Smith Wigglesworth's (1947) prophecy concerning the coming move of the Holy Spirit.
Comment: This is not Pacific
Northwest-centric, but it speaks to issues that we are in the midst of right
now.
We appear to be in the midst of the second movement now. Per this prophecy, the
next step is “the Word and the Spirit [coming] together.” We are seeing this
beginning in the Northwest.
TWO
DISTINCT MOVES
During
the next few decades there will be two distinct moves of the Holy Spirit across
the church in Great Britain .
The first move will affect every church that is open to receive it and will be
characterized by a restoration of the baptism and gifts of the Holy Spirit. The
second move of the Holy Spirit will result in people leaving historic churches
and planting new churches. In the duration of each of these moves, the people
who are involved will say ‘This is the great revival’. But the Lord says ‘No,
neither is this the great revival but both are steps towards it.
WORD
AND SPIRIT
When
the new church phase is on the wane, there will be evidenced in the churches something
that has not been seen before: a coming together of those with an emphasis on the
Word and those with an emphasis on the Spirit. When the Word and the Spirit
come together, there will be the biggest movement of the Holy Spirit that the
nation, and indeed the world, has ever seen. It will mark the beginning of a
revival that will eclipse anything that has been witnessed within these shores,
even the Wesleyan and the Welsh revivals of former years. The outpouring of God’s
Spirit will flow over from the UK
to the mainland of Europe , and from there will
begin a missionary move to the ends of the earth.
I
believe that the desire of God is for many to receive not only the Holy Spirit
but obey all the truths within His word. This includes not only the gifts of
the Apostles but their teachings of One Lord (Jesus alone is Lord of all things
according to Acts 10:36), One faith (The faith delivered once unto the early
saints of God as Jude wrote for all to earnestly contend for), and One baptism
(the name of Jesus is the only way to God whereby we must be saved by and to be
used in all things - see John 14:6; Acts 4:12;Colossians 3:17). When the
Apostles were of One mind and accord then the world began to change as the Holy
Spirit moved. One day men will walk away from the traditions of men. Then they
will agree upon the Oneness of God as being unified in the same spirit and
baptism. God is moving to bring all things to a promised and expected conclusion.
Wait upon the Lord and He shall renew your strength. I believe this is His
message for His church.
Smith’s word is archived on Scribd.