Racism: Who's in the

right? And Who's in the

Wrong?

Larry Nevenhoven

Copyright 2015 by Larry Nevenhoven

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Author's Note
I first wrote Racism: Who's in the Right? And Who's in the Wrong
as a prophetic/teaching series on my blog: www.larrywho.com. Except
for a few grammar changes, it's the same series.
Larry Nevenhoven

Part 1
In the late fall of 1995, a friend and I prayed for Northern Ireland. I
had a vision in which I saw thousands of bodies of young people piled
up in the streets of Belfast. All had their lives snuffed out by the
continued violence between the Catholics and Protestants.
Although we prayed to stop this horrible vision from happening, I
also knew I had an important prophetic word for Northern Ireland
within my spirit, waiting to be given.
Through some divine appointments, I eventually typed out the
prophecy and sent it to the Rev. Cecil Kerr at the Christian Renewal
Centre in Belfast. He later phoned and said the Centre's prayer group
had been waiting for weeks for just such a prophecy. They immediately
began praying it into manifestation.
The problems in Northern Ireland had begun almost 400 years
earlier in 1610. King James I confiscated a million acres of land from
native Irish and gave it to Scottish/English Protestants for the Ulster
Plantation. This, of course, enraged the Irish, fueling numerous
conflicts, wars, and rebellions between the Irish Catholics and
Scottish/English Protestants over the following centuries resulting in
hundreds of thousands of deaths.
In 1995, the most recent turmoil in Northern Ireland had been going
on since the late 1960's. It became known as The Troubles. On the one
side were the Nationalists (native Irish Catholics) while the opposite
side consisted of the Unionists (Northern Ireland Protestants). Also,
there were the Official Republican Army, its more radical spinoff the
Provisional Republican Army, the even more radical Real IRA, British
Army, and countless other radical groups. The violence occurred
almost daily and even spilt over into England, Scotland, Ireland, and
Europe with numerous bombings taking place.
More than 3,500 people were killed in The Troubles and another
30,000-40,000 people were injured.
Looking back on the prophecy I wrote for Northern Ireland, it did not
mention who was right or wrong in the long struggle. Instead, it
pointed out Satan's plan to kill thousands of young people through a
spirit of death and God's strategy to defuse Satan's plan.
The Belfast Peace Agreement was reached on Good Friday, 1998,
ending The Troubles. Although there has been sporadic violence since
then, the agreement remains in affect.
What was God's strategy? And could it stop racial violence, and
even race wars, in America?

Part 2
How do most churches choose new leaders?
They advertise. Review resumes. Check references. Interview
prospective candidates. Listen to them preach. After a lengthy process,
they then choose the one who they feel is the best candidate for their
church based on past and present records of individuals.
How does this compare with the way Jesus chose His twelve original
apostles?
Then as Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named
Matthew at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me." And he
arose and followed Him. (Matthew 9:9)
And as He walked by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew
his brother casting a net into the sea, for they were fisherman. When
He had gone a little farther from there, He saw James the son of
Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the boat mending
their nets. (Mark 1:16, 20)
The following day Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, and He found
Philip and said to him, "Follow Me." Philip found Nathanael... (John
1:43, 45)
From scriptural examples, we can glean how Jesus chose His
original twelve apostles. He walked along and when He saw a topnotch
candidate, He said, "Hey you! Follow Me. You're My man!"
The men responded to His invitation without giving a second
thought to the consequences of their decisions. No background checks
or interviews were involved in the selection process.
How could the Lord make such snap judgments, which then proved
out to be 91.6% accurate? Even His one failure, Judas, was
prophetically mandated by scripture.
And He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of
men." (Matthew 4:19)
And He said to him [Nathanael], "Most assuredly, I say to you,
hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending
and descending upon the Son of Man." (John 1:51)
Jesus chose His leaders, who then became the foundation pillars of
Christianity, by prophetically looking at their futures. Their past and

