The Rise Of The Beast

You know I'm so glad that I'm a Christian. So thankful to God that I'm a Christian. So wonderful to be a christian. I spoke here quit a long while back about all the governments falling. We had spoken about how that all of the ministries would fail and we named the year that by that time all of them would be will on their way out. Whereas, since that time the greatest men in the world have fallen, their lights have gone out. Men like Jack Coe and William Branham and a lot of great men, lot of great men. Tommy Hicks. They've fallen. They've gone out. Either fallen as from their lofty place of righteousness or either they have gone out as to complete, or finish their course. So, we see things still falling, like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker. The things like Oral Roberts and all these other many things that's happened to these great mighty men and we can tell that everything is falling. We said that there would be nothing left except the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And all around the world and all around the different places of the United States, whether it's radio, television, or whatever when men are ministering if you'll listen they'll relate back to the Revelation of Jesus Christ and they'll start saying something in harmony with the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And it is also in the natural we said that the governments would fall and they would crumble. All of them would begin to crumble down and that in that hour the Lord Jesus would begin to come forth. Whereas, the Revelation of the Lord Jesus christ is Christ revealing Himself to the church. To the Jews it will be a natural Jesus that was born among them that will come to show the nail prints and the whole nation will be converted. The Bible said, Who hath heard of anything like this? That the same day that they travailed they brought forth their children as to a nation being born in one day when He shows them the nail prints. But before that there has to come forth the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which is the Lord revealed from heaven as the Christ. When he's revealed from heaven as the Christ he is revealed to a spiritual Jew. It is the spiritual Christ being revealed to the spiritual Jew and this is a work in secret and a work that is not seen, because it is done within the spirit and the heart of man. And the natural Jesus cannot return until this work of the spiritual Christ is completed. There's a lot that I'd like to say about that but I don't have the time, seemingly, to do it and lot of times when, perhaps, I could do it there are visitors, or different things happening and folks, and it makes it difficult to be able to follow through in what I would like to say. But anyway, the governments are falling. At the time that the Son is to come forth the governments must fall. And the governments are falling. As a matter-of-fact, we had never heard of a whole government stepping down before. I've never heard of that, or I never read of it in the history of the world. A government is overthrown, but for one to step down like they did over here in Germany, it has never been heard of. And now, all of a sudden, there is another one. Where is it at? Czechoslovakia? All of a sudden that government has stepped down. The people have risen up so in such a battle until the whole government there has stepped down. So, it's going back to what we said when we spoke of the confederation of nations, as to what it meant as to courts, inner, outer, holies of holies and the different things that we spoke of and how it would have to do with the casting out of Lucifer, or the casting out of the red dragon when they would be rejected as to United Nations and how that that thing would begin to fall and now is falling. And the Bible said when he was cast out he went about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. And by it falling that means that that power of evil is ready to come forth in a personification as Lucifer. This is why John looked and saw that out of the waters, there out of that Mediterranean Sea, or the Great Sea, out of the waters came forth this beast having the seven heads and the ten horns. Daniel spoke of it. Then he spoke of the little horn rising up and subduing three of the horns. And John spoke of it saying that concerning these heads, that five are fallen, one is and one is to come. And the eighth shall be of the seven. Or that is, in his day as to 96 A.D. when he was exiled to the Isle of Patmos that by then there was five heads of this great beast that had already come and gone, as going back to the Babylonian Empire and following it through. Even as Daniel's image when Daniel saw the image as gold and the head as coming on down to a lesser degree of value as to silver and then brass and on down to iron and whatever. See? It shows all the way from the Babylonian kingdom, as to the great gold head as to that being the servant of God and Daniel and them being down there, coming on down all the way. Those Empires one right after another coming on down until the end of the world came, or that is to say until the ten toes came and the ten toes, of course, relating back to the ten horns, or the kings. And in that he saw that when this image was finished that at the final stages of this thing that clay and iron tried to mix. Whereas, when you speak of clay you are going back to Russia and when you speak of iron you are going back to America, or Catholic power, in that America is really a derivative from the Catholic, aside from the fact that the true church is in America. She is really Catholic and all the denominational powers, as to daughters will go back to her. They are already turning back to the world and they are incorporating ball games and frolics and everything else into their religious activities, which show what that really are. But anyway, they did not mix. And the Bible said in the days of the kingdoms of the ten toes all of a sudden there was a little stone that was hewn out of the mountain that came rolling down through Babylon and through the world tearing down all of the kingdoms. It says it like this, And a stone was hewn out of the mountains. It wasn't by hands. This came out of the mountains and it smote this image in the feet, or in the toes. So this little stone that we're speaking of means Israel. It is Israel. Israel is known for stone. All of her nation across her land is filled with stones and they build out of stones. It has to do with the Lord Jesus Christ, Himself, as the stone of God. The stone that breaketh all things in to pieces. And this little stone will be hewn out, which means God, the Word. Who is a Rock but our God. Upon this Rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. So then, God is a spirit, which means that in that time of the end there would come forth a spiritual knowledge, as to the revealing of the Christ. And that this knowledge would continue to grow until it filled all the earth. Whereas, the Bible said, And the knowledge of the Lord shall fill the heavens, the earth, and the seas. Or that is to say, in our way of understanding, that at the time of the end all of a sudden there will be a revelation of the stars and we will see the handiwork and the glory of God in the stars. And there will be a revelation of the sea and a revelation of the people and a revelation of the times and a revelation of everything that you will see God everywhere and you will realize that everything emanated out from God. So speaking of the little stone in that Israel will reject and the covenant will be broken and then they will rise up as one nation to defeat the entire world and smite everybody. Jesus, the real stone, at the head of it. Revelation 19. The vesture dipped in blood. The blood to the horses bridle. Like the song we wrote, Cast In The Sickle. So we see that the governments are now falling. They will continue to fall but it will not be the defeat and the overthrow of the Red Dragon, as to the power of Communism, but Communism will become interwoven. Like I said the other day in one of my little exhortations, that you can't take people who have been confined to Communism for twenty or thirty years, been programmed to that and then bring them in among other people and then they just forget what they know no more than a leopard can forget his nature by moving into the elephant family. If a lion moved into the elephant family, or a leopard moved into the elephant family the thoughts they would always have while they lived with that family is how that they could turn him in to a meal. And the same way with Communism. People will come in and even though it's relatives coming back to relatives; yet it is a true fact that they will become interwoven and there will be a compromise and what will happen is, as to West Germany and East Germany coming together as loved ones and whatever, finally they'll compromise. And people coming together they'll compromise and they'll find a little good out of Communism and they'll find a little good out of what they call democracy and first news you know they'll take this and eat the pie and spit out the seed, as Brother Branham said one time. See? And they'll become interwoven. First news you know this one will compromise with this one and say, You know, it is better than what I've been doing. And all of a sudden they will become an intermingled and interwoven people and then you will have a different government altogether from anything that you've ever known. And they'll glean to what they feel to be the best out of it. And during the time that these governments are falling the way that they are falling all control will be lost. All governmental control will be lost and fear will sweep through the people. See? It has to do with the casting out of Lucifer and the bruising of the head. That's why I made the statement a few days ago. All the heads were stepping down, because they know that they are going to be prosecuted. And somebody came to me in the last day or two and said, You remember what you said about that was why they were doing it? The papers have stated that the people said, Let's prosecute those heads. And sure enough that's what it is. They know. They are running from the sword and it's that head that must be bruised, of the old serpent, the Communistic powers of rule. So we see this happening. The only thing that can solve this, no one will be able to control the people anymore, because if they overthrew one government they'll overthrow another government. And the Bible said, In the last days they will be despisers of government. And people have been beat down by all these things like IRS and Communism and all the other things like Hitler's regime until they are so tired they would rather die. They'd rather die than be beat down anymore. The Bible said, And they will wear out the saints of God and then the saints of God shall rise and take the Kingdom and possess it forever and ever. So I tell you again it is not democracy that's rising up in the hearts of these people that are over throwing those powers. It is the thoughts of God and freedom and liberty, as to what God has given them, because in America, there is no more freedom in America than there is in those places. I've been into Russia. I've been into Communist China. I've been into the other places and there is no more freedom here than there is over there. We have a different Ecclesiastical thing that over runs us. They have one thing that controls them and then they have a benefit of another thing. Over here we have the benefit of one thing, as to what they don't have the benefit of and then we have another thing to over run us, to control us, or to take away our finance or to take away our rights and freedoms. To enslave us either one way or another. And so that is why that everything is becoming interwoven. That's why that murderer could come over and visit with Jimmy Carter during that time of his administration. See? They are all beginning to favor one another, because all of them are of the devil. I know, you know, when I say that folks don't like to hear me say that. They say this is my favorite man. Well, I know, you got a favorite ball player, you've got a favorite movie star, you've got a favorite president, you've got a favorite whatever. And I don't mean it wrong but it's all of the devil. And they are of the devil and they have the love of the world in them and they are going to do those things. Someone would say, Well, I believe that our beloved president is a Christian. Well, that great. I'm glad that you can see that far. I can't see that far. The only place that I can look at is, the Bible