Tony Alamo
How To Have God's Life Living In You Part 160: Revelation's Seven Thunders, Four Horsemen, and Letters From Malawi
Tony Alamo devotes program 262, part 160 of his teaching series, to a verse-by-verse reading of Revelation chapters ten and six, laying out his own theory of the two witnesses and the four horsemen, while his co-host reads conversion letters from Malawi and Arkansas and a spoken salvation prayer closes the hour.
Opening Prayer and Program Introduction
Tony Alamo opens the broadcast identifying himself as World Pastor Tony Alamo, naming this program two hundred sixty-two, part one hundred sixty of his ongoing series How to Have God's Life Living in You, and reminding listeners a free tape or CD copy is available for the asking at the end of the hour. He leads an extended opening prayer insisting believers are living in the worst time the earth has ever known, that there will be no rapture before the tribulation, and that the tribulation has already begun with pestilences science cannot cure. He describes a great red dragon operating from what he calls the City of Seven Hills, with world government and media as its instruments, and names the ACLU and the Jesuits as branches of what he calls Satan's church that must be uprooted rather than merely trimmed. He asks God to save souls and protect the church, closing in Jesus' name as his co-host answers with an audible amen.
A Recorded Song and Letters From Africa and Arkansas
Once the prayer ends, Tony Alamo plays a recording of himself performing Swing Down, Sweet Chariot, Stop, Let Me Ride with J.D. Sumner and the Stamps, then praises singer P.J. Proby as a friend and, he says, the Beatles' own favorite singer, once billed above Tony Bennett and the Beatles themselves in England under the name Jet Powers before he became Smith. Turning to the mail, his co-host reads a letter from Evangelist Reuben in Luwande, Malawi, describing literature such as Dry Bones and Mass Suicide winning souls in his area and requesting Bibles and taped messages. A second letter comes from Dale in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, who read Alamo's Dry Bones testimony in a newspaper, and a third from Norman, incarcerated at the Arkansas Department of Correction's Cummins Unit, asking for The Messiah booklet. Alamo responds by recalling a television documentary on wrongful convictions and insisting he himself was imprisoned for preaching the gospel, not to escape it.
Revelation Ten and the Mystery of the Two Witnesses
Tony Alamo directs listeners to the tenth chapter of Revelation, offering his own reading that Enoch, the one Old Testament figure who never died, has returned to earth along with his wife to serve as Revelation's two witnesses, ruling out Moses and Elijah since both died once already. His co-host reads of the mighty angel clothed with a cloud, a rainbow over his head, a face like the sun, and feet like pillars of fire, holding open a little book and crying out until seven thunders sound. Alamo tells listeners the voice ordered those thunders sealed up rather than written, and explains they represent seven thousand-year periods of history, with the present age standing at the threshold of the seventh and final thousand years, meaning the earth is not millions of years old as scientists claim. He goes on to accuse the late Pope John Paul the Second of homosexuality and child molestation, calling the papacy itself a false Christ that the Bible warns believers to reject.
False Christs and a Kingdom of Kings and Priests
Alamo warns against false Christs and false prophets, having his co-host read Matthew twenty-four verse twenty-four and Mark thirteen verse twenty-two on deceivers who show signs and wonders, and pointing to a man in Florida who claims to be more powerful than Jesus. He rejects teachings that God's love is unconditional and that natural disasters come from Mother Nature rather than God, insisting scripture never uses that phrase. Turning to identity, he has his co-host, whom he addresses as Sharon, read Revelation chapter one verse six, that Christ has made believers a nation of kings and priests, and argues this means the church itself is the kingdom of heaven functioning inside believers rather than an observable institution. He clarifies that being a priest means interceding directly with God through the one mediator, Christ, not standing as an intermediary over other people the way false religions teach. He adds that the Lord has spoken through him in courtrooms during his own imprisonment, calling himself a continuing witness there.
Finishing Chapter Ten and Opening the Seals
Alamo has his co-host read Second Peter chapter two on false teachers who bring in damnable heresies through covetousness, contrasting them with pastors who excuse sin like adultery in the name of love. Returning to Revelation ten, he takes the little book, finds it sweet in his mouth but bitter in his belly, and is told he must prophesy again before peoples, nations, tongues, and kings, a bitterness he interprets as the persecution and slander every believer must endure. He tells listeners storms eventually pass and vows he will keep swinging at his critics even from inside his coffin. He then moves quickly into chapter six, calling it the beginning of the plagues, and has the first seal read: a white horse and rider given a crown and a bow, followed by the second seal, a red horse taking peace from the earth so that people kill one another, which Alamo connects directly to the September eleventh attacks.
Famine, Death, and a Call to Salvation
As the reading reaches the third seal, the black horse of famine, Alamo applies it to followers of other doctrines starving while the Lord protects his own oil and wine. The pale horse of death follows, and he points to disease, war, and a National Examiner cover reporting former President Clinton near death and repentant over Waco as signs of the times. He argues animals no longer fear humans as end-times prophecy predicted, blaming mad cow disease for what doctors now call Alzheimer's, and reads on through the fifth seal's martyred souls crying out for vengeance and the sixth seal's earthquake, blackened sun, and blood-red moon. Running short on time, Alamo leads listeners in a spoken salvation prayer confessing Jesus as the Son of God raised from the dead, telling them their prayer is heard and answered. His co-host, Sharon, closes by giving the ministry's website, Texarkana, Texas post office box, and phone and fax numbers for a free copy of program two hundred sixty-two, and Alamo signs off recalling the hymn I'll Walk with God.