GEHAZI GENERATION

1. It is uncanny how the Bible comes true in every age. There was a notable REVIVAL in the days of King Ahab, as there was in the 1960s and the similarities did not end there. Before the REVIVAL, Ahab and his wife, Jezebel, seduced Israel into idolatry, "And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to PROVOKE THE LORD GOD TO ANGER THAN ALL THE KINGS OF ISRAEL that were before him" [1 Kings 16:33] The land and people were desecrated and there was a devastating FAMINE in Israel, as there was GREAT DEPRESSION; global economic downturn, circa 1929-1939. Then came the WORD of the Lord to ELIJAH and he got all 450 prophets of Baal, 400 prophets of the groves and the people to mount Carmel, "And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the GOD THAT ANSWERETH BY FIRE, LET HIM BE GOD. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken" [1 Kings 18:24] Prophets of Baal and of the groves called their gods all day to no response, towards evening ELIJAH built an altar and called on the LIVING GOD, "Then the FIRE OF THE LORD FELL, ... And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, HE IS THE GOD; the LORD, he is the God" [1 Kings 18:38-39] 

2. The REVIVAL was spontaneous, accompanied by GREAT RAIN and Israel was refreshed.  In remarkable parallel, 1960s REVIVAL refreshed the earth, eroding agonies of the GREAT DEPRESSION and  2nd WORLD WAR. Soon after the "GREAT RAIN",  ELIJAH was translated and the baton passed to ELISHA to keep the FIRE burning, as it is written;  "And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same COMMIT THOU TO FAITHFUL MEN, who shall be able to teach others also"  [2 Timothy 2:2] The baton likewise passed in the 1970s/80s to faithful men, who kept and went with the FIRE wherever they were led by the HOLY GHOST. ELISHA knew the drill, he took GEHAZI, a very  promising young man under his wings and prepared him in WORD and POWER, "Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and TAKE MY STAFF IN THINE HAND, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child" [2 Kings 4:29] However, while ELISHA yet lived, GEHAZI exchanged the "STAFF" of ELISHA for the robes of court JESTER, "And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done" [2 Kings 8:4]

3. How truly the MIGHTY ARE FALLEN, not a few of the promising young men of 1980s/90s are now "FATHERS" forged in the ERROR of GEHAZI. GEHAZI disdained his Master for not monetizing the "STAFF", ran after Naaman for earthly riches and lost his ETERNAL RELEVANCE, "... IS IT A TIME TO RECEIVE MONEY, and to RECEIVE GARMENTS, and OLIVEYARDS, and VINEYARDS, and SHEEP, and OXEN, and MENSERVANTS, and MAIDSERVANTS? The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow" [2 Kings 5:26-27] Does God hate earthly riches? Certainly not. However, God demands His SERVANTS work with and within the "HEAVENLY PATTERN"; He alone determine and allocate what goes into His WORK. We are the GEHAZI GENERATION, who have dropped the STAFF to chase perishable riches. For thinking God's work cannot be done without running after filthy lucre, we are reduced to "STORYTELLERS"; recycled stories of past exploits. Our insatiable greed has turned to grand delusions of "PROSPERITY" but God is not mocked, "... thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked" [Revelation 3:17]

4. We are in perilous times, worse than anything the world ever witnessed and God is decided to "SHAKE" the earth, "... the REMOVING OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE SHAKEN, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain" [Hebrews 1227] The LORD shall "SHAKE" the earth with the greatest of all REVIVALS. This time, God's ALTAR shall not be made of stone, glass or gold but of FAITHFUL SOULS and the OFFERING, sincere STEWARDS of His RIGHTEOUSNESS; LIVING SACRIFICES, "I beseech you therefore, ... PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God" [Romans 12:1-2] The FIRE is already falling in the most unexpected places; Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, Somalia, Iran, etc., "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined" [Isaiah 9:2] This is the MIDNIGHT CRY and FINAL CALL to accept JESUS CHRIST as your Lord and Saviour and a "SHORT WORK" it will be, "For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth" [Romans 9:28]

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