America's Last Call (Part 6 of 6) — David Wilkerson

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Perfect Peace in a Time of Panic

Prayed tonight that God give you a hearing ear to hear what he has to say. I Don't know when this is going to end. As far as these prophecies on what's coming to America? all I can tell you is that I pray and seek the Lord and This is what he gives me and I can't preach anything.

But what he tells me to breathe so I have to give it to you because I have no other place to preach right now and This this church, I don't know if you know it or not you serve as a sounding board. You you it's preached here and of course the messages that are preached here go to nearly a million people in the mailing list and then books and so forth and so You're more or less a sounding board for this.

God tries it out on you. And you're the first to hear it and then it this. I don't know where this part of a message tonight goes, but I Do believe that God? Wants me to preach it tonight. It's called perfect.

Peace in a time of panic. There's a panic coming to America and God wants his children to have perfect peace in that time. And I need your prayers that the Lord will help me deliver this in the right spirit and with great love and compassion.

Folks I love America. I love this nation. Take that in the right context not like I love God or my family. But I thank God for America and its freedom and many of you have come from other countries here.

And it's because of the freedom and the prosperity this country has had and the opportunities and that's all well and good but nevertheless God is about to judge us. God is about to judge this nation and He always he said he does nothing except he first warns his people he always warns.

He has watched many as prophets and I've never believed I was a prophet. But one of his many many watchmen pastor Carter's a strong watchman. He's been prophesying for years and Please open your heart as we bring the word father.

I pray that you speak to us tonight. Let no fear grip our hearts because You've made it very very clear that these things are going to happen Jesus You said perilous times are going to come. You said men's hearts are going to fail them for fear of watching those things coming on the earth.

And Lord one of these days some generation has to live in the fulfillment of that prophecy. And I believe we are that generation and I pray Lord that you help us sound the alarm. The only reason I do this tonight Lord is because that scripture I read if the watchman sees The storm coming he sees the enemy coming.

He doesn't warn. The blood will be on his hands Lord. I don't want any blood on my hands. I want to speak is an oracle of God only as you lead and direct. And I pray Lord you speak to our hearts and then at the conclusion of this message tonight May we all with with joy lift our hearts and our hands and say God has everything under control.

I'm under his control. There's nothing to fear in Jesus name. I pray. Amen. Last night I went up to my office across the street on the 30th floor and I got out some of my old messages preached in 1990 and 91 and I started reading them and I was shocked at what I was saying because I was talking this way ten years ago nine years ago, especially in 1991 for example, I pulled out a message that I'd preached from this pulpit and at that time Unemployment was raging here in the city.

The stock market was on a downhill run this was about a year and a half after the October crash and There were no real estate was dead. Tremendous unemployment there was fear everywhere and I came to this pulpit and I preached the message on the desolation of America, I believe it was and I made a statement and I read it and it shocked me.

I said the worst thing God can do to America now is because if we don't learn from what's happening now from the unemployment the stock market shaking and the Unemployment the the real estate collapse buildings here real estate absolutely collapsed in this city.

No building was going on whatsoever. Hardly no tall buildings. Nothing the office Space was glutted in some sections of lower Manhattan 40 vacancy. And I said the worst thing that God could do would be to send a big wave of prosperity.

That the stock market go up again and there'd be a wave of prosperity because if God does that We know that it's the last mercy call just before judgment. And I read that and it there was something came over my spirit because I had already prepared this message and Sometimes, you know, I I read some of the prophecies God gave me over the past years.

And I went home the other night and said hey, I've been saying this for a long time. And I haven't seen it happen yet. But I don't know the time I don't know when what I'm talking about tonight and I've been talking to you lately is going to Happen.

I honestly believe that probably next year. We're going to see the beginning of a Absolute shaking of the stock market. I believe there is going to be a stock market crash a tremendous crash. And I believe probably before it happens the big corporations.

They always know how to get out. They may get out before the the Great Depression in the 1929 and 1930 31 Many of the big corporations got out some of the wealthy men got out and they cashed out and then when they had cash they Bought up everything when it was so cheap and the big corporations may get out but I don't know if you know it or not, there are I think two to three trillion dollars of Individual of money by individual investors just common people through through their internet through their their computers and through their their own Gambling in the stock market trillions of dollars.

