♪♪ Genesis 26:18 tells us "Isaac dug again the wells
of Abraham." ♪♪ In every generation, there
have been revivals, massive moves of the Spirit that changed the
course of history. ♪♪ In every revival, there were
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your generation. ♪♪ We are about to take you face to face with history. ♪♪ Welcome to Revival Radio. I'm just here looking
through some old relics of revivals. One thing, guys, I want to
talk about today is, you know we talk
about revivals and we are always on a journey. In fact, the most common
question I get and I know you guys get
it too is "How did you figure that out?
How did you find out about Russia and the KGB files.
How did you know that"? It's all about, well, number
1, it's divinely inspired and the Holy Spirit gets us
a lot of help, But number 2 is we start
digging on something. It's a place to start. You know, our
scripture about "Uncovering the Wells
of Revival" is always--is where we go
to what we do know. You start with what you
know, pastor Greg and you start in and you start
pulling out what you do know but inevitably, it
leads to something else that we didn't know
about a revival. - You see patterns. - Patterns...
- Yea. - We know, we were
talking earlier about dates and how things line up and which we've
never seen before in accordance with Jewish
feast and it's just like... wait a minute, I've seen
that date before, I've seen that when you start, you know pulling things together. Some of that happened
just recently. Linda, what happened? - Well basically, we
found one phrase when we were studying in
the Ulster revival and basically, there're
actually 2 things. The Swedes and 12,000
people over to the American Prayer revival in 1857 were sent home with Swedish
Bibles. They went back and 200,000 people got saved. Then they also said that
there is a revival in Paris, France
among the elite. - Wait a minute. In France? - In France! - Now I grew up in the
UK and we're next door
to France so we are kind
of distant cousins and I've heard of
all the revivals in the English speaking
world but France. Surely, that's atheist. It hasn't had any revivals. - That's what I thought. And I looked at
this, went searching. There were nothing
in English. - Right. Basically, I got to a point,
I exhausted everything and sometimes, the Lord
will just drop a book, drop a person
into our lives. In this case, He told me I needed to go to Paris. ♪ [La vie en Rose] ♪♪ Linda Lane, here from
Paris, France and we have found revival. It is an amazing story and
I'm so excited and looking forward to telling
you all about it. That was a thing when I
went over to the Louvre. This is the little
gem I'd found. - In the Louvre? - Yea. - You've got to
be kidding me. - Isn't not hilarious? - That's in English. - Yea, ha ha... Well, no actually
some of it is, yea. - Yea, some, ha ha. - But if you notice--one of the
things is, this is... They're giving
away free Bibles. So how do we go from this guy, sending people out of the
country and killing them and outlining it and saying no Bibles except for
the Latin Vulgate to-- now we're in the Royal
Palace here in the Louvre giving away free Bibles... New Testaments. Anything you want. How do we go from there? - The Brits really went to
town in translating the Bible because we had the
history in England earlier when the Bible was in Latin. The Vulgate and so, no one
understood anything so the minister would say, "Well, it goes like that, and
it's like that". They didn't know but then
these guys paid a high price. Wycliffe, I mean with
their own lives. It had to be translated
into English, and of course, there is that
quote that he said, "I want every plowman
or plowboy to have the Bible in their own language. So they could learn
and have their own relationship but the Brits really then,
what you are saying is going on board and helped
the French revival out by translating into French. - And so in the South of
France, you had as many as 3 generations that had
never touched a Bible, seeing a Bible or anything
to do with the Bible and yet, we have circuit
riders that would go and every 2 years, checked out to see if anyone
wanted to be married but they knew nothing about God. They weren't in churches. - So how does this connect
to the 1857 Prayer Revival? - Well, we had the question of, "How did the Bibles get to
the people"? So there were
literally 3 things. How did the Bibles
get to the people? Who is involved? Was it a layman's
revival or was it some person that we can
put a face to, like we have Jeremiah Lanphier and then we also had
the issue of how do we go from being illegal to now, all
of a sudden, they are passing out
free Bibles. So this is a picture of
one of the locations that still exist today. The wealthy society ladies decided to hold a
prayer meeting. We don't know what
motivated them. The historians told me that because this was all hidden, the secular, the Christian... This is becoming a passion on
the part of quite a few. So we were making our way around
