THE BATTLE CRY

THE BATTLE CRY
1. Every CONFLICT is a BATTLE of WORDS. There is no better example than the primordial clash of LIGHT against DARKNESS, "And the earth was without form, and void; and DARKNESS WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEEP. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT: and THERE WAS LIGHT" [Genesis 1:2-3] LIGHT prevailed but DARKNESS was not extinguished, that the purpose of God might be fulfilled who has appointed a DAY to JUDGE the world and all therein, through JESUS CHRIST [Acts 17:31] Ever since and more so now, LIGHT and DARKNESS have been at each other's throat; CHURCH on one side, reflecting the LIGHT and the WORLD on the other side, enveloped in DARKNESS, "For WE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, but against principalities, against powers, AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, against spiritual wickedness in high places" [Ephesians 6:12]  From onset, the BATTLE CRY was the NAME of the Lord, "And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began MEN BEGAN TO CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD" [Genesis 4:26]
 2. The BATTLE is about narratives, each camp determined to enforce his vision on the other. Nowhere is the warfare more evident than in the creeping snare of WORLDLINESS smothering the CHURCH to SLUMBER. Numbers are deceptive; CHURCH attendance is vastly increasing but the LIGHT is dim and PROPHECY fulfilled, "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. ... While the bridegroom tarried, they ALL SLUMBERED AND SLEPT" [Matthew 25:1,5] As we speak, the lines are blurred between CHURCH and the WORLD, the noise of BATTLE muffled by delusions of material "PROSPERITY". The BATTLE CRY has silently given way to worldly slogans and some who once fought valiantly as SOLDIERS of CHRIST have relapsed into affairs of this world, "Thou therefore ENDURE HARDNESS, as a GOOD SOLDIER OF JESUS CHRIST. NO MAN THAT WARRETH ENTANGLETH HIMSELF WITH THE AFFAIRS OF THIS LIFE; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier" [2 Timothy 2:3-4] His NAME, the BATTLE CRY passed to us from the beginning  is as potent as ever, we are the problem; an adulterous generation refusing to "ENDURE HARDNESS".
3. The NIGHT has been long and a new DAWN unfolds before our eyes,  the GREAT REVIVAL is here, "While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And AT MIDNIGHT THERE WAS A CRY MADE, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him" [Matthew 25:5-6] GREAT REVIVAL is the final push back against DARKNESS, prelude to our TRANSLATION and COMING of the Lord JESUS CHRIST to "CONSUME" DARKNESS and usher the MILLENIUM of peace and righteousness on earth, "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the LORD SHALL CONSUME WITH THE SPIRIT OF HIS MOUTH, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming" [2 Thessalonians 2:7-8] GREAT REVIVAL is the "AWAKENING" of the CHURCH, the ultimate outpouring of the SPIRIT of CHRIST, "... casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and BRINGING INTO CAPTIVITY EVERY THOUGHT TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST" [2 Corinthians 10:4-5] His NAME is our BATTLE CRY and a "SHORT WORK" He shall make of it [Romans 9:28]
4. King SAUL'S offer of "FAILED ARMOUR" to DAVID against GOLIATH illustrate the tragice HYPOCRISY of this generation [1 Samuel 17:38-39] GOLIATHS of this world fight in the name of their gods [1 Samuel 17:43] The NAME of the LORD alone, subdues them,  "Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I COME TO THEE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD OF HOSTS, the GOD of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied" [1 Samuel 17:45] The LORD is our GOD, His NAME is JESUS CHRIST, in Him dwells the fulness of the GODHEAD [Colossians 2:9] And now, as in Genesis 4:26, there is a mighty "STIRRING" as faithful men call upon His NAME, "... WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME: That AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth" [Philippians 2:9-10] Embers of REVIVAL are  growing in the place of PRAYER into God's END-TIME ARMY. Our BATTLE CRY is JESUS CHRIST, our armoury is the POWER in the REVELATION of His NAME, "Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, ..." [Malachi 3:16]

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