We stated before that Antichrist is being given power to interfere with our prayers. Previously it may have been sufficient to pray once or twice and then believe God has spoken to us. This amount of alertness no longer is sufficient. We must keep continually before the Lord.

Some will lose their place in God's army because at a critical point in their life they will not keep carefully before the Lord. A certain aspect of their personality will be left unjudged. They will justify the evil in themselves. They will be deceived. They have served the Lord for many years and they trust in God; but the spiritual evil of the last days will deceive them.

The standard of prayer and holiness of time past is no longer adequate. Ours is a new day. The rewards available now are greater than ever before. The spiritual dangers also are greater than ever before.

There will take place in the near future the most powerful of all revivals. The sovereign intervention of God will prevail until the Gospel of the Kingdom has been preached to every nation as a witness of the soon coming of the rule of Christ to the earth.

During the latter-rain revival the governmental, social, and economic processes will be arrested sufficiently to allow God's witnesses to proclaim the message from God. The latter-rain revival will take place before the Lord returns.

In the middle of the week the Lord God will withdraw the power of the witness. The earth will be filled with nominal Christians.

Now the abundance of sin, the great tribulation era, and the shallowness of many believers will combine to cause the love of the majority to grow cold.

Soon the true saints will be driven from the cities of the earth—harassed by the government and also by the leaders of organized Christianity ("Babylon the Great").

The elect Jews are to flee from Israel as Antichrist goes into the rebuilt Temple and sits between the wings of the cherubim, declaring he is God.

We believe the elect Jews and Gentiles will meet in wilderness areas of the earth that have been designated for them (Revelation 12:14). All through the second half of the "week" the power of deliverance will reside in the remnant. God never will leave Himself without representatives in the earth.

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call. (Joel 2:32)

God will put a protective covering over the assemblies of saints.

And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. (Isaiah 4:5)

To be continued.