Tony Alamo How To Have God's Life Living In You Part 161: 144,000 Sealed Jews and Revelation's Trumpet Judgments Tony Alamo devotes program 263, part 161 of his teaching series, to Revelation chapters seven through nine, describing a multi-city newspaper campaign aimed at reaching 144,000 Jews before what he says are the earth's coming plagues. Opening Prayer and Program Introduction Tony Alamo opens the broadcast directly, identifying himself as world pastor and naming the program number two hundred sixty-three, part one hundred sixty-one of his ongoing series How to Have God's Life Living in You. He tells listeners a free copy on tape or CD is available, postage included, and that the day's message comes from the seventh chapter of Revelation, which he says the Lord has given him a strong new revelation about. Alamo leads an opening prayer asking for the Holy Spirit's fire and power to fall on the broadcast, thanking God for a vision of winning 144,000 Jews before the earth's great plagues begin, and asking that listeners' ears, hearts, minds and souls be opened to receive the message and be saved. He asks for the church to be given more power, wisdom and zeal, closes in Jesus' name, and an unidentified woman in the studio answers with an audible amen. A Recorded Hymn and a Call to Educate With the prayer finished, Tony Alamo introduces a recording of his own performance of Exodus, arranged by Joe Leahy with his orchestra and choir, words written by Pat Boone, explaining that the song's promise was never given to anyone but the Jews and still stands because God's word never changes. After the music plays, he tells listeners he feels sad for people who never read the Bible or who read it without receiving it into their hearts, criticizing television preachers who claim God's blessing means cars and material things rather than the call to be soul winners for the bride of Christ. He says the broadcast is for education, not entertainment, that listeners who cannot go into the world themselves should support those who do, and that he has never cared about being liked, only about doing what the Lord tells him, adding that longtime associates who doubt he is of the Lord know better and are, in his words, devils. Letters From Chile, India, and Nicaragua Tony Alamo turns to a co-host he addresses first as Libby and later as Sharon, a discrepancy left unresolved in the recording, asking her to read listener mail before the day's teaching begins. She reads a letter from Rodolfo in Concepción, Chile, thanking the ministry for literature that has produced sincere testimonies of transformed lives across Latin America and asking that the mailings continue. A second letter comes from Benajari in Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India, describing his home as a distribution point for the ministry's newsletters and requesting CDs, Bibles, tapes and t-shirts in large and extra-large sizes. A third letter, from Pastor Silvio in Managua, Nicaragua, says he received Alamo's audio messages and now distributes them among personnel in the Nicaraguan army and government, and asks for a taped copy of Alamo's personal testimony to broadcast on his own radio program. Alamo thanks the letter writers, reminding listeners the ministry belongs to the Lord rather than to him personally. A Newspaper Crusade To Reach 144,000 Jews Alamo describes a strategy he says the Lord gave him: using ministry funds to buy full-page gospel advertisements, built from his own literature such as his personal testimony, Difficult Mountains, Mass Suicide, and his late wife Susie's writing, in major newspapers including the Tulsa World, the Oklahoman, the Arkansas Democrat, the New York Daily News, the San Diego Union, the Texarkana Gazette, the Long Island Press, and papers across Montana. He focuses on the New York Daily News, noting the city's large Jewish population and claiming a single full page has cost thirty-six or thirty-seven thousand dollars, with more than one hundred thousand dollars spent over three weeks, and that phone lines at the ministry's Fort Smith and Los Angeles offices have been ringing constantly. He says he altered some content to get past editors he believes fear angering the Vatican, and instructs street witnesses to carry tear sheets from the papers to show Jewish readers the ministry has been published nationally, hoping to move them to request his booklet The Messiah. Reading Revelation Chapters Seven and Eight Turning to scripture, Alamo has the unidentified woman reading for him work through Revelation chapter seven, four angels holding back the four winds until the servants of God are sealed in their foreheads, followed by the sealing of twelve thousand from each of the twelve tribes and a vision of a great multitude in white robes before the throne who have come out of great tribulation. Alamo insists there is no rapture before that tribulation, warning that lukewarm churchgoers expecting only blessings, not trials, will be disappointed. Moving to chapter eight, the reading covers the seventh seal's half hour of silence, which Alamo compares to the stillness before a tornado, followed by the first four trumpet judgments: hail and fire burning a third of the trees and all green grass, a burning mountain turning a third of the sea to blood and killing sea creatures and ships, the star Wormwood poisoning a third of earth's fresh waters, and a third of the sun, moon and stars darkened, all of which Alamo insists must wait until the 144,000 are saved. Chapter Nine's Locusts and a Salvation Prayer The reading continues into chapter nine, the fifth angel loosing locusts from the bottomless pit with power like scorpions to torment, but not kill, those without God's seal for five months, ruled by the angel Abaddon, also called Apollyon, and the sixth angel releasing four angels bound at the river Euphrates to kill a third of mankind. Alamo connects the torment to judges, prosecutors and abusive spouses he believes will reap what they sowed, and points to earthquakes, tsunamis and the destruction he describes in New Orleans as earlier warnings of the disasters ahead. Noting he has now covered five of Revelation's twenty-two chapters, Alamo leads listeners in a spoken salvation prayer confessing belief in Jesus as the Son of God who died, rose, and can wash away sin, assuring anyone who prayed along that they are saved. Sharon closes with the ministry's website, Texarkana, Texas post office box, and phone and fax numbers for a free copy of program 263, and Alamo signs off performing Israel's national anthem, Hatikvah.