Three-Fold Vision - Part 1 — Leonard Ravenhill

My voice isn't very good. It will get better, I'm sure. I think the first thing we should do is to remember that while we sit in peace, and you've got a good supper, we should remember that people are dying.

I remember a few years ago there was a conference at a place called Camp David. You may remember. Mannach and Begin, the leaders of the Jews, and Mr. Carter, who was the president, they clasped their hands together with somebody else and declared that this was a period of peace from here to the end of the world.

Mr. Bush told us that the Desert War was over. The fact is that at this very moment there are 35 places in the world where there's war. I have a few heroes. One of them is a young man that came to my office just a couple of months ago.

He had just come back from Bosnia. He said it was the most terrible sight he ever saw. He'd been in Vietnam. He'd been in the Central States when the Sandinistas were fighting. But he said to go down the street in Bosnia was terrible.

Here's the body of a young lady and there's her head over there. There's a river of blood down Main Street. Children were starving. And the amazing thing is he's gone back again this week. He doesn't have any church behind him.

He's a very wonderful individual. And there are others like this. Some of the Mass that we just have quietly. All of us have a minute of prayer, and pray particularly for the Christians who are in Bosnia who are suffering so much.

Luxury, Complacency, and the Fear of Losing God's Spirit

Everybody's suffering. Religion doesn't make any difference. Suffering comes to everybody. Whether you're black or white or race or poor. But we live in luxury. I don't know why we sing God Bless America.

You know some women in India. You're in India. Women in India got their towels done today, today for meals, tomorrow. God Bless America. Why? You have two ovens or do you have three? You have two cars or do you have three?

You have two telephones or do you have three? Do you know how rich we are in America? We flush our toilets with drinking water. Do you get a thing to run? What you put down the toilet every day will cost a stack of money.

Oh, but I'm American. You know the greatest fear I have, I'm not afraid of death. I've been at death's door many times. I'm afraid that God will withdraw his spirit from America. He says my spirit shall not always thrive with man.

I checked at Billy Graham's office, and they're pretty accurate there. I said how many Bible schools are there in America? How many, how many seminaries? Well, as you know, America and Canada are joined together.

America and Canada have 450 Bible schools and 250 seminaries. Did Sodom have one Bible school? Did Gomorrah have a seminary? We're going to go back and let them all go, all go if you want. We'll break up the meeting.

The Authority of Scripture and the Eternal Throne of Christ

I'm afraid we don't treasure what we have. Some parts of the world don't. On one page of this sacred book we have 26 translations. My judgment on the Bible is this, it's either absolute or obsolete. You can't believe what you want like David was saying.

Believe this part, forget the other. Forget the dispensation of it. The Christ I serve, he's no older than he was, 10 ,000 years ago. He lived before creation. He's the only potent saint who lived before he was born.

The only potent saint who lived after he died. I like the emphasis David made on the throne. The British throne is impassive just now. It's a mockery to the world. I go back again and again and again to Hebrews 1.

Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. Dave didn't dwell long enough on that this morning on worship. I'll spank you afterwards. Well, I'll tell you what. I don't kid you that you live to be much older than I am.

You'll never hear a better preaching than you heard this morning. People asked me about this conference months ago. I said if you only come to one meeting, you don't come Saturday night, come Friday night.

David has a rare combination of being a teacher and a preacher at the same time. And today he reminded us about the throne in that wonderful 4th chapter of Revelation. What did he say? Who sits on the throne?

Jesus. Who sits with him? The Virgin Mary? Forget it. The Catholic Church actually does. You know, one day Jesus will not bow the knee to the Pope. The Pope will bow the knee to Jesus. Will the Virgin Mary sit on the throne with him?

No. Who will? Those that want? Overcomers. People say sometimes, Oh, you know, I'm a survivor. I say, I'm not. I'm an overcomer. Surviving means you're going down for the third time. Somebody drags you by the head and saves you.

No, brother. I'm not living to celebrate eternal life. But there, I've got it now. We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. Well, I listened very attentively this morning and I listened to that message again.

I get a tape, I'm sure. They often tell Martha, I say many days to a darling we're rich. After meeting this morning, a man said to me, your change of son very well. He said, he's a good preacher. No, he isn't a good preacher.

He's a great preacher. And his brother's great. And the mother's great. She used to supervise one of the largest hospitals in England. For three years, she had to do all the main surgery, everything, because she's killed in the air.

I don't have that genius. There's two boys, two of the best preachers in the world. The other one is one of the big teachers at Smithsonian Museum. Mixes with kings and princes and people. No, to me, the man, it never fazed him at all.

He's never lost what Kipling called a common fact. But you know, if you strike, if you take a piece of metal and put it in a furnace, the first thing is, the metal goes into the furnace. Then the furnace goes into the metal.

I used to watch the blacksmith and he'd take a piece of metal and, I won't use your words, David, turns it into the fire and he'd pull it out and it was red at the end. Then he'd put it back and turn up the bellows and they'd fall off.

You'd look in the furnace, you can't tell one from the other. Not only does the metal enter into the fire, the fire enters the metal. You see, we've sung many of this for many years. There's room in the cross for you, forget it.

I changed that. I wrote it as a card. I sent it all over the country. Not there's room after the cross for you, there's room on the cross. Except, remember, most of us have never been crucified. I remember, dear Dr. Joseph, one thing he knew about the man going down the street carrying a cross.

He's not coming back. It's a one-way ticket. David, I want to tell you, this morning I was richly blessed. I couldn't follow you very much all the way. Because just when you put a piece of metal in the fire and the fire enters the metal and then you strike it, sparks fly off in every direction.

I preached in the conference to preachers from the best-known authors and preachers in America were there and he said, God really spoke in that meeting. I said, how do you know? He said, well, because while you were saying one thing, the Spirit was saying another for me.

Well, I was doing the same thing. There's a little tattered book here. See this beautiful book? It's nearly as old as me. That's why it's falling apart. I was going to say, I won't sell you it for a hundred dollars.

I was going to say, I'll sell you it for a thousand and give the money to missions. But a man came in my office and he looked down, he saw a book. He said, I've wanted that book for years. I said, I bought that from England.

I said, well, if I'll have it for a hundred dollars, I'll sell you it for a thousand. Oh, he grabbed his wallet and brought me a cheque for five thousand. I've still got some books with him. But I gave the book to missions.

This is an old, old Methodist hymn book. I've taken it around the world. I read some of it every day. But there's a book at the back. Jack has some, I think. Where's Jack? Where's your hand, Jack? Good.

Do you have Dr. Toter's book? Well, you can get Dr. Toter's book. It has many of the hymns that are found in this book. Dr. Toter's book is called the Christian Book of Mystical Verse. He's gathered lots and lots of hymns.

I'm saying this, let me put it right here. One day we were talking about worship. I remember going to a town called Bradford. I never went for three day meetings. There are churches in England standing today that we started 50 years ago.

We went to towns, took a tent, slept in the tent, ate in the tent, prayed in the tent, fasted in the tent. Walked from city to city. Wesley left London to go north to Newcastle. Came back to London, went to Bristol.

He rode on horseback. I didn't have a horse, so I walked it. I walked it with five other young men. For three years we walked to England. 22 to 30, 22 to 25, four miles a day. Now and then I'd be walking across the room.

But I'd do it again if I could. So we went to Bradford. I remember going to Bradford because of this reason. They made the best cloth there and I was in the clothing business. At least I was a tailor.

Prayer, Smith Wigglesworth, and the Power of Faith

And while we were there we met one of the world's most wonderful men, Smith Wigglesworth. Have any of you ever heard about Smith Wigglesworth? Boy, any of you ladies pregnant, be careful. He was in a meeting one day, not far from my home, and here's a woman, obviously something wrong with her.

She had a great big tummy. So he went down, one of the people was singing, he's shouting over here, are you pregnant? Hold on, what about this? A tumour, a big tumour, a big tumour, go on then, go on.

So he said, shut your eyes. And he punched him in the belly like that. He said you're healed, but you'd rather heal the dead. He didn't worry him a bit. He's going down the street with a few of his friends in France and a boy comes through a garden gate and he's dead back, a little fella, a terrible bug.

I had a stroke a while ago, it interfered with my voice, and this little boy had a terrible, he couldn't speak. And he said, Lord, don't let these men speak to me. Everybody makes fun of me. It's the most ridiculous thing, I've never seen a kid in his life.

And he comes up and says, son, come here. This boy came forward and said, speak! And he talked right away. I could do it in my own right now. There's so much faith healing in there, I'd have some faith healing.

Okay. I went to Bradford, there I met this wonderful man. But then the lady came to our meeting, oh, mercy, you need oil of a lay from her head to her feet. She was on the front row when noses were given out, she had a nose like a banana.

I'd often said, she wouldn't win a, she couldn't win a beauty competition in a crocodile farm. And to my amazement, she said at the end of the meeting, and she had a horrible voice. Boy, I thought she was made up all the way around.

And she just said, will you come to my house with some tea? So we went to her house. I can't forget it. You wouldn't give her $10 for everything in the house. And then she said what I wanted her to say.

There was birds sitting down at this wooden table. She had a little room to live in. She had a bed over the bath in the toilet. She had a kitchen stove in the toilet. And she lived in that little cupboard kind of thing.

And she began to pray. Boy, I got all of that table, I felt as though I was in heaven. Somebody said to me, this woman does nothing but pray. I thought about what you were preaching this morning, baby, because I heard a man talking about, well, something David said this morning just kind of nailed down what I'd been saying during the week.

One thing, since this is Saturday afternoon, 80 years ago today, I went to a Methodist Bible study with my mother. Precious praying woman. I don't forget that. I can tell you the names of dozens of men.

They know me. And they ask me, do you know songs? Yes or no? Well, he preached with you. Have you had dinner with him? Well, I don't know him. Are you getting old? Yes. Why don't you know him? For one reason only, I never heard him pray.

It's one thing for me to stand here and talk to you about God. It's another thing to talk to God about you. And if I want to, if I started my life over again, I'd give more time to prayer, more time to Bible study.

But again, I listened to that precious old woman pray and never forgot me. And the other thing that David said this morning, I was going to say, I have a whole shelf of books on how to be filled with the Spirit, fruit of the Spirit, gifts of the Spirit, love of the Spirit, joy of the Spirit.

Except, David, I've never heard anybody ever mention the grief of the Holy Ghost. It's all your experience of the Holy Ghost. It's clapping your hands and stuffing your feet. You didn't get the real thing.

It's an old saying, laugh and the world laughs with you. It's true. Laugh and the church laughs with you. You weep and you weep alone. But the key to revival is what? In this book. You don't need a new book.

You don't need to buy those wonderful books that are back, except mine. But, what does it say? He that goes forth, what? Weeping. Isn't it amazing? Paul says to Timothy, I remember your tears. Did he give him five lessons on weeping?

What does it say? In Jude, praying in the Holy Ghost is not praying in tongues. Some have made, I believe in census, some have made chapters. Praying in the Holy Ghost is praying with the strength of the Holy Ghost, the wisdom of the Holy Ghost, the grief of the Holy Ghost.

Jesus wept. Are you better than Jesus? David mentioned this morning, what, Genesis 34, he mentioned it. Genesis 32, Moses comes down from the mountain. What did he do? Well, he'd been with God. You get like the people you live with.

He'd been with God. What did God say? These people have seen signs and wonders and miracles, they forgot all they needed was a golden calf and it blotted the world out. Aaron, the anointed of God, was leading half-naked people.

He shone back to them. They'd seen the sea divided. They'd seen signs and wonders. And Moses starts praying for them. God says, go down the mountain, see what your brothers have done. I'm angry with them.

What does it say there? I'll tell you what the paraphrase of it says in the Methodist hymn book. Let Moses in the spirit groan and God cries out, let me alone. Did God ever say that? When you pray, do you want him to pat you on the back and say, the most sanctified person on earth, the best preacher, gift of tongues, you'll sing at big meetings and on the baloney?

Later in the chapter, the high priest says to Moses, not only says God was angry, he was exceedingly angry. He was very angry. And Moses said, I stand here between a living God and a dying people. Then he says, God says, Moses, let me alone.

Do you think he said that without tears? Do you think that most amazing prayer a little bit further in the chapter where he says, God let me die. Wasn't your wonderful hero Nathan Hale who said, I'm sorry, I have only one life and one body to give to die for my country.

The wicked English killed him. The reason we don't get revival is we don't pay the price for it. One word is the key, as David said, one word is the key. Obedience. This is David's first time here. I'm sure he'll come again.

It's such a blessing. Everybody who's gone around the world, they want him back. This may be my last trip. I'm not sure. If I can have my church, I don't care if I never preach again. What I'd like to do, I can't.

Costly Intercession and Intimacy With God

I've got the precious, wonderful gift of God. She lives in a home where they have servants now. She's a servant to everybody. A woman 83 years of age works from 7 in the morning and hardly goes to bed before 10 at night.

We get 20 or 30 visitors a week to the house and now she serves everybody. Put me to shame. I'd like to find a little house somewhere quiet where nobody knows my address. Every week people come from the ends of the earth to talk.

What do you do when a man calls from Australia and says, will you talk to me for half an hour if I fly over? I say, yes, he came. He took me to a prayer meeting and some of those great prayer meetings.

Jack Morrison was in and he tried. Men wouldn't pray. We took the man home and we went to supper. He stayed the night. Mother said, don't worry, there's a medical doctor. Do you have prayer meetings in Australia?

He said, oh yes. We have prayer meetings in Australia but we don't get upset. He thought praying with tears and agony was being upset. How do you think the Apostle Paul prayed in Romans 9? I should wish myself a curse.

We don't want to die the way Paul David said. We won't die. The Lord sanctified a bit of me but he said, sanctify your holy. Okay, I count it one of the greatest honors of my life to talk time and time again with Dr. Joseph.

One day, as I went in his office, well he said, don't ever come to Chicago without talking to me. So I went down to his office one day and he said, I've told this so often, look at the rug. Well at that time there was no K-mark.

There was a place called Kresge and he told me, I think he paid 59 cents for that little rug made of a frisky bit of cloth. So I looked at the rug. I wish I'd known if I'd been given some money for it but I might have made a fetish of it.

To me, he's the greatest man of God I ever met, not the greatest priest but he had an intimacy with God and he just said this thing and I said, sure. He said, I come to my office at 8 o 'clock in the morning.

He used a good old Bible word. I get down on my belly at 8 o 'clock. I get up at 12 o 'clock and I haven't said a word of prayer. I've just worshipped. You'll find in this hymn book and I'm trying to put a hymn book together with Lillian Harvey.

We've quoted quite often from one of the favorites of Dr. Joseph. I can't think of his name right now. Oh, William Faber. Faber wrote, I'm close to, he was so often quoted. Here's Joseph on his belly for hours without saying a word of prayer, gazing.

That's the very thing that the greatest minister that ever went to China said, gazing, gazing. That was big me, gaze upon me and thy beauty fills my soul, brought forth by thy transforming power. That was amazing.

I can't even hold the toe to a coat over and over again. Laying there as though Christ were visible. How beautiful, how beautiful the sight of thee must be. Thine endless wisdom, boundless power and awful purity.

Oh Jesus, Jesus, dearest Lord, forgive me if I say for very love thy sacred name a thousand times a day. Burn, burn within me love of God. Burn fiercely night and day until all the gross of earthly life is burned and burned away.

If you want to go and get sanctified, put your knees to the ground, raise your hands, millions of people filled with tongues. Come on, be honest. Aren't we here to talk truth? How many people in the upper room?

About what? About what? A hundred and twenty. I had it written in my office. I know the man that broadcasts to the world every Sunday Dan Betzer. You know that? He's in Florida anyhow. And he's written in it.

He sent me the book. He's written in it. There are now one hundred and twenty million Pentecostals and Charismatics in the world. He came to my office. I jumped on him. I said, Dan, listen. You say there are one hundred and twenty million black, white, yellow, in Asia, Asia Minor, Africa, New Zealand, the islands of the sea, the Solomon Islands, the other islands.

A hundred and twenty million people in the world are only a hundred and twenty. My God, what's wrong? Is there another Holy Ghost that we don't know? Or is it like David said, we should have areas in our life.

Lord, take the bad things, take the failure out of my life, but there's something to leave. You know, almost every magazine in the last year has had something about Jezebel. Have you read those things?

Jezebel is worldly. Jezebel is this. Listen, I've got the whole face on my head. I'm going to do this. Jezebel, there is this worldliness. A very famous preacher came to our house, as a lot have done.

What time do you eat in the morning? I said, well, we take breakfast at eight o 'clock. My wife has everything ready by eight o 'clock. Wonderful. He comes out, shaved, dressed up. Wait a minute, is your wife coming?

No. She takes a little longer. His wife came out at ten o 'clock. Good Lord, she was much paint on her face. Queen Mary, the big ship. Her cheeks were flaming red, her eyes were black. Women used to be ashamed if they had black eyes.

Same thought. Your husband punched you. Now they go buy the stuff that make black eyes. No wonder women are late for church. They put pencils on their eyebrows, stick it on their false fingernails, get on their false teeth, put on their wig.

Before you go to church you need to say, are you the real you? He's coming over. He don't make me angry. We went to her house and the little girl said, we've got a new pastor. Oh, I like his wife. She's blonde hair.

She was what you call, I call, a, oh, yeah, yeah, she's a kind of blonde, but she's what I call a, a suicide blonde. Died by her own hand. My precious, I'm glad. Recently I saw where a woman said she's introducing women to wear more trousers.

Do you know why? Because a woman sniffs her hands in her pocket right then she's preg, she thinks she's masculine. I married a woman I don't want a man. Somebody said, Adam got eaten up. Please. I've never seen my wife with a spot of powder on her face.

Do you know why? Because when I was a little boy we made up a point. Little dabs of powder, little drops of paint, make a girl's complexion something what it ain't. You see, every time you spent two hours with all the women making up, you're insulting God.

You didn't make me white. I'm not attractive. Why, why do you get made up? Do you think God stands on duty to go and judge us? God looks on the outside appearance. My God. You think he did these days.

You go to a church to show makeup. You think it's a friend rehearsed for a film concert. Oh, you're meddling. Sure I'm meddling. How many, how long, come on, how long does it take you to get ready to go to church Sunday morning?

Suppose you put that time into prayer. How much money have you spent in the last ten years on makeup? Come on, why do you give it permission? It's all right. I talked the other day with a man. I said, I was in England.

Boy, I went to them. I told them the greatest statistics in America on abortion. How many people die every year of smoking? How many people die every year driving cars when they're drunk? How many people do this?

Boy, boy, did they thank me afterwards. Sure, but you're shitting a man out there. If I talk to you about vanity and makeup, you fellas feel it off the horse. Listen, lady, don't make yourself up to come to church.

Make yourself up before you go to bed. I tell fellas, don't look at that girl twice at seven o 'clock in the morning and look at the old wife. You get cheated. Why are you expressing this? Because one of my favorite chapters is about the bride of Christ, I think there it is.

The Bride of Christ and the Call to Holiness

Is it Psalm 45? The king's daughter is all glorious, what, in a hairdo? Some of you women in the past few years have spent more on hairdos than you give to making. There's going to be a day when we're all disgusted in shops in the maze at a different seat of time.

A lady not far from us, and you know her name, I won't tell you. Why not? Paul is not afraid to expose people, is he? Oh, I'd like to go to appendix alternate, would you? Listen, I'm going down the street and there's Peter with John.

I say, hey Peter, I want to ask you a question. Oh, you had an anointing Sunday morning? I never thought I'm a man who's such a hypocrite and to fire us. Good Lord, I went home and said, our pastor killed a couple this morning.

Now, Peter, don't you go home and kill all the hypocrites in your church because you have no room in your heart for forgiveness. Half an hour. It is a hot and buggy day. It takes a day to do it. Now we don't even have the biggest enemy.

Some of us have to drive automobiles. I'm getting more stingy about my time. Maybe I don't have much left. I might give it two years to write two very interesting books. But what about the time God gives us?

We don't think about that. So I'm just telling you what David was starting me off. I've done some thinking this afternoon. I've got enough out of that message this morning to keep me going for a week, thinking about worship and adoration.

I believe that the highest form of worship is speechless. Like Dr. Thornton said, I can gaze and gaze and gaze. Remember Noel Hemingway said, I shall know him, I shall know him. When redeemed by his side I shall stand.

I shall know him, I shall know him by the prints of the nails in his hand. A quick thing, I didn't plan a lot of stuff to say just to kind of stir your minds up tonight. I don't know much about opera.

I know that Verdi played his opera Aida in the great, what do you call it, in Milan in Italy in the opera house. And when he finished, the people clapped and cheered. The young Hitchcock horse is from his carriage and let him go down the stairs.

They pushed his carriage, they pushed his coach and they pulled it down the street, yelling all the time, Verdi, Verdi, Verdi, Verdi. That was ten o 'clock at night. They were still shouting at midnight.

They were still shouting at three o 'clock in the morning. He went to the window and there were people dancing in the street and shouting, Verdi, Verdi, Aida, Aida, and trying to sing as the Italians do.

All because he wrote an opera. David told him about making vows. He teased to make them in the heat of a meeting and then tomorrow there's no atmosphere. You face the world of flesh and the devil. You won't gain an inch of ground in this meeting, but what the devil will try and get five inches back.

The Resurrection, Ascension, and New Birth

So here's hundreds of people shouting, Verdi, Verdi. They're intoxicated with joy because he wrote an opera. Wait, there's a man eating a tomb. They put a stone on the tomb. They put wax over the stone.

They put sixteen soldiers. They put all the sin in the world. They put everything, even in hell there. Christianity hangs on one thing and not on the cross. Do you remember the chorus? Living he loved me, dying he saved me, buried me, carried my sins far away.

Writing he justified freely forever. But David, I don't know if you've done it, I'd like to hear you do it. I never once heard a sermon on the ascension. Jesus has to more than die, he has to ascend to the Father.

Every demon in hell is nervous and shaking when he rise from the dead. Every angel is waiting to proclaim it. And some of the tomb rogues, I don't know why we only sing of David. David said, David, why do we only sing up from the grave he rose every Easter time?

We ought to sing it every Sunday. The most disappointing day in the life of Jesus when he rose from the dead, nobody was there. Not one of the lepers he healed was there. Not one of the blind barculers was there.

Cademus wasn't there. His own mother wasn't there. How many times did he tell them, destroy this body and I'll rise again. And there was nobody there. Do you think he didn't feel it? The simple question is, do you thank God today that he rose?

