Why do the heathen rage?
Amen.
Let's pray.
Now, Lord, I need you tonight.
This message will not have the impact that
you intended to have.
I pray you come upon me, Holy Spirit,
with your anointing.
Oh, God, let it flow out of my
lips as you put it into my heart.
I thank you for the sanctifying power of
the Holy Ghost that we can stand before
your people clean.
We can stand as a blessing to these
people, the fire, the anointing of the Holy
Ghost to come because of the blood of
Jesus that sprinkles us clean.
Hallelujah.
Lord, open our understanding tonight.
We will understand what we're going to face
in the days ahead and why there's such
persecution now from the ungodly.
We pray, Lord, that you quicken us to
hear and understand your word.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Will you go to Psalms 2, please?
Psalms 2.
I'm going to read.
I want you to follow me from the
first five verses of Psalm 2.
Reading from the King James, Why do the
heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain
thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and
the rulers take counsel together against the Lord
and against his anointed, saying, Let us break
their bands asunder and cast away their cords
from us.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.
The Lord shall have them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his
wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Verse 1 again.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people
imagine a vain thing?
Hallelujah.
Why do the heathen rage?
Folks, it has been this way from the
very beginning of time that the ungodly hate
the righteous.
The ungodly, the wicked, have no time for
those who walk in holiness before God.
David said, If it had not been the
Lord who was on our side, when men
rose up against us, then they had swallowed
us up quick when their wrath was kindled
against us.
Blessed be the Lord who has not given
us as a prey to their teeth.
And this is exactly what David's saying.
Lord, if it wasn't on your side, they
would have just swallowed us up.
They would have eaten us alive.
That's what's in their heart.
He said, God, you kept us from being
a prey, a victim to these people.
Now the wrath of this sinful world is
burning now as brightly as ever against the
people of God.
And let me tell you, the more godly
you are, the more you're going to be
hated and despised by this world.
The closer you get to Jesus, the further
away you're going to get from this world
and everything they stand for.
And the more you're going to be ostracized
and the more you're going to be hated
and abused by the world.
Now, if you're going to follow Jesus in
this straight and narrow way, let me tell
you right now, you can forget about being
admired and loved by this world.
You can forget about being admired and loved
by your relatives that are unsaved.
Amen?
Amen.
If you are trying to influence your ungodly
friends around you on the job and you'd
like to be loved, everybody wants to be
loved.
I'd love to have everybody love me.
That's a wonderful thing, but it's not going
to happen.
And the closer you get to Jesus, the
less the ungodly are going to love or
admire you.
So don't even try to work on it.
Jesus said, you're going to be persecuted just
as I am, he said.
In fact, he said, the time is coming
that whosoever kills you will think that he
doth God's service.
And in the here Syriac, it reads, whosoever
kills you will think that he's bringing a
sacrifice to God.
In other words, your dead body, he's going
to present it to God.
He would kill you as if he's bringing
a great sacrifice to God and that's what
it really means in the Syriac.
If they persecuted me, they will persecute you
because the servant is not any greater than
his Lord.
Folks, in the media, in the United States,
the born-again-ers, those who are evangelical,
those who lift up the cross of Jesus
Christ, they are being mocked and ridiculed in
theaters, even on Broadway.
They make fun of what they call the
Holy Rollers.
They make fun of those who are against
abortion.
The abortions rise up, the militant homosexual crowd,
the secular media rises up.
And folks, the people of God are mocked
today more than they were 10 years ago
and every year it gets worse.
It absolutely gets worse.
And every time, even in what is called
a PG movie now, you'll find the name
of Jesus Christ cursed all through that movie.
Even Disney now is going to that.
Walt Disney movies take the name of Jesus.
They won't use four-letter words, but they'll
sure curse your Christ and mine.
That's a part of the persecution.
That's the hatred toward Jesus Christ.
Now, why are the heathen raging against God's
people?
Now, if you tell me on your job
and among your unsaved loved ones and if
you're here to tell me that you are
not despised, you are, in fact, you are
admired and everybody around you on the job
thinks you're the greatest person, then I wonder
if they think you're just like them.
I wonder if you have really compromised because
once you take your stand for Jesus, the
Bible says you're going to be ostracized, you're
going to be persecuted.
