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THE SHAKING OF ALL THINGS
OCTOBER
1970
TEXT:
HAGGAI 2:1-7, HEBREWS 12:25-29
I
want to deal with a thought we shall entitle, “The Shaking
of All Things”. Only a few people realize that God is actually
going to shake everything.
In this message I want to deal on everything being shaken that
can be, and it is important you realize in what degree, or in
what sense everything is to be shaken.
Sometime
ago it was my privilege to view a civil defense film on the destruction
of the Alaskan earthquake back in 1964. An earthquake which did
an estimated damage to the state equivalent to 100,000 atomic
bombs. In this film stood a young man on board ship filming the
surroundings at the very moment the earthquake hit. This camera
showed how sturdy and lovely everything was standing only moments
before the quake. The sailor’s camera continued grinding,
shooting the landscape when suddenly the earth beneath him began
to shake. What was happening? In one moment of time there stood
all the beautiful buildings, re-enforced with the best of concrete,
the best of steel that industry today could possibly refine through
the modern smelting furnaces, man’s best in his initiative
to build a material environment, and yet in seconds of time what
you saw with your eyes you could hardly believe. Suddenly everything
came tumbling to the ground under this powerful shaking. In this
film was a railroad track. Many, many wheels of freight cars,
tons of freight etc. have been carried over that railroad; man
labored untold hours to construct something to carry such tonnage
etc., and in just a little moment of time as the shaking took
pace, railroad tracks, all of a perfect grade running along a
highway, lay twisted out of shape! Nothing was left, only a huge
crevice and rails suspended in space, why? Because it
could not endure the mighty SHAKING IT FACED! Something
had happened to shake it. Bear this earthquake shaking in mind
as we examine to what extent everything will be shaken. We must
understand the shaking of all things will not be some minor tap
on our shoulder or nudge, but a powerful earthquake shaking.
“THIS
HOUSE” - NO SECOND TEMPLE V-7
My
thought is based on Haggai 2:1-7, and was prophesied thousands
of years ago that it would be in this manner. Haggai was one of
the restoration prophets to the returning children of Israel from
Babylon’s 70 year captivity to rebuild their ruined city
and temple. We are familiar with the historical fact how this
temple was rebuilt through the inspiration of Zerubbabel, Haggai,
Nehemiah, Ezra, those restoration prophets and scribes. However,
that temple was never restored in its original Solomon beauty
nor splendor. The house
referred to in these verses is none other than the House of the
Lord which they are in the process of rebuilding. God, at no time
had put distinction between that first house and this one which
was now in the restoration process, so it is called the
house. In other words, even though the first house was
torn down and 70 years later they had begun building another one
back, we do know this was a house (temple) altogether different
than the first, yet God still calls it His
house and the question is asked, “Who is left among
you that saw this house
in its original splendor”. Very aged men no doubt stood
there who had made their way back to Jerusalem who could remember
when as a child they were all carried away, and the (1st)
temple of Solomon stood. God is saying, “Who is there among
you that saw this house in its original splendor?” Oh yes,
this house had been restored, yet not in its original beauty.
They simply hadn’t taken the great pains in rebuilding and
restoring the temple into its magnificent original splendor as
it had been before. “Now is it not in your eyes in comparison
with it (the former one) as nothing, yet now be strong Zerubbabel,
saith the Lord and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high
priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord,
and work: for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts. Yet
once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and
the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all
nations. (Note, not only does he shake the heavens, the
earth, the sea and the dry land) But note: I
will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come:
and I will fill this house (not this immediate restored
house (2nd temple) yet it also would still be His house).
However, the house to be filled
with Glory - will be the restored one for the millennium
which will bring to fulfillment the statement where once He has
fulfilled - the great shaking,
of all things (nations) the desire of all nations (remnant of
what remains) shall come andI
will fill this house (Ezekiel 43 and 44) (See Contender
Vol. 2, No. 6). Remember up until 1970, the desire of all nations
had not been consummated, or arrived at any position or condition
leading up to consummating of all things, nor has that
temple been built.
Only
a small trickling of the two southern tribes actually remained
in the land to witness and worship God in that Second temple which
was later to be beautified by Herod (in Christ period) and later
destroyed by the Roman army in 70 A.D. All nations had not turned
to that temple or house, on the contrary, the Roman army never
turned to that house, they destroyed
it. This shaking in Haggai had no connection with this
second present house, but the
one constructed for the millennium, though the wording
is this house. That great
shaking was actually to occur at the climax of all the ages (law
and grace age), when God would be ready to restore that house
in its original beauty, and in its original purpose when all nations
will go there and see the Glory of God. However, before this house
would finally reach that restored state, God announced He would
shake the heavens, the earth, the seas, the dry land, and all
nations; then and only then shall the desire of all nations
be moved to come up to Jerusalem where the House of the Lord will
be located, “And I will
fill this house with Glory, saith the Lord of Hosts.” The
Glory of this latter house (not the one they were presently building)
shall be greater than of the former. (Solomon’s), saith
the Lord of Hosts; and in this place will I
give peace, (not the U.N. or some other world organization)
saith the Lord of hosts.” Humanity has struggled on 2500
years past this prophecy and still there is no peace. Matthew
24, shows this age of grace ends with war and strife not peace.
Nevertheless, God has promised to fill that house with Glory and
the desire of all nations will be to come there to see Him, and
in this place will I give peace, not peace to a mere city or one
nation of people, no, but he’ll give peace to the entire
earth and also peace to the people accounted worthy of enjoying
that great age under His personal reign.
EVIL
HAS ALWAYS EXISTED
Once
we see these scriptures properly applied in their chronological
order of application in regards to time, a marvelous overall picture
begins to form within our minds, as far as evil is concerned,
there has always been a certain amount of evil in the world. In
every respect there’s always been a certain percentage of
an expression of evil but you must realize the shaking referred
to in Haggai is no minor disturbance
of events which has occurred in nations or in society or
even within religious circles. That particular shaking mentioned
has never transpired, this
will be a world shaking of events not only in the heavens, earth,
sea, but also within the nations on this earth leading right up
to the very day of the Lord.
DEFINITION
OF SHAKING
First,
place in your mind what the word shaking means. (A) In a physical
sense, an English definition describing SHAKE or SHAKING is: (1)
SHAKE is to cause to tremble, (2) to vibrate, (3) to cause to
totter, such as huge radio towers running 200-300 feet in the
air would totter when suddenly they can’t stand any longer;
the next minute they are laying upon the ground as an earthquake
tears at the ground, (4) or become unsteady, (b) SHAKING of that
which has life - (1) it
is to unnerve, (2) to create a sensation of instability, (3) unadjusted,
(4) can’t get a hold of yourself, (5) to unnerve as one
who is shaken by bad news, (6) to cause to move
up and down, as the effects of an earthquake, upon an ocean
floor. As the earthquake film showed, the ocean water rushed out
of the bay, ships in the area suddenly found themselves sitting
on the bottom of the bay, the water rushed back forcing them up
again moving up and down, back and forth or from side to side.
(One ship found itself on the bottom side of the bay 3 times during
the Alaskan earthquake in 1964). These definitions furnish us
with a clearer understanding of the entire meaning of shaking,
as we further investigate God’s phraseology when He said
- He would shake everything.
SHAKING
- UNDER 6TH SEAL
Recall,
it was under that 6th sea, Revelation 6:12-17, that
we see this fulfilled. That shaking, shaking of the heavens and
the earth, continents, seas, and heavens all are classified under
natural and celestial shakings. However, the shaking of all nations
if classified more within a realm ofhumanity,
or human beings. Nations referred to in this sense have always
applied to people of territories rather than to a
mere continent of land. Bear in mind the shaking of the
heavens and the seas comes before the shaking of this literal
planet Earth itself which is to be the very final thing to be
shaken. God begins leading up to this final climax, which is the
consummation of all this.
PEOPLE
(NATIONS) FIRST TO BE SHAKEN
What
is the very first thing God shakes? We note the first thing to
be shaken is humanity, and in the remainder of this message we
shall deal with the mighty shaking of humanity. There is no doubt
in my mind that with the completion of World War II we saw the
last war ever to be fought which expressed or displayed man in
his different national and racial environments. In that war was
expressed man’s highest military achievement or ingenuity,
armies met not only on the continent of North Africa and territories
of Western Europe, but also there was mass fighting in the islands
of the Pacific and regions of the Far East. Everywhere there were
military men trained to take their materialistic achievements
and turn them into something to kill with. You saw fully expressed
man’s highest endeavor of military ability to conquer, however,
since World War II the jet airplane and every kind of a firing
weapon with kill power possible has been perfected. Weapons and
air power used today make that of 25
years ago almost obsolete. Yet with these very nations to which
all this has been so much more exemplified there
has been a terrific shaking going forth, and these same
world powers who were skillful and powerful in that war, have
become so unnerved if World War II was to be fought again, I would
have to say man, no doubt, would prove himself tobe
a weakling. Evidence of this has been proven in Korea and
Vietnam where in the two conflicts over 76,000 men have died!
Today’s weapons of war are more deadly and powerful yet
we do not have the military ability to use them successfully.
Something is lacking; something
has happened; we have been shaken to pieces. Seemingly we cannot
win a thing!
HOOVER
WARNS AGAINST MORAL COWARDICE
J.
Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI, has for 45 years weathered the
intrigues of politicians and rebuffed the slurs of assorted Communists
Fascists and agitators bent on tearing our nation apart.
Pulling
no punches in a speech a short time ago, Mr. Hoover said: “For
the past several years our citizens have been barraged with unbridled
vulgarity, obscenity, blasphemy, perversion and public desecration
of our cherished ideals and symbols. For the most part, these
degrading and debasing activities are increasing. Immorality is
becoming more of the rule than the exception. In
the face of these perplexing problems, many citizens are practically
moral cowards. Afraid of being labeled puritanical or “square”
they tolerate and condone acts
which they know are morally wrong. Crumbling respect for law must
be halted.”
May
I say this, the great God of heavens has
caused the spirit to come forth to deal with the gentile nations
in this matter. Beloved, there is only one nation on earth
who has any military ability who can use what they have wisely,
and God is honoring that nation, it is ISRAEL.
Remember,
this shaking I am referring to is no small shaking like the shaking
of a door! This shaking referred to is a shaking of every aspect
of human society-socially, principally, politically, economically
and religiously.
Since
World War II giant strides in education have prevailed attempting
to lift man out of his illiteracy, especially in other regions.
Yet beloved, as billions are being spent to build larger more
effective universities in what ever nation you might travel, within
these universities is a spirit
of unrest unequaled to anything we have ever tried to cope with.
Pick up any newspaper and you’ll find a continual story
on the unrest within college campus’. Rock throwing, buildings
damaged or destroyed, administration buildings overrun by mobs
of unruly university students, police and national guards having
to be called out to put down riots among the highest in the educational
environment field! There is that spirit of evil because suddenly
they have become a generation which declares things are different;
it’s time for a change; we absolutely refuse to abide any
longer by the old ways and paths which guided our forefathers,
they say. It’s called a society of the
generation gap. That generation gap can only lie within
the realm of the individual’s thinking. The generation gap
is in the mind not in the parent relationship, yes, it’s
in the mind and that mind is thinking of rebelling against everything
and every principle that has guided this country concerning God
and fellow men. (1) This generation says we don’t want God
any longer, (2) we are through with righteous morality, (3) we
are through with self-discipline, (4) we are through with this
kind of government, therefore, they say it is time for a change
and they are doing everything in their power to see that everything
comes about, if it means the destruction of the government and
the human way of life.
Truly
we can say since World War II society has been shaken and that
shaking continues to grow more sever each year. What kind of far
reaching effect is this having? Not merely is the social realm
within America being severely shaken, it’s affecting the
world over!! Wherever you go you witness a social unrest among
nations. Because of all this unrest, tension and refusal of self-discipline
within our own country, which now carries a population of some
60,000,000 more than the period of World War II, if we were forced
into another all-out war, even though we do possess the highest
ability and achievement in all our modern materialistic environment,
I feel it would not benefit us at this time. Beloved, I get no
pleasure out of this statement, but we are in every way exactly
like the mighty Roman Empire before it crumbled! We’re like
a gigantic icicle which has fallen upon a hot stove and cannot
revive itself in time.
5
REASONS WHY ROME FELL
Edward
Gibbon in THE RISE AND FALL OF
THE ROMAN EMPIRE gave these five reasons why the Roman
Empire fell:
(1)
Rapid increase in divorce. (2) Higher and higher taxes and the
spending of public monies for free bread and circuses. (3) The
mad craze for pleasure. (4) The building of gigantic armaments
when the real enemy, the decadence of the people, was within.
(5) The decay of religion.
A
SICK SOCIETY
Lyndon
Baine Johnson, when in the president’s office, worked for
what he called his Great Society program, but truly we aren’t
a great society we are a sick society, sick in mind, body and
ideas; sick because the modern generation of this day is determined
they will change everything which has ruled this people for almost
200 years, sick because we have lost our initiative to be respectable,
upright, morally clean and honest, God-fearing citizens. Our people
have lost their initiate to be proud Americans who if need be
would die for the freedom that God has given to use to worship
him in a free land. The flag and the national anthem goes unrespected
in this sick society. God’s word teaches us to obey and
respect the laws of the land. This, American people, because of
the mighty shaking that we are receiving, has caused 33 out of
every 100 adults more than ⅓ of our population to suffer
from the crippling disease of arthritis. The American Cancer Society
reports 1 out of 4 Americans will be struck with cancer. Every
2 minutes throughout 1970 one American shall die with
cancer, if present rate continues 50,000,000 Americans
eventually will fall victims to cancer, 23 % of cancer death today
are contributed to smoking. Approximately 500,000 persons in this
country die yearly from heart disease, 87,000,000 Americans at
present are suffering from no less than one chronicle disease
or disability. Practically 30,000,000 Americans spend some time
in the hospital each year. No
we are not a great society we are a sick society and these figures
prove how sick we are! 18 % of the 87,000,000 Americans
who have one or more chronicle conditions are
under the age of 17.
HEALTH
PROBLEMS UNDER 20 YEARS OF AGE
Ages
5 to 17, 11 million Americans have eye problems; ages 5 through
20, 2.8 million suffer speech disorders; ages 1-20, 2.4 million
suffer various types of mental retardation; ages 1-20, 2.1 million
have hearing problems and feet problems; ages 5-19, 4.6 million
suffer emotional disturbances, sedatives are being taken by 1
out of 4 Americans. This is the most pill-taking generation ever.
Pills have become a part of the American way of life, adults take
pills to speed up and to slow down, pills for diets, for pain,
for control of birth. We seem to think everything can be settled
with taking a pill. There is one pill that could really help us
in our need, that would be gos-pill
(Gospel) if we would only take it. 50% of all hospital beds in
the U.S. and Britain are filled with mental patients. At this
time over 800,000 Americans are hospitalized with mental disorders,
Britain reports roughly 188,000. Truly I would have to disagree
with the last administration and their great society, this
is a very sick, emotional disturbed society ever to exist!
MORALS
AND PRINCIPLES
HELD
SWAY OVER MULTITUDES
This
shaking has absolutely crept in. Up until the period of World
War II there were still certain principles of certain social ideal
which were in effect that held sway over the mass of the population.
Through these basic social ideals you could still control the
masses, even though we have always
had a small minority that was restless, yet today I want
you to know in this population of now over 200,000,000 there is
such a complete and total unrest that has settled in, not only
here in America but the world over, South America, Europe, and
Asia, it’s causing the gentile nations to become stronger
socially, yet in every wise it has also weakened them. They have
become so weakened by all this that we see the world in all this
up-heavel tossed backward and forth like that of a giant body
of water being forced from one side to the other. This entire
mass of humanity is just reeling. Recall one of those definitions
of the world shaking meant a moving from side to side or an up-heavel
from ups and downs like that. Look
at the entire social order of man-kind today!
YOUTH
AND WORLD WAR II
Back
around World War II leading up to our period of time, notice the
two distinctions between the period concerning
the youth. When World War II was declared do we realize
that every young man who was able to breathe, walk and carry a
weapon was to report to his draft board. In that day25
years ago there was enough authority behind the law if young men
dared burn their draft cardsyou
could rest assured they’d be snatched up and placed behind
bars where they would remain until they had learned a good lesson.
Beloved, there must be a certain
amount of law and authority, if man in his un-regenerated nature
is ever to be kept from getting out of control. Strongly
enforced laws are what can keep this thing from getting out of
control, and believe me we had the law back then!
DISRESPECT
FOR LAW AND ORDER
CAUSES
FURTHER SHAKING
However,
this weakening of the law and courts has permitted that spirit
of lawlessness to be turned loose ( a fulfillment of God’s
word). Law the world over is to keep man in his proper balance
socially, morally and principally. Under civil and judicial law
man altered his ethics, this spirit has just been released upon
the masses of humanity who cry out, no
law! Note carefully, I didn’t say there wasn’t
still that certain realm
of people who do respect law and order and authority, did I? Although
I want you to know that realm
who does still respect law and order is of such a small minority
their voices carry virtually no effect!
Remember
certain pre-established concepts of man’s way of thinking
has guided him down through time, this kept him stabilized in
a realm of society, where he would at least conduct himself morally
like a human being.
Only
because there were certain respects within the realm of morals
and respect for ones fellow man, has humanity been able to survive
down through the centuries. True, you’ve always had a certain
realm of lawlessness, yet the law could at least keep it corralled,
however, once this disrespect
for law and order began taking over, the law apparently began
taking a back seat and evil took a holiday, seemingly the
law was pushed back to give way to this spirit.
What
do we find in our universities, right in the institutions of higher
learning? Certain spirits which were placed well into the minds
of people who will receive this philosophy, and as they receive
this they will go out and react accordingly which only tends to
set off more pressure. What causes an earthquake? Somewhere down
in the lower structure of the earth there has been a giant pressure
continually building up and that pressure can only rise up so
far, or to such a magnitude, until after a while the different
layers of rock that form the earth’s crust begins to slip,
break and slide, once that process begins its
only natures way of causing that pressure to be let off.
So what do you think is going on in society today? Certain earthquake
pressures which affect people morally, socially and mentally has
built up such a pressure that beloved one is looking this-a-way
and one is looking that-a-way, and after while this
pressure must express itself. What do we have? A generation
of people who have been turned over to a lawless
disobedient spirit with no more respect, no more true concept
or attitude towards God, no longer respect towards his fellow
man - and because of that - this
shaking is severely affecting the American home.
SHAKING
OF MORALS AND HOME LIFE
Shocking
statistics reveals the breakdown within the American home and
homes the world over. The following statistics are given to show
the trend in which this country is headed in respect to old time
morals. The staggering divorce rate in America is one in three
marriages ends in divorce, with Los Angeles, California, reporting
one out of two in their area ending in divorce. Each time the
clock ticks off 56 seconds, a divorce is being granted in the
courts of America, numbering 1350 per day. In a twelve months
span 1,800,000 American couples join hands in holy wedlock. The
U.S. divorce rate ranges 4 to 6 times higher than that of Belgium,
Canada, Norway and the Netherlands, and ranges 3 times higher
than France. Divorce and separation disrupts 1,750,000 American
people each year, including men, women and children. Over the
past 10 years nine million couples have received divorce in America.
It is predicted that 1 out of 4 brides who are wed in 1970 will
receive a divorce. Divorce among those under 21 years of age ranges
6 times higher than those above 21. Ages 15-18, 50% ends in divorce
within 5 years. 40% of all brides in U.S. are between the ages
15-18. A large part of that number will live the balance of their
life in misery, bringing the total of this class to 90% total
failure for 40% of the above figure was forced into marriage as
a result of pre-marital pregnancy. Divorce rate for teenage marriages
before 18 range from 2 to 4 times higher than those who marry
later in life. Seemingly, the number one problem contributed to
the failure in marriage, according to marriage counselors, husbands
and wives cannot converse with one another.
UNWED
MOTHERS
Of
the 250,000 unwed mothers in the U.S. last year, 75% of them were
teenagers. The average age of unwed mothers in this country is
now 16. According to Dr. Bernice C. Sachs, addressing a recent
medical symposium in Augusta, Ga., of those teenagers 17 and younger
who are lucky enough to find husbands, from 40% to 60% are pregnant
on their wedding day. - Parade (1968)
ILLEGITIMATE
BIRTHS
From
high school age from 7th thru 12th grade
in city schools were reported 2,487 pregnancies by unmarried girls.
A figure which is almost double that of eight years ago. In New
York schools emergency instructions on how to deliver a baby in
school have been sent to all city school principals by the Department
of Health. This is given in order to encourage expectant mothers
to remain in school instead of dismissing them. Next we will probably
hear of the schools being equipped with nurseries. Illegitimate
births in 1967 ranged one out
of twelve, but by 1970 the ratio had dropped to one out of ten.
A survey report from Connecticut revealed that out of 100 teenage
unwed mothers in 1956, that 95 of these mothers continued to produce
up to four and five illegitimate children each, only nine out
of the hundred ever married. Since 1943, illegitimate birth has
risen sharply, totaling today over 300,000 births yearly, with
some 47% of these babies mothers being under 20 years of age.
England and Wales reported 70,000 unwed mothers yearly, a ratio
of one in twelve illegitimate births. In regards to illegitimate
births in pre-marital relations in Sweden rose from 11,500 in
1960 to 18,000 in 1966. Every 10th Swedish child is
born out of wedlock, so we can see what 20 years of sex education
has brought to the culture of Sweden. WHAT
WILL THE RATIO BE IN AMERICA AFTER WE HAVE HAD 20 YEARS OF SEX
EDUCATION IN OUR SCHOOLS?
The
American Medical Association estimates 1500 teenagers per day
are infected with venereal disease. 500,000 cases are reported
yearly (no estimate of those not reported) and Britain reports
roughly 160,000. It seems marriage is in such a poor condition
around the world computers are being consulted to match couples.
A recent college survey of 2,825 students from 25 colleges revealed
that 60% of the male students and 53% of the female student answered
NO to the question,“DO
YOU THINK ONE SHOULD WAIT UNTIL MARRIAGE TO EXPERIENCE RELATIONSHIP”.
63% of the men and 71% of the women in England interviewed answered
no also. All conditions point to a downhill trend. Surely,
the morals of this country are being shaken to pieces.
There was a time no matter which nation you journeyed to, there
was always that certain moral concept and conviction which guided
the normal man of his right mind that
it was dreadfully wrong to drag in the dirt the human relationship
between man and woman as it is being treated today. Up
until the present there has at least been a general respect or
sacredness for that union God established in the Garden of Eden,
however, as we move closer to the day of the Lord and the time
of His wrath when not only the heavens, the earth, the sea and
the dry land will be shaken, the
Eternal One must first shake the nations (which is none
other than the people), because basically that is what God is
dealing with. We are witnessing this pressure as it is being turned
loose today within every nation on the face of the earth.
SEXUAL
REVOLUTION
At
the University of California at Berkeley, a conservative guess
is that 1,000 couples sharing living quarters, but not marriage
licenses. All over the country it became increasingly clear that
coeducation has become almost synonymous with cohabitation.
It
is impossible to estimate how many couples are living together.
The number varies radically from campus to campus, and most administrations
don’t take the trouble to keep count.
“TIMES
HAVE CHANGED” SAYS THE YOUNGER GENERATION
There
is an old saying people are what they have been taught and how
true this is, naturally and spiritually. With such professors
and teachers in the schools of higher learning, teaching our youth
today, is there any wonder that the youth or younger generation
is on the rampage it is today? That which a person believes naturally
shall be instilled into the mind of every listener he is trying
to convert to his line of thinking. Is our professors of higher
education in sympathy with the strong teachings and moral code
of the word of God? The following survey shows we are bound to
produce a generation without true understanding of holy morals
of Gods Word. Dr. C. Sumner Wemp, President of Southeastern Bible
College in Birmingham, Alabama, writes this in his report: “An
astounding fact was that, of the 1069 professors polled, the majority
reported opposition to
dress regulation, curfews in woman’s dormitories, restrictions
on the use of alcohol and strong college rules against marijuana.
Additionally, 65% of the respondents thought the college should
not prohibit an unmarried couple from sharing the same apartment.”
“Is there a need for the Bible College today? Not only is
it true that Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, blessed
is the college whose God is the Lord.” (Southeastern Bible
College Bulletin, October 1969).
PREDICTED
MORALS OF 1991
Today
we are faced with the modern theory TIMES
HAVE CHANGED, that which has been respected through the
ages suddenly mankind finds has become out-dated - we
don’t need these old moral precepts, concepts and
convictions anymore TIMES HAVE
CHANGED - Thinking has changed - Sometime ago an article
appeared in the Louisville Courier Journal written by some university
professor in Kentucky. This bold article showed a picture of a
tiny baby girl recently born. The headline read, “What
does the future hold for this little girl?” (Born
1970) What will be her future in 21 years? What will her generation
be doing in 21 years according to this professor? Notice what
is already in the scientific mind of men teaching in universities
and colleges. This professor is among those educators who apparently
hold no convictions concerning sacred marriage laws. Educators
such as these are responsible for what is being taught to this
younger generation. Already we see certain strong trends working
within the educational systems of our universities etc. concerning
morals that have always guided man’s thinking, but in respect
to this article of the baby girl born in early 1970, by the time
she has reached 21 becoming a young woman this article statedtime
will so have changed - the old moral laws of marriage will
be completely outdated! Personally, I can’t conceive of
God allowing this present age to exist that long, however, if
He did this is what one could expect. It’s such a concept
or theory as this which is shaking society completely off its
foundation today. It’s causing society to literally be shoved
backward and forwards under this building pressure. This article
continued by saying the old moral laws will have been abolished,
marriage as it has been recognized by society for 6,000 years
will in all due respects no doubt be completely done away with,
and marriage as marriage has been known and respected where man
and woman falls in love, marries and lives together in a husband
and wife relationship - when 2 individuals of the opposite sex
become so much in love with one another they’ll never have
a desire for any other type of companionship, that
type relationship will be out of society; thinking for man will
be a complete free moral agent, (women also), no longer
responsible to be disciplined and guided by any moral law that
God has established through the mind of humanity down through
time. Men and women can so live with any person they choose as
often as they choose because that will be modern society by 1991.
Women
will be completely free to live with whosoever she pleases at
any time she pleases, it will not be considered degrading to live
in this fashion, but will be well accepted by modern society.
Because of mass population, birth control not only will be a natural
thing, but a compulsory thing,
controlled by each individual nation. Today scientists cry something
must be done to prevent this over population of the earth. Truly
that is a sign the commission given to Adam and Eve by the creator
in the garden has just about run its course. The article continued
by saying because of advanced scientific discoveries within the
realm of genetics which shall be made, life that is produced in
1991 will not be a regular birth process, but will be that which
is not only regulated by state laws controlling birth, but birth
itself will be produced scientifically, ministered and supervised,
in laboratories. Genes in that hour will solely be for the production
of an intellectual being that doesn’t know God. Furthermore,
he would only be a thing to fulfill a position here in a modern
society. Such things are being taught today, although they could
not function in our particular hour because we still have an older
generation who adheres in some ways to the old beliefs, but this
spirit rising up now to produce such things is creating a strong
pressure against these old convictions, about love and sacredness
within marriage. Beloved, because man at large has refused God’s
provided way, God has turned him over to a reprobate mind
and once God turns a people over to a reprobate mind he becomes
an open candidate for every kind of a devil spirit to take possession
not only of his mind, but body and spirit as well. Some go crazy,
some go education crazy, some go materialistic crazy. Being crazy
or insane can include more than someone being locked in a padded
cell clawing their hair out. This insane attitude is greatly affecting
man in all of his social make-up. Because
of this moral unrest, certain moral laws were changed within our
legislature courts, now what do we find?
AMERICAN
HOME ON ROCKS
The
American home life absolutely is on the rocks. In the shortest
time ever the divorce rate has risen to an all time high. No one
could read his daily newspapers and not know something is sincerely
wrong. If time lasted until 1975, very few young people who actually
were married in 1970 would still be living together by 1975. The
sadness of it all is to see a young man and woman declaring their
love each to the other and 6 months after marriage the devil tears
them apart, throwing one this way and the other one in the opposite
direction. You have this terrible moral social unrest going on
and the pressure continues to mount to explosive heights, what
do you have? Actually humanity is crying for HELP,
HELP, HELP, because man has forsaken God’s way of
help; he now cries for HELP
to have the moral laws changed to fit his own regenerated nature;
he cries for laws to be changed to fit the condition of the hour
and I want you to know the condition is absolutely a cancerous
thing which continues to worsen.
WEAKENING
OF THE LAW
PRODUCES
SKYROCKETING CRIME WAVE
True,
there has always been killing; there has always been moon-shining,
bank robbers and burglars, but certain laws down through the generations
of humanity have always been able to control, to a certain extent,
the tide of situations. For some reason a modern philosophy has
crept into our society saying we no longer have any need for those
old rigorous laws! By taking
a few examples of cases where certain men have been wrongly judged
in certain courts, they use this to support their argument saying
we need to change our laws, they are too strict. I am sure you
are aware of what this philosophy has produced! They began producing
laws that were much less severe
on the criminals and it has produced the greatest crime wave ever!
Once a man would be hanged for horse stealing, terrible you say,
true, but you didn’t find
many horse thieves! However, today in America it appears
as though evil has taken a holiday and society has become the
innocent victim of a mad beast turned loose, like you would release
without warning a man eating tiger upon your town. If you did
not do something to control that vicious thing everyone in your
city would be subject to attack at any time, anywhere and without
any security whatsoever.
A
recent national survey reveals that half of the women and one
fifth of the men in the large cities are afraid to walk outdoors
at night, even near to where they live. One third of American
householders keep guns to provide protection against intruders.
Fear is widespread. In
some city neighborhoods, nearly one-third of the residents desire
to move because of the high rates of crime, and many have already
moved for that reason. Bus and cab drivers in many cities no longer
carry change. Vigilante groups have sprung up in some areas. Fear
of crime is transforming life in America’s big cities and
suburbs. Some of the basic freedoms are being destroyed, such
as freedom of movement, freedom from harm, freedom from fear.
During
the period from 1960 through 1968, the national murder rate per
100,000 population increased 36%, the rate of forcible rape 65%,
of aggravated assault 67%, and of robbery 119%. These figures
come from the “Uniform Crime Reports”, published by
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. About 17% of our total population
lives in the 26 cities with 500,000 or more residents. These cities
contribute 45% of the total major crimes. Six cities with one
million or more residents have 10% of our total population and
contribute 30% of the total major violent crimes.
1969
VIOLENT CRIME SOARS
According
to figures recently released by the FBI, the increase in violent
crime in the United States continues to rise even faster than
the overall crime rate. In the first six months of 1969, violent
crime increased 15%, while the overall rise was 9% during the
same period of 1968. Combined with the dramatic increase in 1968
and 1969, crime rate stands at a staggering 32 percent over the
same period of 1967. The breakdown is as follows:
Property
8 percent Murder 8 percent
Forcible
Rape 15 percent Robbery 17 percent
Aggravated
assault 10 percent Burglary 3 percent
Larceny
$50 & over 17 percent Auto theft 9 percent
Beloved,
this situation does not dwell in America alone, it is the world
over! This is the trend of the day, it
is the shaking, think of it! Watch this, our country cries
out, MORE MONEY TO FIGHT CRIME,
while it continues to make crime easier to commit, by weakening
our laws! It reminds me much of a man taking strychnine and for
some reason he becomes addicted to it so he continues taking more
and more until sooner or later that strychnine is going to build
up a poison within his system. So, with the other hand he gets
an antidote to counteract the continuous buildup of the strychnine
poison in order he may continue taking it. With one hand he takes
the poison and with the other hand he takes an antidote. He can
just go on for days and days like that, but is he not aware sooner
or later it is going to build up a
side effect? And when it does, it is going to be the side
effect that will kill him because the antidote cannot control
it any longer. That is exactly what is going on today, by weakening
our laws we are saying to organized crime, go ahead, rob banks,
kill and steal from our citizens, go ahead raise cane and we shall
raise taxes to fight more crime. Friends, it is like going around
your elbow to get to your thumb, what is it? Man’s society
is being shaken while poor defenseless humanity sits back awestruck
saying, WHY CAN’T SOMETHING
BE DONE? The reason something isn’t done is because
GOD SAID HE WOULD SHAKE ALL NATIONS
and this is part of the great shaking!
SHAKING
IN POLITICS
Look
at it from the realm of politics, do you recall it wasn’t
long after World War II, because we had our two political party
system which had governed this nation down from its beginning,
yes, because one wants to play both parties, the two ends against
the middle, what do they do? This country has always had a certain
amount of racial environment within itself, but look what happens?
Both political parties want to play the two ends against the middle,
and I’ll say instead of having made the situation one bit
better they have made it worse, until now, within our country
we have the greatest racial unrest of pressure being built up
this country has ever witnessed! Beloved, if the Lord tarries
His coming a few years longer no doubt in my mind that one day
we will have one of the worst chaotic revolutions of some nature
we have ever had, why? Because if this pressure continues to build
somewhere it will be forced to express itself, like a pressure
being built up for a terrible shaking earthquake, so
is society being prepared for its worst shaking. Politicians
sit in Washington in their governmental positions trying to bring
up laws or some kind of legislature whereby we may be able to
bear with the situation somehow or control it wondering, how can
we do this or that? Because all these things are shaking things,
politics sways back and forth, each blaming the other party for
the difficulties we are faced with; all social instability tottering
back and forth, all of that together has built into our society
a terrible pressure of unrest, politically. Again, because we
have always had a certain realm of poverty in different places,
politicians today take advantage of the situation hoping it will
lead to a few more votes. Coming out of those depression days
shortly before World War II, I can remember in order to help the
poor the government formed certain relief groups, monetary bodies.
Recall how they had such systems as WPA and the C.C.C. Camps etc.
At least it put a people to work
who lived in poverty stricken areas, people who couldn’t
really help themselves. They would get their meager allowance,
but at least the governmentmade
them work for it. If the job was no more than picking up
trash along the highway, they
worked for their earnings! The government didn’t
just hand it out to them. However, today we have become exactly
like the Roman Empire before she fell, we
are entering into a welfare state, society is in the poverty.
We have screamed poverty until all those who feel their
country owes them a living got on the bandwagon and came under
the poverty program, doing absolutely nothing to earn this government
checks.
NO
NEED TO WORK
Christian
Economics reports that the Tulare County (California) Legal Services
Association circulated an eight-page booklet entitled, “Know
Your Welfare Rights.” One paragraph encourages welfare recipients
to live a life of slothfulness. It reads: “If you don’t
want to work, there is no good reason why Welfare can force you
to work, no matter what your (Social Welfare) worker says.”
Our government is endeavoring to correct many of the causes in
the administration of welfare recipients that they don’t
need to work is a sure way to destroy our nation. Scripture teaches,
“If any would not work, neither should he eat.”, (II
Thessalonians 3:10). Through investigations of some 1,213 families,
191 cases of fraud was discovered. Unreported income was the most
common fraud and undisclosed presence of employed men was second.
There are 270,000 families receiving aid in California and it
is believed cheaters take an estimated $59 million a year from
California’s welfare program for needy children. If this
happens in California then what would the total be in the entire
country.
Poverty
is creating an explosive pressure similar to feeding gasoline
into a fire, feeding fuel into the fire. You have groups or elements
in there building it up. And you have another group or element
that is going to cause it to burn longer, right? That is the explosive
situation you have not only in America but the world over, this
way each gentile nation has their own particular problem. Did
not God say it would be this way? Oh, I want you to know there
is one little spot on this planet which is not faced with this
explosive problem! While it is true many Jews returned to Israel
with their own ideas, it was the pressure he endured from the
enemy which caused a handful of Jewish people to be so pressed
together they realized their only hope of survival was to work
together, and because of their military ability, it has caused
their economy to be hard pressed, yet for some reason it continues
to hold up, and though there is somewhat of a moral issue there,
for some reason God continues to keep them there. However,
it is just the opposite within the other nations - because
of all this mounting unrest, let’s take a look at
this economical-wise. Every nation on earth is at the very verge
of bankruptcy all because its economy has been so shaken again
and again until it has raised its indebtedness level far above
its income. Only time will tell just how much longer they can
continue, before throwing up their hands saying there is no more,
we can’t go any further. Leadership, where is it?
It
seems today leadership within each country is so much like the
latter days of the Roman Empire before it fell. The leadership
bracket is being shaken so badly that they’re continually
at one another’s throats. When the president wants to do
one thing for example in Vietnam, all the senators will rush over
saying, no, we aren’t going to do that and the congressmen
will run over saying, no we aren’t going to let the money
go forth, leadership is being
greatly shaken. Seemingly the political parties have a
desperate time trying to pick men with great leadership quality.
Why? Because all of this must be enforced and set in motion right
up to the very day of the Lord’s wrath, The day of His wrath
precedes the hour of His glorious appearing to rule and reign
over all nations, but first what did the Eternal One say He would
do? Shake all nations -
then the desire of all nations would be to come to Jerusalem and
to see the Glory of the Lord.
Take
a look at your military establishment how it is being shaken to
pieces, instead of giving the military the freedom to fight and
perhaps winning in a short time, the administration determines
military strategy while we have spent over $100 billion and sacrificed
44,000 American lives in Vietnam alone. We see the social environment
how it is shaken to pieces, the political realm, the economical
realm all have been shaken! All wars up through World War II,
our position showed our power. Beloved were you aware that in
this very year of 1970 our economists were so frightened that
we were on the verge of a complete total economic collapse like
that of black Friday in 1929 (the day the stock market collapsed)!
No doubt had they actually released the real information how shaken
things actually were, multitudes of people would have committed
suicide, as they did in 1929. President Nixon made an urgent appeal
for the country to have faith in their economy while the democrats
seized an opportunity to blast the Republican administration.
But for some reason behind the scene because they didn’t
ever want that to happen again, they were able to pop in a little
something similar to give a sick victim another shot. They fail
to remember that this present administration inherited all these
headaches from them, without a doubt another shot only to prolong
death for a short season. One of these days that lost shot will
go into the arm yet still that last breathe will follow, and brother
she’ll lay there DEAD!
The Eternal One won’t stop now until He has shaken all things,
beginning with these nations. Society around the world, especially
within this country, is being literally shaken to pieces. Take
another good look within our country, again I repeat we have always
had moon-shining, bank robbers, burglars, boot-legers, rum-runners,
dope peddlers, etc., but it was kept to a minimum because of strict
laws, never reaching a wholesale scale. Look at it today! Once
when you heard of someone being connected with dope you just knew
they came from the slums or across the railroad tracks, or down
near the sea-port along the boat docks, right? It’s not
so today! No, this thing has left the slums and walks in broad
daylight along Main St., up on Broadway and even in king’s
palaces, and the homes of high officials. Do you know where the
trend of long hair came from? Out of the slums of London, from
that bunch of ungodly atheistic Beatles. Years ago many poor families
couldn’t afford to send their children to a barber shop,
but when they walked the streets with their hair flowing in every
direction, no one said my that’s cute! I want my children
to wear their hair like that or I’m going to allow my hair
to grow like that! But today it’s reached into Buckingham
Palace. Think of it, what a spirit takes and starts a fad and
now it’s the world over, right? Look at dope, we’ve
always heard of our opium dens in the Orient; we’ve always
heard of Marijuana and such things, brother, I want you to know
there was a time when it was not allowed in schools, in hospitals
and certainly not allowed in governmental circles. There was a
time when the average American citizen could look proudly and
with respect toward the realm of the social elite class in Washington
or in London. I’m not speaking of this from a Christian
standpoint either, I’m strictly referring to the
social morals and principals. Oh, yes, there was a time
when the citizenry of America could look proudly to its leadership
and the public could see an example ship to a certain extent,
because they were supposed to set an example to society and society
looked up to them. However, today I want you to know among the
officials representing this country every evil under the sun is
found, from the high officials to the boat dock workers there
is not difference. Evil has taken a holiday and all this has created
a most shaky society not knowing which way they are going.
Humanity
doesn’t know which way it is being moved yet every mortal
being knows something terrible is going on or something terrible
is about to develop as this earth shaking pressure continues to
build. Within every gentile nation a mighty shaking is taking
place as this explosive pressure continues to mount.
EVIL
ALWAYS PRESENT
ONLY
NOT ALLOWED TO EXPRESS ITSELF
In
the light of these astounding, startling facts and figures allow
me to ask one question, WHY HAS
THIS PRESSURE WITHIN GENTILE NATIONS BEEN ALLOWED TO BUILD?
Because the Spirit of God who has been brooding over this earth
during this grace dispensation for roughly 2000 years offering
these gentile nations an opportunity to accept His grace and become
reconciled back to his has kept
these spirits suppressed. To a great extent the Spirit
of God Himself has withheld these evils from getting out of control,
but brother, as time draws closer for the dreadful day of His
wrath the Spirit of God begins
to let up. As the Spirit of God withdraws these evil spirits,
who have always been present, move in unopposed and fills the
vacuum. The same was true within the religious realm while
Bro. Branham, the prophet messenger to the age, was on the scene
delivering this message, those opposing spirits which had always
been present lay quiet realizing their day would come, they would
have an opportunity to express themselves. Remember, the devils
(legions of them) in that poor tormented man of Gadarene. As long
as they remained within that man they were not hurting anything
else, however, once the Lord came along and commanded them to
depart they requested to enter into the swine and a thousand swine
ran violently down the slope and committed suicide. WHY?
Because these demon spirits had been driven out of one environment
and begged permission to invade another.
Beloved,
we can see a mighty shaking taking place within our (1) society,
(2) economics and, (3) military, but WHAT
ABOUT RELIGION?
A
RELIGIOUS SHAKING
Let
us ask ourselves the question, is there a shaking within the religious
realm? In this religious realm as the messenger came to the age
to deliver a message and call out of all these organized systems
a people to make up the bride of Christ, once that message became
established in the hearts of people God allowed the ecumenical
spirit to follow behind that bride message pulling together and
uniting these organizational systems. As God’s Spirit (the
revelation of this message) began to pull the people out, spiritual
death begins to move in on these systems and they begin to move
closer together. Every devil out of hell comes up and begins to
manifest itself within these systems, and as that is accomplished
there is within the realm of organized gentile religion today
the expression of every religious demon under the sun going forth
encouraging religious leaders, who hold great sway over the multitudes,
to begin leaning favorably toward ecumenicalism and uniting with
them.
I
have never been able to understand why religious people who at
one time held such deep conviction concerning, HAIR,
BEARDS, ETC. would now give way to it. In Pennsylvania
and the northern part of Indiana we have some religious orders
as Mennonite and Amish. Their belief toward God and His true revelated
plan of salvation is just as blind as the denominational organizations,
but did you know they have a moral concept that you cannot touch!
They do not participate with society; they have never brought
a reproach upon society. The men wore their beards, the women
wore their long dresses and black stockings, etc. Every since
the 15th Century this has been their style because
their convictions are “Be not conformed to the world.”
They did not want to be classified with modern society. Now we
are aware there was absolutely no salvation in this, however,
it was their religious conviction. Isn’t it strange, beloved,
for 400 years society looked down their nose at these people saying,
those poor ignorant nitwits. Though they were outcasts in society
because of their manner of life they never bothered or disturbed
anyone; they tended to their own affairs, never creating dissension;
never demonstrating on campus. In their colonies they built their
homes and schools, made their clothes and taught their children.
I have head many of these modern society people make fun of their
black hose, but Notice when the
mini-skirt style came, modern society began wearing black hose
as well as other colors. If it was wrong for the Amish
to wear them, certainly it was wrong for the modernist to begin
wearing them. BUT YOU SEE, IT
IS FOR WHAT PURPOSE THEY USE IT. Men also began wearing
beards and letting their hair grow long, but this
was not done until the devil came along with it. I cannot
understand why some leading ministers want to wear long hair and
pattern after this worldly, ungodly, atheistic crown, why didn’t
they pattern after the Amish 20 or 30 years ago? Why did they
have to wait until the DEVIL
came along and brought his special style, which was copied from
these religious people who once society frowned upon and
away they go after it. What does it signify? Women today
will wear long hair, not because the Bible says long hair is a
woman’s glory, but because the worldly crowd accepts it
as a fad (not because of God, but because of the Devil). This
realm of modern religion is being shaken because the Spirit of
God has withdrawn itself and the devil is now moving in to make
his ONE WORLD CHURCH, and
from that we can go into every kind of devilish cult in existence
today, from sun worship to a Satanic worship in the state of California,
even to a homosexual preacher pastoring a church out in California
who has a regular congregation of 300-400 who also testify to
being homosexual perverts. Friends, this is not a Baptist or Presbyterian
church, NO SIR, IT IS A PENTECOSTAL
CHURCH right in the very state where God so greatly moved
around 1906, with one of the greatest spiritual floods of the
century. Notice, the devil now has moved in and has taken over,
WHAT IS IT? The realm of religion
is being shaken to pieces!
