Authority, Repentance, and the Gospel of the Kingdom: Living Under God’s Rule

Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 – Host / Preacher, Tony Alamo. He identifies himself at the opening as “World Pastor Tony Alamo,” leads the prayers and sermon, comments on the letters, sings the songs, and closes the program.

Speaker 2 – Reader / Assistant, Sharon. The host addresses “Sharon” by name before the main teaching section and asks her to continue reading. She appears to read the listener letters, prepared teaching material, and Bible passages throughout much of the program. Where the transcript does not conclusively distinguish her voice from another reader, this label is used as the most likely identification rather than inventing an additional identity.

Speaker 3 – Letter Writers, quoted by Speaker 2. The program includes letters attributed to Emmanuel in Zambia, Samson in India, and Felix in Ghana. Their words are read aloud rather than heard directly from the writers.

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Speaker 1 – Host:
Hello again. This is World Pastor Tony Alamo. We’re in part 129 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You. This will be program number 231.

Again, if you would like a copy of it—or any of our programs—Sharon will tell you four different ways that you will be able to get ahold of us to receive one. They’re free of charge. Postage and handling are taken care of by us as well.

We have some letters this evening, and we have a good message from the throne of God—a powerful message.

You know, the Lord is my everything. A friend of mine wrote a song called “He’s My Sunshine,” but He’s so much more than just my sunshine. He’s my everything. He’s my Deliverer. He’s my Savior. He’s my everything.

Anyway, I sang the song “He’s My Sunshine,” and here I am singing it for you. It was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee.

Speaker 1 – Host, singing:
He’s my sunshine in the morning.
He hung the moon and stars in my sky.
And if I ever lost Him,
Though the sun could shine,
Oh, let it shine, yes, the sun could shine,
I would not know it.
I would not know it.

He’s the rainbow of my world,
The breeze that blows my soul’s clouds away.
And if I ever lost Him,
Though the sun could shine,
Oh, let it shine, yes, the sun could shine,
I would not know it.
I would not know it.

He’s the flower in my garden,
A rose that blooms especially for me.
And if Jesus ever stopped loving me,
Though the sun could shine,
Oh, let it shine, yes, the sun could shine,
I would not know it.
I would not know it.
I would not know it.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Praise the Lord. The Lord is my sunshine.

We have another song that I’m going to be singing for you right at the end of this program.

Let’s go up to the throne of the Lord now and ask Him to anoint this service.

Heavenly Father, our Lord and our God, we thank and praise Your holy, wonderful name for being our sunshine, for being our Savior, for being our Creator, for being our Deliverer, for being our Kingdom of Heaven, and for being the One who has redeemed us out of the slimy pit and out of the pit of hell, and for so many other things, Father.

Lord, I ask that You anoint me in this service today. Let everything that is done be expressly from You. Let Your Word reign in this world as it really does in Heaven.

Lord, it’s coming to pass real soon. We know that in the 24th chapter of the book of Matthew, it tells us that people talk about the earthquakes, the famines, the wars, the rumors of wars, and the signs of the end time. But these are only the beginning of sorrows. The real end comes when the Gospel is preached everywhere in the world.

It’s just a shame, Father, that the people in the world don’t get ahold of Your message and preach it throughout the world, because it is up to us before Your return. If we get the Gospel out, the sooner it is going to be that You will return.

Lord, I pray that many souls—however many You want to be saved by whatever You say in this message through me today—will be saved, and that the church will be strengthened. Your return will be very soon. It’s up to us as to when You’re going to come. Let everybody get this burden from Your Word.

Lord, we’ll give You all the praise, the honor, the glory, and the thanks. In Jesus’ mighty name, Lord, strengthen the church and cover the entire earth with Your Word. Put the fear of God in everyone, because this is wisdom. The fear of the Lord is wisdom. The fear of the Lord is even the beginning of wisdom.

We ask You in Jesus’ name. And everyone says amen.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
All right. Who is the first letter from?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
From Zambia.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Okay, Zambia. That’s in Africa. All right. What does it say?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading letter:
Dear Pastor Tony Alamo,

Greetings to you in the name of Jesus Christ, the coming King. How is your ministry? By faith, I know that you’re prospering in your ministry because God is in control.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Amen.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading letter:
As for me, everything is fine. I thank God for your ministry, which reached me. Your literature has blessed me.

Pastor, from the time I read your literature, my heart has been changed. It shall be good news to you that I have received Jesus Christ into my life to be King.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Amen.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading letter:
Thanks very much for your ministry, because I used to think that going to church, joining the youth group, and doing work at church would save me and I would enter Heaven.

Thanks to the living God for His care. Thanks to God that I have known the truth.

I say thanks to you for the work that you are doing worldwide. God bless you and your ministry.

Pastor, it is my desire and prayer that by His power I will follow and serve Him.

Pastor, I’m asking you to send me a Bible and some of your literature so that I can also help people at this place come to know Jesus Christ.

It is my heart’s desire that you make me your distributor here by serving God.

I’m looking forward to hearing from you and receiving Bibles and literature.

Yours faithfully,
Emmanuel
Mambala, Zambia, Africa.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Praise the Lord. Amen. Where’s the next letter from?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
From India.

Speaker 1 – Host:
What part of India? Can you pronounce it?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
[Unclear Indian place name], Kerala, Andhra Pradesh.

Speaker 1 – Host:
No wonder you just said India. Well, people that live there know how to say it, amen?

Maybe we’ll have to send you over there so you’ll learn how to do it real well—learn how to spell it and say it.

All right, anybody else want to go to Africa or India? We’re willing to send you. Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading letter:
Respected Pastor and dear Brother Tony Alamo,

Calvary greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to you and all in your holy ministry.

I am so excited to find a person like you and your ministry, whom I was dreaming of and praying for our Lord to introduce me to in reality.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Praise the Lord.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading letter:
Your literature is like leaflets fallen from Heaven from our Lord Jesus Christ.

It reminds me of my Old Testament class some years back, where a professor I admired, during a question hour after a class on the prophets, put forth a question: “Do prophets still exist?”

Many replied no. Some were quiet. I alone remember saying yes.

Then again he asked, “Well then, who are they?” The whole class was silent, and I responded without any hesitation, “Why couldn’t it be I?”

He looked deeply into my eyes at that answer of mine. On that day, it was only to underline the fact that prophets do exist. The true answer to that I could find only when I read some of your literature sent to me by your office, and undoubtedly that is you, dear brother and prophet Tony Alamo. God bless you.

We are on a camp ministry to villages called [Bodapalam], [Chandor Pali], [Nandor], and [Kata Palam], and we received your letter. I am sending some sample photos of how we used the donation that you sent.

At a medical camp for the poor, we distributed rice and books to some orphans during our camp ministry.

God bless you abundantly for all that you are doing for Him. I shared your Gospel literature with many during this camp ministry, who said they had never before heard such godly, easy-to-understand Scripture.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Praise the Lord.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading letter:
“Beware of the Pope” really enlightened some youth and women attending RCM, and they repented. Hallelujah.

And the witness of “Touch Me or Die” has touched some who are waiting for complete healing by others’ prayers.

Your writings are the way and the truth to attain everlasting life. God bless you.

I need all the available literature in Telugu and some Bibles immediately to distribute. I am eagerly waiting. Please send them at your earliest convenience.

Your literature titled “Jesus Never Said, ‘My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?’” answered my worrying question, and I am relieved of that pain after getting to know that valuable explanation, for which the Lord shall bless you abundantly.

“The Real Thing, the Real Deal” fairly and clearly explains Jesus Christ’s lordship.

God bless you. By all this, one can understand how much time you spend in the Word. Your writings are for the Lord, of the Lord, and by the Lord.

Please remember this brother in your ministry and allow me to be your co-worker, if permitted.

We are suffering a lot, and the health of me and my spouse needs a lot of treatment and prayers due to ministering in some remote places for a long time.

Remember me more in your prayers. I want bundles of your literature.

Waiting for your blessed early reply amidst your very busy ministry schedule. God bless you more and more. We are praying for you. We love you.

In Christ,
Samson
[Unclear location], India.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Praise the Lord. And where is the next letter from?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
From Ghana.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading letter:
Dear Pastor Tony Alamo,

The Lord of Heaven has given me this great pleasure to write to you this very day.

The main reason why the living God blesses you and your ministry is that your literature has changed my life and many people’s lives in my community. A friend of mine gave me the literature.

Since I read it, it has changed my life, and things have been moving along well for me and my friends.

I have been reading with my friends and with people I do not know, and the people to whom I give the literature to read say it has changed their lives, and they have been serving God.

Those who did not go to church are now going to church.

I have been organizing my friends and teaching them about the Word of God and His creation, but I don’t have a Bible to continue the teaching. Please, I request a Bible and more of your literature so that we can move forward.

Please, I need more of your literature also to help us know more about God. We need your help to move forward.

Since I got the literature and have been teaching my friends, things have been moving smoothly for us.

I also thank you for your great work. May the living God bless you and your ministries, in addition to your family. May the Father of Heaven give you long life.

Yours in Christ,
Felix
[Darkman], Ghana, Africa.

Speaker 1 – Host:
The Lord will give you long life and bless you every day of your life, I know He will—so long as we continue on in Him. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
All right, Sharon, let’s begin.

When Adam and Eve tried to free themselves from God’s authority, they ran smack dab into Satan.

I see people who have been called and chosen, like Adam and Eve, people like Samson, and the people of Israel. In the book of Judges, time after time Israel was led astray, and God began cursing them. Then they cried out to the Lord, God heard them, and He delivered them.

One of the judges that the Lord raised up was Samson. His father was Manoah, and his mother was barren at that time. She prayed for a child, and the Lord said that this child would begin to deliver Israel from the Philistines, because they had been in bondage to them for 40 years because of their sins.

We read this yesterday in the service from chapter 13 of Judges. Read the first verse.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
And then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“And the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
So if you’re under oppression, your leader may have led you there because you listened to him. All Israel was listening to bad leadership, for sure. And so they started crying out to the Lord, and then God brought Samson forth.

This man was really highly anointed. He was anointed before he was even born. He was anointed in his mother’s womb. His mother was told by the Lord what he would do—that he would begin to deliver Israel.

He had to pay for his sin. At the end of his days, he was grinding grain in the Philistines’ place where they ground the grain. They put his eyes out.

He could have delivered Israel more completely, but the Lord knew that he was going to fall before that time and that he would have to pay for his sin. Samson was delivered into the hands of the Philistines because he cared more about this woman than he did about the commandment of the Lord.

In the end, though, he prayed to God, and God forgave him. This should help people who have served the Lord for a few years—or a lot of years—and then have fallen away. In the end, this shows that there still is hope, because Samson was mentioned in the New Testament, in the book of Hebrews, as being one of the greats.

Therefore, I believe that God allowed him to repent. He cried out to God and got forgiveness.

But one thing he did know was that he had to get back to serving the Lord. He couldn’t just say, “Father, God forgave me,” and that’s the end of it.

Adam and Eve couldn’t just say, “Father, forgive us,” and then He would allow them to stay in the Garden of Eden and not allow them to die. He put them out of the Garden of Eden, and they did die, and they suffered greatly. So did Samson.

He could have done much more than he did. But the thing that God prophesied was that he would begin to deliver Israel, and that he did. He completed that particular prophecy that the Lord told him he would begin to fulfill. Amen?

That should encourage people who have gone astray for a while. But it should also show people that it may not be too late for you to get back to the Lord, because the Bible tells us that the Lord loves us.

It also shows the same thing in the book of Judges, where the whole nation of Israel—with the exception of a few prophets—did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord. When they cried out to God, God delivered them.

But now, after we’ve been washed in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and have the Spirit of God, it’s different. Those people did not have Jesus living in them with the Father by the Holy Spirit.

So to continue sinning, not paying any attention to the things the Lord has called you to do, and just living life foolishly, as Samson did, is a serious thing.

God had given rulership, power, and dominion over the earth and over every creature to Adam and Eve, and they failed the Lord. But He put them through the fire. He put them out, and in the end they were saved. But this doesn’t mean there’s eternal security.

They fasted and prayed and got ahold of God and were exceedingly sorry for what they had done. They knew that they had been kicked out of the most glorious place on the face of this earth. It was like Heaven on earth—the Garden of Eden.

It’s tragic to have your eyes put out, and there are people who once knew the Lord and are not serving Him. Now God has sent cancer their way, leukemia.

They foolishly begin wanting to serve under the rule of the one-world government, and they enlist and go over there and kill people, thinking they’re defending our nation. The nation’s leaders are not defending us. They are puppets of Rome.

It’s a sad thing because people continue on in sin. They’re not like Adam and Eve, Samson, or many others—or all of Israel—who decided to repent and begin serving the Lord again.

In Samson’s death, he destroyed more Philistines than he did during the rest of his life up to that point, because he prayed to God that God would help him begin to deliver Israel.

What else do we have here?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Our resistance to others ruling over us is also due to the spirit of leadership over ourselves.

Speaker 1 – Host:
God put us here as rulers, and that is an innate nature in us—that we are rulers. We forget that we’ve fallen away from the power of God.

A lot of people talk about the grace of God. The King James Version says “the grace of God.” The grace of God means the power of God.

It says Christ brought grace and truth. Moses brought the law, which cannot save you. Jesus brought the power and truth of God—the power of God and the truth of God.

So if Christ, with the Father by the Spirit, had been living in Samson on a continuous basis, he would not have failed.

In the fullness of time, after everyone in the world had seen that every king who existed before Jesus failed—including David and Solomon—Christ never failed.

So we can’t say, “Well, David sinned, so why can’t we?” Because David didn’t have the power of God in the same way. He didn’t have Christ living in him with the Father by the Spirit. Neither did Solomon. Neither did Samson.

Now Adam and Eve—that’s a different story. They had eternal life.

God wants to restore that eternal life into you and into every creature on earth. In order for that to happen, you must obey Him. Jesus is the true God, so we have to obey the true God.

All right, continue on.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Our resistance to others ruling over us is also due to the spirit of leadership over ourselves that we once had.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Now, those of you who don’t have power or leadership over yourselves in the world, it’s only because you don’t have the power and truth of God living in you.

Once the power of God and the truth of God are in you, then you have power over yourself. This is the first power we must have in order to be able to have power over the whole world—leadership over every creature.

All right. Say what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
God placed that spirit of leadership in us when He created us.

Speaker 1 – Host:
He did originally, and then they lost it when they fell away from the Lord, when they disbelieved God.

He departed from them, and they knew it because they started hiding from God, when they used to love to come to Him, speak to Him, and have Him talk to them. They communed one with another.

All right, then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
God’s purpose was for us to rule over the created order as vice-regents under His authority. God created us for that purpose and put something in us that appropriates that sort of spirit and innate ability to fulfill our destiny.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Right. And that something He put in us is Himself.

Okay, then what else?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
But woe be unto the Christians who believe that they are not to listen to those who have the rule over them, because the Word of God states, “Obey them that have the rule over you.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
Right. The reason people don’t have rule over themselves is because they’re unruly.

In order for you to become a leader or a ruler, you must first be a follower. In order to be a leader, you must follow first. That goes with any kind of profession as well, especially the Lord.

What else?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
That was Hebrews, chapter 13, verse 17. And this means that those He’s talking to are not developed. They’re not mature.

Many people try to raise themselves up because of their human nature to rule over the authorities. Any disobedience to the authorities of God is considered ungodly by the Lord.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Even in the Roman Empire, not everyone was a king. Pontius Pilate and Caesar were rulers. All the rest were subjects.

Remember that the Roman Empire fashioned its empire or kingdom after Satan, who knew how the Kingdom of Heaven was put in place, because Satan, at one time, was Lucifer, and he was there. He once lived in the Kingdom of Heaven as Lucifer, so he knew the order of things.

So he put together a makeshift imitation of that which is in Heaven, here on earth.

Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
So Satan put together a fake kingdom here, which was, in fact, the Roman Empire.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Which it still is—the Roman Empire. It’s the world power today.

The Lord tells us that Satan’s seat is in Rome, the city of the seven hills.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
The sinful nature of Satan living in people who are disobedient to God distorted and exaggerated that spirit, pushing it beyond the bounds that God intended.

We have a natural tendency to resist all authority, and I see very clearly this includes God’s authority.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Yes, because there is no authority but the Lord.

God had put Israel under the authority of their enemies. He put them into the hands of the Philistines. That doesn’t mean that the Philistines were the people of God. He put Israel under them so they could be buffeted.

And God can put disease or pestilence over you. There are all kinds of diseases today—heart disease, cancer, leukemia, all these things. He puts those things over you to rule over you, and you have to obey them.

But if you’re in the Spirit, if you have the Lord living in you, then He is your authority, and He reigns in you as the authority on this earth.

The continuation of the Lord’s place here on earth is incarnation. He lives again on earth in you, in myself, and in others.

As you see, I just picked one Scripture, but there are hundreds of Scriptures that say because the people of Israel—or a person—did wickedness or evil in the eyes of the Lord, God then turned them over to their enemies.

Your enemy is sickness, disease, and adversity. Your enemy, really, is what I call the Roman Catholic satanic empire.

He puts Satan over you in hopes that you get sick and tired of Satan and stop wanting to serve him. In other words, stop doing what you like and submit yourself under the authority of the Lord.

If there are problems in your life, if I were you, I would examine my lifestyle and see what I’m doing wrong, and then correct it. Judge yourself by the Word of God.

The Word of God says that we must judge all things by the Word of God. It says, “Judge no man.” What that means is, don’t judge any man with your own judgment.

You see all kinds of people in the world who judge with their own judgments. They say, “Oh, this ministry or that ministry—ministries are phonies.” A lot of them are. But how do you judge those ministries?

I judge them by what they say and the things that they do. If you don’t know somebody, and if you don’t know what they’re doing, or if you think they’re doing something wrong, then you can study the Bible to see if what they’re doing is wrong.

Because if what they’re doing is approved in the Bible, then you are judging with your own judgment and the world’s judgment, and you’re completely bypassing the judgment of the Lord.

The Lord said, “Thou shalt not eat from this tree”—the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But Adam and Eve used the judgment of Satan. That’s why everything is now under the power of Satan, with the exception of those of us who have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as our personal Savior.

Now you have to make the choice.

I pray that you will not be as Adam and Eve were, or Samson, or the children of Israel.

The Lord raised up Titus to destroy Jerusalem. He raised up Nebuchadnezzar because the children of Israel had sinned, and they were put in bondage under that regime for 70 years. Then they cried out to God, and the Lord sent deliverance.

So don’t say that the plagues coming down on earth are not coming from the Lord. Read the Bible. Look at what sin really is, and then check whether you’re committing those sins.

You may discover that you’re sinning very much, and you may also discover that you’re not serving the Lord the way He wants you to.

He doesn’t command you merely to go to church, clap your hands, sit there, and warm the pews. He tells you to serve Him in many ways—to walk in the Spirit.

You must be born again of the Spirit of God. You must have Christ living in you, and His Father, and the Holy Spirit. In this way, you are made perfect.

Now the Bible says that the world has been deceived. There are false prophecy warnings, and we’re told not to pay attention to false prophets.

This is the 24th chapter of the book of Matthew, so that you can see when the end really will come. Start reading from verse 1.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading Scripture:
“And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and His disciples came to Him for to shew Him the buildings of the temple.

“And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
The reason for that is God was going to send Titus of Rome to destroy Jerusalem, and the Jews would be dispersed all over the world. They wouldn’t come back for centuries.

This is an end-time sign from the Lord: they would be returned to their homeland just before Christ comes back to earth again.

But there are other things that are going to happen on top of that before Christ comes back to earth again. So read on.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world?”

Speaker 1 – Host:
Right there, they knew that He was going to die and that He was going to come back again. But they saw Him die and they lost their faith. Three days later, when they saw that He had risen, their faith was restored. They were willing to die for Him after that.

But anyway, back to the end-time signs. It’s very important for us to know what the end-time signs are. We’re extremely close to it. Go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
In other words, He’s talking about false prophets. People tell you, “You’re going to be raptured out of all of this.” There’s no such thing as a rapture in the way these false prophets put those Scriptures together.

All right, then go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“For many shall come in My name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
Okay, so He says you see wars and rumors of wars. You see earthquakes, pestilences, and all these different things. But that doesn’t mean that the end is yet. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
So take heed. Listen to these words of Jesus. He’s telling you when the end will be. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
And that’s happening right now, as it has happened before. But still, that’s not the sign of the end. He’s leading up to it. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“And there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
This happened before, but that’s still not the end. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“All these are the beginning of sorrows.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
It’s just the beginning of sorrows. It’s not the end, amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
What verse is that?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
That was verse 8.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Keep calling out the verses from your readings. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Verse 9: “Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for My name’s sake.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
That’s happened for years now. And especially today, we’re hated of all nations.

In the Muslim nations, they’ll put you to death if you’re a Christian. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
And look at how President Clinton and his administration put those people to death at Waco—Christians who never harmed anybody.

They’ve done everything. They took all of our properties away and said every kind of evil thing on the face of this earth. They accused us of the most incredible things—of having underground tunnels, of using slave labor, and things like this.

None of these things are the truth.

How are you going to lock against a liar? You can lock against a thief, but you cannot lock against liars. They just say what they want because they run the media, and they put that in people’s brains.

Of course, we knew that it would happen. That’s why, when it does happen, it doesn’t throw my soul.

All right? And they said they would do what? Hate us?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“You shall be hated of all nations for My name’s sake.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
Well, look at all the nations. My literature is banned in Canada. It’s banned in Australia. It’s banned in many different countries.

People can show hate in ways other than simply saying, “I hate you.” I’ve seen hatred in people firing guns at you, spitting on you, and doing the things the Lord says will happen. They’ll throw you in prison on false charges, and it goes on and on.

But I’m not complaining, because the Kingdom of Heaven and eternity in Heaven are worth so much more than the little sufferings we go through here on earth—being beaten for the Gospel, stoned for the Gospel, you name it.

People may prevent you from having credit cards and other things. That’s fine with me, because when you have a credit card, everybody knows what you’re buying. I don’t really even want them.

The point is, you’re hated of every nation. How is it every nation? Because it’s the United Nations. It’s almost every nation in the world now.

They despise the Gospel. They despise the Jews because the Jews are the ones who wrote these words—the Bible—that this one-world government hates so much.

And here President Bush is building shrines unto this satanic cult in Rome. In Washington, D.C., there are actually monuments that he has built. All the presidents have given their allegiance to Rome, to the Vatican.

And the Bible says that this Vatican is Satan’s seat, that it sits in Rome. There’s nothing else in Rome that I see that even resembles what God calls the Antichrist. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
And so these are the ones that have constantly persecuted the people of the Lord.

It was the Roman soldiers—the Roman soldiers who had rule over Israel at the time—who nailed Jesus to the cross.

The unsaved Jews said, “Let His blood be upon us and our children.”

Because of that, I say the Jews were cursed for around 2,000 years. But God stated that in the end times, just before He comes back to earth again, He would first disperse them into all the nations of the world, and just before He comes back to earth again, He would bring them back to Israel.

That happened in ’47 and ’48.

Now they just have a little strip, and it’s like every nation in the world. The United States is pretending to be the friend of Israel. They give them, I think, around four billion dollars a year, which is nothing in comparison to what they give to our enemies. They give billions and billions of dollars.

And little old Israel is just sitting over there, and God is going to show His biceps over there very soon. Those people, once God starts putting His power behind them—you try to watch out for them, because they’re some of the world’s greatest fighters. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
God sent the Jews into Canaan to destroy the people who were there. [The raw transcript contains an unclear reference to Africans/Canaan at this point.] He sent them in there because those people were sinning. They were idolaters. They were sacrificing their own children.

Even though they are creations of God and God loves them, He has to punish them just like He punishes His chosen people, the Jews.

He allowed many of them to be killed. He opened up the earth one time and swallowed a group of Jews into the pit while they were alive.

And so God punishes people. What kind of a God would He be? The Bible says that He chastens those He loves. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
And, you know, actually He loves President Bush, and He loves those people in the administration. But He hates what they are doing.

So if they just stop doing what they are doing—stop sinning—God shall show them His love just as He does everyone.

So you people in the administration better stop lying. You better stop killing. You better stop persecuting the Jews and persecuting the Christians, and fighting the Bible, trying to do away with it.

And ACLU, I know what you’re up to. God sees everything you’re doing, and He talks to me.

You people are just another goon squad of the Vatican, bringing hatred against the Christians. I mean, you’re telling people they can’t have a Bible in the public square and all this stuff.

Then, you know, Israel, as I mentioned the other day, is the government, and we here are the New Jerusalem. That’s what we are. The body of Christ is actually the New Jerusalem.

We are the actual authority, if you want to call it the secular authority, in the Kingdom of Heaven—which isn’t secular. We handle all the governmental things and all the spiritual things.

So in the Word of God, it tells us there is no separation between church and state—that we are to have our own government.

But we are to judge our own people because we judge with righteousness. We would never send anybody to death if they really didn’t deserve it.

And yet, you know, we take people to this secular law down here, and they let them go, and they send innocent people to prison. So that shows it’s Satan’s government. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
All right, let’s read down here, because I want to get to what is the sign of the end time.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Verse 10: “And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
We’ve had people in my own church who were offended because you tell them that you have to give up your former life. You have to surrender your life—utterly annihilate the old life, forget about it, and let the Lord’s life live in you.

When you tell them they can’t sin anymore, they’re very offended. So what they do is make up stories about you. They go into court and say you have two sets of books and things like that.

I don’t have time to keep even one set of books without a staff, let alone two. I don’t deal with the bookkeeping anymore. I train people how to do the books, and we do it on the up-and-up. Our books are open to anybody who has legitimate business seeing them.

We record what we spend and what comes in.

Okay, then what else?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Verse 11: “And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
Right. You talk about false prophets.

The Bible says that this satanic organization is run and given its power by the great dragon, the devil.

And the administration—these people are false prophets. The news media are false prophets. The religious orders—all these religious orders—are false prophets.

People say, “Well, there’s so much confusion. Who should we listen to?” Get the King James Version of the Bible and read it. That’s who you’re to listen to—the Lord.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
And no one else. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Verse 12: “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
Right, because there’s so much sin.

The love to serve the Lord—love is keeping God’s commandments. Love is to serve the Lord, to believe His Word, and to do it. He said that all of that will wax cold.

You can see that people here in the United States have so much luxury that they don’t want to turn their backs on it in order to get into the Kingdom of Heaven.

That’s why many people in Africa who don’t have much understand that their very existence depends on God. There are a lot of people like that.

The Lord tells us to go into the highways and hedges, to the vagabonds, to the people on the street—to go to everybody. God called people who refused to come, so the Lord says to go to everybody else, to the sinner, and bring them into the marriage supper of the Lamb, and they gladly come in.

All right, then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Verse 13: “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
Right. We’re hated so much.

I hate Satan too. You hate my Father, and I hate yours.

You say, “I thought you didn’t hate.”

No, I don’t hate human beings, but I hate the devil that is living in and through them. And you hate the Lord God that lives in and through me.

So there’s a standoff here—a godly and satanic standoff. I know the Bible, and I know who’s going to win in the end. It’s not you. It’s us. It’s already written.

How can you be so stupid? Edgar Bergen told Mortimer Snerd. He said, “Well, it’s not easy.”

I guess it’s not easy for you to be so stupid, huh?

Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Verse 14: “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
Okay. That’s the end-time sign. Read that again.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“And this gospel of the kingdom—”

Speaker 1 – Host:
This Gospel of what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
The Kingdom.

Speaker 1 – Host:
The Kingdom of Heaven. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“Shall be preached in all the world for a witness—”

Speaker 1 – Host:
All the world, as a witness.

We’re on shortwave overseas. That’s what everybody listens to over there. As a witness to you. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“Unto all nations.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
Unto all the nations. And I believe we’re in every nation. Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“And then shall the end come.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
And then—and then only—shall the end come. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
So that’s what it says. That’s the sign of the end.

When shall the end come? They’re asking Him, and it’s right there.

What verse is that?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Fourteen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Verse 14. Chapter 24 of Matthew, verse 14.

Okay, now let’s get back to this.

There’s a lot of false Christianity in the world today. You say, “Well, the Gospel’s being preached all over the world,” but a lot of it is false.

They say that God loves you unconditionally. I say that is false. With everything God does, there’s a condition. Everything He gives us has a condition to it. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
All of God’s ways for us are conditional.

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. You must believe the whole Word of God, and then you shall be saved. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
You can’t twist this Word.

All these people yell and scream, “Oh, man, there are earthquakes. This is the end time right now.”

No. The Gospel must be preached all over the world. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
One reason that so many people experience frustration in life is because their environment has changed. They were created to rule their lives according to God’s commandments in their environment.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Well, they were created for God to live in them so that He could give them power, so they could rule over their lives. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
And it is His rulership over us that causes us to be able to be successful and to prosper greatly. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
And so, Joshua—you know, do what I’m telling you to do and don’t go to the left or right—and then you shall prosper greatly. He told the same thing to Solomon. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
But instead, they live in a world where they are ruled by their own pride, lust, passion, greed, and selfishness. They are dominated by the adversary, Satan, the author of sin and the instigator of humanity’s downfall.

Speaker 1 – Host:
And he’s the author of confusion. He comes to kill, destroy, and murder. That’s all he wants—to destroy your soul, to murder your soul, to kill your soul.

And what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
He doesn’t have any love for you at all.

Speaker 1 – Host:
He loves to hate you. But God loves you.

And He says, “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I’ll give you rest for your soul.”

I’ll give you a Sabbath. In other words, rest in Me and just let Me live in you.

I want to live out My life. I want to be the continuation of My incarnation here on earth. I want you to do that for Me.

I gave My body for you, and now give your body to Me so I can do My work here on earth as it is in Heaven.

And if you don’t, you’re never going to make it into Heaven.

I see my time is up. So therefore, I’m going to say: you can begin showing the commonwealth of the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven must be preached all over the world.

What is the purpose that God is calling you for now? That’s for you to preach, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

You’ve got to help do that. The sooner you help do that, the sooner the Lord is going to come back. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
If everybody started preaching, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand,” that’s when the Lord comes back. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
So you get saved and repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

Let the Lord live in you. Get grounded in the Word, and He’ll send you to the uttermost parts of the world to preach this Gospel so that we can get Jesus back here sooner. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Praise the Lord.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Now, the first step is to ask the Lord to enter into you and forgive you of all your filthy sins.

So just say this prayer to Him. He will listen to you, He will answer you, and He will enter you right now.

Don’t be afraid of the Lord. The Lord is your Creator. He’s your Savior. He’s not going to hurt you.

Say to Him:

“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 that was living in Him.

“I open up the door of my heart and invite You in, Lord Jesus, to wash all my filthy sins away in the precious blood that You shed for me on the cross of Calvary.

“You will not turn me away, Lord Jesus. You will save my soul. I know because Your Word says so. Your Word says You’ll turn no one away, and that includes me.

“Therefore, I know You’ve heard me, and I know that You have answered me, and I know that I’m saved.

“And I thank You, Lord Jesus, for saving my soul.”

Just raise your hands and praise and thank the Lord. Thank You, Jesus.

And if you want a copy of this program, program 231, Sharon, I’ll tell you four ways to receive it right now.

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

Okay, until tomorrow, this is World Pastor Tony Alamo saying God bless you and praise the Lord.

There’s another song that I promised I would sing for you right now. What’s the name of this song?

“The Days We Let Slip By.”

In other words, if you’re not doing something for the Lord, you’re letting all the days slip by that you could be getting rewards for. So listen to it.

Speaker 1 – Host, singing:
The days we let slip by forever
Never will return,
Like robins in the springtime,
When a day has come and gone.

It is [unclear lyric] eternity in time.
The days we let slip by forever,
While we’re putting off what we can do tomorrow,
For tomorrow never comes,
And we’re the guilty ones.
The days we let slip by,
We’ll never live again.

The days we let slip by forever,
Never looking up to cheer someone around us.
When a soul has come and gone,
Was it saved or lost to [unclear lyric] below?

The days we let slip by forever,
We will have to face when judgment comes before us,
And we’ll [unclear lyric] how much we should have [unclear lyric].
We’ll cry to live again.

The days we let slip by forever,
We’ll cry to live again.
We’ll cry to live again.

The days we let slip by forever,
We’ll have to face when judgment comes before us.