said a child is known by his doings and when I see them doing the things they are doing according to me as a minister of the Gospel, they are not Christians. They are religious but proselytes. And Jesus said two-fold more a child of hell than they would have been if they would have just stayed out of religion. But anyway there are some fine folks in our government, but there are some fine folks in the Communist government. There are some fine folks in every government that I have seen on the face of the earth where I have been. And there are some fine people among every race, creed, color and there are some people that are just down right wretched. Thieves and murderers and whatever. So I just speak it like it is and the way I understand it. Ah, say, Well, you'll get yourself in trouble. Well, I'm in trouble anyway with the devil. He don't like me whether it's in the president, or whether it's in the police, or whether it's in the brotherhood, false brethren. Paul was in peril of false brethren, whatever it is, he doesn't like me anyway. So I'm in trouble anyway if I look to that side of it, but we'll just trust God and he'll let me go on until I finish my course and won't nothing happen until I finish my course. And when I finish my course, you know, like Brother Branham used to say, six of one and half a dozen of the other. Which ever way he take me out, or whatever happens you know that will be up to him. That's his business. But anyway this is the way it is and the only thing that's going to be the answer to this, in that people will rise up against the government and overthrow the government. That is to say, that they will oppress the children of God until finally they rise and take the Kingdom to possess it forever and ever to bring in an everlasting government in that this little stone will strike and then the everlasting government will come in. And the powers of the Sons of God, the government being upon their shoulders God will bring in the millennium. And he will bring the Jews around and make them the head of the nation. He will bind Satan for a thousand years to get things under way and nothing shall harm in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord. We are on the verge of the tribulation now. The beginning of sorrows has already set in and we're on the verge of tribulation and we see things coming together. Now, like the governments, these governments when they fall there will be such rebellion. See? Can you imagine saying, say ten million people come out of another place and they've been under one government. Now they've come over here under this government. And so far, like East and West Germany, they've given them a few million dollars. Just money to spend and that's fine and they are going to accept that real well, but when they have to come under the governmental constraint there's a lot of things that they haven't been used to. One thing, they haven't been used to the IRS, as we say, if it has to do with the American government. And they have had to yield to some other things, but not yield to that. And they are going to rebel. And they're going to rebel the same way against that that they did on the other side. Because, see? It's not a matter of rebelling against democracy, or rebelling against Communist. It is a matter of rebellion against the devil. They are tired of being under the regime of the devil of oppressing them. You know, people like to follow the devil, eating and drinking and splurging and doing the things that the flesh likes to do as to the love of the world. But they don't like to mess with the devil when he goes to popping the whip and putting them in prison and putting them under a constraint, taking their money and making them slaves. They don't like that. See? So we are children of God. We're in the liberties of God and the Bible said, Stand fast in the liberty of God wherein he hath made thee free. Be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage as to the beggarly elements of the world. So we say what is the answer? Well, if they rebel there's only going to be one answer and that is to say, as they become interwoven it's going to bring forth one people. And it's going to bring forth one government. And then they will have to have one money power and with this one money power it will do away with all this foolishness of the dollar value going, like having to have a wheel barrow full of pesos to get a loaf of bread in Mexico, you know. And over in Japan they can buy two or three times what we can with our money. They'll go away with that and then that will bring on one leader. If it brings on one leader it will bring on a computerised system and that coming through Brussels and by the laser beam, as to that Mark, that he can consolidate his Kingdom and make sure that he doesn't have any rebellion in it. He'll have to bring the Mark and he'll have to confiscate and he'll have to take in to his control all of the food of the world and all of the productions of the world as to food and clothing and whatever. Automobiles and whatever, and he'll have to computerize them, because they are already computerized anyway in part. And he'll have to put all the parts together and bring it under one supremacy as to his control and then set his ten kings over it, as to his ten kings, as to his ten kings, as to his legislation and his cabinet and then down through those ten kings sub-leaders, as to governors, or sheriffs or whatever it might be as to hundreds and millions of people. And he'll bring that thing down to know exactly how many boxes of cereal there is in the whole world. How many bags of flour, as we would say, or loaves of bread, or how many bushels of potatoes, or how many bushels of beans, or how many cattle there are in the world, as to belonging to him. Because it will all be his. How many ships there is. How many planes there is. How many soldiers there is, because remember the devil always works by a numerical means. Always. And this is the thing that upset God with David in the days of David's regime, remember? He was numbering his strength. And even Joab, his general, knew better than that and refused to number all of them because he knew the wrath of God was going to be on the people because of what David was doing. And of course, at that time God was seeking occasion against Israel because they had done wrong. So then, we see that there is going to be a great supremacy, a power, a king, that's going to rise up diverse from all the kings of the earth, all the kings of the world and we could elaborate quite a bit on that tonight but we didn't come here to talk about that. I just got started on a thought or two that I wanted to make mention of. But anyway he's going to come to power and he's going to rule the entire world and right now the breaking down of these walls is making way for it. But at the same time with the breaking down of these walls that is going to bring in a union of body and spirit, which means, as we said earlier that someday there would come to charismatic order of religion and it would sweep all over the world and the Pope would give his blessings to it. The whole thing would head up in the Papacy of Rome and that it would be the world coming to religion, that that would be a type of bodily redemption. Religion and the world. Separation of Church and state we say, but there is no more separation of Church and state. It has all come together and they lord over the Church. But see? The Papacy will set everything straight and he'll lord over them, because they believe in church over state. So then, they're coming together. We said that he would have a conference, sooner or later he would have a conference with Mr. Gorbachev and they'd get together and that that beast, as to the bear feet would carry the great whore, which is the Catholic Church, and her daughters would come together with her. God would cast her into a bed of adultery in that the Bible said this last generation is a sinful adulterous generation. He'd cast her into a bed of adultery and he'd burn her children with fire, all of the Catholic children with fire. And all of the world will be Catholic children. So then, like the vision we had when we caught the thing by the beard and we held him until the whole heavens turned into fire and brimstone and everything was burned and we were sheltered from it and then we stood in the millennium. So we're right there at that place holding on, not willing to give at all until God finishes His work. So we see that the conference has come up. They just made the statement just a few days ago that the Pope was having a conference with Gorbachev. Now. It also stated that Bush and Gorbachev was to come together in the Mediterranean and they were to have a conference there in the water, which again shows the heads, showing the beast, the union. See? When we think of the beast we like to throw him over yonder in Russia somewhere, or in Germany, saying, bunch of dogs over there, you know. But that ain't the way it is. Part of the beast is in America, part of it's in Germany, part of it's in Russia and every person that is not born again is a beast if they are not elect. And all of them have to come together to constitute this. I said when the three parts, as to the leopard body, as to the lion mouth and as to the bear feet and we brought it out that it has to do with a government. It has to with a religion. It has to do with sports and that would be the thee great combination of things that would come together and form this beast, which is the people. And as you very well know that they open the Iron Curtain and let the sports in when they wouldn't let nothing else come in. But I said all that to say this. That nobody will be able to control the people. They'll be on the rampage, but when these heads constitutes, coming together in their compromise, as to one world government, when they come together then everybody will listen, because there won't be anyway that you can run from East Germany to West Germany. It will be the same government. There won't be any way that you can rebel as a group of people against one government to overthrow it, because all of the world will be one army, one government, one power of leadership and all of them will be on you that quick, as we would say (claps hands together) just like that. All of them will be on you and you have no place to run to. You can't do something wrong in America and run into Mexico and have protection. There won't be anything like that, not out of robbers, out of anybody else. And it will be such a beautiful thing as to the people, as I said before. It will cut down on murder, it will cut down on robbery, it will cut down on all these things, because in the first place you won't be carrying any money around for anybody to attack you to rob you, because all you'll have is a mark. See? And you won't have any problem of how much you are going to make or ain't going to make because the way that you're going to get you food is through an all things common sort of a thing that will rise up as a government, as an Antichrist system and you'll get that through a number. And owning a car_ You'll just be working for the government, that all. So that much of communism is going to slip in. All things common. It's like unto that of the days of Jesus as the Apostolic Church, as to typify a thing, or to be a type of or to be an anti-type. And then, of course, as to the German mark, the mark will slip in as to the preeminence as to monetary values coming through after that fashion. And all these things will come together and when these heads rise up, when they are thoroughly constituted, their government, it'll be a one government. And it'll be ten kings. It'll be seven heads. And the seven heads of the beast will be_ Someone would say, You mean to tell me, Brother Pike, there's going to be seven leaders? Supreme heads? No. See? I explained to you that this beast has been going on for a long time. This beast has always been the people. See? The beast got started in the Garden and there in the Garden when he deceived Eve that was his origin. And that beast has always been and you're his reproduction if you're not elect. Jesus said you are of your father, the devil. And the Bible said, Wherefore slew he his brother, as to Cain? Because his brothers works were good and Cain's were evil. And he was of the wicked one. He was of the devil. Why do people paint their lips? Why do they paint their eye brows? Why do they do all these things to their body and give the body the preeminence when according to righteousness the body is dead and they that belong to God have mortified the flesh with the deeds thereof and they are not looking