God wants us to take heed to the
things that we hear.
In Luke the 21st chapter, it says, But
woe unto them that are with child, and
to them that give suck in those days,
for there shall be great distress in the
land, and wrath from the people.
And they shall fall by the edge of
the sword, and shall be led away captive
into all nations.
Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles,
till the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
And there shall be signs in the sun,
and in the moon, and in the stars,
and upon the earth, distress of nations with
perplexity.
And the sea and the waves roaring, men's
hearts will be failing them for fear, and
for looking after those things that are coming
on the earth.
For the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Or the word looked up in the original
is, the powers of the heaven shall be
toppled, or be removed.
And then shall they see the son of
man coming in the clouds with power and
great glory.
And when these things begin to come to
pass, look up and lift your heads for
your redemption draweth nigh.
And he spake to them a parable, behold
a fig tree and all trees.
When they shoot forth, you see and know
of your own self that summer is at
hand.
So likewise when you see these things come
to pass, know that the kingdom of God
is nigh at hand.
Verily I say unto you, that this generation
shall not pass until all these things be
fulfilled.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my
words shall not pass away.
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any
time your heart be overcharged with surfeiting, stuffing,
overeating, and drunkenness, and the cares of this
life.
And so that day come upon you unaware.
That day come upon you unaware.
For as a snare shall it come upon
all them that dwell on the face of
the whole earth.
Watch ye therefore and pray always that you
might be accounted worthy to escape these things
that shall come to pass, and that you
might stand before the Son of Man.
These are the words of Jesus foretelling a
few of the things that would come to
pass.
He foretold here of the disperse of Israel,
how they would be dispersed and they would
fall to the edge of the sword, and
how that they would be scattered everywhere.
And there would be signs in the sun
and the moon and the stars and upon
the earth, distress of nations with perplexity, sea
in the wave roaring, men's hearts failing them
for fear, and looking after those things that
are coming to pass.
For the powers, for the power of the
heavens shall be shaken.
That doesn't mean nothing's going wrong with God.
It doesn't say just the heavens are shaken.
It says the power, the power of the
heavens are shaken.
And that word means to be removed, are
toppled, are readjusted.
Now he tells, now we know that Satan
is the power of the air.
Bible says so, Christ said so, Apostle said
so.
His abode is not on the earth now.
His abode is in the heavenlies.
But just before the end time, when the
sun is going to be affected and the
moon and the stars and all, he says
just before that, the powers of the heaven
will be shaken.
Now Jesus 1900 years ago, when he was
telling these things that are coming to pass,
it wasn't like he was standing here today
and telling a number of the things going
to take place this year or two or
three things that will take place the next
five years.
He was giving us a quick resume of
things that would come to pass right in
the future.
Now we know that he earmarked some right
down in our very day.
He foretold of Israel's disperse and Israel's coming
back in the end time.
So we know that they were dispersed 1900
years ago and we know they came back
1900 years later while I passed the church
here.
And he said that when they begin to
come to pass, when he brings them back,
that is the fulfilling, it is the climax,
it's when the transgressors have come to the
full.
So according to that, we know that there
is now, we must, we know that we're
right at the place that Jesus will come.
Now will the powers of the heaven be
shaken when Jesus comes in the rapture?
We find very clearly in the bible that
when the rapture takes place and the man
child is caught up, which is the church,
when we're caught up, immediately there is war
in heaven and satan and all of his
angels engage in a warfare.
And Michael and all of God's angels gather
together against Lucifer, and you'll find this in
your twelfth chapter of Revelation.
And they, there's a war that takes place
in heaven.
There's no shooting war, no one's sticking one
with a sword.
It's like lawyers come together in a great
case, and there's, in this case nobody's going
to come out dead.
They all are glorified, all these have spiritual
bodies and there's not natural bodies here.
But the bible said there was war in
heaven.
Satan, Lucifer, and all of his angels fought
against Michael and all of his angels.
That's the war angels.
But the result was that his place was
found no more in the heavens.
He had to give it up.
Now at that very time it said that
he was cast down to earth with all
of his angels with him.
Now, and then when he's cast down he
only has three and a half years until
the end when Jesus comes back again to
set up his earthly kingdom.
