weapons of warfare on his anvil. This smith represents Satan, who constantly devises new weapons against the church and individual believers.
What an incredible picture. It is as though God is saying, "Behold the devil fanning his fire, making weapons he uses to try to destroy my people. I made this smith, creating him as an angel. He once had power and authority, but he was cast down because of rebellion. I created him, and so I can chain him. He can go only as far as I permit."
Note God’s amazing promise in the very next verse: "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord" (54:17). In other words: "Let the enemy make all his weapons. Let him arm legions of demons. Not a single weapon he forms against you will bring you down." What a glorious promise!
Satan is using his weapons of hopelessness against God’s people, tempests too violent to endure without the comfort of the Holy Spirit. Yet God declares, "I will lay thy foundations with sapphires" (54:11). The message here is, "When everything in the world is being shaken, you will not be moved. The foundation I’m laying underneath you is as solid as these stones. What I’m doing in you cannot be shaken."
These sapphires represent spiritual knowledge and wisdom, insights into the very heart of God. We know that those who endure suffering come out armed with greater insights into God’s mercy. You may be tempted, tossed, afflicted and alone, but through it all he is forming underneath you a rock-solid foundation. It is all so that you may comfort others in their trials.
Paul echoes Isaiah when he says the Lord cherishes his church as a loving husband cherishes his wife.
Many are familiar with the passage where Paul equates marriage to God’s relationship with the church: "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church" (Ephesians 5:31-32).
Now note what Isaiah says: "Thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called" (Isaiah 54:5). Who is the Maker here? It is Christ, creator of heaven and earth. And Isaiah tells us he is our husband. However, the wife has separated herself from her husband: "Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear" (59:2).
Where do we see this separation today between the church and God? I see it most obviously in compromised mainline churches. Yet I also see it in the soft-pedaled gospel of post-modern churches. It is evident there has been a separation from God’s manifest presence. Indeed, it has happened just as Jesus and Paul prophesied: many have become lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God...having a form of religion with no power...despising the gospel of their fathers...tearing down the old moral landmarks...changing God’s infallible Word to suit the times.
I challenge you to go to any city, from church to church of every evangelical persuasion. Try to find one where you recognize the awesome, manifest presence of Jesus, where you encounter his heart-melting conviction. When the Lord is truly present, you recognize it, whether in the singing, the preaching or the fellowship. Something stirs your soul, and it produces an awe and a reverence. In my experience, this is rarely found.
I am not condemning the modern-day church; God forbid. But may the Lord help us if we don’t have his manifest presence in these last days. And because of the compromise of such churches, he has had to hide his presence from them for a time. Yet God has not divorced the compromised church. Isaiah says he calls her to return to him:
"Thus saith the Lord, where is the bill of...divorcement, whom I have put away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you?" (Isaiah 50:1). God is saying, in essence, "You walked out on me. You loved the world and the things of the world, and you left me for them. I didn’t leave you; you left me. Show me the divorce papers! Show me where I sold you to another."
"Thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money" (52:3). He continues: "I tell you, this marriage is not over. It is not hopeless. I still love you, though you prostituted yourself. You grew weary of me, but in spite of it all I love you. I want you back."
"The Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer" (54:6-8).
Here is a sworn promise by God to bring back to himself a harlot wife. In short, the last revival will be one of mercy alone. The Lord is telling his church, "When you return to me, I won’t condemn you or reprove you. Instead, I will anoint you with my Spirit. I will empower you where you had no power before."
Some may still say, "Isaiah 54 applies only to natural Israel."
I offer indisputable proof that the promise of Isaiah 54 is meant for God’s church today. Isaiah clearly speaks of Christ in 53:10: "He shall see his seed" (my italics). Simply put, Christ’s travail and sacrifice will bring forth many children: "He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities" (53:11). This is all to be fulfilled after the cross.
The nails that pierced Jesus’ hands and feet were fashioned on the devil’s anvil. The sword that pierced his side was forged in that smith shop of hell. But the blood that poured forth from his body has never lost its power. Isaiah is telling us: "God has sworn his Son’s blood will be sprinkled on transgressors in every nation on earth. It has power in every Arab nation, in Israel, in Africa, in Europe. He will see his seed spread to many multitudes, from all tribes and tongues." A great awakening will continue in the end times.
It may be discouraging to see false religions grow in great numbers while Christ’s church seems so few in number. But Isaiah says, "It is time to sing, O barren wife. Enlarge the dwellings of worship, lengthen and strengthen your vision. You’re going to see breakthroughs on the left and right." "Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord" (54:1).
How will this last revival come about?
How is this last revival going to happen? It requires something powerful, something world-shaking to precipitate it. Isaiah tells us this shaking will happen in one day. In chapter 47, he says the spirit of Babylon must be dealt with. Throughout Scripture, Babylon has always represented a spirit of prosperity, ease and pleasure. And the Babylonian spirit is the same in every age.