to the flesh, neither or they making preparations for the flesh to fulfill the lust or desire of the flesh. They don't care about the flesh, because that's the beast. They had to kill it out. That's the bastard image. If you are therefore found in the morning in the bastard image, he said, I will despise you, because that is fornication, but you are to be found as bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh as to the change when He comes. Every man having this hope in him purifies himself even as he is pure and will be changed at the Thessalonian coming into that wonderful image of the Lord Jesus, which is the Word image. All right. So then a mind constitutes a body. My Dad's mind constituted me. You constitute your children. Satan constitutes his children. The mind of Christ constitutes his children. And even though Adam is the beginning of the creation, so far as world creation, he is not the beginning of the creation of God. Jesus was the beginning of the creation of God, the second man Adam. All right. To get back to the theme here. It's something. I veer off just a little bit and you all kind of get lost, some of you, but let's get back over here to the- When I start talking like that that gets (Begin tape one side two.).....the avenue that you live on and you don't take that to good, so we'll jump back over here on this other and talk about folks. But this is the way it is. It is the beast. He's been here for a long time, even from the old Babylonian system of Nimrod. And the Bible said he had five heads that showed up before John was ever exiled to the Isle of Patmos in 96 A.D. So that's five rulers that won't be over you and then he said there is one ruling right now while I'm here exiled, the man that was in rule, the supremacy. Five is fallen, one is. He said and one is to come, which means that there was another after John's decease. And after that one went off of the throne at that present moment then there was another one that was to come into view, which would be the seventh. That would be from John's time over. One more would come among all the kings that would rise up and he would be the seventh. And when he come he was to continue but a short spell, a short time. And then the Bible doesn't speak of him having but seven heads, but it does say that there will be an eighth that will rise up and he will be of the seven. So then, this one, the seventh is to continue for a short spell and then the eighth is to come. He is to rise up and he is the one that subdues three of those kings that the Bible speaks of concerning the little horn. Or that is to say he will be the supremacy. He will be the supremacy of all of them. He will be the Antichrist and he will be the head and the only head that you will have ruling over you, the Antichrist, himself, for he will be the Antichrist. So you see this beast is of a long time origin, as to the beginning of there at the Garden, coming on down and in the day that we're living in he's going to come to a headship and so is the Lamb of God coming to a headship. And as he comes to a headship that means that he's going to be supreme ruler. But before he does there is going to be the constitution of these horns as kings that is going to be headships. But they'll be horns which indicates power. Power indicates horns. When you say heads, the seven heads, see? That goes back to Rome. Rome, she sets on seven mountains and these are the seven heads. So then, that means that all of those even from old Babylon back to Nimrod has come over to Rome to the Catholic religion, which is Mystery Babylon. Still the same old beast, and has come all the way over. And those heads have been. And so then, she's built upon those seven heads, as to saying, setting upon the seven mountains even from her time of the Priest of Nimrod. Well, it would take a long time to go into that. We've got lots of messages where we bring out a little bit, piece in a little bit here and there, as to how the thing was conveyed over. But nevertheless, seeing this we speak then of one head which is the beast. See? That is to say, the beast because all of the other members of the beast is going to fasten themselves to that one head. He is going to be supreme. So then, he is the beast. All of the constitution of government or whatever will be his membership. He'll have control over them and he'll put his mark in their forehead or in their hands and they won't be able to buy nor sell. There won't be any governmental transactions, as to trade or whatever. There won't be anybody that will have food, or be able to sell, or have a car, sell anything or buy anything except they have the Mark. And this is the time when Israel is going to reject that covenant. Antichrist will break it, as to his promises to Israel. Half of Israel will flee away and half will go into the mountains and half of them will stay in the city and then the women will be ravished, the little children killed. And the Bible said, Tribulation such as has never been in the history of the world will be upon those people. And the others will flee south of Jerusalem, going down below where Sodom and Gomorrah is. You've been down there to Masada, been up on Masada. You've been down to Sodom and Gomorrah on the road there where the site was of Sodom and Gomorrah, where the fire and brimstone came down and burned the people when they got in the condition that our people are in today. When I say our people, that certainly are not my people, but people as that first birth. So then, when we see this then we know that Israel will flee, seemingly from all we can see, to the Valley of Petra, going back to those places where there were cities of refuges, some on one side of Jordan, some on the other. And in this place there is about a six thousand foot entrance with about three hundred feet of wall on either side. We read something of this a long time ago. I'd never see it, but just recently Maryanna sent a book and it also has these things in it, I noticed some of them. And it has on the inside about I believe, it's about ten miles. Let's see? Ten miles? I can't be sure about that. Ten miles or ten acres. Maybe it's ten acres. I'm not sure. I'll have to check that. But, anyway, on the inside it's a hugh, hugh, place. It would have to be. See? It would probably be miles because I don't think acres would take care of this. Probably miles. But anyway, in this radius there is a great, great opening in there and at one time this thing, during the siege, was given to Cleopatra and the Romans got in there and they carved out in those mountains, even Cathedrals are carved out back in those mountains add they are beautiful. It's beautiful back in there. And a rose red color, as to the rock, and Israel is going to flee and the Bible said, during the time of the broken covenant the woman, which is Israel, will flee into the wilderness and she'll be there for times, time and a half a time, which will be three and a half years at the time that the prophets are killed, prophesying at about three and a half years at the first part there at the tribulation and there in the middle of the weak killed when the Antichrist shows himself and the breaking of the covenant. That would be one thing that would be the breaking of the covenant. As he breaks the covenant he will kill Israel's prophets and Israel will withdraw. And when they flee away into these mountains they'll be there for times, time and a half time. It indicates in the Old Testament the seven times that passes over as to the purifying of the woman after that her child has been born and then she returns to the side of her king, which is her husband, which is of course Jesus. But anyway, this will happen and Antichrist will pursue this woman when the hundred and forty-four thousand goes up to Mount Sinai, out there where we were at, Mount Hermon. We were out there, if you remember., up on this beautiful mountain where it's called the dew of Hermon. It speaks of it in the Bible and the Lord apparently coming down on Mount of Olives. It cleaves in half, the gates break open, as the Eastern Gates, and it goes through and there at that rock where Abraham offered up his son, Mount Moriah, there the temple of the Masque of Omar is done away with. And then, as to David's tomb on Mount Zion, and then from there turning toward the wilderness. The Bible speaks of it, and then he says, in that day I'll call Israel to plead with her. So there he will show her the nail prints and a nation will be born in one day and during this time it will be the return of Israel. See? That is they will go in there for three and a half years and then Jesus will come back at the end of that tribulation period on the white horse, the blood dipped vesture, making war and the blood will run up to the horses bridle. And so then, they'll flee there, as to the broken covenant and Antichrist will magnify himself above all that is called God or anything else. And at that breaking of the covenant, all of a sudden, then the Bible speaks of these vials being poured out on the kingdom of the beast and that darkness will fill their kingdom, which means the light, the wisdom. The understanding of God will completely withdraw them and there won't even be as much as scientists as to a healing medicine in that day. And in that there won't be any healing, the Bible said the people will gnaw their tongues with pain and the kingdom will be filled with darkness and all these hideous things will happen. And at that time the way to the East will be made as to pouring out the vail on the sea and the drying up to make way for all those Chinese people, as to the powers of communistic infiltration and combination of what is called democracy today. All of it will be, see? All of it. America will be filthy. She's already filthy and infiltrated and Satan will be her controller. These heads will constitute and America will join forces with all the other powers of the world and all of them will move in as one army around Israel, as one army around Israel. The Bible said, Note that in the day that this happens, when you see Israel compasses about with armies know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Let them that are on the house top not come back to enter into the house, or them that are in the field return to take anything for that will be great tribulation in that day. Pray that your flight be not in the winter, because it is so cold in the Judean hills, and not on the Sabbath day, because they can't travel but one day at a time as to the Sabbath day. They can go just so far and that's a Sabbath days journey and that's all they can go and they'll be over taken. And woe unto them that give suck in those days, for the Bible speaks of that women will be ravished and just wrecked up and the little ones will be ripped up. I don't know whether you remember it or not. I remember, as a boy when the Japanese were so brutal, when they took some of our American people, and I remember setting in the movies, of seeing the_, they didn't have television, but they had the news reel. And I was setting there as a boy and I remember when I saw these Japanese jerk children out of the mothers arms, take the little babies and one Japanese would hold him over here and another here, a little baby, a little bitty fellow, you know, just a few months old, or just two or three years old and they would swing him and they would grin as they would swung him. And they'd just grin and they'd swing him. They'd swing him and finally they'd throw him way up in the air and then they'd hold the bayonets and let him fall on them. But I remember how it was as a boy, I'd just come slap out of my seat just about it, I couldn't, you know. I just bleated out right in the news reel. I hollered out something, you know. It just got the best of me cause it was really happening. But anyway it's going to be a terrifying thing. So we really need to pray for Israel. It's going to be a horrible thing. See? Israel has been haughty and they've called people dogs and you know, they feel like we're a bunch of dogs. When we're really the spiritual Jew and Paul told them they weren't the Jew at all, that the wrath of God would come upon them to the fullness. But anyway, they have that feeling. Like that little boy that spit on Sister Betty when she spanked him. But anyway, see? They are the apple of God's eye, but they've become haughty. And because of that God's going to run Jacob through the fire. And when he puts them through suffering like no one has ever suffered, to become the body of the head, Jesus Christ who suffered like no man ever suffered. To the natural they show that, going through the holocaust and all these things. It has