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The English word “revival” means awakening, restoration, and recovery, all of which the Book of Revelations teaches the Body of Christ.
The word, “revival” is being talked about in faith communities worldwide, and currently, in some churches, membership is outgrowing pre-planned remodeling efforts. However, even though souls are being saved and hearts are being healed and renewed; the word “revival” has become a dirty word amongst some faith-based communities. One recurring negative position opposing church revival is that “it never lasts”.
Perhaps, this life-changing event is not the problem. The problem may lie with the Body of Christ’s perception of invisible warfare, diabolical enemies of God that are not meant to be seen by their victims. Moreover, the enemy is clothed in self-righteousness so as to be concealed from view of the alarm from the Lamb of God. The call by the Lamb of Adonai is for strengthening, regeneration, and renewal of one’s self by returning to God.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]But, why should anybody need to repent when Grace is taught to be an insurance policy against Judgment? Yeshua is not talking to a group who has rejected the Gospel message. The Messiah is talking to the Church.
Revelation 2:5
(Complete Word Study Bible Dictionary)
5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
The reason the Lamb of God is depicted with seven horns and seven eyes is that horns represent sufficient authority and the eyes symbolize sufficient awareness.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”11675″ title=”The Lamb of God as though He was slain-Revelation 5:6″][vc_column_text]Our Messiah is the incomparable Preeminent King and the All-Mighty Omniscient Lamb! His innocence made Him conqueror of the Kingdom of darkness and our obedience to the Lamb of God makes us victorious Overcomers! And the Holy Spirit is the advocate of Adonai, who guide the child of God into the path of righteousness. At the same time, some have learned to teach the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which says “Sexual Promiscuity” is covered under Grace. Yes, if a child of God sins, and truly repents, then the function of the Advocate is not to cover ungodliness but is to restore the believer in right standings with God.
(Easton Bible Dictionary)
Nicolaitanes
The church at Ephesus (Rev 2:6 is commended for hating the “deeds” of the Nicolaitanes, and the church of Pergamos is blamed for having them who hold their “doctrines” (15). They were seemingly a class of professing Christians, who sought to introduce into the church a false freedom or licentiousness, thus abusing Paul’s doctrine of grace (comp. 2 Pet 2:15, 16, 19), and were probably identical with those who held the doctrine of Baalam (q.v.), Rev 2:14.
2 Peter 3:18
(Complete Word Study Bible Dictionary)
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and forever. Amen.
(Complete Word Study Bible Dictionary)
3875. παράκλητος paráklētos; gen. paraklḗtou, masc. noun from parakaléō (G3870), to comfort, encourage or exhort. It is properly a verbal adj. referring to aid of any kind.
(Complete Word Study Bible Dictionary)
παράκλητος paráklētos; The Holy Spirit is called a Paraclete because He undertakes Christ’s office in the world while Christ is not in the world as the God-Man in bodily form. In addition, the Holy Spirit is also called the Paraclete because He acts as Christ’s substitute on earth. When Christ in John 14:16 designates Himself as a Paraclete, the same as the Holy Spirit, the word must not be understood as applying to Christ in the same sense as in 1 John 2:1 where it refers to our substitutionary Advocate who pleads our cause with the Father. It should rather be taken as He who pleads God’s cause with us (see John 14:7-9). The words parakaléō (G3870) and paráklēsis (G3874), the act or process of comforting or advocating, do not occur at all in the writings of John.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Well-meaning preachers sometimes aid the enemy when the Grace of Adonai becomes shrouded by the believer’s perceived helplessness (the enemy’s secret weapon) and inadvertently ignore our own mighty spiritual ammunition – the exceedingly great Name of Jesus, His Precious Blood, God’s Holy Spirit working through us, the Word of God, and warring angels who are constantly fighting the adversary of our souls.
All the heavenly hosts might be saying, “If you can hear what I AM is saying, try to understand, demon spirits are plotting your destruction, but Yeshua, Christ our King will never give up on you!”
Revelation 5:1
(New Living Translation (NLT) Study Bible Notes)
5:1-14: John introduces the Lamb, Jesus Christ, the central figure of Revelation and God’s chosen agent for accomplishing his purposes.
5:1: The scroll (or book; also in 5:2-5, 7-9), like a dramatic script, details God’s plan for the world (Ps 139:16). • The right hand represents God’s gracious authority and power (see 1:17, 20). • The writing on the inside and the outside means that God’s plans for history are full and complete. • sealed with seve
n seals: God has put his purposes for history in an impermeable safe (Isa 29:11-12; Dan 8:26).
His purposes will be completed only when the seals are broken (see 5:4).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The human mind is the most complex set of systems within the body and possesses the capacity of thought and decision making. However, the power of thinking also gives humans capabilities of making assessments. Individuals make opinions based on what they understand about what they believe as “one’s Faith”. For this reason, our Messiah came to John, on the island of Patmos, with several messages for the leaders of Asia Minor Churches. In Greek, the word “ἄγγελος” ággelos; usually a human leader responsible for bringing the church under the lordship of Jesus Christ, but if the “aggelos” or angel (bishop, pastor) misunderstands Christ’s urgent alert to the churches, they might fall into a state of apostasy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Fallen Angels introducing false Doctrine” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:20|text_align:center|color:%23822a14″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”11680″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][vc_column_text]The problem with human leadership is that Satan has been successful in the past of seducing people away from Adonai for centuries.
The spiritual tactics from the devil were to play on the human psyche in the area of the brain where our “pleasure” and “addictions” lie.