In short, Isaiah says there can be no widespread, last revival until the spirit of greed and false security is brought down. We can pray for revival, we can cry out to God to pour out his Spirit, but it is impossible unless the Lord first shakes all things: "Hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me... Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know" (Isaiah 47:8, 11, my italics).
God is not going to overlook sin, but he will strike down the devil’s strongholds. He’s going to sound a wake-up call to his church with a "sudden desolation." Indeed, this will be a great act of love on the Lord’s part. He so loves his church that he refuses to allow ease, pleasure and apostasy to blind and ruin the object of his love.
"Let favor be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord" (26:10, my italics). Here is proof that revival is impossible in a time of ease and prosperity. Isaiah says in plain terms, "In a time of blessing, the people will not turn." Nothing is going to happen until the pocketbook is affected. Only "when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness" (26:9).
Isaiah offers one final proof that a last revival will come after a shaking:
"According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
"As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; my spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and forever" (Isaiah 59:18-21).
The spirit of Babylon is about to be broken through desolation. Yet, do not misinterpret Isaiah’s prophecy as a message of gloom and doom. On the contrary, Jesus says, "When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh" (Luke 21:28).
Even now, we are seeing the beginnings of the last revival, as Acts 2:17 is being fulfilled.
"It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams" (Acts 2:17). In all my years of ministry, I have never been able to envision this prophecy happening in our day. Now I believe it is being fulfilled.
In nations everywhere, Christ is revealing himself to multitudes in dreams and visions. In China, India and Arab nations, people are reporting their experiences with Jesus in dreams. Even here at Times Square Church it is happening.
One of our church’s security men was once New York’s third-highest-ranking high priest in Santeria devil worship. His territory was the Bronx, and his apartment was filled with human bones. He had sold himself body and soul to Satan. But this man’s heart was stirred by the Holy Spirit. He became restless, and one night he challenged Jesus, "If you are stronger than the devil I serve, show me in a dream tonight."
That night in a dream, the man saw himself on a train bound for hell. As it passed through a tunnel, on the other side stood Satan. The devil told the man, "You have been faithful to me. Now I’m taking you to your eternal resting place." Then suddenly, a cross appeared. At that moment, the man woke up.
He came out of that experience on fire for Jesus, rid his apartment of every trace of evil, and gave his life to the Lord. Today, he is a sweet, devout man of God and is active in our church. I stopped him recently and told him, "I see Jesus in you." He answered, "Brother Dave, you don’t realize what those words mean to me after twenty-five years of serving the devil." His miraculous new life had all come out of that God-given dream.
Dear saint, the day is coming when the whole world will see Jesus. The apostle John envisioned "a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb" (Revelation 7:9-10).
This is not a little remnant, but an innumerable multitude, just as Isaiah prophesied. And they are all worshiping the Lord. Praise God for that promised day!
Brother,
Isn’t it just as likely that the Isaiah passage applies to the beginning of the "time of the Gentiles” until their full number is attained beginning with Christ’s coming and ending with his return ?
The prophet Ezekiel testifies, "He brought me through the waters” (Ezekiel 47:3). In a vision, God took the prophet on an amazing trip through water. Carrying a measuring rod, the Lord paced off 1,000 cubits, about one-third of a mile. The Lord and Ezekiel then began walking in the water, which was flowing about ankle high.
The Lord kept urging the prophet onward, deeper and farther into the river. After another 1,000 cubits, the water came up to the knees ”” and it was still rising. Do you see what’s happening here? Ezekiel was walking into the future, right into our time.
Christians today live in the final 1,000 cubits of the river in this vision. We’re in the very last measurement of water and Ezekiel says that when he stepped to the edge of this measure, the water was too deep for him, too overwhelming. "I could not cross; for the water was too deep, water in which one must swim” (47:5). In other words, the water was over his head.
All the Old Testament prophets had a limited vision of Christ. Jesus himself tells us, "Assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it” (Matthew 13:17). The Lord reveals in this prophetic vision that in the very last days, the church of Jesus Christ will be more glorious, more victorious, than in its entire history. The Lord’s true body isn’t going to weaken and sputter; it’s not going to dwindle in numbers or decrease in power or spiritual authority. No, his church will go out in a blaze of power and glory. And it will enjoy the fullest revelation of Jesus that anyone has ever known.
Ezekiel writes, "Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many” (47:10). Ezekiel is saying that a body of believers will swim in rising waters of the Lord’s presence and God’s presence among his people is going to increase until the very end.
In the midst of all the death and destruction we see happening, the Lord’s prophecy thunders, "My river is going to rise and everything will live where my river flows.” You see, the river of life, which will crest just prior to the Lord’s coming, brings life wherever it goes
worlschallenge/last-days-glory David Wilkerson