So check your testimony if you're being patted
on the back and the Bible says, beware
when all men speak well of you.
They did that of the false prophets.
I'm just now beginning.
But why, why do the heathen rage against
the righteous?
Where is this awful rage coming from?
There has to be a power behind it
because it goes beyond any human explanation.
David said, Consider my enemies, for they are
many, and they hate me with a cruel
hatred.
The workers of iniquity eat up my people
as they eat bread, Psalms 14.4. Folks,
the rage of the wicked against the righteous
is absolutely, totally unreasonable.
And it's unreasonable because we haven't done anything
to hurt them.
You cannot be an overcoming Christian and do
anything.
You cannot be living in the fullness of
Christ and do anything on the job or
in your career to hurt anybody.
It's incongruous to any kind of Christian standard.
You cannot be an overcoming Christian and ill
-treat people on the job or curse or
listen to dirty stories and you can't hurt
anybody.
So those who are truly of Christ have
not deserved any of this rage.
It's totally fraudulent.
It's unreasonable.
In fact, that's why the writer says it's
a vain thing.
It means unreasonable.
No reason behind it.
No explanation for it.
Human explanation.
It goes beyond that.
It goes to the fact that the devil
himself is behind it.
Satan is behind this terrible wrath against the
people of God.
Now, folks, I hope that none of us
at Times Square Church wanting to be the
center of attraction and so loved and admired.
I don't want to be admired by those
who curse my Christ.
I want to be a testimony to them
and I want to be a standard against
what they are doing and what they are
saying, but in Christ's love, of course.
I am very much amused by Christians who
are in show business, here on Broadway and
in television, especially those actors and actresses who
are in questionable movies, questionable Broadway shows and
movies and all kinds of television programs that
tend toward lust and immorality.
Folks, there were some who called themselves Christians
in one of those vile television series on
television and they testified that they were Christians
and this really amuses me.
They say, I am there to be a
testimony for Jesus.
I am there to witness for Christ.
Well, let me tell you something.
If they really witnessed Christ as Paul the
Apostle witnessed Christ, if they would stand up
and really preach the grace of Jesus Christ
and the power of Jesus Christ to save,
they would be the most hated person on
the stage.
They would be despised, absolutely despised, so much
so they couldn't operate.
They couldn't do it.
It's impossible.
It doesn't line up with everything Jesus said.
It's impossible.
He said, come out from among them.
Be you separate and clean, said the Lord.
Then I receive you as my son or
my daughter.
Please understand, too, that the rage of heathen
is universal.
It's not just aimed at one individual.
Suppose you're on the job and somebody has
turned, they know you're a Christian, you've lived
it, and they're living in sin and they're
living in lust and they're going to hate
you, but it's not against you.
It's universal.
Somebody could take your place from Hong Kong,
China.
Somebody could take your place from London, England.
But if they were Christian, they would get
the same treatment because it's a universal thing.
Remember when Haman turned against Mordecai, the Jew?
And because Mordecai wouldn't bow, the Bible said
his wrath was fired against him.
It was against one man until his friends
came and said, well, he's just one of
a race.
And then the Bible says Mordecai set out
to destroy the Jews of the whole kingdom.
See, you're only one of a race, a
race of believers, a race of Jesus lovers,
a race of people wholly given to the
heart of God.
And anywhere you go, whether it's on your
job, anywhere you go in the world, when
you hold up the standard of Jesus, the
wicked are going to hate you.
They're going to despise you.
It's a universal hatred.
Please don't take it too personal.
Solomon says, well, pastor, can't we win these
wicked over by our good works?
Doesn't Peter say that they may by your
good works, which they shall see glorify God
in the days of visitation?
Well, please listen to what it says.
Yes, they will glorify God in the day
of visitation, the day of judgment in the
Greek.
In the day of judgment, they're going to
have to acknowledge that they had the testimonies,
what he's saying.
But they, in this time, while there's still
time and while you and I are on
this earth, I don't care how many good
works you do because you cannot appease the
wicked.
Absolutely impossible to police a wicked man, appease
him.
Now, let me get into this a little
deeper.
You cannot pacify the wrath of the heathen
and God gives four reasons why you can't
pacify the wicked.
You can't appease them.
