Jesus, we desperately need your power and strength
to do what you've asked me to do
tonight.
I ask, humbly now, that you give me
the courage and help me to say it
from my heart, without fear and trembling, in
Christ's name, Amen.
God's placed me here tonight to warn of
a coming hour of persecution.
The Holy Spirit is my witness.
This convention tonight is being warned here and
now of an intense hour of persecution for
all spirit-filled believers.
You're to prepare to be hated, rejected, maligned,
and ridiculed.
Now, if you believe Acts 2.4 about
a special endowment of power from on high,
then you've got to also believe Acts 2
.17. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions.
I saw a vision this past April.
So frightening, it staggered my mind.
And for the past three months, I've tried
to shake it off, but I can't do
it.
I've only had two in my life.
The first, 15 years ago, took me to
the streets of New York, and every fact
of that vision's been fulfilled.
I've been terribly afraid to share this vision
up till tonight for fear I'd be called
a fanatic.
But the same Holy Ghost that prompted me
12 years ago to share the story of
the cross and switchblade has prompted me tonight
to share this vision with you.
In this vision, I saw five terrible calamities
coming to America and the world.
First of all, worldwide recession caused by economic
confusion.
I saw in my vision at most a
few more fat, flourishing years and then an
economic recession that's going to affect the lifestyle
of every wage earner in the world.
The world economists are going to be at
loss to explain what's happening.
It's going to start in Germany, spread to
Japan, and finally to the United States.
Large and trusted corporations are going to go
bankrupt.
Many churches are going to go into bankruptcy.
And some missionary projects are going to flounder.
And one of the clearest messages I've ever
received from God in my life is this.
Use the next few good years left to
prepare for financial crises.
Get your house in order because hard times
are coming.
Number two, I saw nature having labor pains.
Supernatural signs and changes that can't be explained
by men.
Worldwide disasters that we're witnessing right now I
see as labor pains in nature which are
going to become more and more frequent and
more intense the closer we get to the
birth of the kingdom of God.
I saw major earthquakes coming to the United
States.
I saw worldwide famine, especially in China, India,
and Russia.
I saw the world's food supplies completely dwindled
and millions starving.
I saw coming a new kind of cosmic
storm appearing as a raging fire in the
sky leaving a kind of vapor trail.
Tornadoes, hailstorms, floods, and hurricanes are going to
pound the earth with such intensity and violence
that all of mankind is going to have
to admit the world is under supernatural siege.
Number three, a flood of filth and a
baptism of dirt in America.
I see the prophecy of Nahum coming to
pass in the very near future.
God said, I'll pour abominable filth upon you.
This means triple X-rated movies on cable
television after midnight.
This means R-rated movies within the next
few years on network television.
This means our newsstands are going to be
flooded with such filth that Playboy magazine will
look like a puritanical piece of trash.
It means sex education classes in school will
be using animated cartoons and filmed, dramatized sexual
intercourse.
And just when it appears there's going to
be a successful campaign against smut, just when
the Supreme Court seems to be ruling against
pornographers, when it appears the nation's returning to
old-fashioned moral standards, suddenly the floodgates are
going to swing open and Satan is going
to vomit filth out of hell and it'll
be just as it was in the days
of Lot and will vex the souls of
God's most devout saints.
Number four, rebellion in the home.
I see the new number one youth problem
in America and the world as hatred toward
parents.
Now, I'm reading this tonight for fear I'd
change a single word of what I've seen
and had to write down as the Holy
Spirit laid on my heart.
A man's worst enemies will be they of
his own household, the Bible says.
Children are going to turn against their parents
with a passion.
Parents are going to be betrayed and will
die a thousand deaths at the hands of
children who've learned to despise their hypocrisy.
There are going to be millions of stay
-at-home runaways who need not go away
anymore and run away from home because their
parents are going to give them what they
choose and what they want as long as
they stay home.
Kids will not even be expected to communicate
with their parents.
They're going to live under the same roof
but will be like enemies at war living
under a truce.
This is the clearest vision I've ever seen
in my life.
It's going to be bigger than drug addiction,
bigger than sex abuse, or alcohol, or any
other youth problem.
And in a recent survey we did, 5
,000 kids in 12 major cities, over 45
% said, I hate my parents already.
Number five, a persecution madness against truly spirit
-filled Christians who love Jesus Christ.
Now, I don't have time tonight to go
into all the details of these four calamities
I've just mentioned.
