I always hate to hear when a good man has his good work misused by someone who is mentally ill or demon possessed. Satan does that trick for a reason.

And yes, The Reproach of the Solemn Assembly is a good sermon. Very representative of Wilkerson, too, especially of his brimstone types of messages.

Not related to meeting him -
I covered a story (on scene) where a young man who was seriously mentally ill read an old book of Wilkerson’s – I think it was called The Vision.
He then set fire to a boarding house and 11 people died. It’s rare people burn, they succumb to smoke inhalation. But I’ve not forgotten the smell of the bodies…the fireman were laying them in an alley as they kept going back in to try to find life.
The young man was found a few blocks from the fire he set sleeping peacefully, Wilkinsons book in his hands. I worked that story 72 hours with only cat naps.

That having been said, The Reproach of the Solomn Assembly is a heck of a good sermon.

You look back at Wilkinson’s stuff, he’s old fashioned holiness theologically. He’s churned out a lot of books. He’s not nuts like most pents, but he gets obsessed with America being destroyed from time to time. His imagery favorite is fire.

Slow news day, if Drudge hadn’t dredged it off WND it wouldn’t have been picked up or hit the sweet spot.

The world is a tinderbox, waiting to explode, and the only thing holding the cap on is Gods hand.

About the meteor thing…It’s believed in some astronomy circles that the great Chicago fire was not caused by Mrs O’Leary’s cow, but by an airburst of a broken-up comet, due to the knowledge that several large fires broke out across the shores of Lake Michigan at the same time.

But it is also worth noting that Catherine O’Leary was an easy target to blame because she was an immigrant and she was Catholic.

Fires come in all shapes, forms, and causes.