Taken fromDecade of nineties - 8:40 http://artkatzministries.org/audio-messages/decade-of-the-nineties/Preached some more than 20 years ago:"In a word, I am anticipating that we are going to see in this decade the alignment of the religious forces that will prevail until the end of the age, the age may end by the year of 2000, but if it goes on a little before that or a little longer than that, be assured that what happens between now and that time, this ten year period will cast the major and basic formation of the thing that will prevail until the coming of the Lord.You are going to required to choose, you are choosing even now, but you are not conscience of that, where you are going to end up in terms of the church, as the great centrifugal and polarizing forces are going to move us into one camp or the other.We are going to be radicalized and there is not going to be any neutral ground for those of us who don't have stomach for that, who just want to be "Ordinary Christians", just get along, just be a Sunday pew-sitter, mind your business, not irritating anyone and just go on. I want to tell you, that that option wont be available to you.To be an ordinary christian in this decade and the end of the age, will be to be apostate.And God has never called us to be ordinary, He has called us to be extraordinary, he has called us to be apostolic.It has always been God's intention for the church, from the beginning, how much more at the end.A church of apostolic glory, of apostolic power, of apostolic integrity, of apostolic character, of apostolic service.These are "they" that turned the world upside down.These are also candidates for persecution and for martyrdom.And we who have clucked our tongues at the reports of martyrdom that have come to us from distant places, "Iron Curtain" countries and Africa, need to embrace ourselves and to know, that that's not phenomena confided to the distant places.It's a phenomena that will always take place, wherever God's people break in to a transcendent and real place with God that the world can not tolerate and abide. If we have got no way with it, it's a testimony to a our shame.It's a scandal of western Christianity, that it has been so thinned, so inoffensive, so "going on with it's own Sunday business", that the world has not been required to take NOTE, let alone to OPPOSE it!But I want to tell you that in a world that is coming to into consummation, in a SYSTEM that is OPPOSED to God, in it's very character and nature that is ANTICHRIST, those who will stand for Christ and refuse to take the mark of the beast, will find themselves candidates for martyrdom.And if we cannot buy or sell, how then we shall subsist?I think that we should now to begin to consider these things, and God is speaking these things now so as to prepare us and to feed us for the realities that shall shortly come to pass and are already working I am not saying 'Thus saying the Lord' but I have suspicion that the issue of 'the mark of the beast' or 'the name of the Lord on our foreheads' is not the designation that is going to come to us in some final hour where we get stamped, but it is EVEN NOW being formed day by day and moment by moment in the transactions to which we give ourselves for convenience, for luxury, for security, in a SYSTEM that is that is increasingly HOSTILE and OPPOSED to God.How much attenuated to luxury are we? How much do we need our security and how much we are willing to go with it?As one who is possessed an American Express Card for about twenty years and paid my bills regularly, never paid the 18.5% exorbitant interest if you allow the debt to go beyond a month, I have finally broken it up and destroyed it.Just felt constrained by the Lord to give it up, that there is something about it, that has .... a spiritual weight, a moral implication of a dependency on not upon God, but upon a SYSTEM established by men. I want to tell you something, it's a very naked feeling not to have that card in the wallet.There is a whole intricate, complex SYSTEM that has been raised up in the world to which we have mindlessly subscribed!And I suspect in my prophetic intuition that every time we get into that, we condescend to it, we go along with it, we buy and sell in it, we establish our security in it, we find our comfort in it, something is being embossed on our forehead and our hand, and the day of the Lord will reveal what number we bear!You know what is apostate about the apostate church? It still continues to speak the vocabulary of the faith!You still continue to use the terminology, you still call Lord, Lord, but the reality and the power have long ago disappeared, and not only that, it would be offended with that minority of the spirit that has not go along, and call them 'heretical'.I am not saying these things to scare or to panic, but to prepare and to alert. We need to know what time it is, and it’s the Lord’s very mercy to speak to us in a such a way as to align ourselves with things as they in fact are.” And I am not saying things that non of us don’t know, but I putting it together by the grace of God to a such a way, that we might get a sense of totality of this in all inclusiveness of this and the direction toward which is going. You know many of us are Christians but are really humanists in heart. If we are scratched deeply enough we believe in inevitable progress, we think that the things will improve or the science has the answer. That is not the eschatological and apostalic sense of things as given into scripture. Scriptures indicate is winding down and coming to conclusion of an age that is helplessly and incorrectibly corrupt."
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Hi Tears of Joy,Even in 1990 none of what was written was new.Also its 2012 now along way after 2000 .So although what he was saying was true it is hardly new prophetic information even in the nineties.I think preachers who believe we are to live through the tribulation do view a very negative end for the church and fail to use examples given in the bible of the Anti-Christ and apply them to the end times.Yours Staff
Thank you for transcribing this for us, Brother Kire.The point is, the multiple warnings to 'this' generation and this generation will not pass until all that HE told us will come, does come.More Christians have gotten credit cards and have depended on the government since 1990 than any generation before them.If we can't see the very rapid moral decline in every area of life in our own country just since our own childhood, there's something obscuring our spiritual vision.Maranatha!
I am not saying 'Thus saying the Lord' but I have suspicion that the issue of 'the mark of the beast' or 'the name of the Lord on our foreheads' is not the designation that is going to come to us in some final hour where we get stamped, but it is EVEN NOW being formed day by day and moment by moment in the transactions to which we give ourselves for convenience, for luxury, for security, in a SYSTEM that is that is increasingly HOSTILE and OPPOSED to God.How much attenuated to luxury are we? How much do we need our security and how much we are willing to go with it?
_________________The soul that would not fear to climb a mountain may actually stumble over a straw. The real secret of perfect rest is to be jealously, habitually occupied with Jesus. - A.B. Simpson
"In a word, I am anticipating that we are going to see in this decade the alignment of the religious forces that will prevail until the end of the age, the age may end by the year of 2000, but if it goes on a little before that or a little longer than that, be assured that what happens between now and that time, this ten year period will cast the major and basic formation of the thing that will prevail until the coming of the Lord. Art Katz.
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Andrew - this link is for you -http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/?p=3882The title is inaccurate. The Manhattan [NY] Faith House was the first.What Kire posted was just a part of a sermon by Art Katz and Kire could tell us which sermon it came from.If you had ever attended one of Art's speaking engagements, I think you'd adjust your view of this man.
From first paragraph - "... be assured that what happens between now and that time, this ten year period will cast the major and basic formation of the thing that will prevail until the coming of the Lord."If someone was watching the events coming out of Washington, D.C. from 1990-2000 and keeping track of the Executive Orders written and what the Presidents were doing that the general public were not aware of and what they were setting up that was the foundation of the one world government and religion and through New York City - they'd know that what this paragraph is saying, happened.Most of which has been discussed on this forum over the last 7 yrs.
"The Kingdom vs. Patriotism" ~ Art Katzhttp://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?lid=10795
Ironically, in response to amrkelly's post, Art Katz himself would probably be the first to say, "he might be right."However, there was little "false" about Art. In the words of a former moderator here, Mike Balog, Art was, "A very genuine, warm, wonderful man of God." "Genuine" would be the word that best describes him.In the words of another dear brother who used to post here, Mike Mordick, "Art is a humble man and very real. When I lived in Illinois I was part of a home church and Art came to speak at our fellowship a couple of times. He is the type of man that you sit around and listen to but it seems hard to even utter a word."In Christ,Ron
Thank you for the link Anne. I live just a few miles from the intended abomination which is referred to in that article. I also lived in Leicester where there has been a clear and visible move to create this so-called merging of spiritual forces for the past 25 years. It may be difficult to understand but this “merging” began in the 1st century and culminated in Constantine embracing the Christian Faith with all of the diabolical consequences which have resulted from that one man’s delusion. Rome is the visibility and wickedness is the object. What this centre in Truro represents is no different in substance to Rome itself. The only distinction is that Rome once terrorised men into subjugation to its authority. All religious beliefs have been accommodated into Rome precisely because Rome had once the power of Kings and princes who could wage war on behalf of Rome. Today in Europe more princes and Kings have a mind for Rome than for Christ Himself. Their ability to “grip” their peoples with Roman heresies and subject them to Roman influence is no less a reality today than it was 500 years ago. This business with Rome attends to Scriptural prophecy and the business of drawing attention to a recent merging of spiritual and religious powers is a new age focus, having more to do with those who are alive now, and desire to see religious unity now, than with the only Scriptural measure of these things. The substance has existed for nearly 2000 years and its conclusion won’t be found in Truro, but Jerusalem. Going up to Truro to curse a folly will be a simple matter. Anyone who is minded to go up to Jerusalem will find that it will cost them their lives.As or Art Katz I don’t have an opinion of the man. I have never met him not do I know him, nor do I, nor will I follow men. Neither, having read the OP do I reject the entirety of what he has shared. It must be true that in sharing at that time Art was seeking to encourage and warn against dependence on a system of buying and selling which represents and is represented by men who are increasingly given over to the love of money with all of its consequences. My motive in posting wasn’t to diminish Art’s ministry or to “prove” that he was false. It was to draw attention to the prophetic ministry which I believe will come back into remembrance and understanding in our day for the express purpose of proving God’s will and purposes in our day. This will include the problem of apostasy; the coming into visibility of the Man of Sin, the necessary persecution of the church; as well as the preservation of those who would go the narrow way. It is a separating out of those who forsaking everything, will make themselves ready. Only in America do men say that the one world government is in America. Or that the basis for the one world government is in America. Those who have succumbed to the heretical and doctrinal madness that is epidemic in American no doubt believe it too. However, the Scriptures give no reference to America whatsoever. End time events in Scriptures have to do with all those nations which surround Israel and the Mediterranean sea or the Great Sea. American doesn’t need to be in Scriptures because it was founded for a singular purpose and because of its own actions and conduct will be entirely brought down and weakened beyond anything presently imagined. America contains the seeds of its own rise and its own destruction. It will stand for all that which is foolish and vain in our day. It will be a visible and terrible modern day Sodom and Gomorrah. It will be a testimony to men and a sobering outcome to the nations of our day. But it will have nothing to do with Scriptural end time prophecies and events. This is what I believe. And I accept that I may be completely wrong or misguided. As for the events coming out of Washington DC in the 90’s I have no doubt that Art discerned right. My reference to falsehood had to do with the underlying claim and is more substantive than a mere decade in the life of a nation. It was to do with “the end of the age” reference. No such end has come. All prophecies which base their substance on speaking for God must be subject to God, Who alone knows the end of the age. America's conceit as a nation has driven it to thinking it is the teacher of nations. It has taught nothing but greed and individualism. It has become the curse of nations. It had the beginnings and opportunity of no other nation, save perhaps for Israel itself. From the beginning it has failed to achieve what it set out to do. God Himself has intervened several times and has given the USA a chance to shine. Yet it has always gone back to the mire of the love of money and self adoration. Yet for all this reality the USA will have little if anything to do with the real end of this age.
