"What Would Have to Happen for a Pretrib Revival in America and Why It Won't Happen" from Oct 12th 2016

Many people talk of a great revival about to hit the US that would eliminate the need for judgment. For such a revive our part of the operation would be huge more like a world war than anything else. Yes God could simply do it all but he always seems to have something he wants his people to do to participate.

It would take 3 phases to do the“Great Awakening”: Phase I we would have to go to the members of the conservative side of the church and get them to believe in the fundamentals of the faith as not all on the conservative or religious right side of the church believe in the fundamentals. We have many Laodiceans in our churches who while not rejecting Jesus are also not accepting him. we in Phase I would need to get them on fire for the church and believing the fundamentals. This is a bit of a task but of the 3 phases this is the easiest.

Phase II would begin afterward which is going to the Liberal/progressive side of the church (about 50% or so) and getting them to believe the fundamentals of the faith. This is much harder as many on that side of the church don’t believe the bible as accurate and some reject Jesus as God and only accept the father partially and some are functionally atheists while being in the church and calling themselves Christian. This side of the church allows those against God to claim fundamentalist are the ones in error. As such this Phase is MUCH harder to accomplish as you not only have to teach them the truth you have to refute their lies about scripture and God. As tough as this is since they often use scripture, though out of context and in twisted ways, to justify themselves they hold it in high esteem so using scripture can be an avenue to conversion.

Phase III is last and is taking on the unbelievers in positions of influence such as media, entertainment, SCHOOLS, and similar places. This will be the hardest Phase as they completely reject the Bible and don’t hold it in esteem, and reject God. They are also a diverse group not just atheists but people of all non Judeo-Christian religions and some compromised Jews. Since they are in positions of influence especially over young people this is a critical Phase. Stopping after phase II would only allow a brief revival since the next generation would be in the enemy's clutches. Phase III MUST be accomplished for a Great Awakening. Because they are so entrenched in the places this Phase will take a long time. The biggest obstacle is keeping our faith while entering those areas while trying to convert the heathen in them. That is a tough thing as many people today enter these places as Christians and after a few years of being made over they are no longer for Christ. Many people send the kids to government aka public schools and when the kids emerge after 13 years of indoctrination they find they are no longer Christian. The Biggest part of this Phase is not as much conversion as many in these fields have made their choice but displacement. We must try to convert where we can and by shear numbers displace the ones we can’t.

This is WAR and fighting it take a large force. Think of the war as similar to the trench warfare of WWI. for some of these thing we would need a D-day style offensive. A very large force focused on one area, winning that area, and then moving on while keeping the ground we just gained. We are talking door to door, street to street, neighborhood to neighborhood, city section by city section. We would need to deal with denominational differences at this point just the fundamental. But as you can see this is aMONUMENTALtask one I feel we are not capable of at this point. Decades ago maybe but not now. We simply don’t have the numbers to pull off such an offensive time and time again (every city and every state of the union). Remember too that we wouldn’t just be facing Christians who believe otherwise than us but satan would not be happy with us starting a offensive like this and would use his operatives at ALL levels of society to fight against us making this a VERY PROLONGEDwar that I fear too many Christians would not have either the stomach for or the ability to commit too. Some Christians while being true fundamental believers are weak and know they are weak and would not be able to withstand prolonged warfare.

There is however hope. I feel that a large dose of judgment from God on America would wake up the Laodiceans and some others (Thyatirans, Sardisians, and others) and they would start taking back whatever remains of this nation. They would be able to fight each phase. Much would depend on their size and the size of the portion of the remaining nation they are in. Mostly likely judgment will have broken the USA in todozens to hundreds of smaller nations(God will probably use Russia and nuclear weapons and most likely a EMP meaning no more media distractions so Phase 3 would become more localized. But it would mean no power at all so people will be relying on each other more giving a opportunity for discussion with them). With a smaller nation a smaller group of on fire fundamental Christians could take back that nation. With larger nations it would take a larger force. Also they would have to be in communication with God to know when the nation they are in is beyond hope so they can leave it BEFORE final judgment (remember how Lot’s wife looked back and was turned to a pillar of salt [killed] because basically she never left the city as her heart was still there. So too will Christians in these areas be killed by the judgment if they stay after God tells them to leave).

Think of ancient Israel. Even as a divided kingdom they are still all Israel the first big Judgment on the US would be like the Assyrian judgment as it would take away part of the nation, again most likely this judgment will involve nuclear weapons which of course would make parts of the nation uninhabitable, and the judgment on the new nations that refuse to come to God would be the Babylonian judgment completely destroying them (till the MK starts).

Electing Trump, who is MUCH better the Hillary, wouldn’t be enough. That is trying to solve a spiritual problem with a political solution. America has a Spiritual Disease are economic, and social and political problems are mere SYMPTOMS of the disease and treating the symptom doesn’t fight the disease. It would be like treating a headache caused by a brain tumor. Giving an aspirin to the patient may help the headache but does NOTHING for the tumor.

Only God’s judgment is strong enough to wake up the sleeping church and the undecided among them. Think the church as sleeping beauty and only God’s kiss of judgment is able to awaken her.

Paul