The Great Restoration

There is a great restoration that is unfolding before our very eyes, and God will do exactly the way He wants it to be according to his purpose and will. He will restore whatever we have lost in following him, he will restore Israel, he will restore the beauty and serenity of the earth which man have destroyed against his environment, and he will continuously restore the relationship between man and God. Mark 10:29-30, Isaiah 65 and 66, Zechariah 12, 13 and 14

In Job 42:10-17 declares the restoration of God to job over the things which he had lost during his great trials. God has restores twice more than what he had before. We know that this trial could be his downfall if Job didn’t remain faithful to his God in the face of these severe testing. It has been said that his pain and agony over his trials and overwhelming misfortunes is extremely beyond what ordinary person could bear. His testimony as being told, goes beyond what our physical being could stand, it is said that Job even take the maggots back in those opened boils over his body. He even anoints himself with ashes and sits on a pot to find some comfort or lessen the pain cause by the boils on his buttocks.

The book of Genesis records the fall of man in chapter 3 and the great flood in chapter 6, in which God made a promised of restoration in all these events. In the book of Exodus Israel during their Egyptian bondage was promised of their liberty and freedom and the restoration of the Promised Land given by God to the descendant of Abraham. God restored the land to his people and even stretched forth the boundaries far and wider more than the former. Many historical events during the time of the kings and prophets declares the wonderful works of God and the great restorations He is doing whenever His people humble themselves and turn to God in prayer as they were promised during the time of Solomon. (1 Kings 8)

Beyond the material, physical and political restoration, the spiritual restoration is so much overlook that when God send His Begotten Son his people fail to understand the purpose and of his plan, and blindness in part has happen to Israel and have cause the death of their awaited Messiah. Because of this Israel were put in judgment and were found guilty of the blood of their messiah, leaving themselves without the protection of God, therefore Israel were destroyed as prophesied and those that have survived the siege were taken as slaves and have been scattered to the four corners of the earth. But this blindness will be taken away from Israel in due time (Romans 11) and they will finally acknowledge that Jesus or Yeshua is their long awaited messiah whom they had put to death and they will mourn with a great mourning as prophesied. (Zechariah 12:10)

I certainly believed that this is happening at this very time I am writing this article. In 2006 a well respected Jewish Rabbi have testify before his death that he had met the Messiah and have talked to him about the Messiah’s apparent return or coming to Israel. And every Jew that lived were shocked when Rabbi Yitzhact Saduri wrote the acronyms of the name of the Messiah in a note he has personally written before his death and have to be read a year after his death. And the acronym spelled the name of YEHOSHUA or YESHUA which is Jesus in English. According to the article reported by two Jewish scholars and journalist, Rabbi Saduri told his followers that the return of the Messiah in Israel will be after the death of Israel former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who suffered a serious stroke back in 2006 and remain in a state of coma up to this point of time, and that is a staggering 5 years. In due time we will see how God will do the great restoration for his people Israel and He will show his faithfulness to his covenant to his people Israel. I certainly believed that numbers of Jew are beginning to see who really the Messiah they are waiting for because these Jew will be the people in whom God will be protecting for against the invading Gentile armies in the battle of Armageddon. (Zechariah 14, Ezekiel 38, Revelation 7)

The church had started well in the time of the apostles, but as warn by Apostle Paul about the coming apostasy creeping within the church, Acts 20:29-30, Galatians 1, 2thessalonians 2: 3, Matthew 24, Revelation 2 and 3, and that antichrist and the mystery of iniquity have fought and brought many to martyrdom and some to apostasy, making the true church stripped of its glory and rightful place and push down to the very base make believe the true Christians stripped of their true power and spiritual gifts necessary for the growth of the church. Apparently this is the mission of Satan and his cohorts who is to destroy at all cost the church and the church. The well known church redeemed and purchased by the precious blood of the Lamb was replaced by a counterfeit apostate church in which all his doctrine is all abominable and a direct transgression of the word of God. (Revelation 17 and 18) Many doctrines in the bible were changes and the One God belief of the scripture was change to the doctrine of the Trinity making the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit as separate and distinct Person in the Godhead, Marian worship, idolatry in which graven image were given prominent name like of the name of the apostles and crosses bearing the image of a man nailed on the cross is revered and set on church altars, purgatory, priesthood or clergy and papal authority which eventually received by Christendom or otherwise face the gravest penalty of being a Heretic and be put to death. Many other strange doctrines were instituted and implemented by forced. Today, no Jew with knowledge of the Torah could say that trinity and these strange church doctrines of our time are based on the original teachings of the Bible. But I know and I believe the original teachings is being restored by God and it begins right in the reformation age of John Calvin and of the Wesley brothers and of Martin Luther, but the grandest is the in the early 1900 in which the baptism of the holy ghost happens to the group of believers in Azusa St, L.A California in which great revelation about the original doctrine of the early church has been taught and preached. God is restoring the glory of the Church before the day of His coming and the taking away of the true church. All these apostasy which made a great falling away within the church will be preceded by the appearing of the man of sin, the antichrist which will govern this world for seven years period, 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and he will lead the armies of the world in the great battle of Armageddon in Israel, surely Jesus will return to protect his people and the thousands and thousands of his saints will be with him to fight and restore everything which he has purpose for his people. (Revelation 16)

