You Need To Pray For President Bush 

I've heard a lot of criticism, and I know you have too, of President Bush. I hope none of this is coming from our people. We should be praying for President Bush instead of criticizing him. There's a lot prophecy concerning President Bush, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Yisrayl Hawkins, shown in the Holy Scriptures for this time period.

In this coming two years, Yahweh shows a lot of things that are going to take place. He shows some things that are going to take place with His House, and His House is going to be recognized at a certain time. There's a prophecy in Daniyl that shows this. It shows when. He also shows that when He gets this recognition is when His House is going to receive this huge influx of people who we're going to be teaching. There will be about two billions of them all together.

If you fall away now, brethren, if you go back out into the world, there's just no hope that I can see in the Scriptures for you. You have a wonderful opportunity right now to enter Yahweh's Kingdom, and be a part of living forever. That's what the plan of Yahweh is all about.

Now, on judgments: I would like to show you or tell you some of Yahweh's judgments. With this thing in Mississippi and Louisiana that took place this week, we saw how shallow the world's love is.

Think of what it says when you have food in a building and you put policemen in front of it to guard the door to keep people from getting that food. The people are hungry and thirsty and their children are starving, but you put policemen in front of the food and shoot the people to keep them from getting it or breaking into the building? To me, that's not caring about anyone or anything.

You can't criticize President Bush in this. In fact, I think he did really well. He's already got help there. If you knew how much trouble it takes to move employees from one place to another and get jobs set up and organization going to where you can take care of mass people like he's doing, you'd see it does take some time. It takes time; it takes a long time to take care of certain things.

In the President's case, he has had to pull men off jobs that they were assigned to and send them to a location. He had to get certain generals to take care of this and certain captains to take care of the ones he's sending to set up a guideline for it. They already have it; it's just a matter of getting men in there to do the job.

We saw the shallow love. We saw, on the television, the people turning on other people. We saw the rapes, the murders, the guns and people going into houses to steal the guns and take whatever they wanted. There was no law enforcement there. That's the only thing that's keeping Christians righteous and keeping them from doing what they would do in certain circumstances. You can see the shallowness in the mindset or they wouldn't have been doing what we saw them doing there.

The lack of preparedness _ and I'm not speaking of the government because I think they acted swiftly in this _ I'm speaking of one of the mayors who was criticizing the president. I won't call out his name but I would say to him what Confucius said, "He who lives in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks." He could have been prepared himself for his city. He knew his city was under sea level; he knew that there was a very fragile dam between them and the ocean.

This hurricane was forecasted in advance. If he had any love that Yahweh teaches in the Holy Scriptures, he would have called in the police and said, "Open these stores. Get those people here. Open these big grocery stores and get these people some food. Put them on rations but make sure they're taken care of.

That would have been Yahweh's judgments. Praise Yahweh. Do you know how I know that? That is the very thing taught in Yahweh's Scriptures. When people were hungry, they even broke a Law of Yahweh and let them eat the showbread, which no one could eat except the priests. They let them eat it because they were hungry, starving and weak.

Yahweh says we should be defending the poor and the needy. Yahweh says in Scriptures that we should be doing that. We saw on the TV people starving. We saw grocery stores full of food and the people trying to break in. We even saw police officers who were breaking into the stores and carrying out the stuff. Other people were shooting at them. This was all going on in America.

We also saw how unsafe it is in America and how fast it can turn to disaster. Here is a city that was relatively calm one day, under police protection as it has to be under this system. It wasn't so under Yahweh's Laws. Then, everyone was taught The Peaceful Solution and everyone practiced it. If they didn't practice it, they got much needed counsel and other things were taken care of to get them back on the right track.

This thing just shows how safe you are and how fragile that safety and security is even here in the United States. Do you think the government can protect you? Under certain circumstances it can't. People can turn overnight. This is the reason I told you that you need to be prepared.

By the way, we have people who lived in Louisiana who came through that. When the warning was announced on the news, these people took the warning because they knew it was going to be bad. They packed their stuff and they left. I don't know if they're here today or not but I do know they made it to Elder Shemuyl's house. Their house was demolished so they have nothing to go back to. They may be staying here permanently. Yahweh willing, we're going to get all of you out of that world one of these days very soon.

Psalm 82:3, You should defend the weak… That's what I said about the people in Louisiana. Why in the world didn'they open those stores and let those people have food and water? Why didn't they call on the nearby cities and say, "Bring us food and water." They could have. They could have gotten that stuff there the next day.

What was the big deal? They have more food than anybody could eat in these cities and storehouses right now. One of those warehouses alone contains enough food right now to have fed all those people in Louisiana and Mississippi. It doesn't take a lot of food per person to survive if you ration the food and water. Why didn't they call on them instead of waiting five days for the government to come down and force something to take place?

Where is the love? As Yahshua said, it's cold. Their mentality is, "No, don't get near my food. You give me some money. Now that this has hit, I want double or triple the money before you touch my can of food." This is the attitude that you see in the world today. It's what you call price gouging.

The Attorney General threatened those who price gouged on the gasoline. He's getting thousands of calls a day about price gouging and has done nothing about it that I know of. Have your gas prices gone down any? Mine haven't. They keep climbing. The money is going somewhere; right?

…and fatherless! You should maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed!… That's what The House of Yahweh does. That's the reason The House of Yahweh stands apart from everyone else.

Excerpt from sermon by Yisrayl Hawkins dated 9/03/05