Seven Stages of Overcoming – Part 2 of 7

Cecil J. duCille

September 2006
Czech Republic

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Praise God. Let us continue on to the second group of overcomers found in Revelation 2:8. And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; Do you wonder why the scripture did not say, “the minister of the church in Smyrna?” Why did the Word say, “the angel of the church in Smyrna?” First of all, the word angel means messenger. The word in the Greek is ang’-el-os (Strong’s Concordance Greek #32) and it means messenger. But there is something peculiar about the way that it is used here. In many other places when this word is used, He says saints, ministers, or servants, but in this particular place, He uses the word angel.

I will give you two little stories that might help you to understand the meaning that is derived from the use of this particular term in this passage of scripture. My sister-in-law was sick, and brethren, you know that some sicknesses are not natural but come from the devil. Some people are oppressed by a devil and they will go to a doctor and what happens is that it shows their unbelief. Now, I know it was a devil upon her, because I went to visit her and before I could say, “Hello,” I got into the Spirit and began to rebuke that particular spirit that was oppressing her. In those days, I was not as nice as I am now. I used to make a lot of noise, and the rebuking was so terrible that they put me out of the house! You see, they lived in a little village, and everybody would start gathering because this spiritual explosion was so great that the community around could hear it. Here was the problem: my sister-in-law was dying, being oppressed by this devil, and I was rebuking that devil, and some of them in the house were ashamed that the community around the house was hearing such a racket – a madman screaming at a devil. Let me say, brethren, that if you are ashamed of God, you are going to have trouble. I do not know why I was so rough with that devil, it could have been that I was not mature enough to control the hollering and the bawling and the shouting. But I can tell you, the devil was being torn apart, and the Christians were ashamed that I was making so much noise that they would lose their respectability, so they kindly led me to the door.

Now, I was very sad about it, because I knew that a demon was oppressing my sister-in-law. I also knew they did not have the power to handle that devil. We have an animal in Jamaica that is called a mongoose. Have you ever seen a mongoose? It is like a rat. It is about 12-18 inches long, and has a tail about the same length. A mongoose will kill any and every snake. No matter how bad, big, or powerful the snake is, the mongoose will kill the snake. The reason for that is that if the snake is too big for the mongoose, he will whistle a very fine whistle, and the next thing that happens is that three to five mongooses crowd around that snake. Once they attack the snake, it is a goner. I am saying that mongooses work together better than the Body of Christ. Yes! The wisdom of the mongoose is greater than our wisdom! There are some spirits that come against you that you cannot handle. God never created you to handle that particular spirit. But you have a Body, and if you call out to the Body of Christ, the people of God will zero in and destroy anything in hell. Hell doesn’t have a chance with the Body of Christ. BUT if you are alone, you are a goner. If you are a pastor and head a congregation, and the congregation is submitted to you, the devil will tear you apart, and tear anyone of the congregation apart because they are all submitted to you instead of to Christ.

Because I was so noisy in my rebuking of devils, my family was afraid of me, so consequently they would not tell me when anything might be going wrong. So the devils jumped on my sister-in-law and she would turn up with a different disease almost every month. I was away in the country when my mother called me and said, “I want to tell you a secret. Your sister-in-law is dying and they do not want you to know. They are afraid that you will go there and make them ashamed by casting the devil out.” I said, “Where is she?” She said, “She is at the University Hospital in a certain town in Jamaica.” I called the brethren together. I said, “We have a problem for the Body of Christ. Let us fast and pray.” Brethren, some kinds of devils do not come out but by fasting and prayer. There are some demons that are in your family that have never been conquered. They have taken one after the other, and your family has become like a bunch of sheep being eaten by a wolf. The devils that disturb your family, way back from Adam, are to be stopped by you. God is creating an overcomer company that must stop every devil at this time.

