David Wilkerson’s 1973 Prophetic Vision Now Playing Out Before Our Very Eyes?

You may have heard of David Wilkerson’s 1973 prophetic vision before…

It’s quite famous.

I’ve covered it here before.

But someone has taken his entire prophecy and put it against images of current events and the way it syncs up to what we’re currently seeing in the news (and have been for several years) is stunning!

I thought this was so good I wanted to share it with you.

I will also include the full transcript below, but I really encourage you to actually watch the video so you can get the full impact.

Please enjoy:

TRANSCRIPT:

Speaker: David Wilkerson

I really saw, I believe, call it vision, or word from the Lord.

Two weeks in a row, every night, an awesome sense of calamity coming to the nation,

a result of all of its sin, rampant sin.

I talked about cars and houses not being able to be sold.

I talked about a flood of filth on television that was coming,

programs that would be incubated in hell.

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We’re going to see the devil glorified on television.

We’re going to see nudity on prime time television.

And it’s the prophet Nahum’s prophecy coming to pass.

God said, “Behold, I’ll pour abominable filth upon you.”

Now, that doesn’t mean that God has a reservoir of smut and filth,

but the devil does and the Holy Spirit’s been restraining it.

But men are clamoring for nudity, streaking filth, dirty television programming,

and they’re going to get it.

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I’m not a prophecy expert.

I’m not a prophet.

But I got a historical view of how God deals

with nations who reach what I call flashpoints.

When they reach these certain points of violence, for example,

when the nation became violent, God said, “I’ll destroy it.”

And once again, all through the Old Testament, “you eat violence.”

And every time Jerusalem, Israel, Babylon became violent, God destroyed it.

I saw the moral landslide that happens,

permissiveness and sexual morals, rampant homosexuality, all of these things.

The prophet Nahum, for example, came to Nineveh.

Jonah preached and Nineveh repented.

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A 150-year reprieve was given to Nineveh.

And now comes the prophet Nahum, and he said, now God’s going to destroy you.

And I’m going to give you five reasons.

He said, you become an alcoholic society.

“You become drunken.”

He said, “Your men have become as women.”

Now, that fits here today so much that we call it bisexual.

He said, “Your leaders have become as grasshoppers.”

In other words, they won’t make decisions.

They promise everything to everybody.

He said, “You’re running to and fro.

Your shepherds have begun to slumber.”

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They’re sleeping.

“And your people are left empty and void and wasted.”

Now, how can God destroy Nineveh for these five sins

and allow us to commit the five same sins

rampantly and get away with it?

There’s no possibility of that.

The prophet Azariah came to Jehoshaphat.

He says, “As long as you trust God, God is with you.

The moment you forsake God, God forsakes you.”

And at that point, America is in trouble.

And if we do not have, from our government leaders now,

we have congressmen who’ve asked us to vote

from their born-again believers.

All right, then let them take their stand.

Let them not be ashamed of Jesus Christ.

Let Christ be integrated into the government.

All right.

Then we’ll see the Lord keep this judgment suspended.

He’ll keep withstanding.

He’ll keep withholding it.

He’s done that time and time again all through history.

But the moment we break His commandments,

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the moment we become ashamed of His testimony,

then black days.

I talked about earthquakes hitting the nations in the world

and drought conditions.

And when it first came out, I lost an awful lot of support.

People who thought I should stick to drug addicts.

And I was consequently driven to my Bible,

even some of my very closest dearest friends

thought that I had gone off the deep end.

And it came to the place where I really wondered

if I had just dreamed this…

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In April 1973 David Wilkerson saw a terrifying vision of the future

at that time many felt that the vision was far fetched and unbelievable,

but today, 50 years later, much of it has been fulfilled and is still coming to pass.

This is what David Wilkerson saw in that vision…

I saw a vision this past April, so frightening it staggered my mind.

And for the past three months, I’ve tried to shake it off, but I can’t do it.

I’ve been terribly afraid to share this

vision up until tonight for a fear I’d be called a fanatic.

In this vision, I saw five terrible calamities coming to America and the world.

First of all, a worldwide recession caused by economic confusion.¹

I saw in my vision at most a few more fat flourishing years²

and then an economic recession³

that’s going to affect the lifestyle of every wage earner in the world.⁴

 

The world economists are going to be at a loss to explain what’s happeni⁵ng.

Large and trusted corporations are going to go bankrupt.⁶⁷

Many churches are going to go into bankruptcy.⁸⁹

And some missionary projects are going to flounder.¹⁰¹¹

 

And one of the clearest messages I’ve ever received from God in my life is this.¹²¹³

Use the next few good years left to prepare for financial crises¹⁴.¹⁵

Get your house in order because hard times are com¹⁶ing.

Number two, I saw nature having labor pains,¹⁷¹⁸

 

supernatural signs and changes that can’t be explained by men.¹⁹²⁰

Worldwide disasters that we’re witnessing²¹²²

right now, I see as labor pains in nature,²³²⁴

which are going to become more and more²⁵²⁶

 

frequent and more intense the closer we get to the²⁷²⁸²⁹

birth of the kingdom of God.³⁰³¹³²

I saw major earthquakes coming to the Uni³³ted States.³⁴³⁵

I ³⁶saw worldwide famine, especially in China, India and Russia.³⁷

 

I saw the world’s food supplies completely dwi³⁸ndled with millions starving.³⁹

I saw coming a new kind of cosmic storm⁴⁰

appearing as a raging fire in the sky leaving a kind⁴¹

of vapor trail.⁴²

 

Tornadoes, hail storms, floods and hurricanes are⁴³

going to pound the earth with such intensity and⁴⁴

violence that all of mankind is going to have⁴⁵

to admit t⁴⁶he world is under supernatural siege.

 

Number three, a flood of filth and a baptism of dirt in America.

I see the prophecy of Nahum coming to pass in the very near future.⁴⁷

God said, I’ll pour abominable filth upon you.⁴⁸

This means triple X-rated movies on cable television after midnight.⁴⁹⁵⁰

 

This means R-rated movies within the next few ye⁵¹ars on network television.⁵²

This means our newsstands are going to be⁵³

flooded with such filth that Playboy Magazine will⁵⁴

look like a puritanical piece of trash.⁵⁵

 

It means sex education classes in school will⁵⁶

be using animated cartoons and film⁵⁷ed traumatized

sexual intercourse.

And just when it appears there’s going to be

 

a successful campaign against smut, just when

the Supreme Court seems to be ruling against

pornographers, and when it appears the nation’s

returning to old-fashioned moral standards,

suddenly the floodgates are going to swing

open and Satan is going to vomit filth out

of hell, and it’ll be just as it was in the

days of Lot, it will vex the souls of God’s most devout saints.

A persecution madness against truly spirit-filled Christians who love Jesus Christ.

This prompted me tonight to go into detail⁵⁸

and share with you what I see coming in the⁵⁹

way of persecution.⁶⁰

 

Now it was Jesus himself who told us to tarry for a Pentecost.⁶¹⁶²

Jesus himself told us the Holy Ghost would fall upon us.⁶³⁶⁴

Jesus himself promi⁶⁵sed us power from on high.⁶⁶

But it was also Jesus Christ himself who predicted⁶⁷

 

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persecution was coming for all true spirit-bapt⁶⁸ized believers.

Jesus predicted it.

John 15:19.

Jesus said if you were of the world, the world would love his own.

 

But because you’re not of this world, but I’ve chosen you out of the world,

therefore the world will hate you.

Remember the word that I said to you, the servant is not greater than his Lord.

If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.

If they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

Now the purpose of this coming persecution⁶⁹

that I see in the spirit will be to separate⁷⁰

and scatter the true believers from the false.⁷¹

 

Time is running out and the gospel still⁷²

has to be preached to all nations before Jesus comes.⁷³⁷⁴

Now the Holy Ghost h⁷⁵as been poured out upon thousands,⁷⁶

but just as in the early Pentecostal outpouring,⁷⁷

 

disciples still sit around singing⁷⁸

and rejoicing and sharing only with each other.⁷⁹

Among⁸⁰st there’s still those who talk in tongues and still live like the devil.

But he’s going to lay the axe to the root.

 

He’s going to separate the wheat from the tares.

He’s going to scatter his seed to the far corners of the earth.

And God’s word will be fulfilled.

Second Timothy 3:12, “All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.”

Number one, it’s going to come as a persecution madness on the earth.⁸¹

I see now persecution coming such as mankind has never before witnessed.⁸²

This will be a persecution of true Jesus⁸³

believers and it’s going to rise like a many-headed⁸⁴

 

monster out of the sea.⁸⁵

It’ll start slowly, ⁸⁶suddenly, coming at a time when religious freedom appears to be at a peak.⁸⁷

But it’s going to spread to the United States,⁸⁸⁸⁹

Canada, the entire world and finally become⁹⁰⁹¹

 

a kind of madness.⁹²⁹³

That madness is already upon us.⁹⁴⁹⁵⁹⁶

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The antic⁹⁷hrist spirit is entering the hearts of certain men in high places already.⁹⁸⁹⁹

Government¹⁰⁰ in the judicial system and it’s¹⁰¹

 

led to a spiritual wickedness in high places.¹⁰²¹⁰³

And this spiritual wickedness in high place¹⁰⁴s¹⁰⁵

will eventually and soon lead to an harassment¹⁰⁶¹⁰⁷

not only of officials, but those in churches, missionaries and ministers.¹⁰⁸¹⁰⁹

 

There’s already evidence of this ha¹¹⁰rassment.¹¹¹

I see a time coming when nearly all¹¹²

evangelical missionary projects, all religious radio and¹¹³¹¹⁴

television programming, all incorporated¹¹⁵¹¹⁶

 

missionary societies are going to be so closely monitored,¹¹⁷¹¹⁸

qu¹¹⁹estioned and badgered by government¹²⁰

agencies, they’ll be cautious and worried about moving¹²¹

or expanding in any directio¹²²n.

 

Number two, I see rising a super world church.¹²³¹²⁴

I see the formation of a super world church¹²⁵¹²⁶

council consisting of a union between liberal¹²⁷¹²⁸

ecumenical Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church,¹²⁹¹³⁰

 

joining politically hand in hand to¹³¹¹³²

create one of the most powerful religious forces on earth.^133134135

And this union is going to start a¹³⁶s a¹³⁷¹³⁸

cooperative charity program and¹³⁹ it will end in a political union.¹⁴⁰¹⁴¹

 

This visible super world church is going to¹⁴²¹⁴³

be spiritual in name on¹⁴⁴ly, freely using the¹⁴⁵¹⁴⁶

name of Jesus Christ, but will in fact be¹⁴⁷¹⁴⁸

antichrist and political in many ¹⁴⁹of its activities.¹⁵⁰

 

This powerful church union will be deeply¹⁵¹

involved in social action, tremendous charity¹⁵²

programs and ministries of compassion.¹⁵³

Its leaders will make statements about meeting human nee¹⁵⁴ds.

 

People will send out a call for social

action, critical intervention and a greater voice

in world affairs.

There’s going to be, fourthly, a sudden mysterious chain of events.

Just when it appears ecumenical movement¹⁵⁵

is nearly dead, a rather mysterious chain of¹⁵⁶

events will bring about the framework for this union.¹⁵⁷

Rome is going to insist upon and receive¹⁵⁸¹⁵⁹

 

concessions from the Protestant ecumenical leaders.¹⁶⁰¹⁶¹

The Pope will be considered more of a¹⁶²¹⁶³

political rather th¹⁶⁴an a spiritual leader of this church union.¹⁶⁵

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Protestant leaders of the ecumenical movement¹⁶⁶

 

are going to insist upon and recei¹⁶⁷ve concessions from Rome.

Protestants will now be asked to consider the Holy Father as the infallible head of the church.¹⁶⁸¹⁶⁹

They accept his political leadership¹⁷⁰¹⁷¹

without accepting his role as Peter’s successor.¹⁷²¹⁷³

 

I’m not suggesting that the Pope or any of¹⁷⁴¹⁷⁵

these church leaders involved in the super¹⁷⁶¹⁷⁷

church will be engaging in antichrist acti¹⁷⁸vity.¹⁷⁹

The Bible talks about somethin¹⁸⁰g about that line, but I can’t get into it now.

 

The Bible, as far as I’m concerned, though,

I see something that frightens me, the very

core of my soul.

I see an army of career people invading the

most influential post in this super church.

They’re going to be ungodly antichrist people

obsessed with the idea that this super church

must become a big political power, strong

enough to defeat anybody who opposes his actions.

And while those that are in leadership are

speaking about miracles and love and reconciliation,

these hirelings who work under them are going

to be harassing and persecuting every religious

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organization that does not come under their leadership.

Fourthly, I see homosexuals and lesbians

welcomed to the super church union.

I see this super world church in the guise¹⁸¹¹⁸²

of understanding, accepting homosexuals and¹⁸³¹⁸⁴

lesbians into its fellowship.¹⁸⁵¹⁸⁶

Homosexual and lesbian love will be^187188189190

 

vindicated by the leadership of this church union.^191192193194

Homos¹⁹⁵exuals will not only be welco¹⁹⁶me, but¹⁹⁷¹⁹⁸

they’ll be encouraged to continue in their practices.¹⁹⁹²⁰⁰

Homosexual and lesbian ministers will not²⁰¹²⁰²

 

only be ordai²⁰³ned and give²⁰⁴n faith as authority,

they’ll be heralded as a new breed of pioneer

evangelists introducing new concepts of love and evangelism.

I see in nearly every major city in the United²⁰⁵²⁰⁶

 

States and around the world homosexual churches²⁰⁷²⁰⁸

catering exclusively to the spiritual needs²⁰⁹²¹⁰

of their own kind with full recognition from²¹¹²¹²

organized religion.²¹³²¹⁴

 

Their Sunday school and church literature,²¹⁵²¹⁶

distributed to their children, will suggest to teenagers²¹⁷²¹⁸

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that homosexuality is a normal and acceptable ²¹⁹form of Christian practice.²²⁰

Nude dancing in the church.²²¹

 

Nude danci²²²ng in some of these member churches²²³²²⁴

will be excused as an artistic form of worship.²²⁵²²⁶

Men are going to become worshipers of the creature more than the creator.²²⁷²²⁸

And God will be forced to give these kind of worshipers over to their s²²⁹ins.²³⁰²³¹

 

And as a result, many will be given ov²³²er to²³³

reprobate minds creating a new form of mental^234235236

illness that will not respond to any kind of treatment.^237238239

Now God will not let that go ²⁴⁰unanswered.²⁴¹²⁴²

 

And although nude dancing will not become widespread,²⁴³²⁴⁴

it’s going to be accepted by ma²⁴⁵ny church leaders²⁴⁶

in the future as a legitimate expression of worship.²⁴⁷

N²⁴⁸ext, occult practices within this church.

 

I believe the Super World Church will condone certain occult practices.

They’ll set up study committees to defang

the devil, to remake his image into one of

a non-entity, bland, someone not to be feared.²⁴⁹

 

Now in some of the most respected, wealthy²⁵⁰

churches in America, seances will replace²⁵¹

prayer meetings, and that’s already happening.²⁵²

More and more ministers are going to be²⁵³

 

intrigued by the supernatur²⁵⁴al planes of the spiritualists

and Satanists groups.

And I see the day coming when certain

ministers who’ve never been too close to Jesus will

 

get very close to the devil.

Satan is going to appear as an angel of light

to deceive everyone, possibly the elected chosen of God.

I see a persecution through a media struggle.

There is at present tremendous freedom for

preaching the gospel on radio and television.

Never the door has been more open to ministers, Christ in the media.²⁵⁵

Christians even own and operate their own radio and TV stations.²⁵⁶

 

They’re at liberty to pray for the sick, raise money,²⁵⁷

and promote the gospel in any way they see fit.²⁵⁸

But watch out.²⁵⁹

Persecution ²⁶⁰and harassment is already beginning.

 

There’s a sound of change in the air.

Christ-centered radio and TV programming will

become the target of satanic forces determined

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to force every one of them off the airwaves.

Already, there’s a behind the scenes

movement to establish a kind of rating system²⁶¹²⁶²

for all religious radio and TV programming.²⁶³²⁶⁴

And the liberal leaders of this super church²⁶⁵²⁶⁶

 

council will soon attempt to establish a kind²⁶⁷²⁶⁸

of screening board and force themselves on²⁶⁹²⁷⁰

the FCC as²⁷¹ the final authority on all paid and²⁷²

sustaining religion on the media.²⁷³

 

They want no program²⁷⁴s to be aired without their approval.

The doors are now wide open and slowly but surely going to close.

Christian radio and TV stations should begin to expect persecution and harassment.

And I see Satan trying to bog down these

 

programs and stations in red tape legal proceedings

and tax problems.

And Satan will use every tactic at his

disposal to remove all of the Christ-centered programs

from the media.

And the message I have for all of you who

minister in the media is this from the Holy Spirit:

Work while it is yet day for the night cometh when no man can work.

And that’s a message for the media.

Persecution from Hollywood.

Watch for Hollywood to step up its attack

against true religion with more exposé-type films.

Revivalists and evangelical ministers are

going to be stereotyped as Elmer Gantrys,

charlatans, peeps, money-mad comedians.²⁷⁵²⁷⁶

More and more movie makers are going to attempt to debunk our morals.²⁷⁷²⁷⁸

 

Gospel preaching churches and ministers are²⁷⁹²⁸⁰

going to come under special attack while at²⁸¹²⁸²

the same time the occult and witchcraft will be glorified and sensationalize²⁸³d.²⁸⁴

Next²⁸⁵, persecution from television comedies.

 

TV comedy shows.

The Holy Spirit has shown me we’ll become

bolder and bolder and will poke fun at Christ and all true Christians.

Movie writers are going to strike a blow²⁸⁶²⁸⁷

 

after blow designed to put down sacred traditions²⁸⁸²⁸⁹

and eventually these shows will be²⁹⁰²⁹¹

punctuated with four-letter words and anything will go on television.²⁹²²⁹³

Television programmers will become absolutely²⁹⁴²⁹⁵

 

blasphemous and millions and mill²⁹⁶ions of unbelievers²⁹⁷

will sit in front of their TV sets laughing²⁹⁸

and mocking as subjects once considered sacred²⁹⁹

are undermined and mocked and ridiculed.³⁰⁰

 

T³⁰¹alk-shows everywhere.

Movies, theaters, debunking Christ and his blood and glorifying the devil.

You can expect the faculty to be³⁰²³⁰³

infiltrated by teachers and professors who have become³⁰⁴³⁰⁵

 

the unwitting tools in the hands of Satan to undermine the foundations of faith and leadership.³⁰⁶³⁰⁷

Satan is going to attempt³⁰⁸ to ³⁰⁹wrestle the leadership of these schools and institutions

out of the hands of true men of God

and place them in the hands of compromising liberals

 

who will now attempt to check the movement toward agnosticism.

The leadership of Christian educational

institutions has better prepare themselves for difficult

times financially and spiritually.

It’s under control.

We hear earthquakes, famines,

hailstorms, killer heatwaves, floods,

drastic weather changes are breaking all past records.³¹⁰

 

It looks like nature’s out of control.³¹¹

But God’s word has clearly predicted it would happen.³¹²

The wrath of God is to be outpoured on³¹³

this earth through an unleashed fury of nature³¹⁴

 

because God is warning mank³¹⁵ind

that judgment is coming and these are labor pains

and the closer we get to the birth of his kingdom,

more frequent and intense they will get until

 

the birth of the kingdom of God,

you and I and everything that touches us

is now under his control.

No matter how things look in this drunken world,

all things are still working together for good

to everyone who loves God, called according to his purpose.³¹⁶

All right, let the dollar fail.³¹⁷

Let the depression and recession come.³¹⁸³¹⁹

 

Let there be unemployment and pollution and inflation and wars and rumors of war.³²⁰³²¹

Let the fabric of so³²²ciety disintegrate.³²³

For the true child of God, everything is under control.³²⁴

It doesn’t matter.³²⁵

 

Nothing can harm you.³²⁶

He said, look up and rejoice and be happy³²⁷!