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Oh well, I'll keep praying for that revival and awakening though, because God has a history of doing great works just when the day seems darkest.

I'm afraid the events of 9/11 have in fact inspired something of a revival.

A revival of polytheism which has spread across most branches of American Christian churches.

The antiscriptural relativistic polytheism Rome has urged for many years has been forwarded substantially as a result of 9/11.

So there is no genuine Christian revival. This is part of the decline of the church, the great Falling Away of which the Bible warns us. If my suspicion about this is correct, then you know exactly what comes next.

I think the unscriptural notion of a great revival in the end times will mislead and disappoint many sincere Christians. They will be even more unprepared if there is no Rapture, but only the Tribulation. I think more people are reading the Left Behind series than read the Bible. Just another sign of the times.

They will be even more unprepared if there is no Rapture,....

I once thought to myself, "What if there were no Rapture, or it was a Pre-Wrath Rapture? Would that shake my faith in Jesus Christ?"

I came to the conclusion that it wouldn't. My home in Heaven is secured not by if and when the Rapture happens, but by the sufficiency of the Blood of Christ to cleanse my sins.

-ksen

So there is no genuine Christian revival. This is part of the decline of the church, the great Falling Away of which the Bible warns us. If my suspicion about this is correct, then you know exactly what comes next.

We agree GW..no end time revival...more likely one of the feel good any belief will do churches will florish..

As it was in the days of Noah

They watched this man build this strange thing..what was it? They were in the desert...It had never rained on the earth,so they asked about it.I would think Noah told them "God said..",and they laughed....and went to the high places. Life went on till ..........well you know.....

I think the unscriptural notion of a great revival in the end times will mislead and disappoint many sincere Christians. They will be even more unprepared if there is no Rapture, but only the Tribulation. I think more people are reading the Left Behind series than read the Bible. Just another sign of the times.

I personally believe the scriptures bear out a Pre-tribulational position, but still agree with you. My faith (and even my system of theology) would not be irrevocably damaged by a pre-wrath, or even a post-trib view. I agree with you, though, that an undue emphasis in the church is placed on prophetic speculation and too little on the Gospel.