Resting in Jesus — David Wilkerson

Wonderful, wonderful word has come forth already today, and hopefully this will be a capstone message on those very subjects. Now let me preface what I'm going to preach tonight by telling you, most of you know that the book America's Last Call has sent a warning throughout the United States, it was primarily for the United States, and that thing is, that's bearing down on us very fast, and then the Lord spoke to my heart one day and said, if you're going to warn, you've got to believe me for hope, a message of hope for the church.

And so I've been, I have preached ten messages so far along this very line, how God intends to keep, the name of the new book that will go into publication shortly is called God's Plan to Keep His People in the Coming Depression, God's Plan to Keep His People in the Coming Depression, and we are offering it to, across the switchboard I think it was in some fifty languages, we're offering it in every language all over the world to all the publishers who publish their books, and this is a message tonight that you're going to hear tonight that will go all over the world, not because I'm preaching it, not because it's that special, but it's a word that's needed today, because the whole, one-third of the world is already in depression, Brazil is about to go down, soon Mexico, Argentina, and all of Latin America, and the times are very, very perilous, but I have a word of caution tonight, something the Lord is dealing with me about sharing with the body of Christ in these perilous times that we face, and if you listen closely tonight to what the Holy Spirit is saying, you'll be able to hear any kind of news that's coming, it will never bother you, there will be no fear in your heart, because I believe that God would not deliver this in this church and send a message around the world without first meeting our need here.

He would first prove the point, so to speak, right here, that there's a body who have heard it, believed it, and are practicing the presence of the Lord, and are unmoved by these things. In fact, my message is entitled simply, Resting in Jesus.

Resting in Jesus Amid Perilous Times

Now you talk about God's plan to keep His people in coming depression and perilous times, He mandates that we come into this rest in Jesus Christ, that He not just be a theology, but we would enter in to a place in Him of total, absolute rest and peace.

Heavenly Father, I pray that you anoint this message tonight. I pray that you touch me with fire from heaven. Lord, I want it to come from the innermost being, I want it to come from the throne of God.

Lord, I believe you're speaking to the nation, you're speaking to the whole world, and Lord, I feel unworthy of this challenge tonight, but I know that you have placed a call in my heart. You have given us an international pulpit.

Lord, you've opened doors, you've given us the respect of many, many people who want to hear what God is saying, and Lord, we humble ourselves before you right now, and we ask that the word that goes forth in this pulpit tonight will bring life, let it produce life, let it shatter the fear that is arising in so many hearts of so many Christians.

Lord Jesus, I give my heart to you fully, that I may be able to express your mind tonight that you've placed in me, for the mind of Christ is in us. We give you thanks, we give you praise, in Jesus' name, amen.

Awareness Without Obsession

Resting in Jesus. Now, there's a great difference between awareness and obsession. Now, to be aware means to be informed, to be alert, to gain knowledge, gather as much knowledge as you can. You become informed, you get all the knowledge that you can gather, but to be obsessed is to be dominated by that gathered knowledge.

You have to be careful when you gather knowledge, when you really enter into a subject and you get all the information, you become alerted to the subject, whether it's judgment, whether it's Y2K, on any subject in life, you have to be careful that it does not take over your thinking, and that's all that you think about, that's, you're totally obsessed with that one thought.

For example, I asked the Lord to show me how I could approach the future, and he said, first of all, go back in the Old Testament and see how I've worked with past generations. He said, why don't you just go back, in my book on America, I talked about the destruction of London, how we could learn from that, and how to go back to Shiloh.

The Lord told me to go back to the last depression, the 1930s in the United States, to see why God smoked the country with the Great Depression that lasted for ten years, that broke out in 1929, and so I gathered as many books as I could to get informed, and one of the books I read was by an author who spent, I think, 12 years writing this book, and most of the book has to do with letters that President Hoover and Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband received.

I think he said he waded through 250 ,000 letters that were on file in the archives, Roosevelt archives, and he absolutely got so involved in this, it just consumed his life. In fact, the book is very powerful, you feel the terror of those days, and especially among the poor and among the blacks in the southern United States.

But in the foreword of the book, this man apologized to his wife for having made her eat and drink the Depression. In fact, it so got to him, that's all he can, it literally took his life, literally consumed his life, everything.

