Pentecost, Yesterday and Today — A.C. Valdez Sr.

Well, that'll give you an idea of some of my early experience as a minister, and I enjoy it. It's all experience, and that's the way we grow, isn't that right? Praise the Lord. I'm very happy to be here tonight.

I've been praying an awful lot about this meeting, and also tomorrow afternoon at two o 'clock, isn't that right? We have the seminar, and we're expecting a great time. I feel that my position in that meeting is quite unique in that for 60 years, I have been interdenominational.

Ever since, I received this charismatic experience, so I'm in a position to present both sides, and we're going to give you some guidelines from God's Word first. We're going to cover that subject, maybe not as analytically as we would like to for the time that we have, but we're really going to go into that subject, after which we're going to give opportunity to let folk ask questions.

The Interdenominational Origins of the Pentecostal Movement

I'm in a position to answer some of your questions I know regarding the history of this movement, there's a lot of things that folk have thought was so, that's certainly not so. Like for instance, it's been said so many times by so many today, that the original group was a Pentecostal church, which is not so.

There were no Pentecostal people in those days. There were no Pentecostal people in those days. So you can be disabused of that idea immediately. Well what happened? It fell upon the same class of people that we have in our meeting today.

They were charismatic then, see? They were Baptists, and Methodists, and Presbyterians, and the only reason why they became identified as Pentecostal people is because in those days, they didn't allow them to stay in the churches.

They got put out, brother, and what are you going to do when that happens? They used to come in groups of 10, 15, 20 and say, our pastor has given us so many days to give up this experience, and if we don't, leave the church, see?

That was the case in those days. We were misunderstood. Today it's different. It's tremendous what's happening today, and we're going to go into that a little bit tonight. I have some very encouraging things to tell you tonight.

Bless the Lord. So that will give you an idea now of what's going to come up tomorrow afternoon. I want you to see the true picture of priests, rabbis, people from every denomination on earth, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit back there 69 years ago.

Praise the Lord. And some of the most extraordinary characteristics that accompanied the experience in those days that you want to hear about and why. Miracles that we haven't seen today yet, and I'm going to tell you why we have those greater miracles back there.

There's a reason for it, and I want to tell you folks, greater things than what we've ever witnessed is just about to take place in this old world, and I'm going to tell you why. I'm getting a little kickback there, Brother Bell.

A little kickback? Yeah, maybe. I see. So don't forget this. We're going to have a great time tomorrow afternoon at two o 'clock, and we hope that you'll be there. We're expecting Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, the whole group, and we want you to be there and enjoy it.

Romans 8 and the Security of Believers

Now if you have your Bibles and you wish to follow me, I'm going to read out of the eighth chapter of Romans, beginning with the 35th verse. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loveth us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor heights, nor depths, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Then I want to call your attention to the 31st verse. What shall we say then to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Praise the Lord. The first thing I want to do is give you a good report about what's taking place.

You know, 69 years is a long time to wait, to see, to witness what we're witnessing today. It's a long road, and I'm not going to go into detail tonight to tell you what it was like back there. We're going to leave that for later on.

But I want to tell you, it's a sight to behold, and it's only one like myself that has been in this charismatic movement all of these years, and mark you with a Catholic background. All of my people are Roman Catholics, raised among the Franciscan fathers of California.

My father, my grandfather, Ramon Valdez, my great-grandfather, the first entry into the baptismal roster in the San Buenaventura Mission, California, and my great-great-grandfather, who was a Spanish soldier, and remember at that particular time, California was flying the Spanish flag.

And when this group of soldiers came from Bajo, California, into the northern part of California, no one but Padre Sierra followed them in and built the first nine missions on what is known today as the Camino Real.

So that gives you an idea of our religious background. Now then, 69 years ago, something happened to our family. We're going to talk about that tomorrow afternoon at 2 o 'clock. I never turned against the Catholic Church.

As a matter of fact, I've never been personal in my preaching. I don't believe it's right. I don't believe it's right to preach against any particular church. We're admonished as ministers of the gospel to preach the word.

And if we preach the word, brother, under the anointing of the Blessed Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost can do more in a split second than we can in a lifetime. Do you believe that? That's right. You can't argue folks into this way.

Spiritual Hearing Rather Than Religious Argument

Impossible. I remember one experience that I had with a Jewish rabbi after God saved my soul. I was overzealous, just a young man. I didn't have the whiskers you could find on a gooseberry. And so we got into it.

In those days, I thought that we could win them over through argument. But you see, the fact of the matter is, neither party is in the proper spirit to talk about these things to start with. And these are spiritual things.

You've got to be under the anointing of the Holy Ghost in order to hear. Can you say amen? Because I'm not speaking about hearing with these ears. I'm talking about another kind of hearing. My sheep know my voice.

Can you say amen? And a stranger's voice they will not follow. And so we got into it. Oh, I tell you, he began to raise his voice. I began to raise my voice. And there we went. And I guess for about an hour and a half, two hours, the first thing you know, we both begin to get heated up.

And he began to say some things that were not too nice. And I began to say a few things that wasn't very nice. See? And finally, we were both so irritated that I raised my voice and I said, I rebuke you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And he looked at me and he says, I rebuke you in the name of the God of my father, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We looked at each other for about two or three minutes and we both went our way. It was a stalemate.

And neither one of us got anywhere at all. So you see, you can't argue folks into the gospel of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah, we've got to be born into it. Can you say amen? And no man can come to the Son except the Father draw him.

It's all God. He's got to do it. Salvation is of the Lord. Let everybody say amen. Praise God. Well, God is working. After all these years, finally we can say we've arrived at a genuine theological breakthrough.

Justification by Faith and the Growing Pentecostal Renewal

You know, Martin Luther wasn't accepted immediately after he took his stand on justification by faith. Oh, they had to suffer for that truth. It took years, my brother, my sister, before they generally accepted the truth of justification by faith.

But finally it was generally accepted. Now here we are, 69 years after that wonderful outpouring in 1906. Little by little, little by little, it's grown. The conviction has grown. People stopped arguing against this wonderful truth.

Ministers that used to put in whole nights arguing and preaching against it finally became silent because they knew there was no argument. The scripture was too clear, too simple, too plain, self-explanatory.

And so they quit. And the next thing you know, more begin to come in and tell the first thing you know. Now after 69 years, something's happening right now, my brother, that's going to, I believe, have a direct purpose in making up the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Hallelujah. We're going to see tremendous things. I heard a message by one of the laymen of the Roman Catholic Church the other day on television. And he said almost overnight now, over 2 million Catholics have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Almost overnight. Praise God. I suppose you heard the report of that great meeting in South Bend, Indiana, where they had microphones set up everywhere, tongues and interpretation thundered throughout that stadium.

Prophecy. And then finally, singing in the Spirit. Can you imagine 40 ,000 Catholics singing in the Spirit? Praise the Lord. Now, God is moving just like the geese and the ducks at a certain time of the year begin to move south.

Something strange is going on within that beautiful bird's breast. And they're all moving together. Now, at that particular time, all of a sudden they feel the move, and they begin to stir, and all of a sudden there they are in flight, going south.

That's what's happening among God's people today, my brother, my sister. There's something stirring within the hearts of God's people everywhere. Listen, there's over 600 million constituents in the Roman Catholic Church.

And the Bible says, Whom he foreknew, them he also called. Wouldn't it be a strange thing if there wouldn't be millions among this 600 million that were called? Hallelujah. I'm sure it's so. There's going to be millions, my friend, within the Roman Catholic Church that's going to come right out and receive this glorious baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire.

They're invited to Rome. They went this month. And I'm waiting to get the report. But you know, when the Pope of Rome makes his appearance, they fill St. Peter's Square just like sardines massed together.

What will it be next year when they put on a Pentecostal celebration, which they are? They're invited by Pope Paul. What's going to happen? They may be backed up there for two or four miles. Such a mass of humanity coming in from all over the world.

Think of it. What's going to happen when the power of God comes down and they begin to sing in the Spirit? Praise God. Wouldn't you like to be there? Wouldn't you like to be there? Hallelujah. Oh, brother, sister, God is moving.

Billy Graham said just a few nights ago that word is coming in from all parts of the world to the effect that the greatest revival in the history of Christianity is in progress right now. And I could just feel it when I heard him make that announcement.

I could just feel it all over. Praise the Lord. Amen. What a time to be alive. What a time to be a Christian. What a time to believe the Word of God. Can you say amen? Amen. Oh, brother, Jesus said, The things that I do shall you do also, and greater things than these shall you do, because I go to my Father.

And I believe that the unity of the church, which is getting stronger every new year of our life, is going to bring this about. Hallelujah. The miracles and the signs and the wonders that we've witnessed in the past will seem like nothing by comparison to what's just ahead of us, folks.

Glory be to God. Oh, let's keep unto the blood. Let's live in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit, and keep filled with the Spirit. So when God begins to move in this last lap of the race, my friends, before the coming of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, we'll be able to share in this great mainstream of blessing that's going to hit.

Praise the Lord. So I do thank God for what's happening. If it were possible to choose a time in history to live and to work for God, this is it right now. Oh, I'm so glad to be alive. Now, you know, my grandfather lived to be 106.

So I see no reason why I shouldn't live to see this thing through. Of course, I'm ready to go or stay. I don't care. It doesn't make any difference to me. I've had a wonderful time. The fellowship has been beautiful.

And we've seen hundreds of thousands of souls come to the Lord Jesus Christ. So if the Lord wants to take me, it's better, St. Paul said, to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. That's all right.

On the other hand, there's something about it. I'd like to be here and see this thing through right to the time of the coming of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Because let me tell you something, brother.

Revival, Opposition, and the Danger of Deception

We're going to see things happening. Now, why have I given you this line of encouragement? I'm going to tell you why now. In every great revival that I've witnessed, in the past 69, almost 70 years of my life, the devil has challenged every one of them with all of his might.

Challenged, I say, with all of his might. And now, my brother, just preceding the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I believe we're all agreed on that, that it won't be long now, here comes this great revival, this earth-shaking revival, the greatest in the history of the Christian church, they say.

And I believe it. Word is coming to me from everywhere that God is strangely moving within the hearts of God's people. And big things are taking place. I believe it. Now is the time, my friends, just preceding the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, when Satan is supposed to go about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour, because he knows his time is short.

That's why he's going to put everything into it. All of his cohorts are going to be organized together. What does it mean when the disciple said, Lord, what will be the sign of your coming? And one of the signs was, you shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. I believe in that part of prophecy, too. You say, but Brother Valdez, don't talk about that. That's negative. That's negative. Don't let them dupe you on this here so-called layoff of negative preaching.

See, if a minister is going to be honest to his auditors, or to his church, he's got to give them both sides, so that they can get a complete picture, a true picture of the situation. And so, the positive preaching, thank God for that, but then there's the negative side, too.

Amen. In other words, if you give your heart to Jesus, you'll go to heaven. If you don't, you'll go to hell. That's the negative side, see. Why not tell the whole truth, can you say, amen? See, a lot of people don't want to hear it.

But I say, let's tell the truth. Right now, Brother, a tremendous revival is building up, such as the world has never known. Do you think the devil is going to take this laying down? Do you think that he's going to go to sleep while this is going on?

No, sir. Today, it's popular, because the masses are coming. It's popular to belong to a church. Here they come. A lot of them, without any conviction at all. Follow the crowd. To the altar. I've been watching it carefully.

Sizing it up. And I've been watching the situation for so long, I think that I can detect certain things a little faster than a lot of folk that have only been on the way a short while. I'm like an old doctor.

All he has to do is look into the room and he says, smallpox. See what I mean? And I see a lot of smallpox. I want to tell you something, folks. The devil is not going to take this thing laying down. He doesn't lay off on Monday like we preachers do.

Say, no, sir. He's working 24 hours in the day, 365 in the year. And he's not going to let up. And so, here they come en masse. They come to the altar. Some thank God with tears. They have godly sorrow.

And the Bible says godly sorrow worketh repentance not to be repented of. It's the sorrow of this world that worketh death. But here comes a lot of them with the crowd. When the Bible says, no man can come to the Son except the Father draw him.

Do you believe that? It's all of God, brother. You see, that's what this Pentecostal outpouring is all about. It's to make people God conscious. When they witness the power of God, the demonstration of the Spirit, they become God conscious.

And no man ever became sin conscious until he first became God conscious. And it's this charismatic manifestation that makes people God conscious and sin conscious. And as the gospel is preached, and they become convicted of sin and of righteousness and of judgment, godly sorrow sets in.

They're sorry for their sin. And because they're sorry for their sin, they cry out and say, Oh God, be merciful unto me, a sinner. And then, brother, they get something. Do you know what they get? The new birth.

His Spirit bears witness with their spirit that they're children of God. Can you say amen? They're translated, if you please, out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of God's dear Son. It's a translation experience.

Regeneration and the Reality of Salvation

Don't you underestimate this salvation experience, my brother. It's not just coming up here and repeating a few words after a preacher. With dry eyes and no godly sorrow. Lord, forgive me. By thy grace, I'm going to serve you the rest of my life.

Amen. My father used to do that all the time. He was a good Catholic. He'd sin and repent and repent and sin and sin and repent and repent and sin and sin and repent and repent and sin. And then he'd repent and sin and sin and repent.

After my mother was regenerated and made a new creature in Christ Jesus, and all things became new. All things passed away, and behold, all things became new. She wanted my father to receive the same experience.

So she took him to the altar. She was going to save him herself. Yeah. She says, now, Dad, tell Jesus that you're sorry for your sins and to forgive you. And he said, Lord, I'm sorry for my sins. Forgive me.

Been saying that all of his life. See? Just a formality. That's all. No conviction. Do you believe that Jesus saves your dad? He'd say yes. She'd reach into his pocket and take his bullderm tobacco out and his wheat straw cigarette papers and throw them into the gutter.

And next morning, poor old dad would be pacing the floor. He wanted a cigarette so bad. You see, he wasn't a new creature in Christ Jesus yet. He hadn't experienced regeneration. He hadn't experienced translation.

Out of the kingdom of darkness. Hmm? All right. So next Sunday, here comes mother with dad again to the church. Let's go to the altar, dad. Yes. Sure. Sure. With a smile on his face. Yeah. Fine. Beautiful.

This is beautiful. Get on your knees. Ask him to forgive you. Lord, forgive me. Do you believe that he forgave you? Yes. Well, that's fine. She'd reach into his pocket again, take his tobacco, throw it away.

That went on for about six times. And finally, after six times, she said, Lord, what am I going to do to get this old man saved? Do you know what the Lord said? Turn him over to me. I can save him. You can save him.

She said, my Lord and my God, I've been standing in the road. Forgive me. Take the old man. He's in your hands. Do you know what happened the following Sunday? He said, my, he said, I'm anxious to go to church.

I've just been waiting all week to get to church. And look, while the preacher was preaching, there was tears coursing down his cheeks. He wanted to go to the altar so bad. And he thought that preacher would never stop preaching.

He wanted to go to the altar so bad. But he waited. The altar call was made and he got up and ran to that altar. And when his knees touched the floor, under pungent Holy Ghost conviction, the power of regeneration hit him.

And he was made a new creature in Christ Jesus. Mother never touched his tobacco. But when he got downstairs, he walked over to the curbing. And he reached into his pocket by himself and emptied the whole thing out in the gutter.

That was the end of it. Hallelujah. He had been translated out of the kingdom of darkness. Oh, brother, aren't you glad that this salvation is a living, throbbing, vibrant, pulsating reality. If you do, say amen.

Don't underestimate the greatness of this so great a salvation, brother. It's the greatest thing that God has to give us today. Not the baptism. Salvation is the main thing. The baptism of the Holy Ghost is the main spring.

Hallelujah. Amen. That's why we shout. Because we're full of the Holy Ghost. Praise God. This is rivers of living water when we receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. But salvation, brother, is the main thing.

And don't you let the devil deceive you on that. And don't you be satisfied with an experience of just coming to the altar and repeating a prayer. Because that will get you nowhere unless you're under pungent Holy Ghost conviction and you're soaring for your sins.

I know that it didn't do me any good to be a professor. Until one day, up in an orange tree in Tustin, California. After having watched a Christian live for Jesus for months. I was under such pungent Holy Ghost conviction, brother.

I had a lump in my throat that I tried to swallow down and I couldn't. I was miserable. Glory to God. And right up in the orange tree one day. With tears coursing down my cheeks. And a big water tube in the back on one side sticking out here.

And a cigarette on the other. I said, my God. If you'll spare my life. Until I get home. I'll do anything necessary to meet the conditions. Now, do you know what happened to me? Look, brother. I met the conditions.

He said, behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man will open the door. It's that simple. I opened the door, brother, and he came in up in the orange tree. Hallelujah. Isn't that marvelous? Praise God.

Do you know what I discovered in that experience? Ezechias. He was converted up in a sycamore tree. That's when he first found Jesus. I was converted up in an orange tree. I discovered that it doesn't make any difference what kind of a tree it is.

Methodist tree. Baptist tree. Catholic tree or any of the others. When you mean it with all of your heart and the Holy Ghost has drawn you. I want to tell you that is something. That is something. So I repeat again, my friends.

Biblical Orthodoxy and the Day of Deception

Don't be satisfied. This is a day of deception that we're living in. Did you know that the first sign of the coming of the Lord Jesus is in all three Gospels? Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Take heed, lest no man deceive you.

And I say that the biggest deception on earth is religion without God. That's right. I know of a lot of folk that profess Jesus and worship Him in one form or another. But they don't even believe in the divinity of Christ.

Don't believe in the miraculous conception. Don't believe in the virgin birth. They don't believe in the authenticity of the Holy Scriptures or the inspiration of the Bible. They don't believe in the efficacy of the blood.

And yet they say they believe in Jesus. All those are fundamental truths, my friends, without which you cannot be saved. If Christ is not divine, you can't be saved through Jesus. If His blood is not efficacious, you can't be saved.

Because without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins. And it hath to be the blood of the spotless Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Can you say amen? Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

And so, my friends, there's a lot of folk that follow Jesus. According to figures that I have, one-fifth of the entire population of the earth worship the Lord in one form or another. Subtract from that those that don't believe in the efficacy of the blood.

Subtract from that those that do not believe in the miraculous conception. And go right on down the line, see. And what have you got left? Well, I'm going to tell you. That's going to help you to realize what Jesus meant when He said, Broad is the road that leads to destruction.

Many there be that go in thereat. Because straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life. And few, emphasis on the few, there be that find it. It's going to pay us, brother, to be particular in this last lap of the race.

I want the real thing, brother. As we face the greatest challenges that the church will ever face in the future. Look, brother, I want to know that I know that I know that my Redeemer liveth. Can you say amen?

I want to know that God is my Father. I want to know that Jesus is my elder brother. I want to know that the Holy Ghost is my comforter. I want to know that the old devil is no relation to me. I feel I'm going to have a spell.

Glory to God. Amen. Take heed and let no man deceive you. Look, folks. Read all the books you want. But remember this. You make an awful mistake. If after Christ comes into your life. If you don't study your Bible at least five years without anything else.

Get the language of the Bible in your mind. And after five years of careful study of the Bible. And you have the language of the Bible in your mind. Then go to your pastor. And say, pastor, is this book fit to read?

Will this help me out? And then you're in a better position to separate the meat from the bones. You see what I mean? Amen. Amen. And don't forget it, brother. This is a day of deception. Prophecy not only promises to us the second coming of our great God.

And Savior Jesus Christ. But prophecy promises to us an increase of satanic force. Which will reach its apex in power. In these last days. When Satan will work with all power. And signs and lying wonders.

With all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish. Because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved. That's why I want to love my Bible. More than anything else in this world.

More than mother or father or children or anything. And then when the big storms hits, brother, in these last days. That the Bible said is going to hit. I'm not talking about the great tribulation. I'm speaking right now, brother, about the signs of the coming of Jesus.

He said you shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. He said some of you shall be put to death. Along with earthquakes and pestilence which will have to be pandemics. The black plague of the 14th century won't be a drop in the Pacific Ocean by comparison, my friend.

That's right. Even the great men of the earth are predicting that we're going to run out of food pretty quick. See? All we need is a drop in your physical vitality. And that makes you more susceptible, you see, to everything.

That day will come. We didn't believe that until the last depression. When the bus came in 1929. That it would be possible to have a famine in a land of plenty. But we did. One fifth of the population was on the bread line.

Including bankers. Isn't that right? Of course, you kids that are 40, 45 years old today. You don't know nothing about it, only what daddy told you. For the simple reason that you're only two years old then if you're 40 now.

You see what I mean? But we can have a famine in a land of plenty. They were crazy in those days, the things that they did. See? Men think that they're very wise. And we think they are too, and we elect them into office.

But our economists are all in discord. See? They don't agree together. And we know in the last depression, they adopted a policy of scarcity. And the president had boat loads of potatoes dumped into the ocean.

They killed the pigs. They killed the cattle. And bulldozed them over. They plowed under the cotton and the corn. In San Joaquin Valley, California, the president said, I'll give you $4 a ton for all of that beautiful golden fruit, but let it drop on the ground and don't let nobody touch it.

And at the same time, millions were starving to death in China and Africa and in Indonesia and South China and that part of the world. See? Listen, brother, with all of our education, with all of our knowledge, we don't know too much.

We need God. Isn't that right? You can't get ahead of this. No, sir. God spoke to Joseph, didn't he, down in Egypt? And he gave him that marvelous revelation. He said, there's going to be seven good years, and then there's going to be seven bad years.

So now of these seven good years, store it away against the bad years that are to come. Everything was okay. It worked out beautiful. That's right. But nowadays here, when we're supposed to have a lot of brains, don't you see, that we elect into office.

Brain trusters, see? They plow under the cotton and the corn and the kale. Right here they tried, in Phoenix, tried to give away some milk. But they wouldn't allow it. They said it wouldn't be lawful to do that.

And so I saw them pull the plug and let the milk spill out all over the ground. See? I'm telling you, folks, people need God. Can you say amen? That's right. People need God. And so we're living in a time of deception when everything is so contradictory.

So contradictory. And people are thrown into confusion. They don't know what to think anymore. That's why you ought to thank God that you're a Christian. Because if you're following in his precepts, you're on the right track, brother.

Hallelujah. I never was so proud of the fact that I'm a Christian as I am today, brother. Oh, hallelujah. I quit riding the goat and I'm following the lamb. Praise the Lord. Everybody that's glad you're saved right now, raise both hands up this way and give him a wave offering and say hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Listen. You know why I carry this book around? When I'm preaching on a sermon like tonight, I have things to tell you that you could scarcely believe. They don't seem credible. See? That's why I carry documentary evidence.

I believe in being factual. I don't believe in giving out anything from the pulpit that I can't prove. So anything that I speak on, or any conditions that exist, I want to be sure that it's documented.

Demon Worship, Moral Decline, and Spiritual Warfare

When I was in Angelus Temple back in 1949, we had a great meeting. The power of God came down. Many hundreds of souls came to Christ. One night, I shall never forget, when I preached on the day of deception that's coming, Dr. Glover's wife, Sister Glover, very conservative little lady, she said there were no less than 1 ,250 that came to the altar that night for salvation.

And six preachers that were backslidden jumped out of bed that were listening over radio. They jumped out of bed. They didn't even stop to put a tie on or nothing. I think that every one of them had no coat on.

Their shirt was wide open. And here they come running down the aisle. They'd already gone to bed, but they were listening, don't you see? And God spoke to them and told them they were getting their last chance.

And they got back to God again. I shall never forget a little woman, beautiful little lady. She would run down the aisle screaming. She parked her car out there somewhere. She heard the same message over radio.

And she came running forward and fell at the altar screaming. She said, Brother Valdez, I used to be one of your little Sunday school children years ago. But she said, I've been a prostitute now for many years.

I've prospered, she said, but I'm in a horrible condition. And God tonight, while you were speaking, spoke to me and said, you're getting your very last chance. And she said, I got so frightened. I jumped out of bed and I'm here and I want Jesus to come back into my heart again.

I want Jesus to wash all the filth out of my life again. I want to know Him whom to know is life eternal. And she was wonderfully and hopefully converted to the Lord Jesus Christ. But during this meeting, you heard tonight about the demon worshippers in Germany.

That condition exists all over the world today. I received what could be the first letter from Alpha, the first general of the legions of Lucifer while I was at Angelus Temple in 1949. And I have that letter right here.

And when I preached against that, I wasn't supposed to. I was warned against it. And that was the night that 1 ,250 found the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. I was supposed to wear a red rose on the lapel of my coat if I wanted them to approach me more personally.