As a Christian we are being robbed by the enemy of our rights and blessings like Job, we are being cast down, and even we all strived and do our best to keep and have a decent living we are often fallen short of our finances and we don’t know the reasons why. Know this my friend, Satan will do everything in his power to make the true believers destitute with financial and material blessings specially if he knows that you will use it in the ministry. But do not be dismayed, but like Paul we have to fight the good fight of faith, rather than focusing yourself on problems focus on serving God more, yes we can be destitute of the things apparently belong and rightful to us, but I know in due time God will restore everything the enemy is taking from us. The time is at hand and everything is now ready and any moment, when the trumpet will sound then at the twinkling of an eye we will all fly away and meet the Lord in the air. Then and only then shall we know certainly the good things God has prepared for us and whatever you have lost in following Jesus will be restored more than what you have in the beginning. Like Job he will restore everything twice or hundredfold.

Isa_64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

1Co_2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Rom 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Mar 10:28 Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.

Mar 10:29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,

Mar 10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

John Hyde; the Man Behind The great Revival in India

John Hyde; the Man behind the Great Revival in India

It has been said and proved that prayer is the key to church revival. But this bold truth, is most of the times neglected among church programs and activities and prayer are often the least and last priority in the life of modern Christian. Today’s church is more on social gatherings and sad to say the art of prayer have no part for this, making modern Christian prayer less and powerless. This sad fact about prayerlessness makes not only a Christian destitute of power of God but the Church as whole. The dry services, the backsliding among Christian, poverty and spiritual dryness are some of the sad fact of having few prayers, weepers, intercessors, and prayer groaners. it is resolved then that to have the church growing and in fiery revival we have to go back to the old ways of prayer and start again to bend our knees in prayer, to break and filled our hearts with burning compassion for the lost world and be indwell once again by the holy spirit that will empower us like before. If we're going to reflect in history, prayer was the best weapon in the arsenal of the Christian for the great revival and spiritual victory we all longing for in our time, the only question for us to answer is when are we going to pray?

John Hyde proves it well that prayer unlocks the power of God to move not only for an individual but to the whole nation. This unsung hero of faith, John Hyde, was born in November of 1865, and departed to his heavenly home in February of 1912. This man of prayer was Elijah-like! He talked to God. He listened to God! He pleaded with God! He wept before God! He stayed literally for hours until he got answers from God! This man had his Gethsemane experiences, wrestling, weeping, and waiting, alone with His Master. Moses-like, his countenance shone unknown to him. He was like the conquering eagle, soaring into the heavenly sanctuary, intimate with His God as he lived in another world, the heavenly! His spiritual hunger had swallowed up his physical appetite and desire! One day a missionary was talking to a young Hindu who had become acquainted with Mr. Hyde. The Hindu said, "Do you know, sir, that Mr. Hyde seems to me like God." In this he was not far from the truth. We are geared in our thinking to judge by activity! By success! By how many homes we visit! How many contacts we make during the day! We discipline ourselves to fulfill our duties and perform our responsibilities. These are good qualities and needful, and we would never minimize this but encourage their importance. But have we not learned that the greatest weapon in our entire spiritual arsenal is the unparalleled weapon of prayer? It is powerful, potent, and foundational to all service. Godly Hyde lived with God and visited men. His temporary abode was here but his permanent abode was in heaven. The Aramaic translation of Psalm 91:1 is excellent: "He that chooses as his permanent abode the sacred place of the Most High shall always be in touch with the Almightiness of God." The intercessions of this spiritual giant are worthy of our attention.

Many a revival in India can be traced back to "praying Hyde" and many a preacher was touched and changed by being in contact with such a prayer warrior. Dr. Chapman, a great evangelist, said that it was a season of prayer with Mr. Hyde that left an indelible imprint upon his soul as to the necessity of this mighty weapon of prayer. He climaxed his remarks by saying, "I owe more to praying Hyde than to any man, as I understood what a real consecrated life is." Hundreds in India could attest to the same. In the early church some were blessed by Peter’s shadow in a literal way and almost a century ago some were spiritually touched and changed in the shadow of praying Hyde. This kind of vessel is worth more than a thousand active servants who fail in the art of prayer. Let the younger generation read carefully the works of the late E. M. Bounds on the subject of prayer. Titles such as the "Power of Prayer," "Possibilities of Prayer," and "The Pursuit of Prayer," if read carefully, could make us feel like pygmies in this needful and vital realm. Let us remind our readers, that this is not written for some supposedly "super-believers," but for all believers. Prayer should be our native air! It may be hard work, but it is heart work! It may be a deep sigh! But the sweetness of communion with God is the greatest of all service this side of glory. Praying Hyde was always laboring in prayer! Maybe this is why so many neglect this spiritual activity, the cost of LABOR! His motto could be well summed up in the words of Psalm 77:13: "Thy way O God is in the sanctuary."

