Survive the Great Depression — Andrew Strom

A Serious Message About America's Future

You know, I come here with a pretty serious message tonight. It's a message about where America is going. What's about to happen in this nation. How we can prepare for it. It's a prophetic message not in the sense that we often hear the word prophetic used today.

I'm pretty uncomfortable with the way prophetic has been used. I Want to hear the first thing I want to hear from a prophet and is the word repent. I don't hear that from a prophet. I say well pal. You've got you know quarter of an hour to impress me if I'm not going to hear the word repent out of your mouth I'm gonna dismiss everything you say.

In fact, I'll send you down and I'll. You know I'm looking to be impressed by things that are going to make an impact on this culture because this culture is desperate for a word from the Lord. This culture is desperate for a true word from a true prophet.

Not this prophetic candy floss that we've been thrown around in this nation. In fact, what a what a prophets so-called get taught to do in this land. What do we teach them to do while we teach them to prophesy sweet things?

Lovely things and nice things and then we'll give them a bunch of money. That's what we've taught all our prophets if you come into church, you just you just blow into town and stay in the five-star hotel and and We're gonna pay you a whole lot of money.

And as long as you prophesy beautiful things and tell the pastor what a wonderful person he is and prophesy great things over him pastor. You're gonna have a great ministry. You're gonna get millions of dollars.

You're gonna go to the nation's blah blah blah blah blah as long as we do all that We'll be rewarded handsomely with great offerings and blow out of town. That's what the prophetic has become in America because we love to have it.

So We love to have it. So We love to have our ears tickled. We love to have to come down the front in a line and the part the prophet goes down the line saying wonderful things about Us that's what we want.

Why do we want that. Because on television they tell us the things we want to hear and every Politician tells us the things we want to hear and almost every minister in the country. We're paying them good money.

To tickle our ears and if they don't tickle our ears and if the worship ain't good enough and if everything's not just how we like It well, there's a church down the road that will do those things. So we'll go there won't we?

Judgment for America's Influence

For these things America is about to be judged. For these attitudes America is about to be judged. Why. Because it's become a stench in the nostrils of God not only that but we in America have spread this attitude to every nation on the earth.

Every nation on the earth. And so if I'm in New Zealand Is it possible just get the treble turned up on this mic? Can I have that? Is anybody there? Yeah, just turn the treble up. Thank you. Sorry. I feel like I'm Preaching out of a cave or something like that.

Checking checking. Okay. So here we are in the church. God is trying to restore prophets to the church. He's using the word apostolic. We don't know what these things really are. But I tell you what a whole bunch of people Get little business cards made and they get the word apostle written on it.

Whole lot of people start using the word apostolic hopes a lot of people start using the word prophetic and start banding it around as though. Telling it on a little card makes it so. It ain't so I want to hear from any true person calling themselves truly apostolic.

The first thing I want to hear is the gospel as it was preached by the apostles. If you haven't got an anointing and a message at that level well. You can forget calling yourself an apostle. I don't care what network you have.

I don't care how many guys will all get together and clap you on the back and say wow, you're an apostle of God. I'm not interested in that. I want to see. Like we see with john wesley or george whitfield or any of these guys.

I want to see a gospel. That truly transforms people's lives as it's being preached. Start there apostles. If you haven't got that you are no apostle. This is the beginning of apostleship. The gospel you preach.

Do we hear this gospel in america, no, it's it's long gone. America used to be the home of the the greatest revival preachers in the world. We don't have many more. You want to hear a powerful gospel.

You got to go to the third world country now. You can't see it on tbn. No more. Tbn's too busy begging for your money. They have a gospel of greed. Which they're spreading around the world. I was in nigeria.

I want you to go there again. What do you find in nigeria you find? That they have totally imbibed the american gospel. Why. Because we beam it to them by satellite. We send all our big prosperity guys over to nigeria.

So here's these guys in a poor country with all these poverty stricken people and many of the pastors the big pastors around town. Have thoroughly taken on board the whole american gospel and they're all driving around in bmws and mercedes.

While the poverty-stricken widows and orphans are virtually starving to death. That's what tbn Gospel and evangelism does we we pay good money to tbm. We say tbn go and spread the word where we can't go beam it in the airwaves.

