Make An End Of Sin

I've been asked numbers of things about the coming of the Lord and in the last little bit we've got into some pretty extensive things. I'm just going to try to compact a few things and then kind of round it off at that, but we've been into quite a bit concerning the coming of the lord, the restoring of the Sanhedrin, the ashes of the red heifer called the Kala Para Adumma. And a few other things that we've gotten into Sunday morning, Sunday night. We've gotten into some revelation. And tonight I thought that we might bring up a few things on some dates. You know, you can't fuss and quibble over dates. There's no need of you fussing over them. Paul spoke against disputes over endless genealogies. He said it just genders strife, to avoid it. We've got a number of chronologist that has done a lot of research in their lifetime to help aid people in the gospel. But neither one of them agrees together as to dates. They all have their own unique way of approaching the situation and I've considered their dates. I went down the line. I couldn't get them to agree with one another and then finally I took a biblical tour myself and when I come up, I come up with a different date than what they had. So it's easy to see how you can get miss put. I thoroughly combed the Scriptures as to the dates coming from Genesis. I brought them out on some tapes. We've got tapes that's got a lot of dates on them. And I brought it down to a certain place to where it looked to me like that was just exactly the way it was. Very carefully. But I found that in the chronologist that some have some things right it appears and some have some things wrong. So between the two or three they seem to come together pretty good with a chronology. But anyway you have to do a lot of things on your own and just search it out for yourself. And I've found that when it comes to revelation it doesn't matter whether you have the chronologies or whether you don't as to the difference of the dispute as to dates, days, years or whatever. That the main thing is that you have the revelation. You may not be able to quote the Scriptures as verbatim as some people do. You might not be able to do that. You might not be a very good Bible scholar, which I'm not. But there's one thing that you need to know and that is the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. Which reminds me of something Brother William Branham said one time. Some fellow confronted him about a Scripture or quotation or something and said, Brother Branham, you don't know your Bible. And Brother Branham, apparently he didn't dispute with him. Said, Well, I may not know my Bible, said, but I know the author of the Bible. I thought that was a pretty good answer. I'm acquainted with the author. And because of that it makes, it a wonderful experience to me to go into the Holy Scriptures. In the book of Daniel we might read a verse from there if I can locate my Scripture. Now if I talk to you I'll probably just have to teach you just a little bit. I'll probably have to holler at you. I usually wind up doing that anyway. Jesus, in his reference to the end of the world. Now maybe we'll get back to teaching on the board some. I thought to do that tonight. Maybe I will, I don't know. But Jesus in his reference to the end of the world spoke of Daniel. He made reference back to Daniel and He said when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the holy place, the place it ought not, then shall the end come. Now I brought out some things on that the other night and I pointed this out, that the end of the world, the end of the world cannot come until the Gospel has been preached in all the world for a witness. So that means that what Jesus was saying concerning Daniel is that when the gospel has been preached in all of the world for a witness then the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel will thus come to pass. But see according to the foreknowledge of God and the decree of God that's the way it's got to be. It must be that the gospel has gone into all of the world for a witness and then it will come. Now I want to read a little bit from Daniel over in chapter nine if you've got your Bibles you can read with me. Chapter nine in the nineteenth verse. Brother Pike reads Daniel 9: 19-27. Now I can't go into all of that. We've got tapes where we did go into different parts of it. And where we carefully scrutinize and broke it down as to what it meant. We're living in the endtime and it was said to Daniel to seal up the book until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro he said, but seal the book, the vision, until the time of the end. Which the angel did. But then in the book of Revelation when God speaks to John it brings him almost identically the same thing that he brought to Daniel. He doesn't use the terms, to seal up the book, then. He said, Seal not the Book Daniel, you seal the book until the time of the end or till the time comes for the time is not yet. But He said to John, Seal not the Book for the time is come. The time is here. It's to be unveiled. So what Daniel did not see in that it was concerning the Church and it was a sealed Book, John did see concerning the Church, even the Church ages. For Daniel only saw what was going to happen to his people. The reason Daniel could not see what was going to happen to the Church is because the Book had not yet been opened. See, I preached the other night or taught on the volume of the Book and how that the Book had to come to Calvary as a human person, the Word made flesh. When the Word came to Calvary as a human personification then the veil of the Book was rent. Which meant the Book was thus opened. And the Bible said that Jesus loosed the seals. So then the Book being opened then John could look into the Book. And John wrote the Revelation of Jesus Christ which was the contents of the book. Daniel only saw to Calvary. Then it closed out and he didn't see anymore and then the time of the Gentiles came in and he didn't see that about the Church and wasn't to see the other until the last of the teachings of Daniel as to the last week of Daniel. And he saw as it was the last week. So that's what I read ot you concerning seventy weeks determined upon thy people to make an end of sin. Now I want to read one more Scripture here. Notice you might question what I say as to whether this is the same as John saw. But I want you to look at it. Chapter twelve, and at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince. Now what is He speaking of right here? At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people. First of all, it's recorded in Revelation twelve where Michael and his angels make war with Lucifer and his angels and they're cast out. At that time he said, that time refers again to the middle of Daniel's week. It says, and at that time shall Michael stand up. This also has to do with the final battle of Revelation nineteen which is the return of the saints of God. It says, And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince, which standeth for the children of thy people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation. That's speaking of the tribulation period. Even to that same time and at that time thy people shall be delivered, everyone that shall be found written in the Book. Coming back to Revelation nineteen, the coming of the Lord. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake. Some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt. We're also speaking of Thessalonian change. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and they that turn away to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. But thou, oh Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book even to the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased. Then I Daniel looked and behold there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river and the other on the side of the bank of the river. And one said to the man clothed in linen which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever, now listen, remember Revelation ten and seven. Lifting up his hand to heaven sware that time would be no more in the days of the voice of the seventh angel the mystery would be finished. Ten and seven said, And He shall sound and he spoke of the thunders and said the mystery would be finished. Seal up the thunders, but when the seventh angel sounds they mystery will be finished. Then all of a sudden we find in Revelation eleven: fifteen, And He sounded. And a voice declared the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ. And I heard the man clothed in linen which was upon the waters of the river when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever that it shall be for, now listen to this, for a time, times and a half. Now where do you read that again in the Bible? In the book of Revelation. See, times, time, and a half a time. See, it's the very same thing. You seal it up Daniel, but there'll come the time when John will not seal it up. Same thing, time, times, and a half. Three and a half years. And when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people all these things shall be finished. See, now the man is answering him. How long shall it be till the end? Everybody wants to know how long it's going to be till the end. Daniel was no different. So he told him, he said, It shall be Daniel, doesn't use the name Daniel, that it shall be for a times, time, and a half. Now he's giving the time concerning the anti-Christ. If you'll take Daniel, the first part of Daniel's week, figure it over to the middle of the week, you'll get those three and a half years and then you'll find your times, time and a half of time as to bringing in your latter part of the week. Said, When he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the Holy people all these things shall be finished. And we could just really comment on that. And I heard but I understood not. Then said I, oh my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And He said, Go thy way Daniel for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Now see they were sealed. I want to remind you again, they were sealed until Michael comes to fight for his people. Or they were sealed until Calvary when the veil was to be rent. So what I wanted to do tonight is just take my time chronologically and try to explain one or two little things. Because I brought this out a few days ago. I brought this out concerning the Kala Para Adumma. How many of you remember bringing this out? OK. Now if we go back to the time of Daniel, the angel said, Daniel, seventy weeks is determined upon thy people. Looking at this we find that Daniel was down in Babylon. Had gone down into Babylon and there he was, the king Nebuchudnezzar, the great ruler in power, and then came the Medo-Persians and then came the Grecians, and then came the power of the four generals of