Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
A great world church is experiencing a "revival and reformation" in seeking a preparation of heart for the end of the world and the second coming of Jesus Christ. Sincere people are pressing their petitions upon God's "throne of grace" (Heb. 4:16). It is increasingly being recognized that the last-days' developments are taking place before our eyes.
For example, Revelation 13 is unraveling before us. The great two-horned beast of vss. 11-18 is progressing from its character of having "two horns like a lamb" to a new stance of "speaking as a dragon" (vs. 11). That new stance is national purpose. Issues of vast global import are to be settled by overwhelming military might. The nation's "voice" resounds throughout the globe. Luke 21:26 is here.
It is time for those who cherish "the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus" to awaken. It's impossible for a world church to pray for "revival and reformation" without Heaven responding in some way. The insistent inroads of worldliness must be counteracted by an unprecedented infilling of the Holy Spirit, a "standard [being] lifted up against the enemy" (cf. Isa. 59:19).
Prophets and apostles of past ages longed to see our age when (a) the New Covenant will at last come into its own (Jer. 31:31-34), when (b) Joel's prophecy of the Holy Spirit being "poured out" on youth will be realized (2:28-30), when (c) the "earth [will be] lightened with glory" in a final message of righteousness by faith, (d) a message will "lift up Christ and Him crucified" in clarity and power never before so realized (John 12:31, 32; 1 Cor. 2:1, 2; Rev. 18:1-4).
And side by side will come the Enemy's deceptively designed counterfeits of "revival and reformation" (Matt. 24:24; Rev. 13:13, 14). Let us walk softly before the Lord just now and not reject His "eyesalve" (3:18).
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: November 10, 2004.
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