Why No Revival

We all understand there will be a worldwide revival in the

Tribulation. Millions of Gentiles (Rev. 7:9) will believe the

message of "the Kingdom" as preached by Moses, Elijah, and the 144,000

Jewish evangelists, of whom Paul and Jeremiah are types. The question

is, what about now, BEFORE the Rapture? John R. Rice used to say,

"We can have revival NOW!" But he never saw a nationwide revival a day

in his life. Neither did Billy Graham, Jack Van Impe, Hyman Appleman,

Jesse Hendley, or E.J. Daniels. They saw "souls saved," and local

churches were awakened sometimes, and once or twice (by having "union

campaigns") they were able to get a large number of "first time

decisions" and cause a stir in a small area. Nationwide revival since

the days of Billy Sunday has been a joke. The nearest thing to it was

Falwell's "Moral Majority" that actually got into a few high places

and "rattled the cages" for a while, but only for a while. Falwell

put a pressure on Congress that has survived his "Majority." Ethics

and morals became such an issue after 1984 that saddles were emptied

right and left anytime anyone could prove anything "immoral" on

anyone, but those days are over. Homosexual fornicators are

legitimate "elected representatives" of the people, as also are

cocaine "crack heads."

Bob Jones Sr.'s analysis of the revival situation is still mimicked by

his grandson. Senior's position was that all of the trouble was due

to the Liberals and Modernists, and Fundamental evangelists

cooperating with them. Senior's thesis was "All Christians can get

together on a few basic fundamentals so that no evangelist has to fool

with Liberals and Modernists. Just get the people together who agree

on the basics, and God will honor it just like He did the meetings of

Sunday, Torrey, Moody, and Finney. You don't need the Neo-

Evangelicals or Liberals." From that day to this, Billy Graham has

been a target of the Fundamentalists, and Bob Jones and company are

still trying to destroy anyone who disagrees with them on Senior's

position. What Jones Sr. wanted to do--that he could not do, and

Rice could not do--was REPLACE BILLY SUNDAY AS A NATIONWIDE

REVIVALIST.

God stopped with Billy Sunday. He didn't plan a "replacement." When

America voted to get drunk and stay drunk (1933), GOD DUMPED AMERICA

AS A NATION. She has not had one nationwide movement of the Holy

Spirit since then and is not going to have one even if she stops

abortion (which she won't), jails the Sodomites (which she won't), and

stops the drug traffic (which she won't).

If you want to know why BJU is powerless to do anything now but make

overtures to the Baptist churches in order to get students, it is

because the basic philosophy is WRONG, at least in regards to the work

of the Holy Spirit in revivals. If you want to know why an outfit

like PCS can turn out literally hundreds of graduates yearly without

effecting ANYTHING nationally or internationally, it is because of the

POSITION they have taken against the Holy Spirit, the Author of real

"revival." Their position is that the hope of America lies in

disciplined, interdenominational education and culture, "using" a Book

they do not believe, and using the "MAIN THINGS" from that Book to get

a group of Christians together to get their money and support.

That is the philosophy of modern "Christian education" ($$$).

It overlooks five things that have taken place since 1933 that Bob

Jones Sr., Bobby III, and John R. Rice failed to recognize and deal

with.

1. The crowds that Moody, Torrey, Finney, and Sunday preached to

believed the AV from cover to cover, including the cover, and the

UNSAVED people who heard them believed the Book was the word of God,

just like the Christians did. This explains why Torrey never equalled

Moody's work; Torrey would occasionally try to impress people with his

scholarship by giving them an "alternate reading."

2. The so-called "fundamentals" of BJU are NOT (and have not been)

the fundamentals of the independent Baptists, and BJU and PCS are now

dependent upon those local churches for support, exactly as The Sword

of the Lord is. The Southern and Northern Baptists fell apart; the

old line "militant" Presbyterians (Machen, Warfield, Wilson, et al.)

collapsed; the Methodists and Charismatics folded up; and all BJU can

now draw from for a LARGE enrollment is the independent Baptists: BOB

JONES SR. had nothing to do with the setting up of these works. The

men behind them were J. Frank Norris and Beauchamp Vick, who were

pastors, not evangelists, and they considered baptism by immersion,

Premillennialism, and eternal security as "fundamental" as the

Resurrection or the Ascension. Norris wouldn't "fit" with the student

body at BJU from 1929 to 1969. He would now. He has to. They need

his young people. Ditto PCS.

