Randy Shankle

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A Terror to Evil
23-Sept-2004

by Randy Shankle

Concerning September 11, 2001 . . .

I so desperately want to speak for the Lord to you, and not just give you a message or a word. I have sought the Lord diligently and searched things out thoroughly. I have spent literally hours and hours in the past week studying, gathering information and understanding things to the best of my ability. My desire in doing this is that I might enlarge my heart to understand the Lord Himself.

In all of this, I have learned for myself something I am sure will probably aid you. I have learned that it is impossible, absolutely impossible, to embrace any form of global concern if you don' t have the revelation of the universal rule of God. The trouble that we have as humans in grasping this is that we are consumed with selfishness. We are so incredibly self-centered. Even though we, as Christians, may work with this area strongly because of what the Word of God teaches us, because of our very slant of self-centeredness, our world is still very small. Most of our worlds revolve around a small, and although I hesitate to use the word insignificant' , but globally speaking - universally speaking - a very insignificant group of people. That group for you probably includes you, your family, those on your job, and maybe the fellowship - and that is absolutely all that we comprehend of life. We don' t have the ability, oftentimes, to embrace global concerns because, like I have said, we have never really come under the rule of God.

Once you really and truly come under the rule of God and understand His authority, you are able to apprehend His interests - comprehend His concern for things greater than you and me. A great concern in the heart of God, is not just for this fellowship, but for this nation and not just for this nation, but for this world - this universe. . . His interest reach much farther that the United States - and are surely much bigger than Marshall and much greater than the Church in Marshall - and are, without a doubt, enormously larger than you and me. Our world is not based upon you and me- it' s based upon how God sees life, not how we see it.

(Reading a prophecy he had prophesied on December 31, 2000 - New Year' s Eve and the first night of The Spirit of the Seer Meeting he continues...)

We are going to span seven years in the next two days. We' re going to span a seven year period in these next few days, and discuss this seven year span of the Lord . . . what He prophesied to us months ago about this seven years of our lives. In two days we are going to unveil seven years and speak a little bit about what the future holds for you and me. . for us as a family, not just for the Church in Marshall, but for all of us who are linked in fellowship with one another, how it affects the body of Christ as a whole. Now, listen to this A Knowing that America will be going through a remarkable seven years itself, we have a strange and unique change of administration. Even in the realm of politics, we have a strange and unusual overthrow. Actually, it was not just a transition, it was an overthrow. It came with much battle and much war. God is going to turn some things in our nation in the next seven years . . . it' s in His heart to favor her again. The objective is so that He can favor her again. This nation will come under the favor of the Lord. His face is upon her, His countenance is toward her. Not to curse her, not to destroy her, but to deliver her from herself, lest she be shaken like the wet hair of a dog. Wake up He will favor her again, honor her, and cause her to stand upright. He will give her an opportunity. This is what will come to her - to you, to me - to this nation. It is a God-ordained opportunity, a moment, a window that will be open. I hope that you are ready for this opportunity that we have. Those that apprehend that opportunity shall awaken from a deep, a dark, and a deep night, and from a sleep that was heavy. From the fog and from the haze, the mind shall be cleared. (And that is to those that apprehend the opportunity.) Once again clarity shall come and understanding shall come for the light shall pierce the night. The people shall awaken with understanding and comprehension from the fog and the haze and the confusion with lines and boundaries, they shall determine once again the mortality of their own lives. They shall see clearly that which has not been seen before. Coming a sword of God that shall bring distinguishing again. The light from the night shall pierce once more. People of the land shall once again rejoice, for righteousness shall kiss judgement, judgement shall discern wickedness, and righteousness shall prevail. Do you understand? I hope that you do. It shall come forth justice. Equity shall prevail upon the land. The hearts of the people shall rejoice, for they will once again sense peace and security. Now, this is what' s going to come, but it is not going to come right away. They will once again sense peace and security. Do we have the peace and security in the nation? Not as a whole. They shall know assurance and comfort - (they don' t now). They shall run to the Lord and He shall be there a place of preservation. For the nation shall run again to the Lord. They shall flee unto Him because they find no rest and no peace, for they are a troubled people, their hearts are failing them for fear. (Sound like today?) They shall come unto the Lord and I will say, A Be not afraid, let not your hearts be troubled. He shall take Him this people again and give them a place of comfort, security, quiet and peaceful shall be their dwellings.

Now, that' s what is being prophesied and I' d like to bring some biblical understanding. I am not going to cover all of this to say the least, it represents hours of my personal studies on things that are now important to our nation and to the body of Christ. These are all just personal notes. . . studies on understanding Usama bin Laden, understanding the Taliban, understanding the nation of Afghanistan and understanding the Muslim religion, so that I might have an understanding of our enemy - what has happened to our nation and who is behind this.

I also want to share with you regarding President Bush' s address to our nation. The Taliban, bin Laden and others regarding what America' s response will be over the next few years. I studied his speech thoroughly, scripturally, for hours. I would like to deliver these six points - President Bush' s word to the Taliban and to everybody who is involved in any form of terrorism.

