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By David Wilkerson
October 30, 1985
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          O God, why hast Thou rejected us forever? Why does
          Thine anger smoke against the sheep of Thy pasture?
          Remember Thy congregation, which Thou hast purchased of
          old, which Thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of Thine
          inheritance; and Mount Zion, where Thou hast dwelt.
          Turn Thy footsteps toward the perpetual ruins; the
          enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.
          Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of Thy
          meeting place; they have set up their own standards for
          signs. It seems as if one had lifted up his axe in a
          forest of trees. And now all its carved work they smash
          with hatchet and hammers. They have burned Thy
          sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling
          place of Thy name. They said in their heart, Let us
          completely subdue them. They have burned all the
          meeting places of God in the land. We do not see our
          signs; there is no longer any prophet, nor is there any
          among us who knows how long. How Long, O God, will the
          adversary revile, and the enemy spurn Thy name forever?
          (Psalm 74:1-10 NAS).

          David has given us an incredible prophecy about
          conditions in God's house in the latter days.

          He prophesied that Gods anger would smoke against the
          sheep of His own pasture, against a purchased people,
          redeemed, a people with whom He dwelt.

          He prophesied that in Mount Zion (His church), there
          would be a spreading cancer of ruin. In his words, "The
          enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary"

          He prophesied, "There is an enemy roaring in the midst
          of the meeting place." I see this to be the devil
          himself, who is seeking to set up his own moral
          standards in the meeting placed of the sheep.

          David also prophesied, "They have set up their own
          standards for signs." These are the standards of the
          roaring lion being perpetrated in God's house. Demonic
          powers are setting up their own evil standards as a new
          direction for modern Christians. These are not the
          standards of the lion of Judah; rather they are
          demonic, devil inspired standards from the pits of
          hell. These standards are being set up right now. The
          enemy is saying, "These standards are of God! Go along
          with us! Come - enjoy new moral freedom!"

          David also prophesied that these adversaries who are
          setting up all these new standards are actually
          deceivers who carry about a hatchet in their hand. They
          are like one with an "axe in the forest of trees... Now
          all its carved work they smash with a hatchet and
          hammers" (v.5-6)

          David prophesied they have as their goal to tear down,
          burn, and destroy all the old standards. "They have
          burned Thy sanctuary to the ground; they defiled the
          dwelling place of Thy name" (v:7).

          "They said in their heart, let us completely subdue
          them" (v:8). We do not see our signs" (v:9)

          In other words, all the old standards of boldness and
          separation are disappearing. We no longer recognize the
          old signs or standards that our fathers had.

          The adversary has determined to defile the house of God
          and to completely subdue our modern Christian youth
          with new and evil standards that he himself has
          invented. The hordes of hell come as hatchet gods to
          tear down all the old standards.

          Who are these stoogies of Satan who go about in the
          Lord's meeting places with hatchets, hammers, and axes
          - chopping away at our moral standards? Who are these
          who are cutting down Christ's demand for holiness and
          separation? David said, "They have damaged everything
          in sight."

          These are the angels of light and false prophets who
          have been deceived by Satan and who are now possessed
          by the spirit of the hatchet gods. They have been so
          blinded, they don't even know that they are tearing
          down the very standards that Christ Himself raised.
          Many of them been duped into believing that their new
          standards represents a new kind of Christian morality,
          when in actuality they are doctrines of demons. As
          prophesied, the doctrines of demons have most certainly
          surfaced in God's house in the last days. "But the
          Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will
          fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful
          spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the
          hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as
          with a branding iron" (1 Timothy 4:1-2 NAS).

          It is very apparent that God's Word predicts that
          deceitful spirits will introduce doctrines of demons in
          the last days. There will be hypocrites seared in their
          conscience who preach and practice deceit in God's
          house. "For I am jealous for you with Godly jealousy;
          for I betrothed you to one husband, that to Christ I
          might present you as a pure virgin. But I am afraid,
          lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness,
          your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and
          purity of devotion to Christ. For if one comes and
          preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or
          you receive a different spirit which you have not
          received, or a different gospel which you have not
          accepted, you bear this beautifully" (2 Corinthians
          11:2-4 NAS). "For such men are false apostles,
          deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of
          Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself
          as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising if
          his servants also disguise themselves as servants of
          righteousness; whose end shall be according to their
          deeds" (2 Corinthians 11:13-15 NAS).