He only has time times and a half
a time, which is three and a half
years.
It says again that he's cast down and
he has 42 months.
42 months is three and a half years.
Then it gives the same time again in
days.
You multiply 365 and then take half of
365 and add it to it.
You'll have exactly the amount of days which
means three and a half years.
So he gives it in years, he gives
it in months, and he gives it in
years, years, months, and days.
Three different ways to let us know that
when Satan is cast down, then that is
his heyday.
He takes full control of the earth and
at the time of his casting down, God's
angels said, woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants
of the earth.
Whether you live in America, China, Russia, Germany,
Italy, no matter where you are in Canada.
Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, for
the devil and his angels are cast down
unto you, having power and great wrath.
He hath but a short time.
Now Jesus, 2,000 years ago or 1
,900 years ago, he foretold of these coming
events when there would be perplexities of nations,
beginning of sorrows, wars and rumors of wars,
famines and pestilence.
All these are things coming to pass.
But then in that, he gives us the
things and he said, when you see these
things shooting up, you know that summer's at
hand when those trees begin to bud.
Now, he said, when you see these things
begin to come to pass, you know that
the kingdom of God is at hand.
The powers of heaven shall be shaken.
There shall be great signs in the heaven.
That was one of the last things that
he gave.
Now, we have had great signs in the
heaven.
We have seen men go out into space,
visit other planets, the moon, and take pictures
of them and send them back, walk upon
the face of it, leave the planet, come
back and catch its little instrument, come back
to the earth safely and be and here
appear without any harm.
Send out another great object and send it
over to a planet, Mars, let it land,
take pictures as it reaches out and take
samples of the rock, send them back to
our room.
Those are not things that are done in
laboratories on earth.
These are signs in heaven that any of
our parents, if we had told them these
things would have come to pass 50 years
ago, or a hundred years ago, they would
have thought you was raging maniac, you was
out of your mind.
But little by little, gradually, little by little,
we have got adjusted to our education and
to our advanced knowledge until we first heard
about it, we doubted it.
Then we thought, well, they've done so many
things here on earth, they might do it.
Then finally it shot off and went around
the earth and they succeeded in that.
Then we thought, well, maybe they'll make it
to the moon and they did.
Then they made it to Mars.
Now there's been great signs in heaven.
That's the last one.
Now the next, the powers of the heaven
are going to be shaken.
According to the preparation of the battle of
Armageddon, it was in the paper Sunday by
the worldly people or by the news commentators
or the men of the world.
It wasn't by a preacher, it wasn't by
some prophetic prophet, but he made the statement,
he said, could this be the condition that
existing now in the Arab country and in
Iran and the preparing for war and them
taking our own people from our embassy and
holding them captive, which is a violation of
our national law, and then how that they
are bringing about a stage of hate and
war.
In our Sunday paper, in big letters, it
said, could this be the countdown for Armageddon?
The world is understanding that there will be
an Armageddon.
They didn't say if there is such a
thing as an Armageddon, could this be?
No, they said, could this be the countdown
of Armageddon?
Why?
Because people are beginning to realize that God
never has guessed at anything.
Here it said, heaven and earth will pass
away, but my words will never pass away.
When I foretell a thing, it's going to
happen.
Now, little did we think a short time
ago when Israel was scattered everywhere and there
was no one gathered together as a nation,
they were just scattered out.
They didn't have any rulers, they didn't have
any captains, they didn't have any governors, they
didn't have, because everyone was an individual Jew
as a slave in other people's land, and
they didn't have a square foot of ground
to put their feet on.
Now, if you'd have said that they will
go back and become a powerful nation overnight,
right away, you'd have said it'll never be
done.
But God said it would, and we know
that it'll happen in time.
So God told me, came to me and
gave me a Bible, said, preach it, it'll
come to pass right away.
And I immediately began to preach it.
I preached it all through East Texas, I
preach it twice, three times every week, that
Israel will immediately go back.
And while I was preaching right here in
the Gospel Lighthouse Church, Israel went back and
become an independent nation, put up their flag
for the first time in 1900 years.
That part of God's prophecy has unfolded right
before our eyes.
