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Hey, what, if you'll turn to 1 Peter,
the first chapter, and just leave it open
right there, and we'll, we'll pick it up.
We're going to go to a number of
scriptures tonight.
You do have your Bible, don't you?
Did you?
Do you?
If you come to Times Square Church, you
do.
You know, you know, it's an amazing thing.
We see people come to this church occasionally,
and they're so used to going to church
where there's nothing but, you know, singing all
the time and not much preaching, maybe 10
minutes or 15 minutes of preaching, and they
get a little bored because they don't bring
their Bibles.
If you're going to come here, please bring
your Bibles.
All right?
You're so welcome to bring your Bible.
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, I need you tonight in such
a very special way.
Lord, I pray for an unction from heaven.
Lord, we are living in the last days.
We know it.
There's a sense to it.
Everybody that's walking with you, the Holy Spirit's
been saying it to their hearts.
They know it.
Oh, Holy Spirit, help me tonight to proclaim
the word that you put in my heart
all this week.
Bring it forth.
Let nothing of the enemy hinder.
In fact, Lord, we take your authority and
dominion over every demonic spirit, every wild spirit
in this neighborhood that would walk into this
church to try to take over, Lord, a
wild spirit.
We bind every spirit, and we release tonight,
we release tonight the word of the living
God, and we pray for the authority and
the unction in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Now, we Christians look back today at the
rebellion and the ingratitude of the children of
Israel, and we say, how could the children
of Israel have been so blind?
Why, those people provoked God so many times.
They had everything going for them.
Remember the story in the Old Testament?
They had a cloud they could see by
day.
They had a fire they could see by
night.
Their clothes never wore out.
They wanted to eat.
They just went out in the wilderness and
bred.
A man was laying right on the ground.
Can you imagine for 40 years their clothes
never wore out?
I don't know if the shoes grew with
them or if they changed, exchanged shoes, but
their shoes never wore out.
Can you imagine walking 40 years and your
shoes never wore out?
I can't even get a three or four
months out of mine here in New York
City.
And the sea opens miraculously.
The poisoned waters are healed by throwing in
a tree.
So many, many miracles, and yet they murmured,
they complained, they hardened their hearts, they accused
God of forsaking them in a dry wilderness.
But beloved, we have no right, we have
no right to talk about the ingratitude of
the children of Israel, because we've got a
bigger problem here today.
Because God has given us so many better
promises than the children of Israel had.
We have a better covenant.
We've got a salvation that's so beyond theirs,
it can't even be compared.
And yet we seem to take it for
granted what Jesus has done for us.
We really don't know what we have.
I'll say it again, we really don't know
what we've had.
We have what the prophets have been longing
for all through the ages, from Moses to
Malachi.
These prophets of God saw a day coming
in the future, a salvation that would be
like heaven on earth.
They saw a generation to whom the Lord
would be especially merciful.
They all talked about a savior was going
to come to earth, he would suffer, he
would die, especially Isaiah talked about it, to
bring forth a generation into a kingdom of
peace and joy and love in the Holy
Ghost.
In fact, let me read to you, 1
Peter, turn there, 1 Peter, the first chapter,
1 Peter, first chapter, verse 10, beginning to
read, of which salvation the prophets have inquired
and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace
that should come unto you.
Now, beloved, look at that, the prophets are
talking, Peter's saying all the prophets were talking
about you, about this last generation, the grace
that should come unto you, searching what or
what manner of time the Spirit of Christ
which was in them did signify, when it
testified beforehand of the sufferings of Christ and
the glory that should follow.
See, they didn't see the glory, they said
there's a generation comes going to have glory,
they're going to have grace, we don't know
anything about it, they said we see it
in the future.
They were talking about our day right now,
unto whom it was revealed that not unto
themselves, but unto us they did minister the
things which are now reported unto you by
them that preach the gospel unto you with
the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, which
things the angels desire to look into.
Now, look this way, if you will, please.
We have an idea that the Old Testament
prophets were isolated men who lived out in
wildernesses alone, and they had nothing but a
hairy coat and a staff or rod, and
that's all they had.
They just lived like hermits.
Now, they did go to the wilderness to
pray, they did have a staff, they did
occasionally or often perhaps wear the hairy coats
or the camel skin coat, but these were
not idle dreamers out in a wilderness just
contemplating.
No, they had the Word of God.
In fact, Isaiah and the others had Moses,
Elijah had Moses, they carried parchments around.
In fact, Paul, when he's in prison, the
one thing he wanted more than anything else
were the parchments to be brought to him.
I see Paul walking all over the then
known world that he preached, just protecting those
parchments, the law, the Moses, the prophets that
he had.
These prophets were students, they had the law
of Moses, they had that which was revealed
up to that time, and these men were
students.
They went out into the wilderness and they
studied, they knew every word, they lived with
it, they searched diligently, and when they were
in those wildernesses, when they were studying, when
they were searching out the scripture, they saw
a day coming that was so glorious, and
they'd say, well, we live to see it.
And the Lord, through the Spirit of Christ
that was in them, said, no, you will
not live to see it.
There'll be a last generation that will see
what you're talking about.
In fact, it was so glorious, the hope
of that day gave them joy, just the
hope of a day coming when there would
be a Messiah.
And the Bible makes it very clear here,
unto whom it was revealed that not to
themselves, the revelations were not given to them,
all the revelations in these Old Testaments, it
was not for them, it's for us, upon
whom the ends of the world have come.
But unto us they did minister these things
that are now being reported.
The Gospels being preached to you now is
the fulfillment of what these prophets saw.
They saw our day, yes, they saw the
plagues that are coming, the apostasy, the wars
and pestilence, they saw the rise and fall
of the spiritual Babylon.
In fact, they saw a generation upon whom
all the curses of God are going to
come upon, and we'll talk about those curses
tonight.
It's going to be a generation, they said,
of violence, of greed, self-centeredness and pleasure
madness.
But they also knew that the last generation
was going to have in it a people
blessed beyond every other generation.
