We Enter into a New Revival by Arriving at the Highest Peak of the Divine Revelation

As God’s people, we have an aspiration to be revived, and as those under the ministry of the age, we realize that we can enter into a new revival by arriving at the highest peak of the divine revelation given to us by God.

This week we come to a new series in our Holy Word for Morning Revival entitled, Vital Factors for the Lord’s Recovery of the Church Life (based on the messages released in the 2021 Spring ITERO).

We need to have the strengthening and the gaining of a fuller recovery of the church life everywhere, and in particular, there are some vital factors that are used by the Lord to further recover the church life.

Every one of these factors are vital to the uttermost; they are critical and strategic, and we shouldn’t presume that we know them but rather, receive the Lord’s new mercies and a new enlightening from the Spirit.

This week in particular we come to the topic of, The Factor of Cooperating with the Lord to Bring in a New Revival that will End this Age.

This expression, a new revival, was a burden in brother Lee in the mid-1990s, for he had the view and hope of ushering in a new revival in the Lord’s recovery, a revival that will bring this age to an end.

A new revival refers to the final and greatest revival.

We all need to have an aspiration to be revived, and we should pray to have and enter into such a revival in the local churches.

When we speak of a new revival, we need to realize that this includes three main things: arriving at the highest peak of the divine revelation, living the life of a God-man, and shepherding people according to God by being in the vital groups.

First, we need to arrive at the highest peak of the divine revelation, which is that God became a man so that man would become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead for God to gain a corporate expression in man and through man consummating in the New Jerusalem.

To have a new revival, we need to arrive at this highest peak of the divine revelation.

Also, to have a new revival we need to live the life of a God-man; the unique God-man is Christ, and He had a God-man living while He was on earth.

This living is a reality, a pattern for all of us, a mold for us to be conformed to in our Christian life and live as the Lord did.

May there be a desire and yearning in us to be revived and live a new revival; may we not only have this as a good thought or an inspiration but rather, may we apply these matters, take action, and practice them, so that a new revival would be our reality today.

We need to pray and practice these things; on one hand, we need to know, but on the other, we need to pray these matters to the Lord and practice them one with Him.

Furthermore, we need to persevere in our prayer for such a revival to come; we need to practice these things with perseverance and persistence, no matter the opposition and discouragement.

As God’s Elect, we have a Prayer and an Aspiration to be Revived: Lord, Revive Your Work in the Midst of the Years!

Among those chosen by God, there has always been an aspiration to be revived (see Hab. 3:2; Hosea 6:2; Rom. 8:20-22; Psa. 119:25, 50, 107, 154; John 6:57, 63; 2 Cor. 3:3, 6).

Habakuk prayed in 3:2 saying, Oh Jehovah, revive Your work in the midst of the years.

There is in all of the past ages, in all the past generations throughout the centuries, an aspiration to pray for revival.

This aspiration is like a seed planted in our spirit and heart so that we may pray, even not stop praying, for such a revival to come.

As long as a person is saved, he has a desire to be revived; every day, consciously or unconsciously, there’s an aspiration and a spontaneous prayer in each one of us that the Lord would revive us.

On one hand, the whole universe yearns and aspires for a revival, the revelation of the sons of God; on the other hand, we as believers in Christ, the people of God, aspire for a revival.

Through Adam’s fall, corruption came in, and the whole creation is enslaved to corruption unto death; everything around us is decaying, being under the slavery of corruption.

The whole creation aspires to be revived, groaning for the manifestation of the sons of God so that it may be delivered from the slavery of corruption.

Even more, as those chosen and regenerated by the Lord, we today have an aspiration to be revived.

We may be under some kind of element of decay, degradation, and corruption, and we may be in a condition of staleness, lukewarmness, oldness, deadness, and barrenness, not being vital and not being revived.

There is in all of us believers in Christ an aspiration to be revived, even a cry for revival.