The only counter-move against Satan’s attempt of controlling mental triggers in one’s brain is for the person to repent of ungodly hidden desires of the heart, then give those dark places of secrecy to Yeshua, our Lord. One must find his or her way back to the love of the Lamb of God more than the pleasures of Satan’s traps. Only our love for our Redeemer will successfully motivate us to resist the devil with our whole heart, soul, and body.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Revelation 17:1-7
(Complete Word Study Bible Dictionary)
The Great Mystery
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”11682″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Holy Spirit is capable of rewiring one’s psyche, which then causes our desperate pursuit back to God. He alone is the titleholder in Spiritual Warfare.
The solution to spiritual backsliding was when Yeshua the Jewish Messiah told John to deliver the message concerning those who fell away from God to return to their “First Love,” Jesus of Nazareth. If the Lord would ever remove one’s candlestick, that person would have no chance against the beast in Revelation.
Revelation 2:10
(MSG)
10 “Fear nothing in the things you’re about to suffer—but stay on guard! Fear nothing! The Devil is about to throw you in jail for a time of testing—ten days. It won’t last forever.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How Repentance looked in the Old Testament
1 Kings 8:48-51
(NLT Study Bible Text,)
48 If they turn to you with their whole heart and soul in the land of their enemies and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors—toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name—49 then hear their prayers and their petition from heaven where you live, and uphold their cause. 50 Forgive your people who have sinned against you. Forgive all the offenses they have committed against you. Make their captors merciful to them, 51 for they are your people—your special possession—whom you brought out of the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt.
How Repentance looked in the New Testament
(EBD)
Repentance
There are three Greek words used in the New Testament to denote repentance.
(1.) The verb _metamelomai_ is used of a change of mind, such as to produce regret or even remorse on account of sin, but not necessarily a change of heart. This word is used with reference to the repentance of Judas (Matt 27:3.
(2.) Metanoeo, meaning to change one’s mind and purpose, as the result of after knowledge. This verb, with (3) the cognate noun _metanoia_, is used of true repentance, a change of mind and purpose and life, to which remission of sin is promised.
Revelation 1:1-3
(New Living Translation Study Bible)
Prologue
1 This is a revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants the events that must soon take place. He sent an angel to present this revelation to his servant John, 2 who faithfully reported everything he saw. This is his report of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
3 God blesses the one who reads the words of this prophecy to the church, and he blesses all who listen to its message and obey what it says, for the time is near.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Bible’s Definition of Grace; χάρις cháris” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:17|text_align:left|color:%23822a14″][vc_column_text](Complete Word Study Bible Dictionary)
5485. χάρις cháris; gen. cháritos, fem. noun from chaírō (G5463), to rejoice. God’s grace affects man’s sinfulness and not only forgives the repentant sinner but brings joy and thankfulness to him. It changes the individual to a new creature without destroying his individuality (2 Cor. 5:17; Eph. 2:8, 9).
(I) Cháris, when received by faith, transforms man and causes him to love and to seek after the righteousness of God. Cháris is initially regeneration, the work of the Holy Spirit in which spiritual life is given to man and by which his nature is brought under the dominion of righteousness. The maintenance of this condition requires an unbroken and immense supply of grace. Grace remains constant in and basic to, a believer’s fight without against the devil and his struggle within against sin. Renewal is stimulated and impelled by God’s illuminating and strengthening of the soul and will continue and increase so long as the soul perseveres. God’s grace ensures that those who have been truly regenerated will persevere until the end of life. This entire work is called sanctification, a work of God “whereby we are renewed in the whole man and are enabled more and more to die daily unto sin and to live unto righteousness” as is stated by the Westminster Shorter Catechism (Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 4:16; Eph. 4:23; Col. 3:10).
(II) Grace may also refer to the external form or manner, particularly of persons meaning gracefulness, elegance. In the NT only of words or discourses as gratefulness, agreeableness, acceptableness (Luke 4:22, “gracious words”; Eph. 4:29, “that it may minister grace unto the hearers” meaning what is acceptable; Col. 4:6; Sept.: Ps. 45:2).
(A) Generally (Luke 2:40, 52; Sept.: Ex. 33:12; Acts 2:47, “having favor with all the people”; 4:33; 7:10; Sept.: Gen. 39:21). With heurískō (G2147), to find grace or favor, pará Theṓ (pará [G3844], before; Theṓ [G2316], God), before God (Luke 1:30); enṓpion toú Theoú (enṓpion [G1799], before, in the presence of; toú Theoú, the God), “before God” Acts 7:46; Heb. 4:16; followed by pará (G3844), with, Sept.: Gen. 6:9; 18:3; Esth. 2:15). With katatíthēmi ([G2698] followed by the dat.), to place down, deposit or grace with someone, meaning to lay down, or lay up favor with someone, gain favor (Acts 25:9). With the acc. pl. cháritas, to be in the good graces of the Jews (Acts 24:27). Metonymically as the object of favor, something acceptable (1 Pet. 2:19, 20, “this is well- pleasing to God” [a.t. {cf. Col. 3:20; 1 Tim. 2:3; 4:5}]).
(B) Of the grace, favor and goodwill of God and Christ as exercised toward men: where cháris is joined with eirḗnē (G1515), peace, éleos (G1656), mercy, and the like in salutations, including the idea of every kind of favor, blessing, good, as proceeding from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:3; 2 Cor. 1:2; Gal. 1:3). Also in the introduction to most of the epistles (Eph. 1:2; Phil. 1:2; Col. 1:2; 1 Thess. 1:1; 2 Thess. 1:2; 1 Tim. 1:2; 2 Tim. 1:2; Titus 1:4; Phile. 1:3; 1 Pet. 1:2; 2 Pet. 1:2; 2 John 1:3; Rev. 1:4).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]