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To deliver to the United States authorities all of the leaders of the al-Qaeda who hide in your land.
Release all foreign nationals, including American citizens, you have unjustly imprisoned.
Protect foreign journalists, diplomats, and aid workers in your country.
Close immediately and permanently every terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
Hand over every terrorist and every person in their supportive structure to appropriate authorities.
Give the United states full access to terrorist training camps, so we can make sure they are no longer operating.
These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion. The Taliban must act and act immediately. They will hand over the terrorists or they will share in their fate.

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There were a number of other things that were said.

Let me see if I can highlight some reality so that this house can be unified according to the Word of God...

The conflict that we have in Christianity within America is in trying to reconcile God as a God of war because all that we have known of Him in religion is that He is a God of love. Because of this religious concept, we already have, once again, the youth of our nation (mostly of college age) protesting against our president and his speech. It is generally those students that are from 15 to 25 years old, having no comprehension of reality yet, who rise up against our government. That' s the conflict we faced in the 60's and 70's with Vietnam protests, the hippie-movement, etc. and is what we are seeing now.

But, I want to speak to you concerning this: war never originated on earth; war originated in heaven, instituted by God. The book of Revelation says that there was war in heaven. The angels of God fighting against... the Bible uses the words fought and against. They did not negotiate, they fought against the angels of Satan, the devil. The Bible also says that when the war had ended, Lucifer was cast out with one third of the angels. This was a physical war, not just a spiritual negotiation or a political war. It was a literal war that took place in the heavenlies.

For God to be able to preserve his purpose his plans his kingdom, his rule and his universe he had to deal with a terrorist named Lucifer. In the book of Exodus, chapter three deals with the Hittite; by definition Hittite means terror or terrorism: to inflict terror. There is always upon the land, upon every land, every nation and every continent, they that are called terrorists. Those terrorists begin to form groups and alliances. The terrorists we face today are a loosely fit organization called, the Al Qaeda. The Al Qaeda is simply a group of terrorists from other nations forming a world take-over force through terrorism. Now, this is nothing new. It is only something new to us as Americans. We are not used to being insulted. We are a prideful arrogant nation. We are not used to anyone attacking us like that. Every war that we have been in, we have fought on other lands. We have never experienced a war on this land except the Civil War. We have never fought an international war here. Even when we were attacked at Pearl Harbor we took it to the Japanese and we bombed them. You may not be aware of the scope of this now because you are not involved in a global interest or concern. . . you are not involved in anything but your lives.

Please, accept my message today. I don' t mean to condemn but to awaken you to the fact that there is a whole lot more to life than you and your wife and your family . . . than you making money and the problems that you have. I find myself always impatient in having to deal with people who are so absorbed in their little world . . . I' m thinking, A You need to get up and go outside. I mean, you need to go outside - there is a world out there. You are serving a universal God!

What happened was that there was a terrorist attack in the heavenlies thousands of years ago. God had to respond to that attack or He would have lost the whole thing. Yet, He is love. How do you reconcile that God is war and God is love? War was instituted, not in the heart of God but in the reaction of God. God Himself is not afraid or intimidated to respond to a conflict that comes His way- we should not be. I have already heard the opinions and views of others in this fellowship and I thought, A Oh God, you must speak. We have never learned to search out the mind of Christ; we still give our opinions so freely. I suppose we always will as Americans or as humans with souls. We don' t go to the Scriptures, we don' t search it out, we don' t find what is the will of God. We just begin to express our own hearts openly and freely - I would like to say to you, as sons of God, that it is paramount that we learn to find the mind of Christ and to reflect God. As sons of God that is the first criteria - A ...What saith the Scriptures? What says the Lord? When someone speaks to you, do you not have a halt? ...a desire to only answer with what the Lord is saying on the matter? People need the voice of the Lord.

Let me bring some reality to you concerning our nation. I am going to show you the greatness of the heart of God. I know we asked Him to leave our schools; He just didn' t go. I know that we asked Him to leave our Nation but He wouldn' t go. We asked Him to get out of Congress and out of the United States of America and out of our education system; He just didn' t do it-- thank God!... thank God He didn' t do it! Now, we as a people... [ I am talking about America, not Christians, not the Church in Marshall, I am not speaking to you as an elder] we as Americans have asked God to leave our education, leave our schools, leave our children, leave us to our perversion, our corruption, our immorality, our depravity. We have asked for that. We want to be defiled and unclean. We want to do whatever we want to do with no restraints, no rebuke, no correction, no boundaries, but when it comes to war, we ask Him to join us.. an incredibly self- centered nation...Nonetheless, He loves His people here. If there are five in America he won' t destroy it. If there are five righteous . . He told Abraham. I want you to know that there are millions righteous in this nation. Sons of God and believers are all over this nation, in every church, even though there may be Babylonian concepts . . . they' re in here (referring to the CIM).

