Living by the Spirit: Perseverance, Persecution, Healing, and the Promise of Eternal Life

Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo

The opening transcription is garbled as “Will Pastor, Travia Lamo,” but the closing identifies the speaker as “World Pastor Tony Alamo,” and throughout the program he refers to himself as Tony, discusses his late wife Susie/Susan Alamo, and speaks in the first person about the ministry. The identification as Tony Alamo is therefore clear from the transcript itself.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina

The host says, “Then, Tina, you’re going to read something here,” and repeatedly prompts the reader with phrases such as “continue on,” “then what?” and “go ahead.” The raw transcript does not consistently mark every speaker transition, so the passages read from the tract are assigned to this speaker where the handoff is reasonably clear.

Speaker 3 – Sharon / Closing Announcer

Near the conclusion, the host says, “Now, Sharon, tell them four ways to receive a copy of program number 246.” The contact and ordering information that follows is therefore assigned to Sharon.

Speaker 4 – Congregation / Off-Mic Responses

Brief “Amen” responses appear at several points and are treated as congregation or off-mic responses where they are clearly separate from the host’s sentence.

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Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Hello again. This is World Pastor Tony Alamo. We’re in Part 144 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You. There’s no way to enter the Kingdom of Heaven unless the life of God is living in you through Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

This will be program number 246, and if you’d like a copy of it, Sharon will tell you four different ways to receive it. You can ask for a CD or an audiotape copy. It’s free of charge. Postage and handling are free also.

Right now, let’s go to the throne of the living God and ask the Lord to anoint this service.

Father, we thank and praise Your holy name for Your Word, because Your Word leads, guides, and directs us. We need to know, even today, where we should live and even what we should eat and not eat. Your Word says for us to pray over our food because there are so many poisonous things in food.

[Unclear subject] has poisoned food and eaten it, and people have poisoned themselves and died attempting to prove that the Word of God is true. But You told us not to tempt You, Father—not to tempt You at all. There is enough poison and contamination in this world’s food.

These different companies are paying huge dollars to the government not to eighty-six their poisonous food. People are eating these things and dying, so from Your Word I caution everyone to pray over your food.

This is why I love the Lord so much. He gives us direction, and it’s so sensible. No one is sensible in this entire world but You, Father. That’s why we should love Your Word, because it is a lamp unto our feet and shows us the way we should go—how to walk and where to walk, what to say and what not to say, what is truth and what is false, what is real and what is not real.

Lord, I’m going to serve this. Let everything that is said come directly from Your mouth through me, so that the people in the world listening to this program will be able to receive and understand everything that’s being said, that their souls might be saved and the church might be edified.

You have shown us through Your Word that we’re living in the very last days, and we have no certain dwelling place. Don’t get yourself so established, if you’re a Christian, in any certain place that you put all your finances into one certain place. We’re pilgrims in this world. We’re just passing through. We’re like sheep among wolves, and You don’t want us to have a certain dwelling place on this earth because our certain dwelling place is in the Kingdom of Heaven.

We should live in the Spirit, by the Spirit, so we can know when to move and when to stay. When the children of Israel were sent into Babylon because of their sins, You told them they were going to be there for quite a while—to have sons and daughters, build houses, plant gardens, and do all these different things—because You knew, and it was Your Word that told them, that they were going to be there for a while, seven years.

You wanted them to replenish, to have children. The world Antichrist government doesn’t want anybody to have children. Everything that You say, Father, they are against. Because of the fact that they’re teaching everyone to rebel against Your Word, You state in Your Word that You’re going to destroy them.

Lord, I thank You and praise You that You’ve given me understanding and wisdom so that I don’t wind up like them. I praise You and thank You, Father, for showing other people the truth, because when we know the truth, the truth shall set us free.

This world is not our living place. We’re not going to be here much longer, and we need to obey Your Word in order to survive. In Jesus’ name, we thank You, Father.

Speaker 4 – Congregation / Off-Mic Responses:

Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

All right. We need to realize that we don’t need anybody but Jesus. We need one another if we are one body with Christ, and we need each other, but if we’re all in Christ and we have problems to settle, we go to the Word, and the Word settles that for us.

We don’t go to unsaved people who don’t know what day it is or the time they’re living in. Jesus is all that we need for tomorrow. I’m singing a song like that, and here I am saying, praise the Lord, let Him be all you need for tomorrow and today also.

