Jim Bakker Show

In the entertainment crazed society we live in, very few people, even Christians, will endure a message of what they consider ‘gloom and doom.’  They would much rather hear some cleverly told story containing a lot of humor!  Nevermind that we are living in the days that demand a sobriety and a vigilance to understand and be ready for the events of Revelation.

As I begin a series of blogs titled “Woe is Me”, I guess I feel the need to try and preempt some of the negativity to such a serious subject.  I felt the same way back in the mid-nineties when I was given the message that was contrary to what a lot of people had been preaching, including myself, of the prosperity gospel.

Well, I never wanted to swim upstream of the flow or be a ‘prophet of doom’ - it is always easier to go with the flow.  But I didn’t choose the message, I’m just the messenger.  And that’s the way it is today with this series.  You are not going to hear a lot of ‘happy talk’ in this series.

As a Watchman for the Lord, the message I have been given to deliver to whoever will listen, takes on a very serious nature because of the Times we are living in.  Things are accelerating NOW.  NOW is the time to do exactly what you are told to do by God’s Spirit.

With that in mind, I am going to write a series of blogs about the Woes of the Bible.  They have never been more relevant than at this moment in time.

A Reluctant Messenger

Before stowing my briefcase, I retrieved the package and held it warily in my hands. Why, God? I thought as I stared at the package. Why have You given me this assignment? You know I’ll do anything You instruct me to do; but I confess, I’m scared. I don’t really want to be the one to deliver this. But I have promised to obey no matter what the cost, so I’ll do it.

Nearly a day and a half later, as I unpacked my luggage in a hotel room in Singapore, I took the package out of my briefcase and opened its contents.

Inside a leather three-ring notebook was a message—the most explosive, exciting, frightening, yet exhilarating message I had ever received from God.

The message had been ten years in the making; five of those years I had spent in a federal prison while God got my undivided attention and brought me to the point where I was willing not only to hear this message and accept it as the truth, but to proclaim it.

After my release from prison, the message remained sealed in my heart, burning within me, refining my own thinking and lifestyle. It was not until a few days before Christmas 1997 that God gave me the go-ahead to speak it aloud.

It was not the kind of message most people want to hear. It was a warning from God, and I felt that He had called me—of all people—to sound the alarm.

By and large, most of the church in the United States does not want to hear an apocalyptic message. It wants a message of health and wealth, hope, healing, and financial prosperity mixed with a measure of blathering psychobabble focused on getting our needs met. Rarely does anyone talk about sacrifice, repentance of sin, or our failure to be what God has called us to be. When, for example, was the last time you heard a message on the cost of discipleship? When was the last time you heard someone preach on the judgment of God or the horrors of hell? How often have you heard a message encouraging Christians to bear one another’s burdens?

No, we simply want to be happy Christians.

After all, who wants to be known as a prophet of gloom? Who wants to be the bearer of bad news? My temperament is one that cries out for people to like me. I have never enjoyed confrontations, arguments, or battles (although I’ve been in more than my share). My personality is that of a peacemaker. It is simply not my nature to bring a negative message. My desire has always been to bring joy and encouragement, and that is what I tried to do in a variety of ways during most of my ministry.

Yet now, as I studied the Scripture and contemplated the warnings I believed God had placed in my heart and mind, I came to realize that even this dire word was a message of hope, an encouragement for the body of Christ, the family of God, the true church. But it was genuine hope based on sound doctrine, rather than foolish spiritual slogans propagated by pleasure-loving disciples. This message had been formulated by considering a mass of scriptural evidence rather than contrived concepts derived from one or two obscure passages or the twisting or shading of biblical truths to one’s personal interpretation.

 

For those who heed this word from God, it will be life; those who do not pay attention to God’s final warning will be sealing their own tombs.

 

1998 in “Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse”

Woe is Me – Part 1
Woe is Me – Part 2
Woe is Me – Part 3
Woe is Me – Part 4
Woe is Me – Part 5
Woe is Me – Part 6
Woe is Me – Part 7
Woe is Me – Part 8
Woe is Me – Conclusion

Revelation events are happening one right after another such as wars, earthquakes and tsunamis around the world. The world has looked on as Japan has experienced what newscasters call a biblical event of epic proportion.

Every day, we are rapidly moving deeper into the Revelation Days, the days the Bible refers to as the Last Days. Paul declares in 2 Timothy Chapter 3:1-4 “This know also, that in the Last Days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” I know you have to agree with me that everything Paul says here is happening right now!

As you know, I have spent years studying the book of Revelation and its relationship to every book in the Bible and to the days we are living in right now! For the last few years, I have been emphasizing the fact that we are living in the days of the Four Horseman of Revelation Chapter six! I have no doubt that all four horses are riding right now!

The first horse is the spirit of anti-Christ which includes all the things mentioned above from 2 Timothy Chapter three and that spirit also includes the warfare of this television and computer age, which is a war of words. Today, evil men are speaking evil things against God and even banning God’s Ten Commandments and the Bible and prayer. The White Horse is riding!

The second horse, the Red Horse is also no doubt riding full force today! This horse is sent to take peace and prosperity from the earth causing slaughter and violence, terrorism and fear and even great warfare and bombing! This is demonic warfare! You must remember that you overcome this kind of warfare only by the power of the Lamb Jesus Christ! Again, you must agree the Red Horse is riding now!

Let’s look at horse number three, the Black Horse of lack of food, inflation or as the Bible calls it, famine! World health says eleven million children die each year due to starvation! We are on the brink of a world out of food and the church is spending most of their sermons on how to get rich and someday the money everyone worked so hard for will be worthless paper. Soon, according to horseman number three, it will cost a day’s wages to buy a loaf of wheat bread. The Black Horse is riding and he is about to go into a full gallop!

 There is only one horse left and let’s see if he is riding. The King James Bible calls him “The Pale Horse” but in the Greek, he is a greenish pale color or the color of death and sickness. The Bible goes on to say that death (plague and pestilence) follow him and they bring death and diseases to a fourth of the earth’s population through animals! Most all our plagues come from animals and cause such diseases such as Aids, Bubonic plague, Ebola Sars, Swine and Bird flu. Well, it looks like all the horses are riding!

So, then what is coming next? If the four horses are already riding, what comes next according to the Book of Revelation? We see Jesus comforting those who have been martyred and telling them it would be just a little while and all those who are on earth and love him will be together soon.

Revelation 6:12 is the next big event! John sees Jesus and tells us “Then I watched while the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black like rough black cloth, and the whole moon became red like blood.”

Over the next days on our program, I will be going over, in detail, what this next Revelation event is all about. I have never heard any minister talk about or even read the scriptures about the sun going dark in the Last Days, even though there is more than 16 scriptures saying the sun and the moon will be darkened before the “Day of the Lord.” Even the scriptures that tells us about the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the Last Days warns us of this event. Look at Acts 2:17-20 “God says: In the Last Days I will pour out my Spirit on all kinds of people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. At that time I will pour out my Spirit also on my servants and handmaidens, and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the sky and on the earth: blood, fire, and thick smoke. The sun will become dark, the moon red as blood, before the overwhelming and glorious day of the Lord will come.”

In Matthew 24, Jesus says that the sun and the moon will be darkened and then all will see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven! I believe that the 16 times the Bible says that the Sun and Moon will be darkened, it is caused by volcanoes, asteroids and earthquakes. The BBC says that Yellowstone Park is sitting on top of a Supervolcano and that when it blows, there would be no life left within 600 miles, except those people who have prepared a place underneath the ground. Life on earth as we know it would no longer exist. When the Supervolcano blows, it will cause an immediate nuclear winter of dirt and ash in the air over the entire world for two years and no crops would be able to grow. Right now, the Denver Post says that scientists have warned that Yellowstone National Parks Lake is bulging up 100 feet from the lake floor and could explode at any time. Some of the park’s trails are so hot they are no longer open to the public.

The University of Utah recently discovered a magma body 20 percent larger than previously believed under Yellowstone, so a future cataclysmic eruption could even be larger than thought! The BBC says “Yellowstone has gone off roughly once every 600,000 years. Its last eruption was 640,000 years ago, Professor Bill McGuire, professor of geohazards at the University College London says, making another eruption imminent in geological time. Perhaps this is what Revelation 6:15 means when it says: “And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains.”

 No matter what happens, it is time to be prepared, time to store food, time to have our hearts right with God and be ready for Heaven, and to minister in the Last Days and be able to help others!

Love,

Jim