The Great Whore

Praise the Lord! It's good to be here tonight, Brother Parnell, and feel the presence of the Lord and to know that Christ is still on the throne. I'd like for you to turn with me tonight if you've got your Bibles. I'd like to turn over to the book of Ezekiel again tonight. Read just a little bit here. And then we'll go to the book of Revelation. And I'd like for you to listen real close tonight. As Peter said, Look on us. Not that we're anything to look on, but he said, Look on us. The power of sight is something that man has never quite understood. And wherever your eyes are focused it looks like your heart follows it. The Bible said where your treasures are that's where your heart will be also. He tells us to shun the very appearance of evil. And so since the sense of sight is so powerful then He tell He says to look on us. I realize you can't just look right straight at a man all the time because if you do you just kind of get into a trance and you, you can't even tell what he's saying. But what I mean is if you happen to glance off keep your eyes of understanding. That's the eye that I want. Keep your eyes of understanding right on the Word of God tonight. Now reading from the book of Ezekiel if you've got your Bibles. Turn to the twenty-third chapter of the book of Ezekiel and let's read for just a few minutes here. And the subject that I've got tonight is is very difficult to bring out because there's a lot of things in it that's deep. How many of you believe that we need the deep things of God? The Bible said, Launch out into the deep. A lot of people say, Well, you've gone off on the deep end. That's the end he said go off on is get out into the deep. And so then let's launch out into the deep. The Bible tells us that this natural man receiveth not the things of God, and neither can he know them for they are spiritually discerned. But he says the Spirit of God searcheth out the things of God yeah the deep things. By spiritual discernment the Spirit of God working within you and I can search out the deep things of God and revelate them to our mind. Now then I think Brother Parnell will tell you the same thing that I'm fixing to tell you tonight. That even though the minister brings many things to your mind that some of the very deepest, most beautiful nuggets that's laid away within the earth are some of the most beautiful pearls that's in the deepest part of the water is never revealed to the congregation because you can't seem to get to them. You can dive way down deep and get a pearl of great price and then bring it up, but to be able to show it to the people you've got to have their attention. And so it is some things are so deep that it's hard to ever get them across to the people. But the Lord would that we would come into the fullness of the stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus and come into the fullness of the mind of the Lord. Now then, reading from the twenty-third chapter of the book of Ezekiel. (Ezekiel 23: 1-10) Now let's turn to the book of Revelation again tonight to the seventeenth verse to pick up the thought here in the second verse or seventeenth chapter in the first verse here. Let's pick up the first verse of the seventeenth chapter and see what John says again concerning this act of whoredom. (Revelation 17:1.) Now then I want you to notice that in the book of Revelation in one place he spoke of the great whore and of the great harlot. And he spoke of casting her children into great tribulation. He said, I'll prepare a bed and after I've prepared this bed, I'll take the great whore which he said was Jezebel, the one that we spoke of last night, that great whore that calleth herself a prophetess, He said I've prepared a bed, a denominational bed. And I'll cast her into this bed and those children that she brings forth from the act of her whoredom, he said, shall go through the great tribulation. I shall cast her children into great tribulation and then he goes on to speak of burning the flesh or her people with fire. Here John being in the Spirit as the Lord spoke to him, the angel said to John. Come John and I will show thee the whore that sitteth upon many waters. You and I know that waters mean people. And we know where the great whore lieth tonight. But let's see if tonight if we can go back yonder into the garden or even beyond the garden, even beyond this world and go back into the mind of Christ. Now I realize that we are finite creatures and we cannot go into the infinite with our finite minds. The intellectuals of today they can go all the way through the finite realms. They can take, they've decided that everything that's in existence that takes up space they call it a form of matter. And everything that doesn't take up space that moves they call it energy. And they break the form of matter down and they tell us that potential energy is stored up in the forms of matter. And then they break the matter down into molecules and into atoms and into electrons and so forth. And they keep on defining things until they go into the very secrets or the core of these atoms that's floating around that you and I cannot see with our eyes. And so it is that they break these things down. But when they have got right down to the core of the finite they cannot transcend the gravitational pull of this old flesh or this old carnal mind because it's not given unto them. But I want you to know that a true minister of God, a true anointed of God, he can go right down to the finite. And when he comes down to the very basis of the foundation of the finite, then he yields himself unto God and the supernatural mind of Christ that was before the world begun then he goes right out into the world, into the beginning yonder before the time elements was ever set up. He can supersede this world. His mind goes into the mind of Christ. And as Paul said, to be absent from this body is to be present with God. And he supersedes this body. And he goes up into the heavenlies. He gets caught up into spiritual revelation. As the Bible gives it here in Revelation as the eagle spreads the wings and sails above every foul of the air going up, way up into the revelation realm, into the heavenly realm beyond the clouds beyond the storm, if we can get up above the clouds. In the heavenlies there is a still, quiet place, a calm place of peace. The Bible said, He that keepeth his mind stayed upon Christ Jesus shall have perfect peace. And we can renew our youth the Bible says like the eagle. We can rise up above these things above the clouds and above the realms of turmoils and storms and supersede and go into that great realm of revelation by breaking the gravitational powers of this old carnal mind. And so then tonight let us go back yonder into the eternities before this world ever begun and take a look through the mind of Christ and see what God will reveal to us in the studies. Now I see there by faith I remember how that God spoke to me while I was seeking revelation. And He began to portray something into my mind as it began to search out the deep things. I began to feel as Paul, absent from the body that my spirit was present with God. And there God began to speak to me. And these are the things that I saw. Now remember this. No man can see God and live. No man can see God and live. To be able to see God you must first die. When they was driven out of the garden, they could not get back into the garden unless they passed by the flaming sword. And to go back into the garden they had to die. And it's still the same process tonight. You must go by Calvary. And the Word of God must slay this old outward man that's found in the