False Witnesses, Spiritual Warfare, and the Battle Over Truth

Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo

The opening automated transcription garbles the name as “Will Pastor Tony Alama,” but the program repeatedly identifies Tony Alamo, the Tony Alamo Christian Church, and program number 248. The host remains the principal speaker throughout.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie

During the continuation of the Louis Tackwood material, the host explicitly says, “Go ahead, Jeannie, and start out.” A female reader also reads listener letters and portions of the written material. The transcript does not make every handoff explicit, so this identification is considered probable rather than certain.

Speaker 3 – Sharon / Closing Announcer

The host says at the opening that Sharon will give four ways to receive a free copy of the program. The closing ordering information is therefore assigned to Sharon, although the raw transcript does not clearly mark the speaker change.

Speaker 4 – Prerecorded Music

The host introduces a recording titled “Exodus” early in the program and, at the close, says he will sing the Hebrew national anthem, which is transcribed as “Hategfa” and is rendered here as “Hatikvah.” The actual music is not substantially transcribed.

Speaker 5 – Off-Mic Respondent(s)

Brief “Amen,” “Yes,” and other short responses appear during the program. The transcript does not identify the respondent or respondents.

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Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Hello again. This is World Pastor Tony Alamo. We’re in Part 146 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You, and this is program number 248.

If you’d like a copy of it, after the message Sharon will tell you four different ways you can receive a copy. You can request either a CD or an audiotape. The postage and handling, and the CD or tape, are all free of charge.

I do that because I didn’t have to pay a cent to be saved, and I don’t want to charge you anything for the words that the Lord sends through me so that you can be saved.

I love the Lord, and I want His will to be done. His will is that you’re saved. So I do my best by allowing the Lord to take over so that He can bring the Gospel to you by the Spirit, because no person can be saved if the Spirit doesn’t draw them unto Him.

There are so many people in this world who hear the message and still hate the person bringing it. We’ve got a lot of people like that throughout the entire world, and sometimes in my very presence.

We’ve got some letters to read today, and we have the continuation of the message on Louis Tackwood, the jailhouse informant who got saved in my church. He blew the whistle on Ira Reiner, who was the District Attorney of Los Angeles.

We also have Scriptures and messages about how you can receive God’s life living in you.

The thing that the Lord wants me to do is lift the lid on the can of worms in this world—to pull the lid off and tell you, according to my interpretation, who Satan is, who his government is, and who the mouth of the devil is in the world.

The Book of Revelation tells us about three frog-like spirits. One comes out of Satan’s mouth. The other is the beast, which I interpret as the one-world government. The third is the false prophet, which, in my interpretation, has its seat—Satan’s seat, his home office, in other words—in the city of the seven hills, Rome, Italy.

I recorded a few records years ago, and I’m going to be recording again pretty soon. It seems that a big, major Gospel group contacted me. They’re very well known, and they wanted to sing some songs with me.

But here’s one that we did a while ago. Believe it or not, this one was written by an acquaintance of mine, Pat Boone [attribution should be verified], and it’s called “Exodus.”

Praise the Lord. This is talking about the land of Israel. God gave the land of Israel to the Hebrew children. In my religious view, it does not belong to the Palestinians, and the name of the land is not Palestine. It is named after Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel. It belongs to the Israelites.

When I was going overseas, I was on a ship with one of the United Nations people. I was on the Sala Olympia [ship name uncertain], which left from Venice. We stopped at [first location unclear] and also at Piraeus [place-name rendering should be verified], the port in Greece where you get off and take a cab over to Athens.

While I was on the ship, we were headed for Cyprus. We asked this man what he did. He said he was with the United Nations and that they were trying to bring about peace in the Middle East.

He was telling me what a thankless job it was to bring about peace in the Middle East.

I said, “Well, of course.” I started preaching the Gospel to him, telling him that, in my interpretation, there’s not going to be peace in the Middle East because people there keep thinking it’s their land, and I believe it is not.

I say God never made any promise to anyone else but the Jews—Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the other Jews. They’re the ones who entered the Promised Land, and, under what the Bible describes as God’s commandment, they destroyed the people living there because those people were burning their children as offerings.

I compare that with the United States, which was once the United States of America and which now, I say, is aborting thousands upon thousands of children. I believe the nation is becoming just like the idol worshipers whom God hated back then and still hates today.

They’re also doing what they call mercy killings. Terri Schiavo [name spelling should be verified]—they starved her to death.

I say they’re doing that in hospitals. We have people in the church whose dad was put on a starvation diet—absolutely no water, no food. There was nothing you could do. Guards or police officers were standing there to make sure you didn’t bring a drop of water in.

They did that at UCLA with a little child. The mother and dad didn’t want the child because it was [garbled description]. They wouldn’t even adopt it out.

If mankind is that bad, if not worse, then I believe God is going to destroy you people out there. But if you get saved and give your life to the Lord, He will protect you just as He did the Hebrew children in the land of Egypt.

God destroyed the firstborn of the people in Egypt, and before that He tore the entire country to pieces. Finally, after the firstborn, God killed the firstborn of all the people who wouldn’t put the blood on their door.

They put blood on the sides and top—the lintel and doorposts—and had the basin of blood below. I interpret that as symbolic of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He had them take hyssop, which I say was readily available in Israel, dip it into the blood, and put it on each side of the door and above, with the blood dripping down toward the basin.

I interpret this as the sign of the cross. It was showing God that the people of Israel believed in the Messiah who would come into the world as a man and shed His precious blood for the forgiveness of human beings so they could be reconciled back to the Lord.

Right now, let’s ask the Lord to anoint this service.

Father, we thank You and praise Your holy name. We thank You that we have Your Word, which tells us that the land belongs to Israel.

You stated that, as a sign of the end times, the children of Israel would be dispersed for almost 2,000 years. What a miracle. You stated that You, in the last days, would bring them back to the homeland to prove that Your Word is absolutely true.

Now the world, in my view, is doing everything in its power to take this homeland away.

The Bible, as I interpret it, says that the Vatican is the source of every abomination on the face of the earth. I looked “abomination” up in the dictionary, and it means very horrible sins. I say it is the mother or source of every evil thing going on throughout the earth right now. I call that Satan’s seat there in Rome, Italy.

The beast, in my interpretation, is world government, and the mouth of the beast or Antichrist is the media. This big three-part combination—the false religious system, world government, and the media—is what I call the Antichrist and the three frog-like spirits.

So, children of the former United States, what you’ve done is agreed to get into business with the world and make yourself part of it.

What they’re doing now, I say, is causing you to be the police force for the whole world. They’re sending U.S. soldiers to other countries where, in my view, we don’t have any business being if we were a sovereign country under You, Father.

They’re doing exactly what I believe Satan wants them to do, murdering people based on filthy lies they’ve been told by what I call the Antichrist regime—the cult in Rome, the government, and the media.

They really feel they’re fighting for the United States of America. But, in my view, they’re trying to get you used to the idea that you no longer have a U.S. Constitution, freedom of speech, or rights under the Bill of Rights, because I say you’re under Roman canon law.

Father, I ask You to guide this and expose Satan. This is what You’ve been wanting me to do in the last few services.

I do that in every service, but primarily here I’m trying to show the world what I say I’ve gone through at the hands of this one-world government so other people in this country and the world can see that they may be going through similar circumstances.

They’re all scared to death, Father, of these terrorists. I say the forces behind it are Roman Catholic. I believe Satan has infested people we used to think were U.S. government officials, and they’re being used by what I call the Antichrist in Rome, the government, and the media.

So, Lord, speak through me. Open hearts and minds to receive something that is so far from their thinking that they think the things I’m talking about are crazy. Lord, let them know, in my view, that they’re the ones who have been taught and propagandized for years.

You are the way, the truth, and the life. No man is going to come unto You but through Jesus, through the Word of God. People can’t possibly know what is happening unless they know Your Word.

So, Father, we ask that souls will be saved and the church strengthened. In Jesus’ name, amen and amen.

Now, I say we have a Supreme Court that tells you it’s all right to lie. How can you trust a government like this?

I say it has condoned mass murder through abortions and condoned the burning of Christian people—little babies, mothers, and fathers—at Waco.

I also claim the FBI and BATF were involved in what happened at the World Trade Center. We have what I call confessions from people, and we can send copies.

There’s an entire piece of literature written by me and an FBI agent identified as John Peeler [name uncertain]. I say he was also an undercover BATF officer.

He stated, according to my account, that he took part in the Waco incident. I claim soldiers whom we thought were American soldiers called it a “turkey shoot.” I say they didn’t go there to arrest the people; they went there to kill them, and that David Koresh was not supposed to be alive afterward.

I further claim that the children of FBI personnel had been seen going in and out of that building and were pulled out of a daycare center just minutes before the blast.

I say if you can put two and two together, that adds up to four instead of five or thirteen, right?

Then I say government people had been seen going in and out of the World Trade Center. I claim that a very high percentage of people in the United States believe that was an inside job and that the government did it, and that Bush knew about it.

I don’t know whether he did, but I would think that, as President of the United States, he would know what was going on.

It’s like what the government says about me: “You must know everything happening in your church because you’re the pastor.” If something happened in New York City and I’m over in Texarkana, Texas, they say I knew it happened.

Well, I’m saying the same thing to you, Mr. Bush. You knew what happened. You have advisers.

I say this was well planned, and I believe Bush was following orders from the Pope and worshiped him. I say he built shrines to him in Washington, D.C., and said he would do anything the Pope told him to do.

Then the Vatican, which I call the Antichrist church where Satan sits, tells us there’s going to be more and more terrorism.

Well, in my view, if you people are prophesying these things and stirring nations against each other, then I know who I think is going to do it.

Then, of course, they’re sending troops over there, bragging about bombing many different nations and killing people.

Now they’re putting out a piece of literature on me, saying that because I put out “The Pope’s Secrets,” they’re putting out “Tony’s secrets.”

I don’t have any secrets. Could you believe I’d ever have a secret? I tell you what’s on my heart.

Besides, I say the government put out a lot of false statements and false charges about me. They filled newspapers with them and aired them on programs like A Current Affair, Unsolved Mysteries, Hard Copy, America’s Most Wanted, Sally Jessy Raphael [program name should be verified], and many other programs.

They kept running footage of where I was arrested in Tampa while I was running a restaurant there, one of the bigger ones in the city. I had a tie-dyed T-shirt on, and you’ve seen that over and over again.

Now they’re coming out with a picture of me being arrested there again. They want you to know that I am a criminal, but, according to me, they don’t tell you that I won that case.

They said I wanted to hang a judge—[judge’s name unclear] in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

I was going to turn myself in anyway, but my wife was pregnant and was going to have a child, my son. I didn’t know how to tell her that I believed the Lord wanted me to turn myself in because I thought she might think I was leaving her or something.

I didn’t want her to think that, so I believe the Lord forced the issue and allowed them to follow some of the brothers from the restaurant over to the house.

They came in with guns like they were arresting Jesse James or somebody. They rushed in, knocked the door down, and had guns pointed. I’m just sitting there. We don’t have guns, and they knew it.

They figured they’d be able to get me in court.

Jeff Dix [name uncertain] became my attorney, and he won that case for me based on arguments I had discussed with him.

He told the jury, in substance, “Have you ever said in your heart, ‘I wish that person were dead’?”

I explained that this judge had taken church property away from us because two people went in and told him what I say was a lie. They took property away and made people in hundreds of houses and apartments go out into the cold winter.

The judge became paranoid, in my view, and started thinking I was going to hang him or something.

An editor of the Southwest Times Record, whom I describe as homosexual and who I say was later arrested and fired, testified against me in court, saying I was going to do these things.

My attorney told the jury, in substance, “I’m not saying Tony Alamo said, ‘I wish that judge was hanged,’ or ‘I wish he dropped dead,’ because he says he didn’t. But you people have probably said things like that before in your lives.”

He said, “If you make Tony Alamo guilty today, you’re not really just making Tony Alamo guilty. You yourselves are putting an end to freedom of speech.

“Pretty soon they’re going to say the Bible is illegal and you can’t preach the Bible. Is that what you want for your children and grandchildren—no more freedom of speech?

“If you vote Tony Alamo guilty, you’re putting an end to freedom of speech in the United States of America.

“Tony Alamo has never murdered anybody, never killed anybody, and has never been a violent person in his life.”

I was upset with Dix for saying, “Even if he did say something like that,” because I say I didn’t.

But his point was: if you can’t say something like “drop dead,” then nobody else can either. Have you ever heard anybody say that?

Speaker 5 – Off-Mic Respondent(s):

Yeah.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Have you said that?

Speaker 5 – Off-Mic Respondent(s):

Yes. Yes.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Finally, I coaxed it out of them. They fessed up. “I confess. She’s guilty.” Okay, she did it.

All right, my life is an open book. People have seen me in the press for years.

I say the government is coming against me—the Antichrist government—because I’m the one who exposes them the most.

I say I’m dangerous to Satan because what I’m doing is preaching the Gospel. I’ve been pulled into court over a hundred times, and I say I won every case because truth is more powerful than lies.

Speaker 5 – Off-Mic Respondent(s):

Amen. Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

I say the government has spliced together tapes from my radio programs and everything. We played the way they really were, and I say the jury looked perplexed because they realized what had been done.

Now we’re going to try to finish this exposé on Ira Reiner, who was at one time the District Attorney in Los Angeles, and show how, according to the literature, false witnesses and jailhouse witnesses were used.

People in prison who are criminals will say anything if they can get out of prison. They’ll make friends with you and then go to the warden and say, “Look, I’ve got some stuff on this guy. He just confessed that he murdered somebody,” or something like that.

That’s the way I say they work because they know that if they give evidence, they can get out of prison.

They might say, “If you need me, Warden, FBI, or BATF, to testify falsely about somebody, I’ll do it if you’ll let me out of prison.”

Then somebody says, “Yeah, there are a few people here. Let me show you the files,” and they take the files in.

Louis Tackwood did that for a living, according to this material. He was in and out of jail much of his life, and the District Attorney sent him to my church in the Los Angeles area on Sierra Highway [street number unclear].

He went in to infiltrate us and figured we were really bad because, I say, the D.A. told him so.

While he was there, he got saved. That’s the story. He said, in substance, “I was sent in here to do this. If you want me to pull the plug on this thing and confess it, I will. I’m convicted by the Lord’s Holy Spirit.”

We’re reading the second part of it.

Go ahead, Jeannie, and start out.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“Tackwood said that the Intelligence Division of the LAPD that controlled him also controlled murderers, and if they wanted you dead, they would set you up for a hit.

“He said that in working with the Criminal Conspiracy Section, CCS, of the LAPD, the LAPD agreed that they would invent and exaggerate minute points and then blow them into a case.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

They make a mountain out of a molehill, right?

Speaker 5 – Off-Mic Respondent(s):

Yes.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

That’s why the saying is around.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“He said, ‘Everybody thinks that, speaking of the department, when you say criminal conspiracy, you mean that they’re out to combat criminal conspiracy, but actually they’re out to create it.’

“Tackwood’s mouth could be bought for $100.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

In other words, I say you could buy Tackwood and he would say anything. A lot of these jailhouse criminals will testify if you give them cigarettes or a few candy bars.

But for sure, for $100, I say they’ll testify and get you in serious trouble—at least if they’re allowed out on the weekend to go do drugs or whatever.

But now he’s saved, according to me.

Go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“Tackwood said, ‘I have a buddy that I would go to hell and back for, but I set him up and got him convicted on a dope sale.’”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

You know how many people, since I’ve been exposing Satan, have written from prisons and sent their case files and court files? In some, I believe you can tell they’re absolutely innocent, and they’re still holding them in prison even after I’ve exposed it and hired attorneys to help them.

We’re pretty smart over here. We have attorneys in New York, Eric Lieberman and Ron Kubie [names should be verified]. They’re the best, and we send cases over there.

If they have a chance to get them out, I’ll pay. If I’ve got the money, I’ll take care of it to get them out of prison.

Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“There is nothing that he wouldn’t do for a price.

“Tackwood said that the police regularly use phone taps to monitor everyone and then pick out the lines that they want to individually hone in on.

“His own phone had an extension running right into the Glass House, Intelligence Division of the LAPD.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Yeah, there’s a Glass House also. They call the city jail the Glass House too. I know. I’ve been there. They called me a false [garbled word] there.

Okay, then what else?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“This was confirmed by the reporters investigating his story.

“Court documents show that he, Tackwood, has done suspiciously little ‘hard time’ despite his long criminal record of arrest and conviction.

“Louis Tackwood was sent into the Alamo Christian Church by District Attorney Reiner and Robert Foltz to fabricate concocted testimony against Reverend Tony Alamo and his church.

“Subversive tactics of judge and police. Alamo’s literature, Pope’s Secrets, is right on.

“One-World Church Judge Robert Armstrong, friend of One-World Church member Governor Duke Meijian [name uncertain], conspiratorially issues warrants against the Alamo Church.

“Causes vicious police raid on Alamo Church because of false testimony of two other criminals used by the District Attorney’s Office, Bob and Carrie Miller [name spelling uncertain].”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Incidentally, because of what Miller did, being backed up by these people, he’s dead now. He died of cancer. A young man died of cancer and dropped dead.

Okay, then what else?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“Los Angeles County Judge Armstrong’s orders caused many ministers and their wives to be beaten.

“Another example of the Newhall Sheriff’s Department brutality.

“The Newhall Sheriff’s Department officials, along with the Department of Children’s Services, tried to terrorize the children into telling lies about the church.

“One of them did, and the rest of them would not under any circumstances.

“Several other children have been deprived of the liberty to attend the church, the school, services, and facilities, thanks to this anti-Christian, subversive Los Angeles County judge, the Sheriff’s Department, the Department of Children’s Services, and, of course, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office.

“Judge Robert Armstrong’s father was the Chief of Police in Huntington Park, California.

“Judge Armstrong was once a defense attorney in Huntington Park.

“He’s an active member of the Episcopalian One-World Catholic Church and a longtime friend of Governor Duke Meijian.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Now you say the Episcopalian Church is like a Catholic church?

Speaker 5 – Off-Mic Respondent(s):

Yes. It’s one and the same.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

And, as a matter of fact, the head of the entire church is a homosexual. You probably read about that in the news or heard it on television.

A homosexual? Can you imagine? A homosexual who, according to my interpretation of the Bible, is going to be in hell is running a church?

Well, I say the Pope is the same thing. I make a broad accusation here that they’re all homosexuals.

There was a model we witnessed to and I led to the Lord. She said they were all homosexuals there in Rome because she went to school there.

She said when she walked down the streets, straight men would whistle at her and come over to her, but she said she could tell that all the priests were homosexual. She claimed they wouldn’t pay attention to her but would pay attention to altar boys and other men, and that men would be walking down the streets holding hands and putting their arms around each other.

She said you’d sometimes see them kissing.

I say this has been in the media for the last few years.

Amen?

Speaker 5 – Off-Mic Respondent(s):

Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

I broke the ice on it. I call it the homosexual, lesbian, Antichrist church.

I also claim it’s where the first houses of prostitution were and say the History Channel stated that. Some people swear by the History Channel. Well, we’ll see.

I say the first houses of prostitution were the nunneries.

Now, don’t you over-eager people out there go running down to the nunneries because they might have changed since then. Okay? And if they didn’t, you’re liable to catch some dreaded disease.

I call that place a sewer of corruption.

Then what else?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“The two of them are lay readers of the same church.

“He was appointed to the Superior Court bench in 1985 by Duke Meijian.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Duke Meijian? He was governor of California at one time, I believe, maybe 20 or 25 years ago.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“After Duke Meijian became governor, Judge Armstrong has yet to establish a good reputation among lawyers, and some who have appeared before him feel that ‘his weakness is that he’s not up on the law.’

“And now the Episcopalian Catholic One-World Communist judge issues false warrants—”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

I believe Al-Qaeda is the Vatican. Communism is the Vatican. Socialism is the Vatican. Fascism is the Vatican. Everything that’s evil, I say, is the Vatican. It’s the devil.

There’s only good and evil. If it’s evil, it’s the devil. Amen?

Speaker 5 – Off-Mic Respondent(s):

Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

The devil is the one, in my interpretation of the Bible, who gives power to the Vatican, the government, and the media.

Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“And now the Episcopalian Catholic One-World Communist judge issues false warrants against citizens at criminals’ requests.

“Part of this One-World conspiracy against Christianity belongs to Orange County Judge Ronald Owen [name uncertain], an advocate of Antichrist Sigmund Freud and Pope John Paul II, who lauds the anti-God teachings of Sigmund Freud, psychiatry, and psychology.

“Judge Owen issued the order to remove the three children from the church and also issued temporary custody to the two criminals, Bob and Carrie Miller.

“Orange County Judge Richard Phraise [name uncertain], another conspirator, issued the decree that the mothers of the children could not come within 200 feet of their children.

“All the conspirators play the game of conspiracy as well as the San Francisco 49ers play football. They all play their positions very well.

“These illegitimate [word omitted or garbled] do their best to make everything look so legitimate.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Don’t leave that to the Dallas Cowboys or the New York Giants.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“The news media constantly berates the Alamo Church by using typically subversive labels such as ‘compound,’ ‘cult,’ ‘brainwashing,’ ‘child abuse,’ and other derogatory One-World Church customary propagandistic slurs.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Yeah. Later on, they came up with the “hanging the judge” accusation and all sorts of stuff.

We just want to read this literature here.

Go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“By now, everyone should be able to see the conspiracy of One-World Church, government, and media to destroy Christian fundamentalism and American patriotism.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

There is no United States of America anymore, in my view. America is now combined with everything else, like a banana split—strawberry, vanilla, chocolate, pineapple, marshmallow, all mixed together.

We’re all just one now: one-world government.

I’m for the U.S. Constitution. I consider myself one of the biggest patriots in the United States of America because I didn’t want to join the United Council of Churches, the united government, or what I call the united world media.

The media can say anything they want, and you believe it.

That’s what I say the Bible means when it says the whole world will be deceived. That’s how I believe they did it. You’re deceived.

I say there isn’t anything you know that’s the truth. If you’re under 50 years old—and maybe even if you’re 100 years old—you’ve been raised on lies and propaganda.

You don’t know anything of real value until you get saved. You have to start reading the Bible if you want to know the truth, because the truth is Jesus, and Jesus is the Word of God.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“The complete notarized confession of Louis Tackwood, in which he confesses that there is no child abuse at the Holy Alamo Christian Church, is available upon request.

“The District Attorney’s Office later paid Tackwood to say that there was abuse.

“Hundreds of other notarized testimonies are available at your request, including those of Bob and Kerry Miller and their mother, Jerry Miller, praising the works of the Alamo Church.

“Also available is a 44-page color pictorial magazine of the facilities of the Holy Alamo Christian Church.

“In ordinary times, it would be hard to figure out why the American government would try to destroy good works like the Alamo Church.

“But now it should be very clear why this [garbled descriptor] Catholic, communist IRS would give tax-exempt status to every communist organization in the U.S.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

You can read the tax books, and I say they said communist organizations were tax-exempt.

When I brought it out in this piece of literature, I say the next year they changed the wording to say they do not give tax-exempt status to communist organizations.

So, to me, the government is like a chameleon. You set it on green and it turns green. You set it on black and it turns black. If you put it on red, it turns red.

It’s like a snake going through the grass. If you corner it one way, it starts shooting the other way.

It’s like mercury. You hit it and it spreads all over in little balls.

It’s like a cockatrice. You smash it and little cockatrices come out.

It’s like a bunch of termites that bore into every fiber of American life. I say it’s everywhere because the media and government are so saturated with propaganda that it gets into people’s skulls, hearts, souls, and brains. It keeps getting pumped into their ears.

Satan hates you. He wants your soul to go to hell. He doesn’t want you to hear me. That’s why, I say, he wants you to hate me so you won’t listen to what I’m saying.

He wants you to hate the Word of God so you won’t read it. He wants you to hate everything telling you the truth.

But if you hate me, that doesn’t hurt me. I’m already saved, pal—or young lady.

You’re hurting yourself if you don’t get into the battle and don’t listen to what I’m saying.

We have what I describe as thousands and hundreds of thousands of pieces of proof of what we’re saying.

Do you know how many people, I say, have vacated the Catholic church—nuns and priests? I say they woke up through my literature and radio programs. I’m on radio everywhere in the world.

They wised up, came to their senses, started reading the Bible, got saved, and got out of there. Now they’re in what I call true Christian groups.

I call Catholicism the biggest enemy we have because I identify it with the devil, Satan, and the Antichrist.

Okay, keep going.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“This fact can be found in their own tax-code books for the duration of the time that the IRS has been citing our pro-American, anti-Catholic, communist, anti-Satan church.

“The Internal Revenue Service has made another wild and erroneous statement that I have tried to put off their kangaroo-court hearing—no jury, only an IRS judge—by firing all my attorneys at crucial points and not paying them.

“The facts are the exact opposite.

“These attorneys took huge sums of money from our church and then made unreasonable financial demands that the church could not meet.

“The attorneys dropped us after we had paid them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“This is proof to us that the pro-communist IRS has also subverted our attorneys.

“The attorneys figure they’ve gotten their money, so why should they lock horns with an anti-American terrorist group such as the Internal Revenue Service?

“One: the Internal Revenue Service courtroom does not allow a jury trial.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

This is what I call Catholicism and the Roman Catholic Empire: no defense for you.

Okay, then what else?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“Two: the IRS does not allow Bible Scripture to prove that we are Christians.

“Three: the IRS does not allow the U.S. Constitution.

“They say, like Father Bernard Leaning [name uncertain], that the Constitution is irrelevant. Father Bernard Leaning, a member of the Jesuits, said, ‘To hell with the U.S. Constitution.’

“The IRS has made up their own Bible, and everyone who does not go along with Catholic, communist Roman canon law is unscriptural.

“For example, the IRS says if you don’t [garbled phrase concerning money], you’re not a Christian.

“But the Bible says, ‘If you don’t work, you don’t eat.’ Second Thessalonians, chapter 3, verse 10.

“Today’s attorneys all admit that they are not taught, nor do they practice, United States law any longer.

“Most attorneys say they are owned by the state and have sworn their allegiance not to their clients, but to the state.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Yeah, then I call this the Roman Empire state, not the United States.

Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“They learn and practice only international law, which is one-world government, U.N. law.

“The United Nations was founded and is controlled by the Vatican.

“Your children have been taught in school exactly the same way.

“I tell you that the communist doctrine that you are living under is Antichrist.

“The Antichrist IRS constantly smears Alamo through Catholic-communism’s propagandist arm, the news media, and pays false witnesses, criminals.

“Then it takes Alamo’s tax-exempt status away and tries to drain this worthwhile, very effective, struggling church of millions, taking away everyone’s home and livelihood at the church.

“Our church wishes to cross-file on the Internal Revenue Service for its contrived harassment.

“It has cost us millions of man-hours and over a million dollars.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

See, if you take the government into court, I say you’re bringing the devil into the devil’s courtroom, and he certainly isn’t going to let you win. He’s going to say “not guilty” to the government and then sue you for malicious prosecution.

I want [reader’s name unclear] to come and read one of these letters first, and then if we have time we’ll come back to that.

This is from Alamo, Tennessee [place name should be verified].

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

Dear Brother Alamo,

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Again, the word “grace” means power. What are you saying? God’s power unto you.

And what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

And peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

I just want to have peace in a world full of turmoil. I’ve got peace because I know if I die or get killed, my spirit’s going to be in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

I just wanted to write you and let you know what a blessing you are to me.

I listen to your radio broadcast several times a week on 1600 A.M., W.M.Q.M. [call letters uncertain].

Your anointed teaching blesses my soul. Like a true prophet, you teach the deeper things of God.

At a time when the airwaves are polluted with heresy and so many false prophets, your ministry is like a breath of fresh air.

Brother Alamo, I just want to humbly serve our great God, and I covet your prayers for me that God would make me more like His holy Son, Jesus Christ.

I acknowledge you as a true man of God. The Scripture says, “He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward.”

I seek His blessings in my life. To God be all the glory forever.

If you ever need me for anything, please don’t hesitate to call.

Thank you for your work in building up God’s Kingdom on earth and for exposing what the writer calls “that cesspool of Satanism known as the Roman Catholic cult.”

May God bless you abundantly today and always.

Sincerely,
Mike
Alamo, Tennessee [place name uncertain]

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

This is from Ibadan, Nigeria, Africa [place spelling should be verified].

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

Dear Pastor Tony Alamo,

Greetings to you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

I listened to the remainder of your broadcast on Radio Africa, and it changed my life.

I was a Buddhist, but now I gave my life to Jesus. My Buddhist parents hate me for this decision, but I’m not going back.

I found Jesus. He has saved my soul.

Your message has indeed been a true blessing to me. Please keep it up.

I need your help with a complete Bible, the Word of God, for daily reading and spiritual growth.

God will continue to be with you.

Yours in His love,
Alabi [name uncertain]
Ibadan, Nigeria

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Ibadan. Okay. Praise the Lord.

So Buddhists, Muslims, and Catholics—all of them are getting saved, according to these letters and our ministry.

We don’t hate Catholics. We hate the devil. That is in sin, and we’re trying, the best we know how, to let the Lord deal through us with you.

Hopefully, you’ll drop all this nonsense and get into the Spirit of the Lord. Amen?

Okay, let’s continue on here with this Tackwood piece of literature.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“We want that money back for the purpose of winning souls to Jesus Christ.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Well, that’s a ridiculous statement. I’m going to have that taken out. We’re not going to take them into court because we wouldn’t stand a chance, in my view.

The Lord, through the Apostle Paul, said, in substance, “Dare any of you go into court with the world, with sinners?”

Amen?

Speaker 5 – Off-Mic Respondent(s):

Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

So, no. I’m not going to do it. We settle our things in our own courtroom.

These people say there’s a separation between church and state. There’s certainly a separation between us and Satan.

We have our government.

Okay, then what else?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“The IRS, the Department of Labor, the Department of Finance and Administration, and the District Attorney’s Office, from the White House right down to city government, and the entire news media have all worked together hand in hand, in concert, to destroy the Alamo Church and other wonderful Christian people.

“And now district attorneys everywhere will issue orders to police departments to arrest church people for distributing this literature because they don’t believe in freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech.

“And the judges will all rule according to Roman canon law. They would not be one-world-order Catholic communist judges otherwise.

“The conspirators and the big boss in Rome would make sure of that.

“With a criminal governmental system like this, how can we go on any longer?

“We true Christians have the answers to all of today’s problems, and that is why this subversive one-world criminal government has tried to stop this for the past 25 years.

“And, of course, it has not succeeded.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Now it’s 42 years. This was written quite a while ago.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“Nor will they ever succeed in stopping the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

“In the Old Testament, in the days of Moses, as well as in the New Testament, in the days of the Apostle Paul, Moses and Paul enforced the law of God and all corruption was immediately purged.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Right. I say we have our own government, and we don’t want what I call Antichrist, fatherless children messing around in our church. I say you keep wanting to abduct our godly children.

You take children from the church, and then, in my angry characterization, you play Nancy Sinatra’s record “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’,” with the sound of bats and everything, and shoot defenseless Christians.

I call you a bunch of dogs, according to my interpretation of the Bible.

Get saved. Do you know how nauseating, I believe, this is to God?

I believe God says He’s going to destroy you unless you repent.

Now come on. Repent.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“This must be done today.

“This corrupt, unsaved, unregenerated group of criminals that call themselves the law must be judged by the law.

“‘The law is for the lawless.’ First Timothy, chapter 1, verse 9.

“The Bible states that there is no power other than the power of God. Those powers are the ministers of God.

“‘The powers that be are ordained of God.’ Romans, chapter 13, verse 1.

“I am a highly chosen minister from Almighty God with intelligence enough—the intelligence of God’s Word—to have weeded out this corruption in both the world government and in the United States at every level from the White House on down.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

I have. I know, from Rome on down.

I’d like to change that wording because, in my view, the White House takes orders from Rome and then it trickles down from there. It’s the trickle-down system, as Mr. Reagan put it.

I believe I have untangled this whole mess for you and presented it in a way you can easily understand and assimilate.

Speaker 2 – Female Reader, apparently Jeannie:

“The Founding Fathers of our country knew in Europe when enough was enough, and they put an end to the tyranny and crime of human enslavement and all of its fringe benefits—all government welfare enslavement benefits at the expense of others.”

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Yes, but it’s too late now. My time is up this round.

You people need to get to the Lord. He’s your only refuge now.

I say you’ve done very wrong all your life. You’ve been deceived. You’ve put yourself, in my view, under the auspices of Satan’s government, church, and media, and now you’re in a pickle.

But the Lord can get you out of that pickle. All you’ve got to do is call upon Him and ask Him to enter your heart.

You can do that right now because at the end of every service we have an altar call.

Wherever you’re at, if you’re driving the car, park it. It’s worth it. This is the most important decision you’ve ever made in your life.

Ask the Lord to come into your heart. Say to Him with all your heart and soul:

“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 the door of my heart and invite You into my heart, Lord Jesus.

“Wash all my filthy sins away in the precious blood You shed for me.

“You will not turn me away, Lord Jesus. You will save my soul. I know because Your Word says all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, and that includes me.

“I, Lord, am calling on You. Therefore, I know You’ve heard me, I know You’ve answered me, and I know I’m saved.”

Now He says, “Call upon Me, and I will hear you and show you great and mighty things that you have not seen.”

Now you’ve received salvation if you’ve said this prayer. So praise and thank the Lord.

Just say, “Thank You, Jesus. Praise You, Lord. Thank You, Jesus.”

Sharon, come forward and tell them the four different ways to receive a copy of this message, program number 248. Ask for your tape or CD. It will be sent to you postage and handling free.

Speaker 3 – Sharon / Closing Announcer:

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

Speaker 1 – Host Tony Alamo:

Have you ever heard anybody sing in Hebrew? I’d like to sing the Hebrew national anthem for you. It’s called “Hatikvah” [title spelling should be verified from the audio].

All right. I’m singing it in Hebrew.