Yet, it is not about our works, our doctrines and our theology; it is about our relationship to Jesus Christ. I want you to know that there are millions of Christians who love Him like you love Him. Millions serve Him as loyally and as faithfully as you try to. Millions serve Him as raunchy as some of you do. Nonetheless, in the midst of all that, there is a group of people, a nucleus in our nation and in other nations including Afghanistan and Pakistan that believe in the Lord Jesus with all their hearts and are willing to pay the price for Him.

So, let me put it all in perspective. This is not about an angry God to destroy our nation. God did not do this. This is a terrorist attack from a familiar friend' that God knew - a familiar name that God knew thousands of years ago. You are seeing once again the incarnation of Satan. The manifestation of him through a terrorist take-over. It is not about him taking over the United States. It isn' t at all about that. You have to get back to God. It is not about Afghanistan versus the United States. Afghanistan has nothing to do with this as a nation, but only the Taliban that took over Afghanistan. This is about a response of God to injustice. He must bring justice where there has been injustice.

What it has to do with, once again, are the A gods at war. You and I, as human beings will always be upon the earth watching the gods fight. We will be the puppets, victims and conquerors of those battles. That is all that we will ever be. We don' t initiate them; we don' t start them - no human does. Humans believe that they do but they do not. Bin Laden did not start it; Bush will not end it. War has always been started with the concepts, if you understand what is behind it, in the Muslim religion.

You get an understanding of what' s behind it when you read an account which speaks on the Muslim leader' s views of Christianity in America and why they have no respect for it. One man gave such an account and talked about Christianity in America - its perversion, its sex, its homosexuality, the ordaining of homosexual preachers and teachers all over the land. He talked about women' s immorality, women' s loudness, arrogance, haughtiness. He talked about male chauvinism. He claimed that we as Christians don' t change people' s lives.

Well, of course, we don' t as a whole. We understand that believers as a whole, just what? ...believe things. We' re going to have a change of lifestyle and so is our nation. This same man went on to talk about all of our (Americas) TV programs, our morals, our ethics, our values and how they have corrupted Christianity. He said, A Your translators, your teachers, your pastors, have perverted the original text of Christianity; the original Bible. and he added, You have no respect of your own Bible.

He talked about, A ...all of your leaders who profess Jesus Christ, but have no interest in the concept of it. He said, ... we' ve watched your leaders profess it and then they' re involved in adultery and fornication and perversion. These are the leaders of the Muslim religion' s beliefs about America - the A Christian nation They made note of the concept of idolatry, the worship of Mary, the worship of images, and graven images. He said A ...what your God commands you not to do, that you do over and over; you don' t obey your God. You believe in Him, but you do not obey Him and then asserted that the reason the Muslim religion is now one billion strong is because we believe and obey him.

Well, I understand their problem with what they see as Christianity today. I find that their complaint has always been mine with this loose immoral Christian concept in America. What has brought this in is the concept of extreme grace. Grace to many means that God loves you so much you can do anything you want to and in the end it' s still going to be alright . . . That' s a fallacy of grace.

So, let me give you the word today, and let us see if we can help our nation, amen? Let' s find out what God feels about the universal rule of God rather than the individual rule of God. Let' s take it from the individual to the universal.

Go with me to Romans if you would. I do let you know that the Muslim religion does renounce Jesus Christ, by their own words, as God. They say that He did not die on the cross and that, in fact, He never did die. Instead, they say that he was resurrected by God, A Allah alive-- the same as Mohammed was resurrected by God, A Allah . Their belief is that God, A Allah , has sent one of his prophets or messengers to every nation at one time or another to give them the truth of Allah. That Mohammed was sent to the nation of India even as Jesus was sent among the Jews. They claim that there has never been one man that was God that He sent.They say that it was not God' s son that was sent, it was only one of God' s prophets that was sent and that Jesus Christ did not die for your sins; He died for no man' s sins and they believe that no man' s sins can be atoned by another man' s death. So, that' s their philosophy, which is totally contrary to the Bible. It' s an incredibly anti-Christ belief and principle. Suffice it to say that this is not a war between Christians and Muslims.

Our nation was attacked by a man that is a terrorist. He happens to be a Muslim and he happens to have Afghanistan papers, though he was born and raised in Saudi Arabia. But that' s not what the issue is and that' s not where the war is. We' re not warring with the Arabs; we' re not warring with Afghanistan; we' re not warring with Muslims.

I want to show you God' s love for this nation through what has happened and why it has happened. Let me just preface it by saying this: God from the very beginning of time has preserved a chosen people, the Jewish nation. The war has always been between the Jews and Arabs, are you aware of that? The United States would have never ever had this problem had we stayed out of the middle east war or conflict. We can' t stay out of it. The Bible talks about it in Asexual and in Daniel and in Revelation. The Bible thoroughly speaks about a constant grouping of all the nations to the middle east.

This has a war from the very beginning, of Cain and Able, the brothers. Eau and Jacob, Ishmael and Isaac. It' s always been a war of the brothers, the two nations, the two manner of people that' s literally prophesied, though we understand it spiritually. But literally speaking, it' s always been the Arab' s and the Jews. That' s the two twins, the two brothers who' ve always killed and fought one another from the beginning of time. It' s been a war of those two brothers. Those two brothers will never stop fighting. Every war that' s ever been fought, every nation that' s ever come under any type of conflict has been because of the seed of those two brothers.

This conflict is so powerful that it works within your own body. The old man, the new man. Eau, Jacob within you. Then when you get hold of Jacob, and finally transfer from Eau to Jacob, you find that even within him, he' s a supplanter and a negotiator a deceiver and a manipulator. You' ve got to get him over into A Israel . It' s an incredible walk for you and I to go through. It takes us years walking with Christ to go from glory to glory, and to understand how not to respond from the old man; but how to respond from the new man. How not to respond to your wife in the flesh but how to respond in the spirit. It takes years to find out how to respond to your children like Christ would rather than how man would.

This war, this battle, is an incredible conflict within. The spirit versus the flesh. That which is born of the flesh versus that which is born of the spirit. That which is born of Ishmael, the nation of the flesh versus Isaac, a nation born of God, of the spirit. Two nationsB one born of the flesh, one born of the spirit-- one born of the promise of Abraham, one born by the flesh of man. Both of these peoples, the Arabs and the Jews have always had war. That is what has happened.

When America joined Israel, when they joined . . . if I could use the term, Jerusalem from above ... to fight with her against the Arabs, that brought the attention of the terrorists to our nation. They' re saying, A Get out of the middle east or we' ll always attack and bomb you. That' s the purpose of it. Except for the will of our heavenly Father, because it has cost us dearly, we would not do it. One of the primary leaders of the Taliban said, A The leadership of your nation in the last decade has gone down so badly, we longer are afraid of you. You' ve lost everything that you ever stood for in one decade. Under one man' s administration this nation lost more than we' ve ever lost in our history...our morality, spirituality...as a nation we became more depraved and more corrupt under that administration than at any other time.

Our current president is truly one of the first presidents that we have ever had that is known as a true Christian, a Biblical Christian - not a believing Christian - but a Biblical Christian. One of the first things that he did, which has greatly encouraged my heart, was to remove all those in seats of counsel and advice around him and to appoint all new counselors-- even reinstating some who had served in previous administrations and were men of integrity. Every one of these men that he has appointed are born again, convicted Christians, even our top military leader.

Let me give you the scripture, Romans 13. Our ministers, our leaders have, as whole [ not always, but like I said, in the last 10 to 15 years] been way too soft and we' re paying a price for it.

Listen to the word of God:

A Let every person, every soul, be subject to the higher powers [the word power is always translated here exousia' , which is the word authority in the Greek] Let every soul be subject unto the higher authorities, for there is no authority but of God. The authorities that be [listen to this] are ordained of God! A

They may not be ordained by you, they may not be approved by you, they may not be accepted by you, but they are ordained of God!

A Whosoever, therefore, resists the authority, resists the ordinance God, and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

Now, according to the Word, are authorities ordained of God? Are rulers and Presidents and vice-presidents ordained of God? Yes, they are! They' re civil authority, but they' re ordained of God. All you and I have ever known primarily, based on what we live, is the ordination of elders and deacons. We think that the only people that God ever ordained were elders and deacons. No, He ordains authority. He ordained husbands to be rulers over their households. He ordained it so-- though millions of women hate it, and millions of women refuse to do it--, it' s still ordained of God. That' s called domestic rule. He has ordained rulers and authorities everywhere you go. Policemen are ordained of God; they are rulers ordained of God.

Now, listen to how it works:[verse 3] A ...rulers are not a terror to good works but they are a terror to evil works.

Are rulers a terror? The Bible using the word terror? Absolutely! This is something that I learned many years ago from God that makes my lifestyle as a minister different than most of the gentle shepherds; they do not believe in this. They are negotiators and nobles. Our land is filled with the negotiators and nobles. There are few men that have the power of Christ in them to war against nations or war against the powers of darkness, war against the principalities and powers when they are afflicting or attacking the body, the church, or the home or the family; they just want to negotiate; they just want to talk all the time.

Our last decade was filled with an administration of negotiators. Terrorists bombed us and bombed us and bombed us and we didn' t do a thing. Why do you believe, from a biblical aspect, that America is now involved in the middle east? How did we get there? We had to be bombed; we had to get attacked to get us there. I want you to know that our Father has always wanted a nation that supports Jerusalem. He wants our nation supporting Jerusalem. The worlds religion has always been set up to have a Muslim type of leadership. It is not all Muslims that we are talking about here but a certain type of Muslim a terrorist type. The good news of it is, this conflict is going to divide that religion. When you divide it, you weaken it. It is going to divide dramatically. There are millions and millions and millions of Muslims that do not believe in terrorism or attacks of this nature. They will, and have already, renounced that behavior. This is going to cause a great conflict among them.

Let me put it in this perspective; ours is to look at what Jehovah is doing, not Allah. We must find out what Jehovah has told us as a nation to do - in order that we do not serve Mohammed, Buddha, or any other man. We serve God.. Christ, who is God... who did come here and die. As Paul said A ...had he not died, it would all be in vain. He did die! He did die for my sins; he died for yours. His blood was shed for you and me and He was resurrected from the dead, not ascended from the living. He was resurrected from the dead, and is at the Father' s right hand now, as God, and thank God, He is God! Now, I' m grateful for that and that still is my strength -- no other religion will jar that from my heart.

Our rulers in the United States, our rulers that God has ordained in the White House have got the nature of God on this matter. They are a terror to the evil. Listen to this:

[Romans 13:3] A Will thou then not be afraid of the authorities . Do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same.

You think God is love only and does not respond to evil?... because as long as you do good you never see this part of his nature. Only when you do evil do you see his nature in this way.

In America you have not seen consequences in our government. You have not seen consequences in our schools, you have not seen them in your family. The fathers and the mothers do not correct the children - they give them A time out - let them sit out for awhile or tell them they can' t watch TV for an hour. We don' t see consequences.

When our nation tried to get God out of the schools they said, You are no longer permitted to spank children... Why would they attack the only true element of correction, and give you a hundred other ways to correct the? Why? Because, it is ordained of God. You don' t hit them with belts and sticks and whips and chains and all that. He said you use a rod. People still using belts and whips and all kinds of other stuff; some right here in the fellowship. You teach it a thousand times and people still won' t do the Word.

That is what is wrong with our nation. It doesn' t believe in consequences. Who is going to correct us? Who is going to punish us for our deeds? God has ordained authorities as terrorists. I' m not talking about bin Laden. I' m not talking about being ordained as a terrorist to good-- to attack good. We' re talking about ordained A terrorists against the evil - to attack evil.

Listen, we' re not talking here about men of God; we' re talking here about authorities.

A For rulers are not a terror good works, but to evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same.

Now listen to this:

A ...for he is the minister of God.

Is he or is he not? Now, we must change our thinking about when a policeman comes up behind you and turns the light on. Do you curse him, or do you say this is a minister of God, and this man is going to be a terror on me if I do evil? Do you condemn them? Do you spit at them, cuss them or mock and ridicule them? Do you holler A police brutality all the time? Everything is A police brutality anymore. They' ve got our policemen so handcuffed against themselves they can' t even do anything against crime anymore. We can' t enforce the law anymore because of this. It' s sad what has happened to us. We have no authorities anymore. But God is ordaining them again. What I' m watching right now is an administration being ordained of God, and they' re being ordained of God as terror against evil. They' re also being called the ministers of God. This is what God is doing now. This is where he is now. This is what he is doing in our nation now!

A But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid.

There it is. You should have fear if you' re doing the evil against these authorities.

A For, [Listen to this!] he beareth not the sword in vain. He is the minister of God, [Listen to this other term.] a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Now, what has happened? God is ordaining ministers all over the world right now, there is an ordination going on. These ministers are not pulpit preachers; these are ministers of God. Nation after nation he' s ordaining right now. To do what? To execute wrath against terrorism. To be men so bold and so powerful that they speak with definition, they speak with direction and they bring absolutes' to the conversation. There' s no negotiation; there' s no talk! They have pulled the sword and it is not in vain. You may not like it, you may condemn it, and you may damn it; you may have your own philosophy. I' m telling you what is written; God has ordained ministers. He is causing the nations to come together for one reason: to eradicate evil. This is the greatest evil that you and I have ever been under in our whole life. With this great evil America has finally awakened to the fact that it was never about dictatorships-- it was never about Hitler or about Germany; it was never about Russia, and has never been about the United States. It' s a religious war that has killed people from the beginning of time. What Lucifer believed about himself - versus God - that is the war.

Now we have a situation at hand. That situation is simply what His word says-- that God is ordaining ministers all over the world to come together and they are pulling the sword - not in vain and the nature of it is to execute wrath against. Does that sound like a gentle word? No! Very aggressive. It' s the word A against . And I want to say this to you: if we don' t support this in prayer and seek God as a nation and seek God and pray as the word of God commands us over these authorities. . . Now, don' t pray your philosophy into their mind. You pray the word of God over these men. You pray the word of God over them, that the spirit of God and glory does rest upon President Bush and his counselors. That the spirit of counsel and of might would be upon these men- that God will cause these men to give this president Godly counsel. That God will cause men to rise up around him that are men ordained of God, that are the ministers of God for our nation and for this people, and for the other nations. Let Him ordain these men as ministers of God. May they be men of war, as well as men of wisdom. May they know how to pull and when to pull the sword. But God, when they pull it, let it not be in vain! Let it not be in vain!

Now, let me finish reading:

A He is the minister of God to thee for good [verse 4] but if thou do that which is evil be afraid, for he beareth not the sword in vain, for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore you must needs be subject

Here are the two reasons that you and I submit ourselves to authorities. Not only for wrath but also for conscience sake . What' s does that mean? Subject for two reasons. . .why? They pull you over, you subject yourself for those two reasons. You' re talking to a minister of God that' s about to pull the sword on you, judicial justice. That' s the sword they carry. We have the Bible. They have judicial justice. And if he pulls you over and you show yourself froward, he' s going to execute revenge. The more you show yourself froward - tough and arrogant and haughty- the more powerful he will strengthen himself with the authority of God, not with the psuche. Some of them may with the psuche, but I' m talking about that ordained, A touch not my anointed. These are anointed, ordained officers of God. They always have been, always will be.

In America we don' t mind attacking authorities; we don' t mind speaking evil of dignities and of governments. Peter and Jude said, spoke about men that are quick to speak evil of authorities of any kind- who have no hesitation to touch it. Evil, lawless, wicked men that do not like to be told anything to do... don' t like to be told that you' re going to get a ticket, or you broke the law and you must pay for it. Few will say, yes, I broke the law.

We are going to have a wonderful seven years; but it' s going to be a change of lifestyle. God' s going to show himself great in this nation and strong for this nation. God is with our President, with our Congress, and with our nation right now, showing himself to be mighty strong. He has unified this nation. He has put a war in all of their hearts. You won' t find one leader that' s of the primary cabinet conflicting with one another. He has brought unity to this nation.

You will find the problem in unity is among the commentators on TV- and all of their comments. You know, I listened to the President' s speech and the moment it was over I turned it off because the one thing I hate is commentators telling me what the President said. I' m sure he hates it. You can go to fifteen different channels and every one of them will tell you something different that the President said. All I want to know is what the President said to me, to my spirit, so that I can obey my authority and submit myself to him -- doing whatever I can to uphold him and what he has told this nation as my authority. This is a man ordained over me by God. The only time we resist is under the circumstance that the Apostle Peter said spoke about... you do not obey the authorities when they command you to live contrary to God.

Our President has called for the unity of this nation. I believe he is a minister of God, ordained of God. He has pulled a sword, and I pray it be A not in vain. May he execute wrath because, I want you to know something, if he does not, and if we do not respond this time, your children will never know what you and I know; my sons, Jared and Daniel, will never taste the sweetness of the milk and honey of this land. We stand in a wonderful time if you have constitution, if you have character. You stand in a fearful time if you don' t.

My word to you as believers is what Jesus said, A Do not fear. For you will always hear of wars and rumors of wars. Let not your heart be troubled. Do not live in fear of this time. This is a wonderful time. This is the greatest time of our lives. I believe that God will once again rise up on behalf of those who pray and seek him. He will always answer prayer. He will continue to fight with this nation and for this nation, regardless of what the atheists, the agnostics and the ignorant want. He doesn' t respond to them; He responds to us.

Do you understand that? I don' t care what laws they make, keep the law of God in your heart. If you will do that, we will retain His presence in our nation. As long as we stay on our knees, obeying God, and understanding that because of wrath and also because of conscience we submit. I know right now that wrath and conscience is what causes me to submit both to God and to his authorities. I do not want to provoke them against me because of my attitude.

I trust now, that this will help turn our nation back to God. I do! I hope it will awaken and change the lifestyle of this nation. The reason I say we' re going to have a wonderful change of lifestyle is because, from my perspective, it' s going to be good. It' s going to take us from evil, to good again. From anti-God, back to God. It' s going to take us from fornication and adulteries back to loyalties and commitments. It' s going to take us from promiscuity, evil, corruption and crime back to a nation that has some pride and some people who have an esteem in God for themselves. That what it' s going to do.

It' s going to take some time. It' s going to be a long turn, but we' re going to be able to turn it. I want you to know that you have to change your thinking. A It is written. These rulers are rulers, ordained of God. Please, watch your mouth, what you say about the government, the congress and what they' re doing at this time. Please be careful at this time. You will find God is all over this thing if you' ve got any spiritual insight at all. You will see him doing this.

Do it! Get behind what' s going on! Pray! Do your study, your research. Don' t just form an opinion, do some study and research and find out how to pray.

These are some of the scriptures on terrorist invasions, a terror to evil works, a revenger to execute justice and on the Hittite, the terrorist; he is still coming out of the Arab nation. Terrorism will always come out of the Hittite, always come out of the middle east where the brother was born, you understand. We have enemies that we must conquer and overthrow; both in our lives and in the lives of the universal church of Jesus Christ. These enemies were always commanded to be driven out.

President has Bush sprinkled this nation with salt; it' s the first salt I' ve tasted in years. This is first time I have seen somebody who had something in God, not in himself, and sprinkled this nation with salt to preserve it. I know it' s going to burn and hurt, but thank God for the salt! It' s going to keep corruption from taking hold, it' s going to keep the flesh from rotting and decaying. Thank God for it! Somebody has finally started cleaning up this carcass called America and has sprinkled salt on it.... taking away from it it' s right to be perverted, it' s right to corrupt itself, it' s human rights to deceive and to destroy itself. Thank God somebody' s going to stop your right to destroy yourself. It is your right, and we vote for the right to do anything we want to do because we have no concept of restraint.

If you' ll turn now to 2 Thessalonians, I want to read the scripture here that I talked to my children about. The principle of God in the earth. Let me go to 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, verse 3:

A Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped

...This is what the Taliban does, this is one of their primary forces, and they need to be delivered, I know that. They need Christ like everybody else. I' m just telling you what' s behind their power.

A so that he as God

...This is not an un-religious movement, you understand, it' s a movement as God. Not God, but as God.

A sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God

Now, he is sitting in the temple of God. What is over where the Temple of Solomon and the Tabernacle of David sat? What is sitting there right now? A Mosque, an Arab Mosque. A Muslim Mosque is built there, the golden one that you see. There is a Muslim Mosque built over Solomon' s temple that was destroyed and it is prophesied by the Arabs today that the land belongs to them. The true Jew says, A the land belongs to us. The true Jew is the one that God brought out of Egypt and brought into the land of Jerusalem to give them the land that flows with milk and honey. From that day until now, the brother has tried to rob them of it. Now, because of that, the true Arab will never give up to the true Jew what belongs to him.

Satan , sits as a usurper in the temple of God, in the Mosque, saying that he is God. Daniel refers to it this way - A ...when you see the abomination of desolation. Daniel called it, the abomination of desolation . And said that when you see the abomination of desolation-- that is , when you see the temple of God desolate, you will find the abomination of the desolation.

The spiritual understanding is this: When you are the temple of God, but God' s presence doesn' t dwell in you, you are known as, - Daniel said -, the abomination of desolation. The abomination is that you are the temple of God without God. Millions of Christians are like that. The temple of God, but without God. That' s the abomination of desolation. Daniel prophesied of a time when you would see the abomination of desolation, when you would see the temple that was of God defiled and no longer there... we have that now. We have a major crisis going on in the middle east.

...That which is first is natural, then afterward that which is spiritual . . . He has brought, now, America in full force into the middle east. Why? To preserve his people! He has finally brought the other nations, not just the United States. How did he get the other nations involved in the middle east war? By our nation. It doesn' t matter how it was done, it' s just a hook system going on right now to bring all of the armies that the Bible prophesied... all the armies of the world to a battle in the middle east. It' s forming right now. For the first time after 2,000 years we are seeing it really beginning to happen.

He will cause all those armies to rise up against that one brother who refused to give it up! God has prophesied to that brother, from the beginning of time: A Jacob I have loved, Eau I have hated. Romans 9:13 . You may not like it and you may have condemned and criticized the fact that America has always fought for Jerusalem, but you' d better thank God that they have! Because every nation that forsakes Jacob, God hates.

Right now, God is forming the love and hate relationships. Every man, now, will choose to be either for Jacob or Eau. God Himself said that you are either for Him or against Him. President Bush has made the same statement , A You either support us and be on our side.. you' re either with us, or you' re with the terrorists. That voice is just like the voice of God.

Now here' s what I love about Jesus. He gave us a prophecy in Matthew 24. He talked about these end times, times of wars and rumors of wars and told us don' t be afraid. He talked about a great harvest coming and he said, (in essence) A You let the Arabs and the Jews and the blacks and the whites, and you let the Americans and the Japanese, all grow up together and I' ll sort it all out. He ain' t going to go for a race, kindred, kind or tongue. He' s going to go for one thing. You' d better be born-again, and then you belong to the sheep, and if you' re not, you belong to the goats. And the one to the left, and the other to the right. One enters into the joy of the Lord, and eternal joy. And the other enters into eternal damnation and separation. Real, whether you believe it or not. Real, whether you like it or not. A literal heaven and a literal hell. A place always ordained by God for the good to go to one place and the evil to go to the other. Always has been!

You' re not going to find the melting pot of America in hell. You' re going to find, you' re either a believer or you' re a non-believer. Which simply means, according to the Biblical term, you either do what your Father said or you don' t do what He said. Therein reality lies...It is not about just believing in God. There are believing' Christians that lie and steal, deceive, manipulate, maneuver, are dishonest, untrustworthy, unkind, unthankful, and unappreciative... Christians that murmur, complain, backbite, gossip, point fingers, accuse and attack authorities. They speak evil of dignities and governments and have no remorse about it! What kind of a God do you serve? You are everything that your Father tells you not to be. And yet, you call yourself after the name of God...of Christ... ... But be ye doers of the Word. Jesus said. He said, A ...You come to me and say, A Lord, Lord. A It wasn' t whether you called me Lord..it' s that you would not do the will of your Father. You didn' t do what I told you to do. B and that' s not working for Him and preaching. That' s living the life that He' s revealed-- the way that we live-- our anastrophe, our lifestyle. It is the way that I handle my wife and my children, according to the Word of God -not according to American philosophy- but according to the Word of God!

Now, we have a great time in this next seven years. The greatest time that we' ll ever have in America is right now! I finally have the joy of seeing something other than what I' ve always seen, which is a compromised, watered-down America. We' re about to see how real our God is to us... I' m grateful for this hour. If they would call me today, I would do my very best to go there and help eradicate this to the best of my ability.

That is not my role, not in a physical sense, but I' ve got spiritual authority. I know what I can do right here. I know what I can do, how I can pray over our government, and what I can prophesy to Satan that, You must turn that man loose and that nation loose. You will not rule the nations. You have been prophesied to that God will select every army in the world against you in this place. You have caused a response, you have made a mistake. You should never have come out against the nations. You have just brought a proclamation against yourself and provoked God' s terror against evil.

Satan, through bin Laden attacked us in three primary areas: 1)The Pentagon - our military 2) He attempted to attack the White House-our government and 3)The Trade Towers -our finances. He went for the fourth one and it was thwarted, thank God. Now, do other nations know that? Sure they do. Do they not have government, do they not have military, do they not depend on monies to finance war? Absolutely.

So, something happened for the first time in history B a war was declared on the nations. I trust that our leadership of this land will stand up as a guide and a ruler to all the rest of the nations and say, A Let us not compromise our future. -- because that' s what would be compromised. You and your children will never be safe again in this nation if we do not do something on behalf of what God desires and that isB that we don' t pull this sword in vain.

I' m going to give you some Biblical things to pray over our president and over our nation, if you would. I' ve already given you Romans 13. Pray this chapter over the President. Say, A O God, President Bush is a man ordained of God, a ruler ordained of God, a minister of God. He is a man that will not pull the sword in vain. He is a man that will execute vengeance upon evil. He will be a terror to the terrorists. Pray it over him. That' s Bible. That' s God' s Word.

Ephesians 1:16 - 20

Ephesians 1:8

Ephesians 3:14 - 21

Colossians 1:12 -13

I am praying right now, verse 13 (Colossians 1) strongly, God deliver this man from the power of darkness. Deliver him from men who desire and are planning to assassinate him. I will simply say to you, if there was ever a man that Satan probably has chosen to assassinate, it' s this man at this hour. Now forgetting Bin Laden, forgetting the Taliban, what are the opposing voices commanding the president? Get out of the middle East. The voice of Lucifer. Forget the men! If he can get the United States out of the Middle East, he will get all of the other nations out of the Middle East. What will he get to do? Take over Jerusalem. When he takes over Jerusalem, what does he set up? Himself as A God and begins a world religion that will serve God according to their own beliefs, from whatever books that they recognize. I' m not going to mention any of the books now... God only knows what they all are. But know this, a world religion is being formed.

These are scriptures that you can pray - there are others - you look them up. Now, on behalf of our God and our government, I ask you to be patient as Americans in the next few years. Life is not going to be as easy as you' d like. It' s not going to be microwave served all the time. Please, be patient in the lines and with the people. Be kind to them, be patient when you' ve got to go through the airports. Be patient. We' ll go back to flying and all that- we' ll go back to all that we' ve done but be patient. Things have...? Changed! Change with them. When it takes an hour to do what used to take you five minutes have longsuffering and patience.

5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Bow your heads with me, and let' s unify this fellowship so we can help unify our nation, amen? Our unity is not around the voice of a man, the voice of a prophet or the leadership of an elder. Ours is the unity of Jesus Christ. We unify around Christ and around His book, the Bible. Contrary to the Muslim doctrine, it is a Holy Book. Contrary to the Muslim doctrine, it was written by men of God. It was God - inspired, God- breathed, God-indwelt.

A Father, I pray over this fellowship, and over this nation that you will use us to execute, to vent Your will in this earth today. That as long as the breath of God is in this body of mine I will fight for Your will and Your purpose to be executed. Not from a philosophical religious view, but from a Biblical revelation of who You really are. I know that You have always, and will now. once again, respond to Lucifer. I know that You will. You did then, and You will again. We do ask that you remove terrorism from our land and from all other nations and from this earth. I ask that you deal with the Hittite accordingly and drive him out! In the name of Jesus, destroy this power, this desire to impose it' s will upon others of such a faction. Put an end to these false gods, Father. Let them not prevail against the only true God. I ask, Father, that You stand up at this time. I know that You love people and so you will not destroy them but I ask that You destroy their gods. Pull these idols down and reveal to all of these millions and billions of deceived people the fallacy and the falsehood of this god that they so serve. Deliver them, Father, from all these gods, in Jesus name.

Now, you retain your salt as Americans, amen? You retain your salt as believers. Pray over our president and this administration that they do not believe the philosophy Satan is propagating that there are many gods. I' ve heard it said by other leaders' that we all serve the same God...that the Muslims, the Christians, and the Jews all serve the same God. That is not true. Don' t believe it. Pray the Truth.

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