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June 19, 2024 - Jim Bakker Show
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Jim Bakker Sermon 13: The Third and Fourth Seal
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Divisions Of Jealous Demons 00:15:17
We are studying the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
I believe with all of my heart we are in this hour.
This is the beginning of sorrow.
We are in the hour of the four horsemen of the apocalypse this day right now.
It's already happening.
And we are in that beginning that will lead us into the tribulation period and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that's what's exciting.
And we live forevermore.
So don't mourn about dying.
I remember my grandmother, she lived to be 89 and would have lived to be a lot longer or a lot older.
But she decided she was tired of living on this earth.
And her and her best girlfriend, Grandma Johnston, she was living down the road from Grandma.
And Grandma Johnston would walk to Grandma Irwin's house and they just were best of friends.
And Grandma Johnston was going through a period of sickness and little health problems, you know.
And so she'd come down to Grandma Irwin's house and she would just complain and moan and groan.
Until finally one day, my beloved, dear, sweet grandma, who never says anything negative, never, never heard a negative word out of her mouth, she said to Grandma Johnston, she said, hush up.
She said, all you've ever done is talk about how wonderful heaven is.
You get up and testify in church and how you want to go to heaven, and now you're getting ready to die and go there and you're complaining about it.
Doesn't that sound like some of us?
So let's rejoice.
The horses are riding.
Revelation chapter 6, verse 2 says, And I saw and behold a white horse and he that sat on him had a bow and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer.
We studied this and we believe, I believe with all of my heart, that this is spiritual warfare.
I believe it's the warfare that we're facing right now.
Is there anybody here that's over 70 years of age?
Would you raise your hand?
Wow.
Okay, I'm over 60.
You can think back right now to your childhood and to your teen years.
Was it not a more simpler time?
Wasn't there less warfare than there is today?
Have you ever seen such spiritual warfare?
We didn't even have television when we were kids.
Some call them hello vision.
We didn't have hellivision.
That's what the preachers used to call it.
But it is hellivision.
There's hell coming into our homes.
There is all of the warfare of the word, warfare of the mind.
And this is spiritual warfare, I believe with all my heart, is the reason this white horseman does not have arrows is because he is not fighting with bombs and guns.
He's fighting with words.
But he's come to conquer.
And he's not equipped for material warfare like the next horse was that we've already studied.
So this horseman is anti-Christ ideology, anti-Christ rhetoric.
It's what we're hearing today.
I mean, Jesus is mocked almost in every movie.
Christians are mocked on television.
Good people are put down as evil.
We are living in that hour of warfare in the spiritual realm like never on earth.
This white horse of the apocalypse has been told, go.
And more deception is taking place because of this.
I don't know if you've ever read Rick Joyner's book, The Final Quest.
Rick Joyner is a member of our board of directors of this very ministry.
He had a vision, and this vision is the final quest.
I believe what is written here is a picture in the spirit world of what this horse has brought to the world.
Here's what it says.
The demonic army was so large that it stretched as far as I could see.
It was separated into divisions, which each carried a different banner.
The foremost divisions marched under the banners of pride, self-righteousness, respectability.
Oh, how many people don't hang out with sinners because they want to be respectable?
Well, Jesus was respectable and he hung out with sinners.
These are the banners over these demon hordes.
Respectability, self-ambition, unrighteous judgment, and jealousy.
There were many more of these evil divisions beyond my scope of vision, but those in the vanguard of this terrible horde from hell seemed to be most powerful.
The leader of this army was the accuser of the brethren himself.
Isn't it amazing?
We talk about each other, but the father of hell, the father of lies, is one of his names is accuser of the brethren.
The weapons carried by this horde were also named.
The swords were named intimidation.
I faced that last week.
The spears were named treachery.
And the arrows were named accusations, gossip, slander, and fault-finding.
Scouts and smaller companies of demons with such names as rejection.
Anybody feel rejection?
I smell anchovies, poor.
Woe is me.
Boy, until one of the reasons I'm free is I had to admit to God in prison that self-pity was a sin.
Could we say self-pity is a sin?
Could you say that out loud?
I need to hear that from somebody else.
Yeah, that's what my kids tell me.
As soon as I say, woe is me, nobody loves me.
My little girls will say, self-pity, Papa.
Oh, that's one of those demons that just wants to keep us down and keep us back.
And so here are these ones with such names as rejection.
These demons caught bitterness, impatience, unforgiveness, and lust were sent in advance of this army to prepare for the main attack.
These smaller companies and scouts were much fewer in number, but they were no less powerful than some of the larger divisions that followed.
They were smaller only because for strategic reasons.
