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                  Is God Overlooking the Sins of America?

                   The Ominous Rise of Homosexual Power

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By David Wilkerson
May 6, 1991
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          I want to tell you about a certain society - one that
          cast God aside and consequently sunk into a pit of
          gross darkness. Despising the Light, this society
          became a magnet for every kind of evil spirit. Law and
          order collapsed; every man was a law unto himself. The
          entire society was abandoned to the devil, and no moral
          force remained to hinder its headlong rush into hell.

          There was no honor, decency or self-respect left among
          them, no reverence for life whatsoever. Justice and
          kindness faded away, and the people were overcome with
          lust and licentiousness. They sneered at virtue, their
          consciences seared and callused. They scoffed at the
          fear of God and mocked righteousness.

          They became totally inhospitable, possessing the heart
          and indifference of a beast. They had no pity for the
          poor. All spiritual desire was extinguished, and gross
          materialism and fleshly lusts became their gods. The
          people became totally shockproof, so that the vilest,
          bloodiest crimes were accepted as normal behavior.

          I am actually describing two societies here: Sodom and
          America. We know of Sodom's terrible end - and
          Scripture shows us that America is fast becoming
          another Sodom!

          Homosexual Sodomites came out of their closet and
          became activists, casting a demonic spell over a whole
          generation of men and boys. They grew politically
          powerful, controlling everything. Sodom became the
          world's gay capital, a society so vile, wicked and
          crazed with violence that its sins thundered throughout
          the heavens, filling God's holy environment with a
          hellish cry.

          God dispatched two angels to Sodom, and it seemed even
          they were shocked by the utter degradation and
          wickedness they saw. The society mocked marriage and
          left children abandoned, scared and confused. (How
          could any society ruled by a homosexual spirit not
          witness the destruction of decent family life?)

          No visiting male was safe in Sodom. Roving gangs of
          homosexuals freely cruised the streets and alleys,
          looking for rape victims. And no one dared stop them -
          no politician, no police officer, no uprising of
          enraged parents.

          Yet the generation living in Sodom at this time had
          received a blessing from God: He had delivered them
          from a bloody war. While Bera was king of Sodom and
          Birsha was king of Gomorrah, four powerful nations came
          against them and took the people captive, plundering
          everything. God sent Abraham to rescue King Bera and
          his nephew Lot, and everything was recovered. But even
          that great deliverance did not change Sodom's wicked
          ways. The people took God's blessing for granted and
          didn't give Him credit.

          Like Sodom, America was delivered by God, in the desert
          of Kuwait. Yet for us, as for Sodom, this was not
          preservation - it was merely a reprieve. We have not so
          much been preserved against judgment as we are being
          reserved for judgment, if we do not humble ourselves
          before God.

          The Lord demonstrated His great mercy toward Sodom just
          before He destroyed it. And He did the same for us in
          Kuwait. But like Sodom, America will not change.
          Homosexuals will advance unchallenged and sin will
          reign!

          The roving gay crowd of Sodom heard that two handsome
          men were visiting Lot's house. Within hours, they had
          surrounded the place, trying to knock down the doors to
          gang-rape the visiting angels. So where was King Bera
          then? Nobody raised a voice against what was happening.
          It had become a society full of lust-driven men!

          The angels struck these men blind - yet in their
          blindness, they still groped for the door to pursue
          their raging lusts (Genesis 19:11). If angels can weep,
          those two most certainly wept over the sad sight of
          these men, made in God's image, who had sunk to the
          level of groveling beasts. These depraved men were
          ready to kill to satiate their demonic lust.

          Lot was so vexed by these men that he told them, "Here
          are my two daughters. Take them and rape them all night
          long!" Now, I'm the father of two daughters. And I
          can't imagine the kind of power a society could have to
          drive a man to hand over his virgin daughters to a
          raving mob. But the mob didn't even want them - they
          wanted men!

          Scripture says these homosexuals were not an isolated
          minority, but the majority (Genesis 19:1, 14). Did God
          overlook their sins? Did He put off their day of
          reckoning? How long did God wait, once this raging
          homosexual spirit became so bold and brazen it would
          trample what was holy?

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                      The Flash Point for the Judgment
                       of God Comes the Very Hour a
                       Homosexual Spirit Rises Up and
                      Attacks What is Divine and Holy

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          The two angels sent to Sodom represented God's
          interests on this earth - that which is of heaven,
          divine, spiritual, supernatural. Yet the men of that
          city were so bold, proud and arrogant that they
          attacked the very thing representing God's interests.

