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My message tonight is very simply stated.
In the evening, there shall be light.
Zechariah 14, if you have your Bibles, please
turn there.
We're asking the auditorium people to keep the
lights on all through the message, please.
Zechariah 14.
Let's start with verse 1.
I'll read a verse in English and then
our interpreter will read.
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and
thy spoils shall be divided amidst of thee.
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and
thy spoils shall be divided amidst of thee.
I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to
battle, and the city shall be taken, and
the houses rived, and the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go forth to
captivity.
The resident people shall not be cut off
from the city.
And I will gather all the people of
Jerusalem to war, and the city shall be
taken, and the houses ravaged, and the people
shall be scattered, and half of the city
shall be cut off, and the rest of
the people shall not depart from the city.
Then shall the Lord go forth and fight
against those nations as when he fought in
the day of battle.
Go to verse 6 for the prophetic word
that I want to bring to you.
Zechariah has been talking about the dark times
that are coming.
And it shall come to pass in that
day that the light shall not be clear
nor dark.
But it shall be one day which shall
be known to the Lord, not day, not
night, but it shall come to pass that
at evening time it shall be light.
And it shall be one day which shall
be known to the Lord, not day, not
night, but it shall come to pass that
at evening time it shall be light.
And on that day shall come forth two
living waters from Jerusalem.
And the Lord shall be king over all
the earth, and on that day shall there
be one Lord and his name, or his
people, one.
And the Lord shall be king over all
the earth, and on that day shall there
be one Lord and his name, or his
people, one.
Lord, I have nothing to say of my
own.
I have no prophetic word.
I am not a prophet.
But you are calling us to be watchmen.
And you want to speak to us.
And I ask you, Holy Spirit, to allow
me to be an oracle, to speak the
word of the prophets who have gone before
us.
May we hear them, and may we be
anointed in our hearing.
And Lord, let us rejoice tonight that we
are seeing and hearing things from the word
of God that Zechariah and all the prophets
yearned to hear, longed to see, and we
see it, and we understand.
God, make us thankful as we hear your
word.
Amen.
He says it's going to be a very
trying time.
And for years we've talked about these latter
-day things that are supposed to come on
the earth, a prophesy to come on the
earth.
The prophet Zechariah said, it's not going to
be light, it's not going to be dark.
He's talking about a day just before the
dawn.
The day before Christ returns.
The day started when Christ ascended to heaven.
Paul the Apostle, writing of his own days,
he said, these are the last days.
This was the beginning of that day that
Zechariah is talking about.
And in the past few thousand years since
Christ, the world has been living in that
day.
The scripture says in that last day and
in the last time, awful times will come.
The Spirit said clearly, the latter days men
shall depart from the faith, give heed to
seducing spirits, perilous times shall come.
But you see, we're living in the last
of that day.
We're living in the evening of this last
day.
The day just before Christ comes.
Just before he puts his feet on the
Mount of Olives.
And just prior to midnight, he said there's
going to be an evening.
This is what the prophet Zechariah is saying.
It's to be one day which shall be
known only of the Lord.
An evening that shall be light.
And folks, we have been living and we
have been witnessing that day that is neither
night, it's not night, it's not dark.
It's been a day of mixture.
There's been a measure of light.
But in these last days, there's been a
mixture of darkness, false prophets, prophets, even the
apostle said it's going to increase, bringing into
the church, dark doctrines that would dim the
light.
And this is the hour we live in.
It's not yet the total gross darkness.
There is darkness.
The darkness is growing.
Evil men are waxing worse and worse.
He said it's neither night, it's neither day.
It's a day known only to the Lord.
That the prophet says.
And folks, get this.
I didn't say it.
And you can't hear it unless you hear
it in the Spirit.
I've read this many times.
It has only been made real this past
week to my heart.
We say it's evening.
We preach it's midnight.
And the prophet says.
And really I believe this is what he
is saying.
Don't focus on Armageddon.
Go look at the valley if you please.
He said that's not the message.
Don't talk about the hard times that are
coming.
You can warn.
You can have your eyes opened.
He says don't focus on the economy even
though it may crash.
Don't focus on those things that are coming
in the latter days because the light is
coming.
At evening there shall be light.
Get your eyes off the Da Vinci code.
Get your eyes off the Judas gospel.
Get your eyes off of all of this
defamation of the name of Christ.