Alexander the Great as to the Grecian, and then came Rome as to the great Roman power that extended over until our time. Remember now, Rome actually gets it's start chronologically speaking as far as they can define it in about 753 BC. It get it's start. It's founded. But it actually isn't accounted for as a kingdom or power according to the image that Daniel saw until 30 BC. And it follows the Grecian kingdom of the four generals and comes in at 30 BC, and extends on over to the birth of the Lord Jesus and then of course you know how it goes from there. Maybe we'll mention some more things about it. We have mentioned some things in the past. See, the vision that Daniel had was for one purpose. And that vision was to let Daniel know what was determined upon his people. Not the Gentile. Daniel's people was the Jews. It wasn't the Gentiles. It wan the Jews. God said, Daniel, seventy weeks is determined upon thy people. And the purpose of it is to make an end of sin. That's the purpose of it Daniel. To make an end of sin. God doesn't like sin. To make an end of sin. Now I want you to consider this. This is why the Lord said, Daniel, I'm dividing it up into three parts, seven weeks, threescore and two weeks and then one week. I'm dividing it up Daniel. Why did he do that? Because it has spiritual value and spiritual significance as well as natural value and natural significance. And so then when he said to make an end of sin, now you and I know very well that when Jesus came that he made an end of sin. Not for the Jews. This is why God said, Daniel, to thy people to make an end of sin. Because it did not make an end of sin to the Jews. Even though it made an end of sin to both Gentile and Jews so far as the gift of God, so far as the shedding of the blood, it was for all nations, all mankind. But it is like it has been said in the past; A pardon is not a pardon though it's been granted by the governor it's still not a pardon until you accept it, or receive it, or can hold it, or get a hold of it, behold it that is. So then the Jews though they have a pardon it is not a pardon until it becomes an individual thing. You have a pardon from God through the blood of Calvary. But it is not a pardon until it becomes an individual reality. You've got to have an individual reality. You've got to have something that happens to you. It's a personal thing with you. So then he said to make an end of sin. So he divides the seventy weeks into seven weeks, threescore and two weeks. And the seven weeks has to do with the rebuilding of the wall and the temple, the restoration, unto the coming of the Messiah. For he makes it clear. He said, And there shall be. Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks and threescore and two weeks. The streets shall be built again and the wall even in troublous times. Now I'm going to have to kinda hurry through this to get a few things in. So I might not elaborate on some thins the way I usually do. But you know the troublesome times was when Nehemiah got the commandment from King Artaxerxes to restore the walls. And Sanballat, the half breed, the same as it is in our day, people that's half in and half out. People that half love the Lord, half want to live right and whatever, we've brought this out on tape. The same problem confronted Daniel in that day or Nehemiah as they started to restoring the walls back. So then it is stated that it was 445 BC when the commandment came. And it was on the fourteenth day of March, the month being Nisan according to the Jewish terminology. Now I'm going to leave that right there but I want to come back to that and say something concerning it that's the reason I spoke about it. See, the end of sin, the end of sin. Jesus made an end of sin. You say, Brother Pike how do you know that He made an end of sin? Because the Bible teaches that sin is the transgression of the law and that where there is no law there is no transgression. So if there is no transgression how could there be any sin? If sin is the transgression of the law and if there's no law, there is no transgression, it means there's no sin. And the Bible teaches that Jesus came to fold up the law, to fulfill every jot and tittle, to fold it up and to lay it away. This is why that I emphatically preach eternal life now. Not later, not after judgment, not in the time to come. It's definitely not that way. There is no such thing as judgment to saints of God. As so far as coming before a judgment as saints of God you might as well forget about that. This is the house of judgment. This is where sin is remitted. This is where sin is retained. Judgment begins at the house of God. God never judges the saints of God. Never, except through the Word of God, through the ministry he remits your sins or He retains your sins. And so then this is why that I preach as John said, Now beloved are ye the sons of God. You don't have to wait to become the sons of God. You've passed from death unto life. You don't have to wait to get eternal life. You've already got it. So Jesus done away with sin. Now if transgression of the law is sin and if he done away with the law there's no transgression. So there is no sin. How can I transgress? This is why I also preach that a christian can not sin. It is utterly impossible for a christian to ever sin one time. He can never sin. It's impossible. Jesus done away with sin for you and I. When He folded up the law, layed the law away there was no more sin for those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. So when He came to Calvary He done away with sin. That's what the angel is saying. To make an end of sin. God doesn't like sin. Sin has prevailed every since it came through the weakness of Eve. For through the weakness of Eve came lust. And the Bible said, Sin and death is in the world because of lust. The lust of her eyes as she beheld the tree. And thus came sin through the weakness of mankind, and thus came death. And of course that's why the Lord uses the terms that death came not by God. That death is the enemy of God. Death came by man. If death came by man then death has to be terminated by man. It wasn't God's instigation to begin with. God didn't want death. He didn't desire death. That wasn't His program. His program was life. Jesus said, I've come that you might have life and have it more abundant. And the word abundant means filled up and overflowing. I've come that you may have life because I am the PRince of Life. So then people who are christians that allow Satan to harass their minds concerning sin you are not very wise. You're not very wise. All he does, that Lucifer, he'll pull you down. He'll beat you down. He'll hold you into such a place that you're always under condemnation and you'll never have faith or strength to do anything for God. Never excel. You'll never do it. And see the translation, as to what we call the rapture can never take place. That's why I'm here as a minister. Tape 1 Side 2 begins........... Set here for the perfecting of your faith. I'm not set here to make you any better than what God has made you. I've said this a lot of times; if calvary didn't make you perfect it's for sure I can't do it, and no other person can do it. See all of your fasting and praying isn't going to do it. All of your holy ritualistics isn't going to do it. The Bible says God has perfected, made perfect, perfected forever them that are sanctified. Aren't you sanctified? And the Bible says, that He has sanctified once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ at Calvary. I'm saying these things to show you where the end of sin is. There is no such thing as a daily sanctification unto salvation. All this teaching about one work of grace and two works of grace and this kind of thing there is no such thing. It's all summed up in the Holy Scripture. The Bible said he that God sendeth will preach God's Word. And God's Word says that God hath made perfect forever them that are sanctified. He hath made perfect forever them that are sanctified. Now how did He make them perfect? He fixed them to where they couldn't sin. That's why the Bible said he that is born of God can not sin. If you could sin you couldn't be perfect. There would be now way. You'd be sinning every day. So then, you are made perfect forever. And what's going to translate you is not some preacher preaching to you to try to make you perfect in making you to conform to ritualistics and these kind of things. But what's going to make you translate is the man that God has sent with knowledge of His Word, and it won't be him speaking, it'll be the heavenly Father, the Spirit, speaking unto the church. And in this he is going to bring you to the understanding of your perfectness in God and something is going to scream out on the inside of you and once it passes from this intellectual concept to the heart in that the Bible said with the heart man believeth unto righteousness something is going to scream out and say, oh my God I'm one with Jesus. There ain't a shadow of a pin between me and God. And when you start getting like that your faith is going to get so perfect until you're going to feel the serge and the power of the Holy Spirit. It's going to break forth from within you and these genetics is just going to change into the celestial. Don't have to go by the way of the grave. Paul said the mystery is, I show you a mystery we shall not all go by the way of the grave. We shall not all sleep. Speaking of Thessalonians change. Somebody said, Well you have to wait till it comes. Well Enoch got out of school then because he went on and the Bible said that he was translated. And I say this so often, if Enoch comes back to die again as somebody said then I might as well throw my Bible away because it's no good. The Bible said Enoch was translated that he should not see death. So he's not coming back to see death. And I repeat this again; Moses and Elijah will come back to see death because they were under the law and Enoch was not under the law. And Enoch being the seventh from Adam was a type of the church which means you and I are not under the law anymore. That's how we can be translated. Enoch was translated because he was not under the law. He was translated by faith. So then that means that you and I can be translated by faith cause we're not under the law. Folks I'm not guessing. I'm not playing a guessing game and I'm not trying to be a show off boy. I'm telling you this is thus saith the Lord, just exactly the way it is. I challenge anybody in the world to find one thing wrong with it. I don't care who they are or where they come from. They can't find one tiny thing wrong with it. It's absolutely thus saith the Lord. Right down to the hair line. See this means something to you and I. We've got an absolute. There is no absolute in the world. No absolute in the world except the Bible. There's nothing that's ever been proven including his story or