His life was molded under the roof of a praying father. His father was a man of vision and passion. With the spiritual telescope to his eye, he prayed for laborers to be thrust out into the vast harvest field. Young John met the Master and a life-transforming change took place.

It has been recorded that John Hyde could have reached for the sky academically, but instead he reached for spiritual heights, the dwelling place of God. Across the horizon of his soul there swept the compelling need for the lost from America to India. He had a crisis in life where he labored before God as to his path and a great battle ensued as to embarking as a missionary to India. When he got the answer from God, the battle was won and he became "a surrendered servant" to the will of his Lord.

What motivated this warrior of the Cross was his deep love for Christ. Indeed, he recorded that he promised the Lord he would not share his affection with another, and gave ALL to Christ. What devotion! His love for the souls of the perishing was deep and real. He saw men wearing his clothes, which had been stolen from him, but he never called them to account lest they would be driven away from Christ. Fellow-missionaries misunderstood him. He was so Christ-like that someone was sent to watch for his faults to publish them and break his influence over the people. Under pretense of being an enquirer after the Christian religion, a man was welcomed to stay with Mr. Hyde. After four days he ran away and confessed, "He has no fault; he is like God." When he was deceived and robbed, he prayed for those who had wronged him. Through love he wooed and won converts to Christ. It was not uncommon for this noble servant to take off his coat and give it to a needy native. It was his self-sacrifice that won for him a way into the Indian heart. How could they turn away from such a man’s Savior? Before a great revival in Calcutta, praying Hyde spent thirty days and nights in prayer! This is almost unbelievable! But it happened! God opened the windows of heaven and poured out everlasting blessing!

He was known in his sleepless nights to plead with the Almighty. Shaken with sobs he cried, "O God, give me souls or I die!" One favorite text, "Look on the fields…. They are white…. the laborers are few…………. PRAY!" Is there not a lesson in this brief meditation? We are in danger of deserted prayer closets! Formal prayer meetings! Parrot prayers! But praying in the Holy Spirit, sometimes with groaning that cannot be uttered - is this lost art? That love consistently was manifested, and when confined to bed or in a wheelchair, he continued in holy intercession. His love for India never wavered. One has recorded, "He went a long way into the suffering of India, and had desperate encounters with her foes, but God gave him wonderful vision and victory!"

What give such success to this remarkable man? There could be a number of answers to this question. One avenue he followed with relentless pursuit was "holiness." What was said by the great woman to her husband concerning Elisha, "Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God," is true of John Hyde. "There is no power in the world as irrepressible as the power of personal holiness." While it may seem blunt, it is nonetheless true: "Self must not only be dead but buried out of sight, for the stench of the unburied self-life will frighten souls away from Jesus." Praying Hyde sought practical and daily sanctification that he might be that vessel unto honor. Witnesses are many to the saintliness of this beloved servant of Jesus Christ. We trust this will be a timely message to all who read. There is a great danger that we could have the external activities with dead formality, but the heart far removed from a devoted and holy life, and this is a tragedy! May John Hyde’s life stir up our affection to Christ, to holy living and to increased prayer life.

Praying Hyde had nineteen fruitful years in India. After a stay in England he arrived in New York in 1911, and in 1912 God called him home. His last words as he was about to enter the heavenly portals have re-echoed throughout India, "Bo, Yisu Masih, Ki Jai" which is "Shout the victory of Jesus Christ." He was buried in Carthage, Illinois, where the funeral service was conducted from the same pulpit where he answered, as a young man, the call of God through his father’s challenging message and pleading prayer to send workers to the ripened harvest – John Hyde was the answer to that prayer! One of his classmates wrote: "No saint of the Church was ever beyond him in holiness. He verily gave his life for India."

Saints we have work to do, mission to accomplish, enemy land to conquer, great things to achieve, battles to be won, and victory and revival is waiting for us. Let’s put off the work of the flesh, the sins, the division, the prayerlessness, the schism and let us work hand in hand, side by side with the power of the Holy Spirit working mightily in our lives through our prayerfulness like John Hyde, who gave his life for the ministry in India, “when shall we give our lives for others?”