You know, let's buy another satellite. Well, this is where it's going and this is what it's doing. I wouldn't mind a nuke send it up. And show tbn satellite what I really think about it. Do you know why.

Because every country in africa is being destroyed. The church all over the earth is being ruined by what we're doing totally wrecked. Why. Because it becomes a gospel of money instead of a gospel of the cross becomes a gospel of money.

What did jesus say about money. He said you cannot serve god and mammon. You will either hate the one. Or hate the other. You cannot serve god and mammon says jesus. What do we try and do? We mix the two things together.

We invent a new gospel. A gospel of jesus married to a gospel of mammon and we think it's okay. Then we get on satellite television. And beam it around the world. And that's what we've done. We've beamed it around the world so I can go to nigeria now and I hear.

The very things that are broadcast on tbn are being preached to every church in nigeria. They even call some of their churches success arena and things like that. So What are we supposed to we're going.

Are we going to god for for our own success? Is that what we're supposed to be doing? What happens to the cross of jesus? Here's what jesus says. Take up deny yourself take up your cross and follow me.

The prosperity preachers are over here saying if you come With this gospel god will make you rich. God will prosper you and bless you and you'll have a better car and a better house. So i've got jesus over here saying Take up your cross.

Why do you take up your cross? Take up your cross because you're going to die on it. That's why you take up your cross. The success preacher over here is saying come to me. You will be more successful send in a hundred dollars.

You'll get a thousand back. I want to say to you. Those two gospels are the opposite of one another. I just spoke to you what jesus says over here. The other guy over here is preaching something that not only is it unscriptural it's the opposite of that the exact opposite.

We've got to make a decision. Because god is about to judge this nation. He's going to judge this nation because of what what we broadcast to the earth. Because of what we broadcast. Can I have just a bit more?

Sorry, yeah, just push it right up there. Thank you. Sorry, that's better. Yeah. Um because of what we're broadcasting in the earth God is about to send massive judgment on this land. We're going to get there in a second.

I know this is unpopular stuff to say but I have a practical point with it. Because we've got to prepare for what is about to happen in america. We have to prepare ourselves. Because I want to say it's coming and it cannot be stopped.

It's coming and it cannot be stopped. No amount of praying will stop it. It's already too late. We have one hope and one hope only of revival in america and that is to have revival in the midst of judgments.

It is too late. To stop the judgments coming. They're on the way. I want to preach something to you tonight so you can prepare yourselves because god is going to judge america. Because of everything that we are broadcasting around the earth.

It is sick beyond words and i'm not just talking about christian television. I'm talking about every form of media that america puts out is utterly corrupting and destroying the planet. And until you go outside of america, you don't see it.

You don't see it. When you if you're raised in new zealand, you see it if you visit australia you go over to europe. Go to go to africa go to some of the other other places you start to see well american influence is massive.

It's not just the military the military is a tiny Influence military is affecting iraq and places like that. That's not the influence i'm talking about. I'm talking about what we broadcast. In the earth films television music mtv everything.

Sodom and Gomorrah as a Warning

We're going to go there in a minute turn with me, please to to uh, genesis chapter 18 genesis chapter 18. Please remember that this is not just a theoretical thing. That we're talking about. It's very practical because We have to take action over this.

Okay, genesis chapter 18 verse 20. Now this chapter is about sodom and gomorrah. Why are we looking at sodom and gomorrah? We're talking about america. Most people if you talk to most christians in this country, they'll say well america is the most blessed country in the world.

America some some of us have the attitude america is virtually god's country now. I think that used to be the case 50 years ago. What was america fighting if america was fighting against communism? America was uh when when america made television programs when I was growing up in 1970s.

Well, we were watching american shows on television when I was growing up the waltons and little house on the prairie and uh, wonderful world of disney and zorro and You know. Very harmless kind of stuff for children.

And you know and the even the adult more adult programs. They weren't that terrible. When did the huge change come about in 1980s? This began to change with the invention of cable television. Suddenly the adult programs were really adult.

Suddenly they had sick stuff flooding the airwaves. They they invented reality television. They reinvented um these talk shows where people go on and they talk about how many boyfriends they've had and how they Slept with one and slept with the other and they bring the boyfriends on the talk show and everybody watches the the kind of uh, sick Interplay that's going on or has gone on and they'll bring on a rape to his um, you know, uh.