I Heard a government official Make a statement. He said people are leveraging their houses. They're they're they're getting a hundred and ten hundred fifteen percent Mortgages on their house second mortgages leverage mortgages and they're they're trying to make it rich because there's been a like in the past four months fifteen percent increase in the stock market or so and especially in the top 100 stocks and This government official.

I mean bluntly said you're going to lose it all. We're heading for Troubled waters and you have leveraged it. You're going to lose your homes and he was warning Americans not a preacher but warning Americans get out of the stock market quit gambling.

This was one of this is one of the advisors of the leaders of this nation. Wasn't for me if I said something like that, it's just a preacher on a soapbox. But this was from a government official millions of Americans have shut their eyes to The blatant sins of our leadership.

You know what? They're saying now. We don't care if our leaders are fornicators adulterers. We don't care if they cover up their sins. We don't care if they perjure themselves. We don't care of any of this now folks.

I'm not judging anybody, but I'm saying the whole attitude now. All across the country by almost 75 to 80 percent of the Americans who've been pulled now say it doesn't matter whether the president Or congressman or anybody else?

It doesn't matter about their adultery fornication what they do in their private light is their own business as long as we prosper as Long as we have a booming economy, it doesn't matter. Well folks God's about to fix that.

God's about to fix God saying alright. If that's your attitude if your morals are so mixed up that you look to the almighty dollar than you do about Morality if the nation is so sunken into that God says I'll fix that quickly.

And that's exactly what he's about to do. Jeremiah 528. They overlook the deeds of the wicked yet. They prosper. They wink at the deeds. They overlook the deeds of the wicked yet. They prosper. Love it.

Wealth, Covetousness, and Divine Judgment

I want you to know it's God who controls the economies of the world. It's not the wisdom and the wit of men. The Bible makes that very very clear, but thou shall remember the Lord thy God. For it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth.

If you're sitting in this church, and you've if you've accumulated any wealth whether it be stock market or any other way. You didn't do it by your wit you may thought you were smart. But the Bible said it's only God who gives you the wisdom to know how to get wealth.

All of the and God told Israel he said if you in any way at any time Think that you have done this it is God that's blessed you Israel. And if you think for one moment that this has been your own skill.

You take credit, and you don't give me credit for this God said I'll take it all away from you. And I'm gonna prove that to you if thou say in thy heart My power and my might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.

It shall be if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God now that you don't give God credit. I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. The word there perish means to be broken. Undone and to lose it all Doesn't mean death.

It means to lose everything. You shall surely lose everything. As The nations which the Lord destroyed before your face so shall you lose it all. Just like all the nations before you that thought it was their own doing.

He said you will lose it all folks. Wall Street is abandoned. God all of the money makers and all of the The financial institutions in the United States have literally Mocked God pushed him out of sight folks.

I realize that there are. Even in this church. We have stockbrokers. We we have a few CEOs that even attend this church. We have some wealthy people to attend this church and some of them we have some young currency traders for example on Wall Street.

I've talked to them. They visited with me and and and they know what I'm talking about and they're godly men and I thank God for that. I'm not painting everybody with that same evil brush. And and and gentlemen that that's a legitimate job.

I'm not trying to put you down or anything else on that. I Do advise you to be be very very cautious. In light of what you're hearing prophetically from this pulpit. But when the walls when when when Wall Street went to 7 ,000 points was was there anybody that stood there when they rang the bell and said We thank God that we're being prospered.

God has enabled us to accumulate this wealth when it went to 7 ,500 points. Did you hear anybody talk about God blessing this nation when it went to 8 ,000? Did you hear anybody in any financial institution anywhere give God an ounce of credit?

Did you hear anything when it went to to 85 and then it broke this past week? 9 ,000 and then came back down that it's right hovering around 9 ,000 now it may go to 10. It could go eventually to 12 or on.

I don't know. They think there's no end to it, but I hear nothing. I hear not one single word of Acknowledgement to Almighty God who said I have given you this power. And you say this is your skill. I heard financial expert one of the one of the great Moguls of finance in the United States.

