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Deuteronomy 19
14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Proverbs 22
8 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

Psalm 145
4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

There is a great spiritual as well as scriptural truth regarding foundational principles.

Foundational Principles regarding spiritual truth include scriptures of basics such as:
•	"Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God is one Lord………"
•	"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy mind and with all thy strength and with all thy soul…….."
•	God's delivering of the Ten Commandments to Israel via Moses:
	1.	Thou shalt not have any other gods before me
	2.	Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
	3.	Thou shalt not make any graven image
	4.	Remember the Sabbath
	5.	Thou shalt honor thy father and mother
	6.	Thou shalt not kill
	7.	Thou shalt not commit adultery
	8.	Thou shalt not steal
	9.	Thou shalt no bear false witness (lie)
	10.	Thou shalt not covet
•	I am the Lord that healeth thee
•	Acts 2:38 "Repent and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall be filled with the Holy Ghost"

There are secular landmarks with a moral foundation that are the foundation of Society:
•	I pledge allegiance to the flag and to the nation for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
•	Marriage is between a man and a woman
•	In God We Trust engraved and printed on our American money

There has been an attack in recent years that has been attempting to change Foundational moral, secular and spiritual truths. When the nation of Israel possessed the land, God divided up the land into territories for each of the 12 tribes. They were marked by boundaries or landmarks. Over the years, people tried to reestablish the boundaries by moving the landmarks.

God said twice in two consecutive chapters....."Remove not...."

In our nation we have seen the removal of the landmarks established by the Lord, and our founding fathers.

1. The Landmark of Scripture Removed.

Turn on the radio or the tube and on any day you will find the airwaves filled with obscenity, profanity, and vulgarity. What a sad day when The Ten Commandments are relegated to a closet in a courtroom. Less than two years ago we witnessed this nation under attack from terrorists.....but I am convinced that the one's that we need to fear the most are those from within who are attacking the very core of our nation. It is terrorists that are fighting for the removal of every thing sacred, and Godly from the public sector that we must keep our eyes on.

2. The Landmark Of The Sanctity Of Life Removed.

We were born a nation who respected the value of life, and our forefathers believed in a creator that brought life into existence. Now we are a nation with streets flowing with blood.....our young dying in the streets......our schools threatened on a regular basis.....child abuse is rampant.......majority of crimes against children committed by someone related to them. We are a nation that glorifies violence !

How did we get to this blood thirsty state ? I believe there is a direct correlation between the rise in violence in our society, and the legalization of abortion.

How can we respect the life of any.....if we fail to respect, and protect life in the womb ? If we will not speak up for the most innocent of all....the unborn who have no voice to speak with....what will become of us ?

3. The Landmark Of The Sacredness Of Marriage Removed.

The act of marriage is sacred because it was established by God in the beginning. It was validated by the Lord Jesus himself. God performed the first ceremony in the garden setting the landmark for marriage when he said....."For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh...." Marriage is defined by God himself as between a husband and wife !

When God was talking about ancient landmarks, let's establish what He was talking about:

*Ancient = Old, that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time.

*Landmark = A mark to designate the boundary of land; any mark or fixed object, as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones, by which the limits of a farm, a town or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.

-A landmark then is something to designate or establish a boundary to make known and preserve that boundary.

-I believe at the very beginning of mankind, that God place some landmarks to designate boundaries.

-The purpose of these landmarks was to preserve and protect man from destroying himself and causing pain and suffering.

-And twice in His Word he warns us not to remove them.

I have said all this to bring us to the foundation of R-E-V-I-V-A-L in the scripture:

The problems which I have just mentioned are a result of the lack of an earnest heart felt move of God in our nation and in the world.

I believe the foundational scripture of REVIVAL is:
2 Chronicles 7:14
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

There are 7 - 10 messages in this scripture:

If my people………………….……….."Our Desire"

Which are called by my name……….."Our Calling"

Shall humble themselves…………….."Our Humility"

And Pray………………………………"Our Praying"

And seek my face…………………….."Our Seeking"

And turn from their wicked ways…..."Our Repentance"

Then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land……………………………………."The Results of Revival"

3 Messages here………………………."Hearing From Heaven", "Our Forgiveness", "Our Healing"

Revival is an ancient landmark that Satan has removed from the church by our own allowances.

Revival in scripture is well documented and can be substantiated in another message. The modern last day revival in the last three centuries has been marked by several great waves of God's outpouring of His Spirit and revelation of truth.

I believe the great waves of God's outpouring of His Spirit can be documented in three categories or divisions:
1) 1700's
2) 1800's
3) 1900 to present

Religion in Eighteenth-Century America
Against a prevailing view that eighteenth-century Americans had not perpetuated the first settlers' passionate commitment to their faith, scholars now identify a high level of religious energy in colonies after 1700. According to one expert, religion was in the "ascension rather than the declension"; another sees a "rising vitality in religious life" from 1700 onward; a third finds religion in many parts of the colonies in a state of "feverish growth." Figures on church attendance and church formation support these opinions. Between 1700 and 1740, an estimated 75 to 80 percent of the population attended churches, which were being built at a headlong pace.