Any number of things doesn't matter. Any number of things start to flood the airwaves. The television shows and the advertisements and everything gets sicker and sicker and sicker and they invent mtv.

Why are they what are they doing with mtv trying to sell to 14 year olds? Well, this is the way they sell the 14 year olds they put the most beautiful models. They can find and they strip them of most of their clothes and they know.

That if they get them to dance around in front of a camera that they've at least got the attention of a whole lot of 14 year old kids. And so that starts to go out in the 1980s 1990s. And it gets to the point pretty soon where the major Promoters of um Sexual, uh perversion and and fornication and adultery and everything else the major promoters of those things.

Turns out to be america. Then it starts even getting worse than that. It starts turning out that the greatest promoter of homosexuality in the earth Is america, how do we promote homosexuality? Well, we stick it in all our tv shows or at least some of the comedies have homosexual.

Uh, you know guys involved and are they being mocked? No, they're basically being celebrated. We start making movies like brokeback mountain. And giving it special awards and sending it all around the world.

What are we doing? Well, we've we've become. We've become the propaganda arm for the homosexual movement in the earth. We've become the propaganda arm. Genesis 18, of course sodom and gomorrah. They were.

This is the exact sin that they were guilty of. Genesis 18 verse 20 and the lord said because the cry of sodom and gomorrah is great. Because their sin is very grievous. I'll go down now. And see whether they've done altogether according to the cry of it.

Which has come up unto me. And if not, I will know. And the men turned their faces from there and went towards sodom but abraham stood yet before the lord. Okay, sodom and gomorrah are about to be destroyed they have literally hours to live.

They don't know it yet. But they have one friend in the earth who happens to be a friend of god. And they're very fortunate to have this one guy that god kind of likes. He's not in sodom and gomorrah.

He's outside of it and he's standing in front of god and god is on his way. To utterly destroy these two cities completely wipe them off the face of the earth and abraham stands yet before the lord. And god is not going to run over and smash abraham to pieces in order to get there.

He's going to listen for a little bit to abraham because abraham is his friend. So abraham says to god God if there's 50 Righteous people in those cities. Will you destroy them? Maybe if there's 40, what about 30?

Abraham starting to bargain with god. I've got a good friend who preached on this passage. He said he said the future of these of these two cities is is like little straws in the wind. They can be it can be a blow in either way that they don't even know that out of the clear blue sky is going to come utter destruction any moment.

So there they are with their one guy. They don't even know about and he's literally bargaining for their lives. He's a friend of god. The two angels have already departed. They're walking into that city to see Whether it is as bad as they have heard and if it is.

Everyone will die. What are they guilty of well? Why does god have to judge sin like that because it spreads? If you leave sodom and gomorrah alone before you know it all of the cities round about will be filled with this homosexual endlessly invading stuff.

You find that there is no Empire and no City state and no nation in the whole history of the world that has survived long doing this stuff because they've all been destroyed. Every one of them has been utterly annihilated.

God doesn't leave them standing. Roman empire just before it fell was just a morally corrupt. Into every form of perversion just before the end. They bankrupted themselves by lusting after money lusting after one another.

Committing every perversion and they fell. To the next invader. Why. Because they deserve to fall. What is america into today? There is no perversion too low. No perversion too low. The internet is full of it.

America produces the lion's share probably 80 to 90 percent of all pornography in the earth. Puts it all over the internet the most sick things you can imagine. Child porn. That's just the start of it.

Stuff stuff stuff that if you saw it even for a minute you'd start throwing up. It's all over the internet. The sickest things you can imagine. America produces most of this. It's a multi-billion dollar industry.

How is hollywood making most of its money out of sex and violence? How's mtv and that type of thing? Why is america the one that's looked to in all of these things because america can spend two hundred thousand dollars making a music video.

So it's three minutes long. Three minutes long. It's got the music going. And and it's got fantastic production. Fantastic production cost two hundred thousand dollars. Only america can spend that kind of money on a music video.

There's no other nation in the world comes close to that. New zealand would spend five thousand dollars on a music video. That was common. So this is why everything america produces is exported around the world.

If they produce a film. A 75 or 100 million dollar film their entire earth is watching it. They keep an entire track just to dub it into mandarin. They they dub it into The language of egypt. They dub it into the language of israel.

They dub it into the language of whatever korean so. Everybody is going to the same movies all around the world. 95 percent of them surely. Are american movies. Hardly any other movies make it. What happens when one nation?

Produces virtually everything that is watched around the world. Well god starts to take a special interest in that nation. He stakes a special interest in what's being broadcast. Takes a special interest In what is being propagandized all over the world.

What's propaganda. Well, you know goebbels was hitler's propaganda guy. What was what was he able to do in germany? He was able to persuade slowly and gradually the people of germany that the jews Were behind all of their troubles that they were an ugly race that they were money grubbing that they deserved to die.

Slowly over time goebbels just through the use of films and radio. Just through films and radio was able to persuade an entire nation. That the jews deserve death. That's what propaganda is. Whose propaganda are we producing.

We're producing the devil's propaganda. And we are pushing it on every youth culture of the whole world. Every youth culture. If I go to korea, what are they listening to? They're listening to american gangster rap.

I go to japan. What are they listening to? Oh when I was in nigeria, I was in uh, I managed to catch a little bit of um, nigeria television. It was it was an mtv type. Produced by nigerians. And what were they having on what was what was on it?

It was american gangster rap. What's american gangster rap about it's filled with swear words. Usually they delete those when they're when they're putting it on television, but they keep all the themes going all through it.

It's about how many people you've killed lately. It's about how much gold you've stolen. It's about how how many girls you've virtually raped a lot of it's about all this. I can even begin to use some of the words that are just commonly used.

In every gangster gangster rap type song not even gangster raps just all through that culture. Is this the only culture that's doing it? No. The white people have their version of it's called death metal.

Or uh, whatever. We produce it. We market it to all the youth of the earth. All of the youth of the earth are being utterly Corrupted. Why around the world and every nation that's exposed to this stuff.

Is it getting lower and lower and lower where children are starting to have sex and starting to um Be interested in that kind of stuff and uh children are being born out of wedlock. Why is that happening?

Well because of the propaganda. We sell it to them in the best packaging we can find we we hire our brightest guys. To come up with the scripts. For our sitcoms, which are just usually laden with sexual innuendo.

It's laden with it. We we hire the best and brightest guys we can To make the sickest and every year it gets worse the sickest sickest stuff. Sex in the city we arrive for the straight guy big brother.

Um, you know. You name it. We we dredge the bottom of the barrel. Guys that are able to get on television and spend half an hour Dredging your pockets for money. These are the guys that are successful on tbn.

We all know that. The guys that can get you to pick up a phone and dial that 1 -800 number with your credit card. The guys that have this going on, oh the lord's given me the figure of you know 777 dollars and 77 cents and I believe He's he said to me that this is like a first fruits offering.

And it's a special offering and and if you'll only dial now god's telling me that that there's a special blessing and every debt is going to be paid and You know the guys i'm talking about. These are the guys we put on television.

And send them as our ambassadors via satellite all over the earth to show the pastors In south america and african all across asia how to raise money for their church. And so you go to africa and you go to south america and you find multi-million dollar edifices that have been built by these complete thieves.

And and rogues and vagabonds all over the earth who are sick enough to be fleecing poor. Starving people of their money and we invented this and we send it out. We invented this. This is who we pay To be on television, do you know that there's revivals going on in third world countries all over the earth?

And at a certain point once the revival is at a certain point The prosperity guys will start flooding in And teaching them how to do this stuff. So god is sending revivals all over the world. Hundreds of millions are being saved.

And then we're going in and ruining it all. Ruining it all. Okay. So abraham is begging for the lives Of these people. He's standing before the lord. He he bargains with god down to 10. He's basically saying god if there's 10 righteous people.

And sodom and gomorrah, will you utterly destroy god says? Okay, no, I won't. I won't destroy it for 10 righteous people sadly in their case. Genesis chapter 19 verse 12. We're not going to read the whole story.

It's quite lengthy, but of course lot Abraham's nephew is the only righteous man in the whole city. And Down in genesis 19 verse 12. These are the angels the men that god sent in there the men said unto lot Have you here any besides your son-in-law your sons your daughters and whatever you have in the city.

Bring them out of this place for we will destroy this place because the cry of them Has waxed great before the face of the lord and the lord has sent us to destroy it. Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law.