3. The intrusion of television into the minds and thinking of the

Body of Christ as a replacement for the Holy Bible. "The light of the

body is the eye." To pretend (as John R. did) that conditions in 1970

were still the same because sinners' problems, desires, troubles,

etc., were the same as in 1930 was to live in a dream world. Radio

could never do one half the damage that TV did; radio was for the

"ear," and it was bad enough. TV completed the replacement of the

Bible in the home; a replacement that began with newspapers and

magazines back in the Depression. The comic books came from this era.

4. The end of doctrinal preaching in local pulpits in regard to

heaven and hell. Before 1933 a sinner under conviction had to travel

"a ways" to get a soothing, "coping and sharing and caring" message

that would emphasize his own ability to handle problems. The Baptists

preached hell, the Methodists preached hell, the Presbyterians

preached hell, and the Lutherans preached hell. So did the Churches

of God and the Assemblies of God and the Pentecostals. True, the

organized, denominational headquarters of the Presbyterians and

Methodists (and later Baptists) were taking the NCCC and the FCCC road

to Socialism, but the land was filled with local churches where the

afterlife (heaven and hell) were REAL. Heaven and hell are no longer

real to John MacArthur, Chuck Swindoll, J. Vernon McGee, Oral

Roberts, Rex Humbard, or even Falwell. The leaders in the "spotlight"

today don't often remind their listeners or viewers that many of them

are damned. Occasionally they will mention the matter--say once every

nine months, but the preaching of Cyclone Baxter McClendon, Sam Jones,

William Munsey, and Billy Sunday is gone. ETERNITY is so unreal to

Americans that only 48% of them believe in ANY AFTERLIFE AT ALL, and

that includes Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, and Seventh-day

Adventists. Christians in America are secularized. The TV did it for

them.

5. Finally, in their zeal to get control over the Body of Christ and

the local churches, the Christian educators (the intellectuals and

intelligentsia) decided that THEY should be the Holy Spirit and "guide

and lead" everyone into "all the truth" (for "you shall know the

truth, and the truth shall make you free," etc.). They conspired to

remove THE BOOK that had brought revival to America (Wesley,

Whitefield, Tennant, Edward, Cartwright, Finney, Sheldon Jackson, Sam

Jones, Morrison, Asbury, Moody, et al.) by doing what a Catholic does

when he wishes to get rid of the authority of Jesus Christ.

Catholics simply ELEVATE a competing authority (MARY, for example) to

such a place of honor that Christ's authority is nullified. With Mary

sharing Christ's attributes (as an NASV "shares" the authority of the

AV, or an NIV shares its authority), or TRADITION equal with the Book

(as the ASV or NKJV are equal to THE BOOK), final authority is

transferred, either from Christ to a church, or from a Book to a

SCHOOL.

This transfer is brought about by PROFESSION. You profess to believe

what you do not believe and then go to work destroying those who

believe what you only profess to believe.

And you think THAT will bring about a "nationwide revival"?

Anyone stupid enough to think that Communism, Catholicism, abortion,

Neo-Evangelicalism, lack of separation, or divisive "hobby horses" are

the main cause of powerless Christianity in America today is living in

the dream world that Bob Jones Sr. and John R. Rice lived in in the

1950's and 1960's.

There will be no revival in America until the apostates in charge of

training Christian young people go back to the Book and replant it in

their hearts and minds AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE. And if they are so

worldly and carnal (as they certainly are at BBC, PCS, BJU, etc.) that

they cannot give up their own egotistical, lordly, domineering, self-

opinionated, humanistic authority to make way for THE BOOK, you can

pray till hell freezes over, and you will never see any kind of a

nationwide revival.