Amen.

Listen, another day that the Lord has made—and this is the day. This is the day that the Lord has made, so let’s make every bit of it count. Amen?

Speaker 4 – Congregation / Off-Mic Responses:

Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Well, we’re going to continue on a piece of literature that Susie and I wrote. Part of it was written while Susie was alive, and then the rest of it I put together with words she had said before she died. After she died, I wrote this tract with her words as well. It’s called Framed.

In these last days they’re going to railroad even real [unclear] people who are of the Lord, and people probably who are going to be of the Lord, into prison. They’ll railroad you into death chambers. They’ll want to execute you. But we have the Lord, and if we’re in the Spirit, God is going to guide us where to go, how long to stay there, and what to do. You don’t have to worry about a thing.

The Lord says that His people perish for lack of knowledge, and God has all wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.

If you’re banking on this world government, the media, and the Catholic cult, the Bible says Satan is living in the Roman Empire, in the city of the seven hills. The only ones there that we see living in the Roman Empire who could match what the Bible talks of as the Antichrist is the Vatican. If you want to ignore that, that’s your business. The Lord never forces you.

So it’s the Roman Catholic cult, the Roman Empire, the world government, and its media. Now they’re totally against Jews. Why is the whole world so upset against the Jewish people? Because they were raised from the dead. We’re a nation of people that have been raised from the dead. You can’t figure us out, really, can you?

We’re a lot different than a Gentile because Gentiles have not been raised from the dead. We Jews came out of a dead woman’s womb, Sarah, and a dead man’s loins, Abraham. It doesn’t make any difference how long ago that was. We’re still Jews, those of us who are Jews.

God said He was going to return us to His homeland, and He has, in 1947, 1947 and ’48. That ended the Gentile dispensation of time. Instead of being jealous of us, you should listen to what we have to say because we’re only out after your best interests.

According to the Lord, the Lord raised us up to write the Bible and also to bring forth the Messiah. The Messiah was the seed of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the root of Jesse, the Lion from the tribe of Judah. He didn’t come from Gentiles. He came from a resurrected race of people. There’s none like us in the world. We are resurrected from a dead man and a dead woman beyond the age of having children, and so we’re supernatural.

There are a lot of us who are not of the Lord. “Not all Israel is Israel,” the Bible says. But it is something how, when we are saved, Jesus proved that He was a Jew because He was the first resurrected from the dead—the first one resurrected from the dead and ascended into the Kingdom of Heaven. He’s the first.

If we want to be like Him, if we want to live in the Kingdom of Heaven, then we must ask Jesus, with His Father and the Holy Spirit, to enter our souls. That way we’re able to ascend into the Kingdom of Heaven on the last day.

Now here’s the piece of literature. The reason we’ve been persecuted so much is simple. All it does is show me that we’re definitely supernatural beings, because there’s no way that the Gentile nations would have been after us as much as they have if we weren’t in the Lord and the Bible.

Jesus said all those who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. A lot of people go to church, but a lot of them who go to church aren’t godly. They think every day is going to be the same, when in reality, if you’re in the Spirit, you’re going to be doing different things every day.

That’s what’s so exciting about being a Christian: there’s a new day. I see people get up and they’re just full of drudgery. Everything is humdrum, and they think it’s going to go on forever. These are the Gentiles. They just think everything is the same and everything is going to be the same.

But the Lord has different messages every day, in case you haven’t noticed. All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Jesus said, “They did it to Me, and they’re going to do it to you if My Spirit is living in you, because you’re the continuation of My incarnation on earth. I am in you.”

You’re not just flesh, like false prophet Jim Bakker says. He says, “We’re flesh, we’re flesh, we’re flesh.” We’re going to say that and we’re still going to get [unclear]. Jim Bakker is a liar. Therefore, he thinks that he can be a homosexual. He thinks that he can have illicit love affairs with different people.

But this is for your own sake, Jim. You can’t even be born again unless you’ve gone so far [unclear]. The Lord has very precious words about you teaching people the wrong thing. When someone teaches people the wrong thing and teaches them to rebel against God’s Word, He says, “I’ll destroy.”

So you people who are teaching false words regarding the Lord, God is going to destroy you sooner or later.

Now Tammy Faye Bakker does the same thing, and she’s eaten up with cancer. You see, she’ll see that of cancer. Yes, she did.

I have told you that the reason for that was because Susie didn’t want to witness and testify anymore because so many of the people that we witnessed and testified to turned out to be wicked. What they did was come into the church after we led them to the Lord and they received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

We had the number one clothing store in the nation. [Unclear phrase in source.] They got brand-new boots. Their teeth were missing because they had taken so many drugs. They had hepatitis and everything. We led them back to their health. We got them new glasses because they couldn’t see well. We put teeth in their head. Then they wanted a basket to just take off after they got all fixed up.

Well, you know, that’s well and good. A lot of those people are dead now. But that doesn’t give Susie the right to stop witnessing. Those who continue on to the end shall be saved, and those who continue on to the end are people who will be able to partake in the promises.

The Lord—we’re in the commonwealth of the Kingdom of Heaven. People have to learn how to live the Kingdom life rather than the humdrum everyday life. When I see people lagging, getting up in the morning and laying around in their beds, I know they are not children of the Kingdom. People are not fiery. They don’t have the leading of the Lord. There’s no excitement in their life because all they’re thinking about is their carnal selves.

Of course, that doesn’t bother me, but it should bother them. They don’t have enough sense to be bothered by that sort of thing.

Nevertheless, I told her, “Sue, we have to continue preaching the Gospel. What do you care if they criticize us? We’re doing what the Lord says. Jesus died for all sinners, even those who come against us and some who use us. But we are the victors because we have eternal life. They can mess up as much as they want, but if we don’t mess up, then we’re going to be the victors in the last day. We’re going to rise from the dead and we’re going to be in the Kingdom of Heaven.”

“You’ve got this cancer, Sue. See, one of the promises of the Lord and the commonwealth of the Kingdom of Heaven is that you will be healed.”

She said, “I can’t help it, Tony. I just can’t help it. I can’t take any more of this. These people—we see them on television talking bad about us after we’ve done all those things for them.”

I said, “What does it matter? It doesn’t really make any difference. Definitely we can overcome these things. But I don’t want you to die.”

She said, “I can’t help it.”

I said, “What about me? I don’t want to live without you. I don’t want to be without you. You’re my other half—I mean, my best half. Come on. At least let me go out and witness and testify.”

She said, “The news media will come in.”

I said, “I’ll do the interviews. I’m not afraid of them.”

She said, “You’re too pushy. I mean, you come on too strong. They’re going to crucify you.”

I said, “I’m not worried about being crucified. The Lord was crucified, and I’m not better than Him.”

So there are people out there like Tammy Faye Bakker. You’ve got cancer, but you’re approving of homosexuality. You’re saying that we’re flesh and that no one is perfect, when the Bible plainly states—and all those who live godly in Christ Jesus are perfect.

In the eighth chapter of the Book of Romans, it says there’s no condemnation to those who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. That means if we’re in the Spirit, there’s no condemnation to us. If there’s no condemnation, if we can still get into Heaven, then we are perfect.

So all you false prophets out there are teaching that we can’t be perfect. Well, then that’s sad for you because you’re going to go into hell. We have to—we must be perfect to get into Heaven.

Anyway, I’ll leave you with that little amount.

Then, Tina, you’re going to read something here from this piece of literature called Framed. That frames some things, and they tried to frame me, but I’m still in the Spirit. I still praise the Lord. I still have joy unspeakable. I have peace and joy. There’s no peace or joy in this world unless you’re in Jesus.

So I pray that you’ll accept the Lord Jesus Christ so that you can have peace in this world of turmoil, with all these insiders doing all the filthy things they’re doing. I pray that you’ll accept the Lord today and have peace, happiness, joy unspeakable and full of glory.

All right. Let’s continue on. We started this yesterday, and we’re going to continue on: how Satan hated Susie for making that decision.

Now, the decision—if you heard the first tape on this, you’ll know that she made a decision to continue counseling the Christians who were already in the church. If somebody came and wanted to be in the church and seemed sincere—some of them seemed so sincere at first, and then they’d just fall away.

This is the decision she made: she wouldn’t go and get operated on. She’d forget about being operated on and just stay in the ministry. At that time, I was young in the ministry. I was a new Christian.

She had this cancer after we were married, and it took 17 years for her to die. I think we had been married and I had been in the ministry for about seven years at this point.

I’ve been in the ministry now 42 years, but this was around seven years when she made that decision. We went to a doctor, a woman doctor, and she said, “You have to have an operation.”

All these health-food nuts in health-food stores would say, “Ah, don’t get operated on. The minute they open that up, it’s going to spread very fast throughout your body.” I know now that they are liars, because when she didn’t have it opened up, she died.

Since then, there are several people in the church who had cancer, and I told them to cut it out immediately. There’s Dan Hagen [name uncertain], and he is still alive, and he’s had several children since I told him to have that operation. Then there are others. Sister Broderick [name uncertain] had cancer in the breast. They cut it off, and she’s still alive.

So if you have cancer, get it cut out. That’s the best way. And if you have cancer, consider: are you doing everything that the Lord said? Because He said He’ll heal you. As a matter of fact, He said you’re already healed.

Somebody says, “You won a million dollars. I’ve already put a million dollars in the bank for you. You just have to receive it,” and you don’t do it—that’s on you. Well, the Lord says it’s already in the bank. You’ve been healed, and if you receive it, the healing will take place as long as you’re doing all the things that the Lord tells you to do.

Now the Word of God is Jesus. He says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ”—in other words, believe on the whole Word of God—and thou shalt be saved, and thou shalt be healed, and thou shalt be prosperous. You’ll be able to cast devils out of people because it’s the power in you.

Those signs—you’ll be able to lay hands on people and pray, and they will be healed. They’ll recover. These are some of the signs that follow those who believe. You’ll be able to call on God in all sorts of situations. You’ll be able to raise the dead.

I didn’t know for sure about that. I saw it in the Scriptures, and one day a bunch of people came over to my little cottage at our number five property and said one of the men had a car fall on him and he was dead. They asked, “Could you come and pray for him, that he’d be raised from the dead?”

I said, “Oh my, these are all young Christians. Lord, You’ve got to raise this man from the dead or their religious faith [will be affected].” So I got myself dressed. They came to the door and said, “Are you coming or not?”

I said, “Look, if he’s dead, if God’s going to raise him from the dead, it doesn’t make any difference if I brush my teeth, does it? I can even trim my toenails if I want to.”

So I went clear across the field to where he was, on Sierra Highway in Saugus, California, at our number five property. He was lying there. I listened to his heart. There was nothing. I put a little mirror under his nose, and there was no vapor coming out. We checked him for a long time and tried to find a pulse. They said, “He’s dead.”

They said, “Well, the Lord said these signs will follow those who believe.” In the meantime, I’m saying under my breath, “Lord, don’t let me down, because if You let me down, You’re letting these people down.”

I said, “In the name of Jesus, rise up from the dead.”

The man immediately jumped up and said, “Why is everybody staring at me?”

They were all saying, “You were dead!”

He said, “Get out of here.” He wouldn’t believe it.

You want to know something? About a week later he left the church. There’s gratitude for you, right? What happened is this big vehicle fell down on him, crushed him, and killed him. Well, I think he praised the Lord, you know.

So whether he left the church or not, he was dead and everybody saw that miracle. There were a lot of people, and he was lying there without any breath in him for probably about ten minutes before they came to get me. Then it took me about ten or fifteen minutes to get to him, and they saw no life in him at all. He was dead. Now he’s alive.

But then he fell away from the Lord, so he’s really dead spiritually now. That’s where you don’t want to be.

Okay, now let’s start reading.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

So the devil hated the fact that Susie just continued ministering to the church rather than going in and getting an operation and then spending time rehabilitating. She did that, so Satan hated it.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Okay, continue on.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

And how he still hates Tony and the brothers and sisters here at the church today. He had been aiming everything he had at Susan, at Tony, and at this church. He used one government agency after another to bring false accusations against us, dragging us from one courtroom to another.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Right. We’re going to read some literature here written by an FBI man who infiltrated our church. He came into the church so that he could bring false accusations against us, and then he got saved. He was in the church and told all about how the government had sent him into our church to bring false accusations against us, and he got saved.

Sort of like John Peeler [name uncertain]. John, as far as I know, has never been in the church, but he read one of my pieces of literature, and he called it “Another Pearl Harbor” [title uncertain]. He said that it sent chills through him because he realized this was a true ministry when he read that.

He said that I hadn’t even touched the tip of the iceberg, because he admitted that he was involved in the Waco massacre, the bombing at the federal building in Oklahoma City, and also the World Trade Center. He said it was all insiders. We FBI people, and the BATF—Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms—and other agencies were involved in all these things.

Then they said it was these people from Iraq. I know I’m coming again and saying the exact opposite of what the news media says, but the news media is Satan’s mouth, and you shouldn’t believe anything they say.

The exception is if somebody got hit by a car and they’re reporting that, because you can verify it, and that makes them look semi-honest. Or there’s an election going on, or an earthquake happens someplace, or a tsunami—then you can believe them. But anything they’re saying in regard to the Bible, or anything that has to do with your soul, don’t believe them.

Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

Twenty-four hours before Susie’s death, while she was in a coma, federal marshals marched into her room at the hospital. They began pulling her bed out of the room with her IV, saying they were there to pick her up so she could testify in court.

It was through the valiant efforts of Dr. Hogue [spelling uncertain] at the Oral Roberts Hospital in Tulsa that their evil mission was stopped. After two and a half hours of his pleading to the judge by phone that Susan Alamo could not testify and would probably be dead by morning, the judge finally gave in.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Right. The judge got cancer right at that time, and I called him because the Bible says to overcome evil by doing good. I called him and said, “Judge, if you need any help, I hear you’ve got cancer. If you need anybody to run errands for you, then we’ll provide people to help you. If you need anything, just let me know.”

He said, “Tony, I’m doing fine. I’ve got my own church, and I’ve got this cancer overcome.”

No more than a month or two after that, he died. I’m sure that unless somehow he got right with the Lord before that, his soul’s in hell right now.

You say, “You’re judging?” No, I’m not. I’m just telling you what the Bible says. We are commanded to use the Bible to judge everything, even ourselves, because before going before the judgment bar of God, we better know that we lived a life according to the judgment of the Lord. If we don’t, God’s not going to have any mercy on you. If you don’t have mercy enough to keep the commandments of the Lord, then God’s not going to have mercy on you to let you enter Heaven.

Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

After Susan’s death that evening, the news media had a field day. They mocked her funeral, mocking our church for closing our businesses while we were in mourning. It made Pastor Alamo and the rest of us see how really true the Bible is.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

We knew that before. I knew it before, but it really came home when that happened. Then what else?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

The Lord said that devilish people—

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

They were playing the Everly Brothers, who are friends of mine, their record “Wake Up Little Susie,” and laughing and joking about it. Many of those people—I know they were radio announcers—they’re dead now also. Don’t play with God’s people.

Okay, then what else?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

The Lord said that devilish people in the last days would do these kinds of evil things. Although the world said we were finished and our work would fold up, it didn’t realize this work was founded on the Word of God, and it was a supernatural work.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

They were just recently saying that I was dead and that the work is defunct now and all that, when in reality we’re all over the world now. They said I’m defunct, the Word of God is defunct, and the ministry is over with.

No. You people of the world government are over with. The Bible says that you are condemned. You people who are the world government, the Antichrist church, and the media—you’re finished. You’re finished, and I’m going to live on forever in Heaven.

You’re finished. You’re over with. I want you to know that, unless you repent. Some of you are not going to repent because you’ve blasphemed the Holy Spirit, and there’s no forgiveness for that in this world or in the world to come.

Keep going.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

Our work is truly sent from God. When one servant goes to God’s paradise, where everything is perfect and joyful and no wickedness exists, other bold, faithful servants are sent by the Lord to continue His work.

We have prepared and fortified our hearts to fight Satan harder and stronger despite the intense persecutions that have followed. The Lord has used us to wake up a lot of the world. The Lord has given Pastor Alamo many messages from the Word of God, which we have published and distributed by the hundreds of millions.

We have received letters of support and encouragement from thousands of Christian pastors and laymen around the world. As the Lord says in Exodus 1:12, “The more they afflicted them,” God’s people, the Hebrew children, “the more they multiplied and grew.”

God is adding many godly helpers, people with different abilities and people in many other lands. The Word of God, like a flame of fire, is sweeping the earth.

“And I heard a voice from Heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

And it was hard for a woman eaten up with cancer for 17 years to carry on a work, even if she wanted to. But what she did—she didn’t just sit idle. She built the Georgia Ridge [name uncertain]. She told me what to do up there, and I built it.

She said, “You know, we can go out witnessing and testifying, but we can’t carry our babies out on the street. It’s a real good thing for us to establish some houses and a nice place for people to live. One half of them can go out and witness and testify and distribute literature while the other half is resting. When they come in, the other half goes out, and they have a home, a place to go to.”

So even though it’s not a certain dwelling place, because of some of the sins of the people who were in the church—not all were sinners, but some of them—what happened was the property got taken away.

That also showed us that, thank God, Susie was not here when all that happened and when I went to prison, because I wouldn’t have wanted you to have gone through that. When you have cancer, your nerves are shot and everything is hard for you to go on.

But I don’t have cancer, and I’m going to, as the Bible tells us, continue on to the end, because only those who continue on serving the Lord to the end and those who weary not in well-doing are going to be saved.

Don’t weary in well-doing. Make sure that you continue doing well for the Lord to the very end of your life. All right? Go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

[The introductory phrase concerning the Holy Alamo Christian Church and Susan Alamo’s work is incomplete in the source.]

The government and the news media keep stating that I, Tony Alamo, said I would raise Susan from the dead. I never said that. No one can furnish a tape or any of my writings stating such a sacrilegious thing.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

No. I know I can’t raise anybody. When I prayed for that man, I prayed that God would raise him up from the dead, and God did. Amen.

I prayed because I loved Susie more than anybody I ever loved in my life. I prayed to the Lord that He would raise her up, because I don’t put it past the Lord. The Bible says, “Why should it seem impossible that God could raise the dead?”

God made us all out of the dirt of the ground, and the Bible says everyone is going to be raised from the dead in the last day.

Speaker 4 – Congregation / Off-Mic Responses:

Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

So why would it seem impossible for God to raise the dead? He can do whatever He wants. He raised Lazarus from the dead.

Speaker 4 – Congregation / Off-Mic Responses:

Amen. Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Okay. The Apostle Paul raised a person from the dead, and there are other people who have done the same thing. But it’s not them that did it. It was the Spirit of the Lord.

I prayed, but Susie told me before she died, “Tony, I’m going to die.” She said, “It doesn’t make any difference if you pray for me to be healed. I’m going to die because the Lord told me. I’m going to be gone for quite a while, and then God’s going to raise me from the dead, and we’re going to be the two witnesses.”

Many people came to us during the time that we were married and told us, “You’re the two witnesses. You’re the two witnesses.”

The two witnesses are going to be the most hated people on the face of the earth. People are going to send presents to one another like it’s a holiday when they are killed and lying in the street. Then on the third day they’re raised up from the dead and ascend into Heaven the very same way Jesus ascended into Heaven, in a cloud. There’s going to be an earthquake, and people are going to be frightened out of their wits.

I said, “Sue, are we?” Before she told me that, just before she died, I said, “Are we the two of us?”

She said, “Tony, those people have to be so consecrated that no one would want to be one of the two witnesses because they’re going to go through so much fire that no one would want to be the two.”

I said, “Well, I don’t want to, but I mean, are we?”

She said, “I don’t care what I am. I just want to be whatever the Lord wants me to be. If I am one of them, I wouldn’t mind knowing.”

Well, the two witnesses are Enoch, who came back because he never died. He went into the Kingdom of Heaven, and the spirit of Enoch came into a person on this earth and his wife. Those are the two witnesses.

A lot of people who don’t know the Bible very well say it’s Elijah and Enoch. But Elijah, Jesus said, was John the Baptist. So he’s been back and he did die because it’s appointed unto all people once to die. They have to die, and that’s it. Then the judgment. They don’t come back again. There’s no reincarnation.

Okay? Let’s continue on.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

What I said was that I prayed God would raise her from the dead because God, who has done such things before, has never changed. His infinite power is the same today as it was from before the beginning of time. He can and will do that. As a matter of fact, He will one day raise everyone from the dead.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

And you people who are gracious out there, you’ve heard about Wigglesworth and all that. I’ve heard about that too, but I don’t know if that’s true.

I know there was a man in the Philippines, I believe it was. A man came to our church, and he had newspaper articles from over there. There was a guy who had been buried for a long time, and the Lord told him to dig this person up. He had to get permission from the government.

He said, “God is going to raise him from the dead,” so he was going to dig him up. But the government said, “No, you can’t do that.” Finally, after about a year, they allowed him to do it.

The press was there because they wanted to mock the Gospel. Press from all over the world was there, from everywhere. They had people there with these suits on so they couldn’t be contaminated.

They dug up this grave and brought up the casket. The cameras were rolling and the photographers were there. They opened up the casket, and they had gas masks on to get away from the fumes.

This body was 80 percent rotted. He mentioned the man’s name and said, “Brother, rise up from the dead in the name of Jesus,” and he pulled him up. The man’s flesh came alive. It looked just like a baby’s flesh, and the man stood up.

All the press that was there fell down on their hands and knees and started praising God. They all got saved.

This man made it his life’s work to go to all the different churches. He came to our church in Los Angeles on Sierra Highway and told us about that and showed us all the proof.

So this has happened. It happens here and there all over the world.

All right. I mean, I love the Lord. Amen? All things are possible. Only believe. Amen.

Okay, then let’s continue on.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

As a matter of fact, He will one day raise everyone from the dead, some to everlasting life and some to everlasting damnation.

The government and the news media will do anything they can to make us look as though we are heretics or some kind of cult fanatics.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

In reality, we are the most sound, fundamental, orthodox Christian church in the world, and the world system—they’re fanatics for Satan. You just turn it around. They’re the fanatics for Satan.

If I am a fanatic for the Lord, well, that makes me in good standing with the Lord. I’m not a fanatic. I’m sound in my doctrine.

Speaker 4 – Congregation / Off-Mic Responses:

Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

The media has poisoned people’s minds about born-again Christians. They, the media and government, are the ones spreading the evil lies given to them by the spirits of evil and darkness.

“And there was given unto him,” the one-world government, “a mouth,” the press and news media, “speaking great things and blasphemies; and power,” destructive power, “was given unto him to continue forty and two months.”

The world needs to remember that there is no life-giving power in the lies they are receiving today. There is no life-giving power in false doctrine of any kind. The power of life exists only in the Word of God.

The world has seen our church stand firm and grow despite the tremendous persecution and the false allegations against us.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

That is the sign that we’re of the Lord. So they keep trying to destroy us. They use federal government, state government, county government, and local government to try to do it. They’ve tried everything.

We have a piece of literature here regarding “church of telefarer” [unclear reference] and some of the other testimonies we have. You must stay tuned so you can hear how God has been with us and has put everyone down who tried to destroy us.

Okay, keep going.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

They have seen one miserable cult after another that was sent into our country by Rome’s one-world government disappear as we have consistently increased.

As Paul’s teacher of the law, Gamaliel, stated, “If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught. But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Now what you people are doing is fighting against God. Just like God raised the Jews from the dead, from a dead man’s body and a dead woman’s womb, this work is of the Lord. You’re not going to destroy it. You are going to be destroyed if you attempt to destroy it. You’re fighting God.

Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

Susan was right. They framed Tony by using many threatened and paid liars in the courtroom, as well as the government and their partner, the Cult Awareness Network, stealing all of our books, records, and receipts so that we wouldn’t have evidence to prove Tony’s innocence.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

See? This was the IRS case. They tried me on a hundred different cases and accused me of maybe a thousand different things, and they never stuck. They never won, except the IRS, because they paid witnesses—former followers or people who had been in our church—to lie.

So I went to prison for the Gospel’s sake. I was framed and railroaded into prison, which I still praise and thank the Lord for, because I knew He had something for me to do in there.

Rejoice. Count it all joy, because the prophets before me went through the same thing, even Jesus. Jesus, and Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, the Apostle Paul, and the prophets—they were all jailbirds. Very few of us belong to that exclusive club of jailbirds. I’m glad I belong to the same club as the prophets, the apostles, and especially Jesus.

He went to jail for the Gospel, and on false charges. He was railroaded. He was framed. All of them were.

Okay, but we’re happy. Praise the Lord. How about you? I think you people out there in radio land—there’s a bunch of you just foaming at the mouth right now because you’re so angry because you can’t fight God and win. So, na-na-na.

Okay, what else?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

Although the government was 254 days past the statute of limitations and a magistrate dismissed the first three-year charge [legal wording uncertain], a judge in Memphis went ahead with the prosecution anyway, knowing the government framework was in place.

Tony Alamo is not guilty of failing to file taxes or tax fraud. A true Christian work is physically tax-exempt.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

The same thing they’re doing today with Christians is what was done in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany with the Jews.

See, even if we weren’t tax-exempt, we still wouldn’t have owed anything because we spent money. We had all the write-offs, hundreds of times more than we needed. They just made up that they were bringing all other accusations besides the tax thing. You wouldn’t have known it was a tax thing.

They were saying that I had committed some kind of—what did they call this? Just one thing after another. Like when I was 18 years old, 17 or 18, there was—it just goes on and on, and it was false. I proved in court that it was false, but they just went on to something else.

They never quit, and we never quit either, you people. Now anyone who quits, the Lord has no love in His heart for you. He’s not pleased with you if you quit. So don’t quit, no matter how bad it seems. God will deliver you if you just let Him. Bite the bullet and go through it.

Speaker 4 – Congregation / Off-Mic Responses:

Amen. Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

If you think you’ve got it rough, think about the people in hell. I wish they would have gone through these little trials and tribulations here on earth.

Okay, continue on.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

It’s by the same people. The news media and government made the persecuted individuals look as though they were evil, low-class human beings, just as they are doing today to today’s Christians, so that the general public applauded when these condemned individuals were herded into the gas chambers or burned with their children at Waco.

That’s what they do to every person or class of people that they target.

Susan and I, as well as the redeemed and faithful members of our worldwide church, have the victory in Jesus our Savior forever. By having victory in Jesus, I mean we are still possessors of our souls by His power. Satan fought hard to get them, but he lost miserably.

We have never lost the faith, nor have we lost our zeal or any other part of God’s armor. We also have not lost our will to do the will of God.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Why should we? We have everything. We belong to the commonwealth of the Kingdom of Heaven. Salvation is ours. We’re saved. If the breath goes out of our body, if they kill us, we still have victory.

They made my day because I’ll be in Heaven and out of this crazy, kooky, weirdo mud ball. Amen? Oh, you’re just so crazy and kooky out there.

Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Tina:

We have fought a good fight. Susie and the many thousands of souls that she won by preaching Christ’s salvation into them have finished the course and received their crowns of life.

Those of us who remain in the spiritual war called Armageddon, between God and Satan for the soul of man, don’t have much longer to wait until we too are given our place in that heavenly paradise which God has promised to those who are faithful.

The paradise of God is given to the redeemed of God. It is said that, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love Him.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Okay. So if you love Him, keep His commandments. The Lord says the person who says that they love Me and keeps not My commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

So I see my time is up. Do you love the Lord? I mean, do you love the thought, the knowledge? God will show you for sure if you study His Word.

You won’t know what’s right or wrong if you don’t study His Word, because only His Word tells you the truth of what’s right and wrong. He shows you the straight and narrow path that we must walk in order to get into the Kingdom of Heaven, and it shows you how to have the power, the Spirit of God, living in you.

The first step is to ask the Lord to enter you, and when He does, you’ll know it. So say these words so that you can have the power of God in you, so that you can walk the straight and narrow, so that you have the power of God in you to keep His commandments. Otherwise, you’ll never have that power.

People make New Year’s resolutions and they never keep them because they don’t have the power of God in them. This is not a New Year’s resolution. This is for your life, your immortality, your life in Heaven, and to be able to stay out of hell.

So say these words to the Lord and mean them, because only if you mean them will He enter into you.

Say: My Lord and my God, have mercy upon my soul, a sinner. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God, and I believe He died on the cross and shed His precious blood for the forgiveness of all my filthy sins.

I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit. I open up the door of my heart now, and I invite You into my heart right now, Lord. Wash all my filthy sins away in the precious blood that You shed for me.

You will not turn me away, Lord Jesus. I know because Your Word is true, and Your Word says that all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Therefore, I know You’ve heard me, and I know that You have answered me, and I know that I am saved. I thank You, Lord Jesus, for saving my soul.

Now, Sharon, tell them four ways to receive a copy of program number 246. Specify whether you want a CD or an audiotape. Everything is paid for, even the shipping and handling.

Speaker 3 – Sharon / Closing Announcer:

Go to AlamoMinistries.com, or write Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, P.O. Box 6467, Texarkana, Texas 75505; call area code 479-782-7370; or fax 479-782-7406.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Make sure you tune in tomorrow to hear the victorious testimonies of this church. Until then, this is World Pastor Tony Alamo saying, God bless you and praise the Lord.

Speaker 3 – Sharon / Closing Announcer:

Let all of us become part of the Christian army. Onward, Christian soldiers.

National attention has been focused on banner headlines proclaiming Christians are being kept and tortured, committed to mental institutions, accused of brainwashing and mind control.

Arise, Christian America. The King is coming. Hold fast. The day of the Lord is here.