He said it we have become the smartest most skilled financial nation on the face of the earth. Japan said that ten years ago and within a year There was a collapse of the real estate market. There was a collapse of their finances and now the president of Sony this past week has warned that Japan is going into a depression.

And that the president of its friend is like a pilot who's Piloting a plane that's going to crash and he likened the president of Japan right now to Herbert Hoover who told Americans that America was going to prosper be two cars in every garage and two chickens in every pot just before the depression hit all power all might and all skill all knowledge of Man has not gotten this wealth.

And we have forgotten God in the process and God has just said if you at any time forget the Lord God. You do not give him credit. I testify against you that that day comes you shall surely perish. You shall lose it all just like all the other nations that have preceded you.

If you believe that the Bible is the Word of God You've got to believe that America is Going to see its wealth evaporate and perish, just as Moses prophesied. Every passing day now brings us closer to the fulfillment of this prophecy of Moses.

Every day we get closer and closer to the time when this prophecy God means what he says. You're not giving me credit. You're pushing me out of your society and. And silver and gold their dollars become your God folks.

Kill what they're doing in Wall Street. No you New York Times has a picture. They talk about Flaunting their wealth now. They they had a word for it, I can't remember but it was filthy rich and they were talking about young.

Young businessmen now who are making it so big spending $5 ,000 for a bottle of wine by $100 cigars. In smoking half of them and throw it away lighting their cigars with $20 bills. Bibles tells us the panic is coming now.

Panic means a sudden overwhelming fear that spreads quickly and causes hysteria and God's about to speak a word and a hurricane of confusion is about to sweep over the land. God's Fist is coming down on Wall Street.

And there's going to be a panic the prophets warned that this panic in this panic. They're going to cry for help. There will be a cry all of these are boasting now. I told you about the the cartoon I saw the Titanic was steaming down and it had US economy and up on top.

Not even God can sink this ship and when it sinks. When it's going down they will be crying and they'll be wailing. The Bible said the wind shall carry them all away. Vanity shall take them away. That means their wealth.

He said the wealth will take wings and fly away. Because of personal arrogance greed and covetousness, it's going to be swept away. And Isaiah is speaking for God said and when they cry Let thy companies deliver thee and what he's saying.

Let this Complete Conglomerate all of this collection of advisors that told you everything is fine. All of these you told you that the sky's the limit. The president in Japan heard the president's only say that and he said look we've got eight hundred billion dollars invested in foreign exchanges in in foreign investments, how can a nation so rich Ever fall.

He said this is weak. This same in the United States. You know what the Disciples they looked at all of these great buildings of the temple in a Jerusalem and the Lord Jesus says not one stones going to rain upon another that was going to happen within 40 years and Who could believe it?

And they say the American economy this great nation the richest nation in the world. Prophets said she says I said as a queen. And I shall never be bothered. I Shall never be brought down. But God says I saw you make your cave in the high hills and he said I'll bring you down to the dust.

You made your nest in the skies. And I'll bring you down when you cry let your companies deliver you let your Prognosticators all those who read the stars who told you that there's no end in sight. Let them tell you how to get out.

That's what the Prophet said. Isaiah 5713. Now folks, there are two things. I see the Holy Spirit doing In this coming panic. There are two things that have to happen and they're going to happen. They're in the process of happening now.

Peace Removed from the Wicked

Number one. God is going to take away all peace from the wicked. He's going to take the Red Horse is coming to take away peace from the earth. There is no peace the Bible said to the wicked. Isaiah 48 22.

But there is a false peace that has come upon Wall Street and the financial markets and upon Americans now. Old folks listen to me you go out into New Jersey. I have walked around in some of those fancy towns and These million-dollar states and and You see Young rich young men who owe millions of dollars.

They are mortgaged to the hilt. And you what they say it's okay. If we go down, we're all going together. We're all going down. Doesn't seem to matter. And they're sitting at the computers and they're getting every dollar they can get their hands on and gambling now on the stocks.

Gambling folks the stock markets are nothing now. They become nothing but major gambling halls. There is no peace to the wicked the Bible said but there's a false peace and Moses talked about it. He said they're going to.

They're going to reject all the warnings all the frightful messages coming from his prophets and in his watchmen and the Bible says they're going to bless themselves in their hearts saying We have peace.

