Rev. Billy Graham Prepares 'Perhaps … My Last Message'

As he puts the finishing touches on what he says could be “my last message,” 94-year-old evangelist Rev. Billy Graham warns that the U.S. domestic surveillance program involving the NSA poses a serious threat to Americans’ religious liberty.

Graham is about to debut a new book and a video series that continue his life-long mission of preaching the gospel. In an exclusive Newsmax interview, he says that Americans have always fought for liberty, and states: “Our country is turning away from what has made it so great …” The “pastor to presidents” also offers a pointed response to President Barack Obama’s “hope and change” slogan, and sees signs of impending Armageddon because America “cannot go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.”

Newsmax: Since your first crusade in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1947, traditional moral standards in America have changed radically, with attacks on traditional marriage and abortion and divorce. In an increasingly secular world, can even non-believers find ‘hope’ – to borrow a word from your book title?

Rev. Billy Graham: Absolutely non-believers can find hope, because all people have sinned and come short of God’s glory (Romans 3:23). But the Bible also tells us that God our Savior desires all people to be saved and to come into the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4 NKJV). Real hope is found only in the God of hope. To demonstrate this to mankind, He sent His only Son to earth to bring redemption to people’s souls. God stands by ready to grant salvation to all who believe in Him. ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His only [Son], that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life’ (John 3:16 NKJV). Do not miss the importance of this wonderful phrase ‘in Him.’ When we step into an airplane, fasten our seatbelts and the wheels leave the runway, we have placed our physical being and our complete faith not only in the aircraft, but in the pilot and crew. When we receive salvation offered to us by Jesus Christ, we are committing our entire being—our physical, emotional, and spiritual life — to Him because we put our faith in Him — in everything He has said, done, and promised.