They saw it was going to be a
day of grace and glory when God would
come down in the flesh, not to dwell
in a tabernacle in the wilderness where he
came down once a year and his glory
was manifest, not just to one or two
like to Moses or to the priest, but
that he would have a temple right here
in this body and God who came only
occasionally would come and live in his people.
That was mind-boggling.
They couldn't comprehend it, but it brought joy
to their heart.
Abraham, Bible said, saw this day and he
rejoiced.
He saw 1989, 88, 89.
He saw this day and he rejoiced.
Jesus said in Matthew 13, but blessed are
your eyes for they see and your ears
for they hear.
Verily I say unto you that, listen now,
many prophets and righteous men have desired to
see the things that you're seeing and they've
not seen them and to hear the things
that you hear and have not heard them.
Could you imagine the incredible joy it would
be if tonight God would resurrect into this
our day, Joshua, Caleb, Elijah, Isaiah, and Zadok
the priest, Jeremiah, Daniel, and they'd sit in
this church and they'd pick up a Bible
and they'd see it from cover to cover,
a full revelation, a full revelation and to
hear songs like redeemed by the blood.
And all they could talk about was we
had a little lamb and you have him.
You have him who we saw coming.
You said, how can you sit here?
Can you imagine what it'd be like for
these men who saw these things to be
sitting in this church tonight to hear a
song redeemed by the blood.
They could dream about it.
They could talk about it.
We've experienced it.
You could bring tonight to this pulpit for
the most righteous men to testify.
You could bring here Abel, Enoch, Noah, and
Abraham.
And you know what they'd say to us?
They'd say, they'd stand here while I stand
tonight and say, we all died in faith,
not having received the promises, but we saw
them afar off.
We were persuaded of them.
We embraced them.
You know, he's talking about, they're talking about
the very things that we are supposed to
have and enjoy.
Said we didn't have them.
You have them.
We saw them in the future.
You have them now.
We embrace them.
Do you embrace them?
We lived as strangers and pilgrims on this
earth.
But those righteous men, I'm afraid would cry
out, but you, you live in the very
day that we look for.
You've received every one of the promises.
The Holy Spirit used to come upon us
at times and seasons, but he's baptized you.
He lives in you.
We would have longed in our day to
have one day like you have every day.
If we could have entered in to having
him abide in us, if we could have
had the full revelation that you have, if
we had a full revealed book like you
have here, what a day it would have
been for us if we could have had
one day.
But we modern Christians, they would say, you
have heaven on earth and you don't know
it.
We had hope just for the very thought
of his coming down to man.
The very thought that he would come down
to man gave us hope, but you have
him and yet you take him for granted.
Can you imagine what must be going on
in heaven now as the angels?
The Bible said the angels, which things the
angels, the dire to look into.
You know what makes the angels?
The angels look at all of their own
fallen creatures, all the angels that were cast
into prison and they're being held in chains
of darkness right now.
And they never had redemption.
They're beyond hope.
And these angels say, what kind of grace
have you given this generation that all of
our kind will never be redeemed?
All of our kind will never receive a
gospel.
And yet all that the prophets see, these
people have.
And what to the, what must be the
amazement of heaven?
How amazed heaven must be the angels that
say, what kind of glorious gospel is that?
What kind of redemption?
They can't understand it.
They desire to look into the very things
that we have.
They say, what, what gift?
How could you, what is it about man
that you loved above angels?
It's not that he loved them above angels,
but what kind of incredible mercy is this?
Why does not mankind enter into it?
Oh, there's going to be a host of
witnesses, prophets and righteous men of hundreds of
ages.
They're going to marvel at the spiritual laziness
of this generation.
And you, we can't say, how did Israel
turn back to idols?
How could they be so blind and stupid
about God?
Because we have a greater guilt on judgment
day.
All those witnesses are going to rise up
and condemn this day.
And they're going to say, you know what
they're going to say?
In fact, the Bible says the men of
Sodom are going to rise up.
The men of Nineveh are going to rise
up.
The queen of Sheba is going to rise
up because they repented in their day.
Or they would have repented if they have
what you have.
That's what Jesus said.
They would have repented if they had anything.
The Bible suggests that if there was one
evangelist preaching one message in Sodom, Sodom would
have repented.
Can you imagine what it'd be like if
they had sat week after week after week
under the gospel?
Sodom would have remained to this day.
You know what they're going to say on
the judgment day?
How could you people have been ravished by
foolish things, by materialism?
How could you have been so blind to
what you had?
How could you trifle away your precious time
when you had such a revelation of Christ
available to you?
We didn't have it, yet we studied.
We yearned.
We sought it out.
We hoped and we prayed for the very
things that you have.
We embraced it.
We preached it.
But you have it all and you don't
highly esteem it.
You don't regard it.
And I believe that most of us are
going to be utterly shocked when we get
to heaven and stand before the throne of
God, when we discover what was available to
us in Christ and what was unused and
unclaimed of the revelation of Jesus.
You know what it is?
Instead, we've got to cry, Lord, where's your
power?
Where are your wonders of past centuries?
Why aren't you answering like you did in
olden days?
In fact, it's the cry of David.
David once said, God, we've heard with our
ears what our fathers have told us, the
great work that you did in their days,
in their times of old.
Oh God, command deliverance for Jacob now.
And what David was saying, oh God, I
don't want to read about miracles in the
Bible alone.
I don't want to hear stories of olden
days.
Our fathers tell us this, but I want
to see it again.
I want to see it in my day.
Almost every young preacher knows what it's like
to walk into a hospital, into a children's
ward.
Every young minister here shares what I'm about
to say.
They walk in and say, God, where is
your power?
Why can't we just go in and lay
hands on them?
Why, why don't we see, why, why does
our day seem less miraculous than the days
of old?
When the lame were leaping, the paralytics walked,
and the dead were raised.
Why do we seem to have a less
miraculous time?
There's a brother in this church who told
me last week, he was so enraged at
a problem he was having.
