From: allan-sv@algonet.se   
      
                   A Revival from God and its consequences.   
      
   When Jacob was informed that his son Joseph was yet alive and went   
   to Egypt to meet him, then he felt great joy. Nevertheless, the truth of   
   that Joseph was alive brought not only joy. This truth also unveiled   
   that Joseph's brothers had sold him to the Ishmeelites for twenty   
   pieces of silver.   
      
   So it is also when God sends revival. The revival not only brings joy   
   and salvation to people. It also causes unpleasant surprises. Old   
   conflicts of opinion must be cleared up. Sins must be confessed and   
   forgiven. God knows everything and we cannot hide anything for him.   
   God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have   
   fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not put   
   the truth into practice. If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we   
   have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son,   
   purifies us from every sin. 1 John 1:5-7.   
      
   When Jesus comes his Bride must be ready. He cannot return until   
   his Bride is prepared for Him. The whole Body of Christ must be   
   ready to meet Jesus. This is such a great thing that every Christian   
   may be praying for that. If you don't comprehend it so pray to God   
   and read your Bible until you get clearness. It is not possible that   
   only take advantage of others' prayers and means that others shall   
   pray and struggles and clear up everything. You must go into the   
   struggle and pray yourself throughout to overcome the religious   
   harlot-being. When God restores the Assembly, then it is in the   
   first hand an individual and spiritual releasing. Spiritual   
   powers of evil hold the Christians bound to churches and   
   denominations and they want to hinder the restoration and   
   unification of the Assembly, the Body of Christ.   
      
   Most of those who are called Christians do not like revival because   
   they do not walk in the light and they are not willing to hear the   
   truth regarding the Assembly of God. They can continue to pray for   
   revival year after year, but the greatest hinder for the revival is   
   within themselves. They are not willing to wake up! They   
   themselves want to determine how the revival shall come, and they   
   want to hear no depreciatory about their own beautiful church. The   
   revival shall come as a blessing of God and a pleasant message,   
   and people shall come to their church. They will make membership   
   cards and welcome new members to their church.   
      
   Nevertheless, a revival of God does not come in that way. This last   
   revival comes to like a head-on collision between God's word and   
   the religious harlot-being. And God's word shall have powerful   
   success so that all the Body of Christ be free from the harlot-being.   
   Still there is power in the blood of Jesus so that also old dry   
   Pentecostalists can be as new.   
      
   We cannot determine what that will happen, or how the revival shall   
   come. We have to follow God's word. This present time is so seriously   
   so that we must consider how we have it before God.   
      
   Those who have believed on the so-called infant baptism must reject   
   this false doctrine of the Church and be baptized as the Bible teaches.   
   And those who have believed that churches and denominations are   
   assemblies of God, they must acknowledge their mistake and must   
   leave these harlot-beings. The more proud and stubborn they are,   
   the more humiliation becomes the revival for them. Pentecostal   
   preachers which think they are experts regarding the baptism by the   
   Holy Spirit, they must rectify their sermons so that they agree with   
   God's word.   
      
   Much of what I have written here on my Web Site are such things   
   that many Christians have never thought of. Why have they not   
   thought of that? Due to the devil does not like that they think of this,   
   and therefore he put them to sleep. Therefore, revival is necessary.   
      
   They can appear in public, speaking, singing and playing in their   
   meetings. Yet, this is no proof of spiritual emancipation. Many get   
   on well with the lukewarm church Christianity and do nothing to be   
   free. They do not know how bound they are.   
      
   They are inviting to their meetings, come to our Church! They are   
   so quick to speak about fellowship and help in prayer. But   
   concerning essential things like the Body of Christ, then they   
   understand nothing. Concerning combatting of the religious harlot-   
   being, then they cannot help. Then you must struggle alone.   
      
   When you ask and expect education, they have only questions as   
   answer. Instead of getting teaching or information, they begin to   
   ask about just these things that you need teaching about. When   
   the Lord gives a wonderful answer on prayer, and you think they   
   may be happy and praise God, then they are on the contrary.   
   They only are annoyed and suspicious.   
      
   What the apostle Paul writes in Eph. 6:10-18 seems evidently   
   entirely unreal to them. They continue with their meetings and   
   "have it so pleasant." It seems as if they are not troubled by the   
   devil's cunning attacks. They have fall asleep so deep so they are   
   not even conscious of the struggle that the Bible tells about.   
   They do not understand that the spiritual powers of evil are   
   working right into their own meetings!   
      
   They are so spiritual blinded and bound by the devil's fetters, so   
   they cannot think it is possible to live as a Christian without to be   
   a member in any church or denomination. Though God's word says,   
   you shall have no other gods besides me, they do not believe that we   
   can were Christians if we have no idolatry besides the Lord. The   
   Body of Christ is no church or any organisation, but it is a living   
   organism constituted of all those who are baptized by the same   
   Spirit.   
      
      
      
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