Despite all of the chaos and darkness, the confusion and mayhem, and war seemingly breaking out in every part of the Middle East, we are witnessing something amazing, miraculous even, right before our eyes. God is moving. He is working. And He is accomplishing great things. Keep in mind the mainstream media is not going to be reporting on this sort of thing as it doesn’t fall in line with their doomsaying and the fear mongering they utilize to push false narratives and make a quick buck.
It seems that there are large numbers of young folk who have been repenting of their sins, placing their trust in Jesus, and getting baptized in college campuses all around the United States. Add to that Bible sales skyrocketing and you have reason to believe we might be on the cusp of a massive revival. And that is awesome. Could this be the revival that takes place just before the prophesied end times?
It’s being reported that during the month of October, Bible sales in the country were 22 percent higher than last year.
Bible sales rose 22% through October compared to the same period last year, according to data released this month by Circana Bookscan. Total U.S. print book sales were only up 1%, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the trend.
“The religion book market has been a bright spot of growth within the total book market since the pandemic,” Brenna Connor, an industry analyst with Circana, told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Bibles are leading that growth, but other subjects like Christian Life and Biblical Studies are also up, reflecting increased interest for Christian subjects in the U.S.”
This is brand new territory, folks. Bibles sales have actually been on the uptick ever sense the first year of the coronavirus pandemic and then suddenly, this year, they took off like a rocket.
Print Bible sales hit a five-year low of just under 8.9 million in 2020, according to Circana’s data, before beginning to tick upward again. Sales surpassed 13.7 million in the first 10 months of this year, Circana reported.
What’s weird here is that we’re seeing the sale of Bibles go up during a period of time when those in the population who identify as “Christian” are at an all-time low.
The share of Americans identifying with a Christian religion hit a low of 68% last year, according to Gallup polling. Half a century ago, 87% of adults in the U.S. identified as Christian, Gallup found. About 28% of American adults are now religiously unaffiliated, according to Pew Research.
The general public just no longer embraces the institutional churches the way they once did in our country. Our Founders and the vast majority of the society they helped established were Christians who believed that freedom could only be sustained by those who attended church and upheld the Bible’s moral values. That’s not the case anymore, unfortunately.
In fact, church attendance in our nation is now far lower than it once was.
In 1958, a Gallup survey found that 49 percent of Americans had attended church within the past 7 days. That number started to decline during the ensuing years, and by 1972 only 40 percent of Americans said that they had attended church within the past 7 days. From 1972 all the way until 2012, church attendance within the past 7 days hovered right around that 40 percent figure. Unfortunately, over the past decade it has started to fall once again. Just prior to the pandemic, a Gallup survey found that 34 percent of Americans had been to church within the past 7 days, and now a new survey has discovered that it is down to just 31 percent.
More bad news. An article from Faithwire posted last week states that U.S. evangelicals are giving less and less to their churches.
“The takeaway is that there has been a change over the last three years in terms of the generosity of the evangelical community, both toward church and toward nonprofit organizations or charities,” Mark Dreistadt said. “We’ve seen a drop in giving across the board.” Infinity Concepts and Grey Matter Research found the “proportion of evangelicals giving to church fell 13 percentage points from 2021, constituting a 17% decrease in giving,” according to a press release.
While 61% of evangelicals gave to their local church in the 12 months before the study, this was down from the previous timeframe, when 74% of evangelicals had done the same.
And yet, despite all of that, we are seeing an awakening among young people.
During 2024, a group called UniteUS put on a series of revival meetings at college campuses across the United States at multiple schools and the response was amazing.
Tonya Prewitt, founder of UniteUS, explained, “We started at Auburn University. We had 5,000 students show up, and over 200 got baptized. We next went to FSU – Florida State, the second biggest party school in the nation. We had 4,500 students come, and I believe about 350 students got baptized at that event.” The movement then swept through the universities of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina, with numbers growing along the way. Tonya calls the mission a simple one: Bring hope to a generation.
College student Haden Smith shared his experience. “Just getting to be with your neighbors and friends as they pray with you for your struggles and being open with those you normally wouldn’t be open with – it was just overall powerful,” he said.
On more than a couple of occasions, the revival happened without the help of an organization at all. Like the one that was started by players over at at Ohio State.
Students and players deemed it a revival. The story made national news, including appreciative stories in religious publications and Fox News. Now, as Ohio State University’s football team prepares for the college football playoffs, players like Henderson have a bigger platform to share their Christian beliefs.
So could this be the start of the massive end times revival that End of the American Dream has been writing about for sometime now?
The Remnant of the last days is going to do things the way that Christians in the first century did things. Have you ever wondered why so many Christian churches today do not resemble what you see in the Bible? Well, the sad truth is that over the centuries churches got away from doing the things that the Scriptures tell us to do, but now God is restoring all things. Without God we can do nothing, but with God all things are possible.
Right now, we have such an amazing opportunity. During the first century, there were only about 200 million people living on the entire planet. Today, the total global population is somewhere around 8 billion. That means the population of the world is about 40 times larger today than it was back in the first century. I believe that we are on the verge of the greatest move of God and the greatest harvest of souls in all of human history, and I encourage you to be a part of what is happening.
As wars, natural disasters, pestilences and economic problems shake the globe, people are going to be searching for answers, and Bible prophecy will become one of the hottest topics on the entire planet. During the years ahead, so many will be consumed with despair as their lives are totally turned upside down by the cataclysmic events that are coming. Instead of giving in to fear like everyone else will be, it will be a great opportunity for the people of God to rise up and take the message of life to a lost and dying world.
One can’t say for sure, but the fact young people are growing sick and tired of wokeness and feeling like they are lost and wandering around the spiritual desert bodes well for our future one way or another. Let’s hope this new Great Awakening continues.
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