The timing of the San Francisco earthquake and the Azusa Street Revival are not coincidence. Below is one account, there are many more:

http://www.smithwigglesworth.com/pensketches/daughters.htm

Meetings were transferred to the former African Methodist Episcopal
Church at 312 Azusa Street. During the next few days as they were
renovating the lumber store the first convert was recorded. One of the
women who were cleaning the building had one of the workmen down on his
knees and he was soundly converted before the place was opened.

On Easter Sunday morning (April 15th) Jennie Evans Moore took the
Asbery’s to Smale’s church. After the sermon, when Smale invited
testimonies. Jennie took the floor and told the congregation what had
taken place in the Asbery home and in Azusa Street. She then spoke in
tongues and the awed congregation heard Ruth Asbery give the
interpretation.

On Tuesday a reporter from the Los Angeles Times visited Azusa Street.
On the following day the paper carried the report of this visit. The
same paper led with a report of the San Francisco earthquake that
resulted in the death of 10,000 people.

Excerpt from the Stanley Frodisham prophecy from 1965:

http://www.propheciesfortoday.uk.com/listA.php?id=174

With great judgements will I plead with the population of this country. Great darkness is coming upon the countries that have heard My gospel but no longer walk in it. My wrath shall come upon them. The darkness shall be so great and the anguish so sore that men shall cry out for death and shall not find it. There shall be a lingering death, famine and great catastrophes.

The prophecy above is not the only one in modern times that I have come across that states the Lord is not pleased with his church and we will be judged to bring us back to him. It’s pretty clear in the Word of God concerning the sins of Israel.

Also from the Stanley Frodisham prophecy:

When I visit My people in mighty revival power, it is to prepare them for the darkness ahead. With the Glory shall come great darkness, for the Glory is to prepare My people for the darkness.

Wow! First, I watched the HistoryMakers one hour condensed video. Then found the source and watched the four one hour videos used to create the HistoryMakers version… and could not hold back the tears. I cried for five solid hours listening to the hymns, prayers and testimonies from a body of believers that truly know the voice of their Shepherd and follow only Him.

Then, I wondered, what is wrong with our church here?

The Chinese church has so very little and yet they have much more than we do. Their only doctrine is the everlasting Word of God, His saving grace and unending love.

See the great work of our Lord as He carries His children away in a mighty flood of Grace, Love and Power.

Greatest Christian Revival in Church History Happening in China

The greatest revival in the history of the Christian Church has been going on for the last 50 years in China, making it perhaps the greatest in the history of Christianity, a Chinese Christian leader told 600 Episcopalians at Church of the Good Samaritan in Paoli, PA recently.”Under Mao Tse Tung there were 800,000 Christians. Unofficially today there are more than 130 million,” Brother Yun, known as “The Heavenly Man” said through an interpreter.

http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=9089

True Revival In China

In contrast to the so called healing revivals we sometimes hear about in the West, the Church in China has and is experiencing genuine revival on a Biblical, Apostolic scale. Today alone approximately 30,000 people will get saved in China to add to their 100 million plus church. Why? The house church believers display a passion unequaled in the church worldwide mainly due to their circumstances of intense persecution…

http://vimeo.com/2017123

Historymakers created the condensed video above:

http://historymakers.info/

The orginals were produced by China Soul as four, one hour videos, which you can watch online:

http://chinasoul.org/

Our Lord wants us to see his Glory in China and wake up from our long slumber. I can only see the great revival intensifying with the persecution.

The Stanley Frodisham (a personal friend of Smith Wigglesworth) prophecy given in Chicago in 1965:

http://www.propheciesfortoday.uk.com/listA.php?id=174

“When I visit My people in mighty revival power, it is to prepare them for the darkness ahead. With the Glory shall come great darkness, for the Glory is to prepare My people for the darkness. I will enable My people to go through the darkness because of the visitation of My Spirit.”

Fast-Growing Christian Churches Crushed in China

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579979,00.html

Thursday, December 10, 2009

LINFEN, China — Towering eight stories over wheat fields, the Golden Lamp Church was built to serve nearly 50,000 worshippers in the gritty heart of China’s coal country.

But that was before hundreds of police and hired thugs descended on the mega-church, smashing doors and windows, seizing Bibles and sending dozens of worshippers to hospitals with serious injuries, members and activists say

Today, the church’s co-pastors are in jail. The gates to the church complex in the northern province of Shanxi are locked and a police armored personnel vehicle sits outside.

The closure of what may be China’s first mega-church is the most visible sign that the communist government is determined to rein in the rapid spread of Christianity, with a crackdown in recent months that church leaders call the harshest in years.