However, the Holy Spirit has prompted me tonight
to go into detail and share with you
what I see coming in the way of
persecution.
Now, it was Jesus Himself who told us
to tarry for a penny cost.
Jesus Himself told us the Holy Ghost would
fall upon us.
Jesus Himself promised us power from on high.
But it was also Jesus Christ Himself who
predicted persecution was coming for all true spirit
-baptized believers.
Jesus predicted it.
John 15, 19, Jesus said, If you were
of the world, the world would love His
own.
But because you are not of this world,
but I have chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world will hate you.
Remember the word that I said to you,
The servant is not greater than his Lord.
If they have persecuted Me, they will also
persecute you.
If they have kept My saying, they will
keep yours also.
Here is another one.
The brother shall deliver up the brother to
death.
The father of the child.
Children will rise up against their parents and
cause them to be put to death.
He shall be hated of all men for
My name's sake.
But he that endureth to the end shall
be saved.
But when they persecute you in this city,
run to another.
Because I tell you, you will not have
gone over the cities of Israel till the
Son of Man become.
The disciple is not above his master, nor
the servant above his Lord.
It is enough for the disciple that he
bears his master.
Now the purpose of this coming persecution that
I see in the spirit will be to
separate and scatter the true believers from the
false.
Time is running out, and the gospel still
has to be preached to all nations before
Jesus comes.
Now the Holy Ghost has been poured out
upon thousands.
But just as in the early Pentecostal outpouring,
disciples still sit around singing and rejoicing and
sharing only with each other.
Among us are still those who talk in
tongues and still live like the devil.
But He is going to lay the axe
to the root.
He is going to separate the wheat from
the chaff.
He is going to scatter His seed to
the far corners of the earth.
And God's Word will be fulfilled.
2 Timothy 3.12 All that will live
godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
You quote the Scripture, they shall be filled
with the Holy Ghost.
They shall speak with tongues.
Go all the way if you are going
to be a charismatic Christian.
Read it all.
Accept it.
All, all, all, A-double-L-L.
All that will live godly in Christ Jesus
shall suffer persecution.
Now let me share with you what the
Holy Spirit has revealed to me in vision
concerning this persecution.
Number one, it's going to come as a
persecution madness on the earth.
I see now persecution coming such as mankind
has never before witnessed.
This will be a persecution of true Jesus
believers.
And it's going to rise like a many
-headed monster out of the sea.
It will start slowly, subtly, coming at a
time when religious freedom appears to be at
a peak.
But it's going to spread to the United
States, Canada, the entire world and finally become
a kind of madness.
That madness is already upon us.
The Antichrist spirit is entering the hearts of
certain men in high places already.
Government in the judicial system.
And it's led to a spiritual wickedness in
high places.
And this spiritual wickedness in high places will
eventually and soon lead to an harassment not
only of officials, but those in churches, missionaries
and ministers.
There's already evidence of this harassment.
I see a time coming when nearly all
evangelical missionary projects, all religious radio and television
programming, all incorporated missionary societies are going to
be so closely monitored, questioned and badgered by
government agencies, they'll be cautious and worried about
moving or expanding in any direction.
Number two, I see rising a super-world
church.
I see the formation of a super-world
church council consisting of a union between liberal
ecumenical Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church, joining
politically, hand in hand, to create one of
the most powerful religious forces on earth.
And this union is going to start as
a cooperative charities program and it will end
in a political union.
This visible super-world church is going to
be spiritual in name only, freely using the
name of Jesus Christ, but will in fact
be antichrist and political in many of its
activities.
This powerful church union will be deeply involved
in social action, tremendous charity programs and ministries
of compassion.
Its leaders will make statements about meeting human
needs.
They'll send out a call for social action,
political intervention and a greater voice in world
affairs.
There's going to be, fourthly, a sudden mysterious
chain of events.
Just when it appears the ecumenical movement is
nearly dead, a rather mysterious chain of events
will bring about the framework for this union.
Rome is going to insist upon and receive
concessions from the Protestant ecumenical leaders.
The Pope will be considered more of a
political rather than a spiritual leader of this
church union.
Protestant leaders of the ecumenical movement are going
to insist upon and receive concessions from Rome.
Protestants will not be asked to consider the
Holy Father as the infallible head of the
church.
They accept his political leadership without accepting his
role as Peter's successor.
I'm not suggesting that the Pope or any
of these church leaders involved in this super
-church will be engaging in anti-Christ activity.
