Prophecy Of The End Time

We spoke about Daniel's seventy weeks the other night and about the coming of the Lord. Twenty-first chapter of Ezekiel, first verse. 

[Ezekiel 21:1-7: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more. Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.]

 You know, the Lord tells us here that he is going to draw His sword against the righteous and the wicked, that they may know that He is God. The thirty-fourth chapter of Isaiah, fifth verse. 

[Isaiah 34:5-17: For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.]

It goes on to say in the thirty-fifth chapter that He will bless Zion, bring forth a fruitful garden, and tells of the wonderful things that He will do concerning Zion and concerning the great wonderful things that she shall enjoy. 

[Isaiah 34:5-17: For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.]

Notice He said the way shall be called the way of holiness. Lot of preachers preach lot of things. They preach all kinds of things. They have all kinds of ministries, all kinds of ambitions and all kinds of programs, but we've never had but one program and that program we still have today and we'll still have it until Jesus comes and that is the way of holiness, because He said that that would be the way, that someday He would establish and that would be God's way. So then, we are looking forward to the way of holiness. Now, I thought I'd read that little scripture to get your minds in the things of God and let you know that there is a judgement for the wicked and that there is a blessing for the righteous and that the things that we talk to you about the other night concerning Daniel was the way of letting you know that the end of world was here. Want you to turn back over to the book of Daniel with me if you will. Maybe Brother Atlee, is he here? Maybe he can switch on that light down there. And I'm sorry that you are not warm and comfortable. If I'd had any idea that the brethren was going to let you be like this I'd have made it my personal business to have seen that you got heat. But you've got to remember one thing, folks. The devil is against what I'm doing and he's against you receiving the truth. He's against you being comfortable in any place but some place to feed your bellies and some place to rest your human person. He is against anything that might edify your soul or that might do you any good spiritually. If it's a matter of a family gathering or a getting together with a feast or eating and drinking and being merry or having money to spend or having a little home or having whatever you want, he'll go along with you. But if it's a matter of doing something for your soul that you might escape the damnation of Hell, he won't do nothing for you . He'll discourage you. He'll tear you down. He'll make it uncomfortable. He'll work all minds together that's not strong enough and developed enough to foresee the evils of Satan that they might escape. All minds he'll use to overthrow you with and to cause you problems. Now, there was some questions that arose in the hearts of the people the other night. We went through the seventy weeks of Daniel and we completely clarified those things to where you could see right on out to the end of it. I wanted you to be able to see right on out to the full end of it. Now, I promised to come back with a follow up to kind of substantiate a few things in your mind and to clarify some questions in your mind to where you could see. Some people they are always looking for something to shoot you with or tear you apart with, to question you if you say something, think something, act something or breathe the wrong way, they've got their guns trained on you if you are the minister of God. Very foolish people they are, but nevertheless they exist, and therefore; it is the ministry, it is necessary for him for his sake, for Christ's kingdom's sake and for your sake he must make everything just exactly right to where people cannot shoot holes in it or find fault. So we have to have follow ups and different things that we might tell you what we can to establish the truth in your mind. You know, people live in their thinking, and there is nothing that is crueler than people's thinking. They are cruel. They come into the sanctuary and they are so cruel in their thoughts. They are continually feeding off of people and taking people apart and continually finding fault and continually exalting themselves in their minds. Continually reasoning and continually thinking, thinking, thinking everything but God's thoughts, everything but God's way. They are continually doing that and they are cruel in their thought and their thoughts speak loud, real loud, and if you're in touch with God then you hear their thoughts. And, my, they're so cruel. Cutting thoughts. You know, you hear people speak words and you'll say, My, he spoke so hard. His words are so cutting, but many people that never speak hard cut you to pieces in their thoughts. God looks at them and they are so wicked and so cruel. You know, the Bible tells us that the wicked man should forsake his ways. Isn't that right? He should forsake his ways, but he tells us there is another man that should forsake his thoughts. Isn't that right? So the unrighteous should forsake their thoughts. A wicked man, he'll just pounce on you. He's liable to drive a knife into you, just within a minute. See, he needs to forsake his ways. But an unrighteous person will drive a knife in your back with his thought while you are not looking and can't see. So then, the Bible said, Let the unrighteous forsake their thoughts. Let them get away from their thoughts. If you don't get away from your thoughts then you are a wicked man, but if you think wickedly you are an unrighteous man. So then, you must cast down every thought, bring it into subjection to the obedience of Christ, else you are an unrighteous person in the sight of God and only the righteous shall inherit the kingdom of God. All right, so then, I have to fight with you all the time. When I come in here I'm constantly warring and fighting. Not me but the Holy Spirit on the inside is constantly fighting with the demon spirits that get in some of you and that are in you thinking constantly war. There is a continual war between the spirit and the flesh. If I'm in the spirit and you're in the flesh it's between me and you. If you are in the spirit on the inside it is between you and your body. There is a continual warfare, but there is always a war constantly at Little Bethlehem. As much as you try to do right, I'm constantly at war with many of you. When you walk up into my presence I'm constantly at war with you because you never forsake your thoughts. You never purify your hearts and your minds. The Bible said, Purify your hearts ye double minded. That is one minute you are thinking religiously, the next minute you are thinking worldly. One minute you want to have Jesus, the next minute you want to have a television show. One minute you are interested in Christianity, the next minute you are interested in a race track. One minute you are interested in God, the next minute you are interested in feeding your tummies. See, instead of being spiritually minded and walking in the spirit, refraining from the flesh, always remembering that you are to humble your hearts, think nothing of yourself, look on the things of another, esteem others better than yourself, seek the welfare of another, be a servant to your brother. But you know, the world goes right backwards. They want to be their brothers master. The Bible said all them among you that want to be chief, they'll wind up being the servant. All of them that's willing to subject themselves to being servants of the brothers, the Bible said they'll be your ministers. They'll be your