Authorities describe the actions against churches as stemming from land disputes, but the congregations under attack are among the most successful in China’s growing “house church” movement, which rejects the state-controlled church in favor of liturgical independence and a more passionate, evangelical outlook.

While the Chinese constitution guarantees freedom of religion, Christians are required to worship in churches run by state-controlled organizations: The Three-Self Patriotic Movement for Protestants and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association for Roman Catholics.

But more and more Chinese are opting to choose their own churches, despite them being technically illegal and subject to police harassment. Christians worshipping in China’s independent churches are believed to number upwards of 60 million, compared to about 20 million who worship in the state church, according to numbers provided by scholars and church activists.

House churches have been around for decades, but their growth has accelerated in recent decades, producing larger and larger congregations that are far more conspicuous than the small groups of friends and neighbors that used to worship in private homes, giving the movement its name.

Their expansion and growing influence has deeply unsettled China’s rulers, always suspicious of any independent social group that could challenge communist authority. Fears that Tibetan Buddhism and Islam promote separatism among Tibetans and Uighurs also drive restrictions on those religions.

“They are so afraid of rallying points developing for gathering of elements of civil society,” said Daniel Bays, who follows Chinese Christianity at Calvin College, a religious school in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

While house churches have faced varying degrees of repression depending on the region and political climate, the latest crackdown appears to specifically target the largest congregations.

Authorities want to dismantle large churches “before they grow out of total control,” said Bob Fu, a former Communist Party researcher in Beijing who now heads the China Aid Association, a Texas-based church monitoring group.

At least two other large churches have recently faced similar crackdowns.

In Beijing in October, authorities locked parishioners of Shouwang house church out of the space they had rented to worship in. In Shanghai, the Wangbang congregation faced a similar lockout. Both congregations had grown to more than 1,000 members.

Shouwang and Wangbang church leaders have not been detained, but activists fear further arrests are coming.

In a brief phone conversation, Wangbang’s pastor Cui Quan said worship continued in small groups while he fought to have their lease restored. He declined to give other details.

Christianity was long associated with foreign interference in traditionally Buddhist and Taoist China, and came under heavy attack after the 1949 Communist revolution.

The most onerous restrictions were lifted after the death of communist leader Mao Zedong in 1976. Although Christians still account for a less than 10 percent of China’s 1.3 billion people, recent years have seen rapid growth in house churches in both cities and rural areas,

Adding to official concerns about their numbers, house-church Christians also emphasize missionary work — illegal in China — and some have even operated an underground network to help smuggle North Korean refugees and Uighurs out of China in defiance of the security forces.

The Golden Lamp Church was built by husband and wife evangelists Wang Xiaoguang and Yang Rongli as a permanent home for their followers, whose numbers had soared to more than 50,000.

The couple, administrators at the provincial teachers’ college, had been preaching in the region around the city of Linfen since 1992, establishing a network of three dozen communities meeting in improvised spaces such as factory dormitories and greenhouses. They also attracted thousands to tent revival meetings.

According to Bob Fu, Shanxi authorities grumbled as the church was being built last year, but did not try to stop work and offered few, if any, signs that an impending crackdown.

On a rainy Sunday in mid-September, some 400 police officers and hired thugs descended on more than a dozen church properties around Linfen, smashing doors and windows and hauling off computers, Bibles, and church funds, according to accounts posted online by church members and their allies.

Those accounts said worshippers who resisted were beaten, with dozens hospitalized with serious injuries.

Wang, Yang, and three other church leaders were convicted on Nov. 25 on charges including illegally occupying agricultural land and assembling a crowd to disrupt traffic. Yang, 51, received a seven-year sentence, while Wang, 56, and the others received terms of three to four years. Five others were sentenced without trial to two years in a labor camp.

Other church leaders have gone into hiding.

Courts, police and government officials in Linfen refused to comment on the claims of violence and persecution. A local Communist Party spokesman said only that the case centered on the mega-church’s lack of planning approval.

“We have always supported and allowed everybody to believe in religion. But the church itself is an illegally constructed building,” said the spokesman, who would give only his surname, Wang.

A lawyer for Wang and Yang, Li Fangping, said the church had applied for permits to build the church from the local religious affairs bureau and the land use authority, but received no reply.

Almost three months after the crackdown, people in and around Linfen refuse to discuss the church, and police vehicles remain parked on virtually every corner of the neighborhood where the Golden Lamp is located.

Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. –Revelation 22:7, KJV

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/temple.htm

http://www.truthnet.org/endtimes/7/

http://www.templeinstitute.org/

http://www.templeinstitute.org/moving-menorah-2.htm

http://www.templeinstitute.org/bezichin.htm