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It is indeed something we can talk about but when it comes to what revival really entails, it seems only a true End-time refreshing will reconnect us to Jesus and His reality! God has assigned many positions within His ekklesia but Ester was called to encourage those who are following Jesus to opt for spiritual truth and reality the Biblical way. And as revival can only be brought in action through dedicated prayer and a closer walk with Jesus, let's repent and do the will of God, i.e. to continue in prayer and returning to Biblical prescription, so that we can share, even in these evil days, in His blessings! Kindly note references made to our previous website: The current website does not contain all the articles, etcetera, referred to. Also, God has a people among the Gentiles just as much as He has His own among the Jewish nation. But the Christian message that went forth from Jersualem (first century CE) is the one and the same Gospel. The apostles then preached the very same Gospel to one and all. Revival is in essence something that reconnects us with the church that was planted by Jesus in and through His apostles, i.e. bringing all mankind in submission to Christ! (John 3.16)

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Why God wants us to proceed in the early Church's Gospel Truth

What Gospel Truth entails and how to guard against spiritual decadence

How to regain spiritually what we have lost

Prayer for a true refreshing (revival) and so that the Holy Spirit Gifts will manifest in a Biblical way

Concerning my reference to the Gospel of John and anomalies: Many scholars are questioning its authenticity and it is useless to give their comments a mere blind eye. It is alleged that no less than three writers were involved in its finalization. It was seemingly written for a Samaritan audience and the Samaritan believers were confronted with many apostasies (Simon the Sorcerer, Act 8, was but one of them).

We have good reason to believe that the Trinity was rife in this area (strong Gentile influence manifested here since the Northern Kingdom was subjugated by the Assyrians in OT times). Should we keep the Apostle John's 3 pastoral letters in mind, an alert reader will quickly detect a heretical (break-away) group of "believers" who were, probably at the end of the Apostle's ministry, seriously opposing him.

The Apostle could perhaps have given instructions to some of his disciples, by the end of his lifetime (round about 100 AD), to write his gospel, giving them the gist or perhaps a good dictation of its contents, however, lack of "hard evidence" is the reason why we are today sitting with earnest questions on at least portions of this gospel. Scholars come up with excellent discoveries but the answers lie in the conclusions we draw, e.g. whether it aligns with the NT apostolic writings - Jn 14 and Rom 8 (on the Holy Spirit and its intercessory role seems to belong to Essene ideas but which is not necessarily apostolic!

In my opinion it is necessary to haul in the (apostate) Greek speaking Jews (with whom Paul had reasoned) when the Gospel of John is analysed for it seems Diotrephes - clearly John's opponent at the time - was one of them and then of course also involved with the schism [see Paul's 2 Thes 2 teaching on "Antichrist" in comparison with John's first pastoral letter (Jn 2 and 4) re "many Antichrists"]. My own book series on the early Church and how it had developed, which was published in full for quite a long time on this website and which series have never been translated, deals, to a very large extent, with this very issue (the influence of apostasy on the first-century apostolic Church).

Unfortunately there are few scholars who want to openly lay bare the rise of the apostate Church and what also seems to be a stumbling block in the way, namely to get clarity on the whole issue, is self-interest and especially fear of speaking up for gospel truth. There is also, at this stage, still not 100% clarity on the Essenes (Qumran) and it seems scholars are far too easily aligning the Essenes with the apostles and as though the apostles were Essenes. in stead of seeing the Essenes as a sectarian group who had joined the apostles' ranks on Pentecost day - and which would then bring us to the apostles, pulling them over to the teachings they had received from Jesus - with Paul of course as super trainer of the Christians the right and proper way.

Concerning my reference to Jn 14 and the Holy Spirit: We have published a link (Christian Jewish Studies, SM-130) which will bring you to an explicit explanation on the Holy Spirit according to the NT writers. Due to translations which, on the whole, reflect a traditional approach when it comes to Holy Spirit, we are being imprinted to this day that the Holy Spirit can only be a third person and usually translated as "he". We too want to only stress gospel truth, giving God the Father and His Son all the glory we are obliged to give God, but the truth can no longer be suppressed and just to uphold a tradition that has been imprinted on our minds for centuries. Should we make our own independent study of the NT apostolic writings, we will soon discover that the apostles of Jesus preached Jesus as the Son of God, also that Holy Spirit is God's dunamis (supernatural, immense power) and that the Spirit of God can indeed not be personified. "Son" of God is not degrading Jesus for He alone is worthy to bear this honourable title as He alone shares God the Father's Throne on high. Linking a mother or a brother connotation to Holy Spirit is the reason why Holy Spirit is conveyed, to this very day, either through misinterpretation or one-sided translations of the text, to "another/similar" Jesus (an allos figure) transferring then, in effect, the honour that God the Father had bestowed upon Jesus, His faithful Son, on another "person". Therefore Godhead is expressed as "God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit", dividing God in three distinct persons yet maintaining that there is no division in Godhead - transferring God's active power of the Spirit (Holy Spirit) to a third "God" or person. Such reasoning can be relayed to Paul's words to the Corinthians, namely, "They are preaching/bringing a different/another Jesus [Gr allos, meaning a different yet similar Jesus - but clearly independently acting too! (2 Cor. 11.4)]. According to the Scriptures, "power" belongs to God and this dynamic, supernatural "Power" God was placed on the being/person of the Son, not on a third person. There was definitely tampering with especially Paul's letters for should we begin to make cross-references, we will soon discover discrepancies/irregularities - this type of tampering seems to have been initiated by the Ebionites (Hellenist Jews) who propagated a trinity. We can detect from the apostolic NT writers that untruths and lies were propagated by false teachers ("They will bring in untruths and lies"). It is about time we searched the Scriptures, constantly applying cross-referencing, for by the mouth of two and three witnesses, every word shall stand (Jesus, Matt. 18.16).