The Mark Of The Beast

And already the money is becoming more worthless and more worthless. The whole nation is bankrupt. Money is becoming no good. You might say, well, how do you, how do you get that, Brother Pike? I don't know, people that don't understand, they say, I don't see any difference in money being valuable now, no more than I did a few years ago. It still buys cakes, it still buys everything I want. I know it does, but the price that you paid for ice cream a few years ago, you pay two, three, four, five times that much now. It's getting to where, if it keeps on, you'd have to take a bushel basket of dollars to get a loaf of bread. That's what you call inflation. Money's no good! It's getting less valuable, and less valuable, and less valuable. In others words, it's losing it's value all together. They kept printing up more money than they had gold coverage for, and finally they just got so much money, they had to get the gold, because they didn't have any coverage at all for it. The foreign had gotten the dollars that had the gold coverage, and of course, gold is good any where in the world. Now, when they demanded the gold, chased in their American currency; that put us with a Federal Note; now then our Federal Note is no better than our Government. For as, when you had a dollar bill by gold, that made you a stockholder in the Government. But now, you're a stockholder in exactly nothing! Because you don't have anything on deposit any where. All you've got is a Federal Note issued to you, and if the Government rises up and says it's no good, its no good! And I can tell you, it's no good before they rise up and tell you, because they will some day! But anyway, ah, they have just talked to Israel, that Kissinger has, and they've come up with what they believe. Now, I know, and when I say this, I know the world out there would say, Mr. Pike you're a big fool! But, the people of God are not a fool! The world's the fool! The Bible said they're children of darkness, and don't know what's going on. But, we're not children of darkness, that the day should come upon us unaware. We'll know when it's nigh at hand! We'd see the signs of the time. It said as a snare it would come upon all them that dwell on the earth. Every one of them! It will be like a snare to them. The people will accept what's coming in. Now watch and see! But, anyway, they think they've got a peace pact with Israel. The Bible said when they cried peace, sudden destruction shall come upon them. Kissinger is a trouble maker! He's not a peace maker! He's a trouble maker! And through he's going under the title of a peace maker, being Secretary of State, the world is going to drool after him, in thinking that he's a great Ambassador of Peace, and they're going to follow after him and they're going to hail him the prince of peace. Just watch and see! You remember when I said the King would come in, and they hailed him king of kings? All right, there's only one Prince of Peace! There's no Peace to the wicked. It doesn't matter what kind of peace pacts they sign, the Bible said the wicked is like the troubled waters ever casting the mire upon the earth, that God was angry with them every day, and would pursue them until they perished from off of the face of the earth. There is no peace to the wicked, saith God. So then, they sign all the peace treaties they want to, but there's no peace! The Bible said in that day, no man shall save you. That's Mr.Kissinger too! No man! He said to Israel, he said, there's no remedy for you any more. Your sins have gone too far, America. There's no remedy. Now, when they cried peace, sudden destruction. And they're getting ready to proclaim an all out peace. And you can judge how much confidence they've got in peace, because they've just started to letting out contracts to make more missiles, more nuclear weapons. If they've got all that confidence in peace, then why are they doing that? See, in other words, it's a fear, and fear is of the devil, and one country is afraid the other one might attack, and the Bible said, God hath not given us a spirit of fear. So it's of the devil! He's got them in a vise. But any way, they feel that they've got a three year peace pact. Now, I want to relate a thing or two to you tonight. That's really something, isn't it? Three years! But I want you to notice something tonight. I made the statement that as they came with this checking system, we spoke of it a long time ago, how that they would bring the Mark of the Beast in with a card. And how that it would come in through the Social Security Number. Every person that's got a Social Security Number, potentially already has the Mark of the Beast. Now, don't get alarmed, I know you've got Social Security Cards, and I have too, and I know that we can't go on without them. They won't let us, because they won't work us or do nothing else. But, I'm saying potentially, he's got the Mark of the Beast, Because that's what it's going to lead to. I made the statement that they would come to it, after that I did that, Children of God, you remember how that the United States Army, the Government changed the serial numbers from the numbers that had been given to the solders and changed it to the Social Security Number? You know how they changed the drivers license number, and changed it to the Social Security number. How many of you are listening to me? Why did they do that? Because it is to be the number one thing that brings in a social public and benefit, of the public to the mark of the beast. And that's what it's going to be, a society. It's going to be one great social mark. Now, even when a kid becomes sixteen or seventeen years old, they can't go to work until they get one. They'll work it right on down. It'll have to do with your tag on your car, before it's over. It'll have to do with everything that you've got. Just watch and see! Now, I said that they would bring this thing in with a card. Through the card system, and don't get alarmed over that, because I've got a whole flock of cards, and I know you have too. They've already come to the place to where they're are putting it in action. Your banking can be done at night, by a card. As a matter of fact, Brother Berretta has got one. Here in Athens, they've already got it, and other places. Go by at night, the bank, stick your card in, you can get your money out of it. Just stick the card in, it'll tell you the balance in the bank, and everything, and give you your money, at night. Now, I made the statement, I said, It'll come through a computerized system, a world brain, through a computerized system by a world brain, and that it would have to be a world brain, because that's the only way that one man can rule the world. And then, I said about that time, they'll start building that temple back in Jerusalem. And you remember the publications on it, that the Pope of Rome and the Russian leader would come together, which they did, and that Kissinger and the Pope would come together, which they did! I said and all of it'll start shaping up, the world evangelism will go into darkness, and the great lights, which is the leaders among the nation, that has been like Brother T. L. Osborne, Brother T. L. Lowery, Brother Oral Roberts, Brother Graham, Brother Jack Coe, and all these great men, I said they'd begin to go into darkness, and their lights would begin to go out. And I said that they'd be well on their way out by 1970. Which they were. They died, and quit, and the ones that was left began to sell shoe strings, and peddle holy water and everything else. Ministers lost in the Spirit, and everything else, and I said, just before the coming of the Lord, there'll be a great Midnight Cry, the Bible said, the saints shall rise and take the Kingdom, there would be a great Message coming in for the Translation, and it will stir the people, and they will rally, and I said, all these great men will try to make a come back. Are they doing it? Every last one is trying to make a come back. I said they'll try to do it. Because the Bible said, at the Midnight Cry, that the Wise and the foolish virgins all rose up together. And all of them said it's time to have a revile, but only the wise that had received the infilling of the Spirit of the Oil of the Holy Ghost, was able to go into the Rapture when the Lord came. Are you listening? And the Rapture is the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Only those that has the Oil would be able to get into it. And they would rise up and their lamps, and when the foolish virgins cried for revival, they would say we have only enough Oil for ourselves. Isn't that right? Just enough Oil to take us over. Just for ourselves. All right! It's happening exactly that way. People can just hold out for themselves, and that's all! Not running having revivals every where. All right! Now, I said that would come in with a card. I want to say this; the extended purpose of the Government and the world powers is one thing, and you'll see this come to pass. And that is to do away with the monetary value, as far as the dollar is concerned. Now, watch and see! It is to completely do away with checks, do away with cards, and do away with the American bill or currency. They'll do away with it; and bring the whole thing under a number. Now watch and see. It'll come to pass. All right, now here's what I want to say. The checking system, we spoke of this, and then they came along and they begin to set up these places in the market, to where you can go in and write your checks, they've already got them in effect, write your checks, and do your banking right there at the cash register in the market. The same principles that they use at the Bank. Like Brother Berretta's card. And I made the statement, I said, but that isn't going to work too good, and they're going to go from that to a card, and I said, that won't work too good, like they want it to, and they'll go from that to a light system, and I spoke of the laser beam. All right! Now there's a lot of things that I'd like to say to you tonight, but I purposed in my heart that I was going to talk with you and try to show you a few things that we'd made mention of. Now, I've got a little paper here, and this paper, this was taken from a paper that we're not familiar with, it's called the Zoang. It's called a free paper, and it was taken, July, August, that is July and August, it comes out in that time, and was taken of'75. I'm going to get Brother Taylor to read this, and I want you people to listen now. If you've never listened in your life, I want you to listen! Get your mind off the baby, get your mind off your family, get your mind off of your problems, and sicknesses, and whatever you've got, and listen now. The Bible said give the more earnest heed to the things you've heard, lest at any time you let them slip. And I want him to read this slow, and I want you to listen, folks. If some of you folks don't listen, you're going to die and go to hell as sure as I'm behind this pulpit. I want you to listen now, as Brother Taylor comes up to read it to you; I want you to listen. Now, before he reads this, I want to tell you something. Little Brother Proctor, tonight, I know some of you are vainly puffed up by your own reason, I know that, but little Brother Gary Proctor came to me tonight, and he said what's this about the Mark of the Beast coming in? He said, is it coming in right away? I said, Well things is getting bad, Gary. He said, I tell you, said I expect it's about time some of us get started straightening up. That's a kid! That's exactly right too, Gary! Son, it's about time we get started straightening up; quit playing church. All right! I'm not scolding you, I want your attention. The only way I can get your attention, is to get you just a little bit moved at me, and then you'll pay attention. All right, Brother Taylor, if you will, I want you to listen real close now, I want him to read it slow, and I want you to listen, close, and I'm not going to try to tell you anything. I might come back after he finishes, and comment a little bit but I want you to get it for yourself. I want you to listen for yourself, now, and see if there's anything at all to what we've been telling you, what we've been trying to lead you into, and the way that we've been trying to help you find the understanding of God. I want you to listen real close. Brother Taylor, will you come and read it carefully and slowly? ( Here Brother Taylor comes to read the article ): In reading this, there's one or two things that I didn't even know was on there myself. One thing is, I had made the statement, I said that they'll not be able, the Banks will not be able to handle that many checks. And I said, what they will eventually do, is set up a computer thing to where, rather that send the checks to the bank, they'll just send a number from the Federal Offices, the Government Offices to the bank, and just tell them to credit Mrs. So and So, such and such in her account. And it'll save the Government thousands upon thousands of dollars in the mail, and these kind of transactions, helicopter, and everything carrying it to and fro. It'll cut down until many multiplied thousands of dollars are saved, and it'll make it so quick, that it's almost like the speed of light, in their transitions, and transactions. Here, a human being will become a living credit card. That's what I said before. And when you receive this number, the Bible said, when you receive it, you have no rest day nor night, but you are tormented day and night, and can never be saved, when you receive this number. And that you're cast into the lake of fire. Now, you watch what I'm telling you, folks. When this thing comes about, and it's coming. They've already started it in the first power of it's process, in the West. The West represents the woman, and it always denotes where Satan comes in. The weaker vessel! But they're going to set this thing up. Already got it going. I talked to Junior McCallum over the phone the other day, ah, before this paper came in and found out that in Monteses, a place where Sister Betty and a number of you have transacted, they've already got it set up there. It's a big place, and if I did not misunderstand my wife, she said that already my mother-in law, Mrs. Gray, has received a letter already, saying that they would send her check to the Bank, or that is re route it some way, is that right? Was that to send it directly to the Bank, Mrs.Gray? They already contacted her, and told her that her check, which comes with a regularity, that if she would like, they'd send it straight to the Bank. Now, they'll drive the Bank out of their mind. They'll never be able to do that. So then, what they will do, you watch, they'll go to a number, and just send the computer number down to the Bank. For what the Government is supposed to have, which they really don't have, but what they're supposed to have in the big treasure. And you say, What's all that for? It's for one thing, and that's to do away with monetary value. Now, people are going to run into it. They're going to grab it, and go right to it, and think it's the grandest thing that's ever happened! But, I want to tell you something, folks, as long as you've got a little bit of something, you've got a little bit of hope. You understand what I'm saying? When you don't have any automobile, and the other fellow's got it, you ride when he says ride. If you don't have any money, and they get all the money in Washington, all the value in Washington, then you don't have nothing! You're a slave to tribute. And you're a slave to that person! You don't have anything. Not anything! But a number! And it's a slick, cunning, sly, Communistic, Anti-Christ move to get control of all the people of the world. Through Mediocre, and all of these other devices. And when they do it, That means that you're going to be a slave to Anti-Christ. And I want you to Listen for a few Minutes to me tonight. First of all, They're making Government loans, you're familiar with that. They're, about everybody has got a loan through the Government. A lot of people say, well, I got mine from the Bank. But that, that shows that you don't understand too much, because where the Bank gets their money is from the Government. They borrow it from the Government, and pay them so much to borrow it, and then they loan it to you. They borrow it in a big amount, pay them so much, and then they loan it to you, and you pay them, they loan to you in little, just a little bit at a time. Different people. And they charge you a higher rate of interest than the Government charges them. The Government appropriates millions of dollars every year for that purpose. Now, I'm not telling you something I think, I'm telling you something I know! So then, the Government has cunningly, and slyly took control of the homes all over the world. Automobile loans are the same way. Letting your land wast through the soil conservation program, farms getting bigger, encouraging the people to get bigger farms paid for, to borrow money on it. Every phase of life, they've got control of it, little by little, to make all things common. It's obvious that in the reading of this right here, it started that whereas, people could not get together on their prices, that now they're going to be able to just come into an all thing common sort of a thing, to work with the Bank and Government. That's Communism! And another thing is, it's a lot better for one man to charge more for his products over here, than another man over here. As long as you've got that, you've got competition, and you've got a good Government. As long as the people's got control of it. And that's the way the Government was set up when it first came here. Every one of you had a control over it, because it was a money power, and they set up a capitalistic thing, they used that, and they issued money out on it, to make you a power in the Government. That's the way it was set up. They used the standard called gold, and you having so much money, become a stockholder in the Government. And you had control of it. That's called Democratic Government. But folks, there's no Democratic Government today. There's no such thing as Democracy today. People that think that, they just don't understand Government. But I want you to see that this thing has slipped in so close, that hundreds and thousands of people are going to go into this. And I predict, to begin with, I predict that they won't enforce it, and they won't put any law on it, and they won't make any body do it, to begin with. I predict that they won't do that! They'll offer it as a great opportunity to you, just like they did Mrs.Gray. Would you like us to send your check to the Bank? Now, it's going to be a great Opportunity, and it's going to be so rosy and pretty, that hundreds of thousands of people, not knowing it's the Mark of the Beast, is going to go right in, take the laser beam, take the Mark, and feel like nothing has happened. Won't be a bit of change. They won't feel a bit different. They'll just go in and take the Mark. Now, you say, Brother Pike, God would not be a just God to let hundreds and millions of innocent people come in and take the Mark. Now, I did not say that hundreds and millions of innocent people would take the Mark. That's wasn't what I meant. Those people are not innocent. They are mean, contrary, and they're devils walking around in human flesh. They're people that's been preached to for years, that will not listen to the word, that works every thing out in their natural work, up here, and won't listen to nobody. They're not innocent. Not innocent at all! They're murders, and liars, and cheats, and fornicators, and robbers, and deceivers, and all kind ao people. But I mean, as a snares, it shall come upon all of them that dwell on the earth, and they'll be caught in the snare, just like the lion, he's vicious fellow, but he innocently gets caught in the snare. He didn't know it was there. And he isn't aware of it until you've already got him. Now, I'm telling you what's going to happen to them, thousands of them will go in there and take it. But God, the Bible said, the wicked will not see when good come, but God's people are not children of darkness, but of light. Just like I'm reading this to you. This is light to you. It's understanding. It's making you to know that it's near at hand. It'll wake you up stir you up and make you know something's about to happen, so that you can get on guard, and get ready. Now I don't know how this affects you, but even my own little Daddy, it was kind of comical, what he said, but even my own little Daddy, it tore him up so much, he said, Mama, he said, before I'd take the Mark of the Beast, I'll get my B B gun and kill myself. That's how it shook him up! Little Gray is shook up over it! Now, somebody said you ought not, ought not tell things like that, because you get everybody nervous. I tell you what, if it's a bridge down the road that was out and I was fixing to fall into the middle of the river, I'd want somebody to make me nervous enough to stop, turn around, or do something. It's only good common sense to warn people. Jesus said, if you see the enemy coming, and you don't warn them, I'll require their blood at your hand, but if you warn them, then the blood is off your hands. I'm a watchman on the wall, required to see. He said, watchman, what of the night? I set watchman upon your wall that'll never hold their peace. I'm looking and I'm watching, and I'm standing on my watch. The prophet said, I'll stand on my watch and I"ll see what He says to me, and what will I answer to Him when I'm reproved of it? And I'm watching on the wall. And the Bible said, all of them was asleep at midnight. And in the Old Testament, you'll find that all of them was asleep, that they had only the watchmen on the wall that were awake, to alert the people at the midnight cry if the enemy come near, the, the big walls. And I'm warning you tonight. It's high time to rise up, shake yourself, trim your lamps, and go out to meet the Bridegroom, because He's at the Door. He's coming! It's time to check up, as little Gray said, it's time to straighten up, and check up. And I know some of you are not going to do it. Some of you say, well, I know I'm going to do it. There's no way you can do it. Some of you're not predestinated. You'd never do it! You get shook up, you get scared, you go right back out there, it won't be long, you'd be forgot all about what Brother Pike says; you'll be sitting under a television movie, compromising with the social party, because you don't want to hurt any body's feelings, talking to them about the things of the world out there, and about everything that you ought to talk about, whereas, Paul said, if anything be Godly, have any virtue in them, think on these. Let your conversation be in heaven. Let it be holy. You'll be right out there in the world with them again. You'll be contrary. That spirit in you'll rise up. That temper will rise up. That haughtiness will rise up. That gossiping will rise up. That thing that you've never got rid of, all these years, with the preachers preaching to you, it'll rise up, and you'll find yourself back in the same hogpens that you was before the warning. Esau sought repentance with bitter tears, and couldn't find any place of it. He cried and begged and pleaded. But it was too late! Jacob had already got the birthright! Now, I believe that any of you can see that something is taking place here. Now, I want to read just a little bit of Scripture, if I can, and comment just a little bit to you tonight, and I'll do my best not to hold you long cause I know you're weary and tired. But I just want to drop in a thought or two and just see how these things tally with the Scriptures tonight. Have you got a few minutes to listen? All right now! You know, that we've read about this, we've preached about this, we've talked about this, and we've told people that this was coming, but you've got to admit, it's kind of shocking when it gets here, isn't it? Somebody would say, well, I don't believe that's the Mark of the Beast. They said, years ago when they come out with this, and they come out with that, that was the Mark of the Beast; and this is just another thing, you know. Somebody's getting all excited and saying this is the Mark of the Beast, but it's just a good commercial program, and we'll find out it's not the Mark of the Beast. Just another benefit God give us. If you that out through that thing, then I'm a liar, and there's not a word of truth in me. Don't you ever believe anything else I ever say, because I'm a false prophet and a liar, if that isn't the Mark of the Beast coming in! That is the Mark of the Beast! and it isn't going to be a good Government, and isn't going be just another thing that somebody said something about, and it isn't going to just pass by; it's going to doom your soul to hell, if you take that Mark. Now, you watch what I'm telling you. You won't know about it, until after you've taken it. But, after you take it, you'd give ten million worlds if you could, if you never let them stick that laser beam on you. All right, I want to read just a little bit in the twelfth chapter, of Proverbs. ( Hear Brother Pike reads the Scriptures): That's reading the whole twelfth chapter of Proverbs, and I'd like to comment just a little bit. I read this because Solomon used the terms, " Wisdom is the chief thing ". said get wisdom, because is the chief thing! said call it thy kinsman, call it thy kinsman. It's like a brother or sister, hold it close to you, Solomon said. Wisdom is a Tree of LIfe. And the man findeth wisdom findeth life. And I read to you here what he had to say about the path of death, and the way of life. The things that I relate to you from the pulpit here, Brothers and sisters, they are it is the wisdom of God. It is what God gives before things take place. For years, I've watched the Government, and I've watched the different things that have take place, and I have found that just exactly the way that God said of eternity, right at the very end of it, right at the very end of it, and some of us are still not prepared to meet God. And I know that we're prepared up here, but Brothers and Sisters, Believing that you're going to heaven up hear in your head, that isn't going to do it. There's got to be a Spiritual Translation. There's got to be something that takes place in your heart. You've go to born again. And get the heart right with God, and get the world out of your heart, and get faith in your heart; and be baptized in the Names of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin, and then be filled with the Spirit of God, and you have a chance to be Translated and go in the Rapture. If you haven't come that, that trail, you won't make it. You're bound to go through the tribulation period. There's no other hope for you. You're going through the Mark og the Beast. Now I want to try to answer just a question or two that's been in the minds of some of you tonight, If I possibly can. There's some things that I'd really like to say tonight, and really like to get into a message that I know that would help a lot of you tonight, but I've took so much time reading this, and trying to get this over to you, until I don't have time to really get into what I'd like to tonight. But, I've been asked the question a lot of times, Brother Pike, are we going to be here through the tribulation period? Are we going to be here during the time of the Anti-Christ or the regime of the Anti-christ? I know that Brother David Terrell teaches that we are. and I know there's a lot of other preachers that teach that the Church will go through the regime of Anti-Christ, and through the terrors of Anti-Christ, and the tribulation. But, I want you to know something, they that are born of the Spirit of God, that's been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the Remission of sin, will not go through the tribulation period! They'll be translated and taken out of this world, and then Anti- Christ will set up his kingdom, and after three years, or three and a half years, or after the regime of Anti - Christ, we'll come back on white horses in Revelation nineteen, and actually take a literal sword and kill people. I mean literally kill people, not spiritually kill people, but dip the sword in the blood of human beings, of those that taken the Mark of the Beast, and of the Anti -Christ. We'll actually, literally, kill them with the sword, until their blood down the streets. Now, you say, Brother Pike, I don't believe that God would do that to the fellow man. But the Bible said, those that came out of Egypt, when they the covenant of Moses come down off of the mountain, and those people had numbered themselves with the evil that was going on, which was of the Anti - Christ in the absence of Moses, Moses said to them, every man that's with me, step over here. And every person that was with Moses stepped over and numbered themselves with Moses, and He said take your swords and fall upon them, and the Bible said they literally slain until thousands of people lay dead. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God is a spirit, and God has never changed His nature. He's never changed His thinking. He's never changed His outlook. He's angry with the wicked every day of the week, and He'll pursue the wicked until they perish from off the face of the earth, and until He drives them out of His presence into eternity. That's what God will do. Grace is a period of time that is given for you to prepare yourself to meet God. That's all it is! It is a period of time. God has not changed one bit! God did not give grace as some preachers preach it, so that you just go, go to God, get saved, as they say, just believe and everything is going to be all right, and it'll be all right! Now, that's what they preach! They say, don't do nothing but believe, cause there's nothing you can do, and everything will be all right. They're a liar! That's a lie! God did not send them preachers to preach no such; that's a lie! There is no more for you to do, than just say, I believe. The Bible said, if a man comes to your dwelling and he's hungry, and he needs clothes, and you say to him, go thy way and be filled, go thy way and be clothed, and the Apostles said notwithstanding, you don't give him them things that's needful for the body, said then what have you profited the man? What good have you done him? You've not done him any good! Being alone, faith can do nothing! Now, I believe, a lot of folks says, well, you're saved, Brother Pike, say it's your faith that saves you. The Bible said we are saved by grace through faith. It is not faith, nor your faith, nor any body else's faith that saved us. It is the faith, the Bible said, by Jesus Christ. The Bible said, contend for the faith, was once delivered unto the saints of God, which faith, by which ye are sanctified, even the faith of Christ. Is that right? And we are taught in the Scriptures, that it is our faith, but it is His faith, and we are taught that it is by the grace of God, because Jesus believed in the righteousness of God. It is by the grace of through the shed blood of the atonement of Christ, that we are saved. It's not of works. Not of your, not of yourself, lest any man should boast, but it is the gift of God. It is the grace, that saves us. It is not faith that saves us. It is the grace of God that saves us. And the word grace means mercy. It is the mercy og God that saves us. We can't do anything, never could we do anything, never shall we be able to do anything. It is God's mercy that saves us, by the washing of regeneration, through the crucifixion of the Son of God. That's the way we're saved! We only use our faith to take hold of it. THat's all we use faith for, is a simple believing from our heart in what God through His mercy in killing the Lamb at calvary. It's by His grace, and we only made heirs to it through believing in what Jesus did for us. Now, I want you to get this. No man believed to the righteousness of God! Jesus was the only one that ever had faith to live the life that pleased God to where God would save humanity. He lived perfect life and become the perfect Lamb, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish. His faith never wavered, and it's called the Faith, by which we are sanctified. But we are made heirs to that righteousness, of the shed blood, the mercy of God, through our faith, by believing in the atonement. A simple thing of believing. That's not in your head. For the Bible said, with the heart man believeth unto righteousness I can tell you all day long, all you've go to do is come up here and make a confession and believe, and that's not true! Jesus said, you've got to be born again. You can make all the confessions you want to. You can do like Esau. The Bible said he sought repentance with bitter tears, and found no place of repentance. He prayed and cried, and did everything, but it was too late. Jacob had all ready got the birthright. So then, crying is not going to do it, pleading isn't not going to do it, you've have got to be born again. Jesus said, Nicodemus, lest you be born of the water and of the spirit, ye shall in no wise inherit the kingdom of God. Is that right? or enter into the kingdom of God. He said, you're going to repent of your sins, you're going to receive the Spirit of God, and you're going to be baptized in Jesus name, or you're not going in. Is that right? You're not going into the kingdom. There is a natural birth, and that natural birth is a water birth. And that child comes out by means of the blood, the water, and he comes out with a life, which is the spirit. And it takes the blood at Calvary, it takes water baptism in Jesus' name, and it takes the Spirit of God to make you a living birth, and not a still birth; which is called a dead child. Now, I want you to see something here, if you can. If you'll give me just a few minutes. We've come to a place, to where people are just preaching and telling folks anything. And multitudes, and multitudes are going after it. Multitudes are going after it, because it looks good. It looks good! A way that seemed right unto man, and the ways thereof are the ways of death. It is a religious formality that doesn't have any salvation. Somebody said, but I feel the spirit of God. That doesn't do it. Somebody said, but I speak in tongues. That doesn't do it! The rain comes on the just and the unjust. The rain is on the briar and the rain is on the wheat, and the briar needs the rain to live as much as the wheat does! But the harvest that each one of them produces is not the same. The wheat being typical of a christian, will yield the fruits of the Spirit. Something that's good to eat. It'll yield, like a tree of Life. But the briar will always be born in your flesh, so to speak. It'll always be contrary. Always gossiping, Always bickering, backbiting, finding fault, creating division, being contrary to the word of God all the time, see, but it lives on the same water. It's got a different nature. It, it brings up a different harvest. Now, I want you to see this. Some of you understand what I'm saying, some of you don't. But, I want, you say, how do you know? Cause some of you that's supposed to be with the Holy Ghost, you come and ask me if you're born again? That proves there's something wrong. All right now, look at it. We are close to the Mark of the Beast. We need to know where we're going. We need to know what we're doing. Faith unto salvation, being born again. Being a real Christian. It depends the Spirit of God. It don't make no difference how much you believe. The Bible says if you have not the Spirit of god, you're none of His. You can believe all you want to, and said, if any man denied that the Spirit of God lives today in the human being, he is an Anti - Christ. He is a member of the Anti - Christ body. If he denies that the Holy Ghost lives inside of a hu,an being, that God is a Spirit, and He lives inside of you, that Christ in you, is the Hope of Glory. That He walks in you, and talks in you. That you're the temple of the Holy Ghost, the Bible said, that man is an Anti- Christ! The Spirit of God is the only thing that can Translate you! The Spirit of God is the only thing that can bring a man up out of the grave. If that man lays down in the grave without the Spirit of God, he cannot come up out of that grave unless God calls him out of the grave. Now somebody said, well, if he lays down in the grave, he can't come up anyway, unless God calls him. That's wrong! Jesus said I have the power to lay my life down, and I have power to take my life up. When Christ gives that last call, I've got power to take my life up out of the grave. Somebody said, now wait a minute, Brother Pike, The Bible said Elisha sick and died and laid in the grave, and they threw a man in on him, and he had so much Spirit in his bones till it resurrected the man that went in there. Now, I want you to see this. It is by your faith, that you are made partakers. But God not give the age of grace that we're living in, so that you could go on doing the things of the flesh, and be saved. You can't do that! That's wrong! That's not what grace is for. Like a fellow said, God's going to save me in Spite of myself. God does not have any such grace! God does not give any such grace. Grace is not given for that purpose. God hasn't changed the law. God gave the law, and God's satisfied with the law, and He said not one jot or tittle will pass away, till every bit of it be fulfilled. He only gave grace, following the law of Moses, for one purpose. And that was to help the innocent. And to help the weak. And those that had not been able to perform as others could perform to help them in the time of their falling, and nobody could really make it without grace. It takes grace for the short coming. That means that I've got to do everything I possibly can to live life, and then grace comes to my heart. If I don't do everything I can to be perfect in the sight of God, then grace doesn't even apply to me. Grace was not given to change the law. Grace was not given to alter the law. Grace was given to establish the law. It was for the purpose that the laws of life, which came from God through Moses, might be established in the earth, because that is the only way that you can have life. You understand what I'm saying? Now, somebody said, well the Bible said Paul spoke and said that, that salvation or life did not come by the law. I know it didn't come by the law. It came by the grace. But it was the law! Came the letter of death, because of your weakness. Paul said, I was alive without the law, until the law came, and then the law killed me, in that it brought me under condemnation. It showed up my impurities. The closer you get to God, like the prophet of old when he got in the presence of God, he said, I feel impure, I feel unclean, I feel like I'm a man of unclean lips, he said. You try praying, you try getting in the Spirit, you try getting close to God, and even your thoughts will become a burden, because you begin to think, Lord, here I am in the presence of God, Almighty God, and I'm afraid to think, I'm afraid to do anything. I feel so impure! So then, because the was God unveiling Himself, shaking the mountain, we couldn't get close to Him, so then Moses, being typical of God, seeing God made him God unto Aaron. That's what God said to him. Put a veil on him, and said, I'll raise up a Jesus, a prophet like unto Moses, and it shall come to pass, that whosoever faileth this prophet shall be cut off from among the people. And Moses put a veil over his face, and then came down, and they said, you talk to God, Moses. And then, we'll talk to you! And then his face was so illuminated that he couldn't hardly stand it. They couldn't, when he come down, being a type of the fleshly body, in which Jehovah, the Great eternal Spirit tabernacled, building Himself a human tabernacle, walking in it, a veil of human flesh that we might see God through Jesus. Is that right? Jesus was embodiment of God. That's the only God there is, is Jesus Christ. God is a Spirit! He dwells in the body of His Son, Jesus Christ. He rules the world through the blood, though the body of Jesus Christ. He's the personification through Jesus Christ, and today He's in the heart of mankind by measure, through the Holy Spirit. Is that right? As the Holy Ghost! All right now, I want you to see this for a few minutes now. God didn't give grace to break the law, that wasn't the purpose of it. It was to establish the law. In that Paul said, not that the law is sinful, but sin gets it's strength by the law, not that the law is sinful, said it's good, just and holy, but he said, in that I am weak and contemptible in my human ability, and my human body, in so much that I can't perform the law, the desires of God, because of my weakness. I'm made subject to vanity, and said I can't perform it. So then, God knows no laws of any value lest there's an element of grace in it, to take care of the innocent, and so then God sent Grace. He sent Calvary. That was the missing link in the chain. That's what makes the chain stay together; when I fail after I tried to do all I can. I tried to do my very best, and then I fail; not willingly, not carelessly, not just because I won't listen, or won't try, but I try to do my best; and then I fail and I stumbled, then comes the missing link of the chain. And Jesus' grace makes up for it. And it keeps the chain from breaking, He binds it together. So then, what is grace for? It is an allotted period of time, to where we can shape ourselves into the likeness of the Son of God. It is an allotted period of time, in the midst of an evil people to keep God from destroying humanity from off the face of the earth, to give His people time to mature and to separate themselves from the wicked. And just as quick as they mature, God is going to pick them up, take them above the world, and then literally slay the people and destroy them with the nuclear powers, and with the evils of life. Is that right? That's Bible! The Bible said, God determined evil upon Israel many times, and repented. Any time evil comes, the Bible said, can evil come to a city and I've not sent it, saith the Lord? It's God that sends it, whether it's war, whether it tornadoes, whether it's storms, or whatnot. Somebody said, you mean, now Brother Pike, you just said the devil caused all that a few minutes ago. I didn't, I didn't say that! Here's what I told you. Job went before, or Satan went before God, because Job was to be tempted by Satan. Nothing was wrong with Job, but Satan went into the presence of God, asking permission to do something to Job. When the tornadoes comes, that knocked his building down; it wasn't God, it was the devil. How many of you know that's true? The Bible said, there come a strong wind, tornado, tore down his barns, killed his children, the tornado did! But it wasn't God! That was Satan! Is that right! Satan did it! Satan killed his cattle. Stan killed everything, destroyed it, tried to kill Job, brought a sickness on him. Isn't that right? But Who gave the permission for him to do it? God did! Satan couldn't do anything until God gave him permission, but the evil wasn't God's doings! It's was Satan's doings! But God allowed the evil to test Job, and to try JOb, and to perfect faith in Job's heart. That's what the trials are for. Many are afflictions of the righteous, but God delivered them out of them all. Isn't that right? somebody said a tornado come up, said now, I haven't got nothing to say about it, I'm not going to say anything against God's work. Why, you know better than that! That's not God's work. What are you talking about, God's work? That's the devil doing that! That's the devil trying to tear up something! If God grew a tree, and then tore it down, His kingdom would be divided. He, Himself testified it couldn't stand. He said a divided Kingdom can't stand. If God creates a man and puts him in the earth with health, and then reaches down there and puts afflictions on him, His Kingdom's divided! His Kingdom can't stand. He makes a man, He gives a mother a darling baby in her arms, and then jerks it out of her arms and kills it. Give the mother a little baby, and then twists it up, puts it in braces. Why, you know God don't do things like that! Where do you get that? God don't do that! That's the devil doing those things. Sin and evil causes those things. There'll never be anything like that in the millennium. When Christ comes and sets up the Kingdom here, and the devil is bound for a thousand years, there won't be any thing like that, children of God! Why don't we understand God? Why don't we understand what Gods doing? As long as you don't see, like a woman that died, a good woman, she felt like if God wanted her like that, she'd just be contented in that kind of condition. God didn't have the woman like that! God doesn't do that! God doesn't cripple! God doesn't tear down! God doesn't kill! God said, I've come to give you life, and that more abundantly. And the word abundantly means filled up and overflowing. I am the God that health all of thy diseases. Is that right? God wants to heal you. God wants to save you! GOd doesn't want you in poverty! God doesn't want you just make it out, just barely getting by! God isn't the One that killed you! You understand what I'm saying? Now, the Bible said, God kills, and God makes alive. Sure! God kills the wicked by letting evil come upon them. The Bible said their own evil shall slay them. I'll feed them the fruits of their thoughts. Isn't that right? They devise evil against the righteous. God turns the devil loose on them, he kills them. But listen, Friend, God doesn't want you to die. It is not God's will tonight. I want you to get this, it is not God's will for any human being to be placed in a casket. It has never been God's will from the foundation of the world. Somebody said, What about Jesus? Didn't the Bible say, we esteemed Him smitten of God? It wasn't God's will for Him to be like that! It was because of the sin of mankind. Somebody said, well,God brought it. God didn't bring it. The Bible said death came by man, not God! That's Bible! Death came by man. Death is the enemy of God! God hates death! Man started it! God didn't do it! And God is giving us the power to overcome death, for death is the enemy of God, and the last one to be conquered! And that's what the Revelation is going to do, is conquer it! You say, how is that going to do it! It's going to let you know that Gods not a friend to it. It'll open your understanding, and reveal to you that God doesn't want you to die, that it isn't God in action, it's the devil. It's not God's plan, and then faith will take hold in your heart. And faith will overcome death, and death will be swallowed up in victory! What victory? This is the victory that overcomes the world, even your faith! Where does it come from? The word! The Revelation! Enoch was Translated by faith! By grace through faith, you're saved. Not of works, not of yourself, lest any man should boast. It is a gift of God! All right now, listen at me just a few minutes. Why are you talking like this, Brother Pike when you've talked about the Mark of the Beast? I'm talking like this for this purpose. Folks, if the Mark of the Beast is as close as that is, then how close is the Translation of the Saints? If we're not going to be here during the tribulation period, and during the Mark of the Beast, if this very month, the Mark of the Beast is beginning to set in, then how close is the Translation? It's no wonder that William Branham predicted the great things that's happened to the world over and over, predicted by'77 that this thing would be blown to bits. And I made the statement, according to his prediction, he's wrong, about the millennium coming in! I said, what it looks to me like, the way it's shaping up, it's the tribulation period. Every thing is shaping up for it. Now, you say, but, Brother Pike, how can the Mark of the Beast be here now when you said we'd be caught out? I told you here a good while back, that the Church, God had sealed the Church in, that He was catching them out, and getting the last one in the Revelation. And when the last one comes in, that would be it. The change would take place! A lot of people don't believe this is the Translation Message. well, tell me where another one is coming from? Where are we going to get another one? How long have we got? It's coming right on time. There's three things that took place when Pentecost fell back yonder, we was talking it today, when Pentecost fell, what did He do? They had a shout, the Bible said, He comes with a shout. Isn't that right? He started off with a shout. Then a voice! And then a trumpet! And when Pentecost come it started in a shout. It was God coming! It was the restoration of the Church. They shouted, spoke in tongues, had a good time. But it wasn't long until a voice spoke from heaven to a man by the name of William Branham, and as John the Baptist, who was the Voice, came into the world to forerun it, said you too, the shout, right, at the shout coming, here come God speaking to him, saying John the Baptist, they said, who are you, John? He said, I'm a Voice! A shout, then a voice! And then after the Voice, it was the Trump of God! Which is the Revelation of Jesus Christ! That was to resurrect the dead! Hallelujah! In other words, everything's running right in succession. One step, two steps, three steps. Everything! You say, But Brother Pike, how can the Revelation be the Trump that resurrected the dead? Because the Bible said, the dead in Christ rise first. When the trump sounds, we who are alive, and remain, are changed! Everything is falling right in line. I say this, that if we are that close, we are that close, let me speak to you just a few more minutes, and I'm going to close. But, children of God, if we are that close to the Mark of the Beast, then that means that the change, Thessalonians change, in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, is laying on us. It would have to be. It has to, now you say, but Brother Pike, you say that we're not going to be here in the Mark of the Beast. Yet you say it's coming in. I made the statement, I said we would be here during the flattery. Didn't I tell you that? It said he would come in with flattery. Isn't that what Kissinger's doing? He's flattering the nations. He's a liar! He's a trouble maker! He's done caused trouble with Israel, caused so much trouble with Israel until they, they rose up in the streets and told him to go back to America. Rose up and the police had to stop them. They was fighting; they would killed him. They intended to kill him from what I can find out. He's a trouble maker! He's causing trouble. He's working under disguise with the Papacy of Rome, and with Communism to set up a world power, and I made a statement, I said he'll set it up in Atlanta, Georgia, that'll be where it'll all stem from, just before the great explosion, just before the calamities; and he come right to Atlanta, Georgia after we said it, and had his conference, and then they come right with this thing about this great tower, eight hundred feet, to where you can see Macon, Georgia from there. A vision so strong that you can see Jerusalem, in that Macon is a type of it. All right, let's look at it just for a minute now, and see if that's true. I made the statement, I said we will be here through the flattery part of it, Isn't that right? Look at it now, spiritually, just for a few minutes. Here comes the Mark of the Beast coming in. It's coming in. I made the statement, I said, when they put that number on the food, I said, that's it, right there. Isn't that right? That one great brain that they've got over in the foreign country, about, I don't know, like it's two or three stories or whatever it is, I brought it out on tape here where it was and it was. They call it the Beast, The great intellectual brain. Everything goes back to it. To give a great leader a chance to control the world, that through the numbers on the Post cereal, the cereal of all kind, chewing gum, milk, everything, that one great intellectual brain, through a computerized system, one man decide how many people there are in the world to be fed. How many boxes of Post cereal it'll take, how many cans of milk it'll take, and if there's a famine any where, he automatically knows every box of cereal in the world, and he's got control of every bit of it, and it's his kingdom. And all he'd have to do is just shift it from one side of the ocean to the other, and just keep everything going smooth. It'd be like a paradise. I made the statement, that was the only Government that will ever rule right. That's the only Government that can ever satisfy the people. As long as it's divided up, it'll never run right. God made it to be one great world Government, but not with Anti -Christ at the head of it. Jesus Christ is supposed to be the Head of it! It'll never work with a dictator at the head of it. Jesus is the only One that knows how to handle it! He is, He is partakers of our infirmities. He died, and He rose again, He suffered, He was sick, He went through everything, to where He could be a great King, a great Leader, and feel the infirmities of us, and rule us, and love us, and lead us, and have compassion on us, and provide for us in our weaknesses through His grace. That's why He came down here, so God, God never knew nothing about sickness, till He climbed into a human body, and then the Bible said, He was a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. He never nothing about sorrow, except He felt it through the body of Jesus Christ. Today He understands. How many of you understand what I'm saying? All right now, look at this. With Kissinger going into the Holy Land, making peace between the Arabs and between the Jews. What does it mean? It's those twins. Going back to the Garden, it's those twins. I said the nearest thing to a son of God, is a man. Are you listening now? God said to the Sons of God, come and let us make a man, and let us make him in Our Image! Is that right? And the nearest thing to a Son of God is a man; but that is not a Son of God. He's a beast! And people in the world today that do not have the Spirit of God, that are not the predestinated: they are not the Sons of God, they are a human beast. The Bible said these are brute beast made to be taken and burned. How many of you understand what I'm saying? The twins! They look just alike. A man, he looks just exactly like the beast, or, or the Son of God. The man is a beast, looks just like the Son of God. What's the difference? That man is a beast, he's smart. He's intellectual. He's been to the Tree of Knowledge. Education, all kind of college. Everything that's in the world, even religious as he can be. Cain was just as religious as Able was. Churchy, but he never had the Spirit of God! He'd never been born again! You understand what I'm saying? The beast, the man, the one that runs the Bank, and the one that runs the Government, and the President, and all of them, brute beasts, made to be taken and burned! The whole educational system is Anti- Christ. God's going to tear the whole thing down. Tear the school, tear the colleges down, tear the Government down, tear everything down, and raise up the Sons of God! And establish the Government! And the Bible said, the Saints of God shall rise and take the Kingdom, and, and possess it forever and ever! Said the earth is waiting and groaning for the manifestation of the Sons of God. Jesus said, Ye are Gods! Isn't that right? Brother, you're not just a beast, you're not just a man, He said, Ye are Gods! You die like a man, because of unbelief, but you don't have to die! Death has been conquered at calvary. You're Gods! Gods wasn't made to die! God's was made to live! That's why they're Gods! Said, I'd make them come and kneel at your feet, and know that I've loved you! All right, I'd make them come and kneel at your feet, and know that I've loved you! All right, just a few more words. Look at the twins! Here is the twins. The Arabs and the Jews. What does it represent? The unredeemed body, which is the Arabs. How many of you know that's a son of Abraham? Ishmael, is that right? The Son of Abraham coming through Hagar. Is that right? The bonds woman. Is that right? Here, typical! Somebody said, but that's the Jews. I know Paul said, this answers the Mount Sinai, which is the Jew, which now is, and is in bondage to her children. I know that, and I know that we're the Spiritual Jew. Now, you're talking about the reality of the thing. But, I'm talking about types now! Types in the earth! I know that all sinners are beasts. I know that! All that's not predestinated are beasts. But I'm looking at the types now. The Arabs, over here. The son of Abraham, and here is Israel, Isaac, the Israelite, the son of Abraham; fussing over their inheritance. Both of them having for a daddy, but having different mothers. Are you listening? I said they've got the same father, but different mothers. You say, what are you talking about? I mean that same God that made the wheat made the briar. Is that right? God the same Father, but got different mother. It's the same thing. Everything is the same, as far as God, God created all things. God created the good. God creates the evil. Is that right? Works all things after the council of His own will, Has His way in both. Holds the kings heart in his hand, turns it whiter - so - ever like the rivers of waters. The preparation of a man's heart is from God! Is that right? How many of you understand what I'm saying? All right, what is Kissinger doing? Said betrayed thou the Son of Man with a kiss? Kissinger! That's what He said to Judas! A kiss means a lot. I wish we had time to go into it tonight, what it means, and you'd see. That's why you have to kiss the Pope's ring when you go over there to visit with him. The kiss of death! Betrayed thou the Son of Man with a kiss? That's what he's doing to them. Coming in with flattery. It means that in the peace pact between them, that it is a typical thing, that at last the body has been redeemed. It means the redemption of the body. Peace between them! But the only thing is, that is not that which belong to Israel. That's not it all. That's the typical thing. Israel is a type of a Spirit. They're a type of the body. But in reality, Israel is the body, and we're the Spirit. We're the ones that belong to Israel, not the Arabs! How many of you understand what I'm saying? You say, what does, what does the Arabs belong to? They belong to these people out here in the world. Civilization, I'm going to say this again, civilization comes from Egypt. Check your text book, go back to your educational system, it comes from the Garden, the Mark of the Beast, comes from the understanding of the Tree of Knowledge, comes right on down to Egypt, and they pick it up in egypt and you'll find in your text books, that what they did, they left the teachings of Abraham, and went to Egypt. Now this is the truth. Check your textbooks and see. I'm talking about your school books. Your school books will tell you about Abraham as the patriarch coming into Egypt. IT'll tell you about it. But there, they left Abraham, and they set up their own government. And they started from Egypt and began to theorize from the hieroglyphics, the rosetta a stones, and a number of other things, begin to theorize and pick things up and started what they called history, and the word history is h - s - t - o - r - y, his story. Started his story, instead of God's story, instead of the Bible, they started his story, and put his story, and history to history, until they come up with what they've got today. That's exactly what the educational system is. Taking theory instead of facts, trying to theorize, saying though thou climbest up to heaven, I shall cast thee down to hell. Though thou makest nest among the stars, which is the moon, from thence I shall cast thee down. That's exactly what he tried to do with the Tree of Knowledge. Figure through the intellectual, numerical order of science, through mathematics, and a mathematical genius, like Einstein, how to unlock the mysteries of God, and found out that God had only ordained for him to go that far to the finite, and then stop him. That is, to get up to the moon, and then cast him down to hell! Isn't that right? But, right there's where we begin. When they get to the finite, and they've done run out of education, we just get started. We go right in to the, on into the infinite, into the Spirit, into another world. Is that right? Into the greatness of God. All right now, listen real careful, and I am going to close. I'm, I'm not just telling you, I'm going to try to close pretty quick now. Look at the Arabs, and look at the Jew. What is it? It's the twins. Civilization come from Egypt. Where does it have to go back to? The Bible said cursed is the man, listen now, cursed is the man that goeth down into Egypt for hiss strength. Is that right? Or for his help. Is that right? Why did He say that? Because He cursed Egypt, Because they wouldn't let the children of Israel go. He said, the ones that back into Egypt, even that come out of the wilderness, He killed them, wouldn't even let them go into Canaan Land. He said cursed is the man that goeth down there for his help. Isn't America turning back to Egypt to get their help? They've come from that seed of perversion out of egypt, an educated thing, that's the tree of Knowledge, set up an Anti - Christ rule throughout the world, and it by force, made people put their children in the dirty, filthy, sloppy schools, and in the colleges, and turned them into prostitutes, and beatnicks, and everything else! We had the old farmer out in the field plowing the cotton. I know, cause I come up as a boy in it. Out there the black man and me worked together, out there in the field chopping cotton, digging potatoes, plowing the field, and my Grandfather with a hickory in his hand, they did not need any law. My Grandfather had his shotgun and his rifle hanging over the door up there. That was the only law he needed! They knew to stay away from there. They didn't have to put no money in the Bank. They did not have nobody to bother with them. They did not have to have no automobile. They had their horse and the buggy. They didn't need no gas. They didn't worry about electric light. Either burned a candle; if they got a hold of some oil, that was good. Chop them down some wood, raise them an ear of corn, get them some cotton, then when my Grandmother, many times way back over across the hill in the sage field over there, nothing but sage as far as you could see, way back in the country, ring off the, take and ring off the sage and tie a little string around it, go back home, that was our sweeping broom. That's what she swept the house with. Sometimes she scrubbed it down with sand. A lot of times climbed up in a old cotton bin where they threw the cotton over the bin, go to sleep on it. That was the right kind of world. But what happened to it? Everybody got jammed together. Got to have a war. Big men, long tongue, slick fellows, like Kissinger, and others. Got to dabbling around with other people. And then when President Roosevelt come into the thing, and he threw the door wide open, and mixed every nation under the heaven together, and invited them into America, and we have not had nothing but a mess and confusion every since. He let every kind of paganistic religion there was in the world come in here. And it's just been one problem right after another. Just hold the baby for a few minutes. I know they're weary. I'm going to let them go. I just want to clear my thoughts here a few minutes. Now listen folks, that's why that I'm withdrawing like I am, out here to where we can have our own little system here, to where we can eat, plant an ear of corn, raise a, a horse, a cow, whatever we need out here, in case something happens, set up our own electricity. My bills come today. I think Betty got about four bills. One, two hundred and something, one, one hundred and something, one, sixteen, and another I think was a hundred or sixty or something, for light bill. It's a forced issue. It's the law. The law is as corrupt as they can be. The law is not nothing but a little group of people that's up here in the metropolitan areas of the cities to be a bunch of bill collectors. Every time somebody gets behind, and all they're doing is parading up and down the streets up there to watch after them people's business, so that they can rob us out here, and we pay the policemen their wages. You can say Amen, or Oh me! I know that's the truth. I've done talked with them, been with them. Been in their little click, and I know what they're doing. Jesus said, they're robbers and they're thieves. They take the man, beat him up, throw him over in the ditch, take everything he's got, through hospital bills, and everything else. Charge them ten times what they ought to charge them, in the hospital! Somebody said, well, what would we do without our hospitals? The same thing they done when they was out in the wilderness, depend on God a little more! Back home we got sick, we had my Grandmother, she was better than any doctor I've ever seen. That's right. She could get an herb or a pill or whatever she got. She done it her way. Pack you in a bed and sweat you half to death, but she'd get it out of you, whatever it was. That's the truth! I've been through it. They knew what to do. Now, you can say, Brother Pike, what are you talking about? I mean you can't even take one of your loved ones and bury them without being in dept for I don't know how long. Sister Mary Anne died here. It took three thousand dollars to give her a decent burial. I used to work at the funeral home, and seven hundred dollars was considered a lot of money to bury a person. I asked the man one time, I said, hey, how much do we charge the folks to bury them? He said, everything you can get out of them. Oh, not the undertaker! Yes! Stand and curl your wife's hair, and her dead in the casket, while he jokes about going dancing with a woman. I know, cause I've done seen them do it. Laugh about it. You say, hey, how much you're going to charge them? Said as much as you can get out of them. Said if, if it's somebody that's got some money, said, pop it to them. Get every dollar. Said this funeral over here cost seven hundred dollars, I said, well why come it don't cost seven hundred dollars for them? Said, cause they've got money. That's the world for you. Some of our items out here in the store, some of you grumbling about us not getting a good deal. Why, you're just letting the devil drive you around. You're just, you're just letting an old evil spirit tear down what God's given you. I asked Ralph to make me a list, and did you know on some of those commodities out there, twenty five, thirty five and forty cents cut on one item. Brother, that's saving money. And if we go on with the rest of it, it's going to save some more. But anyway, I just want to say this, and try to close out. The whole Anti- Christ system is from Egypt. It's gone back to the seed. It's gone to seed. Everything going to seed. It's done went through it. It produces it's fruits, withered up, going back to seed. it come from Egypt, it's going back to Egypt. That's why God let the oil pop over there; to make them all money hungry. But, odd through Israel, through the Jew, cause the Bible said, salvation is of the Jew. We come from father, Abraham, and we're going back to the same thing. I made the statement, I said as long as America, being a type, she went along with Israel, God would bless her, because whoever blesses Israel, He'll bless. Whoever curses Israel, He'll curse them! When Kissinger stood up and made a remark and abused Israel through his conversation and statements, God put His finger on America, and she is gone! As long as they befriend Israel, He held her up. But, said you touch Israel, you've touched the apple of my eye. You bless Israel, I'll bless you, you curse Israel, He said, I'll curse you. And Kissinger stood up there and cursed Israel, and God cursed America. Since He's done it, America's gone down the drain, her oil, and everything else has left her. Famine and everything! And I made the statement, I said, Brethren, you watch what I'm telling you, I said, it'll go down, down, down to look like there's no remedy for it, and I said, then all of a sudden it'll come back up. And I said, when I have this meeting over here in Athens, Georgia, the famine will start being relieved, and it'll come back up, and did it do exactly that after the meeting? Right down to the tee? Just from the time, that even at the meeting some of the brethren come and said that work had already begin to open up for them. It came right back up. And I said, it'll continue on that way. Anti - Christ will make craft to prosper through this, this thing it'll cut money. It'll cut down everything through the number system. A numerical system. Now listen at me. You say, I don't believe it's like that. Well, just listen a few minutes, and I'm going to sign off. Just listen. Is it a True fact, that you tell your age by numbers, are you listening? When you go to get a pound of meat, don't they weigh it out to you on numbers? Or, it's already been pre - weighed. Is that right? When you go to pay your light bill, you di it by numbers. If you go to church, the only thing the preacher can talk about is how many he had in Sunday school, cause he's got his number board hanging up there. Is that right? Everything in science is done by numerical order, which is numbers. If you drive a car, you stick a number an the back of it. Are you listening? If you work, you get a check with a computer on it. everything that you do, is coming under a number or a numerical order, and going to lead to one mark, and that's your Social Security Number or benefit, that'll be turned into the hands of one man, whose name is Vicarius Felei Dei, which is 6 6 6. The Papacy of Rome. Somebody said, ah, it's going to be somebody outside the Papacy of Rome. It's certainly will be the Anti - Christ! But the thing is, it will have to work through the Papacy of Rome, because Rome is the great whore that sats upon many waters, that's made all of the nations drunk by telling them that they can be baptized in the titles, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and go to heaven, and it it a lie, you can't do it! It is part of a system of the great whore, and you cannot do it! Jesus said to be baptized in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost. And the Bible bears it out, the Name is Jesus! And everyone, the Bible said, the Name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous flee into It and are saved, and if you don't get in the Name, it don't matter if you go to church every day, every night, pay tithes, shout, speak in tongues, give everything, you still not going to make it. Salvation is in the Name! None other Name under heaven given among men whereby ye must be saved. He died for sin. We're baptized into His death, into his Name, the strong tower! For the remission of sin! Beginning at Jerusalem to the uttermost parts of the earth. How many of you understand what I'm saying? Going back to the corner stone. He is the Corner Stone. All right you can stand with me. I've got a lady over here, and if I go too far, she begins to get so restless. I see her pitter patter across the Camp Ground every where and riding, messing around, and talking and running, going just busy, busy, busy; but in the house of God, she can't stay to long' she gets so weary. You better know, watch out folks, you are not going to make it in. You are not going to make it in! It's a good thing you haven't got Paul the apostle, for a preacher, cause he preached all night. You'd just be getting warmed up now. You know why it took him so long? He had a Revelation. All right! I'm not scolding you, you've been good listeners. Had patience, and been good listeners. I haven't preached all that long; but you've been good listeners, and I appreciate you listening. But, Folks, you can be sure of one thing, it's not going to be but a few days hence and you'd wished, that you not only had a stayed all night and listened to the preacher, many multiplied times, but you'd wished that you'd stayed all night on those prayer bones, many times you was sleeping. You'd wish that you'd give hundreds and thousands of those dollars to God to save those people that's dying and going to hell to the heathen countries and to feed the little pot bellie babies that's starving. In that, he that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the poor, leadeth to God. In that day, when you stand before Him, and He said, I was hungry and you didn't feed Me. I was naked, and you didn't cloth Me. I was sick and in prison, but you never visited Me. And they're going to say, Lord, when saw we You like this? I was a good church member. I was a good doer. You know I listened good. You know I was as religious as I could be. And then you begin to think back, I spent everything I had on a rocking chair, or telephone. Money to feed my belly. The Bible said all their labor is for their belly, cause their belly craves it of them. They've made their belly their god. That's what Jesus said. Said they've made their belly their god. That's Bible. And they realize that they spent it all on groceries for their belly. All on sofas, and chairs, and tables, and whatnots, and this, and that, never giving nothing to God. Every now and then, maybe taking ten or fifteen cents or squeezing out a dollar. If they ever got up to five dollars, they set a record. Not giving nothing to god. Not giving nothing to God! Squeezing the pennies out to God, and all the rest of it going down the drain. But I"ll tell you something folks, you go on and take your mountain vacations, do the things you want to do. Go to the lakes and the streams, and whatnot, spend your money, throw it away, live it up, give it to everybody but God; and then at the end of the way, you're going to find out what I meant. Take your trips to Mama, go home to visit, live up your parties, but your new cars, get whatever you want; let the brethren take the load. Let them that take the cross, have to squirm underneath the load. Make excuses why you can't do it. Just go ahead. Like the song I wrote," Excuses, excuses, oh what will you do" One said, I married a wife, God said that's not good enough. Another said, well, I've got to go bury my dead father, He said that's not good enough either. Somebody said, well, I brought some land, He said that's not good enough either. Go to pay on it, you know. Somebody said, well, I brought some oxen, I need a chance to try them out, He said that's not good enough either. Somebody said, well, I had to go see my mother and daddy, that's not good enough either. I just had to get a little rest, and take a vacation; that's not good enough either. Well, I had to hold back a little bit, cause I didn't know where I could make it to the end of the month or not; that's not good enough either. Somebody said, well, I had to pay my bills. That's not good enough either. No excuse! There's none! Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His Righteousness and I'll take care of the rest, He said. All these other things will be added. I'll supply all your needs according to My riches in Glory. You love the Lord? Let's sing a little chorus together. I want to sing a little chorus with you. Folks, your excuses are not good enough. It's late in the day. And I'm going to say this, not to hurt you, cause I love you; I wouldn't hurt you for nothing, but some of you run - in - in - a -hurry folks, Now listen! I said some of you, and I'm saying this to you that's in the church, and them that these tapes will go to all over the nation, some of you run - in - in - a hurry folks. You know them folks, that's run - in - in - a - hurry folks. Get in at the last minute. Live it up in the world, do everything in the world, do everything in the world, do everything they want to do, go every where they want to go, flip their temper, do everything, and then, when they go to die, say oh God, have mercy on me, I love you, Jesus. Some of you run - in - in - a - hurry people, you know, that don't plan to live for God, And don't care enough about Him to love Him, make a sacrifice or do nothing for Him, but you're just trying to smart it out and wait till the last minute and run in. It's time you started to running! You better just hope He'll have mercy on you. I hope He does. But you that wanted to live in the slop pens, and the hog pens, with the hogs, ramble with the devil, and the Bible said you can't eat the devil's table and eat at God's. He said you can't eat at the table of devils, that's Scripture, and eat at My table. He said, you go back to your wallowing in the mire. He said, the dog goes back to the vomit. Jesus said, a generation of vipers. Now listen! Run - in - in - hurry. The end of the world is coming. We'd better get in now. We've done dabbled around every where. Better hurry in now. You'd better start running! We'd better start giving something to God now. You better start hurrying. Oh. I'm going to share with God. Do you think God wants that kind of doings? Do you think God's going to have you in that kind of frame of mind? Don't you know that God's got more sense than that? We think of God like a moron sometimes. Instead of thinking of God as what He is, some people act like that God is some kind of moron. Don't you know that a woman that's threw her life away, and been in every slop hole in the world, and done every low thing she could except be decent and upright to her husband, and then when she gets old and flabby, and fat, and gone, and there's no good, and wrinkled, and withered up, ready to die, and she runs in and says, honey, I've changed my mind, I want to be your wife. Don't you know that man's got more sense than to understand what she is, where he can understand what she's doing? Saw a lot of women that have done that. If he's got any sense, he would not have her. God don't want him to have her. But I want to tell you something folks, there is a little time left. There is a little time left. And some of you people that's listening to my voice, you need to get your crooked, wicked, ungodly lives straightened out, and stop your hypocritical way of parading around and being religious, and get straight with God, stop your gossiping, lying tongue, backbiting, trouble making ways, line up with God, and get right with God, and be sorry of your sins, and in four or five days, in case you change your mind, and decide that Brother Pike's made a mistake, maybe the Mark of the Beast is not coming in as soon as you thought, don't go running back out into the world, or let your temper loose, because you feel you've got a few more days. You've got a little more time. And you're getting in at the last hour, but God's still merciful. You're getting in at the last hour. It's almost like a deathbed repentance. I'm going to tell you something, folks, you can believe this if you want to, it's up to you. But I don't have any confidence in a death bed repentance. When a man is dying, and he's lived dirty, and ungodly all his life, and lays on that pillow, and says, God save me. I don't no more believe that God will save him than nothing. That man isn't calling on God because he loves God. He's calling on God, cause he don't want to go to hell. It's just like a man takes a gun and kills fifty people, and he's just as happy as he can be, and the day that the judge condemns him, and he gets up to the electric chair, and they start to throw the switch, he said I've changed my mind, I've repented, I'm sorry. God's no fool, folks. The Bible said for you to repent of your sins while you've got time to repent. And it said for you to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, while you've got time. You're not sick, too old, too feeble, or nothing else to get down in the water and be baptized. I know where they've had to tie to a chair; and two or three men would have to let the chair down and baptized them. I know some eighty and ninety years old, crawl out to the water, and be baptized. I'm going to say this again. If our God, who sits on the throne, took the time to leave heaven, get in a body called the Son of God, walk down to a muddy river called Jordan, and dip Himself in it, to leave you a plan of salvation, you better believe the Doctors, and the Lawyers, and the Bankers, and the Presidents, and Kissinger, and all the rest isn't going to get by when they stand up there before Him. when He stands on the, sits on the throne as the Great Judge, and He looks out there at them, and He says you thought you was too important to do it, when you're not even fit to stand in My Presence. And here I am, God of eternity, and come down there and got in that muddy river. You think He's going to listen to their excuses? You women that run around half naked, that's listening to my voice on the tape or wherever, that run around half naked, when you stand before the Judge of all the earth and you realize that the Bible said in the Book of Revelation, that His garment was all the way down to His feet, and the God of heaven and earth there, and judges you, you can be sure that your little mini - skirt deals is going to cause you to roll and cry in the burning flames of hell. I don't care how religious you are, I don't care what church you belong to, brother, you and your preacher together, will sink in the flames of hell. That's God's word. It's not altered for anyone. You that gossip backbite, cheat and swindle, and won't pay your bills, the wicked borrow and won't pay back, you borrow from your brother, you borrow from your neighbor, you borrow from everybody you can. You buy everything you can on credit, and then won't go pay them. The Bible said the wicked borrow and won't pay back. Steal and take from them! That's wicked! That's wicked, my brother! How many of you understand what I'm Saying? That's wicked! A wicked man does that! All right, I want to sing a little chorus together. I'm telling you what it going to take for you to go to heaven, folks. Somebody said, well, I've been baptized. That's not good enough. The nineteenth chapter of Acts, they'd been baptized too. In the Same river Jesus had been baptized in, by the same man, that had baptized Jesus, which was John the Baptist, Paul said, that's not good enough! Said, you'll have to be rebaptized in Jesus' name. Our Apostle Paul! It's not being in the water, it's being in the name! Salvation is in Name. Not in the water! It's the water, just represents the burial. You understand? Baptism for the Remission for sin. Somebody said well, I've been baptized in Jesus' name. Some of you have not been baptized in Jesus' name. Let me tell you something, if it wasn't really, truly a man of God that was clean, straight, and upright that baptized you, you have not been baptized in Jesus' name. You love the Lord? You say, Brother Pike, you're scolding us. I'm not scolding you. I'm telling you, folks. This is a serious time! I'm trying to shake you up a little bit tonight, to let you know that something's happening. Something is taking place. The Lord Jesus is coming! It's like the vision I had, when I saw the Wilderness and I saw my David, my David back here, and I saw him, he wouldn't listen at me, and he run ahead of me, and he got down to the wilderness, and all, and started in and the only way I could stop him was to scream at him. That's what I had to do, is scream at him. Scream at him! He almost went in. And I got him stopped, just before he went into the wilderness. And then I got through it in the other side, there I stood on the brinks of eternity and looked off and it was a bottomless pit, it was eternity, no foundation, no nothing, and there I was standing on the brinks of it, and had my people slightly behind, and I turned to them, and I said, Folks, do you see why I didn't want you to get ahead of me? Why I wanted you to listen to me? Let's bow our heads for a minute and pray for this little lady tonight. Father, Lord of Heaven, in Jesus' name, I'm not worthy to dust the shoes of these brethren, Jesus. But, Lord, I speak in the Name of the Lord, heal this body, Jesus. Break the yoke from off of this little lady, I, I feel her faith, and I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel the quickening that raised up Jesus from the dead. Heal her, and fill her with the Holy Ghost, in Jesus " lovely Name. Amen! Tonight, I want you to take a minute, folks, we're going to close. But I want you to come up here to the alter, while we sing a little chorus. I'd like for all of you tonight to come up here. I love you. You're my people tonight. You've stood by me, and I'm trying to stand by you. I'm trying not to deceive you. Paul said, use great plainest of speech. We're rude in speech, but not in knowledge. I sound rude to you tonight, in my speech, but he said, we are rude in speech, but not in knowledge. I know what we're doing tonight. And I ask you tonight to gather around the alter, and I want you to consider tonight. Don't reason, tonight. Don't lean to your understanding. Don't you dare do it. I've done seen some of you here, that you're confident that you've got God, and you're on your way to heaven, and folks, I tell you in the Name of the Lord, you're not! You've tried to out reason me, and out reason the preaching, and reason things the way that you feel like it ought to do, and ought to be, and accounted to yourselves at being ready to go, and you're not ready! Some of you ladies are in the same condition. I tell you in the Name of Jesus' name, you're not ready! We're going to be here long enough to see them set up the Anti - Christ system. We're going to be here. Watch and see. And we're going to see it set up, and they're going to pressure us, they're not going to put the law on us, it going to be an opportunity. But when all of them that will willingly go, goes right on, and take the Mark, and those whose eyes are opened, begins to realize something is wrong and won't do it, then the boycott's coming that Brother Branham spoke of, the boycott, I don't know how Brother Branham meant it, I don't know how his followers mean it, but this is the way that I understand it. There'll be a boycott that will fall and everything will emerge into an oneness. They'll boycott everything, including the Banks, the Stores, people, businesses, industries, everything will be under that one boycott. And they'll insert that number and when they do this, they won't until they do this, but when they do this, then they'll have control of everything and everybody. Then the minority, and it will be the minority, because the Bible said that all the world wondered after the Beast. All of them wondered after him. It's going to be so beautiful, so fascinating, so satisfying to the flesh, it'll be so much what humanity has looked for in the way of Government. He'll be a superman that'll have the answer to all political problems. You know how he's going to do it? By listening to the very message that you've listened to, and the preaching of the gospel down through the years, and all these other things, Satan is going to sum it all up. He can't do it, until the mysteries are finished. He can't do it. He's waiting until the mysteries are finished and the last sermon's preached. As long as it's in their heart, he can't get it. But when God speaks it, then the Bible said, that which is revealed belongeth unto man, the secret things belong unto God. When it is revealed, Satan will at last know the last mysteries is finished, and he'll have the last answers to all that he can ever get. He knows he'll never get any more. Then he's going to sum it all up, personify himself in a human being, and start his operation. An Anti - type of what God's going to do. But he'll boycott everything, and at the time when the minority is left, after the majority has taken it, few there be that find it, broad is the way to destruction, many shall enter thereat. Narrow is the way to life, few there be that find it. When the few start rebelling, then the law is going to enforce it, and immediately, when they start enforcing it, in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, we'll be changed! The mysteries will be finished, everything will be ready. And then, we go up! And when we go up, the Bible said, Lucifer, the red dragon is cast out. He's no more in the spirit. Then he goes into a man and he personifies in a man, then it becomes Anti -Christ's Kingdom. As long as it's working like it is, it's not Anti -Christ's Kingdom, as far as Anti - Christ, and as far as God cutting the people off. It hasn't come that far. But it'll just be Anti - Christ system going on. It'll be working toward Anti - Christ. All of it, down through life, it's been Anti - Christ's system. But when it comes to the point to where the pressures are to come, then they'll start killing those that will not receive the Mark. Now, if you don't believe this, read the Bible! When they start doing that, when they come to the pressure, and start putting the pressure, after the boycott, then we'll go up, Lucifer will go out, and he'll personify himself in a man, and from that time on, every man that receives the Mark, or comes under the regime of the Beast, will have no more chance of eternal life. They will be tormented night and day. They won't have any rest. they'll be cast into a burning lake of fire. Where the fire is not quenched, and worm dieth not. The Bible said eternal flames! You understand what I'm saying, Brethren? It's close at hand! It's close at hand! A covenant is being made with Israel. And the Bible said, antichrist broke the covenant in the midst of the week. The covenant is being made with Israel. Everything is shaping up. There's a lot of thing's I could say tonight, But I won't. I'm going to say this, and close. The thing that Kissinger has done has brought on the end of the world. Cause that thing will be broken. Now, you watch and see! And when it's broken, Israel will never again have any confidence in America, or any other nation under the sun, she'll know just like the Church knows, that she stands alone. And she'll have bombs perfected, and everything else, and she'll be the chariot of Jehu, that cast down Jezebel in their zeal, and the bombs that will fall on the great whore, her desolation coming in one hour. She's the only nation bold enough to throw a bomb right in the lap of America right now. The rest of them figures they'll take America. That they'll move and take America. Israel don't want America. She's satisfied with the Holy Land. She'd rather blow it off the map, and stop her troubles. But it's one thing about it, folks, we're down at the end of the trail. We're right down at the end of the trail. And things is taking place. So, when they do this, when the pact is broken, she'll be bitter, and she'll break the United Nations pact, and when they do, all nations of the world, to keep their little peace treaty, will gather in against Israel. He said, I'll gather all nations in Against Israel, and when I do, the Lord Himself, shall come into Israel, fight for Israel, and revelation nineteen shows us that we'll be coming back to stand with them, and dip our sword in the blood. The Battle of Armageddon will take place, and the blood will run up to the horses' bridle. Brother, it's coming. It's coming! All right! How many of you believe what I'm telling you? Let's sing a little chorus together, before we dismiss. Let's sing that little chorus, " Just Another Touch Lord, From you ". For over twenty years, Betty and I"ve tried to take the gospel; for over twenty years. First trip we ever took was fifteen hundred miles away from our families. That was a long ways, back then. Didn't have things like it is now. Some of the roads, we went on, the mountain, would be caving out, and the road caving out, as we went around the narrow edge. Which are some of the mountains that you vacation in right now. For over twenty years, and we're still trying to preach the gospel. But it's coming down to a quick work, cut short in righteousness. Death has been conquered, folks. As sure as you live. And the message is in the land, for the Translation of the Church. All right, let's sing together. Give me another key, Sister. ( Here Brother Pike Leads The Chorus, " Just Another Touch, Lord From You" ). Now, I want you to slip your hands up with me, and close your eyes. I want you to make a rededication tonight, folks. Now maybe you've been serving God with all your heart, and I trust that you have. The Bible said, love him with all your heart, all of your strength, all of your mind. And I want you tonight, even if you have, I want you to rededication your heart. See, you can't believe with your head. Jesus said, as a man believeth in his heart, as he believeth in his heart. You've go to get in your heart. You've go to be convinced in your heart. You've go to believe to a Translation. Believe to a change, to escape the tribulation. There'll be a lot of good people that won't make the Rapture. A lot of religious people. A lot of church people, that never come into the message. Never come into the faith. Never come to Jesus " Name. They won't make the Rapture. They'll go through this awful Anti - Christ thing, and they'll be killed, everyone that won't take the Mark will be killed. Be destroyed. People that have died, like Mr Gray, my daddy, my brother, some of your loved ones, you don't know how fortunate they are, that died and went on by means of the grave, so that they don't have to pass through the awful tribulation. But you that are here, have a chance to escape it, but you're going to have to do it like I'm telling you. There's only one way. There's not a whole bunch of ways. Jesus, the word, said, I am the Way, faith in me, through My name. I want you to search your hearts. The Bible said examine yourselves and see if you be in the faith. You say, what do you mean, Brother Pike, be in the faith? Faith cometh by hearing of the word, not by ideology. Not by what somebody told you. Not by what you've been taught. Not by what you believe. In the last days, it said, seducing spirits, doctrines of devils, would lead them away from the faith. What faith? Faith, by the hearing of the word. There is no salvation faith, except faith in the word. And James said, this faith is shown by your works. What you do proves how much you believe it. It's the zeal of your faith, to do what you believe. Whatever the word says, be baptized in Jesus' name, be filled with the Spirit, live Holy. Faith in that word will cause you to do it. And that will save you. Listen real close, while you've got your hands up, meditating, folks. That body of your's, listen. Noah's faith is what saved him. Isn't that right? The Bible said he was saved by faith. But, when you check it out, you know what that faith did? That faith caused him to prepare an Ark to the saving of his soul, and household. It was his works that built that Ark, that saved him from that flood. It was his faith caused him to do it. You understand what I'm saying? That little body of yours, being prepared in the likeness of Jesus Christ, is the Ark that's carrying the Christ, the Hope of Glory on the inside of you> Prepared in Holiness, prepared in His Name, prepared in His likeness, prepared to His Image, and satisfaction, that it'll go through the flood of His wrath, and take you over the Great Tribulation Period, of that great flood, to set you down on the New Earth of the millennium. Cause we're getting close to it. The membership of that body is the Great Ark that hung at Calvary. The door was made in the side, where they pierced it, and the water ran out, and the blood ran out. Hide us in the cleft of the rock, like He did Moses. Fully into the Name of Jesus, it's the Ark of God. It's the waterway, through baptism. Through faith. Get into it. It'll take you over! Father, of Heaven, I'm grateful tonight for this opportunity. I realize tonight, God, that I'm not worthy to stand here. And Lord, as I look back through the years, over twenty years, you've kept me clean and holy, and right and pure. And, Father, I haven't been able to do one bit of it. And tonight, God, You could reject me, and throw me down, but you've kept me, and You've kept my wife, and you've kept my children, my sons, and my daughters and helped us. And the people that we've talked to and prayed for, You've kept them. Kept our loved ones. And Jesus, I owe it all to you. I've done nothing, Lord, to deserve it. I've not merited anything. It's all by the love of God, and the Grace of Calvary. But, Father, because You did it for me, though I know that nothing I can do, can ever repay You, yet I want to do everything I can show You my appreciation. I want to please You in every way, to show You how thankful, Father, for what You did when You spilt Your Blood for me. Oh, God, You said, let every one that name the Name of Jesus Christ, depart from iniquity, that their iniquities have separated them and their God. Move my iniquity by Calvary tonight. Heal the people, Jesus. I beg You to do it tonight. Save the People, Jesus, forgive them their sins tonight. Lord, break the yokes off them tonight. Help them have a new start, a new vision, a new covenant. Lord, a renewal in the Spirit of God. A new determination. Father, some of them have drug back. Some of them have not come forth. Some of them have not done like they ought to. But God, You know that they care for You or they wouldn't be around this place. God, You know that they've got a concern, or they wouldn't be here. Lord, forgive them of their shortcomings. Don't be hard on them, Jesus. Lord, they've tried, and they've stumbled, and they've faltered, and they've failed. And Lord, like You showed me the tree today, as I sat today and looked at the big oaks, Lord swaying in the breeze, and I looked at some of my little trees, God, that's drying up, and Lord, You spoke to me, and said, Son, the big ones have got their roots way down deep, and they're not drying up, because they can live on. And I heard You say to me, but take care of the little trees, Son. Go to a little effort. Put a little water around them. Their roots are not down enough yet, but they want to live, and they're trying, but they need to be watered. God, help my people tonight, that my older brethren, them that are strong, help them to water the little trees, God, till they can get their roots down deep enough to live. Heal them, and save, Jesus. Oh, God, don't let them be hard on them. Let them love them, Jesus. Let them be tender to them. Let them nurse them like a babe, and like You said to Peter, feed my lambs. Jesus, help me to feed these little tender lambs, God. Help me not to hurt them. But help me to love them and feed them, Jesus, and do all that I can. I ask your protection over them. I plead the blood over them. I ask You tonight to touch my wife's mother, Father. I plead the blood over her. The protection of Jesus Christ over her. Heal her body, Jesus, fill her with the Spirit, Jesus. Lead her in your word, and keep her. I ask You to it. And these people's mothers that are not here. My Mother, and these people's mothers, Lord, that are not here. Our loved ones, our brothers, our sisters, Jesus, people around the world, I pray for all humanity tonight. The rich and poor alike. The cripple, the needy, the hungry. Have mercy, save the human beings that are in the earth today, Father. Save humanity. Be merciful to them. Be a Guild and Help them. Feed them. I ask You to do it tonight. In Jesus' name! In Jesus' ame. Let's sing one more chorus tonight before we dismiss. Let's sing the little chorus, " Take Your Burden to the Lord, and Leave it There ". ( Here Brother Pike leads the chorus ) Sing it with me, will you? (Brother Pike leads the song again. )

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

Founder and first President of Jesus Christ’s Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc.

Holiness Unto The Lord