leaders. All right. Get Brother Taylor back to the board. Brother Richard, did you get any heat? If you will cut it on just for a few minutes and throw a little heat in here. I want to apologize again because of the heat problem. Brother Taylor, if you will, we may have to do a little work on the board. Maybe you better turn it around. We'll give Brother Taylor a chance to turn the board around and a chance to get a little heat. You know brethren, with as many heaters as you've got, a number of you have got real good heaters and you'll take those heaters on the job to keep you warm and comfortable and if you give out of fuel you'll put them in you house, and then to think that you wouldn't dare bring one of them here to help God's people stay warm so that we cam preach the gospel to them. It's really a besetting thing. The amplifier is humming? Ok. Somebody forgot to turn their guitars off, I guess. Now, the other night in teaching you the things of Daniel. And I hope you will retain some of those things that we told you. How that the prophecy had come to the prophet Jeremiah. How that he had prophesied that Israel would go down into Babylon. That they would remain down into Babylon for seventy years. And for seventy years it would be the desolation or be referred to as the desolation of Jerusalem. Now, in this seventy years ... Maybe we can get that heater ... Is that the only heater we have in here? Is that the only one, brother? That one won't work? Take this heater over here, if you will, and set it along in the middle to where all of them can have a little heat and, you know, that really bothers me because you let me down on this thing, brethren, cause I see where Satan is really interfering. Really interfering. I know why we don't have heat tonight. How many of you know why we don't have heat tonight? The main reason is because nobody cared. Like I was talking to Brother Taylor and I was kind of upbraiding Brother Taylor a little bit about not getting the publication out. He said, Brother Pike, I typed twenty-one books and said some of them was typed three years ago. I said, Three years ago? I went down to Brother Mitch's office to confirm it. Brother Mitch said, It's true. Said they left his office three years ago or was typed three years ago. They didn't get printed because nobody cared and we bought material here and it took seven years and ten years and some if it still hasn't been put up, cause nobody cared. No heat because nobody cares. But you know, one of the reasons that it's in the condition it is, is because everybody feels that it's everybody else's job. Isn't that right? Everybody feels that it was your job to get heat. See. I feel like you should have done it and you feel like I should have done it. And we feel like they should have done it and they feel like we should have done it, but everybody feels like it was somebody's job. But, you know what? I feel like it was our job and God feels like it was our job. So then, that's why that we don't have any heat. Appreciate our brother being here with us tonight. He comes by all the way from Athens today to give us a ten dollar offering on the t.v. program. Said he'd been watching the t.v. program and he came by and visited with us and said he was going to come back and be in church with us tonight and I certainly appreciate him being here with us. All right. Now, I don't know how that sounds on the tape, Bill. I know that we've got probably two, three, five hundred tapes or two thousand tapes messed up by the heaters I know where we've had to do the same thing. Ok. I just kind of felt like maybe we'd go ahead and let it interfere tonight and at least try to keep our audience warm and try to talk to them the best we can. Remember, brethren, you and I, somebody is responsible. That means there'll be something taken out of your life and my life and our life. We'll miss some good thing somewhere down the line. Something will happen because we didn't care for God's house. Course, we figure it'll happen to the other man, but it'll happen to you and to me. We'll be the one. We'll be the one that will suffer the loss. All right. We're going to try to talk to you and see if we can help you just a little bit on those thing. Now, it's going to take a few minutes to do this. When I preach, maybe I can preach in forty-five minutes and give you a good soul stirring message, but when I teach I have to take my time and talk with you and explain things and make it thorough and let Brother Taylor write it on the board and that way it take a little time. Now, I was hoping that everything would be nice and comfortable tonight and that we would have some pencils. I'd intended to get Brother Taylor to bring down a box of those pencils and sharpen them. I got a telephone call right at the last minute from Alabama and I didn't get to do what I wanted to do on that. I had to come right straight on from there up here, but I was going to let you get some pencils and paper and write this down to where you could remember it tonight because I'm sure, or feel reasonable sure some of you won't remember it if you don't write it down, whereas we get it on tape but the devil tries to get the roaring of the heaters to ruin the tapes. He's done that many times in the past, and that way they can't half understand them when you hear them back so that way you don't get the message. When we don't get the message we don't make the rapture. It's like in school or college, if you don't get the lesson and the tutoring you don't get the diplomas or you don't get the degrees. So, here we are. We want to talk to you a little bit about the seventy weeks of Daniel. I want to repeat this again, now. Remember God said to the prophet Jeremiah to prophesy that the people would go down into Babylon and be there for seventy years and that Jerusalem would be desolate for seventy years. 721 BC Nebuchadnezzar had his armies move in. They took Israel away into Assyria. 606 BC he had them to move in again. They took Judah down into Babylon, Judah and Benjamin down into Babylon. This went on for seventy years until finally ten of the tribes which was the Israelites that had rebelled against the son, Rehoboam; that is the son of Solomon, having gone with Jereboam. These became known as the lost tribes, the ten lost tribes. Refusing to offer sacrifice in the designated place of God, which was at Judah or Jerusalem, but all of them went down into Babylon and seventy years was determined upon the people. From 606 BC to 538 BC the Babylonian kingdom was in strength. From that time there came in another Kingdom. The Medo-Persian kingdom came in and from about 538 BC to 330 BC that kingdom set in. That kingdom was a strong powerful kingdom. About four different kingdoms from the Babylonian kingdom of the head of gold over to the coming of the kingdom of Rome. From about 330 BC to 323 BC there was another kingdom that come in. Then from 330 BC came in the Roman kingdom. Now, we're going to put this down in succession. Put the dates down so that you can put them down and so that you'll understand them. While we do this we are also going to try to put down some dates to where you can understand the things that we taught concerning Daniel's seventy weeks. Now, Brother Taylor will work with us. Ok. There was one other; that from 323 BC to 330 BC, Frank. 30 to 323 and then ... Ok. We'll get these straight here so that you will understand. It was just about at the end of the kingdom of the Babylonian kingdom, about at the end of the Babylonian kingdom when these things started to happening. It was about the time that Darius came in with the Mede kingdom, which would have been where the Medo-Persians came in. One part of it being the Persian kingdom, one part being the Mede kingdom. Daniel was down there about this time. It wasn't but a couple of years before the seventy years was to be up and Daniel began to seek God, began to talk to God about his people and God began to minister to him and sent Gabriel down there to talk to him. Remember how we brought it out the other night about Gabriel. He sent Gabriel down there to talk to him and he began to tell Daniel what was going to befall his people in the latter times. Remember I referred back to it the other night. About 975 BC the kingdoms split up and this is when the strength of Babylon began to set in, after the rule of Solomon which followed David which followed Saul which had followed the regime of Samuel. After the kingdom split up the Babylonian time came. Seventy years spent in Babylon, then the time came for the Exodus going out of Babylon back up to Jerusalem, and we explained in our teachings the other night how that Nehemiah was the king's cup bearer ... Side 2 of tape 1 begins ... God was honoring Daniel's prophecy. Honoring what he had revealed to Daniel in the vision. These great leaders, we'll try to explain to you as best we can. Ok, let us check here just a minute now. We've got the Babylonian and the Medo-Persian kingdom, then we've got the Grecian kingdom and we've got what is referred to following the Grecian kingdom as the divided kingdom, which is Alexander the Great's kingdom that was divided up among his four generals. These kingdoms that was divided up went into places called: Thrace, Macedonia, Syria, and Egypt. The divided kingdom ... Syria. Ok. We'll get these dates straightened out here, and is everybody pretty comfortable as far as being warm? Now, it kind of got me off on the wrong track having to exhort you tonight, because I wanted to come in and start teaching you. Got your minds scattered a little bit, but anyway we'll get everything lined up here right in just a little bit. All right, now. We've got four great kingdoms. The next kingdom is the kingdom of rome. The divided kingdom here is considered one, the Medo-Persians is considered one kingdom. The Grecian kingdom one, and the Babylon kingdom one. Rome. See, this together here is one kingdom. You got one, two, three, four great empires. You got four great kingdoms. The reason for this is those four kingdoms from Alexander the Great. According to history it was his four generals or his great leaders that these kingdoms came from. Now, if you've got your pencil and you've got your paper I want you to write these down as we give them to you. It's 323 to 330 BC. All right, now. In these things we see the Roman Empire coming in. Now, we spoke last night concerning the times of the Gentiles. Tonight the biggest thing that we're going to do is deal with the numerical order to substantiate what we said the other night by the use of figures. That is, giving the correct figures to where you can understand the dates. We spoke of 536 the other night, of 538. A year or two difference there. In some chronologies it's given in one way, some it's given another way. Some of them differ a little bit on it, but anyway here we find that this thing was taking place. Daniel was down here during the seventy years. At the end of the seventy years, Daniel was ready to go out. Now, all of this don't take up the seventy years. All of this will take up the entirety, almost the entirety of Daniel's 490 years. So then, the seventy years will be in the first part of it here because 606 principally is what is referred to as the beginning of the times of the Gentiles. Actually, we taught you last night that the times of the Gentiles is from Calvary. The reason for that is there could be not time of the Gentiles except there was grace, that is in the sight of God. So, when you speak of the fullness of the Gentiles, you are speaking from Pentecost on over to the coming of the Lord. So then, the real time of the Gentiles from about 606 of the Old Testament, 606 BC on over to the finishing of the Battle of Armageddon right on over to where the Lord finishes the entire thing up, but I gave it to you last night in a spiritual manner to where you can understand it. I hope you remember that. I showed you where it would be ended, how it would be ended, what would bring the Lord back at the fullness of the times of the Gentiles, how that the church would go out and how everything would make an radical change. The commandment to build and restore the walks to the Messiah, the commandment was given in about 445 BC, which was the month of Nisan or March, which would be about the fourteenth day. Brother Taylor is going to write these down for you and I want you, if you've got a pencil to write them down to keep up with them so that you can understand what we are saying. 445 BC, which would be about the fourteenth of March, Nisan. Now, you can find these things in your Bible. The Biblical reference takes you right to them. All right, now, these thing extend over to April the second, which would be AD 30. If you put these down and you figure them up, now why would they extend over to AD 30? Because the Bible said that those weeks were accounted for as to the cutting off of the Messiah. We gave it the other night. Seven weeks. Three score and two weeks, bringing the sixty-nine weeks, leaving one week to make the total of the seventy weeks. That one week being the end of the seventy weeks, which would be the week of the Antichrist or the tribulation, the week that would not take place until after the church ages. You follow me? So then, why AD 30? Because AD 30 is when the Messiah was cut off. AD 30, the second day of April, having to do with the time when Jesus rode triumphantly into Jerusalem. They strode the palm leaves in the way. Referred to as Palm Sunday. Here, if we figure this up, and I want you to figure it up, if you figure it up you are going to come out with what you are not going to agree with. But we want to explain to you why. So you figure it up. You got 445 BC. Now, we want to come up with exactly the amount of time that it took from 445 BC to AD 30 to make 483 years. Is that right? Is that what we are working for? All right. We have 365 days in a year. Is that right? Isn't that the solar calendar? All right. To get it we are going to have to multiply by that number. We'll have to multiply what by 365? You mathematicians, you all should be doing something here. Ok. 365, we'll have to make that 446 inclusive to get our right number. So it'll be 365 times 446. No. Wait, let me get it right. This will be 365. Now you got that right. Just rub this out. 365. We'll bring it in a little later. 365 from 446 BC to AD 30, which is April the second, there's 20 days that we have to count from March to April. You can put that up here. From the fourteenth of March to April the second. 20 days. Ok. Then you've got 119 days, which is considered the days for leap year. Ok, now multiply. Let me get this right now. Multiply your 445 by 365. Give us just a minute here so we can get the figures lined up right. See if we've got is right; right. Check Brother Taylor out here. That's what you would have if you figured it up. That would be at 365 days per year. Yeah. What we'll have to do so they will understand it, is put right out here, put on your ordinary chronology, you'd have 445, which is 365 day to a year here. That would be 365 days to a year. Then it would be 476 inclusive here. 476, which will add a year to that, Yeah, right here, cause you've got to multiply 475 by 365. Take this right here and check yourself out by this. Ok, now, I worked this out before I got here so we'll be sure there is no mistakes in it and I want you to check it out, too. Ok. What did you come out with? Ok, let's see. You should have come out with 173740. Is that what you come out with? How much is it. That's what we should come out with, is 13, or 173740. We get these down here then we'll ... Ok, add 119 to it bringing your leap year days. Ok, add your 20 days from the fourteenth of March until the second of April. Ok, now what have you got? (Brother Taylor says, 173,879.) That's right. Now divide 360 into it. Now, the reason we have to do this, in the solar year you've got 365, but in a prophetical year you've only got 360. So then, if we are going to figure it, we're going to have to figure it by the prophetical calendar, because in the book of Genesis when God gave the time to Noah if you will figure it up it'll come out in the prophetical calendar. The only way that you can get this to come out right is to figure it with the Jewish way of figuring or the Jewish calendar because God was talking to the Jews and it has to be according to the prophets, or the prophetical way of doing things or you won't be able to understand it. How many of you understand the terms that God talk with? We, when the Lord speaks of it He speaks of ... you know where He says, Times, time and a half of time, He is speaking of a year according to prophetical calendar. When He says a time, it's only one year. When He says times it's more than one year. In this particular instance it's two years, and when He speaks of a half a time He's speaking of a half a year according to the prophetical utterance. Like in the days of Moses, He said that He would punish them seven times. And in the days, remember in the days of Daniel, Daniel said, Let seven times pass over it. So when you are speaking of that you are speaking of prophetical years. You are dealing with something that has to be dealt with according to prophecy. When the Lord spoke to Ezekiel He spoke to him after this same fashion. Days had to do with years. The prophets, when He spoke to them, days had to do with years. When it was prophetical utterance it had to do with times, times and half a times. All right, now. We come out with 483 years. Now, how many of you are figuring this? Are you figuring it? All right, now, what did you come out with? 483 years. How many years did we say we needed? All right, now, the other night when I was called into question to some of your minds, I gave a date to let you know about the time that this thing was happening because about the time of Darius down there, see, it wasn't but a little while and Daniel was seeking God and calling on God, just a year or two down there about the time of the visitation he was calling on the Lord and just a year or two before they got out of Babylon the Lord sent him a visitation and I gave that to substantiate the time to let you know when the visitation came from the angelic being. The follow up is to let you know the exact time is 445 and if you'll check it over there you'll find out that in your prophetical utterance in the Old Testament it comes out just exactly at this period of time and at 445 BC that this was when King Artaxerxes gave the commandment for the restoring of the walls and the city to the Messiah. So then, the angel said to Daniel from the going forth of the commandment to restore the city, the wall back to Messiah, shall be seven weeks three score, two weeks. After that amount of weeks he said, that the Messiah would be cut off. We said the other night, the first seven weeks gave us the time that was allotted for the building of the temple and it's almost identically the amount of time that the Jews told Jesus that it took to build the temple over there. When they spoke of it over there and Jesus said, Destroy it, I'll raise it up in three days, and almost the same amount of time they referred back to it that it took so long to build that temple. Well over forty years. So then, the forty-nine years gives us the time that was needed to do this. The walls, the streets shall be built in troublesome times. We brought it out concerning Nehemiah and their labor. So then, if from 445 over to AD 30, and again I say AD 30, because AD 30 is after the birth of Jesus. 445 BC, before Christ, which means before His birth. So when you come to His birth then you've still got to count from His birth over to where He was cut off, bringing it down to this. AD 30, the time, you know there is a little mix up there, they've got a little mix up on the birth of Christ and they shift it around. If you'll study it you'll find that they shift it around. One has got Him coming over to the temple about mine years old and the other has got Him coming over about twelve years old, so they've got it off course there. But I've figured it down to AD 30, April the twelfth, then from 445 BC, when the commandment, or April the second, I beg your pardon. Figuring it from 445 BC. Brother Taylor has got an "I" over here, "L" over here without an end on it. From 445 BC, March the 14th, Nisan, from that time the commandment was given. From the time it was given the angel said, From the time the commandment is given to restore the walls back to the coming of the Messiah shall be seven, three score and two, which figured up would be sixty-nine weeks because He said after the sixty-nine weeks Messiah would be cut off. AD 30, April the second, Jesus rides into Jerusalem. Jesus goes into Jerusalem, He is ready to be crucified. He is ready to be cut off. The time of His cutting off has come and He goes in there. The Messiah must be cut off, not for Himself but for the people. When you figure this time, figuring it according to the ordinary chronological understanding, your chronicles would be 475 years, because in figuring it up you would figure it by that calendar, by the solar calendar rather than by the prophetic calendar. In figuring it up you would not come out with your right amount of years but if it is multiplied by that same thing to get the amount of days so that you can figure it out, once you multiply it by that amount of days then you come out with the number of days down here that you need which is the figure right here that we have. This gives us the amount of days that we might be able to divide this by this number, by the prophetical amount of days for a month, or a year, rather. Now, I take this number that we come up with. I have to add to that number 119 days for the leap years, or that is the days that come every four years. Then after that we add the twenty days that has to do with from the 14th of the month Nisan to the second of April to get the extra twenty, then when we put that with our number here we come up with this last number here. Then we take the 360 days which is the prophetical days of a prophetical year, we divide them into this number here that we've got, this number of years here, that we got from the solar calendar. When we figure it up in this terms, then the same amount of time that would be given by the solar calendar, figured up properly and divided by the Jewish calendar or the prophetical calendar, God's Word, it will divide into the right amount of years, which would be 483 years. Does anybody understand what I'm saying? You understand what I'm saying? See, you haven't changed the times. You haven't switched them around. You still took the same amount of time. That's why that when I said the other night that I taught you here, I explained to you a uniform thing, because if I had a gotten into all of this you wouldn't ever have gotten what I said the other night altogether, but you've got what I said the other night altogether in a sequence on a tape to where you can go down Daniel's seventy weeks and understand it very clearly, especially after that you are made to know for sure that the years are right, then by this chronological reading and by this divisional work here, you can just automatically pick up the tape of The Seventy Weeks of Daniel, and listen to it and say, Praise God, I know that this is right, because this, you catalog in your mind as to knowing that all of those questions that was in your mind is wrong, whereas they are saying, No. That couldn't be because 538, so and so, back over here, just couldn't be, won't fit together, the dates ain't right. The times ain't right. See, this proves that it is right. Therefore, you know that if this is right, then you know that those teachings that we gave you the other night was right, because if this is right, then the teachings would have to be right. How could they coincide or run together if they wasn't right? Therefore, it is a positive fact that if what I said the other night is right, then this is the proof of it. If this is right tonight, that proves that the other has to be right, because I taught the other on the foundation, or basis of these things. I'm going to go through it again with you now that you can understand. I was hoping that we'd have it warm hoping that we wouldn't have to go through that little before exhortation, hoping that we'd have pencils and paper and different things and where we could all write it down and catalog it in our mind that when somebody ask us about it we could just go right through it ... tape 2 side 1 begins ... chronological order of your calendar, that is year wise, day wise. In the ordinary chronological order of it, it will be 475 years. That wouldn't be right. Would it? Now, if you look at that you understand why. 475 years. Why would that be? Because the months of the solar calendar are longer than the months of the prophetical calendar: God's way of doing things. Isn't that right? So it would eat the years up a lot sooner. Isn't that right? Is that right? But now, if you shorten those months by rounding them off at 30 days instead of those added days, then what would it do. It would stretch those years out. Wouldn't it? It would stretch them out. Make more years. Not stretch out one year in that way but make more years. Is that right? It would stretch it out. In doing that that would make it have more years in it. Is that right? All right. So then, it would change it from 475 to 483. Is that right? So then, ordinarily it would be 475. Take that and multiply it by the 365 which is the days per year, because this is the amount of years. This 475 is the amount of years from the 445 over to the AD 30. Huh? Yeah. The inclusive. It'd have to be inclusive to be that, but 475 would make it. All right now. 365 days a year. Now, are you really getting it now? You understand it? 365 days to a year. The solar calendar. How many of you know that there are 365 days? I'm going over this a little more because some people are slow to get a hold of it, but one they get a hold of it they can latch on to it. 365 days to a year. Right? The Julian, I believe, carries 365 and a fourth. All right, so the ordinary calendar, 365, the solar calendar which no doubt this would have been given by, before the Julian ever came along, cause we're dealing with the Old Testament. 365. All right. 365. If you go that route it gives you 475 years. Therefore you must multiply the 475, that is when you add one, making it inclusive you add one year before 76. In doing that you take 365 multiply the 476, because you are suppose to add a year here before we brought it down here. So then, you come out with the amount of days. When you come out with the amount of days, then what we did, we add the 119 days, that would be the leap year days, every fourth one, adding it to it every four years. Then when we add that to the figure of these days, then we add the twenty days running from the 14th of march, or Nisan, over to April. When that is added to the days then you come out with another number here of 173879, which is still your amount of days. When you get this then you are ... you have your entire total of days. Having added the leap year days and the extra days from March to April mow you are ready to take the 360 number, which is the number that you need to divide with, because there is 360 days to a prophetical year, whereas there is 365 days to the solar year and as I said, as far as I know about 365 and a fourth to the Julian year. But you've got 475 to the solar year, you've got 360 to the prophetical. We've taken it from the solar year, that's what we're figuring it up by and then we are breaking it down. When we get it down to days we are taking the prophetical year, dividing it into the amount of time that we've got. We only broke it down to days. It's still the same amount of time. 445 years plus the twenty days and the 119 days, breaking it down it's still the same amount of time and all we are doing is dividing it up. We are not changing the times at all, not adding to or taking away from the time. We're only taking the 360, adding it or dividing it into the 173879. With that we come out with years again. We multiplied to get days and then we divided to get years, so we come out with 483 years and you figure it up and see if it figures up right. Figure up your 49 years. You had seven weeks, three score and two weeks. Isn't that right? The Bible tells us that God gave the prophet a day for a year. You can read it in there for yourself. When it comes to this kind of month, read it in the Book of Genesis. God gave Abraham this kind of month for a prophetical month. Now, when you put it all together you take your seven weeks, three score and two weeks or you take your seventy weeks, multiply it, figure it up, or you take seven times seventy, what would you have? 490 years. Is that right? That's seventy weeks. How many weeks did the angel say was determined upon the people to finish the transgression. Daniel, seventy weeks is determined upon thy people. Is that right? Seventy weeks. A day for a year. Seven time seven. Wouldn't that be right to get how many days it would be. 490 days. Seventy weeks, wouldn't that be 490 years? If a day was for a year wouldn't that be 490 years? If you subtracted seven days from 490 days, how many days would you have left. 483. If that was years how many years would that be? 483. And then the Messiah would be cut off. Didn't he say that? Because if you take seven away from it, what does that leave? Seven weeks, three score and two weeks. Is that right? See, seven weeks, three score, a score is twenty, you say three score, that's sixty. Isn't that right? Seven weeks, three score, two weeks. You take the two weeks and the seven, that's nine, isn't it? And you take three score, three times twenty, that's sixty, isn't it? So you put it all together and it's sixty nine weeks, isn't it? Or years. So he said, After seven weeks, three score and two weeks, the Messiah would be cut off, which would be sixty-nine weeks. Isn't that right? Actually, you'd have a what? About 434 years if you separate the seven weeks from it and have about 49 years in your seven weeks. But if you put it all together, you'd have 485 years. And then if you add the seven days or the last seven years of the last week you would have exactly 490 years. So to the cutting off of the Messiah, as we taught it the other night, which would be AD 30. When Jesus went into Jerusalem that would be 483 years. Seven weeks, three score, two weeks, which would be sixty-nine weeks. That would leave exactly one week for the tribulation and we showed how that that one week would not come in after the Messiah was cut off, because when the Messiah was cut off the Jews were cut off and that that last week could not be finished until after the church ages or the times of the Gentiles because that last seven years was the seven years of tribulation and the angel said that when that seventy weeks was completed that would be the end of the world the millennium would be here, the new world. So then, that last seven years could not come