And so on said up get you out of this place for the lord will destroy this city. And he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law. Turns out that lot and his daughters managed to get out his wife Came with him part of the way, but her heart was back there.

And sodom and gomorrah and she looked back and was utterly destroyed just like the cities were. So abraham, I mean, sorry lot escapes Basically with the clothes on his back his two daughters. And as he's watching from a distance.

The fire of god rains down on sodom and gomorrah and they are completely destroyed. Because the cry of them Had waxed great before the lord our god the cry of it. I want to put it to you. That there has never been a nation In the earth that has put up such a cry as america never been.

As I said it used to be fairly innocent stuff and america used to stand for some pretty righteous ideals and in fact america was uh The one nation that effectively stood against communism and pushed it back.

Atheistic communism was really defeated by america. America until the 1970s. Was doing tremendous amount of good far outweighing I believe the harm it was doing. But in the last 30 years 30 to 40 years.

Really starting in the late 60s america invented a drug culture that went around the world. Suddenly kids were getting strung out on heroin and and uh, every new drug that came along was being glorified and in our music and in our in our films.

And sex became sicker and sicker and more and more common on films and television and all of this degradation crept in. But it more than crept in. Gets to the point now. Where the cry of it is so loud before god.

So you think of what babylon stands for? What what is the what does revelation say about babylon says? She's made the earth drunk on her fornications. Well, what do we do with fornication in america now, we splash it up on the silver screen, you know 25 by 15 feet or whatever and and stick it in front of the youth of the whole earth.

Fornication is just the the common stuff that we spread all over the planet. Homosexuality well, we have marches on the streets flaunting it here in genesis. Sodom and gomorrah are utterly destroyed for these things.

The Great Depression and Imminent Judgment

But you know what they didn't spread around the whole earth. Sodom and gomorrah had no opportunity to do what we do. No opportunity. We're destroying the planet. What is currently in train for america?

What has god decided to do? If you listen to a guy like david wilkerson. There's two kinds of prophetic in america. There's the. There's the lesser listened to guys like david wilkerson who's been saying for years.

Listen, there's a great depression coming to this land. God is going to punish america and make her repent. God is going to take away her money. God is going to god is going to take away the idol. That makes america be able to produce all this junk.

The guys like david wilkerson been saying this kind of stuff for years about 14 months ago. It was brought to my attention about the housing crisis in united states. And I immediately saw that this was this was the fulfillment of those prophecies.

In fact, you know, we have general prophecies going, you know, i'm in publishing i'm in internet publishing. So We've been publishing over the years general prophecies that go back years and years. I remember publishing 10 years ago.

That there is one day going to be a massive depression in america. Why. Because god cannot stand what's going on in this country? And it's a country that he has blessed more than any other nation. I could even put it to you that through long periods of time.

God has blessed america more than he did israel. There's times the periods of time where israel was not blessed by god usually for the same reasons that america's about to be judged. Israel was being judged by god.

And god would send prophets to the land and the prophets were ignored. Because the people love their pleasures more than they love god. They wouldn't listen to the prophets just like wilkerson and leonard ravenhill and guys like that keith green.

In their day have been ignored saying these kind of things. And it becomes clearer and clearer to me that this depression is about to begin and i've been saying it now for about 14 months. It's not going to be a recession it's going to be a depression.

This is the last good christmas enjoy it. This is the last good christmas america is going to have for years and even this one Shows all the signs already of recession. But it's very mild as yet. The terrible thing about depressions is this they take an age to go into and an age to get out of.

It's like watching a slow motion train wreck. Slow motion train wreck. America has only had one other great depression. Way back in the 1930s. Nobody is hardly alive who remembers it. There was little children being dressed in sacks potato sacks.

There was queues around the streets at the salvation army for a cup of soup. This is the reality of what a depression is like. It's not a recession. People don't just go through a business cycle lose a bit of money and recover again in one or two years.

America is going to have stripped from it everything everything. Why. Because of what she's doing in the earth. That's why you know how proud we are as conservative christians. You know how proud and patriotic.

We happily send people to war on the other side of the earth and we think as christians that's the right thing to do. Just because the liberals are against it. We think we've got to be for it. Well, do you know what that that war is going to do?

It's draining the treasury of america. It's costing about two billion dollars a day, I believe. Two billion dollars a day. And we think oh, yeah. Patriotism is the way christians ought to be. We're conservatives.

So we should just because the liberals hate america. We better take the opposite viewpoint and we're going to totally support the war and we're going to totally support all of this stuff. A lot of patriotism is pride.

Listen a lot of patriotism is pride and by the time god is through with the christians of this nation. They will see it. If I get on my email list and write, uh, write that down and send it out there.

Do you know how many people will unsubscribe instantly? Unsubscribe off my email list. Why. Because americans will not put up with someone coming along and saying questioning patriotism and saying is it possible.

That america is no longer spreading good in the earth, but has started to spread evil. Is that possible? Is it possible that our patriotism is the blindest foolish patriotism in the world? Because we still think we're so good and glorious and god's on our side.

And in fact, he's about to turn against us. And to do what do so with such severity. We won't know what hit us. Do you know america has never had god against her in the whole history of this nation? God has brought great awakenings to this land every 50 years for 250 years.

Did you know that? 250 years of great awakenings. No other nation i've ever seen no other nation i've ever studied has ever had anything like that. Only america. America is the most blessed country in the world by far the richest nation that has ever been.

If I go back to greece if I go back to rome at the height of their glory. They do not compare with america. America's middle class is the richest middle class that has existed on the face of the earth.

It's never been matched and america is about to find out what happens when they use their influence to spread evil. Evil. What do kids get together on the internet and talk about some of these chat rooms now, did you know this whole website's devoted to cutting yourself getting depressed listening to Sick music and cutting yourself harming yourself.

How far you're willing to go. Egging one another on confirming one another. And these demonic things this is just that's just one little part of it. Listen america's sick america's a sick country and the saddest thing is That unlike most other countries we spread our sickness everywhere.

I can go behind the old what used to be the iron curtain and i'll I can walk down the street and hear american music blaring out of just about every. Every apartment. They listen to it everywhere. Too much is given much is expected.

God has given this country more than any other. If there's any place that has a hope. Of seeing revival in the midst of this judgment. It's the midwest. Any place has a hope it's the midwest. But I want to say to you the nation is going to be judged.

The coasts are going to be judged worse than the interior. I believe god is not only going to send a depression, but he's already begun sending calamities. To go with the depression to make it worse. Because when god turns around and starts opposing you you suddenly start noticing that the nation goes into drought.

Earthquakes will happen. Floods will happen storms will happen. Listen the last seven years has been a few birth pangs of this. After 9 11 God raised the temperature. Why did he do that? Because he's trying to warn everybody and say Listen, i'm taking my hand off one finger at a time.

Are you gonna listen to my prophets or not? And the church oblivious walks on. Pleasuring itself with uh, yeah the latest plasma television and the latest car. And whatever have you are buying, you know orgy of house buying that's what's caused the crisis.

Total greed is what's caused it. Greed in the business world and greed in personal people's lives. Getting up to their eyeballs in debt by borrowing against your house. That's what's caused the crisis.

God let it happen knowing full. Well, this is going to end in disaster total disaster. What's the worst kind of crisis our economic crisis you can have in any nation? It's a housing crash. Why because everybody?

Most everyone owns a house. If it's a stock market crash, it affects the rich. If it's a housing crash, it affects everybody. And the money they thought they had saved up in their house they stopped spending because that money is no longer there.

Look around you people. It's already underway. It's been underway for months months and months. We're only starting to get to the crisis now. This is the last good christmas america will have for years.

And every bit of what's coming is thoroughly deserved. Thoroughly deserved and the church most of all is guilty. But we have failed to bring to account do you know they just announced. And this had to be done by a congressman not by us a senator maybe Grassley I believe his name is just announced that there's an investigation going on of six major ministries in america.

Why is that investigation going on. Because we didn't bring them to account that's why. Because we kept sending the money. We kept sending the millions of dollars. We kept believing the lies that they tell that they really do need the jet.

For their ministry. They really need a personal jet. They really do need a house worth five million dollars or three houses with five million dollars each. They really do need to ride everywhere in a limo.

They really need that stuff. We knew it all about these people and yet we keep sending the money. Pouring money into their ministries. So the six biggest prosperity preachers in america. They're going they're going to be judged by the senate the american senate.