Quote Source – Pastor Lance Wallnau
A Biblical Christian worldview perspective – Webster defines these terms as:
- Reformation – “The act of putting an end to an evil by enforcing or introducing a better method or course of action.”
- Revival – “A renewed attention to or interest in something.”
- Movement – “A series of organized activities working toward an objective.”
So, in order to make a truly permanent change (reform) or long-term impact on the evil that exists in the world, one must experience more than simply a passing interest (revival) in a Biblical Christian worldview. Otherwise, as needed and desirable as revival is, Wallnau considers that it remains just “a series of organized activities” pointing toward God. As Christians, we know from history that revivals do come and go as man’s attraction to a living and active God cycles over time.
Ultimately, we will not experience a taste of what complete and total reformation looks like (“putting an end to evil by introducing a better course of action”) until Christ returns during His millennial reign.
Revelation 20:1-3 – Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended…
And a final reformation of the Saints will not be in place until the New Heaven is our home.
Revelation 21:1 – Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
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