Unknown God - Him I Declare

...church without a congregation. Brother Pete Cunningham said the other night, he's got a brick church over in Athens, been there for years and built it up. He said, Where do you get a congregation at from out here? He couldn't figure out how he could get a congregation out here in a place like this. Well, that's the part that makes it God. That's the part. You say, Well, I come. That's because you got a congregation. But did you ever ask yourself why you come? Hallelujah! The preparation of a man's heart is from God. So then, I praise God tonight for His wonderful, baffling mystery, and the way that He works. Lot went over into Sodom and Gomorrah because it looked like better ground, and he figured he could have a bigger church. Abraham said in the plains and trusted God and it worked out right. Lot only got into trouble. and run into chaos and confusion, and everything went wrong for him. But Abraham stayed in the plains and God took care of him. Hallelujah! I believe you can drive a good car, eat good food, and live in a place have a good church, and a good congregation if you'll follow God. I believe that. But if you lean to your own understanding and try to figure out the advantages then you're going to wind up down there like Lot did, and you're going to wind up in trouble. But if you just say, Lord, give them what you will, and I'll take what's left then God will always save the best for the last. Hallelujah! Praise God! So then, we thank the Lord tonight. I appreciate the singing. And when the boys that's playing on the guitars they ought to play it their very best. And you singers, you ought to sing at your very best, because who knows, we might put some of this on record. We're going to make records, and we'll put some of it on record where we can praise the Lord in song, and others can share in our victories, and in our triumphs. I believe we ought to do this. The Bible said to do what you do skillfully; do it with all your might, to play skillfully upon the stringed instruments, and the other things, not just make out. Like my Cindy said the other day. She said, I wish I could play like Dale. I said, Well, you can. Dale was one that gave herself to it. She was playing, every time she got near a piano she was playing. Like I heard a little story one time that some woman came out from playing the piano and started out the door, and as she started out the door a young lady met her and said, I wish I could play like that. Said, I'd give my life if I could play like that. The Lady said, That's all that's required. That's all it takes. That's all it takes. So then, Somebody said, I wish I was William Branham. I'd give my life to be like that. Well, that's all it takes. To be like Jesus, to be like Paul, to be like Elijah, that's all it takes is your life. Your life. To be a Christian that's all that's demanded of you is, it's your reasonable service to give you life and body a living sacrifice. That's all He requires. If you can do that you meet the qualifications. Praise the Lord! So I love the Lord tonight, and I praise Him for His wonderful benefit. I praise Him for His people. I praise Him for His matchless, eternal love. Now I'm going to let Brother John come if he will receive the evening offering. And I'd like to say this tonight before we try to speak. First of all, I wonder if I could get a little bit of water. I'm kind of hoarse tonight. My throat is kind of dry. I don't know whether it's the dust in here that does it or what, but it makes me feel mighty dry. Now then, I want to say I appreciate you coming out and being loyal to us. And I made the statement when you first start off, and you just start scratching and there ain't nothing, then you have to have somebody that's got an insight, and a vision, to stand with you because after you get started and other people come in, because when they begin to see, man looks on the outward appearance, and when they begin to see the fishes and the loaves, and they begin to see that which is natural then they automatically come in and be a part of it. And I told you a long time ago, I said, And this will come to pass, because God will do it. And I said, That's the most dangerous time of all when this comes to pass. I said, We're not far from it. I said, But, now if you can stand with me, now is when I really need you. So then some of you have stood with me. Some of you are still standing with me, and I want to say that I appreciate it. I appreciate you standing with me, but remember this. When God sends the multitude to__ The Bible said that great was the multitude of them that spread the gospel. God gave it, and great was the multitude that published it. But when God sends the multitude for the publication of a message then by the time that the multitude gets there it's too late for leaders to be made. How many of you understand what I'm saying? But you see? God makes leaders when there is nothing, and they become leaders by faith in believing in something that isn't there. That's what makes them a leader. But, now followers believe in what they can see. They believe in what they can see. In other words, if they can see the shepherd, they see the green grass in the pastures, they believe in it. And so then leaders are made before the multitude comes. Jesus made His disciples, and then after He made His disciples then came the multitude. So then by the time we get the building up and get these other things, and the people start coming and rallying then it will be too late to make you a leader. You will be just lost out; that's all, because the leaders will have already been made. Do