(February 1987) 08 - the House of Prayer — Ray Lowe

The Bible as the Church’s Constitution in a Chaotic Age

If you want to know how things are going to be, you need to throw your newspapers away and start reading your Bible. And it tells us that in the end time, that everything is going to spin out of control.

I mean, that's the best way I know to sum it up, is that everything will just spin out of control. The problems will get so big that the men trying to solve them will go into what the Bible calls a quandary.

That means they won't have an answer. Everything out of control. And that's talking about the world out there. That's talking about out there. But it also warns us. It doesn't tell us it will be that way.

But He warns us in the Word of God, as the Christian and as the church, let's not also let that spirit of that age of that everything out of control. Get a hold of us and we go out of control and spin out of control.

Amen? And so many times we don't heed the warning. And the very thing that the Bible warns us about, it comes on anyway. But we've come to an hour that God is setting things back in order. Now, this is my Magna Carta.

How many of you know what that word means? It means the great charter. It means the Constitution. This is my textbook. This is my curriculum. Amen? Because in it, in it, by the Holy Spirit making it alive, you're going to find all the answers to all the problems.

Amen? How many believe this is complete? How many believe this is inspired by the Holy Ghost? How many believe what is interpreted by the Holy Ghost, there's no contradictions in it? How many believe this is our Constitution tonight?

Our Magna Carta. Our Constitution, praise God. The great charter is what it is. And we're in a time that God, through the Holy Ghost and through the Word of God, the Scripture, the written Word, the living Word, the one that I just held up, this is not God.

This is a book of God. You know, there's a book and then the author of the book. This is only the book. But God wrote the book. And through the book and the author of the book, the Lord is on the move again, bringing the church back to order, praise God, that in this day when the world spins out of control, there'll be an institution standing on this earth that's not going to be out of control.

When the world screams there is no answer, there's going to be a church preaching there is an answer. When it appears in the world there's no way out, there's going to be a church standing on this earth saying there is a way out, praise God.

Amen. And I pray to God that you will do whatever God tells you to do, and whatever God speaks to you to do, and whatever you have to do, I pray God that you will submit to what God is doing in our time.

Malachi’s Refiner’s Fire and the Coming to the Temple

Now, I'm not going to preach from here tonight. I'm just going to read this scripture. You don't have to turn here. Malachi 3 and 1, Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me.

And the Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in. Behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. Then the question, But who may abide the day of his coming?

Okay, it says up here where he's coming to. He's coming to his temple. Then the Bible says, Who may abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appeareth? For he shall be like a refiner's fire, and like a fuller's soap.

He shall sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver. He shall purify the sons of Levi, purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Now, I want you to turn with me tonight to the gospel of John.

Jesus Cleanses the Temple as a House of Prayer

To the gospel of John. I believe the Lord's going to let me preach tonight. I feel the preacher up here with me. John chapter 2 and verse number 13. I certainly appreciate our friends from Griffin and Albany, Albany, and from different places around that you're here tonight.

I started to say Snailville Church of God. I wish the Stone Mountain Church of God was here. But since they're not, we're still going to have church. It doesn't depend on whether they're here or not. God's going to move with or without them.

John chapter 2 and verse 13, And the Jews passed over, was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and found in the temple. Now, here we are. Here's the fulfillment of Malachi. The Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to his temple.

Here he is. Jesus had found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changes of money sitting. When he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple. And the sheep and the oxen poured out the changes of money over through the tables and said unto them that sold doves, Take these things away.

Make not my Father's house and house of merchandise. Now, no other writer, no other writer mentions it and writes it like this of the four gospels. No other writer records this particular cleansing. There are others that record the cleansing of the temple.

They record the cleansing of the temple at the end of his ministry. John is the only writer that records this particular cleansing. John is the only writer that says it like this. Take these things hence.

Make not my Father's house and house of merchandise. The rest of them, the others, Matthew and Mark, here's the way they say it. They say, My house shall be called by all nations a house of prayer. Now, why did John use these terms that he used?

The Antichrist Spirit and the Perverting of God’s Order

Here's why he used it. You remember I preached one night on the two areas that God had given me great revelation on. Number one, there is a people coming on this earth, the church people, that's going to be a strong people.

I done seen them. They're coming, brother and sister. I don't know who all's going to be involved, but there's a strong church going to stand up in this day and the gates of hell will not prevail against that church.

And number two, he showed me, he has always, from the time I was saved, showed me and revealed to me not only the coming of the Antichrist, but the thing that the Antichrist would do. And that is, he will take the things of God and replace them.

Okay. John deals with the Antichrist and what he will do. He's the only man that uses the term Antichrist. The only one. And the reason he is, he's the only man that has the understanding because God gave it to Daniel and as he was beginning to write, close the book, seal it up, it'll stay sealed till the end of time, till the end.

God took John on the Isle of Patmos and unsealed that book and gave him the understanding of the things that he would not let Daniel write. Now, getting back to what I said, why did John use the term you have made my father's house a house of merchandise?

Now, here's why. The passage of Scripture, there is a changing of roles. The house of prayer and making a house of merchandise, you've changed the role of it. Amen? Okay. Now, of the book of Daniel, plainly, not in total detail, one of the characteristics, now, as I've said, not in total detail, character, excuse me, the character of the spirit of Antichrist, the God of his fathers.

Is that right? Now, the next thing that says, neither, not the word neither, are the desire of women. Now, I've tried to make that fit where tradition puts it. It won't fit if you go back to the Hebrew.

Now, the desire of all women, as we've been taught, Hebrew women, was that they would birth Messiah. But that is not what he's saying concerning the character of the Antichrist. The word desire is delight.

Simply says, he will have the character of a pervert. Now, no delight in women. Pervert, or the, or a Antichrist, a man coming that's going to be the Antichrist, as we have been taught in tradition. He will be a pervert.

I want to tell you something tonight, brother and sister, that's far more deadly and dangerous to the church, is the spirit of the Antichrist, which is a spirit of perversion, which has rose in the land, replaced the spirit of Christ, which has produced, which has changed the rules of everything and everybody, from the man to the church.

Everything has been perverted in the day of perversion. And this book tells me that the abomination, of all abominations, God hates perversion, perversion, perversion. When He made a seed, He said, let it bring forth its kind with the seed.

If it's corn, let it produce corn. If it's cotton, let it produce cotton. If it's a man, let it be a man. If it's a female, let it be a female. He hates perversion. Now these laws don't sow the field, but divest the seed.

Don't use an ass and an ox together with the first three, but try to explain the last one. That's strange. But see, if you just deal with the last one, you're missing everything. He's dealing with perversion.

Don't you change. Don't you fool. Don't you leave things like I made them. Amen? Amen. So the Spirit of Antichrist in a perverted sense has changed the rules of everything. And that's what He's done to the house of prayer.

Christ’s Submission to the Spirit and the Restoration of the Temple

Now God will set things in order. I preached, I talked about this one night, how that Jesus first, before He came to the temple, the Spirit drove Him, led Him into the wilderness, and there in the temptation, under and came to order.

Christ is God. That's what the Bible says. He went into that wilderness. That means controlled. Galatians tells us this. Under tutors and governors until the time appointed to the Father, the time had come.

He went down to the Jordan River where the preacher was preaching. It was the time of the Father. He presented Himself to John to be baptized of John. While He was being baptized of John, He, the Spirit of God, descended upon Him in the form of a dove.

Then became the Spirit. Mary and Joseph. A new government was taking Him over. It drove Him into the wilderness. Led Him into the wilderness. And there He showed the devil, I'll be subject to my Father.

I'll do nothing without my Father. I won't jump off of nothing. I won't make nothing. He could turn that stone into bread. Yeah, brother and sister. And later He did. Later He did. But He submitted Himself to the rulership of the Spirit that had fell upon Him.

Praise God. And forty days later, the Bible said, He returned in the power of the Spirit. Not in the flesh. Not in His own will. Not to do His own thing. But in the volume of the book, it was written of Him.

I've come to do Thy will, O God. Led by the Spirit. Governed by the Spirit. Controlled by the Spirit. Speaking nothing but what the Spirit was saying. Somebody say Him heard. Hallelujah. Headed somewhere.

He was first set in order by His head, which was God. But brother and sister, the next place He was to go, He was to go to the temple and set the house of prayer in order. That's right. He was to take the house of merchandise.

The role had been changed. Amen. It was to be called a house of prayer for all nations. But that leadership of that day, those priests and those scribes had changed that thing. Made it a house of merchandise.

He went in there. The second step He took after being unsubmissive to the Holy Father was to set that house of prayer back in order to make it, to throw out the merchandise, cleanse it, purge it from the merchandise, and put it back and call it a house of prayer that all nations could come to that place.

God had set it up in the midst of the nations to be a light to the nations. Oh, hallelujah! It was to be a salt to the nations, a guide to the nations, a discernment to the nations. It was to port the nations to a God that was real.

It was to say there's a God that's real. There's a God that's alive. And the house of prayer had been changed from a house of prayer to a house of merchandise. And Jesus came on the scene being led by the Holy Ghost to fix that thing and change the rule back and put it where it's supposed to be.

And He's doing it again right now. He's doing a set here in order. Isaiah 56. Boy, I feel like preaching tonight. Just pray that I can. Acts 3 chapters 57 and 58. Instructions. And do justice. For my salvation is near to come and my righteousness to be revealed.

Blessed is the man that doeth this and the Son of Man that layeth hold on it, that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth His hand from doing any evil. Neither let the son of the stranger that had joined himself to the Lord speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from His people.

Neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. But thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my Sabbath, choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant. Even unto them will I give in my house.

And even unto them will I give in my house. I want you to notice that word walls. And within my walls a place, a name, and a name better than of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

Also the sons of the stranger that joined themselves to the Lord to serve Him and to love the name of the Lord, to be of service to everyone that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant.

Even to them. Now, it's amazing what I've already said. He's saying even to the eunuch and even to the stranger, I'm going to take them and build something out of them. Even them will I bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer.

Their burnt offerings, there we go, house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar. For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the people. Now, Hebrew dictionary, I want you to look up that word house.

I want you to look up that word prayer. House of prayer. As it's used right here. The word house means the court. The word prayer means the two words that this Scripture started out with. Thus saith the Lord, keep you judgment and do justice.

It was the court of justice. It was the court of judgment. Hallelujah. It's the same term that we use for the Congress. House of Congress. We've got two houses or three houses in the government of the United States.

We've got the House of Congress, the House of the Senate, or maybe the House of Representatives. That's the same thing he's using right here. The court of justice or the court of judgment and of justice.

Blind Watchmen and the Church’s Loss of Discernment

Now, I want you to notice the next few verses of Scripture. Now, I want to tell you this. I didn't get this out of nobody's book. I got this out of Magna Carta by the great teacher, the Holy Ghost. Look at verse 9.

All you beasts in the field, come to devour. All you beasts in the forest. What's he saying in verse 9? He's saying the people are being devoured. His watchmen are blind. That's how I'm saying it. We are ignorant.

We are blind. We are dumb. They can't bark. Lying down. Loving to sleep or slumber. Oh, he don't quit. They're greedy dogs. Greedy dogs. They don't have enough. They are shepherds that cannot understand.

They don't look to their own way. They follow God's Spirit no more. No one for his own personal gain from his or from every quarter. Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine. We will fill ourselves with strong drink.

And tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant. My, what an indictment and a condemnation. Amen. He's talking about, still talking about, the house of prayer or the court of judgment and justice.

Now when it's out, when the role of it has been changed, and open prey to the beast of the field, they move in at their will and devour the land. All the problems in the world today can be laid at the doorsteps of the church.

Because the watchman won't bark. See, the watchman, and if he saw something coming, a beast out of the wild, to get a lamb, he was supposed to bark. Supposed to bark. But if he didn't bark, if he was asleep, if he was laying down on the job, up in merchandising, and game, and getting ahead, and being popular, he wouldn't bark.

He's to bark. And the beast came in and devoured. I want to ask you a question. Is this generation being devoured by the powers of darkness? Let me ask you another question. Is our homes being devoured by the powers of darkness?

Let me ask you a prayer or something. Especially you that your kids have done and got grown, or are getting grown. Is your children being devoured by the powers of darkness? And you that's got little ones, you ought to thank God every day.

Because I believe the Lord's going to do something by the time yours get on up. Amen. I pray that He will anyway. In this court, and out of this court, was to come to making things. It was where the temple was set up in the midst of the camp in the Old Testament.

Is that right? Always set up in the midst of the camp. And everybody gathered to it. Now, it's not just the temple that's important. It's what's in the temple that's important. Amen. In that temple was the priest.

There's only three offices really in the Old Testament. That's the prophet, the priest, and the king. The priest represented to God. The prophet represented God to man. And the king ruled under God over man.

In the temple was the priest. Is that right? It's in the Bible where a man was a prophet and a priest. But never a king and a priest. A priest would be the other one. Was a priest and a prophet. Moses was a priest and a prophet.

Ezekiel was a priest and a prophet. Now why do you see these two callings tied together? I'll tell you why. Because I just said it. The prophet held to the people. He represented God. He was a spokesman from God to the people.

Is that right? And the priest was the spokesman from the people to God. Those two ministries. Two offices. If they ever got messed up, everything. First of all, and if you notice all through the Old Testament, when this thing really got in a mess, God said the priest is messed up.

The prophet is messed up. Amen? Every office in there is messed up. And here's what began to happen. They began to get to the place they had no discernment. They called good evil and evil good. Let the wicked go free.

They punished. Read. Keep reading in these three chapters. I can't study them all. It comes to the place that a man walking in truth in that day was a prey. He was a hated ministry by the prophet and the priest.

Luke and Amos. Abominations. They become hunting like animals because of the profaning of that house. Amen? They profaned that house. They could not discern. They had no discernment. Would have messed up.

It would have been something. People of God. What did he say? Well, if that prophet is out of the people and didn't preach God is the Holy God, because the world should understand now out of the people was the place.

He did not reveal himself to everybody. He only revealed offices. And it depended on what they said about him. The people took what they said of God. If they changed the character of God. If they changed the nature of God.

He would go through the land. Souls would start changing. He always changes. He's a changer. I said he's a changer. Hallelujah. Three branches of government. We've got the legislative branch. We've got the judicial branch.

We've got the executive branch. Each one of those has got a role to play. Legislator legislates. The judicial interprets. And the executive carries it out. Did you know what's wrong with our country? We've changed those roles.

The Church as a Nation Within a Nation

Do you know who's running this country? The Supreme Court. They're not interpreting the Magna Carta. Magna Carta. The great Constitution that men have lived and died for. They're not as concerned. They have perverted their roles.

They're making laws. Punishment. Jesus changed it. You can't show me that nowhere. You can't interpret in your perverted interpretation. The wicked leave, let, and set to slay the innocent. If that ain't perversion, I don't know what it is.

The wicked goes free and the innocent go to the chambers. They die. Is that right? Is that true? Their judgment's messed up. Their justice is all messed up. That's why there's no justice in the land. I said there's no justice in the land.

And there's a song crying out. I believe Pat Moon wrote this song about the innocent crying out. The millions of babies that's dying in this country. Amen. The little old, hey, brother, sister, in the United States now.

Listen to me. Listen to me. In one state, I believe it's the state of Nevada, the state of Texas, just pass the law, you can abort a baby now one day, one day before its birth, and go to jail the next day if you let it be born.

You can be free if you kill it the day before its birth. But go to jail the next day if you stick a cigarette to it. But it's all because something has happened in the court of justice. Amen. There's no discernment.

I said there's no discernment. We got thieves and robbers. We got men that God has not ordained making the laws of the land. Amen. And they're not interpreting the Magna Carta. Never did the Constitution say no such shot like that.

Can you say amen? They've changed their roles. They are not in the judicial branch anymore. They're legislating. And they're the executors. They are the sole power. And the government of this land you say is it going to get any better?

It's going to get worse. But God's going to raise up a church. Hallelujah. With some true judgment in it. Can you say amen? The same things happen in the house of God. I discern myself. I've never seen a time in my life that the church as a whole cannot discern flesh from spirit.

Very few people know even the leaders. It's like Wilkerson's got a tape out talking about stinking flesh. He said most everything I see today is stinking flesh. But yet the folks don't know the difference.

They're calling it God. They're calling it God. Amen. You know what it's done? It's reversed the role of everything. The church. The church is not fulfilling its role. Rather we are doing most everything we do.

We never was called to do. We never was ordained to do. The church, the house of God, the house of prayer is set up in the community. Amen. Not to just feed and clothe the naked. No, a thousand times no.

We're not a social club. It was called a house of prayer. That means where a man can get the right decision and the right direction. Where he can come and meet God and find God. Hallelujah. Where that God and that man can come together and get to know one another.

Somebody say amen. The role has been changed. We've become a house of merchandisers. The role has been changed. But God is bringing a revolution again to put everything back in order. Can you say amen?

Headship, Gender Roles, and Spiritual Governance

I hope I can shift into something here. You pray for me. That house of prayer, spiritually speaking, represents the head. It represents the man as the head. See, the order of God's government is God, Christ, man, and woman.

Amen. The order of the church is God, Christ, the house of prayer, the nation, the church, the holy nation, and a nation. Now, if you reverse, if you reverse, if you start in the house of God, if you reverse the role there, everything else gets out of role.

That's why I preached the other night. The model of setting in order is the man first. The man Christ Jesus was set in order by His heavenly Father which was the Spirit of God. Then He come down. Amen?

But if the role gets out, it causes the role to change which in God's eyes is perversion. And everybody's out. Nobody's where they're supposed to be. Amen. Amen. Amen. And the order is Christ was subject to God.

The man is subject to Christ. And then the woman, and the man being the five-fold ministry, and then the body, the woman, is subject to the head. Are you saying the five-fold ministry is the head of the church?

I am and I ain't. But how many believe that God in the church has got a ministry that is a house of judgment and justice where decisions come out of? How many believe the five-fold ministry is the ministry that Jesus established on this earth?

And through that ministry, they became the discerners of God and got the two together. Amen? This is why we don't need psychologists and psychiatrists in the world because they don't know, they don't understand man.

You know why they don't understand man? They can't discern man. You go in there and lay down on their couch and they'll discern that your problems is caused by the environment you was raised in. But if you're a real psychologist and a spiritual psychiatrist, you'll discern that the man's problem is sin because he's a fallen creature and he needs to be reunited back with his Maker.

And if you get reunited back with his Maker and become the subject to him, then everything will begin to fall in place for him. Say amen. No matter where he was raised, if he was in an ivory tower. So when that ministry of judgment and justice and their discernment begin to bring out of that court of justice and judgment perverted words, they bring out a perverted Constitution and it perverts everything in the land.

It goes into the home. It goes into the schools. It gets into the children. Amen? Amen? See, when you change the role of the church, you're going to change the role in the family. It's going all the way into the family.

Say amen. Alright? God help me. God help me. I'm going to show you something here. I'm going to show you how perverted the ministry is. This whole thing is perverted. I mean the whole thing is perverted.

The role of the church is perverted. We ain't doing what God called us to do. We're not doing the other thing. We're not what we're supposed to be. We're supposed to be as a church. Number one, we're supposed to be feminine.

Church is always presented as a woman which is subject to Christ, the head. Well, man, we've got a ministry now that ain't subject to God. We're telling God what to do. We're sending angels everywhere, talking in tongues at random, controlling the Holy Ghost.

The one I got don't want to work like that. I said the one I got don't work like that. I can't control the Holy Ghost I got. I can't make Him talk just any time. All over this country, folks, it's being told you need to pray an hour every day in tongues.

What if the unction don't come but 15 minutes? And what do you do? Get the flesh to make another 45 minutes? That's a perverted gospel. That's a perversion of truth. Brother, the Holy Ghost that fell on Pentecost was not one you control.

The utterance came from heaven. The yielding of it came from out of you. But if you reverse those two, you ain't got the real. You don't got the one that the devil produced and brought forth. Amen? And it produces a perversion into things of God.

That's something. We're coming back to the time and God's going to start running us. Done. It's moved out of the woman stage. That's the mission. We present ourselves to God as the submissive woman. We present ourselves to God as the macho man.

Rebellious wives are out there. And them rebellious children. It starts down here. It starts in your own life. Now, man, I want to tell you something. Tell you something, man. God is going to set you in order or cripple you so bad that you're going to want cripple the rest of your life.

He's going to get you back where you're supposed to be. Where are you supposed to be? Christ is supposed to be your head. Say amen. And when Christ becomes your head, you won't give out perverted information.

You won't give out perverted decisions and laws in your home. You'll discern the way it's supposed to be. Amen. You'll have true discernment. And the word judgment is discernment. It's the ability to see.

It's the ability, amen, to be able to discern it and see it because Christ has become your head. He's your governor. He's your God. He's your Lord. He's your everything. You men are perverted spiritually.

Some of you may be that other way. Pray to God you ain't. Sister men, of course, the church messed up first. Out of the church, out of the ministry, out of the five-fold ministry came a perverted gospel.

Spiritual Maturity and Discernment over Numerical Growth

Did you know we teach today how many in the last few years we've been bombarding this thing called growth? We got the fastest growing churches. I got the fastest growing church. This is the fastest growing church.

Growth has come out of the pulpits. This is what growth is. It's how many nickels and noses you got. Growth is measured by, from the pulpits, that growth is measured by how many is there and how big your budget is.

But I won't tell you where growth is in God. You know how you denote real growth in God? It's your discernment. It's your discernment. Read the fifth chapter of the book of Hebrews. They that are ready for strong meat, them that's ready is them that are grown.

Amen? That has discerned, that can discern. They've exercised their senses to discern good from evil. That's the grown folks. Because I'll tell you what you can do. You take these big churches that's grown so big, you go in there and start trying to give them some meat, and you'll see they ain't there as far as you think they are.

In fact, the meat you'll give them and the gospel you preach to them, you know what they'll call it? They can't even discern whether it's the gospel or not. If you preach the Word of God, they'll call it the devil.

If you preach the flesh, they'll call it God. They don't know the difference. I said they don't know the difference. They don't know who God is. They don't know what He looks like. Because we presented one that ain't right.

It's not the real God. We've changed God. We've changed His laws. We've changed His Constitution. We've changed His government. We've perverted everything. But God's put it back in shape and back in order.

Hallelujah. That once again the church is going to become the house of prayer. And out of the house of prayer is going to come the right decisions, the right judgment. Amen. Hallelujah. And everything's coming to order.

The men in the church is coming to order. The deacons in the church is going to deacon. Quit trying to dictate to the preacher. The women are going to become women. And the men's going to be men. And the children's going to be children.

And the parish is going to be parish. And the church is going to be the church. And the government's going to be the government. And God's going to be God. Hallelujah. Because it's coming to order. If you don't deal with yourself first, I talked this other night, you've got to get yourself straight first.

Amen. You've got to get your role as a man back where it's supposed to be. How do you know what your role is? You need to go to the Magna Carta. Don't order a book from Spock. Get God's book. This right here set a man in place.

You go by this book, submit yourself to the Holy Ghost, this book will make a man out of you. Take that cystiness out of you. Your role will get straightened out. You'll become a man. Amen. How many men here would like to be a man?

Make a man out of you. Go back. See, you've got to go back to the Magna Carta or the Great Charter. And we've got all kinds of charters in the land. But here's my charter. Here's what I want to set my house in order by.

The Psalm 91 Refuge and a Message Born in Prayer

This book tells me, Lord, I was praying in 1973. In 1970, I had a vision facing the north of a massive or great destructive tornado that covered all the northern skies. I saw this tornado, this whirlwind coming in its path.

In its path, there was nothing standing. The foundations were crumbling. The homes were crumbling. The churches were crumbling. The schools were crumbling. Everything was crumbling. I looked and I saw the magnitude and the destructive power of this great storm that was coming.

I saw that nothing was going to stand. In fact, the Spirit of God spoke to me as I looked on this particular foundation. And the Spirit of God said to me, the foundation I thought was going to stand, the Lord said to me, it will not stand because the foundation is not substantial.

I said, Lord, in the time of your judgment, when you begin to move through this land, where can a man go? Where can a man go? He said to me, read Psalms 91, He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the Lord, He's my refuge and my fortress. And in God will I put my trust. I'll not be afraid of the air that flies today, the pestilence that comes in the midnight hour. I'll not be afraid of the plagues.

They'll not come. Now my house, my house has been fixed up. I've made my house within the walls of God's house of prayer. Everything's like it's supposed to be. Can you say amen? Brother, that's what He said.

I'm going to take the eunuch. I'm going to take the stranger. I'm going to restore my house of prayer. It's going to be walls. It's going to be a wall that everybody can come into and be safe. You listen to this in 1973.

I was still praying because it took me months to understand it. It took me months to know what I was saying when the Lord said to me, I said this storm will affect the schools. This storm will affect the homes.

This storm will affect the church. It's going to blow it away. It's going to blow it away. But oh, I was still praying three years later. In 1973, I could take you to the spot where I was standing. I screamed out to heaven.