The Bible talks about something about that line,
but I can't get into it now.
The Bible, as far as I'm concerned, though,
I see something that frightens me at the
very core of my soul.
I see an army of career people invading
the most influential post in this super-church.
They're going to be ungodly anti-Christ people
obsessed with the idea that this super-church
must become a big political power strong enough
to defeat anybody who opposes its actions.
And while those that are in leadership are
speaking about miracles and love and reconciliation, these
hirelings who work under them are going to
be harassing and persecuting every religious organization that
does not come under their leadership.
Fourthly, I see homosexuals and lesbians.
Welcome to the super-church union.
I see this super-world church in the
guise of understanding accepting homosexuals and lesbians into
its fellowship.
Homosexuals and lesbian love will be vindicated by
the leadership of this church union.
Homosexuals will not only be welcomed, but they'll
be encouraged to continue in their practices.
Homosexual and lesbian ministers will not only be
ordained and given places of authority, they'll be
heralded as a new breed of pioneer evangelists
introducing new concepts of love and evangelism.
I see in nearly every major city in
the United States and around the world homosexual
churches catering exclusively to the spiritual needs of
their own kind with full recognition from organized
religion.
Their Sunday school and church literature distributed to
their children will suggest to teenagers that homosexuality
is a normal and acceptable form of Christian
practice.
New dancing in the church.
New dancing in some of these member churches
will be excused as an artistic form of
worship.
Men are going to become worshippers of the
creature more than the creator.
And God will be forced to give these
kind of worshippers over to their sins.
And as a result, many will be given
over to reprobate minds creating a new form
of mental illness that will not respond to
any kind of treatment.
Now God will not let that go unanswered.
And although new dancing will not become widespread,
it's going to be accepted by many church
leaders in the future as a legitimate expression
of worship.
Next, occult practices within this church.
I believe this super-world church will condone
certain occult practices.
They'll set up study committees to defang the
devil and remake his image into one of
a non-entity, bland, someone not to be
feared.
Now, in some of the most respected, wealthy
churches in America, seances will replace prayer meetings,
and that's already happening.
More and more ministers are going to be
intrigued by the supernatural claims of the spiritualist
and Satanist groups.
And I see the day coming when certain
ministers who've never been too close to Jesus
will get very close to the devil.
Satan is going to appear as an angel
of light to deceive if he were possibly
the elected chosen of God.
Satan's own ministers will appear as these angels,
and they'll try to spread the message within
the church that the enemy, Satan, is not
to be feared.
The super-church will never officially accept the
occult practices outright, but chronology, palmistry, fortune-telling,
and horoscopes will be widely respected and accepted.
Now, listen closely.
Next, I see the rise of another super
-church, a supernatural, invisible church, a union of
deeply spiritual followers of Jesus Christ, bound together
through the Holy Spirit and mutual confidence in
Christ and his Word.
This supernatural church of two believers will become
a kind of underground church and will include
Catholics and Protestants of all denominations, young and
old, black and white, and people of all
nations.
While this visible, super-world church gains political
power, this invisible body of believers will grow
tremendously in spiritual power.
This power will come from persecution.
The persecution madness that's coming upon this earth
will drive these Christians closer together and closer
to Jesus Christ.
There will be less concern about denominational ties
and more concern and emphasis on the coming
of Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit will bring together and one
all people of all faiths and walks of
life.
And although this supernatural church already exists around
the world, in the days coming soon, it
will become politically almost invisible.
It will not speak out much on social
issues, but as persecution becomes more intense, this
body of two believers will become almost radical
in its evangelistic efforts, and this invisible church
will receive supernatural unction and Holy Ghost power
to preach the gospel to the four corners
of the earth.
Next, persecution for charismatic Catholics.
This makes me tremble, and I've fought with
the Lord for three weeks now, saying, I
can't say it.
The Lord said, you say it.
Charismatic Catholics who consider themselves members of the
invisible supernatural church of Jesus Christ face the
most grievous hour of persecution of all.
The Roman Catholic Church, I predict, in the
Spirit, is about to pull in the welcome
mat to all Catholics who speak with tongues
and who lean toward the Pentecostal teachings concerning
the Holy Spirit.
High-level political pressure will be placed on
priests at a local level to put the
fire out.
Watch for the Pope to take a negative
stand against the charismatic movement within the Catholic
Church.
The honeymoon is about over.
Catholic magazines will soon begin to speak out
against the movement within its ranks and call
for a purging.