Toward mid-century the country experienced its first major religious revival.
The Great Awakening swept the English-speaking world, as religious energy vibrated between England, Wales, Scotland and the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. In America, the Awakening signaled the advent of an encompassing evangelicalism--the belief that the essence of religious experience was the "new birth," inspired by the preaching of the Word. It invigorated even as it divided churches. The supporters of the Awakening and its evangelical thrust - Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists -- became the largest American Protestant denominations by the first decades of the nineteenth century. Opponents of the Awakening or those split by it -- Anglicans, Quakers, and Congregationalists - were left behind.

The Great Awakening: The emergence of evangelicalism
Scholars have argued that, as a self-conscious movement, evangelicalism did not arise until the mid-seventeenth century, perhaps not until the Great Awakening itself. The fundamental premise of evangelicalism is the conversion of individuals from a state of sin to a "new birth" through preaching of the Word.

The first generation of New England Puritans required that church members undergo a conversion experience that they could describe publicly. Their successors were not as successful in reaping harvests of redeemed souls.

During the first decades of the eighteenth century in the Connecticut River Valley a series of local "awakenings" began. By the 1730s they had spread into what was interpreted as a general outpouring of the Spirit that bathed the American colonies, England, Wales, and Scotland.

In mass open-air revivals powerful preachers like George Whitefield brought thousands of souls to the new birth. The Great Awakening, which had spent its force in New England by the mid-1740s, split the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches into supporters. Many New England New Lights became Separate Baptists. Together they carried the Great Awakening into the southern colonies, igniting a series of the revivals that lasted well into the
nineteenth century.

Religion and the New Republic
The religion of the new American republic was evangelicalism, which, between 1800 and the Civil War, was the "grand absorbing theme" of American religious life. During some years in the first half of the nineteenth century, revivals occurred so often that religious publications that specialized in tracking them lost count. In 1827, for example, one journal exulted that "revivals, we rejoice to say, are becoming too numerous in our country to admit of being generally mentioned in our Record."

During the years between the inaugurations of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, historians see "evangelicalism emerging as a kind of national church or national religion." The leaders and ordinary members of the "evangelical empire" of the nineteenth century were American patriots who subscribed to the views of the Founders that religion was a "necessary spring" for republican government; they believed, as a preacher in 1826 asserted, that there was "an association between Religion and Patriotism."

Converting their fellow citizens to Christianity was, for them, an act that
simultaneously saved souls and saved the republic.

The camp meeting
In 1800 major revivals that eventually reached into almost every corner of the land began at opposite ends of the country: the decorous Second Great Awakening in New England and the exuberant Great Revival in Kentucky. The principal religious innovation produced by the Kentucky revivals was the camp meeting.

The revivals were organized by Presbyterian ministers, who modeled them after the extended outdoor "communion seasons," used by the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, which frequently produced emotional, demonstrative displays of religious conviction. In Kentucky the pioneers loaded their families and provisions into their wagons and drove to the Presbyterian meetings, where they pitched tents and settled in for several days.

When assembled in a field or at the edge of a forest for a prolonged religious meeting, the participants transformed the site into a camp meeting. The religious revivals that swept the Kentucky camp meetings were so intense and created such gusts of emotion that their original sponsors, the Presbyterians, as well the Baptists, soon repudiated them. The Methodists, however, adopted and eventually domesticated camp meetings and introduced them into the eastern United States, where for decades they were one of the evangelical signatures of the denomination.

I have covered the first two categories of last day revival and let me just touch on the third: The outpouring of the Holy Ghost in this last century began with a Holy Ghost outpouring at Topeka, Kansas spreading to the three year revival at Azuza Street Revival in California and then to other areas of the nation and around the globe.

Psalm 145
4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

It has been aptly said that we are one generation away from extinction.

What I think is of necessity is that we cannot afford to miss the perpetuation of revival from one generation to the next. This generation owes a revival to the next generation and the question today is: Will we give the next generation that revival or more aptly put, a great awakening.

OUTLINE OF LAST CENTURY TO PRESENT GENERATIONAL REVIVAL

1st GENERATION REVIVAL: 1900 - 1914 - Outpouring of God's Spirit at the beginning of this past century 100 + years old generation.

2nd GENERATIONAL REVIVAL: 1914 -1930 - The revelation of the Oneness of God and the beginning of the Apostolic Church Contemporaries include those from this early day generation: W.T Poling, 75-90 years old generation. Most are deceased.

3rd GENERATIONAL REVIVAL: 1930 - 1960 The establishing of the original church of the book of Acts. Many churches were established and built. This was a major growth era. 45-75 years old generation.

4th GENERATIONAL REVIVAL: 1960 - 2000 This period of time has seen the rise of the Charismatic Movement. In the Apostolic Church it has seen a rise in taking the gospel to the ends of the world with great missionary endeavors undertaken. 25 - 45 years old generation.

5th GENERATIONAL REVIVAL: A New Millennium of Expectation 2000-Present

This is the generation that I believe will witness the Coming of Jesus Christ for His church. This is a generation that MUST by all means have an Outpouring of God's Spirit prior to His return.

We must impact this entire world……….every village and hamlet, every city and metro area, every nation and continent. We have not alternative. The mandate is clear………….

GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF EVERYONE!

This last generation deserves an invasion of the Spirit of God to permeate the regions of the world.

OUTLINE OF MY SPIRITUAL HERITAGE:

1st Generation…………………………………Granny Tucker
2nd Generation…………………………………Emily Coleman
3rd Generation…………………………………Margaret Hudson
4th Generation…………………………………David Hudson
5th Generation…………………………………Nathaniel Hudson
6th Generation…………………………………Chandler Hudson