God is up to something huge, Wallace Henley says in his new book, Call Down Lightning: What the Welsh Revival Reveals About the End Times. And it’s that particular revival and historical cycle that reveals the world is about to see a fresh outpouring of the Spirit.

Henley, whose previous experience includes time as a journalist and a congressional and White House aide, is confident that we are about to see it happen. He is presently the senior associate pastor at Second Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, and what precipitated his latest book was the “immensity of the [political and cultural] crisis,” he explained in a phone interview earlier this month with The Christian Post.

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When he left the nation’s capital decades ago after serving in government, he became convicted that the most important institution in society was the Church. The problems plaguing society were beyond human capacity to solve and such problems have only intensified over the years. . . .

Christians need not fear the end times, he went on to say. Indeed, Jude refers to this time as the “blessed hope.” But many Christians tend to view them as a period of awful dread, he said.

“Yes, there will be suffering. Jesus said there will be many tribulations,” he stressed, “but He said this is the beginning of birth pangs. He didn’t say that was the summation of the end.”

The end times began with the ministry, atonement, and the ascension of Jesus Christ, he emphasized.

“We’ve been living in the end times for two millennia and as the end times approach we not only will see the tensions and stresses that we’re experiencing but we’ve got to look beyond that and see the tremendous fruit,” Henley elaborated.

“So I say to every church: Get ready for the harvest. Do all possible to be ready for the harvest.”. . .

When Henley was a congressional aide, it occurred to him on one particular day as he watched members of the House of Representatives vote that they were elected by the people they represent to voice the desire of the people they represent.

“What a picture of intercession,” he thought to himself that day.

Anytime a piece of legislation is presented in Congress it’s because of a need that arises in a congressional district served by the congressman, and that person is voting on behalf of all those people.

The Church of Jesus Christ, then, is God’s House of Representatives. The remnant of people on the Earth who have the authority on the Earth to cast the proverbial ballot through their prayers, he elaborated. . . . 

“Revival is not going to come through the Republican Party or the Democrat Party, or to America, or anywhere if it doesn’t come to the Church. The Church is the key. And I hope church leaders will catch a new vision for the critical nature of the Church and its role in God’s great cosmic plan.”

(Read more of this article by Brandon Showalter Christian Post.)