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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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