and this:
https://worldchallenge.org/newsletter/2008/the-last-revival
Excerpt:
You see, despite the rise in iniquity and great calamities, Jesus knew there would be a great last-days revival. The Holy Spirit inspired Isaiah’s prophecies, and he knew full well about the prediction of a revival as the end draws near.
Isaiah said there would be a great, worldwide awakening just prior to Christ’s return.
This prophecy is found in Isaiah 54 and is summed up in these verses: “Thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited” (54:3).
I believe with a number of Bible scholars that Isaiah’s prophecy has a dual application. It speaks not only about natural Israel after captivity in Babylon, but also about the spiritual Israel that was to come: the body of Jesus Christ, the church of the New Jerusalem. Paul quotes from Isaiah 54 when he refers to the “Jerusalem which is above...the mother of us all” (Galatians 4:26). Paul saw Isaiah’s prophecy as directed “to the children of promise,” those in Christ by faith.
If Isaiah addressed his prophecy only to natural Israel, it would mean his promises haven’t yet been fulfilled. In short, it has not yet come to pass that “thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles” (Isaiah 54:3). Yet that word was clearly fulfilled in Christ, at the cross and at Pentecost. Think about it: when Isaiah delivered this message, some 42,000 Israelites had come out of Babylonian captivity. By the time of Jesus, their number had increased only to about 3 million.
David Wilkerson, who I greatly admired, had a habit of setting dates when that should have never been done, and misinterpreting scriptures. I personally feel his first two books, one of which spoke of a great calamity that will strike the USA, were great books, but he set timetables for the disaster to strike, and that was his undoing.
However, I am also under the impression that the calamity that he spoke of will indeed happen, just not given the time table as he spelled out.