          In the very hour this homosexual spirit in Sodom
          attacked the house of Lot, God said, "Enough - I will
          destroy them!" And the next morning, while that gay
          manipulated society slept off the night's debauchery,
          fire and brimstone fell on Sodom. The cup of God's
          wrath and His fierce anger wiped them from the earth,
          as one would wipe filth from a dish. David was right:
          "Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like
          dross... thou hast trodden down them all" (Psalm
          119:118-119).

          But, you say, this can't happen to us - because Sodom
          was born heathen and lived and died heathen. America
          was born Christian - and still remains Christian.

          Well, let me tell you about another degenerate society
          - one born of God, of the seed of Abraham, a people
          once entrusted with the covenants and promises of
          Jehovah God. This story, found in Judges 19, is about
          the tribe of Benjamin and a little town called Gibeah.

          A Levite came to Gibeah to take home his runaway
          concubine. The girl's father found the Levite camping
          on the streets late at night, and he begged him to come
          to his house because the streets were not safe.

          Unsafe streets in a small town? This was a dwelling of
          Benjamites, children of once-valiant soldiers of the
          Lord who had marched under Jehovah's banner. This was
          once a godly place where children frolicked in the
          streets, and the praises of God were constantly on the
          lips of its citizens.

          But now another spirit had arisen - a spirit from hell
          that had taken control. Gibeah had become the
          homosexual capital of the Benjamites, a hotbed of
          perverted lust. And now a foreboding spirit of violence
          hung over the town.

          The children were not longer safe on the streets. God's
          name was no longer praised, but cursed. This society,
          born in the heart of God and carried for so long in His
          loving arms, was now ruled by murderous Sodomites. And
          - as it happened in Sodom - a homosexual spirit had
          risen up to trample was holy.

          "As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the
          men of the city, certain sons of Belial [the devil],
          beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and
          spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying,
          Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we
          may know him" (Judges 19:22-28). They were so bold, so
          fearless of God, they were ready to rape a preacher!

          Again, that which represented God's interests on earth
          became a target of vile spirits. It wasn't enough for
          these men to have the young men and boys in town - they
          had to touch God!

          "And the man, the master of the house, went out unto
          them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray
          you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come
          into mine house, do not this folly. Behold, here is my
          daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring
          out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what
          seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile
          a thing" (verses 23-24). Like Lot, this man was saying,
          "Here's my daughter. Take her - abuse her all you
          like!"

          "But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took
          his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and
          they knew her, and abused her all the night until the
          morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her
          go.

          "Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and
          fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord
          was, till it was light. And her lord rose up in the
          morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went
          out to go his way; and, behold, the woman his concubine
          was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands
          were upon the threshold" (verses 25-27).

          The poor creature had probably been scratching half the
          night to get back into the house before she died. But
          the man of the house had gone to bed!

          "And [the Levite] said unto her, Up, and let us be
          going. But none answered. Then the man took her upon an
          ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.
          And when he was come into his house, he took a knife,
          and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her,
          together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent
          her into all the coasts of Israel" (verses 28-29). The
          Levite sent a piece of her body to every tribe! What a
          bloody, macabre scene.

          The people of Israel were horrified. They said, "Never
          in our history has something happened so low and so
          vile that someone should cut up a body. What would
          cause someone to do such horrible things?"

          "And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no
          such deed done nor seen from the day that the children
          of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this
          day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds"
          (verse 30).

          Beloved, the carving up of a dead body was horrible
          enough. But the worst sin of all was that Gibeah had
          become a homosexual center, and the whole tribe of
          Benjamin was ready to fight for their right to be
          homosexuals. By their actions they were saying, "Our
          brothers had the right to do what they did."

          But God sent judgment, and in the ensuing battle 65,100
          men were killed (40,000 Israelites and 25,100
          Benjamites). The town was burned to the ground, with
          all its homosexuals. Gay Gibeah was left in smoldering
          ashes.

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             For Just One Act God Brought Judgment on Gibeah -
              But the Same Evil Happens Every Day In America!

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          A Dallas father recently traded his four-year-old son
          for a $40 hit of crack. When the mother rescued her boy
          the next day, the father became angry and violent.
          Imagine - a boy's life for a single fix! Yet the
          father, now facing prison, showed no regrets.

          In March, a Brooklyn woman and her teenage daughter
          kidnapped and murdered 19 year-old Raquel Montano so
          they could steal her three-year-old baby. The
          mother-and-daughter team bludgeoned Raquel, suffocated
          her, put her in a pushcart, left it at a gas station
          and set her body on fire.

          Picture that horrible scene - then witness the mother
          and daughter as they were indicted: nothing but
          hardness, coldness, indifference.

          America has become sick! I can't believe that God is
          not angry, that He is overlooking it all! I received a
          note recently from a well-known evangelist, saying,
          "Don't speak against America. Her best days are ahead.
          God is pleased!" Beloved, that is exactly what the
          Bible says the false prophets will claim in the last
          days!

          Almost daily, we hear of bloody, senseless mutilations
          across the nation. New York City does not even shed a
          tear when the Daily News reports:

          "Baby found in plastic bag near Fulton Street in
          garbage can..."

          "19-year-old socialite discarded, wrapped in rug -
          lying on top of garbage pile outside wealthy East Side
          apartment house..."

          "Police discover parts of four-year-old girl stuffed in
          suitcase, left in hallway of Bronx apartment house, set
          on fire..."

          How can we parade proudly about our victory at war when
          our public schools are turning into disgraceful
          sex-abuse centers? The New York Post reported on March
          20: "School Sex Shocker! Probe finds shocking sex abuse
          in schools. Millions victimized nationwide. One in five
          girls abused before age 16..."

          Teachers, custodians, superintendents, security guards
          - every level is involved in abusing our children. An
          executive assistant of a Bronx school board lured a
          thirteen-year-old boy to his apartment to watch porno
          movies and have sex. The American Association of School
          Administrators was shocked to find out that one in
          seven boys have been abused by school personnel.

          Today we see the sad, frightened faces of millions of
          innocent children who have been raped by men, forced
          into incest by their own parents, and seduced by
          teachers, preachers and priests. You can't tell me God
          is smiling on America! You can't say our holy, just
          Lord will sit by as millions more of our children are
          plundered, raped and destroyed.

          Has America reached the flash point of God's judgment?
          Are we already like all past societies that permitted
          the rise of a dominant, defiant homosexual spirit? I
          wonder if angels are already walking our streets,
          aghast at the speed at which we're racing toward hell.

          Rest assured, there is one thing God will not permit.
          And when it happens, you can know the hour of judgment
          has come:

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                   God Will Not Allow Homosexual Spirits
            to Trample His Holy Name or to Touch His Anointed -
                 and It Is Happening Right Now In America!

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          Cardinal John J. O'Connor has taken a strong stand
          against homosexuality here in New York. Now he is being
          mocked by the press. Even Calvin Butts, a prominent
          Baptist preacher here, called O'Conner a "gaybasher."
          Norman Lear is producing a TV series called "Sunday
          Dinner." The lead character is a flaky, legalistic
          Protestant girl who serves as the punching bag of
          homosexuals and New Agers. The show is going to mock
          every moral standard left in America. God will be
          ridiculed and made the butt of their jokes. You see,
          it's all part of the humanistic homosexual rights
          movement That's moving in now to trample all that is
          sacred and holy. You can hear the blasphemers crying,
          "God is Gay!"

          The final proof that America will soon be judged is in
          our pandering to homosexuals. For years now, the key
          word in America's attitude toward gays has been
          "tolerance." New York Mayor David Dinkins has said, "We
          cannot flinch in our responsibility to widen the circle
          of tolerance."

          In Maine, the Portland Press Herald (serving a
          conservative county) recently ran this story:
          "Presbyterian Task Force Recommends Ordaining
          Homosexuals." It says that a study called the Majority
          Report claims that homosexual activity is not a sin;
          rather, all sex is morally neutral.

          The report also contained this stand on adolescent sex:
          "Advocating 'just say no' is not the answer. What we
          hope to teach young people is to make good choices -
          that when it's right to say no they will say no, and
          when it's right to say yes they will say yes." I ask
          you: When in the world is it right for a child to say
          yes to sex?

          In the same newspaper, the Rev. Rose Mary Denmore, a
          lesbian, says she is angry that homosexual and lesbian
          ministers are kept from working with children. She
          says, "Keeping adult homosexuals separate from
          youngsters who may be homosexuals deprives them of
          adult confidantes they may need." Do you hear what she
          is saying? Now they want access to our children!

          It is one thing for homosexuals to come out of the
          closet and demand equal and special rights... to move
          into all levels of government and to influence the
          media... to lobby for privileges as married couples and
          adoptive parents... to gain enough power to insist that
          the Empire State Building be bathed in lavender lights
          in celebration of Gay Pride Week... and to have New
          York's mayor lead their parade, dance with them half
          the night, call them a discriminated minority and
          equate them with civil rights leaders and Martin Luther
          King....

          But it is another thing entirely when that spirit rises
          up to touch God's interests on this earth. That's when
          God says, "Enough!" And all through the Bible, that is
          the moment God moved.

          Beloved, God's judgment is already in motion. You can
          read it in the headlines. Consider the following:

          On February 14, USA Today reported two big stories on
          the same page. The first read: "San Francisco Takes
          Steps Towards Homosexual Matrimony." On Valentine's
          Day, dozens of gay couples walked arm-in-arm down the
          steps of City Hall to be legally recognized as a union.
          One lesbian said, "At last, the world will know how
          much we love each other."

          The other story read: "California Cursed By Drought:
          Water rationing coming to California... five straight
          years of drought... reservoirs bone dry..." The drought
          threatened the state's entire agricultural economy.
          Governor Pete Wilson stated, "This stubborn drought is
          a biblical curse." Rain has since come to California -
          but the drought is not yet over.

          A March 26 headline read: "Rain Drought - Twin Threats
          to Much of USA." Who is sending the rain in some places
          and drought in others? "And also I have withholden the
          rain from you, when there were yet three months to the
          harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and
          caused it not to rain upon another city" (Amos 4:7).
          God is behind it all!

          I honestly believe God delivered us from disgrace in
          the desert of Kuwait. Yet this nation is not turning to
          the Lord, apart from a holy remnant. "I have overthrown
          some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and
          ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet
          have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord" (Amos
          4:11).

          America can read of its own destiny - and doom - by
          simply blowing off the dust of historical accounts of
          God's dealings with other nations who continued in
          their sin. Romans 1 shows clearly why God's wrath is
          going to be poured out. This passage tells how
          homosexual lust tramples the truth, debauches society
          and brings down God's wrath.

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                                   AIDS

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          It is also time we faced the truth about AIDS. I feel I
          need to say this to you precious workers who minister
          to AIDS afflicted people: You have no right to preach
          Christ to them until you see their disease as God sees
          it - as a penalty for raging lust. "God gave them over
          to degrading passions... receiving in their own persons
          the due penalty of their error" (Romans 1:26-27, NAS).

          There can be no white-washing of AIDS. Like it or not,
          the Bible calls it the due penalty of sin. No, it isn't
          the due penalty for innocent babies or those who got
          AIDS through blood transfusions - but for homosexuals
          who flaunted their sins. It is a curse straight out of
          Leviticus 26.

          The church has but one message for homosexuals and
          lesbians. It is the same message we preach to addicts,
          alcoholics, and all who are enslaved by sin: "You must
          be set free - and only Christ can do it!"

          Saints of God, take a hard look at the power and
          influence that is rising up now. Radical ACT-UP
          homosexuals spat and vomited and disrupted Cardinal
          O'Connor's services at the cathedral. But who among the
          mocking media raised their voices then?

          God is trying to show us something prophetic: When this
          homosexual spirit rises up, its final move is against
          everything that is sacred, holy, righteous and moral.
          It wants to destroy everything godly - and to proclaim
          that theirs is the preferred life-style of society.

          The judgment on the Benjamites cost a total of 65,100
          lives. AIDS has already cost America much more than
          that. Within five years, 200,000 will be dead with
          AIDS. By the year 2000, more will have died than in all
          our country's wars combined!

          AIDS... drought... failing banks... growing homosexual
          power... mockery of all that is holy... The evidence of
          awesome judgments is on America! Let us give the Lord
          the righteous, reverent fear that is due Him:

          "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast
          them down to hell... to be reserved unto judgment; and
          spared not the world, but saved Noah... a preacher of
          righteousness, bringing in a flood upon the world of
          the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and
          Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow,
          making them an ensample unto those that after would
          live ungodly...

          "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
          temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of
          judgment to be punished" (2 Peter 2:4-6, 9).

          God is saying to us very clearly, "I judged angels,
          which I created, and I didn't spare Noah's sinful age.
          How can you expect to escape judgment if I had to
          destroy Sodom? Why should I spare America, when you
          flaunt the same sins?

          You ask, "But what does all this have to do with me?"
          Simply this: "See that ye refuse not him that speaketh.
          For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on
          earth, much more shall we not escape, if we turn away
          from him that speaketh from heaven" (Hebrews 12:25).
          "How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation"
          (Hebrews 2:3).

          America is reserved for judgment and the wrath of
          Almighty God, unless we cry out to Him. The church of
          Jesus Christ needs to pray and to take authority
          against this evil!

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          Box 260, Lindale, TX 75771 USA.

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