In this sermon, the preacher discusses a passage from the book of Ezekiel, specifically Ezekiel 14:14. The preacher emphasizes that the flock will lay down in the midst of desolation, and all the beasts of the nations will lodge in the upper lintels. The sermon warns about the impending judgment and collapse of society, comparing it to economic depression. The preacher urges the congregation to seek God, cut back on their lifestyle, and be prepared for the difficult times ahead.

Number two, I'll show the nations thy nakedness and shame. That's verse five, chapter three, verse five. Behold, I'm against you, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the nations your nakedness and the kingdoms your shame. Do you know what that means? The nations that once feared you, revered you, awed over you, envied you, they're going to discover that you're as weak as a... you'll become weak as women. That's verse 13. Look at verse 13. Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women. The gates of thy lands shall be set wide open to thy enemies. The fire shall destroy thy bars. Do you know what that means? You become a soft, effeminate people. Listen, hear me. I study the histories of empires. I love histories. And yet I tremble over it. And there's never been a society that's been destroyed, that didn't get soft and effeminate. And they end up like the Empire of Belsazer. You know what they do when they see the handwriting on the wall? And they begin to tremble. They know something's about to happen. They call for the prophets. And they will listen for a while. They're willing to put a gold chain around his neck. They'll give him a pat on the back and go right back to the drinking and die the next day. And this is the day when we're patting the prophet and say, boy, that's true. America is suffering. America is under judgment. Oh, yeah, everybody sees it. And go back to the party. The gates of your land shall be set wide open to your enemies. Do you know what that means now? The drug lords from Cambodia, from Colombia, from Mexico, from Pakistan, they laugh at our border patrols. Our borders are sieves. They're leaking everywhere. Castro dumped hundreds of prisoners, hundreds of spies, emptied his jails. Now, thank God for the godly Christians that came. There are many Pentecostals, Baptists. I mean, there's a revival down in Miami of wonderful Cuban people that came. We've got wonderful Cuban refugees here. We've got wonderful aliens from around the country, many of them in this church. But along with that, the scripture says the enemy is going to come in through this wave. They're pouring in by the multitudes now. And for every godly person, every good person, there are 10 sent by the devil to bring destruction upon America. Your gates of your land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies. Number three, a baptism of filth. Verse six, three, chapter three, verse six, this is God speaking, and I will cast abominable filth upon thee and make thee vile and I'll set thee up as a gazing stalk. And you know what Nahum is saying? He's saying that God is so furious, that God has been patient, that God has been long-suffering, but a God who sees a people so incensed against him, so in rebellion, so steeped in their sin, so wanting their rebellion, so wanting filth, it's a picture of God picking up dirt and mud and throwing it on the people. He said, I'll cast mud, I'll cast dirt upon you. God said, you want it? You want it? I'll let you have it. Like, then have we become the shame and disgrace of the world? The world blushes at our iniquity. You know what the Bible says? You will become a derision of tourists and foreigners. All that pass by her shall hiss at her. Zephaniah said, this is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, there's none beside me. She shall become a desolation, a place of beast alive down, and everyone that passes by her, all her tourists, all that pass by her shall hiss at her and wag their hands. They say, no, enough. I can't handle it. I took men from Poland. I preached crusades in Poland, and I preached under the, behind the Iron Curtain, and I saw their, many of their lack of freedom, and I saw their hardships. We had three men from Poland, one a businessman, and I took them to the streets of New York. These men wept, and they kept dabbing their eyes with their handkerchiefs, and we went down 41st Street, up 8th Avenue, and then down 42nd Street, and it was just about dusk, late, early evening, and the lights were on, and this, these brothers from Poland, one of them was trembling, the businessman, he took me by the arm, he said, David, to an interpreter, this is hell. This is hell. There's nothing in Poland like this. I've been in Russia. There's nothing in Russia like this. He said, could we get out of here? I took an ungodly camera crew from Denmark, where they have pornography and everything else. I took a camera crew down to 42nd Street, and they asked me to get them out. These were ungodly men who said this is hell. There's no place like it on the face of the earth, and it's right outside the doors of this church. I will pour abominable