Fertile Ground For Christianity

The Washington Post reported today that according to the Pew research polling service the number of Americans who describe themselves as having no religious affiliation at all has increased from 18% to 23% since 1990. This represents a decline in the overall percentage of those who consider themselves to be "Christians" from some 86% to about 71% in roughly the same time period. Catholicism has lost at the rate of 6 to 1 of every person who says they were raised Catholic, but switched to other faiths in adulthood, verses new converts. The Post's view on these findings was alarm at what appears to be a trend away from the Christian faith. I have to disagree.

I sense that God is setting this nation up for a wonderful Revival that is prophecied to come in the "Latter Days" (see Joel, chapter 2). The prophecy is very general about the location of the Revival, but with modern video technology, I suspect that whatever happens in one part of the world will quickly spread to the rest of the world as well. With all the unrepentant sin in the world, especially here in America, I'd have to say that we certainly have a situation that resembles the fertile fields of the typical farmer, after he has spread all of the stored up manure he has collected over the past year, from all his horses, cows, pigs, and whatever animals he has, and spreads it all over his fields to enrich the soil before planting the seed. I suspect that God is allowing these people who have turned away from formal "Religiosity", thinking that that was as good as God had to offer them, to give them time to try living in a world without God at all. They will soon find that they are incapable of controlling their own lives, and when they become desperate for something that offers real direction, and hope, they will be ready to receive the real God of Christianity (His name is Jesus), and not the pretend God of structured "Religiosity". That's when we could see a glorious revival break out all over the land, which could easily spread throughout the world, especially through Christian television.

I would have to say that now is the perfect time for all born-again Christians to spend as much time as they can spare on their knees, praying that God will bring all this to pass, just as He has prophecied it to be. All He's waiting for is enough of us to agree with His plans before He brings it all to Pass!