He hated this sin in his life, and
he fasted and prayed, and he was so
angry, and this thing was coming back on
him.
He slammed his Bible down on the table
and hit it with his fist and said,
oh God, where are you?
Where's your power?
When are you ever going to deliver me?
There's a sense in, in our day-to
-day that this generation has been short-changed
in the, the area of miracles.
They say, well, Moses talked to God, Elijah
called fire down out of heaven, host of
angels appeared for our fathers, and even in
the New Testament times, people were healed by
the very shadow of Peter falling on them.
They sent handkerchiefs out, and people had miracles.
Prison doors flew open, angels came and went,
the dead were raised, Philip was miraculously transported
from one place to another, and you read
all these miracles and say, oh God, why
isn't it happening today?
Didn't he say it's the same yesterday, today,
and forever?
Doesn't it say that it's written that God
never changes?
I, listen to me close now.
No, I don't believe the days of miracles
are over, not at all.
I believe Jesus can still shake the very
foundation of prisons.
God can send angels.
God can do anything he chooses to do.
There's no question about that.
No, he's not short-changed this generation.
The prophets were right.
This generation is the most blessed.
We do have a heaven on earth, but
don't know it.
Now, I'll tell you what, and here's the,
here's the heart of my message.
We have been giving something greater than all
the host of angels that came and went,
even in apostolic times.
Even though I believe angels still come and
go, we've been given something greater than all
the miracles of the Old Testament, greater than
this Red Sea opening, greater than that axe
head that Elisha caused to float to top
of the water, greater than the manna that
fell from heaven.
We don't need manna on the ground.
We've got the true bread of life.
We've got Christ.
Brother, sister, the sea doesn't have to open
up to us because we have him who
opened the sea.
He lives and abides in it.
That's the miracle of all ages, that the
very son of God, the miracle worker himself
lives and abides in these mortal bodies.
But you know, there's something very wrong.
Multitudes of Christians today are living in spiritual
despair.
They're growing cold, dull.
Some are lazy and unconcerned, fear and anxiety
and confusion.
Yet the word said the prophets spoke longingly
of this very day.
And you look around, you say, well, what
is there to do?
The prophets rejoiced in.
You look around, you see so many Christians
trying to fight lust.
You see so many battles.
You see so many people not entering into
the fullness of Jesus.
And then you say the prophets were looking
this day.
This was the day.
I'll tell you, if the prophets went to
some churches that I've been in, they'd say,
this doesn't look like the day I saw.
You know, John the Baptist sent a messenger
from prison to ask Jesus.
He said, are you really the fulfillment of
prophecy?
Are you the one that I saw coming?
Or so I look for another.
And you know, I really believe that if
Isaiah the prophet could send a messenger from
this generation and say, go and see what's
happening and bring me back a report.
And this messenger was allowed to visit this
day.
And he goes back to paradise and he's
talking to Isaiah.
And Isaiah is so anxious.
And he takes him by the lapel of
his jacket.
And Isaiah said, is there really a generation
like I saw rejoicing in the one who
made his soul an offering for sin?
Do they really trust that his stripes will
heal them?
Is there a people who are poor, who
are hearing the gospel of freedom?
Are the brokenhearted accepting the liberty that he's
offered?
Are the people bound with chains walking out
of their prisons of despair?
He'd say, tell me, that generation that I
saw, that last generation, are they receiving beauty
for asses?
And I'm quoting all of his prophecies here.
Are they receiving the oil of gladness instead
of mourning?
Have they been putting on garments of praise
and putting off the spirit of heaviness?
And Isaiah would say, please, is there really
on earth today a people of God who
are like unto him?
Are they righteous?
Are they planted by the Lord?
Are they truly saints or priests unto the
Lord?
Not just a select few, but is there
an entire body of priests like I saw?
Do they walk in robes of righteousness?
Tell me, is there truly a highway of
holiness?
Is there heaps of a people who are
holy unto God?
Are there really watchmen standing on the wall
who give him no rest?
Is there really a holy remnant like I
saw, a people not forsaken of God?
Are they righteous?
Are there a latter-day people to whom
the Lord rejoices?
Are there people who tremble at his word?
Does the Lord really answer them before they
call?
Has the spirit really been not poured on
all people, on all flesh?
Do they really have peace like a river?
Are they really sanctifying themselves, purifying their hearts?
Did the Redeemer come to Zion like he
said he would?
Did the light rise and shine on this
people?
Are they flowing together, all speaking the same
language?
Are they walking in his fear?
And I believe Isaiah with his eyes ablaze
would cry out, please tell me that all
I saw was true.
Is it a glorious church without spot or
wrinkle?
Is my vision coming to pass?
Do God's people live in victory?
How can they contain their joy if it's
happened?
How do they stand before such glory?
How do they stand such fulfillment of prophecy?
What spiritual giants must be alive in that
day?
They must all be giants in God.
I wouldn't want to be the one to
tell them the truth.
I wouldn't want to be the messenger who'd
have to say, brother Isaiah, only a despised
few have entered into the victory of the
Messiah, and they've had to leave their church
as often to do it.
Who wants to tell Isaiah, the love of
many grows cold now.
Multitudes are following a gospel of prosperity and
getting rich.
The Holy Ghost, yes, it was outpoured.
Multitudes receive power, but it's been little use
because not many are going to the highways
anymore to compel them to come to Christ.
Instead, millions of them waste uncountable hours, pleasure,
sport, sitting before their idols.
They're blocking out their spiritual channels with the
filth of the devil.
Who's going to tell Isaiah, for so many
of the people, there's only a partial freedom
from sin?
Yes, you did prophesy that he came to
set people free from their prison houses, but
so many of them just walk away and
go back.
They're not students of the word like you
prophets were.
They didn't earnestly seek out the truth of
Christ.
They're seeking formulas and easy ways and effortless
deliverances.
They almost hope that their lusts are demons
so they can be cast out of them.
They won't have to labor in prayer and
search the scriptures to find their life.
Yes, the Lord of Righteousness is among us.
Yes, he set up a spiritual unseen kingdom,
but that kingdom has been neglected by multitudes.
It's taken very lightly.
Can you picture a meeting of the prophets
in paradise and God allows the veil to
be low, open and they're able to, the
Bible said there's a host of witnesses and
suddenly the Holy Ghost allows them to witness.
And in this meeting, I picture a meeting
in paradise.
There's Abraham.
I just wrote these names down, came to
my mind, Abraham and Moses and Jocelyn, Caleb
and Abel, Samuel, Hannah, David, Job, Nehemiah, Isaac,
Jeremiah, Ezekiel, David, Enoch, Joel, Hosea, Amos, Micah,
Malachi, Zechariah, all the prophets, all the righteous
men who searched out this day, who longed
for it, who hoped for it, who would
have loved to live one day in it.
In their meeting, and suddenly they're given a
picture.
Do you know there's not one of these
men could understand the unbelief, the bondage, the
hypocrisy, the apathy, the lightness and foolishness they'd
see?
I can hear them say, how could a
people so rich in revelation be so poor?
How could a people with such promises live
with such fear?
They have the King and they have his
kingdom.
He's translated them out of a kingdom of
darkness into a kingdom of light.
All we had were little glimpses of that
light.
They've been flooded with light.
We slew little lambs, but they have the
Lamb of God himself.
We saw only the back parts of God.
We saw a glory that soon faded away.
They see Christ in the mirror every day,
and they have the privilege of being changed
from glory to glory in his own image,
and they won't do it.
We fought enemy after enemy with sword and
spear.
They've got a King of glory who put
his foot on Satan's head and crossed it.
They've even got the key of the devil,
and they don't know it.
We were visited by angels, but these people,
they have God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
coming to live in them.
All we had was a tent in the
wilderness where God came, and we had to
go outside the camp to meet him, but
their own bodies are the temple of God
now.
I hear the prophets saying, incredible, Christ lives
in them.
All the forces of Godhead is in Christ.
They've been given everything they need to walk
in holiness.
They've got God's power working for them.
There's a well of living water that's supposed
to spring up in them.
The Holy Ghost is there to teach them.
They have a completed scripture.
They have forgiveness.
They've got a gospel of reconciliation.
They've got promises of deliverance out of all
temptation.
He said he'd never leave them nor forsake
them.
There's a fountain been opened for them in
the house of David.
Why are they so blind?
But I want to tell you something, beloved.
The prophets can rejoice.
Hear me.
The prophets can rejoice because God is going
to have, before he comes, a glorious, victorious
church.
Zion is even now shaking itself and rising
up a glorious Holy remnant, living and moving
in the power of the Holy Ghost.
What did the prophets see in the day?
First of all, the prophets foretold that there'd
come a time of chaos and violence and
trouble such as the world has never seen
in its history.
And the clearest vision of it, remember, Moses
said, there's going to be a prophet raised
up like to me.
So Moses acknowledged himself as a prophet.
I want you to see how this prophet
Moses saw our day in which we're living
right now.
I want you to go to Deuteronomy 31.
We're going to talk about the curse that's
on America.
And these scriptures, you need to mark them
and have them if anybody wonders what's happened
this generation.
Deuteronomy, once you go to chapter 31, I'm
going to take you through quite a bit
of verses here in Deuteronomy.
Now, I told you my message was about
the last days seen by the prophets.
Let's see what Moses saw.
Deuteronomy 31, verse 28, beginning to read.
Verse 28.
31, 28 and 29.
Gather unto me all the elders of your
tribes, your officers, that I may speak these
words in their ears and call heaven and
earth to record against them.
For I know that after my death, you
will utterly corrupt yourselves and turn aside from
the way which I've commanded you.
And listen to this, and evil will befall
you in the what?
In the latter days.
Those are our days right now, because you
will do evil in the sight of the
Lord to provoke him, to anger him to
the work of your hands.
He said, now look at me, please.
He said there's going to come a people,
and if you look at chapter 29, go
back to Deuteronomy 29, and I want you
to look at verse 14.
Neither with you, and he's trying to tell
us who he's talking to, who's Moses talking
to.
Neither with you only do I make this
covenant and this oath, but with him that
standeth here with us this day before the
Lord, our God, and also with him that
is not here with us this day.
Do you understand?
He's describing two people, those to whom he's
talking and those all the way to the
latter days.
He's talking about Bible principles.
He's talking about principles that God will not
change.
God is saying when a people reach a
certain point, what I did to Israel, I'll
do to every generation.
When I judge this generation, I'm going to
judge this generation on the same principles, and
it happened.
The curse has all happened to the children
of Israel, and they're going to happen.
There are happening the United States of America
right now.
I looked at verse 19.
This is going to come.
There's going to be a false peace come
to people on the brink of judgment.
Just when people ought to be wide awake,
there's going to be a false peace.
Verse 19, it came to, it'll come to
pass when he hears the word of this
curse, and I'm going to give you the
words of that curse tonight.
He will bless himself in his heart saying,
I shall have peace, though I walk in
the imagination of stubbornness in my own heart
to add drunkenness to thirst.
How many see that?
Here's a people walking in stubbornness and rebellion,
and yet they have peace.
I used to think that the way to
win souls to go out and say, come
to Jesus, he'll give you peace.
Well, 95% of all the sinners now
say, I've got peace.
What kind of peace is it?
It's a blind peace.
You can go to the deadest church in
America or the deadest churches here in Manhattan.
You can go to any one of these
dead churches, no matter what denomination may be.
And you talk to people living in absolute
sin, talk to them about it.
They say curses.
Well, I don't know anything about curses.
Judgment.
I don't think about judgment.
Peace.
I've got peace.
Everybody's got peace.
Drug addicts have peace.
Alcoholics have peace.
Prostitutes have peace.
Now everybody's got a phony peace, except the
Christians who have the real peace.
So there's going to be a day of
absolute false peace.
Look at verse 27, down to verse 27.