from location to location, talking with person and read and
being directed to look at this article and
oh, it's amazing and this is one of the
homes of the society ladies... - Hmm, wow, - and they got people saved. And the interesting thing
is that not only did they get people saved, they
got their husbands saved and their husbands and
historians were so excited. They said, "Their husbands
just happened to be the inner-circle advisors
of Louis Philippe I and he signed
the charter that allowed that Bible Society and the Paris Bible Society to give up Bibles
- Um, - and so that was the answer
to that question. How were they
able to do Bibles? - So what else did you find? - Okay, so the other question
was "Who is the face of it? Did they have a face of it"? Well... It turned out that the
church that we were at, this Oratory of the Louvre was started by a guy named
Jean Monod and Jean Monod had a
revival all by himself. And the thing is a lot of
time, you'll go and you'll look for here is the revival I'm
trying to get information on but now you are stuck
looking at, okay, here is this other thing--
Oh my gosh, there is
another revival-- and so you found out
that information with the goal of being able
to get back to where you're at--information on
this revival. So Jean Monod was the first
pastor of the Oratory of
the Louvre and it was standing room only,
sitting room only. They filled up the church. The wealthy women would
throw their jewelry, you know, "Give this to the
poor, feed the poor with this", and it was revival and
he had 4 sons and each of those sons
turned out to be ministers and if you recall the other
day, we talked about an evangelist, Robert Haldane. A Scottish evangelist. He
went to a Bible school, led 16 boys to Christ at
this Bible school. Well, at 25,
they were there. And he was only there for
like 10 months, you know, out of his entire life. He led 16 boys to the Lord
and then he went back home and did all this good stuff. Well, the thing is, is that 2 of
those boys he led to the Lord was our awesome
Jean Monod's son, Frédéric and his other son, Adolphe. Well, when these 2 guys
went...This guy got saved, he and all the other guys
decided to go do, you know, revival and they
didn't know exactly how it was gonna work. All they knew was, what
can we do to inspire people to accept Christ? Because they now had that
new-birth experience. So they went to Lyon which
is South of Paris - Sure, and amazingly enough, Lyon got
leveled with the revival. And so Adolphe had to start... - So when we say revival,
we are saying like what our definition
of revival and people's heart returned to
God, changed... - Yes,
- in their behavior... And the whole... - And what year is this? - Basically, this is 20
years before our revival. So this is in the 1830's
- Okay, - and so Frédéric goes to
Paris where his daddy has the church of the Oratory
that we were standing in and looking at and you know, it's amazing when you are
there because you hear the sounds of
the people around, you hear the traffic. You're on these
small streets. Even if they widen
them, you know, in 1857 it was
still felt small for what we know here in America and it's just like a whole
different feeling world and so he's there and he's the
assistant pastor and he shares the Good News of
the new-birth and people are--Paris, there is
another revival for Paris. This is not our revival. And so basically, at this point, I'm looking at this and I'm
saying, how did this... How did we go from this? And oh, by the way,
in case you... did any of you know about
"Le Réveil"? Have you heard of "Le Réveil"? - No. Never heard of him. - Ha ha... - Or it. [Laughing] - What they called it
here in France, they had a similar name for
it in Germany. The same group of boys from
Geneva, Switzerland were in Switzerland, in
Germany and in France. Germany would have
a 30-year revival. 30 years. How many generations of
people accepting Christ. - Now, that's on
the same time? - And this is 1830's. - Okay. - And so basically, we go
from this point and we say, okay, how did?... We now know that in our
1857 revival, we have an issue of Bibles. People need them, they
don't have them, they are trying to get them out. In fact, they were working
feverishly fast and Doug, as any of us know, when you go and you look at a--
Bible Societies, you usually get to have
so much data, we gave these many Bibles. This is how we got it to
them, this is who... A lot of time, it wouldn't
even been names of who is involved
in the distribution and the French historians
told me, they said, it's so amazing because when we
go into talking about our Bible Societies, whether
it's the British, that came in whether it's Paris, there is no data. They hid who distributed it. They hid how many
they gave out. They hid who printed it. They hid the passage to
get into the country. - So was that because you
know, I mean, I know France as just being
completely, I mean... They are very proud of
being secular or being atheist and so that must state back
