Spoken Word #24
“The
Oncoming Storms of Judgment”
Brian Kocourek
May 21st, 2008
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in
the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;
the sea and the waves roaring; : 26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for
looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of
heaven shall be shaken. 27 And then
shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your
heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the
trees; 30 When they now shoot forth, ye
see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. 31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things
come to pass, know ye that the
Matthew 24:3 And
as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately,
saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall
be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take
heed that no man (1) deceive
you.
So we see the number one sign of the end-time is
deception. We could take a whole message or more just on this end-time
attribute, but for the sake of continuity this morning we must put that off.
But noticed Jesus warns us here first of all about deception in the end-time.
And this warning is followed by an example of how that deception will come. We
are warned that this deception will come
in the form of anointed ones who are preaching falsely, proclaiming a Gospel
that Paul calls another Gospel, which the word another he used in 2 Corinthians
11 is the Greek word heteros which means of an other nature. And in Galatians
he tells us that other Gospel is a perverted Gospel, because it has been
altered to make it a super duper gospel.
You know this altering is peculiar to the same spirit
that is producing gene splicing and producing hybrid crops, and by the way the
father of hybridization was a catholic monk, so that shows you where the
hybridization spirit comes from. And they teach a hybrid Jesus trying to make
him more than God indwelling His Son. So they make the man himself God,
and that is wrong, or false but it is
being presented by anointed ones with a genuine Holy Ghost anointing. But they
are characterized by their false teaching, preaching a Gospel that has been
altered, thus producing a spirit which is not the Holy Spirit.) To save time
see 2 Corinthians 11 and Galatians chapter 1.
Now, in getting back to Matthew 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and
shall deceive many.
Now, this leads us to the next end-time attribute,
which we find inverse 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of (2) wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things
must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For
nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
And
so we see WW I come and go and then WWII, and then the Korean war, and then the
Vietnam war, and then the War in the
Now,
the third attribute we find in verse 7 and there shall be (3) famines,(yes, famines as in not
enough food to eat and there are ten’s of millions of people in this world
today that are starving to death, and if conglomerates like Con Agra, Cargill and Monsanto who are vying
for world domination of the food supply, and especially Monsanto who has been allowed
to patent the seeds and now is allowed to patent the genes of Pigs that have
been around for several hundre years, and this has the farmers in America and
Europe all upset because they do not know aht to do.
And
Monsanto has been working to get their employees into very powerful positions
in the
So
you think we are seeing starvation now, just wait after a while when the entire
worlds supply of grains are hybridized and owned by these world conglomerates.
And you won’t be able to buy or sell without their permission. And they won’t
give you their permission if their mother church has anything to say about it.
And
then that brings us to attribute number 4. and (4) pestilences, Now, this morning Lord willing I
would like to begin looking at the pestilence that is beginning to emerge
throughout the world, and I want to being in and tie it back to the Alpha or
first exodus to show you what we can expect during this Third Exodus. Because
many of the plagues of
And
then we have number 5 which we have been seeing more and more over the past few
years. Jesus said in Matthew 24: 7, and (5) earthquakes, in
divers places.
And we have seen several 7.7 and above earthquakes
that have totally demolished homes and schools and even churches in South America
and
Then Jesus adds in Matthew 24: and verse 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall
kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one
another, and shall hate one another. 11 And
many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax
cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be
saved. 14 And this gospel of
the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations;
and then shall the end come.
And at last count we are
now into 180 countries with only 10 to go. At least that I am aware of. The
Voice of God recordings shows 177 countries they have entered through their
work and website, and we now have 180. The UN states there are only 190, so we
have 10 to go and all the world will have been introduced to the End-Time
Message Doctrine vindicated by the very presence of God Himself having come
down with a shout which is the Message.
Now, I would like to
look at Matthew 24 and Luke 21 this morning and see how these signs are coming
about and how the plagues of the First Exodus are all but repeating in this
last Omega Exodus which is the Third Exodus of the Pillar of Fire among the
people.
In Exodus number one,
Pharaoh refused to let the Hebrew people leave
Brother Branham said,
#34) 126-3 {61}
The First Seal 63-0318 He come in the first age, the Ephesian Age, revealed, sent
the messenger. Notice what happened as we go along. Here's the plan of it:
The first thing happens, there is an announcement in the heavens first. What
happened? A Seal is opened. What is that? A mystery is unfolded. See? And when
a mystery unfolds, then a trumpet sounds. It declares a war. Or a plague falls,
and a church age opened. See? What is the war part? The angel of
the Church catches the mystery of God, not fully yet revealed, but when he
does, he catches this mystery of God, and then he goes forth to the people
(after the mystery has been given to him), goes forth to the people.
What does he do out there? He begins to proclaim that message, and what does
it start? A war, a spiritual war.
OK, then what
happens? Those who believe that message and enter into it, are sealed away and
hidden from the plagues or judgment. But those who reject are sent the plagues
to destroy them for rejecting The Message for their age. And why does Brother
Branham call these plagues a temporary judgment? Because they are just showing
what is in store for them at the White throne Judgment.
#35) 126-5 {65}
The First Seal 63-0318 And then God takes His messenger with the elect of that age,
and lays them away asleep, and then He drops a plague upon them who rejected
it: a temporary judgment. And then,
after that is over, then he goes on, and they denominate, and bring in
denominations, and start off with that man's work like of Wesley and all the
rest of them, and then it gets all in a scrapple again; and then another
mystery comes forth. Then what happens? Another messenger arrives on earth
for a church age. See? Then when he arrives, the trumpet sounds. He declares
war. See? And then what happens? Finally then he's caught away. And then
when he's laid away, then plague falls destroys them. Spiritual death hits
the church and she's gone, that group. Then He goes on to another one. Oh, it's
a great plan until it comes to that last angel. Now, he has no certain
mystery, but he gathers up all that's been lost in them other ages, all the
truths that wasn't truly revealed yet (See?), as the revelation come. Then he
reveals those things in his day. If you want to read it, there it is: A
Revelations 10:1 to about 4. You'll get it. All right. See?
Notice that Brother
Branham speaks of God having a plan...He says... Here's
the plan of it: The first thing happens, there is an announcement in the
heavens first. What happened? A
Seal is opened. What is that? A mystery is unfolded. See? And when a mystery
unfolds, then a trumpet sounds. It declares a war. Or a plague falls.
Now if there is a plan, then these things are foreknown, right? And if they are
foreknown, then God also foreknows those who will receive this Seal, and those
who will not, right? Then when the Seal is broken and declared, it seals in one
group and seals out all others.
Now, the
Plan is this: #1) A Seal
is opened, right? That’s number One, and what does a seal being broken do?
It allows you to see what was locked up and kept previously from view.
Therefore, by Faith we are able to see what God is revealing, because Faith is
the first thing, it is the foundation stone. And all that can not receive the
revelation for the hour they live are therefore faithless.
#2) When the Seal is broken, It actually allows for us to
see and by seeing it seals us in, but by rejecting to look, the others, all
others become sealed out. Then what is happening here? One group is locked in
and the other is locked out. What would we call this? Separation,
right? Let’s see if we’re not right.
59 The Token
64-0208 Likewise, we must remember that God is
long-suffering, not willing that any should perish. He always sends His signs,
His wonders. And then when He gets ready to do anything, He separates the
believer from the unbeliever. And notice then how He provided for His
promised-land people. Look what He did for His promised-land people there, to
be sure that they would not be mixed up in some kind of an ism. What did He do?
He sent a prophet to them, Moses, with a message identifying God's Word. And
to identify Moses, He sent a Pillar of Fire that hung over him. Amen. Then to
give him the perfect assurance, He required a token. Amen. There's a messenger,
the message, and the vindication, and the token, the perfect assurance that
they had nothing to worry about. No matter how many plagues strike, what
everybody else says they are sealed away.
The separation by
revelation always begins a warfare, a Spiritual warfare. It always has. In the
beginning Michael disputed with Lucifer and then warfare broke out. Then
on earth, Cain disputed with Abel. And really, who did He really dispute with?
God! Then after the dispute, Cain killed Abel. Warfare! It’s been the same in
every age. Look at Jacob and Esau. Revelation received by one and rejected by
the other. A dispute, then warfare. Look at Joseph and His Brothers, Revelation
received by one, the same revelation rejected by others. A dispute and then
warfare. The same in Moses day, Revelation received by one, the same revelation
rejected by others. A dispute and then warfare. Daniel’s day, the same.
Elijah’s day, the same. David’s day, the same. In fact we find this example
entirely throughout the scriptures from Genesis through Revelations. A
Revelation, a dispute over that revelation, then warfare. Then what?
#3) Those who
are sealed in are protected from the judgments that are to follow,
and those who are sealed out, are fitted for destruction. They fit themselves.
Notice [Romans 9:22] [What] if God, willing
to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much
long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: Now,
what does this word fitted to destruction mean? The
word fitted to is a Greek word which means they are prepared for.
If I fit something to something else, then what I am doing is preparing that
thing to match the other. Then the judgment matches the judged? Remember, where
there is a deep calling there is a deep to respond. Brother Branham said, that
there couldn’t have been a fish with a fin until there had been first a water
to swim in. Then who prepares them? God made them for destruction. But He has left
them with a free moral agency to prepare themselves. And how do they do they
prepare themselves for destruction? [Proverbs 14:12]
says, There is a way which seemeth right
unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. They take
their own way above God’s way.
E-16 Preparation
53-1111 I believe that the people are in the
preparation of the last great destruction this world will ever know. I believe we're at the end. You can speak
to people; you could put a Billy Graham in every city in the
E-14 Planting the
Vine and Where to Plant It 59-0920 In the
Scriptures, we find that Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses by doing
practically the same things he did, by casting down the rod and turning to a
serpent. Moses called for plagues, and they
could call plagues too. They
couldn't heal, because God is the only Healer. But they could cause plagues to
come; then Moses took them away.
E-63 5
Junctures of Time 56-0122 We got the
impersonators. We got people pretending to be, when they're not. And the Bible
said, "As Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses, so will these men of
reprobated mind concerning the truth," in the last days at the junction
we're at now And there stood Jambres and Jannes when Moses threw down and
performed a miracle of God. They impersonated it and done a miracle too with
their stick. And Moses called for plagues, and they
called plagues. It's the devils turned loose. And notice
that they are called reprobates concerning the truth, and they have a reprobate
mind, and this is what Paul is also speaking of concerning the wrath of God
coming against all the would hold back the truth in unrighteousness which is a
wrong understanding.
And as
he goes down into
Now, this then brings
us to another thought. We can see that God has a plan, and in this plan He is
to bring forth a Message, and He knows those few who will receive it, because
He has ordained for them to receive it. In [Acts
13:48] we read, "As many as were
ordained to eternal life believed." [II Timothy 2:19] Nevertheless
the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, ( What Seal?) The Lord knoweth them that are his.
Now, God knowing
then, who would and who would not believe, He then prepares His Messengers for
the task at hand. And each is given a golden vial which contains the wrath of
God. So before that angel messenger even shows up to earth, He has been given a
vial that has death in it, and yet that death can not touch those with the seal
of God. For God has commanded that it not even touch them.
Now, the following are the Biblical passages concerning the ten plagues
upon
1. Water to Blood
Exodus 7:19 And
the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine
hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon
their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and
that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood,
and in vessels of stone.
2. Frogs
Exodus 8:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses,
Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that
they may serve me. 2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: 3 And the river shall bring forth frogs
abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy
bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy
people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs: 4 And the frogs shall come up
both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
Frogs,
Frogs, and More Frogs: Omen to
On
May 5th, many Chinese locals noticed thousands of frogs on the move.
They
were seen traveling without fear of traffic as they crossed streets in mass
floods.
Many
Chinese sensed the migration as a bad omen of a coming natural disaster, but
the Chinese government told them that it was just a natural migration for the
purpose of propagation. This calmed the people and no one took the omen very
seriously.
On
Monday, 12th of May, at about 2:45pm, central
Now,
it is interesting to note that frogs were one of the plagues in the first
exodus and led to other plagues which led to disease and pestilence among the
food supply and into the people.
3. Gnats
Exodus 8:16 And the LORD said unto Moses,
Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it
may become lice throughout all the
Gnat Plague Week in
Review May 23rd, 2008
Above waiting fields
the sun rose higher each day but on many a farm spring planting had stopped
dead. Some farmers tied smudge-fire buckets to their plows, tried to go ahead.
Others gave up, herded their livestock into barns, circled them with smudges.
Still others, too late, found their horses and mules choked, sucked, poisoned.
By the week's end nearly 1,000 horses & mules lay dead in their tracks, and
desperate farmers were crying to Red Cross and Government for relief. The
deadly clouds were buffalo gnats (simuliidae) so called not because they attack
buffaloes but because they have humps on their backs. Broad winged, black or
brown bodied, they are less than half the size of a house fly. Commonest in the
4. Flies
Exodus 8:21 Else, if thou wilt not let my
people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy
servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the
Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they
are.
The Northern Scot
May
24, 2008
Plague
of flies stokes village fury
By
Leanne CarterPublished:
15
February, 2008A
WINGED menace has invaded homes in a coastal
village – now the residents want the uninvited guest booted out of their
properties for good. Swarms
of seaweed flies are leaving both their houses and skin crawling, and there has
been no respite from the infestation for three months. Super-strength chemical
repellents have failed to kill off the insects, which can even find their way
in through closed doors and windows. And, despite the plague, neither
environmental health officials nor the Crown estate are willing to deal with
the problem.
There
are so many dead bodies lying about on the window sill that it's like a fly
cemetery. It's gone on too long. Something has to be done about it." Mrs
Coffield, who lives in
Chris
McGuile, has an electronic zapper and the tray has to be emptied out on a
weekly basis because of the sheer volume of flies. The cement floor of an
outbuilding on his property is literally crawling with the insects."It's
not a problem at the front of the house, but the flies are everywhere at the
back of the house," said Mr McGuile."I have white Italian tiles at
the back door and when I came back after being away for Christmas, I thought
the house had been flooded. But what I thought was thick black mud on the tiles
was actually dead flies."
5. Livestock Diseased
Exodus 9:3 Behold, the hand of the LORD
is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon
the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.
Now, this word murrain
was translated as such from the Hebrew word deber: The word mur·rain ( mûr“¹n) is a noun
and it means: 1.
Any of various highly infectious
diseases of cattle, as anthrax. 2. Obsolete A pestilence or dire disease. Could this also be what
is called today Mad Cow Disease?
The
pestilence of the fifth plague is translated as “murrain” which literally means
“disease” and was used in medieval times to represent an epidemic proportion
disease that afflicted livestock. The people of that era did not have the
micro-biology technology to identify specific diseases which explains why they
placed all livestock diseases under one heading they called “murrain”. During
the 14th century there were major “murrains” in Europe among the cattle and
sheep which helped cause the Great Famine of 1315-1317, weakening the
population of Europe before the onset of the Black Death or bubonic plague of
1348.
Today
we have two major diseases among livestock. The first which is FMD short for Foot and Mouth Disease is a viral
infection, and is controlled using various methods such as changing the PH of
the animal and administration of disinfectants and strong chlorine to clean
suspected infectious areas. The second disease we have today is BSE which stands
for Bovine Spongiform encephalopathy and is caused by a prion which is an
altered normal protein or a normal protein that has been altered. So the
question is who altered the protein. Sound like Gene tampering again. Now, this
BSE is commonly called “mad cow” disease, but this is the more severe than FMD
because it has crossed over into other species, and is known as scapies in
sheep, CWO or chronic wasting disease in deer and elk, and wabbling disease in
fish, and CJD or Cruetzfield Jacobs in humans.
People get it by
eating meat from an animal that had the prion in it. The prions are transferred
by the way they process food today, feeding ground up or rendered animals to
other animals to increase the protein level of their diet. Well, since that
prion was developed by somebody, it is almost indestructible. It will not die
at 400 degrees when cooked or boiled etc. It is resistant to UV light,
radiation, common disinfectants, and rendering does not inactivate the prion.
Some people believe it was developed by our own government in the biological
warfare on
FMD causes fever and
blisters and boils to the tongue, mouth, lips, gums and other soft tissue on
the animals infected. It also causes lameness, salivation and reduced appetite.
On the other hand BSE is a progressive degenerative disease of the central
nervous system and causes changes in behavior, such as un-coordination,
abnormal posture, falling down and difficulty in getting back up.
We
see these symptoms on a massive scale in this country and yet the Government
will not investigate. I have heard that there are at least 450,000 people
misdiagnosed for alzheiners disease that actually have mad cow or Crutzfield
Jabcobs disease. I have tried to investigate the similarities in FMD and BSE
and have found they both result in an instability of the motor skills and the
animal is impaired in their ability to walk.
Anyway, we found that
in the 1st Exodus there were such disease which were part of the
plagues in that hour.
6. Boils
Exodus 9:8 And the LORD said unto Moses
and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle
it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 And it shall become small dust
in all the
Now, these boils could
have been a result of FMD which is Foot and Mouth Disease. But it usually
doesn’t usually occur in humans although any plague sent by God is not a usual
thing anyway. But notice the boils were in both humans and animals. So it could
have to do with a disease that was in the animal population and because of diet
went into the human population.
7. Thunder and Hail
Exodus 9:18 Behold, to morrow about this
time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in
8. Locusts
Exodus 10:4 Else, if thou refuse to let my
people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: 5 And
they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the
earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth
unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of
the field.
48:
Locust Plague Sweeps Across
May
23, 2008
by
Helen Pearson
Swarms
of desert locusts rampaged across
humanitarian news and analysis
Saturday May 24, 2008
WEST AFRICA: Locust plague
worsens and spreads to
DAKAR,
9 August 2004 (IRIN) - The plague of locusts sweeping south across the Sahara
desert is now causing serious crop damage in Mauritania, Mali and Niger and has
spread for the first time to Chad, agricultural experts and government
officials said on Monday.
Over the weekend, swarms of locusts invaded eastern
"What
I saw yesterday evening around 8 p.m. around Douentza on the way to Gao, was
worrying : about four hectares of land was covered with locusts," Cheick
Sidiya Diaby, the government's regional director of agriculture in Mopti, told
IRIN by telephone.
"Until
then, the swarms, which consisted of 600 000 to 700 000 insects per hectare,
had mainly been eating trees and grass, but now they have started eating crops
too. If nothing is done, the consequences on people and their livestock will be
incalculable," he added.
Further
east, in
In Mauritania, where millions of locusts
descended on the capital Nouakchott last week and devoured the greenery of its
trees, lawns and gardens, government officials warned that 80 percent of the
country's crops could be destroyed, leaving 600 000 to 800 000 people to face
famine.
More
than 200 swarms of the flying insects which can eat their own weight of food in
a day have so far been detected in
A
Chadian official told IRIN that two swarms were sighted last week at Ati, 450
km east of the capital N’djamena.
“When
the swarms flew over Lake Chad, they caused damage to 30 to 60 hectares of
food-producing crops, mainly millet and corn”, Ndoubabe Tigaye, the director of
the plant protection unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, told IRIN by
telephone from N'djamena.
However,
despite the intensity of the invasion, all the Sahelian countries are suffering
a chronic shortage of insecticide and spraying equipment and vehicles with
which to spray the locusts and prevent them from breeding.
“To date, we have been invaded by 63 swarms,
but we only have a third of the resources we need to treat the area of nearly
650,000 hectares that is currently infested”, Brahima Koni, the deputy
coordinator of Mali's locust control campaign, told IRIN by telephone from
So
far, he added,
In
“We even do not have pesticides”, Ndoubabe
complained to IRIN, adding that the Chadian government was about to launch an
appeal for international assistance to fight locusts.
At
a two-day meeting on locust control in West Africa held in Algiers two weeks
ago, Chad appealed for $7 million to treat up to 250,000 hectares. At the time,
no locusts had been sighted in the country, but now they have materialized.
In
The more affluent North African countries,
which have had painful first-hand experience of locust plagues in recent
months, also promised rapid technical assistance to their poorer southern
neighbors in the form of experts, vehicles and pesticides.
On Monday for instance,
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) said aid pledged by donors at the
"New contributions are coming in almost
every day, but it takes time to translate donor contributions into
action," Clive Elliott, an FAO locust expert told IRIN from
"There is a good chance that a lot of the
crops can be protected, but if you are asking me whether it is possible to stop
the locust cycle in its tracks, it is more difficult," he added.
Meanwhile, local people in the affected
countries have resorted to fighting the insect invasion with their bare
hands.
In
When the insects descended on
In
many countries, villagers simply dig holes that they hope recently hatched
flightless locusts known as hoppers will fall into. They then burn or drown
them.
But
locust experts warned that the worst is still to come. “In the weeks to come, there will be many
more locusts than those that have arrived so far”, Annie Monnard, an FAO locust
specialist told IRIN from
NW
10
May 2008 11:11:11 GMT
Source: Reuters
Editing
by Alex Richardson)
WEST AFRICA: Locust plague
worsens and spreads to
Photo:
FAO The desert locust consumes its own weight in vegetation every dayDAKAR, 9
August 2004 (IRIN) - The plague of locusts sweeping south across the Sahara desert
is now causing serious crop damage in Mauritania, Mali and Niger and has spread
for the first time to
In
Mauritania, where millions of locusts descended on the capital Nouakchott last
week and devoured the greenery of its trees, lawns and gardens, government
officials warned that 80 percent of the country's crops could be destroyed,
leaving 600 000 to 800 000 people to face famine.
More
than 200 swarms of the flying insects which can eat their own weight of food in
a day have so far been detected in
Locust
swarms have meanwhile swept east into
A
Chadian official told IRIN that two swarms were sighted last week at Ati, 450
km east of the capital N’djamena.
“When
the swarms flew over Lake Chad, they caused damage to 30 to 60 hectares of
food-producing crops, mainly millet and corn”, Ndoubabe Tigaye, the director of
the plant protection unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, told IRIN by
telephone from N'djamena.
However,
despite the intensity of the invasion, all the Sahelian countries are suffering
a chronic shortage of insecticide and spraying equipment and vehicles with
which to spray the locusts and prevent them from breeding.
“To
date, we have been invaded by 63 swarms, but we only have a third of the
resources we need to treat the area of nearly 650,000 hectares that is currently
infested”, Brahima Koni, the deputy coordinator of Mali's locust control
campaign, told IRIN by telephone from
So
far, he added,
In
“We even do not have pesticides”, Ndoubabe
complained to IRIN, adding that the Chadian government was about to launch an
appeal for international assistance to fight locusts.
At
a two-day meeting on locust control in West Africa held in Algiers two weeks
ago, Chad appealed for $7 million to treat up to 250,000 hectares. At the time,
no locusts had been sighted in the country, but now they have
materialised.
In
The
more affluent North African countries, which have had painful first-hand
experience of locust plagues in recent months, also promised rapid technical
assistance to their poorer southern neighbours in the form of experts, vehicles
and pesticides.
On
Monday for instance,
The
UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said aid pledged by donors at the
"New
contributions are coming in almost every day, but it takes time to translate
donor contributions into action," Clive Elliott, an FAO locust expert told
IRIN from
"There
is a good chance that a lot of the crops can be protected, but if you are
asking me whether it is possible to stop the locust cycle in its tracks, it is
more difficult," he added.
Meanwhile, local people in the affected
countries have resorted to fighting the insect invasion with their bare
hands.
In
When the insects descended on
In many countries, villagers simply dig holes
that they hope recently hatched flightless locusts known as hoppers will fall
into. They then burn or drown them.
But
locust experts warned that the worst is still to come.
“In the weeks to come, there will be many more
locusts than those that have arrived so far”, Annie Monnard, an FAO locust
specialist told IRIN from
9. Darkness
Exodus 10:21
And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there
may be darkness over the
Now, I do not have
much to say about the ninth and tenth plague upon
Isaiah 60:
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness
the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen
upon thee.
And in the sermon Shalom 64-0112 P:15 brother
Branham reads this scripture and then says, For, behold,... darkness
shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall rise
upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee."Gross darkness upon the
people..." Of this, 'course this is a prophesying of the day that we're
now living.
Shalom
64-0112 P:27 The prophet said, "Gross
darkness upon the people," upon the people of the world at this time. And
that's exactly what we've got, gross darkness upon the people.
Shalom
64-0112 P:25 Like the Jews was in the days that Jesus
came to the earth; Isaiah had prophesied of it and said, "There would
be... They would have eyes but couldn't see, and ears and couldn't hear."
And that's the reason Jesus prayed their forgiveness, because it had to be that
way to fulfill the Scripture. And it's returned again to us. The Bible has spoke of this day that we
live, and said these things would come: gross darkness upon the people. And we see it, that there's something
that just simply, the people want to but they can't. Nicodemus expressed it one
time before the Lord, "Rabbi, we know that Thou art a Teacher come from
God, for no man could do the things that You do if God wasn't with Him."
But it was that darkness or blindness upon the Jewish race, that the Messiah
might come to take from the Gentiles a Bride. They had to reject Him. And that's the gross darkness that's upon the
churches and things today, to fail to see the Light that's shining. See?
See, there seems to be such a heavy press.
Shalom
64-0112 P:44 So many good, sincere people today are
caught away in these creeds, these churches and organizations, "having a
form of godliness, but denying the power thereof," as II Timothy, 3rd
chapter, says so. Gross darkness,
blinding of
And remember the Holy
Spirit came into the tabernacle and drew on the wall the stages of light and
how at the end it would be almost totally without light. As brother Vayle mentioned
to me a few weeks ago, it seems that no matter how hard we try to get the Word
into the hands of the people, the darker it seems to get out their among the
people.
Shalom
64-0119 P:56 Notice, and the hour... Why? Sometimes
people who claim and think they're sincere, but a gross darkness has got them in this. The Bible said they
would be like that.
God
providing healing 54-0719E P:60 Why is this world in such darkness? Why is
gross darkness upon the people's heart? Why does the Spirit call out
constantly, and the Gentiles are shutting their hearts from the message? Why
are you, because you are fed well. You're clothed well. Know ye not, these mercies
come from God? Do you know the hour is coming when you'll be weeping, and
crying, and mourning of these things, when you'll not get them? Awake while
time is at hand, and while you can receive God, receive Him. Amen.
Shalom
64-0112 P:24 Woman
wants to cut off her hair and act like a man. And a man wants to act like a
woman. See? And yet you can talk to them, and they're nice people to talk to,
nice people, friendly, sociable people. What's caused this? It's that gross
darkness upon the people; it's something that's pressed them into it.
10. Death of the Firstborn
Exodus 11:4
And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the
midst of Egypt: 11:5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from
the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn
of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
Unveiling
of God 64-0614M P:81 They spiritually die now. This is the
spiritual veil. See? That was a natural veil. This is spiritual veil. See? They
keep walking right on in behind there; you can tell them. "Oh, I know. I
know that, but I..." Go ahead; it's all right; it only speaks... You
remember, the last plague in
Speak to
this rock 53-1115 P:47 Here it just sweep towards that house, and
take death, there it takes death. Then the first thing you know, up over the
house they go. "When I see the blood I will pass over you." Yes, sir.
The death angel is on today. And let me tell you something; it's sweeping the
lands this day. Listen, these churches and things that's having a form of
godliness, but denying the power thereof, You find out they go in there; it's not a natural death; it's a spiritual
death. A natural death is not very bad, but a spiritual death, being separated, cut off from God, sinned away their
day of grace. Went over and looked out said, "Bunch of holy-rollers,
don't pay any attention to that." Devil's in the pulpit, as sure as the
world. Certainly.
God's
chosen place worship 65-0220 P:30 And
now, the same is today. There's only one place that spiritual death cannot
strike; that's the Word. Death can't strike the Word, because It's a living
Word of God. But when you put creeds with It, the Word moves out to Itself.
It'll separate like water from oil. You cannot mix it together. Therefore you
see, when the creed comes into a denomination, they all go after the creed, and
the Word dies out and goes on with somebody else and increases It more, picks
up a momentum as It go from justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy
Ghost, and on out into the grain. Do you see the path God has trod, bringing
His Name all the time right down the same way, because He is the Word. Notice,
It can't die. The Word of Life can't die. Notice how perfect now. The death
angel was not forbidden to strike