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TRANSCRIPT: Protection in the Coming Storm: David Wilkerson

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DAVID WILKERSON: God is good, isn’t He? Now, most of you know that I have been preaching and I’ve written a book about America’s last call on the brink of a financial holocaust. And I’ve had so many people, even ministers, write and say, “Well, I couldn’t read it in one sitting. I had to read a couple chapters, three chapters, four chapters, five, and close the book and pray because it scared me.”

I want you to know something. I am what is called a depression baby. Not that I was born depressed. But I was born in the middle of the depression of the 1930s. Massive unemployment. The nation was in a terrible financial crisis. And I was born in the middle of that. As you can see, I survived.

I’m here. I’m in the ministry today. And my parents had no problem having a baby in the middle of the depression because they had confidence in God. They had trust in Him. They never moved in fear. They heard these reports. Yes, they went two or three days sometimes without a good meal, but God always provided. Someone always knocked on the door. There was a bushel of apples. There was something. God always provided miraculously for the whole body of Christ during that time. And He’ll do the same.

But I agree with the Puritan writers who said, “Any messenger or watchman who delivers the warnings and threats of God must also deliver His promises to keep the righteous when the storm comes.” I believe that with all of my heart. So I’m now in the middle of another book on how God’s going to keep His saints during the coming storm. And I want to speak to you along that line this morning.

Protection in the Coming Storm

Heavenly Father, I’m so glad that we’re on the rock. I’m so glad that we don’t have to fear as God’s people anything that comes upon this earth. Lord, I pray that You lift up our spirits today. We pray that You move mightily upon us. I take Your authority over every prince of power and power of darkness. Anything, O Lord, that would try to hinder the flow of the Holy Spirit. Lord, give me freedom to preach this word as You gave it to me. Let everyone who hears it be encouraged by the living word of God that gives hope and strength in hard times. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Our God is a loving, tenderhearted, long-suffering, slow to anger God. And judging nations and sending storms on society is not His good work. It’s a hard work. He calls it His strange work. God said, “As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked should turn from their evil ways and live.” So turn ye, why will you die? That’s always been God’s message. That’s His heart.

God says, “I don’t take any pleasure in doing this. I get no pleasure whatsoever. I’m doing this in hopes that people will turn. I’ve tried everything possible. I’ve done everything. I’ve sent pestilences. I’ve allowed all kinds of physical warnings. I have warned secularly. I’ve warned spiritually. I’ve sent prophets that people don’t want to hear. So God says, ‘I’m going to let this storm lash the land, lash the nation, hoping against hope that the wicked will turn from their wicked ways.'” Turn. And His cry is, “Why will you die? Why will you suffer when there’s such a provision made for you that you don’t have to?”

Now, I can’t find anywhere in my Bible, I can’t find a single instance of God judging a people or sending a storm upon a nation without first warning. And along with the warning, He’s always made provision, a place of safety for anyone who would honor His word and believe His prophets and watchmen.

In fact, don’t turn it up and Exodus ninth chapter. This was when Moses stood before Pharaoh and said, “God is going to judge the land.” And God told Moses, in fact, Moses is a prophet. His own words said, “God will raise up a prophet to you in the last days like unto me.” He acknowledged himself as a prophet. So Moses was a prophet and he stood before Pharaoh and all of the government leaders of Egypt and all the people, the couriers carried this warning all through the land. I don’t know if it happened a week or two weeks after he announced it, but there had to be time for the whole nation to hear it.

There was a warning went out that God was going to send a grievous hailstorm such that the nation had never witnessed. I will cause it to rain, God said, “a very grievous hail such as not been in all of Egypt’s history.” When God says the storm is going to be grievous, you can better believe it will be. He said it’s going to be something that has never been experienced before. And this was a manifestation of God’s grace, of mercy.

He could have just sent it because of their sin and their idolatry and hardness of heart. But in spite of their hardness of heart and idolatry and rejection of His word, He said, “I will make a provision for you. I will make it possible that you don’t have to lose your cattle. You don’t have to lose your servants. You don’t have to lose your children, your family. They’re safe.” The scripture says God said, “Gather your cattle, all your animals, all your servants, your children who flee into your houses, get under a roof.” In other words, take cover.

And those who feared the Lord, scripture says, made his servants and his cattle to flee into the houses.