It will begin as a very slow trend,
but will gather quick momentum until all Catholics
in this movement will eventually face real persecution
from within their own church.
The charismatic movement within the Catholic Church will
become so powerful and widespread it will appear
to some leaders as a threat to those
who don't understand what it means.
I see more than 500,000 involved in
the Catholic charismatic movement within a short time,
and those not in the movement will accuse
it of lacking social concern and being too
oblivious to the traditions of the Church.
They'll be accused of turning away from the
Virgin Mary and negating the authority of the
Pope, and let every charismatic Catholic who boasts
about a baptism of the Holy Ghost prepare
for persecution.
It's not going to happen overnight, but most
assuredly the day is coming when every single
Catholic who has experienced the Spirit's awakening will
have to understand where his loyalties are.
Some will be forced to return to tradition
and allow the experience to be frozen.
Many others, however, will soon discover that they
have more Christian love, fellowship, and spiritual rapport
with other Spirit-filled Protestants and Catholics who
have now centered their lives around the person
of Jesus Christ, the fullness of the Holy
Ghost, and he has soon returned.
Many will not believe me, but I see
the day when Catholics, Lutherans, and many others
of all denominations are going to have to
come out from among them these new Christians
will not call themselves Protestant or Catholic, but
simply renewed Christians.
Their fellowship will not be based on
the experience of speaking with tongues, but will
be centered on the Father and his Son,
Jesus Christ.
That is our fellowship.
Number nine, I see a persecution through a
media struggle.
There is at present tremendous freedom for preaching
the Gospel on radio and television.
Never has the door been more open to
minister Christ in the media.
Christians even own and operate their own radio
and TV stations.
They are at liberty to pray for the
sick, raise money, and promote the Gospel in
any way they see fit.
But watch out.
Persecution and harassment is already beginning.
There is a sound of change in the
air.
Christ-centered radio and TV programming will become
the target of satanic forces determined to force
every one of them off the airwaves.
Already there is a behind-the-scenes movement
to establish a kind of rating system for
all religious radio and TV programming.
And the liberal leaders of this super-church
council will soon attempt to establish a kind
of screening board and force themselves on the
FCC as the final authority on all paid
and sustaining religion on the media.
They want no program to be aired without
their approval.
The doors that are now wide open are
slowly but surely going to close.
Christian radio and TV stations should begin to
expect persecution and harassment.
Atheistic and anti-Christ forces are even now
preparing litigation against certain religious stations.
And I see Satan trying to bog down
these programs and stations in red tape, legal
proceedings, and tax problems.
And Satan will use every tactic at his
disposal to remove all Christ-centered programs from
the media.
And the message I have for all of
you who minister in the media is this,
from the Holy Spirit.
Work while it is yet day, for the
night cometh when no man can work.
And that's a message for the media.
Persecution from Hollywood.
Watch for Hollywood to step up its attack
against true religion with more expose-type films.
The film Marjo was the most brazen attempt
by the devil to put down and ridicule
all religion having to do with the blood
of Jesus Christ.
Never in American history was it done before.
Revivalist and evangelical ministers are going to be
stereotyped as Elmer Gantry's charlatans, cheap, money-mad
comedians.
More and more movie makers are going to
attempt to debunk our morals.
Gospel-preaching churches and ministers are going to
come under special attack while at the same
time the occult and witchcraft will be glorified
and sensationalized.
Next, persecution from television comedies.
TV comedy shows, the Holy Spirit has shown
me, will become bolder and bolder and will
poke fun at Christ and all true Christians.
Comedy writers are going to strike out blow
after blow designed to put down sacred traditions.
And eventually these shows will be punctuated with
four-letter words and anything will go on
television.
Television programmers will become absolutely blasphemous and millions
and millions of unbelievers will sit in front
of their TV sets laughing and mocking as
subjects once considered sacred are undermined and mocked
and ridiculed.
And last night on the Today show it
was brought home so vividly as Impressionist David
Fry maliciously mocked Billy Graham as a money
raiser and a money grabber.
Made my blood boil.
Marjo sat there knocking all Roberts and Billy
Graham and it came home to me so
hard.
David, this is just the beginning.
Talk shows everywhere, movies, theaters, debunking Christ and
His blood and glorifying the devil.
Next, persecution through taxation of churches.
And you listen to me.
There's coming an attempt to tax churches and
church-related organizations.
These atheistic forces with the help of the
Civil Liberties Union are going to push this
matter to the Supreme Court.
They're going to have a temporary setback but
it's not going to stop them from pressing
for congressional action.
And a legal setback in the courts will
not stop it.
In spite of court decisions, we are eventually
going to have taxation of our churches.
I see it coming as an insignificant, very
small kind of property tax but it's soon
going to burgeon into a monster-sized tax
that will push some independent churches and missionary
societies to the brink of bankruptcy.
The IRS, Internal Revenue Service, one day I
see becoming one of the most powerful weapons
against the Church of Jesus Christ.
It would then be possible for government agencies
to maintain a stranglehold on churches and government
agencies even now are delving into the private
books of almost every non-profit religious organization
in America, including ours right now.
These Christian schools and colleges and universities are
not going to escape the coming hour of
persecution and harassment.
First, there's going to be political harassment, red
tape, acute financial problems.
Federal and state aid is going to come
with more and more strings attached to it.
Secondly, an almost unexplainable student mood, apathy, unrest,
and disrespect for leadership.
Thirdly, you can expect the faculty to be
infiltrated by teachers and professors who have become
the unwitting tools in the hands of Satan
to undermine the foundations of faith and leadership.
Satan is going to attempt to wrest the
leadership of these schools and institutions out of
the hands of true men of God and
place them in the hands of compromising liberals
who will not attempt to take the movement
toward agnosticism.
The leadership of Christian educational institutions has better
prepared themselves for difficult times financially and spiritually.
Next, the Jesus revolution is going to go
sour.
The Jesus revolution will become a Jesus revulsion
movement.
Oh, hear me.
My friends, I have never in my life
ministered with more of the unction of the
Holy Spirit.
I have never felt more divinely called to
speak His word than I do here and
now.
And the Spirit of God upon me and
I prophesy now and hear it.
The Jesus revolution among young people will stagnate
and undisciplined followers are going to return to
their drugs, their free sex, and their old
ways of life.
Persecution is coming to separate the sheep from
the goats and only totally surrendered disciples will
be left standing when the fog clears.
The time is soon coming when it will
no longer be popular to be a Jesus
person.
The Jesus songs will not be on the
hit parade.
His name will no longer be a commercial
asset to Broadway or Hollywood.
The world that once used the name of
Jesus so promiscuously is going to turn on
Him and put Him down.
I see a replay of the first recorded
Jesus movement in history.
Remember when Jesus came riding into Jerusalem on
a donkey to the Haras and the Hosannas
and the praises of thousands that were caught
up in this Jesus movement?
Young people ripped branches from palm trees and
spread their jackets on the ground so a
little donkey could walk over.
They cried, Jesus, Jesus, Hosanna, our King is
coming.
But that first Jesus movement soon went sour.
A very short time later that same Jesus
stood before that same angry crowd and now
they were screaming, crucify Him, away with Him.
The same crowd turned against Him.
The modern Jesus movement has had its crowds
and its excitement.
They sang the praises of Jesus and Jesus
was really in.
But look what's happening now.
The joy poppers are going back to drugs
and a Jesus revulsion movement is now springing
up as a result of the occult practices
of young people in our schools.
Young devil worshippers have started nucleus of hate
Christ clubs in our schools already.
Hate Christ clubs whose chief aim is to
harass Jesus people and refute the claims of
Jesus Christ.
All but friends, out of this Jesus movement
is coming a hard core of Jesus people
who've completely given over their old ways of
life.
They've forsaken their old habits and they've committed
their lives to service to Jesus Christ.
And my message to you Jesus people today
is loud and clear.
Get ready to be persecuted.
Prepare to face these hate Christ clubs in
your schools.
In many places Christian young people who take
an open stand for Christ will be verbally
stoned by those their own age.
This revulsion movement against Christ is going to
be personally directed by the devil himself and
carried out by those who are committed to
his worship.
Jesus people are going to be not only
considered freaks, they're going to be called all
manner of names, they're going to be spat
upon in the corridors of high schools and
college campuses and the day will come when
Bibles will be plucked from their arms and
ripped apart by a laughing crowd of mockers.
The harassment is going to eventually become so
violent and widespread that Christian young people will
either harden themselves like steel and stand up
and witness against it or crumble before it
and deny their faith.
And this is what persecution is all about.
I see coming also a spiritual awakening behind
the iron and bamboo curtains.
While the free nations are experiencing this wave
of persecution, the iron and bamboo curtain countries
will experience a short period of spiritual awakening.
