Cindy Jacobs’ Prophecy for Thailand
In late January 2024, traveling preacher Cindy Jacobs is speaking at a large event in Chiang Mai, Thailand. What she will say this time remains to be seen but at the end of 2008, a lot of Christians in Thailand (both Thai and missionaries) got excited about Cindy Jacobs' prophecy of an imminent coming revival in Thailand. The text of that prophecy has since been removed from her website, but you can still find her 2008 prophecy online courtesy of the Wayback Machine. Jacobs prophesied:
“Look to South Thailand. Revival is beginning to burn in South Thailand... In 2009, it will begin. In 2010, Fire begins in fullblown. 2010-2020, I will fill this nation. More churches will be planted, more than in all the years before...Prepare in 2009 with Daniels and Josephs bringing about market place revival...You have one year (2009) to prepare for the Decade of the Harvest. Prepare regional evangelists. There will be revival in all sectors, great transfer of wealth, wisdom and revelation.”
Prophecies like this are very exciting because there are still so few Christians in Thailand (less than 1% of the population) and everyone wants to see revival. It is thrilling to think that God is telling us that the very thing that we have desired for many years is about to happen. And there are good things happening in the Thai church. People are coming to faith. The church is growing.
But Jacobs' propehcy claims that a great revival was supposed to start in Thailand in 2009 and then progressively fill the nation between 2010-2020. As of January 2024, the latest statistics on Protestant Christians and churches (broadly speaking, this includes evangelical, charismatic, Pentecostal, etc.) show the following:
| Country Population | 65,729,098 |
| Total Christians | 497,867 |
| Total Churches | 8,552 |
| Percent Christian | 0.76% |
Based on the numbers above, has revival come? Did revival fill the nation between 2010 and 2020 like Jacobs' claimed that God told her? If revival has already happened, praise the Lord. If it has not yet occurred, what does that say about the reliability of this claimed prophet?
“When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously.” (Deuteronomy 18:22)
