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To: spacejunkie2001
there will be a revival prior to the end

No, there won't. The Bible expresses implicitly that a great falling away from the faith will occur, not a revival.

Then again, the great falling away will be perceived by many to be your "revival" only because God will send a great delusion to make folks believe they are witnessing a revival when instead the masses are, and this from John MacArthur, "going after Baal."

7 posted on 07/05/2020 7:03:04 PM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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To: ducttape45

and this:

https://worldchallenge.org/newsletter/2008/the-last-revival

Excerpt:

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.


14 posted on 07/05/2020 7:19:52 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: ducttape45; fwdude

And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My spirit in those days. And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Joel 2:28-32).


17 posted on 07/05/2020 7:29:14 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ))
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