Folks, it's just a mad devil who knows
his time is short.
That is not our focus.
The Holy Ghost, he's big enough to defend
himself.
We don't have to defend the light.
God raises up apologists.
Thank God for them.
But none of this foolishness is going to
stop the plan of God.
It's not going to give them a light.
God will laugh.
The Lord shall be King of all the
earth.
In the evening just before Christ comes I
believe there's going to be a bursting forth
of light.
He's not only going to be the King
of the saints.
He's called in Revelation 13 the King of
saints.
When you get to Jeremiah 10.10 it's
called the King of the world and the
King of nations.
That's not referring to the millennium because there's
still a mixture of light and darkness.
But he's talking of a time.
Remember what the scripture says.
One day before this King every knee shall
bow every tongue shall confess that he is
Lord.
That's Hollywood.
That is every false prophet.
They're going to bow before the King.
But before they bow the knees are going
to be made to tremble.
All they'll bow.
But in this light God is going to
make a trembling.
He said there'll be a great trembling on
the earth.
In that day there shall be one Lord
in his name one.
I believe that when the light bursts forth
it's going to be a revelation of Jesus
Christ.
Such as we've never known.
More than we have prayed for.
More than we could ever expect.
And I've preached so much over the years.
Warning of the times that are coming.
But I'm glad and my heart is at
peace because before I go home he's allowed
me to see the light.
That is coming.
Not only to Israel.
But to every Islamic nation.
Every nation on earth.
He said he's coming for a church without
spot or wrinkle.
He's not coming for a divided church.
Not a splintered church.
But he's going to send forth the light.
I remember as a child a little boy
who lived near a railroad track.
Those trains would come at night.
At first it was just a little speck.
And then you could hear the noise.
And you'd get closer.
And the light would get brighter.
Until finally the light is bursting at you.
And in this day when the nations are
gathered against Israel in the final war of
all nations in this day when darkness is
coming into the church I see an approaching
light.
That's Jesus Christ coming with his army.
And the light is getting brighter.
If Jesus is the light brighter than the
sun and if he's drawing nigh he said
you draw near to me and I'll draw
nigh to you.
And we are drawing nigh to him.
We're in Jerusalem drawing nigh to him.
And that light is getting closer and closer.
Isn't it reasonable to understand the closer he
comes the brighter the light.
And when that light comes there's going to
be something so spectacular happen.
There's such an amazing thing that God is
about to do.
So incredible.
Overnight it's going to change everything we know.
In the 18th chapter of Revelation it talks
about the fall of Babylon in one hour.
But if you read the previous verse it
said and there came a light and the
glory of that light did shine before the
light came and before the light began to
come in a time of calamity in one
hour everything changed in the United States woke
up one morning and my son I was
visiting Gary's house he said dad come quickly
it was the twin towers burning falling to
the ground in one hour everything changed in
the United States.
A nation that had never known terror and
suddenly everything changed people weeping on the streets
and in a moment I'm going to tell
you what I believe is going to happen
but in one day in one hour God
is going to get the attention of the
whole world that is when the light is
going to burst and when that happens every
denomination barrier is going to come down when
the whole world is startled when the whole
world is being shaken not just Israel not
just the United States but Russia and every
nation on earth and everyone is looking around
and in fear because in one hour in
just a moment God said you're going to
know who I am you're going to know
that I am the Lord and you're going
to hear before I come and then in
that day you're going to say I was
assembly of God I was Baptist I was
Presbyterian I was Armenian I was a Calvinist
but there will be no barriers there will
be no Jew no Gentile there will be
no discrimination because everybody has their mind on
one issue something has happened that only God
could do only God could have allowed he's
going to unite his church he's going to
bring about unity not just through preaching not
through some kind of illegal bond not through
compromise but through an awakening he said didn't
he he's going to shake everything that can
be shaken he said the Lord is at
hand his name shall be one and he
is preparing his church he is preparing his
community I know from preaching for over 50
years I can't preach unity and make it
happen and I don't understand that in Pentecostal
churches in the south in Chicago in Detroit
the churches are black all black congregation I've
been down the south recently even in Texas
Alabama to the south white churches and to
hear in one church in particular a black
family was coming attending the church seeking membership
and one of the elders said over my
dead body he died the next day and
the man who told me this story is
my friend and he's here tonight that's all
going to change you come to Times Square
