Earthquake By Tony Alamo Several Bible Scriptures tell us that EARTHQUAKES are one of God's many instruments of judgment. "Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because He " (God) "was wroth."1 As Job stated, God is "mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? … Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble."2And Isaiah says to this world of sinners, "Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with EARTHQUAKE , and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire."3 Los Angeles is being visited by all these. But if Los Angeles is more sinful and more guilty than the other reprobate cities of the world, why does God threaten to shake terribly the entire earth? "And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth"4. Jesus said to them, "Are you thinking that these Galilaeans were greater sinners in comparison to all the Galilaeans, because they have suffered these things? Not at all, I am saying to you, but unless you are repenting, you all will likewise perish. Or, those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, are you thinking that they themselves were greater offenders in comparison to all the men who were residents of Jerusalem? Not at all, I am saying to you, but unless you repent, you all will likewise perish."5 Jesus prophesied that one of the signs of the end of time would be a world-wide epidemic of EARTHQUAKES.6 Millions have been expecting a much bigger quake than the one in Los Angeles, which the media is calling "The Big One." God tells of a bigger one, unparalleled in world history, that truly will be THE BIG ONE. This one is coming very soon. Los Angeles has experienced well over 3,100 aftershocks in the three weeks since the January 17, 1994 earthquake. Five months before this, I was inspired by God to move the Lord’s church which I pastor from the Los Angeles area. Hundreds of people will confirm this statement. Thursday, January 13,1994, I was in Los Angeles for a court appearance. Three days later, Sunday, January 16, 1994, I was inspired again by the Lord to leave Los Angeles without delay. I explained to everyone what I had heard. We then packed and left in haste. Everyone was disappointed because our original plans were to spend the afternoon at the sunny beach in Venice. The weather report at our destination was icy rain and snow. We travel by car and generally never stop, except for fuel and food, but this time I felt inspired to stop in Arizona for the night. We almost never watch television, but early that morning we received the news of the earthquake. We were shocked at what we were seeing. God's wisdom for our leaving Los Angeles was now fully known to us, and the reason for moving into the motel to watch what we were delivered from was now made known. Everyone, including myself, was very thankful to the Lord for having delivered us from the earthquake. But what hope can the unsaved, defiant, sinful wretches of this age have who reject God's well-beloved Son, who refuse to follow God’s life-giving Words of instruction, who instead chase after the lust and sin of this present world, which is soon to perish? These sin lovers have absolutely no spiritual life, and no spiritual leader to guide them, to tell them to either stay or leave in dangerous times like these, which are, in these last days, on the increase. The sinful people of the world today walk in darkness. They have selected for themselves false prophets, blind leaders. Jesus said, "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch " (into the fire of eternal Hell)." 7 The reprobates are never conscious of their depraved, corrupt nature until it is too late, until utter ruin and permanent destruction come. They are unwilling to recognize the hand of God as the One sending forth their ruin. The earthquake is one of God's instruments of judgment, along with many other plagues. The true prophet of God tells of the cities of old that God crumbled into heaps. A moment ago they were there; but at God's stroke, they were gone forever. Today the false prophets are more abundant than God's holy prophets. In the days of Elijah, the ratio was hundreds of false prophets to God’s one true prophet. Today the ratio is millions of false prophets to God's one true prophet. The book of Joel, referring to the end of time, likens the amount of false prophets to hordes of locusts, innumerable as insects.8 In five different places in the twenty-fourth chapter of the book of Matthew, Jesus, while speaking of the last days, refers to the abundance of false prophets who would deceive many. The false prophets are still prophesying to the world smooth-sounding, fabricated fairy tales and pipe dreams from their own imaginations. They prophesy the exact opposite of what God's Word proclaims. They tell of mightier cities that are yet to rise. The true servant of God will not be ashamed to prophesy of both the big one and the earth's burning up which will soon be fulfilled. The false prophet licks the wounds of the frightened, sinful world, soothing the crowds by saying things such as, "It wasn't God who caused this earthquake," or "God would never kill all these innocent people," when God admits it was Him that killed these "innocent people," and states that He intends to kill and surely will kill hundreds of millions more of these "innocent people." God's Holy Word clearly promises that God's angels will "slay the third part of men." 9 (If that event would happen today, God, by using just four of His angels, would be killing at least two billion people with one stroke. This will soon come to pass.) Who are all of these "innocent people" the false prophets speak of? Where are all of these "innocent people"? The entire population of earth at this very moment has rejected God’s Son, Christ Jesus, who died, went to Hell, resurrected for them, and then ascended up to Heaven.10 The world's ungrateful, unthankful "innocent people" are presently worshipping the devil himself, his one-world cult, and his U.N. government. These who the false clergy call "innocent" are far from innocent in God's eyes. They are, in God’s judgment, not only guilty of blasphemy (in the first degree), but worthy of death and eternal damnation in Hell.11 God says, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay,"12 and He will. He's already started. You haven't seen much yet; this is just the beginning! The world is guilty of being terrified by the incredibly stupid, weak, beggarly, and satanic cult government rather than being terrified of God. Jesus warns, "Fear him " (God) "which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."13 "Cease ye from man, in whose nose is one breath; for how little is he to be accounted!"14 Man's life "Is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."15 God is mankind's worst enemy. The only way to prevail with God is to yield to Him, to comply with Him. Satan is the next worst enemy. He can be defeated only by resisting him with all of our might in Christ. California has always been the pilot state or testing ground in North America for one-world government tyranny and stupidity. God is now letting California reap what it has sown all these years. Now God is using this state as His pilot state, as His example to the world, as sort of a sneak preview of His coming attractions, to show what He intends to give to the sinful rest of the world. He wants the world to know THE PARTY IS OVER. God’s judgments will be more severe, with more vengeance and destruction, than in the days of the great flood, in Egypt, in Sodom and Gomorrah, in Jericho, in Los Angeles, or in any other place, at any time in the history of the world. Where can all the sinners run when God declares this kind of war? God said He will move the entire world off its axis.16 "The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage."17 "Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger."18 We have now entered God's judgment era. The seventh angel (representing Christ) in the tenth chapter of the book of Revelation declares "there should be time no longer."19 This means the years of God holding back His judgments are over. God’s two witnesses are soon to be given their power.20 "These have power " (from God for three and one half years) "to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues " (including earthquakes), "as often as they will."21 At the end of the three and one half year power ministry of God's two super-witnesses, their temporal bodies will be killed and be resurrected before the very eyes of the world, ascending in a cloud up to Heaven.22 At this same hour a great EARTHQUAKE will occur.23 Shortly thereafter the seven angels of God shall come forth to minister God's final seven plagues (one of them being God’s big one) to the stubborn, rebellious, evil inhabitants of the earth who have rejected God's mercy.24 "The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he " (these) "shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name."25 The wrathful indignation of God is poured out onto those whom the false prophets call "the world's innocent." These evil false prophets have convinced the world to believe that God is an old and senile "Santa Claus" who can scarcely see or hear, when in reality, God is the Almighty Power, the Great Scientist and intelligence of the universe who not only hears and sees every detail of everything but "is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."26 God knows the end of all things from the beginning. "I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning." 27 At the very moment of both Christ's death and resurrection, EARTHQUAKES occurred. "And the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many."28 The world can soon expect the aforementioned much greater earthquake from God, rather than the type He caused at His Son's crucifixion and resurrection, because the world has crucified Christ for almost two-thousand years. Those of the fallen away Christian church have recrucified Him and put Him to open shame before the world by their falling away from Christ to serve and worship the Devil, as well as their uniting with Satan's one-world church and U.N. government to walk no more with Christ—John 6:66. These are antichrists! "For it is impossible for those " (former Christians) "who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, And have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame." 29 God's prescription for this heinous, long term crime is eternal Hell. But before this, the genuine big one, the "WORLDQUAKE!" Read the Bible; God doesn't hide anything. He's not ashamed of what He has said, what He has done, or what He is about to do. God again openly admits that it is He who causes the entire earth to be moved out of its place, that it is He who dispatches His angels of destruction. And what can all of mere mankind, joined together hand in hand, do about it? They can't even stop one of God's earthquakes, or even one of His over 3,100 aftershocks for that matter! "And the seventh angel " (OF GOD) "poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne " (OF GOD), "saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great EARTHQUAKE, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of HIS WRATH. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent " (about 100 pounds): "and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great."30 This truly is the hand of God (God's big one) that will occur not only in Los Angeles, but all over the world. There is only one escape from God's genuine "Big One," and only one escape from Hell's eternal fire which is God's justice, God's perfect prescription from His heavenly pharmacy. That escape is to accept every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. That Word is God's Son, Christ Jesus, who said, "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you."31 And the first thing Jesus commands is, "Ye must be born again" of the Spirit.32 We are spiritually dead in our sins and trespasses until we accept God's Son as our Redeemer and Saviour.33 We cannot be spiritually alive without Christ because He is the only possessor and giver of spiritual, eternal life. Jesus wants to resurrect us all from our spiritual death into His spiritual life. There can be no victory when we are dead. The victory of true Christianity's faith consists ONLY in Christ's resurrection. Romans 1:4 says, "And " (Jesus is) " declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." If Christ would have remained dead and had never been resurrected, there would be no victory for us over death, no spiritual, eternal life, no rescue for us from Hell. There is no victory in the death of Christ. The victory is only in His resurrection, not only from death but from Hell and the grave. There is no victory in the death of you or me, the people of the world. There is only one life-giving Spirit, and that is the Spirit of Jesus who said, "I am the resurrection… he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." 34 Jesus said, "I lay down my life, that I might take it again " (This is the resurrection by His Holy Spirit).35 Jesus said, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth," which includes the power to give eternal life to those coming to Him on His terms.36 This eternal life, this first resurrection from the dead, will be given to you immediately by your sincere prayer to God. My Lord and my God, have mercy upon my soul, a sinner. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God. I believe that He died on the cross and shed His precious blood for the forgiveness of all my sins. I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit and that He sits on the right hand of God at this moment, hearing my confession of sin and this prayer. I open up the door of my heart and I invite You into my heart, Lord Jesus. Wash all of my filthy sins away in the precious blood that You shed in my place on the cross at Calvary. You will not turn me away, Lord Jesus; You will forgive my sins and save my soul. I know because Your Word, the Bible, says so. Your Word says that You will turn no one away, and that includes me. Therefore, I know that You have heard me, and I know that You have answered me, and I know that I am saved. And I thank You, Lord Jesus, for saving my soul, and I will show my thankfulness by doing as You command and sin no more. Now that you are saved and forgiven of your sins, raise your hands and praise the Lord. "Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth."37 Christ now lives in you through the Holy Spirit. There is a way you can receive a fuller portion of the divine nature of God in you. God the Father lives now in you also. The more of the divine nature of God that lives in you, the more you will be able to stand against the temptations that so easily have moved so many millions of Christians away from salvation. This is caused by more man in us than God in us. Mankind has become so wicked that if Satan and his impish army were abolished, we would be our own devil. Now that you are saved, pray for the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Prayerfully study the Word and pray always for more of the divine nature. For instructions on how to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit, and to receive more of God’s holy nature, ask for our literature or call. For without holiness no man shall see God.38 Now that you are saved it is a commandment to be fully submerged, baptized in water in the name of the Father and in the name of the Son and in the name of the Holy Spirit. Follow all of God’s commands and live. Tony Alamo World Pastor Holy Alamo Christian Church P.O. 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