The Great Awakening

By William D. Holmes

In this book, William D. Holmes talks about how Christians has strayed away from the way God commanded for them to live in the Bible. As the generations change, so has the way people live change. What the Bible teaches regarding holiness should remain the same throughout each generation. Although what has happen is Satan has enlighten some people to try to modernize the teachings of Holiness and the things that the bible say Christians should not do. They will say it is nothing wrong with it. By so doing, they will mislead the people back into the world dressing and acting just like the heathens. It will be that there will be no difference in the church people and the world.

The church will turn into a social club. It is the job of Satan to lead as many souls as he can into the fires of hell. It is time to clean house and return back to God, serving him in holiness and righteousness all the days of your life. I will talk about the false prophets and their impact on the church and the coming of the Antichrist and the mark of the beast. I will talk about the end-times with the four horses and two witnesses with their impact on the worldthe coming of the Son of Man in his glory, Gods wrath upon the earth. First and second resurrections with judgment at the great throne of the almighty and the millennium and a glimpse of heaven and hell.

The final defeat of Satan and the demons with the new world order and much more will I go over in the power pack book. I am writing by leading and revelation of the Holy Ghosts. These events were given to me by God. We all should know no man knows the day or hour Jesus will return. Only God the Father knows. The immortal world is hidden from us on this side. But this book only gives you an idea picture of what is to come. May God speak to your heart as you read this book. It is time to live holy for Jesus and be ready for the soon coming king and rapture of the Church.

• Language: English
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• Release date: Nov 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781503510463

William D. Holmes

William Dennis Holmes was born on September 27, 1963, to Floyd and Lizzie Mae Holmes in Greensville County, Virginia. He attended Greensville County Public Schools and graduated in June 1982. He grew up in a Christian home with a praying mother and father. They went to a powerful sanctified Holy Ghost—filled church called Rising Sun Holiness Church of Emporia, Virginia, under the leadership of Eldress Lillie P. Williams. It was there along with other churches under Pastor Mother Williams that William Holmes witness the supernatural power of God working among the saints of God. William would see how devoted his mother was to serving God and how she put in him to love the Lord and serve him with a perfect heart. She would pray faithfully calling on God from her bedside. She would talk to him about Jesus. His father would provide for them and love them. He would read the Bible to them at night. His father would also pray. When he went to church he saw the saints of God acted the same as his mother and father. He concluded that this was real because they held up holiness more important than education or anything else in this world. They were happy people to be free from the world of sin. They gave up the world and dress and look like the saints of God. They kept their testimony year after year. William knew these people were real. When William was six years old, he was stricken with a serious illness and placed in Medical College of Virginia Hospital Richmond, Virginia. His father called Mother Williams, who prayed for him, and God wonderfully brought him out. Even the doctors who attended his case said, “It was the hand of God that brought him out.” So William devoted his heart to the Lord and got saved, sanctified, and baptized of the Holy Ghost filled and fire at the ages of thirteen to fourteen years old. He was nourished in the Word of God under his pastor, Bishop William H. Easter, who succeeded Mother Williams as pastor of Rising Sun Holiness Church of Emporia, Virginia, along with Bishop Rufus A. Easter, pastor of New Jerusalem Holiness Church of Garysburg, North Carolina. God wonderfully worked in his life and took him through many trials and tests. He remained steadfast in the faith and rejoiced in the Lord. He did not cause the church to be ashamed of his conduct. He lived a saved, sanctified life no matter how people treated him. He was called into the ministry and preached his trial sermon October 1990 at New Jerusalem Church under the leadership of the Former Eldress Rosa Banks. On June 5, 1993, he was united in Holy Matrimony to Velvet L Mangum-Holmes, and God has blessed them with a beautiful marriage. William Holmes joined the United States Navy Reserve in February 2000 and served in Operation Liberation of Kuwait in 2003. He established an International Prison Ministry in the year of 2005, which is a great blessing to many prisoners across the United States and around the world. He along with Sister Velvet hosts a prison ministry show on radio to reach many prisoners. They send Bibles and other religious materials all free to prisoners, and they make personal visits to inmates preaching the gospel. In the year of 2010 William Holmes graduated from ECPI University with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and minor in computer science. He currently pastors a church in the Richmond, Virginia, area where he resides. He is also the author of the book titled A Healthy Christian That Pleases God, which gives you a clear picture of God’s standard of holiness.

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CONTENTS

Note From the Author

Introduction

Chapter 1 Time to Clean House

Revival

Jesus’ Message to the Seven Churches of Asia

Chapter 2 God’s Preacher vs. False Prophets and the Antichrist

Coming of The Man of Sin or Antichrist

Chapter 3 The New Age Church

Chapter 4 End Times

Four Horses

Two Witnesses (Revelation 11 Chapter)

Chapter 5 Judgment Day

Marriage of the church to the Lamb of God

The Millennium (Honeymoon Church with Jesus)

Chapter 6 The Second Resurrection

The Judgment of Satan and His Demons

Chapter 7 A New World Order

Chapter 8 Sermon from Elder William D. Holmes Time to Wake Up

Chapter 9 A Glimpse of Life after Death Heaven and Hell

The Throne of God

Chapter 10 What Must a Child God Do to Survive?

Chapter 11 Answers to Controversial Questions

Summary

About the Author

DEDICATION

I want to dedicate this book to all the believers in Christ Jesus and unto those who desire to be saved from sin. Those who love the Lord and plans to make Heaven their home. It is my determination to serve the Lord in Holiness and righteousness in this life, so I can make it into the Kingdom of God. I desire for God to make me an Angel to worship, dance, sing, deliver messages and serve the Almighty whatever He wants me to do. As the saints of God get their riches in the Kingdom, may I your humble servant be among the wonderful Angels of God as one who never sin but totally be dedicated to you! Life in Heaven with you is far better than life here on the Earth. I truly love the Lord with all my heart.

Author Elder William D. Holmes

Note From the Author

It is the goal of this book to stir up your pure minds to obey the Word of God and live Holy before the eyes of God who sees us twenty-four hours every day. Throughout this book I will talk about some controversial issues which may sound repetitive. The reason is to give you a clear understanding of why these things can be a hinder in a Christian’s life. It is Satan’s Job to keep the saints of God out of Heaven. He will encourage Christians to do these things, (saying it is no harm) so he can accuse them of it when they come down to leave this world. May you pray to God, as you read this book to give you revelation, so when you finished reading, you will have a clear understanding in living for Jesus in Holiness and Righteousness all the days of your life to make Heaven your home. Don’t let Satan deceive you! God’s standard to get to Heaven is high so in order to make it we must be free from all sin and worldly lusts. May God bless you. Enjoy!

Introduction

As we move on in our age, we can see how the morality of our world has gone downhill. What use to be husband and wife along with the children is now a thing of the past. There are more households that have single parents; others are living in common law. When it comes to marriage as God commanded between a man and a woman, to some people it is only a fantasy. Society has gone to accept two males and two females being married, which is in violation to the law of God. Fornication is common among teenagers so much that the schools are passing out condoms. Some of those who still obey God’s law and marry as husband and wife are plagued by Satan to get a divorce. More and more people cheat in their marriages, causing the divorce rate to climb.

Disobedient children, domestic violence, child abuse, mass shootings of innocent victims in schools, theaters, and public places of establishments are on the rise. Crime is growing rapidly with homicides, rape, child molestation, burglary, armed robberies, and assault and battery cases. Alcoholism and illegal drug use is also common. People are so obsessed with education but they are so lack of knowledge of the law of God. In fact, the more educated people get, the further away they get from God because science says that there is no God and no devil. They say that when people do evil things like mass shootings, rape, and serial killings, it is a sickness. They ignore the fact that there is a devil. Man has turned their back on the Almighty God! They try to live their world without God. Prayer has been taken out of our schools. Our schools are becoming more violent with gang activities, rape, illegal drug use, and assaults.

Christianity has taken a backseat and is being diluted with other faiths. Even the churches which used to be on fire for God have gotten weak. Preachers who use to preach about hellfire and getting rid of sin are now preaching prosperity and focusing on feeling good about oneself and handling life problems. Sin is not only in the world, but it is also now in the church. More and more, preachers and other church leaders are caught in acts of child molestation, adultery, embezzlement of church funds, or some other evil deed. Money is their foremost concern. People will sacrifice a life for a dollar. Churches which used to be a place of worship to God is now becoming a place of business with programs, praise dancers, the sale of dinners and social events to entertain people.

Now after I have said all of this, you may ask what the Lord says about it. In fact, God is angry with the wickedness of our world. Although in his loving mercy, he is long-suffering, not willing for anyone to perish but that all come to repentance. In the midst of all of this, it is time for a great awakening. It is time to go back to Pentecost and let the power of God fall to deliver people from the devil’s hold. In this book, we are going to talk about the steps Christians need to take in order to get back to that place in God. We are going to examine the areas that Satan has run some churches into traps and how they can come out successfully.

Let us take a look at the word revival and explain what it really means. Examine the book of Revelation and God’s messages to the seven churches in Asia and how it relates to the church of today. Look at the end-time and the coming of the Antichrist and the mark of the beasts with the rapture of the church. Let us take a glimpse of the judgment of Christ. We are going to answer who the one hundred and forty-four thousand are and the number where no man can number in (Revelation 7:9). Then visit the depths of hell and see all the filth and evil and explain what the lake of fire is. At the end I will answer some controversial questions that Christians get confused over. Finally, we will get a glimpse of the new heaven and the new earth where righteousness dwells. It is the goal of this book to stir up your pure minds to get your heart right with God. Jesus will soon come. Don’t let him catch you with your work undone. I use scriptures from the King James Version of the Bible because that version keeps the word of God in the most original form.

CHAPTER 1

Time to Clean House

In (1 Thessalonians 2:3), the Bible declares, "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come except there be a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition." This refers to the second coming of Christ for the redeem. In our society, church people have fallen from sound doctrine. Satan has spread a web of deceit over people, allowing them to claim they know Jesus without totally surrendering to God. Instead, they enjoy the world of sin and expect to be saved too. Some say God is merciful and will forgive. Others say nobody can be perfect in this world. Satan has sent forth strong delusions, confusing people’s minds into not knowing how to discern between what is right and wrong. Instead, they are calling right wrong and wrong right! They will believe the lie that nobody can live in this world free from sin and try to serve God their own way by doing good works, ignoring what the Bible says about Jesus coming to save us from our sins.

Instead, they will look for all passages of scripture to make them feel good in their sins. The Bible says so in (2 Timothy 4:3), "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears." People in today’s society cannot stand the preaching of the Word of God when it talks about giving up all sin. This is one of the signs of the coming of the Antichrist. When people can do evil deeds and still feel satisfied, saying they are still saved. It will get so bad that it will be evil to mention that Jesus came to save us from our sins. People cannot stand it! They cannot stand being told it is wrong to commit sins such as adultery, fornication, hatred, envy, strife, lasciviousness, witchcraft, wrath, homosexuality, and lesbianism. They called it legalism—you are put in a box as a slave! You are binding us with so many laws or rules! We want to be free and do whatever we desire! You hate us by telling us those things are wrong to do. We have a right to do as we please! We have a right to choose! Let God (if there is one) judge us! All of these are excuses not to obey the Word of God. People have no love for God in their hearts. This is why Jesus says in (St. Matthew 24:12), And because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold. Jesus also said in (St. John 14:15), If ye love me, keep my commandments. If you love the Lord, you will do all you can to keep God’s laws and statures because willfully sinning will cause people to die and go to a burning hell.

You may ask, what is willfully sinning? Willfully sinning occurs when so-called Christians sin even when they know it is wrong. Instead of resisting it and getting delivered from it, you do it anyway for the fun of it. After it is done, they pray a prayer asking God for forgiveness, instead of asking him to stop it forever. That is, until they do it again. This is not a prayer God will answer! There is no forgiveness for willfully sinning! (Hebrews 10:26). That means a person is not saved but on their way to a burning hell. People needs to know that because Satan has deceived many preachers into telling the people all they need to do is to confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. When you sin, just repent and Jesus’s blood will be there to wash you and make you clean—that is not how it works! Jesus’s blood will take that desire of sin away from you, so it will not happen again! (1 John 3: 5–6). That is being truly delivered or saved.

Many so-called Christians are living this way. Live a so-called good life and fall into temptation. Some do it because they want to. They are confident God is going to forgive them. They enjoy the thrill and excitement! But after it is over, they run and ask God for forgiveness, thinking they are saved. Are they really? According to the Bible, they need to get delivered from all their sins and live a life with victory. God is not pleased with so-called Christians sinning and repenting. This is called lukewarm. Since they are lukewarm, Jesus said he will spew them out of his mouth (Revelation 4:16). What I am trying to stress is that God wants us to stop! These so-called Christians will not stop. They live an up-and-down life doing good for a while and then fall into sin. They love to jump and dance in the church during service. Some even hold good positions in the church (deacon, usher, choir member, musician, or kitchen worker). Others have the nerve to get onto the pulpit and become clergy. And when the hour of temptation comes, they cannot stand, so they yield and enjoy the pleasures of sin. Then run and ask God for forgiveness. They repeat this all the time.

God is tired of all that behavior! No one can serve God living a life in sin. Lukewarm Christians are those who say today they are a saved sinner or a sinner saved by grace. God will not accept that term because he has no children who are sinners. God’s children are the saints of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be. As we know, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. We are supposed to be like Jesus. As he is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17). God wants us to live like Jesus. That is why it is so important to get washed in the blood of Jesus.

So in order for them to be truly saved, they must turn from their sins and repent, asking God to forgive them of their sins and that they will never sin anymore. I stress again the importance that God wants us to stop our sinning! Godly sorrow will work that evil out of their heart. Jesus will deliver them and wash them in his blood, when he sanctifies them. The Holy Ghost will seal them up until the day of redemption. When a person has the blood of Jesus, it will wash you and take out the old inherited sin that we got from Adam. There are a lot of churches that do not teach that. That is why they have so many problems with people saying they are saved but still sin sometimes. In order to receive the blessed gift of the Holy Ghost, we must go through the blood of Jesus. The Holy Ghost does not come into a person who still has sin in his or her heart. It cannot be done.

Our society will be so faithful doing good works and helping their neighbor. Living a good, neighborly life will be considered by many as being a so-called Christian, especially working faithfully in the church! Some people believe good works alone will take the place of living holy before God and keeping his commandments and statutes. In other words, be faithful in the natural and live the best you can in keeping the commandments of God because we cannot keep the commandments all the time anyway. We are bound to sin; nobody is perfect! This is the era of grace and mercy. It is true that we are living in the era of grace and mercy, but that does not mean we have to continue living in sin! Jesus came into the world to bring us salvation and deliver us from sin, so we can live in this world free with victory over the devil. Grace is Jesus giving us the gift of eternal life. Mercy is his power to forgive us for our sins and clean us up. Fix it so we do not have to sin anymore. Jesus wants us to stop! Remember the woman taken in adultery in the eighth chapter of St. John; When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. Take notice Jesus told the woman not to do it anymore! That is what I am trying to tell you. Although Satan will have people playing the game of sinning and repenting over and over again and saying, I am a saved sinner. Just like I say some people will say sinners are saved by grace. I want to know where that expression is in the Bible. There is no such thing as a saved sinner! Ephesians 2:5 says, "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved). Now in school, we learn that the verb were is past tense. Take notice Apostle Paul said, we were. That means used to be but not that way now! That is why we need to read the Bible for ourselves and not let false prophets fool us. God demands holiness and a life lived to please him, keeping his statures and commandments. Those that refuse will be cast out into outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!

Today I can witness how the church as a whole has fallen away from sound doctrine. Even among some of the Pentecostal-holiness churches, the younger generation is changing some of the doctrines of holiness established by the Bible concerning how a child of God should dress. The change is causing some of the ones who were taught sound doctrine to compromise and join the crowd! Now Satan has used education and theology to cause people to find reasons to justify their change in causing the church to go back and pick up these things. I want you to know that the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God! God wants a difference between his people and the world. But we are living in a day where you cannot tell the church from the world. So-called Christians are acting just like the world. I see some people who say they are saved, sanctified, and baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost and fire—and they wear lipstick, makeup, necklaces, and earrings and women wear pants and men have long hair like women! I wonder where the difference is. Now when you talk about this, you will draw a lot of criticism. People do not want to hear sound doctrine. Some preachers who know about how a Christian should dress will not enforce it because they fear the people will leave them. Some preachers—in order to please the congregation—will take the political approach, leaving it up to the people to dress the way the Bible says. They say, if your heart condemns women wearing pants, necklaces, earrings, lipstick, and miniskirts, then you need to give it up. When they take that approach, you will have some who have been taught the Word of God sanctifying themselves in the way they dress and others continuing to dress like the world saying they are saved. The reason is they do not feel condemned. The same goes for the men. If your heart condemns you in wearing finger rings, long plaited hair, and tattoos, then you need to give it up. If not, then it is all right.

This tactic may seem good for politicians, but for ministers of God, we need to be more firm on the Word of God! People who want to make it to heaven must live up to the Word of God. It is not optional, but it mandatory that we obey the Word of God! Some preachers are so afraid if they preach sound doctrine—that people should take off those things. —those people will get mad and leave. No one will be in church but a few people. They do not want to have a church with only a few people! What does God say about it? Will God lower his standard because people refuse to obey? Do the people tell God what they will and will not do? One girl told me that we are not to fear God and that she was going to reason with him. Does she realize how powerful the Almighty God is? God sees what is going on. The Spirit of God spoke to me and said Noah preached for a one hundred and twenty years about God’s wrath coming for the wicked. He built an ark of gopher wood. The people laughed at him and thought he was insane! People sinned and had what they called a good time. When Noah finished the ark, God sent in the animals, and only eight souls were saved out of those many thousands of people. Just look at that! The great flood came and destroyed the world. Only eight souls were saved! (1 Peter 4:20)

God is not playing. When he demands that people live free from sin, he means it. When he commands us to sanctify the outside and pull off those worldly items, he means it. It is time to clean up the house! God is not going let all these people into his kingdom living and doing things against his Word. Some people say in rebellion that Jesus is coming back for your soul and not your clothes. That is an excuse to justify their actions of not obeying the Word of God and dressing just like the heathens that do not know God. I want you to know when Jesus sanctifies you on the inside: then your outside will change. When you have Christians who still dress just like they were when they first got saved or out there in the world, that is true evidence they are not truly saved. They have a zeal or form of godliness. Jesus will bring about a change.

Let me tell you this. I was supposedly in a Holiness church service, and the devotional leader leading the service had dressed up in a miniskirt showing her upper legs and wearing high-heel shoes. The musician had so much hair on his head like a woman. Now I want to know how can a person get saved when so much of the flesh is being advertised? How can you put your mind on Jesus, when Satan is tempting you with the flesh? If I took notice of what the girl was wearing, you know the average male will take notice. Also, at the devotional table, there was a church mother who was dressed so respectably, a nice long dress covering her. She wore no attractive earrings and necklaces. The way the church mother was dressed will put a person’s mind on the Lord, because the flesh is not being advertised. At that table, I could conclude it was out with the old, and in with the new! How can this be right in the eyes of God? Satan wants to take people’s attention away from Jesus and get their minds on the flesh. That is why he lures so-called Christians into dressing just like they do in the streets and bring it into the house of God.

I was in another so-called Holiness church and one lady was painting her lips red before