You can still get people saved. I had over a hundred and fifty

professions of faith (first time conversions with about ninety of them

adults) last year, and have probably averaged two hundred conversions

a year for the last forty years. You can still see local

congregations "revived." But a mammoth, bussed-in, record-breaking

attendance is not NATIONAL REVIVAL even if you have one in the

nation's "ten largest churches." The liquor stores stay open; fourteen

billion dollars a year goes right there. The drug traffic continues

and will increase. No one is going to stop abortions now or later.

The crime rate, which tripled between 1964 and 1974 and doubled

between 1974 and 1984, will triple before 1995. Taxes will increase,

your guns will be confiscated. You will not have a national revival.

You can't, for the men in charge of training each generation of

Christians for "fulltime" service remove their authority from them the

moment they get them and replace it with the OPINIONS and PREFERENCES

of people who have no higher authority than pragmatic humanism. They

are then sent out into churches where the Sunday School literature has

been attacking the BOOK anywhere from twenty to fifty years. The

people you preach to do not believe THE BOOK; not even the saved ones

you preach to. Why should they? Bob Jones III doesn't; Curtis Hutson

doesn't; James Combs doesn't; Donald Waite doesn't; Doug Kutilek and

Jerry Falwell don't; Al Jennings and Ronald Walker don't; Dell,

Sherman, Dollar, and Henderson don't; Neal, Custer, Panosian, and

Afman don't; and neither do Farstad, Hodges, Scumner, Hymers, Hindson,

Hobson, Horton, or Huckleberry Hound. So why should you?

How do you make heaven and hell real to people who don't believe in

the Book you are preaching from?

You don't. They are secularized. The afterlife is nonexistent.

What fool would believe your preaching if he knew you didn't believe

what you were preaching, but were just using a Book because someone

else believed it?

Revival from your kind?

Don't get the folks in Glory laughing; they are busy shouting.

There will be no national revival in America. Educators will not make

the sacrifice: they will not bear the cross of ridicule and REAL

"separation." They will Pharisee their way through the separation and

bluff their way through the ridicule by leaning on "historical

positions." They will be the final authority themselves, and the Holy

Spirit will go "out the window." So said; so done.

"God is not mocked." These fakey little spiritual pretenders think

they are going to do it and get away with it because their enrollments

and incomes hold up as the age falls apart. That is why it holds up.

Their clientele are keeping abreast of their apostate pace. These

fakey little fakirs think they are "standing" when they are sunk in

the mud, hub cap high to a ferris wheel, and in their deluded madness

they are thrashing around and condemning everyone on earth who doesn't

agree with them as a compromiser, or a "trouble maker," or a church

splitter, or a "divisive" schismatic, or a heretic, or a "hobby horse

rider," and while they do this they think God doesn't know what they

are doing or WHY they are doing it. The Book they stole from the Body

of Christ judged "the thoughts and intents" of their hearts (Heb.

4:12-13). The problem wasn't the Bible believing people who knew a

thief when they saw one. The problem wasn't the Bible believing

people who stuck to the Book and refused to be moved from it by the

conjectures and opinions of those WHO HAD LOST THEIR FAITH IN IT. No,

the problem wasn't there. The problem was simply conceited asses who

wanted to get rid of a Book they were jealous of because of its power

and authority in the lives of the people they were trying to CONTPOL.

Such people were uncontrollable as long as their authority could be

carried in their pocket and consulted a hundred times a day. The

trick was to take this authority and reinvest it on a CAMPUS where the

faculty and staff (who did not believe the Book) could play substitute

for the Holy Spirit and get rid of any part of the Book that they

didn't like.

This is what has been going on since 1933. It will continue to the

Rapture.

God is perfectly aware of the entire operation from start to finish,

all those involved in it, all of those promoting and tolerating and

supporting it, and all of the motives and intents of those who profess

to be "godly" and "separated" while making a living as PROFESSIONAL

LIARS.

Revival in our time? "Revival now"?

You might as well ask God to bless Rock Hudson or Dolly Parton.

Don't waste your breath asking God to honor thieves and Pharisees.

They are in the money making business, and "revival" coming from their

mouths sounds to God like Judas and Gehazi talking about soul winning

and cross bearing.


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