恢復真理─啟示錄
在撒狄的教會（1400-1844）被稱為是死的，儘管按名他們是活的，所以他們被勸誡要警醒，堅固那剩下的。這是對黑暗時代迷失教會重建相對停滯的時期，但教會回應了主的警醒呼喚。接下來的教會時期是最值得注意的一個，在啟示錄三章7-12節提到：
你要寫信給非拉鐵非教會的使者，說：那聖潔、真實、拿著大衛的鑰匙、開了就沒有人能關、關了就沒有人能開的，說：
我知道你的行為，你略有一點力量，也曾遵守我的道，沒有棄絕我的名。看哪，我在你面前給你一個敞開的門，是無人能關的。
那撒但一會的，自稱是猶太人，其實不是猶太人，乃是說謊話的，我要使他們來，在你腳前下拜，也使他們知道我是已經愛你了。
你既遵守我忍耐的道，我必在普天下人受試煉的時候，保守你免去你的試煉。
我必快來，你要持守你所有的，免得人奪去你的冠冕。
得勝的，我要叫他在我神殿中作柱子，他也必不再從那裡出去。我又要將我神的名和我神城的名（這城就是從天上、從我神那裡降下來的新耶路撒冷），並我的新名，都寫在他上面。
此時期從 1844年的復臨運動到1990年中期，期間看到教會歷史真理和生命恢復的最大躍進。大復興像浪潮一樣席捲全地，幾乎觸摸到基督的整個身體。其中兩個對全世界最驚人的影響，就是威爾斯大復興與阿蘇撒街大復興，進而蛻變為五旬節復興。這兩大復興發生在二十世紀初期，同時間誕生猶太復國運動，猶太人重新拿回他們的應許之地。1948年以色列成為一個國家，同時間也看見非凡的醫治復興、春雨復興與佈道復興，由葛理翰打先鋒。1967年靈恩更新開始，聖靈的洗澆灌在每個教派，同一年猶太人在六日戰爭中重新得回耶路撒冷。
聖靈的更新誕生了更多教會、更多高度影響力的事工，帶領更多人信主，在歷史上遠勝過任何神先前的運作。由羅拔士、帕特·羅伯遜、金貝克、克勞氏（Paul and Jan Crouch）夫婦等人所帶頭的電視事工，讓這一切變得更容易。他們將舞台給予不同的事工，讓彼此能聆聽其他運動正在做、正在說的事，基督身體因此開始了前所未有的交流，這仍在持續中。
金貝克夫婦尤其致力於接待來自任何教派的任何事工，他們的全美傳承會（Heritage USA）成為美國的第三大熱門景點，每年有超過六百萬的基督徒從世界各地與各教派造訪。在全美傳承會裡，來自不同背景的基督徒彼此相遇，開始了對基督不同肢體的欣賞與敬重。這真是『兄弟相愛』的時期，也正是『非拉鐵非』的意思。
這也點燃了全世界的復興、召聚了許多新信徒，估計在這十六年（從1988-2006）的信主人數多過先前的教會時期（從五旬節到此時）。當然，部分原因是這段時間地球有更多人口。然而，這是歷史上最多新信徒進入基督身體的時期。
在此靈魂召聚的顛峰，估計全世界每天有37萬5千人重生得救，多半發生在東歐、亞洲、中南美洲和非洲，開始了許多人所認為的『末世大收割』。
在1987年，我領受了為期二天半的全貌性異象，神讓我看見末世會發生的大收割（此異象記錄在我的著作『收割異象—將臨的末世大復興』一書中。在此異象中，神讓我看見會有二波大召聚橫掃全地，第一波將成為史上最大的召聚，大到許多人以為這就是最後的大收割，其實不然。第一波是在為下一個更大的收割召聚工人。
在此異象中，神讓我看見在第一波召聚後會有一段相當安靜的時刻，教會需要為下一波收割來預備，現在我們正看見下一波收割的徵兆開始了。在此異象最後，收割仍在持續進行與成長，所以我並沒有看到世界末了。
(摘自喬納 word for the week,Week49, 2016)
Recovering the Truth—The Book of Revelation
Week 49, 2016
Rick Joyner
The Church at Sardis (1400-1844) was proclaimed to be dead even though they had a name that they were alive, and so they were exhorted to wake up and strengthen what remained. This was a period of relative stagnation in the restoring to the church what had been lost through the Dark Ages. Yet the church responded to its wake-up call from the Lord. The next church period was one of the most remarkable, as addressed in Revelation 3:7-12:
"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, 'These things says He who is holy, He who is true, "He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens":
"I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.
Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.
He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.
The period from the 1844 Advent Movement to about the mid-1990s saw some of the greatest advances in the recovery of truth and life in church history. Great revivals came like waves that swept over much of the earth and touched virtually the entire body of Christ. Two of the most spectacular for worldwide impact were the Welsh Revival and the Azusa Street Revival, which morphed into the Pentecostal Revival. These two took place at the beginning of the 20th century and coincided with the birth of the Zionist Movement for the Jews to retake their Promised Land. 1948, the year Israel was declared a nation, also saw the Extraordinary Healing Revival, the Latter Rain Revival, and Evangelistic Revival, spearheaded by the emergence of Billy Graham. In 1967, The Charismatic Renewal began, during which baptism in the Holy Spirit was poured out on virtually every denomination. This also coincided with the Jewish retaking of Jerusalem in the Six Day War.
The Charismatic Renewal gave birth to more churches, more high-impact ministries, and led to more salvations than any previous move of God in history. It was also the seedbed for unprecedented unity in the body of Christ. Much of this was facilitated by the emergence of television ministries spearheaded by Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker, Paul and Jan Crouch, and others. These gave a platform to those from many denominations, enabling those from different denominations to hear what other movements were doing and saying. Thus began an unprecedented interchange throughout the body of Christ that has continued.
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker were especially devoted to hosting any ministry from any denomination on their hugely popular daily PTL program. Heritage USA became the third biggest attraction in America—up to six million Christians visited a year from possibly every nation and denomination. At Heritage USA, Christians from different backgrounds met other Christians from different backgrounds and an appreciation and respect for the different parts of the body began. This truly was an age of “brotherly love,” the meaning of the name “Philadelphia.”
This also sparked a worldwide revival and ingathering of new believers, and it was estimated that more people came to the Lord in a sixteen-year period (from 1988-2006) than had come to Him in the previous church age (from the Day of Pentecost until that time). Of course, this was somewhat due to there being as many people alive on the earth as had lived from the first century of the church until now. Nonetheless, it was the largest ingathering of new believers into the body of Christ by far in history.
During the peak of this ingathering it was estimated that about 375,000 people were born again every day worldwide. Most of this took place in eastern Europe, Asia, South and Central America, and Africa, beginning what many considered “the harvest that is the end of the age.”
In 1987, I received a panoramic vision over a two and a half day period in which I was shown the harvest that would make the end of this age (this vision is recorded in my book, The Harvest). In this vision, I was shown two waves of ingathering that would sweep over the earth. The first would be the biggest ingathering in history, so great that many would consider it to be the last harvest, but it was not. The first one was the gathering of the laborers for the next one that would be much bigger.
In this vision, I was shown that there would be a time of relative quiet after the first wave that the church would need to get ready for the next wave. We have been in this period of relative quiet for almost twenty years, and we are seeing signs of the next wave beginning. When this vision ended, the harvest was still going on and growing, so I did not see the end of the age.