history. Nothing. Even his story finally, eventually goes back to the Bible. Or back to the things of God. So then this is the only authentic thing it is that there is. You are perfect. Why are you perfect? Because God said to Daniel, I'm going to make an end of sin, Daniel. If there is no law there is no transgression. If there's not transgression there is no sin. If there is no sin there is no death, for the sting of death is sin. If there is no sin there is no sting of death. O, grave where is thy victory. Or death where is your sting? See you haven't come to recognize this. You haven't come to understand this. You haven't come to accept this. Paul said it's a great mystery. You've never come to it. But you're going to come to it. There is a generation that will come to it. In spite of all of the opposition throughout the world of foolish men and foolish preachers and foolish philosophers and people running to and fro in the world saying, nay, nay, away with the Word of God. In spite of all of their foolishness God will wash them down the drain like mud. See you're going to come to the Word. Faith is by the hearing of the Word. And I say this so often, mere believing is not faith. You can believe that you are Chinese when you are an American. You can believe that you are anything, an elephant, when you are a human being. You can believe that you are healed when you are dying of cancer. You can believe that you are a christian when you are a bastard child and when you are one of the worst of a kind. See or you can find the Word of God and listen to the Word of God and have faith in the Word of God. Faith cometh by the hearing of the Word of God When you get the Word of God you get faith in the Word then you've got it. In the latter days many shall depart from the faith. They won't depart from believing. Why they believe all kind of things. But they will depart from the Word of God, all right and be given to doctrines of devils. Doctrines of devils. So there is a doctrine of Christ. He said, Who can I teach doctrine? I don't have any confidence in any preacher that don't preach doctrine. All right now, here we are, seventy weeks to make an end of sin. How many of you understand that Jesus made an end of sin? Raise your hand if you believe that. You really believe that now! You really believe that. Well why do you go around sinning? Come on folks. You say, well I don't go around sinning. Well why are you always asking God to forgive you of your sins? Come on. Does that make sense? You say you mean to tell me that I don't have to ask God to forgive me of my sins. Well let's take it from the Lord himself that's the best way to understand it. Isn't that right? They said, Teach us to pray, Lord. He said, Pray, Father, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Isn't that good enough? How many of you think that's good enough? You know why He said forgive us the trespasses? Because there was no sin. Why should he tell the people to pray that God should forgive them of their sins? There was no sin to anyone that believed in Jesus. The Bible said ye are not in the flesh. If you were in the flesh then you would sin. But ye are not in the flesh. Said, ye shall never come into condemnation. There is no condemnation, the Bible said, to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk in the spirit and not in the flesh. For they that are in the flesh are they that have never been born again. And that means that they can not please God because they are sinners. They that are born again and what does this mean? It means the body is dead because of sin. We are dead by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, Paul said, to the world and the world is dead to me. And I've been buried in His death in the lovely name of Jesus Christ. That ended my sin. That ended my worldly career. That took my spirit out of the flesh because the bible says at death the spirit goeth back to God who gave it. My spirit went back to God and my spirit is sealed by the Holy Spirit, and there's nothing that can ever touch my spirit to defile it. And my body is buried in the watery grave of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's done away with. God smote it a Calvary and today He sees me as bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And it's not me living, Paul said, but Christ. And the life I now live I live by the son of God. So then my life I lost because of sin. He gave me His life. He took my sinful way and lost His life to me that I might be righteousness. So he that knew no sin the Bible said was made my sin that I might be made the righteousness of Christ Jesus in God. Or the righteousness of God in Christ. So he that is born of God he cannot sin. There is no such thing. He never sins. From the foreknowledge of God at the beginning when God conceived you in His mind as an elect being elected unto grace according to what He foreknew of you and that that He foreknew was that He would make you to conform to the image of His Son by giving His Son to perfect you in that you were to be one of the elect. You and i and all that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ we have passed from death unto life. How did I pass from death unto life? It is because I've passed sin. I've come into grace. I left sin. When I left sin that ended it. See when I left sin I left death because the sting of death is sin. If I leave sin I've left death. So then I've passed from death. How did I pass from death? I passed from sin. Does that make sense? Somebody say amen. All right. So then see it's that I've passed from death unto life because I'm not in the body. My spirit left my body. My spirit is now in heaven, in the kingdom of God. Somebody say awh you're crazy Brother Pike, I'm looking right at you. No, what it is you're having strong delusions and hallucinations. That's what it is. See the Bible said not to know anybody after the flesh. Said we have known Jesus after the flesh. We don't even know him after the flesh anymore as the dead crucified Christ, but rather as the resurrected quickening spirit. So then you say, prove to me your spirit is in heaven. The Bible says that the kingdom of heaven is on the inside of me. And my spirit is in Christ and that kingdom of heaven is the spirit of Christ. Try to prove it any other way. Prove it to be any other way. The spirit of Christ is the kingdom of God. God dwells fully in the spirit of Christ. And my spirit is in His spirit. Jesus said, Father make these one even as we are one. And so then my spirit is in Christ's spirit, which is the kingdom of God. For the kingdom of heaven is within us. Jesus said and the kingdom of God cometh not by observation, but it is within a man. So then my spirit left my body and I've withdrawn as Paul said, Keeping under this body and I don't come out into this body to warfare. The weapon of my warfare is not carnal. I I don't come out in my body to lust. I don't come out in my body to cheat, swindle, to have gullible desires. I'm dead to the flesh by the body of the Lord Jesus. If I stagger and stumble at any time in that Satan is waring against my mind and against this natural body it's never counted against me because the body is dead. It's dead. God never sees it. Never. All He sees is my spirit sealed by the Holy Spirit and His Son's holy body as the temple in which I dwell. That's why Peter, that's why John said the tabernacle of God is in earth. The temple of God is in the earth. See, the body of the Lord Jesus. That's why that Peter said I have born the image of the earthly so shall I bear the image of the heavenly. As to the first man Adam, the image of the earthly. As to the second man Adam, the Lord from heaven, even the tabernacle of God itself. I become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Which means that I have a new body now. You can't see it. You can't see it but it's already given to me. See it's already mine. My old body has passed away. What you see is lying vanities. All you see unless you see me and know me after spirit as a son of God without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. The Bible said he that is born of God keepeth himself and the evil one toucheth him not, never. See, before the world ever was in the foreknowledge of God it was given to you that you be the bride of Christ and that you must be spotless. From His foreknowledge you're never touched by Lucifer. Even being subjected to vanity, being down here in the world, as we would say, the eagles among the chickens, or the lambs among the goats. See even being here among this as a man that gets out among the swine as Jesus called it. Among the dogs, you're still a lamb though you're out there in the midst of them. You're still a son of God. You're still a holy child without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. They can throw all the mud at you they want to. When they get through not one bit of it got through the screen. Not one bit of it. So then that means that you are perfect. The Bible said to be ye therefore perfect even as thy Father in heaven is perfect. I remind you again, a lot of people say, Oh there's no perfect folks. The Bible said that Job was a perfect man. And it said to mark the perfect man among you. And the Bible said if ye be perfect ye shall be as your Father. No man shall be above his Father, but every man that be perfect shall be as his heavenly Father. So then God hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. He hath made us perfect, made us perfect, sanctified us once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus taking away sin. Sin, if we're perfect we can not sin. This is why John used the terms, he that is born of God cannot sin. He cannot sin because the seed of God, the Word of God, the Spirit of Christ, the Word being spirit remaineth in us. And you can not sin because you're born of God that seed remaineth in you. That faith cometh by that seed and the Bible said God purifies your heart by faith. I've got a lot of tapes here where we preach on those things and bring out those things. I want to get around to something here in a few minutes. How many of you understand what I'm saying, to make an end of sin. Wouldn't you be happy to know that there was an end of sin? I don't know why anybody wants to keep dragging those things around. Paul said, Laying aside all of those weights that doth so easily beset you and run with patience the race that is set before you. I know, somebody said, But Brother Pike, the Bible said If any man said he ain't got no sin, you know, thus and thus and thus and thus. I know that. I know that. See but the Bible said, Line upon line and precept upon precept. What they don't understand is, just running and grabbing at something and running as one that beateth the air, vainly puffed up by their fleshly mind and not willing to really listen and understand, they're like little children. And they make a terrible mess. But here's the thing, the same man that spoke to say if a person should say that they have no sin it is a true fact that if I should say to you if I was a sinner and I should say to you, I don't have any sin, I don't have to go to look for the blood atonement then I'd be in bad shape. I"d be in bad shape. Because the mere fact that I denied the blood proved that I was a sinner and a transgressor of the law and the soul that sinneth shall surely die and I'd have to go to hell. But the same man that said you cannot sin, what must I do with that folks? Shall I take that and interpret it? If we'll all get together now listen, Paul said, I speak as a fool. We all get together and we want to say now the Bible says that you cannot sin. So I'm going to interpret it. I'm going to say well what it means is this. And that's the big mess to begin with. Because what it means is exactly what it said. And John had enough sense to say what he meant and meant what he said. It doesn't need my puny interpretation. If John, the great apostle, couldn't interpret it I feel reasonable sure that I'd make a mess if I tried. The Bible says that the Scriptures are of no private interpretation for they were written as men were moved upon by the great Holy Spirit. By the mighty Holy Ghost. And they must be interpreted the same way. So then, I could not put my private interpretation on it. All I can say is that He said he that is born of God, he cannot sin. It didn't say he may not sin, he might not sin, he ought not to sin, that he'll be all right till the next revival. It said he can not sin because the seed of God which is the Word of god, the spirit of Christ remaineth in him and he can not sin because he is born of God. How in the name of reasoning could I take a son of God and say that I believe that now beloved ye are the sons of God. But you've got to keep asking God to forgive you of those sins that you keep doing. Does that make sense? You know that is just as absurbed, you know if I give an illustration here where you can understand it, that is just as absurbed as an elephant talking. I'd say you know you are what you are. All right be careful now about all them words you are going to say. He ain't going to say no words cause he's an elephant. He wasn't made to say words. I'm a son of God, I wasn't made to sin. God doesn't sin. There is no sin in God. I am a son of God. The Bible says as Christ is so am I in He. Christ is without sin. He was perfect. Everyone that be perfect shall be as his master. He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. And sanctified them once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And if I have any daily sanctification it is as the Bible said, sanctify yourself daily. That is to say mellowrize myself in Christ and put away all of this ambition for gullible desire as to like of conformity to His way as putting down the flesh so that I can be a greater vessel to be used of God as to a daily self denial in walking after this or growing from my childhood as a baby into the wonderful things of God. So then the idea was to make an end of sin. God has hated sin. The Bible said that God brought Jesus, nailed Him to the cross, we esteemed Him smitten of God because He was tired of sin being brought back to His remembrance. Paul brings this out. Said with the offering of bulls and goats every year, Aaron, the seventh month the tenth day, had to go into the tabernacle and remind God of the sins of the people. And the bible said that God got tired of it. But He said what the law could not do in that it was a shadow of the things that was to come, God sending His own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, condemned sin in the flesh. Condemned sin in the flesh. You know a lot of times I preach to you and I say, God sent not His son into the world to condemn the world but that through His on the world might be saved. And I didn't come to condemn you. But folks I did come to condemn sin in the flesh. That's why I preach against it. So He came, condemned sin in the flesh by smiting the body of the Lord Jesus. And to preach this sermon it would probably take me all night tonight and all day tomorrow and probably all night the next night and I still wouldn't get through with it. And that's the truth. But to try to sum up a few things here, sin comes to an end at Calvary. Ain't you glad of that? All right now lets see if we can get a little dispute here. Do you believe that sin was ended at Calvary? Do you believe it was? Raise your hand if you believe it was. You believe that's the end of sin? Well what was it for? Now if that was the end of sin what was it for? Wasn't it for me? Wasn't it for you? Now if it's the end of the sin that was caused by Eve and it was for me and for you then where is sin today? Speaking of the church now. You know what would have to happen for you to sin? The Bible said you are hid with christ in God whom the heavens have received. For you to sin the devil would have to get passed the earthly bounds, get into heaven. That'd be the first thing he'd have to get into heaven, then he'd have to penetrate the seal of the Holy Spirit where the Bible said grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby thou art sealed unto the day of redemption, or that is the redemption of the body. See and he would have to get pass the seal of the Holy Spirit to make you sin. That's why the Bible said, You keep yourself and the evil one toucheth you not. He never can touch you. You are a bride without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. I'm not here to preach to you so that you'll get to be a bride without spot, without wrinkle, and without blemish. You was a bride without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish before you was ever born into the world. Just like Judas was a devil before he ever came into the world. The Bible said before he was ever born let another his bishopric take. Jesus said, I've chose twelve of you, one of you is a devil. He said concerning Esau and Jacob, I say this to you again, Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated. And the Bible said the children not yet being born having done no good or evil but that it might stand according to election or according to God that calleth and not by works of man, He said, Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated. Now we bring it out about foreknowledge or predestination on a tape to where you can understand why he said that, so I'm not going to try to elaborate on that. But I want you to understand that if sin is gone at Calvary then that means that Calvary, which is hundreds of years behind you, it could not have been gone for you in that you was not back there at Calvary. If you're going to look at it naturally. It could only be gone for the people that was back there. But in as much as I came into the world in my season and then I found a Calvary I heard about Calvary and I made me a place of Calvary and I found the place of Calvary then when I went to Calvary that was the end of it. I heard the Gospel I believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, I have passed from death unto life, my sins were taken away and as John said, If any man sin, he said, if you're a sinner don't say that you have no sins because you need a saviour. But he said, If any man has sinned and all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. But he said if any man had sinned then we have an advocate with the Father even Jesus Christ the righteous. So he said if you stumble, if you stagger, if you do anything that the world would classify as sin pay no attention to it because you don't have any sins. They are taken away in Christ. That's your advocate. I put an advocate there. That ended sin for you. And you'll never have sin anymore. And he that is born of God can not sin. See the same John that spoke of saying that you don't have any sin was the same one that said we had an advocate. He was the same one that said he that is born of God can not sin. The same one. It wasn't two or three different writers. It was the same man. So there's no misconstrued thing about it. I have an advocate with the Father, even Jesus Christ the righteous. He took away my sins and in Him thee is no sin and I am in Him because the Bible said the name of the Lord is a strong tower and the righteous flee into it and are saved. So then He was to make an end of sin. To make an end of sin and to make reconciliation for iniquity. That is to bring a reconciliation to get us reconciled after the act of iniquity had separated us from God and to bring in everlasting righteousness. Now folks I'm talking about everlasting righteousness. I'm not talking about righteousness from one vision to another or one meeting to another or one dram to another. From one sermon to another. I'm talking about everlasting righteousness. You've got an everlasting righteousness. One that is called eternal righteousness or eternal life. I'm going to ask you a question. How many of you believe that you've got eternal life? I'd like to see your hands. All right, I'm not trying to cross examine you I just want you to know where you're at and who you are and when people cross examine you you can just stop their foolishness. And you believe that you've got eternal life, you better raise your hand again. Ok. Now how many of you know that Eve did not have eternal life? See Eve could not have had eternal life. If she'd had eternal life she'd still been living. She didn't have it. She was over shadowed with the Shekinah which was eternal life. And then being enticed out from under that she lost it. That's why the Lord said you cover with a covering but not of me. She took on the intellectual covering of darkness. Paul turn my people from darkness to light. The midnight cry. Gross darkness covering the people. Tape 2 side 1 begins...... so where she could be enticed out from under the Shekinah I can't be enticed out from under it. You know why? Cause I'm not under it. The world is under it. The blood is on the seat of atonement. The righteousness of God prevails for them to the extent that right now they can have healing, they can have the blessings of the world, they can get by with many things and God doesn't destroy them. A dispensational grace that'll soon be over. But I've got what the Bible calls grace unto salvation that'll never be over. See I can't, you can't as the church you can not be enticed out from under it, because you're not under it. You are born of the Shekinah glory. Now I know somebody says, and I bring this out again somebody says, awh you can't take the glory of God. Bless God you're taking the glory of God. Bless God this. You know let me tell you something folks. That's foolishness. Jesus said, Father make these one even as we are one. And He said, Father, glorify these with the same glory that glorified me with, or that that you've