part 2
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Beginning the first 10 days of January 2011 I had gotten sick. During this time I had received the two DVD’s “Unmasking Free Masonry” and “The Truth Behind Hip Hop” in the mail. One night my roommate and I decided to watch the DVD “Unmasking Free Masonry.” One of our house church leaders had come by to visit coincidently so we asked him to watch the DVD with us. He thought what we were watching was all “conspiracy theory” at first, but as he watched the DVD with us he was shocked because he realized that he had practiced free masonry without knowing it when he was the lead worshipful master at his fraternity while at Stanford University. He had practiced the secret rites of passage, demonic acts and spoken curses over himself that he thought were just make believe traditions. We immediately personally delivered him, broke the curses off of his life through the name of Christ and he was instantly healed from years of congestion and inability to breath freely. After this happened, I knew that the issue of free masonry was again being highlighted by the Spirit to be dealt with. That same evening, we watched the first installment of a 6 set DVD series called “The Truth Behind Hip Hop” (I recommend every believer that you must watch this DVD series at www.exministries.com) that would send me into a week long in depth personal inventory and search of compromise in my own life because I had grown up on hip hop culture without really knowing the truth behind it’s origins and beliefs. I repented daily for 2 hours as I realized so much of hip-hop came from a demonic agenda and assignment. The preacher/prophet G Craig Lewis who received this revelation from God about the Truth Behind Hip Hop said in an interview,
G. Craige Lewis: If you trace Hip Hop back to its conception, you will see that it has never been a music genre. Most people are surprised to learn that more than a music art form, hip-hop is a way of life. As one of its founders says, “Rap is what you do, hip-hop is what you live.” Hip Hop is wicked because it is a subculture influenced by false religious beliefs from the Universal Zulu Nation, Nation of Islam, 5 Percent Nation of Gods and Earths, Rastafarianism, and other religions, and believes that the Black man is god and denies the supremacy of Jesus Christ as the only way to eternal life. Of course, we know that this mixture is in error, because Jesus said He alone is the way, the truth and the life, and know one comes to the Father, except through Him. (John 14:6). To Hip Hop’s founders, Jesus Christ is either one of many gods, or is just a prophet, or is just the White man’s God used to oppress Black people, not the Son of God. Like all subcultures, Hip Hop tears away or deconstructs mainstream culture. This subculture that was birthed out of lack and oppression began to express those feelings more and more, essentially becoming the sounding board or platform for elicit speech and anti-establishment teachings against American society.
Through studying in depth the truth behind the origin of Hip-Hop culture, the next week I began to study the music industry and how it has been controlled by Satan to influence the feeble minds of youth through the subliminal and demonic messages in the music produced. Satan himself being a chief musician and director of worship originally in heaven before he was cast down, still carries the same assignment to lead praise and worship. Therefore, Satan is and always will be a musician. His main objective now is to utilize music to glorify man, or Satan, rather than using music to glorify God, his aim is to steal God’s glory. He uses music to influence the minds of entire cultures because music is the only form of communication that will not ask for your minds permission to enter into you. Once you hear the music, you are influenced by it, positive or negative.
The “Truth Behind Hip Hop Series” in each DVD dealt deeply into the origins of music pop culture with direct facts, examples, personal testimonies and the Scriptures perspective. Lewis shared how the founder of Satanism Alister Crowley who was a 33rd degree Free Mason wrote a book called “777” that was a manual of black magic to be practiced & perfected by those who want to channel evil spirits or “old ones” (explained as Nephilim, the half angel half human demon spirits from Genesis 6) in order to achieve riches, fame, celebrity status and power. Many pop artists who are historically documented to be Alister Crowley’s disciples were The Beatles (which explained the supernatural transaction I encountered with Sir Paul), Prince, Led Zepplin, Rolling Stones, and a roster of the top pop stars in the past era who have been heavily influenced by Crowley’s teachings. This popularized the idea of “selling your soul to the Devil” in order to achieve worldly and material success. The DVD series gave example after example, of pure facts of artists from Rock n’ Roll, Heavy Metal, Goth, Pop music to Hip Hop who had followed or been influenced by these demonic teachings to gain fame and fortune while poisoning the minds of an entire generation with demonic influenced music.
The preacher/prophet Craig G. Lewis who began this ministry in 2000 gives a substantial summary of the Truth Behind Hip Hop in the following interview below… (Note: I don’t agree with all of Pastor Lewis teachings and people he comes against, but I do agree with his main point of Hip Hop culture being an actual religion being used by Satan to influence global culture in a negative and anti-Christ way.)
G. Craige Lewis gets real about the Rap and Hip-Hop subculture in the world.
The devil is trying to erase lines that divide holiness from godlessness – and he’s using hip-hop to do it. So says G. Craige Lewis, founder of EX Ministries. Lewis is shouting from the rooftops about Satan’s strategy to infiltrate the Church of Jesus Christ with hip-hop beats that are nothing less than demonic.
Lewis has produced DVD series including, “The Truth Behind Hip Hop” that he says is corrupting praise and worship in the Church and “What Every Church Needs to Know About Hip Hop.” He’s also produced DVDs that expose, “The Truth Behind Abortion” and “The Truth Behind Rock and Roll.”
The Voice magazine caught up with Lewis to draw from his 15 years of reaching out to those that have been led astray by our cultures embracing of evil and perversions and also to attack the enemy’s invasion of the media and music.
THE VOICE: What is the root of hip-hop music and why is it so wicked?
G. Craige Lewis: If you trace Hip Hop back to its conception, you will see that it has never been a music genre. Most people are surprised to learn that more than a music art form, hip-hop is a way of life. As one of its founders says, “Rap is what you do, hip-hop is what you live.” Hip Hop is wicked because it is a subculture influenced by false religious beliefs from the Universal Zulu Nation, Nation of Islam, 5 Percent Nation of Gods and Earths, Rastafarianism, and other religions, and believes that the Black man is god and denies the supremacy of Jesus Christ as the only way to eternal life. Of course, we know that this mixture is in error, because Jesus said He alone is the way, the truth and the life, and know one comes to the Father, except through Him. (John 14:6). To Hip Hop’s founders, Jesus Christ is either one of many gods, or is just a prophet, or is just the White man’s God used to oppress Black people, not the Son of God. Like all subcultures, Hip Hop tears away or deconstructs mainstream culture. This subculture that was birthed out of lack and oppression began to express those feelings more and more, essentially becoming the sounding board or platform for elicit speech and anti-establishment teachings against American society. Hip Hop celebrated being distinctly different from society, and saw rejection of the mainstream as a vehicle to obtaining a street credibility to earn the right to speak or be a voice for the “hood.” Rap music was a genre and the art of rapping was basically rhyming to a beat with a poetic flow. However, Hip Hop is a street subculture that used rap to convey a language, a lifestyle, and a total street related way of thinking and behaving.
