The difference?
Then it was "THAT which was spoken of by the prophets"
NOW it is this which is spoken of by men.
It was when the HOLY SPIRIT came not only UPON them (as it was of old) but now shall be IN you was there such a move of God.that it turned the world upside fown and defeated thew roman empire.
The reformation with the LITTLE they had turned the world upside down and defeated the roman empire.
But today?
We are in a REVERSE reformation.
AND WHAT MEN CALL "this" is not "THAT"
Every TRUE HOLY revival has come about by a FEW praying and intercedeing for it.
NOT great gatherings stomping thier feet and screaming.
But a few who were willing to WEEP between the alter for the sins of the peopleand thier own.
and were burdened for the lost.
and were not willing to let go untill they besseachingly got one or die.
The PROMISE of God is that "another comforter shall come..." who will bring all things i have spoken into remeberence.
Yet to those who would rather beleive false teachers rather than God think the day has past and w ehave no need of Him.
Yet was there not a church in the book of revalations who in THIER OWN EYES "had need of nothing"
Yet in Gods was "wretched poor and BLIND"
and needing an eye salve that it might see clearly!
the things that are not what we hope are.
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(removed just a line or two for the MOST important part of your recomended verse from Rev. 3:16-17 that is missing!)
It states that these ones ARE [NAKED]. They have on their [own defiled garments] & were needing the [Rightous Garments of Christ' for their covering]! Yet, these ones are like the Master states, Poor, Blind and Naked! This Laodicean 'club' FEEL that they are ALL RIGHT and do not even know of their WRETCHED STATE BEFORE GOD!
Can God reach them??? It says that they ARE SPEWED OUT! They make the Master sick.
I suspect that the time is very near for the rest of the sin unto death. (see James 1:15) For Matt. 10:14-16 seems to be nearing the time at hand! No Law or Condenmation they say, yet read Matt. 10:23?
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