Art Katz

Arthur "Art" Katz (1929 - 2007). American preacher, author, and founder of Ben Israel Fellowship, born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York. Raised amid the Depression, he adopted Marxism and atheism, serving in the Merchant Marines and Army before earning B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from UCLA and UC Berkeley, and an M.A. in theology from Luther Seminary. Teaching high school in Oakland, he took a 1963 sabbatical, hitchhiking across Europe and the Middle East, where Christian encounters led to his conversion, recounted in Ben Israel: Odyssey of a Modern Jew (1970). In 1975, he founded Ben Israel Fellowship in Laporte, Minnesota, hosting a summer “prophet school” for communal discipleship. Katz wrote books like Apostolic Foundations and preached worldwide for nearly four decades, stressing the Cross, Israel’s role, and prophetic Christianity. Married to Inger, met in Denmark in 1963, they had three children. His bold teachings challenged shallow faith, earning him a spot on Kathryn Kuhlman’s I Believe in Miracles. Despite polarizing views, including on Jewish history, his influence endures through online sermons. He ministered until his final years, leaving a legacy of radical faith.
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Art Katz emphasizes God's righteous judgment on nations, using Japan as a historical example of oppression and violence during World War II. He highlights the cosmic struggle between the rulers of this world and God's sovereignty, illustrating how God chooses the weak and foolish to confound the mighty. Katz calls for a deeper understanding of the Kingdom of God, which is not of this world, and urges the church to be eschatologically minded, recognizing the importance of God's judgment and the restoration of Israel. He stresses that true worship and anticipation of God's Kingdom require a commitment to His righteousness and justice, as well as a willingness to sacrifice for the sake of His glory.
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The Context of the Coming Kingdom - Part 2
God’s Righteous Judgment on the Nations – Japan as Example Japan, my Lord, you ever been to Singapore and seen the monument that has four strands that goes all the way up representing the four races oppressed by Japan in the War World War II? The Singaporeans. What's that nation that's just north of Singapore? Kuala Lumpur? What's the name of that capital city whose kids who come from the Mideast state that come to my house to eat, they're all from that nation, it's a race and the Chinese and the English. Did you know that the Japanese were racist? That they thought that the Sun rose on them and that the Japanese Empire would extend over the face of the earth. And that they were a superior race and even God-men and that their emperors were deities. Did you know that? Did you know that the same number of lives were lost in the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as in the rape of Shanghai? You don't even know about the rape of Shanghai? When the Japanese took Shanghai, the Chinese forces surrendered on the grounds that the military would lay down their arms and be treated as prisoners with respect. You know they did? They murdered them in cold blood, they raped women right and left women, girls, they buried people alive three hundred and thirty thousand Chinese died in the rape of Shanghai and three hundred and thirty thousand Japanese died in the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Don't tell me there's no God of righteous judgment. It's amazing how little conscious we are of history. How little aware we are of the significance of nations. Of how little we understand the cosmic struggle over nations and over the rule between the usurping false powers of the air that influence Serbia, influence Japan, influence Germany to be destructive and violent because that's the nature of these false rulers and they want to retain that rule. And they are devising a vain thing it can't work. Psalm 2 – The Kings and the Rulers Psalm 2:2 “The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together.” The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together. Is this redundant? The kings and the rulers. Is that like saying “the kings and the kings?” The kings are the visible human magistrates. Who are the rulers? Who's behind the scenes really ruling through Clinton, through the magistrates, through Hitler? The invisible principality and powers of the air, that whole spectral realm of fallen angels who have revolted against God and followed satan. Are the effectual rulers of this world, because their satan and their king is the prince of this world. Jesus called him that, “the prince of this world comes, but he has no nothing in Me.” The final showdown is between two princes and the church is in the middle of that struggle. Psalm 2 – I have installed My King on Zion Psalm 2:2-6 “And the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying, ‘let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us!’ He who sits in the heavens laughs, the Lord scoffs at them. Then He will speak to them in His anger and terrify them in His fury, saying ‘But as for Me, I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain.’” The rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His Anointed let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us, but He who sits in the heavens laughs, the Lord scoffs at them. He will speak to them in His anger and terrify them in His fury and His answer is “As for Me I have installed My King.” You have another word for installed? “Set” (Congregation). Set My King upon Zion My holy mountain. Is Zion a mountain? Ever been to Jerusalem, the hill of David, the City of David? It's not a mountain saints it's a pimple [Laughter], but God calls it a mountain. Because He's not impressed with physical sight or size or dimension or number. The fact of the matter is that God will choose exactly the opposite of what men revere and esteem who are moved toward glorifying size, number, prestige, stature, wealth, power, He'll choose what is weak, what is insignificant, what is foolish to confound that which is mighty and wise in the sight of men. Did you know that? That's why He chose us? We're a bunch of foolishness, we're nothing, were just a handful of nothing, and yet and you'll read in Ephesians chapter 3 He created all things in order that through the church, this nothing, He might demonstrate to the powers of the air the manifold wisdom of God. Our King chooses foolish things. I'm sorry. “You said Mount Zion is like a little biddy” (Congregation ask a question). Mount Zion is not really, it's a hill, the holy hill of Zion is chosen, because it is insignificant. God’s Choosing the Weak and Foolish Things God says to Israel, “I didn't choose you because you were mighty, I chose you because you a few, you were a stinking slave nation building fortresses and fortune cities for Pharaoh, you were nothing, you lived on leeks and garlic's and preferred that and I chose you. He will choose the foolish and the weak thing. He'll choose a stable rather than Holiday Inn in which His King is born. Unto this day it should be born unto you in the City of David a Messiah the Lord. Where is He born? In a manger. That's where the animals salivate when they eat then drop their drool into their food, that's where they laid Him. And where was the kingdom of David conceived and first formed? In a cave. And who is their king? Who is this David? Who feigned madness and drooled in his beard and scribbled on the doorpost so that the Philistines would not pursue him? And he's the prototype of the Jesus to come, the Great King? Yes. [Laughter]. Yeah. And who's his spokesman? High school dropout, Art Katz. You know what I mean? He chooses the things, in fact, it says in Luke that which the world esteems is an abomination to God. You know why Jews have not surrendered to Jesus, why they've not recognized Him as the Messiah, the Anointed One, the Christ, the King of Israel? God’s Choosing the Weak and Foolish Things – King Jesus came Lowly on a Colt Because He didn't come in pomp. He didn't come with a motorcycle cavalcade and a whole, what do they call it with a fleet of armored cars and limousines. He came on the back of an ass in fulfillment of Zechariah chapter 9, your King shall come to you lowly and meek upon the back of an ass, the colt, the foal of an ass. And those Jews who knew their scriptures and saw this Jesus coming down the Mount of Olives on the back of an ass upon which never man sat cried out “Hosanna to the King” and “Blessed is the king and blessed is the kingdom that comes in the name of the Lord.” It will always come when it comes on the back of an ass. And He said to His disciples “go into yonder village and there you'll find an ass and it's colt, it's foal, its offspring and take them and if anyone interferes tell them that the Lord has need of them and so they found it. Imagine Jesus's whole prophetic stature and reputation was at stake, if those animals were not found, they were and they bought them. And instead of taking the donkey upon a mature animal prepared to bear the weight of a strapping -6 foot carpenter. He takes the offspring, the foal, the colt upon which never man sat and on that He comes down the most precipitous descent that the Mount of Olives is. If you ever were there, as I have been many times, you cannot even walk down and maintain your dignity. It's just too steep. I mean you look foolish, you know, but imagine coming down on this weak, little animal upon which another man sat. You don't know whether to laugh or to cry. That's your King coming in glory into His holy city, in preview of His coming at the end of the age to the very city, where He was crucified in the most cruel, torture, and agony of body and soul and outside the city and the dump, between criminals with a sign in three languages “Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews” is exactly where He's coming to be that. Isn't it just like God? You know I'm saying? You know I'm thinking saints? You don't know God as you what unless you know these things. It's the revelation of Jesus as King and the revelation of the kingdom and the beauty of the king that brings the Lord and God the Father into a perspective of understanding and celebration and majesty that nothing else will provide. You know why our worship is so hokey? Why we need the overhead projectors? Why it's strained? Because we have not the sense of the majesty of God and their genius of God and the glory of God that is nowhere revealed more profoundly than in His kingdom and in His kingdom. When you say “Thy kingdom come”, you're not asking for bluster and bravado and motorcycle cavalcades, you're asking for the kingdom of a God Himself who came down into His City on the back of an ass to die the death of a criminal. My Kingdom is not of this world: False Kingdoms That's our King. That's His kingdom. “My kingdom is not of this world lest what else would my servants fight.” My kingdom is another thing altogether, it's another quality, it's another wisdom, it's exactly an opposition to in every point in particular to the kingdoms of this present world. You know what I'm realizing? Having been a believer now for 35 years and been around a little bit in the world and in Christendom and in the charismatic realm. Where that Kingdom is not understood, not celebrated, not recognized, not sort, invariably other kinds of petty kingdoms will fill the void. Call them what they will, the ministry of this one of that one, this denomination, that movement, is a cheapie that must necessarily surface in the absence of the centrality in the recognition of that Kingdom, which is the kingdom of God. If we are not Kingdom conscious and Kingdom waiting and Kingdom seeking and Kingdom living, we'll find ourselves candidates for false kingdoms. So I had to say for these East German pastors “what has replaced the dynamic that came when you used to be under persecution?” Nothing has replaced it (There answer). I said “what about the kingdom?” Huh. Well the kingdom is something personally, Jesus said “the kingdom of God is within you.” Yes, but what did He mean by that? There's a sense in which that's definitely true. But does that exhaust the larger and deeper reality of what the kingdom is and what we ought to expect and be labouring for and knowing the conflict that's going to come, because the nations rage? And you think their rage is over or we haven't seen it yet? There's a mask of civility saints. You've got it in see it. That’s why there are elders in the body of Christ, because we've lived longer and we've seen more and we understand, we've seen through the pretense. The high school dropout now has a couple of master's degrees from the University of California Berkeley and the Lutheran seminary St. Paul. And I had opportunity to see through the civility, that the quorum, the propriety, the amenities of civilized institutions of learning and theology to the jungle that they really are. When that mask is taken away of civility and the teeth are bared and you see the truth of the world. And its lust and its power and its desire to perpetuate itself at whatever cost. You will have looked into the face of Satan. There's a war on and the end of the age will be that final conflict. And we're not going to make it as superficial Sunday service attending congregations. I have set my King on the holy hill of Zion, today I have declared the decree thou art My Son today I have begotten thee ask of Me and I will give You the nations as Your inheritance. Dom dom dm. That's poetry, but it's also literal. Don't think that that's a play on words any more than the nation that the mountain of the Lord's house will be above the mountains and hills of the world and that the that the nations will come up to Jerusalem and that they'll beat their swords into plowshares and study war no more. That's literal, it's intensified, its compact, its poetic, but it's speaking of very real, very actual things in the world. The World Misusing its Wealth: Breeds Death And things that we ought to be coveting and praying for, because the world is misusing its wealth and producing forms of death. The whole world is sick. We stayed in the motel was it not night before last and we got the complimentary newspaper, we both of us were so upset, we were so our spirits are so jarred. And there was nothing in them from that was flagrant, but ads for Christmas shopping that's enough to do it for me. The world, the system, profit, seduction, fascination, stars, personalities, glitter, while a whole generation is being ground to powder and our own children are being made merchandise. The souls of men being made merchandise. That the children themselves constitute a multi-billion-dollar market, who know brand names and want this kind of gene and that kind of gene and that kind of shoe and if they don't get it, they're miserable and they'll make you miserable. The system has got us. It's another kingdom. Got the idea? Once you start putting on the spectacles of the kingdom, it's remarkable as how you begin to perceive the false reality that purports to be reality that is everywhere bringing its victims into death, into mental institutions, into nervous breakdowns, into tumors, into heart failures, into all the kinds of things that the bodies of men can't even bear, because it's not in keeping with truth and with integrity and with righteousness. The Kingdom of God: Breeds Life But when His kingdom comes, it'll be a hhai (not sure about this), that's from the Hebrew word meaning “life”. It'll be a relief. We'll have Shalom, we'll have peace, not because of some pseudo kind of a thing effected by men, but because it issues from righteousness and right relationship and truth and equity and justice. Because our King is impartial, because He doesn't have to butter up anyone, because He doesn't have to line His pockets, because He doesn't have to worry about reelection, because He doesn't have to be everybody's popular. He can rule with perfect righteousness and equity as God and then the trees will spring up the fruit of the earth. I mean nature itself will rejoice that is now even under bondage. The Kingdom Minded: Eschatologically & Apostolic Proclamation To be Kingdom minded is to become eschatologically minded and the church that is not eschatological is not the church. I'm using a fancy word “eschatology”- the study of the things pertaining to the end, the conclusion of the age, the end of human history, the coming of the kingdom, the advent of the millennium. Come on you guys, tell me that your millennial-minded except in the sense that Y2K. Where is our millennial anticipation? Where is the sense of what is going to come and the joy of it and the creation itself is going to rejoice? The early church that was the church was eschatologically minded. Paul speaking to the Thessalonians, newly saved out of paganism and idolatry, who were saved by His Word. He said “I praise God that when you heard the Word of God from me you received it for what it was not the word of men, but the Word of God that performs a work in them that believe and has turned you from your idols to serve the Living God.” Not just get saved, serve the Living God and to wait for His Son Who's coming from heaven and will save us from the day of His wrath. What a message! What a message! Whose preaching like that today? Who's telling people they're being saved from a wrath to come? That the Lord is coming in judgment, that there's a wrath and a fury against the nations that have blaspheme His name and the church that has mocked Him in the pursuit of its own petty kingdoms. Who's hearing a message like that? That's apostolic proclamation that saves men from the idolatries to serve the Living God. That church was eschatologically minded and to be eschatologically minded is to be equally apocalyptically minded, both Greek words, “éschatos”, the coming of the Lord, the end, but apocalyptic in judgment. Where's the fear of the Lord in the church? We're a bunch of flakes, it's a cheapie, what we get away with is horrific, because there's no fear. We prayed about this I don't know what hour of the morning for the fear of the Lord, the awe and the reverence of God to come into the church. What is a church without it? But a culture, a Sunday phenomenon, we have not that sense of the fear of God, because we have not the sense of God. We have not the sense of His coming, we have not the sense of His kingdom, we have not the sense that He is coming in judgment. God of Judgment And the fact of the matter is, if we're scratched deeply enough, we're all offended by a God who will judge. That's why this book on the Holocaust is devastating. A man wrote to me and said “my whole view of God has exploded, I'm seeing a sense of God that I've never considered.” Because to exclude judgment from God is to exclude God. You can't separate out His attributes. Oh, I like His goodness, I like His mercy, I like His love, I like His… What about His judgment? His judgment is His righteousness and when His judgments come in the earth the world shall learn righteousness. He's not some arbitrary capricious God who just comes to destroy, His judgments are redemptive and altogether wise and needful. When we say “Come Lord Jesus”, were saying come in judgment. When we say “we pray for the Peace of Jerusalem”, we're not hoping for some magical wand to be passed over troubled city, but for judgment that must come and a chastisement that must come before they can be the restored people of God. We don't even know what we're praying, because we have omitted the most significant aspect of God as God in judgment. Because we're not eschatologically minded, because we're not apocalyptic minded and we're even offended. And we want all things to remain as they are in the hope of amelioration and improvement. Where progressivist, humanists, and not apostolic in our anticipation and it shows in our character, our relationships. We're casual, one Sunday like another, we've lost the intensity and the purposeful for our being that makes us the people of God, only in the context of the kingdom of God. Not as a subjective and personal thing within, however precious that might be, but in the sense of the theocratic rule of God over the nations. The God of Jacob From the place that God has designated through a nation, yet to be restored, through the mercies of the church in the last days, in the latter days Isaiah's said concerning the vision of Jerusalem the mountain of the Lord's house will be higher and above and all nations shall flow into it to the God of Jacob. Got the picture? You're getting the picture. Hallelujah. Well let me pray a little prayer. This God of Jacob. If you don't know Him as the God of Jacob, do be really known as you ought? I came back from Nuremberg Germany not far from the Wanger country in Bavaria, and I went out to a Jewish cemetery that survived the Nazi time. The gravestones were so thick like that the Nazis could not topple them and the Hebrew was he effaced, because they went back to the 1400’s. You can barely discern some of the Hebrew on one side, German the other side. I'm always so moved, I always go out of my way to find Jewish cemeteries, where we are distributed throughout the world and where we have died for one unkind reason or another. And I came back to that meeting to address a German congregation, charismatic, and I said “Hey my Jewish people have been here since the 1400’s there's no place in Europe where they've been longer, since the destruction of the temple in 70 AD they came to the Rhine and were merchants before Germany even came in to enact its national identity. It was the Holy Roman Empire, but it was Germanic and we've lived that along with you and never got saved. How come that you never told us that the God that you're celebrating in Jesus Christ is the God of Our Fathers and do you even know today that the God whom you ostensibly worship is the God of Jacob and the God of Israel?” And you should have seen their jaws drop. Not only did they not know it, they did not want to know it. Their God was somehow a Christian, separate, unrelated to Israel and that church that chooses that posture, that mindset, that separation, is ipso facto not the church, certainly not the church of the last days. Jesus the Son of David: Nations as Your Inheritance It's only the church in its recognition of its identity with that people and with that people's God and with His coming king. That's why Jesus stopped when He's going through Jericho and a blind beggar cried out “Jesus thou son of David have mercy on me.” They try to shut him up, they couldn't contain him. “Jesus thou son of David have mercy on me.” He stop, who's that a blind beggar knows my truest identification, I'm the Son of David and that's my qualification to rule on His throne forever in the day when I shall come with the wounds that were the evidence of what I have received in the house of my friends. This blind beggar knew it and you Pharisees and teachers of the law did not know it and could not recognize Me as your king and would not have Me to rule over you. It's going to cost you and it has. This kingdom of God is the kingdom of heaven, but it's the Davidic kingdom. It’s the raising up again of the tabernacle of David, the ruins of it, that His rule might go forth over Edom and over the nations. I have given you the nations for Your inheritance. We're involved in that cosmic drama and what an involvement and what a requirement it is. We cannot afford to be patsy Christians. We cannot afford to have as our standard of measure the success of our meetings, the enjoyment, the program. We've got to be involved in the anticipation and the preparation of the coming of that Kingdom knowing that it's going to come apocalyptically in violent collision in the last days, for they will not let go and relinquish their false rule. They'll rail against the Lord against His Anointed and they know better than the church, that the King will not come that is contained in the heavens. Restoration of Jerusalem: Jacob’s Trouble In Acts 3:21, waiting for the restoration of all things spoken by the prophets since the world began. You know what the prophets all spoke about? Isaiah, the Psalmists, Hosea, Micah, the minor prophets, the major prophets. What was the last days restoration that permits the King to come? The restoration of Israel itself, because how shall He rule from the holy hill of Zion, if it's not holy, if it's a place of merchandise, where you get your Gucci leather goods and where they come from Jordan to do their expensive shopping in Jerusalem. The King’s coming to? No. No. That present Jerusalem shall turn to ruble saints. There shall be devastation, widespread judgment on all the present cities of Israel. They'll be cast out again into the nations. There will be one final chastisement then sifting of the time of Jacob's trouble and they'll perish, except that you know they have a destiny and that a remnant of them must return to Zion with everlasting joy upon their heads and mourning and sighing filling the way. And you're willing to extend mercy at the risk of your own life, at a time when anyone who will extend themselves to a Jew puts his head on the block. Just like Corrie ten Boom. Are you going to be willing? What for a Jew? Why should you? Would they ever do for you? Unless you see yourself an identification with them as the people of God, of the God of Jacob, and the God of Israel who is Your God and Your coming king through their restoration. And whatever measure sacrifice, inconvenience suffering, the greater your rule and reign with Him, when He comes and brings His reward with Him to give to everyone according to their works. See how eschatological. See how the church needs to labor in anticipation of a future event that the reward of sacrifice for that. That is the church saints. Anything else is a kingdom of another kind. Prayer So, Lord. Precious God. How could anyone message and You've given me gorgeous messages, I love Your messages, I would too glad I had the liberty to preach a message, not a weltanschauung. But these children need a cosmic view, they need an overarching construct to understand their call in these last days. And You've given us a sketch, You've given us the rudiments, my God, and there's much to be filled in, but I pray that not a syllable of the sharing shall fall to the ground. That even what was not explicitly spoken, but insinuated between the lines will be communicated into their hearts by Your spirit. And that You'll birth in them a jealousy for Your kingdom that is more than a vague generalization of some kind of interior and subjective thing that we have within us, but they'll have also the sense of the reality of the political rule of God Who deserves that rule, because He’s the Creator of this earth and these nations. And it's that Kingdom that we shall desire and labor to obtain. Bless these children Lord as the ambassadors of Your kingdom. Give them the high seriousness that only the awareness of the kingdom brings and the willingness to sacrifice that only the kingdom justifies. Let them be Co-rulers with You and share my God from Your throne to the measure of that sacrifice and that service in this earth and in this nation and among the nations in these last days. Call your sons and daughters even now to heroic participation and willingness whatever the cost. That when they say “Thy kingdom come”, the only prayer You ever taught Your disciples pray this, “our Father which art in heaven hallowed be Thy Name”, where nothing else will hallow Your name then Your kingdom come in earth as it is in heaven. Give these children a kingdom mindedness that eclipses and minimizes and makes trivial all that is in the world that seeks to clutch at them to gain their loyalty, their energies, their interest. May they see it for the cheap shallow thing that it is that can only be seen in that way in the light of Your kingdom. Bring kingdom consciousness my God to Your church we pray, even the kingdom of David and that great David who will establish His throne. Thank You, my God, have us to palpitate for the righteousness and equity and justice that will issue from that one place that You have appointed and we bless You. For your the God who is only God, in the God who chooses, we agree with Your choice. Bless these children. Bless this word, set things in motion by it that would not have taken place without it. And we thank and give You the praise for the jealousy that broods over us and will not let us go. Thank You for my young brothers agonizing, trying to struggle through to come to an understanding of how all this fits together and I pray that he'll be the chief recipient of this word today. It will click click click in his soul, things will fall into place as it did for me and all of the things that constituted the baggage of my faith came into a comprehensive unity when You inserted the key of Your kingdom. So, we bless You Lord and we thank you. Turn it in our hearts that You might perform it. Thank you for the Holy Spirit without which it could never be obtained. Thank you for the resurrection of Jesus, that raised Him from the dead, that declared the decree this day I've set My King on the Holy Hill. And that there's a resurrection for us, that is our day, that you can say this is My Son, because it's only in that power and in that authority that we shall be for You what we must in these last days. To say thy kingdom come, is to say through thy resurrection and thy resurrection alone that You might be glorified. It's not enough to approve it as a doctrine. I bless these children Lord. Trouble us with Your word let it percolate in our soul and in our spirits let it drive us into your word to search out the profits and the illusions to your kingdom and in the Psalms and into many places that you make your profound hints. Bless this congregation. Bless this work. Thank You my God, lay its foundations in the kingdom of God that are unremovable. We thank and give You praise in Jesus’ name. Declarations to the Lord and to the Powers of the Air Don't lift your head, transact something with the Lord. I'll tell you something about the kingdom, it's entirely voluntary, no man will be conscripted into the kingdom, it's going to come through the voluntary sacrifice of saints who are jealous for it, because they know that the issue of the kingdom is the issue of God's glory forever and they're willing for the sacrifice in this life whatever it is to obtain it. You let the Lord know right were you sitting either audibly or out of your heart, preferably audibly. That the powers of the air will take note, that you want to be observed and to be feared for you've made a kingdom declaration. You're not content to be merely charismatic. You have intentions beyond the success of your own fellowship in your own numbers. That your kingdom saint and you're willing for the cost of it in this life and it will cost, you'll be marked. Let Him know. “Thy kingdom come Lord”, is at the heart of my whole identification of myself as a saint. “Thy kingdom come”, not my career, not my ministry, “Thy kingdom come.” It might even take the sacrifice of my ministry, the sacrifice of my vested interests to obtain it, but let Your rule of my life, my family be upon Your shoulder. For unto us a Son is given a child is born and the government shall be upon His shoulder, the government of the church first and then also Israel and then also the nations. Wherever we are still independent, self-willed, calling our own shots, making our own plans for the future, making our own determinations, our own ambitions that have not consulted You, have not recognized Your Lordship and Your Kingship. Forgive us! “Forgive us Lord and have mercy!” (Congregation). And we surrender, we give over my God every interest, “Your kingdom come.” We have no right to determine our retirement, our leisure, our saving. Our. Our. Our. Our. “Thy kingdom come”, whatever it requires from this day forth in Jesus’ name. Let the Lord know it, let the powers of darkness know it, and everything will change. Oh, thank you (Congregation). Somebody make a verbal declaration for yourself, for this congregation. Come God in my heart, my life, my family, over this house, Lord. Of all places in Atlanta. Save me God from my own rule, my own heart Oh mm-hmm, oh thank You Lord. My own discernment, in my own perception, oh yeah, oh God, oh God, oh God, I'm asking oh God. Save! Come God, Come Lord, Come God, my children, my God, for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Oh God let me serve God and not dictate, mm-hmm, Oh God rule over this family, rule over this church, mm-hmm come Oh God, come and rule be a son of David here, yep that's right, and also God mm-hmm right with us give us up oh God a kingdom vision. (Congregation). Yep, thank you Lord, that Atlanta should not be known for its coca-cola, for its Braves, for its football teams, for its sports, for its productions, for its promotions, but for Your kingdom. In this very place that so exalts the petty kingdoms of men, we ask that Your kingdom shall come crashing in and bring the smithereens my God, the presumptions of men to exalt their industries and their businesses and their sports and their pettiness and to leave you as a Sunday supplement only. God forbid, bring Atlanta my God to a place that glorifies the King, thank you my God, correct my God its faulty values, its imbalance, thank You my God, thank you Lord. It's presumptuous towers at city landscape all of the pretense and presumption of men that relegate You to the dustbin of insignificance as a Sunday supplement only. Come my God, be glorified in this great city, yeah let it be great for the right reason in Jesus name. Thank You Lord. Oh, thank You. Thank you.
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Arthur "Art" Katz (1929 - 2007). American preacher, author, and founder of Ben Israel Fellowship, born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York. Raised amid the Depression, he adopted Marxism and atheism, serving in the Merchant Marines and Army before earning B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from UCLA and UC Berkeley, and an M.A. in theology from Luther Seminary. Teaching high school in Oakland, he took a 1963 sabbatical, hitchhiking across Europe and the Middle East, where Christian encounters led to his conversion, recounted in Ben Israel: Odyssey of a Modern Jew (1970). In 1975, he founded Ben Israel Fellowship in Laporte, Minnesota, hosting a summer “prophet school” for communal discipleship. Katz wrote books like Apostolic Foundations and preached worldwide for nearly four decades, stressing the Cross, Israel’s role, and prophetic Christianity. Married to Inger, met in Denmark in 1963, they had three children. His bold teachings challenged shallow faith, earning him a spot on Kathryn Kuhlman’s I Believe in Miracles. Despite polarizing views, including on Jewish history, his influence endures through online sermons. He ministered until his final years, leaving a legacy of radical faith.