Presumably, Kilpatrick’s “fresh mantle” is related to other revival terms such as a “fresh visitation of the Spirit” and a “fresh anointing.” If the believer is indwelt by Christ (Romans:8:10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
See All...,11; 2 Corinthians:13:5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
See All...; Colossians:1:27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
See All...; etc.) and by the Holy Spirit (John:14:17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
See All...; Romans:8:9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
See All...; 1 Corinthians:3:16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
See All...; etc.), and has an abiding anointment of the Spirit (1 John:2:27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
See All...), and if Christ is always in our midst when we meet, as He promised, then what could be the meaning of a “fresh visitation of the Spirit” or a “fresh anointing”? Leaders of this current revival habitually invite the Holy Spirit to be present and to work. But He is indwelling us and He is present and at work among us when we meet. So the idea of “revival” as some special anointing or visitation of the Holy Spirit is not biblical and could lead into error, as indeed it has done in the charismatic movement.