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Aug. 20, 2025 - Jim Bakker Show
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The Jim Bakker Family Show
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Shaking Times Ahead 00:07:21
Welcome to the Jim Baker Family Show.
Today, we will discuss revelation events that matter to you.
Our co-host is Reverend Mondo de la Vega.
And here's your host, Pastor Ricky Baker.
We want to welcome you to the PTL Television Network.
Thank you for tuning in with us.
Mondo, we are living in a world that is calling good, evil, and evil good.
We're seeing natural disasters.
We're seeing Matthew chapter 24 play out right before our eyes.
I want to just talk about these natural disasters that are happening around the world.
Some of the biggest earthquakes we have ever seen are shaking the world right now.
And they're saying that the tremors from these earthquakes could have effects for up to two years.
Not only that, but they're triggering volcanic activity.
And I've always said this on this program that anytime you have an earthquake, immediately follow what's happening around volcanic activity because they're connected together.
The magma underneath the volcanic activity is causing pressure that will ignite earthquakes.
And a few weeks ago, we saw an 8.8 magnitude earthquake on the east side of the peninsula of Russia.
That's right.
And it sent tsunami warnings all over the world.
And everyone was waiting.
Everybody was looking.
Everyone ran.
It created chaos.
And it reminded me of something, Ricky, that it tells me that we are not prepared.
Yes.
Society is not prepared.
The economy is not prepared.
Nations are not prepared.
We are not living in preparedness.
And yet, every time we talk about preparedness, people laugh.
People mock.
People want to say things.
But I'm telling you, the moment is coming when if you don't have a plan in place, you're going to find yourself in that chaotic state of mind and you may be in trouble.
That's right.
You know, we're seeing across the entire world.
I mean, India right now is facing flash floods and landslides.
We're seeing Pakistan having ongoing monsoon-related floods, China in torrential storms as well.
We see an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia that triggered tsunami warnings from, I mean, I'm talking all the way from Alaska down to Mexico.
Mondo, it is hard to look at everything happening right now, seeing all the culmination of all these end times, prophetic things that we were told to look out for and not believe that we are living in the last days.
But when you understand the physical aspect of Bible prophecy is taking place more now and the convergence of everything happening all at once, it better wake you up.
Because when this happened in Russia, the earthquake.
8.8.
I want to tell you something.
Immediately, if not days, it was hours afterwards that Central America and Guatemala experienced a big earthquake that ended up killing several people.
At the same time, you saw earthquakes in Alaska.
People say, oh, those are normal.
No, they're not normal when they're happening all at the same time.
And when you study the ring of fire, you will understand that something major is taking place.
There's a shift happening in our world.
And I want to tell you something.
We are seeing a shaking like never before, but it all goes back to Bible prophecy.
That's right.
It all has to come back to Bible prophecy.
Friends, if you don't know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, there's never been a better day than today.
Mondo, whenever all these things happen, whenever we see earthquakes shaking, when we see volcanoes erupting, we see floods and we see droughts, we aren't shaken in our spirit, man, or our soul because we understand that Christ is king.
He'll take care of us, but he's given us an opportunity to prepare.
Absolutely.
think the end goal for Christianity is always to live in the present, but we also know where eternity for us comes from.
That's right.
Now, a lot of people don't believe in thinking about eternal things because they're wanting to live in the now.
But you can't forget that the now is not promised for us tomorrow.
And when you think about tomorrow, you think about where am I going to end up in heaven or in hell?
It's a conversation that we don't want to have in the church anymore because people get offended at the fact that there is even a hell that the Bible teaches about hell.
Yet we want to dismiss that and live in the now because it's like that old song, Forever Young, right?
And people think that we're going to be forever young and forever things are going to take place and only older people think about eternal things because they're getting closer to that age.
But yet the reality is that if we don't start thinking about tomorrow now, meaning where are we going to end up, where is our soul going to be for eternity, then you may be living in a moment of stress, anxiety, no hope.
But as Christians, our faith is in Christ Jesus is knowing that if anything happens to us, our eternal peace is in heaven.
That's right.
And I've said this many times, preparation brings peace.
Whenever we can prepare, we are setting ourselves up to have peace during hard times, hard situations.
Mondo, with everything happening around the world, obviously we have a political landscape in the United States that's flipping back and forth.
There's hate being spewed from both sides of the aisle.
We have a geopolitical issue where, you know, not a lot of people are lining or liking our current president, but they are lining up with what we're doing because they see an America first is a good thing for the world.
And we also see natural disasters.
