The Fate of America
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In “The Fate of America,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about Bible prophecy, divine judgment, faith. Drawing especially from Ezekiel 13, John 4, Acts 13, Revelation 12, the teaching emphasizes that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered.
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Odle focuses on healing and faith. The message argues that the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God. It connects this with the conviction that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on divine judgment. The message argues that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. It connects this with the conviction that material stewardship reveals priorities and should be governed by generosity, integrity, and obedience to God. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on divine judgment. The message argues that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. It connects this with the conviction that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Ezekiel 13. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that biblical love is demonstrated through truth, patience, sacrifice, and conduct toward others. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through John 4, Acts 13. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. The practical emphasis is to respond with honest repentance and concrete obedience.
Odle focuses on the condition of the church while working through Revelation 12, Daniel 11. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on spiritual vigilance while working through Luke 12, Luke 21, Zephaniah 2. The message argues that believers are urged to remain sober, alert, prayerful, and ready amid spiritual danger. It connects this with the conviction that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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faithful and just to bring judgment down right now well we need your mercy jesus name amen you may be seated you know i was at the browns river revival quite a bit from 1996 until 2000 and i saw many thousands of people at the altar weeping their eyes out repenting when that song was played there at the end lord have mercy but we are now 11 years past the end of that revival and america still hasn't changed we're 10 years past the attacks of 9 11 and america still hasn't changed we've had nearly 10 years of war and america still hasn't changed i've been really wrestling with what god wanted me to preach this morning um but i have to go ahead and preach this this morning and i have to say that god's been stirring me about this all week to the point of last night and this morning when i got up at 5 00 a.m that i just i'm like lord i don't want to preach that but the lord said you need to you need to preach that because we need to understand the gravity of the situation okay america has passed the point of no return judgments are about to fall upon our nation such as we have never seen before yesterday i read excerpts from a wall street journal article and you guys know that the wall street journal is not one to try to stir uncertainty in the markets but it blew my mind that they said this in the wall street journal that the unthinkable in america could happen by 2012. the unthinkable and what they were talking about was fifty percent unemployment a hundred percent inflation a stock market crash of ninety percent or more that's just one judgment now those of you that have been coming to this church know that i shared a dream with you that i had back in 2008 of two
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bears and one god spoke to me very clearly and he said that the crash the market crash of of 2008 the housing market and the banks that closed was baby bear but that mama bear was coming i just want you to know that if the wall street journal thinks the unthinkable can happen by 2012 we are in a critical situation i'm going to tell you something else that i believe that god has shown me since i was 16 years old i believe that there will be nuclear bombs go off in america in certain cities and i just want you to understand that god's judgment that's going to come on our land doesn't mean it's the end for all of us okay there's a remnant if you can if you can believe it it's going to be bad and i'm going to tell you i what's amazing is that this has been stirring in me all week and this morning when i was up early how many of you heard of the evangelist a.a allen they called him the miracle man back in the 50s man used to have a huge had a huge tent seated about 10 000 people and that was back during the great healing revival all those healing evangelists and and a allen to me was probably one of the most powerful ones among them in the gift of the working of miracles um there's a story i've heard of him just to give you a little background on him before i tell you what he said but in 1955 he did a meeting in birmingham alabama of all places he used to travel all over i think he was from texas but he did a meeting in birmingham alabama that was packed out and they had a section over here full of people in wheelchairs that couldn't walk or were either too ill to walk crippled they had a they had a section full of people on stretchers pretty much dying of different diseases like cancer and things numerous people in the building i mean they came to be healed jesus was really moving from 1947 to 1957 was a real move of of healing and miracles the real thing in america a lot of those healing evangelists because they got so popular and were so sought out and money was flowing many of them ended up getting off but they weren't all phonies and a allen was a real one but anyway in this meeting a mother brought in this little paralyzed this deformed child basically was born blind hadn't walked couldn't speak uh was about not quite two years old and a allen operated he was a prophet and i may talk about that what it means to be a prophet but he was a prophet he
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operated in the word of knowledge and visions and discerning of spirits and and and the the god just flowed in it and um i've seen footage of his meetings where crippled people just get up and run out that you know run around the building it's just awesome to see we've seen a little bit of that happen down at the the revival in mobile with the woman that was in the wheelchair for 23 years from a car accident got up and walked and god's able to do that amen i've seen that happen with my own two eyes but in this meeting he didn't know the building's crowded and he took up an offering and you know he he basically said to somebody he goes this this may be your last money that you have in your pocket but god is telling you to give it and this lady had 20 dollars in her pocket and that was her money to get home on the bus and she felt god tell her to give it so she left the baby and asked somebody to watch the baby and she went and put that in the offering the moment she turned around and walked back a doll he said i see i mean he just went to the spirit he said i see a baby that was born with all these different diseases blind hasn't walked have it hasn't spoken bring that baby up here that woman crying in tears brought that baby up there how many of you heard of r.w schambach r.w schambach used to lead music for a allen he said and he tells this story i saw this with my own eyes he said hey allen said bow your heads and close your eyes and pray with me but hey rw said i'm gonna watch him pray hey alan took that baby and began to pray and the the little gray eyes began to swirl and he watched r.w schambach said i watched the eyes form i watched the feet straighten out i watched all the disease everything and that baby he dropped that baby to the floor and ran to its mother and said mother for the first time the moment that baby hit the floor and did that everyone in the wheelchair section got up healed everyone in the stretcher section got appealed and everyone in the building was healed that's a allen for you okay anyway a allen had a vision in 1954 that incident happened in 1955 he had a vision in 1954 of the destruction of america i'd never heard it never read it never seen it until this morning um and he saw nuclear missiles he saw nuclear bombs going off but before that he saw the statue of liberty staggering and let me just say we're staggering folks they're not going to fix the problem in washington you we we haven't learned the lessons of history germany
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germany pre-world war two even england we haven't learned the lessons you know you can't spend more than you take in you can't print money you don't have silver and gold to back you can't let certain things happen economies crash empires crash and i just want to say to you it's it's a depressing thing i know it's disturbing but i just want to tell you this morning life as we know it as americans is going to change forever and it is the judgment of god for our stubborn rebellion for 4 000 abortions a day for rampant homosexuality adultery fornication immorality drunkenness partying reveling we're like belshazzar we're having a party right before judgment falls the handwriting has been on the wall for america i want you to turn turn with me to second chronicles let's read this true prophets have always told the truth about judgment coming i hate to keep pressing this issue but god will not release me from it believe me i would like to preach something a little more cheery this morning but there's a reason we're going here with this second chronicles chapter 36. we're going to start reading from verse 11. and jeremiah had been pleading with the children of israel he'd been pleading with judah to repent to the kings and the prophets he had been confronting false prophets and compromised priests and the sins of the people and jeremiah had been crying out for decades for them to amend their ways to repent to change that maybe god would change and not bring the judgment upon his own people and do you hear me the judgment god was about to bring in this in in jeremiah's day was upon his own people upon not not israel in the north but upon jerusalem in judah upon his own people and he was in jeremiah was warning them for decades change your ways get rid of the idolatry
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