Before long, Hip Hop’s spiritually mixed, self absorbed, self-empowerment “positive” message changed. As the streets became wicked and the heart of those in the streets became full of violence and rejection, so did Hip Hop. Rap music began to change and take on the characteristics of the subculture of Hip Hop, thus, the rappers began to celebrate street life and their lack became their prize. In other words, when rap became about Hip Hop, then rap music began to promote the evils of the street, (pimping, hustling, cussing, slanging crack, etc.). It became a good thing to be a product of the streets and the street life began to be portrayed as the desired “way of life” because the music promoted it. This is a subculture and not a true culture because it takes the ideals of the parent culture of America and deconstructs them to form a group of people that are in America, but have a modified understanding and interpretation of the language, dress, and behaviors of American citizens that seeks to be set apart and have its own distinct identity. And because Hip Hop encompasses the street language and the negativity of deconstructed ideals, it becomes dangerous to those that buy into it. Sure, the leaders of every subculture profit because they are the leaders of a following, however, those that are not leading suffer the consequences of being separated from the American culture. As a result, they are rejected by mainstream society when it comes to making the grade, getting a job, and fitting into the mold that is deemed “acceptable” by American society. For example, well known hip hop artist that have black racist philosophies, sagging pants and tattoos are paid to look the way they do, but their followers who emulate them will not make it in society. You see, the devil makes the leaders rich, to keep the followers rejected by society, unable to function in the mainstream society and impoverished.
THE VOICE: How did you get this revelation about hip hop?
G. Craige Lewis: God revealed this stuff to me in a vision many years ago. I saw it all happening just as it is happening now. I talk about it in depth in my first video and I still share the vision on my website and when I speak. It was a powerful vision because we wrote it all down almost 20 years before it ever happened.
THE VOICE: So all hip hop is bad, then, right, no matter what the lyrics say?
G. Craige Lewis: Hip Hop has no lyrics. Hip Hop is not music, instead, it’s a subculture that uses rap music to spread its ideologies. If you listen to any real Hip Hopper, they will tell you that Hip Hop is not music, it’s a way of life. They say that rap is something we do, but Hip Hop is something we live. And if it’s a way of life, then it is self expression. If it’s self expression then it is a way to convey a message through a lifestyle. Isn’t that essentially what Christ is, or rather, what Christianity is suppose to be? The other subgroup in a culture, is a counterculture, and Christianity is a counterculture, which transforms us so that we don’t have to express ourselves; Rather, we express Christ. The church doesn’t have to model a street thug, gangster, or even have street credibility at all. We model Christ. So, your question about Hip Hop must be answered like this: Rap is just a form of conveying a message like singing. Nothing is wrong with that. But Hip Hop is a lifestyle expressing one’s self through a street subculture that was birthed out of lack and a deficit in the home. There was something wrong with it from the beginning. In Hip Hop’s inception, people were poor, so they celebrated lack to feel better about poverty. It’s like eating pig feet. Let me explain. my race of people, African Americans, as slaves, was once forced to eat pig feet because that was the worst of the pig. Even today, many people eat pig feet. Does that make pig’s feet good for you? NO. It’s still as bad as when it was only food for slaves. The popularity of it does not change the fact that it is terrible for your body and has no nutritional value. You see, it’s the same with Hip Hop. It was created in the streets as a way to celebrate lack and having a deficit in life. Children without fathers in the home and those that lived in severe poverty would get together on the streets and have rap battles and such. The clothes they wore, (ducky’s and handed down attire) became the “in” thing to wear because that’s all they had. way they spoke (broken English and slang) became their language because they didn’t obtain quality education. The way they behaved, walked, and carried themselves became their identity, because they didn’t have fathers to mold them or model, so they used the streets as their guide. Now, we want to take what the streets taught them and bring it into arenas where there are better examples of living, better language and communication skills to be learned, and better role models to follow and ignore the fact that Hip Hop is a street subculture? Why not end Hip Hop once you leave the streets? Why not forsake what the streets taught you when there is a better way? We must realize that music is just a vehicle being used by those that prosper off this subculture to forward their money-making agenda. So, Hip Hop is just like pig’s feet. No matter how popular eating it gets, it’s still slave’s food and terrible for you.
THE VOICE: Is it the beats, the culture, what is the issue?
G. Craige Lewis: The issue is the consequence of buying into a subculture that hinders your forward progress in society. When you submit yourself to the ideal of a subculture that has set itself against the establishment, you heap pain and discouragement upon your life and immobilize yourself from being prosperous in the parent culture. You see, If the parent culture views saggin, grillz, broken English, earrings, cornrolls, etc. as deviant behaviors, then you are labeled by the parent culture as a deviant. And because the American culture has the jobs and the Hip Hop subculture only prospers the leaders, then your average Hip Hop subcultural “wanna be” is without hope. When you are labeled deviant, you are judged by your appearance, language, and demeanor and left out from achieving any real success in the parent culture. In Hip Hop’s worldview, the only way to “make it,” is to engage in behavior which the dominant culture deems illegal or illicit: sell drugs, or escape reality by endulging in sex and drugs. As a result, while hip hop artists may rap about these things, their followers are led by these pied pipers to the only place where sagging, tattoos, black racists philosophies and cornrolls are embraced: Prison.
THE VOICE: What would you say to proponents of so-called ‘holy hip hop’ who would argue this music reaches our youth in the name of Christ?
G. Craige Lewis: Music reaches everyone. It’s not a surprise that a gangster for God will have an audience just like a gangster for the streets will have followers. Mass murderers in prison have cult followers and many of them believe it’s a godly following, but does that make it valid? The validity of it has to come from the Word of God and in my bible music was never used by God as a tool to spread the gospel message. Music has the power of coercion and can influence a person to feel changed when they are not. This is dangerous because people have emotional experiences and believe they are spiritual experiences. Music can make you feel good, bad, happy, sad, and people take this for God’s power when in essence, it’s just a feeling. This is why in the bible music was only used to bring Glory to God and never to win a soul. When a soul is drawn to music, it is soulish and fleshly. A person cannot make a valid choice for God under the influence of music because they are making a decision at that point based on feeling rather than a knowledgeable, informed decision with their mind and heart versus their emotions. Emotional decisions blow with the wind, but informed heart and mind decisions are based upon understanding and last longer.