looked bad for them through the holocaust but they haven't been through anything yet. When they go through this, then when they come out they will be tender and loving and kind and ready to rule the nations, even though they will still have their strict discipline from God to punish the evil, but they will rule over the all nations and all the world. But anyway, this covenant has got to come and ninety-two is moving around now. We brought out some things as to detail. Ninety-two is moving around and coming in fast now and I said at the end of that they are going to bring in a world power, as to the world money. They have already said that the last day of ninety-two, I believe, they're going to bring in the monetary system, as to the money. And the whole thing is just right. They said by ninety-two they expect to have the common market in force and if that's true by ninety-two, ninety-three then that will indicate the winding up of things, because, see? Tribulation has to be seven years. And like I tell you, the calendar is off. I brought this out one night as to the dates and as to where it was off and whatever, as to Jesus going up to the temple at nine or twelve years old. Now as to what it had to do with. It had him as to B.C. nine. Okay, now. When I say this, see? I'm looking at the calendar as to what is time element involved. with you and I there is no time. Time was over at Calvary with us. We sing that song. See? We have to come to the recognition of that before we have eternal life. You can't have eternal life as to the manifestation of it in your body until you realize that because tine is the power of consummation. As long as time continues it means sin is still in force, because time brings daylight and dark and it brings shadows and where there is eternal life there are no shadows. Anyway it would take a long time to go into that speaking of the redemption of the body. But when we realize that the calendar is according to this, as I said to you before, you've got to stop and think and realize that there isn't going to be another thousand years. See? Which one of us believes that there is going to be another thousand years before God brings in the final thousand year, as to a millennium reign. See? You don't believe there's going to be another thousand years. I, for sure, don't. I'll be honest with you. There might be one but I don't see it. See? Which means that this next millennium, millennium means a thousand years, this next millennium coming up is pointing to the millennium restoration as to earth being restored. And that means there will be only seven years from ninety-two over. See? Which would be the tribulation period, if it went calendar wise. And it's set one way or another, the calendars are off. Antichrist has changed the times and seasons, as to the Julius Caesar thing, to keep us from knowing when it would be near, nigh at the door. But in spite of all that I'm your minister and I'm telling you these things to tell you that it's nigh, even at the door. I see it. For they that are godly and holy in Christ will see it. Others will be scrutinizers and criticizers and fault finders and you know, we'll just set it out and we'll see, you know, whether it's going to be or not. Well, it's going to be real disappointing to you, because if you try to set out the next thousand years you are going to come short of your mark and you won't get to see it. But anyway, it is for sure that something is taking place. I do not believe that it will go another thousand years, so that means that something has to happen between now and the beginning of this next thousand years as to the date off set, one way or another, you know, just where it will fall. Jesus said not man would know the day nor the hour. So I'm not here trying to tell you whether you need to be ready on Monday or Tuesday, or whether you need to be ready at 12:00 o'clock on Monday or Tuesday, or 1:00 o'clock. I'm here to tell you that it's nigh even at the door. Somebody said, Well, are you trying to tell me it's the day before? Could be. There's one thing about it when it's nigh at the door. I say this again. Somebody knocks like that. That's the closest that they can get without coming on in and all you have to do is open the door and there they are. All right. Brother go ahead and criticize me. Maybe you'll get a hold of me for that one of these days and it'll just do you so much good. You'll feel so good over it, because you can say, Bless God, I had my way. He never did silence me. I'm not going to bother. I'm just going to kind of smile at you and let you go on. The Bible said God will turn you over to a reprobate mind because you had not a love for the truth and would not submit and cause you to believe a lie and be damned. The brother was telling me today, he went around some people. He said, Brother Pike, everyone I've seen leave said this has happened to them. And he told what a horrible mess it was and said, I just grieved me so much. And yet, one time they were just like you, you know, they had a chance to listen. All right. There has to be a Judas in the midst for a betrayal. God always has to have something, has to have somebody. It will always be that way. And the Lord tells us in Saint John in the third chapter, he says in the nineteenth verse. "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." Or that is to say, this is the condemnation as to what God will bring upon them as to their condemnation unto death. It is because He brought you light and understanding and you were set in your own mind to lean to your own understanding when He told you not to and to believe a lie and be damned, to do your own thing, to think your own way, and to go your own way and be contrary to the Shepherd as to having the mind of Christ. All right. That's the condemnation. He said that's all that it would be. Everyone that doeth evil, he said, they won't come to the light. That is is their minds they are not going to submit, because they know their deeds will be made manifest and God will reprove them. "But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." All right. So here I am again tonight. Though they are making video I'm just talking to my congregation as always, but we need the video so much. Somehow God sees judgment coming on you people and He sees wrath coming on you and He keeps having me to talk to you, as individuals and reason with you, because He sees this coming on you. And He is trying his best to get you to where you can get out of the way of the storm and so I'm talking to you. I'm talking to you. Many of you have been very contrary. You wouldn't do right. You wouldn't live right. You wouldn't follow the Lord. You wouldn't honor the Lord. Your spirit even now is not one with the Holy Spirit. It's kind of a mocking spirit. Not my people, but I mean as a whole. Lot of times we find this among us. You know, when you say mocking, like Webster's Dictionary gives mocking as to esteem lightly. You esteem lightly the things that God says as He speaks when it's not me speaking but God. See? These things I tell you I don't know. I didn't learn these in school. I didn't read these out of a book. I didn't get these somewhere. He gave this to me and He unveiled this to me and made this known to me. Like Paul said, I wasn't taught this by some man. Things I say unto you, many things, I've never heard these, so help me God! I've never heard these. I've never known these. I've never conversed with anybody that I've ever heard speak of these things. I've never read them anywhere, out of books or anywhere else. I've never heard a preacher preach it, but nevertheless, they are of God and they are true and they are right. And he that hath the spirit of truth will know it when he makes connection with these. But many of you will never make connection with this. You lightly esteem these things too much. And they are not weighty enough to you and you lightly esteem them. Because of that you will never come into the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And if you don't come into the revealing of the Word it means you haven't been translated into the Kingdom of God. It means that you are a believer but you didn't make the rapture. You didn't make the translation. The translation is coming into the revealed understanding of God. Whereas the Bible said, And ye shall understand, but the wicked shall not understand even when the good comes, for Satan has blinded their eyes, even the eyes of their understanding that they should not understand. They can't comprehend the heights, the depths, the widths, the lengths. I remind you again, they said, Why do you speak to these people in parables seeing that they don't understand what you say? And Jesus said, The reason you understand is because it's given to you. That is to say, You are those that are within the circle. These are they that are without. And it's given unto us to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God but unto them it's not given. So I say these things to you just as to sum up a few things as to what is happening, because of all of the falls of the government, the different things are happening. They are crumbling down. The kingdoms of this world are fast becoming the kingdoms of our God and His Christ. You know when they came out of, was it East Germany? See, when they came out did you notice it's like the spirit returning to the body. Whereas we're so sure it's the other way. But nevertheless when they came out did you notice that they were not saying Hiel Hitler? And they weren't singing long live Gorbachev? They were singing, This is the day that the Lord has made. How could it have been any other day? It was the day of freedom and the walls were broken down. And we said that the walls would come down after our trip into Russia. As a matter-of-fact, Jerry was just telling me that while he was over in Mississippi that his wife had gotten a hold of a book which was passed on to his mother and the mother reading, when we had spoken of the walls back quite a long while ago, said it changed her whole outlook toward Bethlehem when she realized what had taken place. Well anyway, there is a lot more to it, folks. This is a very light, light thing that I'm saying as to touching. I'm lightly touching as to what is taking place. But it is to give you, with the rest of the teachings, as before, and this compiled with it, a little understanding as to a transition of things and as to a sequence of things, as to see where we're coming from and where we're headed to. See? So let me comment here and I'll try to close. All right. For instance, we now know then that the beast is not something that's just going to come, that's going to jump up at the last minute. How many of you know that now? That it's not something that going to jump up at the last minute. See? If it's going to jump up at the last minute how is it that five of these heads are already fallen. Somebody said, Well, the heads were there but the beast wasn't there. Well, you know, that could be, but the only thing is if we say the heads were there and the beast wasn't there, it looks like it would have been a dead head. Isn't that what you call it, a dead head? See? And if they were back there and the beast wasn't there, to me that wouldn't fit together at all, because it says that these heads were upon the beast. And so then, the beast had to be back there. And now that five of them are fallen, we say now six of them are fallen and we say, Well, where in the world is that seventh one? Did he come on the scene right after John, or in between that time. In our time has he come on the scene? Or is he yet to come on the scene? Well, one thing will help us as to the seventh. He was to continue a short spell. And then there was one to come that would have a deadly wound and all the world would wander after him. Whereas, like the Papacy we've got now in the biggest gathering that's ever been to any man, six hundred thousand, I believe it was that gathered after him over in one place. And they said a million in another place and Billy Graham, or nobody else can't touch him. So when this particular man, remember the man that got shot in the head. They said it was a deadly wound. But I said it would be healed and it was and he survived. So, you say, Well, that's the beast. I didn't say that. I said this. I'm going to say this; that if we are this close to the end of the world and the governments are now falling then it sounds to me like it's time for the eighth to come on the scene. And the seven must be caught in there somewhere, because if the eighth don't come on the scene pretty quick to get the world there won't be any world to get. The Bible