church over 100 nationalities has nothing to do
with color doesn't matter where they came out
of a Catholic church Jewish or Islamic there
are Islamic converts but that's all going to
change because the light is coming hallelujah multitudes
have been kept from the kingdom because of
division multiplied thousands around the world which
they have said I would like to be
a Christian I would want to be a
Christian but I don't understand all of the
confusion I don't understand all the doctrines I
don't understand the division I would be a
Christian I would believe but I'm confused and
that's going to change that they may be
perfect in one that the world may know
that you have sent me the scripture says
of the apostles and the multitude of believers
they were all of one heart and one
soul and all things in common and what
was the result of that unity with great
power he gave the apostles power to witness
of the resurrection of Jesus and great grace
was upon them now what I'm preaching you
may not want to believe you may think
I'm stretching it in Zechariah especially you say
how is this going to come about how
is God going to make Zion a praise
in the whole earth I want to talk
to you I'll give you a quote from
one of my favorite Puritan writers I have
all his words Thomas Manson this is from
over 250 years ago if I recall great
man of God with a prophetic voice he
explained it best he said this is the
law of divine order after a great destruction
a great calamity he brings forth the greatest
unity the most blessed sweetness and he brings
about harmony and since in the latter days
there's coming such great invisible disruptions that means
there will be visible unity and blessings the
scripture bears out this misery enforces unity if
we won't do it willingly the Lord will
come with his judgment there is coming a
world shaking event it's going to be chaos
but God always creates out of chaos he
created the earth out of chaos he allowed
chaos in Egypt to wean the Israelites out
of Egypt so their heart would yearn for
deliverance there's going to be a visible worldwide
destruction if I'm hedging I'm hedging on this
word calamity and I'll tell you why because
this message was sent out not just to
our mailing list but through the media Times
Square Church and World Challenge and nowadays a
great host of Christians don't want to hear
a word anymore about judgment they don't want
to hear prophecy they turn it off the
moment they see a word like calamity or
chaos they toss it aside because they don't
want anything to interrupt this good life they're
beyond being stirred but I think in this
congregation I think you know what I'm saying
I was listening to the radio this past
week and this is the leading man in
the United States a government agency on communicable
diseases and he's the chief the top man
he was talking about the pandemic of avian
flu he was asked a question is this
going to mutate and be a disaster a
pandemic he said it can't be avoided
it's not if it's when and the interviewer
said you're scaring me he said what's going
to happen if it does now folks don't
be afraid to hear what these secular prophets
are saying if any one of the pastors
here if I stood here and said what
I heard this man say I'd be considered
a crazy man he said the first news
that comes to us that the mutation has
taken place the world is going to change
it'll never be the same millions upon millions
will die in 1918 in that flu pandemic
over 100 million people died he said that
was nothing they said what's going to happen
he said well all the airports are going
to be shut nations are going to close
their borders hospitals will be closed all service
will be closed transportation will stop because people
will try to be hiding trying to avoid
the pandemic he kept going on and if
I didn't have faith if I didn't believe
that dying in Christ is the ultimate healing
if I didn't have the peace of God
I would have been scared out of my
wits and I thought if I said that
I couldn't get in another church in the
world other than those who have the knowledge
of Christ and to turn on the news
one day and to hear this what does
it matter then what you are what is
that lust going to mean to you now
how many TV sets are going to be
turned into pornography how many are going to
say I'm a Jew or I'm a Gentile
everything is going to change in New York
City the head of our security system I
don't know said recently expect a dirty bomb
what do you call the germ bomb a
dirty bomb and he said it's not if
it's when there's not a nation in the
world now that's safe see these are not
my warnings this is reality that's why I
think it's so important that you came here
to Israel this time what
I've said are you afraid are you sitting
here stunned I haven't told you anything you
didn't know I haven't told you anything you
haven't heard but consider it in the light
of the prophecy of Zechariah it's evening everything
is about to change we're coming to midnight
and he said and in this time now
here's the thing I want you to get
the prophet is saying really that's not the
issue don't get your eyes on that it
can settle into your spirit but the lord
is saying at that time people are going
to have ears to hear what the spirit
is saying and everyone I believe that Christians
I believe that believers who are no longer
bound by the fear of death don't think
for a moment that all believers are going
to escape believers were told that in China
before the boxer rebellion people were not ready
and the church was devastated they turned to
idolatry and they turned against Christ because they
were told by missionaries that the rapture would
take place Jesus will come and you will
not suffer folks I want you to know
the light is coming but I want to
be prepared I want no fear of death
in me and I want to believe that
every nurse every doctor every businessman everyone who's
needed no matter what the crisis is they
will not be in the hills hiding they
will not be in terror but they'll be
living in the light of this glory that
is coming this will be the testimony every
speaker that's been in these meetings said the
same thing in one way or another that's
the testimony the life the fearlessness and the
peace that you have because the light is
coming yes Jesus the light has been here
but there's a greater revelation coming we're going
to know Jesus like we've never known him
we have got to come to the place
there is going there is coming to Israel
great tribulation coming to the whole world but
Jesus said I'm going to give you peace
I'm going to let you see me like
you've never seen before folks I've been preaching
for fifty years and I'm seeing things about
Jesus I've never seen I've never hoped to
see because it's beyond anything there's some things
I can't tell you because I've not seen
enough of it and every pastor here every
child of God you're seeing you're hearing like
you've never seen or heard before folks in
the scripture says in light of what is
coming how should we be living all in
this day God help the pearlish man God
help the pearlish pastor God help the individual
believer who's been watching TV for hours and
no time for the word God help those
who've had nothing but meditations but they don't
know about spending quality time with Christ in
the last hour while the light is shining
all around and God is bringing out a
remnant of all churches and all nations and
to be growing cold what a tragedy and
when this time comes when this great destruction
takes place people are going to run to
somebody that they know is not afraid who's
been walking with the fullness of the light
going to be the foolish virgins saying give
me something to see me through what's Jesus
saying our pastors come to me some very
well known receive telephone calls well Dave what's
coming what's happening what's next I don't know
they go where I go to get it
I've been talking for about 7-8 years
about a thousand fires coming to New York
City and I haven't seen it I don't
want to see it I even despise the
thought but just about the time I'm ready
to write an apology to our mailing list
and say it must have been in the
flesh and I read these prophets show God
give us pastors who are not afraid to
stand and warn but as we warn we
prophesy the light in the evening there shall
be light and folks if there are a
thousand fires coming to New York City and
I believe it's going to really rage on
42nd Street and Broadway I've seen visions of
it awesome terrible but I want to be
there preaching if you're in New York I
invite you to come Pastor Carter will be
there the whole staff just like they were
when 9-11 hit they weren't in their
cars trying to get over the bridge and
hide in New Jersey right in the middle
of the fire and the smoke that evening
there should be light closing with this I
want you to get your Bibles turn to
Isaiah 59 do you believe in Bible prophecy
you may ignore anything that I tell you
that you may think is flesh but what
you're going to read now you can't deny
and if you're a believer you would never
deny 59 59 now in closing I'm going
to take you through quite a few scriptures
as soon as you find it look this
way and say help me Holy Spirit to
get this so that I have the knowledge
and then I can have peace and then
I can remember what Jesus said when you
see all these things coming to pass hide
no look up rejoice because your redemption that
could be death itself I'm telling it to
you straight what is coming may cost your
life and cost my life Paul said that
is the ultimate healing to die in Christ
is to be instantly in the presence of
God so why should we be afraid so
go to the word with me please chapter
59 let's start reading verse 2 concerning Israel
behold your iniquities are separated between you and
your God your sins have hid his face
from you that he will not hear your
iniquities are you and your God your sins
have hid his face from you that he
will not hear here is the result in
verse 9 same chapter verse 9 here is
what happened this is the way it has
been in Israel and here is the result
in verse 9 this is what is happening
in Israel therefore his judgment far from therefore
his judgment or wisdom far from us does
not justice overtake us we wait for light
behold obscurity for brightness but we walk in
darkness therefore his judgment far from us does
not justice overtake us we wait for light
behold obscurity for brightness but we walk in
darkness isn't this the condition the next condition
that's happening now wherever the veil is over
the eyes of Islam or Israel or wherever
in verse 10 isn't this the situation in
verse 10 what happens that the gap is
narrow in Islam or in Israel we grope
for the wall like the blind we grope
for it as if we had no eyes
