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Message from the Monthly Flyer from November 2007
On the Threshold of Revival |
Main focus:
God’s plans contain certain times in which He works and accomplishes
His work. All the prophecies of God will be fulfilled!
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God speaks through the prophet Joel, saying that He will
pour out His Spirit upon the whole earth, upon all people. This would take
place at a particular time as determined by Him. In Acts 1:8, Jesus speaks
to His disciples: Go to Jerusalem, there you will receive the power of the
Holy Spirit.
I do not believe that the disciples understood the great significance of
this baptism of the Spirit.
It was the people in Jerusalem who cried out, “Crucify him!”
They were the ones who on that day should have chosen in favour of Christ,
but instead, they fought against him; and now as they went to Jerusalem,
it had been over a month since they had buried Jesus and there were many
rumours about Him going around. The majority of the people thought
that the chapter about Jesus had ended and they would not hear the words
of Jesus anymore. However, this was soon to change, for Jesus had made a
promise and He has a plan for Jerusalem; this being, to destroy the works
of evil and to set even more people free. Jesus also has a plan
for this nation, for this continent. God has not forgotten Europe! Neither
has He forgotten His promises, for they are: YES and AMEN! This means: So
it will be, exactly as He has predetermined it. Amos 3:7 Surely
the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants
the prophets. The disciples of Jesus knew that they were on
the threshold, standing at the doorway of the greatest revival which Jerusalem
would ever experience – the outpouring of the Holy Spirit over this
city, and this is also precisely what took place. Throughout the centuries,
the full gospel of Jesus was carried out into the whole world and people
repented and washed their sins away in the water baptism in Jesus’
name and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
For centuries and up until the present day, the gospel has been so contaminated
with human doctrines and laws that almost no-one is able to clearly hear
the whole truth from it anymore. However, God is not yet finished with the
rulers of this world and His Church.
1. God promised us many years ago through different prophecies, the things
which He is going to do in Europe, and also especially in Germany.
2. Germany will experience a great outpouring of His Spirit. In the year
1978, during a church gathering in Wiesbaden, “I will pour my
Spirit out over this nation, rivers and rivers, upon the streets, the market
places, everywhere, and then I will come back!”
Several years later, in August 1981, we had a conference in Switzerland
in Interlaken and God spoke again and added some more to it, “I will
pour out my Spirit in the whole of Europe and I will turn over every stone.”
God will move everything again, both big and small stones.
He will move them, so that they must make a decision and will be able to
do so. They will understand what it is all about.
Now, 30 years later, we have not yet seen this promise go into fulfillment.
Instead of a great revival, we experience deep valleys, great spiritual
battles, dark clouds, pain, sorrow and many other disappointments.
Why is that? The reason is that we are standing on the
threshold of revival. Why? Because like the disciples of
Jesus, we are now standing in front of the doorway of revival. Satan and
his rulers are fighting like crazy in order to hinder this, however, they
will never be able to hinder the work of God. They were unable to prevent
the victory at the cross at that time and they will not be able to stop
the promises of God in the time determined by God. After all, they are not
so clever as Jesus the Lord! rw