Not only that, right before all of our
eyes has unfolded one other great, outstanding prophecy,
where Daniel took the telescope, and as he
looked down the telescope of time, he saw
our day, the end time, and he said
that last generation, that all these things shall
come to pass in that same generation.
It'll begin and wind up in the same
generation.
Daniel said that knowledge will increase and many
will run to and fro.
It will be a time of commerce.
It will be a time of travel.
In the end time, when before never, only
oxen, horses, mules, buckboard wagons, spring wagons, and
then finally they got the bicycle.
But there was no way to travel.
You'd spend a lifetime, and people would talk
to you, come to your home, and visit
you if you's gone out of the county,
you have been someplace.
But now it's nothing to get up and
travel around the world in just a few
days.
We are a traveling people.
Every highway is filled with cars.
Back there, there wasn't one on the highway.
We didn't have a highway anywhere in America.
And these now are broadways filled with automobiles
that Micah told us about that would be
on our streets in the day of the
Lord's preparation.
So how many believe thus far?
God has never missed it.
We are walking right exactly according to prophecy.
Say amen.
Now, let's turn here to Revelation real quickly,
in the 14th, no, the 16th chapter of
the book of Revelation.
It says here, let me see, we'll start
reading right here, and the fifth angel sounded,
and he poured out his vial upon the
seat of the beast.
His kingdom was full of darkness, and they
gnawed their tongue for pain.
They blasphemed God in heaven because of the
pain of the sores, and they repented not
of their deeds.
The sixth angel poured out his vial in
the great river Euphrates, and the waters were
dried up, that the way of the kings
of the east might be prepared.
God is telling us the kings of the
east are going to come.
And I saw three unclean spirits, like frogs.
Now, they were not frogs.
They were like frogs, but they were unclean
demon spirits.
Now, John said these demon spirits came out
of the mouth of the dragon, and the
beast, and the false prophet.
Now, these three have not arrived yet.
They're right around the corner.
As quick as Israel began to form up
and become a nation overnight, as quick as
we went into a full-fledged war, it
first started with just one little shot of
a gun.
Then it began to multiply, and in a
few weeks, it began to turn into a
real talking war.
And in a few months, there were bombs
bursting everywhere, ships going down in our ocean,
and hundreds of thousands of our men being
blown apart in just a few months' time.
So when these three unclean spirits, like devils,
working miracles, which go forth into the kings
of the earth, and of the whole world,
and of the whole world, the kings of
the earth, and goes forth into the whole
world to gather them together to the battle
of Armageddon.
Now, here it says, they're spirits of devils.
They're demon spirits that get in people and
put a hunger and a desire to fight.
You see, all nations, it says, the nations
were angry, and thy wrath is come in
the time of the dead.
Meaning this, that everybody on earth got fussing.
And then finally, God got angry.
It says, the nations were angry, and thy
wrath is come.
Never have we had so many people fussing
in our own nation.
We have fussing, fussing, fussing, fussing.
There's things going on.
Unions are fussing at this union, and this
club is fighting at that club, and this
thing is fighting at that, and there's a
turmoil, and the earth today is fussing.
But we're taking what God says about it.
They're spirits of devil working miracles, which go
forth into the kings of the earth and
of the whole world to do what?
To gather them to battle of the great
day of God Almighty.
And behold, I come quickly, blessed is he
that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he
walk naked and see him ashamed.
And he gathered them together into a place
called, in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon.
And thus, and he gathered them in the
place of, in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon.
Now, we find in the word that, let's
come right on over here in the 14th
chapter, in the 19th verse, And the angel
thrust in the sickle in the earth, and
gathered the vine of the earth, and cast
it in the great winepress of God.
Now, if you don't understand anything else I've
seen, or I've said, if you don't understand
this, you missed it.
The angel thrust in his sickle, because another
angel cried out and said, the grapes of
the earth are ripe.
The grapes of the earth are ripe.
They're ready to be picked and put in
the winepress.
Now, he's talking a language that everybody understands.
Most everyone had vineyards.
And any man in Europe, anywhere, and you
want vineyards, weren't what they were for, for
grapes, for wine.
So when the grapes got ripe, they would
not pick them until they got ripe.
But when they picked them, they gathered the
grapes.
And then they hauled them in their little
carts to the winepress.
A winepress was a trough made of wood,
15 to 20 foot long, 5 to 6
feet wide, 12, 14 inches deep, great big
old trough.
And they poured all the grapes in there.
And then when they got them in there,
certain ones would wash their feet, and they
would put on wood paddles, and they'd buckle
them on, great big old flat wood paddles.
They'd pick up, and there's a great big
old square wood paddle.
And they would walk on those grapes.
And when they would tread the grapes, it
would mash the juice out of the grapes.
It'd walk back and forth, back and forth,
back and forth, and finally at the end,
it's a fast stream coming out.
And they're catching it in big jugs, and
that's what they make wine out of.
But they bring the grapes and put them
in, and then they tread the winepress, and
the juice runs out.
Now notice, the angel thrust in the sickle
and the earth, and gathered the vines of
the earth, and cast it into the great
winepress of God.
And the winepress was trodden without the city
of Jerusalem, in Jehoshaphat.
The valley of Jehoshaphat is the winepress.
All through the It's Jehoshaphat.
So, and Jehoshaphat is right out of the
city.
So it said, those evil spirits from Satan,
the demon spirits go out into the kings
of the whole earth.
All the kings of the earth and of
all the world.
And these demon spirits put hate and fighting
in and then he gathers them together to
the great winepress of God.
And there, it said, and the winepress was
trodden without the city, and blood came out
of the winepress, even to the horses' bridles.
Now, the Bible says in one place, that
he comes, who is this that comes with
dyed garments of red.
He treads the winepress alone, hundreds of years
before he even come to be a savior.
He foretold of his great event when he
would come back down and tread the winepress.
But it said he treads the winepress from
Bezra to Megiddo.
Now, the distance there is a hundred miles.
There is a valley, it's called the valley
of blood, valley of Jehoshaphat.
We were there not long ago to King,
King, was it King George Hotel or King,
King David.
We were at King David's Hotel.
We went out on the gallery and there
I stood and looked at the valley of
Jehoshaphat.
And as far as my eyes could carry,
I was looking at that valley of Jehoshaphat
that the Bible foretold that many, many hundreds
of great battles of great kings of Israel
and kings of Judah have been fought in
the past there in that valley.
But God foretold that this is my winepress.
And he foretold that Christ would bring the
blood out of the grapes of the earth,
even to the horses' bridles, which was a
distance of a hundred miles long.
I forget how many miles wide, but the
distance of a horse's bridle in any country
is five, five foot, five and a half
or sometimes almost six.
But a horse's bridles is about to my
chin on, on a man my size.
If you're smaller, then of course it's be
over your head.
But he says here that the blood is
going to come out of human beings to
the extent that it will come up to
your knees and then human blood will come
up and come up to your chin and
not to your chin, but up to your
shoulders, up to the horse's bridles.
And it comes from the grapes that are
cast in your sickle and reap for the
time for the harvest has come to reap.
Now that's in the 14th chapter.
I just read to you in the 16th
chapter where it is the three unclean spirits
that go out into the kings of the
earth and all the earth to gather them
together.
What's he doing?
He is bringing people.
People are the grapes.
They come where they come to Jehoshaphat.
They come to the east.
So there's going to be something that is
going to draw them.
Now, if you'd say, where are you going?
They wouldn't say we're going over there to
let God kill us.
Oh no, they're not doing that.
We're going over there to kill one another.
No, there are natural things that's going to
happen.
The Bible tells us that there is going
to be the upheaval.
It's going to be the trouble in the
east.
Now we've had fussing with Israel and some
of the Arabs, and there's been a constant
battle between Israel and them.
But now it is begin to switch over
to America and to the other parts of
the countries.
There is now a desire to rebel or
to arouse a great stir among all the
Arab people.
Now, if this passed by and settled down
and all of it died out, then there
would have to be a long period of
time until the whole thing would come and
the setting would be just exactly right as
it is now.
Because when we put the picture that God
has given us here all together, we need
one little piece of the puzzle to make
a picture.
And that is that if I'm standing here
today and I arrived from the grave, I
didn't view no television, I never spoke to
a person about anything around about, and I
had never read a paper, and I didn't
know one thing about our condition of our
world today as far as war and trouble
or anything like that.
And if I told them few of the
outstanding things that had already been, that had
already happened, and then I would ask them,
according to the Bible, what is the next
thing that's got to be done to begin
to form up the winding up?
They would say there's one missing thing in
the puzzle.
If there'll have to be trouble in the
East.
Now, if you have this one little piece
to put right down in there, if everything
is lovely, there is no chance late or
anytime in the future for there to be
an uprising in the East, then we're not
too close.
But if there is boiling trouble, we have
had it coming on gradually for a long
while.
But how many believe now the trouble among
the Arab worlds is increasing?
And how many believe, like the fellow said,
this could be the beginning of the countdown
for battle of Armageddon?
If you've seen your television, if you've read
your papers, you see the hate that they're
putting in the children.
You can see the cry of masses, thousands
upon thousands of them, shaking their fists.
They're wanting to fight.
Well, they know they're no match.
If we decide to go over there and
drop a bunch of bombs on them, there'd
just be a bunch of people killed.
That's all.
Now you say to me, Brother Hibbard, since
there is trouble there, since the Arabs are
stirred up, since while all the Arabs do
not agree with what the fellow's doing in
Iran, that's true.
But yet there is a sympathy toward the
Arab people.
There has already began to kindle like a
little fire.
Don't have to start off very much, but
like fire catches other things and it burns.
So this thing, I'm not depending on them
taking someone out of the embassy.
I am depending on God Almighty's word that
says there is going to be spirits that
are going to go out.
Now, while the beast, the dragon false prophet
is not on the scene, they could come
on overnight.
They could find their place in this world
for immediately after the powers of heaven are
shaken and the Satan is cast down.
Immediately they go into power and this thing
could begin to form.
And in two, in, in a matter of
six months, you could have this whole thing
in a siege.
But if the Lord had come tonight, tomorrow,
Satan is already down here.
Why?
Because when the rapture takes place, Satan and
his angels are cast down for times, times
and a half a time, according to the
Bible.
That's the power of the heavens are shaken.
They're toppled, they're disarranged.
So we find there's going to be things
that's going to take place there.
Now, what do we say will happen the
way it is right now?
Let me make this statement.
Uh, they could take the Shaw and send
him back to Mexico and through much agitation.
And there might be a killing of some
of the, uh, Americans.
I do not know, but they could let
all the Americans go.
And yet there could be a lot of
fussing and there might be some reprisals.
I don't know.
I'm not able to say.
And it could calm down for just a
period of time.
That doesn't change not whatsoever because the seed
of hate is already in the heart of
all those people.
And it's not coming out.
Not only that, but this has made other
Arabs begin to put question in their mind.
What am I saying?
This easily could be the forerunner of the
real thing that is just about to happen.
Now, when God begins to do things, he
can change situations almost overnight.
Now this could go, if they through hate
say, you did not deliver the Shaw to
us.
And that's the contract.
He's gone back to Mexico.
He's saving his neck.
He's not going to give himself up.
So we still keep the people.
Then we're forced to do one thing, go
under shooting more.
That involves your boys and girls.
It involves trouble.
Why?
Because he sure as God made a apple.
When someone is kin to someone else and
you're whipping them, you want to get in
on their side.
The Arabs have always stuck together.
If it goes into a shooting war, only
God knows who's going to come to what
side Russia will eventually try to come in.
I don't expect it to go into a
full fledged all out war.
According to the Bible right now, there could
be things that will cause us to have
a lot of problems and the economy that
we have now and the situation that we're
in, it could cause a lot of other
big companies and factories to go broke.
And the way the inflation has done, it's
as you see, each year, the salaries have
increased over and over and over again.
And those salaries go up.
Now, all the unions say we've got to
have it this way, because we want to
keep up with inflation.
And so we have to have a signed
contract, not realizing that every time they raise
the wages, everything else comes up with it.
Until finally today, in their own language, they
said, why should we produce steel for us
to put out so many pounds of steel?
We have to pay a hundred dollars for
it to be able to bring it in,
pay for all the work and bring it
in through the trucks and the labors to
bring it in.
And our men with a salary, maybe $10
an hour, some more than that.
And we have to pay this high salary
to get this out.
And we pay for so many pounds steel,
a hundred dollars.
