Let me share with you what Reinhard Bonnke said in his book “Evanglism by Fire”. Reinhard Bonnke is a firey German evangelist with a love for souls spreading the flames of revival in Africa.
”‘Little children, it is the last hour . . .’ (1 John 2:18). I know that it seems that this hour has lasted very long, as John wrote those words nineteen hundred years ago. But don’t let that fact confuse you. Of one thing we can be certain –if it was the last hour then, it most certainly is now! If John were writing today he probably would write, ‘Little children, it is the last second of the last hour.’
“When John wrote this verse, he was watching God’s clock, not ours. Its hands have not stood still. How long will God’s hour last, measured by earthly time-keeping methods? The one thing we know is that we don’t know how near we are to the end. ‘But of that day and hour no one knows,’ Jesus said in Matthew 24:36. It is obvious, however, that we are much closer to the end every day. Paul saw it that way too: ‘Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed’ (Rom. 13:11).
“Somebody once said that most people live as if this life were a permanent arrangement. The Bible’s message is that our days are ‘numbered’ –not numberless. There is actually only time for the important things. I am thinking about the Church of Jesus Christ in particular. People often point out that life consists of a thousand details, but the minor must not outweigh the major. The Church is to concern itself with one aim–the war with Satan and the campaign for souls.
“The great quality of Jesus is that He came when the Father sent Him. And the great quality about us should be that we go when Jesus sends us. ‘As the Father has sent Me, I also send you’ (John 20:21). The Church should plan to neglect anything which interferes with going.” *
I will let Reinhard’s quote above speak for itself.
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*pp. 37, 38, Evangelism by Fire, by Reinhard Bonnke; (c) 1993, 1996 by Reinhard Bonnke.