transgression. And as you bypass the flaming sword and the outward man dies this spiritual man enters back into the great Spirit of God which is called the garden. And so it is there in before the world ever begun, before the time markers were ever set up, we look back into the eternities and we can see the great Spirit of God, the Fountain of Waters of living waters, the Great God, the only Existent One, nothing to support Him, nothing to cause Him to exist, but He was self-existent, depended upon nothing. And there in the vast eternities there was God, God the Great Spirit. He had never become the manifested Word. He had never become the spoken Word. He was just the Spirit of Life there that filled the eternities with all joy, all peace, all righteousness. But can you see tonight as God dwelt there in the eternities along how that He must have wanted fellowship? The one thing that God did not have was fellowship. The one thing that God did not have was somebody that was equal unto Him that could come forth and reason with Him. Oh how God loved to talk with Moses. When He would say, Moses, you left this world, this world of status, you've come up to a realm to where can reason together. Oh how I love to talk with you Moses. Oh what it means for Me to be able to project Myself as life into you and see you come back in focus mine own image through the screen of your life. And see the actions of life and see the attributes of God portrayed in a human being as it reflects the glory back to Me to whom it belongs. And so it was there God had nobody to praise Him, had nobody to speak to Him and say nice things about Him. He was all power but nobody could tell Him that. He had all knowledge but nobody could praise Him for it. He had all the things that heart could wish for or heart could desire but nobody said, Praise God for that. Nobody offered praise unto God. And so one day God began to think how that He would love to have a creation. How that He would love to do all these great things and see them come to pass, to have somebody to worship Him, somebody to commune with, somebody that He could share His attributes with. And as these thoughts began to come, I want you to get this now. Peter said, We are elect according to foreknowledge. God's Word which is His mind as we refer to it is settled in heaven. As He began to think on these great things, then the great knowledge of God projected a world into existence. His thoughts become creative. And as He began to think looking down through the telescope of time He saw a generation. And oh He saw the wicked. He saw all the turmoil, but yet He saw in this great projection He saw righteous men that said, Praise God! He saw the sons of God leaping for joy. As He said to Job, Job, where was you before the morning stars ever sang together when the sons of God leaped for joy? Back in the foreknowledge of God He saw you and I, you and I leaping for joy and praising God. He looked down through the telescope of time and He saw us. And there Job He pointed Job out and said he's a righteous man. Yet Job's own lips testified, said, I have sinned. And Paul came along and Paul said there's none good, no not one. All have sinned! But yet looking at Job through the shed blood of the Lamb that was slain in His mind from the foundation of the world; and seeing those names that was written in the Lamb's book of life that Revelation speaks of there, in the mind of God He saw Job through the blood. And He said, He's a perfect man. He's a perfect man. God seeing all this, being projected before them as God looked at the scene of bloodshed, as He looked at the harlotry, then the Bible said that God repented. He repented. It repented God He had created man, He thought him into existence. Now then what must God do? God had seen a living creature that would praise Him. He'd seen a living creature that would praise Him. He'd seen a living creature that would praise Him. He'd seen a living creature walking upon the face of the earth, walking holy and living upright. And he could not speak that out of existence without being a murderer Himself. God was compelled by the office of His integrity to see ten thousand people perish, to save that one just individual. And besides it gives everybody an equal chance, everybody has a chance. There was no wrong in God going through with what He had projected in His mind. Because every man had equal opportunity. One had as much chance as the other. But here He had thought these things into existence. Looking right on down to the end of the way. And there this beautiful world came in, but yet the corruption came in because he saw that same being that He would create there in foreknowledge. Foreknowledge had begun. The projection of life that went forth and the screen had been made. And life began to present itself and the glories and the praise and the honor of ten thousands of thousands of thousands of thousands of thousands began to ring out through the foreknowledge as He saw it, praising God, and here God stood. Though it repented Him in His heart that He created man for the bloodshed yet He rejoiced to know that there was a creation that would worship God. So He proceeded. As He came forth He created the angels. The first step of His plan was He created the beautiful angels. And the angels worshipped God. But the angels did not have the same power of will that man did. They had never tasted evil. All they had ever tasted was the blessings of God. All they knew was the good things of God and there was nothing that they knew aside from that. There was no such thing as sin except in the foreknowledge of God as He had seen it. And so it was that God seeing all these things He created a great angel called Lucifer as we know him. And then Lucifer being created so beautifully God made him the next thing to God. He created Him so beautifully. And then as He began to think upon his own beauty I want you to get this tonight. There was no sin. There was no corruption. But Satan as He began to think upon his ownself, as he began to compare his beauty with God's beauty and began to think about God. Nobody in heaven excelled him except Almighty God. The angels would listen to him. Those angels would listen to what he had to say. They admired him for his beauty. The Bible said he was the most beautiful tree in the garden. But he lifted himself up. He lifted his voice up above another. He became great in his own thinking. And he said, Thy wisdom hath corrupted thee. And so it was his great wisdom as he began to use the thing here he compared himself to God. The very thoughts that entered into his heart and into his feature and into his make up was displeasing to God. And God called it sin. God called it wrong. God said, You have no right to even think in such a fashion. And He determined that that would be called evil. And so it was as He began to come against this great being that would try to rise up against Him as He began to send Michael out to fight against him. Said, I have brought him into a world of light. I've give him heart's desire but I'll turn him to the world of darkness that I saw in my foreknowledge. I'll cast Him out of the wisdom of God. I'll cast him out of the Word of God. I'll cast Him out of the Word of life. And I'll bind him and those that follow him in their rebellion in chains of dark understanding. I'll bind them in chains of darkness to where they can't find their way back into this great spiritual city of translation anymore. The angels being bound in chains of darkness have wandered through dry places seeking rest. They cannot find it. And they've tried their best to get back. And we see God as He comes forth having cast Satan and a third part of the angels into outer darkness away from the realms of light. And then God comes to the brink of this outer darkness. And he looks out and he says, Now then, I'll create an earthly creature and since I've seen all this I've got to go just according to what I've seen that it would take to bring this thing to maturity. I am compelled by the office of my integrity to follow every step of it. Though it repenteth me that I have made this thing, yet I must see it through. And so step after step He followed it. As he came forth He spoke the darkness away. As He spoke the darkness away He created an earth. And He created the light there in the garden, a beautiful thing. But Satan was in that outer darkness. Lucifer was roaming through that darkness. He was the ruler of that darkness. And though God had spoke it away, and yet this world had been placed within that darkness. That world had been placed there. The garden had been placed there. And when Lucifer saw that light he had longed to get back to that light. He had desired to get back to that light. And when he began to see God create he began to work through that bloodstream. He began to come up from that smallest animal so to speak, working through that bloodstream and subduing those wills, trying to get back into the presence of God the great Spirit of life, trying to get back into that great world of inspiration but he couldn't. Oh he kept working and finally he got up into the beast there that was next to man that was a great inspiration, that was a portion of light. And Satan enjoyed it very much. But that was not the highest type of life because the beast had no dominion. So he set out to cause the beast to take dominion of Eve. And then he began to work on. He was trying to get into woman. When he got into woman the next step was he got into woman he was in a greater inspiration of life. He was now in almost a life like unto God, but he still didn't have any ruling authority. Have you noticed in this day that the woman as good as she is and as precious as she is, and the Bible said, A virtuous woman is, her price is far beyond that of rubies. Have you noticed that the devil has tried to make a man out of a woman? The Bible said, If she wears anything that pertaineth to a man it is an abomination in the sight of God. What was she speaking of? He was speaking of a woman taking authority. Authority pertaineth unto the man. For he said, I suffer not the woman to have authority. A woman that rules the house, a woman that adorns herself with the spiritual actions of a man or daily activities of a man he said that's wrong. And this may hurt a little bit but woman ain't got no business working. They're suppose to be on a job, at home guiding the house and the man's suppose to make the living. That may rebound but that's what the Word of God says. And so it is that Satan has worked with perversion and tried to cause the woman to take over the house. He's tried to put her on the job and put the man off of the job so he could get her in authority. And brother, I guarantee you I've never seen it anywhere fail. If that woman goes on the job and that man quits work she'll take that house over. Every time she'll do it. And I want you to know she's got a right to do it. Now then he's working through the woman trying to make the woman wear pants, trying to make her cut off her hair. Trying to do everything that he can to cause her to become that corruptible seed of the serpent as he worked through Eve. And he got a higher type of life. He's still doing it today, working in the garden today, he's getting into the woman. He's trying to make her have dominion over her husband, trying to make her take control of things, trying to make her run for President. And everything he's trying to put her in authority. We've even got women policemen. He puts them in authority there. He's done everything within his power to cause that woman to take over. And you know what he's done to the man? He's caused that man to get just as feminine. Oh he's got so feminine until he's right silly. Paul spoke of him. He's right silly. He's so feminine. And so it is he doesn't have a backbone anymore to really be a man and do the things he ought too. Why can't even trust him anymore? Haven't got any confidence in him anymore. But what is it? He was working to try to get control of Adam. If he could just get in Adam he would have the highest type of life. Now I'll never get back into the presence of God, he would say. I'll never get back into that great inspiration. But man has the same thing as God has. He's created on a god level. He's created on that spiritual plane and he's got dominion over all the earth. If I could subdue his will then God's office of integrity will not permit him to come down here and cast me out, because I will have taken this from man fair and square. Amen. That's the way he considered him. And whether you've ever seen it or not, I wish we had time to go into all these things whether you've ever seen it or not, when the Lord Jesus came down in this world as a man He never used God's power to do away with Satan as far as claiming this world back. He walked as a man. He suffered as a man. He died at the cross as a man and conquered Satan and showed that God's creation was not inferior to the powers of Satan. Amen. He took this world back fair and square from Satan. And Satan can't never stand yonder in that day and say you used the God powers when you knew he was greater than I and overpowered me and took this from me, when you gave it to man as a gift and I took it from him and subdued him. And then you come down here with your God powers and overpowered me. That's not just. He can't say that in the day of judgement. Well the Lamb come forth John said and he stood there the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. He can walk up and He can say, Satan, I was the seed of Abraham. I walked as a man. I am the Son of Man. I defeated you on your own grounds. And I took this world back and this kingdom back and today it's mine to give to those who believe for it. Amen. Not to anybody but to the believing. It belongs to the believing. He came through. He got into Adam. And I want you to get a picture of it tonight, christian friend. Here as he got into Adam, as he went into that remember he got into Eve. There as he got into Eve, I want you to get a picture now. There was the tree of knowledge and there was the tree of life. Now this tree of life is like unto faith. It's liken unto faith. It's liken unto faith. For the just shall live by faith. Faith to you and I is a tree of life. And faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. That faith that was imparted in man's heart was the tree of life that had come from God's own inspired Word. It was God's own inspired Word that give that faith and that confidence. And Eve had confidence in God who was that precious Word. I want you to see tonight. But He also placed within man a power of reasoning. He placed there a power that could reason, but he's told man and said, Stay away from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Stay away from the tree of knowledge. The just shall live by faith. When I speak to you, Eve, you just believe what I say. You just do what I say. You just be controlled by what I say and you can live forever. But I want you to know that Eve began to listen to this other voice. But the other voice came forth from the garden. Remember the Bible said, The creature that's the body was made subject to vanity not willingly but by reason of him that's God, who subjected the same and hope that is with the hope of glory with the hope of Christ. Christ within you the hope of glory. He made this creature subject. Why did he do it? He kept you and I the Christians, He translated us into the kingdom by His foreknowledge and then He put this flesh on us over here, for the Bible said, When they fell He clothed them with skins. He put the skins on us and so that we could walk through this life and He could give us a training that we might become into the very image of Almighty God. And so it is today, when we began to get thinking real highly of ourself then the law that was given to Moses back yonder he began to counteract that. And he begins to point out our sins and begins to point out our wrongs. And we feel all deflated like a skirt with the pleats taken out of it. And so it is when we get way down to the bottom of the mountain, then the voice from within us the kingdom of God, the law of faith which Paul said was the law of my mind, it begins to speak the promises to us and we become encouraged and all of a sudden we rise up over the flesh again. And so God's got it balanced to where we can't get ahold of that supernatural power, that supernatural moving. Until we thoroughly process this body and burn out all the chaff with that spirit of power and until we come into the fullness of His knowledge to make the Word flesh again by manifesting it through our bodies, then we'll never be able (Tape turns-side 2 - left out repeated material) to be one with God. So it is it balances. Weighed in the balances and found wanting. Some people get in the flesh too much. But if we get into the spirit then we can tilt the scales the right way. And so it is balances the body, the spirit keeps us balanced. And so he said we'll just die out of this old natural. Get rid of this old carnal mind. We can just go right on into heaven with God like Enoch and Elijah did. This is the age that's going to do it. Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep but we all shall be changed. Hallelujah! In the moment, in the twinkling of an eye from mortality to immortality. Hallelujah! And so it was the carnal mind was aroused. As that demon spirit that had tasted of the outer darkness that used the words of evil that had created, thinking within his mind such as God is hateful. God is mean. God is cruel. They have no love for God because he only saw God as his enemy. He began to talk with Eve and as he did then she went into a realm of reasoning. Remember James said, A double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways. Faith won't work in a double mind. He said, Let that man ask in faith and nothing wavering. So as she began to waver and here Eve was she was caught in between. She had disobeyed God, transgressed the ordinance of God and this word of reasoning had come in. And the evil word said, God is mean. But the Word of God said, God is good. And here she was she began to waver. Is he good or is he mean? She didn't know anymore. She had been exposed to the evil and there the tree of knowledge began to grow and it's in the earth today. Oh how her children have followed her in the transgression. How that everyone of her seed has gone the same way and today we try to reason out things. In the finite life there is a mind that supercedes and goes into the infinite. So then there was a mind that was born friend. It was called the carnal mind. And the Bible said it's a mind of corruption. It's a mind that warreth against the mind of faith. And the Bible said if your eye is single he said your whole body is full of light. But he said if your eye if your eye is not single he said then your body is full of darkness. We know the word single means one. And the eye that he speaks of is the eye of understanding. If the eye of our understanding is just one and one knowledge of good and no knowledge of evil then our whole body it's filled with light. And so it is that carnal mind of corruption, Satan working through the five senses of the body, he's swallowed them through the mind of Eve around Adam. He created the lust of the body. He began to come to those senses. He began to create the feeling of this body. And through that he came through into Adam and projected himself right into the seed of mankind and placed it right there in the womb of that woman that played the harlot. And she came right on down with her lineage one step right after another. And the children followed her in every transgression. Now let's look at it a little closer. God who is the Spirit of life, remember in the beginning the seed was Spirit. The seed was life. My Words are Spirit and life. They were Spirit and they were life. I want you to notice this tonight. But when He came into the heart of Adam, remember, woman is made for man but man is made for God. As he came into Adam there it was dropped down an angel, a breathe of life, an angel, man's angel. In heaven we shall be as the angels. And they spoke of this being Peter's angel when he come over there. So the angels of the breath of life was dropped down into man to seed, but it was covered with this old outward man. It was covered with the pulp so to speak. Just like the seed that falls into the ground. Paul said it has to fall into the ground and die or else it abideth along. Look at Jesus. He was one individual but he fell into the ground and died. And He came forth as many members, for as the seed died it came forth in a form of life that created a church or the body of Christ. And so it is that seed that angelic life fell but it was made into that blood seed that had to be planted again and again until God could process it and manifest the attributes of Almighty God to bring forth the praise that he needed from His people. Notice it now as it was placed in Adam. That inspirational power of Satan came in. Now I want you to get a thought here...(Blank spot)...in God to bring forth the praise that He needed from His people. Notice it now as it was placed in Adam. That inspirational power of Satan came in. Now I want you to give a thought here tonight. I may not get to bring out a lot of things I want too. But I want to try to bring in as much as I can. What does a demon spirit live on? What does a demon spirit live on? What did your spirit live on? A spirit is a character that's formed when God put the breathe of life into a human being. There was a character or a nature that was formed and in the knowledge of God that character became eternal. It became eternal. You see what I'm speaking of now. Now then that spiritual being, that breathe of life, that angelic inward man that Paul called it, that inward man, the only way that he can live is by inspiration. Now remember, in the garden there was three realms. There was the spirit realm. There was the blood realm and there was the water realm. We have the three witnesses in the earth that testify to life. We have the world of vegetation that lives off of water. We have a world of beast that live off of blood of humanity. We also have the angelic realm that lives off of spirit. And so then those three realms being represented there as God being one God but a triune Being created in a triune manner there in that garden Adam and Eve was on that spiritual plane. They were equal with God. And their spirits lived by the inspiration that you and I feel today from the Words of life. That's right. They live by that same inspiration. And their spirit was kept alive. They did not have to eat of the fruit of the trees as far as natural life was concerned. They lived by the inspired Word of God. But what happened? When this beast subdued the mind of Eve and subdued the mind of Adam and they were lost. Their eyes of understanding