The Power of Children in the Last Times

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and were awakened; which nonetheless would have soon ceased—especially during the harsh, stormy weather of winter—after the manner of flighty childishness, if GOD had not had His hand in it, and had not constantly sustained them through the Spirit of prayer in their devotions. Here, the children certainly had to become the teachers of many teachers The author suggests that the simple faith of children serves as a rebuke to ordained ministers who have become spiritually "cold" or "sluggish." who are too cold and sluggish in their office, and especially in their prayers; they also had to fulfill the prophecy of the prophet Malachi, who prophesies how the heart of the fathers should be turned toward the children in the end times, shortly before the general curse Bann: Referring to the Hebrew "herem" or "utter destruction" mentioned in the final verse of the Old Testament (Malachi 4:6). upon the earth; and thus the parents were awakened by the children, and not the children by the parents. Afterwards, however, once the awakening on the part of the children had occurred, the hearts of the children should also be turned toward the parents and brought into a good harmony; which I have elaborated and demonstrated more fully in the work itself; for although the beginning of the fulfillment of the words of the prophet Malachi occurred in John the Baptist,

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it was so The text continues the word "geschehen" (occurred/happened) from the previous column., yet at the same time it was shown that the complete fulfillment should be realized in the two future apocalyptic witnesses A reference to the two prophetic figures described in Revelation 11 who appear before the final judgment., and only then would the curse be drawn over the earth, which did not happen at the time of the beginning of the New Testament.

Now, although this treatise of mine, which deals with those Silesian children, has a lowly reputation among the world and worldly people, the matter is nonetheless so great in the eyes of GOD that He wished to announce through His prophets concerning those children at the end times, and thereby provide a sign original: "Merckmahl" from which the times of His second coming and His preceding judgments should be recognized. Since I have not learned of this children’s prayer movement through hearsay, nor solely from the writings of those who have written about it, but have heard it myself and seen it in many rural congregations, I have been sufficiently convinced that such a thing is not from men, nor from human arrangements, but from the Spirit