Just as John the Baptist was given an extraordinary anointing for baptizing the masses to prepare them for the Lord, these smaller demonic companies were given extraordinary power for baptizing the masses.
Why?
For the coming of Antichrist.
Can you believe that?
A single demon of bitterness could sow his poison into multitudes of people, even entire races of culture.
A demon of lust would attack himself to a single performer, movie, or advertisement and send what happened to be bolts of electricity or electric slime that would hit and desensitize great masses of people.
All of this was to prepare for the great horde of evil which were to follow.
Although this army was marching specifically against the church, it also was attacking anyone else that it could.
I knew it seemed to preempt a coming move of God, which was destined to sweep great numbers of people into the church.
The primary strategy of this army was to cause division on every possible level of relationship.
Churches with each other, congregations with their pastors, husbands and wives, children and their parents, and even children with each other.
The scouts were sent to locate the openings in the churches, in the church's families or individuals, with such spirits as rejection and bitterness and lust that they could exploit and enlarge this.
Through the openings, would pour demonic influence that would completely overwhelm their victims on the backs of Christians.
I'm not going to read this whole book, but I should like to.
The most shocking part of this vision was that the hordes were not riding on horses.
These demons were not riding on horses in this vision that Rick Joyner had, but primarily on Christians.
Not in the Christians, on their backs.
How many understand what the devil is trying to do?
I'm telling you, the church is being weighed down by demonic influence and all of this backbiting slander and gossip and all these things.
Most of them were well-dressed and respectable and had the appearance of being refined and educated, but there also seemed to be representatives from almost every walks of life.
While these people professed Christian truths in order to appease their conscience, they lived their lives in agreement with the power of darkness.
As they agreed with those powers, their assigned demons grew and more easily directed their actions.
Many of these believers were host to more than one demon, but one of the demons would clearly be in charge.
The nature of the one in charge dictated which division it was marching in.
Even though the divisions were all marching together, it also seemed that the entire army was on the verge of chaos.
For example, the demons of hate hated each other.
The demons hated each other as much as they did Christians.
The demons of jealousy were jealous of each other.
The only way the leaders of this horde kept the demons from fighting each other was to keep their hatred focused on the people they were riding.
However, these people would often break out in fights with each other.
I knew that some of the armies that came against Israel in the scriptures had ended up destroying themselves in this same way.
When their purpose against Israel was thwarted, their rage was uncontrollable, and they began to fight each other.
I noted that the demons were riding on these Christians, but they were not in them, as was the case with non-Christians.
It was obvious that these believers had only to stop agreeing with their demons in order to get free of them.
Did you hear what that said?
Stop agreeing with the demon that's wanting to ride on your back.
Stop agreeing with the demon that says, oh, woe is you.
Stop agreeing with the demon of self-pity.
People split up churches over feeling sorry for themselves.
Oh, they didn't call on me to pray.
They didn't call on me to sing.
They didn't do this.
Oh, they didn't do that.
Get over it.
Bind that demon.
Say, get off my back.
I'm not going to ride.
Let you ride on me anymore.
It was obvious that these believers had only to stop agreeing with their demons in order to get free of them.
For example, if the Christian on whom a demon of jealousy was riding just started to question the jealousy, that demon would weaken very fast.
When this happens, the weakened demon would cry out and the leader of the division would direct all the demons around that Christian to attack him until the jealousy would build up on him again.
If this did not work, the demons would begin quoting scriptures, perverting them in a way that would justify the bitterness and the accusations or other satanic influence they were spreading.
Did you hear what the vision God gave it?
The demons quoted scripture.
Do you hear what I'm talking about and what I'm trying to teach you?
This white horse is perverted gospel also.
The power of the demons were clearly rooted almost entirely in the power of deception.
But they had deceived these Christians to the point where they could use them and the Christians would think they were being used by God.
This was because banners of self-righteousness were being carried by almost everyone.
So that those marching could not even see the banners that marked the true nature of these divisions.
As I look far to the rear of this army, I saw the entourage of the accuser himself.
I began to understand his strategy, and I was amazed that it was so simple.
He knew that a house divided cannot stand.
And his armies represented an attempt to bring such division to the church that she would be powerless and ineffective.
It was apparent that the only way the accuser could do this was to use Christians to war against their own brethren.
I might read some more next week, but this maybe you ought to get the book, The Final Quest.
Unbelievable.
Self-published by Rick Joyner at Morningstar sold over a million copies of this book.
We are in a warfare.
This first horse is not just the Antichrist.
It's the spirit of Antichrist.
It's the spirit of deception.
Life and death is in the power of the tongue.
This warfare is the warfare of the mind, of the tongue, not the warfare of bombs and war.
