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It could be easy to look around us and be discouraged with the many bad things we see. Recent gains by the homosexual agenda in Colorado, California, and New York; and also, in California a court ruled that homeschool parents would have to either be certified by the state or stop teaching their children at home. Chaplains in our armed services have been told they will have to stop praying in Jesus’ Name. And I could go on and on. The day does indeed seem dark.
So what are we to do? Should we accept this darkness as the fulfillment of prophecy that “in the last days perilous times shall come”, and interpret that to mean there’s nothing we can do to protect the liberty of our children to hear the Gospel of the Kingdom of Christ?
While the day is dark, let’s remember that Jesus first came to this earth when it was darker than it had ever been. Rome ruled the world with ‘iron-fisted’ government. There had been no ‘prophet voice’ to speak the Word of God in this earth for 400 years. But in the mind of God, this was the “fullness of time” (Galatians 4:4). And since light does dispel darkness, wherever Jesus went the Light brought hope to the hopeless, and deliverance to the captives.
Could it be that God will do it again? Could it be that the multitudes, which the Bible describes as turning to the Lord in the last days, are made up partly of those in this nation who are now in deep darkness? Could it be that the very desperation which their way of living is producing is the thing which is likewise causing them to search for the Christ? This has happened before in history—even in the history of America.
In the 1730s God came to America and England in such intensity that both nations were spared from destruction. Even such a secular historian as Lecky admits that England was spared by this visitation from God. Ben Franklin reported on this intense move of God in his autobiography, where he stated:
“It was wonderful to see the change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants. From being thoughtless or indifferent about religion, it seemed as if all the world were growing religious, so that one could not walk thro’ the town in an evening without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street.”
(Franklin, Benjamin. 1739. Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (New York: Books, Inc., 1791), p. 146. | John Eidsmoe, Christianity and The Constitution – The Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1987), p. 204.)
Can there be a wide-sweeping revival which changes our culture from one which believes man-centered ideas about family, church, education, business, and government, to a culture which seeks to implement Biblical ideas again? Is “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever”, or has He lost the will and ability to change nations? Let’s allow Him to speak for Himself. His Word, the Bible, says,
“Call unto me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you know not.” (Jeremiah 33:3)
He states in 2 Chronicles 7:14 what Charles Finney declared was a law in the spirit realm. And remember, Charles Finney was an attorney in the 1830s who, after his conversion, became the greatest preacher on revival which America has ever produced. The Bible declares there:
“If my people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land!”
It sounds to me like God already stated His mind on the issue of revival in our nation. Could He be waiting on us who are His people—to meet His conditions?
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you—and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you. I’m Don Pinson; this has been Think About It.