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How Your Church Can Participate in the Great Last-Days Revival


by Dave Root, VividChristianity.com, last modified on 02/21/2025.


Introduction

The purpose of this article is to describe how your church can be used mightily by God as a participant in the great last-days revival that is now slowly getting underway, and will end soon at the Rapture. Please consider forwarding the URL for this article to someone in leadership at your church.

If everything at my website (VividChristianity.com), including this article, says what God wants it to say then He will confirm that for you by doing a miracle. See my home page for the details.


What Your Church Needs to Do

As you probably know, many pastors, churches, and ministries are praying for the great last-days revival to begin (search online for "last-days revival"). This revival, and the scriptural evidence for it, is described in my article called End-Times Prophecies Are Coming to Pass Right before Our Eyes (see sign #19).

You might not be aware of it yet, but as of June 2024, this revival is now slowly getting underway (see the intended impact of my book), and the Lord wants your church to participate in it with signs, wonders, miracles, healings, and numerous people receiving salvation. My book called Divine Healing Absolutely Is for Today will enable you to see miracles and healings from the Lord, and you can read the first five chapters (all of Part 1) for free at the above link. The paperback and Kindle editions of my book are priced at the absolute minimum that Amazon.com will allow so that they can be purchased by, and be helpful to, as many people as possible.

You are not being asked to donate any money or join any organization, network, or movement. Simply listen to the Lord's guidance and obey whatever He tells you to do. For help with that, see my article called How to Discern God's Guidance.

Every Christian denomination disagrees with every other Christian denomination in certain areas, and there are two specific reasons why we have so many conflicting and contradictory views within Christianity. These reasons are explained in my article called How to Study the Bible. With that in mind, the following list describes a number of issues that many churches are teaching incorrectly. If you choose to correct these issues, God will be able to work through your church as a participant in the great last-days revival, but if you choose not to correct these issues, you risk seeing your church withering and dying because God is judging it:

  • The goal of the Christian life is to be in a relationship with Jesus, always growing closer and closer to Him until we become just like Him, and the only way to have a relationship with someone is by spending time with them and having two-way conversations with them. To learn how to discern His guidance within you, see my article called How to Discern God's Guidance. This needs to be a primary focus in your church in the short time remaining before the Rapture.

  • Salvation only comes through proper faith in Jesus (see my article called How to Receive Salvation). If your church teaches something else concerning salvation (whether it involves water baptism, trusting in the Virgin Mary, praying to saints, going to confession, doing penance, or doing anything else), this needs to be corrected.

  • Many Christians assume that receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit at the moment of salvation is the same as being baptized with the Holy Spirit, but my series called How to Receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit explains in scriptural detail that these are always two separate and distinct events with two separate and distinct purposes. We must choose to receive the gift of the baptism of the Holy Spirit in obedience to God (after we automatically receive the Holy Spirit at the moment of salvation) because it empowers us by providing certain gifts of the Spirit for the assignments that God needs us to do.

  • Women are allowed to hold any position in church or ministry (see my series called New Testament Passages Concerning Women). God will show you whom He wants in leadership positions in your church.

  • People in the LGBTQIA+ community are allowed to hold any position in church or ministry (see my article called Homosexuality Is Not Always a Sin). God will show you whom He wants in leadership positions in your church.

  • Most churches seem to take up tithes and offerings. However, the modern form of tithing taught in churches is a complete fiction that does not honor God because it bears absolutely no resemblance to any form of tithing found anywhere in the Bible (see my article called Christians Are Not Required to Pay Tithes). If your church teaches tithing (or giving from our firstfruits), this needs to be corrected.

  • All 5 points in "5 Point Calvinism" are completely unscriptural and completely wrong (see my article called Our Lives Are Not Predestined). If your church teaches any of those 5 points, this needs to be corrected so that the relevant issues are being taught properly.

  • Many churches teach that miracles, healings, and the so-called miraculous gifts of the Spirit ceased or died out during or shortly after the first century, and this view is known as cessationism. The apostle Paul said that cessationism is a very specific sign of the "terrible times in the last days." It's a lie from the devil and a form of last-days apostasy (a falling away from proper beliefs) (see my article called All Gifts of the Spirit Are Available Today). If your church teaches cessationism, this needs to be corrected.

  • When churches observe the Lord's Supper, most of them are doing it improperly because they've misunderstood the symbolism of the bread (see my article called We Need to Observe the Lord's Supper Correctly). This needs to be corrected and done properly.

  • The New Testament clearly says that all Christians need to be in unity with each other, and it clearly denounces all divisions within Christianity such as denominations because a house divided against itself cannot stand (see my article called We Need to Consider Ourselves as Non-denominational Christians, Not as Protestants or Baptists or Catholics or Any Other Denomination or Division). All denominations are human inventions. God is not Baptist, God is not Lutheran, God is not Methodist, God is not Presbyterian, God is not Seventh-day Adventist, and so on. We can't say that God is all denominations because some denominations' views are mutually exclusive with other denominations' views. God is no denomination, and we are told to be non-denominational as well ("no divisions"). We all need to consider ourselves as non-denominational Christians rather than as Protestants, Baptists, Catholics, charismatics, cessationists, evangelicals, and so on. If your church is a member of a denomination, this needs to be corrected so that you're non-denominational.


If these issues are merely my own views, then you can simply ignore them. But if God does the miracle for you as described on my home page, then He's confirming for you that everything here says exactly what He wants it to say.

If you do these things, your church will be blessed in amazing ways and will participate in the great last-days revival. Having now received the invitation, your church is at a crossroads and you must decide which path you will take. You might begin noticing that your singers and musicians (if any) are having difficulty staying in time and staying in key. You might begin noticing in your sermons that you are having difficulty remembering what to say, and having throat issues and other speech problems. These are signs that your church is withering and dying because God is judging it. If you quickly begin implementing the above corrections, your church will revive and God's blessings will be on it.

It makes no difference to me what decisions you make. I don't want or need anything from you and I have no stake in what happens to your church. My only goal is to be obedient to the Lord and enable Him to receive as much glory in this world as possible in the short time remaining before He returns for us.


For the glory of the Lord Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God, who came in the flesh, was delivered over to death for our sins, and was raised to life for our justification.

Dave Root
home page and email: https://www.vividchristianity.com

"Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit." (1 Corinthians 12:3)

"Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist - denying the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also." (1 John 2:22-23)

"If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God." (1 John 4:15)

"Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world." (1 John 4:1-3)

"And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love. I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist." (2 John 1:6-7)

"He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification." (Romans 4:25)
 
 
Modification History

  • 02/21/2025 - Slightly modified the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th bullet points in the section called "What Your Church Needs to Do."

  • 02/13/2025 - Slightly modified the Introduction section.

  • 12/15/2024 - New article.