you understand what I mean? You can't make leaders after__ You can go cook a meal after a multitude gets there, because the meal has to be prepared before they come. That's right. I don't know of anything that's more disgruntle to me, or upsets me more, than to work eight or ten hard hours, or use to, work eight or ten hard hours, all day long out on a job in the cold, and come home and my wife had been frolicing around and ain't fixed me nothing to eat, and start trying to prepare me a meal after I get there. That always upset me. Praise the Lord! I feel like she ought to be loyal, so God feels like we ought to be loyal and have something ready when children comes. Praise the Lord! All right, how much was it, Brother? A dollar and sixty-six cents. Now, we thank you for it. And I think the offering was three or four dollars this morning. Is that right? Whatever it was. We thank you for it. We appreciate it, and if you can figure out how I can pay three thousand dollars out of that much, well, you tell me how to do it, will you? Well, anyway, we'll pay it by faith. That's the way we do it; pay it by faith. Say, Well, I don't see much faith. Well, you try it. You try it and then I think you'll change your mind. Praise the Lord! Now, you might luck up on it one time, but try it week after week and month after month and year after year. We'll see how it works out. Then you'll know that God is doing something. I made the statement this afternoon, and I still hold to it. I don't see how anybody could doubt the work of God is here, because of the conditions of things and the way God takes care of them. Anybody would know God would have to be in something to meet things like that. All right. In the book of Acts in the seventeenth chapter. If you've got your Bibles I want you to read with me tonight. I started to take the board, and I may do it, I don't know, before services are over to illustrate a little. But whether I do or whether I don't I want to say something to you tonight. And I admit that I'm trying to hold off with the teaching services until we can get in the building. Not get the building finished, but just get a top on it so that we can get some comfortable chairs, because some of you are carnal minded anyway, and it's hard enough for me to preach to you and scream at you and keep your attention. And I'm going to say this, and I don't want you to get mad at me, but some of you, you want what I've got, you want what God has got, you want what the brethren has got, and you want the revelation, but you don't want it bad enough to endure a little hardness of those seats out there, a little sacrifice of your will and your mind, and your desire to be able to get it. But, my friend, you will never get it like that. You are doing to have to die. That's the only way, is to die. Now, if you die, the Bible said, then you can come forth and multiply, but unless a seed fall into the ground and die it abideth alone. I don't care what you do you're going to have to die out to your will, and to your desire, and your personal ambition, your feelings, if you intend to be anything for Jesus Christ. Paul said in his writing, it's not only given to us to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, but it's also given to us to suffer with the Lord Jesus Christ. And he said to equip yourselves with a mind to suffer. This is where the church world misses out with God. They equip themselves with a mind to believe that God wants them to have every good thing, and fails to remember that God has given unto them suffering in the flesh that the flesh might die, that the inner man might live unto the glories of God and the powers of the resurrection. And then this outer man is dead, then the inner man can live, and He will give you your hearts desire. But as long as your outer man is alive God will not give you your hearts desire, because if He did it would only become a snare to you, and you would be after the fishes and loaves, and the same thing would happen to you that has happened to many others. So then, they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the lust thereof. Now then, let's read from chapter seven. Read just a little bit here and see if we can exhort you just a little bit tonight. Now then in the sixteenth verse of the seventeenth chapter of the book of Acts. (Reads rest of entire chapter.) All right, now. I want us to back up just a little bit if you will over in the book of Acts, and I want us to read, I want us to read here the twenty-third verse. "For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you." Him declare I unto you. The God whom ye ignorantly worship Him declare I unto you. Paul here stated that there was people that was worshipping God, they were worshipping God, but they were worshipping God in ignorance, and they didn't even didn't even know who he was. And I believe that when the Indians worshipped that they worshipped God. They called Him the great Spirit, but they did not know His name. They didn't know who He was. In the Old Testament they ignorantly worshipped God. They worshipped God but they did not know who He was. They worshipped God when Moses told them about Jehovah-jireh. And all the redemptive names of God was given, and they worshipped God, but they never knew who God was. But Paul in his teaching said, I declare unto you this God that you so ignorantly worship. I told you the name of the living God, the only true and the living God. Him do I declare unto you today. And so it is, I believe that (?) to be said that here in the United States of America, as well as around the world, that people do ignorantly worship God not knowing who He is. They say Father, they say Son, and they Holy Ghost, ignorantly worshipping God, not knowing who He is. But I believe that we ought to know who God is. Paul declared unto these people the name of the living God. He said, I declare unto you the Jesus Christ whom ye ignorantly worship, not knowing who He is. I tell you His name, because His name is Jesus Christ. And so then tonight it's the same. I tell you the name of the God that some people, perhaps you, ignorantly worship. His name I declare unto you is Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God that was manifested in this world. God made manifest in the flesh that you might know what God was and what God is. Did you know that God is so wonderful that His ways are past finding out; He has to reveal them. They are passed finding out. You can't go to college and get them. You can't go to some seminary and learn about them. You can't go somewhere and study them. You can't get anybody to tell them to you. The half has never been. They are past finding out. You can't get them from studying. They have to be made a revelation to you. They have to be revealed to you, because His ways are past finding out. They are abundantly and above all that you are able to ask, or even think, according to the Bible. And the Bible teaches that God can do abundantly above what you can think in your mind. So then, if this be true there is only one thing that we can do, and that is believe. Believe. We can't even think. We can't even reach the thinking capacity of God to where we can understand God, and know about God He is so great. But He has given us one thing, and that is the power of faith to believe, and God will give us that which we can't even reach in our thought pattern. So then, Paul said, I declare Him unto you. Now then, this same Jesus that was made flesh, do you realize that in the Old Testament way back there many years ago, that God came to earth. God came to earth. Now, you say, Brother Pike, how did God come to earth? Paul said, I declare Him unto you, right here, he said, though He be not very far from any of you. He's a lot closer to you, Paul said, than you think he is. And yet you seek Him and can't find Him; yet you are always looking for Him and don't know where He is at. And Paul said, Yet He's not very far from any of you. He's right close by. If you just had a chance to really open up your eyes. If you had time to stop and think upon God, the Bible said He's right close to you. He's not very far from you. Said, because in God we exist. He said you existence is by God, the breath that you breathe, the air that comes in and out your lungs, and in and out of your nostrils. He said, God is right where you are. You exist within God. He's in you, Paul said. He's above you, Paul said. And He's through you, Paul said. He's everywhere. Hallelujah! Heaven is His throne, earth is His footstool. God is everywhere. God is everywhere. He's not very far from you. The only thing is you don't have any contact with God except through the name of Jesus Christ. The only way you can contact Brother Taylor is through the name Franklin Taylor, and the only way you can contact God is through His name Jesus Christ. That's the only way you can contact Him. Now then, the law says that as long as you don't call a man's name the man is not considered present and you can't get you for slander. You can say what you want to about him. You can say he's a big fellow, or a little fellow, a skinny fellow, fat fellow, a bald-headed fellow, but they can't get you for slander. But when you start using the man's name then you bring the man present, and they can charge you in abusing the man. My Brother, you can say Father, you can say Son, you can say Holy Ghost, you can say whatever you want to, but that doesn't bring God present. He said, When two or three come together in the name of the Lord then, He said, I'll be present. Hallelujah! I'll come down in the midst of you. So then, Paul said, I declare unto you the God of whom you ignorantly worship. Now then, look at God. In the Old Testament He was with the people. Is that right? He was with them. He came down and manifested Himself. Now, you say, Well, Brother Pike, Jesus wasn't back there. I know that, but He still manifested Himself. Now, you say, How did He manifest Himself? He manifested Himself in a tree. He manifested Himself in a lake. He manifested Himself in a cloud. Manifested Himself in a pillar of fire. He manifested Himself in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars to show that it was God, that everything exist by God, that it's God, my friend. The power of existence is God. It's God, in tangible creation. It was God with Israel. It was God in everything that was created when He said let there be light, and there was light, when He said let there be the stars, and there were the stars, when He said let there be water and there was water, when He said let there be trees and there were trees, and He said let there be an earth and there was earth, let there be great oceans, and let there be fowls in the heavens, and let there be fish and great sea monsters in the great body of waters that was created. It was God. It was God visiting humanity in the tangible side of creation, and visiting humanity in the natural created act of life. That was God. God the Father coming to be with Israel, God the Father showing Himself in a dispensation of law. God the Father being manifested in the world, the great water witness of God the Father. It was God, the great eternal Spirit, that was magnifying Himself to Israel in every tangible creation. That's why you hear me refer to Him a lot of times as the agricultural realms of the acts of God. Their mind was more or less confined to the inheritance of a natural land. Their minds was more or less confined to the design of the tangible side of life, but it was God. It was God in the tangible created act from the beginning. It was God in creation. It was God in creation, and every miracle that He done back there that we find that was outstanding to draw the people's attention, in was in the agricultural side of life, or in the natural side of life as pertaining to that which was the water world and the natural side of God's creation. It was God. God working miracles. God working miracles. God, the great eternal Spirit who is invisible. Paul said, the invisible God showing Himself, revealing Himself, being made manifest to the human understanding, to the human appetite, to the human desires, to the human failings. It was God being made manifest to His people back there in the days of the Jew. Hallelujah! It was God. But there came a day when God quite working the natural side of tangibility to show Himself to His people in the created acts of life. He stopped that and He moved on to a second dimension after that He caught the people's attention. God has to first catch your attention, my friend, before He can help you. He has to first catch your attention before He can speak to you. He has to catch your attention. Paul said He's not very far from you. He's right close to you, but He's got to have your attention. He can't do anything for you until He gets your attention. A man can't marry a woman, nor make love to a woman until He gets her attention, and then she can become his wife. So what did God do? He put a person in this world. He put a human being here, but He had to get their attention. How did He do it? He made a tree with beautiful apples. He made a tree with beautiful oranges. He made a tree over here with beautiful pineapples, a vine with tasty grapes. He made a beautiful harvest. My, He made a beautiful garden. Everything was so real. He had to get man's attention. Now then, when man, who was created to have these appetites and the five senses, and the desires, began to look upon the created act of God it caught man's attention, because man was part of the dust. He came from the dust, and He had the desire toward these things. And He desire the fruit of the trees. It satisfied His appetite. He desired the water that flowed from the rippling brook. He desired these things. He desired the oil to anoint His body with, to keep His skin from getting hard, and to keep it soft. Even in the day we're living in they still do that. They used to anoint themselves with oil. They still do it today in the form of lotions and all these other things. It gives a youthful appearance. Man loves the tangible side of life. Man loves the harvest; the creative acts of God. He likes that because it supplies His needs. So then, God manifested Himself. God was seen. God came into the world. God became manifested. God became life as God the Father in the realm of the water witness where everything in the world of vegetation lives by water. God became known as the life of all creation, which was His first manifestation to the world. But then there came a time when God wanted to be manifested in a great....(Begin side two.)....them a little acorn, and they begin to search out these things, and that's exactly what God wanted, because God caught their mind. He caught their mind, then God begin to manifest Himself in the second dimension. He began to move into a second dimension. He began to manifest Himself and make Himself know to the world as a human being, Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh. He began to come into the world, and He began to manifest Himself through the human body. He began to make Himself known through the acts of kindness, the acts of joy, the acts of peace, the acts of healing, the acts of the power of resurrection from the dead, and all of these great things God began to do. And as He did He began to work miracles. He began to work miracles. God began to heal withered arms. God began to heal crippled legs. God began to heal heart conditions, began to do away with insanity. God began to do all these things in to a physical form of life to show that He was the life of all humanity, and that He might be made manifest in the second dimension, which was the physical realms of God's creation. God manifested Himself. He had manifested Himself to the Jew, had manifested Himself to the world in the created act of tangible creation as far as the natural realm of water world and of vegetation. But God wanted to come into the blood realm. He wanted to come into the second realm, the realm of Calvary where the blood was spilt. For Paul said He made all nations of one blood, and this God wanted to manifest Himself in the blood realm in a world of mercy, in a world of grace to magnify Himself and show Himself powerful, and to show Himself mighty, and to show Himself great through the manifestation of His mercies unto the sins of mankind, and unto those that were rich and could not find God through their own power and ability. So then, He came and He died on the cross. He suffered at Calvary, and He died as a man that He might know death, that He might know sorrow, that He might know heartaches, that He might know pain, and be tempted in every way like as we're tempted that He might be a high priest with the feeling of our infirmities, and know our boundaries and limitation, our sufferings, and what we could take, and what we could not take, that He might be a just God and know how to deal with us, might understand when we were hypocriting around, and when we were really living right. Might understand when we were just letting the lion be in the street, and the difference between that and when something was really there that we couldn't seem to get around, but we really needed help. My friend, let me tell you something. You can't fool God. You can't fool God. You may say, I'm doing this, and I'm doing that. A lot of times I hear some of my brethren, they say, I've just got to get off of the job. I've just got to quit this. I've just got to get by myself so I can spend some time with God. I think a lot of times. I think, my God! As much as they've don't, as much as they don't do anything, as much as they frolic around town, and as much as they go to and fro, and they don't worship You out of all this time, they don't have any time to worship You. And a lot of times when you're doing that I'm praying and seeking God. And I think, Well, my God! What do you mean? What do you mean? I think it's just plain laziness, my friend, when you're trying to figure out to get out of work altogether. That what it is. Now then, some of you if you were at home you'd never get to seek God. You're wife has got ninety-nine hundred things that she has got waiting for you if you ever quit the job. She'd have you from morning until night. You'd never get to do anything for God. So then, that's just an excuse. So then, Jesus can feel the feeling of our infirmities. Jesus Christ can know whether you're hypocriting around or not, or whether you mean business. So then, He desired to be manifested in the physical frame work of humanity, and in the realm of physics that He might be made known in the realm of the physical tangibility of mankind through his appetites, through his senses, that he might possess and control all things. He had redeemed the water world. He had brought judgment upon it, and over flowed it. He had shown Himself to be life in all tangible creation. He had redeemed it. He had cleansed it where Satan had taken it from Him there through the weakness of mankind. But then He had to cleanse man's heart. He had to clean man's soul. He had to make it pure. And so then, there is but one thing that God could do. That was to make Himself manifested, or known through human physics. That's the only way He could do it. A man is a physics. That's what He is. That is to say, his body is controlled by his spirit. And so then, God wanted to get in the flesh. He wanted to heal the crippled arms. He wanted to give the eyesight back. He wanted to show that He was the power of life that gave back sight, that He created sight, and that sight was something that belong to God, and that God could restore it because He was the creator of it, that He was the healer of all diseases. He was the deliverer that He might be manifested in the flesh that the world might see Him, that He might cleanse the realm of the flesh, and do away with all evil, and all the corruption of the flesh. And so He worked great miracles and gave us a dark age, what we call a dark age, where the church went through it. And when I say dark age I mean the world says they have no record of it. It's a dark age to them because they have no record of it. They call it dark ages, but according to what I understand in the spiritual revelation darkness means that the church which was the mind of God, the mind of revelation, the kingdom mind and Spirit that lived in Jesus Christ, it means that it went into the carnal mind, and was preserved as a natural printed word, or page, throughout a certain dispensation until the time that God would (?), for darkness means the carnal mind. Darkness means carnality. It was no more a demonstration of power. It was no more a living word of quickening. It was no more a beautiful power of healing, but it went into the carnal mind of intellect that God might preserve the Word as an intellectual thought, as an intellectual print, as a page, a written page to be preserved by the Catholics, and by the monks, that penned these things from Martin Luther and others who were Catholic people. Whereas, it was brought down because God had ordained the Word of God, and humanity unto death. I don't know whether you see what I'm saying or not. But the first move of God was from Adam unto death. It was moving unto death, wisdom would be ancient, ever going out into the age and to be ancient, ever moving toward age. Ever moving toward age, going to death, for age indicates death. Ever going to death. Satan having got into the heart of Adam, ever going toward death. Ever ordained to diminish and go into carnality, and into darkness, God, the great word of light and spirit was ordained to go into darkness, for at Calvary He spilt His blood, and his body went into the dark grave. And His soul went into the chambers of hell, and His Spirit went into the presence of Almighty God into paradise. So then, the Word, His body, which was the Jew, and His soul, which was the Gentile was ordained to go into a realm of intellect, darkness, darkness, ordained unto death, from Palestine to Jew through the Roman powers of Catholicism, on into the Protestant age of religion, coming over to the third dimension, moving from the body to the soul, to the spirit, that He might purify all things. Having made Himself this way moving into the realms of the ancient to show death. For youth always shows resurrection. Knowledge and ancient always shows both, because age indicates death. When a man gets old he dies. But youth, the last move of God in this age was to be youth. The children shall leave their parents. Why? Because youth indicates resurrection. And so then, it was to take a return and come back from age and from knowledge, come back from that to inspiration, and to life, not as a letter unto death, ordained that the letter killeth, unto death to kill the outer man. Not as that. That was finished for the ancient, but as a word of spirit and of life moving back from that dimension it had gone into, coming back, coming back, ever coming back to it's youthful power and appearance, coming back to the resurrection, having left the Jew and gone, now coming back, left the body that was crucified, a Jewish people that was cast down, that was smitten and abused by Hitler. And all of these others, going away from the body of sin that it might be chastened that it might die, but coming back before the skin worms of evil corrupting spirits of lust and powers of evil could take over in it, ever moving back in an inspiration of life, with spirits of word and life. Not an intellectual mind of darkness and death, but the mind of God, of Christ in revelation. Revelated by moving back, moving back, moving back. Now, you say, what do you mean by this? I mean that from the Garden until the day that we are living in, my friend, it was ordained unto death. Ordained unto knowledge. Ordained that wisdom is with the ancient, but then He said, a little child, He's perfected praise out of his mouth. There was to come a time when the little children would know me, when David said, I know more than the ancient. I understand more than all my teachers, because I've seen my precepts to be perfect. And so then, moving from the Jewish realm of water world, moving from the Jewish realm of natural tangibility wherein God made Himself known. Made Him for a blood realm, a soul realm. Coming from a water realm of body, moving from that realm. Remember that through the flood that God baptized this earth, is that right? He baptized it in the days of Noah. He brought a water witness for the Bible said three is witness in the earth, the water, or vegetation, the blood of human physics, and the angelic spirit of the angelic religious, or heavenly world. So then, from the agricultural side of life, which was the Jew, which was the body, which was the water, the world of vegetation, which was the intellectual concept of God through the human senses, It started unto death from Adam, the first son of God, and then it was ordained unto death. Is that right? So then, God ordained it unto death, and so it was it came unto death. You look at it all the way down it came. It came with water in the days of Noah. It came with blood and sacrifice in the days of Moses. Is that right? It came with those things, and then it came with a spirit of revival when they came out of Babylon with joy and shouting and rejoicing in building back the walls unto the Messiah that God might give forth that wonderful musical age up there of Solomon, and right on down passing through Babylon, and coming right on up to the restoration. That's speaking in the first dimensional side of it. So then, God wanting to move on to cleanse the earth, the earth, to cleanse it, to work miracles in it, and to show Himself God to make Himself manifest. He came through it. Then moving on into the second realm of the blood witness at Calvary when the blood covered all the physical world just as the water covered all the natural world in the days of Noah, moving on into the human realm of physics God came. Came to magnify Himself, to show Himself as God, to cleanse the second dimension, to cleans the second dimension, to purify the human realm of physics. God came and did it. Then after this He had another dimension. That was the angelic dimension, which is human spirits, as they said, that must be Peter's angel for in heaven, which means spirit, they are as spirits, or as angels. Or as angels. They that are accounted for the resurrection of the dead neither die. They can't marry, nor or given in marriage for they are accounted for the dead, the Bible said. They that be of the resurrection are equal to the angels and cannot die. Do you understand what I'm saying? So then, what was God trying to tell us. My friend, that there is a move unto death, unto death, and that death came all the way down to Calvary. And there God died. He died, was crucified, but I thank God that there came a move of resurrection. There came a move unto life. There came a move of the spirit that was ordained unto the quickening of the resurrection of the dead. Hallelujah! And so then, the beginning of the creation of God. I said today, He that was greater in the kingdom, in the kingdom, for we are in the kingdom. When a man is in the kingdom, translated into the kingdom, he's greater than he was when he was under the law. And so then, a resurrection, a restoration of life, coming. Coming where? Coming back unto life. So then God unfolding through a mass humanity. Unfolding through a mass humanity, taking His body in divisional parts, in three major parts, breaking it up, which shows the separation of the body, the soul, and the spirit, coming right on down through the United States of America where He manifested the Protestant age, the protestant age which is a religious age. We came through a dark age, which was a Catholic age, a governmental age. That's exactly what America is now, because America is only a type of the millennium, and there in the millennium is really the third age, the angelic, heavenly age. But God, giving us a type of it with America, divided the last age into two parts, which was the age of the Catholics, and the age of the Protestants to give us a symbol of the two that we might have the completeness of the revelation. So then, what I'm trying to say is this, that God purified the heart of man. He purified it. He cleansed the blood stream. He cleansed the mind of humanity, then He moved away from the governmental realms just as He moved away from the agricultural realms. And what did He do? He moved right on in to the angelic realms, into the religious realm. When He come into the religious realm that means heaven. When He come into the angelic realm that means heaven, my friend. When you come into the religious realm that means where God is. That's what the world needs to understand today, that we're living where God is, that God is not very far from any of us, that we're setting together in Heavenly places, that we've been translated into the kingdom of God, and that we're heirs, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ, that we're no more under tutors and governors, that we are not servants, but we're heirs of all things. Hallelujah! And we've come to the age of accountability, that we're not under the law anymore, that everything belongs to us. And all things that pertain unto life is ours, that we are complete in Him in the sense of sanctification, in the sense of righteousness, in the sense of justification by faith, in the sense of verification and redemption of the body, that through faith in that Christ did we are complete. We are complete. So then, this Protestant age, this Protestant age is the angelic age. God worked miracles in the water age through the natural side of creation, the agricultural side, the water realms, the world of vegetation. Now God worked miracles in the human physics, the age of human physics, giving grace to the Catholics, to the Gentile world who would not live right. That was the only way He could let the world exist, was to give an age of grace. Otherwise He would have had to have smitten them. Now then, we're in the age of the Protestants, in the angelic realm which indicates in types and shadows that God has purged her, that God has purged the human realm of physics, and now He is purging the heavens which is the angelic realms, and from here is where Satan is cast out, the accuser of the brethren that accuse the brethren before God day and night. We are now in the angelic realm. We are in the human realms where we're dealing with your thoughts. We're dealing with your impulses. We're dealing with your human reflects. We're dealing with discernment of spirit. God is working miracles in the angelic realm to manifest Himself in the realms of angelic beings. What are you tonight? Are you an angelic being, or you a human physics, or are you accounted for with the Jews, as those that live in the world of sight that love tangible creation? Where are you tonight? Some people just love knowledge. That's all they can do is get education. They're out there in the human realm of physics with the world of education, they're heady and high minded. All they do is think about what they are, and what they know, and what they can do. They're out there in that second realm of the wrath of God. That's right; luke warm. God will spew you out of His mouth. Some of you are back in the world of sight. In the world of sight is where the Jew was. You're cold. You are not hot; you're cold. You're cold. You are out there in the realm of the Jews. Out there in the water world. All you can think of is something that you want in the world out here, a new car, a new home, a new stock, a new this and a new that. Out there you are cold. You have never been born again. You're a sinner. You think as a sinner. But some of you have come into that second realm of intellect where you are living in that world of intellect. Not in the world of sight as being cold, but in the realm of intellect as being religious, having a knowledge to do good and doing it not. God will spew you out of His mouth. That's the very realm of Catholicism that the Bible said would come to pass in the last days. The Laodicean time. Now, you say, how can that be, Brother Pike, if this is the Protestant age of God manifesting Himself in the angelic realms? Because it's the second age divided into two parts to give us a type, but it's really the second age. And the millennium out yonder is the real manifestation of the angelic beings who will rule and reign with Christ a thousand years because they have the power in the angelic realms and ability to translate their bodies by their spirits, because they are a spiritual being equal to the angels, and have power over human tangibility, the mind of God. I might not make sense to you tonight, but this is the only way I can do it if I don't illustrate it on the board. Now then, just giving a little fragment tonight of what we would like to try to explain. We are out here in the Protestant age, my friend. We're out here. We're out here in this angelic realm, the greatest age that has ever been given unto mankind. Never, Brother John, has there been an age like this. I wouldn't trade this age for any age that's ever gone by. I wouldn't trade this age that I'm living in to have walked with Jesus Christ in person when He stood on the earth. I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't trade my age with the Apostles. This is the greatest age that's ever been given to mankind. The greatest and most beautiful age. I know we've got a world of lazy people, of beatniks, and rock and rolls, and people that are just blood thirsty, and after every natural thing in the world. But in the midst of all this chaos and corruption there is something that is more beautiful than all things, which the Bible calls the pearl