Greetings to you all my brothers and sisters in Christ. I am as anxiously waiting for the revival as you are. Tension in my heart is rising day by day, because the promise of His coming is closer than ever, just around the corner. Like Malachi foretold, His coming will take place suddenly: MAL 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

I like to see Him doing miracles, signs, wonders and changing lives like He did in His days, and of the apostles days. Before that wonderful time, we have to face something ugly, the true state of our hearts:MAL 3:2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
MAL 3:3 And he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

The barrier today between the world and the Kingdom of God is so vague. Christ Jesus was so uncompromising in His message, for Him all was black or white, dead or life, against or with etc. This barrier will be built again before the end of this age: MAL 3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

The judgement of this world is coming closer also, but before that He will judge His own people as Peter wrote:1PET 4:17 For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God?

He will shake the basics of our faiths, and only the faith built on the Rock will stand. Those who have in practise based their faith on their idols will possibly loose their faith, because their house is built on sand. [The following section was edited by ccwin]There can't be two masters in the same house. MT 23:9 And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. JN 17:11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we [are]

Another important issue will be the 'Jesus business'. He will take as drastic action as He did in the temple of Jerusalem: MT 21:12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
MT 21:13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
The Good Shepherd will gather His sheep. We can call that revival, but the world does not love us for that but hates and persecutes. Those who will stand up firmly will get saved: MT 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

I wish my message won't discourage you but encourage, and make you see our future bright and everlasting in the glory. He truly is coming soon.

MARANATHA

Yours in Him

Juhani