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                     The coming revival must be more powerful   
                              than any earlier revival   
      
   Some people mean that it will be no more revival before Jesus comes.   
   But Jesus has commanded us to be awaking and ready when he   
   comes, and Rev. 18:4 is an extremely powerful revival message from   
   the Lord. He has commanded his people to come out of the great   
   Babylon. Therewith the sake is clear. A powerful revival must come.   
      
   The great Babylon is not only the Catholic church, but also all other   
   churches and denominations. The promise of the Lord is solid. The   
   Holy Spirit will guide us into all Truth. John 16:13-15. When the   
   Holy Spirit reveals the truth about the Assembly of God, then all   
   churches and denominations become exposed. How would this   
   happen without a powerful revival?   
      
   The word "revival" does not occur in the Bible, but there are many   
   revival messages in the Bible. Jesus tells many times about the   
   importance of being awake and ready when he comes. Matt. 24:42-   
   44, 25:1-13. Mark. 13:32-37. Luk. 21:34-36. See also 1 Peter 5:8-9.   
      
   He does not say that the awakening (the revival) must have a name.   
   Nevertheless, as soon as something happens that looks like a revival,   
   then people are quick to make a name on the revival. Why? It is easier   
   to speak about the revival when they have a name on it. And it is just   
   this they do. They are speaking about the revival instead of listening   
   and receive the truths that the Holy Spirit wants to convey. When the   
   Holy Spirit has revealed a biblical truth, then the people are so busy   
   with just this truth, so they do not listen for expecting more truths. In   
   this way much of the revival message goes lost.   
      
   How did they do when the Pentecostal Revival came? When they had   
   received the baptism with the Holy Spirit and the gift to speaking in   
   tongues, then they spoke so much about the baptism with the Holy   
   Spirit and the speaking in tongues, as if this were the whole revival   
   message. If they had spoken lesser and listen more to what the Holy   
   Spirit had to say to God's people, then they had got much more. The   
   revival could have continued and become still more powerful.   
      
   It was not God's meaning that the revival would be named "the   
   Pentecostal Revival". This was an idea of people. Through the name   
   "Pentecostal Revival" the revival became limited to the baptism with   
   the Holy Spirit and the speaking in tongues. It was this they were   
   thinking of when they spoke about the Pentecostal Revival. So it is   
   still today. The rest of the revival message of the Holy Spirit remains   
   unknown for the people. The revival did not become what it ought to   
   be. The Pentecostal Revival became an abridged revival.   
      
   The name "Pentecostal Revival" became an idol name, which they   
   use along with the Lord's name. For 90 years many people have had   
   the Pentecostal Revival as their idol. Belonging to a Pentecostal   
   Church, they feel security. But it is no real security. What is a   
   Pentecostal Church? None can with help of the Bible explain what   
   the Pentecostal Churches is, or how they are established, for they are   
   not founded on God's word. Calling them "Assemblies of God" does   
   not help.   
      
   Through the "Pentecostal revival" a new church system was   
   established, and the Christians were still more divided. The Lord's   
   purpose with a revival is not to make disunion, but unity. We must   
   understand that the dividing of the Christians in many churches and   
   denominations is not a work of God. Can the God of peace have   
   divided the Christians? The idea of establishing churches and   
   denominations did not come from God.   
      
   What did the "Pentecostal Revival" do? The "Pentecostal Revival"   
   censured away a great part of the revival message of the Holy Spirit.   
   The truth of the baptism with the Holy Spirit they understood and   
   preached only partly. Their knowledge of the Assembly of God was   
   very insufficient, or non-existent. So it is still today. The truth of the   
   Assembly of God has not been preached, and without this truth we   
   can neither understand the truth of the baptism with the Holy Spirit.   
      
   The Holy Spirit wanted to guide them into all truth, but they listened   
   to only a part of the revival message of the Spirit. They also ought to   
   pray the Lord for knowledge about the Assembly of God. In spite of   
   the baptism with the Holy Spirit and the gift to speaking in tongues,   
   they are still today left in the ignorance about the Assembly of God.   
      
   When they established the Pentecostal assemblies, then they did not   
   think to make a denomination. The Pentecostal assemblies would be   
   independent assemblies, without any central organization. Yet, since   
   they had such an insufficient knowledge of the Assembly of God,   
   they accepted almost the same assembly doctrine and assembly   
   view as they had in the denominations. The Pentecostal assemblies   
   became organized movements, with an overseer (chairman), and   
   membership cards to all members.   
      
   In this way they made false copies of the Assembly of God. Making   
   a living organism through organizing is not possible. Making an   
   assembly of God by organizing is also impossible. Yet, both preachers   
   and other members in the Pentecostal assemblies believed that these   
   were Assemblies of God.   
   Treacherous with this wrong assembly doctrine is that it can be used   
   of evil spirits. They make people to slaves under false doctrines and   
   hinder them to understand God's word. Because of this, the members   
   of the Pentecostal assemblies have not heard any sermons about the   
   Assembly of God. The Lord's work within Pentecostal assemblies and   
   other free churches so that people have been saved, it is not thanks to   
   these, and this cannot justify these churches or denominations.   
      
   Some form of organization can be needed in a Christian activity, but   
   then we shall not mean that the organization is the Assembly of God,   
   the Body of Christ. Using such names as 'Pentecostalist', 'Baptist',   
   'Maranatha' etc. is idolatry. When the apostle Paul came to Corinth,   
   then he did not come as a representative of "The Apostolic Mission"   
   or any such name. "For I resolved to know nothing while I was with   
   you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified." 1 Cor. 2:2. It was not   
   "The Apostles Pioneer Mission" that had sent him, but he was a   
   messenger of Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. 5:20.   
      
   Where it is a false doctrine, there are also the evil spirits working.   
   The evil spirits that are hidden within churches and denominations   
   have an entirely other aim than to win souls for Jesus. They try so   
   quickly as possibly make an end of every tendency to revival.   
   Through false doctrines and church traditions they hold both preachers   
   and other members bound, and hinder them to understand God's word.   
   While these not even try to become free, they do not notice how bound   
   they are.   
      
   Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)