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Revival Epilogue
When you hear that God is granting souls an abundance of dreams and visions, particularly in the Muslim world, you must never beg Him to lead you by this road. Such a desire may reveal a lack of humility and can even expose oneself to peril from deception.
The highest form of faith believes without seeing.
Jesus said, "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." (John 20:29). The Bible is all the proof you need that Jesus is alive and that He is Lord. The New Testament is the Holy Spirit-breathed record of eyewitnesses of Jesus' sinless life, death and Resurrection. He is “the same yesterday, today and forever.” (Hebrews 13: 8)
May there be many more dreams and visions that lost souls might behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!
But remember--the Gospel is not normally preached through dreams and visions. The unexaggerated testimonies in this book are only evidences of the mercy and grace of God as the End Times are almost fulfilled.
We still must bear our solemn responsibility and duty to make disciples of all nations and to preach the Gospel by every means possible. After you have heard the call of God to deliver the captives, the Lord may give you a personal vision as a confirmation of the territory to which He is sending you.
But do not seek visions; the only vision we need is to be fulfillers of the Great Commission. Without the Biblical vision to preach, the people will perish. And if the Lord gives you a vision to evangelize the lost and dying, to heal the sick and hurting, whatever you do, determine to be faithful like the Apostle Paul, who declared in Acts 26:19, "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision."
The Revival Continues!
The move of the Holy Spirit that began in Arabia is continuing at a school administered by Asians and Arabs. The staff is experiencing Revival which started amongst the Muslim children (many of whom by now have returned to their home countries). The children have taken the testimonies of their personal encounter and knowledge of Jesus back to their Muslim lands.
In 1994, Jesus Himself had appeared in a white Middle Eastern robe to an entire classroom of Muslim children and taught them about the Holy Bible. Subsequently that room was set aside for prayer as a chapel to seek the Lord’s face.
The school invited the author to hold further Revival meetings. The Holy Spirit ministered with many manifestations, which had similarly happened at the beginning of the Revival.
When I returned a few years later, it was a privilege to preach under the portrait of the Middle Eastern leader, a benign-looking emir who, in his white headdress, resembled a character out of the Bible. Once again the atmosphere in the school hall where I preached was filled with the wafting fragrance of the Rose of Sharon! Many of us smelled the rose of Sharon fragrance and felt His tangible Presence. We were awed by the Presence of the Holy Spirit. Many testified to being freed from long-standing infirmities.
But, as in any genuine Revival, the greatest manifestations were the salvations, particularly amongst the staff, and especially the men, who sat, arms rigidly folded across their chests, in the back of the hall. Some attended the Revival meetings only because their presence was compulsory. These schoolmasters were rigid and unyielding—until the Holy Ghost fell upon them with convicting Revival fire!
Some of the men were also new staff masters who had never experienced the previous Revival, let alone spiritual rebirth! (The school’s staff of expatriates is constantly changing.) Graciously, the Holy Spirit broke down their hardness or uncertainties, and they began to shake with great conviction of sin. It was like a scene I had read about in the Welsh Revival and other Revivals– a sovereign move of God.
The first man who ran forward to repent confessed openly to an adulterous relationship, which he resolved to break immediately. He told me later that a great burden of sin and guilt had been removed, and he was restored to his wife.
Another of the schoolmasters on the back row began to convulse with remorse, and although he had secretly vowed he would never testify publicly, he nevertheless ran forward to the front of the room where we were standing and preaching. He renounced pornography videos that had been polluting himself and his family. The repentant schoolmaster had just seen a terrible vision of himself sitting in front of his TV set. And he heard a Voice declare, “It would be better if a millstone were tied around his neck and he were cast into the sea than to offend these little ones.” (Luke 17: 2)
As in many Middle Eastern settings, the men were seated separately from the women. When the men melted from their hardness and rushed forward from the back of the room, one by one, weeping, to publicly acknowledge Jesus, those in the women’s section took fresh courage. None needed to be led in a sinner’s prayer. The power of God was upon each one to such a degree that they individually began to confess sins and to call upon the Name of the Lord, praying fervently from their hearts. This, in turn, broke the floodgates and also many Hindus, who had been holding back, particularly amongst the female staff, knelt down and confessed Jesus as Lord. The Holy Spirit had broken down even the most resistant ones under the power of my text, Matthew 10: 32 – “Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven…” The whole experience was a revelation to me as a preacher. The same text outside of a Revival atmosphere would not have produced the same results, but with the Holy Spirit’s presence, the sinners were helpless. Glory to God!