And there is a prayer in us not only for us personally to be revived but even more, that the church would be revived; we pray that the Lord would revive our local church and all the local churches, and we pray that there would be a new revival brought forth in the recovery today.

May we bow our knees and pray for a new revival again and again; such prayers are not in vain but will be heard by the Lord, for He wants to bring in a new revival, even a great revival, the ultimate revival that will end this age.

Our prayer for a new revival affords the Lord our first cooperation with Him to bring in such an age-ending revival.

We need to have the reality of this revival in our midst; the element of such a revival is the resurrected Christ Himself.

We need to touch Christ, contact Christ, give Him the preeminence in our being, and afford Him the room in our being to spread and take over our inner being.

By doing so, we are brought through death and into resurrection with Himself as the element of a new revival. This revival will happen personally.

It is not a pentecostal thing from the sky or the ceiling, causing us to speak in tongues and do signs and wonders; we are talking about a genuine revival that is of the resurrection of Christ, a revival that only the resurrected Christ can bring about.

We need Him: we need to touch Him, let Him saturate and fill us, and give Him the preeminence; when this happens, revival is with us.

This is our need; we need to continue to have this aspiration to be revived and pray for a new revival,

Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years. Revive Your work among us. We give You the preeminence in our being. We come to contact You and we allow You to spread in all our inner being. Lord, revive us! Revive Your churches. Revive Your recovery. Revive all the saints! Save us from any element of decay, degradation, and corruption. Save us from any staleness, lukewarmness, oldness, deadness, and barrenness. Save us from being in a non-vital and non-revived condition. Oh Lord, enliven us according to Your word. Bring us into the enjoyment and experience of the resurrected Christ so that we may enter into a new revival. Amen, Lord, saturate us and fill us! Bring us into a new revival, even an age-ending revival, the ultimate revival!

We can Enter into a New Revival by Arriving at the Highest Peak of the Divine Revelation given to us by God

In the book of Job we see a great question of two parts, What is God’s purpose in His creation of man, and, What is God’s purpose in our suffering, that is, in God’s dealing with His chosen people?

The answer to this question of three parts has to do with God’s eternal economy, the mystery hidden in His heart, which is His desire to work Himself into us.

The highest peak of the divine revelation is the revelation of God’s economy.

We can enter into a new revival by arriving at the highest peak of the divine revelation given to us by God – the revelation of the eternal economy of God (1 Tim. 1:3-4; 1 Cor. 9:17; Acts 26:19, 22).

This is the great answer to the great question concerning God’s purpose in His creation of man and in His dealing with His chosen people (see Gen. 1:26; Job 10:13; cf. Eph. 3:9).

We need to know the high peak of the divine revelation and keep climbing this peak; we can’t say we know it – we may be able to say something about it, but we need to advance, climb, go higher, and pursue these things until we all arrive.

There is a mystery hidden in the heart of God – this is His eternal economy (Eph. 1:10; 3:9; 1 Tim. 1:4).

God’s economy is His eternal intention with His heart’s desire to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity into us, His chosen people, to be our life and nature, so that we may be the same as He is as His duplication to become an organism, the Body of Christ as the new man for God’s fullness and expression consummating in the New Jerusalem (Rom. 8:29; 1 John 3:2; Eph. 2:15-16; 1:22-23; 3:19; Rev. 21:2 – 22:5).

This is His heart’s desire and good pleasure: He simply wants to dispense Himself into His chosen and redeemed people to make them all the same as He is in life and nature, even to make them His duplication, that they may express Him.

For this, God Himself became a man; God became man to make man God in life and nature but not in the Godhead for the producing and building up of the Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem – this is the essence of the entire Bible, even the “diamond” in the “box” of the Bible, that is, the eternal economy of God (Gen. 1:26; John 12:24; Rom. 8:29).

We see this both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. In 2 Sam. 7:12 God promises David a seed, which is the seed of David; then, He calls this seed as His Son, saying that He will be His Father and this seed will be His Son (v. 14).