In Hosea 111, thus saith the Lord, for
three transgressions of Edom and yea for four,
I'll not turn away the punishment thereof.
First of all, because he pursued his brother
with a sword.
God help any man who pursues his brother
with a sword.
God help him.
I will not turn away the punishment there
because he pursued his brother with a sword.
Number two, he had no pity in his
heart.
Number three, his anger did tear at him
perpetually.
Number four, he kept his wrath forever.
And these are the four reasons you cannot
appease the wicked on your job.
You cannot appease your wicked relatives.
No matter how you try, you'll never please
them because you cannot appease them for these
very same reasons.
The Scripture says they have a sword in
their hand and the sword's been put there
by the devil himself.
They have a sword and that sword is
the enemy's sword against the kingdom of God.
And the Scripture says they will not pity
you no matter how sweet and kind you
are.
You can ooze with sweetness and they'll just
shake their head at you.
And they'll go like this, crazy.
And they'll call you weak.
And the Bible says they will not, their
fury will be with them till they die.
And number four, they're not going to change
in their lifetime other than by the grace
of God.
Unless they're saved, they're not going to change.
No matter what you do, no matter how
many promises you make, you're not going to
change them by appeasing them.
And you know what I mean by appeasing?
Going their way, doing their things.
You can't do it.
You go ahead and try to do what
they ask you to do and you'll find
out that they'll just lose respect for you.
The ungodly, the wicked, are blinded to the
fact that it's we praying Christ-loving people
who are saving their skin.
Did you hear what I said?
Who do you think is holding this whole
thing together?
Who do you think is using their weapons
to chase murderous spirits and demonic spirits and
raping spirits, chasing them out of our cities?
Who is it that has weapons that are
not carnal, mighty, pulling down the strongholds?
These are God's people.
It's God's people in the land who are
filled with the Holy Ghost that keep the
judgment from God for falling for the wickedness
of the land.
All of these militant homosexuals and all of
these abortionists who cry out against evangelicals and
those who love Jesus don't understand.
They don't know that we are saving their
lives.
They owe their lives to us.
You take us out and anarchy comes.
One of these days it's going to happen
just like that.
Now, let me try to go a little
deeper and try to explain this rage of
the heathen against God's people, this powerful force
behind it.
First of all, the wicked rage against the
righteous because they have a different father than
we do.
It's not the same father because the Bible
said if God were their father, they would
love Jesus, they would obey his word, they
would seek to understand it and they would
love all of God's people because if God
is your heavenly father, you not only love
him, you love his son and you love
all of his people who are in his
son.
So the scripture said, Jesus says, they've got
another father.
Who is it?
The Bible says it's the devil.
I didn't say that.
Wouldn't it be like somebody walk out here
and say, Pastor, they stood there and literally
called sinners sons of the devil.
Well, that's what Jesus said.
Ye are of your father the devil and
the lust of your father ye will do.
He said that to a religious crowd.
He that is of God heareth God's words.
Ye therefore don't hear them because you're not
of God.
You're not of God, he said.
You can be a child of the devil
and still have a form of religion.
You can go through all of the forms
of religion.
You can have a form of God.
There is no power.
You can pray dead cold formal prayers, but
God help you if you get near a
red hot prayer that really touches God and
scares you to death.
In Ireland, you see little children, little boys
running around with little wooden guns and they're
playing war games and sometimes it's the Protestants
and then sometimes it's the Catholic kids and
they're running all over cursing the Protestants and
cursing the Catholics and carrying these little guns
around and these wooden knives and playing war
and they're just waiting until they're old enough
to join the IRA or another army and
get in the real fight.
Now, where did they get this hatred?
They got it from their fathers in their
homes.
Where does this rage come from but from
the devil himself, from the father of those
who are wicked?
This rage is demonic.
Folks, I told you about the time here
in New York City, a group of Catholics
were outside of this abortion clinic and I
just came along on the street and there
were a group of Christians outside of these
barriers and I was standing among Christians and
just watching what was happening and there were
a group of lesbians there that were pro
-choice and they saw me standing there and
I had three of them in my face.
I mean, cursing me.
They didn't know me.
Their father knew the father in me.
Their father hates my father and my father's
stronger than their father.
