The 9/11 Countdown

Let's just wave our bibles around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad.

I wanna get into the Word with you today.

Let's say this together say Heavenly Father, I'm so glad to be here today.

I have a willing heart and an open spirit.

I'm teachable.

I don't know everything, and so today I will listen with the intent of bringing Bible truth into my spirit so that it might grow, that my faith will be fed, that I will be equal to the challenges that are before me in these last days and I am an overcomer.

By the blood of the Lamb and the Word of my testimony in Jesus' name, amen, you can be seated.

Let's turn in our bibles to 1 Corinthians, chapter 10.

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And also 2 Peter, chapter two.

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2 Peter, chapter two.

And let's get into the Word.

Today it's the Word of encouragement.

I tell you, I think we need encouragement.

I think you know this is not another message of the news.

We already know what the news is saying.

I try not to listen to it, even if it's people that I respect.

There's, you know, oan and Newsmax and Victory Channel.

I mean, I'd listen to the news from them.

I know it's true, I know they're not making it up, but I don't like to listen to the news at all.

I mean, I just don't.

I just read the headlines and then I get into the Word amen.

But we do need to know what's going on.

Second Peter, chapter two.

Let's start with 1 Corinthians, first Hallelujah, and we'll start reading with verse five.

Paul is talking about the children of Israel, for with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Think about that statement.

This is after God delivered them with a mighty hand out of Egypt, brought them through the Red Sea, which the verses just above that talk about, and yet they got out in the wilderness and they were overthrown.

And then it tells you why.

Now these things were for our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Neither be idolaters, as were some of them.

As it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, rose up to play.

Neither let us, I said, notice what he's saying to the born again Christians.

He's saying this to the church.

He's saying this to the blood wash, blood bought, born again, spirit filled Christians.

Let us not do like Israel did.

Five sins that they committed were halfway through.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed and fell in one day 23,000.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted and were destroyed, of serpents.

Neither murmurgy.

Notice.

Murmuring is in there with the fornication and lust and idolatry.

That's why we don't have a complaint department.

Neither murmurgy, as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer.

Now, all these things happened to them for examples or for types.

Old Testament is our types and shadows, new Testament is substance.

And yet he's writing this to people of the new.

All of these things happened to them for our example, and they're written for our admonition.

Upon whom the ends of the age are come.

What age is he talking about?

The church age.

And we are.

We're 2000 years closer than when this verse was written.

We are on a countdown, aren't we?

I mean, we live in the last days, I mean the last of the last days, and we need to pay attention to what you know Paul is talking about.

And so then let's turn over to 2 Peter, chapter two, and he's talking about the end days.

2 Peter is an end time book.

Chapter 2 Peter is an end time book.

So it says here in verse four for if God spared not the angels that sin, but cast them down to hell and deliver them in a church, and deliver them in a change of darkness to be reserved unto judgment, and he spared not the old world but saved no other person or preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly, what does that say?

Well, somebody got saved in the midst of judgment and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto all those that should live ungodly but deliver just lot.

See again, there's deliverance in the midst of judgment.

Deliver just lot.

Vexed with the conversation or manner of life of the wicked For that righteous man dwelling among them and seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.

You can kind of identify with that, can't you?

Right now, yes, and aren't you tempted to be vexed?

That's why I don't watch the news.

I don't want to be vexed.

I know what's going on, I just don't want to be reminded of it.

I don't want to see it.

I don't want to see these weirdos.

I don't want to hear Biden Blah, blah, blah.

He's the head of the new Taliban political party Used to be called Democrats, now they're called Taliban.

So he knows how to do this.

The verse nine the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of tests and trials and to preserve the unjust under the day of judgment to be punished.

So I wanted to share a message entitled the 9-11 countdown.

The 9-11 countdown.

You know we're in a countdown.

It's 20th anniversary.

20 years have happened and they call it an anniversary.

Really, I don't like to use the word.

I like to reserve anniversaries for happy occasions.

But everyone remembers where we were on that day.

If you're old enough some of you were not old enough, some of you are younger Glad to see that we were getting ready to travel across town Channel 14, and we were getting ready to travel across town Channel 14 and host the local Praise the Lord program on TBN Channel 14 local.

We were getting ready.

The phone rang.

It was Jay.

Dad turned on the television we're under attack.

And I turned on the TV in time to see the first tower fall.

Well, we had to get to the station.

We had three guests to interview hour and a half program, and so we started down the road.

I called the station manager and I just didn't request.

I informed her hey, we're going to have a prayer meeting.

Let the three guests know there's not going to be an interview.

We're going to be on our knees.

We're going to be repenting for our national sin.

We're going to be praying for God's mercy.

That's what I said.

I didn't know how far in the minority I was.

I didn't know at that time how far the church had drifted away from that whole idea that we need to repent.

But we did that.

On that, you know, I got to think about later.

I bet that was the first and only prayer meeting going on.

While the towers were falling, while the people were dying, we were praying, kind of.

You know, makes goosebumps get on you.

I mean, it's amazing.

Reminds me of a few years later.

God alerted me to have an all-night prayer meeting on a Wednesday night when we were in the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

I committed to it on the previous Thursday night, didn't have time to announce it, didn't have time to let anybody know.

So Thursday, didn't have time to tell Gladys or anything he said.

Tell them right now.

I said okay, it's not even my prayer meeting.

Gladys is prayer meeting.

Okay, all he goes.

Just spoke to me.

We're going to have an all-night prayer meeting next Wednesday night.

Everybody went what?

And we did?

We prayed.

We had about 60, 70 people prayed all night long.

Guess what happened?

We had invaded Iraq.

That night, while our boys were landing in Iraq, we were praying.

I'll tell you.

God knows how to use a church for the right purposes.

So millions came to church the next week, all across the country, wanting to know what was going on.

They were fearful, they were upset.

This was a huge national tragedy, a huge national slap in the face being invaded in our own territory, in the symbol of western civilization.

The symbol of capitalism, the symbol of American greatness is in rubble and the church had no answers.

We had some answers.

It's like we were in God's vest pocket.

We were locked up in the seventh day.

How many of you were there at that church that time?

See, it was about a handful.

About a handful were in the church that next Sunday when we had something to say.

In fact, we had a prayer meeting the next Wednesday night.

Yeah, wednesday night service, or Thursday night.

We had prayer right after it happened, but no call from Bush 43 for national prayer and fasting.

No call, no, we were warned that we all.

God is the father of all of us.

Well, I screamed at the television Boy.

He is not a theologian, that's for sure.

You can tell he's Methodist Weirdo.

No, the answer is no.

And so now, this is good news.

I'm not going to dwell on the negative.

I want to give you a history.

I want to give you a touch of what God has done to prepare us to live right now.

And he didn't just start last week.

He's been building this church up and giving me revelation as your pastor, because a pastor has to do what Lead, feed and guard, and if I'm not informed about what God is doing, I can't do a very good job.

Well, just look around you at the churches that have left their membership.

They've left their members.

A lot of you showed up here because you say to this I hear it all the time my church left me.

I didn't leave them.

They quit preaching the word.

They quit being on the right side of things.

I don't agree with what my pastor's saying.

I can't stay there.

Some people are still staying there because they feel like they have such an investment.

Get out now.

You can't.

You don't have any investment.

God is the one that has all the investment in you.

You don't want to invest anything?

Well, I paid all my time.

Well, you don't have ownership.

You gave that to God, anyway.

So the only warning we had is be nice to move.

Be nice to Muslims, yeah, be nice to them.

We've imported 123 million Muslims from terror countries since 9-11.

It's almost like Bozo, the three Stooges, heckel and Jekyll, and I don't know who all is in charge of our foreign policy, our immigration system.

It just seems like the recipe for disaster.

It seems like it's on purpose.

I don't think there's any other explanation.

That's why I want to give you this message to arm you so you won't be afraid, you won't be confused, that you'll be filled with faith, because God has selected you to live in these last days and there is a supernatural grace for you to tap into.

Well, how do you tap into it?

By faith.

You've got to know what the truth is.

So I'm going to share the Ramah word with you.

God gave me Ramahs over these 20 years.

I'm going to share with you a very few of them, and if you'll believe them even though you didn't hear them, I heard them If you'll believe them and accept them as truth, it will help you, it'll grow your faith, it'll keep you out of fear, it'll give you boldness Amen.

So be encouraged.

God has prepared us for this day.

Now you know, briefly, in 1999, my father in the faith, january 1999, john Osteen, went to heaven and I received my impartation upon his passing.

Won't go into the detail, but I just knew something had come into me and I searched for what it was, what it was for a spiritual endowment that I'd sown to for the years that I served.

I waited for his full blessing.

I wouldn't leave there till I had it.

I had and I got it, and we remained close even before his death.

But so I started searching and a couple of months later actually five weeks later, march the 1st 1999, had been out with a couple of preachers and their wives, gladys and I.

We stayed at some restaurant.

I hopped until I got home at three o'clock in the morning, but we were sharing.

You know, he wanted to know all about this visiting preacher and pastor that I'd known for a long time.

They wanted to know all about Brother Osteen, my perspective on Brother Osteen's passing and I had just returned from Winter Bible Seminar where I'd witnessed that Brother Hagan had received another three and turned into four more years of life and he laid hands on me and one of the very.

He didn't lay hands on hardly anybody that whole week, but he laid hands on Gladys and I.

It was amazing and I felt like to go there and get under his ministry because I didn't feel like he had much time.

Brother Osteen left.

He's about to leave and I was right.

But then God gave him more time.

He needed more time to do his job.

What was his job?

To wake up his churches, his Ramah churches, and a lot of them had drifted off in what I call Ramah.

They call them Word of Faith, baptist, no Holy Ghost, just the Word.

The Word, the Word, no Holy Ghost.

Well, we need both.

And so that he would bring a demonstration, you know he'd go walk down the aisle, big old man, he's heavy and he's old, and they had to hold him up because they're anointing to get on him.

His knees had to give away and they had to.

He had two men hold him up and he walked kind of shuffled down and this kind of hit people in the side of the head, thump people on the forehead, and the Ramah people would go like this, you know they'd run in place or they'd take off running.

They were the running group.

We're the ones that roll.

We would roll on the floor.

We were the drunken people.

We would get drunk in the spirit.

There's all kinds of manifestations when the Holy Ghost really comes upon you.

They're called physical manifestations and they're scriptural and they needed to be reeducated about that.

They'd gotten too dignified.

Well, we checked our dignity and I don't know if you know this, but you checked your dignity at the front door when you came in.

But anyway, so that early that morning March the first, it was spring, it was cold outside in the forties it was cold in my bedroom.

I didn't get in bed till three o'clock, wednesday night service, and I'm thinking I'm just going to sleep in today.

And six o'clock I'm barely, I just my eyes come awake and I'm thinking, oh, I'm so glad I'm in my warm bed.

And I hear this gruff, harsh, irritating voice get up and I thought what?

Get up.

And I said devil, get out of here.

I'm not getting up.

I've been out all night.

I've got to sleep.

I've got church tonight, I've got a, and the devil didn't pay any attention to me.

Get up.

A couple of more times and I just the thought came across my mind what if it's the Lord?

Don't look at me so innocent.

I know you don't know the difference many times, because he told me that was the case.

Anyway, just at the thought that it might be the Lord, I wasn't familiar with that voice, you know, and so it sounds like a drill instructor.

It sounded like you know, get up.

So I got up inside of my bed I said speak, lord, by serving here, you know, samuel, and nothing, nothing, nothing that I'm cold I had.

I got back in bed, pull the covers over my head to get warm and I said Lord, what is this all about?

I found that time I figured out it wasn't the devil.

I said Lord, what is this all about?

He said I want you to wake up the church.

He's still irritated as all, get out.

I want you to wake up the church.

They're, just like you, asleep in their beds with the covers pulled over their heads and when I speak to them they think it's the devil.

Ow, now, you know, the Lord will chasing you.

He didn't condemn me, he chastened me.

Well, I thought where did I miss it?

See, I didn't blame him.

I thought where have I missed it.

I thought I was awake.

You talk about somebody that had been outspoken on politics From the word go.

I mean I criticized Clinton.

I mean I said he did not repent at that.

How many of you were there that morning?

I mean some of you are still here.

They were there.

I mean I and some people left the church over there to Democrat to stay in my church.

If you're a Democrat, you're not going to last here.

That's the Taliban anyway.

So so so I started searching as to what I had missed.

You know, you got to start, got to wake up yourself.

Wake waking means you've missed something.

That's vital, and I was.

I was to not only get awake myself, and he did awaken me, and now I've got to go awaken others.

You know he, he woke me up, didn't he?

And I had to find out what time it is.

What time is it when you, when you wake up in the middle of the night, what do you want to do?

You want to know what time it is.

That's the first thing you do.

You look for the clock.

You look for if you wear a watch or if you've got.

You know, I don't know, anybody wears a watch to bed but maybe you do.

But you start looking for the time piece.

You start looking for what time is it when I wake up?

Oh, it's five, it's six, it's three, it's two, whatever time it is, and so God wanted me to find out what time it was in the prophetic time clock of the end times.

So this is just like I said, five weeks after my, my spiritual father went to heaven.

I'm very focused on, on the ministry that I have now has changed.

There's something that's been added to it, a spiritual endowment, and I start searching and then the next thing I know God is rebuking me, telling me to wake up and wake the church up, giving me an assignment that I have taken seriously now for these 22 years, and that's what we're doing right now.

That's what happens when you get an assignment like that you have to sell out, and no matter who likes you or doesn't, it hasn't been real popular.

I'll be honest with you.

Look at all the red chairs that people are not sitting in, and that's how popular.

It is Not very popular.

And from coming to a church with thousands of people, I mean, I mean I stood before thousands of people for eight years, you know and sometimes preaching there three times, and, and, and I always thought that my church would be a big church.

We're in Houston.

I have this endowment God gave me.

My father went to heaven before he did.

He said oh, john, don't build anything less than 3000 seats.

Well we, we did all we could do.

We built a building that'll see the thousand.

We've never filled it, never have.

So you know, the message that I'm preaching is not exactly a church quote message.

It's the kind of irritating message that people that want to stay asleep will leave and hit the snooze button.

And there ain't no snooze button on me because I'm not going to shut up.

So then the only other thing you can do is start throwing things at you.

Throw your shoe, throw your.

We're going to have fun this morning.

I know it's starting off kind of bleak, but it's not.

It's encouraging when it's all said and done.

Hang in there with me, don't quit on me yet.

So I started searching and I started listening to Billy Brim.

Of course, gladys had gone to all her autumn assemblies for years.

We were close to Billy, close to people that were close to Billy, and she had never been to my church, of course, because we had a small church.

But we kept up with her and she got on a message in 1999 where it was right after that that the Jewish sages.

She was real close.

She lived in the land for a number of years.

She learned Hebrew, went to Hebrew school, got the director of the Hebrew school saved.

I mean here's a fair save man.

I mean she hated Billy first.

That could stand Billy because she, you know Jews, they're just standoffish of Christians.

I mean they're suspicious that they're going to try to get them saved.

Well, she never did.

Witnessed to her and never did.

She just lived her life in front of her and she got attracted to Billy just because of her life and through a relationship.

That's pretty much how Jews get saved is relationships.

You're not going to have a crusade in Jerusalem, get any Jews to come.

Just doesn't happen that way.

You have a relationship anyway.

So the Hebrew is all a new.

Every word is a numerical, every letter in the Hebrew alphabet is numerical, so kind of like the Bible code.

Anybody know what the Bible code is.

So there was a book about, you know 20 years ago about the Bible code.

Well, very similar to that the Jewish sages were studying.

Some of these Jewish sages were Messianic.

Now They'd come to a saving knowledge of Christ, about an independent study of the Torah.

Christ is in every page of the Bible Old Testament, new Testament.

They were able to recognize Jesus.

God pulled the veil off of their eyes and they saw it, many of them.

And so they found out that and they said that the judgment of the nations has begun, 9-11, 1999.

Two years before, what judgment of the nations?

Well, the nations are in a partial judgment, I found out.

You know, america is in partial judgment.

Some of the things that are happening, we have let the devil in, we have let we have.

I like what Billy, how Billy puts it.

As a nation now, not the church In the resurrection.

We have shop holes in our Hoopa.

A Hoopa is a wedding canopy.

That's now Jews, when they get married, they have a Hoopa over where they get exchange their vows, you know, and they crush the wine glass under their feet and all that kind of thing, their tradition.

And but it comes from the covering of the children of Israel in the wilderness, where they had a covering to protect them from the harsh desert climates, both the cold at night, the heat in the day.

They had a pillar of fire by night, cloud by day.

But they had a Hoopa and it's like God has got a covering over this nation, one nation under God.

Our founding fathers knew that they tailored this nation after Israel and this nation has a covenant.

And because of our national sin, primarily of making Israel give up her land I mean including Trump, including all the presidents the last 20, 30 years we all have an idea of land for peace, a two state solution.

I've been to Israel.

I did some informal interviews.

I didn't find one person that had a problem with it, one Jew, not one Jew was a person of the book.

I mean, I'd talk to waiters.

I'd talk to people in the street.

I'd talk to shopkeepers.

I'd talk to them about peace.

They would do anything for peace, including give their land away.

Well, you can't do that.

God is not on that.

God's not on the side of those.

And he opened.

He just takes his hand of protection.

Or we could say it this way shoot a hole in our own Hoopa and that gives a place for bad stuff to happen.

So when you look at all the trouble that Pharaoh had, he's the one that violated God's word.

Here God is telling him let my people go.

He wouldn't, so he paid the price for it.

And so then in the desert, his own people violated their own covering and they paid the price for it.

Thousands of them died right there on the spot.

Are y'all with me now?

Why is that written in the Bible?

It's written for our warning.

We need to know something about judgment, and I didn't find any of my friends.

I didn't have anybody that knew anything about judgment.

I tried to find anybody that would say anything about it.

I couldn't find anything.

Brother Osteen never preached on it.

Brother Hagin, if he did, I never heard it.

And I never found anybody.

But Billy Brim.

She had a very revelation about judgment.

What is judgment?

It just means separation.

It means taking the chaff off of the wheat.

You can't just put the wheat and the chaff together and process them.

You're going to have a bad wheat.

You have to separate them, the wheat and the tares.

Another idea the tares are a plant that grows up identical to wheat.

It looks just like wheat, except it's not wheat.

What do you have to do?

You have to get rid of it.

Jesus said don't.

Don't get rid of it yet, wait till the end.

That's where we are right now?

Where is the chaff?

It's in the church.

I said it's in the church.

Some of you looking at me like what it's in the church?

So what's going on right now?

So I began to learn these things about the judgment.

So I'm still trying to think what is see?

I got to find out.

I wish I'd asked more questions.

Really, in retrospect I believe God would have met me quicker than me just stumbling along the road discovering where I needed to wake the church up.

But first I had to be awakened.

So I got awakened to judgment.

So I would talk to people about it and they'd look at me like blank stares.

And Billy, I mean couldn't preach on it.

All the time People wouldn't respond.

It's just like in the beginning of the Word of Faith movement, when Brother Hagin was preaching the Word of Faith, churches wouldn't listen, they didn't like it.

When Oral Roberts would say God is a good God, and one preacher, one pastor, said I wish you'd quit saying that You're giving the wrong impression of God.

What impression of God do you want me?

You mean God isn't good?

Well, you know what I mean.

No, no, I don't know what you mean.

All right, so do that.

I went away to pray in December of 2000.

We were in that Seventh Day Adventist Church.

Like I said, we're locked up in there.

Nobody knows we're there, just a handful of people.

If we had one visitor, it was a red letter day, and so how many of you started coming in the Seventh Day Adventist Church Numbers?

A handful of you.

Praise God, I'm so glad you found us.

Y'all were swimming.

They were like the salmon swimming against the river.

They're going up stream.

Anyway, they wouldn't let us put a sign up except Sunday.

We couldn't have a sign up on Saturday because that's when the Seventh Day was meeting.

I can understand it, but it was not conducive to church growth.

But anyway, I went away to pray about the.

My custom was, every year I'd go to Galveston, pray and fast and seek the Lord about the next year, so that I could have a word for what was the focal point of our corporate faith, to aim at something.

What is this God saying about the year ahead?

And so I got in 2000 for 2001,.

I got that it was a premier year, the first in a series of years.

And when I heard that I saw a vision 2001, 2002, dot, dot, dot.

Now I didn't see it as a countdown.

What is a countdown?

Well, you know, this is the city of countdown.

A countdown is you know the target and when that zero comes, that's when the space shuttle, or that's when the Apollo mission is launched.

T minus 15 seconds, and now 14, 13, go all the way down to one zero ignition lift off.

So you know where you're headed from the top of the countdown.

You know when it's 15 seconds or 25 seconds or 24 hours.

But in this thing it's a reverse countdown.

It goes on, dot, dot, dot.

We don't know what the end of this countdown is.

All we know is we're one step closer.

Well, that's true.

Anyway, we always know we're one step closer to the future.

So it doesn't really give you anything.

But I missed the fact that it was a countdown.

You can see why I did Didn't pray enough, I didn't ask enough question.

So he said a premiere year.

So I looked at word premiere it's you know.

Think about a Hollywood premiere, where they're gonna the first showing of the new movie and the stars arrive in the limos and the dresses and the tuxes and they get out on the red carpet and the paparazzi is there and every the fans are there and they're going, ushered into the theater and watch their movie.

It's the premiere and they have the spotlights out front.

Everybody knows big doings at the Rialto Theater in Referio, texas.

It's about the size of this middle section, anyway.

So that's what I was thinking.

You know, okay, god's gonna do some first time things.

You know, I had a whole message preach.

Now.

I was thinking the positive.

I was thinking about the positive.

I was thinking about God's gonna do great things the first time.

We've never seen these great things.

Oh, it's the first time event.

I didn't.

I wasn't thinking 9-11.

I wasn't thinking to when towers falling.

And so, june the first, I had a dream 2001, three months ahead of 9-11.

In the dream I was on a beautiful white sandy beach in a convertible, driving.

Wonderful day.

I mean, it wasn't Galveston, because there was no humidity, it was cool and there was light caribbean.

It looked like the caribbean, that type of water.

It couldn't be Galveston.

I mean, they had that water like that about once every millennium.

They do have blue water from time to time, but this was, you know, that caribbean water, beautiful.

And then I was out there, to my left, sand dunes to my right.

Oh, it's just a wonderful day in the dream I'm just not a care in this world.

I'm just so glad to be where I am.

The wind hit me in the face, you know, top down, and then I become aware of a movement out to my left in the water.

I look out and here's a tsunami.

And my carefree attitude turned into stark terror and I see that thing as barreling toward me and I'm looking for a way off the beach.

But I don't see one, and so I put the pedal to the metal.

I said there's gotta be a road up here somewhere.

I gotta take that road and outrun this thing somehow.

I don't know how we're gonna do it.

I wasn't thinking, I'm just reacting to what I saw.

So I got the pedal to the metal and getting faster and faster, finally, about from here to the lobby, I see this little road.

And by that time I'm looking and the tsunami is right upon me.

And just in the next scene I'm looking at the road again and now I'm under the shadow of this thing.

I mean, it's blocked out the sun, it's curled up over me and I'm thinking I am roadkill.

This is it, and all the tending emotions that go with it terror, fear, fear everything.

What's gonna happen.

And in the next instant in the dream, I'm on top of the wave, riding, this wave being thrust forward 50, 60, 70 feet off the ground, wind blowing in my face.

Now, see, I'm at right angles.

I was in a car, went down on the ground level.

Now I'm perpendicular, now I'm going to the right, over the sand dunes.

I'm just man.

I'm just.

I'm feeling so exhilarated, so powerful.

This thing is thrusting me forward.

Nothing can stop me.

Then I wake up and I feel like I'm getting out of a Maytag at spin cycle.

I mean, I don't know.

I don't know what to think, I don't know where to think fear, I don't know where to think, exhilaration.

I mean I'm just all discombobulated, breathless, sweating.

I get up out of my bed, go in my study, sit down and start writing down the dream and while it's fresh, trying to understand what it meant, and while I did, I thought about Billy Brim, and she used to.

She got acquainted with John G Lakes either daughter or granddaughter, I'm not sure which, I don't remember now, but she got a lot of his writings.

John G Lake was a powerful man of faith and he used to say this he said the same way that brings the glory, the glory brings destruction.

And you think about, if you think about harvest, what happens at harvest?

Well, you know, you've got to crush the wheat, roll over it, you know, and then you've got to pick it up with a wind wing fork and throw it up in the air, and wind hits it and blows the chaff away and the wheat falls down and you gather the wheat and you burn the chaff in the garner.

So the glory of harvest is accompanied by fire, depending on whether you're wheat or chaff.

If you're the fish Jesus talked about fish and the big net catches the fish.

And if you're the good fish, well then you get selected and kept.

But if you're the trash fish, you get thrown back overboard to be eaten by the birds, sea birds or whoever is following the boat.

Usually there's a bunch of sharks following the boat.

Are y'all with me now?

So the same way that brings the glory brings destruction, and so I'm still trying to put this together.

When 9-11 hits.

9-11 hits, I knew it was because of the sin of this nation.

Two major sins parting the land.

Joel, chapter three.

Joel, chapter three.

You know, all the nations of the world have come to the valley of Jehoshaphat, the valley of judgment, where I will plead with them there.

The word plead means indict, does not mean beg.

It means indict.

Bring a legal case against the nations for two reasons for parting my land and scattering my people.

Parting my land and scattering my people.

The judgment of the nations.

It started 9-11, 99.

Oslo Accords.

Anybody remember Clinton and all of his hijinks?

I go all the way back to Bush 41 and his hijinks.

He was just as bad.

All these people are globalists.

43 was a globalist, all right, so I'm thinking about these things.

So I went away a couple of weeks after 9-11, and listen, I wasn't being rebuked by the Lord, I was rebuking myself.

I felt like I'd missed God.

I felt like I'd let God down.

Why didn't I know this?

Why didn't I know it was coming?

Why didn't I see it?

Why didn't I have a word of warning?

Why wasn't I prophesying against this thing?

So I go and I'm sitting on the sea wall.

You know, god's so good, he's for you.

He might correct you, but he's never gonna condemn you.

And so I'm sitting on the sea wall, 15 foot above sea level, looking out at the gulf, and the Holy Ghost just starts talking to me.

He said many waves have hit this beach.

One, the turn of the 20th century, kills 7,000 people.

Now, this is, you know.

When he talked about waves, I immediately went to my dream, which I hadn't thought about, and he said there's coming the mother of all waves.

Y'all remember Saddam Hussein, the mother, you know that idea.

The mother of all waves is coming.

He said what the Holy Ghost said.

He said the mother of all waves is coming and he said many will be swept into the kingdom of God and many will perish.

And so I thought about that.

The same way that brings glory brings destruction.

Y'all following me.

I'm talking about Ramah words.

I'm talking about visitations that God has given me 20 something years ago, that if you will believe them and adopt them as you would, the Word of God, well, that's dangerous.

No, it's not.

It's all scriptural.

Every bit of it is scriptural.

It's just God is telling me personally right now we're living in those days, and so I realized that he had warned me in that tsunami dream.

There was nothing I could do to stop it.

There was nothing.

There's nothing to stop, because it is written it's gonna happen, what's gonna happen?

The final glory's gonna happen.

Let's get our eyes off the judgment side and let's get off on the harvest.

Let's think about the harvest that's gonna come.

There's gonna be a mighty harvest.

If there's no listen, if there's no waves, there won't be a harvest.

Let's not focus on the destruction.

Let's focus on the harvest.

Let's focus on the opportunity that every one of these waves is gonna give us.

Will everybody get saved?

No, I know you're thinking right now.

What about my family?

I finally thought about that woman's, that prophetess.

Jeannie Wilkerson is her name, and she was connected to Brother Hagin and he recognized her as a prophet and she said y'all don't worry about your unsaved loved ones.

God told me, assured me.

I went to him in prayer over and fasted and prayed over a number of days and he said you know, if I have to send angels to wrestle them in bed, if I have to send angels to wrestle them in bed, you don't worry about your loved ones.

He said don't you worry about your loved ones, don't you worry about them.

They might be against you.

They might be saying they're not gonna be around you these holidays because you haven't got enough shots in you and you haven't done this and haven't done that.

Listen, love them, release them, forgive them.

They're just fearful.

They're afraid they're listening to all this garbage that's coming out.

And really they've been set up, but you've been set up in a different way.

You're in this church and if you listen to what God has told me and believed it and adopted his rama for you, then you listen, you'll succeed.

He said many waves have hit this beach, but the mother of all waves is coming and millions will be swept into the kingdom of God and many will perish.

And he said you know, the harvest will be reaped by my lesser army, gideon's army.

You know it's not about how many people in a church building.

It's not about a mega church.

In fact, most of the mega churches have just gone soft.

I know that sounds harsh, but it's true.

In order to keep the crowd, they have to be careful what they say.

Well, I'm not careful what I say, except to be careful to flow in the Holy Ghost, to make sure the anointing is on me Right now.

I have not grieved the Spirit.

I feel such a power on the inside of me and the utterance is coming out of my mouth as knocking demons off of your shoulder, stuff that you've been tempted with.

You know you're listening to your children who are not informed, and you are and you feel guilty.

You feel like you're kind of the reason that the family's got.

Don't accept that.

That's not the reason.

The devil is the reason.

You're not the reason.

Don't ever apologize for the truth.

You live Never.

Just smile and love them and say, well, sweetheart, that's not the way you were raised.

And if you want to spend Thanksgiving somewhere else, well, I'll miss you, but I love you.

I'm not going to change my mind just because of it.

Smile is sprinkle.

You don't have to take the fire hose out.

Fire hose, fire hose doesn't do you much good.

Just when you get sprinkled, get the sprinkler out, start sprinkling.

Praise the Lord, hallelujah.

Are y'all getting anything out of this today?

So 9-11 is the first in a series of judgments.

Never saw anything like it.

They're still talking about it 20 years later.

National tragedy, the national breath being taken from a whole people and the church had nothing to say.

Well, you, pastor, you had something to say, yeah, but they weren't ready to hear it and God didn't allow me to be in a position to say it.

But 20 years later, god is opening doors like never before and this church is on the map and this footprint is has enlarged and these doors have opened and more and more people are hearing what we're saying and they're agreeing with it.

They're glad to hear it.

They're glad it lasts to hear somebody bold enough to say the things that they've been thinking a long time.

I believe God is going to mildly use this church in this ministry.

Amen, and you.

What an opportunity we have.

I said what an opportunity we have, so be encouraged.

Today it's the 9-11 countdown.

I mean, you know, god has just had a different way.

Ways are higher than I was.

His thoughts are greater than I was.

I mean, our little peanut brains.

We think countdown.

Well, it's going up.

How can that be a countdown?

Well, you know he's not going to reveal when he's coming, but just think about it.

9-11 was the first in a series.

My goodness, we're much closer now.

I said we're much closer, all right, so I've got three things I want to keep in mind with you today.

And so remember, you know, lot in 2 Peter, chapter 2, he was vexed with the filthy manner of life.

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That's what I see all the time.

Filthy, it's filthy what these people are doing in public now.

They used to be behind closed doors.

So the first point is don't be vexed, be victorious.

Just don't allow yourself to be vexed.

I mean, it's just useless.

It's useless.

Yes, the fear of the Lord is to hate evil and pride and arrogance in the evil way.

No question, you can hate it, but don't be vexed, don't let it get you down, don't let it occupy all of your thinking.

Don't let it occupy all of your See, the flesh is programmed negatively.

We're programmed to think negatively.

No, let's have our mind renewed to the truth so we can look at the right side of this thing.

It's all saying harvest is near, harvest is near, harvest is near.

Let it be that way.

Praise God, hebrews 13, verses five and six.

For he had said I shall never leave the, nor for safety, so that we may boldly say, not barely say that.

We may boldly say the Lord is my helper.

I'm not fear what mandates will do unto me, shot mandates, ultimatums by my boss.

I'm not fear what man can do unto me.

God is my helper.

Whoo glory to God.

Come on, let's lift our hands on that one.

Everybody say God is my helper, man, when he's your helper, I'm telling you right now people mess with you at their own risk.

See, don't ever look at it from a victim standpoint.

Just, you gotta stamp it out.

See, that's the old way of thinking.

We've been transformed by the renewing of our minds.

All right, number two be encouraged.

Number two there are increasing waves of glory.

Don't be overcome by the destruction.

Every wave is going to bring destruction.

Every We've got some more crises to live through, as I said, as we open the service.

The devil takes a long time.

It took him years to engineer 9-11.

I mean, he can't snap it.

He's got to have willing vessels that are willing to vaporize themselves in the front of an airplane.

That's not easy to get people to volunteer to die.

How do you do it?

Well, it takes years of lies.

It takes years of programming them.

Islam is an evil cult, evil.

We don't worship the same God.

I mean, just you knowing that is huge.

I'd say most Christians don't know it.

People that call themselves Christians, they're all.

They drink the Kool-Aid.

Don't drink the Kool-Aid.

That's idolatry.

There's only one God and he's the Father.

He's the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He's the Father of Abraham, isaac and Jacob.

That's who our God is.

He's the Creator God.

Allah is no Creator.

Allah is a demon.

I don't care.

Oh, you're spreading hate.

No, I'm spreading truth.

You're the haters Importing hate into our country, you know.

So let's not be vexed, amen, all right.

And let's realize we've got increasing waves of glory.

Don't be overcome by the destruction.

Get on the top, like I did in the dream.

I got on the top of that wave and it thrust me forward.

I'm reminded of that when Paul said a great door and a factual is open unto me and there are many adversaries.

I didn't say you wouldn't have a fight on your hands.

I didn't say that it would just be smooth sailing.

When I look back on these words that God gave me, these visions and these dreams, we've had a lot of shaking.

We've had a lot of tough days and tough nights, tough nights in this church.

To get to this place where we are now, we've had to overcome.

You can't imagine, I don't even want to talk about it, but we have overcome and he helped us overcome.

Are you with me now?

Praise God, so great doors and effectual are in front of us.

Everybody say I've got some great doors ahead of me and I'm going to go through every one of them that the Lord opens for me.

Amen.

Just know that when you get to the threshold, that's where the devil is waiting.

He's going to try to pick you off.

When you go through the door, he's going to be hiding behind the door, he's going to stick his foot out and get you tripped up in the door.

I mean, a lot of things happen through a narrow space, a little narrow place.

You know, sometimes we just get concentrated and walking through a little narrow spot and then you know that's when we can get tripped up.

Listen, listen, let's be before.

Warned is to be forearmed, amen.

And the third one, the last one, is Romans 13.

Let's look at that one.

This is so powerful.

God gave me this the other day and, frankly, I had to look it up, couldn't remember where it was.

Romans 13, 11.

And that, knowing the time, see, what did I say?

When you wake up, you got to know what time it is, how many of you fully awake now?

Oh, my goodness, there's about three quarters of you that aren't awake.

I mean, if you're asleep, if you're next to somebody sleeping, they'll bow them, would you and get them away.

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.

Amen, for now is our salvation, our final salvation.

What is that talking about?

Well, that's talking about the redemption of our bodies for one thing, the rapture, the resurrection of the dead.

Our final salvation, final judgment, final salvation is going to come before final judgment.

We're going to be out of here.

I still believe that Pre-tribulation rapture.

That's what I believe.

What if you're wrong?

Well then I'll know it's mid-tribulation rapture.

And what if you're still wrong?

Well, I'll tell you, in heaven, we'll both commiserate that we were both wrong.

We had to go through the tribulation.

I don't believe the church is going through the tribulation.

Nothing that I read tells me that, knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believe the night is far spent.

This is written 2000 years ago.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand.

Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light.

So the third one is don't wine shine, don't wine shine.

Be shining.

Amen, you've got light.

Don't hide your light under a basket or under a bed.

Get it out there on the candlestick.

Get your light shining.

We're standing up, we're speaking up and we're going up.

Come on, lift your hands and receive the Word of God today, the 9-11 countdown.

Be encouraged, that's the main thing I said be encouraged.