Jim Bakker Show - Pouring Out the Spirit - Pastor Mike Bickle on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2017-08-28
Duration: 06:52


=== Rapid Growth Of Messianic Jews (05:33) ===

[00:00:00]  Another positive sign.
[00:00:01]  There's a couple of verses.
[00:00:02]  I won't give them all for time's sake.
[00:00:04]  That Israel, many in Israel would turn to Jesus even before the Lord returns.
[00:00:10]  Yes.
[00:00:10]  Okay, and so in the last 10 years, the number of Messianic Jews, Messianic Jews means Jewish people that believe in Jesus.
[00:00:20]  So the Messianic, the Messiah, Jews that believe in the Messiah, Jesus.
[00:00:25]  The number has increased 500% in 10 years of Messianic Jews in the land of Israel.
[00:00:32]  I would applaud that.
[00:00:33]  500%.
[00:00:36]  Now I got this from Jewish leaders and I pressed.
[00:00:38]  I go, come on.
[00:00:40]  They said back in 1970, back in 1960, there were something like 10 believers or 20 believers in the land.
[00:00:49]  Some number.
[00:00:50]  I don't know the exact number and date, but it was really small or 50 or something like that.
[00:00:55]  And again, I don't know that number exactly, but today they're estimating 15 to 20,000 Messianic believers in the land.
[00:01:03]  I mean, one great big increase is because of the Russian Jews that came down.
[00:01:08]  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.
[00:01:17]  And so they were like, oh, wow, you know, and so the number has exploded.
[00:01:22]  And the Bible says in the generation the Lord returns, makes it clear.
[00:01:25]  I'm not giving a direct quote, but makes this point clear, that many would turn to Jesus in Israel.
[00:01:31]  And that is 500% increase in 10 years.
[00:01:35]  Incredible.
[00:01:37]  I mean, 2,000 years, nothing like this has ever happened.
[00:01:40]  That's a huge thing.
[00:01:41]  Amazing.
[00:01:42]  Is it true that the underground church in China is flourishing?
[00:01:47]  I heard that.
[00:01:48]  They kicked out.
[00:01:49]  I love Americans, but they kicked out the Americans, you know, and the 1966 cultural revolution in China when communism, evil communists exploded.
[00:02:00]  Most of the Americans left, or the Western missionaries, I'll say it that way, not all of them.
[00:02:04]  The church grew 100 million people.
[00:02:07]  Wow.
[00:02:08]  Persecution when it was illegal grew to 100 million.
[00:02:11]  That is the great, unseen, I don't know what the right word is.
[00:02:17]  A lot of folks aren't calculating on the size of that army.
[00:02:20]  There's 100 million on fire believers in the church in China in the last decade.
[00:02:26]  I mean, the last generation.
[00:02:27]  That's right.
[00:02:28]  Thanks, God.
[00:02:29]  Wow.
[00:02:30]  There's good news, isn't there?
[00:02:32]  In between all of this.
[00:02:34]  There are more prophecies about the prayer and worship movement in the generation of the Lord returns than you can imagine.
[00:02:41]  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.
[00:02:48]  It's prominent in prophecy.
[00:02:50]  I didn't know that 20 years ago.
[00:02:53]  And so catch this.
[00:02:54]  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.
[00:03:05]  And they found 25 of them in 1985.
[00:03:09]  And I think that's amazing.
[00:03:10]  25, 24-7 prayer ministries.
[00:03:14]  And today, there is well over 15,000.
[00:03:20]  From 25 to 15,000.
[00:03:23]  Some say 20 or 25,000, but I've said that number a time or time.
[00:03:27]  I go, no, you know what?
[00:03:28]  I'm going to be more conservative.
[00:03:29]  15,000.
[00:03:31]  Now, not led by worship.
[00:03:33]  Our context, we leave everything by worship teams.
[00:03:36]  And because some of our people go, with worship teams, they go, no, no, you don't have to do it with worship teams.
[00:03:40]  It makes it more fun.
[00:03:42]  Makes it more challenging.
[00:03:44]  But there are 15,000, maybe 20,000, 24, 7 prayer rooms.
[00:03:49]  One person at a time praying and handing the baton to another.
[00:03:53]  30 years ago, there were 25.
[00:03:55]  Now there's 15 to 20,000.
[00:03:57]  And the scripture says in the generation of the Lord returns, prayer is going to be prominent everywhere.
[00:04:02]  It's exploding.
[00:04:04]  Most of these have started in the last 10 years, just like the number of Jewish converts.
[00:04:09]  Lots of things like this are happening.
[00:04:11]  The signs and wonders.
[00:04:12]  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.
[00:04:36]  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.
[00:04:45]  Today, there's 600 million people that believe in the Holy Spirit's ministry in the way we understand it.
[00:04:53]  600 million, and it's grown, you know, exponential the last 40 years.
[00:04:58]  That's another sign and a wonder.
[00:05:00]  Joel and Acts 2 said that I'll pour out my spirit.
[00:05:04]  Well, in 2,000 years, there was only about a million of them 100 years ago.
[00:05:08]  600 million.
[00:05:11]  That is not an accident.
[00:05:13]  So that 600 million, the 15, 20,000 houses of prayer, the salvation of Israel, the bridal paradigm.

=== The Bride of Christ Identity (01:32) ===

[00:05:21]  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.
[00:05:30]  And come is a prayer.
[00:05:31]  Come, Lord Jesus.
[00:05:32]  They're in intercession, actually.
[00:05:35]  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.
[00:05:44]  We are the kingdom forever.
[00:05:45]  Sons of God, the family of God, the army of God, the temple, the Holy Spirit.
[00:05:51]  But we've never had the bride of Christ identity.
[00:05:54]  It's only part of our identity emphasized ever.
[00:05:56]  The Holy Spirit has never done it in 2,000 years.
[00:05:59]  Today, in the last 10 years, that revelation is breaking out everywhere.
[00:06:04]  And 30 years ago, you never heard the word bride.
[00:06:06]  And now it's in so many worship songs and books are being written on it.
[00:06:10]  But John said, when the Lord returns, it will be the church.
[00:06:14]  Yes, as sons of God.
[00:06:16]  Yes, the family of God, the army of God, all these.
[00:06:18]  But they will have this new revelation of the king as a bridegroom king.
[00:06:24]  He's a king with power, but a bridegroom with desire for relationship.
[00:06:28]  And it's a new paradigm of the kingdom that's relational and close in partnership.
[00:06:34]  That is exploding around the world too for the first time in history.
[00:06:37]  I mean, and the list goes on and on.
[00:06:39]  The king is coming.
[00:06:40]  Oh, I love it.
[00:06:44]  You need to stay in the word because that's the only way that you're going to stay happy.
[00:06:51]  Stay up.