That's coming.
These horsemen are bringing that as well.
But this white horse is the most deceptive, preparing us for Antichrist.
We must be deceived to receive Antichrist.
We love miracles so much that you could be healed in your church, but we run around the country to find a healer to pray for us.
We mortgage our homes to go find a healer to pray for us.
When the Bible says just simply call for the elders of the church and pray one for another, he says if you'll confess your faults one to another and pray one for another, you will be healed.
But instead, we are getting prepared for the Antichrist.
The Bible says in the last days, these evil men will literally deceive the devil's working miracles.
There's more than one supernatural power.
There's two.
The power of the devil and the power of God.
What we need to do, people, is fall in love with Jesus.
Amen?
Remember, another gospel, the Bible says, would be preached in the last days.
It's a gospel, as Matthew 7 says, that looks.
They'll look like sheep, act like sheep, buy like sheep.
You'd swear they're sheep, but they're not sheep.
How will we know them?
We will know them by their fruits.
If somebody is preaching another gospel, it is not the gospel of Jesus Christ.
If you're going to a church that is teaching you the love of money, it is not the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Did you hear me?
If you're in love with this world, then the Bible says you're not in love with Jesus.
False Doctrine Warning 00:11:12
Love not the world nor the things of the world.
If the love of the world's in you, the love of the Father is not in you.
That's scary.
We go to churches that have us mind trips teaching us to fall in love with ourselves.
How many hear preachers tell you how good you are, how wonderful you are, what a king's kids you are, and all the things that glorify us and lift us up.
And there's one thing that God says he hates and can't tolerate.
It's pride.
How can we do it, people?
We are going with itching ears to hear preachers tell us that we're good and we are not good.
Our righteousness is as filthy rags.
How can we go and hear preachers tell us that God wants us to have money more than anything else?
I tell you, it's wrong.
God wants you to love God more than anything else and love your neighbor as yourself.
God says he'll bless you if you humble yourself.
Not if you lift yourself up.
You're not hearing me, are you?
I believe this white horse is a horse of deception.
As I read to you last week in Matthew 24, 4, and Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Are you hearing me?
I'm a man.
Men are in the pulpit.
Make sure that these are not shepherds in disguise.
The Bible says, Woe unto the shepherds that get their sermons from each other, basically, their messages from each other.
And that's what we've done.
Woe unto the shepherds who feed themselves and clothe themselves in the finest and do not feed the sheep.
You ought to read the woes in the Bible.
Because when God says woe, he's upset.
But he says, woe.
And Jesus said, For many shall come in my name.
Is that what it says there in Matthew 24, verse 5?
Many shall come in my name.
Many will come in Jesus' name.
The deception is coming in Jesus' name.
Matthew 7 says, Jesus said, You cast out devils in my name.
You have prophesied in my name.
You've done wonderful works in my name.
But he says, I never knew you.
Depart from me, you workers of iniquity.
The deception is not coming from the Mideast.
The deception is not coming from the movie theaters.
It's coming from the pulpit.
It's coming from those that are dressed like sheep.
Jesus said, For many shall come in my name, in Jesus' name, saying that Jesus is the Messiah.
Saying, I am the Christ, saying that He's the Christ.
That's where the deception is.
Think of all the false doctrines today.
The great churches in America and around the world that are false, and you know their faults, they say Jesus Christ is Lord.
They say Jesus Christ is the Messiah.
But yet their doctrine is wrong.
Their doctrine is evil.
The deception will come from those who look.
They seem so kind.
They seem so gentle.
But they're preaching things.
How can you preach the love of money when it is the root of all evil?
How can we love this present world when God's told us not to?
That's why we worry.
That's why we fret.
Do you know that church people are filing bankruptcy all over the world because they're trying to look prosperous so people think they're spiritual?
No, it's not spirituality.
It's just you got a lot of credit today.
You can go out and buy a mink coat tomorrow, honey, if you want to, but you've got to pay for it.
You can go out and buy a new car tomorrow, but you've got to pay for it.
And you can look as rich as you want to look.
But you've got to pay the piper one of these days.
So we must realize this white horse is deception.
This white horse is the last day.
Then we went on to the next horse.
We went on to the red horse last week.
And Revelation 6:3, and when he opened the second seal, I heard the second beast saying, come and see.
And there went out another horse that was red.
And power was given to him that was sat thereon to take peace from the earth and that they should kill one another.
That was given unto him a great sword.
So remember we talked about it last week.
This red horse is flame-colored or fire-like.
And power is not in the Greek.
And it just was given to him who sat thereon to take peace, and it also means prosperity, to take our financial wealth from us.