          Is it not apparent from these revealed truths that
          there will be those who disguise themselves as servants
          of the righteousness who are in actuality servants of
          Satan? These evil angels of light gush so sweetly about
          Jesus; and according to Paul the Apostle, they use evil
          methods to produce good. "And why not say (as we are
          slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say).
          Let us do evil that good may come? Their condemnation
          is just. What then? Are we better than they? Not at
          all; for we have already charged that both Jews and
          Greeks are all under sin; as it is written. There is
          none righteous not even one: there is none who seeks
          for God; all have turned aside, together they have
          become useless; there is none who understands, there is
          none who does good, there is not even one. Their throat
          is an open grave, with their tongues they keep
          deceiving, the poison of asps is under their lips;
          whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their
          feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery
          are in their paths, and the path of peace have they not
          known. There is no fear of God before their eyes"
          (Romans 3:8-18 NAS).

          Who is Paul describing here? Certainly not pure hearted
          Christians. God has always had a people after His own
          heart. He is talking about these angels of light who
          try to use evil to produce good. There is no fear of
          God before their eyes. Represented among these are some
          of the new Christian punk rock groups and
          worldly-minded musicians who, according to the Word of
          God, have a throat that is an open grave, and the
          stench of death is upon every thing they do. Their
          tongues produce a gospel out of deceived lips. Paul
          warned that the poison of the serpent is under their
          lips. And their standards lead to deception and
          destruction of multitudes.

          Who am I talking about when I speak of the hatchet
          gods? Who are these adversaries of God, going about
          tearing down and chopping away at God's holy standards?
          The Bible is clear about the answer. "You adulteresses,
          do you not know that friendship with the world is
          hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a
          friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God"
          (James 4:4 NAS).

          I believe those who make a mockery of our Lord's
          command to come out from the world and be separate and
          clean have upon them the spirit of the hatchet gods.
          There is one holy standard the hatchet gods want to
          chop down more than all others combined, and Satan will
          twist the Scripture in every possible way to cut it
          down. It is 2 Corinthians 6:14-18. "Do not be bound
          together with unbelievers; for what partnership have
          righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has
          light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with
          Belial, or what has a believer in common with an
          unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God
          with idols? For we are the temple of the living God;
          just as God said, I will dwell in them and walk among
          them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my
          people. Therefore, come out from their midst and be
          separate, says the Lord. And do not touch what is
          unclean; and I will welcome you. And I will be a father
          to you and you shall be sons and daughters to Me, says
          the Lord Almighty" (NAS)

          This is a holy standard of the Lion of Judah, which I
          see Satan and his hatchet gods viciously attacking. God
          calls for separation, and there is no getting around
          this demand, no matter how many seek to justify mixture
          with the world.

          Those who seek to tear down the holy standards of
          Christ suggest that Jesus was a pal of sinners who not
          only ate with them and drank with them, but who lived
          and moved in their realm. Nothing could be further from
          the truth! When Jesus walked this earth, every Gentile
          was considered a sinner. If a Pharisee's robe even
          touched the flesh of a Gentile, he thought of himself
          as unclean and proceeded to wash his garment as soon as
          possible. Jesus did communicate with sinners, and
          declared Himself to be their friend and savior. He did
          go into the homes of Gentiles to eat. But never once
          did He go into their dens of iniquity and partake of
          their spirit. Furthermore, Paul makes it clear that
          there was a wall between Christ and the wicked. "For it
          was fitting that we should have a such a high priest,
          holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners and
          exalted above the heavens" (Hebrews 7:26 NAS).

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             Christian Parents Have Abdicated Their Authority

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          Many Christians parents are being duped and deceived by
          the spirit of the adversary. An evil spirit is blinding
          the eyes of multitudes of Christian parents. Eli had
          two sons who became wicked and perverted and who became
          totally deceived by Satan. "In that day I will carry
          out against Eli all that I have spoken concerning this
          house from beginning to end. For I have told him that I
          am about to judge his house forever for the iniquity
          which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on
          themselves and he did not rebuke them" (1 Samuel
          3:12-13 NAS)

          Apparently Eli never once rebuked his sons for their
          decaying moral standards. I find today that even the
          most devout parents are reticent about crossing their
          children for fear they will lose them.

          David lost his son Adonijah. His very own son,
          following in the footsteps of Absalom, exalted himself
          and tried to steal the throne from his father. Why?
          "And his father had never crossed him at anytime by
          asking, Why have you done so?" (1 Kings 1:6 NAS).

          Too many parents are deaf and dumb. Teenagers plaster
          their bedroom walls with posters of demon possessed,
          heavy metal rock stars. Seldom do parents demand of
          them, "What's that doing on your wall?" Few fathers
          demand an explanation from their teenagers concerning
          their activities.

          Seldom do mothers and fathers walk into the bedrooms of
          their children, check their music collection of records
          and cassettes, and ask sincerely why they collect
          demonic records and listen to filthy lyrics. I ask you
          Dad, Mother, have you taken the time to check what your
          children are listening to? Have you ever called them to
          account? Have you ever asked for an explanation? Or do
          you turn your head and refuse to cross them? Have you
          just passed it off as something the young people go
          through and you say to yourself, "It's just a stage of
          development. They will outgrow it. It's this new
          generation and I don't understand it, but I don't want
          to interfere. After all, it's only a temporary
          situation, and everybody seems to be doing it, so
          really can't be that bad."

          Tragically the majority of parents today, including
          pastors, have no idea what their kids are into. Often,
          they are being conned by their children - duped - and
          many of the children seem incredulous at the lack of
          discernment in their parents . And, often there is very
          little interest by parents in what the children are
          doing.

          It's time for Christian dads and mothers to take a
          stand against the flood of filth and immorality being
          pushed on our kids. Parents who take a stand may run up
          against a temporary spirit of rebellion, but in the
          long run, they will be saving their children from hell.

          How much longer will Christians parents stand by and
          permit the hatchet gods of this age to chop away at the
          morals of their troubled kids?

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                       I Blame Soft-Soap Preachers!

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          I decry the fact that so many evangelists and pastors
          refuse to point out sin and show the people their
          iniquities. There are so few prophets today, so few
          fearless men in the pulpit, so few who stand in the
          breach and cry out against the enemy." O God, the
          nations have invaded Thine inheritance; they have
          defiled Thy holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in
          ruins. They have given the dead bodies of Thy servants
          for food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Thy
          godly ones to the beasts of the earth" (Psalm 79:1,2
          NAS).

          Our young people today are falling - there is spiritual
          death all around - so many are becoming prey to demonic
          powers the beast of the fields (the powers of the
          darkness)devour them and there seems to be no human
          authority to chase the enemy away. "The Lord will cause
          you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go
          out one way against them, but you shall flee seven ways
          before them, and you shall be an example of terror to
          all the kingdoms of the earth. And your carcasses shall
          be food to all the birds of the sky and to the beasts
          of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten
          them away" (Deut. 28:25-26 NAS).

          Where, O where are the men of God with dominion and
          authority who will rise up and case away these powers
          of darkness from God's people? "We do not see our
          signs; there is no longer any prophet, nor is there any
          among us who knows how long" (Psalm 74:9 NAS).

          We have had quite enough soft-soap preaching in our
          pulpits. We need pastors and evangelists who are
          jealous with the jealousy of a holy God. God is love!
          He is also holy! We have a whole generation of young
          people who have heard only that God is love, and they
          have little or no concept of the frightening truth that
          they must one day stand before the judgment seat and
          answer for their actions.

          Thankfully in the past few months, God has been raising
          up many shepherds and evangelists who have heard God's
          heart-cry for holiness and repentance and they are
          fearlessly thundering against the sins in God's house.
          They are being mocked and scoffed, but God has given
          them courage, and these are those who are the watchmen
          of this final hour.

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                          A Warning to the Youth!

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          Satan and his hatchet demons have two goals - two
          things that they must do to get full control over
          youth. First, they must put upon the young people a
          spirit of rebellion. Second, they seek to baptize the
          youth with a spirit of stubbornness.

          There is a demonic baptism. Satan is seeking to take
          down into the dark waters of rebellion as many youth as
          he can, and bring them out of those dark waters filled
          with his spirit of stubbornness.

          He cannot accomplish this goal until first he cuts down
          and chops away at the tender, willing heart for God. He
          has to cut down and chop away all the holy standards
          that have been proclaimed. That is why he is doing
          everything within his power to break down God's holy
          altars and substitute idols of his own.

          Listen to these frightful words: "Why, O Lord, doest
          Thou cause us to stray from Thy ways, and harden our
          heart from fearing Thee? Return for the sake of Thy
          servants, the tribes of Thy heritage. We have become
          like those over whom Thou hast never ruled, like those
          who were not called by Thy name" (Isaiah 63:17,19 NAS)

          The danger in filling your soul and mind with the music
          and morals of devils is that you will become just like
          the hatchet gods themselves. Your own moral standards
          will be cut down and destroyed. You will slowly change
          and end up having the same spirit as those who seek to
          destroy the righteous standards in God's house.

          I'm shocked by the stubbornness of Christian young
          people who are so addicted to worldly music and morals,
          even though they are clearly the spirit of this age.
          How stubbornly they will defend their standards. They
          despise anyone who cries out against their activities.
          This stubbornness worries me more than their
          compromise. What happened to the willing, pure heart
          which stood against rebellion and mixture with the
          world. Has the heart now become divided and rebellious?
          And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in burned
          offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the
          Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to
          heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin
          of divination, and insubordination is as quit and
          idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the
          Lord, He has also rejected you from being king" (1
          Samuel 15:23,23 NAS).

          Centuries ago Moses prophesied of a latter day when
          God's sons and daughters would turn aside to new gods
          of the new age. "Had I not feared provocation by the
          enemy, lest their adversaries should misjudge, lest
          they should say, Our hand is triumphant, and the Lord
          has done all this. Would that they were wise, that they
          understood this, that they would discern their future!"
          (Deut.32:27-29 NAS).

          They have acted corruptly toward Him, they are not His
          children, because of their defect; but they are a
          perverse and crooked generation. Do you thus repay the
          Lord, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your
          Father who has bought you? He has made you and
          established you" (Deut.32:5-6 NAS).

          "He found him in a desert land, and in the howling
          waste of a wilderness; He encircled him. He cared for
          him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye. Like an
          eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its
          young, He spread His wings and caught them, He carried
          them on His pinions. The Lord alone guided him, and
          there was no foreign god with him" (Deut.. 32:10-12
          NAS)

          But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked - you are grown fat,
          thick, and sleek - then he forsook God who made him,
          and scorned the Rock of his salvation. They made Him
          jealous with strange gods; with abominations they
          provoked Him to anger. They sacrificed to demons who
          were not God, to gods whom they have not known, new
          gods who came lately, whom your fathers did not dread.
          You neglected the Rock who begot you, and forgot the
          God who gave you birth. And the Lord saw this, and
          spurned them because of the provocation of His sons and
          daughters. Then He said, I will hide my face from them;
          I will see what their end shall be; for they are a
          perverse generation, sons in whom is no faithfulness"
          (Deut.. 32:15-20 NAS).

          The Bible says that they sacrificed to demons who were
          not God - to gods whom they had never known before - to
          new gods who came up lately.

          God said, "They have made me jealous with their gods."
          What He is saying is simply. "O that you would love Me
          like you love your idols. O that you would spend as
          much time with Me as you do listening to your music. O
          that you would defend Me and be as stubborn for Me and
          My holy standards as you are in rising up in defense
          for your own newly developed standards."

          God is saying - "They are not faithful to Me. Oh, yes
          they are faithful to their idols. They are fanatically
          faithful to their musicians and groups. They are so
          faithful to their friends - but so faithless to Me."

          I was conducting a crusade in Toronto recently, and I
          was truly shocked by the attitude of so many Christian
          young people who verbally attacked me for calling
          attention to the growing immorality among Christian
          rock groups. No one would listen until the final day of
          my crusade. It so happened that on that day a so called
          Christian punk rock group from the United States has
          released a record in Canada that was so blatantly evil
          that even they were shocked. The title song included
          four-letter sexual curse words. Many of them came to
          the alter that night weeping and saying to me, "Brother
          Dave, now we know what you are talking about. It truly
          is of the devil now. We never knew it would go this
          far. It can't be of God when they curse and use
          four-letter words like they are doing now."

          I love young people with all my heart, but I will not
          sit by while these hatchet gods go through the house of
          the Lord trying to tear apart every standard that God
          has raised up over the centuries. I call for parents
          and pastors and evangelists to take a stand now, before
          its too late! How far does it have to go? How evil does
          it have to become? How blatantly corrupt must it be
          before we see the hand behind it all?

          Wake up, church of Jesus Christ, and take dominion and
          authority through the power of the Holy Spirit, and let
          us come against these hatchet gods and drive them out
          while there is still time.

          Lately, I've been called every conceivable name. I've
          been accused of having a nervous breakdown and of being
          just an old, angry doomsday preacher. I truly don't
          care what people call me anymore. I feel in my
          inner-most the very hot wrath of God against the
          corrupt standards that are creeping into the church of
          Jesus Christ, and I'm alarmed at the sheepishness and
          cowardice in so many pulpits. These new standards are
          not of God, and I don't care how many Jesus-words they
          add and how many justifications they make for their
          moral standards - I see a serpent in it!

          I ask all young people the same question Jesus asked of
          Peter: "So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said
          to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love Me more
          than these? He said to Him, Yes Lord: You know that I
          love you. He said to Him, Tend My lambs. He said to him
          again a second time, Simon , son of John, do you love
          Me? He said to Him, Yes Lord; You know that I love you.
          He said to him, Shepherd My sheep. He said to him the
          third time, Simon, son of John, do you love Me? Peter
          was grieved because He said to him the third time. Do
          you love Me? And he said to Him, Lord you know all
          things; You know that I love you. Jesus said to Him,
          Tend My sheep" (John 21:15-17 NAS).

          This is the question of the hour! It goes beyond
          whether or not Christian rock music is evil. It goes
          even beyond the double standards and the idolatry of
          this age. It is simply, "Do you love Jesus Christ more
          than all of these? "Jesus said, "If you love Me, you
          will obey Me."

          I see in all the moral decay in the church today a lack
          of love for Jesus Christ.

          But I also prophesy that God is about to sweep all the
          filth out of His house, and He is even now raising up a
          holy remnant who are living in a state of repentance
          and are crying out to God as never before for renewal,
          for righteousness, and for a true vision of the heart
          of Jesus.

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