09/15/2026
When the Lord uses the word suddenly, as in Malachi chapter 3, verse 1, and Acts chapter 2, verses 1 through 4, it carries great significance.
The prophecy of Malachi occupies a unique position. It is the last book of the Old Testament era, and it is the beginning of a 400 year period in which God gave no fresh revelation.
Think about it for just a moment. The prophet of the Lord speaks for God and says, Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple.
The phrase “suddenly coming of the Lord to his temple is language that is reminiscent of the glory of the Lord settling upon the temple that Solomon built. God suddenly occupies His temple on that day, and the promise of Malachi at the end of the Old Testament is that God would do it again. He is coming back to His temple in a sudden display of His glory and majesty.
It is a prophecy of hope, a season of restoration and promise. It has the ring of the immediate. God will come suddenly.
But with that message of hope, the prophet falls silent. And it was not just this prophet. It was not the voice of a single man that was silent. God literally fell silent. He simply stopped speaking to His people.
I’m not talking about weeks, months, years, or decades. No, my brother and sister of the Lord, that makes up the greatest church in the world in Statesboro. I’m talking about 400 years. Four centuries passed after God’s promise that He would move suddenly.
In all that time, God never moved. There was absolutely no evidence that God was ever going to bring His promise to pass. Hundreds of years passed. The voice of prophecy fell silent.
But the world kept turning. Life kept happening. The Romans invaded, and the nation fell into captivity. And again, it seemed as if God had completely forgotten His people.
Hallelujah! Then the atmosphere began to change!
At first, it was a subtle shift. Gabriel, the angel of the Lord, appeared to Zechariah and announced the birth of the messenger that would prepare the way of the Lord. Elizabeth would give birth to John the Baptist.
After 400 years, the promise began to be fulfilled.
Surely after that, the angel appeared before Mary and announced the birth of Jesus with the declaration that the child would be Emmanuel, God with us.
After 400 years of waiting, the situation changed and God began to move.
On a day just like today, September 14, 2026, a day that seemed normal, a day that seemed no different than the days before that, the situation began to change like a light shining into darkness.
I’m here to tell you today, my good brother and sister of the Lord, everything changed.
All of a sudden, God, who had been working for years out of sight, began to make His presence evident. After 400 years of silence, God was moving. After 400 years of nothing, God was working, and finally, the promise was coming to pass.
And that is where we’re at in Statesboro, Georgia.
It may have seemed like God was nowhere to be found and nothing was happening, but I declare to you this day that something is happening, and it’s happening now!
God is moving, and we’re right at the brink of the greatest move of God that mankind has ever seen.
A miracle that will go worldwide.
It will be global revival.
God promised it. He cannot lie. It is going to happen.
In fact, it is happening!
It is time that we begin to thank Him in advance, as we have been doing. But don’t stop. Any second, any moment, this will be a distant memory.
The Lord has been working all along behind the scenes.
Pastor Watts