Those who have lived under religious, terrible religious
persecution are going to enjoy a limited time
of freedom.
God's Holy Spirit is going to split the
iron and bamboo curtains and he's going to
seek out and find hungry hearts in Russia
and China and Eastern Europe, no doubt about
it.
God's promised to pour out his Spirit upon
all flesh.
He did not exclude these nations.
God is bringing to pass a temporary truce
between the East and the West for the
express purpose of getting the Gospel into these
communist countries.
Japanese and Korean Christians will be used of
God to reach thousands in China.
The outpouring of the Holy Spirit in West
Germany is to reach through to East Germany.
The outpouring that's taking place in Finland now
is destined to spread through Northern Russia.
A tremendous move of the Holy Spirit.
Ironically, while the doors are beginning to close
on this side of the curtain, the doors
will open on the other.
And after a short period of freedom and
spiritual awakening, the doors will suddenly close and
those nations cast into horrible persecution.
Finally, one of the most important of all,
and this comes down close to every pastor
and every Christian in this building, I see
already started.
Now many of these things I've talked about
tonight are mountain peaks that I've seen.
I do believe that they will all be
fulfilled in this generation.
Not all at the same time.
Some of these things beginning to happen even
now.
But one thing that is already upon us.
And I see it clearly.
I see a gossip war.
I know now that Satan has declared war
on every true minister of Jesus Christ.
He's going to leave no stone unturned in
his attempt to discredit and shipwreck every man
of God who's determined to stay true.
Those ministers and priests who refuse to cheat
on their wives, they refuse to indulge in
the freedom of the new morality, are going
to be the target of the most vicious,
malicious gossip of all time.
The devil is going to raise up gossip
mongers to harass and malign and lie against
you.
I believe that Billy Graham and other great
gospel ministers throughout the world are going to
face more and more ridicule, gossip, and misunderstanding
by the press and by liberal people in
the media.
Every motive is going to be questioned.
Every statement is going to be examined and
cross-examined.
They're going to be mocked and maligned by
comedians on television.
And ministers who once thought they had no
enemies in the world will one day wake
up to find out that someone's talking about
them.
They won't understand where it comes from.
Pastors of churches especially are going to face
the most malicious gossip of all.
There will be innuendos, lies, false statements that
will float around that come from the very
pits of hell.
It will be a supernatural demonstration of demonic
power.
There will not be a single true minister
of the gospel immune.
And the wives, hear me now, the wives
of those ministers who are married are also
going to come under the attack of malicious
gossip.
Legions of lying spirits have been turned loose
upon the world with the single purpose of
accusing Christians through gossip and slander to rob
them of their victory in faith and trust
in Jesus Christ.
This gossip war will not only be aimed
against ministers but against every true, spirit-filled
believer of Jesus Christ.
Even the teenagers are going to see what
it's like to face malicious gossip.
And now I come to my final word
from the Lord.
You have no idea.
You could not begin to know the battle
I've had to stand here and say what
I've said tonight.
I've had the enemy tell me, everybody will
call you a fanatic, why risk 15 years
of a certified ministry where people respect you
and stand out like a fool.
But friends, I can't stand here tonight honestly
and just tickle your ears.
The ends of the world have come upon
us.
And I've always been a positive preacher.
I've never preached much about judgment.
But my friends, you can't talk about the
coming of Jesus Christ until you open your
eyes and see that all that's happening around
us now, the Lord is saying, look up
when you see these things begin to happen
and rejoice because your redemption draws nigh.
And I bring you to my final word.
When I received this vision of calamities, it
so frightened me.
I was just so transfixed before God that
He kept me up night after night, again
last night in the middle of the night.
And I asked the Lord about all these
things.
How are we going to do all that
we're supposed to do when so many are
forsaken and people are going into hiding and
they're afraid the ship is sinking?
What do we do, Lord?
Do we abdicate?
Do we turn this whole world over to
the devil and just let him have his
way?
Do we pay off all our bills and
sald away a couple of reserves in the
bank?
Buy a little farm and escape and try
to ride out the storm hoping a better
day will come?
Do you just give up?
How can you look at all the tornadoes
and the weather forecasts and how can you
see all the calamities that every prophet of
God has predicted?
How can the Christian remain sane?
How can he keep his fortitude?
How can he be objective?
How can he be rational in an age
that's falling apart, Lord?
Where do we stand now?
And dear friend, you've got to hear what
the Holy Spirit said to me.
Just five little words that so powerfully awakened
in me a glorious new hope and faith
and I woke up shouting.
And those five little words that blazed in
my heart were these, God has everything under
control.
Hallelujah.
This is what I got.
All of nature is under control.
We hear of earthquakes, famines, pestilence, hailstorms, killer
heat waves, floods, drastic weather changes are breaking
all past records.
It looks like nature's out of control.
But God's word is clearly predicted it would
happen.
The wrath of God is to be outpoured
on this earth through an unleashed fury of
nature because God is warning mankind that judgment
is coming and these are labor pains and
the closer we get to the birth of
his kingdom, the more frequent and intensive we'll
get until the birth of the kingdom of
God.
And it was God who told Job that
he shut up the sea with doors.
The sea can't cross the door.
He set bars and doors to stay the
proud waves.
God said he took hold of the ends
of the earth that the wicked might be
shaken out of it, reserved the treasures of
hail and snow against the day of battle.
He divided the water courses for the overflow
of the waters.
That's the flood.
He set the domain of the earth and
the ordinances of heaven.
He sends forth lightnings and he statters the
wind upon the earth.
Who does it?
God does it, child of God.
In these days to come, the Holy Spirit
would say to you, don't fear the fury
of nature.
God is still king of the flood and
you look upon those floods and earthquakes and
hurricanes and you say to yourself, that's my
God talking.
He's calling, he's chastising and he's saying, get
ready.
Even the devil is under his control.
As with Job, God may permit him to
touch every material, physical thing around you, but
you hear it, Satan cannot possess you or
rob you of your faith in God.
The devil's power is limited and the Bible
said even a baby Christian can put him
to flight simply by resisting him through the
word and the blood.
The Bible said resist the devil and he
will flee from you.
Does that sound like defeat?
Does that suggest a victorious devil?
Never.
God has everything under control and we are
under his control, so we are not afraid
of the devil.
It is the fear of the Lord that's
the beginning of wisdom and God's message is
this, I have not given you the spirit
of fear, but of love and power and
a sound mind.
You and I and everything that touches us
is now under his control.
No matter how things look in this drunken
world, all things are still working together to
everyone who loves God, called according to his
purpose.
All right, let the dollar fail, let the
depression and recession come, let there be unemployment
and pollution and inflation and wars and rumors
of war.
Let the fabric of society disintegrate for the
true child of God, everything is under control,
it doesn't matter, nothing can harm you.
He said look up and rejoice and be
happy.
And in closing, the future is under his
control.
God has everything pre-programmed.
He knows the exact moment that Christ will
return, the final tribulation, the judgments, the battle
of Armageddon are all on his calendar and
he's blocking them off one at a time.
And the God who controls all of heaven
and earth says to us, Christians, spirit-filled,
the nations are as a drop of a
bucket and are counted as small dust in
my balance.
The nations of the world are just a
drop in a bucket.
All nations are as nothing before me, they
are less than nothing.
Don't worry about worldly powers, I've got it
all programmed.
God is still counting the hairs on our
heads, he's still counting the sparrows that fall,
he's still hearing petitions before they're asked, he's
still answering before being called, he's given abundantly
more now than we could ever ask or
think.
So saints of God, wake up, he's still
saving and healing and baptizing and he's getting
his house in order and to fear is
to blaspheme.
And now you can go over tonight and
go to sleep and say to your heart,
God has everything under control.
Hallelujah.
No clapping please.
Now I've finished my vision.
The Bible said the last days of your
young men shall see vision.
They'll prophesy.
And you've heard of vision.
Some of you read the first one in
my book.
And I really don't care what anybody thinks
of me tonight.
I'm fully convinced that what I've seen is
true.
But if even just a part of it
is true, then we're right there at that
last moment of time.
And some of you aren't ready for persecution.
You can't even run with a horse and
what are you going to do when the
flood comes?
You know what, it's going to be when
we stand before God, not so much that
there are so many sinners, just so many
strangers.
All down by a love of pleasure.
God's not against your campers, your surfboard, your
nice clothes.
But He is against you having all these
things and not enough time for Him.
You can sit and watch television.
Come here and clap your hands and sing
about the good things of God.
You can sit here and share a wonderful
time together.
The friends did better down on you soon.
The ends of the world are upon us.
This is the hour we've all preached about.
If you're truly Spirit-filled, if you're the
Spirit of Christ, that bears witness with you
right now.