A human seed becomes the Son of God – this is amazing!

This implies that God’s intention is to make Himself man in order to make man God in life and nature but not in the Godhead.

God’s heart desire is to become a man to court man on the level of humanity so that man would fall in love with Him and desire to be with HIm and like Him.

Then, through His death and resurrection, Jesus’ humanity was uplifted into the divine sonship through the power in the Spirit of holiness (see Rom. 1:3-4).

So God became man in Jesus Christ (John 1:1, 14), and through death and resurrection, this man became God and was brought into glory.

Christ was born of God not as God’s only begotten Son but as God’s firstborn Son (Rom. 8:29), and we as the many sons follow Him.

God became man through incarnation by participating in man’s humanity; now we as men become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead through regeneration and transformation by participating in God’s divinity (see John 1:14; 2 Cor. 3:18; Col. 3:4; 2 Pet. 1:4; Phil. 2:5; Rom. 8:29; Heb. 2:10; Eph. 1:5; Rom. 8:19; 1 John 3:2; John 1:12-13).

This is the high peak of the divine revelation, and when we arrive at this high peak, we will have a new revival.

Through being born again we men are born of God; God regenerates us with His life, and He takes us through a process of transformation so that we may partake of God’s nature to become the same as Christ, even to be His many brothers.

When we are regenerated, our spirit is born of God; through transformation, our soul is being renewed and transformed to match the Lord, and eventually, through transfiguration, we will be fully made in His image.

This is also a divine-human romance – God fell in love with man, He became a man, and He draws us to follow Him and receive Him, thus entering the life-long process of transformation for us to become the same as Christ.

The divine romance is the subject of the Bible, the content of God’s economy, and the secret of the entire universe (Song of Songs 1:1; 6:14; cf. Hab. 1:1; 2:4; Rom. 1:17).

Christ is divine and human, and we as His transformed lover are human and divine, thus being the same in life and nature, matching one another in a perfect way.

Hallelujah, the Triune God is consummated to be the Husband, and we as the tripartite men are transformed to be the bride so that together w may be one couple, a corporate, great God-man (Rev. 21:2, 9; 22:17).

May we all arrive at the high peak of the divine revelation so that we may enter into a new revival in a practical way.

Lord Jesus, we want to enter into a new revival by arriving at the highest peak of the divine revelation given to us by God. Thank You for becoming man through incarnation so that You may make us the same as You are through transformation! Hallelujah, God became man so that man might become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead for the producing and building up of the Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem! Wow, man can become God because God Himself became a man and, as a man, He entered into the divine sonship. Bring us all on with You, Lord, in the lifelong process of transformation until we match You fully in Your life, nature, expression, and appearance, but not in the Godhead! We give ourselves to You to arrive at the highest peak of the divine revelation so that we may enter into a new revival!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by Minoru Chen for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “Crystallization-study of Song of Songs,” pp. 325-326, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Vital Factors for the Lord’s Recovery of the Church Life (2021 ITERO), week 1, The Factor of Cooperating with the Lord to Bring In a New Revival That Will End This Age.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Revive Thy work, O Lord! / Now to Thy saints appear! / Oh, speak with power to every soul, / And let Thy people hear! / Revive Thy work, O Lord! / While here to Thee we bow; / Descend, O gracious Lord, descend! / Oh, come, and bless us now! (Hymns #798)
  – Lord, oh come unto me; / Visit me anew; / Bring me true revival, / All my ease undo. / Break down all my barr’ers; / Lift my spirit high / That I may use Your life, / Healing those who cry. (Song on, Lord, oh come unto me)
  – What miracle! What mystery! / That God and man should blended be! / God became man to make man God, / Untraceable economy! / From His good pleasure, heart’s desire, / His highest goal attained will be. / From His good pleasure, heart’s desire, / His highest goal attained will be. (Song on, What miracle! What mystery!)