Mike Bickle emphasizes the urgent need for forerunners to prepare the church for the coming eschatological revolution, which will transition the earth into the age to come. He believes that this generation is uniquely positioned to witness unprecedented spiritual revival, intense sin, and severe judgments, all occurring simultaneously. Bickle encourages young people to take on the mantle of preparation, much like John the Baptist, to train future generations in understanding God's plans for the end times. He stresses the importance of being grounded in Scripture and discerning the truth, as many will be confused during this transition. Ultimately, he calls for a committed response to prepare oneself and others for the glory of the Lord that will be revealed in the last days.

This is Lois, she's a fourth year student at IHOPU. And tell them that IHOP really likes Lois. Turn to page 205 in the Korean syllabus. It actually is 200 pages, 205. It's a real thick syllabus. Remember, 17 sessions, so there's quite a bit in there. And for those that are joining us on the web stream and the video, we have the IHOPU students and others joining this Korean conference. Tonight I'm going to talk about a very unusual subject. The coming eschatological revolution. The word eschatological simply means the study of the end times. Or pertaining to the end times is another way to say it. I believe God is raising up forerunners in this hour ahead of time to prepare the earth for the coming eschatological revolution. I believe that we're some decades ahead of time before it happens. But I have a real zeal to train 20-year-olds so they will train the next generation and that they will even train the generation after them for this amazing transition on the planet. We don't know how much time before this thing comes to fullness. I believe it will happen within the lifetime of people that are on the earth right now. At this time, the earth and the body of Christ as well is totally unprepared for this revolution that's coming. But if people begin to prepare now to prepare people later, then I believe the body of Christ will be ready in that strategic hour. Paragraph A. I want to remind you again to be a Berean. When Paul the Apostle went to the city of Berea, he preached the word. And the Bereans said, Paul, you've got a good spirit, but we're going to check out from the Bible if what you're saying is really the truth. And I encourage our students, I encourage our interns and everybody to don't receive anything that you don't see with your own eyes in your own Bible. Be eager to learn and to receive new ideas, but be cautious and make sure everything that's being said is in the word of God you can see with your own eyes. Paragraph C. God has planned the most comprehensive revolution that we can imagine. Paragraph D. I call it the eschatological revolution because it's a revolution that ends natural history and transitions the earth into the age to come. Paragraph E. This revolution, it's a spiritual revolution that will continue over an entire generation. And it will increase in intensity the closer we get to the end of natural history. God has planned this revolution in great detail long ago. And he documented it in the word of God so that we all could understand it and be ready for it. God is so, Jesus is so confident in this plan that he's even letting the enemy see his plan ahead of time. Paragraph D. Never in history has a great military leader given his battle plan to the enemy that they could understand it. Paragraph E. But Jesus is so confident that he lets the enemy know what he's doing because he still knows that he will win. Paragraph D. Jesus is going to replace every single king and every evil government in the earth in one hour of time. That is a staggering idea that I cannot hardly get my mind around. Paragraph E. Revelation 11.15. The kingdoms of the world. Or the nations of the world. 232 nations in the world right now. All of the leaders will be replaced and they will become the kingdom of God. Paragraph E. This is such a massive statement that it touches our mind and bounces right off. It's so big. Paragraph E. I mean, we've seen different nations like in Egypt and Middle East where the government is disrupted. It causes chaos to the whole nation. Paragraph E. Jesus plans to take the king or the president or the prime minister and their entire leadership team over the nation and replace them in one hour in every nation of the earth at the same time. That is radical. Paragraph E. Revelation 19 describes the scene in a very clear way. All the kings of the earth. Verse 19. And all of their armies, they're going to gather together in one place. And they're going to declare war upon Jesus. That is one of the most remarkable statements I've ever read in my life. This is describing the high point of intensity of this coming revolution. This will be the only time in history every single king of the earth will be in one area at the same time. Even in a United Nations meeting, there's only a few kings that are there. Never in history have all 232 kings of the earth all showed up in the same city at the same time for the same reason. But not only that, they're going to bring their armies, all the armies of the earth in one area. Amazing. Lord, I ask for a spirit of revelation right now that we can grasp this by the Holy Spirit. This is so radical that it touches your mind and bounces right off without even comprehending what it means. And then the most intense thing happens, they declare war on Jesus of Nazareth. Because the Antichrist has convinced them that Jesus is the imposter, he's the false messiah. And the Antichrist is telling them that the Antichrist is the real one. He will convince the nations that Jesus of Nazareth is a liar and a false prophet and the false messiah. In essence, that he's the Antichrist. Because the Antichrist will have such supernatural power, he will have a head wound and even be healed in front of the whole world, and the world will think he's the true messiah. So these kings and these armies think they're going against the false messiah, and they think that they can beat him. They really will believe that in that hour. I believe this will happen within the lifetime of people that are alive on the earth right now. It may be the generation of my grandchildren who are alive right now. I don't know, but I believe that some of you will actually see this with your eyes. Verse 20. The beast, or the Antichrist, he was captured. And with him, the false prophet, they were thrown into the lake of fire. This will be the biggest shock to these kings. How could the Antichrist, who seemed invincible, he seemed like he was God, how could he be captured? This is impossible. This is the dramatic moment of natural history right here. Because all the kings of the earth will believe he's the true messiah, that he's God, and he's invincible. And suddenly, a Jewish king, the lion of the tribe of Judah, comes up to him, and he's captured and subdued and thrown into the lake of fire. Verse 21. And the rest of the kings and their armies, they were killed with the sword. Not only do all 232 kings gather, all of them are executed on the same day. I read verse 21, and it just, like, unbelief hits my heart. I say, how could this be? Every single leader in the earth executed, senior leader, executed on the same day. When you think of the future, do you picture this? This was put in the word of God so we would actually understand it, so that we could begin to cooperate with the Lord in His end time purpose. Because there's things that we will do now that will actually prepare the body of Christ to respond in the right way then. And chapter 20, verse 4. Then the great reversal takes place. All of the thrones that these kings have are now given over to the saints. All of the thrones of the earth are given to the saints. Daniel chapter 7, verse 25. The Antichrist shall speak pompous words against God. And he will persecute the saints of the Most High. But then, the kingdoms of the earth will be given to the saints of the Most High. This is a sudden, dramatic reversal of history. The oppressed, the ones that were persecuted, will one day replace all of the oppressors in the earth. Page 206. It's in the Korean syllabus. Paragraph D. Envision what the news agencies will say about this. This is Jesus' description of that time in history ahead of time. Jesus is giving the headline news 2,000 years ahead of time of this period of time. He said there will be great tribulation, a great period of trouble and disruption on the planet. It will be a great time of transition for the entire planet earth. But this transition for the planet and for the governments of the earth will have much pain and turmoil in the transition period. There will be much bloodshed in this transitional time. Unless those days were cut short, nobody would physically be alive at the end of them. That's how intense this transition period will be. It will be the most unique time in human history. I'm talking about that final generation and then the final three or four years where all of this comes to a head. Consider how unique this time frame will be. It will be the most unique generation in all of human history. It will be the time of the greatest revival even beyond the book of Acts. It will be the time where sin will increase on the planet more than any time in history. The rage of Satan against the planet will be the highest ever in history. And the manifestation of God's judgment will be the most severe of any time in history. Four things will come together in the same time frame that will make it the most unique thing in time in history. The greatest revival, the most sin, the greatest attack of Satan to the nations, and the greatest most severe release of the judgment of God. All four of them will be at the highest level in history all at the same time in one generation. And God's solution is He's raising up a church who will understand this and who will cooperate with Him and be vessels of glory in that hour. What a privilege to be alive at that hour. What a responsibility to be alive at that hour. What danger to be alive at that hour. And I believe there's people right now in this building that will be alive when these things are happening. And God has chosen that His people would be the vessels of His glory that He will use to transition the earth in that hour of history. Weak and broken people like us will be anointed by the Lord to make the difference in that time of history. We look at our lives and we say, Lord, how could it be possible we're so weak, we're so frail, we're so broken? And the Lord is beginning to prepare the people, the forerunners who will prepare the nations later. And I believe these forerunners, many of them are 15 and 20 and 25 years old right now. John the Baptist was just a teenager when the Lord was forming him to announce the coming of the Lord. When he was preparing to prepare others, he was 15 and 18 and 22 and 25 years old. The Holy Spirit is calling forerunners to get prepared to prepare a generation in the decades ahead. Many people will not connect with this, they won't pay attention to it, but the Spirit will set apart forerunners that hear His voice in a time of preparation, even in these hours. I believe that we're in the early days of what I call a transitional generation. There are three transitional generations described in the Bible. Now, the term is not in the Bible, but the idea is in the Bible. There's only three transitional generations in all of history. And they're very unique and very powerful, and the Lord has great privilege and honor for those three generations. I believe we are in the early days of the third transitional generation in history. What is a transitional generation? It's when the majority of God's people witness the power of God on a regular basis. Where the majority of God's people, they witness the power of God in an unusual measure on a regular basis. And it's a generation where God changes the way He relates to His people. He dramatically changes the way He relates to His people in that generation. And He increases their ability to connect with Him and to relate to Him in those three generations. The first transitional generation was the generation of Moses. And God changed the way that He related to His people when He established the old covenant at Mount Sinai. And the people of God experienced the power of God every single day. Food came down from heaven. Water came out of a rock. Many miracles happened on a daily basis. Then 1,500 years later was the second transitional generation. The generation of the apostles, where the miracles were experienced on a daily basis. And the way God related to His people significantly increased. It went from the old covenant to the new covenant in that generation. But the third transitional generation is the most dramatic of all. It's the generation the Lord returns. The power that the church will experience will far surpass the generation of Moses and the generation of the apostles. And our relationship with the Lord will dramatically change. Everyone will get resurrected bodies, the veil will be lifted, and we'll be face to face with Jesus forever after that generation. But I want you to catch the weight of what I just said. There's only three transitional generations in all of human history. The privilege and the responsibility of being in one of those generations is beyond what we really grasp. And though the body of Christ is mostly not aware of it, and the nations are not aware of it, I believe we're in the beginning of one of those transitional generations right now. If that is true, how then should we be living right now if this is going to happen in the decades ahead? Paragraph F. The bride will be prepared in that generation. The church will be ready, and the church will be in unity with Jesus in that generation. But it will not happen automatically. It will happen as we labor in the Word, as we press into God, and as we prepare one another. That's how it will happen. Turn to page 2. Turn to page 207 in the syllabus. Paragraph G. There's only one generation that God has picked that would be intentionally prepared to transition to the age to come. The bride will be prepared. The church will be ready. That is a remarkable statement from heaven. There's three areas that we must be prepared in to be the prepared generation. The prepared generation, they will be prepared to flow in the power of God. They will be prepared in how to minister in the power of God. But they will also be prepared in their character. The first commandment will be restored to first place in that generation. But equally important, they must be prepared in their understanding. It won't be enough that their heart is pure and they love God. But they must have clarity in their understanding in that hour as well. Because there will be many unique dynamics happening on the earth at that time, and people will be confused and even offended at the Lord in that hour. I mentioned the four things earlier. The greatest revival, the most sin in history will be happening in that generation. The rage of Satan, like the attack of Satan against the church like no time in history. And the judgments of God released on the nation. And the subject of God's judgments will be very offensive even to the people of God. Even today when you talk about the judgment of God, the church backs away from it and says, No, He's a God of love. He can't release His judgment. That would be a contradiction. But the Lord is going to prepare a generation in their understanding. They will understand even the difficulties of His judgment. To the believers who do not understand what's happening in that day, they will be very vulnerable to being confused and even being offended at Jesus. Or they will be vulnerable to being deceived by the kingdom of darkness. God's answer is to raise up forerunners that will cause that confusion to be removed. If these unique dynamics begin to happen in the next year or two, most of the entire body of Christ would backslide because they would be utterly confused. They wouldn't know what part was God and what part was the devil, and they would be so confused. But again, I believe we're some decades away. There's time to get prepared in order to prepare others. You might say, well, if it's, you know, three, four, five, six decades from now, why should I concern myself with it? God, when God calls forerunners, when He calls deliverers, it takes years to prepare them. They are not prepared overnight. At the first coming of Jesus, the Spirit didn't visit John the Baptist the year before and say, Hey John, start studying the Bible. The Messiah is coming next year. You need to start telling people about it. Well, Lord, give me a few key Bible verses, and I'll memorize them, and I'll start preaching on it, and I'll prepare the earth for it. No, it doesn't work that way. Kings can be anointed in a day, but deliverers are raised up over a lifetime. Maybe the people my age are saying, well, it probably won't even happen in our lifetime. Why do I care? I don't know if it will happen in my lifetime. I don't even care if it does. What I really care is about preparing 20 year olds, who will then prepare the generation after them. That's what I have given my life to. So all of you that are my age, I'm 55. So those of you that are 50, or 60, or 70, I'll claim all of you on my team. You're my people. I need some of you mature ones on the team here, helping me out here. But I have given myself, in a very focused way, to get myself prepared, to prepare the 20 year olds, so that they can prepare the next generation, and that's the wisdom of God for my life. I know this clearly. And I don't know for sure that the 20 year olds will see it in their lifetime. They really might. But I believe their children will, if they don't. It is time now to be focused and diligent, and beginning to prepare ourselves right now in these ways. Like I said, if these unique dynamics begin to be manifest right now in a major way, I believe a large percent of the body of Christ would be so confused, and so disoriented, many of them would backslide right now, if these dynamics happened right now. Now is the time to make serious decisions, like young John the Baptist did in his teenage years, to go hard after God, to prepare the coming of the Lord, which may be many years later. Just as John the Baptist made a serious decision in his heart, to prepare the coming of the Lord, and kept the place of prayer, we also need to be prepared right now, at this time. Yes, Jeremiah spoke about the coming of the Lord, and he said, Look at Jeremiah 23, verse 20. It says, In context, he's actually talking about the great tribulation right here. The plans that God has to release His judgment against the kingdom of darkness, God will pour out all of His judgments. He will not hold any of it back. He will perform the plans, or the thoughts, that are in His heart right now. Did you know that God has thoughts and plans for that strategic generation to transition the planet that are in His mind right now? Many of those thoughts are recorded in the Old Testament prophets, and they're recorded in the book of Revelation, the plans that He has already made to transition the planet. And then look what Jeremiah promises from the Lord. In the end times, the people of God will understand the plan perfectly. They will understand the anger or the judgment of the Lord and how it works, but they will also understand the plans and the strategy that's in God's heart for the end times. This is a verse I put my name on. I say, I claim this anointing of grace for my life right now. I will not be confused by the judgment of God or offended, I will understand it by the anointing of the Holy Spirit. I will not be confused by the thoughts of God's heart or His transition plan, nor will I be deceived, I will understand what He's doing in that day. I want to encourage you to put your name on this verse right here. Say, by the grace of God, I'm going to understand your judgments, and I'm going to understand your transition plan at the end of the age. Then in Jeremiah 30 verse 24, he promises the same thing a second time to give emphasis to this promise. And he says that in the latter days or in the end times, you will consider it. What does it mean to consider it? In the earlier verse, he said you will understand it perfectly, here he said you will consider it. To consider it means you will study it, you will think on it, you will wrestle with it, you will dialogue about it until you get it. That's what it means to consider it. I said, Lord, I commit myself to consider these subjects long hours in my life and to devote myself to these subjects. It's not enough for somebody just to teach it to you, you must consider it, study it, wrestle with it in your own life to get it. It's not enough for somebody just to teach it to you, you must consider it, study it, wrestle with it in your own life to get it. So I put my name on that verse too. I want to encourage the 20 year olds, put your name on those two verses. Determined to start now to go deep in these things. You may have to turn off some of the videos and some of the technology to make time to give yourself in a deep way to these subjects. But not just the 20 year olds, I want to talk to the spiritual moms and dads, the 60 year olds. You can begin now so you can prepare yourself to train a generation under you. Maybe you say, I'm not a Bible teacher, I'm not supposed to do that. You can train people one on one, one or two at a time. You can talk to them and walk through Bible studies with them in your personal meetings. It's not just teaching in a meeting place, you can train people one on one. So you have to be prepared. Paragraph H, there's only one generation in history that will participate with Jesus in this great eschatological revolution. Only one generation in history will actually engage in his strategic plan and work with him to transition the earth. Are you in the early days of that generation? Jesus pronounced a blessing on the people that would participate with him in that hour. He said, blessed are those who keep this prophecy. And then at the end of the book of Revelation, the same blessing was pronounced again. Blessed is anyone that keeps this prophecy. Now this blessing has been available to the saints for 2,000 years in part, but the fullness of the blessing is available to the generation the Lord returns. How do we keep this prophecy and receive this blessing? I have three words. We obey it, we say it, and we pray it. As simple as it is to say this, it's a very costly and demanding requirement of the Lord to have this blessing. First, we obey the commands and the implications of the teachings in the book of Revelation. Now, every generation could do this in part, but only one generation could do this in fullness because some of the commands only relate to the final generation. We don't only obey it, but we say it. But we have to learn it first in order to say it. And learning it is actually the easy part. Saying it is courageous because it will be rejected by many, many people even in the church. Learning it is a challenge, and that's what we're doing now in this hour. But when it is time to say it to the nations, it will be very challenging. This is the most politically incorrect document on the planet, the book of Revelation. I've been saying it a little bit for the last ten years or so. Just a little bit I've been saying it, and it causes a tremendous response, even a little bit. The next time a news station contacts you, on a national television show, what do you see for the future? Well, all the kings of the earth in the United Nations are going to have a big meeting, they're all going to be executed, and we're going to get their jobs. Excuse me, did you say they'll be executed? Yeah, yeah, who's going to execute them? Well, our leader, a Jewish man, is coming back from heaven in the sky, he's going to come back to the earth, he's going to disrupt all the nations, take them all over, and then he's going to have us be the new leaders. Sorry. But I had to get that off my chest. I think she said it right, I could feel the anointing when she was talking. But then after we say it, we have to pray the release of it. We don't do that now, but in that hour, the saints will pray the release of these judgments and these manifestations of power. Because the church will actually pray and release the judgments on the Antichrist, like Moses prayed and released the judgments on Pharaoh in the book of Exodus. But the book of Revelation, on these two occasions, promises a blessing to the people in that generation that will obey it, say it, and pray it. Just a few more moments. Page 208. Paragraph I. Right now, God is raising up forerunners that will prepare the nations to understand what is coming in this great revolution. Isaiah chapter 40, verse 3-5 is a very well-known passage that we associate John the Baptist with. But in context, this promise and this exhortation is spoken to the generation the Lord returns. The Holy Spirit borrowed this and applied it to John, and John fulfilled it only a little bit. It's really a prophecy for the generation the Lord returns. There will be a people, and I believe many will be young people, in that transitional generation that will prepare the nations to understand the unique dynamics. How do I know it's about the end-time generation and not mostly about John the Baptist's generation? Yes, the Lord applied it to John, but John only fulfilled this in a small part. Verse 5 gives us the timing of this prophecy. These forerunners will prepare the earth when the glory is revealed and all the nations see the glory together. That's the hour of the second coming. All the nations of the earth did not see the glory of God together at the same time in John the Baptist's generation. This is talking about the second coming generation. This is another verse you can put your name on and say, Lord, I want to enter into this because this is for the end-time generation. Like before, you can put your name on this verse and say it. Because this is related to the second coming generation the Lord will return to. Paragraph J. In 1997, the Lord spoke to me about believing Him to raise up 10,000 young people that would live in the spirit of John the Baptist. He didn't tell me to raise them up. He's raising them up. But He challenged me to sow into their lives and He will give this same challenge to many ministries across the earth. God will raise up forerunners wherever spiritual moms and dads will sow into them in an intentional way. The IHOPU was established because of this word right here. We have a thousand students in our university. Students and interns together. And the reason that we started this university was to raise up 10,000 John the Baptists. Again, not ourselves, but with others in the body of Christ and the Holy Spirit doing it. This is what we're about here at IHOP. But not all of the students that join us even know that this is the mandate over this school. And the Lord gave the verse John 3.29 in a very specific way. He said that these forerunners would be like John. They would be friends of the Bridegroom. They would be close to the heart of Jesus as a Bridegroom God. We'll end with paragraph K. Forerunners are messengers. But they have a very specific message. Yes, they preach the main and plain things of the Bible. They talk about evangelism and discipleship and living right with God and building godly families. The main things of Scripture. Yes, they speak those things. All the ministries in the body of Christ are to speak the main and plain messages of the New Testament. But forerunners have an additional assignment beyond the main and plain things. I'm not saying it's a special calling. I don't like that word special. But it's a very challenging and a very weighty and important calling. They are given a special message to address the unique dynamics in a transitional generation to lead to this great transition to the Millennial Kingdom. They will keep the prophecy of the book of Revelation. They will obey it. They will say it. They will pray it. Yes, they will evangelize. They will disciple. They will build godly families. They will reach out in justice initiatives to the community. But they will do that without neglecting this message of the unique dynamics to transition the earth to the age to come. It will take all of their time to prepare adequately. They will use all of their strength, all of their energy in order to prepare themselves to prepare people in the days to come. Some of these messengers, they're preachers. They'll stand on a platform with a microphone and talk to hundreds or maybe thousands at a time. But many of these forerunners are not preachers. They will never talk on a microphone to a crowd. Some of them will be artists. They will be the singers and the musicians in the houses of prayer across the earth. There may be only ten people in their prayer room, but they're singing these themes, and they're studying them, and they're standing in the gap before God being a forerunner. Some of them will be writers. In this day of technology, you may write the email, or the blog, or the podcast, I mean the simple message that might be heard around the world that might change a nation, and you've never given one Bible teaching ever. You may say, I've never given a Bible study to ten people, not even once. But you prepare yourself. You may write the blog that shifts a nation that goes around the whole world. You don't know. Some will be forerunners in the marketplace. Some will be forerunners in media. I think some of the most effective forerunners on the earth are moms teaching their two or three children at home, teaching them the ways of the Lord. John the Baptist's mother did a good job. John the Baptist didn't learn the Bible because the angels came and taught him. He learned at the feet of his parents at the beginning. You may be a homeschooling mom teaching your children how to keep the words of the prophecy, and you're preparing a generation in a way that you don't have any idea the impact those children might make. Amen. Let's stand up. Well, you got to join our Korean in time conference tonight. We are having, like I said, we've been having a great time. I'm giving 17 one-hour sessions. I'm telling them everything I know. I want us to respond to the forerunner calling. But I'm not going to have you come forward because hopefully 80% of you would want to come forward. There would be no room for you up here, and there would be nobody to pray for you because all the forerunners would come up so I would have no prayer team. And it would be strange to have the non-forerunners pray for the forerunners. Yeah. I thought about this. I said, I don't know how to do the ministry time in this conference right now. So let's just open our heart before the Lord. You could come up front if you want to just because you want to stand up here. That's fine if you want to do that. Or say, Holy Spirit, I want to be a friend of the bride group. I want to be a friend of the bride group, preparing myself to prepare others. It's not too late to start. I want to start even now. You said that in the end times, the people of God would understand the plan of God perfectly. I claim that promise. I'm one of them, Lord. I will understand the plans of your heart for the transitional generation. I will understand the plans of your heart for the transitional generation. I will consider, I will study, I will wrestle with these ideas until I get them. I believe you for the blessing on those who will keep the prophecy of the book of Revelation. I put my name on that promise. I will keep the prophecy of the book of Revelation that you said you would bless me, Jesus, if I did it. I will set my heart to obey it, to say it, to pray it. No matter how unpopular, how costly it is, I will say it and I will not back away. I commend my life to prepare the way of the Lord in the generation when all the nations will see the glory of the Lord together. I commit my heart to prepare the way of the Lord. I will prepare myself to prepare others. For I believe that all the earth will see the glory of the Lord together at the same time in one generation. Your word is true. I believe these promises. Desire coming Baptize my heart With your fire Desire coming Baptize my heart With your fire Desire Cause I don't wanna be Cause I don't wanna be abandoned No, no I don't wanna be abandoned No, I don't wanna be abandoned When it's all coming down I don't wanna be abandoned No, no I don't wanna be abandoned Oh I don't wanna be abandoned When it's all coming down Cause I don't wanna be abandoned No, no I don't wanna be abandoned I don't wanna be abandoned When it's all coming down No, I don't wanna be abandoned No, no I don't wanna be abandoned No, no I don't wanna be abandoned When it's all coming down So baptize my heart With your fire It's all coming Baptize my heart With your fire It's all coming Baptize my heart With your fire Be a friend of the bridegroom I wanna hear your voice and know your heart It's purposely just