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Aug. 28, 2017 - Jim Bakker Show
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Pouring Out the Spirit - Pastor Mike Bickle on The Jim Bakker Show
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Rapid Growth Of Messianic Jews 00:05:33
Another positive sign.
There's a couple of verses.
I won't give them all for time's sake.
That Israel, many in Israel would turn to Jesus even before the Lord returns.
Yes.
Okay, and so in the last 10 years, the number of Messianic Jews, Messianic Jews means Jewish people that believe in Jesus.
So the Messianic, the Messiah, Jews that believe in the Messiah, Jesus.
The number has increased 500% in 10 years of Messianic Jews in the land of Israel.
I would applaud that.
500%.
Now I got this from Jewish leaders and I pressed.
I go, come on.
They said back in 1970, back in 1960, there were something like 10 believers or 20 believers in the land.
Some number.
I don't know the exact number and date, but it was really small or 50 or something like that.
And again, I don't know that number exactly, but today they're estimating 15 to 20,000 Messianic believers in the land.
I mean, one great big increase is because of the Russian Jews that came down.
And the Russian Jews came out of communism, so they didn't have their religious biased against Jesus like some of the others that grew up in different contexts.
And so they were like, oh, wow, you know, and so the number has exploded.
And the Bible says in the generation the Lord returns, makes it clear.
I'm not giving a direct quote, but makes this point clear, that many would turn to Jesus in Israel.
And that is 500% increase in 10 years.
Incredible.
I mean, 2,000 years, nothing like this has ever happened.
That's a huge thing.
Amazing.
Is it true that the underground church in China is flourishing?
I heard that.
They kicked out.
I love Americans, but they kicked out the Americans, you know, and the 1966 cultural revolution in China when communism, evil communists exploded.
Most of the Americans left, or the Western missionaries, I'll say it that way, not all of them.
The church grew 100 million people.
Wow.
Persecution when it was illegal grew to 100 million.
That is the great, unseen, I don't know what the right word is.
A lot of folks aren't calculating on the size of that army.
There's 100 million on fire believers in the church in China in the last decade.
I mean, the last generation.
That's right.
Thanks, God.
Wow.
There's good news, isn't there?
In between all of this.
There are more prophecies about the prayer and worship movement in the generation of the Lord returns than you can imagine.
But because I've studied these 150 chapters, I've identified them, and the list is this long, of the prayer movement in the generation of the Lord Returns.
It's prominent in prophecy.
I didn't know that 20 years ago.
And so catch this.
1985, a couple of smart guys who study statistics and demographics, they searched the whole world for every 24-hour prayer ministry they could find.
And they found 25 of them in 1985.
And I think that's amazing.
25, 24-7 prayer ministries.
And today, there is well over 15,000.
From 25 to 15,000.
Some say 20 or 25,000, but I've said that number a time or time.
I go, no, you know what?
I'm going to be more conservative.
15,000.
Now, not led by worship.
Our context, we leave everything by worship teams.
And because some of our people go, with worship teams, they go, no, no, you don't have to do it with worship teams.
It makes it more fun.
Makes it more challenging.
But there are 15,000, maybe 20,000, 24, 7 prayer rooms.
One person at a time praying and handing the baton to another.
30 years ago, there were 25.
Now there's 15 to 20,000.
And the scripture says in the generation of the Lord returns, prayer is going to be prominent everywhere.
It's exploding.
Most of these have started in the last 10 years, just like the number of Jewish converts.
Lots of things like this are happening.
The signs and wonders.
I mean, remember in the year 1900, before the 1906, the Azusa Street, 1904 and 1906, Wells and Azusa Street, there were something like, I mean, just a few people who believed in the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the charismatic sense of contemporary gifts and prophecy and signs and wonders, those kinds of things.
And 1920, there was some number, you know, after the Azusa Street revival, I can't remember the number, but it was, you know, a couple million.
Today, there's 600 million people that believe in the Holy Spirit's ministry in the way we understand it.
600 million, and it's grown, you know, exponential the last 40 years.
That's another sign and a wonder.
Joel and Acts 2 said that I'll pour out my spirit.
Well, in 2,000 years, there was only about a million of them 100 years ago.
600 million.
That is not an accident.
So that 600 million, the 15, 20,000 houses of prayer, the salvation of Israel, the bridal paradigm.
The Bride of Christ Identity 00:01:32
And what I mean by that, the revelation of the bridal, the identity of the church as the bride, because in Revelation 22, it says the spirit and the bride will say come.
And come is a prayer.
Come, Lord Jesus.
They're in intercession, actually.
At the very end of the book, the church is in a bridal relationship because all through church history, we've had the, our identity is the kingdom.
We are the kingdom forever.
Sons of God, the family of God, the army of God, the temple, the Holy Spirit.
But we've never had the bride of Christ identity.
It's only part of our identity emphasized ever.
The Holy Spirit has never done it in 2,000 years.
Today, in the last 10 years, that revelation is breaking out everywhere.
And 30 years ago, you never heard the word bride.
And now it's in so many worship songs and books are being written on it.
But John said, when the Lord returns, it will be the church.
Yes, as sons of God.
Yes, the family of God, the army of God, all these.
But they will have this new revelation of the king as a bridegroom king.
He's a king with power, but a bridegroom with desire for relationship.
And it's a new paradigm of the kingdom that's relational and close in partnership.
That is exploding around the world too for the first time in history.
I mean, and the list goes on and on.
The king is coming.
Oh, I love it.
You need to stay in the word because that's the only way that you're going to stay happy.
Stay up.
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