Note carefully the opening verse of Judges 6: “And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years” (Judges 6:1). These words describe an endless cycle that repeated itself in Israel for generations.
six chapter of judges tearing down the
altar of bail tearing down the altar of
bail judges a sixth chapter start with
verse 11 I came an angel the Lord said
under an oak which was a Ofra that
pertained unto Joe as the FBR threat and
his son Gideon thrust wheat by the
winepress to hide it from the Midianites
the aims of the Lord appeared unto him
and said unto Him Lord is with thee the
mighty man of Valor look at verse 25
came to pass the same night the Lord
said unto him take thy father’s young
Bullock even the second Bullock of 7
years old and throw down the altar of
bail that thy father hath cut down the
grove that is buying it Lord I need
strength and I need help strengthen us
to deliver the word and give the
anointing of the holy spirit Lord I’ve
never believed the anointing had
anything to do with how loud I speak or
how soft but has to do with the word
that you have sent from your throne to
speak to us at a particular time in a
particular place two particular people
Lord everyone that’s here this morning
are here by divine order it’s not by
accident and Lord you I’ve always
understood this as long as I’ve been
preaching that you always prepare a word
in time just for those who are crying
out for it and I pray Lord for those
that are crying for truth this morning
take this simple little word the simple
little message and bring hope and change
our hearts we pray in Jesus name Amen
verse 1 in chapter 6 and the children of
Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord
and the Lord delivered them into the
and of million seven years now these
same words if you don’t do it now but if
you go back to the chapters four or five
the previous chapters you’ll find this
repeat these words repeated over and
over again the children of Israel did
evil in the sight of the Lord their God
and they serve Balaam and God in his hot
anger the scripture said sold them into
the hand of their enemies you find it
again in Chapter three
the land had rest for forty years again
the children of Israel did evil in the
sight of the Lord and the Lord once
again
gave them up to Moab because they had
done evil in the sight of the Lord 18
more years of hardship and terror in
Chapter four you get to chapter four and
again you hear these words the land had
no rest the land had rest for 80 years
but the children of Israel again did
evil in the sight of the Lord and the
Lord sold them to the Canaanites and
every time the scripture says they cried
to the Lord the Lord heard their cry and
sent a deliverer as long as there was
delivery long as there was a man a woman
of God seeking God’s face the Lord in
his mercy gave them deliverance but as
soon as that prophet died as soon as
that leader died they turned right back
to the worship of bale and then there
was 40 years of terror 18 years of
terror 15 years over and over it’s like
a broken record it’s really a sad
commentary of the history of Israel how
they cheated on God how they miss
believed him have refused to accept that
he was faithful and here again in the
sixth chapter 60 up here it is all over
again the children of Israel did evil in
the sight of the Lord and the Lord
delivered them into the hand of Midian
for seven years and he Israel’s brought
very low the Midianites and Arabs
combined once a year at harvest time
would come in with their huge
of Mane’s of camels and and driving
their herds their sheep and their goats
and they would turn them loose into the
corn fields in the wheat fields of
Israel and they would completely
devoured like locusts they would drive
the people because they they brought
their armies with them and they would
drive this room ice up into the caves
into hideouts and into the strongholds
of the mountains and valleys drove them
out and this is the situation you find
in the 6th chapter here of Judges and
the children of Israel was greatly
greatly impoverished there was poverty
on all sides they lost their homes they
lost everything and sleeping and living
in caves and the children of Israel
cried unto the Lord here they cry again
but folks it wasn’t a cry of repentance
the Bible said it was because of the
Midianites their weeping and crying but
this time God sends a prophet and the
prophet comes and puts his finger on the
reason that they’re being so harassed
and terrorized he said God delivered you
out of the hands of all your all who
oppressed you God brought you out of
bondage he said to you do not fear the
gods lam rights and whose land you dwell
you should but you have not obeyed his
voice it’s God said I told you the
beginning I don’t want you to fear fear
no man fear no one but God your father
let let no other fear into your heart
because you’ve disobeyed me you’ve loud
fears all these fears to come in to your
heart God delivered you every time you
trusted him but the moment fear entered
your heart then you begin to fear the
enemies gods and then I had to turn you
over into the hands of your enemies to
drive you back to myself now what was
the great evil they kept falling back
into if it was
the bail spirit now they’re all through
the Old Testament you hear a bail bail
bail
now Bailon that says they serve Balaam
that’s the plural word for bail with
which it’s a coverall
phrase that covers all the idols and all
of the false gods and even today that
spirit still exists that covers Buddha
it covers Harry Krishna Allah all of the
false gods are wrapped up in this one
word bail it’s all inclusive word it has
to do with the spirit and that spirit is
right out of the pit of hell it came out
of the mouths of Satan is still being
spewed out of the mouths of Satan it’s
one intent and one purpose is to cause
God’s people to mistrust the Heavenly
Father and it’s it’s an attack of the
enemy to try to have you look at your
present situation that’s exactly what’s
happened here
the children of Israel cried out unto
the Lord saying we have sinned against
thee both because we have forsaken our
God and we are serving Balaam you see
the they looked at their own condition
and comparing it with the prosperity of
the Midianites all their camels and all
their mules and healthy people plenty of
food and agreement cattle and then they
look at their own poverty condition and
they say how could God be interested
where is our God we’re living in poverty
we’re homeless and see that’s where they
begin to have these questions and doubts
and planted in their minds it was the
sin in their lives
sin in the land that brought terror and
brought sorrow upon Israel poverty
uncertainty he loved them still got
there’s never time that God did not love
his people but he had to turn them over
into the hands of the enemy to be
chastened you know how they
or chastened but they refused to
acknowledge that their sin and rebellion
was the cause of their terror and their
poverty and their difficulties all of
these things they look around never once
tied it in to the rebellion folks you
see that in the United States now you
see it so clearly you see it around the
world Twin Towers fall the Pentagon is
in flames and there are there were not a
handful of preachers there were not a
handful of politicians I don’t know of
any politicians but only a small remnant
in the Church of Jesus Christ can see
the hand of God in it that God allowed
the enemy permitted the enemy because of
a loving response of his heart to try to
drive us back to himself and realize our
sins are alienating us from God in his
presence his power and his mighty arm to
work in our behalf and now we see that
didn’t work and now you have seen in the
last six months in the past year
especially this nation one third of the
United States was on fire the worst
fires forest fires in the history of the
land
the worst floods the whole city of
Houston a week underwater worst floods
ever now droughts listen to me now 1/2
of the United States is in drought right
now 1/2 there’s a deer kill up in the
Midwest
they’re killing 50,000 deer in five
states farmers are told to get the guns
and go in their cornfields and wheat
fields and killed the deer because the
deer are dying there’s a brain disease
and they’re just falling and wasting
away and nobody can pinpoint it and now
they may have to kill up to 250,000 deer
and every time they look around there’s
another crisis we’ve got the Japanese
beetle now eating whole areas and
there’s there’s another disease in the
force they can’t understand in
California and one after another after
another and God is saying when will you
ever understand that it’s your sins that
your sins that bring this upon you you
know the floods in one city or one
country in Europe our team our advance
team just came back and there was a big
sign as you entered the city two
homosexuals kissing one another and
talking about the freedom of
homosexuality of this nation the next
week this city was flooded and nobody
ties it into God speaking Kooks God
speaking he’s speaking loud and clear do
you hear what he’s saying he’s saying
I’ll tap you and I’ll tap you on this
loving task but he said I’m going to
increase it and increase it you know we
have people today say all they may have
missed it but wait till the next big one
comes maybe a small pox in it being
released here in New York City subways a
little suitcase or anthrax or whatever
it may be and everybody folk side
there’s so few that don’t expected most
people the United States or saying
President Bush is saying it Congress is
saying it and all of the so-called
security people are are saying the same
thing
big ones yet to come and I’ve heard
people say well when that comes they’ll
turn to God they’ll surely no forget it
folks forget it they will not turn to
God they will not atribute it to the