Though we walk in the imagination of our own heart and we're going to add drunkenness to thirst. We're not only going to just take a drink. We're going to get drunk on this prosperity. I don't want just a little draught.

I don't want a little bit. I want to make it big. Folks every man's out for himself now outside of the Church of Jesus Christ. Everybody's looking out for number one. Everybody's looking for their nest egg.

Everybody knows that something's coming. So they want to make one last killing get enough money in the bank or hide it in a Swiss bank. So they can ride out the storm that's coming. They know the storm is coming everybody looking for golden parachute.

Against such the Lord will not spare his anger and his jealousy shall smoke against such a person. Deuteronomy 29 20. He said my anger will smoke against you because you've been given over to covetousness.

You don't give God credit. You've moved God out of your mind out of your systems out of your programs. You've removed me completely. You have nothing to do with me. And now you bow at the golden altar of money.

Now there can be nothing plainer in God's Word Than that when God judges men for the wickedness, he takes away their peace. Listen to it the way of peace. They do not know and There's no judgment in their goings.

They have made their paths crooked. Whosoever go through in there shall never know peace. Shall never know peace. They have this false peace, but it doesn't last. There's always that inner knowing and God is even now taking away the peace.

Or wait till the panic hits. There will be no peace. The false peace will not see them through right now. There's a sea of calm. Right now a few waves here and there but the Bible said the wicked are like the troubled sea.

When it cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt there is no peace saith my God to the wicked. Their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they become great and they've grown rich. They've grown fat.

But prosperous now they shine. But shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this. God said oh, yeah, you've grown rich. You've grown prosperous without me you say.

You've turned your back on me, but God says shall I not move against the nation like this? How much longer folks do you think God can take it? How much longer do you think we can thumb our noses at God?

How much longer can we no longer blush at the worst most violent sins? How much longer can we destroy babies in their their last trimester and sucking their brains out? Blood running like a river. How long can God put up with that and say enough without saying enough?

Violence, Abortion, and Moral Decay

Some might be tempted to say well brother works and don't tell me what God did to Israel in the Old Testament. This is America and God needs America safe and prosperous so we can evangelize the world.

Well folks, I want you know, we're spending more now for dog food than we are on missions. That's a truth. That's a fact. Our missions programs and our churches are dying. Other than a few like the Assemblies of God and a few other small missions groups missions is absolutely dying.

Our art the giving of almost every denomination toward missions is dwindling. It would be unjust of God to judge the wickedness of his own chosen people Israel for their sins. It'd be unjust of God to take down Nineveh to take down Rome to take down all past societies when they got to the place that we're at right now.

In fact, we passed that place flashpoints of judgment. It would be unjust of God to destroy Solomon Gomorrah and Noah's Generation for their sins and their violence and their wickedness and then spare America.

It would be unjust of a holy God. If God's a holy and just God, he's no respective persons. He's got to say to this wicked nation I will surely consume you saith the Lord. There should be no grapes on your vine.

No figs on your fig trees and the leaves shall fade and the things that I have given you shall be taken away from you. That's Jeremiah 8 13 the things that I have given to you. I will take away from you Folks I'm not preaching out of my head.

I'm preaching scripture. God says I'll cause your good times to fade. I'm gonna dry up and cause to wither all your riches. I'll take away your prosperity. That I gave you in my mercy and all these things that you've lusted after I will take away.

Folks, let me tell you and listen closely now. These multiplied thousands who've had no time for God. They've laughed and mocked it all of our moral standards. They've made money. They're idle. They're going to lose their homes.

You are going to see in the streets of America not too distant future almost every block you're going to see. Home after home after home with a for sale sign. Millions of these people who have leveraged their homes and and speculated trying to make it rich are going to lose their home.

They're gonna lose their furniture. They're gonna lose their cars. It's gonna be just here just like it is in Indonesia. I believe we're going to have a 60 to 70 percent devaluation of all real estate in America.

I believe it's going to be just like Indonesia where 100 ,000 Mercedes are selling for $20 ,000 now just trying to raise a little cash to make it. There's going to be mass unemployment in today's New York Times.

There's a picture in from Korea. Korea that had almost no unemployment now near depression. They advertise for a few jobs and thousands of men showed up. You see these massive men all trying to get a job.