Not 29, 37.
And the anger of the Lord was kindled
against this land to bring upon it all
the curses that are written in this book.
All the curses written in this book.
All right, now look at me if you
will.
Is America under a curse right now?
Are the promises of, are the prophecies of
Moses about to be revealed in fullness right
now?
I want you to go to Deuteronomy 28
now.
Go left to 28 verse 15.
28 verse 15.
You watch how the word of God comes
to life tonight on this.
And by the way, when you go home
tonight before you go to bed, you start
reading the first verse of chapter 28, Deuteronomy,
and you'll see how God blessed America when
it was founded.
How He blessed its, its fruit of the
ground, its basket, its store.
How He blessed in the city.
He blessed in the country.
He established the holy people in their midst.
And they kept the commandments of the Lord.
He blessed their going out, their coming in.
The blessing of God overtook this nation, didn't
it?
So it became the most blessed and prospered
nation in the history of the earth.
Oh, but there's a curse.
He said, all these curses will come upon
the people.
And I'm going to, I would take you
through these curses and you tell me if
you see them in America right now.
You tell me if there's evidence.
All right.
The first curse, first part of the curse
is a curse upon the fruit of the
body.
Verse 18, 28, 18.
Look at verse 18.
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body.
Now what is the fruit of the body?
That's a children.
We had the children up here tonight.
Cursed shall be.
Have you ever heard of juvenile delinquency?
Have you heard of the 10,000 children?
They just announced this past week in Florida
that are in hospitals being treated because of
their crack addicted mothers.
Did you realize there are over 5,000
children right here in New York City, born
as drug addicts through the bloodstream of their
mothers, 5,000, 12,500 children in welfare
hotels.
I just got a letter handed to me
before the service from a father who's in
the service tonight.
And his four, five-year-old, five-year
-old girl was sexually abused in a welfare
hotel right here down the street.
Five-years-old girl.
And he's talking about all the abuse these
little children taking in these hotels here.
12,500 of them in welfare hotels.
Do you know anything about the homeless children
now that roam?
Their parents, maybe a mother or father somewhere.
15-year-old boy out in Long Island
that kills his mom and dad.
Apparently, at least it's reported that he did
it because his parents wouldn't let him run
the four-wheel recreational vehicle while down the
street.
He shot them both.
Have you ever in your lifetime heard about
the, don't you tremble at the thought of
teachers here in New York City afraid to
go to class?
They're afraid of being beaten.
I mean, every day now teachers are being
beaten.
We talked to one teacher just recently.
There's real fear in her.
Fear.
Terrible, terrible fear.
They just did a survey.
It was released today, in fact, in the
news about five o'clock today.
New survey.
The great concern of young people today.
Last year, drug addiction was 20 percent.
Now it's gone up to almost 40 percent.
And that's the number one fear of young
people now in school.
Even seventh and eighth graders.
Drugs.
A curse upon the fruit of the womb.
Number two, verse 23 and 24.
Droughts and depleted storehouses of grain.
Do you know that most of our grain
is gone now?
Our storehouses are depleted.
But I want you to look at verse
20.
I'll tell you what.
Look at verse 20.
Verse 17 first.
28, 17.
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Look at verse 23.
And thy heaven shall be over thy head,
shall be as brass, and the earth that
is under thee shall be iron.
The Lord shall make the rain of thy
land powder and dust.
From heaven shall it come down upon thee
until thou be destroyed.
Now, look at me, please.
New York Times.
Get the New York Times today or get
the New York Daily News.
There's a big story about a crisis of
water coming even here to New York City.
An absolutely incredible crisis nobody wants to talk
about.
San Francisco's in a crisis now of water
that is incredible proportions.
The droughts that used, I believe, 50 years
ago in the early 30s when we had
what was called the Dust Bowl in the
United States.
God was warning America.
God warned America then, let me show you
what will happen.
I'm going to give you 50 years to
repent.
I'll give you 50 years to get this
thing straight.
And after 50 years, we have not repented
in this nation.
And now the droughts are just beginning.
And now they're not just in the Midwest.
They're here in New York.
New Jersey this past summer, everything was brown.
You watch what happens.
It's just the beginning.
And now it's in Alabama.
It's in Georgia.
There are dry spots every one city.
It rains the next city.
It doesn't just as the Bible prophesied.
It's just the beginning.
In fact, look at chapter, look at verse
28.
Look at 28.
The Lord shall smite thee.
Well, no, let's go on to the next
one.
Number three, you will no longer win your
wars, but you'll lose them.
Your enemies will put you to chase.
Now, before I read that, well, let me
read it.
It's verse 25.
Look at verse 25, chapter 28, verse 25.
The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten
before thine enemies.
Thou shall go out one way against them
and flee seven times before them.
Now you see that flee seven times before
them.
Now look at me, please look clearly.
Up to 40 years ago, United States never
lost a war.
Never.
And then came Korea.
No win situation.
Then came Vietnam.
We went in one way.
That's back when I had television.
And I remember seeing newscasts.
They weren't fleeing seven ways.
They were fleeing a hundred ways.
I mean, we just fled.
They came in.
They left billions of dollars with the buildings
and supplies and ammunition and tanks, airplanes.
They left it and fled.
It was the most pitiful moment in American
history.
Fleeing from the enemy.
You'll flee seven ways.
The only war we've won was one little
tiny grenada.
And there was no enemy to speak of.
There was nobody down there.
A couple little fishing boats.
We came in with our big army.
And everybody talking about the great power of
America for Grenada.
I'm not mocking America.
I love my country.
In fact, Jesus said, the reason I tell
you these things is so when they come
to pass, you'll not be upset.
You won't be confused.
Jeremiah, they accused him of being turned over
the enemy, that he wasn't a good citizen.
He said, no, I weep over this nation.
I get letters now from my mailing list,
all of America, and they say, Brother Dave,
take me off your mailing list.
I've heard enough of your gloom and doom.
I, I, one, one preacher wrote me the
other day.
I think he's a preacher.
He sounded like one.
No, what I'm saying, you know, when he,
when they talk about their church and so
forth, you presume it.
But he said, Brother Wilkerson, I feel sad
for you.
Don't you know, we've entered into the feast
of the tabernacles.
Everything's praise and worship and happy.
Oh, I'd like him to come to New
York and rub his nose in the gutter.
And I say that lovingly, let him go
down to 41st street here.
Look at all the people sleeping on the
streets.
We've got a Pollyanna Christianity out there in
the Midwest somewhere.
I don't know where it is.
They're everything's rosy.
Everything's all right.
It's not all right.
The judgment of God's on America.
Number four, incredible plagues and new diseases that
were never before known.
Is that getting familiar?
Look at verse 59, 28, 59.
Now let's see if you believe everything's roses
59.
Then the Lord will make thy plagues.
Wonderful means tremendous or awesome.
And the plagues of thy seed, even great
plagues and of long continuance.
Do you know that we've, we've, we've had,
we've buried some of our young staff members
that have carried the AIDS virus for seven
years, seven years.
They claim me now it can be up
to 10 or 12 years that this thing
has been carried.
Even great plagues of long continuance and sore
sicknesses and of long continuance.
Moreover, he will bring upon thee all the
diseases of Egypt, which thou was afraid of.
They shall cleave unto thee also every sickness
and every plague, which is not written in
the book of this law, unknown diseases.
In other words, then will the Lord bring
upon thee until they'll be destroyed until they'll
be destroyed.
All those, it looks like it's going to
be an awesome, incredible time of panic of
the heart.
Verse 27 and 28.
Look at that.
Go back now to verse 27 and 28.
The Lord shall smite thee with madness and
blindness and astonishment of heart.
That means panic of heart.
Is there a panic or isn't there about
these diseases?
Verse 29.
Thou shall grope, thou shall grope at noonday
as the blind gropeth in darkness.
Thou shall not prosper in thy ways.
Thou shall not, thou shall be oppressed and
spoiled everyone and no man shall save thee.
No, there's not going to be a cure.
No man can save you.
Incurable disease is not even known.
Every disease in Egypt, every disease in this
book, it's not even known.
In fact, you'll find in one of those
warnings about a terrible consumption that's coming.
Verse 22.
And this has to do with TB.
In verse 22, the Lord shall smite thee
with a consumption, with a fever and inflammation
and extreme burning.
This describes tuberculosis to the letter and with
a sword.
And some people don't know it.
Look at me now, please.
There's been an outbreak of tuberculosis right down
here, two blocks.
It's right from here on down to the
welfare hotels.
In fact, they're giving tests now and it's
an absolute outbreak of tuberculosis.
And the reason for it is because the
immune systems now are being broken down and
they're not going to be a cure.
Can you imagine all these immune systems being
broken down because of drugs, because of the
sexual immorality among homosexuals and others and their
bodies now are prey to all these diseases,
including tuberculosis now.
In fact, that it didn't look like it
was ever.
How did that apply today?
But it applies now.
Number five, your enemies are going to be
raised up in your midst and you'll become
the tail and not the head.
You'll become a borrower and not a lender.
Now listen closely to me, please.
You'll see it in verse 43 and 44.
I hope you'll follow me very closely on
this now.
Because you don't have to go more than
one block to see what I'm going to
tell you right now.
I want you to tonight, if you can
go right over here to Times Square and
look up, just look up, best thing go
about 43rd street and Broadway.
Just look up, look at all the signs
up there.
Look at all the signs high and lifted
up.
They're all Japanese.
They're all German.
And the only thing you see there is
Pepsi and Coke that are American and they're
down below everything high and lifted up at
the head is Japanese.
It's all foreign.
Well, look at first 43, the stranger that
is it in.
They shall get up above the very high
and also come down very low.
He shall lend to thee and thou shall
not lend to him.
He shall be the head.
Thou shall be the tail.
Do you know that this past year, the
United States for the first time in its
entire history has become a borrowing nation.
We owe more money than the rest of
the world combined.
Up to a year ago, we were lending
money.
We're a borrowing nation now that has come
to pass right now to the letter.
Don't tell me we're on, we're not under
a curse.
He shall lend to you.
You shall not lend to him.
He shall be the head.
Thou shall be the tail.
By the way, we think about high lift
up.
Any of you see the blimp out here
today, Fuji, Phil?
Oh, you said, well, that's a good year
blimp up there.
Yeah, it's there twice a year.
Fuji's up for every day.
Fuji, if I remember, not American.
All right.
One more.
Moses, Isaiah, and all the prophets talked about
a sudden destruction coming in this last day
to the last generation.
Just let me read you this.
Well, why don't you go to Deuteronomy 34
and see it for yourself?
This is the end of side one.
You may now turn the tape over to
side two.
You might not believe it.
Deuteronomy 32, verse 24.
Do I believe there's going to be a
hijack in the Holocaust?
Oh, yes, I do.
32, chapter 32, verse 23, beginning to read.
Well, let's go to verse 22, in fact.
For a fire has kindled mine anger.
He shall burn and it shall burn in
the lowest hell and shall consume the earth
with her increase and set on fire the
foundation of the mountains.
I will heap mischief upon them.
I will spend my arrows upon them.
They shall be burnt with hunger and devoured
with burning heat and with bitter destruction.
I will also send the teeth of beasts
upon them with the poison of serpents of
the dust.
All right.
Now, Isaiah.
I'm reading Isaiah, the prophet.
Listen close.
Evil shall come upon you.
You shall not know from when it comes,
where it comes.
It shall fall upon you.
I'm reading from Isaiah.
Don't turn, but you can mark it down.
Isaiah 47, 11.
It shall fall upon you.
You will not be able to put it
off.
Desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which will
take you unaware.
And all the prophets say the same thing.
Suddenly, suddenly there's coming a destruction is going
to fall upon you.
It's going to be a fiery destruction.
Now, beloved, look, if you will look at
this way, please give me your good ear.
It's all here now.
The pestilence, the droughts, the humiliating defeats, the
AIDS, the loss of the fruit of the
womb, uncontrollable national debt, the weakening of our
morals and our economy and the threat of
a hydrogen Holocaust hanging overhead.
And you say, oh, how depressing.
What a doomsday scene you're painting.
Well, there's another side to the story, beloved.
There's another side.
Yes, the prophets all solve that.
And any preacher who doesn't preach it is
robbing his people of something that they must
have.
And I'm not going to spare it.
I'm going to keep prophesying every time God's
spirit moves on me.
And all week he's been moving on me
to prophecy.
We need to be wide awake.
You need to be aware so that when
these things start coming, you'll know what it's
all about.
Now, I'm going to give you the good
part now.
You said it's about time, isn't it?
He says, Amen.
The prophets saw something else.
Hallelujah.
The prophets, yes, they can rejoice because what
they saw coming is coming and it's already
here.
Hallelujah.
And here's what they saw in an age
of perplexity and men's hearts, failing them with
fear.
God, in the midst of that same generation
that's under the threat of a Holocaust, that's
gone violent, lost its morals.
That same age of a spiritual Babylon, God's
going to raise up a people so anchored
in Jesus.
They will see all these things coming to
pass and they'll say, this is heaven on
earth.
Well, everyone around them, their hearts are failing
them for fear.
They're going to be a people who say
I have the earnest of my inheritance right
now.
I want you to go to Isaiah 65.
We're going to restart getting happy in the
Lord now.
Isaiah 65.
Beloved, I will show you the prophet Isaiah
saw two streams.
He saw this stream of wickedness and violence.
He saw the people headed for the fire.
He saw people depressed, but he also saw
something else.
Hallelujah.
Isaiah 65 verse 13 beginning to read.
Isaiah 65 verse 13.
Therefore, thus says the Lord God, behold, my
servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry.
How many C2 classes of people there?
I said, how many C2 classes of people?
My servants, they're going to eat that spiritual
food, but you shall be hungry.
Behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall
be thirsty.
My servants shall rejoice, but you shall be
ashamed.
Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of
heart.
How do you sing when there's a Holocaust
hanging over your head?
How do you sing when the economy may
fall apart?
How do you think?
Well, he said, my servants are going to
sing for joy, but you shall cry for
sorrow of heart and you shall howl, howl,
whatever that means for a vexation of spirit.
You shall leave your name for a curse
unto my chosen.
For the Lord God shall slay thee and
call his servants by another name, that he
that blessed himself in the earth shall bless
himself in the God of truth.
And he that sweareth in the earth shall
swear by the God of truth because the
former troubles are forgotten and because they are
hid from my eyes.
Behold, I create a new heaven, a new
earth.
Then the former should not be remembered, nor
come into mind, but be you glad and
rejoice for even in that day that I
will create.
I behold, I create in Jerusalem a rejoicing.
I create Jerusalem a rejoicing and her people
a joy.
I will rejoice in Jerusalem.
I'll joy in my people.
The voice of weeping shall no more be
heard in her nor the voice of crying.
Now he's speaking about this culminating in redemption
and talking about our tears being wiped away.
But all I'll tell you what, folks, he's
starting to wipe the tears right now.
He's beginning to wipe the tears.
He's going to cause a great rejoicing.
Also, listen, in this last day, the prophets
saw that it would be the most fruitful
for the people of God.
There would be a harvest of holiness.
There would rise up a vine of strength
overflowing with oil and wine.
Go to Joel.
Prophet Joel.
Joel.
And I want you to go to Joel,
the second chapter.
Joel.
J-O-E-L.
If you find Daniel, go right just a
little further past Hosea.
If you get to Amos, you're too far
right.
Go back to Joel.
Joel, the second chapter.
I'm saying it for all our young converts
here.
Joel.
I have to say that to cover for
the people who don't know where it's at.
Joel, the second chapter.
Hallelujah.
Do you love the word of God?
Joel 2, verse 21.
Now, wait a minute.
Don't, don't, don't look.
Don't peek.
Don't peek yet.
Remember all the curses I told you about?
And they're here.
You know it.
All sides.
Man's heart's failing for fear.
You go on the job.
Have you ever seen a day of such
fear and anxiety in your lifetime?
Oh my.
But what's God saying to us?
What's he saying to his people?
Fear not, O land.
Verse 21.
Fear not, O land.
Be glad and rejoice, for the Lord will
do great things.
Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field,
for the pastors of the wilderness do spring,
for the tree bareth her fruit.
The fig tree and the vine do yield
their strength.
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and
rejoice in the Lord your God, for he
hath given you the former rain moderately, and
he will cause for you to come down
rain, the former rain and the latter rain
in the first month.
For the floor shall be full of wheat,
and the vats will overflow with wine and
oil.
A type of the Holy Ghost and the
word of God flowing in these last days
in his church.
Hallelujah.
You know what David said?
He prophesied, my people should not be afraid
of evil tidings.
That means bad news.
Their heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.
Listen to what in Proverbs it reads.
Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of
the desolation of the wicked when it comes,
for the Lord shall be your confidence, and
he shall keep your foot from being taken.
Glory be to God.
You know, I'm going to close in a
minute, but I get the idea some people
feel the church is just going to whimper
out and die, and Jesus is just going
to come for a sick dead church, and
even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly before it's
all over, before we're all dead and gone.
I, people get up and testify, pray for
me, I can hold out to the end.
That's not what the prophet saw.
The prophet saw the people that were happy
and rejoicing.
He saw people living in victory of the
glory of Jesus Christ.
Now folks, I preach on the coming of
Jesus, and I believe he could come at
any time, and I preach it strongly, but
we've got some people want Jesus to come
just because they don't want to endure the
battle anymore.
They're tired of the battle.
They don't even know what it's like to
have entered India.
I pray that Jesus carry just long enough
for you to taste the victory before you
get there, to enjoy the victory.
Oh, there's a victory in Christ over lust,
over demons, over everything satanic.
