Allan Svensson
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 Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject: As in the days of Lot |
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As in the days of Lot
"Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank,
they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day
that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven,
and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son
of man is revealed." Luke 17:28-30.
Consider, if Lot of his own accord had moved from Sodom any months
earlier, then he could have taken it easier, and he could have had both
his wife and his possessions left. But Lot was not interested to leave
Sodom. God sent two angels to rescue him, and they must persuade him
to leave Sodom. And when he yet lingered, they took him at his hand
and led him out of the city. One of the angels said to him: "Flee for
your life sake and do not see you backwards..." Genesis 19:15-17.
On the same way it will now happen before Jesus' arrival. The Lord has
a long time ago exhorted his people to come out from the great Babylon,
the great harlot. Rev. 18:4-6. Nevertheless, just like as Lot, the people
are not interested to leave Babylon, which is worse than Sodom. They
linger left in Babylon although God's judgement over Babylon is already
decided of God. But to the end they must flee for their life from there.
Why? Yeah, for otherwise God will judge them as partakers in the big
sins of the harlot, and they get their part in her plagues.
Why shall they be obstinate with to linger in Babylon? God's revival
message in Rev. 18:4-6 has all the time been in the Bible, and this ought to
have been preached. But those who would be shepherds and teachers in
the Assembly of God, and proclaim the truths of the Bible, they are
ensnared in false doctrines. They believe that free-churches are assemblies
of God. They have another doctrine of the assembly that does not occur
in the Bible. Instead of having solicitude for the Assembly of God, they
have had solicitude about their free-churches, as if these would be God's
assemblies. Being a member in a denomination or a church is equally
unbiblical as the infant baptism.
If anyone comes to believe in Jesus and becomes baptized, the preachers
and the pastors take it obviously that he shall become a member in their
own church, their own denomination. The new member gets a membership
card, but they never tell for him in what he has become a member.
What concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth
with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
2 Cor. 6:14-18.
It is strangely that God's people cannot receive more than one "new"
biblical truth. Since Martin Luther on the 16th century began to proclaim
the justification by faith, it has gone tremendously dully for the
Christians
to become free from the Catholicism. Martin Luther himself took only one
step in faith. After that it was sudden halt. He did not want to learn any
more. He did not want to believe on what the Bible teaches about the
baptism, and he saw with contempt on them that believed on the truth of
baptism and were baptized. Instead of going moreover in the holy Scripture,
he began to reform the church. The Lutheran church is very catholic.
On the 19th century it was a mighty revival when they preached the
truth about the baptism. Nevertheless, they became entirely busy of
the truth of baptism, so they neglected to go moreover in the holy
Scripture. They also ought to study what the Bible teaches about the
baptism in the Holy Spirit, and about the Assembly of God. But in
instead they began to constitute Baptist assemblies and a Baptist
denomination.
When the Pentecostal Revival came, in beginning of the 20th century,
then they became entirely busy with to proclaim the truth about the
baptism in the Holy Spirit, and about the speaking in tongues. They
thought that now they had received the entire gospel of God. And still
today many Pentecostal preachers mean that they are completely
preaching God's word. But they do not. They understand the truth
about the baptism in the Holy Spirit only partly. They have not yet
understood 1 Cor. 12:12-13 that in the Assembly of God we are all
baptized in the Holy Spirit, but not all are speaking in tongues. Verse 30.
Revival is a spiritual awakening, but the awakening does not need be
called anything. The revival does not need to have a name. But when
God sends a revival, people are so hurrying to make a name on the work
of God. It is easier to talk about the revival if it has a name. And it is
just that they do. Instead of considering the real meaning with the
revival, and what that is God's intention with the revival, they are busy
of speaking about the revival. They are talking about gorgeous meetings
with song and music, but forget the most important.
We can compare such people with anyone that is near to drown. God
has thrown to him a life jacket, but instead of trying rescues his life,
he begins to play with the life jacket until he loses it, and drowns.
In the 1960s when I was in a Pentecostal church, the pastor and the
older members spoke with some opportunities about how delightful it
was when the Pentecostal Revival came. Then the meetings were so
powerful, and many were saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit.
But they had not understood what that was God's real intention with
the revival, the exodus of God's people from the great Babylon!
They had experienced the revival as a transport of joy. Wow, wow,
wow, what delightful it was when the Pentecostal Revival came! Why
was it not so delightfully now as formerly? They could not explain it.
But the name Pentecostal Revival they had left. Instead of being
aroused and get more insight in God's word, they were busy with
speaking about the Pentecost Revival as if it still were going on. They
did not realize, or wanted not to acknowledge, that the Pentecostal
Revival a long time ago had been stagnant. Yet, in spite of this, in
their prayer meetings they were praying God about revival.
It must be any reason to the stagnation of the revival. Certainly, God
did not "switch off the current" without any reason. And to starting a
new revival we first must elucidate what that caused that the previous
revival stayed off. As long as the obstacle for the revival is left, it is
no meaning to pray God for a new revival.
The reason that the Pentecostal Revival stayed off, was as at earlier
revivals, they stopped struggling for the truths of the Bible. When
they had received the baptism with the Holy Spirit, with speaking in
tongues as a "sign", then they did not want to have any more. They
meant that now we have got everything that we can get. But they
had learned only a little part of the truth about the baptism in the Holy
Spirit. If the Pentecostal preachers would begin to preach the entire
truth about the baptism in the Holy Spirit, then they would be forced
to disclose the Pentecostal movement and the Pentecostal churches as
religious black-buildings. The truth about the baptism in the Holy
Spirit is namely entirely incompatible with the doctrine of assembly
that they have in Pentecostal movement, and other free-churches.
The Pentecostal movement is a part of the great Babylon, which God
commands his people to leave.
To get a new revival, the Christians must begin to struggle anew for
the truths of the Bible. You must begin to study what the Bible teaches
about the Assembly of God, and about the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
And the knowledge you then receive you must put into practice. Faith
without deeds is dead. James 2:26. When God's people begin to act
in faith, and practise what the Bible teaches about the Assembly of God,
then we experience what the Bible says in Rev. 18:4-6. The exodus of
God's people from the great Babylon!
Allan Svensson
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