There are two texts I'm going to say quickly, and one is Paul's letter to Timothy, to Timothy chapter three, you know how it begins, let me just read it quickly, to Timothy chapter three verse one, know this also that in when, the last days, do you remember Hebrews one and verse one, God who at sundry times in divers manners spake unto the fathers by the prophets hath in these, what, last days, what did Peter say on the day of Pentecost, in these last days, so this is to Timothy three one, know also in these last days, not these last days, you and I are in these last days, when he wrote that two thousand years ago, Peter says I'm in these last days, two thousand years ago, Hebrews one says these last days, that was two, we're two thousand years past the last days, we're not in the last days, we're in the end time, that's spoken of again by the Apostle John, well that's the word I believe for the church today, that he hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son, in these last days men to be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, obedient, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce bearers, false accusers, incontinent fears, oh but wait a minute, what did Mr. Bush tell us the other day, we ought to be dancing and happy, why, because the Berlin Wall has gone down, that was a political movement over, it was planned, I'm not concerned about the Berlin Wall, what about the Gulag Archipelago, there's maybe ten thousand insane people there, nobody says anything about that in Washington, but don't you realize what's happening, yes but you don't, for what, for this reason, that we were told last week we should be very happy, do you know why, because Mr. Gorbachev has decided that America should go in and fight, isn't that wonderful, he's only got 12 ,000 men there, we've got 250 ,000, he doesn't care how many are raped, oh he says go in America, what did somebody say the other day, we may be able to kick the old boy out of Iraq, and only lose what, 30 ,000 men, and 99, 95 of them will be Americans, yes there's Mr. Gorbachev for 25 years, he's wanted to get as near as he can to the Middle East, and there is right in the middle of the whole thing, he hasn't tried a shot, it's hardly cost him a dime, we had him and fed him and he's the biggest rogue and thief and liar and devil in the world, and he was seated in the White House with the President, right after the President had some homosexuals there for the first time in history, well in God's name where are we going, I've got a book here it's written by an American it's called Worldly Saints, do you sell this Jack, Worldly Saints, I don't know, I don't get any, do I get commission if I sell something, let me tell you what it says, here's one of the most astonishing things I've read, and I've read thousands, I have a library of about, I don't know, two or three thousand books, but you see in the 1700s if an Englishman came to America, which of course only wealthy men could do it, it took three, three months to come from England to America on a boat, took three months, they stayed six months, three months to go back was a year, now you can do that trip that took three months, you can do it in three hours, not on an American plane, English plane of course, well English and French Concorde in three hours, but when a man got back to England they would say to him, well Sir Thomas, come to the government this week and tell us what you found in the country you went to, so here's his report, this man returned to England from America, he told Parliament in his sermon, now listen carefully, I've lived in a country for seven years, not seven days, not seven weeks, not seven months, seven years, five, seven years, I've lived in that country seven years, I never saw one beggar, I never heard one curse word, I never saw one drunkard, why should there be beggars in England, beggars in England when there's so much work to do, then Richard Baxter of Kidderminster undertook a successful program and began to clothe the poor, but isn't that staggering, that in a country which you're sitting in right now, there wasn't one drunkard, there wasn't one man in rags, there wasn't one man cursed, every man was doing his job and the country was functioning properly, 70 years ago in England, I picked up a piece of paper and I read a little poem, I've only seen it once since and I'm not sure I can quote it properly, it went like this, O England, thou privileged nation, how truly thy children are blessed, thou hast since the first reformation had liberty, riches and rest, such blessings are not of thy making, it is God who has given thee all, but if divine laws thou art breaking, like Babylon too thou shall fall, thine armies and navies will fail thee, if thus the Lord God thou forsake, political schemes won't avail thee, if sacred commandments thou break, for God has his eyes on this nation, O England, to thee will be sent the doom of thy just condemnation, accept, I accept, thou repent, that was written right before World War One, I remember World War One breaking out on the 4th of August 1914, I remember the army going up and down the streets before my cousin registered to join the army, he came back in a red jacket, flaming red jacket and blue slacks with a big red stripe at the side, he went out six feet one in height, athletic, came back crippled with a body all broken and died not long after as a prize of war, now we're piling up armaments, isn't it amazing, did you notice what they said recently, the cure for AIDS, do you know what it is, open more hospitals, that's like saying the cure for death is build more cemeteries, isn't it, aren't we marvelous, did not happen in Texas this year, you Texans, there was a fever amongst the chickens and there was heat so hot that the chickens couldn't even live, so they were dying in tens of thousands and so what did they do, they had a government investigation and they sent the geniuses down, you know the PhDs and all the other Ds, DDs, dumb Ds and all them Ds, so they came in to one of the greatest farms in the country and there were chickens by the thousand laying down gasping and they sent a report which the government graciously published to help us to educate us, it said the chickens that are gasping have a better chance of survival than the ones that are dead, now you couldn't have thought of that in 10 years could you, of course you couldn't, you don't have a PhD, PhD means pretty helpless and dumb, but anyhow it's amazing, now what's the other text, let me get to it quickly, it's in the gospel recorded by Luke and chapter 17, let me begin at verse 20, and when he was demanding the pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them the kingdom of God cometh not by observation, neither say lo here or lo there, for behold the kingdom of God is with you, and he said unto the disciples the days will come when you should desire to see the days of one of the son of man, okay let's skip to verse 25, the first he must suffer many things be rejected of this generation, that was that generation, now verse 26 and as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the son of man, have you noticed recently they've been pushing two things a book, uh what's it called now, looking back into the future, and the film coming out now, looking uh looking back into the future, that's exactly what Jesus does here, he's going to talk to the future, but first of all he goes back as it was in the days of Noah, so what, but so shall it be in the days of the son of man, they did eat, they drank, they married wives, or as one interpretation is they exchanged wives, they were given their marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all, likewise as it was in the days of Lot, they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded, the same day that Lot went out of the sun and it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all, now what did Noah do, ask any child what Noah did, he'll tell you, he built an ark, that's not what he's remembered for actually, in second Peter it says Noah was a preacher of righteousness, now he built an ark, remember he wasn't, he didn't build a canoe, he didn't build a fishing boat, he didn't build a boat just to take his family, in fact it was exclusively to his family, it was some boat, it was 450 feet long, the deck was 75 feet wide, and the boat was 45 feet high, it had three stories, and for 120 years, that doesn't sound much does it, or does it, for 120 years he was what, he was building a testimony to the faithfulness of God, for 120 years, remember he didn't go down the road to Sears or somewhere and buy pre -cut wood and nails, he had to cut the trees, season the wood, stack it on one side, everybody, what are you going to do, I'm going to build a, build a what, an ark, what do you mean build an ark, have you noticed it said they'd never seen rain, the earth was watered with dew every morning, and you say there's going to be holes in the sky and holes in the ground and water's going to come up and come, that's nuts, you know we had a preacher, something like you, a while ago, oh you did, yes, his name, oh he's a lovely old man, he had a beard and of course full of wisdom like all people are, and thank you, and he just went down the street yelling, the Lord will come with 10 ,000 of his saints, they'd never seen a bible, they'd never seen an altar, they'd never seen a priest, and here's a man bawling his head off, the Lord will come, you see in the old testament, a prophet was called a seer, s -e -e -r, seer, he could see what other men could not see, we've got lots of prophets in the country today, no sirree, I don't agree with you, do you know the condition of America today would drive prophets up the wall, if we'd prophets, do you know what they'd be doing, they'd be walking down the street with sackcloth and bare feet, they'd be hollering against the sin of the generation, but nobody does it, prophets now get little rooms and they tell you to come to their hotel and sit around, they'll give you some prophet that they have, forget it, all they want to do is get you on the mailing list, I would to God we had some prophets, again I say the condition of America today, how many million alcoholics do we have, 10 million, how many girls do we have at this moment with babies in their belly, they're only kids themselves, you notice the other day or two weeks ago, it said now amongst kids eight to nine years of age, they have syphilis and gonorrhea, you know since 1973 in America alone, we put to death 25 million babies, I don't know what they tell people at these clinics, what you should tell this girl, listen you got rid of a baby, you'll see that baby face to face at the judgment seat, you'll hear