Cross and the Switchblade's David Wilkerson and food storage

rameumptom · #1 (**permalink**) 03-09-2009, 08:36 AM

David Wilkerson started the Times Square Church in NYC in 1958, to minister to drug dealers and gang members. He wrote about his experience in the Cross and the Switchblade (I read it in the mid 1970s - awesome story).

Anyway, he has a blog wherein he writes that he's concerned about future destructions, and has stored a month's supply of food storage!

Is it that the Spirit is beginning to whisper to the rest of the world, what Mormon prophets have been teaching us for over a century? I hope so.

Hemidakota · #2 (**permalink**) 03-09-2009, 08:40 AM

Perhaps....

Loudmouth_Mormon · #3 (**permalink**) 03-09-2009, 09:39 AM

I doubt it has nothing to do with the spirit. It has to do with the occasional person and group waking up and taking stock of reality.

It's a hard thing for America to take itself out of it's present culture of immediate satisfaction to the most minor taste or food craving. But when you do, and you start looking at the history of the world, you realize that tough times are really not that uncommon, and preparation makes sense.

I suppose the spirit might be at work somewhere, but I'm betting it's more along the lines of some folks using the grey matter God gave them.

LM

KeithLBrown · #4 (**permalink**) 03-09-2009, 10:13 AM

I believe that it is a great possibility, just as some of the things that the medical world is starting to "discover" are things that we have already been taught in the Word of Wisdom.

hordak · #5 (**permalink**) 03-09-2009, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Loudmouth_Mormon

I doubt it has nothing to do with the spirit. It has to do with the occasional person and group waking up and taking stock of reality.

LM

I concur. The most prepared people I know are conspiracy theorist who have little or no belief in God whatsoever. I doubt the spirit would tell them to "get ready for the race war"

Book_of_Mormon_Warrior · #6 (**permalink**) 03-09-2009, 10:37 AM

In 3rd Nephi the Lord Jesus Christ explains what will happen in this nation if the Book of Mormon is rejected and wickedness is allowed to flourish. But that will set off the "Work of the Father", which will be the greatest time in history. Wonderful and terrible times are ahead!

pam · #7 (**permalink**) 03-09-2009, 12:46 PM

Ram, I would like to think it is the Spirit reaching out to others now throughout the world. But in reality, I think with the state of the economy, the state of our country and the state of our world....many are starting to think logically about their own preparations.

Sounds like a great book. Alas, another book to add to my endless "must read" list.

KeithLBrown · #8 (**permalink**) 03-09-2009, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by pam

Sounds like a great book. Alas, another book to add to my endless "must read" list.

Pam it is an excellent book and one that I would recommend reading. There was also a movie made of the book which is also very good.

captmoroniRM · #9 (**permalink**) 03-09-2009, 01:28 PM

What I find funny, is how the Christian world rejects the concepts of modern revelation and modern prophets so vehemently, and yet this guy, and Patt Robertson come out with their "Prophecies" of what is to come. If the Christian world which violently criticizes Joseph Smith for receiving extra-biblical revelations from God, shouldn't they react the same to their own ministers who prophecy of calamities like Wilkerson?

WillowTheWhisp · #10 (**permalink**) 03-09-2009, 01:38 PM

I think David Wilkerson bases 'his' prophecies on hsi study of scripture though - he doesn't claim them as personal revelations does he?