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                    What is a revival?  How does a revival rise?   
      
   A revival appears when God's Spirit reveals a "forgotten" Biblical   
   truth so that it becomes preached anew. This does not happen by a   
   coincidence, but it is God's Spirit that reveals the truth as an answer   
   on prayer. It is namely so that God listens to prayers and we can   
   get the knowledge of the truth.   
      
   When anyone discovers a biblical truth and wants to practise it,   
   then he meets resistance, foremost from them that profess them   
   as Christians. Why? Because they are blinded of the confusing   
   spirits that ravage in the churches and denominations.   
      
   Is it any "new" truth in the Bible that has not become preached,   
   and that can bring forth a radical revival? It is at least three such   
   truths in the Bible that have not been preached. It is the truth about   
   the Assembly of God, and this truth also includes the truth of the   
   baptism in the Holy Spirit. This truth has only partly become   
   understood and preached.   
      
   The common comprehension they have in the free-churches is that   
   people can be members in the Assembly of God without being baptized   
   in the Holy Spirit, and that all who are baptized in the Holy Spirit can   
   speak in tongues. This is contrary to the Bible's word. In 1 Cor. 12:   
   12-13 we see that in the Assembly of God, the Body of Christ, we are   
   all baptized in the same Spirit. And in verse 30 we see that not all are   
   speaking in tongues.   
      
   In the Pentecostal Movement, and other free-churches, they are   
   preaching that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is only for them that   
   are born again. We must become born again before we can become   
   baptized in the Holy Spirit. Nevertheless, on the day of Pentecost   
   Peter promised unsaved people that they would get the Holy Spirit   
   as a gift when they did repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus   
   Christ. Consider, that Peter promised the Holy Spirit to people who   
   had not been born again! And when they received the Holy Spirit,   
   what happened then? Then they got the new life in Christ and were   
   born again!   
      
   The third biblical truth that they have not preached or understood is,   
   the exodus of God's people from the great Babylon. Since they have   
   not understood the truth of the Assembly of God, they have neither   
   understood that God's people must come out from the great Babylon   
   before Jesus comes.   
      
   A hundred years ago the truth of the baptism in the Holy Spirit   
   brought forth a powerful revival. Yet, they were preaching and   
   understood this truth only partially. When this truth becomes   
   understood and preached completely, then it must bring forth a   
   still more powerful revival. Then they must also preach the   
   Assembly of God's exodus from the great Babylon.   
      
   These three biblical truths hear closely together. We cannot   
   understand one of these truths, without understanding also the two   
   others. A deficient knowledge of the baptism in the Holy Spirit   
   gives a deficient and incorrect assembly view. The Body of Christ,   
   the Assembly of God, is only those who have received Jesus Christ   
   as their personal Saviour, independent of the Pentecostal Movement,   
   churches and denominations. They do not need membership in any   
   church or denomination.   
      
   Using the word "church" in the English Bible causes a big problem   
   for English-speaking people.   
      
   The Body of Christ is no church. In 1 Cor. 12:12-30 we can see that   
   the Body is a living organism, and not any organized movement. It is   
   an essential difference between a living organism and an organized   
   church system. Instead of "church" in the English Bible they ought to   
   use "assembly".   
      
      
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   (Article 86)   
      
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