to what? The French?... - The French Revolution. - Yea, there we go. - Back to the
French Revolution. - So I mean, did they hide
or destroy... I mean, did they burn
churches then? - Think about now what
they've seen up to
now, the pressure that was
happening in Europe by the Ottomans, during
all of this time from the Turks,
- Uh huh. - on Christianity and then
they are fighting between Germany and they are
fighting between Spain and the Dutch and the French
and the English and the French. There was a lot of
stuff happening with all these little
countries right here plus the pressure of
the Ottomans. Then they've been through World
War I up to our time. World War II. and the devastation
they've seen caused just this great despair. They had an horrible revolution compared to the
American Revolution. - Yes, it was quite a
different one in there because it was
atheist, wasn't it? It was atheist. It wasn't the spirit that
was behind it, you know that's here and so I think
that's why you see the revolutionist--the
revisionist, sorry--history in some of these things. - So, they are actually now I
mean, interested in finding the Christian history
or Protestant history? That's amazing
to me, that is. - I found 2 groups
of historians. One was secular,
absolutely not...Ha ha. They are an opportunity
for Christianity. - Oh, here we go. - And then the others were
Christians that were...You know, - And how did you find the
Christian historians? - Well, basically you go from
one place, you talk to a person, they send you to another, they
send you to another. - Right. - But basically, they've
written blogs and articles and so if you have enough time,
you can get hold of anybody. We were originally gonna
spend literally a day doing this research and
we got so excited and we found so many things
and we were going to many
different places that we actually were
there for 3 days. ♪ [Accordion playing] ♪♪ This is their version of
Jeremiah Lanphier and this guy, he's Henry Lutteroth and he was the
grandson...Okay, remember we talked about how
Louis XIV killed people and 500,000 or more escaped all those beautiful countries. Well, his parents went
to Germany and they were banking family and he
was filthy, filthy rich. When we talk about tradesmen, a lot of time, I know
here in America, we would think about them having
a business, good income, maybe a lovely house,
gratifications. Well, tradesmen there
were so rich and when you walked into
their homes, I mean, the detailing of...If you
go around the doorjamb instead of being like 6 inches, you're looking at having to walk
around the 3 foot, you know edge on something. - Almost like a palace, really,
what was the difference? - It was.
- Yea. - And they lived...I
mean, we have it. We have the Rothschilds, we have the Carnegie family I mean, Bill Gates
doesn't lived the life that these people lived. - So, he took Bibles, he took
prayer? What did he do? He retired as a businessman and
he began printing a Christian newspaper. He got involved 3 doors
down with this guy and he was the one that Louis
Philippe I gave the charter to for the Paris Bible Society... - Right. And so basically, the
2 of them were in cahoots getting Bibles out and in fact,
his daughter would marry his son and the exciting thing
about this is that when they started doing this, they were holding their
meetings in their homes
and obviously we are talking opulent homes, I mean, reading about their
homes was like a "who's who" in secular French history,
all the important things that
had happened. - What date is this? This is September 23rd, 1857. - That's interesting. - Is that interesting
date reminds you... - That kind of reminds me... - There is a couple of
things here. Obviously, we talked about that
was the--considered in 1857, September 23rd for
in America, but what is happening Greg, at
that same time in Jewish
Feast... - Well, see we go by our
timeline all the time but God has a timeline with
His calendar and when you start looking, I
wrote down all of these dates in 1857, August, September,
October, November and it begins on the 4th of Elul
and the month of Tishrei in the Hebrew calendar. Well, you are right in
the month of the High Holidays, - Right,
- when that is. You've got the Feast of
Trumpets, all of 3 which have not--3 Jewish
festivals of the Lord that had not been
fulfilled to the day. Feast of Trumpets, Day of
Atonement and the Feast
of Tabernacles and they are all in the 7th
month of the religious calendar and it's really what you
are looking at is the Latter Rain. - Um
- Wow. - Oh, that's amazing because
I mean, that's us, isn't it? I mean...That's
outstanding. - So, when I start looking at
something and I start
comparing that, I noticed something in
Revival history. Jonathan Edwards, Wesley
1735, Whitefield 1714, Mueller 1835, Finney, Moody, even Doctor Billy Graham,
they're all following, all of their revival start
fall in that same time and it takes you into the month
of when the rain came on Noah. - Wow. - Right before the judgment
and so we're seeing timeline... I'm watching again the
timeline of these revivals following into God's timeline of the early and latter rain. - Wow. - So, we've got our
French Bible. - Did you ever ask them... - Yes. - Did you ever ask
the historians? Is there a revival
in Paris in 1857? - The secular historians
said, "I know nothing about it". The Christian historians said,
"This is what we've been
digging out using primary documents and so basically, we've got the
Bibles, we've got... - But the Bible was illegal. - This guy and all those
lovely society women, who got their husbands saved,
Louis Philippe I, made it legal again and not only that, it was distributed from where
he was staying. - Okay, so was this revival
led by pastor people or was it
led by laymen? - Laymen. This is laymen but the thing is, is that the
pastors supported it. So when they ran out of
room in their homes, they went and
they bought properties, Talbot Chapel which was tore
down, they were there. The Oratory of the Louvre
where we were at, they had meetings there. It was for the
elite though. The problem is secular
historians told me that even though there was this
awesome revival and yes, thank you Jesus, we
found the revival, yes! Uh...There was a million people
in Paris that had flocked in. Well, at the same time period,
one of our guys, Frédéric, he said, "Okay, we have revival
among the elite in Paris. We have obviously
20 years before, this amazing time in Lyon and
again revival. He said, "What is going
on with America"? and they had heard about...You
know, the French ambassador, was reading his papers and
1400, you know, all these different banks had
failed, really impacted France. - Just prior to our Civil War. - Right. And it's 1857. This is 1858 and so by
1858, he says, "I'm going to America, I want
to see what's going on". He'd heard--they knew about
Jeremiah Lanphier. It had reached their shores. - So he came to America to
see what was going on. - He came to New York City. By that point, New York City
had between 15 to 20
meetings going on. So he goes in with his
first born son, Théodore and they have a prayer and one thing is read, "My son
isn't saved and he needs Christ" and 8 to 10 men stand up. Well, Frédéric looks
to his right and his son Théodore
is standing up and Théodore says, "I need Christ". and he accepts Christ. It transforms his life. They go back, him and his
son Théodore to Le Havre which is a seaport area
in Western France and the amazing thing is, is the
entire town accepts Christ. - So they go back changed and affect change back - And they bring
Awakening to France and so basically, Le Havre... people--they... they walked in, they
rode horses, 150 miles to get to where these
meetings were taking place and it just... It was basically the second wave like the Ulster district
experienced in 1859. - Tremendous, tremendous. - And so when he goes back,
you know, you say okay maybe that's it. At the same time, you've
got 50 nations that are having revival
and the historians were all still working on that
but when it happened, it changed each nation
and in France, it brought back the
democratic... their very first democratic
election. So meet... President Napoléon. - He's related to... - He's the nephew of... Napoléon Bonaparte that we knew that sold us the
Louisiana Purchase and gave us our country. I mean, the French had been
involved in our lives for a long time. - They helped us with
the British. - Yea. - Sorry about that. [Laughs] - This is sad! So who is she? She is one of those lovely
wealthy society ladies that was holding meetings and she basically had a passion
in her heart to get the children who many of
them which were adults now, saved and so she invited original Wycliffe. - Wait a minute. I've heard of him...okay, I'm
gonna jump in here now. Who heard of this guy? But absolute and
outstanding evangelist. He grew up in a
Christian family. He was destined to be
an attorney but he... - Like Finney. - Finney was an attorney. - Here we go. But so he had a hunger
for the lost and so he just...He threw all that out and he would win people on
the streets and he would go where people were so we are just in the beginning now of the Victorian age
so this young girl called Queen Victoria has now
become Queen and this guy--he heard that she was
going to be coming to his town because the Queen does,
you know. You open a hall
and you do stuff. So he would print tracks
and wherever there were people, he would go and hand
out tracks and so then, he had a crowd and
so he would jump on any event, even a good
hanging was great, you know, for getting
gospel tracks out but he was a man who... [All laughing] - Here is the plan. [All talking and laughing] So just a revival but I
heard, he went to France? - Yes, he did and the thing is,
one of the amazing thing is... The reason he went to France
is they had heard that he was holding
not 3 times a day meetings but hourly meetings