given me from the foundation of the world. See, He doesn't give His glory to another. But I'm not another. I'm of His own household. I'm bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. As He is so am I in He. Now the devil don't like this kind of preaching. Did you know that? That old carnal mind will sull up like a possum. It don't like this. But nevertheless it's thus said the Lord. So, you are a people, a chosen people, a royal priesthood. One that doesn't have to worry about a rapture because there's no such thing as the teaching of a rapture. There ain't no such words in the Bible. It is from glory to glory. The translation from understanding to understanding and the transformation of your mind, the translation of your spirit and the ultimatum of revelation, not Revelation nineteen, but Thessalonians change as to the transfiguration of your body. So then it is an inward thing, a seed of planting that works out into an outward blossom with a sweet aroma of heaven. So it says here this is to make reconciliation, bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up the vision and prophesy and to anoint the most Holy. Now you say that you have eternal life. If you have eternal life and you know that you have eternal life then that means that you can not die. Now is that right? Why do you worry about being backslide and going to hell? I'm not trying to cross examine you. I'm just trying to tell you folks that a lot of time we say that we believe and we have faith in the Word when all we do is just believe everybody, every doctrine that comes along gets us crossed up. See if you believe that you have eternal life what makes you think that you're going to loss eternal life? If you could lose it it wouldn't be eternal life. How could you? Could Eve say that she had eternal life? No she couldn't say that because she didn't have it. Can you say that you've got it? You might say, no I ain't got it. I'm just going to endure to the end, the Bible said the same shall be saved. That's what I did. By His foreknowledge to the works of Christ I endured to the end the same was saved. So I stand here saved tonight. You say, well I don't believe that. Well why is it when you went to the altar and you got down and prayed you went back and told folks you saved? Why did you do that? You're either saved or not saved. How many believe you are saved? All right he said, he that endureth to the end the same shall be saved. So that means that we've got to do away with the Bible again if we go the other route. Now you say well there ain't no body saved we just got to endure to the end to see who['s going to be saved. And you know I say this again so that you can be sure of your salvation. You say, well Brother Pike the Bible said every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess. So we've got to meet Him at the judgment and then He's going to judge us, and He's going to decide who's right and who ain't right. If I believed that I'd quit. I'd quit right now. Because that would be the most contrary thing to the Bible that I know of. I've said this a number of times, do you mean to tell me that God is going to rapture the church out of here as you say, take the Bride of Christ out of here before the tribulation period, whereas the bible said, Pray that you might escape those things that's coming on the earth. And I feel reasonably sure He'd never told me to pray to escape the things if there was no way to escape tribulation. If I'm going through tribulation why did He tell me to pray that I might escape those things that's coming upon the earth? So then if I'm praying for God to do that and God does that and He raptures the church, takes the church, keeps the church with Him for about seven years and then brings it back in Revelation nineteen and then takes that same Bride and lives with her one thousand years and then at the end of the one thousand years when the great white throne of judgment comes He say, Now see here young lady we are going to judge and see if you;'re descent for me to live with, now that don't make sense does it? I've got more sense than that and it's for sure that God's got sense enough that He wouldn't do a foolish thing like that. See, you are His bride. Now beloved are you the sons of God. He's not going to judge you to see if you are good enough to become a son of God. He's already made you a son of God. He judged you in Christ Jesus. He accepted Christ Jesus' righteousness for you. This is not of works less any man should boast. But it is the gift of God. He purifies your heart by faith. How many of you understand what I'm saying? You understand what I'm saying? So the Bible teaches that you and I are never going to come into condemnation. That is that we're never going to be judged because there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Who's going to condemn you? The Bible said you're elect according to foreknowledge. No one can lay anything to the charge of God's elect. And the bible said them that He foreknew He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son. And the Bible said, Them that He did predestinate in His foreknowledge when time come for them to be born, said He called them, them He also called and them that He also called the Bible said He also justified them. And them that He justified the Bible said He also sanctified them once and for all by the offering up of the body of Jesus. And them that He justified the bible said He also sanctified, justified, He also glorified. The Bible said He also glorified them. I'm not waiting to be glorified. Somebody said, Well I'm waiting for the glorification cause I can tell by that face of yours, Brother Pike, you ain't been glorified. Naw, that isn't what it is. It's like I said, if you'll quit having hallucinations and strong delusions you'll be all right. If you knew me after the spirit it would be different. One man unveiled will out shine the noon day sun. So then the brightness of the glory of that light of that inner sanctified, holy son of God that is perfect in appearance and without blemish, without spot, without wrinkle. See, He's glorified and this veil is over the master piece until the sculpture finishes his work. Paul said, I travail till Christ be formed within you. And then the veil will be taken off of the master piece. That's what God did at Calvary. He unveiled me at Calvary. He unveiled me at Calvary. When the veil of the temple even the flesh of Jesus making a sure way through the veil of His own body when it was rent He unveiled me. You can't see me. You can't see me. Paul got intellectually smart and thought He could see it. But when he took one glimpse he went blind, and had to go down to the street called Straight before he could ever get his sight straightened out. So I'm saying this, when it says too make an end of sin and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up the vision and prophesy and to anoint the most holy it is speaking of the Jews and going even to the extent of Daniel's last week which was commented on and not doing that tonight. Going to the end of Daniel's last week. So I'm telling you the things that Daniel didn't see. I am speaking to you of how this effects us before it ever gets to the Jew. And the great privilege that you have in the son of God. And folks things that would burn your ears like fire as you heard what the Spirit would say to the church. Searching out the things of God, y e the deep things of God. Being a stewart of the mystery for great is the mystery of godliness. And the mystery being finished, Revelation ten and seven, Revelation eleven, fifteen the sound of the last trumpet, the end of the world, the kingdoms of this world becoming the kingdoms of God. Like the little clock, Gabriel, time shall be no more. Let me say this to you now. Speaking of the chronology. Where did this thing start? Daniel is down here in Babylon. What is he doing in Babylon? And I'm going to try to hurry through this. Daniel is down here in Babylon, I tried to tell you the purpose of the seventy weeks. Now Daniel is down here in Babylon, what is he doing down here? It's because Jeremy the prophet, he stood up, thus saith the Lord, and when the prophet prophesied that they would go down into Babylon for seventy years it had to come to pass. And Daniel as a young boy went down there and he spent his time down there and he growed up down there. Home to Daniel. See he was down there but Daniel was a beloved man of God. And Daniel had been seeking God and fasting and saying God show me something about my people. I know we ain't suppose to be down here. This ain't according to what the elders have said. And this ain't according to what's right. He knew that was Babylon. See, and he said, Lord make me to understand. So the angel came and said seventy weeks upon the Jews, your people Daniel. So then he gave it to him in three parts. Seven weeks, threescore and two weeks. Threescore and two, sixty two weeks. And if the threescore and two weeks came then the Messiah would be cut off. Said for after seven weeks, threescore and two weeks, he said after this the Messiah would be cut off. Not for Himself but for His people. That is, we have a lot of explaining to do there but in general it meant he would die for our sins, not for himself. Now He'll be cut off and that would make sixty nine weeks. That would make sixty nine weeks of the seventy. That wouldn't leave but seven because if it's threescore and two weeks when the Messiah is cut off then you add the seven weeks that was before the threescore and two weeks of the building of the walls and the city back will make your sixty nine weeks. That only leaves one week of Daniel that wasn't fulfilled and the reason for that is because He said Daniel, seventy weeks upon thy people, and at the threescore sixty two or the sixty nine weeks Messiah was cut off, the Jews was put out of the presence of God, blinded in part so that the Gentiles could come in. When the Gentiles come in that meant that there could be no more of that seventy weeks until the end of the Gentile days when God would turn back to the Jews and bring that last seven years of the Jews. Folks if God ever turns back to the Jews you don't have to count it. There won't be but seven years. That'll be it. Even the devil knows that. Because when the casting out of the devil, the Bible said He'll go about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour because he knoweth that he only has seven years, or three and a half years. That is, in Revelation thirteen he's personified. He knows he has but a short time. He'll know that when he's cast out. So somebody said well when is the end of the days of the Gentiles, Brother Pike? It's very simple. When the last week of Daniel begins that's the end of the Gentiles. When the Jewish prophesy of sixty two weeks ended it was the beginning of the Gentile. When the Gentile Age ends this last seven years will come in. That is to say when we speak of the Gentiles the end of the Gentile dispensation is with the coming of the seven years and there can be no end of the Gentile Age until the week comes. And there can be no week to come until the end of the Gentile Age. You say when is this going to be? When the Gospel is gone into all the world for a witness, and when you see the abomination I've got that on tape. The abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet. It brings it out real clear. So when we speak of this we're saying weeks and yet when Daniel searched it out he found a day in prophesy means a year. So we figured it up and being seventy weeks, seven times seven, four hundred and ninety years. So that meant that it would be 483 years for the cutting off of the Messiah which would be seven, three score and two weeks. 