Entitled, "The Most Important Issue of This Hour," his June 2, 2008, commentary started: "Christians all over the world have a sense we're living in the final days. The mounting crises, the growing fears, the signs of great shaking — all these things are evident, even to secular commentators. Now, for every follower of Jesus, the question of the hour is this: 'Will my faith endure what is coming?'

"I believe the most important issue of this hour has to do with what is called 'enduring faith.' Simply put, will the faith of God's people endure the terrible shaking of all things, the intense trials and testings to come, which no previous generation has faced?"

He went on:

"Ten years ago, I wrote a book entitled, America's Last Call: On the Brink of a Financial Holocaust. In that book, I warned of the following events:

-There would be a meltdown of the bond market.
-God's judgment would strike suddenly on the U.S. economy.
-A brief, false sense of prosperity would precede the coming
economic collapse. (This short flicker of prosperity would be God's
final mercy call before the chastening to come.)
-There would be a real estate meltdown, with a market made up of
mostly sellers and very few buyers. Multitudes would lose their
homes to repossession.
-There would be an ominous rise of homosexual power.
-A sudden storm of confusion would take place on Wall Street.
-God's watchmen and prophets would be silenced.
-The U.S. dollar would collapse.
-America would lose control of its economy. To date, China has
loaned America hundreds of billions of dollars. We have become
the world's number one debtor nation, no longer in control of our
finances.
-Along with many other watchmen, I see that the greatest shaking
of all is still to come.
-What we are about to witness upon the earth will affect every person living. The world is going to see a temporary calm, with relative stability, causing many to say, 'The crisis has passed.' But in truth, the real panic will still be ahead of us.

"Right now, a political madness is gripping America. Think about it: it is utter madness for politicians to promise all kinds of new, multibillion-dollar programs, while the Fed is scrambling to keep the nation's head above the rising flood of debt.

"Yet, for the church of Jesus Christ, the real issue is not economic collapse. It isn't even about who presides over the nation. Rather, it is all about enduring faith..."

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