in Scotland. - A lot of hangings going on... [Laughs] - That's a good hanging - He called all the
coal miners just like Whitefield and Wesley did. He actually got
invited to speak. Okay, this guy was never
ever licensed as a minister. He was always a layman and
he got asked to speak... - So wait wait wait! You don't
have to be a pastor then?... as far as...never mind. - No, but you know what? But his secret
was this, I heard. He was a man of prayer,
a man of the Bible. He would go and I mean
just for long walks in the countryside and pray
and pray and pray. He was always studying his
Bible and God would give him... He was a passionate,
he was really... He may not have been officially
recognized as a preacher but he was anointed by God. - So he's from England? - Scotland. - And he spoke... - That's not England, you know. [Laughs] - They are all the
same over there. - Oh oh oh! So he leaves there and he
goes to France and he's holding meetings. - Yea, but before he
went to France, he spoke at St Paul Cathedral. I mean, how bona fide
does that make him? So he goes into Paris and
they've arranged him to speak at a large venue and it's got hundreds and
almost thousands of seats. I mean, it's just a
ginormous place. The thing is you've got
Emperor Napoleon, right? And you've got the prefect
of all the little police guys that don't like Christians, and here he comes in and
this...that lady set it all up. The streets are throng. You can't get in to the place,
you can't get out of the place. - Who is she?
- Her! That little innocent face. And she created an event
that ended up having so many people that came that
Paris has yet another revival. - And what year is this? - 1861 and so at this point, the
police find out, they look at this, they are
horrified, oh my gosh! The entire city is
accepting Christ. What are we gonna
do about it? And they say, "Okay, if you rent
a venue for a Christian of something, we will
throw you in jail and we will fine the business till they are
bankrupted, basically. - Wow!
- It was mammoth. And so he starts in on a
tour of 42 meetings and in little places. Schools
and little churches and all these little places and the first people to
accept Christ are the children
of those former revivalists and they are just a sweep
across the board and so that
lady is so happy. Her and her entire life
goal has been achieved and so at some point, after
the 42 meetings, they lost count because and historians, you
know, they are gathering this from primary documents all
over the place. They've been doing this now
for years and I got to bring all this to you
guys and everyone... - That's amazing. This is Robert Haldane
that led the Monod brothers to the Lord
that started Le Réveil, and he is an example of a
man who just takes a few months to do something that is going to
simply change a continent. One person and he's
not even...I mean, you've got all these people
who were not even ministers that were stepping
up to do stuff. They just did what
God asked them to do. - Gene, I see that one person
connects to another person, connects to another person. - Right. - To connects to another person and that's how the revival... - And that's what
it's all about. I mean, it brings us
to the...Go ahead. - The last place he preached at
was the Oratory of the Louvre. The thing that was amazing
is, you know as big and as huge event venue that was and it supported the
1857 Prayer Revival... It was still too small and
so they were saying, "What are we going to do
about this meeting? How are we going to get into a
place that is big enough"? They said, "Let's
throw an add. Let's put an add out there"
and a guy, his name was Triat, he said, "Yes, let's do
it" and he said, he wasn't even a
Christian, he said, "I take care of men's bodies", because it was a gymnasium, "You take care of their
soul" and basically, what happened was, they had 7
meetings and the police for some reasons didn't shut
the place down, didn't penalized anybody and
there was the last big push in his little
evangelistical revival journey. - Well you know, I think,
I'm gonna have to go back and watch the show again because
you are giving us a lot... a lot of history and you were just going to spend
the day in Paris. - Yea. - So you know, one of the things
that I want you to get from-- and pastor Greg just
touched on it, it's how one thing led to the next. You don't know your
sphere of influence, who you are
going to affect and who they are going
to affect. It is an amazing thing
that God does when you do something simple
like just sharing the gospel and being the one. This is so much deeper and so
much more important for us now while we have
religious freedom that we take it to
the street and we are able to
share the gospel even when it comes
to our own family... when we need to be able
to "be the one". Thank you, Linda for
sharing your story. I mean, that's quite
a journey there. So remember, as we
leave the air today, you can "be the one".
Take time to investigate who God has YOU to be
in your circle. We'll see you next time. ♪♪