filth upon you. I'll make you vile. I'll make you a horrible example to the whole world, he said. Do you know that our number, you know that up to five years ago, we were importing much of our pornography from Sweden and Denmark? You know now, in five years, it's a multi-billion dollar business. One of our biggest exports is pornography to the whole world. Do you remember when Israel became so corrupt, corrupted worse than Sodom? Isaiah, or rather the prophet Ezekiel said, even the daughters of the Philistines are socked at your lewd ways. That's in Ezekiel 16, 47, 48. You can read it. Even the ungodly, heathen Philistines blush at you. The Russians blush. The Chinese blush. The whole world blushes. And our wickedness, we're drowning in pornography. Our television is filthy. Our VCR movies, even the daytime soap operas now are bragging about their filth. God's doing America what he did to Israel. They started lusting for flesh in the desert. He said, you shall eat your flesh not one day, not two, nor five, but until it comes out your nostrils and it becomes wholesome to you. God said, you want it, it'll come out your nostrils. Now, number four, and this is where I tried to profit, and God won't let me. I learned from this pulpit two years ago, just the day before the stock market went down on October 19th. I stood in our pulpit in town hall. I said, if you want to see history, may you meet me tomorrow down at the stock market. We went down there. Brother Phillips was down there with me. I was in the stock market. I was in there when it happened and watched it go down. And again, last week, I stood in this pulpit and said, don't go into debt because of what's coming. Don't go into debt. Number four, a massive depression out of which there'll be no escape. Now, we don't like to hear about economic collapse because the word depression scares us as Americans. You see, the only judgment we understand is the kind that hits our pocketbook. The corpses don't do it. We can walk over them. We can see the filth on. It's right in your home because that television set right there is the flood scene of the floods of hell. I'm going to stand before you as a faithful shepherd one day. I'm going to stand before everybody that's heard me. And these other pastors have preached the same thing. We're going to stand before you on the judgment day. We stand before the judgment seat of Christ. And we warned you about that filth. We warned you it was an idol out of the pit of hell. We warned you that it was time to seek God and throw away that box, get it out of your house. And some of you laughed at me. You have absolutely laughed at me. You haven't even heard a word I've said. And you almost feel like I'm angry. I'm not angry at you. I hear the trumpet sound. I know the judgment's at the door. What are you going to do when it suddenly collapses? I'll do it now. I'll do it now. You say, I've got it under control. I can handle it. Just like the drug addicts told us all along, I've handled a little bit of pot. I can handle a little bit of crack. I have to do this at the risk of some of you leaving and never coming back to this church. But I have to obey God. Listen, please hold on because I'm coming down to the last part of this. It's happened every past society. And it's going to happen to us. Ezekiel to Jerusalem. He said, God has diminished your ordinary food. They were under judgment. The first thing God did, he said, I'm going to diminish your ordinary food. Nahum 316, look at it. Nahum 316. Here it is. Thou has multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven. The canker worms spoileth and flyeth away. The canker worms spoileth and flyeth away. All right. Listen to me, please. Here's, here's what that scripture means. Listen closely now. Nahum, the prophet was warning Nineveh of an insidious enemy that was coming to destroy its economy. Nineveh had been exporting glassworks, textiles, carpets, carvings of ivory, artworks of all kinds, gems, silver and spices and gold. And the merchants had traveled the world, but along with that merchandising came in and what they did, foreign governments from Egypt, from Babylon and other governments had come in. And like an enemy, they swooped down, they spread themselves over the rich spoil and they fled away with all the loot. They took over and fled. And they devastated the economy of Nineveh. And that's what the scripture says right here. The canker worms had spoiled it and then they flowed away. They've gone. All of those who were trading with you, they're gone. Today's papers, daily news. This is another cartoon. And I'm surprised at how discerning their cartoonists are and how blind preachers are. Not all of them, thank God. I can't generalize that. I mean, the majority perhaps. You know what it says? Mr. President, the Japanese have reversed their trade policy. They want to buy more American products. The president. Great. What made them change their minds? They now own all American companies. You can be sure the day is not far off when Japan and Taiwan and Korea and Germany take their money and flee. All they that look upon thee shall flee. Nahum 3 7. All they that look upon thee shall flee and say Nineveh has laid waste. Who shall bemoan her? Where shall she find any comforters? Yeah, they want the money now from their cars and their television sets. But oh brother, sister, when the shaking comes and the economy begins to shake and tremble, they're going to flee. All they that hear the news, look at verse 19. All they that hear the news of these to clap their hands over thee for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually? Japan will stop buying our government bonds as will other nations. God will cause our enemies. Lamentations 2 17. God shall cause the enemies to rejoice over thee. The Bible predicts a crash of the real estate market and I'll give it to you. Here it is. It's in Zephaniah 2 14. Just turn over two chapters. There are two, two books. Zephaniah just a few pages to the right. Look at verse 14. And the flock shall lay down. 2 14. The flock shall lay down on the midst of her and all the beasts of the nation. And he's, he's prophesied against Nineveh. All the beasts of the nations, both the concomitant and the bitter shall lodge in the upper littles of it. Their voice shall sing in the windows. Here it is. Desolation shall be in the thresholds where he shall uncover the seed of work. Listen to me, look this way, please. The threshold represents, represents your house, your, our real estate. And the Bible says the birds in the new American status that the birds are going to sing in their windows. The windows are going to be empty. These are going to be devastated buildings. Do you know, I got laughed at till it hurt me when we were prophesying three, four years ago that there was going to be a shaking in the economy in Texas and nobody wanted to listen there. Now you go to Houston and you see skyscrapers standing empty. You go to Dallas and you see the big fancy glass building standing empty in the heart of Dallas, Texas, which was once the richest city in America. One of the richest cities in America. Now they stand like empty tombstones. The bitter shall lodge in the upper littles of birds. In other words, you'll sing in the windows that gave the trumpet alarm against your fence city and against your high towers, the Trump towers, the second door towers. I tell you the day is coming in New York city. There's going to be such an economic devastation that many of these skyscrapers are going to stand empty. The windows are going to be cracked and they're going to be overcrowded with poor and homeless people, taking them over. It's already happening in three of our cities. Denver's got empty skyscrapers, Houston. It's already here. Folks wake up. It's already here. No, you said, brother, when's all this going to happen? May I'm one 14 says the Lord's given a commandment concerning the, to cut you off for you become vile. Listen, please. I've got a few things on my hardship before I close. These things are already in order. All that God has to do now is accelerate everything that he's put in place. The word that keeps coming to me from the Holy spirit is acceleration for the last year. Acceleration. It builds and builds and builds. All right. What about the people of God? You said, well, if you've got me scared to death, I tell you what, when I saw where we are, from what I've read from other cities and what God's done, when we reached this point, I put my head in the desk yesterday. I cried like a baby. I cried. I said, God is here. It's already here. We don't know it with here. And we've got people still playing games. We have people come to times square church who still haven't laid down their sins. We've got people who are not ready when it hits and God's trying to let this church. No, it won't be caught unaware. Now, what about the people of God? I'm not going to tell you that people are not going to lose their homes. Hebrews 10 34. The apostle said, you took joyfully the spoiling of your goods. There's going to be mass unemployment. There'll be a lot of Christians who don't have jobs. There's going to be suffering. Not one person in this building is going to keep the lifestyle they have now. Not one. And so you better start cutting back now. It is absolute evil in the sight of God to hear the trumpet sound and then go out and live and spend carelessly. Pay your vows. Keep your books up to date from the smallest to the greatest among us. And I say that before God to myself, to all of us. Begin to cut back your lifestyle. Don't spend. You know, we don't need half the junk we're buying. But what about the people of God? What are we going to do when this thing happened? Believe me, brother, sister, there have been recessions and there's been a few depressions and America's always come out of it. We are not coming out of this, folks. We're heading near the year 2000. I mean, folks, it's all coming down. It's all shaping up. We're getting ready because we are citizens of another country, by the way. We're not citizens of the United States now. We're citizens of a higher country. How do you know what God's going to do for us? How he's going to protect us? Well, just like we did. We go to the Bible and see what God's character is. We found out how he judges. How does he keep people? What is God's record? What happened when he sent a flood and destroyed the whole world? Didn't the righteous escape? Didn't he put him into an ark and float him above it all? Did he? Is that something? Is that some insight to the character of God? How about Daniel and the three Hebrew children, a lion's den and a furnace? Did they survive the furnace? They went into it. Did they come out of it and sinned with their smell of smoke on their bodies? Does that tell you about the character of God? His love for his people? God destroyed Sodom, but before he sent an angel to look at this city and also to do what? Come on, Lot. I'd say anyone who heard the message could have been saved and walked out. Come on, the city's going down. Come on out. And God sends, he takes Lot up into the hills. He sits there and watches it burn. In the destitution of Jerusalem, Jesus knew that enemy armies would come and be the greatest desolation Jerusalem ever saw. And what did Jesus say? When you see Jerusalem surrounded with armies, lead to the mountains, depart out of it, and you in the country, don't go near it. You'll find that in Luke 21 20. He was speaking about the coming destruction of Jerusalem. He said, I'm going to give you a clue. I love my people. He said to his church, when you get word that armies are marching toward Jerusalem, you hear the report, pack your bags, pack your bags and go up into the hills and you watch it, but don't go near the city. If you're out there in your field and you're plowing and you see the soldiers coming, marching toward the gates of Jerusalem, don't go back and get your clothes. Don't go back in the city. If you get your coat, forget everything else, run, flee from the city. And those who fled were saved. Does that tell you something about the character of God? Oh, but I'll tell you what, it's right here in Nahum also. God doesn't, I'll tell you, would you go back to Nahum? Are you ready to rejoice in the Lord a little bit? Nahum, first chapter. Folks, he just told none of us. God's serious. God's going to bring it down. It's all over. Judgment's at the door. But look at the message to God's people. In fact, this was a message to anyone who would listen. Verse seven, the Lord is good. Well, I thought he was furious. He's furious at the wicked. He's furious that the nations rejected him. But for his people, the Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble. And he knoweth them that trust in him. I want you to go to Psalm 31, please. I'm going to close in just a moment. Psalm 31. Beloved, the message this morning Brother Phillips preached really strengthened my heart to preach this message tonight. To be contented, no matter what's coming. Not to look at the... Listen, right now, all over the world, there are countries living in depression filled with hundreds and thousands of Christians who are making it. They're surviving, there's revival, and God is feeding them. They're not starving to death. I'll tell you what, they're not eating steak. They're not eating pizza with pepperoni. But they are alive and well. God's keeping them. He's doing it in China. He's doing it in Nicaragua. He's doing it all over the world. He's doing it in Haiti right now. A poverty-stricken state. God's keeping his people. Glory be to God. We may eat bushels of rice, but we're going to live. We're not going to starve. Hallelujah. I may have to move in with you, and you may have to move in with me, but we'll just have a revival meeting. We'll have a prayer meeting. Let me never be shamed. Deliver me in thy righteousness. Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be down my strong rock for a house of defense to save me. All right. There's a safe house. God's moving us right now into a safe house through the Word of God. You know what that word means? A fortified house built of rock. We are going into a rock fortress where no depressant, no demon, no murderer, nobody can move the people of God. God says, I'm a stronghold for those who will trust in me. Oh, glory to God. Thou art my rock, verse three, and my fortress. Therefore, for thy name's sake, lead me and guide me. He's going to lead us and guide us through it all, right to the end. Pull me out of the nets that they've laid privately for me, for thou art my strength. Into thy... Oh, here it is. Here's how I tend to survive. Into thy hand I commit my spirit. Hallelujah, Lord, I give it all to you. Some of you campers, hundreds of dollars to go out and camp. You buy a tent, you get all this stuff, and you can't wait all year long to go live in a tent. Trust in the Lord. Thou hast considered my trouble. Thou hast known my sword adversity. You've not set me up into the hand of the enemy. Thou hast set my feet in a large room. That's a rock house. Glory be to God. Oh, hallelujah. Folks, didn't Jesus say, when you see all these things begin to happen, and he named these fearful sights that would cause men to lose their very heart with heart attack, fearful things coming on their... Then he said, look up and rejoice for your redemption draweth nigh. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The purpose of the message tonight is to wake us up with more than that. It's to give us this hope that those are going to walk in his repentance. Those are going to walk in his righteousness, trusting in him. They're going to see miracle after miracle. Brother, sister, you're going to live the book of Acts. We're going to live this book of Acts. Hallelujah. They're going to come. You won't be able to run to a hospital or doctor. You're going to have to trust Jesus. Yeah. America is dying, but Zion is rising. Say, what am I going to do? I'm going to occupy till he comes. Please know that if Jesus comes tonight, I don't have to change anything. You that are in business, do it with all your heart is unto the Lord. You that are laborers, laborers unto the Lord. Housewife, be a good housewife. Go about your work. Go about your work with this glorious hope in your heart. And when you see these fearful things, don't let it shake your heart. Listen, folks, get into your heart. God's going to keep you, protect you, to see you through. And even in the suffering, Lord, there'll be a lot of suffering, but that's only going to bring the graces of the Lord Jesus in our hearts. Stand, please. God moving in your heart. Very tragic that some of you here tonight are not in a state of readiness. You're not in a state of readiness, materialism of the things of this world. You're still looking in the wrong direction. Your heart, your heart's not burning to Him. Is there any need for you tonight to draw close to the Lord? Is there any need for you to come down here tonight and let me pray for you? I don't know what it is, but if you feel that drawing of the Holy Spirit, some of you walked in here not right with God. Your heart's cold. This is your night up in the stairs, either side, come down any aisle you have made for come and stand here and ask the Lord tonight to fill you with an expectancy, give you clean hands and a pure heart, and give you the courage to do what He's told you to do, to obey Him in all things. You want to obey the Lord in all matters? You're willing to lay down all your idols and walk before Him in righteousness? You feel the tug at your heart? Come on, meet us down here right now in your home. Right now, you feel that tug or pull, wherever you're at, up in the balcony. God's moving up there in the balcony, here in the main floor, wherever you are. You feel the tug? Come and join these that are coming to the altar right now. God bless you. Give yourself to make your life's supply. Feel that pull, obey the Holy Spirit. Obey the Holy Spirit to come. Lord Jesus, wake this church, wake us all to the hour in which we live, and yet not to be afraid, but to strengthen us in hope. You're God of hope. You are God of hope. But Lord, we'll not be blind to the day in which we live. We will not be blind. Jesus, we thank you for stirring our hearts. You that have come forward, look this way, please. I'm going to ask the Lord by His Holy Spirit right now to put something fresh and alive in your heart from heaven, right from Jesus right now. Raise both hands to the Lord. Just raise your hands. Would you talk to Him right now? I don't know why you're here, but tell the Lord exactly why you're here. Just write out loud. Tell Him, Lord, I'm here for forgiveness. I'm here to be awakened. Tell Him why you're here right now. Tell Him exactly why you came down to this altar. Tell Him right now. Let's speak it right out. Lord, touch me. Here's why I'm here. Tell Him, be honest with Him right now before we pray. Just tell Him in your own words why you're here. Lord Jesus, shake me, stir me. I want to lay everything down here tonight. I want to be changed by your power. Hallelujah. Oh, Holy Spirit, come now. Oh, sweep over everyone that's here. Sweep over us, Lord, and touch us. Raise your hands and pray this prayer with me right now. If it's not from your heart, it won't go above your head. Pray it from your heart. Oh, Jesus, I do need you. I need your touch, your love, and your forgiveness. Forgive me, Lord, for being careless and at ease. I ask you to wake me up and keep me awake so the enemy can't deceive me. Remove all my sins. Block them out. Now thank Him right now. Lord, I'm up here for the first time at this altar in this church. You've never been up here before. Would you raise your hand, please? Raise it high. All right. You that have your hands raised, would you make your way right through the crowd and go this way to our prayer room? We want to talk to you personally. We'd like to share with you. Right this way. Make your way right through the crowd, please. All here for the first time. You've come in here tonight for the first time. We'd like to minister to you one on one. We'd like to really touch God with you. Amen. Make your way right through the crowd. Come this way, please. These that are going downstairs, the Lord bless you. There's a goodly number. Let's pray God touch every one of these. Lord, quicken them and let their heart be so in fire, so on fire tonight, so touched by the hand of Jesus. Glory be to God. Glory be to God. This is the conclusion of the tape.