DO 2616 Comp.4/90

CURRENTS: RUSSIA!

U.S. DOESN'T GIVE SOVIETS ENOUGH CREDIT!

1. The Americans never give the Soviets enough credit, & never realise that the Soviets can only go as far as they can go. They have to save face. The U.S. always wants the Soviets to come crawling to them, under their conditions!

COMMUNISM SPOILED THE PEOPLE!

2. Under Communism the Russians have literally taught their people to be lazy & non-productive! Everything's been handed to them, in a sense, on a silver platter. Education's free‚ they get their housing almost free, they get everything free except their food, & that is almost free, with huge subsidies to make their food cheap. Government subsidies consist of money the government gives to the producers & storekeepers so they can sell their goods to the people real cheap. So they've been just spoiling those people for years with all the cheap & free goods & services.

3. They've been spoiled with all that socialism taking care of them, when all the time the government was going in the red, it was failing. Now what are they going to do with freedom, when they don't even know how to take care of themselves? They've been loafing & lazin' on the job for years! That's why they never have enough of anything, because they don't work hard enough.

4. So now it's finally time to pay the fiddler & they don't know how. They don't know how to be democratic or capitalistic or to have private enterprise & property & incentive & all that sort of thing. They just don't know how.

5. I think China at least did a better job of it, because the Chinese are pretty hard-working people, especially the peasants. But the trouble with Russia is that Stalin wiped out all the rich peasants, the big farmers who ran the big plantations & the huge farming industry, & there was nobody left who really knew how to farm, sad to say. They got rid of all the good farm people & turned the land over to the poor, but the poor peons & serfs on these big estates didn't know how to farm & really make it pay.

6. Then they tried to organise big co–operative farms‚ & the guys who ran them didn't know how to do it either, & they did a pitiful job of it. Besides, they were crooked & corrupt as they could be & just ran things to suit themselves. So now the Soviets are just like a bunch of little kids being kicked out of home to make their own living, & they don't know how to do it. So I don't think they're going to make it, really!

7. Even the soldiers that were brought home from Afghanistan & returned to civilian life are complaining about not getting jobs & not getting housing, & they just don't know what to do. They haven't been trained for civilian skills or taught how to make a living. The whole World is just heading for a Crash one way or the other. The West is crashing & the East is crashing! They're all going to crash until the Antichrist appears & claims he can solve their problems.

8. Of course‚ according to Bible Prophecy he won't be able to do it either! He has to put down a war over here, & a war over there, & a war someplace else, & he's not going to be able to do it in the end. I guess they'll call that the final failure! The Antichrist is an impostor; he's going to claim to be able to fix it all, but in the long run he won't be able to. He'll be the final failure. God had to do that to show Man he can't do it without the Lord. Then comes The Solution‚ TTL! So that's what we have to look forward to!—JESUS!—The True Saviour!

MICHAEL THE MARKED!

9. The other night I looked at that birthmark on Gorbachev's head, & it suddenly dawned on me that it looks like a wound dripping blood! According to the old legend‚ the last King of Russia was going to be Michael the Marked, who would die while in office, assassinated or something like that. So it's quite possible that he might die a martyr while the Antichrist rises to take over.

GORBACHEV NEEDS HELP!

10. It took 70 years for the people of the Soviet Union to finally speak out & demand more freedom & democracy & a more humane government, but they haven't won yet. There are still plenty of powerful enemies of democracy in Russia, & it wouldn't take much to stop it.

11. The people are awakening & they're enjoying what I would say is temporary freedom. But I'm sure those who ruled & reigned by terror in the Soviet Union for many years with Stalin & Brezhnev & all the rest, are not going to give up that easily. I'm just waiting for Gorbachev to be assassinated, or some kind of uprising of the old guard, the hard line, cruel, repressive, conservative Communist leaders who are going to refuse to make any more reforms.

12. I think the old guard are letting Gorbachev go ahead with his reforms‚ hoping he will fail, to show the people that his way is not going to work. And let me tell you, it'll take a lot more help than Gorbachev is getting if he's going to succeed! The U.S. is sort of standing back, with a "wait-&-see" attitude, when now's the time he needs rescuing, now's the time he needs help, now's the time he needs freedom of trade & loans & all kinds of assistance, just so he can feed his people!

13. If he can't even feed them, they're going to turn on him! They're already very critical of the fact that, after 5 years, he still hasn't solved a lot of their basic problems. So the media is already saying that it wouldn't take too much for the old guard to try to prove that Gorbachev has failed, & grab power again. That's the way they have been used to living for the last 70 years! They don't wait to get voted into power, they just grab it like Li Peng in China did! The hardliners in China didn't let the pro-democracy students succeed, they just crushed them, & sad to say, they're apt to do exactly the same thing in Russia to Gorbachev & his followers.

14. There's apparently an old Russian prophecy that says "Michael the Marked" is going to be assassinated. So I'm not so hopeful. I think it's wishful thinking to believe that hardline governments, such as China now has, are bound to fall. History has shown that cruel repressive dictatorial governments are the ones that have survived the longest! In the history of the World, democracy is relatively new, very precarious & extremely transitory. Dictatorships have a long history of surviving for many years because they are able & willing to ruthlessly crush all opposition. Russia is used to that. They wouldn't think anything of it.

15. In fact, I don't think many of them would even care that much, since Gorby has not solved their problems & not been able to even feed them. Of course, it's not his fault, it's the fault of the opposition, they're deliberately trying to make him fail. It's also the fault of all those who've gone before Gorbachev & have wrecked the System & proved that Communism cannot succeed.

16. The people realise & acknowledge that, but they're now saying Gorbachev has also failed because they're still not getting enough to eat! If there was ever a time the U.S. needed to spend tens of billions of Dollars to try to help a government & help someone feed their people‚ it's with Gorbachev now! The U.S shouldn't be spending billions on more armaments, preparing to fight Russia. That's a dead issue‚ it's ridiculous!

17. But the U.S. government is trying to keep the defense-spending issue alive‚ because they're afraid that if they stop the spending of hundreds of billions of Dollars on war, that the U.S. economy will suddenly crash! If the government didn't keep funneling in hundreds of billions of Dollars for armaments & war factories & salaries for the hundreds of thousands of people involved‚ if they suddenly pulled the rug out from under their war industry, it would probably wreck the American economy!

18. It's not Russia they're so worried about, it's the collapse of the U.S. economy they're really worried about! They feel that they've got to infuse 300 billion Dollars a year into the economy for "defense" just to keep the country alive—not to fight Russia! That's what they're afraid of! But to any objective observer, it seems almost ridiculous that they should be spending so much on fighting the Soviets, when they ought to be spending at least some of it on helping the Soviets, & helping Gorbachev to survive.

19. What Gorbachev needs right now is money, he needs loans, he needs money to revive their agriculture & their domestic manufacturing, to stimulate employment & to feed the people. But the U.S. is just sitting on the sidelines, like a spectator‚ while it's spending billions on itself! It's not even willing to spend a few million on helping Russia & Gorbachev to survive, their old enemy who's now trying to be friendly! The U.S. is still spending billions on a supposed future fight with Russia‚ instead of trying to help a new friendly present Russian government to survive!

20. I'm afraid I really fear for poor Gorbachev. He's even being criticised now by his friends, that he hasn't solved the problems. The reason he hasn't solved the problems is because they're too big to solve by himself, he needs help! He needs billions of Dollars just to survive & revive the Russian economy & feed the people & put them back to work & to oppose his domestic enemies.

21. Throughout history there have been fits of freedom & little temporary bursts of revival of democracy in some of these great tyrannical governments of the past‚ when the people rose up & objected, but they were usually crushed like little bugs. So if Gorbachev & this new wave of freedom survives in Russia, it would be a miracle of God, that's for sure! But since we know which way the World's going, we know that it could hardly survive, considering the fact that the Antichrist & his government is about to be revealed.

22. The Antichrist is not going to tolerate any democracy or glasnost or perestroika in Russia! He's certainly not going to take it from Gorbachev. He's not going to tolerate this wave of Christian thinking from Gorbachev, now an almost proven Christian! Gorbachev stands in his way! The best thing the Antichrist can do is to try to cause Gorbachev to fail, so that the people will then turn to him to save them! That's what's really happening, sad to say.

THE ANTICHRIST COULD COME SUDDENLY!

23. I had been thinking that it's going to take a while for the Antichrist to even rise to a place of leadership & recognition as a leader of Russia. But I've been thinking lately that it doesn't really have to happen that way. He could come suddenly‚ miraculously, & in such a way that everybody would just be astonished! In fact, it says, "All the World wondered after the Beast, `Who is able to make war with him'?"—Rev. 13:3,4. In other words, he proves himself supernaturally powerful with signs & wonders etc. With that kind of power he could come on the scene suddenly, just in time to rescue them when they're looking for somebody to solve the mess. So it could happen suddenly!

24. Of course, the first person the AC is going to have to get rid of is Gorbachev. I'm sure the Lord brought him along just to open up those countries for the Gospel & for us to get in etc. It is the last chance & the last harvest, & then after him the deluge! So his time may be shorter than we think. (Fam: It says, "Then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child."—1Th.5:3.) Yes! If the Antichrist comes suddenly on the scene as he's portrayed right in the Bible, with mighty signs & wonders & everybody wondering after the Beast, "Who is able to make war with him" etc., miraculously & supernaturally!—He could take over in a hurry that way!

25. He proves he's got unusual supernatural powers & they'll be looking for just such a person to pull them out of their mess, which they're getting deeper into right now. Even poor Gorbachev is getting into such a mess that I don't think he's going to be able to pull out of it.

PRAYER FOR THE EAST BLOC!—27/3/90

26. (Tongues) Lord Jesus, I pray for those who suffer & will suffer in the terrible days to come in the East Bloc! I pray for those who will suffer in the terrible days to come! (Tongues) I would wish that I could suffer with them. I would wish that I could give my life for them, but I am not a very good sufferer. But I pray for them. I prayed for them. Oh, God! I pray for them!—For them who will suffer so much for their faith in Russia, & those East Bloc Christians. I'm not a very good sufferer. I'm scared. I'm not good at suffering. So Lord, give them the strength, in Jesus' name. For You have called them to suffer for Thy testimony. Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus!—In Jesus' name!

27. Oh God! Please help me to suffer for them, in Jesus' name! I'm just very weak. Would you please pray for me that I can be brave & suffer with them?—Because I'm not a very good sufferer. I'm a very poor sufferer. I haven't got very much strength, so please pray for me that I can suffer for them, in Jesus' name. Amen. (Tongues)

28. (Maria: "The Lord will perfect that which concerneth you. He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the Day of Jesus Christ." TYL!—Psa.138:8; Phil.1:6.) Thank you, Sweetheart! Honey, you're wonderful! I'm such a poor instrument and so bad! So terrible! I'm so weak! (Maria: "We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God & not of us. When we're weak then we're strong, for His strength is made perfect in our weakness."—2Cor.4:7; 2Cor.12:8,10.) Yes‚ it's only God, only God! I'm not strong. I'm very weak. I can't suffer very much. It hurts me.

29. Hallelujah! TYL! (Tongues) "The Spirit speaketh through me with things which cannot be uttered!" Do you understand? No, of course you don't. But there will be those who will understand it & hear it. Amen? (Tongues) There are things that are about to happen, not as we think & dream. Great things are about to happen, much more than we think or dream! (Maria: Bad things?) Well‚ yes, bad things. Gorbachev is about to make some very bad & great mistakes. Too bad‚ so sad. That will bring his downfall & the rise of a great dictator, the Antichrist, who promises to solve all troubles.

30. Poor Gorbachev. It's impossible! He cannot. He wants to, but he cannot. (Maria: Why can't he?) Because it is impossible for him to solve these big, big problems! You know that! We know that! Everybody knows that! It's too big. The Antichrist has supernatural powers. He has great great wisdom. He comes & he promises to do it. Poor Gorbachev has done his best‚ but he cannot make it. He's too Christian. The Antichrist will rise & promise to solve them. TYJ!

31. (Maria: Will it be soon?) Oh, I think so, yes, yes‚ yes! Because Gorbachev is making big big bad mistakes against Lithuania. He's trying to keep things together, but he cannot. It is not the Will of God. He cannot do it. He made a big mistake in Lithuania.—And the whole World will know it & he will know it. It's too bad. Too bad! Pitiful! He did it to try to keep things together, but it's too late. He cannot do it. The great Antichrist will arise & promise to do it & they will believe him because of his supernatural powers. Poor Gorbachev tried, but he couldn't make it.

32. (Maria: Will this be the beginning of the Last Seven Years then?) This is the beginning of the End!

SOVIET SYSTEM RUINED!

33. Gorbachev can't reform the Soviet system‚ of course. That's why all the other countries are throwing out the Communists‚ because they know they can't make it unless they do.

34. Lenin ruined two whole generations—probably Satan in person!

SOVIET CRIME RATE UP!

35. The crime rate is now way up in the U.S.S.R. That's what happens when you let the beasts out of their cage!

COMMUNISM SPENT TOO MUCH ON GUNS!

36. Another reason Communism has failed in all these countries is that they spent too much on the military & that's why they can't feed their people. They spent too much on guns instead of butter.

RUSSIA'S CRUMBLING EMPIRE!

37. Russia originally took over many other Soviet Republics by force & forced them to become part of the Soviet Union. Now, with the crumbling of the Soviet Empire, they'll never be able to keep it together unless some strong leader like the Antichrist arises. The lion has been let out of the cage!

THE CHURCH LED THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT!

38. The church & the Christians are the ones who led the opposition & uprising in most of the Eastern European countries. That's where the demonstrators & protestors had their rallies & meetings. The church was their haven. The church led it in every one of them, from Poland to Hungary. But in Romania, for years they taught the Christians not to go against their persecutors & to pray for them & not to rise up against them. No wonder they were the last to be liberated!

HUNGARY!

39. Hungary never submitted willingly to Russian domination, it was beaten into submission, so they've always resented Russian domination.

CURRENTS: U.S. ECONOMY

U.S. REGRETS STARTING BUSINESSES IN ASIA!

40. The U.S. is beginning to regret helping to start all of those U.S. businesses in the "Little Tigers" of Asia (Korea, HK, Taiwan etc.). Now they're seriously competing with the U.S. industries! U.S. businessmen started many of the competing industries in those countries in order to get the benefit of the cheap labour. Now the nationals have learned the techniques & all of the scientific knowledge that they need to carry on‚ & they're becoming the U.S.' biggest competitors, mainly in automobiles & electronics.

WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?

41. The only difference between this Crash & that of 1929 is that it is going down a little slower now because they have a lot of emergency brakes on the economic system, which are supposed to guarantee that they don't have another Crash.

42. They keep trying to hide it & say it doesn't exist, but the Crash goes on! This is exactly the way the 1929 Depression began—the trick is that that money hasn't actually disappeared, it's still around somewhere.—Money like the 100 billion Dollars the Savings & Loan organisations are said to have lost. Where is that money? Money doesn't just disappear, somebody has got it! And the ACs are just that clever, you know! They've got it somewhere! People don't "lose" money. Nobody loses unless somebody else gains. Get it? That's the point!

43. Money just doesn't disappear, it doesn't just go nowhere! So somebody got the money that those Savings & Loan organisations "lost"! Just like in the Great Depression: All those banks & businesses failed & hundreds of millions of Dollars were lost, but where did it go? It didn't just disappear into thin air! Somebody got the money. You can bet your boots it was the ACs & the bankers, the people who foreclosed on all those institutions, the big money boys, who got it all!

AMERICA & THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!

44. If the U.S would cancel all of its military spending on fancy new weapons, they'd eliminate the deficit in no time at all! The deficit is going to destroy the U.S. & destroy the Western economy! But the Americans don't want to reduce weapons, because they know that will also wreck the American economy & cause a Crash!

45. Defense spending is the biggest part of the American budget, about 300 billion Dollars a year!—That means the salaries of hundreds of thousands of Americans. So they don't really want peace, because it would bring economic collapse! The Americans want war because it is more profitable, it's better for the economy! They can't stand peace, they've got to have war, or the threat of it, to survive!

46. If the U.S. made peace with the Soviets, it would destroy their arms industry! It would destroy the Pentagon, the military & the 300 billion Dollars a year that they're spending on the military. It would destroy all their excuses for spending so much on arms & the military & defense & blah blah blah‚ because there would no longer be any reason for it! They know that this huge expenditure on war and "defense" and the military & arms is what's literally keeping their economy going! And if they stop producing weapons, they're going to fall flat on their face!

47. They've got to keep spending these hundreds of billions on the military‚ just to keep the economy going! But if the people don't fear an enemy, because peace has been made, they're going to ask, "Why do we have to spend all of this money on defense?"

48. So they've got to keep cooking up excuses for "Why we must still not believe Gorbachev! Why we must still not believe that the Soviets have suddenly become friendly! Why we must still continue to consider Communism & the Soviets a great threat!" They've got to keep up the propaganda of the threat in order to keep the military & defense industry going & the money flowing!

CURRENTS: FAR EAST

PRAYER FOR SOUTH KOREA!

49. Lord have mercy on poor Korea! Strengthen their government & help them to put down these rebellious riots of wicked students, Lord. They're like devils rebelling against their good Christian president. Help them not to be afraid, Lord! Help them to be firm & to get tough with those rebels, in Jesus' name! They're rebelling against the power & they're demonic Communists!—Absolutely devilish! Lord, help their Christian president to not be afraid to get tough with them & suppress those devils!

50. They throw rocks & fire at the police, Thy officers of the law, Lord! Rebuke those devils, Lord! Protect Thy police‚ in Jesus' name! It's just another "roaring of the waves" (Luk.21:25), tumult of the Devil!

51. These other ones that want to be joined to anti–Christ North Korea are devils, Lord! They're anti-Christ! Help the dear Christian president to put them down, Lord. He's the one that was going to preach the Gospel. He loved You so much, Lord, he was going to go into the ministry, but he was needed in politics. So help him now, Lord! Make him strong! Give him courage to resist the minions of Satan, in Jesus' name!

52. Rebuke those sinful, wicked, idiotic students, Lord! Put them down! Help the government to suppress them with force, if necessary! Force is the only thing they understand, Lord. Lord‚ bless the president & strengthen him with courage & conviction to know that he is right in subduing those rebels against Thy Christian government.—Those anti-Christ Communist devils who throw rocks & fire at Thy police, Thy power! Thank You Jesus! Praise You Lord!

53. Did you know that President Roh has gotten the top three parties together in a coalition? He's united all three! So Lord, give them united firmness to know they're right in cracking down on those anti–Christ devils who want to join anti-Christ North Korea. My God, rebuke them, in Jesus' name!—And help him to conquer them, in the Name of Jesus! Thank You Lord!

54. There are so many devils there! Lord, give President Roh the strength & the conviction & the firmness to conquer them, whatever it takes! Help him to get tough with the Devil, in Jesus' name!

55. It looks like the Devil's forces are all joining together‚ but thank God, so are the Christians! It is forcing the Christians to do the same.

CURRENTS: EUROPE

EUROPE—TARGET DATE 1992!

56. 1992 is the target date for Europe to become virtually one big country with no borders, visas, passport inspections & no immigration problems within Europe. They figure it's costing billions upon billions each year just to operate the border crossings & customs inspections & visas & passports & all that.

57. In 1992, every European is supposed to be issued a European passport which will be honoured throughout all Europe & they'll only have to show it when they go out of Europe or when they come back to Europe, not when going from one European country to another.

58. This is the ideal, what they're planning on. 1992 is also the target date by which they hope to have a truly united European Parliament. They'll have a lot more power, like one big country.

59. That is going to be something if it ever happens. Of course, it probably is going to happen under the Antichrist, when he takes over the World!

CURRENTS: MISCELLANEOUS

THE WORLD IS A TIME BOMB!

60. The World is just like a time bomb ticking away, ready to explode—as if there are only a matter of minutes left. Thank God at least we have longer than that. The Lord's just trying to help us wind things up so He can tick it off & bring on the End.

61. My‚ it must really take some planning, when you think of all the billions of Angels & departed Saints busily working to wind it up. Just think, everybody's got to be where the Lord wants them to be, doing what He wants them to do, prepared for the shock, the explosion.

62. I think the End is really going to be like an explosion! First, the almost total collapse of the economic system, then the revelation of the Superman, then the reorganisation of the World, all according to plan.—And then our flight when things get a little too tough! These Endtime events are really going to happen fast, just like a snowball going downhill, gaining size & momentum till it finally crashes at the bottom!

63. It's amazing that the Lord hasn't intervened sooner, but I can understand why He's got to let it go on, so they'll all learn their lesson. The World's like a runaway child or a runaway horse, it'll have to learn its lesson the hard way. It wouldn't listen to its parents or its trainer, so the Lord's just got to let it crash & realise that it made a mistake.

64. Of course, some of them will never admit it. Some of them even want it to crash & be totally destroyed, but the Lord's not going to allow that. So PTL! The Lord is going to intervene in due season & take control after Man has tried everything else but God!