When I can sit down at my desk
and order it in and get it shipped
in and delivered on the job for $75,
I can make $25 on so many pounds
by sitting in my desk, not having any
problem, not having any fires burning, not having
anybody working.
I can just sit here and carry my
business on by getting the same steel from
other places.
Why?
Because they price their self out of the
field.
I didn't say it.
That's exactly why a company that has some
smart lawyers, some smart men, and they fought
over it and looked over it and, and,
and analyzed it for many, many months.
There is no way they can afford to
do it.
Now we're reaching a place.
We're not stopped yet.
We're still going higher and higher and higher.
What's it going to come to?
It's going to come to problems.
It's going to come to some sacrifices.
It's going to come to where people are
going to lose their homes.
It's going to come to a place that
people are going to be without jobs.
And it's going to come to a place
that where a lot of people that don't
have too much conscience, if they want something
and you've got it, they're going to get
it with a gun.
Because if they get in jail, they can't
keep them there.
They let them out on a bond and
they can go ahead and get some more
money.
And they're not afraid of the law today.
It used to be if I get in
jail, I'll go to jail, stay so many
years and have to work on the, uh,
with a, with a chain gang.
But today I go in and play dominoes,
play cards and watch the color television and
have a good feather mattress and have air
conditioned three meals a day.
And that's why the fellow the other day
said he wanted to get in jail.
And they said, well, why did you do
this?
Yeah, just hold this fellow up.
He said, well, he said, I was ready
to go back to jail.
He said, I had a lot better in
there.
He said, I got good education and I,
I've got something I want the doctors do.
They've got the very best doctors there.
And he said, they give me a good
bed and three meals a day and said,
I have a good time there.
And I liked the gang.
And he said, when I got out, I
wanted to get back.
So I figured that I'd just go ahead
and do this.
And that's what he put in the paper.
And that's why he went right on back.
It was so nice for him.
Now we have a civilization.
Something's got to change having to believe it.
Something's got to happen.
How many believe this good old book said
that men's hearts would fail them for fear,
looking at the things coming past now here
I'm, I'm finishing now on this.
What am I saying as a pastor for
you to do?
God has definitely declared in his word that
when these things come to pass, he's going
to take care of his own.
I don't know how much tribulation we'll go
through.
We'll not go through the great tribulation of
the wrath of God.
We'll not go through that.
We'll escape that, but how much tribulation we
might have to go through.
Only God knows because there might be a
lot of tribulation.
We may have to go through.
Germany has gone through an awful lot.
Russia has gone through an awful lot and
there's many other countries that have, but we
know the rapture is just about to take
place.
But while we are left here, I don't
care what happens to our nation economy in
the economy way.
I don't care what happens to our salaries.
God has said his same as he said,
the blood of my son will atone for
your sin.
And if you'll come to me, I'll save
you.
He's made that clear.
He also said, I will take care of
you in the time of famine.
It came from God.
He meant what he said.
Now here's exactly what he's saying.
He said, if you have remembered me in
the good times, when everything was lovely, then
when everything goes bad and the famine hits,
I am going to remember you.
If you remember, I could spend all night
preaching one experience after the other where men
remembered God while they were going through life.
When troubles came, God went to bats for
them and brought them out every time.
So God said that he will take care
of us in the time of famine.
If you paid your tithe, if you have
put God first, if you've remembered his house,
if you have prayed, if you have obeyed
God, and if you have practiced worshiping God,
I'll guarantee you, God will not let you
suffer.
I don't care what comes to our nation.
So he said, when you see these things
come to pass, they're happening all around you.
He said, don't fret, don't worry, lift your
heads and rejoice.
Why?
Because God's going to take care of you.
He's going to take us out before it
gets just too bad, but until it does,
if it's a famine, God will take care
of us.
And if it's our loved ones have to
be put on the front, we've had that
very experience.
We prayed for our boys, put them on
the prayer list and God carried them there
and brought them back because we took a
stand for God.
It's not every church, a lot of them
are playing church, but the churches that are
really praying, the churches that pay their tithe,
the churches that come and worship God, the
churches that come and they go to that
prayer room, not just to kneel, but to
thank God for all that they need to
thank him for and to pray for the
things that need to be prayed about.
When you walk before God softly and you
have dedicated your life to God, there is
no fear we need because we've remembered God
in the good days and God's going to
remember us in the bad days.
Now, I'm not able to tell you what
tomorrow is going to bring forth.
I am here to say that it has
begun.
It could be the countdown for Armageddon, but
before battle of Armageddon takes place, there's got
to come the rapture first.
So I have told you all along that
the rapture is due tonight.
It may not come tonight.
It was due yesterday.
I don't know why he didn't come yesterday.
He could come tomorrow.
The church has looked for him and even
back when I first started out, people were
selling their property, wouldn't even dare plant a
peach tree.
They said it's no use.
We'll not live long enough because the Lord's
coming for even the peaches to ever produce
on the tree.
And they were believing that when I was
a child coming up.
Now it's not further away.
How many believe it's closer tonight than it
was Sunday?
And he that shall come will come.
How many believe that it's really closer than
any of us think?
Now we have reached the place that we
have trouble in the East.
And how many agree this thing could not
be unless the Kings of the East are
prepared.
And there is a trouble and a turmoil
and it is already started.
It's affecting our whole nation.
Who would have thought in so many few
days, not weeks, just not months, but just
a few days, a few days ago, you'd
have thought, well, we're the very best friends
to those people.
Look how many billions of dollars we give
them.
75% of all the food they put
in their stomach comes from good old Uncle
Sam.
The ones that are shaking their fist at
us.
75% of all the wheat and the
food comes from America.
Practically every one of their airplanes and all
of their powerful equipment to fight with, all
of it was given to them by us.
The billions and billions of dollars that they
have in investments and now they claim almost
half in my square mileage of the state
of Texas is owned by Arabs and Iran.
More and more, they're buying up property.
So what are we doing?
We're training their men to go back and
fight us.
We're feeding them so they'll be strong.
And that's what we've been doing.
But who would have dreamed overnight this situation
would have arrived.
But how many believe it's here?
Put your hand up.
All right.
Now you don't know what a day will
bring forth.
How many believe in the face of this?
Like Sister Hibbard said, the highlight of all
of it, the weapons of our warfare are
not carnal, but mighty through God.
If we'd say to God, just one word,
God, what do you have to say about
it?
He'd say, well, if my people called by
my name will lumber the set and pray
and seek my face turned from the wicked
ways, then will I hear from heaven and
I'll heal the land.
How many believe it's time that a lot
of people in America get a whipping?
How many believe there's too many have lived
in too loose?
They're forgetting God.
They're forgetting the church.
They're forgetting the Sabbath day.
They're forgetting the Bible.
They're forgetting prayer.
And little by little, they're losing the fear
of God.
Am I right?
It's time that we put God first.
The fool of all fools are real Christians
who have the light and have turned from
it in the light of all that Jesus
said that I just read to you.
What was it I read to you?
Take heed, lest there be in any of
you an evil heart, lest you be overcharged
with surfeiting, drunkenness, and the cares of this
life, lest that day come upon you unaware.
He says, take heed.
You see, lest your heart be overcharged with
surfeiting, eating, drinking, you see, and with drunkenness,
and the cares of life.
You permit the cares of life.
And how many believe that too many that
has permitted the cares of life to crowd
in?
Let's stand our feet together.
Now tonight, I want each one of us,
it's early yet, I'd like for each one
of us, as we are dismissed, to go
in that prayer room because you want to
go in it.
And as you go back, God sees your
heart.
You're glad that you can take time to
go back there with your brethren.
And when you kneel, I want you to
spend it praying over things that you feel
need to be prayed over.
And then I want you to raise your
hand, and I want you to spend a
little time worshiping God.
I don't care what a church does.
If that church don't pray and obey God
and worship Him, if they're not a worshiping
church, God is not obligated to remember us
when the hard time comes.
There is no such thing as God forgetting
a church that has remembered Him in the
good times when they praised Him and they
worshiped Him.
He's coming soon.
Let's come on, will you?
Let's go in the prayer room.
Night or noon, we know He's
coming soon, He's
coming soon, He's coming soon,
With joy we'll welcome His
returning.
It may be morn, it may be night
or noon, We know He's coming
soon.