Which is Coming: Judgment or Revival?

During last month's prayer, we pondered how different prophets seem to prophecy at odds with each other. Some are declaring the judgment of God looms over the United States and that, as a result, we could expect to see the last great revival to follow.

Others prophecy we are entering the Church's finest hour and the last great revival is about to break forth. They conclude that following that great in-gathering, judgment will begin to fall.

So which is it? Which prophets have the mind of the Lord? Are we on the verge of a great revival or a great judgment? Yet as we prayed, we listened to what the Holy Spirit was praying through us and received real clarity to this dilemma. We sensed that the great revival AND the falling judgments would actually take place at the same time! We were reminded that it was PRECISELY AS darkness covers the land that the light of the Church grows the brighter! The power of God is most evident where there is the greatest upheaval. Churches are far more consecrated where there are more martyrs. In the midst of the fire is where the gold is refined! It is in the flame where the wood, hay and stubble are burned up.

Two chapters that really spoke to us in our prayer were Jeremiah 7 and Ezekiel 14.

We acknowledged the guilt of the Church before God and that He is just to do whatever He chooses. The Church in America is without excuse. We were consoled by Romans 9:27. Clearly life in the Church will one day soon change. That life will be terrible and glorious. May the hearts of God's people be prepared for the Refiner's Fire.