Now, in just a moment, I want Sister
Hibbard to stand, and when I tell her,
and read some of the things that was
in the morning paper pertaining to the attempt,
the rescue attempt of our hostages, but how
it foiled, and it was called off.
And I'm going to discuss this thing just
for a few minutes tonight in the light
of God's Bible, and I'm titling this subject
tonight, God is trying to speak to America.
This morning, I was listening to the morning
news, and there was a commentator talking to
someone.
They had a call-in, people calling in.
And this man on one of our main
major radio programs said, I tuned in just
in time to hear him say, Well, isn't
it odd that so many people are calling
in and feeling the same way you do
about it?
He said, Man, I can't understand it.
You can't believe a thing like that could
happen.
Wonder what in the world is happening.
What's it all about?
He said, These things haven't happened to us
before.
And he was talking about the strange way
that this thing failed out, and everything went
against it, and the world is concerned about
it.
We're not as Christians.
We know the Bible, and we know exactly
what God has said.
And brother, God's not been quiet, silent.
He's opened His mouth and spoke.
He said, Whenever you are serving Me, He
said, No nation can stand before you, and
I'll go before you, and I'll make the
crooked places straight, and I'll win the victory
for you.
And nobody can stand before you if you're
serving Me and living for Me.
But if you don't, He said, you'll run
even at the drop of a leaf off
of a tree.
And you'll even run when nobody is after
you.
But when you're serving Me, one of you
can chase a thousand of the enemy, and
two of you can put ten thousand to
flight.
Brother, a lot of our successes in the
past, don't ever kid yourself, it wasn't because
of our cannons and our weapons and our
warfare.
It was the God that was on our
side, and the Dunkirk when they were coming
across, brother, it was something that never happened.
The fog that came down and shut off
the Germans, they didn't know where to shoot.
They didn't know what to do.
They had to stay there helpless with their
guns while we safely crossed the channel, and
it was an uncanny cloud that came down
and protected.
Why?
Because there were people that didn't have all
their time involved with sin and the devil
and lust and worldliness.
They were on their knees asking God to
undertake, and God went to battle for us.
And if America don't get on their knees,
and they're not on their knees tonight, they're
reveling in sin up to their neck, and
let me tell you, God's going to keep
the squeeze on, and the squeeze is not
let up yet.
You say, well, I wish the interest had
come.
Oh, it's going to come down.
Sure, it'll come down.
But God's not through.
Let me tell you, I believe with all
my heart that God is bringing to pass
the dream that I told years ago when
I saw Jesus Christ take hold of Uncle
Sam.
And he had this ear right here, and
he was pulling him.
And brother, the Lord had his frock tail
out, and brother, it was flopping in the
air.
Uncle Sam's frock tail was sticking out, and
I dropped my thing here, right here, and
his frock tail was flopping out in the
wind, and his hat had blowed off, and
he was just going like this, and the
Lord had a hold of his ear, and
right before him was a thing, and it
had wood shed on it.
And he had a great big switch in
his hand, and he didn't need no interpretation
of that.
That's the Lord taking Uncle Sam to the
woodshed.
And let me tell you, there's a lot
of things we're not to blame for.
There's a lot of things America's to blame
for.
The sins that are staring our nation in
the face are coming from the top quarters,
and God's going to start in there, start
whipping, and we're going to see some things
happen.
But we have protection if we'll trust in
God and pray, but the only hope for
America is prayer, and that's going to come
from God's people.
I want everyone to raise your hand right
now, and ask God to anoint the next
few minutes.
Father in heaven, we haven't said a word,
but what you've heard all of it, you
know all about it.
And I pray to anoint your servant tonight
with the Holy Ghost, but that's not enough.
They've got to be anointed to hear it.
I can give out everything, but if they
don't listen to it and open their heart,
and let it reach in and take effect.
God, we thank you right now in Jesus'
name.
There's another prayer I want us to pray.
God brought it back to my mind.
I hear a lot of things that you
only hear when you shut off, you know,
and everything isolated.
Early of the morning when I get up
to pray, usually around 2, 3, 3 o
'clock, around in through there, I get up
and do my praying, and the Lord speaks
to me.
And the Lord spoke to me that we
preached and preached on sleeping, on fainting, on
spiritual drunkenness, and all that.
But he made the statement that there are
many of his children that are still in
a stupor.
They're still asleep, and they haven't awakened out
of their sleep.
And I want to say this, and I
don't want people to say, Oh, that might
be me, and I'm afraid I can't sleep
tonight.
I don't want you to start that foolishness
you hear, and you love God.
But God spoke to me, and he said
the tragedy, some have gone so far.
There is nothing I have.
There's no preacher.
There's no message.
There's no tongues and interpretation.
There's no miracle.
Nothing I have can reach them.
They've gone too far.
And let me tell you, there's a lot
of them that could be here tonight sitting
in this church, enjoying this message, but they're
not here.
You know why?
They didn't want to be here.
Now, they want to come certain times.
They're going to run the show just like
they want to run it, and that's what
I'm talking about.
You're not going to do it and have
God on the board.
You're going to run the show like God
wants you to run it.
You're going to serve God like God wants
you to serve him, or you're not going
to serve God.
Now, there's individuals, and God showed me, that
is on the verge of reaching the same
place.
You're going so far that God can't reach
you.
You say, I don't understand.
Well, it's very simple.
God dealt with me with two people, and
as far as I know tonight, they're both
in sin up to the neck, and they're
both lost, and they're both not serving God.
They were raised in Pentecost, had surrounded parents,
prayed constantly, knew all about Pentecost, both saved,
filled with the Holy Ghost, shouted, spoke in
tongues, and danced in the Spirit.
But way many years ago, 12, 15 years
ago, God saw there's reaching a place.
It was a dangerous place, and he showed
me their condition, and it was so definite
in the dream that I built the thing,
and I have it next door.
It's a square box about this square, and
it stands up about seven feet tall, and
on the inside of it, you have two
handles on this side.
There's a slot here and a slot here,
and over here, there is a slot here
and a slot here, and when you come
up, it's on wheels, and you can roll
it.
On the thing, it says this way, this
way to hell, and this way to heaven,
and the individual on the inside gives no
hope for anybody to help pull them this
way, you see, unless they reach in and
get those two slots.
Now, the thing is, it was a thing
that went clear across.
The slot was about this wide and about
this thick, about this like that, and about
this long the slot was, and it had
a handle that when you pick it up
and push it through, the handle came through
and came out on this side, and anybody,
if he was on the inside and slipped
that handle in, they could reach over here
and grab that handle and pull it this
way toward heaven, but if they pulled the
handle out, there was nothing to take hold
of to pull, and the Lord showed me
these two individuals in this thing, and they
had taken all the handles out on God's
side and put all the handles over on
the devil's side, and the devil was carrying
them in the wrong direction, and everything that
God could do to lead them to God,
they had shut off prayer, they had shut
off going to church, and anything that God
could do to lead them to heaven, they
had pulled the handles out and put it
over on the devil's side, and I have
kept track with them for about 15 years
until now they have ever opportunity to go
to church.
They don't go to church.
They're not concerned about it, and I've still
got the box over there.
That means they're not cooperating with God.
There are people that are not cooperating with
God, and God can only help you as
you reach out and ask Him to help
you.
Now, I'm talking about God is speaking to
America.
Could He be speaking to the people in
the Gospel Lighthouse Church tonight?
Are we to play a part in what
God is trying to say to America?
We're getting ready to have a million or
more people go to Washington this next week,
and we're going to present the need of
Christianity in our nation.
If you can't go, you should go to
your knees and pray as never before, and
I'm going to come now to this point
that I'm bringing.
Something has just recently happened in our nation
that would have caused Israel to have gone
to the altar and lay hold on the
horns of the altar to find out what
was wrong.
Had they made the same attempt and failed
in such a way, they would have certainly
interpreted it, Our God is not fighting for
us.
They had a lot of reverses.
It was not because they didn't have good
equipment.
It was not because they didn't have seasoned
men that were picked out the very best
in our nation.
It was not because it was not rehearsed.
They had rehearsed it hundreds of times, even
in desert places, the very type of desert
that they were going to.
This thing was a perfect plan.
It seemed that nothing could fault it.
The equipment they had was the very best.
It had been checked out by the very
best mechanics, and everyone involved, which the great
number of them, every one of them was
trained 100%, and it was scheduled to move
right out.
What we don't know, but what is true,
they had a ground crew that was very
active.
They knew what they were doing.
They had certain equipment at certain places to
be met at certain times, and they even
said these things cannot be brought out now.
But they had everything there, and when they
would go in to the place, not with
helicopters, but keep them on the outside, and
then when they would go in with these
equipments that were furnished by the people there,
they would go in and they had this
ability, which Uncle Sam certainly has, that for
blocks around, everyone would become paralyzed, totally not
able to do a thing in the world,
just like you can paralyze a lion, operate
on him, pull his teeth out, and you
get through.
Just go ahead and walk off and in
a few minutes he comes just good as
ever, but he's absolutely helpless while they put
that in him.
They have something now they can shoot out,
and for blocks around it will paralyze and
completely enable anyone to do anything.
And the ones that have the gas mask
on, they can operate right on among them,
and this was all planned, and that much
came out that they had planned on going
in and bringing the people out, putting them
in the things, carrying them out, getting the
plane, carrying them on, everything, they rehearsed it
and all.
But they were depending on their equipment and
their ability to do it, and they were
forgetting God like they are in many other
things today.
They talk about great problems, but they don't
bring in, I wonder if we need to
pray.
In the dream I had eight weeks ago,
no, I mean twelve weeks ago, now about,
yeah, about twelve weeks ago, God showed me,
and I preached to you that Sunday morning,
that God showed me the people panicking.
They'd run here, but there was judgment.
There was the tornado coming.
They'd run this way, and there was a
tornado.
There were hundreds of tornadoes in the distance
all around.
And He showed me with their eyes buggy,
they were panic stricken.
They would run here and there, but they
were not willing to run to God.
And there was no escape.
And then here come a tornado right down
out of heaven, real close to the group.
I was among the group observing what they
were doing.
And when this happened, they looked and screamed,
it's coming at us, it's moving this way.
And someone hollered, is the building able to
stand?
They said, it's like a cracker box.
It's fragile.
It'll blow to pieces like a matchbox.
And then they run around on the other
side of it.
And they screamed, what can we do?
There was no way to go.
Someone let out a sound, and I heard
it.
Let's pray.
And every one of them began to pray.
And when they prayed, I was standing there,
and I watched the tornado go up and
pass over.
The other that was coming close by, it
went up, while the others in the distance
still remained a threat.
But God took care of the group that
prayed.
That's the way it's going to be.
And when I woke up, God showed me
it's not, the problem is not from other
nations.
It's not from earthly armies.
This was a God-made disaster.
Tornadoes are not made by man.
It's not made by our ability.
A tornado is an act of God.
What I mean by that, only God controls
them, and He can control them.
How many believe that?
He can control them.
But as these tornadoes were coming, naturally they
didn't say, well, let's tell them we'll surrender.
Brother, you had to go to the headquarters
to get around that, because God was sending
the judgment.
And as they did, they turned to God,
and God took care of those that prayed.
God's showing me that our nation is going
to be visited by things from Almighty God,
and the only ones that are going to
escape are those that are going to pray.
Now, it may be hard to get some
people to their knees, but if you don't
go to your knees, just wait.
You'll go to your knees quick.
It'll be too late, though.
Too little, too late.
Prayer is the only thing that'll save America.
Now, as you let Sister Hibbard, when I
have her to come, I want you to
know that it was not the lack of
good equipment.
It wasn't the lack of good thinking.
Somebody said, well, it worked it out different.
No, they said if they had to do
it over a dozen times, they'd do it
exactly the way they'd planned it, because had
everything not gone wrong, even they had eight
killed and five wounded, that's 13, that's a
bad, unlucky number, isn't it?
But it looked like that everything went against
them, but none of it was from man.
There wasn't even one person out there that
shot at them with a little slingshot.
There wasn't one person that even kicked one
of our soldiers on the knee.
There was nobody.
Everything that happened to them, it was confusion
among their own group at the time.
It was things that happened that God could
very easily move out of the way had
there been prayer and trust in God.
Now, we're not saying that God is on
the Arab side or the nation that they
were going into, Iran.
I believe they're ungodly, as sinful as they
can be, and they're definitely unscriptural in their
worship and in their beliefs.
So as far as their prayers would never
touch God.
But God, when Israel needed a whipping, He
always took the sinful, the vile nations.
He took a wicked Babylon and whipped the
life out of Israel.
He would also say that He would raise
up the enemy to come in and devour
His own people when they failed Him.
How many believe that's true?
All right.
So we're not saying that God was against
us and for the other person.
We're saying that God was using this thing,
though it cost eight lives.
In the five, we're hoping they pull through.
It cost that many, and if we learn
the lesson that God is trying to speak
to America, it might save 100,000 lives
for those that died on the front.
Those men that died, they were loyal to
their country.
And I know God honors their loyalty, and
I don't think there was one thing in
the line of, we would say, wickedness or
sin in the lives of the soldiers that
went forth.
God may have appreciated everything they did in
the spirit of it, and I deeply appreciate
it, and my hat's off to them, and
I thank God for the motive they had.
Even the President, he's willing to do what
he could.
But, brother, God is...
Now you say, well, why did He do
it?
Why did God strike Uzzah?
Why did He...
Yeah, Uzzah wasn't it?
No, it was one that balanced the ark.
Yeah.
Yeah, anyway, it's Uzzah.
When He put forth His hand, and God
struck Him dead.
Why?
Because He said, it's wrong, and I want
to get your attention.
Brother, He got their attention.
They was afraid of God.
They said, we're doing something wrong, and come
to find out they were.
But God said, this one thing may cause
thousands of others not to die, so I
had to kill one man to get your
attention.
And sometimes God has to speak loud.
God loves America better than you ever dared
to.
He loves the red, white, and blue flag,
and if it hadn't have been for the
American standards and for God-fearing Christians, judgment
would have come longer.
But, brother, this sin question is bellowing up.
It's coming high, just this last...
Well, today it was.
Wasn't it when the San Francisco put on
their little show?
This last week.
An hour.
They had it Friday or Saturday.
Out taking the whole city of San Francisco,
showing that they're going to take the whole
thing over.
Have open sex right out in the parks.
Don't have to go anywhere.
Just open sex, everywhere.
Brother, I'm going to tell you, coming to
church tonight, I saw a large place there.
What did they do?
Nothing but gamble, filth, just slime.
And the cars, as far as you could
see, were just packed.
And I thought, oh God, in the hour
that we're dwelling in, I'll go by there,
it was on the way in coming, and
just circle this way, see if it's that
way.
And, brother, they had them parked here and
there.
They wasn't stirred.
There's a message that's got to get through
to them, brother, and God is getting ready
to do it.
But you know what?
Most of these things have happened since there
has been 250 hours of prayer around the
clock for God to awaken our nation, to
stir our churches, and to bring America to
their knees.
A lot of this has happened, and I
say now we'd better all quit praying and
just kind of settle back down like we
were when we're half through.
What do you think about an army that's
going forth and your fellow man has got
all the weapons he's got, he's going over
the top, and the enemy is now on
the run.
God's got the thing on the run.
He's got the man of American streets, no
matter who you come to.
He's stirred.
He's ready.
He's wide open.
He's ready to attack.
Like the other day, a man came in,
a woman called the church, said, oh, praise
God, my prayer's answered.
Been praying for my husband.
But he came in today, and he said,
honey, we've got to get together.
We've got to start doing something.
We're going to start going to church.
Why?
Because it wasn't the preacher.
It wasn't no one contacting him.
It was his bald eyes open watching the
news and seeing what's coming to pass.
And he came in when he fought the
church.
He fought religion.
He fought her trying to go.
But he comes in and said, we had
better start doing something.
Brother, God's working, and God helped a soldier
of the cross today that will quit praying
and backfire and go back, lay down, and
become indifferent like we have if ever we
needed to add a little more fire and
a little more fuel to the fire, if
ever we needed to add a little more
to our prayer life, and maybe throw in
a few meals and not eat anything, and
say, God, please go ahead and be faithful
in your position in the army.
Now, it was a perfect plan in every
way, but never on earth could all these
things accidentally happen.
Only a God that sets up and handles
the controls could permit all the things to
happen that happened to show us that he's
only cutting off eight now to maybe spare
hundreds of thousands later if we'll take the
lesson.
If we do not hear the sound, we're
going to feel the repercussion of insulting God.
Sister Hibbard, step up, and I want her
to give you, she'll just read one.
Now, she's not even beginning to read all
of it.
She's just reading a few of the highlights
of the unusual things that happened that ordinarily
would have never happened, and I'll let her
read it as she goes along.
This is from the Dallas Times-Herald, Sunday,
April 27th.
The article is entitled, Quirks of Fate, Weathered
Doomed Rescue Mission.
It's by Frank...
Weathered Quirks of Fate.
Quirks of Fate.
All right, go ahead.
It's written by Frank Grieve, and I'm just
reading certain excerpts from it.
President Carter had just ordered what the Pentagon
calls an expeditious extraction.
The audacious, intricate, truckless effort to rescue the
53 American hostages in Tehran had ended in
its first stage.
Three of the eight helicopters sent to Iran
were disabled, and five were not enough for
this mission.
Of all the practice, that never happened, but
it happened when they started.
Go ahead.
But what happened next turned failure into disaster.
Four of the five surviving H-53C stallion
helicopters were fueled up, rotor-swirling, eager to
fly.
The last, however, parked behind the C-130
Hercules needed to top off its fuel tank.
The copter rose 15 feet and moved forward
around the C-130's starboard wing.
It banked slightly to cross the C-130's
nose, intended to continue on 1,000 yards
to another C-130 tanker that still had
fuel.
Suddenly, the 65-degree air turned to fire.
The helicopters rotor-blank knifed through the C
-130 just after the cockpit.
Ammunition exploded in the inferno, spraying deadly shrapnel
all over the landing zone.
Let me say this.
There was one place in that huge transport
ship where they had all the ammunition piled
that if they needed to use that against
the enemy, they would use that ammunition.
It was in the rear end.
And it happened to be when the helicopter
was going around and came down, the propeller
hit right where all the ammunition was and
set it off right where it was.
Now, go ahead.
A chronology shows that fate turned vicious almost
from the moment eight helicopters and six troop
-bearing cargo planes entered the Iranian airspace.
Fate turned vicious.
Go ahead.
Sandstorms are the bane of desert flying.
They destroy natural visibility.
They scar windscreens and infrared camera lenses into
uselessness.
And the eight helicopters were flying right into
this thick, swirling wall of sand, the only
active sandstorm anywhere in Iran.
No storm anywhere.
Skies are clear everywhere.
But the one thing that is the enemy
to the helicopter, it says here, and she'll
read it later, the one thing is fine
sand.
They cannot cope with that.
So they always fly above the sandstorms.
Now, they can't fly.
They've got to fly through it.
But what happened?
There was only one place, and right where
they had to go, the sandstorm was right
there at that time, and nowhere else where
else.
Go on.
At 9.30 p.m. Tehran time, two
of the helicopters were reported grounding, waded out
the storm.
These eventually flew on.
A third helicopter, the first to fail completely,
was down, and with an irreparable system which
controlled the crash rotors, are vulnerable to leaks
and sand.
Sand is the thing that's the enemy to
them.
Go ahead.
Normally, helicopters can rise above sandstorms, but these
had to stay low to evade radar detection.
Because of a radio blackout, the copters kept
track of one another via a buddy system.
But as luck had it, a bus, no,
aboard the C-130s were jeeps, motorcycles, and
Farsi-speaking commandos armed with Iranian-made G
-3 automatic rifles.
The plan was to set up roadblocks to
divert traffic.
Yes.
But as luck had it, a bus with
44 passengers passed into the landing zone before
the roadblocks were set up.
Just a second.
Luck.
Not good luck.
Of all and everything, one right after the
other happening, everything is bad luck.
It's happening.
Things that could have been kept from happening.
It seems like everything is going wrong.
At a certain time, according to clock, they
ought to start landing.
And they're to let nothing be in the
way.
But they forgot to put up the, they
become confused and forgot to put up the
roadblocks.
Here come a truck.
No, they hadn't had time.
They hadn't had time.
But just before they had time to put
it up, here come the truck right in
the middle of where they were supposed to
land.
Go ahead.
The bus passengers were detained.
A truck disabled by rifle fire, but the
truck's driver hopping into the sedan evaded the
gunfire of marksmen and escaped.
The sandstorm apparently had destroyed gyroscopes vital to
the helicopter's navigation.
The crew became disoriented.
It was said and perhaps consumed too much
fuel getting out of the storm to continue
the mission.
In any event, the decision to return to
Nimitz was said to have been the pilot.
Then came disaster.
With fire and shrapnel threatening the fuel-laden
remaining helicopters and perhaps already having damaged them,
the decision was made to abandon them.
By 3.48 p.m., all but one
C-130 was off the ground.
In it, the mission's field commander appraised what
he would leave behind.
Four good helicopters, inexplicably undestroyed, one burned helicopter,
one disabled helicopter, and the C-130 wreckage
still burning out of control.
Let me go back and refer to the
one thing maybe you didn't get quite good
enough as she spoke it.
When that helicopter and its pedal struck that
transport on the tail end where all the
ammunition it was, they had many a yard,
many an acre, it was a couple of
acres there, on both sides of the highway
where they were to land, it said when
it set this thing on fire and set
off all the ammunition in it, it said
it sprayed the whole entire area where all
the helicopters were and where they went.
That means thousands of wing, wing, wing, wing,
and they were all these things exploding and
they didn't have time to go and check
because all this ammunition hitting and they saw
holes in the sides of all their equipment
as though a great army had come out
of the sand and come up against them.
It was their own act of the propeller
striking just at the right place and setting
off all the ammunition, spraying all the helicopters
to where they had to abandon them, the
only ones out here they had taken and
said let all of them get in here
and leave the rest of them, they flew
back leaving eight dead bringing five so terribly
burned and wounded and you would have thought
they had been in a massive war with
some great army.
One little boy that even stood in the
way but all this happened to America to
show us that we need God if we
go into army.
Would you like for your son or daughter
to go into an invasion with Russia in
the condition that our nation is in today?
Would you like to do it?
God has got to begin to move.
I don't have time tonight to tell you
what the sins are that makes God vomit.
Sex is a lot of it.
Promoting sex and what God is looking at
in the schools that you are forced to
send your children to, it enangers God.
The teaching that is forced down their throat
to disintegrate every structure of God's teaching that
we've ever put in them, we're paying our
money to send them there and bus them
over the country to carry them to a
school that will take their minds and brainwash
it.
Take away the fear of God.
Immorality, legalizing filth, lust, immorality.
You're a square if you don't have an
affair with a man.
Instead of saying God's word said it's a
commandment that's broken, that God said it'll send
you to the lake of fire.
They forgot that.
That's not the greatest sin.
When we think of in our city how
many prostitution homes are open, that's not as
bad as to see the long line of
women housewives that got husbands standing in line
on their hour of lunch to get into
an auditorium where a man comes in a
car and they rush out and they get
him and everybody begins to squeal the women
and hundreds of them are in Dallas I'm
talking about, not only in Dallas but all
over America.
But the women rush in and they're willing
to pay their little price because when he
gets in he strips off and he has
one little tiny thing right around here and
they start grabbing for it.
And the women try to touch him and
he comes up and that's the way the
women do and we permit it to happen.
We permit the television to produce things that
come into your home and teach your children
while they sit there to insult God and
use God's name in vain and we do
nothing about it.
And God sits and listens to it.
That's not the greatest thing.
My friend, when God looks down at the
condition our law system has got into it
makes God vomit.
Justice, it's thrown in the street.
There's no protection for policemen today.
We've reached a place, brother, that our nation,
it's a risk to go out on the
street at night.
We let the dope addicts that peddle the
dope, after taking months to bring them in,
we let them come in and in five
minutes time they've made their bonnet out on
the street making more money selling dope.
The boys that own the dope addict, they've
got to bust somebody in the head.
That's the only way they can make that
kind of money.
So it goes on.
All over the city above a thousand, the
ones and 90% of all these that
are knocking them in the head and jerking
purses off the women's arms are coming from
people that have a storm inside.
They're on a dope addict.
They're a dope addict.
They've got to have a fix and they're
willing to kill or rape or sell their
body to any man.
But yet, there's nothing being done to bring
it under control.
And how much is mothers getting down and
praying?
They're busy doing other things.
God is seeing this.
God said the church is the salt of
the earth.
But God said, God help if the salt
has lost its saltness.
The salt is to preserve, to protect and
to keep.
But when the salt loses its saltness, it's
hence forth fit for nothing.
The church is the salt.
And when God tries to bring a remedy
to a nation, He never goes to the
whoremonger.
He never goes to the streetwalker or the
homosexual.
He never goes to that fellow that's out
there cussing and using God's name in pain.
Never has our nation flowed with liquor as
it is tonight.
Never have we had as many mothers throwing
cigarette ashes in their baby's face while they're
trying to nurse them.
It's a sad plight.
Never has a group of people sinned against
so much light as America is sinning against
light tonight.
God is trying to speak to America.
But He said, I speak first to my
church.
And brother, when we think of the slumbering
giant that Satan has put to sleep in
his cradle of sin, and he's rocking the
church, I'm talking about even many Pentecostal churches.
Tonight, if the gospel lighthouse church as on
hold was as stirred and awakened as the
man that walks the street that wonders what's
going to happen, why is it they're not
out with their sleeves rolled up, ready to
hit the prayer room, bringing some of their
loved ones in to get saved?
You know why?
They're asleep.
Every message that's ever been preached, it failed
to get them.
They heard it.
You can be half asleep, you can hear
certain things.
And you can bring the sounds into your
dreaming.
I've done it many times.
And be dreaming about what would happen.
But I was still out.