God does not take subcultures and make them holy, he takes people. He takes prostitutes everyday and saves them, sets them free and makes them holy! He takes drug addicts and crack addicts everyday, saves them, and makes them holy. Those that belong to the red-light subculture, the goth subculture, the drug subculture, the hippy subculture, the gay/lesbian subculture, and the streetwalking subculture are saved, set free and delivered, never returning to the way of life they were delivered from. But when he makes them holy, are they still what they once were? Are the prostitutes “Holy Hoe’s?” Are the drug addicts “Holy Crack Heads?” Are Hindus, “Holy Hindus?” Or are they new creations? They will be new creations that will not resemble their old ways, and are ex-pimps, ex- gangsters and ex- hip-hoppers. Once they have been transformed by the renewing of their mind, they no longer think, act or desire to look like what they were delivered from. It is called repentance, (see Acts 3:19)! Once God has changed our minds, we change our ways, and turn the opposite direction. Gospel Gangsta’s, Preachin Pimps, and Holy Hip-hoppers are not new creations, but they are spiritual mutations that retain portions of who they were and thus, are flawed. They are not new, but just amended. They are not hot, but luke warm, a mixture of hot and cold. This is exactly what God said he will spew out of His mouth: Those that desire the world and God, (Revelation 3:16).
The roots of hip-hop subculture are demonic, and are similar to other subcultures with an antiestablishment, “Down with the man” mentality. Fatherless-ness, rebellion, oppression, anguish, poverty, violence, and other negative influences created this subculture. Zulu customs, Black Muslim teachings and other false religions established the so-called “positive” aspects of hiphop. Thugs, gangs, drugs, sexual promiscuity and prison life make up the other overtly dark facets of hip-hop. You must realize that God did not play a part in the creation, establishing, or foundation of hip-hop, so how can we drag him into it at this late stage? When KRS-ONE and Afrika Bambaata say they were visited by a spirit and the spirit influenced them to accept their callings into hip-hop, how can we embrace this subculture when it’s origins are evil, demonic and destructive to society?
THE VOICE: Is there anything positive about so-called holy hip hop?
G. Craige Lewis: I believe that most holy hip hoppers want to do good, but they also want to hold on to the world and what they rode through their own personal storms with them. Most of them didn’t have fathers in the home growing up, so they gravitated to Hip Hop for identity, purpose, and fulfillment. This became a father like figure, so when they turned to Christ, they wanted to bring their “father” into knowledge of Christ with them. This is why they want to sanctify Hip Hop and make it holy because it’s the only father many of them know. That is the biggest problem we face as black people: the lack of fathers. If there is no earthly father in the home, children have a harder time receiving the heavenly father once they come to the knowledge of him. So, they want God to be mamma instead of father. Mamma will allow things that father won’t because of the emotional nature of a women. This causes many of these rappers to figure God will allow certain things, even though they are not scripture, because of their love and desire for these things. That’s a “mamma god” mentality. Momma will allow it in many cases when fathers won’t because of her emotional sensitivity to the child. But just because they want it, and because many desire it, it does not make any of it right. Hip Hop is a street subculture that has no place in God’s church.
THE VOICE: Just to be clear for our readers, is Gospel rap and holy hip-hop the same thing? Or is there room for rapped lyrics in some instances?
G. Craige Lewis: Rap is an artform that is comprised of rhythm and poetry. Preachers have done it for years. Children have learned fundamentals from it for years. It’s a way of conveying large amounts of lyrics in short times for memory purposes and enjoyment. That is not essentially a bad thing. But Hip Hop is not rap. I believe a person can rap a song about Jesus and entertain others without it being Hip Hop, so long as they don’t emulate hip hop lifestyles or images or attempt to emulate leaders within the subculture. The problem I see is that many Holy Hip Hoppers will never be content with calling themselves Gospel Rappers. Unfortunately, they need and desire the validation of Hip Hop to feel legit and have street credibility. You see, if you are subject to the streets by being apart of the subculture, then you need the streets validation, right? They can’t just rap for Jesus. They have to look the look, walk the walk, talk the talk, and do what the real hip hoppers do. Hip Hop must be their way of life. What they don’t understand is that you don’t change hip hop, hip hop only changes you!
THE VOICE: I’ve heard you say hip hop causes youth to worship the devil. Can you expound upon that?
G. Craige Lewis: Knowledge of self. Hip Hop rest upon the teachings of its original founders who submit to the doctrine of the Zulu Nation and the 5% nation which teaches false god doctrine. KRS-ONE, and others teach these things and Hip Hoppers consider him the true prophet of Hip Hop. Even Holy Hip Hoppers pay tribute to the founders and consider them leaders and moguls. False god worship is devil worship.
THE VOICE: Why and in what ways does music have so much power?
G. Craige Lewis: Music can do what regular speaking cannot. It can bypass the frontal lobe of your mind and enter your brain without your consent. It bypasses your “guardian,” so to speak, and influences you without your knowledge or your permission. That’s why you remember so many TV jingles, and marketing companies know this and spend millions on them to influence what you buy. Because music can affect your subconscious without your permission, it gives music crazy power and makes it a dangerous thing in the wrong hands. That’s why we should glorify God in our music and never use music to bring glory to ourselves. Music that glorifies God draws us to Him; unfortunately, music that glorifies self draws people to you and makes them worshippers of you. This is why we have people with celebrity mindsets even in the church. They are doing exactly what Lucifer did in heaven and that is making fans and followers that chase their talent rather than follow the God that they sing about. The bible says that their mouths draw close, but their hearts are far from Him, (Isaiah 29:13). This same principal can also refer to how you can sing God’s praises and yet draw people to yourself. When music is used in this manner it’s dangerous.
THE VOICE: How has the devil managed to infiltrate the church with concepts like ‘holy hip hop’? Where’s the deception? Where’s the cracks?
G. Craige Lewis: Well, the devil just made the church folks worldly. Years ago, you didn’t have to worry about anything like Holy Hip Hop coming into the church because people practiced sanctification from the world and didn’t desire to bring the world into the church. But when Kirk Franklin came on the scene, he brought the club dances and worldliness into the church and made it okay to dance, party, and gyrate sexually without rebuke. Then you bring in bishops like TD Jakes who put on megafest and other conferences, with the worldly artists and performers headlining, and you have turned what was once deemed worldly into something that is now necessary to draw crowds and sell product. These 2 men, I feel, are responsible for the downfall of worship in the black church as a whole. Kirk destroyed Gospel Music as we knew it and made songs with secular overtones and worldly dances the norm, while TD Jakes turned preaching into an artform and totally removed the anointed call of God from the resume of black pastors all over. They both made it okay to be in the world and of the world. They crept in unaware and have removed the sacred landmarks of God’s word and now the world looks at the church as a money making, powerless, group of folks that desire pleasure as much as they do. Those are the 2 cracks that Hip hop and every other worldly movement crept in through.
THE VOICE: What’s the hidden message in the hip hop culture?
G. Craige Lewis: Hip Hop doesn’t hide anything. The message is clear in the behavior, the music, and the appearance of Hip Hoppers. Love yourself and do what you want. Don’t let the church, God, or man stop you. Do what you feel and do what makes you feel good. That’s Hip hop’s theme and the current that drives our millennium youth that are apart of it.
THE VOICE: What does hip hop music ultimately lead to?
G. Craige Lewis: Self worship. People that suffer for lack of validation and desire to be seen and known can find what they are looking for in Hip Hop because it causes you to practice self absorption all day, everyday. The beats satisfy your flesh. The lyrics lead and guide you to flesh gratification. The artists give you fleshly fashions and things to mimic so that you can get the looks and attention that they possess, while all along they are getting paid and the people that mimic them are lowering their chance of success. Since Hip Hop came on the scene in 1980, black men went from having 180,000 imprisoned to now over 1million black men imprisoned. Also, our crime rate has tripled. 50% of all black teens have genital herpes now. 1,400 abortions occur everyday in the black community. Our young black boys have a 75% drop out rate. And this is what is supposed to reach our youth, Hip Hop? Before there ever was Hip Hop, we were better. Hip Hop is a pied piper that led a generation into sexual immorality, false god religions, death and hell.
THE VOICE: How can parents get through to their kids about this?
G. Craige Lewis: Research. Get informed on what these folks are saying and doing. Don’t just sit back and allow a Gangster for God rap show to happen at your church or youth function but research it and don’t tolerate it. Most of the youth pastor’s that are bringing these Holy Hip Hoppers to their churches are uninformed, or they are fans. But a father or mother that is raising their child to be successful in America cannot afford to allow a street subculture to influence their child. Don’t let anyone force you to allow this, but take action and fight against it. If it’s allowed at your church then that speaks volumes about the leadership that you serve under. I can’t think of any real man that would want the streets to be celebrated in his ministry or church. The church is supposed to get the streets out of people and get them in position to progress, not regress. How can you take care of your family and be an upstanding man, when you are carrying yourself like a street thug and gangster? You can’t. Parents, wake up!
THE VOICE: How can we conquer this demonic weapon that’s infiltrated the Church?
G. Craige Lewis: If church folks would stand up and say “no more,” then weak youth pastors and worldly pastors as a whole would reconsider supporting this movement. It’s a money movement and when the money is not there, the movement stops. If you stop buying the cd’s, the folks will stop making them. If you stop supporting the movement, the folks will find something else to move to. Plain and simple, the only way to stop Hip Hop is to shut it down financially. When secular Hip Hop is dead, guess what happens to Holy Hip Hop! That’s why God is never relevant, but always absolute. He never chases the world’s ideals, but he always creates his own. Why? Because the grass withereth, and the flower fadeth, but the Word of God will always stand, (Isaiah 40:8). The word is never contingent upon what the world is doing, but it always counters the world. We must follow God and not the world because the world will change, but God stays the same.
As I was watching, studying and praying over these teachings on the “Truth Behind Hip Hop” I began to have direct confirmations and encounters throughout the same week by the Holy Spirit showing me that what I was receiving was indeed true.
In one encounter I had met with a film director in Hollywood for lunch, the Lord told me to meet with him. During our conversation he told me how he was working a film script called the “Nephilim” or the Biblical account of the fallen angels in Genesis 6 who consummated with the daughters of men. It was just the evening before, that I was studying the book of Enoch and the origins of evil, the fallen angels history and Nephilim. He began to share with me how he was a close friend of the actress Brittany Murphy who recently committed suicide and was originally a person of faith, but after entering into the Hollywood industry she shared with him that she took on an historic acting role and in order to play the character she “channeled” the dead spirit of the actual character and became her, she committed suicide shortly after.
A day later, I met with another a Hollywood director who was experiencing spiritual warfare in the production process of her film. As we talked she shared with me candidly that a few of her principle actors on the set would share with her how they “channeled” ghosts or spirits into their bodies to play certain roles. She had also been cursed by a Hollywood business mogul, who was deep into Gnostic and Free Masonry & experienced hard-core oppression and family deaths shortly after this curse. We prayed & I delivered her from demonic oppression on the spot. God began to show me that the darkness we were up against was very real, but the power of Christ in us was more powerful to overcome the darkness present in the world.
The Holy Spirit than showed me how it was a sign when Lady Gaga the most powerful female pop star in the world currently, was one who boldly stood for darkness as a Gnostic (free mason), illuminati puppet. Lady Gaga is forthright and clear about her spiritual influence, beliefs and affiliations. So much so, she performed a blood sacrifice at the famous VMA music awards on national TV. Yet, God would then show me how He had a counter reply for darkness, by Himself raising up forces of light in pop culture such as “Justin Bieber” the teen pop icon (but dedicated Christian) who in the same VMA awards ceremony took the “artist of the year” award from Lady Gaga after her demonic display of allegiance to Satan. The Lord then began to put it on my heart to pray for Justin Bieber, the teen pop star that has been garnering a following so insurmountable that he has been compared in popularity to Michael Jackson in his younger days.
Only a few days later I received an email from an industry exec in Hollywood who is close to Justin Bieber’s management asking others to pray for him because his acting coach had manipulated or asked Justin to invite or channel an evil presence to do a particular acting role on CSI. I knew through this occurrence that the spiritual war and battle over the music industry and Hollywood was more than real.
I began to ask God, “Why are you revealing to me the origins of evil and its stronghold over this industry?” He replied, “Because I am about to topple the regimes and ancient strongholds of darkness that have held onto these thrones in this industry, these demonic spirits will be displaced, and I am about to raise up kings & queens of My kingdom who will replace these seats of authority by taking their rightful positions in my kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.”
What happened the days after these revelations about the spiritual war at hand would prepare me to understand the coming world crisis we are about to enter into, how we must prepare and the mindset we must have.
BIBLICAL TIMETABLE CONFIRMING THE COMING GLOBAL SHIFT
The week after I watched the “Truth Behind Hip Hop” I began to give myself to deeper study of the Babylonian, Mayan and Egyptian calendars, as well as the Hebrew calendar to understand the time and season we are in as a civilization. According to the Babylonian calendar the year “2012” will mark the end of one cycle of civilization and a shift into a complete new cycle of civilization, with the expectation of great spiritual, natural and governmental change in the earth. It is not necessarily the end of the world as the public is using as propaganda, but it is the beginning of a new cycle on earth. I began to ask the Holy Spirit about this and His perspective and He began to speak to me about the coming spiritual awakening in North America and the world.
One night as we were discussing the issue of revival in North America and what could cause it I shared with my room mates, “You know, 9/11 couldn’t wake America up, Katrina didn’t either, the 2008 recession didn’t wake up this nation, I believe the only thing that will wake up North America is some sort of cataclysmic event either governmental, economic, spiritual or natural that would awaken this nation to it’s knees and back to God. I believe it will be the West Coast first, then the East Coast will follow, all people will cry out to God and then we will see this spiritual shift go eastward to Asia!”
Right after I said this, I felt the Holy Spirit tell me to go onto Netflix and watch the Hollywood blockbuster movie “2012.” We ended up watching the film at 2AM in the morning and what we saw in the movie was exactly what I prophetically described would happen to awaken North America, not literally but prophetically. In the film, the world enters into a seismic and dramatic change in its atmosphere through solar storms. In the movie the West Coast went under water, then the East Coast, until every people of every religion got on it’s knees and cried out to God for mercy, then the only safe haven was to go eastward to China where there were six “arks” to save the last remaining people on earth (note: the only exact replica of Noah’s ark today sits in Hong Kong and was built in 2009). I was impressed by the Spirit that what happened in this film will be symbolic to what will happen in North America and the world very soon.
The next day, I called my financial advisor and told him to take all my saving and investments out of the market, and to put it into 5 things: 1) Pure Water 2) Food 3) Precious Metals 4) Energy – oil 5) Diamonds. I told him you might think I’m crazy, but I truly believe we are about to enter into a season of global shaking and cataclysmic events, the governments and economies of our nation(s) will tumble quickly beginning this year. I believe oil will arise to all time highs $150-200 a barrel and inflation will go out of control. At the same time, a great spiritual awakening and revival will happen at the same time, therefore I must prepare for the harvest. He agreed to what I had asked. The next day something happened that would put everything Biblically into perspective…
I went to meet with a Christian psychologist who studies the brain, the moment I walked into his office he said to me, “Jaeson you won’t believe it but I have been sharing your music with my patients and it is literally changing their brain activity and their levels of joy, focus and concentration!” I was taken aback by his sharing about my music and its impact on human and psychological behavior because I had not seen him in over 1 month since the Christmas break, but him sharing this to me was a confirmation with all that I had been studying about “The Truth Behind Hip Hop” and the power of music to transform minds. We sat and talked about the power of music, the creative Word and what I had been learning. Shortly after, I went to a local Starbucks before my next meeting.
While in the Starbucks I overhear an older gentleman sharing about the book of Revelation and eschatology to young men. After he finished the Bible study with them, I walked up to him and asked, “Excuse me sir but were you discussing the end times and the book of Revelation?” He replied, “Why yes, I have been studying eschatology over 30 years under Chuck Missler of Calvary Chapel Church.” I then asked him if we could converse over the subject matter and he agreed. We ended up talking for nearly 1.5 hours. What was significant about this conversation, was without me sharing with him any of my prophetic encounters or revelation, he almost verbatim shared back to me everything I have written and experienced above but with Biblical confirmation & explanation.
He told me, “Jaeson beginning in 2011 there will be cataclysmic events according to Biblical prophecy being fulfilled. There will be great shaking in the US government, the governments in Europe and the Middle East, also oil will increase, the dollar will decrease, we are entering into the last days according to Matthew 24:14, Matthew 24:32-35, Luke 21, Matthew 25. The key is to prepare as wise virgins in intimacy with God in order to be ready for the coming crisis and judgments that will occur. At the same time the West Coast will have a mighty spiritual awakening from Southern California up to the state of Washington, we have revival tents ready for the coming harvest, this will all begin second half of this year.” I was shaking my head as I was listening to him share back to me everything the Spirit was revealing to me, but then He began to break down Biblical prophecy in Scripture sharing how he is positive we are in the last generation before the Lord’s return by mathematically & Biblically explaining the significance of of the book of Daniel’s prophecy about the end times, Israel becoming a nation in 1948, and Jerusalem the capital city in 1967. He had written a book called “Ready for the Rapture” and in it is an excerpt of his Biblical and eschatological explanation to me…
Double Take, excerpt taken from “Ready for the Rapture” by Mike Horn
Let’s recap what we’ve seen so far, Isaiah foretold the rise of a superpower in the Middle East, Jeremiah said that the super- power would be Babylon, and that it would take the children of Israel into captivity for 70 years, which would happen in two phases; Israel first, then Judah and Jerusalem later. Ezekiel spoke of a 430-year period of judgment (also occur- ring in two phases) which would commence with the two 70 year judgments of Jeremiah. When the two 70 year periods are accomplished from 606-536 B.C. for Israel, and 587-517 B.C. for Jerusalem, there are still two 360 year periods of judgment to go through for each. But because they did not fully repent by turning to God wholeheartedly, these judgments are multiplied by seven, (spoken of in Leviticus 26) for a total of 2,483 years, 9 months and 20 days each (after calculating 360 day calendar conversion). The first of these two judgments of Ezekiel/ Leviticus ended in May of 1948, when Israel declared its state- hood, the second judgment ended on June 7, 1967, when Jerusalem was freed from Arab rule. But because of the rejection of the Messiah, a third and harsher judgment was added by God, in Hosea 6: 1 - 2.; Hosea’s two days (2000 year judgment, 1971 of our years). This judgment began in 32 A.D. when Jesus was killed and continued contiguous to the other judgments, ending in 2003, filling the interim of Daniel’s undetermined “gap” period between his 69th and 70th seven.
Jesus’ Interpretation
In Matthew 24, Luke 21 and Mark 13, we have three parallel passages of scripture, that were spoken during the last few days of Jesus’ earthly ministry in his body. His disciples asked Him a number of questions about the future of Jerusalem, the temple, Israel and His Kingdom. Amazingly, He answered them with a chapter full of new prophecy along with the interpretation of many prophecies found in the Old Testament.
First He told them that Jerusalem would be destroyed and how the attacking army would do it. This occurred in 70 A.D. with exacting accuracy. Then He told them that the temple would be totally disassembled so that not one stone would be
left standing upon another. (Thirty eight years after His death, burial and resurrection these prophecies were also fulfilled with perfect accuracy.)
He continued teaching that day about the events that would unfold over 1900 years later. He said that when you see nation rising against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, earth- quakes in diverse places, the sea raging and men’s hearts failing them for fear of the things to come, look up because your redemption is drawing near. Towards the end of His discourse He talks about the fig tree and all the trees; when their branches are tender and they put forth their leaves, you know that summer is near. Then he says that the generation that sees these things will not pass. The fig tree here is Israel, and the “other trees” are the Gentile nations called out in prophecy as participants in the “end times” scenario: Russia, with Ethiopia, Persia, Libya and Turkey as allies, Rome; the European Common Mar-
ket countries, as well as China and Babylon.
The fig tree - Israel, is the trigger country for this prophecy about which Jesus says, when its’ branch is tender and puts forth leaves, we know summer is near. That generation will not pass before we see everything Jesus told us about which includes His 2nd coming to establish God’s kingdom on earth. Israel’s branches became tender in May of 1948, when Israel became a nation, and when Jerusalem was brought back under Israeli rule in June of 1967, she put forth her leaves. These two occurrences signal the beginning of the generation that will see
all of the events and prophecies being fulfilled which the Lord Jesus spoke of including His second coming, which happens at the end of Daniel’s 70th seven.
In Matthew 1:17, God tells us that 14 generations transpired from the time of Abraham to the time of David. This period of time is approximately 1020 years long. So a simple calculation will tell us that the length of this, the longest of the
three generations listed; 1020 divided by 14 = 72.86 years? By adding the 72.86 years to the June date, that Jerusalem came back under Israeli rule in 1967,
we can determine that generation’s end.
When we subtract 7 years, to allow for our being taken into the wedding (the Rapture), we get 2033.43. 2033.43 - 2010.25 = 23.16 (23.16 years is less than 8500 days). Truly the night is far spent, the day is at hand, we have very little time left to warn our generation about the coming destruction and prepare our hearts to meet our bridegroom.
“Watch Ye Therefore and Pray...”
One other possibility does exist for determining the generation’s end; that of adding the 72.86 years to May of 1948 (1948.43 + 72.86). When we do this we get 2021.29, which represents the end of the generation in which Jesus says He will
return. Then by subtracting the 7 year period of God’s judgment from this, 2021.29 - 6.9 (7 yrs. with colander difference), we get 2014.39 - 2010.5= 3.89 years (3.89 years is less than 1400 days) as the approximate time for the departure of the church - the Rapture (to some degree, our departure depends on our readiness). I believe that God has shown us this last possibility to keep us watching and praying, because although we do not know the day and hour of our departure, in I Thessalonians 5: 4 - 9 it says that we should be well aware of the season (sometime in the next 1400 to 8500 days).
God does not want us to be caught by surprise in this season, at the end of time, but rather desires that that day and hour find us intimately aware of His closeness. He desires that we would be hearing His voice, looking for His appearing for us, longing for the time when we see Him face to face, as we enter into His glorious and unveiled presence in Heaven.
Seeing how the events are shaping up in the world around us and their correlation to biblical prophecy, I would say it is time to “look up” for our redemption is drawing very near, much nearer in fact, than when we first believed. In Luke, Jesus warns us saying; “...take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your “...take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your “...take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your “...take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your “...take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare it shall come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye there- dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye there- dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye there- dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye there- dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye there fore, and pray always; that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” Luke 21: 34 - 36 and to stand before the Son of Man.”
The Seventieth Seven of Daniel
The prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel have been coming to pass with unerring accuracy, along with literally thousands of others, not mentioned in these pages. Daniel’s first 483 years (69 seven year periods) came to pass on the exact day foretold and Jesus held His people, Israel, responsible for not knowing the time of their fulfillment. He also spoke about the coming of the antichrist when He said, “I came in my Father’s name and you did not receive me, but another will come in his own name, and him you shall receive.”
The gap between the first 69 weeks (seven year periods), and the 70th week (seven-year period) of Daniel’s prophecy is almost over. The last seven-year period (week) of judgment is about to begin at any moment. Daniel describes that time of judgment in one verse; “And he (the antichrist) shall confirm the covenant with many for one seven; and in the midst of the seven (week of years) he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”
Daniel 9: 27- The Book of Revelation
John the beloved, “the writer of the Book of Revelation, is given a vision of this one verse. It fills 14 chapters of the Book of Revelation (chapters 6 - 19) In that vision, he describes the almost total destruction of the people, life, governments, nations, religions, political systems, and environments of the planet earth.
By the time this seven-year period of judgment is over, more than 3/4 of humanity will be dead. Immediately after His second coming, all of those who are left alive, on the earth will be gathered to Jerusalem by the angels and righteously judged by
the King of Kings, the Lord Jesus Christ. Some of those who have survived will be sent to hell to await their final judgment, when hell itself is cast into the lake of fire, at the end of the Millennium. But those who meet His criteria will go into the thousand year (Millennium) reign of Christ here on earth, which will be restored
to Eden-like beauty and quality.
One Day – A Thief in the Night
In Hosea, chapter 6:1 & 2, God talks about two days (2000 years) of judgment for the nation of Israel (the last 2000 years of their discernment among the gentile nations). He also talks about how after the second day, He will revive Israel, and in the third day He will raise them up and they will live in His sight.
This third day will be a glorious day for Israel and for all of mankind. It will also be a 1000-year day, which the Book of Revelation tells us will be the time when Jesus Christ himself rules the world with His saints from Jerusalem. It will be a time when Satan is chained and bound, unable to inspire and empower wickedness, during which the earth is free from the bondage of sin.
Before the glory of this day can shine upon the earth, it must see its darkest hour. The hour for which demons have been chained in hell waiting. The hour in which Satan will be unhindered from deceiving, stealing, killing and destroying much of the earth and mankind as they follow after him wholeheartedly, For this is the hour (seven year period) when the wrath of God will be poured out on all those who dwell upon the earth, “Daniels’ seventieth week”, the destruction and judgments described in 14 chapters of the book of Revelation (Rev 6:1 - the end of chapter 19).
Five Wise Virgins
But before those seven years can begin, five wise virgins must go out to meet the bridegroom; five ready virgins (the part of the church that is ready) must go into the wedding banquet and the door must be closed. It is high time to get ready; the night is far spent, and the day is at hand (Mat. 25: 1 - 13, & Rom. 13: 11 - 14).
After this encounter with Mike Horn, I was convinced that what I was hearing for the past months was not an accident or by chance, but indeed through Biblical clarification we were very possibly in the end of days, meaning the very generation that will see the Lord’s return. What happened next would confirm everything in God’s exact timing.
TERRY BENNET PROPHECY – GLOBAL SHAKING & AWAKENING
Upon receiving the Biblical accuracy of prophecies being fulfilled through my encounter with the end times teacher at Starbucks, two days later I was having lunch in Santa Monica with a Jewish Rabbi and Messianic Jew “Rabbi Jason” who shared with me how the Hebrew calendar this year is ‘5771’ and represents a “coming out of the old into the new” it signifies the 11th miracle of Moses when he parted the Red Sea and Israel came out of Egypt and into a new identity, so it shall be in 2011 he shared with me. Again, this was confirming to what the Holy Spirit has been revealing to me about “transitioning” from mans way into God’s way, from mans identity into God’s identity through the passing of the test in 2010 in order to transition into the fullness of what He has prepared in 2011 and beyond.
During that lunch the Spirit spoke to me and said, “Make sure to contact your prophet friend (I will call him “B” for confidentiality) who was a well known business man, but also prophet from the mid west. He has something to tell you and you have something to tell him!” As I walked out of my lunch meeting with the Rabbi I look across the street on 2nd and Wilshire in Santa Monica Ca and standing across the other side of the street is my prophet friend “B” whom I have not had contact with for over 6 months. I knew it was of the Lord. I asked him what he was doing in town, he told me that he just flew in from the Midwest and on the airplane the Holy Spirit told him to contact me because I had something to tell him. We ended up meeting for 6 hours that evening. I shared everything I have written here in detail to him. After I shared, he said to me, “This is the confirmation I needed to know what I and others have received is from the Lord.” He then began to share with me how a known prophet named Terry Bennett had a 3 day encounter with the angel Gabriel in August of 2010 who showed him over 40 global headlines that would shake the nations of the earth with coming cataclysmic events. It would begin in 2008 in three seven year increments, but specifically in 2011 these cataclysmic events would increase. When I read these 40 global headlines I was amazed but not surprised because the Lord had already shown me that these things were to occur, in my spirit I knew this was the final confirmation I needed to begin preparation for what was to come. Note, if I had received the following global headlines of coming cataclysmic events I would have not known what to do with them, but the Spirit released them to me just in time so I would have a framework to work with. Prophecy most always confirms what has already been spoken prophetically to the specific individual, in this case it was also so.
HEADLINES RECEIVED FROM THE LORD BY TERRY BENNETT - AUGUST 2010
(believes he first 20 will happen within the 6/15/11-6/15/14 timeframe)
(another document says he saw headlines #8-9 in June 2011 - not sequential)
1. Washington DC Shaken, Rioting and Looting Continue
2. Emergency Meetings being Held by US Senate and Congress
3. Worldwide Economic Confidence Toward USA Remains Dim
4. Dow Flops and Drops to All-Time Lows; other Markets Tumble as Well
5. Governors Call for Constitutional Convention
6. Emergency Meetings of Economic Advisors Called in Europe
7. Asian Markets Seek Stability within Asian Region; Pull Away from USA Begins
8. Martial Law Declared in Nation’s Capital (Washington DC)
9. Resignation Fever Hits DC
10. Finger Pointing Continues to Fuel Resignations in DC
11. Who Will Pick up the Pieces? (Editor’s note: this refers to political offices)
12. New People’s Party Gaining Ground with Hearts
13. Jobless Rate Passes 32 Percent; Expected to Rise
14. The Big Freeze: Government Spending Cut by 50 Percent; Education & Military at Front of Cuts
15. Martial Law Declared in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago
and Other US Cities
16. Lights Out - Rolling Electric Outages Expected to Continue
17. Here Comes the Sun (relation to increased solar storms and activities)
18. Oh That I Had Wings That I Might Fly Away
19. The Night the Lights Went out In Georgia: Atlanta Area Hit Hardest
20. The Dark Night of the Soul - Plume Cloud Covers Half of US
Headlines Received December 25, 2010
1. The Meteor Showers of 2012 and 2013
2. Northern Oceans Show Signs of Heating Up
3. Eurodollars in Trouble - Falls to New Low
4. Germany and France Forge Alliance
5. German and French Currency Unveiled; Others Consider Participation
6. Japan Shaken Awake - Early Morning Quake Measures 7.7; More Tremors Expected
7. Taiwan’s Government Seeks Expanded Powers
8. 9.1+ Quake Rocks Japanese Island
9. Sleepless in Seattle - Mt. Rainer Awakens While Residents Sleep
10. New America’s Currency Unveiled - Fosters Angry Debates
11. The Agony of Silence - U.S.N. Trident Submarine Lost
12. Deep in the Heart of Texas - Independence Fervor in Austin: More Rallies Planned
13. Fatal Attraction - The Concerns Over Increased Magnetism of Our Planet (This will be a NASA story)
14. Russia and China Face Off - Arguments Heat Up with New Threats
15. India’s Shaky Ground - Northern Quakes Challenge Infrastructure
16. Philippines Brace for New Violence - Government and Christians Targeted; Islam’s Cells on the Attack
17. Mexico City Jolted by Bomb - Reprisals Expected
18. Mexico Shaken by Northern Quakes and Eruption
19. Iraq Erupts in Unprecedented Violence; Insecurity Exposed and Oil Threatened
20. Saudi Arabia Halts Oil Flow to USA
21. Israel Braces for Multi-Front War - Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iran and Israel Mobilize; Saudis on Full Alert
22. Greece, Italy, Spain Join German and French Alliance of Economies (this will be called AOE)
23. Canadian Quake Shocks British Columbia - Vancouver Affected
24. Major Rioting in Baltimore Threatens Services and Deliveries
25. The Riots of Montreal Canada; French Disturbance
These global headlines were received by Terry Bennett in 2010 through an 3 day angelic encounter. He also predicted in 2001 through another angelic encounter the 2008 stock market crash. As I pondered and prayed over these headlines, I could only ask the Lord for mercy over the nations, that judgment would be heeded, and our nation would turn back to Him.
The next day, I went to my home church “Harvest Rock Church” in Pasadena to attend their annual prophetic conference. There about a half dozen other international prophets came to speak about the year 2011. Interestingly, most if not all confirmed Terry’s word that we were about to enter into difficult times of crisis, Chuck Pierce a well known prophet with accuracy prophesied “Watch out for June 2011 there will be cataclysmic events taking place and even riots on the streets of North America.” Again, confirming that the second half of 2011 we would see great shaking in the US and other nations. By this time, Egypt was already at war and experiencing uprisings for revolution. Soon to follow, Libya and all other surrounding Middle Eastern countries which our prophetic roundtable saw beforehand in our November meeting in Dallas Texas.
During the prophetic conference, God wanted to make sure that I understood that the Terry Bennett prophecy was for real by giving me one last confirmation. I was at my friends birthday party in Hollywood being held at a night club, while I was there, a missionary friend of mine walked up to me who I have not made contact with in almost a year. He said, “Jaeson, so good to find you hear. I am with a house of prayer ministry in Valencia and we felt God put you on our heart to be invited to a private meeting with a prophet named Terry Bennett next Friday & Saturday to discuss a specific prophetic word to the West Coast.” I replied, “Did you say his name was Terry Bennett? You have no idea how much a confirmation this is to me. I will definitely be there.”
The next weekend I spent two days with prayer leaders from Southern California in a private meeting Terry Bennett. He shared honestly, openly, and forthright about the prophetic encounter he had with the angel Gabriel, the coming cataclysmic shakings, but he shared it all with a balanced view of Christ being at the center of it all and this shaking was going to be used by God to bring global spiritual awakening to His Church, for now in the most dangerous time, would be the most opportune time to preach the Gospel. We are now entering into the Churches finest hour!
In this gathering with regional prayer and civic leaders in Southern California, we began to pray into, discuss and plan about how to prepare for a possible natural disaster in Southern California, as well as economic collapse that would cause riots in the cities and streets. This would be an ongoing topic of discussion that I will address at the end of this article…
JAPAN EARTHQUAKE PROPHETIC FULFILLMENT TO WEST COAST DISRUPTION
More confirmations. Two specific earthquakes occurred in the last two months that rocked the world. Christ Church New Zealand & Sendai Japan. Both earthquakes were predicted before they happened.
During our two day private meeting with Terry Bennett. My manager Carl’s girlfriend Michelle had an open vision during the lunch break. She saw a sky view of the earth, it then focused onto a set of islands off the coast of Australia. She asked us, “Are there islands or a country off the coast of Australia? Carl replied, “Yes, New Zealand!” She then shared that she saw blood splattered all over those islands. Immediately, she went onto Google maps zoomed into New Zealand and the city “Christ Church” was highlighted to her. She asked what was this cities significance? Not many of us knew, but she had an uneasy feeling. Weeks later Christ Church NZ was rocked with a 7.0 earthquake that took lives and toppled almost every church building in the city. I knew immediately when this happened that it was another sign -post to the global church that God was shaking everything that can be shaken, but judgment begins in the house of the Lord. God was sending a wake up call to the global Church worldwide to get its act together and prepare for what it to come. We are to get right with God or get left.
Then shortly after the Christ Church NZ earthquake, the impossible happened. An 8.9 earthquake rocks the island of Japan, but hour’s later seismic experts upgrade the catastrophic earthquake to a 9.1. I was in Korea at the time mobilizing with Mike Bickle from IHOP the Korean church to focus on a new youth prayer, worship and mission movement. When I heard the news, I pulled out the global headlines from Terry Bennett and #28 was “9.1 earthquake rocks the island of Japan” I was sobered and stunned, I got on my knees and began to pray for Japan’s salvation, restoration and recovery. I knew this was only the beginning of more shakings to come.
Rick Joyner the senior prophet of Morning Star Ministries in North Carolina released a special bulletin online to the globe concerning a prophetic word given by the prophet Bob Jones 22 years ago, that when the big earthquake hits Japan, following after this great quake will be a worldwide economic meltdown and a massive West Coast earthquake (watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrwEYMU40tg) . This was a sobering word given, but again not surprising. God has been revealing these coming birth pangs and disasters to His people beforehand because He loves us and wants us to be prepared to provide. Whether we believe in the prophetic confirmations shared or not, even the natural realm is predicting that there will be an earthquake that will rock the west coast in the next 30 years. Lucy Jones the most senior expert in seismic activity who researches out of Cal Tech in Pasadena Ca has publically made known from their findings that California is 300 years overdue for a 8.5 earthquake or higher, and that they are 95% sure it will happen within the next 30 years. (Read here: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/are-we-prepared-for-an-8-8-quake/)
Right after the Sendai Japan quake, another seismic expert came out on FOX evening news stating that he believes there is a high probability of a major earthquake in California before April 22, 2011 (watch here:http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4584933/a-major-earthquake-in-north-america-imminent). The report further explained that the Pacific Rim or Ring of Fire in the last year has had major earthquakes in every quadrant (Chile, New Zealand, Japan, etc) but the only quadrant remaining is the West Coast, California. Technically, if there was a massive earthquake in California or in Alaska a volcanic eruption, or major quake it could send the fault lines shaking, causing mud slides to pummel into the ocean which could create 15 foot tsunami waves in Southern California and up to 30 foot waves in Northern California, on top of earthquake damages and destruction. Whether or not these things happen, I believe it is wisdom to pray and prepare. We are called as believers to watch and to be ready at all times for the Messiah’s return.
SPIRITUAL AWAKENING & PROPHETIC PREPARATION
I began this article with “God is shaking all things that can be shaken” but what for? Are we to run away and move because of the possibility of coming cataclysmic events? Are we to cower in fear in the midst of challenges, crisis and conflict? Did not Jesus say, “In this world you will have many trials and tribulations, but fear not I have overcome the world?” Did not Jesus already tell us clearly that we will know we are in the end days when we see nation rise up against nation, kingdom against kingdom, there will be increased earthquakes, famines, pestilences, false anti-Christ and occult activity trying to deceive even the elect? None of these prophetic revelations or predictions should make us fearful rather they should make us all the more faithful. We should be faith filled in times of challenge and despair, because our hope is not in this world, our hope is in the kingdom of heaven. Our h