in 'til the end of the church ages, which we showed took place at the end of the third chapter of Revelation and that the fourth chapter of Revelation was the rapture, bringing in the Jewish people and we explained how that that last week of Daniel, the last seven years, the tribulation period would not begin until the church was translated and taken out of the Earth. The church will not go through the tribulation. I know people preach that it will but according to what I understand of the Word of God and the prophecy of God, and the chronological order of God's prophetical utterance, it will not go through the tribulation. God isn't going to pour out His wrath on His own people. He just isn't going to do that. But that seven years, it said, and he, the Antichrist, will confirm the covenant with many for one week. One week. The confirmation of that for one week. One week. What week? The last week of Daniel. The last seven years. That's why he calls it a week. One week of Daniel. The last seven years. He doesn't know that he is confirming it for one week, cause he doesn't know there is just seven years left, but when he goes in to fellowship them and have flattery all this thing to win them over, he doesn't know it but it won't be but seven years left from the time that he starts that. The angel knew it. God knew it. Daniel knew it. We know it. But he doesn't know that so he makes that covenant for one week. Seven years. In the midst of that week he causes the sacrifice to cease, the oblation to be taken away. It ceased that he, himself may over spread his abominable doings, false worship, false teachings, and everything. The abominable overspreading, or the spreading over of abomination that maketh desolate. That is taking away the spirit of God. The abomination of desolation. Jesus said, When you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, the place it ought not, then shall the end come. Let him that is in Jerusalem, or wherever, let him flee into the mountains and don't let him look back or take anything back. It will be like Lot going out of Sodom and Gomorrah. It'll be a sad time. A sad time. A sad time. See, a sabbath day's journey. If that thing strikes on the sabbath, a sabbath day's journey is one thousand yards. They couldn't travel but one thousand yards. That would be a sabbath day's journey. They say there is exactly one thousand yards from the mountain of Mount Olivet down across the Kidron Valley to Jerusalem. One thousand yards, a sabbath day's journey. When Jesus ascended up from there to bring in the times of the Gentiles, or Pentecost, He said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up in the Heavens? That is, these angels did appear saying that the Son of Man that you saw go away shall so come again in like manner. That is come back to the Mount of Olivet, which extends three hundred feet above the city of Jerusalem to where everybody in that city can see Him for miles around, the Glory of God coming down on that mountain. There He comes again in like manner to judge the people in the Kidron Valley. That's going to be the place of judgement. The golden gates will swing open that the Turks sealed up many years ago. I brought it out here one night, the year that they sealed the thing up, and it will come open and this trouble that you are seeing, or hearing right now with Iran has to do with it, because all of that leads back to the Islam and back to the Mosque of Omar and that Mosque of Omar is right over the Dome of the Rock, right where Abraham offered up Isaac, having to do with Mount Morriah. The site of it is right there. So you can see where the problem is coming in. The middle wall of partition has to be torn down. All right. I'm going to run through this a few more times here and then we are going to close. I didn't get into this like I wanted to get into it. There was quite a number of things that I would like to have said to you. Now, if you notice, this did not take place until after the seventy years of Babylonian captivity. Did you notice the 606, the similarity of this Babylonian captivity, hundreds of years before the coming of Jesus, how that it so fell in line with the dark age where the church of Rome came in again, it was 606 over to 1520. That same Babylon power coming back in, in the dark ages, after Pentecost, after Calvary, still fell in around 606. That's really something, isn't it? The similarity of the crossing, coming out of the wilderness, over the Jordan, in the 1400's was so similar to the same thing of the crossing over from the old country to America or the new country. 1492. It runs almost exactly the same when they come out of the wilderness over Jordan into the new country. It is striking. So very striking how that God has paralleled these things in such a great way. They bear such great significance. He run them in line so beautifully. Coming over the Jordan, then the judges lining up, just like our presidents and the different ones coming in. Right on down, moving down to King David, when he come on down to Saul, moving from Samuel to Saul. Moving from Saul to David. Moving From David over to Solomon. And it moves down just as beautiful if you say America, the millennium and the great white throne of the celestial world. And you find those three run just as beautiful in the kingships. One, two, Three. I wish we had time to elaborate on it tonight but we don't. But anyway I want you to remember this now. We didn't take anything away here. All we did was explain the difference between the solar way that God would ordinarily do something in his prophetical manner. Just a simple way of doing things and how different it is when Antichrist, which is the intellectual mind, seeks to change the times and the seasons. The Bible said he would change the times and the seasons. When Julius Caesar came on the scene he changed the times and the seasons by the Julian Calendar. They have changed it continually. Continually. But the Lord gave a calendar. He said, The Heavens shall be for signs and for seasons. But beyond that He gave a prophetical calendar which was the voice of the Lord that was to set everything in order according to His times, times, and half a times. And He speaks of it after that fashion in the Book of Revelation. Now, I'd like to have enlarged upon that tonight in a number of ways, because we had quite a number of things that I wanted to expound tonight but not being able to get started off right with you in the beginning of our teaching we dwarfed some of the things that we were going to say to you. But the main thing that we wanted to get over was that the time that we gave you concerning the seventy weeks of Daniel, that it was the right time. I was the right time. If that adds up to 483 years, then I'm sure that you automatically accept the fact that if he said that was sixty-nine weeks and the Messiah would be cut off that there couldn't be but one week left and that week would be seven years. How many of you agree to that? And if it was seven years, then it had to be 490 years as a complete seventy weeks. Is that right? 