Isn't it amazing? In a Christian kind of like a manner, the outstanding Sunday is not Easter Sunday or Christmas Sunday. It's what? What do you call it Sunday? Football Sunday? Yes, Super? Super Bowl Sunday.

Everybody misses Super Bowl Sunday. They spend so much time watching football, and spend about Jesus up from the grave he rose. You know what I believe somebody needs to do? Somebody needs to go to America and preach the new birth.

I don't believe 5 of all the Christians apostolic Catholic Methodist Nazarenes have saved. And that's true of England. You go to your own pastor and say, Pastor, I want to ask you one question. You are the witness of the Spirit.

John Wesley, one of the greatest friends I've ever met. Do you know who he is? I read it today. Charles Wesley put John Wesley's theology to music. And one thing that Charles Wesley wrote, My heart is full of Christ.

And as long as this glorious message is kept. You know what John Wesley said? I went to London, I went to Birmingham, I went to Manchester, I offered men Christ. We don't offer Christ, we offer them heaven.

Do you want to go to heaven? Raise your hand. Do you want forgiveness of sins? Raise your hand. The one battle David didn't tell you, he had three cruel years of conviction of sin. Why? Because as Paul said to Timothy, you've known the scriptures from being a child.

Your mother knew it, your grandmother knew it. We took David and the family every time we could, bring them to conferences. And in Ireland we did, and in America we did. David didn't sign to artists. He does wonderful painting.

But his battle was, he wanted to design his own studio and a follower. But he knew, a scripture that stuck with him then, he often preaches now, is this, you're not your own, you're bought with a price.

So he dropped his brush and never picked it up since. And I appreciate that. But 300 years ago, there's a great preacher in Scotland by the name of Philip Douglas. He wrote the greatest thing ever written outside the Bible on regeneration.

And he wrote that lovely hymn we hardly ever sing anymore with not too up and going. Happy day, happy day, when Jesus washed my sins away. He taught me how to watch and pray and live rejoicing every day.

Happy day. And he goes on to sing happy day. And when he got from his knees he'd had wrestlings too. But when he got up he put it on record forever. I was singing it hundreds of times. My granny sang it in the fireplace.

It is done, the great transaction's done. I have my Lord. And he's mine. Don't come in my office unless you're living and walking with God. I'll put my finger out between your eyes and say, does Christ live in you?

Well I'm a Methodist. I didn't ask you that. I got the baptism. I didn't ask you that. Does Christ live in you? Does Christ weep through you? How do you think God looks down on a hell of a world like this?

He looks on Bosnia tonight, running with blood. One of America's most gifted preachers. He doesn't count generations by 40. He counts them by 70. He says we had 70 years and then judgment came on America.

What was it called? The Civil War. Then we had another 70 years. We had judgment. What was it called? It was called 1929, the crash of all the banks. Another 70 years goes to 1998 or 9. We're ready for another thunderous, devastating demolition that God gives.

God's Sovereignty Over Nations and the Need for Revival

Nobody's going to escape our precious other son. He had to go do some business for Smithsonian Museum in Italy. So they put him under one of the Rockefeller's multi-million dollar mansions. He's up in the third story, manicured lawn, fabulous scenery.

And he had to write an article there. But the next crash, these guys won't get through it. You know, he put a new man in office. You know, let me tell you something. There's a fellow, used to be a Baptist preacher called Bill Moyers.

Bill Moyers has been around the world with David Rockefeller, a billionaire. You know, this said when he came back, this world is run by 15 men. That's all. They regulate the price of money, regulate the price of everything else.

Do you know what happened these last three weeks? Do you remember? Gold went up $40 an ounce in three weeks. So there's something brewing in the world. Fifteen men control this world. No, no, no. I thought I'd go to bed in a nightmare if I believed that.

God owns this world. The earth is the Lord's. And he's going to collect the rent for it soon. He's loaned a bit of it to you, loaned a bit to me. Well, come on. You see, I don't want to wait to get to heaven and be put in a dunce's class.