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                       The Coming Of The Blasphemers

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By David Wilkerson
March 4, 1991
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          "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast
          rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten
          horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his
          heads the name of blasphemy....

          "And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great
          things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to
          continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth
          in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and
          his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven"
          (Revelation 13: l, 5-6).

          The apostle John prophesies of a last-day invasion of
          the world - by a beast with monstrous heads coming up
          out of the sea. It is a demonic invasion of a powerful
          spirit of blasphemy that rises up in great influence
          during the very last days.

          I believe the "sea" John talks about represents the
          masses of humanity. And his phrase "ris(ing) up out of
          the sea" indicates something that has lain dormant -
          but that now suddenly exposes itself and goes on the
          offensive.

          I believe he is saying that something in society has
          built up over time - and now appears as a multi-headed
          monster! Its name is emblazoned on all seven heads:...
          and upon his heads the name of blasphemy" (13:1).

          Attacks of blasphemy are not new. God and His servants
          have always been blasphemed. David said, "O God, how
          long shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy
          blaspheme thy name forever?" (Psalm 74:10). Even Paul
          confessed he was once "a blasphemer, and a persecutor,
          and injurious" (1 Timothy 1:13).

          But this is something much more sinister. I believe
          John is describing an incredible unleashing of a
          last-day, multi-headed spirit of blasphemy and that
          John is standing on the sands of our time, witnessing
          prophetically all the various kinds of blasphemy that
          are rising in power, influence and respect in the world
          at this very hour!

          In Revelation 12:3, the devil is described as "a great
          red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, with
          seven crowns." This seven-headed beast that is rising
          to power is a reflection of Satan - it has all the
          characteristics of the red dragon!

          I remind you that the church of Jesus Christ has been
          under a powerful, supernatural attack in recent years -
          beyond anything recorded in church history. You'd have
          to be blind not to see it. And it's not just that God
          is exposing things in the body of Christ; certainly,
          judgment begins at the house of God. But this is
          something entirely different!

          No other Christian generation has been assaulted with
          all the popular means that modern-day blasphemy uses to
          flaunt itself. TV, films and videos were not known in
          John's time. All these things have emerged in our
          century, right out of the sea of humanity!

          Only in our time has Christ been vilified and mocked
          and blasphemed in such evil films as "The Last
          Temptation of Christ" - where He was shamefully
          portrayed as a pervert, living with Mary Magdalene!
          Christ's divinity was ridiculed, His very manhood
          questioned. Thousands flocked to theaters to applaud
          such blasphemy.

          Only in our time has a homosexual artist - Mapplethorpe
          - been honored with a nationally shown photography
          exhibit that blasphemes the Cross of Christ. He
          photographed the cross rising out of a vat of urine!
          Much of the rest of his traveling show was so smutty
          and evil it can't be repeated here.

          Just fifty years ago this man would have been jailed!
          It was a powerful blasphemy - yet he was protected by
          law and defended by some of the most powerful people in
          our courts and government. (Mapplethorpe died of AIDS -
          a victim of the very perversions he promoted in his
          photographs!)

          I am not trying to look for seven major kinds of
          blasphemy to represent the heads John described. It is
          sufficient to say this monster is multi-headed and it
          is rapidly rising in power, gathering influence and
          acceptance!

          For example, out of the ashes of Iraq and Kuwait there
          has risen a dictator whose head is inscribed with
          another blasphemy: Islam! Islam is now a
          religious-political blasphemy that holds one-third of
          the world's population under its deceptive influence.
          And it is quickly gaining more recognition and power.

          Less than twenty years ago we heard that a few sports
          figures were changing their names to take on Islamic
          ones . Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abduljabbar. We took it
          lightly and attributed it to the influence of black
          Muslims. Today, their radical leader Louis Farrakan -
          who once was considered just a fanatic - holds sway
          over many thousands here in the United States. His
          influence has spread like wildfire!

          The blasphemy of Islam has been granted great power
          from Satan. Islam well fits John's description:
          "...like unto a leopard... the feet of a bear... the
          mouth of a lion... and the dragon gave him his power"
          (Revelation 13:2). This describes the ferociousness,
          the wildness, the lack of respect for human life that
          characterizes Islam. It all comes from Satan! It is his
          last hope to annihilate Israel!

          And what about the great bear, Communism? The New York
          Times likened Communism recently to "a corpse... now
          clambering ghoulishly from its grave." For months the
          Times writers waxed eloquent about the death of
          Communism, saying the evil empire had been fatally
          wounded in the head. Now these same people say
          Communism has been resurrected! A corpse is now rising
          from the dead!