I was still asleep.
But when I awakened, I saw there was
a need of doing something right then.
Many people are in that same condition tonight.
I'm saying to you that are here, God
help you, if you're not awake, get down
and say, God, whatever it takes to wake
me up.
Wake me up before tragedy has to do
it.
Now this is a way of comfort.
God said to me, go see your mama,
her grave.
I said, yeah, well I didn't know I
was so anxious.
Well, I didn't figure it was that it
was so anxious.
It was just that I felt God wanted
to go see mama's grave.
She'd been dead about three years.
I thought, well, I'll go out to Missouri
City.
I'm in Dallas.
I fly to Houston.
I get a car.
I go about 18 miles to Missouri City.
I turn across the railroad track and go
down a little old road to a country
graveyard.
They have high prairie grass there in Houston,
as you know.
And as I went down this avenue, this
little old street, about a half a mile,
I looked out on my right and as
far as my eyes could see there was
a jet black field.
There had been a fire the night before
or the second night before.
And I thought to myself, well, there had
been a prairie fire.
I looked and looked and looked until my
eyes as far as it would carry the
great waves of blazing fire.
And how many times have I seen it
when I lived in Houston?
The fire taking everything in its path as
it comes.
Fire is an act of God.
Sometimes it's destructive, but I mean God is
in fire.
God is a consuming fire.
God can control fire.
How many believe it?
You talk to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and
they'll tell you you can control fire.
And I thought, before I got to where
Mama was, I said, if they have any
wood markers and that's all, most of them
had wood markers, they'd be burned and the
markers there.
And I drove up and I saw a
tree.
And it was the only tree in the
cemetery.
And I knew that it was about 30
feet northwest from my mother's grave and my
daddy lay beside her.
And I saw that tree and so I
began to take and walk through that black
crusted, crispy, you know, how it looks when
everything is just charred over.
I began to walk out there toward the
tree and I almost swallowed my Adam's apple.
I got close to where Mother's grave was
and I couldn't believe it.
I looked, I looked, here's Mother's grave and
here's Daddy's grave.
And there's Pat Newport's and there's Pauline's, but
this is Mother's grave and that's Daddy's grave.
And I'd come to see Mother.
Mother, he'd laid on my heart to go
see Mother.
Not see Mother, but go to her grave,
just, you know, be there.
He didn't say go, I just felt that
it was in God's will, you know, God
can make you think like He wants you
to think.
And when I looked at it, I said,
no, Lord, I can't believe what I'm seeing.
Here, everything is charred, black, and come right
up to the line exactly, and not one,
and the grass was three feet high, not
one pebble of that grass, not an inch
in that place that held my Mother and
my Daddy, there wasn't one blade of grass
even scorched.
The grass was still this high.
The great bellowing flames came up, and there
was a God in heaven that knew that
His servant was going to come and look
at His Mother's grave, and He wanted to
tell me something then so I could tell
it to you tonight.
When all the oncoming, engulfing, consuming fires that
nothing can stand against comes to a line,
all God has to do is say, don't
pass, don't pass, stop, and that fire came
and stopped and went around and came back
and made a smooth cutting right up to
the line, took off and went for a
mile in the distance, and when I stood
there, I said, God, what does it mean?
And here comes a voice from heaven, nevertheless,
not audibly, but oh, it burst in my
soul, and I heard God talk to me
like I have hundreds of thousands of times.
He said, son, nevertheless, the foundation of God
stand assured having his seal.
The Lord knoweth them that are his.
He's got his seal upon you.
Brother, let cyclone come, let famine come, let
bankruptcy come, let everything that'll tear down our
way of system.
It cannot pass God's commandment.
He'll keep you when the storms are on.
One more thing, and I'll close.
Three years ago, the greatest ice storm we've
ever had, it came and tore down trees
everywhere.
And an unusual thing happened overnight that never
has happened before.
It seemed that everything had gone down, melted
away, and the streets were happily infilled with
people on a Friday evening.
But that night, there came up a light,
very light mist of rain that just covered
over the streets and a freeze that froze
it solid.
Anywhere you'd step out, on all the streets,
it was just the slickest glass.
And that's when there were thousands and thousands
of pileups in every part of the city.
All of you remember that.
Sister Hibbert had to go to the hairdresser.
She got in the car.
Everything looked good.
You couldn't see it.
You had to wait till you put your
brake on to know what condition it was
in.
That's why it caught so many.
You'd be riding along, trying to put on
the brake, you'd go faster.
Here she was.
She got in the car, started on, went
out of sight, went on down Hampton, going
on to where Sister Hibbert was.
And I finally managed to get there with
all the art and all the prayer that
I had.
I thought to myself, Lord, help poor Sister
Hibbert.
And when I got there, my phone was
cut off.
I was trying to get a phone.
My phone was cut off and people's phones
everywhere were cut off.
I said, tore down our poles.
We didn't have electricity, but some phones were
in.
So Janelle's phone was in.
I got there and carried on.
I forget who it was.
I had to call.
But I was very concerned about Sister Hibbert.
I was driving along and I left Janelle's
and come a block to the corner and
turned and was halfway from there down to
Llewellyn.
I was driving along and all at once,
God said to me, nevertheless, the foundation of
God stand assured, having his seal, the Lord
knoweth them that are his.
The same thing he said to me when
I looked at Mama.
Mama's grave.
And just as he said that to me,
he showed me a vision and I'm telling
it and God's listening to it.
It's just like if you had some kind
of light up here that you could turn
on and
you
could of these thousand things that are hidden
that you couldn't see, boom, would just come
right out and you could walk right over
and see every one of them.
Because the detector set off the reaction in
these hidden things and they have been there
a long time.
And God said never the least the foundation
of God standing sure, having his seal of
the Lord north in the hills, he showed
me where on Ewing, on Hampton, he showed
me what place on Hampton.
She was in a wreck and he said,
the foundation of God standing sure, having his
seal, and I could see him looking at
every one of his children.
He had them in his focus and he
was taking care of them.
And just as I, he said to me,
she's just had a wreck.
The foundation of God standing sure, having his
seal, the Lord north in the hills.
I knew she was all right.
I knew she had God's seal.
She was all right, but I knew she
was in a wreck about a block from
Hampton, a block from Illinois.
Little did I know it, but on her
end of the line, here she is driving.
As I'm driving there, right around the corner
from Janelle's, she's driving down the street.
The same God that taking care of that
will take care of you tomorrow, next week,
next month, however long until Jesus blows
the air out of
And all at once, something happened.
Just before it happened, while she was driving
smoothly, there was a voice said, With me,
thou shalt have safe guard.
With me, thou shalt have safe guard.
He said it twice, to let her know
it was going to come to pass real
quick.
And those two bosses hadn't died out until
all at once she lost completely control of
her car.
She said it felt like that God sealed
her up in a capsule.
She wasn't shaken.
She didn't feel any vibration.
But all at once, when she came to
herself, she was in whirling and everything was
going topsy-turvy.
And when she came to herself, she was
back on the highway, faced the same way.
But when she looked back, an unbelievable miracle
happened.
Snow a foot deep on the street here,
up on the grass from the highway.
Here's the sidewalk, and then there's the grass,
and then there's a big tree about this
big around.
And the tree was about 12 feet or
13 feet from the edge of the curb,
sitting over this way.
Her car came and hit this curb, flew
it up in the air, and on the
side of the tree, this high, you can
go by there now, any time you go
by, and you'll see a great big ugly
gash in that tree.
That was her car that caused that gash.
It tore that fender and hit the bumper
and it did about several hundred dollars of
damage in the back.
But it hit that.
It came up, it hit that tree, cut
that big gash out of it, came in
the air, and landed back and never made
one little touch on all that snow.
But there it was freshly dug out, and
her tracks where it hit coming this way,
God picked it up, and as it went
out, God taken care of her as it
hit the tree.
She never even felt no vibration, and she
said, I had the sweetest feeling as though
I was closed in.
What was it?
It was the God of the universe that
said, nevertheless, the foundation of God's tender shore
having His seal.
The Lord knoweth them that are His.
Let's stand to our feet.
The Lord
is good, a strong hold, in the day
of trouble, and He knoweth them that put
their trust in Him.
A trust, a confidence, a faith, with all
things round, and the Lord is good, put
their trust in Him.
The Lord is good, a strong hold, and
He knoweth them that put their trust in
Him.
The Lord is good, a strong
hold, and He knoweth them that Him.
The Lord a strong and He knoweth them
that The Lord is good, a strong hold,
knoweth The Lord is good, and He knoweth
turn away their ears from the truth and
shall be turned unto fables because they have
itching ears.
Men's hearts will fail them for fear, looking
after those things that are coming up on
the earth.
But what I say unto one, I say
unto all.
Watch, for you know not what hour the
Lord doth come.