July 1972
I had only been in this nation a few days, in July 1972, and I was in Long Beach, Washington. Something happened to me that has never happened before or since. I didn’t know in those days, the difference between Washington D.C. and Washington State, I was so ignorant about America. And one day as I was teaching in the morning session of the World MAP Camp, I began to read my Bible and the print became blurred. I have a physical condition which afflicts me from time to time which causes blurred vision, and so I thought oh no, not one of these right here in the pulpit. But I was trying to read the Bible and what appeared to be a map of the United States, appeared over my Bible. And you know, I am so dumb sometimes, I didn’t know what was going on. I looked up, there was the map. I looked down, there was the map. I decided to quit reading and wait on the Lord right there in the pulpit in front of about 1,800 people. And then God gave unto me a vision, and I repeat, something that has never happened before or since that time.
Probably many of you have read it, because it has appeared in many periodicals and magazines throughout the nation. The main point of it was this, and it effects you because of where you live and where I’m standing right now. In the East of the map of America as I saw it, there arose a very dirty and evil cloud. Now this was in the end of
And then it began to drop rain, and small pools of rain formed over the map I saw. And the pools began to join with little rivers, and soon the whole nation was covered with beautiful clear and crystal water. Not only that, but out from the West Coast there appeared going through the sea, as I seemed to back off from the map, and the map became smaller, and the globe became bigger, there went through the sea silver arrows the same color as the cloud and the water from the West Coast, went through the sea to the nations of the East.
Now I’m not saying God is going to give America a revival because a little missionary from India saw a vision. But I want you to know that thing, that vision, that experience is as real to me today as when it happened over five years ago. The Bible says in Hosea 6:2, after two days He will revive us. This is the word of God, this is the promise of God, and I am persuaded that we are about to see in this nation of America, the greatest revival that the history of this nation has ever known.
1. I believe that we are about to see in this nation of America, the greatest revival that the history of this nation has ever known.
2. I believe that there is a restoration of praise and worship, such as we have never seen. I believe there is going to be right throughout the nation a tremendous, glorious, increase of praise and worship throughout the land. There is coming a tremendous increase in the presence of God in our meetings. We all know Psalms 22:3 that God inhabits, God dwells in the praises of His people. And I am persuaded that we are going to see some amazing things happen as we worship God. I want you to know, that when we have the presence of God in the meetings,
3. We are going to know the presence of God in communion. Communion is not a remembrance only. It is not something that is a form or a ritual. But I want you to know that God is going to restore, even as He is restoring water baptism, the truth of the presence of God at communion. It’s not a ritual, It’s an experience.
4. There is going to be in America, a tremendous restoration of the Tabernacle of David. For I have learned by experience that people are hungry and know that God has not finished yet. But I want you to know that we are going to see in all of it’s fullness the word of God of Amos 9:11 and Acts 15:16 restored.
5. There is going to be from America, the greatest missionary thrust that this world has ever known.
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