They started cursing me and hollering at me
and I just turned and walked, but they
followed me.
I said, what do you want?
I wasn't even a participant.
They followed me.
You bunch of hypocrites.
You dumb Christians.
That's the sweet.
I'm giving you the polished version.
Two years ago when they had the homosexual
march on Fifth Avenue, a quarter million homosexuals
and I'm standing with two other Christians over
here just watching and I'm standing there in
utter amazement and a group of militants gathered
around and somebody near me had a sign
Jesus loves homosexuals.
They grabbed it and tore it and cursed
and started chasing the man down the street.
Then they turned to me.
Their father recognized my father and my father's
stronger than their father.
All I said is glory to Jesus and
they ran.
They have another father.
The rage comes from the father.
The lust of their father you would do.
He says, you know the young man that
just confessed for the one murder and the
five rapes here in the city?
They just caught him?
Do you understand?
Did you hear what he was doing the
last three months before the rapes?
He was sitting in his room with pornographic
films on rape and beatings and stabbings and
he was laughing through them and the devil
was saturating his mind preparing him for this
devilish thing that he was doing.
His father.
The lust of your father you will do.
That wasn't his lust.
It was the lust of the devil implanted
in him.
And you feed your mind to pornography sir
or ma'am and you're going to end
up the same way.
There'll be murder in your heart.
Number two.
The wicked get angry because they believe the
Christians don't regard them properly.
We don't bow to their wishes and we
don't respect their evil ways.
The Bible said, Blessed is the man that
regardeth not the proud nor such as turn
aside to lies.
Do you remember the three Hebrew children?
Somebody comes to Nebuchadnezzar and says there are
certain Jews that you've said over the affairs
of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
These men, O king, have not regarded thee.
They don't have respect for you.
They're not listening to you.
They're listening to somebody else.
They have no regard for you.
And folks, nothing that a proud carnal spirit
hates more than not to be regarded or
listened to.
And folks, this is part of this rage.
Why is it that your unsaved relatives get
angry with you?
You visit them and you're of a whole
different nationality now.
Total different nationality.
See, you're not Puerto Rican now.
You're not black now.
You're not white now.
You're not Jew.
You're not Gentile.
By the way, who's your real family?
The blood wash.
This is my family right here.
I have relatives and they drink.
They're not saved.
And they'll call and they say, We're coming
to visit.
And we know exactly what's going to happen.
They can't smoke in our house.
We don't drink.
They love to go to clubs.
We don't go to clubs.
They come.
They're going to stay a day or two.
Never more than an hour does it last.
They come in and say hello and they
start fidgeting.
And we're trying to be as nice and
sweet as we can possibly be.
And they keep looking at their clock.
I mean, no time ever does this couple
last more than an hour in our home.
You know what it's like to go to
your unsaved relatives, your in-laws, and your
real mom, your real dad, and they're not
saved.
And you're not saying anything, but you're condemning
them by your lifestyle.
And you try and try to make them
love you.
You try to get along with them.
But you see, you don't regard them, they
think.
You think you're holier than we are.
You think you're better than us.
I got a letter from a woman, and
it was a heartbreaking letter.
She said, Pastor Dave, my father was a
pastor and he backslid, divorced my mom.
And not only did he divorce my mom
and go drinking and carousing, he has caused
all my brothers and sisters, all his children,
I think there were three others, to backslide.
Got them all into drinking.
They were all messed up.
And she came, she was called to a
family reunion, and this preacher dad mocked her
the whole time she was there.
He used to be an evangelical pastor.
She said, Brother Dave, when I go there,
I try to be nice.
I try everything, but my father says, You
think you're something, don't you?
But you'll be back, you'll be one of
us because blood is thicker than water.
She said, So is sludge.
She didn't want to be disrespectful, but she
said, Dad, I cannot go your way.
He's caused this whole family to go to
hell.
She said, There's no way.
My heart is broken.
There's no way now that I can please
them because he thinks she's being, in fact,
he told her, he said, You're disrespectful to
me.
Well, you better believe she is.
She's disrespectful to his lifestyle, to his drinking,
to his smoking and his partying around.
And she's not going to be affected by
it.
Folks, go to your relatives.
Do the best you can.
Witness as the Holy Ghost tells you.