I'm telling you right now, if somebody can't look at all this and realize that there is a lot happening and they need to have a more eternal security in Jesus Christ, I don't know what to do.
But Jesus talks about all of this.
You know, this isn't a word coming just from anyone.
This is a word coming from Christ himself when he says, you're going to hear of wars and rumors of wars and see that you are not alarmed because these things must take place, but the end is not yet.
Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom.
There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Mondo, all of these are the beginning of labor pains.
It's not even we're in the middle of it.
We're not towards the end of it.
Mondo, we have just reached the point where we are now in the beginning of the labor pains.
But when you understand, for example, this headline, the year of the floods continued, the U.S. was hit by four major catastrophic floodings, events in just 48 hours.
The convergence of earthquakes, volcanic activity, famine.
There's a major famine that is taking place that very few people are willing to talk about because of this situation happening in Gaza.
So when you look at famine, earthquakes, what else?
Yeah, wars, wars, and rumors of wars.
And these things are the beginning of birth pains.
Again, all the beginnings of everything that is taking place, it still hasn't shifted people into giving their lives to the Lord because they don't think, oh, well, it's not happening in my place.
Reviving Moment Amid Fear 00:07:15
So I'm lucky I don't live in New Mexico.
I'm lucky I don't live in Texas.
Well, I knew California was going to fall off.
I'm glad I'm not living there.
So it hasn't hit majorly where the attention of the world, as the Bible says, every knee shall bow.
And man's heart will fail them out of fear.
Something big is starting to really rally around all of the scriptures.
But I'm afraid, Ricky, that when all of this happens or when the main thing happens or when one major disaster happens, people are not going to turn in repentance.
They're going to turn and say, God, why would a good God do this?
So I'm afraid that man's hearts are too far gone.
Be hardened.
Absolutely.
In a way that I don't think they will seek for help.
They will seek to get even with God, angry with God.
Why?
Because our churches have failed to preach this type of gospel.
They have failed to teach Matthew 24.
They have failed to teach the book of Revelation.
They have failed to accept prophecy in the church.
And yet, the world is going to turn around and damn God because of the things that are happening because they don't have an understanding of the time and the seasons that the scripture teaches.
That's right.
We have to have an understanding of where we are.
It even says here later: it says, Now, concerning that day, no one knows the day or the hour, neither the angels in heaven nor the son, except the father alone.
As the days of Noah were, so the coming of the son of man will be.
For in those days, there will be there before the flood, they were eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark.
They did not know the flood came and swept them away.
This is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be.
Mondo, we can know the season.
We'll never know the day or the hour, but the Bible says very clearly that we will know the season.
And we're looking right now, and it's really looking like the season.
With all of this happening, do we still have a chance, especially here in America, for a nationwide revival, a turn back to God?
Absolutely.
I believe it will either be driven by a catastrophe called economics, or it will be a supernatural move of God.
Now, they're happening in pockets, right?
A reviving moment in the church, but that's happening inside of the church.
I'm talking about an awakening that awakes a nation, and it only comes through a disaster, whether it be a physical disaster, an economic disaster, that will drive us into understanding and receiving that revival or rejecting it.
But I believe today's world, something major physically has to happen, like a 9-11 that will bring us back to church.
So, an economic collapse or a physical attack.
9-11 clearly was a terrorist attack happened in America.
The Sunday after 9-11 was one of the highest record for churchgoers.
And then, right after that, the Sunday directly after that, it went almost back down to normal completely.
Does that show that people in hard times use God as a comfort blanket, as a crutch, and then they just decide, oh, actually, I can do this on my own?
Absolutely, because you said the word, we don't have an understanding of it.
So, when you don't have an understanding of something, you lean on with when anytime you have fear in your heart, then you lean on the closest thing that is called peace.
And everyone sees the church in one way when they're not in fear.
But when they're in fear, they run to the church.
They run to the place where they know they can find peace.
But what happens if the churches are no longer there because they're closing down?
I mean, we saw this in COVID: that church after church and church after church started closing down and they've never reopened again.
Now, you find a lot.
I think what's happening is that people have become so jaded that they can find the gospel through media, social media.
I think what's going to happen is what the Bible has always prophesied is that there will be a famine of the word.
Now, we're not used to that because we see gospel everywhere.
The gospel is almost everywhere.
Through social media, you can get any type of gospel, whatever church you want, whatever sermon you want, you can download it, you can listen to it, you can have podcasts about it.
But the day will come when there will be a famine of the word that will drive either for revival or a desperate moment in nations.
Now, all this is Bible prophecy.
Prepare in your heart.
If God has called you to be a minister of the gospel, if you're called to teach the gospel, if you're called to evangelize the gospel, if you're called to be a pastor, or I want to tell you something, your day is coming where people are going to be lining up, not in the churches, perhaps, they'll be lining up outside of a pastor's door of his home, waiting to hear the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
That day will come.
That's called an awakening.
That will be called a revival because if you take it back to 1906, they didn't gather in a church, they gather outside of the Bonnie Bray home.
I believe those days are coming back.
It is Jesus Street Revival days.
Absolutely.
That prompted the rebirth of the church in denominations worldwide.
It was like another Acts chapter 2 moment.
And I believe there's another chapter 2 of Acts moment coming to the church.
But the problem, I'm afraid, is that people won't recognize it when the Holy Spirit comes knocking at people's home.
Will we be there or are we going to be too busy complaining?
Or doing our own thing?
Yep.
That's right.
You know, a lot of the times we'll have something that we've built or done and we will completely separate ourselves from what the Lord has called us to do because there's temporary success in it or there's fame that comes with it.
But it is important that we abide in the Holy Spirit and let the Holy Spirit dictate and determine how it is that we move forward.
I believe that we are on the cusp of a great revival.
But like you said, it takes men's hearts turning towards God.
It takes people's ears tuning into the voice of God and it takes our hearts not becoming hardened, especially during these times.
I know during COVID, like you said, I think it was a couple thousand churches across the United States of America closed and very, a very small percentage of them reopened again.
A lot of those people didn't go find another church.
We're seeing these statistics come out through Barna study, through independent studies, where a lot of people, when they left the church, they decided, I don't need the church anymore.
Just to give you an example, there's a mega church in Miami, Florida, that before COVID, they had 25,000 members.
By the time COVID was said and done, only 5,000 returned.
So 20,000 members they lost.
20,000 return back to never return back.
And they have a big church with only 5,000 members.
God's Economic Impact 00:06:37
Now, very few people were able to adjust to online messaging.
But even that, people are disappearing from social media because people's hearts are changing.
People's hearts are where the money is.
And something has to happen economically in order to get our attention.
Now, God uses natural disasters for man's heart to repent and to turn to him.
But if natural disasters don't do the job, then guess what?
God has to hit us where we live, where our hearts live, and that is to end the economy.
Now, God wants to bless you.
God lives in a different economy.
As long as you are giving glory to him and recognizing that he is the source of all things and all life, but when your heart's not there, then God has to even shake that God, which is called money.
And right now, people are in love with money more than ever.
People do social media just for money.
If there was ever a time that the gospel is so true, it's now because people are doing everything and anything for the love of money.
People take pictures for money.
People are selling pictures of their feet for money.
People, everything is all about money, but yet we need money in order to further the gospel of Jesus Christ.
But our hearts, the Bible says, is filled with deception.
That's right.
Well, that's why I said it very clearly.
You can't serve two gods.
You'll either hate one or love the other, love one, and hate the other.
You can't serve both God and money.
It's clear that, you know, like you said, we need it obviously to further what we're doing, but it cannot become God.
That's what we see so many times is people start off with good intention.
They then get what they've been needing, which is the money, the financial resources.
They get an abundance of it and their hearts then turn cold towards the gospel or they compromise the message.
That's what we've been seeing a lot across the United States of America and even globally is a compromise of the message for the sake of being socially accepted.
One of the most dangerous enemies that is dressed in so many different ways is money.
Money corrupts nations.
Yes.
Money corrupts families.
Money corrupts ministries.
Money corrupts CEOs.
Money corrupts pastors.
And no wonder a lot of people today are so disappointed and heartbroken that pastors have used money over godliness.
And I want to tell you something.
You can't blame people for being disappointed on how the church has managed finances.
And it's one of the hardest things to face.
But even in the church, God deals with the church on how they deal with money.
That's why every time you sow a seed, every time you stand with this ministry, this man right here is very fruitful and frugal on how we spend the donations.
Where are the donations going to go?
How are we going to expand, but also protect the ability that when you give $10, $20, or you stand with us every single month, that we are able to manage that money properly without corrupting it.
And I want to tell you something.
So many people are disappointed today because of what money has done to the church.
That's right.
This is a hard conversation that people don't want to have.
Yeah, that's the truth.
The fact that we're having it right now is bold because we are in need of your support.
We are in need for you to stand with us.
We are facing battles right now that literally, I'm not going to cry, wolf.
I never cried wolf, but we are facing some difficult moments right now in this ministry.
But if it wasn't for your support and if it wasn't for you managing the finances the right way with the team, because we are navigating one of the most difficult moments in this ministry, but God has been faithful.
Amen.
Every single time.
And he's always faithful.
Friends, that's why I say if you're in the will of God, he'll sustain you.
You know, the word of God makes it very clear.
What is birth from the spirit will be maintained by the spirit.
What is birthed out of the flesh will be maintained by the flesh.
And Mondo, none of us are strong enough to maintain anything.
No.
You may think you are and you might be able to for a season, but make sure that your ideas, your wills, your callings, the things that you put your hand towards are birthed out of the spirit.
Why, Mondo?
Because then the spirit has to maintain it.
And praise God.
It's a lot easier when he maintains it and we can just come alongside and help him where it is needed rather than we maintain something and say, God, why don't you help me do my dreams, my visions, apart from out of your will?
Write this down.
God is the source.
Amen.
And we are the plugs.
And I want to tell you something.
Without the source, we have no life.
No power.
No power, no authority.
But when you plug into the source of life and the source of all things, the Bible says that he is Jehovah Jireh.
He is our provider.
We don't depend on government.
We don't depend on any of that.
We thank God for government and we pray for governments and we thank God for the banks and we thank God for everything that he's put in place to have order.
But we also depend on God and his provision.
And today, I pray that God will continue to provide this ministry with a platform so we can continue to bring programs like this in order to continue to bring you not only the good news, but the reports on what's happening and the message of preparedness.
That's right.
The message of preparedness, one, a lot of the churches rejected, but it's been vastly important.
We've been able to provide meals and clothing and clean water resources to disaster zones and areas with partnership from our partners as well as other churches.
And we want to continue to be able to provide that.
Why?
Because we believe it's important that if there is someone in need, the church should be the first people to step up.
It shouldn't be the government that they're relying on.
The church should have the resources and should be prepared to take care of hurting people.
Listen, your donations have made for us to stand with people like Philip Cameron and build homes to rescue kids that have been trafficked in Europe.
And we're hopefully, you know, we're about to have money.
We're about to do it again, too.
That he is in need of another building to be built to house more children because children are having to be turned away right now.
And we want to support things like that that are helping children like that.
Yeah.
And Troy Brewer, you were responsible to raise thousands of dollars that we turned around and donated back to Troy Brewer's ministry that is rescuing children all over the world.
God Loves Restoration 00:07:51
And I want to tell you something.
Those are the type of things, not only bringing you, you know, affiliate programs that can help you get prepared, but also do physical things to be able to help kids.
Listen, at the end of the day, you went and visited Troy and saw his operation.
In the middle of a cartel infested area, Troy and I walked around.
And as we were walking, we were able to rescue three young boys that were being prostituted.
I'm talking about the oldest one being 12 years old, the youngest one being eight years old.
That's where your donation, when you donate here, we're standing with people like Philip Cameron, people like Troy Brewer, and others that are helping us really to guide the way to be his hands extended at the same time.
That's right.
So, friends, we want to say thank you for continuing to support the ministry and helping us support other ministries as well.
I believe that is part of our primary callings is to go and support other ministries in the middle of their venture because maybe we don't have the ability or expertise to go out and do this or build a home in Moldova, but we find those who do have the expertise and we partner with them.
And that's what a huge portion of this is, Mondo.
It's partnership.
It's coming together.
It's finding unity.
You know, we'll never get the entire church to agree on all theology.
We'll never get the entire church to agree on, you know, the same doctrine of absolutely everything.
But we can all agree on cause and we can understand that Christ is the only way to heaven and that there is a lost and a dying world and they need our help.
We got to keep the gospel simple.
That's what it is.
The simplicity of the gospel is to feed the poor.
That's right.
Clothe the naked.
Take care of the words.
Visit the prisoners.
That's what we do.
Listen, you stay with the original content of the gospel.
You're not going to go wrong.
That's right.
It's when you start adding to it.
And once you add to it, take away from it.
And take away from it.
But once you add to it and take away from it, you got to keep up with that monster.
That's right.
At the end of the day, the gospel is very simple.
Jesus loves you.
He died for you on the cross.
He wants to restore you in order to tell one more about what he did at the cross.
Don't get it mixed up.
Don't complicate the gospel.
At the end of the day, we use this medium of television, but if we didn't have it, I know Ricky and I will be missionaries somewhere in the world telling people about the same gospel that we're doing right now and gathering food and trying to bring people together because that's the heart of the message of the intent of the original context of the lexicon of the scripture.
Amen.
And we have corrupted it to the point where we lost our way because we're trying to keep things going forward.
That's why supporting this ministry every single month allows us to focus on bringing you the message instead of, oh, we need another dollar.
Oh, we need an.
Listen, if you support the mission, we'll stop talking about it and we'll focus on what God has called us to do.
But this is where you stand.
This is your turn to stand with us and say, you know what, guys, shut your mouth on money and all that.
We'll give you the money.
Keep serving.
Keep preaching.
Keep doing.
As long as you do your part, we can do our part.
That's a bold statement to say.
But at the end of the day, Ricky and I are different.
That's true.
We're not going to be mimicking the past or anything.
We're mimicking what the gospel said, and that is to ask for help.
And today we need your help.
Call the number today, 1-888-988-1588, and stand with us this month.
Amen.
Over 11,000, probably 12,000 now children have been saved out of sex trafficking in the Mexico Central America region via Troy Brewer's ministry, a ministry that we are continuing to support.
Thousands and thousands of kids are getting fed meals, rescued out of sex trafficking in Moldova because we're supporting the Camerons mission with their ministry that they're doing.
And we're continuing to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, letting people know that Jesus is the only way to heaven.
We'll never compromise that message.
There was an opportunity that arised for the ministry.
They said, oh, you can have all of this stations.
You can be on more networks, but you have to dial down the message.
We'll never do that.
We'll never compromise the message of Jesus Christ.
That means we reduce and go forth into other avenues.
We'll never stop telling people that Jesus is the only way to heaven and that the gospel is true.
When my sister, for a whole year, Ricky, fasted for me, prayed for me.
I was involved in gangs.
I was lost.
I was headed to doing life in prison.
I was even almost dead many times.
But her prayers and her fasting, her dedication to believe for a miracle is the reason why 27 years later, I'm still alive.
I'm still here.
We keep moving forward.
And the reason why this ministry continues is because of your prayers.
That's right.
And your friend, Pastor Jim Baker, we've seen him.
Hopefully we can get him back on with Philip Cameron during those broadcasts as well.
Mondo, he faced another stroke.
I believe you were with him just a few days before.
Also been just feverishly on the phone with him, trying to make sure we have everything we need for him.
But I know we want to talk to our partners about his health condition as well, just where he's at.
You know, right now, he's recovering from another mini stroke.
And every time he has an, I think it's about eight now.
He's at eight, yeah.
And every time he has one, it sets him back with energy and sets him back mentally and then physically.
And then the capacity to be able to think straight and be able to speak is getting a little bit harder and harder.
But your friend, Jim, he keeps coming back, boy.
He keeps fighting back.
He called Ben the other day talking like it's normal.
I'm like, wait a minute, you just had a stroke a few days ago.
What's the matter with you?
But you know what?
He's not willing to give up.
That's right.
We're going to continue to bring him back.
We love the message that he has to bring because he's not an echo in this generation.
I believe he's still a voice with a prominent message that is prepare the way of the Lord because he's coming back soon.
Friends, the message has not changed.
Jesus Christ is coming back for a bride, a single bride, friends.
He's coming back for a unified church.
And the question that I have for you is, are you going to be a part of that unified church?
Like I said, we'll never get everyone to agree on all the little doctrinal issues or all things theology or Mondo.
We'll never get everyone to agree on all the tiny little things, but we can all agree on cause.
We can all agree that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven.
We can all agree that, yes, he was a man who lived here on earth.
Yes, he did live a perfect life, fulfilling every law.
Yes, he did go to the cross and bear all of our sins.
He did die and was in the grave for three days, but he did raise again.
He does sit on the right hand of the mercy seat, on the right hand of the Father in the mercy seat on our behalf.
He's interceding constantly.
The word of God says he's doing that for you.
He loves you.
He cares about you.
And he wants you to be a part of his family forever.
You can call our number.
It's 1-888-988-1588.
If you want someone to pray that salvation prayer with you, or if you want someone to pray, it's standing in the gap with you.
If you want someone to help you find a good Bible-believing church, we have operators who can continue to pray and stand with you and with your family.
And I want to say thank you for standing with this ministry as we continue to broadcast the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world and tell people Christ is the only way to heaven and he wants to be your friend.
Until next time, friend, we'll see you again.
We have Pastor Jim Baker with us with Philip Cameron on our next few broadcasts.
Make sure to watch that.
God bless you.
God loves you.
He really does.
Bye-bye for today.
Thank you for watching the Jim Baker Family Show.
You can easily order any of the products we featured by going to our website, JimBakershow.com, or give us a call at 1, 888-988-1588.
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