Brother Cecil duCille
Dubuque, Iowa, February 16, 2002
(Published in Keeping in Touch May 26, 2002)
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We greet you again in the name of the Lord Jesus. We thank God for bringing us to a table where we can really feast upon His Word. It’s not everybody who can feast upon God’s Word. Some people are so sick spiritually, that no matter how loud God shouts to them, they will not hear. We who can hear, blessed are they that can hear, that have ears to hear. Hallelujah. Jesus said, “Let him hear.” Thank you, Jesus. We are very, very happy to be in a position like this, with appetites and able to hear. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
In this last day, the difference between those who perish and those who overcome will be the ears, spiritual ears, whether you can hear God or not. Hallelujah. Turn your Bibles with me to 1 Kings 18, read from the 36th verse down to the 46th. 1 Kings chapter 18, And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. In other words, they were saying, “This is Yahweh.” Many gods, many gods, all the ignorance of humanity has come down to our time. I picked up my newspaper last week and read where the Pope met with the Muslims, with the Hare Krishna’s, with the Confucians, I didn’t even know some of the names of those he met with. All of them had prayers together. What god were they praying to? How can I have prayers with those who are praying to another god, a strange god? Our God is God, and His name is Yahweh. Don’t call Him Allah. Don’t call Him any other name. His name is Yahweh and He’s going to be Yahweh, our God, the Almighty God, and He is going to show His power in our time. Amen. God is not asleep! These people thought that God was asleep. They came down, 3000 of them, and all the spectators were there to see them perform a miracle of making fire to fall on the altar. I’m telling you what, some of those fire worshippers, they were able to call fire down at certain times. But this time, God blocked them. They couldn’t get a fire going. They cut themselves. They prayed. They did everything, no fire, no move! Hallelujah. Then Elijah prayed, and when Elijah prayed, fire came down from heaven. God had to do a little extra, because the natural fire wasn’t going to do what Elijah’s fire did. It burned up the wood, natural fire can do that. It burned up the stone, amen. Natural fire won’t do that. It burned up the dust, amen. And the people, when they saw it, they said, “This is God.” Now, this is God. He is The God. He is Yahweh. Praise be to God.
Elijah said something to God. He said, “Lord God, bring down the fire and burn up this sacrifice, that they might know that you are God, and I am your servant.” This is the thing that the world does not know. They don’t know that we are the servants of God. You know why? We have so many wishy-washy Christians around the world. We have so many Christians performing ignorance that nobody knows who is Christian from who is not Christian. As a matter of fact, I wish we had another name beside Christian. You know, it’s like a person curses you when he calls you Christian because look at what they are doing! Amen. I see a mimic, and I would like to see him face to face to tell him he is nothing but a mimic. He’s on television and if I had any respect for the TBN, I would have lost it! Because I don’t think the TBN would want me to preach on their pulpit. But they get this mimic and this man has on a long coat, a half coat, down there. His hair is long and black down to his shoulder, and he’s carrying on like this, and he’s going on like this, and he’s……guess what? Rap! Dat, a-dat, a-dat, and he’s prophesying to this one, prophesying to that one. It’s a mimic! The people shouting, “Hallelujah!” Then he has the cheerleaders up there with him, they are going exactly how he is going. Lord, have mercy! The country has lost what God looks like! The nation, the Christians have lost the whole idea of what God is like, amen! The men of God that I used to respect one time, get up and begin to spit on one another and begin to roll on the floor and say they are drunk with Holy fire. All right, you’re drunk with Holy fire! Let me see your drunkenness! Let me see something done after you are drunk! Nothing happens! They’re drunk and they pitch over, and they fall on top of one another and they laugh and that is it. That is the power of God. Not my God. Not my God! If God knocks you down, you are going to get up with something. Amen. When God touches you, you are going to produce something. You cannot tell me that you get knocked down there tonight, and you come tomorrow night and get knocked down again, you come the next night, and get knocked down again, and you are the same person, no change? Amen. You manifest this great manifestation, and then you turn around and preach false doctrine. Amen. All the powerful men of God, how come they don’t know that the church is not going to be taken away in a rapture, in a pre-tribulation rapture? How come they are sitting down there and the tribulation is going to explode on top of their heads and they don’t know? Where is the great revelation? Where is the power that they have? Amen. I was talking to a brother who was a Muslim at one time, and he said, “You know, the people who are doing these miracles, they don’t phase me, they don’t excite me because I’ve seen more miracles at the tomb of Fatima than they are doing.” He says that when you go to the tomb of Fatima, wheelchairs and all that are piled high! Healing that they receive, amen. You see, I’ve seen Satan cripple people and Satan heal them. I mean, I’m not talking about what you see, I’m telling you what I have seen, and what I have lived through. A man was made mad, mad by the devil. They took him to a place and the man paid the devil to loose him, amen. I know the devil has regretted it now, because the man got saved, you understand. The devil regrets it. But he took the money in order to win the soul of his adherents and he set the man free. That man never went near the devil again because he had his lesson.
But praise be to God, we are looking at a picture here, and I believe that this picture is the picture of exactly what is happening now. Amen? I will tell you categorically, when you hear people saying there are two holy books in the world, (and of course some other people might have their holy books) but the two major holy books, they said they are the two major religions. There is only one Holy Book in the world, because the word “Holy” means God, Yahweh, it does not mean Allah. And Allah, they said he wrote a book and every time Allah speaks he calls himself, “We.” He says that Jesus is not the Christ. He said that Jesus Christ ate food, and drank and slept and got tired like everybody else, he was only a messenger of God, He is not the Christ. That’s what the Koran says. Now, if you hear anybody talking about the Koran, tell them that Cec says that the Koran was not written by Yahweh. It was written by the devil! Amen. Now, if somebody wants to come after me, it’s all right. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty, amen. (Psalm 91:1) I believe that God will protect us, that is, the time has come for us to expose all the lies! The lies of the Koran are the same as the lies that they have told of the Bible. The Christians who are preaching the rapture, the Christians who are preaching all these false doctrines. You want to see what is passing nowadays for God? We read just this morning, that every evil bird and beast is finding it’s lodgment in the church, amen. If a man want to commit fornication and hide, he comes into the church and poses as a minister. Do you know why God allows it? Because God told the church that they should not appoint any ministers! God told the church that the church must not appoint ministers! It is against God for a church to appoint ministers. The Bible says that God has placed in the church the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist, the shepherd, and the teacher. (Referring to Ephesians 4:11) God has placed these five ministries in the church. Now, you are listening to many of these ministries that are not placed by God, therefore you are also taking in some of the poison that they are dishing out. Amen. God said there was filth and vomit everywhere. A terrible picture that we see in Isaiah 28, that the prophet and the priest are out of the way, they are gone out of the way. They prophesy lies, they vomit on the table and then they feed the people with the vomit. What they ate gives them indigestion, (I mean, I am telling you a dirty picture, but that is what is in the scripture, so you might as well make up your mind to bear it tonight.) The scripture says that they sit at the table and they vomit up, and they take the vomit and feed the people. In other words, what gives them indigestion, they give it to you as the bread of life. They feed the people upon false doctrine.
You know, I’ve been praying to God about what’s going to happen to all these Muslims, all these Hindus, all these people who believe in false doctrines. The Lord asked me, “What is going to happen to all those Christians who believe in false doctrines?” The same thing that’s going to happen to the false doctrine Muslim is the same thing that’s going to happen to the false doctrine Christians. What’s going to happen? God is going to reach out with His mercy to them. Oh yes! God will reach His mercy out to them. And God’s mercy will be offered to them, just like He’s offering to the Muslim. If God offers the false doctrine Christian mercy, and didn’t offer the false doctrine Muslim mercy, God would be partial. Amen. The scriptures tell us that if any man desires to know anything of God that God will teach him. The scriptures tell us that this is the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. (John 1:9) So when a man is born, the moment you are born, whether you are a Muslim, or whether you are Hindu, whatever you are, God’s light is promised to light you. And you know something? God said that this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. (John 3:19) That means that when Jesus Christ died on Calvary, He died for every Muslim, He died for every Hindu, He died for every no where –ian, and no doctrinal person, in other words, agnostics. He died for them all. Amen. Now, the point is that none of those can go to hell unless they reject Jesus, but none of those can reject Jesus unless they know Him. How are you going to reject Jesus if you never heard of Him? You see that? In other words, God must reveal Himself to every human being who is born on the face of the earth. Many people who we think are going to hell, they will make heaven, and many of those who we think they are riding high to go to heaven, they are going to make hell because they have rejected Jesus in the fact that they knew Him, and didn’t want Him. They would not let Him reign over them, they wanted something else, and they chose a false doctrine because they didn’t want Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah.
Elijah came to the point before the people, and before Baal, and he proved that there is a God. You know something, the Bible says that unless Elijah would come before that great and terrible day of the Lord, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and to turn the hearts of the children to the fathers, it said, except that would happen, God said, I would come and smite the earth with a curse. (See Malachi 4:6) But that Elijah is coming. He said, but for the elect’s sake, no flesh would be saved. (Matthew 24:22) You are the elect! You are the elect that God is talking about! God is saying, because of you, He is going to save the earth, but you have to believe God yourselves.
So, God was giving them proof. Fire came down from heaven, and it burned up the sacrifice, and it burned up the wood. And Elijah said unto Ahab, (1 Kings 18:41) Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. Amen. You think it is only evil that Cec preaches about. Now I am telling you that God will not allow anything to happen until He has given YOU the power to overcome and to handle what is happening. Amen. He said that the anti-Christ is, at this moment, marking the people in their foreheads with the mark of the beast, and the people are becoming like beasts. I look at the picture of the men who ran the planes into the tower. Somebody got the idea of just showing their eyes. The newspaper had all of their eyes. You look in their eyes, and it was like the eye of a beast. Just that dead stare. The eye of a beast. Why? They had already crossed over, oh yes, they had already crossed over, and they were marked in their foreheads so that they could believe a lie. Any human being with proper faculties to think would realize that a man is telling you, “You go commit murder and that will put you into heaven and it’s going to put you into heaven, and you will get seventy virgins to marry.” Now, I don’t know who wants seventy virgins after you have lost your body, right? You are going to get seventy virgins, without a body, as a disembodied spirit, you are going to have seventy virgins. What use would seventy virgins be to you if you have no body? Eh? Do you mean to say that all these intellectual Muslims cannot think? That none of them could put one and one together and say this is a lie? Amen. Then, the Muslim faith speaks against murder. I’m talking about the Koran. The Koran speaks against murder and you are telling people, you train these men, that if they go and murder so many people, the more they can kill the better it will be. Although, of course, the Koran did say that they must kill all the unbelievers around them, but it was speaking about in time of war. (I’ll give that to them.) It was speaking about in time of war, it said, it didn’t say in time of war, it just said, you must kill all the unbelievers around you. But listen, their religion has no salvation. Our religion has a Savior. The Savior is an ever present thing with us, that all of us know, that once we were blind, but now we can see. We know that once we were sinners, but we have been delivered from our sin. And we know that, we feel that, we live that and so it is a reality. But these people are promised that if they will kill some unbelievers who don’t believe in their faith, that it will put them into heaven. So they believe a lie. But, although they believe a lie to such an extreme, we have so many Christians that believe so many lies. So many Christians that believe so many lies.
So, we go back to this thing with Elijah. Elijah said, there is the sound. Come on. Nobody else was hearing that sound beside Elijah. You ever think of that? He said, “There is the sound of abundance of rain.” It was a drought for three years, and a man comes and said that his spiritual ears are picking up rain! Amen. What are you picking up, brethren? Are your spiritual ears picking up the sound of rain? Mine are! Hallelujah! Mine are, because I know not very long from now, I believe that within this decade, hallelujah, we will be in the era of peace! And Jesus Christ will be reigning on the earth! I believe within this decade! Those of you who are thinking of getting married, get married now! Amen! Get married now, and have some good children that we can have in the millennium! Because these children are going to enjoy the millennium as no other generation of children ever enjoyed. Amen. Yes. I used to tell them, I said, “Little boy, don’t worry about it. You are going to have a real lion, instead of a stuffed animal to sleep with. No more stuffed teddy bears, you’ll have some real teddy bears, amen.”
The sound of abundance of rain! Hallelujah. Don’t you know, hallelujah, that we are in the seventh millennium? Don’t you know that it is the end of the game? It’s the end game that we are looking at? Why are you unhappy? Amen? Because the destruction is coming? REJOICE! God says He will never send anything down on earth that you cannot handle. Amen. God is not going to say, let me just mark that there, and you turn with me around to Revelation 7, and you see God’s plan. Satan has got the power because he has been given the last chance, now. For six thousand years he was not able to overcome the church. For six thousand years he has been trying. Now I hear the Palestinians saying that they are going to wipe out Israel. They couldn’t have done it, they couldn’t have done it from the birth of Israel until now. They could not have done it, hallelujah. Now, they are already saying they are going to wipe out Israel. Well, this is what God said, He said, And I saw another angel ascending from the east,(I’m talking about the fifth angel in Revelation 7) having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth (the carnal man) and the sea (nations), Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees (the Christians), till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. (Revelation 7:2-3) Dare not hurt anybody till you have the power to overcome them, amen! God is saying they cannot do it! In Ezekiel chapter 9, the same thing. There were six men with their destroying weapons, ready to go out and kill, and God said, “Hold it, boys! There is a man with an inkhorn, let him mark my people first! And don’t you come near one of them!” Don’t you understand? He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. (Psalm 91:1) He shall not be hurt! If you have the mark of God, you will not be able to take the mark of the beast! The scripture says to be sealed with the Holy Ghost, hallelujah. Sealed by the Holy Ghost. (Referring to Ephesians 4:30) You cannot take the mark of the beast.
We go back then, to Elijah, in 1 Kings18:41. Yes. Elijah said to Ahab, get thee up, eat and drink for there is a sound of abundance of rain. Now Ahab did not hear anything. Ahab was deaf as far as that abundance of rain was concerned, but Ahab believed Elijah. Ahab knew that what Elijah said was so. Ahab saw fire come down and burn up wood and stone and dust. Ahab wasn’t going to take any chances with Elijah. He said, “Eat and drink.” Ahab went and ate and drank. He saw what Elijah did to three thousand of his wife’s prophets. The prophets of Baal were under Jezebel, and she was the high priestess of Baal. Tell you about marrying the wrong woman! Yes, sir! Ahab married the devil! Oh yes! Ahab married the devil and she really took him right down the path to hell, amen. He went and ate and he drank. All right. Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel: and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, 43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. I hear the sound of abundance of rain! But there is nothing! Servant comes back and says, “Nothing’s happening sir!” He said, “Go back again.” He went back, and said, “What have you seen?” He said, “Nothing.” He went six times. Elijah said, “Go back.” He went the seventh time, and he said, “I have seen nothing, except……” It came to pass at the seventh time that he said, Behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. I see a little cloud, “Oh, those people, they are one of those, what we call….” What do they call us? Come on now, tell me what they call us? We are cults! “They are one of those cults!” A little cloud. Listen, brethren, God appointed five ministries and I don’t care who he is, he’s got to be one of those five before I listen to him. He has got to be either an apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd, or teacher, appointed of God. I don’t want to hear him unless he is one of those appointed of God. Some of us give our offerings to all the different ministries. We want to make sure that we cover the whole spectrum so that if we miss one we catch the other! But you are not getting any blessing from God for giving anybody anything that is not a part of God’s order! Unless you are not of God’s order yourself.
The Body of Christ is poor. Can’t put up a building. So many years, we can’t put up one building while the Jehovah Witnesses are putting up one every week. The Mormons are putting up any kind of building they want. They are rich and putting up all these things. Is it, then, that the people of God are poorer than the people of all these other religions? NO! No. You’re just wishy-washy! That’s what we are! We’re just not diligent. We just take God for granted. We just don’t know that God is going to bring us into judgment for every cent that we spend of His money that He gave us! Let me tell you God’s plan. We come into this area and this is what we call a Catholic bastion, stronghold, right? But Catholics have souls, and God loves them as much as He loves you. So God makes you come into the midst of the Catholic stronghold so that the light might go forth, and that the Roman Catholic people who never heard this word might hear it. For if they don’t hear it, they won’t be guilty of it. So God wants to use you! But here you come in the middle of this place, and God said, “Alright, I’m going to give this one a job here, and I’m going to give that one a job there, and I’m going to prosper this one here, and I’m going to prosper that one over there.” Why did God prosper you? Why did God prosper you? Because God wants you to prosper His business! Because God wants you to understand that you are a part of God’s business in Dubuque, that you are a part of God’s business in Iowa, in Illinois, whereever you come from! That you are a part of God’s business there, that you are a part of God’s business in the United States of America, that you are a part of God’s business in the whole world. You are in a blood covenant relationship with God, but you don’t know it. You don’t know that! You think that God is prospering you that you might live delicately, have a good life. You look about your own business, and you have insurance, and you put in the bank, and you this and that and the other, not knowing that you are robbing God of the power and the grace that He has poured out upon you, and He gets nothing out of you! Jesus help us!
You know, it’s a good thing I don’t study messages to tell people. I don’t study any messages to tell you. You know what happens to me? I come up here and don’t know what I’m going to say, and when I come up here the Lord hits me, bam! And if I don’t say it, I get dumb. You would have to take me out of here dumb. Amen? Because the flow of God must come. You talk about “flow through me” and I sit down there and I see the life blood of God flowing through the Body, just like blood flows through your veins, the life blood of God from head to the foot is flowing through the Body and bringing life and bringing understanding! My God! You have been robbing God and that is why your business is not good. When the failure comes in this country you are going to fail with those that fail if you have been robbing God! You must begin to consider your ways! Because if a man gives God less than one-tenth of what he earns, then he has fallen below, fallen below the law. Because those under the law gave a tenth and if you give less than a tenth you have fallen below, and if you give a tenth you have given nothing! When you give the tenth, you have not given God one thing!
Let’s say you and I have a partnership. I am supporting you. I am giving you strength. I am giving you life. I’m keeping you out of the hospital. Yes! I’m keeping you out of the hospital. Many times other people get sick and go to the hospital and spend thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars. I am keeping you out of that! I am sheltering you. I am covering you! I am giving you peace. I am helping your children. Amen? And I say to you, “All I need is a tenth of what the strength that I give you produces. Only one-tenth. That’s all I want.” Then, out of the goodness of your heart now, you are going to give me from your nine-tenths, amen? When as a young man, I knew this man, his name was LeTourneau and he got so excited over God. He invented some machinery. He’s the Caterpillar man. He said he was going to give God nine-tenths. He began to give God nine-tenths, and he kept the one-tenth. Whew! The man became a multi-millionaire! He couldn’t get rid of it! The more he gave God, the more he prospered! You know what the Caterpillar company is today. Amen! The man was still giving nine-tenths to God up to the time I lost track of him. He never failed, nine-tenths. Now after you have given God this one-tenth, you have given God his share, his part in your life, and God will give you prosperity, and give you health, and give you strength, because you care for God’s people. You know, of that one-tenth that you give, it’s going to, the Bible says, when they get the money, they should look about the poor, the poor in their midst. They should help the poor in their midst. The church would be in a position to help the poor in their midst. We would be in a position to buy a place to help the poor, to feed some people who are hungry. To go out in the boons and the dry places of the city and get the children. Drive our cars, you sisters should be able to drive your cars down into the slums, pick up the children, Friday evening, or whatever evening, tell their parents to take the evening off. Take the children, teach them things of the Lord. Out of that the church would grow. Amen! The church would grow! But instead of that, you meet together and you talk about this, and you talk about that and you sin, and you lose the spiritual power and the energy which God has put in the Body so to make the Body go and to bless the people out here. Have you been blessing this area? Have you been blessing your area? Are you only worrying about your own things? Oh this, that and the other. May God help us. He shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil, amen.
God is speaking to us this evening, amen. Amen. God is speaking to us this evening. There is a sound of abundance of rain and God wants you to do something about it. Amen. We’re going to read what happened here. The sound of abundance of rain. If you’re in the Spirit, you’re going to hear it! You’re going to feel it, you’re going to see it! Hallelujah! My God! And so, I see the great sin, and the burden of this sin. Oh Lord! I see the burden of this sin, hallelujah. We are all guilty. Guilty before God. Something happened. You received some extra money. The first thing you think of is to do something to invest it. You know what you are investing for? You know what’s going to happen to your investment? Do you know what is going to happen to your investment? You let the terrorists hit here another time, and you see what happens to your investment! You hear me? Watch out! Watch out! I do not think that the thirtieth of March is going to pass until our eyes become open as to what the future holds. What is happening is getting worse! It’s not going to get better! It’s going to get worse, until it gets better of course, amen, for it will end with the coming of Jesus Christ, believe you me. The war is not going to stop now, amen. They are talking about attacking Hussein, Iran, Iraq. Changing those things. You know what they are talking about? They are talking about the Euphrates valley! Amen!
Let me tell you what God says about the Euphrates. You turn your Bibles with me around to Revelation chapter 9. He said here, verse 13, And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar. Why is it the voice is coming from the four horns of the golden altar? Let me tell you the revelation of God. The voice is coming from the golden altar because those who offer their souls to God are those who are going to hear the voice! The golden altar is the place of the offering of the soul. If you do not offer your soul before God you are not even going to HEAR! DuCille can shout as much as possible, but you won’t hear. The voice came from the horns of the golden altar meaning to say, a place where God has ordained that man should offer himself to God without reservation, that this place is the place from which the sound is going to come. The sound that it is time, it is time to hide under the shadow of the Almighty. It is time! This is where it is coming from, from the sacrifice that you lay before God.
Now, it says, (Revelation 9:14) Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. Loose the four angels which are bound in the river Euphrates, what are we talking about? First of all, we are not talking about a river, that you have some water spirits bound underneath the water. Put that out of your mind. What we are talking about is that Satan went to the Euphrates valley and Satan saw that God had planted a garden and that there were two people in the garden. Satan looked and he saw that one was weaker than the other, and he knew that he could not face the man, because the man had walked and talked with Jesus, the Father, for a long time, and that he could not overcome the man. So, he went to the woman! And he got his first victory. He got his first victory over humanity in the Euphrates valley. Listen, brethren, devils always return to the place where they have had their victory, for that is where they get blood. What he got there is the power that God had given Adam to rule the whole world. He said, “Have dominion over everything that moves within this realm. Have dominion over it!” Huh? That’s what Adam had. The moment Adam submitted to the devil, the devil took the dominion, and the power, amen. When he got that, he went back to the Euphrates valley often, quite often. He began to build a kingdom in the Euphrates valley. You know that the first kingdom of the devil was built in the Euphrates valley? Yes! And as he built the kingdom, he saw the two brothers. Again he looked, remember this morning we talked about the light? The light that shines from you, the spirit of God sees the light. It said, the spirit of man is the lamp of God walking in the soul. (Referring to Proverbs 20:27) So everyone of us has a light. Some of us, the light is dim, some of us the light is bright, but the spirits can see a light. Now, when Satan looked, he saw that there was a dark spot in Cain. And, actually, Cain, in a sense, was his child, because it was he who tempted Eve first and got the victory over her, so her first child basically belonged to the devil. Does that sound familiar to those of you who know Africa? Hallelujah. All right. He saw the weakness there and so he went back to the Euphrates valley, and he said, “I am going to build me a kingdom here. I am going to build me a kingdom here.” He went to Cain. He told Cain to take a stone. Remember now, Cain did not know what would happen when he hit his brother with a stone. You know what would happen if you hit one of us with a stone, but nobody had died ever before. They didn’t see death, they didn’t know death, what it looked like and what would kill a person. So, he didn’t know what would happen when he hit Abel with a stone. So the devil told him, “Hit him. You must hit him very hard! Because if you hit him lightly he’s not going to die. If you hit him with a stone, he won’t bother you anymore.” Cain said, “Alright. I’m going to stop him once and for all!” He took up the stone, and he hit the brother, a very powerful blow, and he died. What happened? The sins of the father shall follow the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. (Exodus 20:5) Cain committed murder. Cain committed murder and murder became part of Cain. Murder became part of Cain, and what happened? Cain had children. And Lamech, Cain’s son, said, “If my father, Cain, was sevenfold guilty, I am seventy times seven guilty for I have murdered a man myself.” (Referring to Genesis 4:24) And you can imagine, he must have murdered many people. So, the spirit of murder entered into the human realm and built a kingdom! You have heard of the righteous generation. You notice through the Bible they say, this is the generation of Jesus Christ and they name certain righteous men right down, right down, right down, right down, coming down. So it is, there is a generation of evil men. Hallelujah. And it all began in the Euphrates valley, hallelujah. It went on. It went on until it came to Nimrod. God wiped it out! Listen brethren, the spirit of murder had taken humanity so much and the wickedness had so much taken the human race that it would have destroyed the whole world before now! God had to arrest it! Kill it out, hallelujah, and start afresh. The devil look again, three sons. Shem, Ham, Japheth. He takes the soft one again. Ham. Out of Ham came Nimrod. The first anti-Christ. Nimrod, big, powerful, personally I believe he was a giant. I believe he was one of the giants. They said he was black as the ace of spades. His mother was lily white, but he was black. You know why? Anybody know why? The reason is that in Adam were all the nations of the world. So Adam would have a black child one day, he would have a white one the next day, he would have an Indian one the next day, he would have a Chinese the next day. Amen. And so, this man came black, and he was worshipped. Everybody worshipped him, and Satan took hold of him so that he was a sorcerer. A great magician. They couldn’t fire a bow and hit him. The devils would deflect the missiles from him, and he would put up himself as a target, and say, “Shoot me,” and nobody could shoot him. But one Easter, one Easter (it’s Lent now), you know why they have Lent? Do you know why they have Lent? Because they shot Nimrod after Lent at Easter, cut off his head, and threw it into the river, and the righteous people fasted and prayed. Remember, God had given us dominion, so anytime you get back into the Spirit, you have dominion. So the righteous people under Shem, his uncle, or grand-uncle, he began to fast and pray with a few of the remnant who were righteous, because everybody was going after Nimrod. And they shot him with the arrow. The used a mistletoe. You know what a mistletoe is? A mistletoe arrow wouldn’t go anywhere. It was God. They wanted to prove that it was God. And so, Nimrod, he built Babylon. I’m just trying to show you something, brethren, please bear with me. He built Babylon. And do you know why it was called Babylon? Because it was Baal land. They called him Baal Lord. Babel Land, and from that, in all the languages the root Baal means war, because he was the man that invented war. If America perfected war, it was Nimrod who invented it. You understand? We have almost perfect war now, you know, the ability to destroy. Amen? It is perfected in this generation. I’m telling you the story. I’ll go back to Elijah, you know. I’ll go back to Elijah, don’t worry. But you’ll have to listen to this story first. And so, Nimrod, remember he is coming down from the line of evil men, he built Babylon and he built five cities. Of course now Mr. Hussein is trying to build back Babylon, but he got hurt and stopped by the Gulf War. I don’t know if he has started building again, but he decided to build back Babylon just like it was there. You can understand why God hates Babylon, because Babylon was a spiritual place. They believed in God. Oh yeah. It was compulsory that you must believe in God. But you know where it took the twist? He said, “You pray to me, and I will pass it on to God.” So he put himself in the place of the Messiah. Amen. And if you, oh man, I was going to go into some other details, but it is too much for you in one night. See? He was in the line, the line came on again, right down, and maybe 500 years after that you had Abraham coming forth. Because when Abraham was alive, Shem was still alive. So you can understand. Shem was still alive when Abraham was alive. Abraham used to live in Baghdad, Babylon, Ur of the Chaldees. His father, Abraham’s father, was the priest of Baal. You knew that already, didn’t you? You knew it? Yes, he was the priest of Baal. But God went into the house of Baal, and took out Abraham. Amen. Took Abraham out of the house of Baal. And so Abraham went and he couldn’t have any children, and God told him that you will have a son, Isaac, and in Isaac, the righteous generation will come forth, amen? His wife got weak again, the devil went to her again. Nothing against you women. Nothing against you women. Stick close to your man, or else the devil will get you, did you hear me? Stick close to the man, no matter how wishy-washy he might look to you, or the devil will get you! Because the woman has an opening, made of God that way, so that her desire might be towards her husband. She has an opening, a weakness, there, and the devil knows it and if the devil comes and he can’t get the man, he’s going to the woman. So he went to Sarah, and Sarah said, “Now, you go in to my servant, and you get us a child, because God said so, but probably God didn’t mean that. God must have meant that my servant will get a baby for you.” Abraham took her advice. And Ishmael was born, amen? And God said to Hagar, that is the Egyptian woman who was Ishmael’s mother, God said to her, “You are pregnant, you are going to have a son. Call his name Ishmael. He is going to be a wild ass of a man.” I know none of you here know what a donkey is. If I was in Jamaica I could definitely preach about the donkey and they would know. You can’t move a jackass as you like. If he doesn’t want to move, he’s going to stay there. You’ll have to kill him right there. God said, “He’s going to be a wild ass of a man. And his hand,” hear this one, prophecy, God speaking, he said, “his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand will be against him.” (See Genesis 16:12) The Euphrates River. We’re talking about the Euphrates. And, the lineage comes right down, right down, right down, until we come to Mohammed. And Mohammed was befriended by a Roman Catholic priest. And Mohammed was taught by this priest, and he went to Israel and he saw the Bible and the Jews and everything else. And a spirit appeared to Mohammed. Just like the same spirit that appeared to Joseph Smith. And the spirit said, “I am Gabriel. And you are the prophet of the Lord.” Mohammed said, “Me? No, no.” He said, “You are the prophet of the Lord.” And he began to see visions, and so comes the Koran. Amen? The Koran becomes the Bible of the Euphrates valley. All the people who live in that area began to read the Koran, and began to be, of course, Mohammed fought 29 battles one year, he was conquering, and conquering everywhere and bringing them under the sword. If you didn’t take the Koran you got the sword. So the people were forced into Islamic teaching. But what is bad is that the thing is contrary to the Word of God. Amen. It’s contrary to the Word of God. Now the Word of God says here that the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. (See Revelation 9:15) That means to say that God had bound them. Remember, in the first place, God destroyed everybody, God killed all the people and started over with Noah. Then it comes down to the point now that they got so bad that God had to bind them. And God bound these spirits and these spirits did not have the power to destroy the world as they wanted to do. Now, I believe that on the eleventh of September the spirits were let loose, that God took His hand away. The Bible said he that letteth will let until out of the midst the thing comes, the one that should come, comes. (See 2 Thessalonians 2:7)
So, there are two things that we are looking for now, we are looking for the coming of the anti-Christ to be revealed, and for the Sons of God to be sealed. Amen. The Lord God is going to seal His people and the devils are going to be let loose. When God lets devils loose it means that God has given His people power to handle them. Amen. He said, “I will give you power over the power of the enemy.“
Alright, we are coming down now. And, Elijah said unto Ahab, get thee up, eat and drink, and it came to pass (verse 44, 1 Kings 18) at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. Elijah told Ahab, “Run for your life.” And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. 46 And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
Amen. All the Olympics that they are doing, all the Olympics and the breaking of records, no man will break the record of Elijah. Elijah ran before those horses. You know they had the best horses, the Arabian speed horses. They run sixty miles an hour. Sixty miles an hour, and the Bible said Elijah ran before them! Amen. That means that God, in the midst of it all, God is going to show His power in His people. Fear not little flock! It is God’s pleasure to give you the kingdom! Be not afraid of what man is doing, or of what man is saying! Because God Almighty is giving us the victory. You had better remember this, because when I leave you, trouble will come! Oh, yes. Trouble is just around the corner and we need to remember that we are Sons of God. We need to remember that regardless of what is happening, the church must go through the tribulation. And if the church must go through the tribulation, we are going through the tribulation as flesh and blood! As flesh and blood! And we, the scripture said, that the two witnesses prophesied, clothed in sackcloth and ashes, oh yes. We’re not going to have an easy time! (See Revelation 11:3) God is not offering you an easy time! Because I know you, and you don’t know you, that if you have an easy time, you won’t serve God. No, you won’t serve God. God is saying that the time has come.
You know, as I see Austin walking there, I remember the vision he had so many years ago. He had a vision of President Bush. He didn’t know it was this President Bush. I didn’t know it was this President Bush. I just put it away on my shelf. Only when the President came, when he won the election, and we heard the word “President Bush,” all of a sudden it was realized by both his parents and myself that the vision is going to come to pass. And the vision was that this great ship was going out to sea. It had the statue of Bush in gold, and there was a mast going up into the cloud, and something happened and the mast was cut and it fell down upon the Statue of Liberty. Is that right? It fell down upon the Statue of Liberty. And the Statue of Liberty fell in on the people of New York. When? What year was that? 1993, he had that vision. All of a sudden, I realized that the thing is saying that something was going to happen in the early part of President Bush’s presidency. That mast that he had up in the heavens was going to be cut, and this is what we are seeing happening now. The war has interrupted it, and we have to pray that they do not assassinate him! You hear me? We have to pray, because we have power, you know. We have power! We have power to stop it! And I don’t think God would have given that vision unless we had power to do something about it. Amen? God wants us to stop it. Stop them from assassinating him, stop them from stopping what God, because he that letteth will let, we have the power to let, to hold. Let us use the power of God. Amen. And that’s where we are. Nobody expected that a war would break out so early. But the real war isn’t yet. The thing in the Euphrates River, what our problem is going to be, is that we are not going to find ourselves fighting against Islamic terrorists. We are going to find ourselves fighting against Islam. Did you hear me? That’s a dangerous situation. You know why? We have too many here that believe in the Koran. So the war is going to be right here on our soil. Somebody says, “You shouldn’t talk that!” If we don’t talk it now, when are we going to talk it? After it happens? After it happens we say, “Oh, but we knew it.” That’s not going to help anybody. We as Christians better realize that we are Sons of God, anointed for a purpose in the end time, and that we are called of God to stop certain things from happening. And we must begin to intercede. Every time you go to pray say, “Lord God, save Your people!” We are praying for the President, we are praying for Ashcroft, we are praying for those men who are Christians anointed by God. I don’t want their job, but praise be to God, I have mine. Amen. God bless you. Amen. I don’t know if it is too late to discuss what we have talked about, but bless God, we are free! Amen.
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