And we studied 9-11, and 9-11 has already cost an estimated of $1 trillion.
That white horse or that red horse now of warfare, that white horse of battling one another to take peace from the earth, that red horse is also riding today.
9-11 was just a small attack of this red horse.
That was the first part of this.
And that they would kill one another, that there would be terrorism, suicide bombers.
I have the news, hot off the wire, right here in front of me.
You know, you don't even worry about this stuff because you hear it every day.
If it happened in Chicago, you'd be worried right now.
And without a miracle of God, it will be happening in Chicago.
And it just happened that today, that this week, according to the wire service, a new mass email worm, they call them, virus, the worst week in the history of the computer era is now, today, this week, right now.
Of viruses.
You say, well, I don't, some of us older people say, I don't know what a virus is.
You get a flu or something.
I'll tell you, this warfare includes the computer age.
If they are successful, they can literally set off atomic bombs by the computer hacking.
They can literally hack into all these sensitive things and literally close down the economy of the world can be closed down now through the computer.
We are living in perilous times, the Bible says.
Do you understand that?
So there without this red horse, this flame color.
And it was given to him that sat there unto take peace and prosperity from the earth, that they should kill, butcher, and slaughter and maim violently one another.
What is happening?
That's it right now.
It's happening right now.
And it's not going to stop.
You say, well, we're going to kill all of those.
We're going to kill our enemy.
We're going to kill them all.
We're just going to kill them.
We love a war, don't we?
We said, Lord, we're going to kill everybody.
You know, we're going to kill them all.
For everyone we kill, there's a million waiting in line to take their place.
We have chosen an enemy of billions.
We have chosen a wrong enemy, folks.
We have chosen the enemy of the final conflict.
We have chosen an enemy that is going to be a part of the great war of Armageddon.
And it says, it would take peace and prosperity from the earth that they should kill, butcher, and slaughter one another.
And there was given to him a great sword.
I believe this is the atomic bomb, the nuclear bombs.
A great, fearful, exceedingly great, high, large, loud, mighty, sore afraid, strong, mega sword.
Have you ever heard of a loud sword?
Well, that's what an atomic bomb is.
It's a loud, violent way to kill.
You've got to remember, this is John.
He's 90 years old.
He's 2,000 years ago.
They don't have bombs.
Swords was the mean of killing.
So he's just using the language that was available in that day.
And I believe the prophet Joel saw this great war or this bomb.
Joel 2, 3.
A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth.
The land is the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.
Yea, and nothing shall escape them.
The appearance of them is the appearance of horses and horsemen, so they run.
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stovel.
I don't know.
I asked last week how many have ever heard stubble burning out of control.
It whines.
The sound at a field of stubble burning sounds like the whine of a jet engine.
Literally, exact.
That roar, that whine of a jet airplane, the jet age, the atomic age.
And here, way back in the Old Testament, here's Prophet Joel writing this down of what he saw.
He said that it would be like the noise of a flame that devoureth the stovel as a strong people set in battle array before their faces.
The people should be much pained, and all faces shall gather blackness.
And that is the description of Hiroshima of the atomic bomb.
Every face was black, they said.
Even their skin melted in sheets off their bodies.
It said it looked like a ghost parade from hell.
So we talked about the full armor of God last week, and we must arm people.
We must be ready.
Amen?
Because that's the only way that we are going to make it.
Let's go to 2 Timothy 4 and read this and move on to the next horse.
2 Timothy 4, 1.
I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and shall judge the quick.
That's the living and the dead.
So he's coming.
I believe this is the rapture.
In 2 Timothy 4, 1, I charge thee before God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and quick.
Herald Of The Word 00:07:54
You know, he comes quickly, he said, for the living and the dead.
The resurrection, at his appearing, his brightness in his kingdom, his royal realm.
He says, preach the word.
Remember, we talked about it last week.
Herald is a public crier, especially divine truth, the gospel, the word.
Be instant.
And this is why we can't be sensitive saints.
We've got to be instant.
We need people who say, I'm going to help on the prayer phones and I'm going to be there.
I'm going to intercede and I'll do it.
I'm going to be there.
You know the one thing about television?
What would happen to a TV show, my show, if I just said, well, I don't feel like going today?
You got black air on television?
It doesn't work that way.
You know, you are just as required in your position as I am to be on television.
You have a calling of God on your life.
So we've got to be instant in and out of season.
We've got to reprove, rebuke, exhort all long-suffering in doctrine, instruction.
For the time will come when they will not endure or put up with sound, healthy, uncorrupt doctrine.
But after their own ears, after their own lust, shall they heap to themselves, seek teachers, having itching, it means tickling ears.
We go to happy church.