He was absolutely obsessed with the Depression in the 1930s. Now let's talk about the subject that I've been bringing to this audience for the last ten weeks or so, and then 12 weeks before that on the previous subject on America's Last Call.

The Watchman’s Calling to Warn

I've warned about coming judgments, I've said some very, I brought to you some very frightful things that the press doesn't want to hear, talked about the impending storm and the warning of a worldwide Depression.

Now as a watchman, I am only one of many, many of God's watchmen, I'm mandated by the Holy Spirit to share what I know from Scripture and what the Holy Spirit is saying to my heart. I have, if I'm on the wall and I see a storm coming, I see a tornado coming, I've got to warn those in the city that I've called to warn.

Now the trumpet may sometimes, you can see something that's so terrifying and get so emotional and blow the trumpet so loud it could pierce the ear of everybody within the walls, but nevertheless the watchman's only job, his only calling is to warn, to inform, and to give you the knowledge of what is coming.

He's called a seer, he looks into the future, he looks into the Word of God. In fact, you can discount everything I say that you can't prove by the Word of God. We have so many people calling themselves prophets today.

First of all, you can't show me any prophet in the Old Testament who called themselves a prophet, and they never tried to qualify that they were, they never tried to prove that they were prophets by what they said.

In other words, you know I'm a prophet because this is going to happen, this is going to happen, to validate their fact that they were, or they thought that they were a prophet. But you see, a watchman's calling is to sound an alarm.

Now all the Old Testament prophets were watchmen, every one of them. They were seers, they were alerting God's people of awesome judgment were coming down on them. The Spirit of God would come on these men, and they would talk about invading armies that they, when they described, they were very hoofbeats.

You could almost, when you listen to them, you can hear the sound of the war. They talked about pestilences and famines and judgments and wars and shakings. Yet I find when I study these men to be the most well-balanced men that had an underlying strength of joy, and judgment was not their only message.

They were just, they were just as excited about alerting God's people about the love and the mercy of God, and we have totally misjudged all of the old prophets, especially Jeremiah and Ezekiel, because we hear them talking about their bowels boiling and the fear and the trembling.

And so we picture these prophets just running around their whole lifetime with a long face and the wind blowing and thunder and lightning. That's the wrong concept of every single prophet in the Word of God.

They never did allow, not a single prophet that I've studied, allowed the prophets of wrath and coming judgment to dominate their thoughts to the point that it hid the face of God, the mercy and the grace of God.

They never allowed that to happen in their lives. Let me give you an example. Go to Isaiah 24. Now I want to prove my point now. Now folks, if you love the Word of God, I'm going to show you some things tonight that will bring great joy to your heart in the days ahead.

Chapter 24 of Isaiah. I presume everyone has their Bible with them here tonight. I go to verse 16, beginning to read verse 16 of Isaiah 24. Now listen to this horrible prophecy. This watchman is saying, from the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous.

But I said, my leanness, my leanness, lo unto me. The treacherous deiters have dealt treacherously. Yea, the treacherous deiters have dealt very treacherously. He said, all I see, everywhere I look, is treachery, lying.

And in another portion he said, truth is fallen to the streets. Fear and the pit and the snare are upon the own habit of the earth. So come to pass that he that fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit, and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare.

For the windows from on high are open than the foundations. The earth do shake. The earth is utterly broken down. Boy, if you were frightful of anything I've ever prophesied. Verse 19, earth is utterly broken down.

The earth is clean, dissolved. The earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage. And the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall and not rise again.

And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. Now look at me please, folks. This is an incredible thing that he's saying.

God is shaking everything that can be shaken, everything in sight. All joy is darkened in another place. All mirth is gone. The earth here, he said, is reeling to and fro like a drunken man. He said, the Lord is punishing the earth.

The whole earth is under punishment, this man says. Now Isaiah's describing to the people what he sees coming. It has not yet happened, but he said this is what is about to happen, and he's alerting them.

He's doing the work of a watchman. He's grieved at what he says, that my soul is so lean. In other words, he said, I'm emaciated when I think about it. It's really gripped me so. What I see, and I know is coming, and it pained him.

He felt it deeply. But having delivered his soul, and no longer blood guilty, absolutely have delivered his soul the message God gave him to him. I want you to see how quickly he moves into the message of grace and the mercy of God.

Isaiah 25: Grace After Judgment

Chapter 25, the very next chapter, verse 1, O Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name, for thou hast done wonderful things. Thy counsels of all are faithfulness and truth. Now that's got to be a happy soul.

No one can be talking like this unless he said, I have done my part, I have warned the people, but all I want you to know, I serve a wonderful, marvelous God. Look at verse 4, if you will, please. For thou has been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is a storm against the wall.

Isn't that marvelous? Verse 8, he will swallow up death in victory. Do you think this is a morose man who's allowed the watchman's message to discourage him and take away his joy? He will swallow up death in victory.

The Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces, and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth, for the Lord has spoken it. It shall be said in that day, O Lord, this is our God.

We've waited for him and he will save us. This is the Lord we have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Isaiah was a glad prophet. He was a happy man, carried the burden of the Lord, but he was never far away from this message.

Oh, there's no more grace, there's no more mercy in all the Bible than you can find right here in these prophets, especially in Isaiah. Jeremiah, you remember, is called the prophet of gloom and doom.

Jeremiah’s Message of Restoration

His warnings are the most terrifying in the Bible. He's the prophet, remember, that was called to pronounce judgment on Jerusalem. He was the one who announced the captivity for 70 years, and that was in a time of prosperity.

He said, no, I'll tell you what, I see armies coming in. This city's going to be destroyed. You're going to be eating your babies. You're going to be boiling your babies. This whole city's coming down.

The walls are coming down. You're going to go into captivity 70 years. And they mocked him and they laughed at him. And that's when this man said his bowels would boil in him until he got even tighter preaching the message because nobody wanted to hear.

But you see, the judgment of the fiery wrath of God was not his prime message. That's really not the message of Jeremiah. Go to Jeremiah, the 30th chapter, if you will, please. Turn to your right, Jeremiah 30.

I hope I can change your mind about these prophets. He's almost always talking about restoration, health, cure, rebuilding. Look at verse 17, Jeremiah 30, starting verse 17, For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord, because they called thee an outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places. And the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving in the voice of them that make merry. And I will multiply them, and they shall not be few. But I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregations shall be established before me.

And I will punish all that oppress them, and their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governors shall proceed from the midst of them. And I will cause him to draw near. He shall approach unto me, for who is this that engages his heart to approach unto me, saith the Lord God.

He said, I'm going to have a holy remnant, and I'm going to bless them. His eyes were always on that holy remnant, and always on the provision that God would make for a repentant people. This is, this is not a man who goes around moaning and groaning his whole lifetime.

This man is a preacher of mercy. In fact, in Jeremiah 32, turn over a little, I'll give you his heart. Jeremiah's heart is found in this one verse. Jeremiah 32, verse 42. Verse 42, For thus saith the Lord, Like as I have brought all this great evil upon the people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

That's his heart. He said, Just as sure as I tell you what is coming of judgment, I'm telling you, repentants will bring forth the goodness and the grace and the mercy of God. That was the heart of the Prophet Jeremiah.

He was not obsessed with the judgment message. Oh, he would not spare, he cried aloud, because he knew God's hatred for sin. But no man could have spoken about restoration like this man did, unless he had a heart that was at peace and at rest.

Heeding Warnings Without Fear

Now look at me, please. You say, Pastor, what's the point? Now here it is, and listen clearly, please. We're to listen carefully to the warnings of God's watchman. We're to be alerted. We're to be warned.

We're to heed the message. We're to repent. We're to repair our hearts and anticipate the coming storm. But you do not become obsessed with the warnings. You don't allow them to take over your life. You don't allow it to consume your thinking.

You don't let it take your heart. The devil, if he can't get you to misbelieve the words of the Prophet, he will take you to the other extreme, and he will try to plant forebodings and fear and anxiety in you, and he will so want you to get so involved in prophecy, he'll make you a prophecy addict, so that you will run around.

You'll get tapes. You'll get books. You'll run to every prophecy conference, and you'll be so obsessed with studying the Armageddon, the Mark of the Beast. Am I going to have to take the Mark of the Beast?

Where am I going to buy? Where am I going to sell? You'll be so hooked on finding out who the Antichrist is. I told you, the one book I told you, I saw some, I got in a bookstore, The Antichrist and a Cup of Tea, that Prince Charles is the Antichrist.

A whole book. And people go into the conferences to hear who the Antichrist is. And you, you, you will get so far away from Christ the head. You will get so away from the vision of the grace and the keeping power of Jesus, that you, the enemy can use that to give you an obsession that absolutely dominates your life.

We're to be informed, but we're not to dwell on it. In fact, in Philippians 4 .8, Paul tells us what we're to dwell on in our minds. Finally, brother, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest and just, whatsoever things are pure, lovely to, lovely, of good report, if they have any virtue, if there be any praises, think on these things.

He said, you're going to think on the good and the love. You have the warning. You, you take heed to what the word of the Lord says and what the prophets say, or rather the watchmen say, and then you say, thank you, Lord, for the warning.

But now let me think upon Jesus Christ and his goodness. Hallelujah. Now, folks, I have, as far as I know, faithfully warned those things that God's told me to warn, and I've warned that there's going to be a lot of suffering for God's people.

But folks, that's not the focus of my ministry. I don't have an obsession on these things, but I do have one obsession, and that's my relationship with Jesus Christ. It's my intimacy, it's my life with him that I keep my heart focused on.

Now, folks, I know the stock market is going to blow, and I know the American lifestyle is going to change, and the lifestyle of every prosperous nation on earth is going to change, but I don't get up in the morning and say, Lord, what am I going to eat?

What am I going to drink? What am I going to wear in the cold? Where am I going to get fuel to stay warm? I don't talk, I don't get up in the morning, or I don't lay in my bed at night and say, Lord, what's going to happen to Times Square Church?

What's going to happen to all the people? I sleep like a baby. I don't worry about those. You see, I'm not God, and there's nothing I could do anyhow, for anybody, in any way. I can't do anything. So I do what Isaiah did.

He put his mind to rest. He saw all that was coming, and even though in his flesh he trembled, and he said, this has left me lean. There's an inner emaciation in my spirit because of this, but he never dwelt on that.

Listen to what he says, Isaiah 26 .3, Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee. In the original Hebrew, it is peace, peace. He will give him not perfect, but peace, peace.

It's a double portion peace. It's peace for the flesh, peace for the spirit, mind, soul, and body. Jesus said, a peace that no man can give you. It's this, it is the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ himself.

In the original Hebrew, he will be kept in peace, peace, whose mind is resting in Christ, whose mind is resting in Christ. His mind is resting in his relationship because he fully trusts in Jesus Christ.

Waiting on the Lord in the Secret Place

Hallelujah. Praise you, Jesus. Now, there's many devices that Satan uses to try to discourage God's people, and I, when I'm reading Isaiah especially, you know, I've never considered myself a prophet, and I wouldn't be worthy to be a servant to Isaiah, this holy man of God, but sometimes I think I know how he felt when he looked at the nation, and especially in light of what God was showing him, and he knew that the people had not responded to, to former judgments, and he knew that God was going to shake everything, and he, he watched God take away their prosperity, and he saw the Lord humbling the nation for a season, they stood to respond, and then he watched as God began to prosper the nation again.

He said, let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he'll not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness, he will deal unjustly and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. He said, it's an amazing thing.

He, Isaiah's looking over the situation, he said, now, how does God get through to this people? They won't accept the famines and the pestilence, they don't see God's hand in it, it's just a happenstance to them, and he says, now, when God favors them, they don't learn righteousness that way.

When God prospers them, they just turn to their own evil ways and say, look what my hands have accomplished, and this is what is baffling this man. He said, they, they don't behold the majesty of the Lord in any of this.

We see the same thing happening here. We've seen nations battered with storms and floods. I mean, they've been battered with tornadoes and hurricanes and famines and pestilences and all kinds of ways that God's trying to get the attention of the peoples, and they don't respond.

But you see, Isaiah never gave up. He never gave up hope through all this, because in Isaiah 25, 23, he says, in spite of it, he's saying, the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion gloriously. This, this man had this knowledge, folks, Christians, through it all, no matter what you hear, what you see.

Folks, the, the day is going to come soon that I don't have to say anything to you. The newspaper is going to say it, radio, television, everything, it's all going to be there, and it's going to be here, but there has to be in your heart, in my heart, no matter what happens, we know that God is reigning in Zion gloriously.

He's on the throne. He sits king of the flood. He said, for when your judgments now are on the earth, that inhabitants of the world will earn righteousness. And what he's saying, there's going to come a time that God says, I will teach you now by my rod.

And the judgment that was coming to Israel now was the rod. I was reading an article yesterday, a paper by a Hollywood partygoer, one of these Hollywood producers, and he's a partygoer, and they're having such wild parties now, drunken orgies in all over Los Angeles and Hollywood.

And he made this statement, he said, things have become so debauched, divine retribution has to come. This, this is a man who's drunk all the time and using drugs, and he said, it's so wild now. And this man, you see what God says, there is going to be retribution till every man knows it's divine.

It's divine. Only God can do what he's about to do, he's saying. I know, what are the righteous supposed to do when all of these things start coming down on men? Isaiah said, for the Christian, there's a wonderful outlook.

For those who have their minds stayed on Jesus Christ, there's a wonderful outlook. He prophesied judgment from, from Isaiah 26, 12 chapters preceding. It's all about horrible judgments that are coming.

He, he, he's, he's prophesying to a number of nations, and especially to Jerusalem and Judah. He warned of the collapse in those 12 chapters, if you read them, he warns of the collapse of the world's greatest power, Babylon.

And this seemed impossible. How could the world's greatest superpower ever come to ruin? Nobody could believe this fantastic prophecy from, from Isaiah. How could it fall into ruin? It's too rich, it's too powerful to fall.

But suddenly Moab begins to fall, just as Isaiah warned. Tyre was judged. And now he sees in his mind Damascus, Egypt, Arabia, Tarsus, along with Israel, Judah, Jerusalem, and finally Babylon. And God's shaking, he said, everything that can be shaken.

All men everywhere were in mourning. There's desolation everywhere. And this is all in his mind. Now, you think a man that sees destruction coming to the whole world, be so devastated he couldn't, he couldn't maintain his ministry.

He'd be overwhelmed by it. But you see, I always told you his secret. He said, my mind is stayed on my Lord. None of these things can affect me, because my mind, I'm at rest in my mind. Pastor Carter, we saw at rest this morning, he started just about to dance all over this platform.

It's a mind that stayed on the Lord. How do you come into this resting place? It's one thing to say you need your mind stayed on Christ, but how do you come into this? According to Isaiah, first of all, when the judgments are shaking the nation, he was shut in with God.

He was waiting on the Lord. In Isaiah 26, 8, yea, in the way of thy judgments. In other words, when your judgments are upon the nations, O Lord, we have been waiting for thee. The desire of our soul is to thy name and to the remembrance of thee.

You see, he was ready for anything that came, because he's on his knees. He's waiting on the Lord. He said, my desire, my whole desire, I'm not waiting for these things to come. I've made my statement.

I'm not looking for them. I'm not desiring them. They're going to come. But he said, in the meantime, I'm waiting on the Lord. Not waiting for judgment. What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for judgment?

Are you waiting till you see whether you're going to make it or not? Are you waiting till you get into employment or you fear you're going to lose your job or your house or whatever? What are you fearing?

If you're waiting on the Lord, you're getting strength, and your mind is being stayed on Christ. He's revealing his power and his strength to you in the secret closet. I read a statement by a Puritan this past week.

He said, no matter what a man claims about Christianity, he is not a Christian who does not pray. He's an atheist. He said, I don't care what his claim is. I don't care how much he claims he knows of Christ.

If he neglects his prayer closet, he went on to say, this man is not a believer. He's not a Christian. He's an atheist. He said, how can you be a believer and neglect him? How can you say you trust him and not pray to him?

No, there is no, there's no way on earth that you can work yourself into a place of trust. You can't work up faith. There's no human power. There's no way in the world. In fact, you say, well, it doesn't about say faith come by hearing the word.

I'll just read the word and faith will come. Folks, it's not just the word, it's the spirit of the word. And the spirit of the world does not come to you. The spirit of the word does not come and tell your son in with God.

He gives you the spirit of the word. The secret of the Lord is of them that seek him. And this is the secret of the Lord. You don't get it just reading it. Isaiah could say, I see the frightful judgments falling on all the nations and I tremble at it.

The judgments that are coming are unspeakable, but none of these things dominate my thinking. None of these things can take from me this perfect peace because in the midst of this, I have one obsession.

I have my mind totally obsessed with Christ, with my Lord. Don't tell me Christ, Isaiah didn't know Christ. Oh, he knew Christ, prophesied about his coming, saw him in his spirit. It's not God's will that any Christian, any true believer approach the perilous times of fear and trembling.

It's not his will that these prophecies frighten his people. Let me give you the heart of Jesus, folks. Listen closely. Jesus said, peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Not as the world gives, give I unto you.

Jesus’ Promises in the Face of Tribulation

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. That's the heart of Jesus. In Matthew 24, Jesus himself gives some very powerful, alarming prophecies of the coming events. Folks, what bothers me today, we have pillow prophets, I call them, going all over the land, and they're saying it's the year of Jubilee.

God's going to pay all your debts this year. You won't have any debt. That's a lie. What are they going to do at the end of the year when their bills are piled up? That's not what Jubilee means at all.

If you preach from this pulpit, it's all about Christ. It's all about his redeeming power, setting you free from the debt of sin. Not Sears and Robbock. Jesus said, there'll be wars coming, pestilence, earthquakes in various places.

You'll be afflicted and some will be killed. Iniquity will abound. False Christs and false prophets are going to rise. Many will be deceived. The sun will be dark and the stars are going to fall from the heaven.

And Jesus said, behold, I've told you before. I've told you these things. And there's a reason not to scare them. He's not trying to motivate holiness through fear. He's not saying in so many words, you better tow the line because look what's coming.

No, no, no, no, no. He later explained to them, he said, I told you all these things so you would believe when you saw them coming, that a Christ who had the foreknowledge to warn you has the power to keep you.

He said, so that your faith would not be shaken. He said, I've told you all these things so that you would not be shaken when you saw, see them come. Now folks, I want to tell you something and I want you to listen closely.

We don't want to hear this kind. We want to go to the Bible and we want to lay hold of every keeping promise there is. But I want to open your eyes tonight and listen closely, please. In 1949, just before the communists took over China, they were always already moving on, on the, on the Eastern provinces.

They were coming and already reports were that they were murdering and, and maiming the people and, and, and confiscating property. But almost all evangelicals were telling the Chinese Christians, the Lord's going to come and rapture you away.

You're not, there's not going to be any suffering. And they quoted the scriptures and the people in their churches, raising their hands, praising God on these promises. And they were told they would not suffer because Jesus said he's going to come and keep you from the hour of temptation.

The communists came in, into their churches, burned them, murdered, maimed and took their children. And this can't be denied, it's a historical fact. And then the Christians, millions of Christians became absolutely self-taught.

They didn't want to hear about Christ. They said, well where, we were told that we would not have to endure any of this. They endured it. Faith was shattered for many, many years because there were no prophets, there were no watchmen trying to remind them what Jesus said.

Jesus said, some of you will be killed. Some of you are going to be cast in prison. In fact, he said, some that kill you will think they're doing God a favor. Rwanda. There were many, many Christians and many of those evangelicals, especially Pentecostal churches, who sat in Rwanda listening to prosperity gospel, saying that you don't have to suffer if you come to Christ.

Their eyes were blinded. And then when the war broke out, their churches were burned. The same thing, there was one murder after another. They had to run free as refugees. And then in the refugee camps, many, many pastors got together in churches and they released first in one camp, 1200 Bibles.

The camps in Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi. But they wouldn't take them. They didn't want to hear about the Word. They said, we were told we would be raptured. And we weren't raptured. We weren't ready for this.

We weren't told we would suffer. We weren't warned. They said, we've been failed. Where was our God? Folks, I want to listen. I want you to listen closely because God gave me revelation. Some of you are scared already.

You say, well, how am I going to trust any of their promises? I'm going to show you tonight something I don't think you've seen and something you and I are going to have to hear because the Lord told me that I have to warn you tonight that there's going to be suffering like you've never seen.

Some of you are going to lose your houses. Some of you are going to lose your jobs. There's going to be suffering. There's going to be pain. Some of you may be killed. I can't stop what the Holy Ghost taught me to tell you and warn you.