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First, please forgive me if I offended you. I was talking in generalities. Each one of us should apply the truths shared to their own hearts. That is not my job, nor do I want it.There is nothing to correct me on. I have never ever once said anything about being content with stays quo.
Please do not assume or accuse me of things I have never said.
Thank you
As to your request for scriptures that support what I share that an awakening, a final awakening..... the real latter rain.... is promised us before the return of the Lord.
Before I share them, we must all understand, to those who long for such a thing, both collectively and individually, these scriptures will be a lot easier to believe, than those who are content with things as they are, in both the church as a whole, and in their own walks with the Lord.
Ok, scriptures.
1) Certainly, the clearest one is the parable of the 10 virgins. All ten virgins had lamps.... the appearance of give off light. Five virgins had oil, five virgins had none. And the oil of course, is the Holy Spirit, the seal that assures them of their calling.
But there is a problem. None of their lamps were lit. Right before the master returns for his own, all ten virgins are awakened and instructed to light their lamps. Why? To give off light!
The five virgins with no oil cannot, and leave to go find their own. This is the great falling away. This is the tares being reomoved from the wheat. And what was once a lukewarm stew, now shines forth as light to the world, so that those who love the light WILL come to it. The final call now begins.
2) In the parable of the master sending his servant out to call all the master’s servants to the wedding feast, the call goes out, but a strange thing happens. When some of those ‘virgins’ are told of the call, they respond like Lot’s wife did. Their hearts had been overtaken by the world. They were in the world, and now ‘of’ it. So they began to make excuses as to why they could not come right then.
When the master heard this, He was hurt and angry, and thus told his servant to go back out in the highways and byways, find the hurting, the broken, the addicted, those who know they need a physician, and compel them to come in. I love that world. Compel them!
Will this be just a few? No, no! Lots! Why? Because the master said that His house WILL be full. Praise God.
3) The prophecy in Joel- We must understand, that this is.... must be.... a dual prophecy, like many in scripture. How do we know this? As we read, we see that part of this is talking about what Peter quoted, however, as we read, it is clear that part of it is talking about things clearly referring to the end of the end. The early rain will have come, but the army sent dries that up. But praise God, in the final days, God is going to restore what the cankerworm has eaten, The church, once glorious in her beauty, had been robbed of that glory. Time for the restoration. Time for the latter rain!
4) Perhaps the most encouraging scripture is found in Ezekiel 36.
Here God speaks to His children about the coming new covenant and what it will do for us. Very similar to Jeremiah 31. However, there is one huge difference. In God’s words in Ezekiel, amazingly, He tells us something we are even now being awakened to. Under the law, obedience was required. None could truly obey. In God’s new covenant, obedience was..... are we ready? PROMISED. Whoa. He tells us clearly that He will CAUSE US to obey. Glory to God.
Hat is strange about the rest of this amazing chapter is that He tells us that what we have done in representing His name is to blasphemed it, wherever we have gone. Ouch. Yet still, God tells us that He is going to sanctify and restore honor to His name. And how will he does this? He will awaken us to the above promise. And when we discover this so desperately needed promise, then we who love God will light our lamps. And what will the results be?
Multitudes, people who love the light but simply were not drawn by a religious Christianity that changed no one would stream into the kingdom like a tsunami of hungry souls. And why will they come?
“And the heathen shall know that I am the Lord when I shall be sanctified (made holy) in them before their very eyes.”
Before there is a shred of “I knew God was still pleased with us”, God cuts those thuoghts asunder. He tells us that we are to know that He is not doing this amazing thing, this awakening.... for our sake. He says we have been a disobedient people, stiff necked, content without godliness. He is doing this to restore honor to His holy name, the name we have blasphemed wherever we have gone.
Finally, He says this, to every hungry heart, to every broken heart, to everyone who longs for the FREE INDEED Jesus clearly promised us.
“I shall yet be inquired of by the house of Israel, TO DO IT FOR THEM.
Is this not what we need? Is this not what we long for? Do we think God is going to birth the church in power, filled with souls laden with fruits of the Spirit, only to let it degenerate into 90 minute Sunday services and children overtaken in one form or another by the God of this world,
Will the church that once walked in purity and oneness, end up 500+ denominations, each one convinced that they have the real truth?
Is this that we see on the earth what God considered being readied to meet the bridegroom? Is our own walk one that will bring a smile to the face of our dear Lord? We all know the answer, don’t we?
5) Ezekiel 37
Let us first remember that there are no chapter distinction in the Word. The amazing words of Ezekiel 36 flow into the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37. And what do the dry bones represent? They are us. They are the church. The early church is now dry bones, a shell of what it once was. An these bones live, God asks? “Thou knowest” replies Ezekiel.
But praise God, a miracle begins. The bones begin to move. The body begins to reform. This is exactly where we are right now. More and more will awaken and BE light. But God is not finished with us. Just as there was a one time explosion over the early church on the day of Pentecost, our day too is on the horizon.
There are more examples..... Gideon, Samson, but this is enough to get us started.
Blessings,
Gideon
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