This message stands on the prophecy of the prophet Malachi that God is going to restore to us faith for healing. There will be suffering but we have God’s Word that tells us though the mountains fall into the sea and the economy shakes and falls for those who fear the Lord, the Son of Righteousness will rise with healing in His wings. In the darkest hour when it looks hopeless and everything is gloom and doom the Sun will shine and we will have the greatest revelation of Jesus Christ and His keeping power. In these last days there will be a Holy Ghost Joy to manifest the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. We must begin to make a joyful shout to the Lord and begin to praise Him.
i want to speak to you blessed i know
how
uh how the prophets prophesied
uh what we’ve already seen
for example
in joel there was a prophecy that in the
last days god would pour out his spirit
on all flesh sons and daughters shall
prophesy
and when the holy spirit fell in the
upper room
i’m sure they looked at one another and
the first question
was probably asked is what is this what
what is god doing
the spirit of the lord came down as fire
he said upon each of them they spake
with heavenly languages and they
prophesied and they had boldness in
speaking the word of god
and they were possessed something laid
hold of them
and i’ll tell you what when the holy
ghost comes everybody in the house knows
he’s there when the holy ghost comes he
manifests himself
and so the disciples i’m sure questioned
one another and those who
knew
the word of the lord those who studied
the prophets
said this is that this this is what we
to expect this is what they said
this was what joel said years ago that
in the last days
and
christ said
told us that these are the last days
folks
this when jesus came that was the
beginning the first of the last days
and now we are living in the last of the
last days
there was a former reign that was
prophesied a former reign of the holy
spirit coming down
and he said he poured on all flesh
and they knew it because they studied
the scriptures and they knew when they
understand
the prophet joel said this and what
we’re seeing now
what we experience
now is the fulfillment of all the
prophets
and folks in one way or another all the
prophets from isaiah isaiah especially
and you can find it in jeremiah and
ezekiel and all the minor prophets
we likewise can hear and see and know
and understand what has been prophesied
about our time
prophesied now
now you know all of the prophecies of of
the
of the darkness the gross darkness that
has been prophesied in the bible in the
last days
i’m going to take you
into one of the prophets the minor
prophets i’m going to take you to the
last chapter
of the old testament
the last
book of the old testament the last
chapter in the old testament the last
six verses in the old testament and show
you what
the bible says what the prophet malachi
said is to come
now if the first outpouring of the holy
spirit there’s the first ring and
there’s a ladder rain
the first rain was at pentecost
now before jesus comes i believe this
with all my heart and in the last of the
last days
the holy spirit is not going to whimper
out he’s not going to come to a
generation the beginning of the last
days and pour out his spirit around the
world
he’s not going to do that in the last
days allow the devil to have power and
authority over the saints of god he’s
not going to leave his church empty and
dry
he’s not going to leave us sick and
afflicted with no authority with no
healings
with no
movement of the holy spirit and people
just holding on till jesus comes
that’s not what the bible says that’s
not what the prophets prophesy
if you have your bible
i hope you do malachi the fourth chapter
the last
book in the old testament
all six verses i read beginning to read
now folks
believe me now and the scripture said
believe the prophets and you will be
blessed
believe the prophets
i have every right to tell you that this
is for today just as surely as peter
could stand up and say this is what joel
said and we are seeing it fulfilled i
can tell you this is what malachi said
and we’re going to see it fulfilled
for behold the day cometh
that shall burn as an oven
and all the proud yea and all that do
wickedly shall be stubble the day that
cometh shall burn them up and the lord
of hosts
that it shall lead saith the lord of
hosts that it shall leave them neither
root nor branch
now let’s stop right there for a minute
and look this way
we are living in this very time right
now
we are in the oven
things are getting very hot
economically
socially spiritually
in all ways
behold the day is coming that it shall
burn as an oven and all who do wickedly
shall be stubborn
stubble
folks this is a prediction this is a
prophecy in the last days of a fiery
holocaust
in all areas of society
ten years ago
i released a book called
america’s last call
a fiery economical
and economic holocaust a fiery economic
holocaust is coming
i pleaded and i warned that there was
going to be a
breaking of the housing bubble that
there would be sellers and very few
buyers
i’ve been in conferences and pleaded
with congregations to
uh stop flipping their houses and sell
everything and flipping and and that the
crash was coming that there was going to
be a fiery fiery holocaust
i i i i pleaded and begged about fires i
saw coming
to the northeast especially new york
city a thousand fires and i i honestly
believe that we
are within a few years of seeing that
fulfilled
and i don’t
i told you for a little while you you
may
say i don’t want to hear any of this
gloom but this is what prophet malachi
is talking about he said it’s going to
burn like an oven
and and and
i i was called a doomsday preacher and
and actually
the ministry here in the united states
just about closed up on me
now overseas i was holding conferences
last five years i think i’ve been in 50
countries around the world
preaching and warning but i i think i’ve
only been one or two conferences in the
united states because there were no
invitations
now it’s changing now a lot
you know people are calling the office
ordering the books now
and i don’t have anything in my heart
saying i told you so i don’t have
anything in my heart that says i warned
you
i i spent most of my time in prayer now
pleading for messages of hope and and i
i said from this pulpit a number of
years ago less than 10 years ago that
when this fire came those of us who’d
been warning would become preachers of
hope
that we would be the encouragers and
these that have been preaching
prosperity and that there’s nothing to
be concerned about this you know it’s
going to be like this is going to the
stock market’s going to go to 30 000 and
all of these things that we were hearing
and buy your house and flip it and and
put every bit of mortgage you can put on
your house and cash out and people were
cashing out going on vacations and
spending for boats and everything and
they think they were going crazy
and i i said that those preachers are
then going to start preaching doom
because people are going to say you
cheated us and and now they’re going to
get in here so that they say no we
didn’t teach you we’re telling you now
but
they’re saying it when it’s too late
it’s too late
but you see he said the wicked are going
to be burned the wicked are going to be
affected now this is not just talking
about homosexuality
this is not just about uh pornography
and and fornication and drugs and
alcoholism it’s more than that
it’s arrogance
it it’s a spirit of proud
arrogance they that do
wickedly
wickedness is
is your nose up at god
it is called arrogance now how arrogant
can a society be
that can
rip out of this book
everything
that is moral and holy and clean
and reflects the heart of god
how is it that do we we seem to have no
power to stop our courts from legalizing
marriages between men and men women and
women and now this past month in
california they’re bringing this to the
courts
the man boy associations men
having sex with boys want to be
considered a minority with rights
how long
did we think how long did this society
think that we could get along get by
with this and that god is not there god
will not do anything about it he will
not bless he will not curse he would he
won’t do with him because god is
non-existent and that’s what the message
is it’s arrogance
and god says i’m going to deal with that
wickedness that’s wickedness
that is something that takes people
beyond the the realm of grace because
they harden their hearts and
and sometimes oftentimes grace cannot
reach it because of the hardness of
their hearts
the european union
has taken god out of the constitution
and they have declared that the european
union is a secular union
and they have said god is dead in
essence god is dead
and now we have pushed god out of our
schools we have pushed god out of our
course we’re trying to push god out of
our society now why do you say we i’m
talking about americans now hear me
please i love america i love my country
i thank god for america still the freest
nation on earth
but we have stuck our nose up at god
we have dared god to act
we we have lived as if the
starving people around the world can go
as they please and we will live high on
the hog and we will we we will just soak
in all of this prosperity and we will
have everything in our hearts desire and
and in the process mock god and say we
did this on our own strength through our
own mental inventions we have come to
this great place mightiest nation number
one
and god says no
the prophet said said the day shall burn
as an oven
and this wickedness in hebrew
suggests arrogance
the prophet malachi’s prophecy are being
fulfilled right before our eyes
america has out-sinned
noah’s generation
america and the world today
there’s more wickedness in europe i
believe now than in the united states
this uh horrible wickedness sweeping
over europe england
and and now god is shaking every nation
ireland had this big bubble this housing
bubble
bigger the united states and now it’s
broken and and and ireland now is
heading for a deep recession and england
and germany and all over the world
and now russia’s being shaken because of
the of of the cheating and the arrogance
and the robbery
the neglect of the poor and and uh
mafia types
driving around in their rolls royces
ignoring
the nation of poverty
and we we see this shaking of the whole
world we see wickedness being dealt with
and that’s what god is doing behold
darkness here’s what isaiah said
darkness shall he he’s talking about the
end times darkness shall cover the earth
gross darkness the people
and gross here in hebrew is doom gloom
gloom
jeremiah
give glory to the lord your god before
he caused darkness
and before your feet stumble on the dark
mountain and while you look for light it
turns into the shadow of death and it
will become gross darkness in other
words it will be an hour of gloom
malachi said in that day
in that day of gloom
and i’ll tell you the good news in just
a moment
this week’s economist magazine on the
cover
has a cartoon
of the statue of liberty
not standing holding the flame
but she is sitting
dejected her
face in her hand and the flame laying on
the ground and the headline says
unhappy america
and here’s what the people told
the writers of the economist magazine
now word for word
there’s a furious one woman said there’s
a furious gloom sweeping the whole world
another said we’ve been greedy for so
long and it’s caught up with us
another said it’s too late the slide is
on
another america
is in a horrible mood we’re slouching
towards sodom and gomorrah
another said the economy is tottering
in the echo eco fanatics are telling us
the world is cooking
folks we have come to that place
and it has to be said
i have never ever preached
on a prophetic word without a broken
heart and a contrite spirit with a
weeping inside
because you see
i don’t want to talk like this and
malachi didn’t want to talk like this
but this this is what he said is coming
and it is it is totally being fulfilled
isaiah
spoke of our day in chapter 24 of isaiah
he will turn the entire world upside
down he’s going to bring down the proud
there will be there will be confusion
everywhere and all the merrymakers will
now be sighing
all the joy will be silenced
all laughter will cease and all will be
shaken as an olive tree is shaken and
the habits of the earth shall fear
folks you you’ll find it hard to find a
smile
our our our advanced team are eventually
king just came back from one of the
major cities of russia just got back
yesterday
a team of three
and they said it
this is one of the major cities in
russia
and they said that everybody there’s
such economic despair
people are only getting half of what
they need to live and the cost of of
gasoline and electricity and everything
is going out of sight
and they said you couldn’t find a smile
anywhere you couldn’t find a smile
except in the house of god
and in the house of god they were
singing and dancing and shouting in the
church that they attended but there was
there was no smile there’s the very
thing the prophets have warned about us
joel said
is not the meat
in in hebrew means prosperity
cut off from before our eyes
yes joy and gladness have been cut off
from the house of our god
joy is withered from the sons of men
you say okay pastor wilkes and that’s
enough let’s get
you said you’ve got something for us
i do
it’s not mine it’s the prophet
prophet malachi
i was thinking
what if malachi
were living today
i’m talking about you know
raised from the dead
and enabled to come and he’s a visiting
i’ve got john bueno with me here today
my dear friend
charge of missionaries hundreds and
hundreds of missionaries all over the
world just got back from the congo
i got to thinking what if malachi
was our visitor today
and he spoke
and he told you all that i’m telling you
now
but he describes it he goes into detail
about how you know you you all other
problems times like these the roots were
not touched because these institutions
came back to life and this and then
people say this is just another like
that we’re just it’ll just be
maybe five years ten years everything
will be recovered but
if what have you told you he’s
got down to the roots this time
and we sit stunned like you’re sitting
here now
and to tell you the truth my knees
tremble
but malachi the prophet malachi would
give you verse 1
and go into detail
and i believe then he’d close
the word
the prophets and
all of the scripture that he had
available
and i believe he’d get down
go around stage and start walking
down the front of this church
and uh
twinkled in his eye
and he’d start up this owl
and he start shouting
verse two
but
boy that’s a big word
but unto you
that fear my name
and malachi would say wait a minute that
message you just heard is not for you
had nothing to do with you
yes there’ll be collateral damage you
you you and i
we’ll be
we will they’ll be suffering
but there’s a word for you
and this word will hold you
this world will keep you
let the mountains fall into the sea
let the economy shake and fall let
everything that can be shaken be shaken
but for you who fear the lord the son of
righteousness is going to arise with
healing in his wings
he said in that darkest hour when it
looks hopeless and when there’s fear on
all sides and everything is gloom and
doom
you’re going to see the sun shining the
lord jesus christ himself is going to
rise in greater revelation than you and
any generation in the past has ever seen
we are going to have the greatest
revelation of jesus christ and his
keeping saving power
that
that’s not a cliche folks
we based the whole pentecostal
experience on the prophecy joel
in other words this is a prophetic word
and and for ever ever since the
outpouring of the holy spirit we’ve
stood on that the prophet has spoken and
we have seen it and we have lived it and
i’m telling you now this is the word of
the prophet and it’s the word for today
even though it’s been fulfilled in other
generations
it is going to be fulfilled in its
greatness and its majesty and its power
in our
time and it’s happening it’s happening
now and i’m telling you i agree
i stand on the prophecy of malachi
that in these last days there’s going to
be a fresh outpouring of the holy spirit
and
they’re going
god is going to restore to us
faith
for healing
i’m gonna give you three words that many
of us don’t even like to repeat
we are embarrassed by them
signs
wonders
miracles
and the one word we fear more than
anything else is manifestations
i’ll tell you why because of all the
tomfoolery because of all of the
foolishness over the years where certain
healing evangelists were trying to sell
healings one was trying to sell healings
for cancer for a thousand dollars over
television until the courts laid hold of
him found out that he was drunk all the
time anyhow
you know i’ve seen so much you’ve seen
so much of absolute foolishness and and
manifestations that were absolute flesh
and so we have backed away from healing
and many of them say i have prayed for
healing and i don’t receive it and so we
back away and there’s a nagging
something in us that says does god
really heal today
i hear more and more people asking these
questions
uh is this all there is to it this is
the focus in the last day on suffering
and pain and affliction i’ve preached so
much on pain pastor carter all the
pastors we we have been trying to find
everything in the scripture to encourage
the saints in their suffering in their
affliction and in their their economic
uh turmoil
and the questions are being asked does
god heal anymore
why are so many hurting why are so many
sick and so many that apparently are not
being healed
it’s because we’ve allowed the devil to
ramrod over our faith
we have pulled back because
we we we have not pressed in we’ve not
taken our authority in the name of jesus
christ
and we no longer honestly we no longer
believe the holy ghost is being poured
out
i have to confess to you that that i’ve
been a little bit afraid of the
manifestations of the holy spirit to
break out in this church because it
would drive people away
well folks i still stand against the
foolish manifestations of the flesh
where people trying to bring attention
to themselves and just flop on the floor
or or or try to run around the building
without an anointing of the holy spirit
but if the holy ghost really is upon you
and the holy ghost does it we should not
be afraid of manifestations true
manifestations of the holy spirit
and the manifestation that i’m talking
about that will accomplish and accompany
this
last day outpouring of the holy spirit
is going to be
a holy ghost joy
a holy ghost rejoicing
and this will be the testimony of jesus
christ in the last day in a world full
of gloom
in a world full of fear when everything
is shake the foundations and the roots
are being plucked up
there will be a people walking out in
times square outside this church and
other churches where they’ve been prayed
for and the and all of the elders have a
re-baptism and a re-anointing of the
holy ghost and really stepping on their
faith and saying jesus name be healed
and we have a people who believe that
glory to god
i see people giving up
on being healed
people giving up and say this is the
cards that have been dealt to me in so
many words
folks there are healing afflictions
we’ve talked about that david said if i
had not been afflicted i would not have
sought the lord we know that and we know
the pattern of god’s testing to get pure
faith we know that
but there has to come a time where we
stand up and say lord jesus
i’m claiming
your word
you said you’re going to rise up
with healing in your wings now are you
under the wings of jesus
has he called you are you under his
wings
we’ve lost our fight
i said we’ve lost our fight
god put holy ghost fight in us
the devil is not in control god is in
control the devil has no power has no
authority
if you weren’t dancing by this time with
malachi he’d be running down this aisle
and he said the better part there’s
still something more
son of righteousness itself rise with
healing in his wings
i don’t know whether you’re going to
believe this or not
but you will go forth leaping like
calves released from your stall
now here’s what the king king james says
uh uh it says you will go forth and grow
up as catholic stall but the original
hebrew and you get that in all in
america new american standard and many
many and most of the theologians that
i’ve read say the very words of this you
will go forth leaping like calves
released from the stall
the word the word stall here in hebrew
is
to be cornered
to go in circles in a limited space
i’ve seen calves in the stall and
they’re looking out in the green grass
and there there’s a a gate there and
it’s locked
and and they’ll they’ll run around round
around making their sounds and kicking
and some of them when what i saw they
were chewing at the gates
and this is what has happened
the devil has come to lock you in a
stall
and there are so many people confined
now they’re not out in the open they
don’t have the joy of the lord they’re
not in the green pastures not drinking
the cool water
and i’m telling you the holy ghost
prophesies through malachi and he’s
going to tell you now i speak his words
through the anointing of the holy spirit
there’s coming and release the stalls
are all going to be
broken and set free
and he said you’re going to go forth
from your stall leaping
that’s what it says you’re going to come
leaping out of your stall
there’s that stall
of hopelessness
boredom
that hopelessness that says where is god
how long do i suffer and and until
finally that’s the only testimony you
have
the only word you have you get up every
morning and you have that same cloud
hanging over your head and you’re locked
in this stall you don’t have freedom
that’s your whole world is wrapped up
and i know many people that’s their
whole world now if you talk to them
that’s all they can talk about they
can’t talk about god they can’t talk
about freedom they can’t even talk about
the joy they once had
they’re joyless they’re hopeless they’re
in a stall
locked up
there’s this stall of bitterness
there are people now who can’t come into
the full blessing of the lord they can’t
be healed because of bitterness in their
heart
god cannot and will not work where there
is bitterness
the bible calls it a gall or a poison
if you hear and this morning you want a
baptism of the holy spirit a fresh
outpouring if you want to be released
from your stall you have got to honor
you have to acknowledge it and say
there’s something in my heart towards
somebody there’s something i’m not
forgiven there’s there’s there’s
something in my heart towards someone
brother sister get it out or you’re
going to be locked in your stall and
you’ll never get out
you’re going around a little circle a
little circle full of meanness that
spreads to other people and i said with
love when i say it with grace this is my
biggest battle
and it’s your biggest battle to keep out
of your heart anything
anything of racial not that’s not my
battle but if there’s any racial
prejudice in you
if you’re into the struggle that’s going
on here in the united states now this
racial thing is going on folks stay away
from it it’s poison it’s poison stay
away it’ll keep you locked up in a stall
but the holy ghost through the prophet
said this outpouring of the holy spirit
he’s going to come and he’s going to
release you from the stall and you’re
going to come leaping out of your stall
can i read it again to you
you will go forth leaping like calves
released
say it released
he wants to release you today
everyone who’s watching me everyone who
sees me i’ll point a finger right at you
a loving finger the love of god saying
god wants to release you today right now
he wants to release you
from the fear of your affliction from
bitterness
from loneliness from mourning from
whatever it may be
god’s going to release his church
he’s in the process of doing that right
now
i said the holy ghost is here the holy
spirit is here
now you have a part
you can’t just sit and say well i’m
waiting for the holy ghost to do i’m
waiting for the little ghost to release
me i’ve got fear in my heart
that
no folks says there’s a human fear it’s
a natural thing it comes from being a
father a husband
concerned of his family and and
a single person who working and sending
money to the philippines or mexico or
wherever it may be and you have these
fears the human fears that come upon you
but god wants
to release you
from
your fear before it takes root until it
gets a hold of you and eats up your
innermost being
and and
kills your faith
there’s something you have to do
and folks i have proven this
i have proven it
you have to take a step now
to make a joyful noise
unto the lord through praise
and i’m not talking about meditation
yes meditate
thank god i meditate and walk i walk and
talk with jesus sometimes for
an hour at a time just quietly before
him and letting him speak to my soul but
there comes a time when the devil seems
to have a foothold and when you can’t
get out and you’re locked in
and you’re confined
the only way out of that confinement the
only way is is
is to find a place
get somewhere alone with god
and and
i tell god said lord i’m sorry this past
week i haven’t prayed like i should pray
i have felt locked up
so many things coming from so many
directions
never seems to stop
it just keeps coming at you anybody know
what i’m talking about
and you’re in that and and you go down
down down until you don’t hear anything
you want to go to hawaii and find an
island you can’t nobody can find you go
fiji islands and fish
in that time
you take a walk with god
and say no devil
no
i’m the son of the living god i see the
sun shining i may not feel like it i
don’t feel like praying i don’t feel
like shouting i don’t feel like anything
but i’m going to stand by faith and i’m
going to proclaim god is victorious
hallelujah
just stand
lord i’m going to shout
and i’m going to praise you that’s when
the holy ghost comes
the holy spirit comes
raise your hands
come on
god release this congregation
release everyone who sees and hears
right now wherever they may be
open the doors open the gates
o son of righteousness come
blessed be the name of the lord my god
will you bless his name
i want you to call on his name call on
his name
i want you
i will not before a holy god work a
crowd
and trying to get you
hyped up that doesn’t work
but
it’s in this rejoicing
it’s in this opening up to the holy
spirit and allowing a spirit of gladness
and rejoicing in spite of how you feel
you have to rise above those feelings
and take a step of faith