          And stop and think for a moment about the growing power
          and influence of other modern blasphemies. What about
          the New Age philosophy that's sweeping the world?
          Humanism? Mystic cults? "Kingdom dominion" doctrines?

          Ten years ago Shirley MacLaine and her "I-am-God"
          gibberish was the laughingstock of Hollywood. Today she
          helps mold the minds of millions who flock to hear the
          New Age gospel!

          Another horrible blasphemy occurring in the past
          twenty-five years is so ugly, so evil, it drives
          hundreds of thousands of Americans to pound the
          streets. Their cause? To save minks and other rodents -
          while claiming the right to kill babies! They scream
          for the right to murder innocent children, yet weep
          over dolphins caught in tuna nets!

          They carry water pistols loaded with red paint and
          spray expensive fur coats - then later flatter
          themselves that they've done a righteous thing. Yet if
          you try to save the life of a single baby from
          abortion, they spew off a vicious torrent of curses in
          your face!

          Beloved, it has never been this way before! This spirit
          has always lurked underneath the surface - but today
          the beast of blasphemy has risen to go forth to deceive
          the nations!

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                        The Devil Himself Has Endued
                          These Multi-Blasphemies
                           With Power From Hell!

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          "The dragon gave him his power... and power was given
          unto him" (Revelation 13: 2,5). Paul warned of "the
          spirit that now worketh in [drives] the children of
          disobedience" (Ephesians 2:2). This explains the
          devotion and violence of these growing movements of
          blasphemy. It is a supernatural dedication - straight
          out of hell!

          Have you ever wondered how homosexuals are willing to
          demonstrate and march for their cause through ice,
          sleet and freezing weather? Or how they have gained
          such power and influence that they now demand
          legislation on every level to promote and protect their
          lifestyle?

          How is it that, in just a day's notice, such groups can
          gather multiple thousands to leave their jobs and
          families willing to lie down in the streets,
          sacrificing their bodies for a cause? Where does their
          zeal, their spirit come from?

          Listen, Christians: Don't even try to match their
          numbers! We never will! There is something supernatural
          about their drive. It's driven and manipulated by
          command central - hell!

          We are going to be amazed in the days ahead at the
          incredible pride, arrogance and violence of this
          multi-headed beast of blasphemy. It is a war of words -
          proud, violent, threatening words against the
          righteous! Persecuting, mocking, blasphemous words!

          The battle cry of the blasphemers in the last days is:
          "No one can stop us! We will control the minds of the
          whole world! A new world order will arise with such
          power that no one can withstand it!" (This "new world
          order" is also being spoken about by President Bush!)
          They will say, "Who is like unto the beast? Who is able
          to make war with him" (Revelation 13:4).

          Islam is looking for world domination. Its goal is to
          bring everyone to Mecca and put them at the feet of its
          god! They want to drive Israel to the sea, wipe it out,
          make the land a Palestinian state - and designate Mecca
          the center of the world!

          These blasphemies are converging like liquid poured
          into a funnel - and are all emerging from the same
          hole. And the supreme leader these blasphemers all
          worship and yearn for is the Antichrist! When he is
          revealed, they will bow at his feet.

          The Aquarians, the New Agers, the Eastern cults - all
          look for the supreme teacher to come: the Lord Maitreya
          - the Christ one! The final illuminated one!

          Maitreya's group is looking for him to appear at any
          moment. Several years ago they placed ads in TV,
          newspapers and other media all across the United States
          announcing that Maitreya had already appeared on the
          earth. They claimed he was now an adult and was being
          trained for rulership. Everybody laughed!

          When I first heard this, I thought, "This is just a
          tiny group. No thinking person, no educated businessman
          or woman would fall for this foolishness!" Now, not
          more than 10 years later, powerful business executives
          - degreed men of influence - have crystals displayed in
          their offices. They bow down to them, saying "Give me
          power, give me supernatural energy flow!"

          This type of blasphemy is not limited to the New Agers.
          Let me give you a specific example of what we can
          expect in some of our mainline denominations:

          Episcopal Bishop John S. Spong who oversees 125
          Episcopal churches in northern New Jersey, has just
          released a book entitled Rescuing the Bible from
          Fundamentalism. In it he calls the apostle Paul "a
          self-loathing and repressed gay male" - because Paul
          confessed, "Wretched man that I am." Spong says Paul
          revealed his hostility toward women when he said,
          "Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands."

          Bishop Spong told a reporter he got the idea from an
          atheist writer in 1937. Then he reread the New
          Testament with this in mind: "St. Paul was gay...
          nothing else can account for Paul's self-judging
          rhetoric, his negative feeling toward his own body and
          his sense of being controlled by something he had no
          power to change."

          Some of Spongs own ministers say he has gone too far -
          that he has created a church with no morals. Yet will
          Spong lose his position? No! Give him a month or two
          and he'll be wined and dined and heralded as a great
          theologian - because America is that backslidden.

          This is a prime example of the rising power and
          authority of blasphemers! A generation ago the church
          wouldn't have given Spong an hour of its time. The
          moment his book came out, he would have been called
          before a committee of elders and banned from ministry.
          But today he is a hero!

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                      To the Natural Eye God's People
                            Will Be Overcome By
                        This Invasion of Blasphemy!

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          "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,
          and to overcome them: and power was given him over all
          kindreds, and tongues, and nations" (verse 7).

          Daniel said the same thing: "I beheld, and the same
          horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against
          them" (Daniel 7:21).The words used here - overcome,
          prevail - do not mean destruction or defeat. This is
          not an ultimate victory for the devil! The best
          definition is effectiveness or success in wearing down
          the saints.

          We cannot soften what the Scripture clearly says in
          this war of blasphemy - that the beast will overcome
          the saints! To the temporal, natural eye, the
          blasphemers are winning! Yet they cannot overcome our
          spirits or our faith - only our natural man. It will
          appear to our very eyes, though, that the church is
          powerless against these blasphemies - and that the
          blasphemers will go unchallenged.

          For instance, the entire church structure of America
          could not stop the showing of The Last Temptation of
          Christ. Christians picketed, pulpits thundered - but
          the show went on! It appeared the blasphemers won.

          No body of believers could stop Mapplethorpe's evil
          road shows! The attempts by decent people to halt it
          were all pushed aside by favorable court rulings. ACLU
          lawyers proudly left courtrooms beaming from ear to
          ear, like conquerors! To the natural eye they overcame
          the believers.

          Drug lords are now saying, "Who can stand in our way?"
          A new "designer" drug mixed with pentathol is on the
          streets right now. Who is going to stop this new
          death-drug? We have a powerful army in Iraq right now,
          but we can do nothing in our own country in the war
          against drugs. We're powerless!

          In twenty-five years, have we stopped abortion? No - it
          is worse than ever! It has the support of the law in
          all but two states. We have prayed for three years for
          God to shut down the 68th Street abortion chamber,
          located one floor above our church offices. We have
          fasted, wept, pleaded. To the natural eye these people
          have overcome us. They have told us publicly that we
          can't touch them!

          For a season it will look as though God's people have
          been overcome, as if we are absolutely helpless. Dear
          saint, the day is coming when you'll feel totally
          stripped!

          Yet there are Christians right now who claim they are
          taking the world for Jesus. But I don't know of one
          country they've "taken" - or where in America they've
          been able to stop abortion.

          Please hear me: The devil is not going to be affected
          by cheer-leading saints who do something based on
          emotions and not on Scripture something that has no
          spiritual insight!

          I agree that we should demonstrate, that we should pray
          - but God is warning us from His Word: "Don't be
          surprised when you see things happening in America you
          thought could never happen!"

          Yes, I believe in pulling down satanic strongholds!
          Yes, I believe in the power of prayer! Yes, I believe
          in the victory of the Cross over hell and the devil!
          Yet in the very last of these last days, this
          many-headed beast must arise. Daniel and John have said
          that, for a season we will witness the proud, arrogant
          ascendancy of the blasphemers!

          Remember: It's a temporary show of might - a sham
          dominion! It is a coalition of antichrist spirits that
          will some day meet its eternal doom!

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                                  Rejoice!
                       The Beast's Days Are Numbered
                         - King Jesus Is on His Way
                         to Cut Down All Enemies"

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          Reading through the Book of Revelation, your mind
          almost reels because of the vivid imagery: Mystery
          Babylon, the great whore, the woman sitting on a
          scarlet-colored beast, the red dragon, the seven-headed
          beast with ten horns and ten crowns, frogs coming out
          of the mouth of the dragon, foul powers loosed from the
          River Euphrates, locusts pouring out of the bottomless
          pit...

          We don't need to know the reality of the symbolism of
          all this - there are literally hundreds of
          interpretations. We know that the book is all about
          Jesus and His final conquest of the devil, evil and
          death. And I rejoice over one thing in Revelation that
          is very clear:

          Everywhere you look in these prophecies about the
          Antichrist, false prophets and demonic forces, you see
          that God is putting limits and deadlines on their
          abilities: The Beast is given power - but only "to
          continue forty and two months" (Revelation 13:5).

          The number forty-two appears four times in Revelation.
          And when the Lord sees that Mystery Babylon's cup has
          been filled with iniquity, it burns to ashes "in one
          hour." In Revelation 17, a ten-pronged power is given
          "power as kings one hour with the beast" (verse 12).

          Yet the significance of this message isn't the
          "forty-two months" or the "one hour." No - we simply
          need spiritual eyes to see as Elisha did! When
          surrounded by an army sent to kill him, he didn't even
          stir to go to the window. He smiled because his
          spiritual eyes beheld an all-powerful heavenly host in
          the clouds! He had another window in the clouds above
          him!

          To the natural eye, Elisha was overcome. The enemy had
          prevailed - but the story wasn't over. The King of
          Glory was on His white horse! And Elisha had spiritual
          eyes to see Him!

          Dear saints, if you begin to see all these blasphemies
          and powers surrounding you, and you don't have
          spiritual eyes - you'll get agitated and worried and
          fretful. As you see them gaining power and ascendancy,
          your spirit will become upset.

          But one thing has blessed my heart - and it's going to
          keep me sane no matter what comes. It will do the same
          for you.

          Beloved, I've seen a white cloud! And I want to point
          you heavenward to it! This white cloud holds the key to
          our victory:

          "And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the
          cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his
          head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle"
          (Revelation 14:14).

          All you tin gods and blasphemers below - God is going
          to come down one day and cut you all down! He will say,
          "Where is all your power now, all your influence?" And
          the beast and the dragon will be cast into the pit!

          So the atheistic lawyers, the liberal court, have ruled
          God out of the schools and they pass out condoms
          instead! So they're pushing to get God out of American
          society and home. My answer is simply this: "There He
          sits, crown on His head, sickle in His hand!"

          Their days are numbered - harvest time has come!

          Jesus commanded us, "And when these things begin to
          come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for
          your redemption draweth nigh" (Luke 21:28). Well, what
          are we supposed to look for and rejoice at? At the
          white cloud -

          So New Agers, Aquarians, mystics and occultists are
          growing in power, influence and number - So they
          proudly boast they will rid the earth of everyone who
          refuses to go along with them. So they say a new world
          order is coming. (I can hear the angels whispering, "If
          they only knew how true!")

          So they brag they will take over the earth and crown
          their lord Maitreya. So Islam says it will wipe Israel
          off the map and claim the spiritual victory of this
          last day. Yet as they spew forth these words there He
          sits, crown on His head, sickle in His hand!

          So the radical homosexual group Act Up continues acting
          up. So they flaunt their sins, gaining power and
          shaking their fists at God. So 300,000 of them march
          and chant and dare us to step on them.

          So the sadists, the God and Christ-haters, pack their
          theaters with films and videos, mocking all that is
          holy! So the pornographers and drug lords go on getting
          rich and powerful. I say: There He sits, crown on His
          head, sickle in His hand!

          So the Communist bear rises from its deadly wound and
          becomes a dictatorship worse than Stalin's. So Russia
          fights the whole world - moving a multi-million-member
          army toward Israel, and aiming a nuclear arsenal at the
          United States. My answer is: There He sits, crown on
          His head, sickle in His hand!

          The United States boasts about its satellite monitoring
          system. We claim we can look down at Iraq, even on a
          cloudy day, and see the part in a man's hair. Beloved,
          there is an even greater monitoring system! There is a
          Man on a white cloud who looks down and sees the number
          of hairs on your head and the thoughts in your mind.

          So a man sits in the temple calling Himself God. So He
          declares war on God - on heaven itself! Yet the man
          sitting on the cloud is totally unimpressed! He stands,
          raises His sickle and thrusts it into the harvest -
          it's time to reap the earth! (Revelation 13:15)

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                           He Is Not Sitting Now
                            - He Is Cutting Down
                                - Reaping!

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          Beloved, I've seen that white cloud - and the One who
          sits on it! He's wearing a crown of authority over all
          the kings of the world, and all the nations serve as
          His footstool.

          Now I know how I can rejoice when I see all these
          things coming to pass, as Jesus instructed us. Because
          there He sits, crown on His head, sickle in His hand!
          All I have to do is to look up!

          The time of reaping has come! And listen, backsliders,
          compromisers - if He's going to cut down entire armies,
          will He spare you? If He has His eye on the hidden
          Antichrist, has He missed seeing you? No, everything we
          do is seen by that great monitor in heaven Jesus,
          sitting on the cloud!

          Can you imagine what it's going to be like when He
          starts reaping? Oh, the judgments, the agony! He is
          going to bind the blasphemers, the antichrist spirits,
          the beast spirits - and cast in them all into a
          bottomless pit, locked for eternity.

          Then, He says, He is going to go into the clouds and
          take us with Him! He said He's coming in a cloud of
          glory!

          Saint, have you seen that white cloud for yourself?
          Look up - your redemption draws nigh!

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          Box 260, Lindale, TX 75771 USA.

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