BRIDE
MOVE BEING SHAKEN
Let
us bring it in a little closer. Once God removed his prophet messenger
from the scene, as it has already been stated, these spirits just
lay quietly within the movement. Recall, God in His WORDhad
already declared it was to be so in the latter days. The minute
that man went off the scene these spirits began to rise and manifest
themselves and you can take within the realm of this people who
were so awe struck, so spellbound hearing the wonderful words
of God as they flowed forth and saw the manifestation, these spirits
began to reach out and take their toll, one will go this way,
another says no we will go this way. What does that create among
the people who actually are in an overall sense believers of what
the man said? Beloved, it shows nothing shall be exempt from this
shaking. We find inside the movement nothing more than a mighty
shaking is taking place. Spirits attempting to shake believers
off the world.
Watch
this statement of Paul found in Hebrews 12:25-29. Where did his
inspiration come from? Out of the Book of Haggai! He now brings
that verse in Haggai over into the book of Hebrews and compares
the shaking as to when God spoke
from Mt. Sinai shaking the mountain, then bringing it on down
to the time God spoke on earth in the voice of His Son. In that
sense Paul still goes further. Notice how Paul begins to apply
this verse and where he applies it too. Already he has finished
speaking concerning how terrible the shaking was on Mt. Sinai,
how black the heavens became as the mountain shook; how the children
of Israel stood at the foot of the mountain so frightened that
they turned their back toward the mountain. Paul continues speaking
to believers, and remember he is taking his statement from somewhere.
As stated before, he goes back to the book of Haggai. Paul begins
now to apply the revelation of this shaking to what it actually
means. I want you to understand that everything which does not
have a good solid footing when earthquakes hit, (for example the
Alaskan earthquake) it comes tumbling down. Yet, isn’t it
strange, some few things can always survive such a mighty shaking!
This
kingdom is none other than a spiritual kingdom which was dumped
inside each believer on the day of Pentecost which the devil tried
desperately to destroy through the Dark Ages, but thanks be to
God it was in His plan to re-establish that spiritual kingdom
in the hearts of men and women and sent a prophet in the end-time
to clear up the enforcement, to let the people who are to be benefitted
by this kingdom get their footing anchored keep. POUR
YOUR CONCRETE DEEP, GET YOUR RE-ENFORCEMENTS IN THE RIGHT PLACES
AND GET YOURSELF FLEXIBLE FOR GOD IS GOING TO SHAKE EVERYTHING!
This shaking means God will shake everything that
can be moved; then if you can be moved you are certainly
going to be shaken; if you can be deceived then you are certainly
going to get deceived! This end-time message when it has fully
established its purpose shall establish a people with an unshakeable,
unchangeable faith in the Word of God though all hell shall rise
against them, though the heavens be moved and the planet tossed
to and fro with the seas roaring. Beloved, there will be a people
that will stand with their souls anchored in this unshakable WORD
OF GOD. All because they have an unshakeable kingdom anchored
in their soul, AMEN! It
is far more than joining some people who looks like they have
the initiative to be progressive. You can’t hide behind
that, you will have to hide behind something unmoveable then get
your spiritual feet anchored on something. No matter how much
you might be shaken you can be thoroughly convinced, I
KNOW IN WHOM I BELIEVE, I KNOW WHAT I BELIEVE AND I’M GOING
TO STAND THERE AND WHEN THE SHAKING TAKES PLACE we will
find out if you stood in the right place. Once more this signified
the removing of everything that can be shaken. I want you to know
society is being shaken, homes are being shaken - government,
politics, economy, military, everything, even the bride itself
is being shaken, not because the earth is shaking; not because
more are being killed, but because every devil has been turned
loose to take its toll. Remember,
if you aren’t anchored on thatWORD
somewhere those demons and devils will harass you. One will come
saying, did you hear this or don’t you believe this or come
go this way, and in your mind you will wonder, should I go this
way? SEE, the shaking is going
back and forth, it could be a vibration; it can be a tremor,
but recall, all of it builds up a pressure!
The
shaking must be first in society and that of humanity. When He
shakes everything away from those people they can’t be shaken
anymore. Though everything else is lying in a spiritual state
of desolation and ruins He is almost ready to take that little
Bride unto Himself. Once He takes His bride He is then ready to
begin dealing with the earth, the sea and nature. I’m so
thankful there is going to be a people who is going to be in glory
looking down when this old planet begins to reel and rock, when
the oceans begin to belch and heave and vomit and expel; islands
will flee away; mountains will go into the sea and the stars all
begin to be shaken from their orbit. For
the day of the Lord is at hand and He is rising up like a mighty
whirlwind to hew and tear down everything! WHY?
Because this shaking will take place after He has shaken everything
away. Sinful man will have been shaken into oblivion, then the
glory of the Lord will fill a house in Jerusalem and what is left
that couldn’t be destroyed, couldn’t be shaken, will
come to Zion and Jerusalem to worship the Lord of Hosts. ‘Then
I will establish peace in this place.’
I
may have acted strangely, but I can see a sensational shaking.
I feel a vibration of a tremor moving. Human souls are going to
be affected, but it is the time, brothers and sisters, to get
your soul anchored in something. Be sure you don’t get over
a fault somewhere, one of these days that fault will break down
and you will plunge into it.
As
Paul said, I KNOW IN WHOM I HAVE
BELIEVED AND I’M FULLY PERSUADED THAT HE IS ABLE TO KEEP
THAT WHICH I HAVE COMMITTED UNTO HIM AGAINST THAT DAY.
When the shaking has fully taken effect you will look and see
the desolations and ruins all about you, but you will see that
human soul standing there that has an unshakable kingdom in their
heart as you see society gone through, as you see everything else
lying in ruins waiting then finally for destruction and the doing
away of all things.
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