Some Words Against L.A.

Sept 2001, Viv Grigg

Background: A Reluctant Call

Usually in my letters on societal transformation, I try to keep people moving forward with as balanced a word as I can. This is a little different in that there is a sense of the Lord speaking more directly. I have run it by various advisors and am aware of the reactions it may cause. Eventually, I have felt it needs to be sent. But test all things. When we left LA six years ago, it was because of a very clear word to me to not allow our third child to born in this city, (much to my pregnant wife's chagrin) as a sign of God's judging the city. We named her Bianca, or white, for purity, as we left this place of hideous impurity. It came as a surprise to me some two years ago, when the Lord told us to return and to speak of his judgement on the city. I checked with LA city leaders, and they believed it was a time of God's blessing on this city. But when I checked with our urban poor workers, they affirmed his sense of impending judgement. It seemed to me they understood the issues of the city. Having no resources, we waited a while, then decided to relocate for a season. Once we decided, the Lord provided enough to arrive, and we believed he would provide the rest along the way as he did for Elijah through the ravens. He has. While en route, he spoke to wait for the right time. A friend indicated there would first be a cataclysmic event that would open people's hearts. Last week (Sept 11) was certainly cataclysmic.

Prophecy Precedes Judgement

In Manila, Calcutta, Auckland, Sao Paulo and in other contexts and cities, I have enjoyed the visionary or prophetic calling of people forward into blessing. But speaking judgement is not a very pleasant task. As I have sought the Lord, the reason for his asking his servants to prophesy of judgement, is that he always forewarns. He wants to forewarn and lay out his argument against you, Angelenos, before his judgement. When Noah was told to build the ark, the Lord allowed him 100 years of warning the people. When Jonah finally got to Ninevah, it was a warning voice. The people heard, obeyed and God lifted his judgement for 150 years. When Egypt was about to face a famine, God sent Joseph to prophesy, and then to save, that the people might not die. The voice of the prophet is not an angry voice, but one of loving care for the people. They speak of judgement that people might turn and not face the just return on their deeds.

Warning, Response and Outcome

In dealing with the most evil King, Ahab, the prophet Elijah, the Tishbite, obeyed God and went down and told him of disaster saying "I will consume your descendants, and dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel." And then the Lord sent him back, "Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah... "Because Ahab has humbled himself I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son" (1 Kings 21). Even with the most evil, God responds to their repentance. Thus, biblically, we see first the warnings, then the option of repentance. The future is your own hands, Angelenos, you may repent at this time, and the Lord may stay his hand, at least for a season, or you may carry on in the direction of your unmitigated sins, and his judgement will most surely come speedily. Having stated the Biblical sense of the mercy of God, my sense below is that he has already given up on L.A. and is now warning of impending judgement. This does not mean it will be today or tomorrow, but it will come in his time. This could be years or a generation. He graciously warns us ahead of time.

Viv Grigg, Sept 2001

Prophecy Against Los Angeles

As I drive, I see pictures of L.A., razed to the ground. I ask the Lord about the stands of trees. Will they not be left standing.? An occasional trunk may stand but without leaf. I see a devastated wasteland! an empty desert! I listen for the voices of the birds. Even the crows are silent ! Where the city stood and extended, nothing!

Cause 1: Global Exportation of a Malevolent Culture

God is against you, Los Angeles, city of pornography, city of oppression, home of rape and exploitation. You have beamed evil and malevolence, violence and bloodshed, family dislocation and lewdness, pornography and twisted sexuality across the face of the earth in bold defiance of your God, with your fists raised in challenge to his, saying stop us, God of love. His patience is exhausted. His voice to you has never been silent , from the first preachers on your fields and streets, from the great revivalists to your Jack Hayfords and Lloyd Ogilvies. Every week, your black preachers thunder against your sins, but you do not hear, Los Angeles, and when you do hear a fraction, you cry out that no-one can change these things, let them go on, let them go on...

Cause 2: Global Symbol of Chic Greediness

So excellent in business, so lazy in morals. Such is the greed that has consumed your very being and that of your citizens. Greed and chic. For you love the shows. You love the glitter. Tinseltown will be no more. Supermodels will perish with the lowly. Mansions will be razed just as surely as the hard won homes of the escaping migrant poor of East L.A. Oh, my people, says the Lord, how could you ignore me and bring such ruin on yourselves? How could you be so ignorant of my ways, not willing to fight for truth in the public office, and control of the pornographic machines of Hollywood? How could you buy into the lie that the free market is good and godly and should never be interfered with, even when daily the evil seeps into your homes through a cable? How could the godly sit and do nothing effective for decades to destroy the core of Hollywood's evil ? Now it is time. It is too late to redeem or convert these structures. It is too late!

Cause 3: City of Incest

It is too late to salvage your honor, so many raped, sexually molested, so that the city seethes with guilt, cries out with mental pains, with images no-one ought to bear. The wounds of immorality lie like great wounds across whole communities, as if a butchers cleaver has carved up your fabric. Houses and homes destroyed into bitterness, violence and incest. And you export this! You talk about it on shows! Shows to show evil? And you call it news! How depraved can a city be? And no Christian effectively raises their voice against such abominations?

Cause 4: City of Perverted Christianity

Except of course in church. I forgot about your churches. So many! So many! So corrupted! So filthy! Greed in the offering basket, oppression and manipulation in the leaderships, tinsel on the stage. But there are some struggling congregations that have not denied my simplicities. Some that seek truth in choosing different pathways of quiet humility. For their sakes I have been trying to speak and have withheld my hand. Tinsel, greed and immorality abound within your walls and reflect in your weekly shows. I cannot abide immorality and worship, injustice and celebrations. An empty Christianity, from liberal to evangelical to Pentecostal to Catholic, there is little difference. Yet there are some who have walked in godly obedience.

Cause 5: A City Symbolizing Perverted Justice

My children, how I would have lead you to become truly a people. But in the name of freedom you have perverted justice. Are there no law courts that cannot be overturned by the wealth of your wicked? Your Rodney Kings, your O.J.s are only the tip of the iceberg of legalized injustice that marks your land. I cannot bear it.

Cause 6: Perversion of Your Gifts to the Nations

I hate you, Los Angeles, with a fury, a vengeful hatred for what you have done to your migrants, those who came seeking new life, new hope, and to them you gave only bonded labor. I hate you, Los Angeles, for what you have done against the nations, the shattering of centuries, shattering of marriages and clans. So much I gave you of creativity, and you turned it into evil. Such a great city of literature and research, of books and ideas. And you perverted them into weapons of evil. Called to be a blessing to the nations, you are known as the scourge of the world. Called to be a light, your media has become a purveyor of darkness. My soul knows nothing but fury. Why should I not release on you all the destruction my hands can muster? Why should I not wipe you out of existence? Give me one reason for allowing you to continue in your pornographic fantasies, in your lust and wine, in your screenplays of barbarity? But you can give me no reason. Yet I wait. Yet I delay. I hesitate. For in this great city there are many who know my name. Why did they not rise up? Why did they not speak out? Why did they not even try to mobilize? Was the technology of evil too strong for them?

Cause 7: Pastors Failing to Seek Justice

How I have loved the pastors of this city, such a bulwark against a collapsing culture, such people of strength when all around is crumbling. There is unity in leadership. But they have not done my will in leading a city into righteousness in its public squares. And there is now insufficient time to redeem. Pastors have played church and failed to organize the workers across the city, across the disciplines into effective strike teams to combat the evil, industry by industry. The pastors wanted the tithe, not the victory outside their churches of societal change for righteousness, loving their own voice, they would not listen to the voices of the workshop, the artisan and the factory worker. So injustice has blossomed and can no longer be cured. Like the bugs on the roots of a dying plant, there is no solution except to root the plant out and burn it. They have loved revival and church growth for it fills their churches. They love events, and even prayer events, but they do not organize for justice. They know nothing of consistent planning to overturn the communal sins. They do not organize to speak to the sins of the city fathers. They do not know the city fathers. They do not know their hidden sins. How is it that to them I have given the gifts of discernment - special gifts to see in and beyond the hearts of men? Yet they have not taken them into the streets , the legal dens and the marketplace! The hour glass is near empty. The city will be no more. For these sins, I will destroy it all. This is what the Lord says,

Viv Grigg
http://www.urbanleaders.org/home/prophecycities/prophecies-related-to-los-angeles.html On the 7th day of March 2005, in another vision, The Lord showed me the leader of the enemies of democracy in a hiding place that is not a house but a space hewed under a rocky mountainous area. He had his guards and some of his loyalists with him; staying and keeping watch at the entrance, and the outer parts of this tunneled makeshift living/hiding place. While himself was in the innermost part of the makeshift tunnel room. I saw his behavior fluctuate between sitting and rubbing his palms together with his elbows resting on his knees in intense contemplation, and standing and pacing back and forth in that makeshift room space. He was continuously planning in his head trying to think up the most dangerous, devastating and deadliest terror attacks. Thereafter, I saw a large city with abundant lights --- a night view of a city, and then I saw a large silvery ash-covered area with no living thing left in it. It seemed like all structures that stood there before, and all beings that inhabited it before, have been destroyed by some evil act like a nuclear attack or some burning substance weaponry that turned this vast inhabited area into a silvery ashy residue. As I typed this message to this point; the voice of The Lord said to me, "Los Angeles!" "America's enemies are looking to cause grave damage and enormous loss of lives in large cities like Los Angeles," saith the Lord.

Dr. Deborah Flint, Prophetess http://www.hsapm.org/RaptureOrTribulation.html

Words of Prophetic Judgment Against Los Angeles California

Given through Brian Charles IM gonna destroy that place with such mighty force that you wont believe it! --Los Angeles I must destroy this place. Its sin has risen before Me. It will be sudden. Flee! --Los Angeles This place will be destroyed suddenly. Millions will die. --Los Angeles You MUST go! Flee the city of My wrath! --Los Angeles You like it because it is nice and sunny. Millions will die. It will all be submerged underwater. -Los Angeles Ill destroy this place suddenly with My mighty hand. They wont obey Me. --L.A. and the LAX The city must be destroyed. It wont obey Me, none of em will. See this place will be destroyed suddenly. --Los Angeles Im gonna destroy this place suddenly. Few will survive. Millions will die. Repent! I must judge this place. Its sin has come up before Me. This city will be destroyed in a second. Great is My wrath against this place. Its people must repent or else! --Los Angeles I must destroy this place. Its sin has risen before Me. --Los Angeles All these buildings will be reduced to rubble. Few will survive My wrath! --downtown Los Angeles This will all be destroyed in a second. Great is My wrath against this place. L.A. & LAX Someday itll be gone. Itll all be destroyed. Itll be destroyed by force someday. Theyll be desolate (highways). IM gonna destroy it suddenly. Few will survive. Its sin has come before Me. I must destroy this place. Itll all be flattened by nuclear explosion. Itll all be wiped away. Youll seea mighty nuclear explosion. The bombs are already in place. It all must go down. -Los Angeles IM gonna bring it all down. --highway overpasses, buildings All this land will break off into the ocean. --California California will be a thing of the past, swept into the sea. Submerged under the sea. --Cajon Summit Mountains IM gonna destroy this place with a sudden blast! --Claremont Someday this will be a thing of the past, destroyed by My mighty hand. --Los Angeles International Airport Itll all be submerged underwater. It all must go. Its sin has risen before Me. Yes, I MUST destroy this place. You MUST get out of here! --Los Angeles Thats whats gonna be. Nothing will be left remaining. People are too selfish to serve Me here. All they want is the world. I must judge them for that-by nuclear fire! --The Los Angeles megacity totally destroyed I MUST destroy this place. Its sin has risen before Me. Itll be crumbled beneath your feet. Youll seea great nuclear disaster. See what they do? You must go. Great is My wrath against this place. --UCLA

All this will be submerged underwater. Come down in a minute! --UCLA, L.A. All this will be submerged underwater. UCLA, Bel Air, Brentwood, Westwood Village, Los Angeles It will all come down in an instant. --Westwood Gateway Towers People are too selfish to serve Me here. All they want is the world. I must judge them for that by nuclear fire! Nobody wants to obey Me. They wont listen. Theyll be all gone. --the people of Los Angeles I have waited for many to repent, for no avail. Many will die, judgment will be great. Someday this will all be underwater. --Los Angeles They wont serve Me. They serve themselves. --the Jewish People Great will be the death in the world, starting with My Church. Few will serve Me My way. Theyve all followed their own way and wont obey. I must judge for that. Amen My people shall be destroyed, for the sin of their mouthsthey talk much but do nothing. They MUST be destroyed. Amen. I will destroy them all. --Gods people, the Church and the Jewish people Ill judge for that! --people talking about problems but doing nothing I will judge for that. I expect em to help. --Gods people saying I cant help you, when theyve been prospering materially and financially Destroy My people with your prophetic word! Destroy My people. They wont do My will. IM gonna judge My Church because they wont obey Me. IM gonna judge My people! Youll seeeternal destruction! They wont obey! Destroy My people. They wont do anything about it (Planned Parenthood). They MUST be destroyed! Thats how it will happen- suddenly. Few will survive. You must tell. You must send. This land will be destroyed suddenly. Great will be her destruction. Flee for your life, flee! You must go! Los Angeles & California I will annihilate this race. Few will survive. Amen --The American People America will be destroyed by nuclear bombs, because My Church has forsaken Me! I must destroy this empire. Youll see it before your very eyes. Its sin has come before Me. Thats why IM going to destroy the countrythe people love lust. --The USA This country will become an empty wasteland, full of cactus and tumbleweeds. All this will be empty and waste, because My people dont do My will. --The United States of America Ill judge for both. Ill judge for botha mighty nuclear blast! --America being founded for the propagation of the Gospelthe work left undone, and to grow and ship tobacco back to England You must go. Few will survive. Youll seea great nuclear disaster! It must happen. Its sin has come before Methose high mountains will be submerged under the sea. All this place will be sunken. It all must go under the sea. You must get out of here! Itll be all gone! you must go! --Los Angeles and California Even in disaster Ill be with you. I will create a new Church. Ill have mercy on this place because you asked. The judgment will not come immediately. The judgment will not come immediately. Im giving time to repent. I can blast it away. Thats what Ill do. --The Ritz Carlton, downtown Los Angeles I will judge for that! --pastors who sacrifice Truth for numbers and money and popularity

Those days will return. --the days of having to ride horses to get out West The Western deserts will flow with blood! Ill judge for that! --women not wanting to depend on a man for their livlihood I will judge for that. --people always looking for a better deal in life Ill judge for that. --the racial segregation of the Church Ill judge for that. --the bias in science against God and Truth in areas of research and study Its all gonna go belly-up. --the economy My Church has deserted Me. I must destroy them for that. By nuclear war. Thus says the Lord of Hosts. Amen And you, Capernaum, which are exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. Matthew 11:23 Trust ye in the LORD forever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust. The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. Isaiah 26:4-6

Los Angeles Destruction Prophecies

given through Brian Charles It all must go by My hand. Great will be her destruction! It is ordained forever! --Los Angeles I wanna destroy itsunken beneath the sea. It will all be gone. It will all be blown to rubble massive nuclear explosion! All this will be a memory. --Los Angeles Itll be submerged beneath the sea. --Sunset Boulevard and all on it All this richness must be washed away. --Beverly Hills Suddenly plunged under the sea. Itll be washed away. --Hollywood It MUST goits sin has risen before Me. Great will be its destruction. --Westwood Village, L.A. It all must be blasted away! You see this place? (Westwood Village) Itll all be gone, blasted apart by My hand! These people wont serve Me. They love money. They must be destroyed. Thus says the Lord of Hosts. --Westwood Village It must be blasted away in an instant! They wont serve Me. It must be gone by My hand. Great will be her destruction. --UCLA They must gothey wont serve Me. Nuclear destruction, blasted apart! Great is her greed. I have remembered every medical statement. It MUST be destroyed! Flee this place! It must be blasted away! Its a part of My plan! Great will be her nuclear destruction. --UCLA Medical Center It must be blasted away! Its by My hand! All this must be gone, by My hand! Itll happen! Busses must be blasted awayeveryone must go! Great is her destruction planned! Itll all be

swept away by the force of My hand! IM sick of this wicked land. It must be swept away! Thus says the Lord of hosts. --Los Angeles The city will be destroyed because of them. Theyre going to Hell. I have given them many chances to repent. I have said it. --L.A. filmmakers, movie industry You know, IM gonna destroy this place suddenly? Let Me do it- I control the nuclear buttons. --Los Angeles You must go and warn. You must go and warn My people. This city will be sunken by My hand! Itll be judged by My hand. It must be destroyedits sin has risen before Me. You must warn. Thus says the Lord of Hosts. --Los Angeles Nobody will serve Me. Nobody will do it My way. I must judge for that. It must be destroyed. Ill judge em for that. The peoples wickednesswont listen. They love weed. Theyll be destroyed. Its a reproach in My sight. They must be destroyed. --California marijuana smokers Ill judge for that! Ill definitely judge for that! --the world getting you hooked with the first one given to you for free You know thisll be plunged underwater? Its about to happen. --Arroyo Grande, CA Ill judge for both! --business communities that form controlling old boy networks to price gouge the public, and business communities full of infighting and competition Ill judge for that! Ill definitely judge for that! You can be sure of that! Theyll be destroyed forever! A mighty nuclear destruction!--places in Christians lives where they said No to the Lord Someday itll blow furious! Its My judgment. Lassen too. --Mount Shasta It shall come down. --the big I-5 bridge over the reservoir, north of Redding This will all be sunken. It will all be submerged underwater. --the Central Valley Itll be washed underwater. --Santa Cruz Itll all be swept away. --California coastline Theyll be swept away. The big pine trees of Big Sur Itll be collapsed. --the coast highway, route 1 Ill judge all of that! --squandering money on alcohol, drug abuse Ill judge all of that! --business ventures based on greed Someday it will end. Theyll have to use antigravity or bicycles. -- driving cars I will judge all of that! --the vileness of the left-wing world Ill judge for that! --independent women who want a meal ticket, not a husband Ill judge for that! --girls only wanting to be with rich guys All this will be submerged underwater. --Long Beach rail yards I will judge those who watch television, idol of the 21st century. I will judge them. They will be destroyed. I will punish My enemies in Hell forever. They must be destroyed. --the people who love Satan Ill judge em for that! --With a mighty nuclear destruction! They must be judged. --the Los Angeles Satanists, for controlling the media and entertainment It wont always be. I shall reclaim some, those that dont worship their bodies. --all the most beautiful women serving Satan

Itll be a reality. Itll happen all over. Mighty will be the drought. Thus says the Lord. --children starving to death Destroy My Israel. The Jews wont obey. They must be destroyed. Thus says the Lord of Hosts. They must be judged. Send (judgment prophecies) to them. I will judge them all! They must be destroyed. Thus says the Lord-I have said it. --the wicked Israelis and godless Jews They must gothey wont obey. Thus says the Lord of Hosts. --The Israelis They must be destroyed. I know everything! They must be destroyed! They all must go. They refuse to obey. They must be destroyed, all of them. Few will survive. I have said it- the Lord of Hosts, Mighty in Israel. --the wicked Israelis and godless Jews I wanna destroy because of that! --pornography I dont like em. --Harley Davidson motorcycles We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. Jeremiah 51:9 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. Matthew 11:23