Repent, Serve, and Stand Firm: The Kingdom of Heaven, Spiritual Warfare, and the Call to Obedience

Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 – Host / Preacher, Tony Alamo. He identifies himself at the beginning as “World Pastor Tony Alamo,” introduces the program, prays, comments on the letters, gives the principal sermon and political-religious commentary, leads the salvation prayer, and closes the broadcast.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader. The host addresses Sharon by name and asks her to read listener correspondence, teaching material, and Scripture passages, and later to give instructions for obtaining the program. Where the raw transcript does not conclusively distinguish her voice from another reader, this label is used as the most likely consistent identification rather than inventing additional identities.

Speaker 3 – Prerecorded Musical / Announcer Voices. The opening and closing musical recordings include voices other than the live host. The opening performance is introduced as involving J.D. Sumner and the Stamps Quartet, and the closing “Onward, Christian Soldiers” segment begins with an announcer-style spoken introduction. Individual voices within those recordings are not consistently distinguishable from the transcript.

Speaker 4 – Letter Writers, quoted by Speaker 2. The program contains letters from India and Ghana. Their words are read aloud and the writers are not heard directly.

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Speaker 1 – Host:
Hello again. This is World Pastor Tony Alamo. This is part 131 of How to Have God’s Life Living in You, and this will be tape number 233, program 233.

You can have an audio tape of it or a CD, whatever you prefer, free of charge. All you need to do is tell us which one you want, and everything is paid for, even the postage. Sharon will tell you four different ways to receive a copy at the end of the program.

We have some testimonials and letters from different places, and also a message exposing a lot of what I say is governmental activity that has been going on in the world today.

I’m sure all you agents of what I call this mysterious, silent, invisible government within our own government will be very interested in listening to this one. I know you’re not going to turn on [unclear program name] or some other program, but that you’ll continue listening, because who knows? Maybe even you will be exposed on this program.

This has a lot to do with what I call the Alex Jones smokescreen for the Vatican. It’s a film he called TerrorStorm, telling what he says are truths about how government is involved with terrorism. However, I say it doesn’t tell who is calling the shots. It doesn’t say that I believe it is coming from Rome.

As long as everybody wants to be deceived, of course, the Bible calls this “Mystery Babylon the Great.” I interpret that as the Roman Catholic system and as the big problem in the world today.

This is going to be interesting. They’re exalting Charlie Sheen in this Alex Jones tape and acting as though he’s a hero, but neither he nor the people on that CD or DVD expose what I say are the problems coming from the Vatican, as I interpret the Word of God.

I’m going to read some Scriptures, or have some Scriptures read from the Bible, to show you what I believe God is soon going to allow to happen to the Vatican and all the people involved with it.

But right now, I’d like to sing a little song for you with J.D. Sumner and the Stamps Quartet. I recorded this while J.D. and all of us were there in Tennessee at the Johnny Cash recording studio. It is called “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho.”

Speaker 3 – Prerecorded Musical Performance:
[Opening lyrics partly unclear.]

Joshua fit the battle of Jericho,
Jericho, Jericho.
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho,
And the walls began to fall.

[Several verses are indistinct in the automated transcript.]

Then Joshua shouted, “Glory!”
And the walls began to fall.

[Unclear lyric.]

Speaker 1 – Host:
Praise the Lord. What a voice J.D. Sumner had—the world’s lowest bass singer.

We were very good friends. He and the Stamps sang at our church out in Dyer, Arkansas, and several other places. They had been in our home on [Georgia Ridge—unclear location], and out in Nashville, and we really had a good time.

Now let’s all go up to the throne of the Lord and ask the Lord to anoint this service.

Father, [unclear opening prayer phrase]. I’ve been baptized, Lord, in Your Holy Spirit, as You know, which has given me the spirit of victory to be able to go through all the different things the prophets went through and still remain in the ministry, with Your Spirit in me.

Your Spirit lets me know that I’m saved and that I’m going to Heaven.

One of the beautiful things, Lord, is that when I was so desperate in prison, I asked You, “Lord, did You find something wrong with me? Is there some reason for me to be here? Was I really railroaded? Give me some encouragement.”

And You said to me, “You’re saved.”

I said, “Praise the Lord.”

Then, a minute later, I said, “Give me more, Lord.”

And You said, “You’re going to Heaven.”

That’s all we really need to know to keep our encouragement up: that we’re saved and that we’re going to Heaven.

Father, I thank You so much for that, Jesus, Lord God Almighty.

Lord, let every word that is said be directly from You. Let everything that is said be the truth—the truth about the things that are going on in this world.

Lord, let everybody receive the truth from the Word of God that we will be reading this morning, afternoon, or evening, whenever people are listening to this program.

Lord, let souls be saved and the church be strengthened, and let the people in the world and in the church repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

We ask it in Jesus’ name, and everyone says amen.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
The word “repent” means—when Jesus came into the world, the first message He preached was, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

Repent means to stop doing what you’re doing right now, turn around, and let the Lord lead, guide, and direct your life. Let Him live in you and through you.

Now, this is the message that you government agents out there, and all the people who are lost, don’t like. Those of you who are lost and don’t want to go to Heaven, who don’t believe the Gospel, don’t believe there’s a Heaven and a hell.

But this is the message of God: we have to turn around.

Repent means to turn around and do something you never did before in your life. You begin allowing the Lord to live His life in and through you.

This is the message that a lot of people hate. Most of the people on earth, I say, hate it. They don’t want to believe it.

They want to believe that you can simply enjoy everyday living instead of denying yourself, taking up your cross, and following the Lord.

But the Lord does say, “Deny yourself daily, take up your cross, and follow Me.” That means follow His footsteps. That’s not what you did before in your life, so you have to give up what you were doing before and do what the Lord says.

The Lord says we have to serve. People in the world love to be served, and that is the exact opposite of what the Lord says to do.

Now, democracy—we have what I call a one-world government, and we’re going throughout the world bombing places until they receive democracy. They say everyone has the right to criticize the government.

But I say this is really a dictatorship. Democracy, if you look at it the way I do, is a dictatorship. I say they’re saying you cannot believe in any religion except the one-world religion.

Of course, the Lord tells us that He never came to bring religion. He brought the message, “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

This coincides with the message “Thy will be done” in the Lord’s Prayer, where He told His disciples to pray, “Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven.”

The will of the Lord is not being done by many on this earth. There are many of us who try to do it, but not in comparison with those doing their own thing.

They don’t want to serve the Lord or serve others. They want to be served.

But we’ll see that this is Satan’s message: wanting to be served rather than being a servant, as Christ was. He was the faithful servant to His Father, even to the obedience of allowing Himself to be crucified on the cross of Calvary.

All right. Now we have some letters here. We’re not going to be able to do more than one or two.

Go ahead. Where’s this one from?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
From India.

Speaker 1 – Host:
India. Okay, go ahead and read it. What part of India?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
From [Achanta], Andhra Pradesh.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Okay.

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

Greetings to you. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through God our Father.

I have received your brilliant material by post. After reading your literature, I have been found. I am blessed by God, and moreover, God has brought your literature to me in my need so that I may grow in the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 1 – Host:
All my literature is just the wisdom and understanding of God’s Scriptures that He has given me. I put it down on paper, and I say He is winning literally millions of souls—hundreds of millions of souls—all over the world.

There’s nothing like this ministry on earth.

All right, then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading letter:
How can I express my happiness?

I am nearly 60, and my second wife is 45. My first wife died.

I led most of my life as a waiter in a star hotel. Now, since ten years ago, I came to know I should change.

Now I am in the light from your good, encouraging material. I became fully changed.

I have distributed all the volumes to the brothers and to churches, including teachers. I gave a good speech from your precious literature. All admired it, and they found me with a new face while I was giving the message.

My wife also helped me in song.

Really, I did not know you had such a big distribution from Africa to India until I saw all the photos from Nigeria and [Rajahmundry or similar place name] near my district.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Well, let me tell you, it’s from Africa, India, the Philippines, over 200 countries, and the United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain, all your Latino countries, France, Germany, Greece, Hebrew-speaking areas—all over the world, everywhere.

Then what else?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading letter:
I do not want anything for me.

God gave me a small job. Even sweeping or washing is better to me because so many of my fellow brothers don’t even have this kind of work.

I got a good direction that I should open a lending library to spread God’s Word far and wide, not by my name, but by the name of the Tony Alamo Bible Library.

I’m sending a meeting pamphlet to [Palakol], which is very near to [Narasipar]. [Narasipar] is famous for missionaries, but [Palakol] is full of idolatry.

I would like to start right there a good library by the power of God. Nowadays all castes of people accept Jesus Christ due to calamities in nature.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Whenever you see in the mail room that a person like this wants to teach the Bible, you need to send them every piece of literature that I’ve ever written, The Messiah book, the tapes—they have to receive everything.

Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading letter:
God has plans for each and everything. God Himself is a big ministry, as we read in your book entitled The Messiah.

When His judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. But God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in His holiness.

I am not enough to write anything about the Bible. You are a big ocean; I am a small drop of water.

Most of the people are uneducated in this country, so sometimes I used to organize some exhibitions with Bible pictures, such as Noah’s Ark, Moses and the Ten Commandments, the three people in the fire, and Daniel in the lions’ den.

I would like a picture Bible. Kindly send me one, if available, for the purpose of the library.

I would like all the copies of the literature you’ve written, that I may collect them.

Speaker 1 – Host:
That would be great—to get a scriptural Bible that has pictures in it—because people understand pictures when they don’t read or write. He’ll be able to explain this to the people thoroughly.

So get him a picture Bible. There are picture Bibles all over the place, but it has to be a scriptural one, not one that says we can continue sinning and not begin serving the Lord and still go to Heaven. Nothing like that.

Then what else?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading letter:
It is a big need in this area, where all other festivals are often held.

Every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.

Speaker 1 – Host:
You know, it is true that if you sin, the Lord—seven times in the book of Judges—the Lord saw the people of Israel sinning, and then He sent them into different chastisements.

All through the Bible this happened when people were not serving the Lord.

Even good people had to go into Nebuchadnezzar’s kingdom—the good Jews like Daniel and the three Hebrew children, and several of the others.

Jeremiah was just a young lad when the Lord started speaking to him. He said, “Lord, I cannot speak because I’m just a youth.”

This is in the first chapter of Jeremiah. The Lord said, “Don’t say that you’re a youth.”

Then the Lord touched his lips and gave him the ability to speak the Word. When it says He reached forth His hand, I interpret that as the Holy Spirit touching his lips.

And he was anointed to preach the Gospel, just like I say I’ve been anointed to teach the Word of God whenever the Lord gives me the occasion.

The first thing He did with me was give me the ability to write, to be a scribe and write things down. He gave me the ability to print.

We have a lot of brothers and sisters who have distributed the literature by the hundreds of millions throughout the world.

Okay, then what else?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading letter:
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handywork.”

Thanking you, sir.

Yours humbly,
Brother [Challenol],
[Achanta], Andhra Pradesh, India.

Speaker 1 – Host:
I’m just a drop in the bucket too when it comes to the ocean.

But all of us together can get the Gospel out. The Bible states in Matthew, chapter 24, that when the Gospel has been preached all over the world, when it has reached everywhere in the world, then the Lord comes back to earth again.

We can do this if all of us drops in the Lord’s bucket get together. Some of us are distributors. Some write. Some preach. Some teach. Some are evangelists. Some are prophets, and some help get the Gospel out.

They help the pastors, teachers, and preachers.

That’s what it means to be part of the church. If you are not a preacher or teacher, or you don’t run a church, you, as a drop in the bucket, can aid the other drops—the prophets, teachers, and preachers.

The prophet said, “My dad was not a prophet.” I wasn’t a prophet or a godly man, but I say God came down and talked to me and told me things that are shortly going to come to pass.

The disciples and apostles were ordinary people. They were fishermen, tax collectors, and things like this.

The Lord came and took a bunch of nothings, like myself and all these people, and made us drops in the bucket. Together we are the body of Christ, which is a huge ocean of truth that needs to tsunami the entire world with the truths of the Word of God.

The Word that we preach is, I teach, the Holy Spirit. The Word of God is the Holy Spirit, and it is life if you receive it.

We have been called to pour out God’s Spirit throughout the entire world, on all flesh. When the Spirit of God is being poured out on all flesh by our preaching the Word of God, and it reaches all the countries in the world—every nation, every kingdom, every tongue—then the Lord comes back to earth again.

A lot of people say, “What kind of a God would He be if He didn’t reveal Himself to all the people in the deepest, darkest jungles of Africa?”

The Lord, I say, is allowing us to get so many letters from Africa and India so people will stop saying that.

Those people know the Bible better, I say, than many people here in the United States. Amen?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Can’t you tell by these letters?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Amen.

Speaker 1 – Host:
We don’t get the amount of letters from the United States in the same ratio.

I say there are about a billion and a half people in Africa, a billion and a half in India, and a billion and a half in China.

I was talking to one of my friends who was in the health studio business with me years ago. He had just gotten back from China, and he said they don’t allow more than one child to be born, and if you have more than one child they fine you tremendous amounts of money.

Anyway, let’s go on. This letter.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
From Ghana, Africa.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, beginning letter:
Dear Evangelist Alamo,

[The next words of the greeting are unclear before the host interrupts the reading.]

Speaker 1 – Host:
Okay. Here’s another one from Africa.

This is to show you: don’t say, “What about the people in the deepest, darkest jungles of Africa?” What about them? Well, listen to them.

What about the people in what I call the deepest, darkest jungles of the United States and the rest of the world—the people in the United States who have been deceived?

I say people are deceived here in the U.S., and people in Israel have been deceived.

I say the Lord has called me to turn the light on for you people. Hopefully, after the light is turned on through the Word of God, the Spirit of God, you’ll see the light and be drawn to it so that you’re able to live in Heaven forever instead of going out into eternity and judgment.

People ask, “Where do people go immediately after they die?”

The Bible says, “To be absent from the body” is to be present with the Lord. Amen?

So I teach that believers go to Heaven immediately. If we haven’t received the Lord Jesus Christ, I teach that we go to hell.

There’s Scripture in the Bible that talks about the rich man in hell and the man Lazarus.

The rich man would not properly care for Lazarus. He never took him in. Lazarus was sick, and the rich man never helped him with the riches he had. He wouldn’t feed him a decent meal.

So, I teach, having money itself was not what sent his soul to hell. If he had fed the poor, as the Lord tells us to, clothed them, and represented the Lord by doing to others as he would have them do to him, that would have shown something different.

The Scripture says, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”

I say everybody who has been born is a person God created. Inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of His creation—especially His people—you’ve done it unto Him.

But if you starve them out and let them suffer, then, I teach, there is no mercy for you. At judgment, you don’t receive mercy.

Do you understand what the Bible says?

If you don’t back up the work of God, while you sit comfortably in your house watching what I call heretics and false prophets telling you to send them money and saying you’ll be blessed, that doesn’t mean anything if you don’t see that money being distributed to the poor.

When we went to Europe, we didn’t see anybody doing that there.

It’s not just food and clothes. Anybody can do that. Even what I call the Antichrist system in Rome gives out clothes and food to Catholics.

But we have, I say, an Antichrist government that pays farmers not to grow food. If we allowed farmers to grow food and paid people to grow food, we could distribute food all over the world as the Lord wants us to.

Then there wouldn’t be penalties for having children. I say this contradicts the Word of God, which tells us to “be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”

There are a lot of plagues coming down and, I say, coming down now. These are the beginning of sorrows: wars, rumors of wars, earthquakes in different places, famines, pestilences, and different diseases.

I claim that as many as one out of every three children in the United States has diabetes, what people call sugar diabetes, and I attribute much of that to parents allowing children too much sugar. I also claim that roughly one out of three children has serious weight problems, including obesity, and that many adults are obese as well.

People love to eat, and they don’t think about children elsewhere who are starving.

We’re going to have Buster on the program tomorrow, and he’s going to tell you about different situations in Africa where little children are starving to death on the streets.

A lot of you don’t want to hear that. You’ll just tune out tomorrow and the next day.

But if you try to hide your eyes from the things that are going on here on earth, then, I say, you’re not showing mercy.

Those who sow mercy shall reap mercy at Judgment Day. If you sow no mercy, then you’re not going to receive mercy.

Those who sow sparingly shall receive little or nothing, but those who sow abundantly shall receive abundance in this world and in the world to come, the Kingdom of Heaven.

Anyway, these radio broadcasts are everywhere in the world now.

I say the Antichrist government has gone to radio and television stations and told them not to say anything good about Tony Alamo—or even anything bad—because the news media have a habit of coming to a person and asking for an interview.

I told them I will do an interview if it’s live, because in the past, when I got on the air, they started cutting the tapes.

There was a guy in Nashville who used to ask me to get on his television program. He said, “I need you, Tony. I need you to get on because my ratings go high. I’m going to go down the drain if you don’t come on my program.”

So I would go on.

His name was [Teddy Bart—spelling uncertain]. Some of you people in Nashville will remember him.

He asked me one time, “Tony, are you a cult?”

I said, “No, Teddy, you’re a cult. Let me explain some of the things why I know you’re a cult.”

Then when it came on the air, they showed him saying, “Tony, are you a cult?” and, I say, they cut my words and showed the back of my head as though I didn’t say anything.

So, I say, unless you do an interview with the media live, don’t do it. I won’t.

Any time they want to put the President of the United States on with me, I’ll go on with him, because I believe I know the Bible and these issues better than he does.

People say, “Tony Alamo just brags all the time and exalts himself.”

When I say what I did out in the world, I’m showing people that, to me, the things I did in the world were worthless compared with serving God. I put them down.

They say, “Yeah, I did promotion for this person and that person and the Democratic Party. See? Tony’s just bragging.”

No, I’m giving you my testimony.

I don’t think of it as anything big. To me, the Democratic Party is phony, and I say the Republican Party is too.

If it were a big deal to me, why would I be telling people what I believe it really is? I say it’s a device of Satan.

If they’re making everybody in every country become a “democrat,” while the elite and the Vatican appoint leaders, then, I say, you don’t really have a choice. I claim Republican and Democratic presidential candidates are controlled by the same forces.

They may tell you they’re Baptists or something else to get the Southern vote, but I allege voting machines are rigged and that elections are manipulated. I also say that even if a different candidate had won, the underlying system would have remained the same.

I present all of that as a smokescreen to get your mind off what I believe is really going on in the world.

Anyway, we’re going to get into that a little bit. Go ahead and read the rest of this letter.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading letter:
Praise God for your anointed program on Radio Africa, which brings salvation, strength, and nourishment to our spirits.

This program serves to confirm to me what the Holy Spirit ministers to me, but it is doubly blessed when He also provides clear confirmation through your messages.

Glory be to His name.

I would very much like to receive copies of Bibles and your study books and other materials to uplift our fellowship, which lacks such materials.

God bless you all, and hoping to hear from you soon.

In Christ our Lord,
Charles,
Accra, Ghana.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Okay, Charles. Praise the Lord.

Now, Sharon, let’s come forward and get into doing some more exposé.

I interpret the Bible as telling us that Satan’s seat is in Rome, Italy. I say it absolutely says so.

I believe it describes the biggest and most powerful-looking church in the world and says that it influences people throughout the world. I claim politicians, presidents, kings, and other world leaders give obedience to the Vatican and the popes.

If you read books by Avro Manhattan, I say he describes agents as being like termites that bore themselves into every part of people’s lives.

I claim you cannot pick up a newspaper that isn’t influenced by the Vatican. You can’t turn on channels, I say, that are not in one way or another influenced by it or serving as a smokescreen for it.

They may act like they hate an administration, but I say they’re smokescreening for the Vatican.

I use Michael Moore as an example. I say they don’t mind if he comes out against President Bush because, in my view, the Vatican protects presidents.

I’ve been told by friends and people witnessing in Washington, D.C., that streets around the White House are heavily secured. Wherever a president goes, there are security forces, aircraft, and bodyguards protecting him.

I interpret that protection through my belief that presidents serve as a smokescreen for the Vatican and draw public anger away from Rome.

I compare this to Hitler. I claim Hitler received support from the Vatican and emphasize that he was Catholic. I also accuse the Catholic system of hostility toward Jews, Black people, and especially what I call true Christians.

A lot of people say Catholicism is Christianity. I say it is one of Christianity’s worst enemies and that it has historically used force and deadly weapons against Christians.

I point to Waco as an example, calling the people there Christians.

We’re not Seventh-day Adventists. They believe in one Sabbath day, but I teach that the Christian life is a seven-day Sabbath in the sense that we rest from the works of our old life and labor together with the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you want to be saved and go to Heaven, you have to allow the Lord to occupy you inside. He enters into you by the Holy Spirit. He enters into you with His Father.

I teach that the Father is Spirit, and that when you’re newborn spiritually, you need more of God’s Word because God is the Word.

You need the Word in order to grow into a mature Christian with the Spirit of God in you, to the point where the Lord in you and with you is able to do a great and mighty work in you, with you, and through you.

You need to read the Word because the Word is the Lord. The Word is God.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” in the first chapter of John. Then in verse 14, “the Word was made flesh.”

I teach that the whole Godhead was present in the Lord.

People say, “How could He be in a human body and still be in Heaven?”

Because God is omnipresent. He’s everywhere. He can be seated in Heaven and His Spirit can enter millions of people’s bodies.

Back then, in this unique incarnation, Jesus was on earth. Now that He has gone to be with the Father, I teach that He can dwell in millions who have received Him into their hearts.

He is still on the throne, and He is still in us. We are still on earth, but spiritually we are also at the throne of God with Him in the Kingdom of Heaven. That’s how I interpret the Bible.

A lot of people underestimate God—His ability to be everywhere and in everyone He chooses.

By the Lord living in us, we are able to endure. And when we receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, as Jesus did when He was baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist, I teach that we receive power for ministry and the ability to go through trials and tribulations.

Jesus went even to the death of the cross. I refer to His prayer before the crucifixion and describe Him as sweating blood while enduring that trial.

I teach that He did not say, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” in the sense commonly translated. I teach that the Aramaic phrase meant, “My God, My God, for this purpose was I sent.”

I believe translators misunderstood the Aramaic. Jesus spoke Hebrew and Aramaic when He was on earth, and I interpret the phrase as meaning, “My God, My God, for this purpose I was sent.”

I teach that God was in Jesus.

He said, in substance, “Have I been so long with you, and yet hast thou not known Me? He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.”

How do you explain, I ask, that He raised Lazarus from the dead and healed people—the blind seeing, the lame walking, and people with leprosy being healed—if God was not working in Him?

What would God come into the world in the flesh and do more than that?

All right?

So this is what we have to do. We have to preach the whole Bible.

I believe the Bible describes the Vatican even if it does not use the word “Vatican.”

When I was in a courtroom one time on what I say was a false charge, they asked, “Does the Bible mention the word Vatican?”

No. I say it describes it and says the relevant power is in Rome. I interpret those passages as describing the head of a one-world government, a one-world church, and a media system.

People ask, “If it doesn’t say Vatican, then how do you know it’s the Vatican?”

I say if the Lord had put the word “Vatican” in there, they could have changed their name to “Schmatigan” or “Madigan” or who knows what.

I believe the media are important to that system because they can blacklist somebody very quickly. Everybody’s watching.

They can say I’m another Jim Jones, that I’m running a cult, that I’m doing things against God, that I’m an evil person, and so on. They can say that about you too.

Any time I see the media blacklisting somebody, I become suspicious because I say they do the same thing to me.

I say the Lord told me, “Get My Word out, and then they will not be able to destroy you.”

I believe I’ve gotten so much of the Word of God out that even people in government have read the Bible to check what I’m saying.

I claim lawyers, judges, and prosecuting attorneys know that I’m sincere and believe I’m preaching the truth.

But, I say, they have to blacklist people.

There’s no rhyme or reason, in my view, for what’s going on in the world today apart from Satan.

I’ve heard it claimed that 93 to 97 percent of people in the United States, and perhaps elsewhere, believe 9/11 was an inside job and that the Bush administration had something to do with it.

I say the Vatican doesn’t care if you believe that. I claim that’s why people such as Michael Moore can criticize President Bush—to get your mind off my belief that the Vatican is behind these things.

I interpret the biblical image of Babylon as a mother from whom every evil abomination comes.

So when you see President Bush calling for war, I claim he has to do that or the people controlling him would kill him.

I also claim President Kennedy was killed because he stopped obeying those forces. Other people blame the Mafia, but I say the government system being controlled by the Vatican is itself like a Mafia.

I describe it as evil and wicked and interpret Rome as Satan’s seat, empowered by the dragon, the devil.

I say people first want to be president because of prestige: they can go home and tell their family they’re president, get their picture printed on coins, be in history books, receive support and protection for the rest of their lives, and feel important. I use insulting language in the broadcast, calling some people attracted by those enticements “half-wits” and “admitted drunks.”

Then, I say, they become involved in persuading young people to become soldiers and fight to make every country part of what I call a dictatorship labeled democracy.

I interpret biblical prophecy as describing a ten-nation European situation in which nations eventually realize that the Vatican is causing trouble and then turn against it and destroy it.

So, I say, Satan knows his time is short and is full of rage.

People ask why the World Trade Center came down. I claim explosives were planted through the buildings and that they came down like a controlled demolition, similar to buildings being demolished in Las Vegas.

I argue that an aircraft striking the upper floors would not, in my view, explain the collapse the way it happened.

People such as Alex Jones and Charlie Sheen talk about 9/11. I criticize the way Charlie Sheen is being presented as a hero, and I speculate about whether he or Jones is Catholic, although I say I do not know.

I accuse them of smokescreening for the Vatican.

I say much of what the film TerrorStorm presents is true, but that it fails to identify the Vatican as the source, according to my interpretation.

They talk about Hitler. I emphasize again that Hitler was Catholic and say he had trained for the priesthood. I accuse the Vatican of hatred toward Jews, Black people, and, more than anyone, true Christians.

They call themselves Christians, but I reject that description. I add that if people I regard that way were in Heaven, I would rather be back in Billings, Montana, where I say I was raised.

All right. Let’s read some of this that I dictated earlier today.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
The United States secular leaders have told us that the war on terror may last one hundred years.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Right. I claim they say that because the Vatican has told them it’s going to last one hundred years.

I say if leaders don’t do what the Vatican tells them, they’re dead.

If their conscience starts bothering them and they begin disobeying, I believe they are endangered.

I use President Kennedy as an example and interpret his assassination through this framework.

I also claim Ronald Reagan once told me, “I’m a puppet, Tony. I can’t do anything. It’s the Vatican. I can’t do anything. I have to do what they say.”

I present that as something he told me personally.

But anyway, let’s read something from the Bible here.

I once read in the Sun magazine, which I call a rag sheet, a claim about future terrorism attributed to Vatican cardinals. I reacted by saying that if they were “prophesying” terrorism, they might be planning to make the prophecy come true themselves.

Okay, Sharon, go ahead and read.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Revelation, chapter 17, verse 16.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Yes, verse 16. Go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader, reading Scripture:
“And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast—”

Speaker 1 – Host:
Now, I interpret these ten horns as European nations or a European common-market-type bloc. Continue.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“The ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore—”

Speaker 1 – Host:
The Bible calls this figure the whore, the prostitute, Mystery Babylon the Great, the mother of abominations.

I interpret that figure as the Vatican.

Go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“These shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil His will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

“And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
The great city. What is the great city?

I’ve traveled all over the world, and I say the great city described here is Rome. I interpret that as the city where Satan’s seat is—the city of seven hills or mountains.

Go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
Chapter 18, verse 1:

“And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
You think the Vatican or what I call this Antichrist government and media have power, but here just one angel comes down. And I believe there are hundreds of millions of angels.

Go ahead.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit—”

Speaker 1 – Host:
So this Mystery Babylon is fallen, according to the passage.

Why, I ask, do people put their faith in what I call an Antichrist one-world government run by Rome?

Keep going.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“And a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication—”

Speaker 1 – Host:
I interpret “fornication” here as deliberate rebellion and aggression against God. I say the nations are obeying this system because they benefit from commerce and political arrangements.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her—”

Speaker 1 – Host:
The kings—the presidents, kings, queens, and other rulers—I claim they do what this system wants because it is so powerful.

I say these powers finance wars using taxpayers’ money—your money and my money.

Then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“And the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.”

Speaker 1 – Host:
Right. I interpret that as people doing favors for one another in a corrupt system. One hand washes the other.

Okay, then what?

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins—”

Speaker 1 – Host:
So if you’re a person of the Lord, I interpret the Lord as telling you to get out of that system and stop participating, because otherwise you will share in its judgment.

I say Vatican-connected people once told people in my church, “You better quit following Tony Alamo, otherwise you’re going to have as many bullet holes in you as he has.”

I say they said this over 20 years ago, and I still have only the holes God put there—two eyes, a couple of nostrils, a mouth, and two ears.

My point is that I believe people who stay in that system will share in its destruction.

My time is up, and we’re going to continue with this tomorrow.

But right now, the way to get out of it, I teach, is to call upon the Lord and ask Him to enter into your heart.

So say this prayer to God so that you can come out of sin.

Say to the Lord—and all you government agents too, say it:

“My Lord and my God, have mercy upon my soul, a sinner.

“I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God.

“I believe that He died on the cross and shed His precious blood for the forgiveness of all my filthy sins.

“And I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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

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

“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 You’ve answered me, and I know I’m saved.

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

All right. Pray and thank the Lord. Raise your hands and praise the Lord.

All you government people, what does the prestige you’re given really matter? Who are you trying to impress anyway?

Impress the Lord. Thank the Lord for saving your soul.

Okay. Now here’s Sharon to tell you four different ways you can receive a copy of program number 233.

Speaker 2 – Sharon / Reader:
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.

Speaker 1 – Host:
Okay. This is World Pastor Tony Alamo.

Make sure that you tune in tomorrow, because we’re really going to continue pulling the lid off what I describe as the corruption behind these systems.

And remember: impress God, not anybody else. Impress the Lord.

Right now, here I am to sing “Onward, Christian Soldiers.”

Let’s go onward with Jesus.

Speaker 3 – Prerecorded Announcer:
National attention has been focused on banner headlines proclaiming Christians are being kidnapped, tortured, committed to mental institutions, and accused of brainwashing and mind control.

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

Speaker 3 – Prerecorded Musical Performance:
Onward, Christian soldiers,
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.

Christ, the royal Master,
Leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
See His banners go.

Onward, Christian soldiers,
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.

[Middle verse partly unclear.]

We are not divided;
All one body we,
[unclear lyric].

Onward, Christian soldiers,
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.