I GIVE YOU POWER
4-4-67


.......The prophet Joel tells us that this is what it is going to be. It will be in the days of the atom bomb, in the days of the elements dissolving in fervent heat. The power of God will triumph.

Now; let me point out to you that you are in a very historic position. The things not synchronized with the program of God are going to collapse. You have had the Negro revolution, you have had all of the trouble from Philadelphia, to Montgomery, to here. And from one side of your coast to another. And it has all been, so they say, a battle for human rights and civil rights. Then Martin Luther King stands up and he says ‘that now we want to ban the bomb, and stop this war against the Vietcong. We want to oppose this battle against communism.’ And now it is everything that is in the Communist line that they come out for. And now we see what is coming out, what they identify with. And they do this because it is their nature.

I am going to tell you that instead of letting him speak out it is time that you let the people of the kingdom speak out. Let them be the ones seen and heard. 80% of all of the letters that moved in on Washington this week were telling the president to get out of the Vietcong [sic], and let the communist have Asia. To stop resisting anywhere, to go ahead with the World Government, and not resist any longer. But this was a carefully planned strategy to deceive a people. Do you know what?---Do you know why the enemy does this? Just as we called your attention a week ago to the book of Jeremiah---You the great household of God's kingdom. You the great people of the household of Jacob whom God calls his inheritance, his people in the earth. HE said,---You are my battle axe, you are my weapons of war.---Why?---Because you are power against the darkness.

Understand this now. You are the power against the darkness. And since you are the power against the darkness, the important thing then is that this is a part of your destiny. You are thus to oppose the darkness, resist the darkness, and the enemy wants that --- needs that. And they put on all of the pressure so that you retreat here, and there, that you move out.

So what do we discover?----In this period of darkness,---God doesn't say that you are going to become weaker, that you are going to disarm, or that you are going to appease. There are some people who want to live in a fool's paradise. They want to think that they can say we like you and we are not going to resist anymore, and the world is going to get better. But this is not going to happen. It is triumph over the darkness with great power that will bring on a good world.

........We stand today in the defense in our time. God is still trying to make things come out right on earth and this reflects by events taking place. But God is still moving with power, and He is about to empower a kingdom of sons who understand. So when He says:---'I will give you power,' then He will do it. And you can have the power to command. But first you will obey so that He synthesizes you for this purpose.

So we tell you this afternoon that God will carry out his purposes, and the invincibility of his sons to perform will be carried out. And what He has purposed He will bring to pass. And He will give you the instruments to carry this out in the hour He joins you to give you more power. And brings in the hosts of heaven to carry it out. For the kingdom of heaven comes in with Power, and with strength. The only time we are in trouble is when we deny the Power. We have religion all over that does that, and we don't need that kind of religion. It has the form of Godliness but denies the power thereof. It must be Faith with power, and He says that HE gives you power to do these things.

THE TEN VIRGINS
5-28-67   [given the immediacy of comments about the Arab-Israeli confrontation, it's most likely this sermon was delivered on 6-4-1967, two days prior to the start of the Six Day War-dwd]


........There is no question about the strange pattern of our times. Never have we lived in a day quite like this one. I think we are in one of the most fantastic periods of disintegration which is possible for an administration, or a nation to go into. Yet, it will be one of the most regenerating periods in the history of your nation as God’s great Christian Majority---HIS TRUE CHURCH OF THE RIGHT WING,---stands up to deliver in the name of YAHWEH-YAHSHUA.

For instance, let me point this out to you. What is so foolish after the massive burning of Watts, after the catastrophe involved there? After the Negro riots with their second class capacity for citizenship, and their peculiar and twisted mental attitudes as they fired on policemen and firemen, and --- they torched their OWN CITY, AND BURNED IT DOWN.

Now, out of all this mess, we see the apologizers who say these people weren’t treated right. And they find all avenues to explain away their conduct. But I think we had one of the most vicious occurrences this week in this city [Los Angeles] when out of the Health and Welfare Department of the U.S. Government, a cabinet post--with a Negro at the head of that department, they gave $383,000.00 to establish an alert patrol inside of Watts. A Police Department, my friends, armed with rifles and shotguns, pistols, and automatic carbines. Why? To go between the people of Watts and the Police Department of your own city. And there they were to observe the CRUELTY OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND TAKE CARE OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY. But the main thing is that they are to go between Watts and the Police Department. But who are they to turn their guns on? You and I know. The Police Department and the righteous people. Who ever heard of anything as fantastic as that? They have far too much money, my friends, if they have $383,000.00 for a group of Negroes when almost every last one of them is a convicted felon, or was up for delinquency as a juvenile, and is now in his later years. These are the people who will move into this ‘Alert Core.’ So you have these areas of fantasy reaching out for you.

Do you know, my friends, what the issues really are right now? Do you know that what the Negroes are waiting for in Watts? They are waiting for the grass which has grown after these tremendous rains we have had, to get thoroughly dry around your city, where the forests come down to the city, and where many places the grass grows all around your home sites. They are only waiting for June or July, and then the Negroes, under Communist influence, and under this organization which the Police Department is watching --- they are going to torch this grass and start a fire storm and turn your city into a holocaust. And as firemen rush out to put out the fires in your foothills and forests, they then are going to ---while using gas cans-- start torching the areas of San Marino and Burbank and Glendale and Beverly Hills. They have even laid out the areas. And as the police rush into the areas where the fires have started, they are going to machine gun down the policemen of Los Angeles. Three quarters of the policemen of L.A. have been marked for death, in this orgy set for next month. If you don’t think this is true, ---I have a police department memo which says it is true. Not only is it true, but they plan on liquidating your Police Department. They plan on burning down the White industries of the city. They have maps to identify the industries. And Mayor Yorty went up to the Legislature in Sacramento to try to see if there wasn’t something they could do, because of all these markings against the major industries on their map, as they were going to move to destroy. Of course, they said at the Legislature that they couldn’t do anything UNTIL THEY DID IT. This is the policy of these strange appeasers, as they move into the policies of Communism. It is a Negro--Communist revolution, using the Negroes as the shock troops.

Professors out of Harvard University and other Negroes said last week, ‘We had 30,000 people who set off the Soviet Revolution. We have 2 and 1/2 to 3 million Negroes armed and ready out of the 21 million Negroes in the United States. Well, three million Negroes may be the understatement. For he said that there would be 1000 Watts in the L.A. area turned loose at once. And one thing they are counting on is that they will not be able to send the National Guard in to Los Angeles, because Oakland and San Francisco will be hit within the hour of the second Watts in this city. The thing is, this is not going to be in Watts, this time, but all over the city. Everywhere in this city.

Last week about a million people went out of this city on a holiday. You never saw so many campers and trailers trying to get out of this city. They were practicing. In fact, one of them said, ‘I was just trying to find what route to take to get out of the city with my family. This is the reason we bought the camper.’ So all of these people, when you check--were practicing on how to go about getting out of the city. But, my friends, you aren’t going to get out of the city. For they are planning on setting gasoline fires on highways to block the highways. And traffic will be blocked for miles and miles. It isn’t a matter of getting in or out of the city. It is just that you are in the latter days and the Communist revolution is upon you.

But the foolish virgins are saying, ‘Now listen, these are your brothers and you are just going to have to learn to love them, that is all there is to it.’ More than this, my friends, we are in the hour (15 years ?) [sic, transcriber's interpolation-dwd] --when the areas of tremendous catastrophe will descend upon whole areas which think they are quite safe. They move into the Police Department and into their intelligence divisions and they say, ‘We must disarm the citizens. There can’t be any trouble, if we just disarm all the citizens.’ But they know that the Negroes have machine guns, and have lots of money which they gained from selling the loot after the Watts riots and they have been buying and shipping in machine guns. Yet, the police are to disarm everyone but---those Negroes who have the arsenals. They say they don’t know where these arsenals are, but they also don’t want any of the Whites to be armed, or there will be a terrible catastrophe. But you just think of the catastrophe, if the Negroes take over.....

Yes, we are in the midst of these peculiar situations. The strange thing is that there is an apology from the foolish virgins, but the parable is rather short. The Midnight hour is come, and then the TRUE CHURCH is speaking out against the policies of evil, and the policies of darkness. It is advocating that the return of Christ is going to occur and this will have a mighty impact and influence upon the affairs of the world.

Do you realize that Russia sort of calls the turn [tune]. You have been fighting very hard in Vietnam. And they say you need to send more troops until there are as many troops there as we had on some of the fronts in W.W. II. We are fighting Communism and this is understandable because Armageddon fights Communism. [I have no idea what that's supposed to mean-dwd] But the Administration is not permitted to win. Because it is twisted up by the responsibility of the ‘foolish virgins’ in their drive to help the enemy. Whole areas of the church are calling on the President all the time. Not to bomb the Vietcong, but let our men go in there to fight and die. Let the Reds have their areas of escape in Cambodia and Laos. It’s alright for them to have these sanctuaries, just send our men over. But don’t fight the war to win. These policies seem to be followed very well by this administration.

Here is one thing that is rather strange. The Peace Nix’s [sic, "peaceniks"] marched 65,000 strong in San Francisco, and 125,000 in New York, saying, ‘No war. Love everybody.’ All the Jewish organizations say, ‘We don’t want war.’ Then Soviet Russian decided to open up a second front, to extend our lines thinner, and it put us in a rather strange position. So Israeli [Swift's term "Israeli" for the modern nation of Israel-dwd] moves and opens up a front by invading Syria, and eleven people died. This is the usual type of raid with the sporadic type of Israeli warfare and their abortive operation. They may accuse Egypt or the other Arab States, but Israeli has been killing Christians and Arabs alike. [apparently making the unusual distinction between Arabs as Muslims and Arabs who are Christians -- and therefore okay despite being Arabs-dwd] And they put Arabs into the Negev desert by the thousands. And now Israeli starts this kind of strange crisis because she and Russia thought this would be wise. And the United Nations troops are caught in the middle. As Mr. Nassar [Gamal Abdel Nasser, leader of Egypt] brings up 200 tanks to his borders, and 125,000 men come forward in Syria, the United Nations is told to get out, so they don’t get hurt as the Arabs plan to push the Israeli’s into the sea.

So---where are all the Peace-Nix now? They held a meeting here in Los Angeles yesterday. And they claimed there were 500,000 Jews saying we must get into the war, we must save Israel. But just last week, they were saying ‘no war’ against the Vietcong, love everybody, don’t kill anyone.’ They sold bonds like they were popcorn here, to raise money for Israel. The Beatniks now want to get the United States into this war in the Mid-East. But I don’t thing anyone ought to go over there and fight for the Jews. But we should look maybe at this situation in another light. For if these people who must be American citizens, now want to go fight, we should give them a special status of volunteers and cheer as we let them go. I think that it would be one of the greater areas of deliverance in America from all the Peace-Nix who have now turned to birds of prey, and now want to go over and fight for the Jews. Let’s help them get there. 500,000 Jews here in L.A. may not be the right number, maybe it is one million. But it would help if they all go.

.....Someone said, ‘what does it all mean?’ Well, we don’t have time to finish this subject, but you are in the Midnight hour. When you see armies encompassing Jerusalem, and armies inside of Jerusalem, you are seeing the armies in Jerusalem ready to pounce on Jordan, to try to get the site where the Mosque of Omar stands. Right now, the Mohammadans [Muslims] are one-third of the world population. From Pakistan their leaders speak out, and from Saudi-Arabia, from Iraq, from Iran, and from Jordan, and even Yemen,----and even tho they are battling with Egypt, they are saying, ‘Well, we will put our soldiers in to stop the Israeli---let us have a Jihad.’ All over the Mohammadan world this means a Holy War.

Just think. You are fighting Communism and all the powers of anti-Christ and all the powers of Darkness. Do you want to take on all the Mohammadans as well?---one-third of the world population?---No, I guess not.

In fact, the Mohammadans were walking toward Christianity. The Arab states were walking toward us. And if it had not been for the deception of our foreign policy in the areas of supplying them with material, the Arabs would not be in the plight they are in.

While this is going on, Russia wants to grab up the oil and the Jews want to put a squeeze on the Arabs, until they are in the nutcracker. But the world will know that they can move into W.W. III---for if could well have started in the areas of the Vietcong. And the world 3/5 of it under Communism will turn on you---the Western nations.

Again, we are waiting on something. The coming of the Bridegroom. HE has assured us that HE will come. HE said however, something concerning these pastors--the false virgins. ‘My pastors have destroyed MY vineyards.’ (Jeremiah 12:8-10)

‘My heritage is unto me as birds round about, all are against her (Israel). All beasts have come, have assembled--to devour. Many pastors---carrying the doctrine of ‘foolish virgins’ have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant and beautiful land a wilderness.’

........Yes, these ‘foolish pastors’ are advocating the plans of the World Order and the Anti-Christ.

God said, ‘I am going to step in and destroy this.’ But in that hour of HIS coming, it will be the church which denounces this evil, the church that stands against this evil, the church that stands for the TRUTH OF GOD, and is calling for the Regeneration of men. Calling for the renewing of their minds. Who are siting that it is high time to wake out of our sleep, to realize your salvation is nearer than you think. That you will enter in, as they illuminate the way for the remarriage of God and HIS bride in this pattern of prophecy and the scripture.

We don’t have time to finish this subject, but as we look up and look around, we are well aware that we are in the Midnight hour, the climactic hour.