They are calling just about any meeting these days, 'A Christian REVIVAL'. However, the dancers, screamers, crazy drummer and wailing guitars have nothing whatsoever to do with any form of godly revival.
The shouting 'apostles', 'prophets', and whatever other title they choose to give themselves, is all a sham. It means nothing, does nothing, except to get the crowd of vain worshippers excited and jiggling to the music.
At Mount Carmel, Elijah the great prophet of God called the religious lot to come to a meeting with all their 'prophets', apostles', and whatever other title they afforded themselves.
It was a day for all the people to make a decision about what was real and what was false.
It would be a day of life and death. Death to all the false prophets and platform performers; and life to the deluded people of God who ran after all their concerts and conferences.
Mount Carmel shall be the choisen deciding ground. The challenge would be to discover what was false fire and pretended godliness, and what was the real fire of God that would consume the sacrifice and turn the hearts of the people back to him.
The false preachers and prophets, in desperation, finally dispensed with all their flashy gimmics, their trickery and subtile deceptions, their candles and magic fires and lights, and called upon their god to send fire down from heaven in front of all the people.
It did not happen. Their god was as unreal as their profession of knowing the true God.
With so many noises from around the world right now and so many threats and hidden agendas going on, we must come back to the ground of truth. We need a visit to Carmel.
All that glitters is not gold. We have been hoodwinked by the cheap trash that comes out of China, the false glamour of trendy clothes, and the passing fads of a world fast headed to judgment. The same goes for the churches that think they need to 'be like the world to win the world', block out the light from all the windows so as to create a 'spiritual atmosphere' through stage lighting and pyrotechnics, and form a dancing jiving band to perform as though they were on an international stage of fame.
Away with it all. It is of the world and bot of God. When did God ever need our junk to prove Himself to anyone?
We are not of this world nor of its spirit. We are set apart from it and are citizens of a kingdom that does not ever conform to this age and its utterly lost and hopeless future.
The false prophets on Mount Carmel became so detrmined to try and prove that they were right, and just one man was wrong. They tore off their clothes and started beating themselves until their own blood poured off the bodies. They screamed and pleaded to their god to come and prove they were right and Elijah was an old-fashioned fool. But there is no escape from truth, for truth can never be altered and is the plumb-line by everything that must be measured.
The night of deceit and darkness, of lying prophets and greedy preachers is coming fast to an end. They shall not escape the coming storm as it tears down their citadels of fame and pastor-worship, of wealth and possessions looted from their congregations, of the theft, abuse, hatred, violence and murder done secretly in hidden places.
God is on the throne, and he is calling us to a meeting on His Mount Carmel.
Eighty hundred and fifty false lying prophets were called to face off Elijah on that mountain. I am sure they must have thought that 850 against one solitary man would be more than enough to defend their position and false teachings.
But God is always with His man, whoever and wherever that man might be. He most certainly will not be sitting in gilt chairs with the televangelists, the rich and famous, the deceiving preachers and compromised pastors. He will not be 'performing' on some stage in front of a congregation of enthusiasts. He comes from the camp of 'nobodys', from the desert of despising and rejection, from the secret place of the most High God which is so secret that nobody except who God chooses to find it ever discovers it.
'IF you seek Me, you will find Me: if you search for me with ALL YOUR HEART.'
Ahh, but the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