said, those days, as to the tribulation period, yet unless God should shorten them there wouldn't be any flesh spared. If it wasn't for the book of Revelation, where it speaks as to holding back the four winds of the earth, they'd tear up everything. Those four winds are those powers that are going to come together in a force to destroy. And like I say, the combination is going to be Antichrist and he's going to win out over all things to hold everything steady until the middle of the week and then they are going to be turn loose as to the fury, because the Bible said, And these kings, these ten kings will hate the beast and burn the flesh and hate the whore and burn the flesh with fire. Whereas, the Bible said her desolation has come in one hour. One hour, because that powerful bomb will be dropped on her and she'll sink like a stone in the sea once she's finished. Do you remember where it says no one can get her merchandise any more? And the voice of the Bride shall be hear in her no more. And gold and silver and all of the fineries of linen and the voice of the Bridegroom and the souls of men. See? That's going to be that common market. It's going to constitute and be there when God blows that things all to pieces and all of those good things from around the world are going to be there. And that's why there won't be any more of that. He's going to blow that thing all to pieces. But will be coming together. We won't go into that, because we went into some of it before. But will be coming together, the heads as to the ten kings, is going to be the supremacy as to him subduing three of them and having supreme control over the seven. Then he's going to be able to control the whole world in his government. And of course, when he comes into that control Israel is going to leave, because he's going to break the covenant with Israel. And like I said, I'm not going to try to explain that because we explained some of that here on a tape not too long ago. But we're getting near. We're getting near this thing coming in to effect. That is to say, the beast. Remember John doesn't record the beast coming up out of the waters until the middle of the week. He doesn't record it until then, but this beast has been here all the time. And it's in America. A lot of people say, Brother Pike, what are you talking about? That's why Gorbackev and Bush are meeting over there in the Mediterranean area out in the waters and they are on a ship. Because Bush has to with the heads coming up just like all the rest. Those heads have to come up. And it is in the middle of the week that this thing hits it's regime. Whether you understand it or not you can run Bush's administration down and see what happens. And a few other things that we could say that's on the scene right now. We spoke of it not too long ago, as to gross darkness covering the people and as to the middle of the week and as to who is running for president, as to leadership along about that time.

So everything is in a state of chaos. Like sitting on a power keg, somebody said, expecting somebody to light the fuse, or the plunger to go down. Everything's in place. So when these heads come up as the kings, then the supremacy of heads is going to take over. And I remind you again, as I did the other day. Remember, I spoke of the Fairchild and the Rothchild. And of the Fairchild having to do with God and the Rothchild having to do with Lucifer. (Begin tape two, side one.) And already it's been said that the Roth children families have financed a war because of their power and right now an article says that David Rothchild has come in to power to become the leader over the dynasty of banks, having to do with banks. And he's a young man coming to power right now and he's of a Jewish descent, so far as I know, whereas, the Antichrist has got to be something as to a near kinsman, as to the woman. See? As to this thing as to the man slayer. And the thing of course that's going to stop Antichrist, when I believe, according to the Scriptures, that the earth is going to open up and swallow them up, for the Bible speaks of it helping the woman as it did in the days of Moses. I believe that that will happen. I've never heard of but one person that ever said that. I was reading not too long ago and he made the same statement that I'm making. That he felt it to be the same thing that I believe it to be and that it would be as it was in the days of Moses, the same reference I'm using. But anyway, I believe that will scare Antichrist and he will back off and he won't follow. He won't pursue, follow pursuit, as to that Petra thing. But anyway, there's a lot we could say there. I'm just saying that everything is set for the end of the world. You're the people upon whom the ends of the world have come and you have to do a lot of thinking, a lot of believing, a lot of understanding to even find our where the end of the world come and to know just exactly where you are at now. And this is why a lot of times I say that the people don't understand. I'm not saying that you are ignorant people. I'm not saying that. There is kindergarten, there is elementary school, there's high school, there is college. And some are on one level and some are on another level and some have received a diplomacy from this and this, but not from this. And they know a lot of things and have gotten into a lot of things and they see a lot of things but a lot of things they haven't gotten into and a lot of things they don't see and they haven't reached the supremacy of diplomacy as to what God wants as to the change of the body and the many wonderful things that are happening right now as to where we are at this present stride of life, as to the landmarks that God has set. But I do say this. It takes nothing less than a fool to know about God at this time, to know anything to amount to anything about God and not serve God now. See? You can look at him. You don't have to ask him if he's a fool, or she's a fool. You can just look at them and say there goes a fool, because a man is a fool not to serve God anyway. The Bible said, The fool has said in his heart there is no God. But when you see a man that's come this far, like Judas was, and sees things like Judas did and then goes out to the beggarly elements of the world, he's a fool. He is a fool. You can just look at him and say there goes a fool. You don't need to call him a fool, but in your heart you know that he's a fool. See? It is so close right now that everything that you can do to submit your spirit to God and to your shepherd to make sure that he is your shepherd. Somebody said, After about twenty-five years I'm going to decide whether or not he's my shepherd and I'm going to submit my spirit. No, you won't do that. God don't work like that. If you are born again you know that he is true and you know that he is your shepherd and you understand it just like that. You don't set around in your carnal mind and figure whether he is or he ain't and wind up in trouble. You don't do that. You know, I have people, they say, Well, Brother Pike, I've got to be sure. I know. I meet people like this all around the world. I talk with them, but did you know, you find out that people that have been in trouble with shepherds that they were the ones that caused the trouble. Check back and you'll find out. It doesn't matter if it's a false shepherd. They're the ones. You go back and you'll find out, as a rule, they instigated the wrong and they encouraged the shepherd in the wrong and then when it turned into a monster they got stung, as we say, by the bee and it tore them all to pieces and they run. But a person that is a true Christian, a true Christian, they know their shepherd. The Bible said, know them that labor among you and they know their shepherds. And they can tell that quick. My spiritual brother can walk up to me and unless God hides it from me I can tell it that quick. And I can tell if they are just a believer. See? Like here at Bethlehem, for instance. I've got numbers of people that come here that are sitting here tonight, as far as I know from my heart, I tell you the truth so help me God. You do not have the baptism of the Holy Ghost, which means you have never been born again. And I know that out there in the world, even in the Pentecostal world they teach, you know, that you don't have to have the baptism of the Holy Ghost to go to heaven. They say it's not necessary. You know, saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost. But I'm telling you that's not right. That's not right. The Bible said, One spirit. That's His Spirit. If you have not His Spirit, the Holy Ghost, you are none of His. You're none of His. It's just that simple. It's a still birth. You're dead even if you went through all the formalities, all the ritualistics. So then, I have numbers of people here at Bethlehem, men and women, boys and girls that do not have the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Some of you live on the camp ground, you do not have the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You believe and you come to church, you give, some of you are attending church real regular, but what can I say? I can't lie to you. See? So I encourage you to get saved. Or I encourage you, the Bible said, Paul speaking to them in the nineteenth chapter of Acts, he said, Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed. They said, We've not even so much as heard if there be a Holy Ghost or not. He said, Well, unto what baptism were you then baptized? Baptizing you in the name of the Lord Jesus, laid hands on them, the Holy Ghost came upon them. They spoke with tongues, and they prophesied. See? Or that is to say, How can I tell, or how can you tell who doesn't have the Holy Ghost and who does have the Holy Ghost? It's very simple. It's very easy. Very easy. Very easy. The Bible said God gives the Holy Ghost to them that obey Him. And you don't have the Holy Ghost, because you are not obeying God. You are not doing what you're suppose to. You're not thinking the right thoughts. You're not talking the right words. You're not doing the right things. You're not going to the right places. You're not submitting to the shepherd. You have resentment, jealousy and fault-finding. You're interested in business and money and houses and lands and personalities and faces and bodies and clothes and all these king of things. See? So you don't have the Holy Ghost. That's sad. I wish you did. I'd love to see all of you have the Holy Ghost. Not too long ago we started a little meeting on our own here and begin to seek God and begin to pray until the children would gather around up here and at the beginning of this God began to move and people began to be moved and were tore up. And I did that so they could receive the Holy Ghost. At that time apparently, some of them received the Holy Ghost. But see? Some of you still don't have the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And Paul said some of you don't even have the knowledge of God. This, he said, I speak to your shame, because I would not have you ignorant. But anyway, you see what we're saying, folks. Time is at hand. The time is at hand. So this beast thing has been here a long time. It's been in America. It's been in all the places, but it's come from old Babylon. It's moving forward to swallow up America, as to manifest these people that are the beast part. And right now there are so many people that have come into this country. I heard today_ How many spanish people are there here now? Somebody gave a number on it. Thousands of it them that have moved in, that's come in from Mexico. They can't even speak our language. Cubans have come in. Chinese have come in. Japanese have come in. All kind of people from different countries have come in. Now I know that out of this in time past we have Japanese, we have Germans. We have spanish, we have all these people that are American because they are American born. Now. See? This means that you cannot say anymore that we have America and they have Germany and they have Africa and we have America. Or they have Mexico and we have America. You can't say that anymore, because all of them are born now as Americans. That means that they are Americans. And that means that everyone of them comes from another country. And they are a foreigner as to being American, though they are born in America, and yet there are no more a foreigner than you are. And if you go through the blood genes you are going to find out you are half Japanese and half American and half Indian and half American, or half whatever, you know. Of course, they're Americans. The Indians are called the first Americans. The true Americans, they say. But I'm just saying this to you. It is a mixed up, messed up conglomeration of human beings. There's no such thing as thoroughbreds. There is not one good one among them. Not one good one among them. There's not any good Germans. There are not any good Japanese. I've been all over the world practically and I've never found any good ones. There are no good Americans. I've never found some. I know, Brother, you can scrutinize. I know you've got another thought about it. You've got your own mind. That's okay. That's okay. And maybe you found some good ones. I don't know why you got in the mess you got into if you found a good one. But there is one thing about it, the Bible said there is none good, no not one. No not one. So then, if somebody has found some I don't know where you found it, because the Bible said there wasn't any. There isn't any. There is not any at all. There's none good, no not one. So then, Jesus is the only one that's good and he's God, so He's not one of them. He wasn't even born of their blood line. He's God and God has accepted him. So we are, as a people, accept in our born again experience, our goodness be of God, or our Holiness be of God, or we be holy as He is holy, because of God. So then, outside of that there is none good. Somebody said, Well, why did all of them come over here and mess up my world, my beautiful America? I don't know that it was your beautiful America. I don't know what your back ground is. You need to run your family tree. And besides that, while you're saying that the Germans over there can say, Why does these Americans come over here and mess up our Germany? Now they are born over here. Same way in Japan. Same way in India. Same way in the other parts of the world. Somebody said, Well, I just think God wanted it like that. Well, if He did He sure went to a lot of problems folks to separate them at the tower of Babel and give them different languages and put them in different parts of the world. You say, Well, I think God wants it like that. They are all coming together. They're all coming together because the devil is bringing them together. Oh, my God! somebody says. Yep. The devil is bringing them together. He is bringing them all together. Why is he bringing them together? So then can get back to building the old tower of Babylon, to build them a name as one people up to the capstone of the Antichrist, the old dragon star, the old dragon star. See? We built one. God rejected it and he brought us together at Pentecost. And we've built one and it's that beautiful pyramid city that has her light most precious that's built upon the foundations of the Apostles and built up in to a holy priesthood, as Paul the oversight saying, It's not me but Christ, Jesus Christ, that wonderful star of God. His star. That we might have that people of one mind and one accord, one understanding, one language, and that is the tongue of God. So they're all coming together. The Lord has said to us not to come together. He said, Come out from among them and be ye a separate people, see? But they are coming together. The devil is bringing them together. So all of them are going to come together and it's going to come just like I told you. You're going to see it all come together just like I told you. And when it comes together the church is going out, which means there will be no more light. And the Antichrist will be there. It will be intellectual ignorance, which is darkness, gross darkness covering the people. And they are an mixed up intermingling, interwoven mess of not thoroughbreds, no nothing. You know, if I had some Poodles, if I had some Pekingese and I had some German Shepherds and I had some Bulldogs I wouldn't want to mix and mingle them up in a mess. That's the way I see it. You know, like our cattle over yonder. Our cattle are thoroughbreds so that we got papers on them. They are all together Herefords. That doesn't make me partial to Herefords. I like a number of different kind of cattle. The Limousine and there are a number of others. The Chartreuse, is it, they call it? And we've got some black and white spotted ones over there that are so pretty. See? Red ones. All kind. I like them, but I like them for what they are, you know. I don't want my little David looking like my Gracie. When I look at Gracie I don't want to see David. And when I look at David I don't want to see Dale. And when I look at Dale I don't want to see Cynthia. And when I look at Cynthia I don't want to see George, Jr. I want to see my Dale when I want to see my Dale and I want to see my David when I want to see my David. You know, I want to see my children as they are. Now. I would like for them to do one thing. And God would like for us to do this one thing. I would like for them to be all of one mind, as naturally speaking. And that would be my mind in this life, that my mind was the mind of Christ, that I was one of the Lord's, in that I am the Dad, you know, like a shepherd, or that is to say, through the mother. And the mother being one mind, because we're suppose to be one to begin with. See? I'd like that. God would like us all to be in one mind and that is the mind of the Lord Jesus Christ. But He wants us in our originality and when He changes the body from this old beast body, as to the allegoric types, He will make us all to have one body as bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Just one body and that will be the beautiful, lovely body of our Lord Jesus Christ and not a mixed up mess, an interwoven mess of confusion. We need to abide where we are, be where we are, do what we're suppose to do, be satisfied in the Lord and then let the Lord do what He wants to and there won't be any confusion. Confusion is of the devil. Folks, this world has gone to confusion and it's going to be more confusing all the time. You just wait and see. When people out of that country down yonder that's never known anything but being a pagan comes to this country and intermingles and these go to there and intermingle you are going to have a problem. You're talking about a problem that's why that they're over throwing the governments in all these places. That's why they are killing. They can't find their place. They are intermingled. They're interwoven. They are rejected stones and now everybody has got to where they are personal, as to one another. They have their own sovereignty as to their personality and they won't take anybody in to what they want to do. Did you know that everyone of you that setting here tonight as an individualist that you absolutely won't take anybody in to what you are doing? There ain't one of you here that will do it unless you are doing something for God. You won't do it. You may give him a handout, you may give him some money, you may send him on his way, you may let him spend the night with you, but you won't take him in. See? You won't take him in to what you're doing, because he doesn't fit. Now if there is some way you can enslave him in your business, or in your family to make a slave out of him, you know, or take them in and ravish them, as women and men, to make Sodomites, or whatever, you'll do that. I'm not speaking of you Christians, but I'm speaking of people that may hear my voice. Do you understand what I'm saying? All right. Let's stand together. I know that you're about ready to go and that's okay. You've listened real good. No problem. I'm just telling you. I just said those few little things. There's a lot of other things I'd like to say as pertaining to the head the way that the thing will eventually wind up as to that one head and whatever, but I think I said enough things that you understand pretty well what's going on. Now you might say, Well, I already knew. That's good. Then I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to them that didn't know. No need of me telling you. I do say this. Peter said, As long as we're in this tabernacle, though I know that you know these things, I feel that we should stir up your pure minds to you that are willing to receive it, or want it. But you that are not of the mind of Christ, not submitted to the shepherd, not going to follow me, not going to trust the Christ in my life, I can't help you anyway. You have your own life, your own thing to do and like the Bible said you're in the galls of bitterness and the bonds of iniquity. You're heart is not right with God and you need to pray that God forgive you for the thoughts of your heart. Not having His Spirit, then as the Bible says your none of His. You have your own reasoning so you lean to your own understanding, which is the first violation, right there, of not having the fear of God, which is the beginning of wisdom and not having honored the Lord in that He told you not to lean to your own understanding, in that if you had believed the Scriptures, which if it had been faith could have saved you by obeying it. Not leaning to your own understanding. But in that you violated that you violated faith and in that you violated faith then that means that you are on the outside. So to love the Lord, to do what the Lord wants you to do, to try to listen, to make adjustments in your life and try to come together with the people of God, be of one mind, just one mind. See? If you're of one mind and i'm of another mind it won't do. On Pentecost they were of one mind. All of them, one mind. And that was the mind of God which was in the Apostles. And when Peter said repent that one mind took place and he said be baptized. That one mind took place. And he said, In the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin and that one mind took place and all of them did that. And three thousand was added unto the Church in one day, because that's what they did, just exactly what God said. Not Peter speaking, but when you say, You do this and you do this and you do this and you do like you want to and you go to the Church of your choice and you can believe in three and I believe in one and he believes in two and all this then you've got Babylon. That's old Babylon. Let's sing a little chorus together, can we? Lot of things I'd like to say to you. Lot's of things. Lot's of things. Things as to spiritual revelation. These things I said tonight are somewhat revelation, but a lot of these things are just kind of setting things in order in that God has revealed them to us, as to the natural trend of life, or the natural stride of life, but getting down to other things as to spiritual significance and things that I would like to say to you, I'd like to speak to you concerning the redemption of the body, as concerning the spirit and the things that now is, as pertaining specifically to the Church, to you and to me. All right. Let's sing this little chorus that Brother Taylor sometimes sings. (leads in singing, Jesus Christ Has Never Failed Me Yet.) Can you sing that? (Continues singing.) Glad to see Jesse and his wife and children over. I didn't see them until after I'd got started ministering. I didn't recognize them, but I don't know whether he came over for Thanksgiving or what? Were you over yesterday, Jesse? You were here yesterday? I didn't see you yesterday. Of course, yesterday we were on the job, right? That's why we didn't see him. There was about fifty-seven people up there and probably fifteen to eighteen people that could have gone that didn't go and one or two of those was doing some work around here. And some of the others were off on their own jobs, or doing their own thing and then there was some that wasn't up there that they were eating Thanksgiving meals and Thanksgiving dinners. Whereas some that didn't go has in the past gone. Maybe they have been up there a day or two helping at other times. Some of them have never helped. As a matter-of-fact, Brother Cartrette was telling me the other day, Said, you know, Brother Pike, you named a certain man that's here tonight. He said, did you know that this man for years hasn't helped us on a church job? Said, For years he hasn't helped us. But I said, I understand, Bill, because the man is backslid. And that hurts me, because the man at one time was an outstanding man in the things of God and then he went carnal. To be carnally minded is death. When you get back to the natural side of life and the natural things of life then that means that you are carnally minded and you are abiding in death. What causes that is not having the baptism of the Holy Ghost. When you don't have the baptism of the Holy Ghost you will eventually drift back, though you are a believer you will eventually drift back and you'll pick up some little thing and you will say, Well, I don't think this is wrong. And then you'll pick up some other little thing and say, Well, I really don't see nothing wrong with this either. Then after while you've got a whole string of things and you don't see anything wrong with those. But when they are brought under the light of the Gospel they are carnal, they're worldly, they are fleshly and that means death. That means death. Well, anyway, we'll sing again. Let's praise the Lord for a few minutes. I'm going to let you go. You can do whatever you want to. Somebody said, Well, I don't like that. I feel like this ain't right and this is right and that's all right. It's all right. No problem. Do whatever you want to do. Do whatever you feel to do. That's your business. When we meet we'll meet there at the judgment and we'll compare notes, as we say, on the other side of the hill and if your notes are better than mine, as to your doctrine, well, that will be okay. You know, and if it's not then you'll have reason to feel that you should have listen to what the minister said, or the preacher said. But it's up to you. No problem. No problem. Do whatever you want to. Teach you children what you want to. Show your children what you want to. Show your children what you want to. Take your children, your wife, husband, whatever, go where ever you want to, fuss, feud until you have your way in the home, whether man or woman, you know, son or daughter and that's your little home, that's your business, do whatever you want to. But you that are my sheep, Jesus said, My sheep know my voice and a stranger they will not follow. And they followed the lamb whether so ever He went. Whether so ever the Word goes as to Christ, as to whatever it says, we follow in His footsteps. And He said, Wherever I am there shall my disciple be also. Where ever Jesus went the twelve had to follow Him, the seventy had to follow Him or they could not have been His disciples. They had to leave mother, they had to leave wife, had to leave children, had to leave home to follow the Lord Jesus wherever He went. So if you can't forsake your wife's opinion and she's got such a devil that she's so strong that she wins out over you to let her have her way, than you can't follow the Lamb, because to follow the Lamb you have to deny yourself. And it's the same way with the wife and the husband, as to the children, whatever it might be. Can we sing again? (Sings Sweep Over My Soul.) Tomorrow Brother Shaffer and Sister Shaffer are suppose to be here from California. They've tried hard to come down. They've run into a lot of problems so I trust you'll entertain them and love them because they have great enthusiasm in meeting the people of Little Bethlehem. They said to tell you that they want to convey their love to you, because they think that you are a wonderful people. Some of them was interested in their finances to help them. Whereas, they had plenty of finance, as to the Navy taking care of the hospital bill and the different things, as to the hospital. He ask if he should turn aside and go into Virginia, Charleston, Virginia, their home, let them refresh themselves with the parents and them likewise and then come down. I said, I think it's a good idea just to go on from there, give them time to kind of recuperate and see their family and then if they want to drop by from Charleston, coming down here. So he said, Tell them I love them and appreciate them. They are wonderful people. We come here to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus, to learn about the (Begin tape two, side two.)...and to find out just where we are and what we're going, where we've been and where we're going. And we come together here to try to understand. This is why God bring us together, so we're trying our best to do what's right and I cannot change your spirit. If your spirit is ugly toward me and resentful toward me I can't change it. Somebody says, Well, I don't want to but it just jumps up. That's because you don't pray through. If you'd spend a little time fasting and praying it wouldn't jump up. You'd kill out that old devil that you're entertaining. See? If you'll stop trying to scrutinize everything and figure it out in your natural mind and trying to run things according to your own understanding and quit leaning to your own understanding you wouldn't find them things because all them things are in your own understanding. They're not in the mind of Christ. To do what the Bible said, to be one with the brotherhood, in one mind an one accord, as to the mind of the Lord Jesus and the will for accord to do the will of God and not lean to your own understanding and get rid of the imagination, all those things that's warring against God, you'd be all right. Then the Holy Spirit would have a chance to come into your heart. But you don't give Him a chance, so what can I say? All right. Can we sing again? (Sings Haven Of Rest.) Glad to have Brother Gerald with us tonight. Appreciate the nights he comes to be with us. I wonder, even tonight, after listening, I wonder if you're going to go home and make a change, or make a change here, make a change. I wonder if you're going to do anything about your condition. Are you still going to be disputed in your mind? Rebellious in your mind? Contrary in your mind? Self-willed in your mind? Self-disciplined in your mind? Self-made in your mind? Are you still going to do that? Are you still going to go out as the old sow wallowing in the mire? Or are you still going to go out as the dog that returns to him own vomit, as to your own thinking? For anything that is outside of the Holy Spirit is a dog and a swine, the Bible said. And if you are of the lineage of the first man Adam and you have never accepted the mind of Christ to be born again, then that means that you are of the swine, you are of the beast. As somebody said the other day, the razorback, the old Arkansas pigs and the Blue Devils and the Red Devils and the Dogs and the Hornets and the Yellow Jackets, whatever, you know. They all have their titles. One headship. That's the mind of Lucifer, the mind of Lucifer. Carrying one mark and that's the mark of Cain, which was the mark of the beast, which is sin in general. One headship. Just one Headship. That's Antichrist. One body. And that's members in particular of the body of the devil, in that you are the children of the devil and Jesus said you are of your father, the devil, and his will you're going to do, for he savors the things that be of the flesh because he is the prince of this world. And so then that mind is in you to mold you, to keep you in that old bastard child image of buying and selling and eating and drinking. And if the love of the world is in you the love of the Father is not there. The gossiping and the back-biting, the frolics, the fashions, the foolishness, all of these kind of things are there to try to keep you in that condition, the dispute over the body. Okay, let's sing another little chorus. The altars are open if you'd like to come to the altar. Let's sing I Love Him. Can we sing I Love Him, Dale? Jesus said, If you love me then you'll keep my commandments, if you'll obey me I'll give you the Holy Ghost, which is the spirit of Christ, which is eternal life, which is the new birth. Sing I Love Him. (Leads singing.) They can hook that heat back up. I've been kind of hacking ever since I've been up here. (Continues singing.) I was telling David Paul the other night about a brother that comes to the men's meeting, comes to the service here too and I was telling him the condition of this man and how that we need to pray for him, how that carnality completely had control of him and how sad it was as to the things as to the way his mind functioned. Whereas, he saw me a few days ago, talked to be for quite a bit and told me these things to be a fact that it was exactly that way in his mind and he really wanted to try to get right with God. You know, a lot of times in the men's meeting I'll be talking and some of the people they get kind of frustrated and they look at me as if to say, Well, what's wrong with this preacher? I don't know of anybody saying anything contrary to what he's saying, or whatever he's doing. I just don't understand. But see, what they don't understand is devils and demons are talking and I'm picking up their thoughts. I'm picking the voices up. See? And I'm speaking back to them. Whereas, somebody says, Well, that ain't Bible. Well, the Bible said Jesus perceived their thoughts in His heart and He spoke back to them and said, Why does thoughts arise in your hearts? Why do you let these things come up in your mind? And He spoke back to them and He said, Thou unclean spirit come out of the man and enter no more in to him. So a lot of times I'm saying things, you know, because like Brother Branham again said, You're thoughts speak louder, louder than you could ever imagine. Your thoughts are so loud, the Bible says, Casting down imagine, not to lean to your own thoughts. Your thoughts are so ugly and so degraded and so filthy and so unclean, because you have never been born again. But you that are born again, that have the Spirit of God in you, you've got clean water. Out of your well can't come bitter water. Good water and bad water don't come forth out of the same fountain. So that doesn't come forth out of you. That comes out of you, or people like that, as to thoughts and those kind of things, the Bible speaks of blasphemy and evil and all these things and this defiles the body, the temple, and God can't dwell in it so He has to destroy it. So we draw water out of the wells of salvation with joy. What we are trying to do is, those that are born again, is subdue the body, to bring it to perfection Though in the sight of God it's already dead, it's buried. God don't see anything wrong out of it, but the only thing is it's not subjected so it's your concern, as to be submitted to God to obey Him and to do the things that He wants done as to the fullness of His reward, or to manifest His Spirit on the inside of you into the body. See? He wants to bring forth His Spirit in the body. Like Jesus stayed forth days in the wilderness, stayed with the animals, the wild beast and then returned in the power of the Spirit. Whereas, He had the Spirit before He went into the wilderness. You'd think, My God! There He is. He's God manifested in the flesh. What do you mean returning in the power of the Spirit. Well, He had to do it that way because He was our example. Now, had it not been our example, He was Almighty God, as to the Spirit, to begin with, but because He was born as a boy, a child, that is, and had to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Heaven Father, as to the fullness of the stature of God to be our example. So then, He had to go there just like we do. Away with God. And then He returned in the power of the Spirit and then His fame went throughout the whole earth. They said He commanded the unclean spirits and wonderful, divine things happened and deliverance came. Great miracles took place. And with us today, what we've got to do is submit as to the measure. Whatever the measure is that's what will follow our ministry. That's what we will do. That's what we will have accomplished. Not to think more highly of yourself than we ought to, but soberly according to the measure of faith that's been dwelt to us. Whatever we accomplish in life, as to the benefit of God, whatever we do, whatever we obtain unto that's our measure of faith. Nobody can say nay. They can't lay anything to our charge because we're God's elect and God has justified us, so there is no wrong with us. No one can find wrong with us. So what we want to do is submit the body. completely submit the body to that inner Christ that God may say of us, as it was with Paul, Paul saying, And God has chosen me to reveal Christ in my life, to reveal His Son in my life. I want God to reveal His Son in my life. Whatever measure He can reveal Him in my life I want Him to reveal Him in my life. Somebody told me the other day in talking to me, they are a very fine person, they love the Lord. They said, Well, Brother Pike, I just don't understand you. And I said, Well, you know, I wanted to know why. They said, I have never in my life seen a man that all he ever thinks about and talks about is the Kingdom of God. He said, I like to think about something else, you know, talk about something else. And this had him all shook us. But, folks, let me tell you. It's like I told my wife today. In this filthy generation and the things that are going on, I don't see how you can talk about anything else but Jesus, or think about anything else but Jesus. Seems to me like you'd feel terrible if you even thought about anything else or talked about anything outside of Jesus. I mean that's the way I feel