America's Last Call [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

David Wilkerson, unlike some reviewers of this book, and one in particular, get a little testy with his gloom and doom scenarios, but it isn't like he wants to do this. Like I've said in another review, if you don't like it, E-mail him, or attend his services at Times Square Church in New York City. Martinezboy obviously thought that a few "Holy Ghost stock tips or trader buys" might be more in line with what he was looking for, but maybe he ought to get his priorities in order. A prophet is not supposed to make you feel good. Examine the Scriptures and see if the prophets spoke to make you feel like a million bucks. Not John the Baptist, not Isaiah, not Jeremiah, and not the others. Read this with a discerning heart. It is powerful stuff, and unlike an earlier reviewer...I say buy this book and the Cross and the Switchblade, but don't fall in love with America's stock market or economy. "We seek a city to come. This earth is not our home." Is that negative thinking? Check out the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life.

Having had no new visions, no new dreams, nor special revelations relative to the end of our current age (see also, THE VISION: A TERRIFYING PROPHECY OF DOOMSDAY THAT IS STARTING TO HAPPEN NOW (1974), David Wilkerson looks now to the lessons of biblical history to demonstrate and conclude that the United States of America is over-ripe for imminent divine judgment characterized in this writing as a dramatic economic meltdown. Perhaps, THE leading Christian prophetic voice of our time declares: "The American Dream is going to turn into the American nightmare. It will occur suddenly--without warning--and no one will be able to explain how or why it happened" (back cover excerpt).

In AMERICA'S LAST CALL, ON THE BRINK OF A FINANCIAL HOLOCAUST (hereafter, ALC) (Lindale, Texas: Wilkerson Trust Publications, 1998), the seer-author examines the writings of the Old Testament to make the case that Israel and Judah, Sodom and Gomorrah, and even the antediluvians of Noah's day all evidenced a common condition as the prelude to their respective destructions. The final common condition that preceded God's destructive judgment upon these civilizations was "economic prosperity," or at least a "false prosperity," that would shortly give way to disaster. According to the seer, this condition has existed in the United States for ten years now and is due to give way at any time. His insight may come as a shocking and unanticipated surprise to many Chrisitan readers who so often interpret material abundance, and prosperity in general, as a sign of God's unmixed blessing and sanctioned approval of them personally and our socitey at large. This kind of incredulous and unbelieving response, the seer argues, is exactly the same response that God's "chosen people" of Israel and Judah gave to the prophets that God had sent to warn them concerning their respective destructions. Many Christians and their pastors will find chapter eight ("Misreading the Times") especially unsettling because the warning of calamitous upheaval and reversal of personal or national fortune is so nearly unthinkable especially to those who may have begun to enjoy and rely upon the fruits of their earthly abundance more than is appropriate for a child of God destined for heaven.

The prose of ALC is easily read and is composed in the seer's usually compelling style. I highly recommend ALC be read by everyone concerned about the "economic signs of our times," and how they relate to God's judgment upon the United States. The message of this 141-page book is concisely contained in the following ten descriptively titled chapters:

1. America's Last Call
2. The Crippling of the American Economy
3. America has Crossed the Line
4. Payday for the Shedding of the Blood of Innocents
5. The Ominous Rise of Militant Homosexual Power
6. The Prophets have Warned Us
7. Historical Warnings: The Destruction of London
8. Misreading the Times
9. Perfect Peace in a Time of Panic
10. Knowing God's Voice: The Secret to Surviving the Coming Crash

Pastor Wilkerson looks even more prophetic now. The news last week is exactly what this book predicts.