470 years. The seventy weeks of Daniel. What does it mean to you and I? With the Iranian crisis it means that the end of the world has come. Now, you say, Well, I don't see that. If you can set through what I taught the other night and the confirmation of this and not see that, then you are blind as a bat. You are blind as a bat. There is no hope for you. There is no need of me trying to teach you or anybody trying to teach you because the gods of this world have blinded your eyes that you cannot see. The wicked shall not see when good cometh. So in these things it is showing that the end of the world is here. It is obvious that if we could have enlarged upon the things we wanted to tonight that you would have seen perfectly the Antichrist the way that he would have come in, but those four generals that divided the kingdom of Alexander. Of Alexander the Great, one of those kingdoms that went into the areas of Syria had to do with the Antichrist. The Bible will bear it out in the prophetical utterance and in the New Testament teachings of the horn that came up and the little horn that came up. The one that came up among the ten, the one that come up when the horn was broken. It's evident that the Antichrist has to do with that part of the country, because it speaks of the king of the North and the King of the South. Daniel brings it out again and again how they'll push at each other, which in that time, had reference to Egypt and Syria. The King of the South being Egypt. The King of the North being Syria. Pushing at each other they denoted a great spiritual thing and in that it let us know what the Antichrist was going to do and where he was going to come from. The whole fight was over the royal grant of the land that was given to Israel that reached all the way from the Mediterranean over to the river Euphrates. The war is still going on among those people over there. They are not settled over it yet, because it's a great inheritance, whereas we have a spiritual inheritance knowing that we own all things. I want you to stand with me. You know Daniel, he had a great concern. Just a couple of years before they were to go out of Babylon he begin to seek God and the Lord sent Gabriel, and the angel said, Oh, Daniel, thou art greatly beloved. Wouldn't it be wonderful if God could look at you and me and say, Oh, thou man of God, thou art greatly beloved? Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could find favor in the sight of God? You know why Daniel found so much favor in the sight of God? He tried to be clean and holy. He tried to do what was right. He wouldn't defile himself with the king's meat, the Bible tells us. He found favor in this life. He was raised up as a great leader and a president over those down in Babylon. So were the Hebrew children made governors and leaders. He done real well in this life. God blessed him as he did Abraham. But God also favored him for the next life, and even the king offered him to be third ruler in the kingdom. Offered it to him. He sought God. He was interested in God. He sought first the kingdom. You know, many of you don't do that. You'll seek anything but the kingdom of God first. You'll buy, pay bills, go places, do things, create a interest, a desire in anything, before you'll seek the kingdom and you finally get around to considering God last. Last of all you consider God. If you have any finance left if you have any time left, if you have any desire left, after you have eaten, drank, slept, visited, frolicked, went to your families, your friends, after you've gossiped, backbite, say all the things you want to say, have your temper, show yourself, act up anyway, and then afterwards you consider God. But Jesus said that you must seek Him first, giving Him the preeminence in all things first. Every thought should be Jesus first. Every plan should be Jesus first. Every endeavor should be Jesus first. Many of you are going to be left because of that. Many of you are not going to make the rapture, because the rapture is a translation from glory to glory. It starts with the inside and you are not going to make it because you are waiting for some happy go lucky day, something to happen to you. But it'll never be. It has to be the kingdom of God within you. Christ in you, the hope of glory. A pure heart. Faith on the inside. The glory of God changing you from the inner man into the Celestial man that God hath prepared in His foreknowledge. From glory to glory, from faith to faith, from revelation to revelation, knowledge to knowledge, and understanding to understanding. If we don't understand then it's because we are wicked, for the Bible said the wicked shall not understand, but the righteous shall understand. I hope you understand tonight. I sure hope you understand, because if you don't understand there is something wrong. Now, you say, Brother Pike, I just can't comprehend it all. Maybe you cannot comprehend it all. That's to be understood that you cannot comprehend it is because you don't have enough thirst and hunger for God, enough time for God, enough time for prayer, enough time for seeking God, enough time for trying to straighten your thoughts out, enough time for straightening your spirit out and your life out, enough time to listen and pay attention and have a real, real concern that's what I'm speaking of. The end of the world is upon you. The Irianian crisis takes it right over to the areas of Syria. The thing that's happening is a religious thing. It goes back to the Moslems. And though Jimmy Carter declares there ain't nothing to worry about I can assure you there is plenty to worry about. And though he says it is not the third world war, I can assure you it is the beginning. Though it might prolong itself awhile it is the beginning of the third world war and the calumny of the world. So if you are not ready then you have waited real late. I hope you can get ready. Let's sing a little chorus together. Sorry that the sanctuary is not comfortable like I would like for it to have been ... tape 2, side 2 begins ... Let's sing that little chorus, Oh, How I Love Jesus. (Brother Pike leads congregation in singing.) Don't you like to go back to the historical side of it, to the numerical order of it and confirm the spiritual application of it, the revelated side of it. Don't you like to see God confirm His revelation by the confirmation of that which is the tangible, or the intellectual side of it. God said, I will, Noah. And it was only a voice, it was only a revelation, but there soon appeared a natural ark of confirmation and rain that one could feel to confirm it. You say, I believe. And then there soon appears a divine healing, a divine touch, a divine strength that you can feel in the outer man as a confirmation of your faith. And it's so beautiful to search, to seek, to understand for the righteous shall understand. The wicked shall not understand for the wicked shall not see when good cometh. But to understand. Solomon said, Give us a heart of understanding. With wisdom, Solomon said, get understanding. And you know, most people feel like that he prayed for the spirit of wisdom, cut he didn't pray for that. He prayed to God and he said, God, give me an understanding heart. Give me an understanding heart and from that understanding heart came forth that great wisdom that he was called the great wise man. Are you praying in that manner? Father, Daniel said, make me to understand. The angel said, I've come to give you skill. I've come to give you understanding, Daniel, knowledge in the things of God. Let's pray that God will do it, for the Bible said, My people perish from the lack of knowledge. Let's ask God to give us knowledge and understanding from Christ to where we can realize how near the end of the world is, to where we can prepare our lives and enlarge upon the things of God and forget about the world and all of the things of the world. Let me say this to you tonight just before I close. You that are working here, helping, I was talking to Brother Atlee today. I said, Brother Atlee, I said, is there a certain time that you set to work of God? Do you set certain days and you say we'll meet here on certain days? I can understand doing that, you know, to make sure that you have things going right so that the other days that you are automatically here that it'll work, having an assurance of certain days that will cause you to come together to where you will have the appropriated means for the other days. But to