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(Editor´s note: This concludes an article calling for heartfelt repentance from religion and true revival in the Lord´s churches!)
Turning back to His Word in all repentance and true revival, we will find God´s way in all things is superior to our own! This includes His order for the family in the home and in the churches. If we will properly restore men, their families and our community, we must return as one to the plainly laid out pattern and instruction of the Bible on male and female roles. The present state of male and female roles is confusion from the world and rebellion against the Lord´s ancient, fixed order! Men marry only women and are God´s elect shepherds in the home and in His churches (1 Timothy 3:1-7).
The local church is not supposed to be loved by or look and act like the world controlled by Satan (John 15:18-19; James 4:4-5). We must shake off the "shame" of being the peculiar people God has called us to be in Christ (1 Peter 2:9-10, 4:12-16) and stand for His fixed order together. We have been called out of this world that because of rebellion against God is dying by His decree (1 John 2:15-17). Alive from the dead, see and believe this truth again, O churches of the living God!
There is no other Savior or name given under Heaven by which men can be saved but Jesus Christ (Isaiah 45:20-22; Acts 4:12)! No politician or political party can help us at this juncture in time; no, not any ruler among men of this age! Our problem is a sin problem, says our God. Only He can forgive sins and desires to do so through the shed blood of Jesus if we will humble ourselves and repent from the darkness of religion that has blinded our eyes and dulled our hearts in unbelief in the churches. Then we will be able to be light to the sinners of our people as the Lord intends (Matthew 5:14-16; Ephesians 5:8-14).
True revival of hearts in the churches may mean religious impostors, rebels and apostates depart. This is good since they should have never been or allowed to stay among them from the outset (Romans 16:17-20; Titus 3:9-11; 1 John 2:19-23). Indeed, in true revival of hearts churches exercise discipline and deal swiftly with out breaking sin in accord with God´s will (Matthew 18:15-20; 1 Corinthians 5). Without self-discipline, God administers His own which is never pleasant and often fatal for the guilty (1 Corinthians 11:23-32; Hebrews 10:26-31; 1 Peter 4:17-19).
Some twenty-seven hundred years ago, the Lord mightily gave instruction to the prophet Isaiah. He told him not to walk in the way of his people who were caught up in political intrigue and the darkness of religion among other things and had lost sight of Him. Isaiah was to fear and seek refuge in the Lord even while He would cause those who did not trust in Him to stumble and fall (Isaiah 8:11-15).
Unless you do seek true revival of the heart, the Lord Himself will become your enemy and fight against you (Jeremiah 21:1-10). For He will vindicate the message of His faithful servants, judge and avenge their blood on the mother of manmade religion loosely based on Christianity and will you, her daughters escape (Revelation 17-18)? Listen, it is the voice of the Lord calling out to His people in the fast approaching days that lead up to the eternal downfall of the "Mother Of Harlots:"
"Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest
you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven,
and God has remembered her iniquities."
(Revelation 18:4-5)
As the future voice of the Lord Jesus, Isaiah prophetically commands, "Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. And I will wait on the Lord who hides His face from the house of Jacob; and I will hope in Him," (Isaiah 8:16-17, NKJV). To the righteous remnant that will for now remain in the houses of religious darkness, bind the Word of God tightly in your hearts praying for true revival of the heart to come to those you assemble with. Wait on and hope in the Lord´s mercy to bring it with the least sign of desire on their part.
Fulfill in the Lord Jesus this hour what Isaiah and his children did in their time; be signs and wonders of His supernatural power, life and light in the midst of the deadness of religious darkness (Isaiah 8:18; Hebrews 2:11-13). Do not listen to anyone who directs you to consult mediums, psychics or astrologers to discern the future in this troublesome present.
As Isaiah writes, "Should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them," (Isaiah 8:19-20). Perpetual darkness awaits those who walk in it now (Isaiah 8:21-22).
To the pastors and churches that in the fire of the Holy Spirit are doing the will of God in all obedience to His Word, we thank Him for you and rejoice to be on the same Kingdom team. Stand firm. May the Lord bestow upon you even more grace to do His will! Please be a partner with us as we press on to the finish!
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