I will tell you another story. My family had so many devils in them that we were all possessed as young people. I am sorry for those people who I see fighting and cannot stop fighting. They always seem to be finding somebody to fight. That was the point where we were. A French man came to Jamaica and he married an Indian woman and their son, my father, married a black woman from Africa, the result of which was that they mixed the African and French culture. All the demons from both the African side and the French side came in to our family and what came out of that was that we were a bunch of fighters, and it was in this condition that God saved me! Hallelujah! Nobody else in my family up to that point had ever been saved. From the time I was a boy, I had never known a duCille that was a Christian. I had never known of one until God saved me. I did not know that after God saved me I would be beating up devils. I would get wild on these devils and I would rebuke them and I would cast them into the abyss. The devils became so distressed over my treatment of them that they sent a Christian to me to tell me not to be so rough with devils. “Don’t be so rough with the devils. Don’t you see that Jesus Christ did not send them to the abyss? They (the devils) said to Him (Jesus), ‘Are you going to send us to the abyss so early?’” I said to the brother, “That was early, but now is late. I will kill every devil that comes in my way.” Send them back into hell. Chain them until Jesus comes. Do not let them loose so that they can go and bother your children. Do not let them loose so that they can get a chance to go and hurt somebody else. Finish the job whenever they come in your way. Do you hear me? I know that the devil is trembling from hearing these words! Finish the job! You have the power to say, “In the name of Jesus I command you to go to the abyss!” Oh yes, yes, yes!

The devils came and complained, and they said that I was a murderer. Do you want to know something? That is one thing that got me because I knew that I was a murderer; no one had a chance with me in a fight. I knew that and so I almost believed the devils. I had a vision one night and in that vision the devils were running me down and they had a group of people and they said, “We are going to kill this man because he is a murderer.” While I was running from them, I saw Jesus sitting on the throne. I ran up to the throne and I faced Him and they came up beside me, and accused me to God that I was a murderer. They brought proof and showed the graves of seven or more people that I had murdered. Now, I do not mean that I murdered them physically, but people came against me and they died. Do you understand? Sorcerers came against me and they dropped dead. A man came to chop me up with a machete, saying that I had taken away his girlfriend because I helped get her saved. When he came to the church with the machete, the people in the church physically came down on him, and he did not get his chance to chop me up. So he decided he was going to wait for his chance, and he sat down at the foot of a tree with his machete. A bolt of lightning came and split the tree in two and the man was sitting right there and he died. So, they said that I was a murderer. Jesus sat there upon His throne, and these accusations were brought to Him, and the graves were the proof that I had murdered these people. Jesus said to me, “Come up here!” I was terrified now, for I thought He was going to condemn me for having murder in my heart when I was a sinner and that I did not get rid of it. I went up to the throne of God and Jesus said, “Sit here!” I sat beside Him at His left hand, and said, “Oh God, You put me at the left hand. The sheep are at the right hand, and the goats are at the left hand, so I am condemned!” And I woke up out of the vision. I began to feel very bad, and I suffered under that bad feeling until one day, Jesus came to me, and He said, “Where does Jesus sit?” I said, “Jesus is at the right hand of God.” “So where is the left hand of Jesus?” He said, “It is between Us; you are at the right hand of God when you are at the left hand of Jesus.” Oh, I was so much delivered. I will go back to the first story.

My sister-in-law was in the hospital, sick with polio. You know, polio contorts the limbs. The limbs begin to twist and contort. So, being it was a university hospital, they had all of the university students taking notes on how the polio was destroying her. I felt really sorry that I was about to disturb their lesson. During this time, the brethren were fasting and praying seventy miles away from her. An angel of God came into the church and he said to me, “Hold this.” He gave me a handle to hold, and he stretched out a shaft. As we got to one point, he would attach another piece on to it and stretch it a little further. Then we came to the crossroad, and suddenly, he turned around to me and he said, “Who is going to pay for this?” Do you know that you have to pay for some of the deliverance that you receive? You see, you are dealing with spiritual laws. That is why Jesus Christ had to pay for your sins with His life. Amen. When you give out life to counteract death, you have to pay for it. You cannot give out what you do not have. If you do not have enough life to give out, stay home. Do not go and pray for somebody when you do not have the life and the energy from God to set the person free. I will give you another story. Remember now, I am giving you a story in a story in a story. As I go along, there are cases that have happened in my ministry to prove what I am saying. We were going to pray for a woman. She sent to ask us to come and pray for her. One brother who was in the group felt that he wanted the glory of being the one to heal her, because he heard from us that the Lord was going to heal the woman. So while we went on the road, he took a shortcut. He got to the house first and laid hands on the woman, and his hand withered (immediately). He began to have epileptic attacks, and he never got better until he died. A lot of the preachers that I know put themselves into trouble spiritually by trying to pray for people for whom they did not have the power to set free. In some situations, the Body has to come together and be with you. All of these healers that you hear about, every one of them go off track because they believe that they have the power in themselves. The Body of Christ is ordained of God to destroy the power of every demon on earth at this time. Not you or me or another person, but the Body of Christ together will do the job. Hallelujah!

Now, the sister was in the hospital, and this man was leading me on when he asked me, “Who will pay for this?” I was shocked! I said to myself, being a soldier of the Cross, that I was ready to die, so I said, “I WILL!” We went on until we got to the hospital. We went into the hospital room with all of the students standing around, taking their notes. She was contorting in the bed. Her limbs, her arms were kind of bent up. The angel went in and he took the end of his shaft and pushed it into her chest. He gave me a signal and said, “Go ahead.” So I said, “In the name of Jesus!” and she leapt right out of the bed to the ceiling. Now, remember, I was in the Spirit, and the angel that was with me was in the Spirit, and there were natural people standing up there observing this woman. So, all of a sudden, the woman leapt up into the ceiling, and came back down praising God! Amen! She was a loudmouth like me. She shouted, “HALLELUJAH!” The students backed away and quickly got out of the room. The teacher said to them, “Well, these things do happen sometimes.” They never really knew what happened! They never knew what happened! Hallelujah! That demon was conquered that day because there was a Body of people working together. I say that serving God is a science. If you people really realized the power that you have, you probably would be boasting around a little bit. It is a science. He said, “One shall chase a thousand” (Deuteronomy 32:30). So a hundred of you, how many millions are you going to chase? And Satan knows this. So guess what? He comes and he tells you something about somebody over there, and he tells the other one something about that one, and he tells another one something about this one, and you start believing it. In the doing of it, he (devil) cuts the power out from among you! Hallelujah!

Teach the children to pray with you, and you will see some marvelous things happen when these little ones say to God, “God, do so and so!” They are not involved with adult sin. They are pure. God said, “Unless you become as little child, you will not be able to enter the Kingdom of God” (Matthew 18:3). Amen. You catch the child and you discipline him and the next moment he comes up hugging you. He forgot the hurt – we need to be like that! We need to forgive one another. When some brother comes and he hurts you accidentally, excuse him! “He was not feeling good today!” “He did not know he did that to me.” Do you understand? Excuse him, because the connection between you and him is most important for the work of God. Hallelujah!

I will tell you another story. Jamaica began to go down hill as a society. Young boys, twelve or thirteen years of age, began to take guns and shoot people indiscriminately. They were let loose and wild, and I looked at the condition and I said, “My God, this is hopeless.” If you had a twelve year-old child and you could not control him because he would take a gun and shoot you, what would you do? They shot so many that the police were even afraid of them. You see, an innocent little child would come along and the next thing you would see is that he pulls out a gun and he shoots you without even questioning you. So I said to God, “Oh God, this is hopeless. Is there any hope for Jamaica?” Do you know what God said to me? “Will you stand in the breech?” I, eighty-four years of age, was to stand in the breech for a whole nation? I said, “Yes, Lord!” Amen. I have never refused a challenge in my life. I said, “Yes, Lord! I will!” Hallelujah! To say, “Yes,” is one thing, but to find yourself in the middle of a fight is another. So we started out, and you know some of what is going on in that arena.

But God began to create change as we prayed; we are asking you to add your strength and power to the fight and help us win this battle. Pray that God will create change, and will bring deliverance. Hallelujah! So, God spoke to the angel (messenger) of the church in Jamaica; I have given the message of hope for a country, a nation, and a people. He said, “I know thy works” (Revelation 3:1,8,15).

Now, as the Spirit of God began to move here in this place in the midst of this Czech nation, He began to move out through the windows. The Spirit of God began to move over this town that we are having our meeting in. Amen! You are being given the charge of the whole area, not just Czech, but Slovakia also. You have been given the charge. God is saying, “I am speaking to the angel of Slovakia and the Czech Republic.” He said, “I know your works. I know your works.” You have not started working yet! God is putting people in charge of certain things, and you had better know it, or else you will not do the job. Europe is under condemnation. The whole place is under judgment. The blood that has been shed in these places has reached up to God’s Heaven and there are souls crying for justice. How are you going to get justice? God says to the angel of the church of Slovakia, “I am giving you the charge to deliver Europe out of the hands of Satan.” You know, the Muslims say that they are going to take Europe. Did you know that? The Muslims believe that the people of Europe are living so carelessly that they will be able to take Europe. They believe that if they drop a few bombs around here that you people will give in to them. I am saying to you, brethren that the time has come for somebody to stand up in the Spirit and to say, “I will resist and overcome the anti-Christ that is rising up in Europe.”

Revelation 13 tells us of a beast that rose up out of the sea, and the beast had seven heads and ten horns. Seven major nations, and ten men who will rule – this beast will have a certain time to reign, but the time that is specified for the beast to have power in Europe and over the whole world is the same time in which the sons of God will have power to control the beast. I will give you an idea of the magnitude of this beast. If all of the atom bombs in Russia, the United States and China, just those three countries, were to be released in the atmosphere, no creature would be left alive upon the earth. But the madman in Iran, Abdullah Ahmadinejad, said that he is appointed of God to bring about Armageddon. He does not know what he is talking about. In the first hour of that Armageddon, there would be no Iran left. Don’t you understand? A country of that size – it would not take a day to finish it. It would become a desert. Russia claims that they are missing several of the dangerous suitcase nukes. Missing them! Russia made these suitcase type of bombs, yet they cannot find them. The whole of Prague, and all of the surrounding area, would be finished in a second with one of those bombs. These are the bombs that Bin Laden and his people were trying to get, and we understand now that they have some of them. The intelligence sources think that they are secretly planting them in certain cities.

Now, the Scripture says that the wrath of man is come and that it is God’s time for His wrath, also. So that means that the time will come when God has to intervene and stop them. Nobody is going to destroy God’s world. He is not going to allow it. You see, when Satan finds that he cannot win, he will make up his mind to destroy every human being on earth. Now, people have the power right now to do it. As a matter of fact, the power is so frightening that everybody who has it is afraid to use it. We would never use it. So then, when Satan saw that Russia would not use it, the Americans would not use it, and even India would not use it, the devil went and got himself some unstable people to believe that their god says that they must use it. I will tell you what will happen – God will stop them. Do you hear me? God will stop them, and you are given the power from God to stop them!

I asked God, and I have been asking Him for many, many years, maybe for over thirty years, to tell me how He was going to do this. Then one day, God came and said to me, “Do you want to know how I am going to stop the world from being destroyed?” He said, “I am going to give power unto My two witnesses. I am going to give you power over every power that is on earth or in hell.” Glory to God! “You are going to stop them.” So when I heard that, I went to the brethren, and I said, “Brethren, Bin Laden is doing too much. Let us stop him.” So we started to pray against Zarqawi, because he was killing so wildly in Iraq, and every one of them that we have spotted and prayed for, have been caught or destroyed. Now we are praying for Bin Laden and he is almost finished. We are praying for Ayman al-Zawahiri, which is the Egyptian that is second in command to Bin Laden, and their doom is set. You say, “But Brother Cec, isn’t that political?” It is not political. It is spiritual. Let me tell you something that you need to know. Spiritual forces are protecting those men. Yes. Hussein came out clearly with it, and he told how the spirit came to him and told him so and so and how he is being protected by it. Remove the protection because you have the power to do it. Say to God, “Remove the protection from the men who are destroying the world! Stop them, my God, that the world might be saved, that we might be able to deliver the people!”

So God spoke to the angel of the church in Smyrna – He has set a people in every part of the world to deliver the world out of the destruction. I wish we had the time to go downtown, to go in groups, covering the north, south, east and west ends, to walk in the town and to destroy the power of the spirits that are in this town. Oh yes! The Bible says, “The blood of Abel cried out to God” (Genesis 4:10). Do you think that all of the innocent people who have been killed in this area, during the time of the Russians, and everybody coming through here murdering people, do you think their spirits are there? Do you think that blood is still there crying out? Yes! Walk through the cities, and tell them that the time has come for their deliverance. Oh yes. Discharge them.

I was living in a place called Saint Mary in Jamaica, and every Christmas a spirit would come up from the sea and manifest like a man with a wooden foot. He walked up the stairs and I was on the fifth floor. My little room was in the attic up there. The moment the spirit started coming upstairs, everybody in the house started trembling. I started getting mad. I had to fight this thing, whatever it was. Man or beast, I had to fight him, because he made everybody afraid. Instead of being afraid, I got mad. That is the boldness that God put in me! So he came right up. He must have sensed me in my room. He came up to the attic, and he knocked three times on my door – BAM, BAM, BAM! I did not expect that, so I did not know what to do, but he came back the next night. Now, I knew what he was going to do, and I knew what I had to do. Before he got up to my room, I opened the latch , and stood behind the door. So when he came and knocked, BAM, BAM, before he could get to the third knock, I jumped right out on him and shouted, “In the name of Jesus!” Man, he fled! He never came back there as long as I lived there. No spirit, no spirit, not even the devil himself, can stand your rebuke! The Bible says to rebuke the devil, “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7), because God has given you the authority. God has given man the authority to rule on earth and everything that moves within this atmosphere. You have the power; do not allow devils to disturb you in order to lead you astray. YOU HAVE THE POWER! That is the reason why you are guilty when you do not use it, because you have the power to do it and you did not do it. Amen. We have the power in Christ to overcome the devil. Let us go back to our reading now.

Verse 8, And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; You must be conscious that you are dealingwith a living God! You must be conscious that you aredealing with a God who has the power over death! And ifyou have in you the living God who has the power overdeath, why should you be afraid of death or anything else?You were created as conquerors! The children are createdas conquerors! You were not created to be overcome by any devil on earth! No circumstance on earth is greaterthan your God and He is inside of you! If you have aproblem and you start hanging your head, you are denyingGod! Hallelujah! Never submit to any circumstances!Brother (Henry) Gruver comes before me. He is a walkingman. He walks and he prays in all of the cities, and bindsup the devils in those cities. He was walking in Scotlandand he fell over a precipice and damaged his leg very severely.There was no way to call anybody for help. He was down there on the side of the cliff, hanging on to a pieceof wood that was growing out of the side of the mountain.He looked up and there was a road above him, butno way to get back up there. Any ordinary human beingwould have said, “Oh God, what am I going to do now?”Probably one would start finding ways of calling for help,and bandaging up your leg, or something like that. Butnot Gruver! He did not do that. He cried, “In the nameof Jesus!” He took out his Bible, because the Lord spoketo him that faith cometh by hearing and hearing by theWord of God. So he began to read his Bible. It was thenand only then that he started struggling to climb up withone leg. He would not accept a leg that would not worklike it was supposed to. The man started struggling andafter an hour or more he had made it a little way up.Remember now that all of this is being done in excruciatingpain, but he persisted until he climbed the rock andgot back onto the road. He found a piece of stick to helphim to walk, and he walked with that leg that was damagedso badly that medically it should nothave been working at all. By thetime that he had gone a distance,the leg felt better. When he gotto his destination, the leg washealed. YOU HAVE A LIVINGGOD!

There was a woman in Bloomington, Illinois, who had an accident, and she busted her kneecap wide open, and her shin was busted in several places, six inches down. The doctors told her, “We will have to amputate that leg. You will never use it again.” Remember now, God was out to start a work in Illinois. God came to her and she said that she heard a voice say to her, “Do not allow them to amputate your leg. Go to the meeting tonight.” We were having a meeting in a basement, down underneath the floor. They brought this woman in, and when they put her down, her leg was extremely swollen. We laid hands on the leg and commanded a healing, and the woman jumped up and danced around the building! I am just showing you how God is. He is sometimes very peculiar. He healed the leg, but nobody knew He healed it because the leg was still swollen, and it was very painful for her after she danced. Well, they took her home, and her husband was an unbeliever, and he hit the ceiling after he found out. He decided to take us all before the court to get us arrested. He believed that his wife was going to lose her leg, and that some preacher came and deceived her that she was healed. He felt that he had all the proof for it because the leg was swollen, and she was in pain. So I called to a brother in Bloomington who was a doctor. I said, “I’m sending this sister over to you. Please check her out for me.” When he checked her, he called back to say, “What was wrong with her?” I said, “She had a broken knee cap and a broken shin bone.” He said he could not find any break at all, and he prescribed some Epsom salts and some hot water. When they took her home to her husband, he was fit to be tied. He rushed her off to another hospital. When they got there they did an x-ray. Remember now, the first hospital had an x-ray of broken bones. Now, a few hours after the x-ray, the result was no broken bones. He said to the doctor, “Are you sure?” The doctor said, “Here is the picture.” There was a picture of NO broken bones. He gave his heart to God immediately. Yes! He wanted a God like that! Amen! Hallelujah! And the church took off! Everybody started coming where we were preaching. That is why it only takes ONE message from God to preach to a whole church. Praise be to God!

Let me close here. Verse 9, I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. We do nothave any poor people in our midst.We together are rich. If you wantto be poor, you have to go by yourself. Do you understand? You sayto God, “Poor me!” But you cannotsay poor us! We are not poortogether. We have the riches ofalmighty God! Hallelujah! Godwants to inform you that althoughyou think you are poor, you are reallyrich! I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Listen, the whole church hasbecome the synagogue of Satan. It is hard to believe. It ishard for you to believe that the whole world of church peoplehas become the synagogue of Satan. But if the people accepta sorcerer, an evil doer, someone who cannot live clean astheir bishop and their lord, then the people themselves areunclean. Hear me, please!

An Indian Maharajah came and took four young men from England, the Beatles. He took them to India, and he introduced them to the demons or the devils that rule India, and he gave them spirit guides. Do you understand what I am talking about? When you go into the occult, the first thing that you get is a spirit guide, and the spirit guide will tell you what to do. They got spirit guides and they begin to sing as a band. If you have ever been to India, you will know how they sing to their gods. You can get an idea of it by these fellows that shave their heads. What do they call themselves? Hari Krishna.

You use a guitar with twelve strings or six strings. The stringed instruments that you use are “many-stringed,” but the stringed instruments that they use in India have one string. They go, “yeng, yeng, yeng, yeng, yeng,” and that is the way they sing. It is a spirit sound that affects the soul. Do you hear me? It is a spirit sound that affects the soul. I want you to notice that along with that they use a drum, and if you check your Bible, you will never find an instrument named a drum in your Bible. So then, for Satan, who was the master of music in heaven, he taught them a certain type of music TO AFFECT THE SOUL of the hearers. Now, they come out as a band and they start to sing. As they start to sing, in the background is the “yeng, yeng, yeng, yeng, yeng,” going on. And there is a subliminal sound – that means that you do not hear it with the natural ears – but it affects the soul, and it introduces an evil spirit to you. And brethren, all music has changed! I go to listen to a Christian singer, and they are just going on like the world, the same way that the world sings. Nobody sings a straight tune anymore. It is all orchestrated from hell. So we become addicted to it.

I’m telling you now about the church falling. They do not sing a tune or a song like you sing. They have a sound there that is kind of “off-key.” Have you ever wondered why so many girls faint when the Beatles play? That is the proof that it is something spiritual. I have seen a crowd of people and dozens of girls just faint. Now, they take that music and they bring it into the church. And when you see the people praising, you do not hear one word of what they are saying. All you hear is the music. Now, God ordained you that you cannot serve Him without conscious words. That is why when you sing a song in English, you must also sing it in Czech, because Czech is part of your being, and you grew up with it. The meaning that it brings to your soul is more solid than singing in a foreign language. Do you follow what I am saying? I am singing and I am looking at the Czech words with you, while my mind is thinking in English. So therefore you notice that when the song is sung in Czech that the Czech brethren get a lift! When you sing it in English, the English brethren get a lift! It is because God has ordained for you to sing with understanding. That is why we discourage the brethren from doing what they call “high praise.” Yes, there is high praise, but it is when the Spirit of God moves and the people start to praise without consciousness, into the Spirit. At one time, the church began to talk about “high praise,” and I will tell you what they started doing. They started going “yeng, yeng, yeng,” and that was the way that they were going on – no words, just the music. They began to dance and move to the music, and it means that it is the spirit of the music that is taking them, no words. There is no, “Thank You, Jesus! Thank You, Lord! You have brought me out a mighty long way! A mighty long way!” I start to dance when I consider from whence He lifted me out of the pit and I rejoice. Hallelujah! So, the church has been taken! Completely taken! They want to have the drums in the church, jazz drums. Jazz drums come from hell.

Do you know who Brother Andrae Crouch is? Andrae Crouch is a singer/musician, and he is now a minister. He has a very powerful style. The performers are all dressed in black, and they march and sing. So, Andrae Crouch went to Africa to thrill the African people with this powerful music. While he was performing, and I am telling you, when they began to strike the music – you felt it in your soul. Have you ever heard music that makes your liver tremble? That is how it hit you. Well, while he was carrying on, a man ran from the back screaming, “Stop, stop, stop! You are calling all my demons away. I can’t get any of them to work for me. They are all coming to your beat of music!” Believe me, the drumbeat of Africa has a meaning in the spirit world, and the spirits come according to the beating of the drums. Amen.

You know I cannot go on any further with this, but all I can tell you brethren, is that we are looking at a fallen church, a church that does not recognize God from the devil. Let me read this for you and then I will close. Revelation 18:2, And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. What God is saying is that the church has fornicated with the world, mixing godliness and satanic worship, and the brethren who are in the church are in the system, OR HAVE THE SYSTEM IN THEM. Did you know that you can leave the system and yet you have it in you? I left the world system, yet I have part of the world system in me. I have the music of the world in me. I left the world system, yet I have it in me. Amen. God is giving you some advice. Verse 4, And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. That means that some Christians are going to be killed with the world. God bless you. Amen.