'Voice of Revival' 1963 v05 n01 p05

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Can you guess what I am going to say? Yes, this never happened!

As a matter of history, the Catholic Church was very actively anti-Communist, especially Pope John-Paul II in his support of the Solidarity movement in Poland.



Verdict: NOT EVEN CLOSE!
  
  

'Voice of Revival' 1962 v04 n01 p04

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Did Communist borders ever reach the very edges of the USA and Commonwealth nations? Of course not. A quick glance at the map below showing the former and current Communist nations in red will convince you of this.

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Further Reading:

Communist State (Wikipedia)

Verdict: NEVER CAME TO PASS!
  
  
 

'Voice of Revival' 1961 v03 n11 p03

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While it may be true that knowledge has increased exponentially in recent times, there is nothing in this verse that even hints at what we are seeing in today's world. It simply says that 'knowledge shall be increased'. You don't need to be a prophet to know that knowledge has, and always will, increase with the march of time. 

Even as a Revivalist I thought that it was bit of a stretch to think that 'many shall run to and fro' was a prediction of 'present-day methods of travel'. How anyone can see planes, trains and automobiles in this verse is simply beyond me. One could just as easily say this predicts the modern Olympic Games or is a prediction of the Boxing Day sales at Myer Department Store. After all, lots of running to and fro there right?.

'The chariots shall rage in the streets' is a prediction of the motor car? Did these guys really expect to be taken seriously? If one looks at these verses in context then it becomes clear that it is talking about actual chariots (yes, just like the ones in Ben Hur) shining and glistening in the sun as they race through the streets of ancient Ninevah (Israel's neighbour). These verses have nothing to do with cars, combustion engines or even modern times!

Joel 2:30 is a favourite Revivalist verse even to this day. The greatest problem with the long-held Revivalist claim (that this describes nuclear mushroom clouds) is found in the first few words of the verse:

And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 

Who will be responsible for these pillars of smoke? Soviet Russia? The USA? Israel?

Nope. It will be God herself.

Read the verse again. It says God will show these wonders, not humankind. So unless God has an arsenal of nuclear bombs tucked away somewhere, the Revivalists are wrong...yet again.

Verdict: BIG STRETCH...but not far enough!
  
  
  

'Voice of Revival' 1961 v03 n06 p05

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The West and NATO never lost West Berlin or West Germany. In fact, Communism began to lose its hold over East Germany when the Berlin Wall fell on the 9th of November, 1989. Communism was rejected completely when Germany was reunified as a Democratic, Capitalist nation on the 18th of March, 1990.


Verdict: FALSE PROPHECY!
  
  

'Voice of Revival' 1960 v02 n06 p04

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Japan never turned Communist and is still to this day, very much Capitalist and America's strongest ally in Asia.

Verdict: HUGE FAIL!

'Voice of Revival' 1960 v02 n05 p04

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Sorry Revivalists, but like all the other prophetic claims on this site, this never happened!

Verdict: FAIL!
  
   
  

'Voice of Revival' 1960 v02 n05 p01&08

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The Revival Centres were forever claiming the bible predicted the Soviet invasion of the Anglo-Saxon nations (see here for more) but of course this never happened and with the demise of the Soviet Union never will. 

Longfield here also claimed that Lybia, Persia and Ethipoia would become allied with Soviet Russia. History shows this to be a false claim as Ethiopia was the only one of these nations that allied itself with the Soviets.

As for the Russians coming right to our (Australia's) shores well, they didn't even make it to the UK let alone to Australia (see here).

Finally, there were many fruitful and lasting pacts and agreements made between the Soviets and Western nations, so the claim that all were 'doomed to failure' is pure drivel.

Verdict: FAIL!