went out. They couldn't find God anymore. They went into the realms of outer darkness. And they began to reason. How shall we live? What shall we do? And so they were driven away into a primitive world to where man has worked for thousand of years from the iron age coming on the stone age right on down one age after another until he's perfected this world which is a type and a shadow of the husk we spoke of, a type and a shadow of that inward man and that inward world that's being perfected, that we have finally come to maturity, parallels with one another, they walk side by side just like the body and the spirit walk side by side. The body being the husk, but that inward angelic being being the real seed. And so it was demon spirits, or so it is demon spirits live off of inspiration because their angelic beings with our bodies they live off inspiration. My spirit lives off inspiration. When I eat my spirit gets inspired. You might say, Brother Pike, I don't understand that. Let's look back there at Jacob and Esau, two nations in the womb, two nations was represented. Back there Jacob and Esau the Bible said, Esau came in from the field and the field was the world in a parable. Jacob had stayed home. He had plenty to eat. Hadn't wandered away from the father's house but Esau went off hunting. And the Bible said he came back and he looked at Jacob and the Bible said his spirit was faint. His spirit was faint. Have you ever had your spirit to grow faint? And so his spirit needed an inspiration. It needed inspired. And so he got ahold of that food. He traded his birthright to get that inspiration. Isn't it true today that those that do not see that heavenly inspiration, that don't have that power to renew themselves like the eagle to renew their youth, a refreshing whereby the weary might rest. Those that don't have an eternal inspiration, isn't it true that they love to dance, they love to frolic? They love inspiration. They love to run on the track. They love to play football. They've got to have that inspiration to live. But did you know that those things are considered the dog returning to his vomit? Those people are the dogs, Jesus said. That's the vomit. That's the things that make the body of Christ sick. When it tries to go in and it vomits it up and they go out there and they go out there and the dogs lick it. That's right. They return to their vomit. But we are inspired, friend. Oh we're inspired by the heavenly power, by Almighty God we're inspired. And so these demons that wander through dry places that can't find that inspirational water of life, what do they do? They know that you have an appetite of sex. They know that you have an appetite of food. They know that you have an appetite as far as feeding your five senses of taste and smell and hearing. And they know that through those senses that God inspires you and that he keeps you alive through those natural inspirations until the day that he can redeem your spirit and change it back to that heavenly plane of Spirit where it fell from. As long as it's in that beast or that blood realm, it travels through this life, friend. It travels through this life and it must be inspired by the things that God placed in the ground. The elements of life from food and otherwise. But have you ever noticed this that a person that overindulges in union of male and female, that anything beyond temperance is a devil? Anybody that overindulges in eating beyond temperance is a devil. The Bible said, Be temperate in all things and it won't just inspire you here. You can over-indulge in those things and you'll keep getting inspirations, but it won't be long before your bodily man or your bodily woman will soon get all out of proportion and cancer will develop. All those things, even the devils themselves don't understand why those things set in but it's the judgments of God. It's the judgments of God. Those things don't have any life. And when they begin to over-inspire they feed in that body until they make you weigh seven hundred pound. They'll over-indulge in union until they cause your body to be worn down and they'll kill you and take away your health because they're after that water of life. And since they live on a higher plane than you they need more inspiration to keep them alive because man is made a little lower than the angels. And so they gather every bit of inspiration they can through one body, when it dies they go to another. Because they don't want to wander around out there away from God. They want to get back into the presence of that inspiration. But I thank God tonight that we are not left without God. We are not left without God. Let's look at it a little bit closer. So then the devils live by the inspiration. They must have that inspiration. You and I must have that inspiration too. We live by inspiration. And so it is these demon spirits are trying to inhabit the body. They're trying to move into the mind. They're trying to get that little of life, friend. And if they can come in there and get that little bit of life they'll kill all the faith and confidence that you've got in God, because the very minute that you go beyond the Word of God or beyond temperance which is a commandment of God you break it just like Eve did and you become in captivity to that thing and it'll lead you away into darkness. He'll lead your spirit into darkness and you become one with him in lust. And when that body separated from that spirit you're already in the regions of the damned. Did you know we're already in the kingdom of God tonight? If your spirit is one spirit with God tonight, did you know you're already in heaven? You're already in heavenly places. Haven't received the change of the body tonight yet but we're already in heaven. And those people that are wandering out there are in the regions of the damned. They are one with the spirit of love, one with the spirit of power. Oh, we're waiting for the change. They're of the beastly image but we're the image of God. Let's look at it a little more. And so then that spiritual angelic being that came down as God was put in that little blood seed. How many of you have ever wandered why Satan was called the red dragon? Oh God spoke to me and said, Son, do you want to know why Satan was called the red dragon? I said, Why? Said, Because he works in the bloodstream of a crooked and a perverse generation. Said, That's the body of the beast. That's the body of the beast and he lives in that bloodstream. He lives in that bloodstream just like God works in us. That's why he's called the red dragon. But did you know that this seed, this angelic being that was placed in the blood cell that came into the womb and was reproduced there? Oh it came along according to the Bible and one child was born by the name of Cain and one by the name of Abel. But I want you to see the foreknowledge of God in this tonight if you can. And as those spirits mingle with a seed, came up as a seed. The Bible said in Adam all die. In the second Adam Jesus Christ all is made alive. And we see the seed of Adam coming down and here we notice that seed is mingled. We see it as it comes on down, friend, and the two children are born. But what happens? As they begin to reach the age of maturity, as they come to about the age of twelve we'll say or thirteen, have you ever noticed a little child as something wrestles within them? Have you ever noticed that? There is a power wrestling. One day they'll do good. The next day they'll do evil. That power is wrestling and God looks down through, looking down through foreknowledge. He knows which one of them would serve Him if he had a chance, so he just gives a little extra inspiration. As Brother J.T. said the other day, as Ruth was over there gleaning the fields said, Drop a little, a little bit on purpose. Drop an extra handful. And so God gives a little extra inspiration that they might be able to overcome that evil until the day that he comes to the cross. Remember this that blood seed. When those children get up, so they have a power of choice. They can go either way. They can go either way that they want too. That's up to them. They have a freedom of choice. They can follow the wrong spirit and become the image of the beast, or they can follow the right spirit and become the image of God. But here's the beauty. God saw it all through his foreknowledge. He saw every bit through his foreknowledge and predestinated that seed that he knew would do right, to give them the overcoming strength and give them the overcoming power that they might overcome in Christ Jesus. And so it is this blood lineage, this is what we want to see tonight. It went in there as the natural seed, but in the natural seed was a spiritual seed. So then notice that it come on down. It came all the way down to the cross. This is the beautiful part. Remember the outer crust of that was a Jew. Remember that the seed took on the form of a man. And instead of reckoning it as to be the seed that came from God we reckoned it as a man, the seed of Abraham. And so then we watch it as it comes on down as a Jew. Now watch it as it comes on down. All those tribes back there began to war against the Jew, a continual warfare, showing a conflict between the body and the spirit. Paul said there's a continual war between the body and spirit. And so coming on down they war against the Jew. And that blood lineage came right on down until it got over there to the cross. And it was at the cross that the Lord Jesus Christ took on himself the blood lineage and said, I'll spill the last drop of blood here and raise man back to that spiritual plane. Isn't it true that you have a conflict from within your body until you come to your cross. But after you come to your cross experience then you begin to fast and pray. You begin to leave that world of lust and leave, trying to get away from that inspiration where he said, Jesus, take and eat of this bread. He said, I have bread to eat you don't know nothing about. I've got an inward man that's hungry. So getting back with an inspiration, moving back the inspiration. Oh you say, Brother Pike, man can't live on that. Elijah did. Enoch did. And I'll tell you the truth, speaking of Brother Branham, now I believe he's doing it. I don't know. Just about doing it today. I have heard him say...?... But here is a thought. Those Jews coming on down. Oh how beautiful, coming right on down, the seed of Abraham, the seed of God, the angel sealed within the body. Now a lot of people think because the Bible said that the Jews are a chosen people that God favors them above the people of the earth. That's not right. They are a chosen people because they were chosen for a purpose. Just like we was going to have a ball game and I chose a side, you chose a side. But everyone of us is a creation of God. There is no difference. Paul said I proved both is unto sin. Ain't none of them good. And even told the Jews over there and said, the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because you say you keep the law and you don't do it. Nobody keeps the law. And everybody that's out of grace is under the law. And so then it will be judged according to the law, according to condemnation. Can you see these two things? After the seed came on down then the law was given by Moses to type out that commandment that God gave Eve in the garden. There the law stands and the Bible said that sin gets it's strength by the law. The serpent or Satan comes through. He works in around that law. For that law is unto condemnation. It tells you you're guilty. You're guilty. You're guilty. And because of that it magnifies sin into existence. It brings sin into existence. It brings Satan into existence. For Satan is out of existence until he comes in. Satan had no part in that garden until God said there's evil: knowledge of good and evil. And when evil came forth, when he spoke evil then you know there's a shadow that foreruns a man. How many of you know that? How many of you've ever watched the sun shine behind a man and the shadow will forerun the man. It foreruns the man. The law foreruns grace. Isn't that right? It has to be that way because it takes light to reveal darkness. It takes darkness to reveal light. It takes sweet to reveal bitter. It takes bitter to reveal sweet. Is that right? So if God was an invisible God and hid to the natural mind he, to be able to ever show man what He was or to bring forth His power and His attributes, what must he do? He must have some, something to counteract him, something of a contrast. God have to have something that would contrast and so it was He produced the shadows by sending the law and magnifying sin and letting that thing press upon the people to show them their guilt. To bring sickness into existence, to bring death into existence so that when He finished processing man, man could be acquainted with all those things but he also could be acquainted with a God that would heal all of his diseases, forgive all of his iniquities and raise him back up into that heavenly place and let him know what kind of God he was serving and not only that, but let him know the power that he has. Use too when I was a little boy we'd go out to the woodshed. Had to cut wood you know. And we'd go out there and my grand daddy would make me take the axe. And I'd lay it on the grinding stone. And I'd grind the axe to make it sharp. And as the case of Job God did not put the grinding stone out there to do away with the axe did He? But He put it out there to sharpen the axe that it might, it might give better service, to reveal the ability of the axe. And so it is the obstacles of this world, God hasn't placed them out there to overcome us, but as Job said, Even though these things come upon you, he said, Yet I shall stand. At the last day I shall see God. I'll be overcome them. More than an overcomer, Paul said. More than victorious through Christ. These things it takes two rocks bumping together to give life. It takes opposition to give life, friend. If you and I didn't have nothing to do we'd die. You find a man that never takes any exercise. You find a man that never does anything he'll have bad health. He'll soon die. It takes something coming against us to reveal our life. And it also takes something coming against us to reveal the God of health and blessing. And we see God in His greatness. And realize how great that God is. And not only that but we realize that we are sons of God because soon that inward man is manifested as a son of God. And we see that we have the power to overcome Satan. And so it is that the grinding rock reveals the ability of the axe so does this opposition work together. All things work together for good to them that love the Lord. And as I said the scales is balanced as one wars against another. But coming on down we see this grace as it comes to counteract. We see Jesus Christ the walking Bible. He was the law in His flesh. And it was grace in His Spirit. As we see Him as the temple is rent in twain as we spoke of the other night and the law was taken and laid away showing God was through with that and grace went into the heart of the earth to free the souls in prison, to bring liberty to them. And so it was according to the Bible. The seed came right on down, right on down to encounter grace. I want you to see this tonight. As a Jew at the cross, at the cross. Remember, it started a natural Jew. At the cross it went into outer darkness. How many of you know that's true? It went into outer darkness. I brought it out the other night by them coming from the east and west. Said, Now I've made you a king, your king cast out in outer darkness. They went into outer darkness. And they're still in outer darkness tonight. What was it? It was the casting of the natural seed into the womb of the great whore that sat upon many waters. For it went through the tribulation age. Immediately after the cross of Pentecost that seed went into the womb of the great whore which was the Catholic Church and for about a thousand years they went into a dark age there about 12 - 1500 years and it just went right on in that dark age. When the child's in the mother's womb that's a dark time. It's a formatting time. And so it was the seed there dropped into the womb of the great whore and it went through that great age. And then came the days of the martyrs when she went in travail. She went in travail. And in Martin Luther's day after all that great travail when the seed was kicked out. Martin Luther went out. All of them went out. They went out and they dropped over into a land called America which is typed out as a land of milk and honey. Came forth in that babyhood so to speak. Came forth as an infant church from the womb fell over into the United States or into America, coming out of the womb, had the great travail there when the persecution came down. There was the seed that came out. It came forth out of the womb of the great whore. It went in a natural seed as a Jew. It had to die because salvation is of the Jew. That natural Jew had to die as one seed that it might come out as a spiritual seed and let it be to whosoever will. One grain falling in as a nation to come out as many nation that could call upon God. One grain dying that many grains mighty come forth. And they came forth as a spiritual nation. They came forth as a spiritual Jew. They was a natural Jew, but they came forth as a spiritual Jew. Give me just a little more time and we'll try to close here. What actually happened? It came out as the Protestants. That's why they parallel with the Jews in allegories and revelation. It came out as the Protestants. And what did it do? As a Lutheran baby it began to crawl. But it moved on down. And as the Methodist age and these different ages came in it began to walk. It began to learn something about knowledge. It began to learn something about God. That spiritual man began to grow up into a little knowledge of God. And they began to shout and they called them Quakers back there. And they had a shouting good time. And they just rejoiced like a baby with a rattler. They were having a good time. And then they outgrew the shout and they come on down. As they come on down a little further, then they come down unto the age of Baptist. What was it Jesus done when He come out of Egypt? He went up to be baptized. They come on down to the Baptist age when they learned something about baptizing. And the body got baptized. And it moved right on down and still growing and it come on down to the Pentecostal age. And when it come down to the Pentecostal age it started itself a ministry of signs and wonders and miracles. That little infant growing up into the fullness of the stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. Then it come right on down. We could see it as it come right on down as it comes down to Pentecost and He took that great sign ministry it began to grow into manhood. But there was still a step that was left. Paul said, There's a natural body and a spiritual body. It was still in this old natural body. But that inward man was growing every day. Though this outer man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day. He was growing every day. And after a while it came into what we call Jesus name. I don't mean the denomination, but He came to this last age of revelation of Jesus name. What was it? He was transcending the gravitational powers of the body. The husk was getting ready to fall off. It was opening up. He could see beyond the husk and the sunlight was coming in on the grain so to speak. It was getting ready for that ripen state. The husk was breaking lose. What was it? It was the church coming out. And they're coming out right now. They've come into this revelation age, Jesus name. That's the translating age. That's the rapture change, going into the heavenlies, going into the mind of Christ, pulling the very spirit out of the body. To be absent from the body is to present with God. What does it mean when the angel stood over there and he set one foot on the land and one foot on the sea; and the Bible said He swear by Him that liveth forever and ever that time should be no more. And that great one eternal day back yonder when God was just all and all, that great eternal day before time markers were ever set up, before you ever had a calendar, before you ever had a clock or an almanac before this time age set in. That great eternal day that was back yonder. It began to sweep. According to the angel it began it's prophecy to sweep everything that was time off of the face of the earth. Why? Because the time creatures had had their day. We're eternal creatures. We don't need a time limit. And so then time, he said, Time shall be no more. So it is according it's going to sweep all the time markers off and just into eternity. And there's one eternal day back yonder. It'll stay and will be just one with God forever and ever and ever and ever. What is it? The blood the lineage stopped at the cross and this great spiritual Word elevated us from the beast realm and took us from this blood realm and took us back to that realm to where tonight we don't have to have the food of this world to live, we don't have to have these things to live. We can live by the inspiration of Almighty God. You say, I don't believe it. Well tell me how did Moses stay on the mountain up there forty days and forty nights and didn't either eat nor drink, forty days and forty nights? That inspiration kept him alive. Oh I tell you. I feel like shouting. Praise God! Praise God! What is it? We are escaping the great whorish woman. Who is the great whorish woman? It's this flesh, friend. That's who the great whorish woman is. It's this fleshly man that stole the spiritual son of God and took him into captivity as the spirit of Satan worked through that bloodstream to take him into captivity but we're coming out of the shell. We're coming forth. There is a natural body and a spiritual body. As we bore the image of the earthly we'll bear the image of the heavenly. We were created in the image of God, but skins were placed on us. We took the image of the beast but we're going back into the image of God if we're sons of God. What is it? This great church, this whorish church, this Catholic church one day shall possess all of these people. It will be just one big body because that's the whore anyway. The great whore that's set upon many waters. Let's everybody stand together. There's so many more things to be said tonight. But you just can't get them all said can you? I want to declare, I wanted to bring things out clear enough tonight to where we could a picture friend, of how close the end of time is. Do you realize how close the end of time is? It's close tonight. Close tonight. Because as I said that back yonder was planted natural but now the spiritual harvest is coming forth. It's coming forth. And I'm glad to see it, I'm glad to see the light breaking. He said in the early age, said it was a dark age. Then he pointed down the time and he said, It's neither dark nor light. It's twilight time. It's a changing time. The woman going through the change of life, the travail. But he said, Just beyond that said the Word will come forth and it will be light. It will be light in the evening time. The lights breaking forth now. This is the evening time. Let's all gather around the altar for a few minutes like we usually do. Just for a few minutes here. I want you to get a picture. I'm just going to take a few minutes to not try to hold you much longer. Not quite 9:30. Listen. Let's get one more thought here as a confirmation. Back in the days of Elijah, how many of you remember back there in the days of Elijah? Now I want you to see this part tonight because it pertains to something that's going on right now. Back in the days of Elijah there was three years and a half of famine. Is that right? This great man Elijah when we talked about him last night and the Jew age coming in, the Gentile age going out. This great man Elijah back there. You remember what he done? He went up on, he said, Lord, don't let it rain for three years and six months. What was it? It was a dry spell for the church to go through with. Daniel had seven years. Isn't that right? And then the Bible brings out the dividing of times. Isn't that right? Time is counted up to the cross. We count it up to the cross BC. From BC we count it AD, the dividing of times. And then in Daniel's seven weeks liken unto seven days in which God works or the seven years of Daniel's last week is what I'm trying to say. Liken unto seven days in which God worked the seven thousand years, breaking right in the middle there, three and a half years to the woman had come to the maturity three years to the male and the last three of darkness to the Jew which is the body. You're the Spirit. Oh I tell you I wish we had time to go into this tonight. But anyway here we see the dividing of times. We see it. The dividing of times here at the cross and in Daniel's last, last week there the dividing of times. Three and a half years of it gone and three and a half years of it left. The midnight cry falling right there because the cross types out the midnight cry. If you could see it you'd know what I'm speaking of tonight. But anyway looking back here at Elijah that taking the first three and a half years there, Elijah said, Let there be a time of no water, no water. Now how many of you believe the spirit of Elijah's back in this day? It's on the Gentile Bride. It's back. It's on the Gentile Bride. And as far as we know it's on one man individually as far as I know. Now he said, Let there be a time of dryness. I spoke the other night of us going through the regions of the damned the scorching places. Didn't I say that, where the demons dwell because we got to bypass them, the wilderness between Canaan land and Egypt, having gone by the way of the wilderness. Isn't that right? God could have took them the other way but he said they got to mature. They got to mature. So He had to build them up to where they could overcome fallen angels and dwell with angels and fellowship angels, be equal with angels in heavenly meeting places, bringing them into Canaan land. Elijah said, Let there be a dry spell and the church went through a dryness didn't it? But you know what? It was at the end of that dryness that this great prophet, this great prophet called what we call a showdown. He called a showdown. There was the prophets of Baal in that day. And I said the other night God of the flesh, people that teaches three gods, the four gods, the two gods, a god of knowledge, a god of flesh and conception. Those prophets of Baal that's scattered through the earth. But this great prophet stood and said, God is a consuming fire. If I can get Him to come down and heal the sick. That's calling fire down from heaven. If I can get Him to come down and heal the sick, that's calling fire down from heaven. Bring it down to the present day truth. If I can get that fire to come down. To call fire down from heaven, then we'll see whether the Lord is God or whether Baal is god. I want you to get a picture of this tonight. And so the showdown came and he called and God healed the sick for him. God raised the dead for him. And all those people with their theology out there, all the preachers their ministries died. You know how they died? The Bible said that they took the Word, took the sword back there. Elijah had them killed. The Spirit of Elijah today is killing the ministry, killing the ministers. Those people are dying. That's what's causing the dry spell. That's what's causing the dry span. That's what's causing the dry state. They've kept people inspired while the dry spells on. But it's killing their ministries. You know what the beautiful thing was? That after this dry spell after the dry spell Elijah he dwelt on the mountain. They had gotten the former rain. He went up on the mountain. And there on the mountain he began to pray. And his little servant going over there said, Go on over there said, I see a cloud like unto a man's hand. Like unto the fivefold ministry as we say. Like unto a man's hand, I see a great revival coming he said in the latter rain. In this last outpouring just before the Jews go in the tribulation period. I see this great thing. He said the manifestation of the sons of God, translation, the rapture. I see it coming. What happened? He said, Let's kill the prophets of Baal. They're not going to get in the latter rain. They got in the former rain, but I'll tell you they ain't going to get in the latter rain. It's going to be a manifestation of the sons of God. People, we're right at the end time. We're right at the end time. We're right at the end time. You might not see it tonight. You might not believe it tonight. But it's so real. We're right at the end time. This ministry is coming up. You heard the brother speak of it tonight. Men who see spiritual. Men who are in heaven. Said, These people dwell in heaven. Oh can you do when you dwell in heaven? You are stars. You become lights in the heavens. He brought it out here one night about the ministry. You are lights in the heavens not wandering stars. Not just something that reflects somebody else's life but you're lights of your own. You're little suns because you're gods too. That great light by which everything lives typing out God. There you are the same with God. We've been through an era of darkness, darkness. We shine in darkness but now the Great Light is coming out. And you know what when that great day awakes what happens when the sun comes out? The moon that stood by the stars which are the Jews and the bride, there was we see them, all enveloped in that one life and there as we see them, all enveloped in that one life and what is it? You don't see them anymore because they become one with the sun, just one big great light. That's what I'm looking forward too. I'm looking forward to that being one with the heavenly Father. Jesus said, Make these one as we are one. Will you bow your heads with me tonight? Father, tonight as we to you in the name of Jesus Christ your son. Father, we're so grateful tonight, so much to be said here, Father. But oh God we're thankful just for that that you've given. Oh Lord, be with us tonight. Be with your people. Oh God, bless them tonight. Help us Jesus. Help us in your great name. We ask it in Jesus name, Father, Lord, that you bless us and bring on that great outpouring, Lord, that great spiritual thing. Grant it, Lord. Oh Father we ask you to grant it tonight. Let's lift our hands, and pray...

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord