The cry of the Spirit to the church to AWAKEN. Isa.52:1 Awake, awake, doubled to make the call most emphatic. This is something that the church must heed. It is vital, it is an imperative. Pathetically, ALL ten virgins slumbered and slept. Mt. 25:5 How could it be that even the wise allowed the spirit of lethargy to overcome them? The church has grown and increased with numbers. There is a world wide organism, ordained of the Lord, that is declaring the Gospel. It is vital, it is effective, but it is asleep. There is a great change about to break upon the church of today. It is the time of the great shaking mentioned by Haggai. Hag. 2:7 We are shaken in America but Haggai said ALL NATIONS. Politically, the world has been shaken. Economically, the world certainly has been shaken. The future looks as if there will be even greater shakings. Certainly the Word of the Lord is showing greater world shaking events. If nine/eleven/0 one has created such alarm and fear, what will it be like when God begins to shake the world? Fearsome, awesome prospective.
Haggai prophesied at the time of the feast of Tabernacles. As I write this I am aware that this is the time of the feast of Tabernacles. Tabernacles is yet to be fulfilled in the church. It is the time of the outpouring of the Spirit in great cleansing and revival in the church, in the end of the age. As Passover and Pentecost were both accomplished at The Lords appointed time. So Tabernacles will come to the church at this season of the year. God has a time schedule. Haggai said; the GLORY of the LATTER HOUSE will be GREATER than the former. Hag. 2:9 Hallelujah! The Lord said it and it shall be. Not one jot nor tittle of His Word will not be fulfilled.
Zion, arise, put on your strength. It is time to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. It is God that girdeth me with strength and MAKETH MY WAY PERFECT. Ps. 18:32 The strength of the church is in the Lord. The power of the Lord is manifest by the Holy Spirit. What ever our experience has been in the past, it is time to enter into the perfection’s that are in the Lord. Having not just a measure of the Spirit but the completeness of the Spirit dwelling within. Be prepared without, put on the WHOLE armor of the Lord. Be prepared within, by being strengthened with might BY HIS SPIRIT, in the inner man. Eph. 3:16 There is more, there are deeper depths, there are higher heights, there is a FULNESS to which the church has not yet attained. It is time to arouse out of our lethargy and to realize that Christ wants to empower His church as never before. Where do we fit? Five were wise, five were foolish. The call of His WORD and SPIRIT can be heard in the world today. Arise shine church of His glory. The Lord is your strength.