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George Jeffreys
George Jeffreys (1889–1962). Born on February 28, 1889, in Nantyffylon, Maesteg, Wales, to Thomas and Kezia Jeffreys, George Jeffreys was a Welsh evangelist and founder of the Elim Pentecostal Church. One of eight sons in a mining family, he faced early hardships, including a speech impediment and facial paralysis, and the loss of four brothers, a sister, and his father. Converted at 15 during the 1904–1905 Welsh Revival under Glasnant Jones, alongside his brother Stephen, he embraced Christianity with zeal. Initially skeptical of Pentecostalism, he was baptized in the Holy Spirit in 1911 after his nephew Edward spoke in tongues, overcoming his speech issues. Mentored by Cecil Polhill and trained at Thomas Myerscough’s Pentecostal Missionary Union Bible School, Jeffreys began preaching in 1913, founding the Elim Evangelistic Band in Monaghan, Ireland, in 1915, which became the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance. His crusades, marked by reported healings and thousands of conversions, planted churches across the UK, including Belfast (1916) and London’s Clapham (1921), filling venues like the Royal Albert Hall. From 1934–1936, he saw 14,000 converts in Switzerland and preached at the 1939 Stockholm Pentecostal Conference. Author of Healing Rays (1932) and Pentecostal Rays (1933), he emphasized divine healing and biblical authority. Differences over church governance and his British Israelism led to his resignation from Elim in 1940, after which he founded the Bible-Pattern Church Fellowship in Nottingham, which declined after his death. Married late in life, he had no children. Jeffreys died on January 26, 1962, in London, saying, “Revival begins when Jesus is exalted.”
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In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of looking up and focusing on the coming Christ in the midst of a world filled with instability and tribulation. The signs of the end times, such as wars and the breakdown of civilization, are evident, fulfilling the prophecies spoken by Jesus. The religious world is also experiencing a falling away from the faith, with the growth of higher criticism and modernity. However, amidst the darkness, there is hope in the worldwide outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the manifestation of supernatural signs, with believers receiving the Holy Spirit and experiencing miracles of healing. This is seen as the fulfillment of biblical prophecies and a preparation for the imminent return of the Lord.
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Lift up your heads for your redemption throughout night. This injunction given by our Lord over 1900 years ago was undoubtedly intended for the closing days of this dispensation. Who can discern the signs of the times without realizing its present-day application? Who can read the time on the prophetic clock without seeing that the hour of complete redemption is about to strike? Nationally and internationally, all standards are being removed as unstable. Utopian ideals are passing away as vapors. Civilization is everywhere breaking up, and the world is drifting into a time of indescribable tribulation. Prophecies which fell from the sacred lips of Christ have been translated into history before our very eyes. For nation is writing against nation, kingdom against kingdom. There are wars and rumors of war, and the whole world is as an armed camp. We are most assuredly living in this inevitable darkest hour that precedes the glorious advent dawn. While nations are preparing on a colossal scale for war, the cry of peace and safety is being sounded forth throughout the world. In this, again, prophecy is being fulfilled. For, saith the sacred scripture, the day shall come when they shall preach peace and safety, when sudden destruction shall come upon them. How little do the people understand that there can be no peace apart from Christ, and no safety outside his pavilion. In the religious world, Christendom is revealing the malignant throats of higher criticism and modernism, and the unmistakable latter-day sign of the falling away from the faith is glaringly revealed. These are but a few of the dark signs of the end of the age. As we see these things coming to pass, it is with consolation that we obey the command of our Lord to look up. We do not look out for our hope is not centered on anything or anyone around us. The outlook is dark indeed. Our hope is centered in the coming Christ. Therefore we gladly look up, for the uplook is exceedingly glorious. There is a sign of quite another character. It is the worldwide outpouring of the Holy Spirit and supernatural signs. The tens of thousands of born-again people are experiencing, in every country under the canopy of heaven, in fulfillment of prophecy given in both the Old and New Testaments. God is pouring out his Spirit. Believers are everywhere receiving the Holy Spirit as the disciples did on the day of Pentecost. Miracles of healing, just as marvelous as those recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, are taking place in every land. For the miraculous gifts are in evidence today, just as they were in the first days of Christianity. In fulfillment of spiritual prophecy, the showers of latter rain are falling upon the thirsty, and the true Church, which consists of all who are born again, is being prepared for the imminent return of our Lord.
Your Redemption Draws Nigh
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George Jeffreys (1889–1962). Born on February 28, 1889, in Nantyffylon, Maesteg, Wales, to Thomas and Kezia Jeffreys, George Jeffreys was a Welsh evangelist and founder of the Elim Pentecostal Church. One of eight sons in a mining family, he faced early hardships, including a speech impediment and facial paralysis, and the loss of four brothers, a sister, and his father. Converted at 15 during the 1904–1905 Welsh Revival under Glasnant Jones, alongside his brother Stephen, he embraced Christianity with zeal. Initially skeptical of Pentecostalism, he was baptized in the Holy Spirit in 1911 after his nephew Edward spoke in tongues, overcoming his speech issues. Mentored by Cecil Polhill and trained at Thomas Myerscough’s Pentecostal Missionary Union Bible School, Jeffreys began preaching in 1913, founding the Elim Evangelistic Band in Monaghan, Ireland, in 1915, which became the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance. His crusades, marked by reported healings and thousands of conversions, planted churches across the UK, including Belfast (1916) and London’s Clapham (1921), filling venues like the Royal Albert Hall. From 1934–1936, he saw 14,000 converts in Switzerland and preached at the 1939 Stockholm Pentecostal Conference. Author of Healing Rays (1932) and Pentecostal Rays (1933), he emphasized divine healing and biblical authority. Differences over church governance and his British Israelism led to his resignation from Elim in 1940, after which he founded the Bible-Pattern Church Fellowship in Nottingham, which declined after his death. Married late in life, he had no children. Jeffreys died on January 26, 1962, in London, saying, “Revival begins when Jesus is exalted.”