Don't preach at them.
Don't preach at them unless the Holy Ghost
tells you to do it.
Otherwise, you're just casting your pearls and they'll
be trampled.
You see, they have idols that they love
and you're coming and you're speaking against their
idols.
You represent everything that they despise at this
time.
Now, thirdly, the ungodly get furious and they
hate the righteous because we separate ourselves from
their company.
The Bible says, in fact, the Bible commands,
Come out from among them and be as
separate and clean and touch no unclean thing.
Now, the world is absolutely condemned by Christians
who withdraw.
Absolutely condemned.
By the way, if you really are living
the life and you really testify, you don't
have to withdraw from anybody.
The Bible said they will separate you from
their company because, you know what?
You cramp their style.
How many times have you heard it said,
Oh, we can't do that.
Mr. Holy is here.
Mr. Religion is here.
We can't do that.
I've got to stop here and make a
statement.
The day is coming, folks, that we're going
to have to be more and more separated
from the world than we are even now
because the devil has already succeeded in bringing
so much of his stuff into the church.
He's brought music into the church.
He's brought divorce.
Do you know that evangelicals, I read this
recently, evangelicals, they figure out the biggest segment
of people who go to theaters now are
evangelicals who attend even R-rated movies.
Evangelicals.
Evangelicals have the highest divorce rate in America
now.
Why?
The enemy is coming in because people didn't
want to be separated.
Even the church now wants to be friends
with the world so we've got what's called
sinner-friendly churches where we don't provoke people.
We try to sneak them into the kingdom
and we make them happy and comfortable in
the church.
Folks, that's against everything Jesus talked about.
Listen, I said it this morning.
Times School Church will never be the darling
of New York.
Wall Street will never love us.
Broadway will never accept us.
This whole city will not accept us.
God said watch out when all men speak
well of you.
John the Baptist didn't get invited to the
White House.
He stood with his finger before a holy
God and he pointed at the adultery among
leaders.
He said to the soldiers and to the
hypocrites and to the Pharisees, I've come to
show you the ax has come into the
root of your sin.
This is the end of side one.
You may now turn the tape over to
side two.
Folks, there's been such compromise and it's because
the church wants to be loved.
It wants to be coddled.
It wants to be flattered by the world.
It wants to be accepted.
We've got men in the pulpit that are
ashamed of Paul the Apostle.
Paul said if you're going to preach my
gospel, you'll be considered the off-starring of
the world.
We're not going to be accepted here.
You're going to be persecuted, so expect it.
There's a false kind of unity that's going
on in the church of Jesus Christ and
not the church, but in the backslidden church,
even among charismatics.
There's this false love gospel that we're just
going to love everybody.
You're not going to talk about sin.
You're not going to provoke anybody.
Everything's accepted as long as you put Jesus
on top of it all, like a chariot
on it, on the top.
When I first came to New York City,
I got my stomach full of it.
There were programs all over the city trying
to bring Jesus in the back door to
drug addicts.
I went up here to 74th Street in
the church and they had dances on Saturday
night for drug addicts.
And they were telling me about this great
program a certain church was having up there.
And I won't name it because the Presbyterians
will get hurt, but not all Presbyterians.
It just happened to be that one church.
And I go in and these beautiful girls
are on the dance floor.
They're trying to dance away the habit.
There was no gospel.
And the program had to end because too
many of the young girls were seduced into
that lifestyle of drugs.
Folks, I saw everything.
There were, I think, some 60 programs at
that time working with drug addicts and nobody
having any results.
Folks, I saw churches up in Harlem and
up in the Bronx having block parties with
beer, everything, all for drug addicts, trying to
win them and then try to seduce them
to go to a psychologist and get their
head examined.
Hearts were never changed.
We went out in the streets with nothing
but American flags so no cop could stop
us.
And we just preached Jesus.
And folks, we began to have results.
We've been having them ever since.
Nothing but Jesus.
Jesus comes in the front door, not the
back door.
Come out of her, my people, that ye
be not partakers of her sins, that ye
receive not of her plagues.
Now, question.
How long do you think God's going to
put up with this rage against His people?
How long do you think He's going to
put up with it?
Now, God's promised to do two things to
deal with this ungodly rage.
I want you to turn to Psalm 76.
You're still in Psalms, I believe.
Turn to Psalm 76.
I'll show you what God's going to do.
Two things He's promised to do to deal
with this rage of the heathen.
All right?
Verse 10.
If you have English, King James, read it
aloud with me.
Surely the wrath of men shall praise thee,
the remainder of wrath shall thou restrain.
Two things.
Now, God says, I'm going to turn it
into my praise and whatever of the wrath
I don't turn into my praise, I'm just
going to stop it.
I'm going to restrain it.
I'm going to have my hand hold it
back.
So, folks, there's nothing to worry about.
Let the heathen rage.
Let them persecute.
Let them say what they will about you.
God says, I'm going to turn it into
my praise.
Remember when Nebuchadnezzar, in his fury and his
rage, threw them into this red-hot furnace,
heated seven times?
What did God do with that rage?
Turned it into his praise.
The Scripture says, When he saw the fourth
man, then he came out saying that every
people, every nation, and every language would speak
anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego shall be cut in pieces, and
their houses shall be made a dunghill.
But there is no other God that can
deliver after this sort.
That morning, they got up and everybody's mocking
the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
I mean everybody going like this.
They're mocking his God, laughing at their testimony.
Before the day is over, not one of
them can open their mouths.
God shut the mouths of all the heathen
in just one act, a few hours.
And the king was full of wrath and
it looked like he's wiping out the testimony.
Now he's saying, Anybody in my whole kingdom
that raises their voice one word against the
God of these men, I'm going to cut
them to pieces.
I'm going to burn down his house.
You better believe nobody lifted a finger.
Can you see Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego humble
but proud of their God walking out of
that furnace?
King says, I dare you to talk about
their God.
If God wants to, he can stop this
abortion thing overnight.
He can stop it anytime he chooses.
Sometimes he'll not until the judgment has run
its course.
Hallelujah.
Sometimes God just goes and gets a hold
of that angry man and saves him.
That's what he did with Saul.
Saul was raging against God's people.
God said, Boy, he'd make a good preacher.
God says, I'm going to harness that rage
and turn it into my glory.
Didn't God do it?
Look up.
Look around.
What happened in this theater?
Jesus Christ Superstar.
They raged against our Christ.
And Jesus, they used to have a trip
wire way up here and it would come
right down over the audience and the young
man who played Jesus would appear in a
diaper and his hands spread out and right
down, hanging over right where you are in
the middle.
Now that young man was stoned all the
time.
He was on crack and cocaine and he
didn't even know where he was at.
He used to light a thousand candles back
and went as the pastor studied there and
worshiped the devil till one night something came,
a wind came in and blew a thousand
candles out at one time.
Scared him to death.
The Lord saved the boy.
He was here for the dedication, remember.
Not only did God convert him, God converted
the theater.
Mark Townshend Theater got saved.
Got converted.
You know, since we came in here, they've
made a, they have a law now that
no theaters can be turned into churches.
Too late, folks.
Too late.
God took the wrath of man and turned
it into his praise.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
One of the greatest examples is the cross.
No man took more rage than our Savior.
And look what our Heavenly Father did.
He took that rage of man that nailed
him to the cross and brought glory to
the whole universe, to the glory of God.
And every one of us here has testimonies
of what God did with that rage and
how He turned it into the glory, absolute
glory of God.
Hallelujah.
Praise His name.
I'll tell you why He's going to turn
the wrath of man into praise for His
name because He's a jealous God.
Let me tell you.
There are three things that God loves.
I mean, loves with all His being.
God loves His truth.
He loves the worship of His people.
And He dearly loves His children.
And God will not allow men to trample
on that which He so dearly loves.
Folks, God loves His people.
He loves us.
He loves His word being preached.
He loves the worship.
These are the three things God loves.
Do you think He's going to stand by,
well, ungodly men trample and mock His word
and walk all over God's people trying to
consume them and try to mock and despise
the holy worship of God Himself?
He won't allow it.
He's going to act, the Scripture says.
David said, Defend me from those who rise
up against me.
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity.
Awake to visit the heathen.
Then he said, Thus the Lord awakened His
one out of sleep and like a mighty
man that saliveth by reason of wine and
He smote His enemies into hinder parts and
put them to a perpetual reproach.
Now, folks, I'm going to close with this.
This is very, very important.
There's going to be one last furious rage
and that's at the Battle of Armageddon.
And I want you to go with me,
please, to Ezekiel 38.
I'm going to close with this.
Turn quickly, Ezekiel 38.
The Bible says the nations are going to
become angry with God.
Every nation on earth is going to turn
with wrath against God.
They're going to be gathered in the Battle
of Armageddon.
And God's going to deal with that wrath
once and for all.
He's going to give the death blow to
the wrath of the wicked.
Alright?
I want you to begin reading with me,
verse 14.
Therefore, Son of Man, prophesy and say unto
Gog, Thus saith the Lord God, In that
day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely,
shalt thou not know it.
And thou shalt come from thy place out
of the north parts, thou and many people
with thee, all of them riding upon horses,
a great company and a mighty army.
And thou shalt come up against my people
of Israel as a cloud that covereth the
land.
It shall be in the latter days.
Folks, we're in those latter days now.
This is a prophetic word for us to
hear.
And I will bring thee against my land.
Who's bringing them down?
Against Israel?
Against God's people?
I will bring them down.
And why is he going to bring them
down?
Why are they coming in wrath?
God says they're full of anger, they're full
of wrath against God, but I'm going to
bring these wrathful people down against my people.
Why?
That the heathen may know me when I
shall be sanctified or honored in thee, O
Gog, before their eyes.
Verse 20, So that the fish of the
sea and the fowls of the heaven, the
beasts of the field and all creeping things
that creep upon the earth, and all men
that are upon the face of the earth
shall shake at my presence.
The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep
places shall fall, and every wall shall fall
to the ground.
And I will call forth sword against him
throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord, every
man's sword shall be against his own brother.
God says he's going to plead with them
there.
Verse 23, Thus will I magnify myself and
sanctify myself.
I will be known in the eyes of
many nations.
They shall know that I am the Lord.
Hallelujah.
God says they're going to come one last
blast of this heathen rage.
God said, I'm going to gather all of
the hypocrites, the atheists, all of the mockers,
the scoffers, they're all going to be there.
God said, I'm going to gather them all
in one battlefield.
And God says, I'm going to deal with
them.
He's going to rain out of heaven judgment
upon them.
And he said, They're going to know that
I have the power.
They cannot rage against my people.
Hallelujah.
Oh, by the way, there's a verse here
I forgot and I just have to read
this to you.
Who art thou that are afraid of a
man that shall die, and of the son
of man that shall be made as grass?
And you forget the Lord your maker that
stretched out the heavens and laid the foundation
of the earth.
Now listen to this.
Fear ye not the reproach of man.
Beloved, I'm going to close now.
On the job, let them rail.
Listen to what it says.
Need to be afraid of their revilings because
the moth is going to eat them up.
The moth is already at work eating holes
in their garments.
Folks, I tell you now, you may not
see it because we have such freedom today,
but it can happen overnight.
I don't know what's happened in Russia yet.
I haven't gotten the report yet out of
Russian election today.
But let me tell you something.
That persecution can start all over again overnight.
It can start in just a few weeks.
It can happen here in the United States
through our Supreme Court, through laws and regulations
that are getting stricter and stricter.
And folks, we find very soon, we're at
the place right now, we're almost at the
verge that any homosexual, if we had a
job, any homosexual came and applied, we would
have to give him full consideration.
And it's getting worse and worse and this
persecution is going to set in.
But folks, God says don't be afraid.
Don't be afraid of their reviling, their reproach.
The moth is going to eat them up.
Folks, we're headed for a battlefield.
They are headed for a battlefield.
We will not be at Armageddon, by the
way.
I don't plan to be at Armageddon.
None of my sons are going to that
war.
None of my grandsons are going to that
war because my sons and my grandsons are
going to be serving the Lord.
They're going to be taken up to meet
Jesus in the air.
Hallelujah.
He said, so why are you afraid?
Nothing to fear because God, our Father, has
all power and all authority.
Doesn't that make you feel great?
Doesn't that just make you feel great?
Hallelujah.
You can walk all over these streets and
say my Father's bigger than all of this.
My Father's greater.