Darrel Stott prophesied revival would begin in UK in May 2008

It’s here in black and white. God, speaking through Darrel Stott (ie. prophesying) has said that revival in my country has started. I took a ‘grab’ of the relevant web page, just in case something happens to Darrel’s website and this important information gets lost…

Read the full ‘prophecy’ here.

This is exciting news and I look forward (as with the last revival in my country a century ago) to reading press reports about transformed lives, seeing pubs and clubs closing and learning that the police have little to do due to dramatically falling crime rates.

If you have any verifiable ‘revival news’, please let me know.

Unfortunately, Darrel seems a bit light on the gospel message of repentance and forgiveness. Two things the Bible says are essential for true revival.

STOP PRESS!

The following has just been added to Darrel’s website.

June 14, 2008

The Vick Owens family had a meeting to read again the prophesy given to them On Oct 31, 2007.  The prophecy was by Natasha Vaughn.  It stated in detail that God has chosen the Welsh Revival Center a church in Pontypool Wales owned by Vick Owens as a center of revival where millions of people would be impacted.  The prophetic word said God was offering the scroll to Vick Ownens but he and his family must decide to take it or someone else would.

Let it be noted the family voted and they accepted the prophetic word as being from God and accepted the scroll offered to them to serve the nations as a place of revival.

There is no doubt that Britain needs revival (or ‘England & Wales’ according to Darrel’s prophecies – sorry Scotland and NI, you’re not on the list). Darrel claims to be a ‘carrier of the glory of God’ and, it would appear, also believes that he needs to either bring revival to the world, or at the very least follow it around.

That’s why he’s arrived back in my part of the world.

But he’s been here before. In fact I’ve heard him preach and helped him to liven up his audience by playing some recordings of his Indonesian trips. On his previous visits Darrel has proclaimed imminent revival. The experiences now being described as ‘fresh’ and ‘new’ and ‘the start of revival’ have been happening in my neck of the woods for years. So far there has been no revival.

I hope and pray that Darrel, Vic and everyone involved in the “Welsh Revival Centre” will focus on preaching the Gospel. Every true revival is characterised by a heightened awareness of sin, a cry for forgiveness, a thirst for the Word of God and truly changed lives. The world needs to hear the gospel message. They do not hear it from many mainstream churches for fear of upsetting other faiths, but they are equally unlikely to hear it from the so-called ‘on fire’ churches. Meanwhile the question remains unanswered, “Whom shall I send?”

Sadly I fear – based on my own experience – that the revival they talk about is of the short-lived, highly localised, experience-led kind. The people of England and Wales (and elsewhere) need Jesus, not ‘experiences’.

Instead of spreading the Gospel, Christians line up to have their ears tickled. They leave their churches, towns, even countries to experience the latest ‘awakening’, they turn from Scriptural truth to increasingly bizarre behaviour and prophecies that fail to come true.

And when the prophecies fail to come true, they carry on listening and following the very people who prophecied falsely. Could it be because they have strayed so far from the Bible they fail to understand the danger of following false prophets?