There's a glorious victory in the Lord.
And I'm going to look you right in
the eye, and I'm going to tell you
here at Times Square Church and in New
York City, the day will come when the
Lord tears, there'll be at least 10,000
Christians on fire as an example of the
overcoming power of Jesus in this last day.
Glory to God.
Oh, there's a holy stream of people that
are going to be repentant.
They're going to run to Jesus.
They're going to long for him.
They're going to walk like him, talk like
him, and look like him.
They're going to suffer like him.
Yes, but they're not going to worry about
their suffering.
They're going to have written on their forehead,
holiness unto the Lord.
And while this Babylonian ship of state sinking
down into water, they're going to rise up
out of the dust.
Hallelujah, victorious in Christ.
God's going to save and deliver his people
in a day of wrath.
I'll tell you what, God's given me something
I hadn't seen before.
I heard Sister Basilia Slink.
Now, she's a wonderful woman of God in
her 80s, and many of you read some
of her books from Darmstadt, Germany.
I love that dear sister.
She's a Mama Zion, a mother of Zion,
and she's not the only prophetic voice.
I know five or six others that I
trust who are walking with God.
They're not in it for money.
They're not into hype.
They're not self-proclaimed prophets.
They're true prophets of God.
I know one of them, especially in Canada,
great men of God and others that really
walking close to the Lord.
It comes from Australia.
It comes from other places where men are
walking with the Lord.
And Sister Basilia Slink was saying before the
Holocaust, God's going to deliver his people.
And I got to thinking, well, to me,
it didn't seem to matter because if bombs
fall in New York City and I'm melted
down, I'm melted down right into the arms
of Jesus.
And so live or die, we're the Lord's.
We're not to live with any fear.
But I want you to go to Revelation.
I want to show you something.
Boy, is it clear?
There's going to be a deliverance.
Revelation 18.
And by the way, if you want to
see what's going to happen to the United
States of America, you go home tonight, read
Revelation 17, 18 and 19.
You'll see it.
All right.
I want you to look at Revelation 18
and I'm going to read, start verse five,
Revelation 18, verse five.
For her sins have reached into heaven and
God has remembered her iniquities, reward her even
as she rewarded you, double unto her double
according to her works in the cup which
she has filled, filled to double.
How much she's glorified herself, live deliciously.
Have we lived deliciously in this country?
There are a lot of poor people who
haven't.
But the majority in this nation have lived
deliciously to much, so much torment and sorrow
give her for she saith in her heart,
I sit a queen.
You know where the queen is sitting, don't
you?
They call her the queen.
Were you here when they dedicated this statue
of liberty?
I sit as a queen.
I'm no widow and she'll see no sorrow.
People said there's never been an enemy army
in the United States.
We've never had a war.
Wars never touched this land.
I sit, we're safe, we're safe.
Verse eight, therefore, so her plagues come in
one day, death, mourning, famine.
She shall be utterly burned with fire for
strong is the Lord God who judged her
for the kings of the earth who've committed
fornication, live deliciously with her.
She'll bewail her and lament for her when
they shall see the smoke of her burning,
standing afar off for the fear of her
torment, saying, alas, alas, that great city Babylon,
that mighty city in one hour is thy
judgment come.
Read on.
The merchants of the earth shall mourn and
weep over her for no man buys their
merchandise anymore.
Or do you matter what's going to happen
to the trade?
Japanese and Germans and all those that we're
living high on the merchandise of gold, silver,
precious stone, pearls, linen, purple, silk, scarlet, wood,
vessels of iron, vessels of wood, brass, iron,
vessels of iron.
Those are cars probably and marble.
But you see, that's all going to come
down in one day.
But look at verse eight.
Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day.
All right.
Now, hold on.
I'm the Holy Ghost would have to make
this real.
I can't tell you any more than what
I feel in my heart right now that
the Lord is saying, go back to chapter
18 and look at verse four.
The Bible said her plagues are going to
come.
When?
In one day.
Didn't it say that?
All right, go back and read it again.
Verse eight.
Therefore, shall her plagues come, what?
In one day, death, mourning, famine, and she
shall be utterly burned with fire.
All right, now go to verse four.
And I heard another voice from heaven saying,
come out of her, my people, that she
be not partakers of her sins and that
she receive not of her plagues.
Her plagues are coming, when?
In one day.
How do you come out?
We don't come out unless he brings us
out.
How do you come out?
How could we get every Christian out of
New York City?
How could we get?
No, you said spiritual.
Yes, but you see, we've already come out.
You don't say come out till people have
already come out.
I really believe in my heart.
Now, I'll tell you, there's a Bible principle.
Was Daniel safe from the lion's den or
in it?
Did he have to go in the lion's
den?
Was the furnace that was heated seven times
hot?
Did God put out the furnace or did
Jesus go in the furnace with them and
deliver them in the furnace?
In the furnace.
How about Peter?
Did he have to go to jail?
He was delivered out of jail, wasn't he?
How about Paul when the storm was breaking
up the ship?
Did the Lord just calm the storm or
did he let the ship break up and
he's cast into the water?
He was saved out of the water, wasn't
he?
What happened to the ship?
It went down.
What happened to Paul?
He was saved.
I'll tell you what.
We're not going to be safe from all
the troubles.
I mean, they're going to be troubles.
They're going to be perplexity on all side,
but they're going to come a day of
his wrath.
Hallelujah.
Do you know, I believe it could happen
the very moment someone presses the buttons and
they come down over the North Pole and
those missiles, there'll be mushroom clouds over Manhattan.
Oh yes, there will.
And it'll probably hit New York first and
then spread down Washington or come up this
way.
I don't know, but there will be hundreds
of hydrogen ballistic warheads falling on this nation.
But I'll tell you what, they could be
on the way.
And the Lord blinks his eye, just the
twinking of an eye.
And he says, come out of her, my
people.
Come out of her.
Glory be to God.
Hallelujah.
You know, this is the conclusion of the
tape.