There's going to be pain and crying and weeping. There's going to be a rush to liquidate everything to raise cash. The Bible said their houses shall be turned to others. I'm going to stretch out my hand upon this land.

Jeremiah 612 their houses shall be given to others. Recently a scandal broke out in Japan in in in what is their Central finance system in Japan and A scandal broke out the president of that. It's it's just like our Federal Reserve the president of their Federal Reserve Committed suicide a few weeks ago and seven of their leaders in that department all committed suicide.

Folks there would be mass suicides all over the United States. Please suicide left and right. It's not gonna be just rich men. It's gonna be ordinary people and middle classes who have absolutely Tried to make it rich.

Forgotten God completely and have have invested so-called investments and those vestments evaporate overnight. My brother sister the panic is on Wall Street is going to be Worse than anything this nation has ever seen.

When I read Jeremiah and what he said to his nation. It seems so relevant to what I see today in America. Listen to what he said. The spoilers have come upon all your high places. The sword of the Lord has Devoured from one end of the land to the other.

No flesh has peace now. They have sown wheat, but they're reaping thorns now. They put themselves to pain. But there shall not profit. There shall be ashamed of their revenues because of the fierce anger the Lord.

They're gonna be ashamed of their revenues. In other words. They're gonna live in shame because they're losing everything folks. The Bible is clearly telling us. It's as clear as you can be. There's no there's there's no getting around it.

God has outlined it spoken clearly. Now that's The one side. I told you two things. I see the Holy Spirit doing when this panic comes and he's getting. He's even setting this up. Now. He's taking away all peace from the wicked on the other hand.

Perfect Peace for the Righteous

He's going to provide perfect peace for the righteous. Perfect peace for the righteous. Now let me get into this side of it because I think you're ready. I say 57 19. Hey folks, listen to me, please. I'm not playing on your emotions But let me this is not easy.

This is not easy to do. It's not easy to preach.

This is the end of side one. I.

I told you I Told you about five years ago. I There was a time about ten years ago. I don't it wasn't that probably eight years ago. I said Lord I don't want to prophesy anymore because people don't want to hear it and I get so sick and tired of all the letters and calls and call me doomsday even Somebody God pastors from all the United States.

I got tired of it. I got fed up. I said Lord, I don't do it for five years. He took it away from me and And I'm not going to do that again. I'm gonna obey him and I'm gonna speak it but folks I'm trying to speak it in his love and his authority.

But I want you to hear Clearly now what I believe God the Holy Ghost has given to me for you and for the church now. Listen very very closely. I create the fruit of the lips I say 57 19 Peace peace to him that is far off and to him that is near saith the Lord and I will heal him.

And in the Hebrew It is not peace peace, but it's perfect peace to him. That's far off and to him that is near saith the Lord and I will heal him. In other words for the generation that was spoken To and the fourth generation, which is us right here.

Perfect. Peace, and I will heal now in all of America's history for all of its its panics its its Depressions and everything else that has happened in the past we have never been to a point like this where we have the Opportunity of seeing the Lord bring forth the greatest testimony to his glory in all of the history of this nation because he is going to raise up a people who have been endowed in dude with absolute perfect peace the peace that Christ himself now enjoys at the right hand of the Father in a perfect environment.

He is going to in Dow his people with this same perfect peace now, it's not everybody. Not everybody who says Lord. Lord is even going to get to heaven let alone have peace in perfect peace. Bible says he will keep him in perfect peace whose Mind is stayed on the Lord.

This is a commitment that some of God's people are going to make. I am going to Absolutely set my heart to seek God. I'm going to give him everything I am and all that I have. I believe what God said is coming and I'm going to prepare As a bride folks.

I'm not preparing to ride out a depression. I'm not preparing to ride out an economic storm. I'm preparing as a bride of Christ because That's what this is all about. You see what is coming to America is not judgment on the church.

It's purging for the church. It's not judgment on you and me if we are loving Jesus not at all. Why would he judge us when we're walking in his faithfulness? This is not judging but you see whom the Lord loves he chases and he loves his bride.

And he sees that his bride has been bespotted by the spirit of this age that the prosperity. That the covetousness that the greed is creeping into his church into his bride. And the Lord says if I sit still much longer I'll be losing them on the right and on the left and I will not give my bride over to the wicked one.

I will not let my bride go and the Lord has to act and folks folks this panic that's coming. This trouble is coming is not primarily to judge the wicked. That is one of the effects of it. God says I must judge a nation like this.

But he's coming as an Avenger to the wicked but he's coming as a Redeemer to the righteous. I Want you to follow me on this. The Prophet said the Lord will ordain Peace for us and the word ordained there means he will bring it to us and set it up in our hearts as his very own.

He's going to come into the heart and Set up and or means ordained. I'm going to come and set up in your heart a faith that can't be shaken folks when the panic strikes when the ominous news begins to send shockwaves and fear across the land and the hysteria begins to mount all God's people Are going to experience a time of some time of anxiety just human anxiety.

I will feel it you will feel it. It's just it's human to just feel that immediate reaction to My goodness, this is incredible. Just as God said and to see it unfold there will be a time of anxiety. But God's going to have people to have the resources to immediately Take control of every thought and bring it into obedience to the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ as they've been taught it hallelujah.

God is going to devastate the economy. Not only as a judgment, but it is Listen to me closely to pluck his bride of the contagious spirit. That's in America, it's contagious. Folks it is on your job. All you hear him talk about are things and money all you hear about people.

What do they talk about. Their newest clothes their newest things the money they're making their investments furniture. Cars. You don't hear about God on your job. You don't hear about the things that you hear about judgment you don't hear of any of that.

But it's contagious because just like law who vexed himself night and day and the things he saw it hurt. We get vexed in our spirit but all folks all over America in the church many many at one time what had a White robe prepared to be with the Lord adorned studying the word and praying and seeking God.

Now they're out chasing just like everybody else chasing the almighty dollar trying to strike it rich. Spirit of greed and covetousness that is laid a hold of them. God says no. I'm not going to let it go on folks.

I believe that this is going to activate God more than anything else motivate God to move against this nation. He says I will not let this spirit consume my bride. Bride of Christ consists of righteous believers from every tribe every tongue every nation on the face of the earth.

We are a spouse to Jesus Christ. We're his bride in way in waiting. But folks the bride is becoming besotted and tainted by the spirit of wickedness. He said he's coming for a bride without spot or wrinkle that he might present to himself a glorious church.

Not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. Folks everything God does on this earth. He does it with his bride in mind his church. Oh. Everything he does it's not just to deal with the wicked God that can do that at any time.

That's not his primary goal. Everything he does whether it's blessing or judgment. He always has his church his bride in mind and That's what this is all about. And this is where your true peace is going to come from when you see it begin to happen.

You say I know God's saying something to the bride. He's purging me. He's purging his church folks. There's so much garbage and filth in the church of Jesus Christ. This is the only way to get it out.

How else is God going to throw the damnable prosperity gospel out of the church. How's he going to do it? He's going to make. He's going to make these preachers poverty stricken. You know how many were to rise up and point an accusing finger and said you've damned me.

You told me that God was going to just keep me rich until I die. Whoever thought we would leave to see the day. When even some evangelical churches now are condoning homosexual lifestyle that's the church.

A Group of ministers in Sacramento a Group of I think 15 pastors with a fellowship just took in a witch. In fellowship. I have the I have the newspaper clipping. It was sent to me a Witch the head of a coven that is considered religion at these pastors.

There's a picture in the paper. These pastors embracing the witch. Whoever thought I would we would live to see the day that so many Christians would be surfering the network for filth and pornography.

Somebody wrote me a letter said brother day the Bible said Satan goes about as rowing line seeking may devour. I'm telling you the devil surfers about on the Internet. Seeking who we may devour. Whoever lived thought we lived a day to see the day that there was so much adultery in the church.

We see a day when so many children. Young people 15 16 years old have sex promiscuously at any time and feel no guilt even in our churches. Whoever thought we'd live to see the day that we have everything in the world brought into the church and embraced and accepted.

Bible said but Jezreel means Jerusalem waxed fat prospered and kicked. You have waxed fat and you've grown thick. You've been covered over with a fatness and then he forsook God which made him and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation.