Transcript
It’s time to start our service today.
It’s good to be here with you, and I send you all my greetings. I especially greet all my friends at Faith Assembly today. I appreciate all the different ones who have reached out over the past couple of weeks. I know that so many of you are in a difficult situation, and we are praying for you.
Today, we are going to just have another talk. This is not really a sermon, but I am going to talk about a big anniversary this week. This week, December 4th, was the twentieth anniversary of the death of Raymond Jackson. He has been gone 20 years this week. And here in a couple more weeks is another important anniversary. In two more weeks, it will be the 59th anniversary of William Branham’s death. And it is really hard to imagine so many years have passed.
Raymond Jackson, to me, it seems like just yesterday he was here. It is so hard to imagine he has been gone this long, but he has. He has been gone twenty years. I want to talk a little bit about that today. I don’t really have any passage of scripture we will be examining today, but I will read one passage to you. It is from Matthew 24 again, and I will read from verse 44 down to verse 51. It says:
“44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Let us pray.
Lord God, we pray today that You open blinded eyes, that You take and shine a light into the dark places, and help people to see the truth. Let those who are oppressed go free. You told us that we shall know the truth, and the truth will make us free. Jesus, You are the truth. Reveal the truth to us. This we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Introduction
I remember attending a funeral in my youth for another young person who had died. The boy was about four years older than me, if my recollection is correct. His father grew up in the Park. That was Leo Mercer’s commune where they raped and tortured all the children. Their family endured a lot of tragedy. Between the Park and their son dying so young, it was a lot of tragedy. I got to see firsthand the toll that sort of tragedy took on them.
At the funeral for their son, they played a strange song in a style I had never heard before. I recall it vividly, like it was yesterday. “There are places I remember, all my life, though some have changed. Some forever, not for better. Some have gone and some remain. All these places have their moments with loves and friends I still can recall. Some are dead and some are living. In my life, I have loved them all.” That was the first time I had ever heard a Beatles song, and I didn’t even know that at the time.
Playing a Beatles song at the funeral was not the only mistake their family made that day. For some reason, they decided not to ask Raymond Jackson to officiate the funeral. I remember looking at Raymond Jackson several times during the funeral and seeing the unhappy look on his face as a minister from another sect of The Message officiated. Not long after that, I watched as Raymond Jackson confronted the same family during the middle of one of his sermons. He came off the platform and stood directly in front of them. He expressed his dislike for worldly music. Then he started complaining about quote preachers. The whole time, standing right in front of them, staring them down. He never said their names, but we all knew what he was doing. People dutifully obeyed and began to shun that family and talk about them behind their back. Eventually, we ran them out of the church.
And Raymond Jackson knew that family came from the Park. He knew what happened there. We even had Gene Goad come to our church a few times back in the 1990s, who had been the right hand of Leo in torturing and raping all the children.
And if you people at Faith Assembly think you have no connections to any of this stuff, you are very sadly mistaken. Faith Assembly is guilty as sin when it comes to this stuff—both in helping to cover it all up and treating the people who escaped from that place like dirt.
And now, here we are, twenty years after Raymond Jackson died. I want to read you some quotes from Raymond Jackson today.
Before I do, I want to remind you of what was taught to us for decades. Parts of it they are still preaching. But about thirty years ago, the year was 1991, Raymond Jackson had an experience. A light shined over his head, and he heard a voice say, “I will show you the order of my coming.” And from that, he got a divine revelation about how all the events would unfold leading up to the second coming of Jesus. And he preached that to us more times than I can count.
Looking through windows of prophecy was the first time he preached, but he preached it over and over up until he died. And he had a very detailed explanation of how everything would happen, with Bible verses and all to go along with it.
The centerpiece of that was the two days in Hosea 6:2. And next week, I think we are going to look at that piece more directly. But he had some mathematical calculations, which he got out of a book entitled The Coming Prince by Robert Anderson. And he never told that part to us; he never said he got it from a book. He said he got it all when a light shined over his head. But he took those calculations, and he told us the two days of Hosea 6:2 would end in the middle of 2005, and that the week of Daniel would start then. And he also told us the rapture would happen right around the same time.
He told us, leading up to that, there would be George Washington’s vision, and America would fall. That there would be a miracle war in the Middle East, and Israel would conquer the Middle East and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. That Russia, Iran, and Turkey would attack Israel in the middle of that, and there would be a second war. And then the two prophets would appear, and the week of Daniel would begin.
That is a real simple summary of it. And he spent… I don’t know how many hours explaining that over and over and over. Hundreds and hundreds of hours explaining all that.
And by his teachings, the rapture should have happened about twenty years ago now, and we should be living in the millennium today. And all kinds of things were supposed to happen—but none of it ever did.
And where we stand today, a lot of the things he said were supposed to happen are not impossible. The miracle war he said was supposed to happen cannot happen. It is impossible for the miracle war he described to actually happen now. What has happened over the past year in the Middle East makes it impossible.
And there have been men, who are inspired of Satan, who have been lying to you the past year, telling you Israel is fulfilling the miracle war and this and that thing Raymond Jackson said. And they are bold-faced lying to you. What is happening in the Middle East is a million miles away from that light which shined over his head gave him. And what has happened this past year, it is no miracle war. Thousands and thousands of Israeli people were butchered. There was nothing miraculous about it at all. And now, here we are today, and this round of fighting seems to be pretty well over. Hamas is destroyed, there is a ceasefire with Lebanon, and it seems like it is over. And there is no temple. And Israel didn’t change its borders. And the Muslims are still Muslims. And the alliances and order in the Middle East is very different from what Raymond Jackson said it was supposed to be.
And we can say definitively, that Raymond Jackson deceived us all. He deceived us about that whole thing. And there may be wars in the Middle East in the future, and maybe the Jews will rebuild their temple, and maybe the borders of Israel will change. But it is not going to have anything to do with what Raymond Jackson taught, because he was very, very wrong. And he deceived us.
We already know it didn’t happen on his timeline. And today we know it all cannot happen according to the order of events he gave either.
I want to read you a few quotes from Raymond Jackson. This first quote is from 1997, the sermon is The Cup of Trembling. Raymond Jackson said, quote:
“The end terminates about the year 2004 and a half.”
Brothers and sisters, it don’t get any plainer than that. Let me read you another quote. This is from the sermon Unity, from June 12, 1994. Raymond Jackson said, quote:
“We don’t have another 12-15 years.”
Brothers and sisters, it is plain as the nose on your face what he was saying. Let me read you another. And you notice, all these quotes point to the 2004 ½ date. This quote is from Meat in Due Season, Part 6, preached December 15, 1991. Raymond Jackson said, quote:
“I have to say we don’t have another 10 years.”
Brothers and sisters, I could sit here for two hours and read you quotes like that. Hardly a week went by that Raymond Jackson was not telling us the end would happen in 2004 ½. And the people who tell you otherwise, they are wicked liars.
And that includes James Allen. He is about the most wicked liar of all when it comes to this stuff. And he kept it going after Raymond Jackson died.
Let me read you a couple quotes from James Allen. This is from James Allen’s sermon on May 8, 2005. This was one month away from Raymond Jackson’s start of the week of Daniel. James Allen said, quote:
“We better be getting our mind made up now, because we don’t have a lifetime in front of us. We don’t have another year in front of us.”
James Allen said that in May 2005. “We don’t have another year in front of us.” James Allen, you are a wicked liar.
And James Allen kept that going on and on. Let me jump a few years ahead. This is his sermon on January 4, 2009. James Allen said:
“People don’t have five years to make up their mind. You don’t have another year.”
Brothers and sisters—Faith Assembly is a doomsday cult. I could read you quotes like that for hours.
And what does this make them? It makes them what we read in the opening passage. These are men who say, “My lord delays his coming.” James Allen has said, “My lord delays his coming” more times than I can count. And so have lots of these other false preachers too. And you know, the only reason you would ever say, “The Lord delays his coming,” is because you first set a doomsday day. You had to first set a date. Otherwise, you can’t say he delayed his coming. But that is exactly what they have done, over and over and over.
And when people like you and I point out this stuff, when we say, “Hey! You guys are lying to us. You guys are deceiving us,” then they fulfill the verse again. They beat and smite their fellow servants. You look at what they did to me. They are fulfillers of those words. They keep setting dates, over and over. And they keep having to say, “My lord delays his coming,” over and over. And they beat and smite anyone who points out they are lying.
You and I are not the people who say, “My lord delays his coming.” It’s them. They are the ones who do it—the doomsday teachers.
Was it the spirit of God which motivated James Allen to lie to us like that? Was it the spirit of God which caused Raymond Jackson and James Allen to both tell us the end was in the year 2005? Was it the spirit of God which then made James Allen tell us we imagined all that, and it never happened? Was it the spirit of God which made James Allen run out of the church everyone who refused to accept his lie?
And the answer is no. It was not. We know who is the father of lies. It was not the spirit of God motivating these things. It was the spirit of the devil.
And you can hem and haw, and twist yourself into knots, and make up new lies and new false doctrines to try to excuse your old lies and your old false doctrines. But the fact of the matter stands: we were lied to for decades by James Allen, by Raymond Jackson, and by many of the preachers we listened to. And none of them want to take responsibility or accountability for what they have done. And just the opposite, they have undertaken to harm, injure, slander, and disparage anyone who calls on them to repent of what they have done. Their behavior has been wickedness upon wickedness. And they don’t even blush over what they have done. And they say they would do it all again.
And that is all the proof we need to know they are of the devil when it comes to these lies.
And the past twenty years have been twenty more years of date-setting. People have set dates over and over since he left.
And you think none of that is a big deal? And if you think that has not terribly affected people’s lives, you are crazy. This stuff has had a terrible negative impact on many people. Not least of all because of the smiting, abusing, and slandering that those wicked leaders carry out against their fellow servants.
And to all my friends at Faith Assembly who are listening today, and I am talking to my friends who have not woken up yet: How long are you going to keep letting yourself be fooled? How long are you going to let people keep lying to you?
When are you going to wake up? You are not the bride of Christ. He does not have to fix you. It’s not getting better; it’s getting worse. You have not been sitting on top of the most glorious revelation all these years. You have been sitting on top of a mountain of lies.
When are you going to wake up? When are you going to look around you and look at all the lives you have destroyed in the name of your false beliefs? When are you going to repent and turn away from these lies?
You are smarter than this—I know you. Hundreds—thousands of Message believers—I know you personally. You know me personally. I know you are smart people. How long are you going to keep swallowing this stuff? And just because you are not taking it to a radical extreme, you need to look around you and realize that there are other people around you who are.
You need to look around you and realize some of the people sitting in this building with you are stockpiling weapons. Some of the people sitting in this building are harming other people in the name of this thing. Some of the people sitting in this building around you have lost touch with reality. And those people are putting you at risk. They are putting you, and your children, and family in danger.
People are dying. People have died. Irene Crase is dead today because Message preachers were complicit in denying her medical treatment. She is not the only one. Clint Macintosh is dead, dead at 35 years old. What do you think happened, brothers and sisters? How is it that you keep being unable to recognize what is happening around you? Julia Elliss got Covid because of Faith Assembly Church, and she died a premature death because of the way that impacted the breathing condition she already had. You know, I could sit here, and I could name about twenty-five people who are dead today—because of Faith Assembly Church.
And it’s not just Faith Assembly where this sort of stuff has happened. It’s happened at the church in Moncton. It’s happened at the church in Fairhope. Suicides. Murders. Child molestations. The leaders have broken up homes and marriages—all in the name of these false doomsday beliefs. All because of 2004 ½. All because of the two days. The third day.
You are guilty. James Allen, you are guilty. Steve Yahraus, you are guilty. David Jackson, you are guilty. And the demon that lives inside of Kevin Crase is also guilty. The demon that screams at you every week, and none of you have the discernment to recognize it.
I want to encourage you all to flee to Jesus. Flee that system of false religion you are in. That false message is not going to save you, but I will tell you what it might do to you. It might do to you the same thing it did to Clint MacIntosh. It might do to you the same thing it did to Sean Gainey. It might do the same thing to you it did to Danny Johnson. It might do the same thing to you it did to Irene Crase. I could keep going.
I remember back when Sister Tuley got broken. How many of you listeners remember that? We sat there, and Raymond Jackson said, “Everybody look straight ahead. Nobody look left, nobody look right, look straight ahead.” And we all sat there at attention, like little soldiers. And Raymond Jackson ripped her to pieces and threw her out of the church. And she was never the same after that.
You know how many people have been cracked by Faith Assembly? I lost count of how many people Faith Assembly has cracked. And you think of Sister Cease—when they did that to her, and then she went home and attempted to commit suicide. And when she came back to church, and they did it to her again, she went home and tried to commit suicide a second time. They had to put her in a mental hospital. Do you people even grasp how many times these sort of things have happened?
And you just sit there and smile and pretend like everything is fine, and like I am making it all up. And pat each other on the back. And tell the murderers how much you love them. And tell the liars how much you appreciate being lied to.
How are you going to explain that to the Lord? When you stand before Jesus, and he says, “Look over there,” and he points out people you have treated like dirt. People you ran out of your church. People you destroyed their lives. People you drove to suicide. And Jesus asks you why you did that, do you think saying something about the two days is going to matter? Do you think saying, “It wasn’t up to me, it was up to the preacher,” will help when Jesus asks you why you sat around and did nothing? Why you sat around and went along with it? What are you going to say?
Because to me, you can lie. You can say it never happened. But you are not going to be lying to Jesus on that day. You can gaslight me. You can tell me it never happened. But you are not going to get away with it when you see Jesus.
Brothers and sisters, here we are. It’s December of 2024. These people have been predicting the end of the world pretty well every single year for the past 25 years, and they are still predicting it now. And you have absolutely destroyed homes, destroyed lives, killed people, caused divorces, drove people to suicide in the name of this thing over and over. And I was right there with you helping you do it for years. God have mercy, I am just as guilty as you are. But if you don’t repent and change your ways, it’s not going to be a good ending.
And here is the thing: Time is going to go on. And James Allen is going to die of old age, and so are most all the other preachers who are feeding you these lies. And I am still going to be here. And those of my generation are still going to be here. And a lot of people who were victims of this whole false system of religion are still going to be here. And we will absolutely have the last word on all this. And everyone, for all time to come, are going to fully know that you were a cult. You were harming and even killing people. That you made false prediction after false prediction. And that you never once lifted a finger to do anything about it. And you never once repented or turned away from it. And that is going to be your legacy. That is how your children and grandchildren are going to remember you all.
And for all your lying today, it will amount to nothing. You will be remembered as liars who caused great harm to others. And that will be the truth.
And if that is the legacy you want to leave behind you, if that is a witness you think Jesus Christ is proud of or pleased with, then you go ahead and you just keep supporting that false religion. And you can explain it all to Jesus when you come before his throne.
I would like to close by reading to you Matthew 24, verses 4 through 6. Let me read it to you.
4 And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am of Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
These false preachers in the Message are just fulfilling scripture. They are leading you astray with all their obsessions with wars and rumors of wars, all their date-setting. And you know what? Eventually, the Lord will come. He will. And if we always say he is coming this year, well, eventually, one year, we will be right. But you were still a liar the twenty-five years you said he was coming. You were still a liar teaching false doctrine all those times you said he was coming and he didn’t. And you are still responsible and guilty for all the harm and destruction you carried out in the name of those false predictions.
And if you think behaving yourselves in that way, and following all those lies all those years, makes you the most holy, most elite, bride of Christ, you are just a fool. Believing themselves to be wise, they have become fools. Think not to say you have good heritage, but bring forth fruit that is evidence of repentance. Turn away from your false message and come to faith in Jesus, because he alone can save you.
Let me ask you this: Do you think just because your very last prediction was right, that Jesus is going to let you get by the other twenty times you were wrong? Do you think he is going to say it’s okay that you misled people for decades, because you finally got it right on your last prediction?
And let me ask you this also: Do you think that God, if God was going to reveal to people when he was coming again, do you think he would choose to use men who have been wrong the last twenty times in a row? Let’s be honest. God is not going to send someone to send the boy who cries wolf to warn you a wolf is coming. That is contrary to scripture to think that could ever happen.
You follow these men at your peril. They have cried wolf more times than I can count, and there was never a wolf. That makes them false teachers and false prophets. And unless they repent of that, we make ourselves a fool to ever trust them again. And they make themselves wicked deceivers to go on with this stuff pretending like they never cried wolf the last twenty times already.
And one day, God will hold them all accountable for what they have done. Whether in this life, or the next, they will answer for every life they have destroyed to perpetuate these lies. And that, brothers and sisters, is something we can be perfectly assured of.
Amen.
Let me close here in prayer.
Lord God, You see these wicked men who are wreaking destruction in the name of their false religion beliefs—Steve Yarhaus, James Allen, Kevin Crase, and many more. You see the lives they have turned upside down and destroyed. You see the people they have harmed and abused and treated wickedly, even the people who are dead today because of their actions. Lord God, we pray you convict their hearts, and cause them to repent of all their evil. But Lord, if they repent not, we pray you visit swift judgment on them, so that the innocent may go free. And we pray that you shut their lying mouths. And we pray the truth of their wicked deeds be spread far and wide so that as many people as possible may know to steer clear of these dangerous men. This we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.