have certain days to come and work for God. To work for God is every breath. To live for God is every breath. To be what God wants me to be is every desire. So I don't understand that. Every moment, every hour, every minute, you should be doing something for God and getting the gospel out, and trying your best to enlarge upon the things of God and only when you are pressed with necessity toward that which is the finance for your family, or whatever you have to have to continue on, only then, then only, should you take a little time to go do that. And that should be second, to seek the kingdom that should be first. To just run in, do a little something to say, Well, it's got to be done. It's time for it. I'll be late if I don't hurry, or I got to get it done or Brother Pike, he won't know what to think. That is so ugly and so evil and so wretched, but to say people are dying and going to Hell and it's my job to publish the Gospel and my responsibility to seek the kingdom and get the job done is a christian attitude. Otherwise, you are just a servant. Hear me, folks. Otherwise, you are just a servant and the servant abideth not in the house forever. The son abideth forever. To say I must be about my Father's business continually is to be a son, but to have seasons and time is to be a servant. And the servant will come to the end of the day and will not continue to abide in the house. So I tell you that if you are sons and daughters of God, you need to be about your father's business. You should meditate in His laws day and night. Day and night. He should never be off of your mind. It should be Jesus, the love of God, doing something for God, helping somebody, trying to understand a greater service to God. Always. Always. Day and night. Never wanting anybody to take your place or to get your crown. Never willing to give it to anybody, but doing everything to hold fast to your crown lest another man take it, the Bible said. You know how another man takes your crown? Is by taking your labor. For there is reward in all labor. The talk of the lip only tends to penury. You can talk about it, counsel about it here, be told about it, counsel about it in the men's meeting, tell others about it but that ain't worth the time you take to do it. The talk of the lip only tends to penury, but there is reward in everything that you do. You'll draw a reward out of everything you put forth an effort in. Let's just bow our heads together. I want to say again tonight I appreciate you being here. Especially appreciate our brother coming out to be with us. I'd like to see God do something special in your life tonight. Help you folks. I want to do something for God. I don't have time to blow up in a temper today and fuss and feud like a bunch of children, run and dodge my responsibility and try to figure out how to get around every dime that I could give, or cut it short in everything that I could do. Or try to hurry it up and throw it together so that I won't be burdened with the thoughts of having to nail a nail or saw a board or dig a ditch or stay an hour in one place that my wandering mind don't want me to stay in. On, Lord help me, not to just be a wandering star that just wanders from one hot dog to another. One coca-cola to another. One dollar to another. One ball game to another. From one frolic to another. From one t.v. show to another. From one magazine to another. From one gossip to another. Help me not to be a wandering star. Then I have to wander from one place to another. Never do anything to help anybody at anytime. Just wandering from one place to another just to satisfy my roving, wandering spirit. God help me not to be like that. Help me to get ahold of myself and be responsible, to be interested and set down long enough to make my old flesh stay in one place whether it likes it or not, to do something long enough to learn something about God and to share something with somebody and to give to the kingdom of God. Labor that you might have to give. I break it down to terms of speech like that because you can understand it better. I could say things that would be way over your head but it wouldn't do you any good. You wouldn't understand that, but good, common, down to earth talk you understand. Precious, wonderful Heavenly Father, Lord, don't let these office be barren day after day. On, God. Don't let literature lay here three long years. Nobody caring anything at all about it. Oh, my God, have mercy on us and people that would do such a wretched thing, Father, and Lord, the needs of all of these things that need to be kept up here on the campground that they might be in condition, whether machinery or buildings or our own lives being clean and kept up that they might be in condition to do something for thee. Smile upon us, Jesus. Lord move laziness out of us, Father. Give us a mind to work. You said that Nehemiah and them built the walls back because they had a mind to work and oh, God, if we are to build these lively stones up into the walls of God for an Holy Priesthood, a tabernacle for His habitation, Father, then we must be about our Father's business. You said, Write it and put it in a book and send it to the churches and Father, to be able to write it, to put it in a book to send it to the churches we must have help. Lord, we must have a coordination, we must have an interest. We must have somebody that's called for that that will do it, Holy Father. On, dear God, make the people so ashamed of their lethargy and unconcern, dearly beloved God. Help us to know that we'll reap every mistake, every wrong, every lethargy, every unconcern. Help them not to tie up offices. Tie up machinery and valuable properties. Oh, God that could do ten times what they are doing. Oh, God of Heaven, just to piddle with it. Oh, Lord of Heaven, I pray thee in Jesus name that they'll not stand at the door refusing to go in and hindering and stopping everybody else that could get the job and would get the job done. I pray in Jesus name that you'll help us to escape this Laodicean, lukewarm, unconcerned age that you said would be here, Gather, to be up and about the Father's business of winning souls. Lord, of establishing this kingdom and not just talking, Lord, to tend to penury, but doing something, laboring that we might have to offer unto thee, to give unto thee of our strength, of our experience, of our skill, of our time or whatever, Heavenly Father, our substance. I ask you to be with us tonight. Shake us and awaken us from the deep slumber, Lord God. Less we go down into the chambers of despair. Lord, our people have got so unconcerned. May you shake us up, Lord, not having to send a tornado, not having to send ice storms, not having to send sicknesses and demon harassment, Lord, but may you shake us by your loving spirit to provoke us to good works and concern. Lord, may every man here tonight realize how wretched he is when he doesn't accept your challenge and follow in your ways and do something for you. May every woman realize how wretched they are. Gather, when each man and each woman passes it to somebody else and figures it's somebody else's responsibility and justifies their evil wicked way, oh, God, Lord, may they be utterly ashamed when they violate the rules of the campground that we have set for the safety and concern of the people. Father, may they be ashamed and realize how wretched they're acting. I pray in the name of Jesus that you'd help us in all that we are doing for Christ sake. Amen. I want you to lift up your hands with me and we are going to praise God in this little song. Hallelujah. You love Jesus tonight? Hallelujah! Let's sing this little chorus. (Brother Pike leads singing of Amazing Grace.) I want you keep this in your minds.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord