The Mystery Of The Birth

All right the Lord is speaking here of a day accepted. The restoration of Zion, the day accepted, which is Calvary. And He's speaking of taking the Lord Himself and making Him a covenant to the people. And letting the prisoners go and bringing them out of darkness which means out of intellectual reasoning. So then we see the Lord in a gracious way, doing something special here concerning the inhabitants of Zion. A wonderful thing is taking place. And I look out here tonight and I see the congregation and can tell a lot of people you know they stayed home. And they were busy. And like the Bible said, some married a wife and some bought land, and some had to go somewhere else. A number of things they had to do. Didn't have time to help with the work of the Lord you know or be here. Real busy, not knowing, you know, feeling like well tonight's not important. It's just Wednesday night. It's not important that we be there tonight. After all if anything's special it's going to happen, it will happen on Sunday when we feel like going. And you know they feel like that they know the day to come and the day to stay home, and they'll come in like, kind of like I felt things tonight you know with no enthusiasm, not expecting anything, just thinking, Well, we're here again. Maybe there will be something said that might excite us. But as far as any real expectation of God, or being with the Lord and seeking God and getting into the secret chambers of God and having the enthusiasm of God, and realizing that something great and mighty is taking place like a great locomotive moving all the time, they just don't have that enthusiasm, they don't have that expectation. They just don't have that within them. They don't feel that there's anything like that going on. But it is. It is. I thank God it is. And I might not never get you stirred up to it to make you feel like it but it is. I don't have to do that for me to know that it's happening. Because as I say every day there's a great stirring and enthusiasm in my heart. Every night because God is the Almighty, infinite, realistic God of my life. I see Him. I hear Him. I walk with Him. I talk with Him every day of my life, every night. He's always beside me, everywhere I go. I talk to some of the brethren sometimes. And they'll look at me with a hollow expression you know. You can tell them something and they'll just be resenting you like that, just resenting you. I just had an occasion just recently. I was talking to some you and just resenting me with all that was in them, because what I said seemed to reflect me, you know, and had something to do with me. Whereas I didn't say anything about me. But they perceived that it had something to do with me. And though they hungered and thirst after it, they really wanted it, yet they resented the fact you know that it would be me. It could have been anybody. It could have been a cow. It could have been a horse. It could have been an elephant, anything, they wouldn't have resented it but it was me. You know I've said this a lot of times, God wants to use somebody. How many of you understand that? God wants to use somebody. Now see if He wasn't using me, He might be using a donkey. You'd have to listen to a donkey. Isn't that right? Balaam had to listen to a donkey. That's right. See, he was a prophet. Nobody couldn't tell him anything, because he was a prophet. He knew it all. But God just had to get a donkey to get him to listen. Isn't that something? And that really proves a man's intelligence, don't it. God said, Now Balaam, you think you're so smart, we'll just talk to what's suppose to be the dumbest thing in the earth, to you, a donkey. That's the Lord for you. Now see if God wasn't using me to speak to you tonight, He'd probably be using Brother John Jameson. If He wasn't using John, He'd be using Brother Al. If He wasn't using Al, He'd have to use some human being tonight, wouldn't He? Wouldn't He? All right then what's wrong with Him using me? You'd have to listen to a human being anyway, wouldn't you? So then what difference does it make which human being it is as long as God's doing the talking. That's all that's important. All right so let's live by that code in our life, and let's realize that God has to work through human instrumentality. And if we don't listen to man He may have to speak to us through a rooster like He did Peter. But nevertheless let's just make up our mind if God wants to talk to us, and, I better not say nothing about that brother. I better just leave him like he is. But anyway let's just go on loving the Lord, and when they set in our congregation like that, let's just go on doing something for God anyway. What about that? What about that? Praise God! Brother, if you didn't think you was so important, the Lord would do something for you. You know we look in a mirror and we think, my, who looks like me? And boy, I could really say that you know. But we do, you know. We look in there and we think, my, who looks like me? Like a fellow said not too long ago, said, everytime he looked in the mirror, he was literally shocked. He thought he was so pretty. Said, he was shocked. Said, he just couldn't hardly believe it. Said, he looked in the mirror and say, My, I can't hardly believe it, cause he'd see something looking back at him you know. Of course I don't know whether everybody agrees with us when we feel that way or not you know. But if we didn't feel so important, if we just get down and feel so lowly you know. You just say, God, we're nothing. We need some help. We want you to use us. We want you to speak to us. We want you to speak through us. We got time, Jesus. We're not to busy paying on a nice automobile and building us a nice home and making a lot of money and taking care of our business and keeping our good name so everybody will look up to us. We're not too busy. We got a little time. We'll come over to your place and dig a ditch, or we'll do something for you. How many of you would like to do that? Somebody said, I just wish you would stick with the Bible and stop talking about digging ditches and all them kind of things. What I want is the knowledge of the Lord. That's a good way to get it. That's a good way to get it. I've got prophets that'll dig a ditch. God's going to put some water in it. All right so we come up here and we say things, not to make light of you, not to mock you, not to be a wise-cracker, but we want to stir you up and awaken you, because some of you are so deep in slumber and so carried away with yourself and what you think about your way of life and the things that you do, until you just won't listen to God as a man of God. You just won't do it. That's why God choses such foolish, childish ways to approach you, is because you do feel like you're so important. So God just uses the most simple, confounding ways to talk to you, to make you realize how little and unimportant you really are. See, in the universe we're just a little speck. I remember Oral Roberts one time many years ago, when Oral was struggling and really trying to do something for God. He said one thing that really helped him, one day he got to wrestling with God, and he was on a fast, had been fasting for a number of days. And up until that point he thought he was a pretty smart sharp sort of a fellow it appeared. But he said all of a sudden while fasting and praying and being closed away in his room, that he realized that he was one tiny little speck in the entire universe wrestling with the great, almighty, infinite God. That he didn't count nothing, didn't measure nothing. One tiny, little speck wrestling with God. And then after that the Lord began to use him. And did you notice that when he got away from that and got way up and got important, did you notice God stopped using him? Did you notice that? Did you know the same thing happened to Saul? Saul was so timid, he'd go over here and hid somewhere. And he'd get over there and hid away from everybody. And the Lord sought after him. Big in stature, but little in heart. Raise him way up great, and then after a while he got real big in his own eyes. When he did, you know the Lord stopped using him. Are you listening to me? I said the Lord stopped using him because he got big in his own eyes. That's the problem with the preachers today and the people in the church today. They get big in their own eyes. God shows them something. God helps them and up they go, you know. But don't feel important because you're not. Nobody is important but Jesus. If you'll realize that Jesus is important, and He'll tell you something. He'll come over to your house and visit with you. And He'll let you know something. But if you think you know something, the Bible said, you don't know something as you ought to know. And that is that? That you ought to humble your heart in the presence of the great God and realize that you're nothing. That's what you ought to know. All right, so we come here and try to stir you up. And we try to tear you down and get you out of the way and shovel you out the door, so that we can build up Christ Jesus in your stead. And we're set here as the body of bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, not you living but Him. Just burying you and throwing you in the dirt. From the dust thou art to the the dust thou shalt return, Jesus said. All right, and scientists say you're worth ninety something cent and I believe it's devaluated since then, and going down all the time. So then, who is important? Jesus is important. Are you important? No. Is Brother Pike important? No. Is Brother Roberts important? No. Is Brother Branham important? No. Is Paul important? No. Jesus is important! He's the only one. All will go the same way. The way of the earth, all of them go the same way. From the dust thou art, to the dust thou shalt return. The breath of life goeth back to God who gave it. When we realize that then we'll have a respect for God. See, and when we have a respect for God, He'll come and talk with us. He'll pour out His life in us. He'll pour out His love in us. He'll pour out His heart. As long as we think we're big and strong and sassy and temperamental, and people's got to listen to us you know. And we got the answers and we'll punch you in the nose if you don't pay attention to us you know. Somebody said, Now Brother Pike, why do you talk like that? I talk like that because you act like that? See, isn't that the right way to talk? Isn't that the right way to talk? Sure. I need to talk on your level to where you can understand it. Because that's the thing that you do. Even on your job you do that. You do that with one another. See, you get temperamental. You get upset. You say, I'm a great evangelist. I just can't see how I'm going to say around here at Bethlehem. Man, with all I know and all I'm suppose to do, and all I should have done, I got to get out from here. And some of you don't as much as take care of your wife and pay your bills. I don't know how in the world you're going to evangelize the world. The Bible said be of a good report of them without. That's the first thing you want to do is establish the right kind of name. And the Bible said, If you won't provide for your own, you've denied the faith, and you're worse than an infidel. You couldn't be qualified for the ministry. Not even to give a good testimony as a Christian. Somebody say, I love Jesus. All right, I know that shoe was tight. I know it's tight. All right, I'm not scolding you. I'm just awakening and arousing you. See, because it is a late date, children of God. We need to get into this thing and realize, you know you look at Brother Pike, and you think, my, my, my, I could believe something great was happening if I didn't see him. But one look at him tells me there ain't nothing great happening. Come on now. When I see some of you that's the way you're thinking of in your mind, a lot of times when I'm talking to you as individuals. I just don't see nothing great you standing there. Now if there was anything else, I could see it. But my when I take one look at you, that takes everything that I could think about happening great out. But nevertheless, something's happening. In spite of the fact that Brother Pike is here, something's still happening. All right, so then it is a wonderful thing to be a Christian. It is a wonderful thing not to look at Brother Pike. It is a wonderful thing to look at Jesus. It's a wonderful thing to enter into those doors there, not as coming to some building at Bethlehem that you helped build, and some place that you just put up that ain't nobody there, and ain't nothing happening. But to remember this is the church of the living God. That God the Holy Spirit has built it and God has established it. Somebody said, Oh Brother Pike, this is just one of your brainstorms. But it's like a boy that come here a number of years ago, come here and prophesied and said, God said I will build a place as a memorial unto my name in this area. And says, Brother Pike, I've come from California and said, This Is It! Said, God spoke in our midst back over yonder among a bunch of Methodists people that had got together. How many of you know Methodists prophesy? While I was over in Israel, James will remember this. While we was over on the Mount of Transfiguration or back in there somewhere, about that time a Baptist he jumped up and began to prophesy. I'll tell you when God comes a donkey will prophesy. When God gets around anything will prophesy. A rooster will even do it. Praise God! I tell you when the Spirit of God starts moving, you don't need no preacher. Everybody will be a preacher. Things will start happening. So then see, you come here, that means that God is doing something in this area. But see don't ever think about Brother Pike, the old bald headed nothing that lives down yonder that don't know nothing. Don't think of it like that. See, just think of me as being a pastor and as a helper of your faith. But think about this place being a divine, ordination of the eternal God. And that God the eternal Father is doing something here. And like the meeting we're setting over in the Carolina's, not just another meeting. Let's don't get the idea that we're just setting another meeting. These meetings are of God. God's doing something in these meetings. Something's special is taking place. And let's stir ourself up for God. David said I stirred up my pure mind. Let's get ourselves up for God and let's see something moving for God. After all when God moves, that's something mighty. Did you know that? When you think about the eternal God taking time to come down to the earth and doing something, I tell you, that's mighty. That's mighty! Like David was telling me today, all the young boys are beginning to simmer down. I said, David, they don't get in anymore trouble. A lot of them did give me trouble. But God troubled them. They don't trouble me anymore. He said, Daddy, said, they're changing. They're beginning to think about making a living. They're beginning to think about what their lives are going to amount to. And they've been through the fire, over and over and over. And some of you have been through the fire. And some of you are still going through the fire and more because you won't listen. All right, somebody said, That ain't very good preaching. I can tell the way you're thinking you know. But I think it's real good preaching. I guess because I'm doing it you know. People kind of partial. But anyway I feel that God would have me to stir up your mind by telling you these things and reminding you of these things. See, something great and mighty is happening. So don't look at me as I feel that somebody's looking at me right now. I can feel your spirit. Don't look at me like that and resent me like that. Don't do it. See, you're not going to hurt me. I don't have to say anything about it. I can pass through the whole service, but you're going to go to hell for it. So I try to say it so that you'll know better than to do it. See I say it for your reasoning. All right, like a brother come and told me last night, said, Brother Pike, said, the thing that you said, said, it happened. It happened. A few days ago I said it. It didn't look like it was going to happen. But it happened. Like that. And like this thing that we're speaking of here tonight, it's like this meeting that we're having up yonder, if you'll let me talk to you just a little. See, the meeting setting over in Charlotte. It's not just another meeting. But there is something taking place. That little doll coming out of the convent as I was saying a little bit ago, and the head being off of it. Think now. It's been around there with the Catholics with the head off of it. But all of a sudden the head was put on it. There, the Bible said there's a war in heaven. And all of a sudden there was, you know, how many of you know that I spoke of our painters out here as following symbols of angels. Isn't that right? And there they was over there, the Bible speaks of war in heaven. And I was speaking of the visitation and speaking of the things that was taking place. And out of that here comes forth that little doll. And the head is placed back on it. See, the head is placed back on it. And then it went through the fire, about six or seven times, beautiful little statue. And since when does Catholics ever write a little note saying, And we give this statue to the man of God. I mean, when do they call a protestant a man of God. Why they hate Martin Luther just because the people called him a man of God. But when does that happen? It's happens when God makes a special move. It happens when God is in the arrangement! It happens when God says it has to be that way. That's when it happens! It happens because it is the act of the living God. From Calvary Jesus Christ fell into the darkness, went down into the tomb, went down into death. Now you say, But Brother Pike, He was resurrected. But you haven't seen Him. He was resurrected and set yonder at the right hand of the Father. The blood covered body was set right yonder in heaven at the right hand of the Father. Why? So that it could be a blood atonement. You haven't seen that body. That body hasn't come back. Nobody's seen that body. That body was taken to heaven. It won't ever be seen until it comes back, or it comes back down here to gather the church, or comes back in Revelation 19. They won't see it. Nobody will see it. Why? Because it was hid away. You understand what I'm saying? That means that that body as far as God was concerned went into the darkness of the carnal understanding of the people which was indicated by the dark age when the Catholic people took everything and hid it away, and tried to get every relic, everything that they could get, everything and hid it away in their own little way of life. And how that they killed the martyrs and killed the church and killed the body of Jesus, to make it all go into the dark age. See, the death. It was a death. But the Bible said it would come up in the evening time, and there would be great light. That God would bring up Jesus Christ in the evening time and there would be great light. And sure enough if it's in the Catholic church it stands to reason it should come back out of the Catholic church. Because it is the Catholic church that's carried the body. Isn't that right? It has carried the membership of the body, not the headship. They say that we carried the headship, but they haven't carried the headship of the body. Jesus is in heaven. Jesus is at the right hand of God. They've had a false head. That's where the problem is. A false head and God is fixing to dethrone the Pope. Take their head away from them. You say, I don't believe it. Wait and see if it don't happen. God is going to dethrone the Catholic church by taking the pope down, and God is going to raise up Christ, the revelation, the head of the church. It's got to come. Jesus Christ is the word, the Spirit of revelation, and thus it must be until He in His fleshly form, sets down upon the great pyramid. Now, of course the great pyramid is Jerusalem. Check it out. That's the way Jerusalem's built. Now here is the thing. If this little doll comes out at this particular time, somebody would say, You know, there ain't nothing to that. A bunch of crazy people out there at Bethlehem talking about dolls, you know. But we're not crazy. Said, Paul, you're crazy. You're crazy. Said, No. I'm not crazy. Said, Well you're beside yourself. That's for Christ. Now, a little doll coming out from a convent. Given to us saying, We give this to the man of God. They got more respect for me than some of you have. They at least think I'm a man of God. They said, We give this to Brother Pike, the man of God. That's better than some of you think, you know. All right so then the world at least acknowledges something is taking place. So then here comes the little doll. Now, no head, but the head was put on it. The head was placed on the little doll. Why? Because the body is dead without the head. There is no resurrection of the body without the head. And then of course the first thing at the visitation, when the child is born, there is a headship. That is right. And from that knowledge of Calvary they work with the membership, the physician, until at last the toes, the ten toes, the Bible speaks of it, the toes come forth at the end of the church ages, and the mystery is finished of the birth of the child. With that the child goes up to the throne. Is that right? Goes up to the throne. Now like I said, this little doll, coming like it did, it had to do with being caught up to the throne. Now let's examine it just a minute and look at it through the foolish and abased things of the world; and yet through the mind of God and see if that's right. Now if it's right, it'll make sense. Isn't that right? If it isn't right, it won't make sense. But if it does make sense, then there's something to it. Now somebody would say, Where did you get it? Out of the funny papers. It's for sure I had to get it from somewhere. Isn't that right? If it makes sense, if it's something, I had to get it from somewhere. Now if it sounds to you like it didn't come from college, and it sounds to you like it didn't come from the comic strip, and it sounds to you like it didn't come from the head of the newspaper, then it must have come from God. It must have come from somewhere. It's got to come from somewhere. All right, now so it is a foolish and abase thing to you, a foolish thing. I am foolish. That's why God uses me and not you. See, some of you are not so foolish, so God can't use you. But I'm a foolish thing, and you know I'm a foolish thing, see, so God uses me. Same way with the little doll. That's just a foolish thing in the eyes of the people, but yet God uses it. Isn't that right? Take Brother Michael. Folks think he's a foolish thing too. So God uses Michael. All right, so then He didn't use some of the fellows that was so brilliant that kept criticizing Michael, did he? You know, they was too brilliant. He used the foolish thing according to their calculation. All right so then lok at the little doll. Here comes the little doll. It comes up here. It has a definite significance, a spiritual significance. A significance that is so, somebody say, Oh the little doll here at Bethlehem, you know, nothing, but yet the significance of it is so great and so mighty, at this little old no place Bethlehem and these little old nobodys messing with it, and it's so great and so mighty that it has a bearing of all eternity, from everlasting to everlasting. Isn't that wonderful? Somebody said, Well, I don't see all of that. But I do! That and then some. All right so then here is the little doll that came over. Why did it come over? Because God had it come over. Why didn't it come over before the campmeeting? Why didn't it come over before all of these things? Because it would have been out of place. See, God couldn't do that. Everything has to be in its order. Everything has to be in its place. Why didn't the test tube baby come at another time instead of coming right here at this time? Because like I said the child has to be born. It means that the doors to the Gentile church is closing, just like I said this campmeeting had to do with it. And from here on out, God's going to close them great doors. And you can feel that you're important and feel that your grandmother's got to come in or your granddaughter or your son or whatever, but God's going to close them doors and them people going to go to hell. It don't matter how much you fast and pray or whatever you do, when time comes for them doors to close they're going to close. And if my son is left out, he'll go to hell just like your son. Just because I'm a preacher don't mean God's going to give a special privilege to my son. If my son don't straighten up and get in, he'll go to hell. And your son's going to do the same thing and you're daughter's going to do the same thing, your mother and daddys, and all of them's going to do the same thing, brothers and sisters. God isn't going to wait for Brother Pike or anybody else. When the time comes, that's going to be it. All right so then I see that. I understand that. I think that. That's why I try to talk to God all the time, day and night, because I know that once that happens my children can't come in. My loved ones can't come in. So I've been trying to take advantage of every minute that I can while there's time. All right the little doll. Look at the little doll coming in. Why Charlotte at this time? Why the white tent at this time? There is a reason. Why is it that this has happened? Why when I had another tent meeting before now? Last year we closed out the seven tent meetings? It had to do with the church ages being closed out. What is at the end at the tent meeting, though the church ages. When I spoke of Brother Wilson having to do with the end of the church ages, having to pastor those seven churches, and that belt, the twentieth century prophet, going to him. We gave it to him; what it had to do with. You understand what I'm saying? Now, I know some of you are not following me. Some of you don't care that much about it. But some of you really want to know what's going on, just a few. All right, now some of you don't put no stock in it. It ain't that important to you. You don't believe it anyway. You just want to hear it to see what it's all about. But some of you actually base your life on it and you believe it's absolutely: Thus saith the Lord. You believe that. All right now so then in this being caught up to Charlotte, the Queen City. The child being caught up to heaven at the end of the church ages, the first tent meeting. The child being caught up to the heavens. We went down, all the way down into South America, down into the heart of the heart of the earth, from the crucifixion, all the way down, it followed the pattern. I said, Betty, when we got ready to leave Atlanta, I said, Now I'm going to tell you this, we're in for trouble. I said, You and me are really in for it on this trip. Is that what I told you going out of Atlanta, Betty? I wouldn't tell her until I got her in the coach and got the doors closed and got over there. Now I said, But me and you are in for it. And we were. All the way down and all the way back it was nip and tuck. We almost lost our lives. Everything went hay-wire. But God reached the souls that was in prison. All right so then we come up out of that. When we come up out of that, then we had this meeting here: the closing of the doors to the Gentiles. This little doll came in. Now look at that little doll. Here it comes in. What does it do? We are caught up to the throne. You follow me? See, the Charlotte meeting. Over on Wilkerson Boulevard, why there? Now notice this. Just put a few things together here. Notice this on Wilkerson Boulevard. What place is that? The same one that Brother Ted King was at the last time. What's that got to do with it? somebody says. Well let's just look at it and see what that's got to do with it. Now see, so up we go, up into the heavens. That's what Carolina has to do with. As in heaven, so in earth. Up we go to the heavens, up to the Queen City. Why up there? Because that's where Brother David Allen's at. See, like I made the statement concerning this thing out here on the front going around and around, the reading on it, the wording on it. Now, David ordered us one. I said, He may get it back, I don't know, I said, but according to what I understand, I said, We'll get that one out of David's cleaners up yonder. And so here it is down here. It had to do with the fountain open in the house of David. But what's all that got to do with what you're saying, Brother Pike? It's got a lot to do with it. Now so then here we are. Caught up to the throne. You say, you are caught up to the throne. Any man that's caught up into the revelation of Jesus Christ in the mind of God is caught up to the throne. Anytime a man gets out of his old carnal mind he's out of the realms of death. He's crossed over the Jordan. He's in Canaan land. He's caught up to the throne. For that's where they set the throne in Canaan land. All right now if you've not got out of your human reasoning, resentment, fault-finding, temper, back-biting, you've never got up to the throne. But I found my way up there. And I'm happy. I like it up here. All right, that's what all this has to do with at Bethlehem. That's what these seven candles have to do with. That's what this church has to do with. The panoramic view, the little booth up in the middle of it. All of this has to do with that. So then the man child was caught up to the throne. Up to the throne he went. The little doll coming in, the Carolina meeting, this white tent. You remember Brother Branham spoke of a white tent. Now the white tent coming in. Here caught up to the throne. Why? Why Wilkerson Boulevard? How many of you remember that it was Wilkerson that just recently wrote the article that said that destruction would strike America, that he saw it in a vision. And that the thing would strike America. How many of you remember that? Isn't that something that right here when the campmeeting is closing out, right here when the doors to the Gentile church is closing, right here the white tent that Brother Branham spoke of, right here at the end of the church ages and the types and not only the type, but everything closing out, saying that Brother Branham was the end of the church ages, comes the revelation of Jesus Christ, comes the little doll, comes the man child, comes the forming of the members, being caught up to the mind of God, which is the rapture, which is the throne; the tent going up on Wilkerson Boulevard; and right over across from there is Morehead where Brother Davids' cleaners are? Now what does that got to do with it? The American Cleaners. You know not too long ago we made the statement that as far as we could tell unless God divinely re-routed things and brought it to pass by some miraculous thing that I have not seen, that David Allen's cleaners would go down; whereas I believe that with my heart. It may not happen. But I believe it will. And I made the statement to David. I talked to the others about it; and David remembered it. David said the Lord has revealed to him that he'd do it another way. He'd work it out another way. Whereas he might do that, but it is a true fact that they did cut the road off down there, made it a dead end down there, and he couldn't even get people to come to the cleaners. He had to work it through the law. Everything fell into it's type. You know it did go that far, didn't it? The American Cleaners, now I said, the end of grace. The American Cleaners going down, after the church ages, after the doors right here you know being closed out here at the little bank. The doors typically being closed in the campmeeting; and then the child caught up to heaven, destruction on America. That is on David Allen's cleaner. David having to do with God. David having to do with God. You understand what I'm saying? David having to do with God. We spoke about it in connection with Bill Podaras building up there and his work, how it would go down and what would happen. Now, David having to do with that, Brother David Allen was the one that called about the tent, place where it's at, that is about the lot. And the man that told him he could have it, his name is Mr. Godly. See David follows the pattern of God. So Mr. Godly freely gave us a place to set it. All right now, David said, He told the brother, he said, I remember what Brother Pike told me about my cleaners. He said, All the things that he's told me always come to pass. But this he didn't feel like it would come to pass. And he was hoping it wouldn't. And it may not. I'm just saying what I understand. But he told a brother today, he said, yesterday I learned that the city has already granted them the rights to tear my place down and put the highway straight across from where my cleaners stood. Now it shook him up, because it didn't happen I believe until yesterday. The destruction of America, the American Cleaners, Wilkerson Boulevard, the man saying, Destruction was coming to America. Here the cleaners he's talking about completely going down. Somebody said, What is all of that? The foolish and abase things of the world, so that you smart people can't see it. Hid it from you. And so then there it is over there. Everything shaping together. What's that got to do with it? All the church ages ended. Brother Branham speaking about the tent, the white tent going up where Brother King was. What's Brother King got to do with it? Now that goes back to Mr. Godly. Now but looking aside from that, it was Brother Ted King's tent that was brought down here, that I said would go over to Brother Steve Epleys' place, the Bride of Christ's place. Spoke of what it had to do with and the bus, and what it had to do with, the greyhound that we bought, what it had to do with, my arm was cut here on the little cross, on that building that had to do with the capstone down there, and how the Jewish doctor had to do with it, what it all was all about, the bleeding and everything. I spoke of it. I connected it with the fire out here. How that this fire on Saturday, the Sabbath, the Jewish day, after the campmeeting, the closing of the Gentiles, July, the fireworks, the independency coming into the church. How that out here I took Richard's hat and then we set the place a fire. Everything was burning. The law was out there. Everything was upset. And they was announcing that Little Bethlehem was on fire. What's that got to do with it? The tent over here in the Carolinas, look at it. What does that tent have to do with? It was that same tent that Billy Paul was under, the same one in that last closing meeting. Billy Paul was under it. The same one that Brother Wells, I spoke of the fall of Brother Wells. Brother Wells having to do with the new coming in. Brother Wells, he was under the same tent. Brother Billy Paul was under it. What's all that got to do with it, Brother Pike? Brother Branham spoke of the white tent. There set the old tent. There it went out, then the white tent come in. What's that got to do with it? The resurrection and then the man child being caught up to the throne. What's that got to do with it? It's the same thing when the voice spoke to me when I was in Central America down yonder when I was high up in the mountains concerning Brother Branham and concerning the things that I saw there in the vision. Everything is perfectly fitting together to a tee. Everything, everything. That really tears a brother all to pieces, because he wants me to believe that he's with me and yet he's not with me. And he can't stand the idea that this thing might really be what Brother Branham spoke of, because he wants to believe it was the way that Brother Branham said it, the other way around; and wants to be with me at the same time, that is to make me think he's with me, but it's working out that way anyway. In spite of all of your brilliance and what you figure and how you feel about it, God is bypassing you and it's working out His way. And you're little puney thoughts and whatever can't stop it. You just got yourself in a tail-spin like a fly in a spider web. That's all. All right so then I thank God because even though I feel that old devilish thing that strikes at my spirit to cause me hurt, yet it don't stop me from these glorious things of God. It just cuts you off from them. All right, live in your minds as you will and your thoughts as you will. But nevertheless, this great thing is taking place. Here it is right before us. It looks like that everything is working out just perfectly for the tent to be up there, for it to be in the right place, for it to have to do with the closing out of the church ages, for it to have to do with the catching up to the throne of the man child, to have to do with the resurrection of Brother Branham and the power of God coming in, having to do with America, it's even on the corner of Sam Wilson, even having to do with Brother Wilson. Having to do with my dad and Uncle Sam. Everything, the American Cleaners, everything is just perfect. God works everything just perfect. Every little foolish thing, it's so beautifully perfect to where it's just so glorious, even the traffic the six lane which just makes it perfect for the setting. Another thing is Franklin Hall hasn't been long closed out. And Franklin is wild and rentless and reckless, which believes in licensing women, just mail him a letter and tell him you want a be a preacher and a woman or whatever, you'll get a license. See and that woman thing going out because Mr. Godly said he didn't like it when he was over there. Because he disturbed the neighbors and he done things that was displeasing to Mr. Godly. So Mr. Godly didn't like it. And then the man that's on there right now with his tent, Brother Atchinson seems to be a real nice fellow, I know him from quite a ways back, but he is the man to be best of my knowledge or one among him, and I believe he's the man that wrote the song, Go Forth Ye Reapers And Evangelize The World. I met him up at Brother Woodruffs' not too long ago and well it's been quite a while now. The years have passed by pretty fast. But I met him up there; and we along with Brother Woodruff had a part in helping them to find the light concerning baptism in Jesus name. And Brother Billy Andrews helping him to find it, it goes back to these benches that connects in with him because he was there at that time. It has to do with Brother Branham and his life, and the different things. We'll just have to go on and go on and go on because there's a chain reaction. It don't stop. One thing and then another thing and then another thing. I'd have to go back through all the stuff that I told you about in the past and pick up more that has been shown me in the future and tie it altogether. But what I try to do is spot just a little bit here and a little bit there to where you could just see that it links together, you know, links together. That it's the same thing. You understand what I'm saying. All right, something is taking place. You say, what's taking place Brother Pike? Why should you get so excited? I get so excited because God's fixing to rain fire and brimstone down on you. That's why I'm excited. I don't want Him to rain it down on me. It might not excite you, but when the first fire and brimstone starts falling you'll get excited. Somebody said, Well I don't think nothing's going to happen. The Bible said, Pray always that you might be accounted worthy to escape the things that's coming on this earth. That's at Little Bethlehem as well as every other place. The fire and brimstone is on it's way. It's on it's way. Somebody said, Well what day do you expect it? I expect it to come the day that you don't expect it. That's what the Bible says. It's coming in the very day that you think not, in the very hour that you think not. In the day that you don't think that it's going to happen, that's the day that it's going to come. All right so then it is a sad, dreadful, fearful time for the world, but it is a thrilling, exciting time for me. Now it doesn't bother some of you. You done watched too many television programs, and you done seen too many people killed and resurrected, and heard too much over the radio, and the devil's done all of that to kill you out and to annul your senses, and to stop you to where you don't get excited over anything anymore. He did that so that he could catch you unaware. And so that that day could come upon you unaware. That nothing will stir you up, nothing won't wake you up, but I'm glad it stired me up. It wakes me up. I tell you it keeps me awake in the wee hours of the morning. I'm telling you the truth. I'm not lying to you. It keeps me awake all during the night it keeps me awake. Because I know the fire and the brimstone is on it's way and I don't want to be part of it. I don't want to be part of it. I want to escape the things that's coming on this earth. And the only way to do it is to pray always. Somebody said, For what reason? That you may be accounted worthy. It sounds like you're not worthy unless you pray always. You love Jesus? Ain't that what it sounds like? Pray always that God may account you worthy. So then the Bible tells us to pray without ceasing, to meditate in His laws day and night. Don't ever stop. Don't never get your mind on nothing but prayer. Keep your mind on Jesus from the time you wake up in the morning until you go to bed at night. And dream about Him when you go to sleep. And if you wake up in the middle of the night, start thinking about him again. Keep your mind on Him all the time. Because the Bible said, It might be at cock- crowing. It could be in the evening-time. It could be anytime. But it's coming. It's coming. All right, so the Lord will restore Zion. The Bible said, He will restore it. And God will make a covenant with Zion. Everything will be established. He'll make her rejoice again. He'll turn her sadness into singing. He'll bring her singing, gladness of heart once again. All of these things are taking place. And what is so wonderful about it, is right here in the midst of us at Little Bethlehem, with the little old foolish abase things of the world that you could never receive, God has opened His life and way of life to you. So then I thank the Lord for it. I come here not because I think that you're going to receive it, not that I think that you're going to pay any attention to it. Many of you is going to explain it away, think it away, and treat it as the foolishness. As the Bible says it is in your understanding. But see, I done my job. I come and told you what I'm suppose to tell you. It's like some of the people from the Carolinas, making light of it, making all kind of fun, everything you know because of the gossiping tongues of the wayfarers, but nevertheless something's happening. As a matter of fact, I remember when we were up there at Brother Ted King's meeting, was when I warned Brother Bobbie Wells and he wouldn't listen. And Bobbie just flipped over and went out and got all messed up and on his way to hell. All right somebody said, You don't know whether he's on his way to hell or not. He repented over them things. He come back. I just got word the other day, he didn't act like he was repenting over them. He went back to the same old slop hole. Now, you say Brother Pike, are you talking about Bobbie? I'm talking about the slop hole. Anybody that goes to it whether it's me, you, or Bobbie or anybody it's still the slop hole. Went back to the same old thing. And I understand he's doing the same old way. But we warned him. We told him. We talked to him. We tried our best there at the meeting to tell him what was happening. But he informed me that he was a Brother Branham follower. He knew all about everything. He knew the book. He understood the books of Larkin. I tried to mention something. He said, I know all about that. I've been through it. I know all about that. I know all about this predestination, everything else. And so you see where it led to. That's where a lot of them have lead to, it's wrecked up. The man, a great man, a man outstanding, a man probably knows two or three times as much as I know, but look where he went to by not listening. Sometimes a donkey might be talking to you. You can't never tell but it might be God. It might be a rooster, but it might be God. And it could be an old bald headed preacher by the name of Pike. It could be God. You might ought to listen. You can't ever tell. All right, so then I don't say that to scold you, to hurt you, but I say that to make you stop and think. It could be God. See, he was getting a visitation from God. He didn't realize it. I warned him. I said, The Lord showed me your getting bitter over the thing. It wasn't long and he was gone. See, I told you the same thing. I told a number of others here of that the Lord showed me. They're out. They're gone. Some's been in bathing suits since that time setting right here. Paid their tithes right here. Gave their offerings right here. Said, They loved God. Tears streaming down their cheeks right here. Seem to be the finest among us, but the report was just the other day was out in bathing suits, out on the where ever they were, and done fell away from God and gone. That's just some of them. The others have said bad words. Got a report that some of them that's left from here that stood right here that worked side by side with us that said bad words, ugly words, things that got ahold of them, went back into worldliness, just on and on and on. Why is that? Because they do not give the more earnest heed to the things they've heard. They think, no. It couldn't be me, not me. But it can be you, friend. It can be me. Now see that will help you. Somebody said, It could be you too Brother Pike. Well, I'll help you. It could be me. See that way you don't have to set there and worry about it being me. See, it could be me. A lot of you think, well it could you Brother Pike. So that will help you someday. See, it could be me. Now you got that off your mind. Now I want to tell you, it could be you. It could be you. And God sent me here to preach to you. It could be you. There's one man setting here right now. He just can't get straightened out with God. He's got an old cantankorus sort of an outlook on life and warped up. And if you ever touch him or rub him wrong, he fires off like a firecracker. And you just can't do nothing with him no way. He's got his ideas about things. And he's just got his ideas about things, and he's just got an old warped up mind about everything unless it fits his way of life. But one of these days God's going to do him like the man said about the turtle. He's going to stick the fire to him. And brother he's going to come out of the shell and he's going to be humble and sincere, lose his evil way of doing and he's going to be glad to listen to anybody. Now watch and see. It'll come to pass. All right, what are we going to do at Little Bethlehem? We're just one little group of people out of millions of people that's going to have to stand before God. And I got a feeling if the things that you've heard and the things that you've said, and the things that you know, in that I've talked to you and spoke to you, told you these things over and over again, I got a feeling that you're going to really be in trouble at the judgment. I got a feeling, because the Bible said, To whom much is given, much is required. And I got a feeling that you've heard a whole lot. And you're going to be required. God's going to require a whole lot out of you and you're really going to be in trouble. And I'll tell you what if the day tarry, if Jesus tarries just a little bit, you're going to be in trouble in this world. But in the judgment you're really going to be in trouble. A lot of things to be done for God and we're not doing it. We're busy. We're just too busy, see. We can't get to God's work. And the first news you know God moves the vineyard. We can't get to it. The Jews said, We're busy. We got a lot of things to do. The Lord said, we'll just move the vineyard. Give it over to the Gentiles. They got more time than you have. Maybe they can take care of it. They've kept it for a long time. And the Jews have went through terror. Almost like a hell on earth. They've been through it. But you know what? God's fixing to take it away from the Gentiles now. The Jews have repented. They're sorry now. They see their wrong now, and they're begging and pleading to God. See to graft them back in now and take these branches that's wild by nature and cut them off, and He's fixing to do it. Fixing to cut them off. Some of you I've told you over and over to pay your bills. You lie to me. You say, I'm paying them, when you're not paying them. You're lying to me. And the Bible said, All liars will have their part in the Lake of Fire. God said to owe no man anything. If you owe a man something, you've got to go pay that man, make some arrangements with that man, talk to that man and let that man know something and not lie about it. Somebody say, I love Jesus. I'm talking about the Gospel. You can't set around and say, I can't do nothing. I can't find nothing, when the Bible said, Labor that you might have to give to God. You can't set around and say, Well, there ain't nothing for me to do. I just can't find nothing. God said, Labor that you might have to give to God. Now, if you can't work, then fast. If you can't fast, then pray. If you can't pray, then meditate. Do something. You got to do something all the time, all the time. God is expecting you to do something all the time. Let's get up off of our laziness. Let's do something for God. Let's pay our just and our honest debts or die and go to hell. Now let's do it. Let's get out there and tell them men that we've cheated and swindled out of their money and their substance. Let's get out there and explain to them and tell them, say, man, I'm sorry. God have mercy on my soul. And I'll be up here to help and I'll give you a dollar or work it out with you. I'll make some arrangements. And I won't just come up here and lie to you and go another six months without saying something to you. But I'll set up some kind of system and stick by it. Now God expects you to do that. And if you don't do that, then you are an evil man. The Bible said, the wicked borrow and won't pay back. If you borrow from somebody and you don't pay that back, you are a wicked man, a wicked woman. You say, I'm a Christian. I'm saying, You are a wicked person. And you call yourself what you want too, but I'm a preacher. I was sent here to tell you what you are. And I tell you according to the Bible, he that God sends will speak God's Word. And if they would have stood in God's counsel, it would have caused men to turn away from their evil doings. I'm telling you folks, when you borrow money from somebody and you don't pay it back, and you shun that person, you are a wicked person. I don't care what you are. You are a wicked person. You might be a builder. You might be a painter. You might be an electrician. You might be anything, but you are a wicked person. All right, I want you to stand with me. Some of you have reproached Little Bethlehem to no end. But here is the thing. The Lord has suffered it. I know that He's suffered it. He suffered it, so the mud would be on it, to hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent, the intellectuals, to keep them from monopolizing off of it, to keep the banker away and the doctor and all the others, to keep them from taking control, muddy Jordan. That they don't know the virtue in it. See, God did that. He let you do it so that He could hid it. And He'll wipe all the mud away. Put it on television channel 11. Let the people hear it and see it for themselves and hear the testimony, hear what I preach, hear what I stand for, so they can't accuse me. So they'll have to swallow it down and know it was an individual affair, and not Bethlehem and the preacher and the people. He'll clean you up to where she's polished like a ripe apple. And everybody will want it. But He's going to burn your fields up for what you did. He let Judas betray Christ. He suffered that. But He set his fields on fire until his bowels gushed out. He let them nail Jesus to Calvary. And He knew they was going to do it. Jesus said, I'll go as it's written of me. But woe unto that man by whom I go. God let you cause all the muck for His purpose. He'll use you. He's got dirt-dobbers. He uses dirt-dobbers. He's got all kind of things. But one day there's going to come a clean up. There's going to come a clean up. He's going to tear all the mud down and kill the dobber. Someday it's coming. So then you need to get your lives right. You need to straighten up. You need to be a man once and for all. You need to stop lying. You need to straighten up. You need to pay your fellow man. You need to go out there. I got a report the other day, six different people I believe it was that has mistreated one man. Six different people, suppose to be men of integrity that has mistreated them. One of them declared that it was an oversight, that they had took advantage of him, because of his work and that some, whoever he had worked for, had slighted him with his work. And that they wouldn't pay him, and that he was in a fix, and that he would make it right. And I got a report today he did make it right. So the man must have been a man of integrity. Sometimes it happens. People get in a fix. But when a man don't make it right, and a man don't go back and a man don't straighten things out, something's wrong with that man. How many of you know that can't be the nature of Christ? That can't be the nature of Jesus. How could it? Jesus wouldn't do that. Said, Pay your taxes. Treat your fellowman right. Do right. Oh it's a sad time. An adulterous generation, a sinful generation, marrying two and three and four times. Can't be satisfied with nobody or nothing, stealing, cheating, robbing, swindling, greedy dogs that never get enough. Get a hundred dollars and want another hundred. Get a thousand and want another thousand. People that set at home, reasoning, reasoning, won't come and help the church over here. Won't go help the church any other place. Reasoning, always in their mind, they reason all day long. They just reason, reason, reason all day long until they about drive themselve's crazy and brake their brain cells down in their nerves, just reasoning. Too lazy to get out and really do something, try to figure it out in their head, until their nerves about go all to pieces over it. Won't come over here and they got reasoning. There's a lion in the street. You want them to do a little something, that old body is just wanting, they just got in bondage to it. Reasoning, always finding fault, always telling their wife about Brother Pike and about the brethren and all these things. Like a man that come the other day. I might have related this to you, but I want to take a minute to do it again. A fellow come the other day from out of state. Come to visit my home, set down. The man's a regular suporter. Supports all the time. You know preachers get afraid they'll lose their little dollars you know that's coming in and they won't tell folks the truth. But he set down and he began to criticize the brethren. He began to tell me how the brethren had done this and how the brethren had done that, how the brethren had mistreated some that was his flesh and blood, how that some of his flesh had come and not found the love that they should have found, expected to find, and how that they're flesh and blood was such a fine person. They said they always had been such a fine person, such a wonderful person, and just went and on and on and on. I listened at it and I listened at it two or three times. When he got through, I looked right straight at him with all love and respect, not being smart. I said to the contrary. I said, the brethren have not mistreated the person. And I said, if the person's went lacking no doubt God made them go lacking because of the way that they was doing, that they needed it. And I said, there is love here just exactly like we say that there is. And I said, Besides that, the person that's suppose to be so good I said, ain't living right, ain't doing right, and hasn't been living right. And I said, Besides that, I said, Not too long ago, the same person come to me and told me that they wasn't living right, and wasn't doing right, and that the devil had almost killed them two or three times, and they felt like the devil would kill them if they didn't get right. Boy, that person closed shop right then and there. The subject changed. Wasn't no more said about the brethren, nobody else. The fellow got a good spirit. The devil went out the window and all of us got along good. Now you can help a fellow. Did you know that? Don't stay at home and always tear down the brethren. Don't do that. Satan is the accuser of the brethren. Don't take your little wife and keep her mind muddled up like a mud hole all the time, and have her and her little children to where she don't even know whether to come over here to church or whatever. Don't do that. The Lord will put you in a padded cell somewhere or put you in a prison or some kind of institution, or they'll pick you up in a wreck on the highway. Don't do that. Love one another. Work with one another. Get them things out of your mind and let's be children of God. Don't do something on your on and because it don't work out the way you think it ought to work out, start surmising and figuring and saying things, blame the preacher and everybody else when you're the one that instigated it. The preacher didn't have nothing to do with it. Don't suffer your mouth to cause your flesh to sin, the writer said. You love Jesus? All right, I try to talk to you in down to earth things, foolish things, very foolish things. See, I could say different from that. I could talk different from that. I got enough understanding, intelligence. I don't have to say those things that sound so foolish. I could be like Brother Roberts and Billy Graham and others and be very careful of everything I think, everything I say and just put her right down the line, but I love to just get down like a little child. And tell you just like I see it, and say it just like it sounds, and let you hear it just as foolish as it really is. That way you understand folks. That way you'll be able to do something about it. All right let's sing a little chorus together. Get your heart right with the Lord. Get your heart right with the Lord. Let's love one another. Now we appreciate the support we're getting from everyone. By the way the man that I reproved, instead of taking his support away from me, he went back home and put a double on his effort, and now he's really done something for him. So you don't lose it by you know, you just lose it when you compromise. But you tell the truth you won't lose it. You'll help somebody. You'll save somebody's soul from the fire. All right now, we're going to go on channel 46. We're going to have to get some more equipment. I felt like we would. They give everything a test run. They said our pictures was excellent. And just got a couple of things that we need to get that will cost about seven thousand dollars. It's just a switcher and another recorder, probably about seven thousand dollars. Whereas we really need about twenty-five thousand dollars worth of stuff, but we could get by with about seven thousand or a little better. Pray about it and they said they'd work with us in every way they could. And you just pray and ask the Lord to work with us that we might be able to do something for God. If there was somebody that came up today and I thought about this from Chiefland, Florida. Chiefland, Brother James Ellis might know where that's at. Chiefland, Florida. It was really coincidental in a way because we was talking about the headstone you know. He come up from Chiefland, Florida. He's a Baptist fellow. He just quit Pan Am. He's been an aviation pilot. And he and his wife traveled around the world I think in different places. But he come up here and he said he'd seen us on television. He was wanting us to meet us and wanting us to come down sometimes in Chiefland, Florida and visit with him. But I thought about that and what the meeting up yonder had to do with David Paul and the connection between that, and how that David, I ask him today, I said, Do you know anything about Chiefland, Florida? At first he didn't and then all of a sudden he remembered. And it was just a few days ago when something was happening spiritually, had to do with something. David had gotten a ticket I believe right in Chiefland, Florida. But he remembered it real well. Let's sing this song together, can we? Let's be a real child of God. You say, Brother Pike, you're too strong. You're too hard. Let me ask you a question. If my little Gracie was fixing to jump head long in a lake of fire and you're little boy or girl was fixing to jump head long into the burning flames with her, and I was standing there screaming and hollering and had to snap them to attention to get them not to do it, and finally I stopped them, would you feel like that was being too rough on them? Folks, you're fixing to go to hell. Did you know that? I got people in this audience that's fixing to drop into the flames of the burning hell. Now you say, Brother Pike, do you know that? I know that. If I didn't I wouldn't tell you that. They're fixing to drop into the flames of a burning hell. You better do something. You have taken it for granted, that because you are who you are that you don't have to pay your bills, and you don't have to walk straight, and you don't have to give up your temper, and you don't have to quit gossiping, and you don't have to quit doing these things. But I'm warning you in the name of Jesus, you listen at me. I have one vision right after another. Always having numbers of visions, numbers of them, because I'm talking with the Lord. Some of them I forget. Many of them I mention here so that they have it on tape. But numbers of them I forget them myself even after they go down on tape. But remember, numbers of them is about different ones here. There's numbers of you standing here tonight that I've had visions and dreams and different things about. So you need to perk up. You need to wake up. Just because I don't tell you, don't mean I didn't have something concerning you. A lot of times you ask me, and I'll evade the issue. And I go out another route to keep from telling you. Because if I told you, it would kill you. It would kill you. If I told you the things that God showed me about you sometimes, it would kill you. Don't you ever have something about yourself, Brother Pike? A lot of them. A lot of them. As a matter of fact last night I had one where the devil was trying to pull me down into hell. I broke lose from him. Got lose from him. In a little while, the vision changed and I was over here, like I was laying on a pallet in a big house.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord