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                            As in the days of Lot   
      
   "Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank,   
   they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day   
   that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven,   
   and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son   
   of man is revealed." Luke 17:28-30.   
      
   Consider, if Lot of his own accord had moved from Sodom any months   
   earlier, then he could have taken it easier, and he could have had both   
   his wife and his possessions left. But Lot was not interested to leave   
   Sodom. God sent two angels to rescue him, and they must persuade him   
   to leave Sodom. And when he yet lingered, they took him at his hand   
   and led him out of the city. One of the angels said to him: "Flee for   
   your life sake and do not see you backwards..." Genesis 19:15-17.   
      
   On the same way it will now happen before Jesus' arrival. The Lord has   
   a long time ago exhorted his people to come out from the great Babylon,   
   the great harlot. Rev. 18:4-6. Nevertheless, just like as Lot, the people   
   are not interested to leave Babylon, which is worse than Sodom. They   
   linger left in Babylon although God's judgement over Babylon is already   
   decided of God. But to the end they must flee for their life from there.   
      
   Why? Yeah, for otherwise God will judge them as partakers in the big   
   sins of the harlot, and they get their part in her plagues.   
   Why shall they be obstinate with to linger in Babylon? God's revival   
   message in Rev. 18:4-6 has all the time been in the Bible, and this ought to   
   have been preached. But those who would be shepherds and teachers in   
   the Assembly of God, and proclaim the truths of the Bible, they are   
   ensnared in false doctrines. They believe that free-churches are assemblies   
   of God. They have another doctrine of the assembly that does not occur   
   in the Bible. Instead of having solicitude for the Assembly of God, they   
   have had solicitude about their free-churches, as if these would be God's   
   assemblies. Being a member in a denomination or a church is equally   
   unbiblical as the infant baptism.   
      
   If anyone comes to believe in Jesus and becomes baptized, the preachers   
   and the pastors take it obviously that he shall become a member in their   
   own church, their own denomination. The new member gets a membership   
   card, but they never tell for him in what he has become a member.   
      
   What concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth   
   with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?   
   2 Cor. 6:14-18.   
      
   It is strangely that God's people cannot receive more than one "new"   
   biblical truth. Since Martin Luther on the 16th century began to proclaim   
   the justification by faith, it has gone tremendously dully for the   
   Christians   
   to become free from the Catholicism. Martin Luther himself took only one   
   step in faith. After that it was sudden halt. He did not want to learn any   
   more. He did not want to believe on what the Bible teaches about the   
   baptism, and he saw with contempt on them that believed on the truth of   
   baptism and were baptized. Instead of going moreover in the holy Scripture,   
   he began to reform the church. The Lutheran church is very catholic.   
      
   On the 19th century it was a mighty revival when they preached the   
   truth about the baptism. Nevertheless, they became entirely busy of   
   the truth of baptism, so they neglected to go moreover in the holy   
   Scripture. They also ought to study what the Bible teaches about the   
   baptism in the Holy Spirit, and about the Assembly of God. But in   
   instead they began to constitute Baptist assemblies and a Baptist   
   denomination.   
      
   When the Pentecostal Revival came, in beginning of the 20th century,   
   then they became entirely busy with to proclaim the truth about the   
   baptism in the Holy Spirit, and about the speaking in tongues. They   
   thought that now they had received the entire gospel of God. And still   
   today many Pentecostal preachers mean that they are completely   
   preaching God's word. But they do not. They understand the truth   
   about the baptism in the Holy Spirit only partly. They have not yet   
   understood 1 Cor. 12:12-13 that in the Assembly of God we are all   
   baptized in the Holy Spirit, but not all are speaking in tongues. Verse 30.   
      
   Revival is a spiritual awakening, but the awakening does not need be   
   called anything. The revival does not need to have a name. But when   
   God sends a revival, people are so hurrying to make a name on the work   
   of God. It is easier to talk about the revival if it has a name. And it is   
   just that they do. Instead of considering the real meaning with the   
   revival, and what that is God's intention with the revival, they are busy   
   of speaking about the revival. They are talking about gorgeous meetings   
   with song and music, but forget the most important.   
      
   We can compare such people with anyone that is near to drown. God   
   has thrown to him a life jacket, but instead of trying rescues his life,   
   he begins to play with the life jacket until he loses it, and drowns.   
      
   In the 1960s when I was in a Pentecostal church, the pastor and the   
   older members spoke with some opportunities about how delightful it   
   was when the Pentecostal Revival came. Then the meetings were so   
   powerful, and many were saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit.   
   But they had not understood what that was God's real intention with   
   the revival, the exodus of God's people from the great Babylon!   
      
   They had experienced the revival as a transport of joy. Wow, wow,   
   wow, what delightful it was when the Pentecostal Revival came! Why   
   was it not so delightfully now as formerly? They could not explain it.   
   But the name Pentecostal Revival they had left. Instead of being   
   aroused and get more insight in God's word, they were busy with   
   speaking about the Pentecost Revival as if it still were going on. They   
   did not realize, or wanted not to acknowledge, that the Pentecostal   
   Revival a long time ago had been stagnant. Yet, in spite of this, in   
   their prayer meetings they were praying God about revival.   
      
   It must be any reason to the stagnation of the revival. Certainly, God   
   did not "switch off the current" without any reason. And to starting a   
   new revival we first must elucidate what that caused that the previous   
   revival stayed off. As long as the obstacle for the revival is left, it is   
   no meaning to pray God for a new revival.   
      
   The reason that the Pentecostal Revival stayed off, was as at earlier   
   revivals, they stopped struggling for the truths of the Bible. When   
   they had received the baptism with the Holy Spirit, with speaking in   
   tongues as a "sign", then they did not want to have any more. They   
   meant that now we have got everything that we can get. But they   
   had learned only a little part of the truth about the baptism in the Holy   
   Spirit. If the Pentecostal preachers would begin to preach the entire   
      
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