present lives were seemingly insignificant because who would have

chosen the twelve misfits based on their characters and attitudes at
the time. No one ... except a Man with spiritual eyes that viewed their
future potential as valuable for His kingdom purposes.
Now, this is an important prophetic revelation for us to understand
about why the Lord chooses certain groups of individuals for His divine
plans on earth.
Part 3
In the prophecy for Northern Ireland, I wrote that Satan's plan was
to kill a whole generation of Irish youths, destroying them in the
continuing violence of the 400-year struggle between the Protestants
and Catholics.
Now, knowing Satan's plan helps believers to begin
intercession, but by itself, this is not usually enough. You see, at best,
believers can fall on their knees and cry out for mercy from God and
beg/ask/supplicate Him to move on their behalf. Yes, sometimes this is
all we have and we are thankful for His grace, but in this instance, I
also revealed God's prophetic plan for the Irish youth.
God's prophetic plan was to deliver this particular generation of
Irish youth out of the 400-year muck of hatred, raising up numerous
evangelists, prophets, and apostles from their midst and sending them
out to the nations of the world. These ambassadors of Christ would be
deliverers, cloaked in love, to deliver others of their hatred, bitterness,
and rebellion.
Why is it so important to know God's prophetic plan?
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God (Ephesians 6:17)
The only offensive weapon mentioned for the armor of God in
Ephesians 6:13-17 is the sword of the Spirit. All of the other items
mentioned are for defending the believer from personal attacks by
Satan and his demonic army.
Although there are two main Greek words rhema and logos that
are translated into the English language as word, this particular Greek
word is rhema, which always refers to an utterance or a spoken word.
The utterance can be a scripture spoken aloud or a prophecy.
Okay, how would the prayer group at the Christian Renewal Centre
in Belfast have used God's prophetic plan as a sword of the Spirit to
defeat Satan's plan?
They would have prayed something like this:
"We proclaim the word of the Lord for this generation of Irish youth

to come forth here on earth. We proclaim a move of God to deliver this

generation of Irish youth from 400 years of hatred, setting them free to
be a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own
special people, proclaiming praises of Him who called them out of
darkness into His marvelous light. (1 Peter 2:9) And we proclaim
evangelists, prophets, and apostles to be raised up out of this
generation and to be sent forth to the nations of the earth. We
proclaim all these words to be done in Jesus' name."
All angels, including fallen ones like Satan and his demonic horde,
must obey the word of the Lord according to Psalm 103:20. This does
not mean the battle will be won in an hour or a day or a month or
whatever because there are always attacks and counterattacks. It
takes perseverance, but a prophecy used as a sword of the Spirit wins
spiritual wars.
So, how can this help the inner cities of America?

Part 4
70% of African-Americans live in America's inner cities or inner-ring
suburbs. Most of the following facts refer to that 70% of AfricanAmericans. These facts are not written to throw stones at our inner city
black brothers and sisters, but to eventually, bring glory to Jesus.
1. The abortion rate for African-American women is five times
higher than it is for white women, accounting for 37% of all abortions
in America.
2. 1 in 3 African-American men can expect to spend time in prison
during their lifetimes.
3. 70% of juvenile arrests in America are African-American youths.
4. One third of all welfare recipients are African-Americans.
5. Each year, roughly 7,000 blacks are murdered. Ninety-four
percent of the time, the murderer is another black person.
6. 72 percent of black babies are born out of wedlock.
7. Poverty rate among African-Americans is 36%.
8. The homicide rate among males between the ages of 14 and 17
is nearly 10 times higher for blacks than for whites and Hispanics
combined.
9. The preponderance of school violence in America occurs in bigcity schools attended by inner city black students.
10. Black education is in a state of shambles for elementary and
high schools in most inner cities of America.
Without a doubt, the above facts are discouraging, but here's the

irony of it all:
1. Inner city African-Americans are the most devout Christian group
in America and the difference is 21 percentage points higher than the
next group.
2. African-Americans are even more conservative on the social
issues of abortion and homosexuality than the rest of the population.
So, how can the most devout Christian group in America have, at
the same time, such discouraging statistics?

Part 5
Once I spoke in the West and a Christian told me, "I've been
praying that the Communist government in China will collapse, so
Christians can live in peace."
"This is not what we pray!" said Brother Yun, a Chinese house
church leader. "We never pray against our government or call down
curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control of both
our lives and the government we live under. Isaiah prophesied about
Jesus, "The government will be on His shoulders."
God has used China's government for His own purposes, molding,
and shaping His children as He sees fit. Instead of focusing our prayers
against any political system, we pray that regardless of what happens
to us, we will be pleasing to God.
Don't pray for the persecution to stop. We shouldn't pray for a
lighter load to carry, but a stronger back to endure. Then the world will
see that God is with us, empowering us to live in a way that reflects His
love and power.
This is true freedom.
(The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese
Christian Brother Yun by Brother Yun and Paul Hattaway, 2003,
Piquant Publishing, pages 286-287)
Where are the hottest fires of revival burning right now in
the world? It's in China.
Even though the Communist government continues to crack down
on house churches calling them illegal, even though thousands of
believers are now suffering and tortured in prisons, even though there
is a lack of Bibles and training, Christianity is exploding with new
members each week. It is an out of control fire, burning across China.
Now, I know we American believers struggle with Brother Yun's
thinking about submission to cruel governments. Our roots are sunk

deep into democratic thinking and lifestyles. Even our churches align
themselves with one political party or another. Yet, let's be honest with
each other, okay?
Our brand of Christianity here in America is divided, lifeless, and
there's no revival in sight. Yes, there are all kinds of prophecies about a
great revival heading toward America, but those prophetic words have
been bandied about for over twenty years now. Where's the revival?
Maybe we're doing something wrong. Maybe we can learn
something from our brothers and sisters in China.
After all, who did Rev. Martin Luther King, Junior, model his activism
after? An Asian by the name of Mahatma Gandhi.
So, how can this help America's inner cities with their struggle
against racism?

Part 6
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks sat on a crowded bus in
Montgomery, Alabama, on her way home from her job at a shirt
factory. The bus was segregated with roughly the front half reserved
for white bus riders and the back half for blacks. A sign separated the
two sections. Rosa sat on one of the first seats behind the sign in the
black section.
As the bus continued on its route, it began to fill up with white
passengers. Some whites stood in the aisle. The bus driver stopped
and walked back to the sign. He moved it farther toward the back and
asked four blacks to give up their seats for the white people standing
in the aisle. Three obliged him, but Rosa Parks continued to sit on the
seat.
"Why don't you stand up?" the bus driver asked her.
"I don't think I should have to stand up," replied Parks.
The bus driver called the police who arrested Parks and charged
her with violation of Chapter 6, Section 11, of the Montgomery City
Code. She was taken to police headquarters, where, later that night,
she was released on bail. Her eventual fine was $10 and $4 for court
costs.
Later, Parks stated that she was not physically tired, but just tired
of giving in.
Within days of Parks' heroic stand against racism, the Civil Rights
Movement began with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Most of the
estimated 40,000 black bus commuters refused to ride on the city
buses. They walked, rode in black taxicabs, or car-pooled to work.
Dozens of buses sat idle, crippling the bus line and downtown

merchants as the boycott progressed forward. Segregationists

retaliated by burning black churches and bombing the homes of the
boycott leaders. Black taxicabs had their insurance policies suspended.
Black citizens were arrested just for observing the boycott.
Rosa and her husband, Raymond, were fired from their jobs. They
ended up moving to Detroit, Michigan, where Rosa worked for
Congressman John Conyers as a receptionist and secretary.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott ended on December 21, 1956. The
381-day boycott showed America and black Americans the power of a
large group walking together with truth on their side.
Rosa Parks was the spark needed to set off the Civil Rights
Movement, but another person emerged from Montgomery to become
the dominant voice of that era: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Part 7
God thrusts his prophets into battles, not because the people think
they are ready, but because God is ready to use them as His warriors.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) was just such a
man in 1955, when he became the head of the Montgomery Bus
Boycott.
As the bus boycott continued into its second month, King received
30 to 40 death-threat phone calls per day. On January 27, 1956, King
received a midnight phone call threatening his life. He hung up without
speaking. Unlike the other calls, which he shrugged off, this one
devastated him. He went into the kitchen, made a pot of coffee, and
sat down at the table.
I was ready to give up. With my cup of coffee sitting untouched
before me, I tried to think of a way to move out of the picture without
appearing a coward. In this state of exhaustion, I decided to take my
problem to God. With my head in my hands, I bowed over the kitchen
table and prayed aloud.
The words I spoke to God that midnight are still vivid in my
memory. "I am here taking a stand for what I think is right. But now I
am afraid. The people are looking to me for leadership, and if I stand
before them without strength and courage, they too will falter. I am at
the end of my powers. I have nothing left. I've come to the point where
I can't face it alone."
At that moment, I experienced the presence of the Divine as I had
never experienced God before. It seemed as though I could hear the
quiet assurance of an inner voice saying: "Stand up for justice; stand

up for truth; and God will be at your side forever." Almost at once my
fears began to go. My uncertainty disappeared. I was ready to face
anything.
(Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King, Jr., Beacon Press,
Reprint Edition, 2010)
Three days later, King's house was bombed and his family nearly
killed.
"Strangely enough, I accepted the word of the bombing calmly. My
religious experience a few nights before had given me the strength to
face it." (Stride Toward Freedom)

Part 8
God provides occasions for His prophets to speak, but few have
ever had a door of opportunity opened like Martin Luther King, Jr. did
on August 28, 1963. It was the March on Washington for Jobs and
Freedom at which 250,000 people attended and millions more watched
on TV.
King was scheduled to be the last speaker that day, behind other
speakers and singers, such as Bobby Dylan, Joan Baez, Harry
Belafonte, and Mahalia Jackson. King was allocated five to seven
minutes to speak.
During the day, King was concerned about the short amount of
time for his speech and wondered what he should say. As the time
approached, Mahalia Jackson whispered, "Tell them about the dream,
Martin. Tell them about the dream."
You see, King started working on his "I Have A Dream" speech
months earlier and had used parts of it at various settings. Many of his
colleagues knew about it, but none had ever heard it spoken like that
day. It electrified the crowd and America.
Now, if Martin Luther King, Jr. was truly a prophet sent by God to
speak His message to America, then there is a part of King's message,
which needs to be reviewed again:
"But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on
the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the
process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful
deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from
the cup of bitterness and hatred.
"We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity

and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate

into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic
heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new
militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to
distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as
evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that
their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is
inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone." (I Have A
Dream, Martin Luther King Jr, September 28, 1963)
I truly believe Martin Luther King, Jr. was a prophet of God, whose
words should be followed to obtain the fullness of blessings from God.
Yet, there was another prophet in that time period, too.

Part 9
Malcolm X (1925 - 1965) burst onto the American Civil Rights
landscape in July, 1959, because of a 5-part documentary series
entitled, "The Hate That Hate Produced," produced by Mike Wallace
and Louis Lomax. The subject of the series was the Nation of Islam,
with key interviews of Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis X (now
known as Louis Farrakhan).
Lomax asked if all white people were evil. "History is best qualified
to reward all research, and we don't have any historic example where
we have found that they have, collectively, as a people, done good,"
replied Malcolm X.
With that reply and others, the son of a murdered Baptist preacher
became the most visible spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Unlike
Martin Luther King, Jr. who attended well-known universities, Malcolm X
studied library books while serving a ten-year sentence in a
Massachusetts prison. It was there he became a convert to the Nation
of Islam.
The contrast between the messages proclaimed by Martin Luther
King, Jr. and Malcolm X could not have been greater, especially for that
time period. King emphasized integration, equality, nonviolence, and
Christian values while Malcolm X preached black supremacy, a
separation of black and white Americans, violence when needed, and
Islam.
Quotes by Malcolm X:
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if

someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

"Christianity is the white man's religion."
"Brothers and sisters, the white man has brainwashed us black
people to fasten our gaze upon a blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus."
"The 'long hot summer' of 1964 in Harlem, in Rochester, and in
other cities, has given an idea of what could happen... For all of those
riots were kept contained within where the Negro lived. You let any of
these bitter, seething ghettoes all over America receive the right
igniting incident, and become really inflamed, and explode, and burst
out of their boundaries into where whites live...Black social dynamite is
in Cleveland, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles...the black man's
anger is there, fermenting."
"Our enemy is the white man."
"My black brothers and sisters no one will know who we
are...until we know who we are...The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is
giving us a true identity, and a true position the first time they have
ever been known to the American black man..."
"I am the angriest black man in America."
(All quotes from The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex
Haley, Random House Publishing, 1964)
Most certainly Malcolm X was a prophet of Islam whose messages
shook white Americans and revealed the bitterness, anger, and
frustration black Americans felt from their second-class status. At the
same time, Malcolm X changed how black Americans thought of
themselves.

Part 10
Until the last few months of his life, Malcolm X was a harsh critic of
Martin Luther King's civil rights efforts. Over and over again, Malcolm X
said, "Nonviolence is the philosophy of a fool" and also "While King was
having a dream, the rest of us Negroes are having a nightmare."
How did Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. view Malcolm X?
"I know that I have often wished that he would talk less of violence,

because violence is not going to solve our problem. And, in his litany of
articulating the despair of the Negro without offering any positive,
creative alternative, I feel that Malcolm has done himself and
our people a great disservice. Fiery, demagogic oratory in the black
ghettos, urging Negroes to arm themselves and prepare to engage in
violence, as he has done, can reap nothing but grief.
"In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely
outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the
same unchanged conditions, the same squalor and deprivation the
only difference being that his bitterness would be even more intense,
his disenchantment even more abject. Thus, in purely practical, as well
as moral terms, the American Negro has no rational alternative to
nonviolence."
"I think there is a lesson that we can all learn from this: that
violence is impractical and that now, more than ever before, we must
pursue the course of nonviolence to achieve a reign of justice and a
rule of love in our society, and that hatred and violence must be cast
into the unending limbo if we are to survive."
"I always contended that we as a race must not seek to rise from a
position of disadvantage to one of advantage, but to create a moral
balance in society where democracy and brotherhood would be a
reality for all men."
(The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., Edited by
Clayborne Carson, Warner Books, 1998.
It is my contention that two powerful prophets Rev. Martin Luther
King, Jr. and Malcolm X proclaimed messages to America's inner
cities during the Civil Rights struggles of the 1950's and 60's. Both of
the prophets' words are still echoing throughout the inner cities. One
prophesied the words of life while the other spoke the words of death.

Part 11
Let's say that my favorite son, Edward, was gunned down by a
man, for no other reason, than he wanted a target for his hatred. If I
then hunted the murderer down and killed him with my own gun, that
would be vengeance.
If instead of killing the murderer, I captured him and turned him
over to the police who then put him on trial for Edward's murder and
found the murderer guilty, that would be justice.
If I showed up at the penalty phase of the trial and pleaded that the
murderer would not be executed for murdering my son and if the jury
agreed with my pleas, that would be mercy.

But if after all this, I walked up to the murderer who had been
judged guilty and already had received mercy, and I then grabbed his
hand, took him home, sat him at my dining table, and said, "From now
on, you shall take the place of my son. You will have all his benefits and
will be an heir to all my wealth. I will love you just like I loved Edward."
That is grace, which God freely offers us each day of our lives.
Now, if I were a black American, it would be almost impossible to
overlook the words of Malcolm X and not seek vengeance for the four
hundred years of horrendous treatment by white Americans, which has
helped create who I am today. It would take a miracle not to avenge
myself.
It would even be harder to go along with the words of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. and accept simple justice, and then extend mercy to
white Americans for all of their transgressions, wiping the slate forever
clean of the harshest reparations against them.
Yet, to rise to the next level where I reach out, hold white
Americans' hands, and say, "You're my brothers. I will lay down my life
for any of you and if you need something, just let me know and I will do
my best to get it. My heart is always open to your needs because I love
you," this would be beyond any grace or love I could ever bring
forth.
And yet, this is exactly what I believe the Lord is going to ask from
black Americans.
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in
truth. (1 John 3:18)

Part 12
One of my biggest complaints with the Lord about His messages to
me for the inner cities of America, especially on the West Coast, has
been: "Lord, why not use Rev. Billy Graham or Bishop T. D. Jakes or
some other well-known minister for Your messages? Wouldn't they be
better received than unknowns like me?"
What does scripture reveal on this issue?
In 760 BC, after his experience in the belly of a great fish, an
unknown prophet named Jonah walked into Nineveh, the capital of
Assyria, preaching, "Yet, forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown."
(Jonah 3:4)
At the time, the Assyrians were the main enemy of Israel and
worshipped Ishtar, a cruel goddess of love, fertility, war, and sex. Yet,

the Lord had prepared the Ninevites ahead of time with five years of
plagues, an eclipse of the sun, and other signs, which they believed
were divine judgments from some god.
Therefore, when Jonah preached his message, the people were in
awe that God would use an enemy to warn them ahead of time. The
whole city then turned to God and away from Ishtar.
Now, Jeremiah had a far different journey.
He faithfully prophesied for thirty-nine years to Judah and Jerusalem
under Kings Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah. His accuracy
was uncanny and all of his prophecies came to pass. Thus, you would
think everyone would follow all of his prophetic words, but then he
prophesied the following:
"He who remains in this city [Jerusalem] shall die by the sword, by
famine, and by pestilence; but he who goes out and defects to the
Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be as a
prize to him. For I have set My face against this city for adversity and
not for good," says the Lord. "It shall be given into the hand of the king
of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire." (Jeremiah 21:9-10)
King Zedekiah and other nobles labeled Jeremiah a traitor and
imprisoned him for his words against Jerusalem. No one cared about
his past ministry and prophetic accuracy. His words were ignored by
almost everyone, with just a few defecting to the enemy and then
being saved.
It all boils down to this: God chooses His prophetic voices. He
knows His words will not return to Him void or empty and will
accomplish what He wants done. (Isaiah 55:11)

Part 13
If I had not been there, I would not have believed what happened,
not in a million years.
That particular Saturday morning was Farmer Citys annual
Sidewalk Sales Extravaganza. Crowds of people filled the streets of the
downtown business district. All checked out the sales bargains lining
the tables in front of retail stores. Brown jersey gloves were three pairs
for a dollar at Hesstons Hardware. Dollar General sold Handi-Wipes for
seventy-nine cents a package.
Though the city was populated with nineteen hundred tight-fisted
Norwegian and German-Americans, these blond-haired, blue-eyed

conservatives liked nothing better than saving a buck or two.

My little concession trailer sat on the street in front of the
courthouse. Popcorn, snow cones, and cotton candy were hot items for
the first two hours. Sales slacked off around 11:30 a.m.
I took a break and stood outside the trailer, smoking a cigarette,
when I saw the stranger heading toward me. And if ever a fish was out
of water, it was this man. An African-American in Farmer City. His
pockmarked face was covered with four-day stubble. A jagged scar
stretched from the base of his neck to his left ear and he wore a black
Oakland Raiders sweatshirt rolled up to his elbows, revealing gang
tattoos on his bulging forearms. Plus, he had the thousand-yard stare
of an ex-con.
As he passed by, he nodded at me.
Hi, how are you? he whispered without breaking stride.
Being curious, I turned to watch him.
He walked over to a green bench in the city square and climbed up
on it. Then, he cupped his mouth with his massive hands.
Hey, everyone, listen up. Im holding a healing crusade in Jesus
name this morning. So, if you need a miraculous healing, come over
here, he shouted.
People stopped what they were doing and looked at him. They had
to be wondering who he thought he was, an Oral Roberts or some
other evangelist like that. But believe it or not, the crowd moved
toward him as if he were a Pied Piper.
An eighty-year old lady scooted her walker up to the front of the
group. She looked up at the stranger.
Okay, sonny, lets see you do your stuff, she said with arched
eyebrows.
A slight smile etched his chiseled face. He jumped down, and in one
continuous motion, he grabbed the walker and flung it onto the lawn,
saying, In Jesus name, be healed. Now, dance for Him.
The crowd gasped as she teetered there, her weak legs straining to
hold her up. A man reached to grab her, but the African-American
slapped the Good Samaritans hands away.
Dont help her, he said. Let the Lord finish His work in her.
A few in the crowd booed the African-American, but he paid them
no attention. He knew what he was doing.
Then, it happened. A big smile lit up the ladys face. She
straightened up, kicked one leg up in the air, and then the other. She
followed with a scissors kick, using both legs at once. Tears streamed
down her face as she lifted up her hands and danced on the sidewalk,
praising Jesus for the miracle.
People instantly formed a line in the street. Some were young.
Some were old. There were cripples, amputees, cancer sufferers, heart
victims, mentally ill, and numerous others who were afflicted with
some malady or another. They waited patiently for the stranger to pray

for them.
As the black man moved toward the first person in line, an arm
reached out and grabbed his shoulder. The stranger stopped and
turned around, looking into the face of a blond-haired man wearing a
black suit.
Yes, may I help you? he asked in a deep voice.
Im Reverend Adam Johnson, head of Farmer Citys ministerial
board, said the man. We dont believe you should be holding a
healing crusade just yet. No one knows whom you are accountable to.
Allow us to check out your credentials. And if everything turns out
okay, you can hold some healing meetings in one of our churches next
week.
The smile on the African-Americans face dipped downward.
To whom were you referring when you said we?
Reverend Johnson pointed to six men dressed in dark suits,
standing under an oak tree behind the bench.
Those are the other pastors on our board. And like most pastors,
we just want to protect our flocks from unknown strangers like you.
The African-American put his hands under the armpits of Reverend
Johnson, picking him off the ground. He tossed him as if he were a
basketball over the bench at the other six pastors. The clergy reached
out their arms and cushioned Johnsons fall to the ground.
The stranger stood there, clenching and unclenching his fists, as if
he were deciding further action against the group. Fear crept into the
seven pastors eyes. They stepped back away from him.
Dont you ever get in my way again! I came here to hold a healing
crusade for Jesus this morning and people like you are not going to
stop me. Do you hear me? he proclaimed, pointing a finger at the
pastors.
They nodded in agreement at the mans words and fled the city
square.
The stranger then turned around and began praying for people.
What happened next was unbelievable. It was as if Jesus Himself
was holding a healing meeting in Farmer City. Everyone received his
healing, no one left in disappointment.
When the stranger finished, he walked away. A few tried to stop
him, but he shook them off.
Just thank Jesus and give Him the glory, okay? he said over his
shoulder.
But as he headed toward me, he slowed down and stopped a few
feet away from me. He eyed me up and down for a few seconds as I
puffed a cigarette. Our eyes locked, but neither of us spoke.
I looked away.
The burning love and compassion in his eyes made me feel like I
was standing naked in front of him. He knew the type of man I was and
yet, he still cared about me. Why? I do not know, but I wanted to know.

When I looked again, he was gone.

Part 14
In the mid 1990's, while a member of an inner city ministry, I
prophesied: "I hear a voice crying out in the inner cities of America,
saying, 'I want to be free. I want to be free.'"
I soon had a vision, which revealed a black river flowing out of
America's inner cities, filled with black apostles and prophets. Their
moral characters were at a level never before witnessed in America. No
longer did believers have to gaze back at the John Wesleys, Jonathan
Edwards, Charles Finneys, D. L. Moodys, or whomever for examples of
godly men because these black apostles and prophets raised the bar of
godliness to a level approaching the character of Jesus. Filled with love,
compassion, boldness, and walking in holiness, these black men had
one goal: to do the will of God for their generation.
All had walked out of Egypt: the furnaces of the inner cities. Many
had spent years in prisons for murder, robbery, rape, and other crimes.
All seemed fatherless and raised by a mother caught up in the cruel,
never-ending welfare cycles, which has enslaved generations of inner
city children.
Yet, the grace of God had delivered these men from the spirit of
slavery so that the spirit of adoption had captured their hearts.
(Romans 8:15) Their fatherlessness now ended at the feet of the Abba
Father, who they knew intimately in a way few outside of Jesus
had ever known.
This is the generation of men that all of America is now
awaiting, but it will not come forth without groaning and suffering
pains of childbirth. (Romans 8:22)
So, what price will the groaning and suffering pains of childbirth
cost the inner cities and the rest of the Body of Christ?

Part 15
To the Egyptians, Moses was a backstabbing murderer who fled to
Midian for forty years. He was the poster-boy of why Egyptians should

never treat Hebrews with respect because if they did, Hebrews

wouldn't change, even if wealth and power were handed to them. As
the popular proverb said: dogs always return to their vomit. (Proverbs
26:11)
To Pharaoh, it was more than that because it was personal. Moses'
act of treason brought shame and loss of face to the royal family forty
years earlier. Moses' name was probably spoken by royal family
members in much the same way that Benedict Arnold's name was
mentioned in America after the Revolutionary War: in total disgust.
Thus, when the Bible states God hardened Pharaoh's heart, it is
easy to understand how God did it. (Exodus 4:21) He allowed Pharaoh
to see Moses as a weak, disgusting Hebrew compared to Pharaoh's
deified stature as the incarnation of the god Horus (god of the sky), a
son of Re (god of the sun), and Osiris (giver of life).
As far as the Lord God of Israel, Pharaoh looked at the weakness of
Moses and the slavery of Israel's people and assumed the Lord was a
weak, low ranking God compared to himself and Egypt's many other
gods. After all, Pharaoh could openly see his gods, but he could not see
the Lord God of Israel.
To the Hebrew slaves, Moses' return, at first, encouraged the slaves
because of the signs he performed and his prophetic words to them.
But soon, Pharaoh retaliated against Moses' words by oppressing the
slaves more than ever. Then the slaves reacted in anger toward Moses
because they were discouraged by the brutality they suffered. They no
longer listened to him.
Nice situation for a prophet to find himself, right? So what did God
do?
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a charge
to the sons of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of
Israel out of the land of Egypt. (Exodus 6:13)
The Hebrew word tsavah is translated into the English word
charge in the above verse and more nearly means to put in
command or in charge.
This is what will soon happen in the inner cities.

Part 16
Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be
treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the
standard by which you will be judged. And why worry about a speck in
your friends eye when you have a log in your own? How can you think
of saying to your friend, "Let me help you get rid of that speck in your

eye," when you cant see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrite! First
get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to
deal with the speck in your friends eye. (Matthew 7:1-4 NLT)
Thank God for Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other Civil Rights
leaders who pointed at America's log in its eyes institutional
racism so that changes happened. Was it a peaceful stroll in the
park? No, it was messy, but with rare exceptions, institutional racism is
now a horror of the past.
Rev. King and the other leaders deserve honor and gratitude
because they were types of Moses, sent by God to deliver America
from this horrible sin.
Does racism still exist in America? Yes, and as long as pride
and fear exist, the sin of racism may rear its ugly head at times.
Who has more racism whites or blacks? This question is
irrelevant because both races struggle with the sin of racism, with one
big difference right now: God and His plans.
You see, God's plan for America includes having a black river
flowing out of our nation's inner cities, filled with apostles and
prophets, who will help deliver the rest of the country from racism and
religion. They, in turn, will also be deliverers, much like Moses.
Yet to be deliverers, God will squeeze racism and sin out of these
black apostles and prophets. The squeezing will resemble a hand
squishing a tube of toothpaste to wring every bit of gel out of it. As
with the toothpaste tube, the first bit of squeezing to remove racism
and sin will seem easy, but as it continues, it will be more and more
painful.
To many, the painful squeezing may seem unfair, since the inner
city blacks have suffered through almost 400 years of anguish in
America. But for God, He's looking forward to the finished products:
brilliant diamonds reflecting Jesus to all.

Part 17
Not counting the Bible, I've read Tramp for the Lord by Corrie ten
Boom more times than any other book. The memoir contains stories
from her worldwide travels. A particular one seemed appropriate right
now.
In it, Corrie ten Boom related how she traveled to a church in
Munich, Germany, in 1947, to proclaim the message of God's

forgiveness to the defeated and bombed-out German people. She

stated to them:
When we confess our sins, God casts them into the deepest
ocean, gone forever. And even though I cannot find a Scripture for it, I
believe God then places a sign out there that says, NO FISHING
ALLOWED.'"
Afterward, the German crowd stood up and filed out, few daring to
believe the message's truth. None approached, except for one
heavyset man who moved toward her.
Ten Boom recognized him as one of the cruelest guards at
Ravensbruck, the concentration camp where she and her sister were
imprisoned. She survived, but her sister died because of the guards'
cruelty.
The man stood in front of her and offered his hand. She fumbled in
her purse, not wanting to shake it. Her message sounded glib to her
ears at that moment.
He admitted to being a guard and then said, "But since that time, I
have become a Christian. I know that God has forgiven me for the
cruel things I did there, but I would like to hear it from your lips as well,
Fraulein. Will you forgive me?
Corrie ten Boom ignored the man's hand, not being able to forgive
because of painful memories. It was too big a hurdle, even though she
knew she had to do it. So, she prayed:
Jesus, help me! I can lift my hand. I can do that much. You supply
the feeling.
When their hands finally touched, God's love flooded ten Boom. "I
forgive you, brother, with all my heart," she cried. Then she finished
the story by adding:
I had never known Gods love so intensely as I did then. But even
so, I realized it was not my love. I had tried, and did not have the
power. It was the power of the Holy Spirit...
The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost
which is given unto us. (Romans 5:5
)
This story communicates what God expects to happen when
He squeezes inner cities and how forgiveness of white
Americans will come by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Part 18

By this all men will know that You are My disciples, if you have love
for one another. (John 13:35)
And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves
God should love his brother also. (1 John 4:21)
There are three Greek words translated into the English word
love in the Bible: eros, philia, and agape. Eros is a sensual love such as
the love between a man and a woman. Philia is brotherly love between
believers or friends. Agape is John 3:16 love, or God's love.
For eros and philia love to work properly, it takes at least two
people to agree on the love and respond accordingly toward each
other.
But for agape love to work properly, it only takes one person to
demonstrate it and walk in it. It matters not how others respond to that
person because agape love is an extension of God to others. It can be
accepted or rejected, but it is still agape love.
A person filled with agape love never compares his level of loving
to others, but always compares his love to Jesus and His word.
Who's in the right on racism? Brothers and sisters who walk in
agape love like Jesus commands us to do and enjoy the uniqueness of
God's creation of mankind, knowing Jesus loves each individual and so
must we.
Who's in the wrong on racism? Brothers and sisters who hate
their brothers and, by doing so, are considered murderers by scripture.
(1 John 3:15)
There are no gradations, stages, or degrees between agape loving
the brethren or hating them. It's either one or the other and each
chooses how he will walk. It's not up to our pastors, our political
leaders, our family, our friends, our neighbors, or our culture and race;
it's up to each of us.
This is what I foresee will soon happen in America:
The decades of anger and hatred, which have not been dealt with
by either white Americans or blacks will soon explode into guerrilla
warfare in America's inner cities and then spill over into the suburbs. It
will resemble the warfare fought in Northern Ireland of the 1970's to
1990's.
The anger and hatred will be fueled by America's enemies in the
Middle East, Russia, and China. Guns and ammunition will be supplied
from those sources and also from cartels in Mexico.
The initial onslaught will catch America leaders off guard. They will
fritter away precious time, hoping for political solutions, but while they
dawdle, numerous white Americans will be killed. White Americans will
then assemble militias to fight the black forces, forcing them to retreat

into the inner cities.

It will be a bloody mess.
The Lord has already prepared His own army of men, mainly whites,
who will invade the inner cities during the darkest days, preaching the
gospel and crying out to God for His mercy. These men have been
specifically chosen because they will not love their lives even when
faced with death. (Revelation 12:11) It will be their demonstration of
God's love, which will determine the outcome of the racial wars.
Out of this turmoil, the inner cities will be transformed by the power
of God from islands of hate and hopelessness into modern Goshens
filled with light, love, peace, and God's presence. (Exodus 10:23)

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