If You Think You’ve Seen it Before, You Probably Have

I have been listening to Derek Prince every day for some time. I put my faith in no man, and every man makes mistakes, but I’ve picked up a lot of useful information from Prince’s videos.

Prince used to live in Fort Lauderdale, forty minutes away from me. I was listening to frauds and fabulists at that time. I was trying to find the truth, but the custodians of the truth turned out to be ignorant and, often, dishonest. It’s a shame I didn’t know about Prince.

When you want to find an honest, knowledgeable preacher, it’s like wandering the desert looking for one particular grain of sand, but it seems like there’s a Benny Hinn or a T.D. Jakes on every street corner.

Prince did a series of sermons on the end of the age. Interesting stuff. It’s impossible to be certain about prophecy, but it looks like prophecy says Jesus will find a very strong church when he returns. If that’s true, a lot of reformation is in store.

The church is falling apart right now. We have homosexual clergy (admitted homosexuals, not the closeted ones we’re so used to), homosexual marriages, churches that teach yoga and meditation, and churches that tell us the Bible isn’t true. If the church is disintegrating, how can Jesus come back for a pure bride?

The answer is this: the church isn’t his bride. That’s not accurate, really. I mean the big, global body we think of as the church. It’s not really the church at all. The real church is a small remnant hidden within the big false church. While the false church whores itself out and sends people to hell, the real church can be built up and prepared for Jesus.

Most people and spirits are afterbirth. That’s a harsh statement, but it’s true. When a baby is born, a lot of useless flesh comes out with it, and that flesh is discarded. In this world, people destined for salvation have always been in the minority, and like afterbirth, the rest are not going to survive. We should be accustomed to the understanding that most people will be destroyed, even if we don’t like it.

It’s not that hard for Christians to accept the damnation of unbelievers. We tend to be self-righteous, and often we actually look forward to seeing others condemned. What’s harder is admitting that religious people are going to go to hell in droves. Most of us don’t believe it, but we ignore history. Most Jews (according to Jewish history) denied God and did not make it out of Egypt, even after the daily miracles God performed for them. Most religious Jews in the time of Jesus rejected salvation. It should not be hard for us to believe that most Christians don’t belong to God or that most will go to hell.

We are not better than the Jews. We think we are, but we make all the same mistakes. I grant you, it appears that our problems are less severe. God himself–an authority who cannot be questioned–calls the Jews a stiff-necked people, and he predicted that the Gentiles would be more accepting, but we still blow it all the time.

Religious people who keep others out of the kingdom have always been a problem. Jesus told his fellow Pharisees (the unbelieving ones) this: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.”

The men he was talking to honored the prophets their fathers had killed, yet they were about to kill the greatest prophet. They were just like us! Jesus criticized them for saying, “If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.” We think we’re better than the people who came before us, but we also hate people who tell us the truth about God. I never got in trouble with a pastor because of sin, and my pastors were very easy on sinners; I was always mistreated because I told the truth. That’s normal.

Most of us are doing our best to avoid changing while convincing ourselves we’re saved. We love the whitewash.

I was thinking about the cleansing of the church today, and it occurred to me that it was probably a necessary prelude to the wave of imprisonment and execution we’re going to experience. There aren’t that many powerful Christians now, but as the remnant gets stronger, we will be a bigger threat to the Beast, and he will want to react. Always look for symmetry in the supernatural.

Prophecy tells us the Beast is going to win. That’s very clear. We will have to leave the earth because most people will prefer killing us to serving God. A democratic vote against God (presaged by the weird anti-God voice votes at a recent Democratic convention) will seal our fate here on earth. Satan can’t win on earth if the church gets so powerful it upends his kingdom. If the church really shapes up, it will have to be removed from the earth in order for prophecy to be fulfilled.

When I look at it this way, I see that the decay of Christianity, the strengthening of the real church, the Beast’s victory on earth, and the rapture can be reconciled.

While I was listening to Prince talk about the end of the age, I thought about the bad clergymen who help keep people away from God. They’re like hockey goalies. Many enemies of God hang out in brothels, bars, abortion clinics, and universities, but the goalies stay close to the door to the kingdom. It’s a choke point the faithful have to use, so it’s efficient for Satan to position people there to pick seekers off.

Jesus called the goalies of his time “whitewashed tombs,” and he said they were full of dead men’s bones. He meant they were full of demons. In the Bible, bones are spirits. Demons are the spirits of dead human beings and demi-humans fathered by rebellious spirits. Jesus was speaking almost literally. The men he accused were full of religious demons instead of the unique Spirit that saves: the Spirit of Holiness.

In Hebrew, the Holy Spirit is actually called “the Spirit of Holiness,” which makes sense, because when he lives in you, he tends to make you more holy.

Whitewashing makes a thing appear clean and sound without changing its nature. It’s thinner than paper. The men Jesus accused wore fancy getups and made a big show of serving God, but inside, they were full of iniquity.

I’ll tell you about a revelation God gave me.

Islam is an evil religion spawned by a spirit that hates God. It’s a big problem. After Islam was established, Muslims came to rule a large part of the world, including Jerusalem. A Muslim ruler named Suleiman took advantage of his power to try to prevent the Jewish Messiah from coming.

Prophecy said the Messiah would enter Jerusalem through the Eastern Gate (also called the Golden Gate), which was an opening in Jerusalem’s wall. It used to be the gate people used to get to the temple. Right now, this gate is sealed with stone. Suleiman had it sealed (two other Muslim rulers had sealed it before him), and guess what he put outside it? Tombs full of dead men’s bones.

Prophecy said Elijah would announce the coming of the Messiah. He would precede him. Elijah was a descendent of Aaron, making him a member of the priestly tribe. Jewish priests have to be careful about their dealings with dead bodies (some believe this is why the priests on the way to Jerusalem refused to help the injured man in the story of the Good Samaritan). Suleiman and his minions hoped Elijah would not be able to pass through a Muslim cemetery and enter the Eastern Gate. No Elijah, no Messiah.

Jerusalem represents the kingdom of heaven in the Bible. The Messiah is God’s firstfruit. He has to enter the kingdom first. Jesus entered the Eastern Gate on a donkey, fulfilling prophecy. Suleiman didn’t believe Jesus was the Messiah, however, so he built his cemetery.

Can this be coincidence? In a world ruled by the vagaries of quantum mechanics, it’s hard to rule anything out, but look what Suleiman did. He repeated Satan’s pattern. He tried to block the entrance to heaven, using tombs containing dead men’s bones. Without realizing it, Suleiman gave us a picture of the Pharisees who opposed Jesus and the modern Christians who fight the Holy Spirit.

Prophecy doesn’t say Jesus will return through the gate. It says his coming will be seen in the heavens, from one end of the earth to the other. Suleiman closed the barn door after the colt got in.

Donkeys represent the flesh. We’re supposed to ride the flesh and steer it, but generally, it works the other way around. Jesus rode a donkey to show that a man living in a flesh body could rule the flesh and enter the kingdom of heaven.

Incidentally, Jesus said he would return after “the gospel of the kingdom” (not the gospel of “raise your hand and you will go to heaven”) was preached to all people. Guess which religion is most effective at keeping people from hearing the gospel? Islam. Look it up. It’s still blocking gates.

We need to get on top of self-righteousness. We drive people away with it. Oddly, we also lure people with licentiousness, which is the wrong bait. Error is an easy thing to commit. No matter the direction in which you miss, every miss counts. The laws of probability favor error.

Think of homosexuality, which is a huge problem for the church. The world beats us with it every day, very successfully. We criticize homosexuals because they insist we accept their sin and call it righteous. At the same time, we insist that God accept other sins. Churches are full of heterosexuals who fornicate and have no plans to quit. Living in sin is very common among Christians. How is forcing fornication on God any better than forcing homosexuality on him? We also accept sins like gluttony, materialism, anger, lying, laziness, and gossip.

We have to condemn homosexuality, but we also have to confront and condemn our own sins.

I have a Christian friend who lives with a boyfriend and has two children by him. She has a stash of Harry Potter material which she refuses to give up. You can’t do things like that and do well in the kingdom. I don’t want to offend her, so I don’t harangue her, but I am very concerned.

I watched a video featuring a person who claimed to have been sent to hell in a near-death experience. She said she asked God why she was damned, and the response was that she lived with her boyfriend. It made me think of my friend. I don’t know whether the story in the video was true, but I do know that salvation can be lost through deliberate rebellion. The Bible says so.

There are Christians who defend smoking weed, which clearly fits the Biblical definition of witchcraft. Christians practice yoga, which is part of a Satanic religion. Many, many Christians practice astrology, which is also a Satanic religion. We go to fortune tellers. We keep good luck charms and idols. We do all these things and expect God to accept them, while we go after other people whose sins seem more obvious.

We have to warn people about sin, but we also have to confront our own sins. I think we look pretty stupid to God when we defend astrology and condemn sodomy. How can you leave a yoga session, wearing a necklace with an astrological symbol on it, while living with a girlfriend and several illegitimate babies, and then pray for a homosexual to be delivered, as though you have something he doesn’t? You’re playing for one team and praying to the other team’s coach.

Pride is a huge Christian sin. Most of us think it’s a great thing. We say, “Don’t you have any pride?” Every good Christian is a charity case, just like a wino begging on a sidewalk in urine-soaked pants. None of us should have pride about anything. We should realize that every one of us is like a grown man who lives by taking money from his mother’s purse. Every good thing we get is charity, paid for by the torture of an innocent man. The phrase “self-made” should make us gag.

You may think you earn things through hard work. The world is full of people who work hard and play it smart but don’t succeed. How can you answer them?

If you have more than one god, you don’t have Jesus. It’s that simple. It always has been. You can worship as many “gods” as you like without offending Satan, but as soon as you pick up your second “god,” you give up Jesus.

Sometimes I feel like Jesus is coming back very soon, but other times, I think of the sad state of even charismatic Christians, and I feel like he must be a thousand years off.