The nations of the world sit on the
verge of economic collapse, and all it would
take is one large country to fail, and
like dominoes, all the rest would turn over
one upon the other, until a worldwide economic
crisis would pave the way for Antichrist to
appear.
I believe Antichrist will appear on the world
stage as a winsome personality who has the
means and the power to be an economic
savior the world will embrace him.
The spirit of Antichrist is already in the
land, friends, as society spins out of control
into moral chaos.
And where is the church in all of
this?
The church is strangely silent.
Her doors are shuttered because of an international
pandemic, but she lost her voice of authority
years ago through conformity and compromise.
The great need of the hour is a
man sent from God.
In 2 Kings 4.9 we have the
account of the Shunammite's woman encounter with the
prophet Elisha.
And she said unto her husband, Behold now,
I perceive that this is a holy man
of God, which passes us by continually.
Listen, friends, the greatest need in our land
today is a prophet.
A man sent from God, God's man, who
will stand in the gap between heaven and
earth, between mortal man and almighty God.
A holy man who is so wholly sold
out to God, so intoxicated with Christ, and
so consumed with eternity, that his very footprints
leave a smoky trail of the lingering fire
of God.
A man whose desperate life of prayer has
left fingerprints on the horns of the altar
in glory.
A man whose emboldened faith and Enoch-like
walk with God moves mountains of resistance, and
proves that the God of the Bible is
alive and interested in the most minute requests
of man.
God will always raise up an Elijah whose
prayers impact a sleeping nation.
The church in each generation has had individuals
who live upon their knees, whose prayers reach
heaven with a holy violence.
India had her pray and hide, China her
Hudson-Taylor, England her Puritans, Scotland her Covenanters,
America her fiery Ian Bounds.
Voices which gained the attention of the throne
room startled angels and shook the gates of
hell, making even the demons quake and tremble
with their desperate prayers.
What we need right now, friends, is a
man sent from God, a man with the
stamp upon him as the following.
The Apostle Paul, Luther, Wesley, Whitefield, Knox, Edwards,
Finney, Spurgeon, Moody, each shared a common denominator,
a fire in their belly, and each were
so eaten up with the gospel, and thirsty
for Christ, and filled with the Holy Ghost,
they could not stand idly by while others
perished.
They saw nothing but eternity, worshipped a holy
God, and served the risen Christ, living not
for earth nor its gains, but living only
for heaven and its rewards.
When they preached, they linked the devil with
sin and the cross with salvation.
They preached hell and its fire, and Christ
and him crucified.
Not one of them feared king, queen, or
pope, and not one of them sought the
compliments of men.