What I'm saying strikes a chord in your
heart.
I look at some of you dear gray
-haired folks, some of you preachers here, white
hair.
You've been preaching this for years.
And I think it's the most exciting time
in the world to watch the last generation
unfold.
We are the last Christians.
And it's the most exciting thing to see
all that we've heard and read over the
centuries coming to pass right before our eyes.
And some of you are still sitting there
not knowing what's happening.
Friends, Jesus is coming.
Jesus is coming and He's getting His house
in order.
Hallelujah!
Now, no begging.
No pleading.
I really don't know what the Lord has
prepared for us at this moment, but I
do know I have felt led of the
Holy Spirit to have every young person, 21
and under, to stand right now quietly.
Please stand to your feet.
Please open these drapes.
Come on, young people.
Look me right in the eye.
I've got only one ministry and one gift,
and that's to young people.
The gift of faith to believe God to
touch your heart.
I told you that the number one youth
problem coming to America is hatred and bitterness
toward parents.
A man's enemies will be there of his
own house.
The children will betray their parents.
Some of you are able to sing and
shout and even talk in tongues, but you
don't clean your room, you hassle your parents,
and you have hatred and bitterness right now.
That makes you a phony.
You're one of those 95% Christians.
You've given 95% for Jesus, but you've
held back this 5% and you can't
even handle that.
And I don't believe you should get just
an emotional joy pop.
There comes a time when you can sing
and shout and praise the Lord.
But there comes a time when you've got
to see how apocalyptic this age is and
you say, I want to be ready for
persecution.
I want to be so in love with
Jesus that this persecution that's coming will only
drive me closer and closer to Him.
It'll rob you or it'll touch you.
Drive you closer to Him or further from
Him.
And I tell you, by golly, things had
better be right in your home.
Things had better be right between you and
your dad and mom.
If you stand here right now, having a
root of bitterness toward your dad and mom,
my Bible says that will spring up and
choke you.
And it is a shame that you would
be persecuting your parents.
And now we're talking of persecution.
You be guilty of persecuting your parents because
you say they don't understand you.
And this is the ministry the Lord's laid
on my heart lately.
Because with all of that talk about persecution
coming in our homes, the Lord has also
said He would send forth the Spirit of
Elijah.
He would also restore the hearts of the
children to their parents.
The parents of the children.
There'll be a coming together of those who
are sincerely asking and seeking.
Here's what I want you to do.
We're going to just a cappella with no
music.
We're going to sing that beautiful chorus, Oh,
How I Love Jesus.
And if we love Him, I want to
give you an invitation to step out of
this crowd.
Come right up on stage.
You say, David, this message touched me.
And I've been a phony.
I've been a 95 percenter.
There's been a root of bitterness in my
heart toward my dad and mom.
And I want it out tonight.
I want to be a 100 percent Christian.
And I want to be ready no matter
what the hour is like.
I want to face the coming of Jesus
with cuddly assurance in my heart.
I want you, while we're singing this, after
I pray, to just step out of the
crowd and come right up these steps and
stand behind me, facing me.
And I'm going to ask God for a
miracle tonight.
In this place, I'm going to ask God
to raise up firebrands and put something in
your heart so aflame and so bright no
demon or devil in hell can touch it.
Heavenly Father, we're sat under Your voice, Your
Word tonight.
Your Holy Spirit is calling and working and
moving.
Lord, there are dozens and dozens of young
people standing here right now.
They're not ready for that hour of persecution.
They've crumbled under it, Lord, because they've been
calling You afar off.
They've been phony, just 95 percenters, maybe 70
percent.
But there's been a percentage that's not been
yielded.
And, Lord, You said You wanted all or
nothing.
No more games.
No more phoniness.
Oh, God, an hour of decisions.
Not decisions, but disciples tonight.
Holy Spirit, call dozens of young people to
take this walk tonight and say, I step
out of this crowd to say, Jesus, here
I am consuming.
Take out the roots of bitterness and anger
and rebellion.
Set me on fire.
Sing with me.
Oh, how I love Jesus as we sing
it.
I expect to see more than 200 young
people from the balconies come down the steps
wherever you're at and just come and fill
up this front behind me.
And I want to join you in a
great moment of prayer and consecration to the
Lord as we sing it.
I expect to see young people coming.
No begging or pleading.
Just quietly.
Don't come until the Spirit calls you.
You feel that tug or pull?
Move out.