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Dr. David R. Reagan have legalized same-sex mar- wrong direction - towards a it produced. And that, in turn,
Dr. David R. Reagan
christinprophecy.org
christinprophecy.org riage and are in the process of secular, pagan society. He resulted in God sending us the
he America I grew up in is legalizing marijuana. We have unleashed his pentup concerns in prophetic voice that Peter Mar-
gone. It is dead. And there is also become the moral polluter of a sermon delivered in 1944 at a shall had yearned for. That voice
Tno hope of its resurrection. planet earth with our violent, Church in New Orleans. The arrived on the scene in 1974,
immoral and blasphemous sermon was titled "Trial by Fire" exactly 30 years after Marshall
I was born in 1938, making me 77 movies and TV programmes. and it focused on the spiritual had called for it. The voice was
years old, and when I was growing battle portrayed in the Bible that of a remarkable man named
up in the 1940s and 50s we went to In summary, we are a nation that between Elijah and the prophets David Wilkerson.
church three times a week - has rejected its Christian heritage of Baal.
Sunday morning, Sunday evening and has replaced that precious
and Wednesday evening - and we heritage with a crude, paganized Over and over in the sermon, he
had four week-long Gospel culture. We are a rebellious nation declared that the time had come in
meetings each year. All but the that is thumbing its nose at the America for us to take sides - to
most essential businesses like Creator God Who showered us decide whether we as a nation
hospitals, pharmacies and gaso- with unparalleled blessings for were going to follow Yahweh or
line stations were closed on over 300 years. Baal. Each time, he put the
Sundays. No secular events, challenge in the words of Elijah:
including sporting events, were We have expelled God from the "If Yahweh is God, follow Him; but
scheduled on Sundays or on life of our society, and the result is if Baal, follow him!" (1 Kings
Wednesday evenings. an avalanche of violence and 18:21).
immorality. We have lost our
We had daily prayers and Bible moral compass, and we are In the middle of his sermon,
readings in school, and we raising a generation of moral Marshall called for prophetic
celebrated Easter and Christmas pygmies. The same is true of the voices: "I suggest to you that
with special plays and musicals. raging apostasy within the America needs prophets today
We also used readers in our Church. The term Evangelical, who will set before the nation the
English classes that contained has lost its meaning, as some who essential choices." He then
Bible stories. At graduation time, claim to be Evangelicals are proceeded to speak propheti-
we had special baccalaureate ser- proclaiming that there are many cally: "Love of power and autho-
vices where a minister would roads to Heaven and there is no rity has enslaved the hearts of
deliver an inspirational sermon to Hell. many Americans. The seeds of
the graduating class. racial hate and intolerance have Wilkerson started out as a
A Second Reformation is going been sown. And we will reap a Pentecostal preacher in rural
Every public event from court on in the Church today, but unlike bitter harvest… Our moral stan- Pennsylvania. In 1958, at age 27,
proceedings to city council the first, which was based on a dards have been lowered. And no he felt the Lord's leading to pull
meetings and PTA meetings were call to return to the Bible, this new nation makes progress in a up stakes and move to New York
opened with a prayer. Movies and Reformation is calling people to downward direction…" He deve- City to minister to its violent street
television programmes were jettison the Bible in favour of their loped his point further by saying: gangs. Through many trials and
strictly regulated by strong moral own feelings and beliefs. As the "We must decide and decide tears, he succeeded in esta-
codes. Our local and national Church grows increasingly weak quickly who is chief, whom we will blishing a ministry to the gangs,
leaders talked openly about God from its internal rot, society serve. Millions of people in and in 1962 he published a book
and their Christian faith and often continues to plunge into dark- America live in a moral fog… about his experiences which was
led prayers, as President Franklin ness. I would therefore assert Modified immorality on the basis titled, The Cross and the
Roosevelt did on D-Day in 1944 without hesitation that we are a of cleverness guides millions of Switchblade. It made him
when we invaded the European nation begging for destruction! people. Modified dishonesty nationally famous, and even more
mainland. within the letter of the law is the so when it was converted into a
Let's take a look at God's practice of millions more. Surely movie in 1970. As a result of the
I could go on and on, but I think prophetic warnings to our nation. the time has come, because the book and the movie, Wilkerson
you get the picture. America was The first I would cite came from hour is late, when we must decide. became the darling of the
not a perfect nation. Racism was the heart of a great Scottish- And the choice before us is plain - Pentecostal and Charismatic
still rampant and materialism was American preacher named Peter Yahweh or Baal. Christ or chaos. Movements - until he published
gaining momentum, but we were a Marshall. He came to this country Conviction or compromise. Disci- another book in 1974 called The
nation that honoured and recog- in 1927 when he was 25 years old pline or disintegration." Vision. It was advertised by the
nized the Christian principles of and died in 1949 when he was only publisher as "A terrifying
our forefathers and the founders 47. During his 22 years in this Marshall then concluded his prophecy of Doomsday that is
of our nation. And we were still country, he went to seminary in sermon with a startling procla- starting to happen now."
very aware that our blessings Georgia and distinguished him- mation: "We need a prophet who
came from God. self as an eloquent preacher. He will have the ear of America and This book presented a very
quickly became the pastor of the say to her, 'How long will you halt negative prophecy about the
The America of today is radically prestigious New York Presby- and stand between two opinions? future of our nation, warning that
different, and the changes have terian Church in Washington, D.C. If Yahweh is God, follow Him, but because of our rebellion against
taken place with startling rapidity. in 1937 - the Church that was if Baal be God, follow him, and go God, we were headed toward
Incredibly, in just over 50 years, known as "the Church of the to Hell!'" major judgments and ultimate
we have become a nation in Presidents." destruction. The world, as would
fullblown, open rebellion against That was 1944, and just as Peter be expected, wrote the book off as
God! Today we worship the In 1947 he became the Chaplain of Marshall feared, we as a nation "insane." But what proved tragic
'Almighty Dollar'. Greed has the United States Senate. At that became captivated by materia- is that the Church also dismissed
become our national motivator, time, our nation was on top of the lism in the Post War Years. This the book as the ravings of a
and Sex is our obsession. Gam- world. We had won World War II obsession, in turn, fuelled a spirit radical.
bling is our national pastime. We and had emerged from the war as of rebellion against God and His
are the world's largest consumer the world's most powerful nation. Word. For many years we had The Pentecostal and Charismatic
of illegal drugs and we have Our economy had been revived been overwhelmed by the suffe- Movements responded with
banned God from our schools. and was generating unprece- rings of the Great Depression, strong condemnation. They were
dented wealth. Our potential for and living through that time, we full of pillow prophets at the time
We have declared God off limits in the future seemed unlimited. But had felt a great dependency on who were prophesying a great
the public arena and are teaching Peter Marshall was spiritually God. But now, we were able to end time revival that would renew
our children the fantasy of unsettled. stand on our own, and God and and refresh America as a
evolution. We are slaughtering His Word receded into the Christian nation. They did not
babies in the name of "freedom of Even before the War ended in background. This led to the want to hear a negative message
choice" for women, and we have 1945 Peter sensed in his soul that morally disastrous decade of the from anyone, especially from
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