Arabian School of the Holy Spirit
Throughout the history of the Church, a characteristic of many Revivals is that the power of the Holy Spirit seems to be tangibly present. Many noticed this special atmosphere on the school compound even in Arabia. Two Muslims who delivered office supplies had no intentions of attending a Revival meeting. Nevertheless, when their feet touched the compound, they fell down under the power of the Holy Spirit for more than a half hour. When they were able to stand on their feet again, they immediately requested a Bible!
During the services, the Holy Spirit imparted several visions: the Glory of God hovering over that school and His Glory being disseminated to the north, south, east and west as the Lord’s servants and handmaidens were equipped to be sent into the Harvest Fields of the Middle East and Asia. I saw the Spirit of the Lord loosening the Arabian “boot” of its inappropriately tied laces (cords of darkness). The cloud became a blackboard on which the hand of the Lord wrote in letters, “School of the Holy Spirit in Arabia.” I also saw the hand of God roll a black cloud off of the Arabian Peninsula.
Revival in the Galilee
Currently, the Holy Spirit is moving in a new way in the Galilee Revival in the Holy Land. Some of our meetings continue way past midnight. A Muslim woman had been diagnosed with an incurable skin disease and was hospitalized in the Galilee. She experienced a recurring dream in which she was searching for Jesus. In her dreams, she climbed a mountain looking for Jesus. Somebody said, “His Throne is at the top of this mountain.” She cried, “I don’t want his chair—I want Him!” When finally she found Jesus in her dream, she fell down at His feet and worshipped Him. She woke up totally healed! This woman, a hairdresser, regularly attends the Revival meetings as a testimony that Jesus is alive and still heals today. The Revival pastor says 70 per cent of ministry expenses are paid for by Muslims!
These accounts are some of the Acts of the Holy Spirit in our day. The Holy Spirit Revivals in which I am so privileged to participate have given me faith to believe for Revival anywhere and in some of the earth’s most Gospel-resistant places! A genuine Revival does not always consist of great crowds. Certainly entertaining preachers who deliver sinner-appeasing messages are not the answer, but our great need is the manifest Presence of the Living Lord Jesus Christ!
How to Pray
Pray therefore for the manifest Presence of Jesus, which is the essence of Revival!
Pray fervently for Revival in the Muslim World that the Lord will send faithful Bible teachers to strengthen the new believers – many of whom told me that they desire with all of their hearts to serve the Lord in full-time ministry. Truly the Lord has raised up teaching centers within the very citadels of the Middle East!
Pray earnestly for dreams and visions to increase in the most unlikely places and to the most unlikely people and leaders! Our God’s arm is not shortened that it cannot save, and the Lord is communicating the glorious Gospel as streams in the desert in these Last Days! There is undeniable evidence that the Holy Spirit is hovering over nations, and the awesome presence of Jesus is manifesting powerfully. Not only in Muslims lands, but God is stirring in China, all over Africa, India, South America, in all the former Soviet states and in nearly every nation on earth. Even in Islamic lands, ministries such as Teen Challenge have been allowed to establish Gospel-oriented drug programs and CBN TV built one of the world’s largest Gospel television studios in the most populous Muslim country, Indonesia.
However, more than anything else, the greatest prayer need is for Jesus Christ to be manifested! Pray for the Presence of Jesus Christ in the Middle East and in every nation as happened in the Arabian Revival!
The refreshing of the Holy Spirit and revelation of His manifest Presence should exalt Jesus alone, not signs, wonders, and spiritual gifts. The greatest revelation in the Last Days should be the glory and power of Christ!
Give us Jesus, the melting, healing, awesome presence of the Lord more than anything else!
Do you wish to contact the author?
Christine Darg would appreciate hearing from you concerning any questions that you may have as a result of reading “The Jesus Visions.” Perhaps you’ve experienced a dream or a vision that you would like to share with her: info@exploits.tv
Jesus will come again!
You can watch and pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122: 6) by visiting the author’s webcamera at www.exploits.tv on the Mount of Olives. The camera focuses on the Temple Mount’s sealed Golden Gate that Messiah will enter after His feet touch the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14: 4) The Bible and Jesus reveal that there will be a Temple in Jerusalem prior to the Second Coming of the Messiah.
(2 Thessalonians 2:4 and Matthew 24: 15)
Furthermore, when you watch the Temple Mount via our "Messiahcam" Internet camera and utter a prayer, the LORD says, "My eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there."
(2 Chronicles 7:15-16)
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