of great price. If you can discover it you'll sell all you've got to purchase it. Well then, Paul said He's not an unknown God. I declare Him unto you. He's near you. He's in you. He's above you. We're in God, the spirit of life. You exist. For He is manifested in tangible creation. He is manifest in the human world of physics. He is manifested in the human spirit, and in the angelic realms of spiritual (?) God is made manifest, my friend. Now then, where are we living tonight? What have we got to look forward to? There has come from a realm of life unto death. Jesus was in the spirit. He came unto death in the natural. He said, I came from the Spirit; I go back to the Spirit. He came from the spiritual breathe of life started in Adam, manifested Himself in natural tangible creation, came into the world of human physics, made Himself known, and then He moved into the angelic world. Because He came from the Spirit He had to go back to the Spirit. Now then, they that are born of flesh are flesh. They came from the dust; they've got to go back to the dust. They are brute beast made to be taken and burned. But if a man was in the foreknowledge of God as a spiritual creation then that man is equal to the angels and he cannot die. Now, what were you in the beginning? What were you in the foreknowledge of God? What were you in the foreknowledge of God? Were you a tangible creation in the foreknowledge of God in the world of human physics as that which is lukewarm and God will spew you out of His mouth? Is that what you were? Were you some natural thing that was a brute beast made to be taken and burned? Or in the foreknowledge of God did He see you as a finished product that would sell out to God, forsake everything to have become that which God had ordained as an eternal spirit that could never pass away? What are you tonight? It's determined in the foreknowledge of God, and whatever seed you are that's what you'll produce as the rain comes down. You are going to be one way or another in the harvest, one way or another in the harvest. The spirit of religion, shouting and singing, and dancing has been cleared out, and the briars have drunk, and the wheat has drunk, and all of it has grown up into a harvest because the same water that feeds the wheat and the corn that makes the harvest has to also feed the briar and bring it to a harvest. But what are we at today? What are we? The harvest is what determines what you are. According to the seed that was planted that's what you are. And the seed that was planted was the foreknowledge of God in the act of His thinking you into existence. Therefore, what are you? What are you like? Now then, what I'm trying to say is this. We are moving from the realms of Protestantism. We came all the way. Now can you receive this just a few minutes? From the eastern world of Palestine, from the Jew, comes the sunlight of the gospel moving across the world toward the western world. Moving in Africa. Moving in Japan. Moving in Germany. Moving across the world bringing revival. But as the gospel sunlight of civilization began to diminish in an area, going to another area the sunlight went out. The gospel went out. People came into heathenism, and then it came to the United States. Now we've had a great religious moving and starting in revival in the United States, but the days of the Gentiles is at an end. God's gospel sunlight of civilization and of religion is beginning to be lifted. And scientist says people are reverting to paganism and heathenism. Beatniks and bums, and everything else is beginning to spring up because the revival is over. Is that right? The days of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Now then, that great sunlight of religion and world revival that came to the Protestant angelic religious age into the realms of the heavenlies, even to the principalities and the knowledge of the heavenlies has been made known. That's right. The fullness of God. Now then, it's come over here. What does it indicate? It indicates that that Jew over there was a man, that he had authority. It was a male world back over there. Hitler said that they were the male, and that America was the woman. But the Jew was the male, and Hitler and his people that were back over there were the beast that deceived the woman, which is the Catholic religion. Now then, what I'm saying to you is that from the man came the authority over to the woman, and America became the ruler. And we've got a world of mini skirts. And we've got a world of beatniks, and we've got a world of fashions, and a world of dainties because the woman has taken over, and the man has been put in the back ground. That's right. America is a woman nation. Women have ruled, and they've upset and tore down, and corrupted everything that God has ever built up. Why? Because the evil beast, the evil beast of Catholicism was filled with the spirit of Satan, and deceived the woman, deceived the woman, and today she is a Catholic nation. Deceived the woman. The serpent deceived the woman, that's why I insist that china is the nation that's going to give us trouble because they worship the dragon. And working through the Catholic power they're going to do it, and if you remember when the Pope of Rome came over here and spoke to the United States of America from Washington through the U.N., the one appeal that he made was that China would come into the U.N. That was what he appealed to. Now then, you say, What are you trying to say, Brother Pike? I mean that the gospel sunlight of revival and civilization is over. It's going down in a...

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord