Revival Fires Ignited
No matter what season we may find
ourselves in, the fields are always
white for harvest, as Jesus pointed out
to His disciples. Even though harvests
have come and gone, there is an end-time
harvest coming that will far exceed
anything the world has experienced,
including the time Jesus was here on the
earth and the first 100 years or so
following His resurrection.
God
has remarkable things in store in the
coming days amid the darkness that is
beginning to cover the earth. Before
Christ returns to set up His eternal
kingdom, the glory of God will fill
overall—that is, every nook and cranny
in the earth, just as Paul prophesied to
the Ephesians.
Ephesians 1:22-23
And He put all things under His feet and
gave Him to be head over all things to
the church, 23 which is His body, the
fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Many revivals have come and gone
since Christ’s first coming, but there
is one last revival yet to come that
will be greater than anything the world
has ever experienced. A worldwide
revival is coming with many waves before
the final outpouring of the Spirit fills
the world with the glory of God.
God will give the world a final
display of glory, overshadowed by
anything that has happened since the
beginning of the world. Because He is a
just God, the world will have one last
opportunity to believe and repent before
His Son comes to judge the earth.
The seed of Jesus, which the Father
planted in the earth, will come to full
maturity as the many-membered body of
Christ manifests the fullness of the
stature of Christ. Just as the latter
rain brought natural harvests to full
maturity after the early spring rains to
moisten the ground for the seed to be
planted, the latter rain of God’s Spirit
will bring His body to full maturity
from the seed that was planted by the
death, burial, and resurrection of
Christ.
When Jesus ministered in
the flesh, He came in the fullness of
the Spirit, which resulted from the
Spirit being given to Him without
measure. It is evident throughout
Scripture that the Father’s plans and
purposes are for His Church to come into
the full measure and stature of the
fullness of Christ. The body of Christ
will receive the same Spirit without
measure.
The Book of Ephesians speaks of
how Jesus gave the gifts of apostles,
prophets, pastors, teachers, and
evangelists to the Church so that His
many-membered body could come into the
same stature of the fullness that Christ
exhibited.
Ephesians 4:11-13 And
He Himself gave some to be apostles,
some prophets, some evangelists, and
some pastors and teachers 12 for the
equipping of the saints for the work of
the ministry, for the edifying of the
body of Christ, 13 till we all come to
the unity of the faith and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, to a
perfect man, to the measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ.
The Scripture mentioned above is a
prophetic promise that states God’s will
and purpose for His Church. The Church
Jesus is building will represent the
Father in the same way He did through
the incarnation of Jesus Christ. The
zeal of the Lord will bring this to
pass, just as He fulfilled other
predestinated purposes since the
beginning of time. He will continue to
make His ministers flames of fire, who
go forth to fulfill His prophetic
purposes as the culmination of this
present age ends.
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