we stumble at noon day as in the
night we are in desolate places dead men
we grope for the wall like the blind
as if we had no eyes we grope
for it we stumble at noon day as
if we had no eyes we stumble at
noon day as if we had no eyes
in verse 12 our transgressions have been multiplied
before you our sins testify against us our
transgressions are with us and as for our
iniquities we know them because many of us
have sinned against you and our sins are
with us because we have sinned with us
and our sins are with us verse 14
our sinning judgment is turned away backward justice
stands far off for truth is fallen in
the streets iniquity cannot enter I want you
to go skip down now to verse 19
if you will please and here's the hope
you've just heard from Isaiah the condition and
here's the hope even when truth is fallen
to the street verse 19 so shall they
fear the name of the lord from the
west and his glory from the rising of
the sun this is the light when the
enemy shall come in like a flood the
spirit of the lord shall raise up a
standard against him and some these scriptures are
dual prophecies applied to the church and especially
to Israel verse 20 the redeemer shall come
to Zion and unto them that turn from
transgression in Jacob saith the lord as for
me this is my covenant with them saith
the lord my spirit that is upon thee
and my words that I have put in
your mouth shall not depart out of your
mouth nor out of the mouth of your
seed nor out of the mouth of your
seed saith the lord from henceforth and forever
god made a covenant christ died for Israel
and he has not turned against it he's
going to come to Zion and to Jacob
jesus died for Israel and he has not
turned against it chapter 60 and out of
out of chaos and out of the light
you will see this fulfilled verse 1 arise
shine for thy light is come and the
glory of the lord is risen upon you
when is it come in a time of
darkness and chaos for behold the darkness shall
cover the earth and the gross darkness the
people but the lord shall rise upon thee
and his glory shall be seen upon thee
and the gentiles shall come to the light
and kings to the brightness of the rising
lift up your eyes round about and see
all they gather themselves together they come to
thee thy sons shall come from far and
thy daughters shall be nursed at your side
then thou shall see they flow together thy
heart shall fear and be enlarged because the
abundance of the sea the sea shall be
converted unto thee the forces of the gentiles
shall come to thee and the forces of
the gentiles I take to be the gospel
of the lord Jesus Christ now
in this time of light and with this
I close who is it that's going to
come and be converted and who are those
that are going to have the veil opened
and their eyes enabled to see it's in
chapter 59 verse 20 and the redeemer shall
come to Zion and to them that turn
from their transgressions in Jacob I've heard people
say that all Israel every Jew will be
saved no one Jew or Gentile no
one can be saved other than coming to
the lord Jesus Christ not through sacrifices not
through good works simple things that you and
I know but he said there will come
a remnant who in this light that breaks
forth the redeemer who's always been here and
always shining will come forth with such brightness
and such glory that every hungry Jew every
hungry thirsty Islamic every thirsty unbeliever if they
forsake their transgressions and come to him the
redeemer will come to them and they will
be saved will you just say it with
me at evening there shall be light stand
with me if you will please my closing
thoughts there should be no heaviness here I
said there should be no heaviness there should
be no heaviness I want our musicians to
come now I presume that the majority here
are walking with Christ and you can rejoice
when this hour comes not in what is
coming but in spite of what is coming
there should be joy there should be victory
victory and there should be a shout now
I would say that's a testimony to any
unbeliever who would sit and hear this kind
of message and sink down in their seat
and turn on the radio and hear the
man that I heard and just fall in
depression everybody on earth is expecting something to
come is that correct everybody says it's about
to happen they're waiting for the shoe to
drop and these secular prophets are sounding trumpets
but there ought to be a shout here
before we leave and I'm not looking for
a sound we have never done that in
times square church as far as I know
I've not tried to do that anywhere great
meeting great sound ah but he said rejoice
the redemption is near I have peace I
have I
have peace I have peace I have peace
I have peace I have peace I have
peace I have peace I have peace I
have I have peace I have I have
peace peace I have peace I
have
peace peace
I have I have peace repent of that.
You can do it where you're at.
We're not trying to make a scene.
But if you come forward, I'm going to
tell you, there's some loving Christians that will
come around you, not to ask you what
it is, but to just love on you,
and join you in prayer, that God will
set you free.
Now come, Holy Spirit, and put your seal
of approval on this gathering.
Put your seal.
Give us joy.
Give us your peace.
Lord, we're going to shout when we get
there, but let us do our shouting now,
because we're on a road to Zion.
Hallelujah!