We want to go to church with violins playing.
We want to go to church with orchestras.
We want to go to church with great choirs.
I mean, we can sing anthems that would bring the house down.
But I'm telling you, we're still sinners all, you know, just going to church with our clothes all dressed up.
But we're still far from God.
Our young people are going right out from that service and having sex in their cars or anyplace else.
But we have eased our conscience with violins and singing and majesty and all these things, and that's not God.
We want to be tickled.
We want to be encouraged.
I mean, after 9-11, we talked about God, didn't we?
God bless America.
Every hotel, I think, had God bless America on their billboard.
I think every business that had a sign put God bless America.
I feel like saying, why don't we put America bless God?
America turned to God.
Nobody dared say it.
A few preachers tried.
A few preachers stepped to the front to say it.
Franklin Graham tried to stick his neck out and got it almost cut off.
Because we don't want truth anymore.
We want politically correctness.
We all know better than to tell the truth.
They'll come for us.
I want to tell you a little secret.
There's so many preachers in prisons in America, it would shock you.
Do you know what country is the number one prison state in the world?
Is it Russia?
Is it China?
Is it Korea?
Is it Iraq?
No.
We have more people per population in prison than any country in the world.
And guess who builds them?
Right-wing Christians say, let's build more prisons.
That shows just a little bit how sick we are.
Are you hearing me?
Jesus said, I came to set the prisoners free.
And we build more prisons.
You know why?
Because we're going to be in them one day.
We're building them for ourselves.
The fringe goes the prison.
And we're right at the edge of being the fringe.
See, if you cut the fringe off, then the next piece fringes up.
You know what I'm talking about?
Take a tablecloth.
You cut, you know what?
Fringe around.
The fringe element is the ones we put away.
We always have to have witches.
We always have to have something to blame everything on.
You are crucified if you tried to save babies in this country.
We spend all of our energy to ban the Ten Commandments, which says thou shalt not kill.
And we wonder why there's so much murder and mayhem.
There's only one basis for morality.
It's the word of the living God.
So what have we done?
We have followed teachers having itching ears.
And God spoke to my heart, Jim, warned the people because in the last days he said, these things are happening.
The stock market will crash.
All of these things will happen.
And people who are in love with finances, in love with this present world, he said, when their God's dead and when the money dies and the financial systems collapse, he said they will blow their brains out.
Religious people are going to blow their brains out because they're in love with money, not Jesus Christ.
Does anybody understand what I'm preaching?
Does anybody understand?
I'm not against your prosperity.
I'm not against you having money.
There's not a rich person in this room.
You think you're rich?
There's people so much richer than you, so just get over it.
I mean, we used to have millionaires.
Now there's billionaires out there.
There's people that own a couple hotels in this town.
They are worth $60 billion.
And I happen to know because they also own Heritage USA.
I'm not talking about God blessing you.
I'm not talking about God giving you a good income for your labor.
I'm talking about loving, greedy, old, money, filthy lucre, the Bible says.
Solomon prayed for wisdom, and God blessed him with money.
Wisdom brings money.
Henry Ford had wisdom to develop a model T. You remember that Model T?
Anybody here?
That changed the world.
Henry Ford deserved the wealth he earned.
Some of his children may not have.
I'm not going to go there.
But you know what I mean.
But that man changed the world.
He gave jobs to thousands of people and then millions of people.
He developed the assembly line.
He worked.
He had wisdom.
And God prospers you when you work.
Even if you're a sinner, you sow, you reap.
You give, you receive.
It's the fixed law of God.
But the love of money is evil.
Not being blessed for your hard work.
I'm just telling you, people, don't get so out of shape because I'm warning you about the love of money.
I'm just saying, love Jesus.
Let him bless you.
Use what he gives you to help others, and God will bless you.
But when the money collapses, what good is it going to be anyway?
God says, if you've worked with it, given to the poor with it, when you stand before God, according to Matthew 25, what you've made friends with, your money, with the poor, is literally they're going to speak for you when you stand at the judgment seat.
Third Seal's Rider 00:04:26
So let's move on.
So it says to be sure here in this place is to not follow teachers wanting your ears tickled, but to turn away from that and turn to the truth because there will run to false fiction.
And we have fiction being sold in our Christian bookstores.
Probably sell more fiction now in the Christian bookstores than we do truth books.
Back to Revelation 6:5.
And we'd open the third seal.
I heard the third beast say, come, or actually could be go.
It means both come or go.
In the Greek.
I choose to believe it means go.
And I heard the thirst beast say, come, go.
And C is not in the Bible, so that was added by King James.
So I heard the third beast say, go.
And I beheld, and lo, behold, a black horse.
And he that sat on him had a pair of balances, of scales, weights.
And behold, and lo, behold, a black horse.
And he that sat in him had a pair of balances, scales in his hands, the old-fashioned scales and balances, and you know what those are?
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts saying, a measure of wheat for a penny and three measures of barley for a penny.
And see thou not hurt the oil.
Or in the Greek, it also means olive oil.
It is olive oil.
And the wine.
Let me read that same verse in the New Living Bible.
Some of you have different versions.
See what your version says.
Here's what the New Living Bible says.
When the lamb broke the third seal, I heard the living being say, come.
And living being is much better than beast there.
And I looked up and saw a black horse, and its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.
And a voice among the four living beings said, a loaf of wheat bread or three loaves of barley for a day's pay.
And don't waste the olive oil and the wine.
The NIV version says, When the lamb opened the third seal, I heard the living creature say, Come.
And I looked, and there before me was a black horse.
Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.
Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures saying, a quart of wheat for a day's wages and three quarts of barley for a day's wages.
And do not damage the oil and the wine.
So this is definitely famine.
Famine is coming, people.
Famine is coming.
Matthew 24, 7, what does it say?
We're going back and forth to Matthew 24, the teachings of Jesus.
For nations shall rise against nations, kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be what?
Famine.
Famine follows war.
Look at these war-torn countries.
People are starving.
And when people are starving, they'll do anything for food.
This black horse is clearly famine, holding the balance scales in his hands.
Food will be so scarce that it will be parceled out like the day of Joseph.
Joseph is what?
A forerunner of Jesus.
Joseph prophesied.
His whole life was, even when he was a little boy, he had prophetic word and the whole prophetic word.
What was it?
There was going to be lean years and then there was going to be fat years and lean years.
Isn't that right?
And it got him in trouble.
His vision got him in trouble.
His dream got him in trouble.
People hate dreamers.
If you study sociology, which I didn't do until I got to prison, I realized why people wanted to kill me.
In the Pit 00:03:54
I went above the norm.
Don't step above the crowd.
You do, you'll get the tomatoes.
And the arrows.
Remember, the pioneers get the arrows, and those who step out above get arrows.
And that is what is happening.
Joseph.
His brothers hated him because of his vision.
He was sold into slavery, put in a pit.
Are you in the pit?
Anybody been in a pit?
I've been in the pit.
Anybody ever been in what you call the pit?
I mean, you're really, really in the pit.
Just, I've been there.
You can't get out.
And then you pray and you pray and you pray, and somebody comes and gets you out of the pit and they put you in the prison.
And you say, God, where are you?
I was in the pit, now I'm in the prison.
Pit means preacher in training or prophet in training or prophetess in training.
If you don't like women being used of God, get over it.
unscriptural.
What do you mean, Chairman?
It says that women are supposed to ask their husbands at home.
You don't even know what that was about.
But I'm not even going to go there.
The Bible says in the last days, God's going to pour out His Spirit upon all flesh.
He says, I'm going to use my handmaidens.
I'm going to use the women.
I'm going to use the boys and the girls.
I'm going to use the old men.
I'm going to use them all.
And they're going to prophesy.
So we've got some prophetesses in training right now.
And I want to tell you something.
If it hadn't been for women missionaries, half the world would be on its way to hell more so than what is now.
It's been women who went to the foreign field.
It was the Lillian Thrashers who went to Egypt when no man would go.
Mother Teresa's, don't knock women.
You skin flint men.
Tanty waste.
I have a hard time tolerating preachers who keep putting women down.
I just believe in the last day ministry.
In heaven, there's not going to be male or female.
That's what the Bible says.
So get over it.
I'm telling you, we've got such evil in us, we would rather send people to hell than let God use a woman.
We'd rather let people go to, you know, my son, because he's got tattoos and earrings, there's people, honestly, they'd rather have him damned to hell than serving God in the ghetto.
I'm serious.
I'm just so thrilled that through the mess we've been through, that he loves Jesus with a passion.
And you know what?
You know what?
Mondo?
See, give me this hand.
See this hand.
Turn them on there.
You're not going to have them in heaven.
They'll have a perfected body unless it's supposed to have tattoos on it.
Bananas And Scarcity 00:05:56
I don't know.
But people are sick and going to hell, and we are so angry over little things because I think we got demons just riding our backs, just making us ornery.
You're supposed to grow precious in the Lord, not senile in the Lord.
How did I get all of there from famine?
I really got out of line here somehow.
So the black horse is clearly famine.
Prices are inflated.
I mean, you're going to take a whole day's wages just for a quart of wheat, for a loaf of bread.
Scarcity of food.
What happened in the blackout?
Refrigeration was off just for a few hours, and they were shoveling food out the doors into the dumpsters.
Any of the kids here, do you want to know something?
Do you want to know something?
Bananas don't grow in the store.
Did you know that?
And we don't grow a lot of bananas in America, in the United States, do we?
I mean, there's a few trees around somewhere down in Florida, probably, but we don't have banana crops.
How do they get there?
We don't even think about it.
My children, I joke with my kids.
I tell them they're monkeys because I'm telling you, we eat bananas at our house.
We bring them in by the barrels.
If you've got any extra bananas, give them to me.
I've got five little monkeys that love bananas.
They'll eat three and four bananas a day each.
But they don't grow in the store, honey.
We have got an awesome system in America called just-in-time shipping.
Have you heard of that?
The car plants, they don't stock the parts anymore in Detroit.
They come to the assembly line just in time.
And if we have gas shortages, if we have power outages, if we have turmoil and bombing and ships and all, it erupts it.
And I'm telling you, the food that appears in New York City doesn't grow in New York City.
Perilous times will come overnight.
I mean, it won't take anything to shut down the Ford plants, the Chrysler plants, the car plants, because everything is just in time.
Our food comes from all over the world.
Isn't it amazing?
We have bananas every day in the market.
That means it's got to come from all over the world, different parts of the world, all the time to keep those bananas coming in.
We are living as kings.
Our poor people live like kings used to live.
I'm serious with what we have.
You take some people from third world countries, they go into our stores.
I've talked to some of them.
They go into our supermarkets and they literally go crazy.
They weep, they cry, they can't believe it.
And even some will say, Well, you know, people could steal this stuff.
It's all out here.
They can't believe what we have.
But we take it for granted.
But the Bible warns us that the day of prosperity will come to an end.
And war and the white horse brings this fighting against men.
And the white horse brings us to the war, and we're in the warfare now.
We're in the first stage of the warfare.
And I believe there's a possibility an atomic bomb could be dropped anytime.
Anytime.
There's suitcase bombs right now.
There are all kinds of devices.
I mean, our air industry has just gone crazy.
I don't even want to fly anymore, not because of fear.
It's just such a mess.
My niece just tried to fly here.
She was supposed to fly to Dallas and then to Tulsa, Oklahoma.
And then we're driving there to get her.
But they just changed their mind and flew her to Houston.
Is that right?
They didn't tell her.
They didn't explain it.
They didn't feel like going to Dallas.
And that's the way the era is today.
I'm telling you, people, we are living on the edge of the apocalypse.
Overnight, it could be gone.
A few mad bombers in this power grid system, you saw how vulnerable it is.
Just a few lines were dropped down, just a few lines went out, and the whole part of the Northeast was in darkness.
What happens if the whole country goes dark with a grid system?
A few bombs here, a few bombs there.
One bomb in a theater in this city, it's closed.
What if somebody starts taking hang grenades to theaters and just throwing them off over the balcony?
We're not ready for that, people.
The fear will panic America.
Why do we have our hope in the warfares of man?
Why don't we listen to the word of God?
The story of Joseph said, prepare for the lean years.
Don't Sell the Farm 00:03:09
And I think you better prepare for the last days.
And if you own a farm, honey, don't sell the farm.
I said, don't sell the farm.
One of the richest football players in the world came to me a while back and he said, Jim, you got a word for God for me.
I didn't know I had a word for God for him.
I didn't even know him.
He's one of the most famous football players in the world, and I didn't know who he was.
In fact, when he walked in the room, I didn't know which one he was.
In fact, he was the little guy, and the big guy that I thought was him wasn't him.
That's how bright I am about football.
And God said, you do have a word for him.
And you know what?
God told me to tell this rich football Christian said, buy a farm.
I said, God, I can't tell him to buy a farm.
That means die.
You know, you buy the farm.
Doesn't that mean you die or something?
I don't know.
He bought the farm.
Isn't that what it is?
And I'm supposed to tell this guy, maybe I was supposed to tell him to die.
I don't know to himself, but it's a good idea for some of these guys.
But God said, tell him to go buy a farm.
And someday he will come back and thank you.
Just whatever that means.
He bought the farm, didn't he?
He did buy a farm.
Grandma with her canned goods in that wonderful cellar.
Did you ever have a seller?
What do you call that cellar?
Who said it?
Fruit seller.
Fruit seller and a root seller, they call them sometimes.
And that is a place grandma, we've had them in just little holes in the floor.
You go down into a round space below the house, even.
Of course, they have them outside as well.
But God spoke to me that grandma on the farm with her canned tomatoes, her canned corn, her canned goods, will one day have more power than the president of General Motors.
