The revival has already begun.
The Church is exploding across the globe. Millions are coming to the Lord. The African continent is currently experiencing a revival of proportions unknown in history.
The Church in China has built a foundation so strong, the forces of communism have been helpless against it. David Aikman, in his excellent new book, "Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power" details the strength of the latter day Chinese Church. He predicts that China will be a "Christian nation" within a generation. The global impact of that will be epochal. And one thing the Chinese churches all have in common: a burning desire to evangelize Muslims in the Middle East.
China is currently sending missionaries to all parts of the Muslim world and is meeting surprising success.
The revival is world-wide, sustained and gaining steam. Persecution has, as it always does, made it stronger.
I have been watching this stuff also. Certain nations in Africa were 2% Christian 100 years ago - now they are 80%. And I have friends that have witnessed what is going on in China first hand. Their reports are ASTOUNDING. Some of the stuff they talk about is like something from the book of Acts.
I was (myopically) thinking only of the West (America/Europe) where things seem to be rapidly polarizing. The way the Africans have stood up to the ECUSA only highlights the spiritual darkness that seems to be enveloping our country. Could you have imagined this would happen in the USA a hundred years ago?
The movement of the Spirit into these previously unreached areas (unreached on a large scale) is very heartening because it seems to be a fulfillment of Matt 24 -"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."
I believe it's pretty clear the Antichrist will arise from the West (or Israel). I don't see revival coming in the West. I see dark clouds gathering.