As the Body of Christ, we are living in the days of resurrection life. We shall witness the unprecedented display of God’s resurrection power and manifestation in our generation. Because with the Lord a thousand years is like one day (2 Pet 3:8, NASB), and we live in the 3rd millennium since of the Advent of Christ, we as a church have entered into the 3rd day of church-age. The 3rd day represents the resurrection of Christ, the display of the resurrection power of God. We are the generation called to demonstrate the resurrection power of God to the world before Jesus’ return.

The foundational truths (Heb 6:1-2) are being restored to the Church of Jesus Christ.

Repentance from Dead Works – In the 1500s, the Protestant Reformation helped the Church rediscover the grace of God and was delivered from dead works, tradition, bondages and non-biblical religious practices that were heaped upon the church during the Dark Ages.

Faith Towards God – This came about during the 1800s through the Holiness movement. Before this justification by faith was taught to the point of neglecting the work of sanctification, which also required faith towards God. The Holiness movement restored that truth, and taught that faith in God produces a life experience of victory over worldly and fleshly desires.

Baptisms And Laying On of Hands – In the early 1900s, the Pentecostal Movement restored the truth of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the gift of speaking in other tongues. In the 1940s the Latter Rain Movement restored the truth of the impartation of the gifts of the Spirit through the laying on of hands. Healing and deliverance ministries arose, as well as a restoration of the ministry of the prophetic. These two movements later combined into an international Charismatic Movement that crossed national and denominational boundaries.

Prophetically, we are in the generation that sees the restoration of the truth of the resurrection of the dead. Then will come the eternal judgment, when Christ returns. The unprecedented hunger for the supernatural in this generation, shown in the obsession with the occult, black magic and spiritual matters, reveals the hunger for an encounter with the God of the supernatural.

The Church on the whole has been trapped in a form of godliness but denying its power (2 Tim 3:5). It began in the Protestant Reformation when the Reformers taught that gospel miracles were performed to give Jesus public authority, and that mature and spiritual Christians had no need of miraculous evidence. Their theology was formulated with a very strong anti-supernatural bias, and that was an overreaction to the excess and errors of the Roman Catholic Church of their day. This bias allowed the spirit of the Anti-Christ to creep into Protestant thinking.

But because of the restoration of the truths of God's supernatural working, we are going to witness the unprecedented display and manifestations of God’s goodness, glory, power, supernatural signs, wonders and miracles. The Church will grow from a powerless church to a glorious Body of Christ full of God’s presence, glory and power.

Church history shows us that there will be those who would harden their hearts and resist revival. Some may even be deceived to stand on the side of the devil to resist it and even to fight it. Others will embrace it and allow Jesus to bring them to new territory, where they have not been before (Jos 3:4). This generation's hunger for the supernatural will cause people to seek fulfillment in the occult, witchcraft, drugs and other things of the devil unless we believers can show them the supernatural power of God. And when the devil presents lying signs to deceive people (2 The 2:9), that should not cause us to reject the signs and wonders of God. The Egyptian sorcerers could imitate Aaron turning his staff into a serpent, and though the signs seemed similar the source of the power was different (Exo 7:10-12).

In order to prepare ourselves for this season we need to immerse ourselves in the Word of God and follow the cloud of God's spirit (Exo 40:36-37). We are also to participate in the ministry, serving God's people and to be grafted into a community with the life of God. Isolation is of the devil, and God teaches us to walk in forgiveness in order to live in community (Eph 4:31-32).

Points to ponder:

1. Why was there an anti-supernatural bias within the church? How does God want us to overcome this?
2. Is there a heavenly vision God has placed in your heart that you have ignored, forgotten or you believe you have been disqualified from because of your past mistakes?