If I were to ask you the question today, “Who is the Bride of Christ?”, no doubt you would say it is the Church.

Recently, David Wilkerson sent out a mass warning to everyone on his
email list as well as his blog claiming that massive wrath was about to
befall the United States, specifically New York City. Now, I have
spoken to Pastor David in the past. He has always been generous, kind
and willing to take the time to answer questions. However, as far as
prophecies are concerned, he is not 100% correct in all that he has
said. To be sure, many things he has foretold have come to pass, there
isn’t much debate about this. But he has been wrong and has been prone
to knee-jerk reactions when he sees the slightest sign that something
he has prophesied may come to pass.

However, unlike some others involved with the “The End is Nigh”
scene, I respect Davy and while I pray that he is wrong, I can not say
with certainty that he indeed is. Recently my thoughts have returned to
a word that he gave some time ago regarding the fall of the United
States. Now, this is a paraphrase but I am sure you will get the idea.
He foretold that a major disaster was going to hit the MIDDLE of the
U.S. The disaster would be so large that it would bankrupt the
insurance companies and the Federal government would be unable to take
up the slack. Now, even 6 months ago, that would appear to be
silliness. However, with AIG in the tank compounded by a government
already committed to Keynesian Deficit spending, we would be helpless
in the face of a major catastrophe, particularly if we are already
“loan broke” to the Chinese.

It is worrying, to be sure. On the flip side of this, I am
encouraged in my spirit. I do not believe that we live in a
dispensation of judgment, we live in the dispensation of grace. That is
why God’s wrath has not fallen on us sooner. That is why the combined
atrocities of the U.S.S.R., China, Pol Pot, Eastern Europe, Rwanda, Idi
Amin, etc, have not provoked God’s wrath. But that dispensation could
be coming to an end and if it is, God help us all. Everyone knows that
at some stage, the clock of God’s wrath will strike midnight and he
will no longer ignore the sin of mankind. I personally pray that we are
nowhere near such a time, there is too much to do.

Some preachers such as Andrew Strom have been very vocal about God’s
wrath on America. I have largely discounted this as the bitter musings
of a man who failed to see any effectiveness here in the States. But
there is a respect for Pastor David that I hold that forces me to take
the issue to prayer. Let me say again, I have not heard wrath in my
spirit, I have felt compelled to do the work. And the work is
successful! We have planted a third church and people’s lives are being
transformed by the Word and Power of God. But there is much to do,
friends.

Regardless if great balls of fiery death begin falling or not, the
work must happen, now more than ever. I want to encourage you to help
us to do as much as we can in this day, please. Posted below is David’s
prophecy taken from his blog:

AN URGENT MESSAGE

I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to send out an urgent message to all
on our mailing list, and to friends and to bishops we have met all over
the world.

AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING, WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREMBLE - EVEN THE GODLIEST AMONG US.

For ten years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to
New York City. It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of
New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will
experience riots and blazing fires—such as we saw in Watts, Los
Angeles, years ago.

There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be
looting—including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing
now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s
wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written,

“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (v. 3).
God is judging the raging sins of America and the nations. He is destroying the secular foundations.

The prophet Jeremiah pleaded with wicked Israel, “God is fashioning
a calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh, turn back
each of you from your evil way, and reform your ways and deeds. But
they will say, It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans,
and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil
heart” (Jeremiah 18:11-12).

In Psalm 11:6, David warns, “Upon the wicked he will rain snares
(coals of fire)…fire…burning wind…will be the portion of their cup.”
Why? David answered, “Because the Lord is righteous” (v. 7). This is a
righteous judgment—just as in the judgments of Sodom and in Noah’s
generation.

WHAT SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS DO? WHAT ABOUT GOD’S PEOPLE?

First, I give you a practical word I received for my own direction.
If possible lay in store a thirty-day supply of non-perishable food,
toiletries and other essentials. In major cities, grocery stores are
emptied in an hour at the sign of an impending disaster.

As for our spiritual reaction, we have but two options. This is
outlined in Psalm 11. We “flee like a bird to a mountain.” Or, as David
says, “He fixed his eyes on the Lord on his throne in heaven—his eyes
beholding, his eyelids testing the sons of men” (v. 4). “In the Lord I
take refuge” (v. 1).

I will say to my soul: No need to run…no need to hide. This is God’s
righteous work. I will behold our Lord on his throne, with his eye of
tender, loving kindness watching over every step I take—trusting that
he will deliver his people even through floods, fires, calamities,
tests, trials of all kinds.

Note: I do not know when these things will come to pass, but I know
it is not far off. I have unburdened my soul to you. Do with the
message as you choose.

God bless and keep you,
In Christ,
DAVID WILKERSON

A Further Word

“If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?”
Recently I felt compelled to send out an URGENT message warning of
an impending great calamity — such that will cause even God’s elect to
tremble.

One Bishop asked, “Is there no further word: How should the righteous respond to such a word?”

I can only answer by sharing what the Holy Spirit is speaking to my
own heart and what I am to do. I shared that I was led in a practical
way to lay aside a month’s supply of food — because I have witnessed
the panic in the wake of terrorism. That has to be a personal word for
every individual.

This is what I hear the Holy Spirit speaking to my heart concerning
my own spiritual response to impending calamity. It is simply this
—STAND STILL AND SEE THE SALVATION OF THE LORD.
“And Moses said to the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the
salvation of the Lord, which he will show you today…The Lord shall
fight for you, and you shall hold your peace” (Exodus 14:13-14).
This is the attitude of faith in the face of calamity. What could
Israel do on the brink of the Red Sea? Pharaoh’s army is pressing in,
mountains are on both sides, and there is an impossible sea ahead. The
flesh cries, “Do something!”

The flesh cries hopelessness. Can God’s people dry up the sea? Level
a mountain? Fight a great army without having weapons? They are in what
appears to be a dreadful, frightening situation. God’s people tremble —
and in this hour of trembling comes a word from God. In essence:
“Stand still. Fear not. This is the hour of salvation. You are going
to witness the pulling down of the foundations of a world power. But in
the same hour, I will fight for you. Hold your peace — be still and see
my works.”

Beloved, my warning is just one voice among many who are saying the
same thing. We may all tremble for a season, but those who truly know
God’s Word will be quickly comforted by the Holy Spirit. We will be
baptized with a great peace — a supernatural quietness — which will be
a tremendous witness to the fearful multitudes.

In Christ,
David Wilkerson

The darkest times in human history have all begun when someone decided “not to let a serious crisis go to waste”. In fact, it is in times of economic crisis that folks are most susceptible to the ideas of tyrants. We look for an answer, any port in a storm that will shield us from the unknown. And in our desire to be safe, we open ourselves up to things that we would never have dreamed of allowing in normal times.
Consider, my friends that Germany in the 1930’s was suffering from massive unemployment and high inflation, mostly due to the effects of the Great Depression. Hitler appointed Hjalmar Schacht as Minister of Economics to combat this and bring Germany into fresh prosperity. Schacht leaned on Keynesian Economics to this end, specifically in the areas of large public works programs supported by deficit spending. For those that don’t know, deficit spending is when the Government purposefully spends more money than they receive through tax revenues. The theory is that by spending into deficit, the government creates jobs which increases consumer spending. This in turn, creates more business by supplying for the new spending being done.

The natural reaction that rational people have to deficit spending is to talk about the “burden of the national debt”. The idea of course is that if we create debt now, future generation s will have to pay that debt off and we therefore are saddling them with a burden that is unfair. Interestingly, this reaction has been in place since the 1930’s when Keynes first introduced his theory.  Now, is it any wonder that the current administration has been untouched by the Right’s cries regarding the burden of the national debt? To them it is the expected and naïve cry of the bourgeoisie used to scare the ignorant proletariat. To the Keynesians, the debt-income ratio would disappear over time anyway, provided the economy grew fast enough.

Forgive my descent into macroeconomic theory, friends, I do have a point here. However, I want you folks to understand what is happening all around you right as we speak. Obama’s administration has embraced Keynesian economic theory. That is the reason for the massive spending bill, the Omnibus bill and the bailouts. They believe that by combating the current recession with massive governmental public works and deficit spending, they can end the economic crisis. Hjalmar Schacht and Adolf Hitler believed the exact same thing and Schacht applied the theory to Germany’s Depression economy. After jolting the economy with massive deficit spending, the next step was to implement the Reinhardt Program, combining tax reductions with public investment in roads, railways and waterways. Now while it cannot be argued that both practices worked in getting Germany well on the road to recovery, it also is evident that it was the death of the free market in Germany and the perfect springboard for Hitler’s rise to dictatorship.

In the Germany of the 1930’s, the economic troubles served as a serious crisis in which the National Socialist Party could push through major reforms. When your job, your home, your livelihood seems to be in peril, people look for a voice, any voice, that seems to have the answer for their day-to-day problems. The more charismatic that leader is, the quicker his ascent to power during a crisis. Not only that, the more charismatic the leader is, the further people will allow themselves to be led down a path that they would normally rebel against.

Hence, the Keynesian theories that Hitler introduced to a desperate population not only served to  jolt Germany’s economy into recovery, it also served to make the Germans dependent on the government for their welfare and by extension then, on Hitler himself. He became their savior when in fact, he was their greatest doom.

There is no better time to introduce seismic shifts in a nation’s identity than during an economic crisis, if you are the right kind of despot. In the years before the French Revolution, Necker borrowed and Calonne spent to combat the crisis caused by France’s financing of the American Revolution. This led to a deepening of the crisis and eventual overthrow of the government. In 1917 in Tsarist Russia, the Bolsheviks used the economic crisis to overthrow the government and Lenin rose to power amidst the flames. Over and over throughout history we see the same pattern playing itself out; in the midst of crisis, the crazies take over the nuthouse.

We stand on a treacherous precipice here in America today. Had you been able to ask a German prior to Hitler’s rise to power if Germany was capable of the Final Solution, do you think that they would have laughed you to scorn? Do we see that it was not a monstrous sub-class of people who carried out the orders of the Reich but rather normal people who were living their normal lives and were carried away into madness in degrees by a man who understood that times of crisis were perfect opportunities for major reform? The story of the Russian Revolution carries with it the exact same lessons that we fail to see. It was economic crisis that lent itself to the ascent of the Communist party and to the deaths of multiplied millions of Russians at the hands of that regime.

When good people relinquish the power of the free market, the power that rests in the hands of the individual, and look to a charismatic figure for help, disaster is right around the corner. It is nothing new that is happening in the world today, my friends. It is the same thing that has been happening since the dawn of time; it takes a crisis to enthrone a monster and I fear that something wicked this way comes.

"It is freedom itself that still hangs in the balance, and freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.” —Ronald Reagan

Socialism is defined as “a theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor.” It is an economic system based on state ownership of capital. We were warned aplenty during the elections but due to our understandable reluctance to take anything said by a politician seriously, we blew most of it off. Now we find ourselves in an absolutely crazy period of time when the sitting administration is using the circumstances surrounding the economic crisis to full advantage in order to bring about a bona fide Socialist revolution in our nation. Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said that the current economic crisis was “an opportunity for major reform.” Emanuel said, that “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” And they are certainly not letting this one go to waste, are they?

We are witnessing the Obama administration’s Marxist goals quickly fall into place including the nationalization of our banks, the banning of firearms, the funding of Democrat party grass roots groups with public money, the punishment of the successful and the redistribution of their wealth to the unsuccessful, the strengthening of the welfare state, the killing of the unborn, the dissolution of sovereign state rights in the name of the “Rights of the Child”, the abandonment of Israel and funding of Hamas, the refusal to use the words terrorist by the Director of Homeland Security, the banning of Christian speech and Bible study on college campuses, the carbon tax that may increase your monthly utility costs by hundreds and hundreds of dollars, the REPEAL of charitable donations for anyone making over $250,000 a year. and the destruction of our economy in the name of fairness.

I want you to consider something. Obama said “I believe that the Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms. But just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right.” Now, considering that he was talking about the Right to Bear Arms, isn’t it reasonable to apply his statement to all of the other rights given to us in the Declaration of Independene and the Bill of Rights? That would read something like this: “Just because you have an individual right to (free speech, unlawful search and seizure, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, religion, press, assembly, petition, due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination, eminent domain) does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right.” Are you scared yet?

At this moment the current administration is quickly driving America into a Socialist agenda. They claim that they have a mandate from the masses to do this. However, B. Hussein Obama ran his race as a moderate, not a leftist liberal. He duped the American public into seeing him as something that he most assuredly was not. He has tripled the deficit in one month, has spent more in that month than was spent on government in this nation from our founding until his Inaugeration. Spending has never, NEVER, overturned a recession, friends. Tax cuts have been the solution across the board. We are allowing this administration to spend us into a depression, until we all will have to crawl to the teet of the great mother pig to be suckled or starve to death.

Karl Marx described in his communist manifesto, the ten steps necessary to destroy a free enterprise system and replace it with a system of omnipotent government power, so as to effect a communist socialist state. Look at the The Ten Planks of Communism and then decide which ones are already in place and which ones have no chance of happening here in the greatest nation on Earth.

1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.

“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand” Karl Marx

“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” Karl Marx

“Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.” Karl Marx

“The press is our chief ideological weapon.” Nikita Khrushchev

“We can’t expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.”

Hey there all.

Around two weeks ago during the worship time at VFC in Platteville, I
had an open vision. Now, I don’t get them regularly, in fact they are
few and far between. But this night I did and though it was very quick,
it has stuck with me.


I saw a field of crops, it looked like cotton or something that you
have to bend down to pick. And there were all of these Americans in the
towns surrounding the fields and none of them wanted to go and work for
the low wages or in the labor-intensive environment. And I saw tons of
immigrants crossing the border and fighting each other for this work
that no one else wanted.

I was sitting there after this short vision
and wondering what the heck that was about, it made no sense and was
way too forceful to have just been my imagination. Then I saw the truth
of the thing; we as American Christians have been unwilling for the
most part to go into the harvest fields and do the work. We are happy
that the work is being done, for sure. But we just don’t much care to
get our hands dirty.


And so God is raising up a group of people who are grateful for the
work. They will work long hours with little to no pay, they will get
out there in the fields where the people are and do the work of the
Kingdom.


They aren’t the elite of society, they are the dregs, the outcasts, those who fly under the radar of most people.


To this end, we are busy doing rural missions here in Wisconsin. We
have two churches as of now, one in Darlington and one in Platteville.
Neither is terribly large but that’s the thing with rural ministry; the
goals must be different than urban ministry. We felt led of the Lord to
begin to plant and so tonight we have our very first service in
Belleville, WI, about an hour from where we live.


You see, we may not be able to get 3,000 people into one of these small
churches but if we found a base and then use it as a hub, we can plant
churches in a one hour radius of the central location and get many more
people. In essence, rural ministry should be many churches whose total
members equal a large number as opposed to urban ministry where one
single location can be very large.


Our new ministry association has been founded which is called the
Vintage Faith Centers of America. The new church in Belleville will be
the third church under this covering and God willing, we will have
many, many more in the near future. This year we will found The
Crucible Ministry Training Center and the graduates will have the
opportunity to help us plant new works near the hub and also to take
over chapters when it becomes too much for me.


This isn’t easy work, the rural seeting doesn’t throw money at you. You
will earn what you have by the sweat of your brow, just like the
farmers do in the natural. For them, it is 16 hour days and you see no
fruit until the harvest. It takes men and women of resolve to bend
their back and work these fields. But the harvest is there for those
who are willing to do the work.


Keep praying for us, friends.

J.

Hey all, feeling strongly led of the Lord to hit the road as much as possible during January and February. We have sat still for about 7 months planting churches and we are feeling that God wants us to GO a bit.

So, here's the deal: If you are interested in sponsoring a date or a revival, let me know ASAP. I don't care about group size, church size or offering size. I care about changed lives.

Most of you have listened to the sermons, you know what I preach. But we also operate in sign-gift ministry, particularly healing. Just got a word back that a man (who was Catholic) was healed from Stage 4 colon cancer recently, Praise God! So, if you are interested in an old school healing revival or just some flat-out preaching, shoot me an email.

We do ask for a decent place to stay and a love offering.

Okay, be blessed!
J.

I wanted to share this video with you guys.
Hope it moves you. Give it a watch and be blessed.

J.

The Preacher and the Whore (A Love Story)