hand of God God doesn’t do it but he
withdraws and protecting arm it allows
the enemy you know that God at any point
could have stopped those men from
getting on that airplane and coming this
way at any point God could have stopped
it he’s done it time and time again God
didn’t do it but he didn’t stop them
because he was trying to speak he
write down the two symbols of our power
and our prosperity to save power and
prosperity and all your boasting I will
not have it I love this nation I love
America with all my heart but I would
tell you something and I want to tell
you folks listen God is going to speak
louder and louder don’t know what is
coming next but we’re not to live in
fear about it whatever happens you see
the truth is even if America cries out
to God and that is what Israel did here
in the 6th chapter they cried out to God
for mercy again but you see God expects
more than that expects more than just to
cry out of fear
in fact God sends a prophet to these
people they hear the clearest word
they’ve ever heard their heard the
prophetic word right from the throne of
God God saying I’m telling you I’m in
this I’m responsible this because I’ve
allowed this to happen to bring you back
to my heart to bring you to repentance
and even though they cried out because
of their troubles and even though they
had a prophetic word God said that’s not
enough there’s something else I’m going
to ask of you
in fact I’m going to demand of you now
we talked about repentance many of you
said well I’ve children I’ve cried out
to God and I’ve heard the prophetic word
and I’ve responded to it and that’s what
Israel did we could have churches open
all of United States and people on their
knees crying out to God we could have
men getting in the pulpit now finally
and hearing your word from heaven a
prophetic word uttered from from coast
to coast but the Bible says there’s a
problem is called bail there’s an idol
and folks until we get rid of our
idolatry all this crying is not going to
have any impact it’s not going to have
any effect because you have to tear down
the idol that which has the heart
if there’s true repentance God’s going
to say go after bail tear down the idol
of bail take thy father’s young Bullock
or bull throw down the altar of bail
that thy father hath and cut down the
grove that is by it now bail is still
very much an idol today I told you it’s
a spirit now now bail the idol itself
then various sizes but it it was a
carving either out of wood stone or
metal then it was the form of a man the
dawn is type man very handsome man now
that was a stone or piece of wood it
couldn’t speak it couldn’t talk but you
see that’s the kind of God they wanted
because and that’s why they wanted the
golden calf calf they knew was made out
of their earrings and their nose rings
and their jewelry and say this is your
God now you see they wanted to dance
nude around the altar they wanted to get
this legal is what they thought was the
legalistic bondage they wanted to be
free and you see they wanted a God that
couldn’t hear and couldn’t see couldn’t
see their idolatry couldn’t see their
fornication couldn’t see couldn’t hear
their language but you see behind that
Idol there is a there’s a voice there is
a spirit that animates it and the devil
had to have this visible thing but folks
there they they could view you go to
when you went to the meeting place where
there was a veil and the Groves that
were set up there the trees planted in
rows in an order and the tents for
prostitution it was a very gala thing is
very calm
for very impressive because if you
didn’t have the touch of God you would
feel you would hear a voice an inner
voice pulling you away from your
confidence at Almighty God now what is
bail in this enlightened age you’d think
no one would bow down to a piece of
stone or wooden statue but we have
Buddhist we’ve heard Christmas we’ve got
a million gods in India almost all of
them have some kind of statue to
represent who they are often serpents
all kinds of creeping things but you see
there’s a demonic spirit behind it all
it’s that spirit that is meant to
destroy the confidence we have in God’s
faithfulness and I want to tell you
something I want you to hear me well
God’s been speaking to me all week on
this you see the enemy will come in a
crisis time you come when you’re going
to because you see every time there’s a
child that’s near death every time
there’s an accident and a love and a
father and a funeral parlor
you’re shaking their head the devil
sends his emissaries that every accident
and every place of terror every hard
place he sends his emissaries his
principalities and powers to inject fear
to inject these seed thoughts where is
your God the first anniversary of 9/11 I
was listening to the radio when they
were interviewing people they
interviewed hundreds in fact they
interviewed thousands and they concluded
that a great majority of the interviewed
said they’d lost all confidence in God
Ninian said my god died on 9/11 how
could have just God a loving God allow
this to happen how could it be and every
time you go through a hard time you lose
your job for example you have a broken
heart over relationship that went sour
this is a fatal disease in your family a
life-threatening disease and someone’s a
death door and I want to know the
devil’s emissaries are there at the door
and they move in immediately saying
where is your god why would God allow it
I get on an airplane and there’s a
lawyer a lady lawyer sitting next to me
crying and I said can I help you I’m a
minister she said I’ll tell you can’t
help me
my father 70 years old one of the nicest
men clean man a good man
and he just died no reason at all he’s
he’s dead he’s gone and she said I can’t
believe in a God anymore you see that’s
the spirit of bail that the one this has
been from the very beginning that was in
the Garden of Eden that was in the that
live so Satan even then to see God’s
forgotten God doesn’t care and folks you
have to be careful very very careful
when the enemy comes in with his first
attack and tries to plant a seed in your
heart God’s not hearing my prayer I
don’t see any evidence of God working in
my life lord I fasted I’ve prayed I’ve
done all of these things in the devil
hears and he knows and he’s right there
to start planting his seed of unbelief
and doubt in your heart about the
faithfulness of God some of you’ve been
there maybe are there now going through
a very difficult time very scary
these when you lose a job very scary to
do because bankruptcies right now here
in a long time high 1,000 businesses
have gone out of businesses have died
gone bankrupt this past year 1,000 and
you look into the future and the devils
want to try to put such fear in the body
of Christ and these thoughts are going
to come at you and you have to be
careful that you deal with them
immediately because if he can get in and
plant that scene he’s building a base
he’s building an altar for bail and he
will erect that as you continue to allow
him to speak those doubts and fears into
your mind he will move in quickly
cause you to doubt everything you’ve
ever heard about the word cause it open
this book and it will look like a dead
book nothing that appears about life
anymore you just read it but no longer
is it life to you you get down to pray
and the reason many people don’t pray
anymore is because they don’t believe
God’s answered them they don’t pray
folks I I’ve tried everything to get
people to pray here’s every kind of
scriptural to have raised my voice now
thundered then I still wonder why people
don’t pray and the only conclusion I can
come to is if they really believe God
answered they’d be praying they’d be
talking to him but what’s the use I
don’t see God answering prayer
the spirit of doubt and unbelief left
unchallenged moves in and sets up this
altar and I’m telling you folks unbelief
is an ultra unbelief is from the very
pits of hell that is the back comes out
of the devil’s mouth unbelief and doubt
comes right out of his mouth out of the
mouths of our Lord comes a sharp sword
this is a sharp demonic attack of
idolatry unbelief is the worst kind of
idolatry known to mankind when it says
chill no visual did evil the sight of
the Lord God’s talking about their
unbelief talking about their doubts and
fears and don’t turn there but in
Ezekiel the chapter the Holy Spirit
takes Ezekiel on a spiritual vision
journey chosen for great abominations in
the house of God he’s gone he’s seen
already two of these abominations then
the Lord takes him to a wall that’s a
hole in it and he said now dig the rest
of the way through and so Ezekiel in
this vision dug through that hole and as
soon as he got through there was a door
and Holy Spirit said to Zeke you go in
and see horrible abominations being
committed behind that door he opens the
door and he’s overwhelmed with horror 70
men and one priest there 71 and in the
temple had become so degraded so vile
that in this room secret room on all the
walls were portraits and pictures of
creeping animals and wicked beast
four-headed beast and animals and
pictures of every conceivable before God
they could picture and add sensors in
their hand incense and they were waving
them standing in front of this wall now
they’re not
worshipping the wall they’re worshipping
the spirit behind all of those images
every one of those images had a there
was a spirit behind it saying excuse me
and God said Ezekiel I’m showing you
what’s going on in the minds of these
men my own elders they’ve so been
captured by the spirit this Idol has
been set up in their imagination in
their minds folks I’ve been working with
drug addicts for over 40 years and any
drug I to go tell you the habits in the
mind it’s a mind habit it’s not a
physical habit it becomes that if a
while but it’s up here it’s in the mind
and that’s where the devil works that’s
where he sets up this idol of bail this
Idol of unbelief
now here’s what they said and this is
what must have absolutely shocked
the prophet Ezekiel they said the Lord
seeth us not the LORD hath forsaken the
earth now here’s the spirit of bail
fully exposed God doesn’t see you he’s
abandoned the earth in other words he’s
so busy with the cosmos she’s so busy
with all the planets now they didn’t
deny there was a God or he you can see
devil let you believe in a creator god
he lets you believe he’s out there
somewhere taking care of the universe
but he just wants you to doubt that he
he is involved in your life that he
cares about you and that you can roll
every care on him he’s after your
confidence that he’s involved in every
detail of your life let me tell you what
his mission really is it’s not to seduce
you to drugs alcohol or pornography
those are only fruits of the roots
spirit only the fruits his single
overriding mission is to plant in your
mind that God is not what the Bible says
he is he’s not what the preacher says he
is it’s not what you think he is
Isaiah said unbelief he described
unbelief like this a sin written with a
pen of iron and the point of a diamond
and graved upon the table of the heart
and God answered you have kindled a fire
in my anger speaking to their unbelief
which shall be born in me forever
well then he added cursed be the man
that trusteth in man
make it place his arm his whole heart
departs from the Lord but blessed is the
man that trusted the Lord whose hope is
the Lord
Polk’s my my hope is in the Lord Himself
that I know him that he’s with me and
that’s my hope if God is with this what
else matters and then hit and judge the
sixth chapter gaze of the Lord brings a
word to Gideon says he’s crushing this
little pile of wheat or what it was his
threshing just enough to survive the
pains of the Lord said the Lord is with
you a valiant warrior the Lord is with
you now folks God didn’t send an epistle
to this man God got right to the point
and what he’s trying to do he’s going to
give him a foundation for his faith and
just five words that if he would believe
he’d never be ever invaded by the spirit
of bale Lords with you and folks i’ma
tell you that’s all you and I need from
the hand and the voice of God God is
with you I don’t care who your enemy is
I don’t care about the Midianites or
their army or their caravans I said I’m
with you I’m with you you are mighty in
this power just go with it up with you
whatever you’re facing right now can you
say it and believe it God is with me God
expects you to hang all your faith on
that build on that that’s all you need
you don’t need an epistle hallelujah
Gideon though had the spirit of unbelief
in him he hears this boy he says to the
angel but can you imagine he knows it’s
an agent Lee speaking to the angel like
this if the Lord is with us I see no
sign of it I’m paraphrasing where are
his miracles were the answers to our
cries and he says the Lord has abandoned
us Lord’s giving up
he’s talking to an angel who just told
it God is with you how many times have
you heard from this pulpit how many
times you heard it when you open this
book how many times have God whispered
it here you’re not on with you I’ll
never leave you I’ll no forsake you I’ll
go with you to the end of the world
folks God expects his people to rest on
that and believe it with all that is in
them and let that face the whole world
in every agony and every troubled every
situation I got it with you that’s what
the new coven is all about I will be God
to you
they said the same thing these 71 elders
said the Lord doesn’t says the Lord
forsaken the earth the Lord’s forsaken
the earth you see here’s a man has cried
out to God here’s a man that’s heard the
Prophet has been visited with a clear
Word of God and yet he still has these
doubts and tears in him we see there’s a
problem because there stands in his
father’s killed an image of bail now
that image though it can’t be heard
audibly
can be heard in the spirit realm and
every time
Gideon goes by there there it is
speaking God’s forsaken us God’s not
with us it spoke every time he passed
and all the Israelites every time they
saw it in time they passed I know it was
on a hill on hillside it appears that it
was in scripture that it was established
on a hillside and everything where they
look they look at their poverty they
looked at that they’re the poorest
sustenance and they look up there and
that’s a reminder God is not interested
in you there it is it’s sneaking out and
Claire God said to Gideon go get your
father’s bull and pull it down pull it
down cut down all the trees in the grove
and take those trees and build an altar
and consume it all on that altar
God says pluck out of your mind in other
words take the Holy Ghost you say he had
a bowl I don’t have a bull oh yes you do
you’ve got the strongest bull known to
mankind on earth you got the Holy Ghost
in you
the Holy Spirit God says you take the
Holy Spirit and you deal with that now
you pull down those spots of unbelief
you pull down those thoughts of fear and
unbelief pull them down every person you
know that speaks doubt is of the Spirit
of bale pull down your relationship walk
away
just tell them tiny I’m not here to
gossip I’m not here to let you minister
fear and I believe today I’ve got to
trust God I’m pulling away you don’t
have to tell them that did walk away
from it
stay off the telephone
I’m going to close in just a minute
uh let me tell you what the Holy Spirit
spoke to my heart and closing you know
when I I see God working with Gideon he
takes a man full of doubt and unbelief
and I see such mercy what a picture of
grace here’s a man that just keeps
testing God time and time again well God
if you’re really with me stay here and
let me cook you a meal and you wait here
I want you to eat this middle so I can
know that you’re with me God Lord says
go ahead and he brings him out broth and
some things and the Lord says take it
and put it on the rock and he he puts
his rod to it it goes up in flames I
said well that must be God God is with
me then he gets closer to the front
closer to where the battle really is
things are really getting tough now Lord
if you’re ready with me I’ll tell you
what I want you to do and he takes a big
hunk of fluffy wool from one of the
sheep he said we’ll lay this here
overnight if you’re ready with me in the
morning I want it dry all around and I
want the fleece the wool to be wet
except in the morning goes out and
everything is drivers know doing the
ground but he starts wringing out the
wool I mean water just pours out of this
Oh God must be with me
you know we played that game over and
over again God is reminding us all the
things that he’s done the word that and
how faithful he’s been but this the Oh
Lord this is a big one this is bigger
than anything that I’ve ever faced
before no it isn’t he’s done bigger
things for you and your past nothing is
impossible with him think of the mercy
in the grace of God he goes back the
next day he said Lord this time he said
wool has a tendency to suck in water
anyhow this time I won’t do and mildew
and water all around it but I want the
fleece to be dry because out the next
morning he Slauson through the mud and
he picks up a dry piece of wool please
God must be with me
now think of the patience of God
you know I there had to be something
that sold this man that is quite his
questions
we’re not accusative he was reading a
hungry man wanting answers he was not
accusing God as much as wanting to an
answer I didn’t come this morning
condemned of anybody here this facing
unbelief and doubt
I’m bringing you a word that God gave me
and I want you to listen to it and I’m
going to read it word for word because
there are numbers of you here this
morning you’re going through this this
time and this God of mercy that that
took this man and used him to see what’s
do the same for you he wants you to get
victory over your unbelief he won’t give
you power and authority this morning
just by an act of faith and trusting the
Holy Ghost to pull down every stronghold
of doubt and fear and unbelief just
pulled it down by faith because he has
great victories ahead of you he’s got
something wonderful just as he did now
he wants to defeat the enemies in your
life the Midianites he wants to give you
power and authority and folks you know
the whole story how all these thousands
gathered they had to get it down to 300
finally God says if you just trust me if
you’re not going to take much just faith
it’s going to take confidence in me the
just the little that you have you give
it to me
and you believe me and I’ll give you
overwhelming victories and here’s what I
hear from the Lord this is the word I
receive I don’t know who it’s for
but if sure you you’ll know it the Holy
Spirit will make it real to your heart
God is about to break there to bring you
into your most important victory you’ve
ever experienced he’s about to lead you
into new places of peace and rest in
Christ he’s about to reveal his strong
arm on your behalf and
answer he’s about to show you that he’s
truly involved and everything in your
life and he’s going to do a new thing
but you’ve got to pull down every
thought of unbelief lay down every fear
pull down that spirit of bail and allow
him no entrance and I’ll tell you
something I’ll say it again before
closing if you want that God will give
you the bull God give you the power you
give you the authority God has a good
word for you
God sent you here to hear it the enemy’s
tried to plague you with doubt and
unbelief rise up in Jesus name by faith
and say no my God is with me he’s going
to stay with me and everything I do we
just stand please
It is me Clarice culberson that the message is for and I thank you so much may God Bless you and the world In Jesus name amen
Prayers for me and my children please