The Wall Is Down — David Wilkerson

Pastor, please pray for my voice tonight. Air conditioning hit me last night, evidently while sleeping, and I believe the Lord's going to touch me and get stronger as we go here tonight. I believe he's going to do it because the Lord's given me a word and I want to deliver my soul.

We've enjoyed preaching here, meeting the leadership at the Church of God headquarters here, and I've been ministering with Church of God friends for years, from Cleveland, Tennessee, Lee College. We go way back a long, long time together.

Somebody's a God, Church of God, doesn't seem to matter to me much because I just, everywhere I feel the presence of the Lord, I feel at home, and I sense his presence here tonight. Friends, I want to bring a prophetic message tonight.

The Wall Is Down: A Prophetic Message from Ezekiel

The wall is down. The wall is down. I want you to go to Ezekiel 13. Do you have your Bibles, please? Your Bibles? Ezekiel 13. I heard somebody back there say, yes, sir, I've got my Bible tonight. I see a lot of Bibles tonight.

God bless you. I know the Church of God people and it seems that God loves the Word. I know you do. I guess sometimes we're just not used to bringing them to camp meeting, but boy, I know you're told to bring them here to regular camp meeting.

And when's your regular camp start? Second week of June. This is one of the great camps in the country. Doesn't matter whether you're Church of God, Assembly of God, get the news and get in on that. Ezekiel 13.

I'm going to take you through the Word tonight. I said, I'm going to take you to the Word. You tremble at the Word, you do say, Amen. All right, let me, I'm going to pray, but first let me read. Go to Ezekiel 13.

Go to verse 9. We'll begin reading there. Verse 9, Ezekiel 13. I'm reading from New American Standard. Folks, when I study and prepare, I go to the original Bible, the Sporrel Hebrew or Rutherfam Hebrew or the King James.

I read this because it makes it simpler. It brings it out just a little clearer. And I like this Bible, New American Standard, because the liberals hate it. And anything liberals hate, I like. They've cursed this Bible.

If they're going to curse it, I'm going to read it. All right, verse 9. So my hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will have no place in the counsel of my people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel that you may know that I am the Lord God.

It is definitely because they have misled my people by saying peace when there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plastered over with whitewash. So tell those who plastered over with whitewash that it will be that it will fall.

A flooding rain will come and you all hailstones will fall and a violent wind will break out. Behold, when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, where's the plaster with you plastered it? Pastor, that's the first question God's going to answer when we get to the judgment.

How did you plaster the wall? What kind of plaster did you use? Did you whitewash it or did you use real materials? Did you whitewash your wall? Did it fall when the storm came? Did your people have a real wall?

The wall has fallen, will not be asked, where's the plaster with you plastered? Look at verse 14. So I saw tear down the wall, which you plastered over with whitewash and bring it down to the ground so that its foundation is laid bare and when it falls, you will be consumed in its midst and you will know that I am the Lord.

Look at verse 15. Thus, I shall spend my wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered over with whitewash. And I'll say to you, the wall is gone and its plasters are gone. I will spend my wrath on your wall and I will say the wall is down.

The wall is gone. Folks, the walls are down. The walls are down. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your Word tonight. We thank You, Lord, that You're speaking prophetically to Your people in these last days.

Bring forth a loud, clear sound. Bring forth a pure word. Show us, Lord, what happens when the walls go down. Show us what's happening as the walls come down around America. The judgment that's begun in America.

Babylon is falling. It's falling, it's falling. Babylon is falling. The walls are down. But Lord, You're going to build a wall around Your people. You're going to put a wall around Your people in this last day.

Touch me, Lord Jesus. Give me fire from heaven. Touch my voice. Make it strong as I preach. Make my voice strong as I preach. Holy Ghost, come on me now. Get Your glory out of this meeting. Get all the glory you need out of this meeting tonight.

Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Holy Spirit. Now, the devil himself acknowledges that God has built a protective wall around His people. Do you remember when Satan came to God and talked about Job? And he's trying to tear Job down.

He can't get to him. And the devil complained to God, Have you not built a wall or a hedge about him and his house and all that he has on every side? You bless the work of his hands and his possessions have increased in the land.

Covenant Protection as a Wall, Shield, and Hedge

Now, the three words in the Old Testament that are interchangeable, they're synonymous, they come from the same Hebrew word, Ganon. It's hedge, shield, and wall. And anytime you see these three words, hedge, shield, or wall, they're the same thing.

They mean wall, a covering, a canopy, a protection. All from the same Hebrew word, Ganon. This is speaking, first of all, of Jesus Christ as the wall, the covering of His people. But shield and wall are covenant words.

These are covenant words given to Abraham. God came to Abraham and said, Abraham, do not fear, because I'm going to be a shield to you. I'm going to be your wall. If you walk faithful with Me, as long as you live, there'll be a wall around you.

Nobody can extract anything from you. You're protected. As sure as there's a wall around God, there's a wall around you. You walk blameless before Me, and faithful, and I'll be faithful to you and put a wall around you.

He says, I'm your wall, I'm your hedge, I'm your shield. Just before Moses died, he stood before the children of God, and he gave these powerful words. He said, blessed are you, O Israel. Who's like unto you?

You're a people saved by the Lord. He, the Lord, is your shield, your wall of help. The sword of your majesty. So your enemies shall cringe before you. You shall tread down their high places. Get the picture?

Moses said, I'm about to move. I'm about to leave. But I want you to know you're a blessed people, because you walk in covenant with God. The same Abrahamic covenant. God is your wall. He's your shield.

Your enemies will cringe before you. The enemies will cringe. David didn't fear anybody. He didn't fear the devil. He didn't fear any demon. He feared no living soul on earth. He said, I laid down and I slept.

And I awoke because the Lord sustained me. Why could David sleep like a baby? He said, because, O Lord, you will become my wall around me. My glory and the one who lifts up my head. I go to sleep at night because I know I have a wall around me.

That's a covenant right for every believer. Behind that shield, behind that wall, we're safe from every demonic attack. Nothing on earth, nothing out of the pits of hell can touch you. Because you can say with David, I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people who set themselves against me round about.

You've smitten all my enemies on the cheek. You've shattered the teeth of the wicked. And this is the picture David saw. He saw demon powers. He saw them coming out of the pits of hell toward him. And he said, they hit the wall and they shattered their teeth and their cheeks.

He said, they hit the wall and they shattered their teeth. He said, I've got a wall around me. Now, I'm not afraid of ten thousands of people. I'm not afraid of any power that's arrayed against me. Because you've smitten my enemies on the cheek.

You've shattered the teeth of the wicked. They hit the wall and smashed their teeth. Glory to God. The demon hordes came against them and had to flee. Now, I want you to know that this wall is a covenant right for every Christian.

All who walk blameless before the Lord. Listen to what God said to Abraham. Walk before Me and be blameless. And I will establish a covenant or an agreement between you and Me. And what are you saying?

Abraham, if you walk in holiness, if you walk in purity, you don't ever have to be afraid because I'm a covenant wall, a covenant shield. David said, I've kept the ways of the Lord. I've not acted wickedly against God.

His laws are before my eyes and His statutes. I will not depart from them. I am also blameless toward my Lord. I keep myself from my iniquity. I keep myself. Then David said, with the blameless, you will show yourself to be blameless.

David’s Wall of Salvation and Spiritual Dominion

All right, now listen to me very closely. I want you to go with me to 2 Samuel. Turn left, please. Left. If you were in Ezekiel, go to 2 Samuel 22. 2 Samuel 22. Do you still love the Word? 22. Begin verse 36.

2 Samuel. Begin with verse 36. I love to hear the rustling of the leaves. Beautiful music. Did you find it? All right, here we go. Verse 36. Thou hast also given me the shield, or the wall, of thy salvation.

Thy help makes me great. Thou didst enlarge my steps unto me, and my feet have not slipped. I pursued my enemies, and I destroyed them. Is that in your Bible? I chased, or I pursued the enemy. Look at me, folks.

This business is just building a fortress and saying, you know, I'm just going to stand here defensively. No. David said, I've got this wall around me, and I'll move. That wall moves with me, and I'll move with this wall against my enemy.

I'll pursue the devil. I'll chase him. I'll put him to flight. I don't wait for him to come and attack my family. I've got a covenant right, and I'll pursue my enemy. And I did not turn back until they were consumed.

Listen to this man. Folks, when I hear about defeated Christians with divorce, and I hear about Christian couples that can't live together, and I hear about children being jailed and on drugs and alcohol, I say, my God, where is this spiritual dominion?

Where is this covenant right that God's given us as a shield and a wall? Listen to the way a man of God talks when he knows he's living a blameless life before God. There's no sin in the camp. He said, verse 38, I pursued my enemies.

I destroyed them. I did not turn my back. I did not turn my back. Christian, God never intended you to live weak. He never intended us to run when the devil comes against us. God said, you don't dare turn your back.

And I have devoured them, and I shattered them. So they didn't rise, and they fell under my feet. For thou hast girded me with strength for battle. Thou hast subdued unto me those who rose up against me.

Thou hast also made my enemies to turn their backs to me, and I destroyed those who hated me. Look at verse 43. Then I pulverized them as the dust of the earth, and I crushed and I stamped them as the mire of the street.

Now, does that sound like a defeated Christian? The enemy came against me, and I turned around and I chased him. And I pulverized him, and I cramped him into the dirt. That is God's dominion power over all the forces of hell.

For God, the holy people walking in covenant with God. That's a covenant right. You don't have to go to bed every night and say, oh Lord, I plead the blood. You don't have to every time you get in car, say, oh Lord, I plead the blood.

When you live a holy, righteous life, every move you make is under the covenant of God. You are protected everywhere you move. David said he's a wall around those who walk in integrity. David said, for the Lord God's a sun and a wall, a shield.

No good thing withheld from those who walk uprightly. He is a shield. He is a wall to those who take refuge in him. Let me tell you, listen close. There is no wall around Christians who live in sin. The wall is taken down when you persist in sin.

Sin, Idolatry, and the Loss of Covenant Protection

There is no wall around carnal Christians. First place is no such thing as a carnal Christian. Bob has a whole series on that. I don't believe in carnal Christianity. You're either saved or you're not saved.

You're walking in righteousness or you're walking for the devil. I don't care what you call yourself. Listen to what David said. But to the wicked God says, what right do you have to talk of my covenant, my statutes, and take my covenant in your mouth?

You've been hating discipline. You've cast my words behind you. You don't obey me anymore. You associate with adulterers. You let your mouth loose and eat what you gossip and your tongue frames deceit.

He said if you're going around and gossip, if you're going to live in adultery, if you're going to live in sin, you've got no right to this covenant. You have no right to it. You forfeited your covenant right because of sin.

I want you to go to Psalms. Go left from Ezekiel. Psalms. I want you to turn to Psalms 80. Psalms 80. I want to show you what happens when a Christian allows sin to come into his life. Psalms 80. Look at verse 5.

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears. Thou hast made them to drink tears in large measure. Thou dost make us an object of contention to our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

Look at me, saints. I believe there are some churches and some people that the devil must stand outside the door and actually laugh. He said there's no dominion in that church. Those people are living defeated, ungodly lives.

He said our enemies laugh among them. Look at verse 12. Chapter 80, verse 12. Why hast thou broken down its hedges, or its walls, so that all who pass that way pick its fruit? A boar from the forest eats it away, and whatever moves in the field feeds on it.

Folks, who do you think that boar is from the forest that eats it away? Who's the boar? That's the devil himself. Who do you think these things are that are moving in the field, feeding on it? Those are demon powers.

Because the wall is down, the wild boar can move in because there's no wall. And it says whatever moves in the field feeds on it. Get it in your mind, folks. Listen to it, please. Hear the sound of the Word.

Why hast thou broken down... He's talking about his vineyard. He's talking about his own people. Why have you broken down its hedges, its walls, so that all who pass that way pick its fruit? The fruit's been plundered.

It's been picked by the devil. The boar from the forest eats it away. Whatever moves on the field feeds on it. You ask my dear wife up here when it's with me tonight. We talked about it a little last night.

We read these thousands of letters coming from people around the world, requesting prayer. There are nights that I haven't been able to sleep. I've found a fist in my pillow. I say, oh God, look how Satan is moving freely among so many people.

Look at the divorce in the house of God. I don't know what it's like in the church of God, but I know what it's like in the assemblies of God. More and more preachers are getting divorced. We've got them on television, on national television, evangelists that divorce their wife, and then you look and there's another wife sitting there, not even an explanation.

Not even an explanation. The wild boar is moving wherever he pleases among some people. Why? Because there's sin in the camp and the walls are down. God said, if you allow sin in your life, I'll tear down your wall.

You're not walking in covenant with me anymore. I'll tear down your wall. The war boar out of the woods doth waste it. The wild beast of the field doth devour it. Go to Psalms 81, the next chapter. Psalms 81.

Are we talking about the world or are we talking about Christians? Listen. Verse 11. But my people... Whose people? Let me hear you. My people. Is he talking about drug addicts and alcoholics now? Is he talking about prostitutes?

Talking about adulterers outside the church? No, he said, but my people did not listen to my voice, and Israel did not obey me. So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart to walk in their own devices.

Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways. What does he say? I would quickly subdue their enemies, and I would turn my hand against their adversaries. Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him, and their time of punishment would be forever.

And I would feed you with the finest of the wheat and with honey from the rock. I would satisfy you. Look at me, saints. All he is asking, he said, is that my people would only listen. That my people would rid their hearts of sin and their idols and follow me with all their heart.

He said, I would subdue every one of your enemies. I would put them to taste. They would not be able to exact from your family. They would not be able to get against your children. Because when God made covenant with Abraham, He said, this is for you and all your descendants.

You walk before me faithfully, and you are guaranteed a wall around your children and your grandchildren. And I know I am in the ministry today because I had a praying grandfather who walked in covenant with God just like Abraham, and my granddad prayed every one of his children, and all his grandchildren into the ministry.

We are all preachers. Mom and Dad, when you walk in covenant with God, you are building a heritage. You are establishing a house. An everlasting house for God. When I see young people backsliding, I see children going to hell, I know there is a dad or mother or grandfather somewhere that is not walking in covenant with God.

God said, for your children and your grandchildren, your descendants, I will build you a sure house. You walk righteously before me, and I will subdue all the enemies in your house. Mom and Dad, don't come to preachers like me who walk in the streets with drug addicts, knock on their doors, and say, would you pray for my son?

He is in trouble. Would you pray for my daughter? She is in trouble. Would you pray for my children? They are backsliding. No, Mother. Dad, you start walking blameless before the Lord. You get the idols out of your home and out of your life, and God will bring covenant victory to your home.

Television as an Idol in the Home

I want to show you what. I am going to do something tonight. Now, I came in a little late to this meeting because God was dealing with me. He was just pumping courage into me for what I am going to do right now.

Now, I may never get invited back here again, but I am going to obey God. Now listen to me, please. No clapping. No clapping. This is not a show. This is life and death with me. And I want you to know God had to deal with me because for years, I sat in front of an idol before God and didn't know I was breaking covenant.

And all hell broke loose in my family. My own wife has been sick for years. And the last disease she had was lupus. And it was something to go in a hospital and look at her swollen with 30 -40 pounds of water.

I hardly knew her because the enemy tried so distort through that disease. It's a terrible disease. They said it's incurable. Every one of my children were sick. And I would quote all the Scriptures, the names of the Lord, and chant around about them that fear Him.

I quoted all the Scriptures of promises, how God would keep His children. Gwen was in the hospital one day and after visiting her at night, I went to a motel right near the hospital because the hospital is about 100 miles from her home.

I'm laying on that bed and I'm thinking about all the things gone wrong in my ministry. The emptiness, the dryness. All my children sick. My daughter with cancer. My wife with many cancers and then lupus.

The emptiness in me. The financial problems. Everything piling up against me. And I truly loved the Lord. But God showed me that I was not walking in covenant. I had forfeited my covenant rights. Now I want you to know that not all suffering is a result of breaking covenant.

There are some who are under the loving discipline of a loving Father. Many are the afflictions of the righteous. But the Lord delivers them out of all their trouble. And you know how He delivers you?

He brings you back into holy covenant. He shows you where you've gone wrong. He shows you where there's been sin in your life. And He deals with that. He disciplines you. He doesn't spank you unless you need it.

He won't discipline you unless there's a reason. He doesn't discipline obedient children. He disciplines disobedient children. You want to get out from under the hand of discipline? Begin to obey Him.

Come back into obedience. And in that hospital room, God led me to a Scripture. He maketh all wars to cease. And that's when God began to deal with me about this wall. God said, David, the wall is down because of what's in your own heart.

There's lust in you. And you're not facing it. You know it. And God began to talk to me about all the idols in my heart. And that's the first time He dealt with me about television. You've read the Cross and Switch, but you know years ago I gave it up.

And when I gave it up, I spent hours seeking the face of God. And that's when He sent me to the streets of New York and gave me a ministry that touched people around the world. But then I brought it back.

The thing that grieves me, we have people all over the world, all over the nation right now wondering why the enemy is extracting from them. They wonder why there's so much trouble and war on every side because they love God and they quote things that bind the devil, they do everything else, and yet they don't understand how the devil is coming and plundering their household.

Pastors wonder why the devil is plundering their churches. Alright, I'm going to teach you. Go to Ezekiel 14. Follow me close. Now, if you're a Christian, you're going to love reproof. If you don't love me, you don't love God, you don't love reproof.

That's pretty strong, but I mean that. The righteous love reproof. Folks, I'm going to reproof you. Do you hear me? The Holy Ghost is going to reproof us all right now. I've been reproofed, and I'm giving you the reproof God gave me.

And I give it to you in love. I don't have to stand here and tell you I love you. I know I love you. I know there's love in my heart. I love these brothers. I love these leaders. I love them with all my heart.

I prayed for them today. For every one of them. Not by name, but as a body. Just hold them up before God. Gentlemen, ladies, it's time we get desperate before God. It's about time we hear His Word. I'm going to make it steeper before I go any further in this reproof.

I'm telling you now, you can call me a legalist, call me anything you want. But the thing that's breaking covenant in Christian homes now and ministries is this ungodly idle television in our homes. This is breaking almighty covenant with God that's allowed the devil to come in and plunder our children, our homes, and our ministries.

Now listen. I'm going to give you the Word. Ezekiel 14, verse 1. Then some elders of Israel came to me and sat down before me. And the Word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts.

See, television is a matter of the heart. If it wasn't in your heart, you'd have given up long ago. Like I said last night, don't you tell me it's not an idol. Why is all the furniture facing it? That's true.

Why do you eat in front of it? These men have set up their idols in their hearts. They have put right before their faces the stumbling block right there, that 19-inch screen right in front of their face, the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Should I be consulted by them at all? Therefore, speak to them and tell them,. Thus says the Lord God, Any man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I, the Lord, will be brought to give him an answer in the matter in view of the multitude of his idols, in order to lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel who are strained to meet through all their idols.

Therefore, say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God, Repent and turn away from your idols and turn your faces away from all your abominations. Turn your back on it! Dear Lord, what's it come to in Pentecost that an evangelist has to come and scream about the idol of television when we used to preach against it?

Everybody knew what it was. What's it come to when I can stand and thunder the Word of God through His holy wrath and quote scripture after scripture and you sit there and you justify it? Priests will justify it.

You'll justify your idol, pastor? You'll say, I'm not going to do it because you tell me. I don't believe it's an idol. I believe in balance. It's got a knob. You can turn it off. Well, who's turning it off?

Because I'm telling you, there's not going to be an anointing. The revival's not coming. The covenant's not going to be set up. We will not have anything but war until we get these idols pulverized. Now, I'm not done.

Idolatry and the Drying Up of the Church

I want you to go to Ezekiel 6. Ezekiel 6. Now, just leave it open there and look this way. How many know what Ezekiel 37 is? Anybody know what Ezekiel 37 is? It's the valley of dry bones. Ezekiel said, Now look, I've got a valley full of very dead, very dry bones.

Now, I'm going to tell you how they got dead. I'm going to tell you how they got dry. How did that valley of dry bones come to pass? Who killed them? How did they die? I'm going to read to you right now.

I'm going to tell you how the dry bones came. I'm going to show you how Pentecostal Christians dry up and wither away. Verse 1,. And the word of the Lord came and said, Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.

And say, Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, the hills, the ravines, and the valleys. Lord, I Myself am going to bring a sword on you and I'll destroy your high places.

I'm going to tear your walls down. The sword's coming in. The wild boar. So your altars will become desolate and your incense altars will be smashed. And I shall make your slain fall in front of your idols.

I shall also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols. And I shall scatter your bones around your altar. Have they die sitting in front of their idols. Is that in your Bible? Have they die sitting in front of their idols.

I can give you Scriptures to prove they're wooden idols. They're wooden idols. I'll give you three Scriptures to prove that. I'm still not done. Ezekiel 20. Saints. Church of God's saints. Assembly of God's saints.

Baptist saints, whoever you are. Charismatic saints. Pastor, evangelist, whoever you may be. If you will not hear this, then there's nothing that you'll ever hear. Go to your idol. Go ahead. But listen to this.

Chapter 20, verse 7. Ezekiel. And I said to them, cast away each of you the detestable things of your eyes. Do not defile yourself with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. But they rebelled against Me and they're not willing to listen to Me.

They did not cast away the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Look at verse 16. Because they rejected Me, My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them.

They even profaned My Sabbath. For their heart continually went after their idols. Their heart continually went after their idols. Now dear people, look at me. I have been instructed by the Holy Ghost.

I've been instructed by the Holy Ghost to stand before this audience and deliver an ultimatum of love from the Holy God. If I've ever heard from God, I heard from Him this afternoon. If the church of God and the assemblies of God, pastors and laity, will not remove this and all the rest of the idols out of their homes and out of their churches and out of their lives, it will be Ichabod.

God will go and raise up another people. Holy and separated, God will write Ichabod on our doors. He'll take away our anointing and He'll go and find a people that will listen to Him. We'll walk in holiness before God.

You can have all the revivals you want, and all the camp meetings you want, but God is bringing forth the strong word. It's all over the United States now. God is bringing a strong word from prophets and watchmen.

God says it's enough. I'll not let you sit in front of your idols anymore. I'll not let you watch the filth of hell and these detestable things and set these ungodly things before your eyes and come before Me and lift your hands and wash them because there's pollution and the wall is down.

The Vineyard, Its Wall, and God’s Expectations

Listen. Go to Matthew. I'm going to let the hammer come down and come down. We're going to move away from television right now. Matthew 21. Alright. Verse 33. Verse 33. Matthew 21, verse 33. Do you have it?

Listen to it. Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and what did he do? What did he do? He put a wall around it. What is the vineyard? What's the vineyard? That's his church.

That's his people. These are the saints of God. I planted me a vineyard and I built a wall around it. Now let me tell you what God's going to do to that wall. Who put the wall there? God put it there.

Alright, I want you to turn with me now to Isaiah and I'm going to show you an incredible prophecy. An incredible prophecy. Isaiah. Go left. Isaiah. Fifth chapter. I want you to follow me. And I want the Holy Ghost to let this sink deep in your heart.

Verse 1. Let me sing now for my well-beloved the song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill. He dug it around. He removed its stones. He planted it with a choicest vine and he built a tower in the middle of it.

He hewed it with the wine vatlet. He expected it to produce good grapes, but it produced only worthless ones. Look at verse 3. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard what more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done?

Why when I expected it to produce good grapes, did it produce worthless ones? Alright, look at me. Don't read further. Look this way. I ask you, what more can the Holy Ghost do for the church of God and the Pentecostal movements of all kinds?

He has sent forth the strongest Word on the face of the earth. There's been camp meeting after camp meeting. You sat through. You've gone to revival meeting after revival meeting. What more can God do?

He sent conviction. He sent His Word. He said, what more could I have done to produce fruit in my vineyard? I've built a wall around it. What more can I do for this people? Look what He says in verse 5.

So let me tell you what I'm going to do to my vineyard. I will remove its heads, its wall. It will be consumed. I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground. And I will lay it waste. It will not be pruned or hoed, but briars and thorns will come up.

I shall also charge the clouds to rain. No rain on it. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel. Look at me. I the Lord. The devil doesn't tear the wall down. He can't touch the wall.

I the Lord, your God, will tear down your wall. I'll tear it down. I'll come to my vineyard and I see this worthless thing happening. I see this idolatry. And God said, I've done everything I can do. There's nothing left, but I'm going to tear your wall down now.

I'm going to say, rain. No more rain. I'm going to let briars and thistles and thorns come up. That explains what's happening in many lives today. You say, why isn't God answering my prayer? Why isn't God causing the wars to cease in my home and my ministry?