483 years. Now that would leave only the seven years for the finishing of the four hundred and ninety years which was Daniel's last week. So then I said that because I want to check something. When did this thing start? Now I'm going to run down a chronological thing here now. You can write, you can figure, you can do what ever you like. We're human beings, we make mistakes. It's good to check us out. So then a lot of times it ain't because we don't know. We make a mistake because there's spirits in the audience and sometimes we get tired from being up at night and the body gets tired. Sometimes you'll say a word you didn't mean to say. Has nothing to do with the Holy Spirit and God speaking. Now it started in 975 BC. Now let's run it down it won't take but a few minutes. 975 BC what happened? Not going to elaborate on it. Just going to run over it because we've brought some of these things out in detail on tape. Just so that you get kind of a line up in your mind a formula in your mind. 975 BC, what does BC mean? Before Christ. 975, nine hundred and seventy five years before the Lord was born. In that it was 975 I said that Rome got started Seven Fifty-Three. 975 BC there was a split in the kingdom. Rehoboam, the son of Solomon took two tribes. Jeroboam took ten tribes. Remember the prophet Ahijah. We went through that. We got it on tape as to what happened, where they went and what it was all about. Now in the split up it was from that time about probably, you figure this up, probably a hundred and four years we'll say. From that time that the ten tribes were taken into captivity. Now they split up, they left. But then the ten tribes were taken into captivity and taken away into Asyria. Which has great meaning but we're just going to kind of give a chronological run down. Now in between 975 BC and 721 BC when the tribes were taken away into Asyria there was Seven Fifty three. That's where Rome came in. As to the founding of Rome. Now from the 721 BC over to 606 BC which is probably about one hundred and fifteen years from that to there you find about a hundred years. Ok, now at 606 BC then the two tribes of Judah called Judah, went down into Babylon into captivity and was to be there seventy years. From the 606 to 536 which brought in the Medo-Persian Kingdom, in that the Babylonian Kingdom had finished, there was seventy years. And then from the 606 as the thing went on it was probably about ninety one years over to 445 BC. That's from the 536. Whereas probably about ninety one years in there. But anyway this is pretty close to it. You can figure it to be sure. 445 BC, the fourteenth day of March, and I brought that out a few minutes ago. From that following the 445 BC the next event was 330 BC. Now during this time it brought in the Grecian Kingdom, about the 445, along in there. 330 and from 330 there was the 323 Age the BC. Because from the 330 over to the 323 it brought in another kingdom. From 536 to 330 from 330 to 323 and then from 323 over to 30 and then as I said it brought in the Roman Kingdom. Now the Grecian Kingdom remember this from you 536 over to your 330 and in between there is your 445 as to the decree of building back the walls it came in the Grecian Age. Are you following me? And then from the 330 to 323 and then from the 323 over to 30. Now you Medo-Persian Kingdom, your Grecian Kingdom, your Babylonian Kingdom, your kingdom of the four generals of Alexander the Great and then the Roman Kingdom. So you find that line up gives you exactly the line up all the way down to BC 30. And from BC 30 there is only thirty years left to the birth of the Lord Jesus. Now from 160 to 40 in between this time not from 30 to the birth of Christ, but go back to 160 from 40 BC. We say 30 BC, move up ten years, 40 BC and from that time to 160 BC going back toward your 323 you'll find that the book of the Maccabee's or the Apocrypha came forth. That was the time of Epiphanes when he offered the sow on the altar to desecrate the altar. Now I said all that to bring out something here. There was a little dispute the other day and I didn't enter into it because like I told them, the bible said avoid disputes of endless genealogies. It just genders strife, but this is chronologically in order. Now there was a dispute. And I always wind up with the questions or whatever and the thought was as concerning the angelic prophesy as to the coming of the Messiah and the figures not coming together, or as the world calls it jiving. And this is what I understand. And that's all I can say is what I see and what I understand. That's all Daniel could do. First of all let me say it like this. If I say 445 years, 445 years if I say 445 BC now can you make any thing out of that more that 445 years until the birth of Jesus? Can you get anything else out of it? If we started got over there where the birth of Jesus was and went backwards and we counted it till we got to Four Hundred and then 445 we'd have 445 years wouldn't we? 445 years from 445 BC to the birth of Jesus. Now does that make sense? Is that what that is? You can't change that can you? So that's the way it figures. OK, let me ask you another thing. If then Jesus was born, now I know the scholars are all mixed up and they got it three years off as to Jesus in the temple at nine or whether it was twelve years old. I believe he was twelve years old because the Barmitzvah begins at that and he was about His Father's business amazing the wise men. Twelve and thirteen I believe Brother Richard will tell you theirs started about thirteen and they're not sure that's right. So then if Jesus is born at the end of the 445 years then we know the Messiah has come on the scene as to birth. And like I told a brother the other day we was trying to figure it out. I said, Brother, remember the one thing that we must do, we must judge the natural by the spiritual. We must never judge the spiritual by the natural. I said so we can't intellectually define this thing or we'll go into error. So that means that I can't take the chronological order of Bible scholars and judge what the angel has said by it. I can't do that. That would be completely unreasonable. But I can take what the angel said and judge the intellectual scholars. Does that make sense? There's one thing for sure, what the angel said is sure. Is that right? There is no make believe about it. That's sure. If he said there is to be four hundred and ninety years there's going to be four hundred and ninety years. Ain't going to be no more. Just four hundred and ninety years. And it doesn't matter what any intellectual says about it. If the angel says it that's the way it is. So you say well why do you believe that? Well I've got enough sense not to do what Zechariah done. When the angel said it's thus and thus and thus and he said how's it going to be like that? I ain't got nothing to say about that. He said you're going to be dumb that's one way you'll find it out. If the angel said it as far as I'm concerned that settles it. I ain't wanting to be dumb. So here we are and we look at it like this. If He said four hundred and ninety years then it's four hundred and ninety years. But that was the all over thing including Daniel's last week. So what I must do is take one week off, seven years. You said 483 years to the coming of the Messiah. Wasn't that what he said. Ain't that what it figures to be? Seven, three score and two. You understand what I'm saying? So then if that is what it's to be then if I take 445 years ot the birth of Jesus and then I give Jesus thirty years to live to the priesthood, you understand what I'm saying? I got 475 years. Isn't that right? Somebody figure it up for me now. You got 475 years. 475 years that's what you've got of the 483 years. That should leave about five years. Count it up and let's see if we're right. Is that right? Ok. So then if that was five years off now if that was five years off then you still have another three years. Ok, lets figure it again now. You've got 445 years. Then you've got thirty years how much is that? Somebody tell me what that is. Four seventy five. Ok you got 475 years and how many do we need? 483 to the cutting off of the Messiah. It'll be 483 years but you've only got 475. Is that right? And yet you've already taken His life time. And you can't change the life time. Tape 2 side 2 begins.... Is there any way you can change the life time? Yo can't change the lifetime of the priesthood. It begins at thirty. So then I'm not including His ministry. I'm not including the ministry. We've got three more years. That's all we've got left because if he only had three years of ministry we can't change that as far as they know that's all he had. And if He was cut off at thirty three then that would also bring in Pentecost. Which would be Thirty Three AD. Isn't that right? His death. Now is that right? So then you would find yourself short of your 483 years wouldn't you? But if you had five more years you could make your 483 couldn't you? Ok, now if you could make your 483 at five more years can you add anymore to His thirty years of lifetime, can you? Can you folks? In other words if He's thirty years He's thirty years. The priesthood is at thirty years can you add anything to that? Ok, can you add anything to His three years if it's three years ministry and still keep it three years? Or at thirty years and it still keep it thirty years for a priesthood. Can you add anything to it? So we have to cancel out on that. And what do we do? We have to say well if it's going to be any time added then we got to get back beyond Calvary. Now are you listening? Cause somewhere it's lost between the 445 and the 483. Somewhere it's lost. Which means now I'm not telling you to accept this like this or to base your faith on it. I'm trying to show you that there's no confusion with what the angel said. You know all I'd have to do to get that extra five years? I'd just have to back up and say Mr. Chronology, it's four hundred and fifty, it's Four Hundred and Fifty BC when the decree went forth as to Artaxerxes as to the