Watchman What Of The Night?

The times we live in are monumental in scope.

The cold war is a thing of the past, now we face a new adversary. War with Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan is looking possible. Things are happening in the middle East today that is setting the stage for the Antichrist to appear. "The image which Nebbuchadnezzar saw, the old Roman Empire, is being revived", Ten nations coming together looking for an answer to world problems, when it seems like there is none"

In Daniel it speaks about a man that’s going to come, and he’s going to seemingly cause prosperity to come about. He’ll be a great speaker, flattering men with his words, but he is actually a deceiver, He is the Anti-Christ. And I believe with all my heart, we are on the brink of the tribulation period. This is a crucial time for the church.

In the 1960’s, Kruchev, the leader of Soviet Russia went to New York City, He went into the U.N. and took off his shoe and pounded it on the table and said, "In 20 years communism is going to take over the world, and we’ll take over this country without firing a shot. But listen, 20 years have come and gone, Kruchev is dead, Communism is almost gone, but the church of the living God has been gaining ground everyday since. Why?, because God is in her midst!

The Bible says, "When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Lord will raise up a standard against him" He said, "On this Rock I will build my church, and "The gates of Hell shall not prevail against it" I heard a song that said, "I stood upon the Rock in fear and trembling, but the Rock beneath me hath never shook."

The church has moved into Russia, China, behind the bamboo curtain, How did it do it?,

By standing firm upon the Rock, and not wavering under fear and unbelief! "It’s not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit saith the Lord."

Gorbachev when he was in power had a meeting to relax the tight restrictions against the church because they found out that the more they persecuted the church, the stronger they became. The greater the membership grew. The church has always become stronger in times of persecution! Prosperity always breeds ruin!

God’s always allows something devastating to bring back our nation and his church to where they ought to be. The policy in Russia used to be to round up the Christians and put them on railroad lines in the remote regions of Siberia, but they found that every time the railroad would move on there was a small group of Christians left behind.

The gospel was being spread, and they were furnishing the transportation and means to accomplish it. What man will do and mean it for harm, God has ways of turning things around. It’s a known fact throughout history that persecution and vexation makes the church come together in unity.

You give some people freedom of religion and you have a drop in church attendance, and a rise in crime. I say, God send the church some old fashion vexation. I’m telling you today that the church will prevail against any onslaught of the devil because it’s built on the ROCK, Jesus Christ.