the cry when you tore it out of the mother's womb, you'll hear it in eternity for a billion years, we pat the kids on the, oh it's not much, you just had a baby, then she goes out and has another, the guy that gave her the baby doesn't get a hoot, he goes and gets some other pregnant, but you see to a full stop one day, maybe the greatest blunder that our generation has made is that we left Jesus Christ at the crossroads, two thousand years ago, no sirree, he's at the end of the road, he's waiting for every man, he's waiting for Prince Charles, I had a man sitting at our table the other day that talks with Prince Charles, lovely guy he says, well brother he's going to the judgment seat, what do you think that this guy, I'll never think of his name again, so damn insane, thank you, do you think he ever dreamed he's going to stand at the judgment seat, do you think that um, what do you call that playboy in congress now, his brother was president, oh Kennedy, do you think Kennedy ever thought he's going to meet that girl little, what was the name, a chappaquiddick, that he's going to meet at the judgment seat, surely she didn't drown, because there was no, there's no water in her lungs, there's a baby in her belly or whoever put it there, he's going to meet God at the judgment day, you know if the bible said all the Catholics are going to be judged by the pope, they might get away with it, if it said all the Mohammedans are going to be judged by Mohammed, they get away with it, if all the Buddhists were judged by Buddha, they get away with it, if all the other guys were judged by their leaders, they get away with it, but listen the pope's going to have to stand at the feet of Jesus Christ, Buddha's going to stand there, Confucius is going to stand there, and Jimmy Swigert's going to stand there too, and all these other rascals, not that Swigert's necessarily a rascal, he's just a bit crazy, isn't it amazing that when a man has 20 years of ministry, to build the greatest ministry in the world, that for a few minutes of pleasure he gets his name in history, as number one failure, there's his building with his name on top, God in heaven, now does he walk down the street, I'd never show my face again, I'd bury myself in the dust, and repent, so that a skin fell off my body if need be, what do you think that little guy's doing now, that used to smoke so much on PTL, he's in jail this morning, do you think he's happy he used to have two Rolls Royces, you talk about sin being deceitful, the man that commits sin never thinks about the end of the line, he's going to stand one day at the judgment seat of Christ, but notice they were married and given in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark, now look at him again, what do you think happened, he had a wife, he had six children, he comes in one day, they sit down to a meal, and his children says, daddy I just came up through the square there, there were some men drinking and talking, and they said, hey you know that kid, that's one of Noah's kids, they were saying, daddy you're crazy, that one man says, I've listened to that man 50 years ago, another man says, my grandfather used to listen to him, and what's happening, why did he hang on, America isn't going to get out of this mess, by any manipulation of Mr. Bush, or anybody else, only one thing will save us, that's a holy ghost revival, you're not going to turn all these rotten marriages around, and mismarriages, and corruption, and jails, and all the other things, by any legislator, only a holy ghost revival will do it, God's going to have to make new men and new women out of the thing, it's a very dark day in which we're living, do you know why, how many have read the book, this present darkness, somebody already did, did you read the second one after that, I didn't read either of them because they're fiction, do you think it's something funny, is it fiction to talk about Sodom and Gomorrah, Sodom is England, Gomorrah is America, okay come on, what did Jesus say, we'll be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in that day than for you, well what about America, if I were to ask you right now, take your pencil and paper and write on a piece of paper, how many bible schools are there in America and Canada, we're on the same continent, how many bible schools are there, and then how many seminaries are there, what would you put, well I'll tell you, because I checked with Billy Graham's office, they can't give me the exact number, there are 450 bible schools in America and Canada, and there are 250 seminaries, that's 700, but dear God, if they turned out one man on fire for God a year, that would be 700, but they don't, we turn them out year after year after year after year with a diploma, stretch the heads, the hearts are shrunken, with depending more on education than revelation, and only God the Holy Ghost can take hold of men like he did that young policeman, he has no theological background, but he has a love for souls, he said I came down, he came all the way from Canada to pray for a half a day, and we prayed and he wept most of the time, before that two men came down with beards, Hamish men or Amish men, whatever you want to call them, you know they were full of faith and love, and they prayed and wept and said, Mr. Angell there's nothing happening in the country, no there isn't, we've got 500 evangelists in America, we haven't one revivalist, I talked with a young man in my office recently, I talked with two, one from Brazil and one from Paraguay, and each of them been standing in a meeting, I don't, how many of you have heard the man called Anacondia, do you know Anacondia, Anacondia is a, what's he called, yeah but what, I think he's Argentine anyhow, he had a firm four million dollar business making nuts and bolts, and the Lord told him to drop it, you know all they do in Buenos Aires or somewhere, they get to the radio and say listen Anacondia will be 10 miles out of town tonight, and you're all welcome to go, it's a beautiful air -conditioned building with marvelous modern lights, a 10 -piece band, everything, forget it, you know what it is, it's a field, there's nowhere to sit, you stand, you listen in the sticky heat of South America with 20 to 30 ,000 people a night, it doesn't have to whimper at the end, there's room at the cross for you, forget it, there's no room at the cross, get on the cross, you're trying to crouch at the cross and think it will do something, and so you're not changed, we're not changed by going to the cross, we're changed when we get on the cross, so they go to Anacondia's meeting, what happens, the Holy Ghost comes, he doesn't say let's have a healing line here and ask some questions, nobody goes to his meeting and comes back saying it's not faith healing, it's fake healing, they come back delivered, they come home pushing their wheelchairs, they come home carrying their spinal jackets, they come home with their leg irons in their hands, he's only a young man, but you know, as I've said to you before more than once, one day somebody's going to read this Bible and believe it, when they do we'll all be embarrassed, we see we don't have men like that now, we're all in organization, join this, join that, join something else, my dear friend listen, this man, when he built his ark, I think he built it on the highest mountain or ridge he could find, and he warned them day after day, what do you think he did at night when he went home, saying to his wife, now darling you know, I had a rough day today, so a herd of cattle came past, the men were all mocking, they spit tobacco juice or something at me, and said that old cloud, why did he hang on, because he gets in the greatest honor roll in the world, he gets in Hebrews 11, by faith Noah, moved with what, fear, there's no fear anymore, there's no fear in the streets, there's no fear in the church, there's no fear in the pulpit, I guess if I asked you personally, one -to -one, do you believe Jesus may come this week, yes, well listen, could you at this moment die and go straight into his presence, have you got rid of all your grudges, all your bitterness, the scripture says when we come, we should be like him, not we shall have two hours notice to get ready, no sirree, if you believe that Jesus Christ is coming, you know, people say to me, I heard you last night, and that message really, it changed my life, well listen, there's only one proof it changed your life, that is it changes your lifestyle, you don't need as much as you used to do, you don't need all the rotten things that the world has, I'm going to labor this little point here a minute, remember this man goes in his ark, it's not very pretty, it's not very beautiful, I don't really paint it in a fancy color, all he did was, he cut the wood and he stacked it up, and people say watch it, it's going to be made a boat, what like, well it had no sails, because he wasn't there to sail, it had no rudder, he wasn't there to be guided, it wasn't going to be tossed about with every wind of doctrine, it's going to be guided by God, it's going to be filled with God's people, nobody got in that ark, who wasn't really saved, you would say, when they got in, they were saved, what did they do, they were fleeing from the wrath to come, so this man, at the end of the day, what did he do, they say to his wife, well darling, you know, I've been witnessing down in the town square now for 45 years, they don't take any notice, they're just ridicule and smear, you know what we do darling, I'll tell you what, I'm getting a bit bored, let's have a picnic, let's take the kids out and have a good time, you know what the life support is of most homes now, the TV, TV means terrible vision, or terribly vicious, or tunnel vision, or trite and vulgar, but it dominates most homes, I was at a place recently, a funeral, it wasn't a friend of mine, but I had to go to a funeral, and there's a lady there, very, oh gorgeous dress, goes naturally, grey hair, very nice, and somebody asked about your children, oh how are your children, oh well, she said the girl of course is 19, my boy's 17, oh what are they doing, and she said they belong this club, and that club, and the racket club, and something else, wonderful, but they have a real bad habit, what is it, when they come home at night, they watch TV till the early hours of the morning, so the fellow said offhand, well why don't you pull the plug, she said what, they're college kids, pull the plug out of a rat, 17 years and 19 years of age, and they need a babysitter, people don't keep the wolf from the door, now they bring you in, you need to tell your kids to flee from the wrath to come, you're piping devilish stuff every moment, they watch it, it's it's stirring their minds, you're feeding their secret appetite, this one has no entertainment, he's cutting a wood for the ark, I think you've been there, that old sawy had him sawing that wood, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade, century after century almost, and he's stacking it high up, and he knows he's making a casket for them, a lifeboat for himself, I think if you heard him zipping through that wood, you'd have heard the groaning of his spirit, knowing more than they knew, seeing, you know he visualized every day as he looked out, the valley will be full of water, and what would happen, why there'd be bodies floating everywhere, the very people who scorned and ridiculed and mocked him, well how in God's name do you think America's going to get by, again I remind you we've 450 Bible schools in America and Canada, and 250 seminaries, that's what 700, how are we going to get by, how many radio stations in America, I think there are 3 ,000 radio stations in America, who at some point or another give 5 or 10 minutes to the gospel every day, how many thousands of books do we have, how many Christian magazines do we have, all piling up judgment against us, God makes it as difficult as he can for you to go to hell, but you'll go some of you, you'll go home and say that guy stirred me a minute, and you forget all about it, it's a dark world we live in, do you know why, when I was a boy, six, five years of age, I'd take my daddy's hand and say, daddy, please take me to the army, I meant the Salvation Army, we'd go down the street, there was a Salvation Army, they all wore odd clothes, they handed them down, you see a fellow with a coat down to his legs, it only went up to his knees, a little guy, and they wore, they called it a brass band, they said, well they were brass, the instruments didn't matter, they were brass, and they're all from the pawn shop, they've beaten up, and you know, but the boy, they'd stand there and blow, have a wonderful time, so we went to that street meeting, I could tell you where they'd be Saturday night, I could leave the Salvation Army street meeting, go a mile down the road, and there the Pentecostals had a street meeting, go into another area, and there the Methodists had a street meeting, go to another area, and the Baptists had a street meeting, in other words, there was a light everywhere, but those lights have gone, there's no street witnessing anymore, or we give out a few tracks, but that's not a street meeting, Jackie, she said, well by the way, if anybody can have revival, all you have to do is go live with them, don't go, like she goes down the back alley at night, and steps this way, because there's human excrement there, and she tries to get the other way, there's a dead body there, she goes here, there's a harlot, do you know there are women on the streets of Hong Kong, 60 years of age, that have prostituted for 45 years, you can't get a needle in their arms, you can't get a needle in their legs, they'd stick a needle in the rump of the woman, push her out to earn the money at night, it's the biggest hellhole in the world, almost except Amsterdam, white women have been in Amsterdam 10 years, done nothing, youth with a mission, no, I'm looking for youth and ambition, ambition to be holy, and ambition to be separate from the world, and ambition to be totally Christ, to live, move, and have our being in God, to say goodbye to the world, to say goodbye to a career, to say goodbye to fame, a man was in our house the other day, and telling me about his wonderful wife, she's, she swims for the Olympic team in England, my daughter's 16, she's going to play for England at tennis, so what, ever since my little boys were little, and I was away so often, my precious Martha would read them stories, missionary stories at night about Sammy Morris and others, so they grew up with a desire for the mission field, I'm glad they've been there, all the three of them at one time or another, you know there's an old saying, only one life to soon be passed, what's the other say, only one, you know the other part, oh okay, well it's misquoted, only one life to soon be passed, only what's done for God will last, but then the latter is this, and when I am dying, how glad I shall be if the lamp of my life has been burned out for thee, in God's name, I don't understand why many are having meetings, I don't understand why the Southern Baptists can have a meeting in the last three or four days, I don't understand why men are having crusades today, why in God's name, the people in America have written a hundred times in the street, and we're doing exactly what people did to know we won't listen, if I were a Protestant Pope, I'd close every church down for at least two weeks for prayer and fasting, that bloody monster, he's going to come and be for very long, and then we'll change our tune, all we have to do is get the first shipload of cargo planes with a cargo of corpses, do you think a young lady gets a piece of paper and says, I just got this from the White House, he says my husband died for his country, I'm going to keep this and let the country see, I'm going to sleep with it in my pajamas tonight, I won't have my husband, I'll tell the children in the morning, your daddy's rotting somewhere, the birds are eating him in the Middle East, but we've got this from the White House, do you think there's any comfort?