rebuilding of the walls back to the Messiah. Wouldn't that give you your 483 years? So I'm just trying to show you there's no confusing in God. Here's what I'm saying folks. As we try to confuse the thing intellectually when there's no confusing in it, see I know that the angel did not say that this commandment will be from 445. There is nothing where the angel said that. All the angel said was, Daniel, at the time of the going forth of the commandment to rebuild, that is he said in the day that Artaxerxes if that's the king that we're going to use. In the day that the King Artaxerxes gives the command, at that time it could have been Four Fifty, it could have been Four Seventy-Five, it could have been 445, it could have been anytime, he didn't say that. The chronologist is the one that set it up as that. Searching and seeking back. He set it up at that. So I'm just telling you that not that you should base your faith on this now. Like I told you, chronologist, they get all mixed up. If I go back and dispute over endless genealogies I could get all mixed up. But I'm telling you there's no confusion in God. Does that clearly define the 483 years? Somebody say yea or nay. See you can't put it in His thirty years. You can't put it in His three years. But you most assuredly can go back there and move it five years back there and say that they got mixed up on the time that that decree was given because it's got to be according to the angel. Instead of a man wrecking his brain trying to say, bless God the Bible ain't right because I got one, two, three, abc. I've been taught it. That's no more than a dog rolling over giving you his paw. So I'm not telling you that that's the way it is folks. That's not what I'm doing. I wanted to give you a general line up of it to where you would have some systematic order of understanding what I'm saying. That's all I'm trying to say. From that time of Pentecost we moved over to what they called the first age of Seventy AD, Anno Domini. You know what happened when Titus came in and plowed the city like a field. And we're not going to go into those things. And then we move over to another church age of One Seventy. Now this is the way the chronologically define it. And then we move over to another church age as to Three Twelve, and then we move over to another church age as to Fifteen Twenty, and then we move over to another church age as to seventeen fifty. And then we move over to another church age as to nineteen hundred. And here we are. Here we are in the nineteen hundreds. See it brings us up to date. Now we could go back the other way. You know now I have come from Genesis up to where 975 BC is. Now I didn't do that tonight. I just come up to nine, picked it up 975 BC and run it out to where we're at here. So I'm just saying that if we want to go through it and some day we might do that. We have went through some of it concerning the calendars and if we want to go through it according to the calendars one night when you've got some patience and if we've got the time we'll pick it up and we'll take the different calendars and break it down form 445 and see if there is any error in it or if the error is that we just as a people don't understand. Find out what it is. We can do that. It'll come out right. All right, so then what is this nineteen hundred? We're fixing to go into the twentieth century. Hundred years for a century, ten years for a decade. We've got about fourteen years or a little over a decade. So I said all of that to say this, even with the turning of the fourteen years which will end the six days of God's labor if we compare it. A thousand years to a day and a day as a thousand years and it will bring in the millennium, His day of rest, about fourteen years away. And times been lost, it's been misconstrued even as I showed you there. There's something that don't tally up when it comes to the calendars. See and the Bible said that anti-Christ would change the times and the seasons and God would suffer it to be that way that no man would know the day nor the hour of His coming. Paul said let no man trouble you as saying that it'll be a certain day. So we're living almost to the end of the days of his labor. And ever how it's misconstrued as to a few years this way or that way we don't know what's about to happen. I know the signs of the time and the Bible said ye are a hypocrite if you don't know it. He said if you can discern the weather and not the signs of the time you are hypocrites. And He said you that can observe them and you that are christians he said could observe them you would know when it was nigh even at the door. Now I'm telling you it's nigh even at the door, the signs of the time shows it. But Satan has blinded the eyes even the eyes of understanding of the people of the world that they can not see when good comes. As a snare shall it come upon them. Gross darkness on the people. So folks I'm going to close in just a minute or two. I took this advantage because it's been fairly comfortable, it hasn't been bad in here. Being hoarse I wouldn't have done it because it's a problem when you're hoarse to try to do anything. But I'm saying that this is nineteen hundred. We're living in nineteen hundred. Which is as they define it, the Laodicean Church Age. The last of the church ages. Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos. Pergamos called the seat of Satan. Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and here we are as to the Laodician church age. The last one. Even some of you believe that Brother Branham was the last church age messenger. The last one that was to come. Anyway the church age messengers see the end of the church ages. You know that Revelation teaches that the end of the church ages that John said a door was opened in heaven. Now folks if this ain't the door that was opened I'd like for somebody to get with me and help me find the door. I'm blind and can't see if this ain't the door. See Peter opened that door. Jesus gave him the keys to the kingdom, and Jesus said in that you've come beyond my fleshly veil, not to know me after the flesh but you recognize the Christ, you got through the door. You got the keys Peter. And he opened that door and a few short years after he opened that door, Ninety Six AD, John on the Isle of Patmos, the little rocky island off of the Mediterranean Sea there, John wrote the revealing of the revelation or the expose of Calvary. I know we're just now getting it. In our church, in our minds. One reason I wasn't born back there. I couldn't get it till I come. Another thing it wasn't ready to be made known till the end time according to what God told Daniel. John wrote it parabolically. That was just a few years after Peter opened the door. And John wrote it and said that the end of the church ages that door that Peter opened, he could have said it that way, will be opened in heaven because that was the door opened in heaven. Jesus said, Peter, I'm the door. I'm the door. I'm the door. And sure enough because the door was opened God gave it to John through revelation and called him up through that door and folks we're at the end of the church ages. That door is opened. There is a spiritual translation, transformating of your mind and a transfiguration to where your inner spirit can receive the revelational mind of Christ and in thus doing transformate right into glory. You can do that. You can translate right into heaven by the knowledge of the Word of God as to believing in that knowledge it will by faith as it was with Enoch translate you, transformate you, transfigure you. So it will sanctify, perfect, glorify you and through that transitional change of that heavenly operation you'll find yourself in heaven. Jesus said, Rejoice ye that are in heaven. Rejoice ye that are in heaven. For He said, Ye are not in the world for I've chosen you out of the world and I've hid you with God in Christ whom the heavens have received until the resurrection of your body or the restoring. Jesus said, I remind yo again, Nicodemus, no man has ever ascended into heaven except the son of man who came down from heaven. And as Nicodemus looked at him he said, Nicodemus, I'm still in heaven. As He is so are we in Him. See He never did leave heaven. There's a whole lot of things we need to learn about ourselves, about God and His wonderful way of life. How beautiful the Bible said are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of great joy. Tells us of a risen Saviour. How beautiful is the voice of the Spirit as it speaketh unto the church and the voice of the bridegroom saying, Come, come. I want you to stand with me. There's so many things that we'd like to say tonight but I purposed in my heart that after I run down the chronology I was just going to close. These things we speak, put them on tape, Bill, Chuck, very carefully put these on tapes sometimes to use over the radio, but he puts them on tape principally so that you can go back and review it or that he can send them out to people around the different parts of the world for world evangelism. Into the foreign countries where they plead for us to send them just a crumb. They want to know and they want to understand. And the lady folks don't know how blessed they are as to an instrument of use, those that take these messages off of tape and puts them into book form so that Brother Stevie can print them. I've seen my wife as the chief leader spend weary weary hours, wouldn't quit. Even when we're off whether it's, id don't matter where it's at. It could be overseas, it can be anywhere if she's got her little brief case with her she'll spend untold hours over in the night correcting, checking, scrutinizing, trying to make sure everything's right. See folks we're people. As people we're not beyond fault. We stumble, we stagger, we make mistakes. Evil thoughts harass our minds. Satan oppresses us. But as a son of God we don't make any mistakes. There's no mistakes to a son of God. A son of God has never made a mistake nor will he ever. That's why they said in Jesus we can find no fault in this just man. The Bible said, we have come to the mount where in the spirit of just men are made perfect. So it's so beautiful to be a just man. Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We have come then not unto the mount that burns with fire but we have come to the heavenly tabernacle Paul said, to the church of the first born. And we have come unto that because we are his holy ones, His godly ones, His sanctified ones. Those who have no fault, those who have no sin. Those who have no error in their life for he's not given us the spirit of error the Bible said. No error in our life whatsoever in His sight. In His sight. All He ever does, He sees my spirit has been sealed by His lovely Spirit where Satan can not touch. He sees my body as the wonderful body of the Lord Jesus Christ out there in the endtime all finished, all changed and all perfected. And He never sees me or knows me after the flesh of my bodily errors never. He just looks from mountain top to mountain top and David said this is a valley. God looking down, though I walk through the valley of the shadows of those demons and devils said I'm not afraid of them. I don't fear no evil. Let your heart not be afraid he said. Don't be afraid. Let not your heart be troubled. He said, God's prepared a table before me, even this feast of charity. You'll find some spots and blemishes in people spying out our liberty. But he said thou rod and staff, the Holy Ghost and the Word. The Holy Ghost and the Word, He said, thou rod and staff they are a comfort for the bible said the Holy Ghost is a comforter. They comfort me. All these things will fall around you and won't come nigh thy dwelling. THat is to say, my innermost being that dwells in this little tabernacle they can't never get to that. They're all around it, all through the world. You know. Ok let's sing a little chorus together can we? Brother Pike sings, "To Be Like Jesus". Makes you wonder. Sing the song Time is Winding up. But how many of you remember we preached on what time is. Isn't that right? We taught you what time is. How time came about. Where it came from. How long it would last and the day that time would leave and then it would be no more. Is that right? Do you remember that? Ok, remember if you understand, if you know then it's required of you. So let's sing it one more now. Think about it. Lift our hands up and love Him right now Father, we praise you tonight for the wonderful Holy Ghost as Peter spake to them the Holy Ghost fell upon them. And oh, God as I speak to them tonight I feel the Holy Ghost falling upon them. Fill them with the Holy Ghost oh God. Lord as you breathe upon them God they received the Holy Ghost I ask you in the name of Jesus tonight Father, Lord in your wonderful name tonight fill them with the Holy Ghost God. Let the mighty Spirit of God come upon them. And God may they be filled with your knowledge tonight. Growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Hallelujah! Lord bless them tonight. God you said them that I bless you'd bless. I bless them in the name of Jesus. They're your people God and I bless them in the name of Jesus. Father you said whosoever sins I remitted you remit. I remit their sins in the name of Jesus tonight. Hallelujah! According to their faith, Jesus. Hallelujah! God according to their faith in your Word tonight their sins are taken away. Hallelujah! Praise God! Lets give the Lord a hand can we? Hallelujah! Don't you love Jesus! Don't you love Jesus? Somebody say praise the Lord. Hallelujah! Can you say hallelujah? Praise God. Ain't you glad you're a christian? How many of you feel free from sin tonight let me see your hand? Do you feel free from sin? You ain't going to be sinning no more. No more now. Said He came to make an end of sin. Ain't going to be sinning no more. You know what's going to happen? Folks this is going to get to be heaven. Let's give the Lord a hand. First news you know you're going to find out the raptures taken place. No more sin now. If there's no more sin there's got to be something going on. How many of you know what I'm saying? Somebody say praise the Lord. Hallelujah! Glory to God! Hallelujah! We're going to sing another little chorus and I'm going to close out. Said to Nicodemus, the son of man who is in heaven. And there He stood. There He stood, but folks He was in heaven just as sure as I'm standing here in heaven tonight. Let's give the Lord a hand, just as sure as I'm standing here in heaven tonight he was in heaven. You know what, somebody would say, Brother Pike I know where you are at. Let me ask you a question. Where is my mother at? Can anybody tell me? Does anybody have any thoughts as to where they think she might be? Where do you think she might be? You mean you got to die before you get to heaven? You don't have to die to go to heaven do you? He came to make an end of sin so he could do away with death. Somebody said, Well you got to die to get to heaven Brother Pike. Well then Jesus resurrected Lazarus was he in heaven? He'd already died. When Peter brought the resurrection for Dorcas was she in heaven? See how foolish that is. That's foolish. Death came by man. It didn't have nothing to do with God's heavenly plan. How many of you believe that? It was just something the devil throwed in the way that's all. And Jesus came to get it out of the way so God could complete His plan. Somebody say praise the Lord. If I'm not telling it right you tell me. See, man made the mess. So then you don't have to die to get to heaven. Well why is it that we believe that Mom's in heaven just because she died and we don't believe that we're in heaven because we ain't died yet? You know if dying takes you to heaven I hope I can get mine before morning. I hope my dying will come before morning cause I'm in a hurry to get there. Folks I tell you again, David said in the grave I can't praise you God. That don't do you no good. He wants somebody to praise Him. He didn't never want them to go to the grave to start with. He doesn't want that breach in between. He wants you to love Him. He wants you to praise Him. This was Paul's mystery. I show you a mystery. You'll not all sleep. You ain't all going to be put in the grave. You know like the Ark of the Covenant, you know the ark means a chest. How many of you know that? How many of you have ever heard of Abraham's bosom? How many of you know that he put that thing in our chest? You know a woman, she's got a hope chest when she's looking for her feller. I'm looking for my feller, are you looking for yours? A bride toward his feller. Did you know that the word ark also means coffin? In the coffin of the covenant was the resurrection. Aaron's rod that bloomed, budded, the manna in the golden pot that would not rot, and the covenant that was engraved in stones by the hand of God that could not be broken. You know why Moses' covenant was broken as to the stones he got and the ones Joshua got wasn't broken? Because when Jesus came He came as unto the law and had to die because no flesh could be justified by the law said He was a prophet like unto Moses. That covenant had to be broken because Paul said you have the law and none of you keep it. But when Joshua come it showed Christ. It showed the crossing on the other side of Jordan. You know what the Jordan is? It showed grace. How are you going to break grace? Somebody tell me how are you going to break grace? That covenant couldn't be broken because it was grace. They got it just out of the grace of God to begin with. See it didn't require ritualistics. It didn't require nothing. God just as if to say I could be disgusted with you and kill you all because of your foolishness but I love you so much. You're my children. I'm not going to do that just come on in and you'll be all right. You love the Lord? He gave grace folks that's why it wasn't broken. It's not broken tonight. See you and I have a new covenant. The Covenant that can not be broken. We brought this out on tape as to the water, blood and spirit. As to the last covenant. And this covenant can't be broken. This is the covenant that can not be broken. You can't break this covenant. These are wrote upon the table of your heart. And the love of God constrains you to walk in them. See, it's not up to you. Jesus fulfilled this covenant, and put it in your heart. Every jot and every tittle. Let's pray for Brother Al. An ambulance just went down and picked him up. He's really been have some difficulties. Real dangerous time for Al because Al follows the thing I spoke to my wife about it here numbers of months ago. He follows the pattern concerning the man child and even this very night you know what's happening and what I'm telling you right now and God confirms it all. Every bit of it. When Al was born he weighed seventeen pounds. Big boy. Let's just lift our hands up together and lets pray. Father, God of heaven in the wonderful name of your darling son Jesus, Lord we thank you for your fruitful knowledge and understanding. The sure way into the wonderful world of light and dear God we ask you to have mercy on Al tonight. Bless Al tonight. Remember Al, remember Nave, the family, the labor in the mission fields oh God and the sacrifice. God, the Holy Saviour, the righteous one, even God the great lovely one. Oh Holy Father, Lord we know that we're coming to the discovery of the ashes of the Red Heifer. Oh God that that sanctifieth the flesh according to Hebrews. And dear God we know that the end of the world is here. We know that you've told us and its been exactly as you said. And dear heavenly Father, please remember and help me. And I hear you say tonight to me Father, as you say unto me Son remember the vision where you put your people on the mantle before the bear struck and you're telling me they're on the mantle tonight. Father, they're on the mantle tonight. Dear God I thank you for that. I praise you and I love you for that reminder. Lord, be with us and help us. God because we know that when the serpent struck the bear, Lord he went into a rage and nothing was safe anymore. So I ask in Jesus name be merciful to us. Be merciful to my people, to their little ones, bless them in every way heavenly Father. Bless Brother Al tonight. Make them to love you, to know you, to believe in that perfect state of rest. Where every man that has ceased from His own works as trying to bring salvation of that which is by his own means, Lord hath entered into the rest of your salvation and your sabbath into the day of the Lord even the day the Lord hath made. Father, for this is not of works less any man should boast, but it is the gift of God. And by faith oh God, you've purified our hearts and believing, in the righteousness of your darling Son, Jesus. Let us be ever so thankful heavenly Father as we ask day by day for the forgiveness of our trespasses. Let us be so thankful that we forgive others their trespasses and Father, so thankful that we make every effort in every thought bringing every thought into subjection, casting down imagination and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into subjection every thought to the obedience of Christ, to meditate in thy laws day and night. To give our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable for you which is a reasonable service. Dear God let us be so grateful that we will do everything possible throughout our entire lifetime to help somebody, enlighten somebody, to lead somebody to God, to sacrifice for the need of others to world evangelism. And dear God to sacrifice our desire that we might conform to His lovely way and His mind, that it be not us living but Him, ah oh God that we might be perfect. Not as to the sanctification.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord