We are re-releasing this article to encourage you to look to the promises of God in the earth. Stand strong and stand united. Press in and press on!

Occasionally, the Lord, in His divine wisdom and foresight, releases His presence into the earth to change and transform the Church and world governments. The Lord’s touch upon humanity is out of His merciful design to prepare the world for the next stage of His purposes and plans. Let me share a few examples of such interventions as are recorded from the past.

The first Reformation began in the days of Noah. The Father had come to an end of His long-suffering with humanity. In His infinite knowledge, He knew that if He were to wait another ten thousand years to discipline the peoples of the earth, man’s propensity toward evil would not diminish but only increase. Hence, He determined that it was time to act, so He did. He raised a just and righteous man, who had incidentally come from a long line of righteous men, through whom He would begin a Reformation in the world. Through this man’s obedience, He would save the world from complete destruction. Further, when the floodwaters would retreat, Noah would be the one who would establish a new righteous government on the earth and would raise a new generation of people who would seek to live pleasing to the Lord. The Father did away with the old and gave birth to the new, albeit through much suffering in His own tender heart.

Once again, the world fell into corruption. So, after Noah, God raised another man through whom He would establish a righteous Nation amid all the evil. This man He called Abraham. He would come to be called the father of our faith. Although it began small, this new Reformation would become the cornerstone of all the works of the Lord in future generations. Abraham lived a nomadic life, but through His testimony and righteous government within his clan, he affected world governments and generations to come because unbeknownst to him, he carried in his bosom the Spirit of Reformation.

We do not see the subsequent intervention of Reformation until the establishment of the Nation of Israel at Mount Sinai about 430 after Abraham. The man that God used was Moses. The event was the giving of the Law. Paul alluded to the power of this one act of the Father and its international effect when he wrote in Romans that some lived righteously although they did not have the Law. The Spirit of the Lord affects willing hearts far and wide when He visits the earth.

Time continued to march forward, and some 480 years elapsed until King David, who brought Israel into a new era of national recognition as a formidable power on the earth and national prosperity, established his son Solomon on His throne. Solomon brought forth the next Reformation. The government he would establish was actually written by the prophet Samuel and nurtured and cultivated by his father, David. Israel would now, as a Nation, become monotheistic, running its government and national culture around the God of their fathers. The instrument the Lord used in Solomon’s hand to bring forth Reformation was the building of His Temple wherein the God of Israel would dwell among men. However, Israel was not the only Nation affected by this fantastic outpouring of God’s self-revelation. All the Nations of the earth were touched to various degrees sending humanity spiraling upward in awareness of the God of Abraham and His righteousness. The Queen of Sheba personally took the Revival of Israel’s God to her own people. Egypt, Lebanon, and other Arab nations were genuinely affected by the outpouring of the revelation of the God of all creation. The Lord not only gained a people for His glory from Israel but also from the international seedbed of the world populace.

To be continued next week…

In Him,

Nita LaFond Johnson