When the black horse rides, grandma with her canned goods will be the queen.
Believe it.
Some feel that the oil and wine here, and we've got to close, but some feel the oil and wine here means that famine will not go below the surface of the earth.
There's a lot of speculation about what this, the oil and wine business means here.
A limitation perhaps on the famine at that time.
Others believe it means the famine will not affect the rich.
Hurt not the oil and the wine.
And it says, somebody be sparingly of these, that these are delicacies.
So use them not as delicacies, but for necessities, because neither the vines nor the olives will be very productive at that time.
But all I know is for sure is that famine is coming.
A Pale Horse, Green Death 00:06:23
Right now, 11 million children die every year in the world now.
11 million.
Go back to Revelation 6, 7.
And we had to open the fourth seal.
I heard the voice of the fourth beast, the living being, say, go or come.
And see, and remember, and C is not even in the Bible yet.
It's still not there.
I keep checking.
And it didn't pop back in.
So it's not important.
It's not important.
It means the same thing without it.
So, and the fourth beast says, go.
And I looked and behold, a pale, and in the Greek, that's greenish pale.
Sick, the color of death.
The color of a corpse, it says, the color of sickness.
You know, you hear somebody say, boy, they turn green.
You know, they look green.
Well, this is a sicky, sickly, sicky.
That's a new word.
A pale, greenish, pale.
It's like a corpse, the color of death.
And I looked and behold, this greenish, pale horse, and his name that sat on him was death and hell.
Or the word is Hades.
It's a Jewish term actually for the abode of the wicked dead.
The abode of the wicked dead.
The name that set upon him was death and Hades, where the wicked dead go.
This is an evil ooh.
Followed, accompanied with him.
And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill or to destroy with the sword and with hunger, with starvation and with death, and with the beast of the earth.
Now, when I was in prison, I had too much time on my hand, and I studied.
I studied.
I would read 16 hours.
When I hit a verse like this, I say, God, this don't make sense.
And I challenged God in every word in the Bible that I didn't understand.
And I said, God, how could a fourth of the world be killed and you're going to use animals?
I said, we can't, you know, we can't accept that, Lord.
We can kill any animal there is.
I mean, if we had a circus come to town and all the tigers got loose and all the elephants got loose and all the evil beasts that could kill got loose, we could shoot them down with our guns.
We have no problem.
I mean, if a herd of elephants come storming out of the jungles, mankind, we can blow them off the face of the earth with the warfare we have.
So I said, Lord, there's got to be something different here.
How could a fourth of the earth be killed with sword, hunger, and the beasts of the earth?
And the King James says, with death and with the beasts of the earth.
So I looked up each word in the Greek.
And death in the Greek is plague and pestilence.
Let me read it to you, the NIV.
They translated that a little better out of the Greek.
When the lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, come.
And I looked, and therefore was before me was a pale horse.
Its rider was named death, and Hades was followed close behind him.
They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine, and plague by the wild beasts of the earth.
The greatest plague we have in the world right now going beyond the death of blue blood plague, beyond the black death, is what?
AIDS.
AIDS.
One million people in the United States have AIDS.
Where does Ebola come from?
Monkeys.
Do you know?
You don't know anything about Ebola.
Ebola causes your eyes to melt out of the sockets.
You bleed from your pores and you die within hours from the monkeys.
Where did AIDS come from?
The beast, the animals.
Where does SARS come from?
You read about SARS?
Comes from animals.
More than 20 million people have already died of AIDS.
Jesus said, and the book of Revelation from John tells us, this fourth horseman is going to use plague that comes from the beast of the earth.
14 million children are orphaned right now because of AIDS.
42 million people, children, will be orphaned in the next seven years because of AIDS.
42 million just orphaned.
14 million at risk for starvation in six areas of Africa right now hit by AIDS.
Famine coming from AIDS because it's eating up the workforce.
11 million people will get AIDS in the next four years in Asia alone, just one part of the world.
42 million people with HIV in the world right now, 42 million.
5 million new cases last year.
And I'll close with this fact.
In 1987, two out of 10,000 women in South Africa at prenatal clinics were HIV positive.
That's two out of 10,000 women.
In 1999, two out of every 10 women are HIV infected.
We have a plague on our hands.
We have a plague that can kill a fourth of the people of the earth.
The four horsemen of the apocalypse are riding.
We don't other understand it.
The stage is set for one-fourth of the world to die.
Oh, and I've got so much more to tell you.
Stay tuned for part number whatever it is for our next lesson.
It's awesome.
God be with us today.
Lord, help us to be close to you.
I pray in Jesus' name.
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