SHOCKING WORLD-WIDE SIGNS

APOCALYPSE NEAR??? SHOCKING WORLD-WIDE SIGNS
                                                by Michael Edds

The Signs of the Times are ALL around us!!  A world-wide phenomena of massive bird and fish deaths are being reported from ALL over the world. The following news headline declares....

"RECENT WORLD WIDE! DEAD BIRDS AND FISH! THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!"

Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, China, Australia, Britain, Germany, Wales, New Zealand, Japan, Brazil, Canada other other places are reporting either unusual bird deaths or fish kills or both.  Thousands of birds and millions of fish are mysteriously dying.  Scientist are dumbfounded.  

Isaiah declares of a time to come, "Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder:  for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid." (KJV)     Another translation reads:  "Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder;  the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

The prophet Habakkuk declared, " Behold ye among the heathen, and regard (take notice), and wonder marvelously:  for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told to you"

Jesus said in Matthew 16:3,  "And in the morning, it will be foul weather today for the sky is red an lowring.  O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky, but ye cannot discern the signs of the times!"

Folks, SOMETHING IS HAPPENING!!  Acts 2:19 warns us that God will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below.  Are we like the children of Issachar, who were men that had understanding of the times to know what we ought to do?  It is time for the Church to WAKE UP!!!!  It is much later than we think.  We must know what we OUGHT TO DO!!  

Copy and paste the following link on your web browser to read the startling headlines from around the world.  Click on each headline to read each individual news article.  It will astound you!!

 

http://www.thebigwobble.com/2011/01/world-wide-dead-birds-fish-and-other.html

Patterns of Spiritual Awakenings (How to Know an Awakening is Near)

Patterns of Spiritual Awakenings

(How to Know an Awakening is Near)

 

"Spiritual awakenings manifest patterns that are similar, often strikingly so. While all of the following elements may be present in each instance, for the most part awakenings progress through a cycle whose phases include these various aspects of God's working."

1. Awakenings are usually preceded by a time of spiritual depression, apathy and gross sin, in which a majority of Christians are hardly different from secular society, and the churches seem to be asleep. The causes of each decline differ widely, but when the prophetic voice and moral leadership of the Church has been stilled for some time, social evils are usually rampant.

2. An individual or small groups of God's people become conscious of their sins and backslidden condition, and vow to forsake all that is displeasing to God. Christians recall past outpourings of God's grace and power, and long to see them again. When histories of awakenings have been written in later years, it has been occasionally discovered that individuals at great distances and completely unknown to each other had, prior to the awakening, been praying simultaneously to the same end!

3. As some Christians begin to yearn for a manifestation of God's power, a leader or leaders arise with prophetic insights into the causes and remedies of the problems, and a new awareness of the holy and pure character of the Lord is present. This standard of holiness exposes the degeneracy of the age and stimulates a striving after holiness by God's people. The leaders find that their eagerness for God's moving is shared by many who have been waiting for God to act, and who will rise to follow.

4. The awakening of Christians occurs: many understand and take part in a higher spiritual life. Evangelism of the unsaved may or may not accompany this renewal of Christians. (Salvation of the lost occurs when Christians are restored to image of Christ and holiness. This great transformation in Christians leads to a stirring in the community. God "comes down" into the lives of Christians and then "moves out" into the community.

5. An awakening may be God's means of preparing and strengthening His people for future challenges or trials. Throughout history, renewal has often come before persecutions and severe trials. (The First Great Awakening came prior to the American Revolution. The Third Great Awakening occurred a few years before the Civil War. Azusa Street occurred before a great earthquake in California and before World War I."

Do you see these patterns at work among God's people today? The answer is YES ! The more I see, hear, read and discover from others and from the Lord, I believe we are at the third pattern or stage. The "old wells" of revival are about to be reopened, "fallen mantles" are being picked up and "new fountains" are about to burst forth!

(Excerpts from Christian History magazine}