about it. You know, and even day and night, every thought under subjection, doing for Him, talking about Him, trying to project Him. Even then, folks, I can tell you the very best of the people, whether I would have anything to do with it or not, they are falling way short of the mark, way short of manifesting Jesus in our lives, especially as to the early church. We've got too much of our own program, too much of our own plans, too much of our own doings, too much of our own things going that catches our mind, occupies our life, too much to be able to manifest Jesus in our lives and to have lost souls on our minds. Do you love the Lord? Let's give Him a hand, can we? We come here to love Him. I'm going to let you go in a few minutes. I know it's a cold night. I know you'd love to go home, but when you go home, you know, you'll either have to get your Bible, or talk to your wife about the Lord, or get somewhere and do something. If you don't you'll have your children on your mind, you'll have your job on your mind and you'll have your debts on your mind. You'll have everything on your mind and there you'll set for all that time and give that time to the flesh. And do you know that what you give to the flesh you give to the devil, because the devil is the prince of this world and he savors the things that be of the flesh. Sure. He likes to eat, drink, ride, talk, gossip, backbite, plan, go to the ball games. Like somebody came to me just the other day and they said the brother, I guess I got this right, the brother that left not too long ago that I said that his heart wasn't right with God that he got all of his family together and took them to the ball game, now it was either the ball game or some worldly to do. I think he said it was the ball game. They went out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not of us. And of course, if they had believed what i had taught and I was the one that had caused the problem, why didn't they go out and live for God and do something great for God and put me to shame instead of going to the ball games. It's because that's what was in there to begin with. See? That's what it was. That's why it gave problems here. I still have people like that. It still gives problems, but they that trouble me God shall trouble them. Let's be of the same mind, the Bible mind. Can we sing another chorus together? The altars are still open if you'd like to come. Sing this chorus, To Be Like Jesus. (Leads in singing.) One more time. (Continues singing.) Do you love the Lord? I want Brother Jesse's wife to come up here and stand right here. The Lord dwelt with her about something tonight. And if she goes that way it's going to be a lot of help to her. I'd like for her to come and stand right up here if she will. Do you love the Lord? You know, God wants to use you. He would like to use me. He'd like to use the Sister. He'd like to use Jesse. He has a work for you to do. He wants to help you. He wants to strengthen you. He wants to guide you, but you must, of necessity, do the things that please Him if you are ever intending to have His Spirit. There is no other way. His Spirit will not dwell in you unless you surrender your will to do what He wants you to do. Jesse can you come up here and stand with her? When I look out there tonight I see you as a wonderful people, a people that love the Lord. These people come real often to be with you here. Every chance they get they come. I look out there and I see you as a people, but I see you as such a variety of minds. I see you as such a variety of purposes and out of all of you I see very few of you as to really being in God and having the God purpose and moving on with God. Whereas, the Bible said few there be that find it, little flock. But I find very few of you, people that I'm talking to, a lot of times, this goes out on the radio, wherever. Very few people, if you reach thousands of people, out of the thousands of people, sometimes potentially your congregation may be a million, like in Omaha, Nebraska, a station we just went on, the station covers just in Omaha, outside of getting over in Iowa, a million people or more. Whereas, being on the station in Atlanta so many times, two or three million people or more, see? just in the immediately area, but out of the many people that might be listening, or that ou might reach, as to your potentiality, very few of them really have God incentives as far as really going on with God. Now you're reaching millions of religious people if they tuned in, out of all these people and radio stations, T.V.'s and wherever you go, literature, but even though you are, very few of them are really going on with God in a real Christian like manner. Very few. And even the best of them that are going on, hardly ever that you'll find four or five out of tens of thousands that are really anchored in Jesus and doing the way that He wants His people to do. So, thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred fold, walking in the light, dwelling in the city, whatever it might be as to under the regime of a king that will bring the crown into the city periodically. Whatever it might be as to your lot, may be not even going at all. The murderer, the whoremonger, the liars, the cheat outside of the city. The Bible said, And they that believe and make a lie shall not enter into this city, not at all. That is, not enter into this city by day and there is no night there. And the light of that city is the great, the Bible said, her light was most precious, the great mind and knowledge of God. That's what light is in the spiritual world. That's the light of that city. That great wonderful light of Almighty God. I wonder if Brother James Dokes and his wife would come and stand up here with these people? I don't call you out to embarrass you. I call you out to try to work with you and try to help you find your way in the things of God. Being a shepherd my desire is to lead you on to greener pastures. And to help you be leaders and be strengthened in the things of God. I want to help you. Now, a lot of times I look over the congregation, it's my way, I usually just go on. I don't ask anybody to come up to pray for them and just say the sick or needy, or whatever, you know, because people are real easily embarrassed and they don't know what you motives and plans are. We're not here to humiliate or to toy with the body of Christ. So I usually don't call people out, but in the services I will say there is such here, or such and such, whatever you know and so many services, so many people with so many different minds and different things, as to major needs, physically, spiritually, financially, whatever it might be and I try to do whatever I know to do that's right. I wonder if Brother John Umberger and his wife would come and stand up here? Brother Randall Finley and his wife, I wonder if they would come and stand up here? Wonder is Sister Rose could come and stand up here? If you love the Lord say amen. You say, Well, what are you going to do? I'm just going to pray for them, that's all. I'm going to just pray for them. I wonder if Sister Floyd and her daughter could come and stand up here. While we're standing here I want you to stretch your hand out in this direction and I'd like for Brother Richard Schephartz and his wife to come and stand up here if they will. I'd like for you to stretch your hand out in this direction. I wonder if Brother Pete would come and stand up here? I wonder if Brother Gilbert, I don't see Sister Frances. Here. Here she is. Sister Frances. I wonder if Gilbert and Frances would come up and stand up here? I wonder if Steve would come up here? Steve Whitlow. I wonder if he'd come up here and stand up here? And I wonder if Cathy would come up here and stand up here and the Sister standing right close to her, if she'd come up here and stand up here? While we're all standing here together I want you to point your hands in this direction. There is a number of others that I would like to call up here tonight, but I'm not going to call any more, because we've got quite a number of them here. But I'd like for you to point your hands toward us and lift your hands up together and we're going to pray. And I want you to pray for these people and I want these people to pray for you. And we're going to pray. The Bible said pray one for another. And while we're praying together I want everyone of us tonight to purpose in our heart like this. Say, Lord, the eyes of God are upon me and I have left the world and I have got into religion and it is a fearful thing for me, because I have now fallen into the hands of the living God because I've come to the knowledge of the truth. And that after I've known the ways of life and the knowledge of the truth if I transgress (begin tape three, side one.) and go contrary to it then there is no more hope for me, foe then I will have crossed over the great boundary of worlds and it would be the same as if you had blasphemed the Holy Ghost. There would be no more forgiveness any more, for the Bible said once you've come to the knowledge of the truth and you willfully go contrary to righteousness, to know to do good and go it not is a sin. The soul that sinneth shall surely die and you know to do good. And once you come to the knowledge of the truth and then you turn around and willfully go back there remaineth no more sacrifice for your sins but only a fearful looking forward to of the fiery of God that shall devour His adversaries. So then, tonight let's purpose in our heart that God from henceforth and forever, at any time that we stumble, or stagger, or have the wrong thought, or things try to move us toward carnality, as to the lust of the flesh, or the desires of life, or the things that's unlike Jesus, as to making plans for the world to appropriate for the world, Lord we're going to turn away from it. We're going to turn against it. We're going to put it down. We're not going to have that mind because we know that's death, and that should our breath stop at anytime we would immediately be like the rich man in hell. We'd lift up our eyes in the flames, because our spirits, our souls would immediately be gone. Our souls would sink right down into the flames immediately. So tonight we're doing things just a little bit different that it might cause you to think. Not just regular routine service, but that it might cause you to think. I saw in a vision where somebody the other night was wanting a certain woman prayed for. They called her up, said, She need's prayer and they turned to me and said, You need to do that. You need to do that. I had something to come before me. I can't say what it was but it looked as though a car had flipped over, top down, but then it appeared like a coffin come before me. Whereas, to the individual, whereas I can't say anything as to what. That's what it appeared and it appeared the clouds were around the coffin. And then something came before me and I looked and it was as though I saw a woman, whereas I recognized these people in all this that I'm speaking of and I looked and some woman had come up and maybe her daughter and seemed like it had to do with their baby, like their young baby, or one of their children, or something had died, got killed, or something. They were really crying. Whereas I ain't said nothing to my wife about this, or nobody else, but we are always seeing things. And things are always coming to us. Sometimes while we're in the service we see things here and sometimes while we're praying, sometimes we'll just be setting around the home and some times even while talking to the Brethren things are brought before us and we see these things. And we give warning after warning and we ask you to pray for us and we pray for you and we try to tell you the things that's right to the best of our knowledge. That's the truth, so help me God, because we don't have any personal ambitions for anything in life that I know of. So while we're standing here tonight let's consider now the fearfulness. The beginning of wisdom is to fear God and let's consider the fearfulness of falling into the hands of the living God, in that we know He expects it of us. Folks here on the Campground, you've been here a long time. Some of you are bound to know. While we pray together let's just lift our hands up. You pray with me now. Precious Heavenly Father, Lord I come to Thee in the Wonderful name of Jesus tonight knowing that there is salvation in none other name except the name of Jesus and knowing that we are predestined people. Dear God, we're bound, O God! in a direction as of a Heavenly source, God, or of an earthy regime that will cause us to lose our very soul, so tonight I feel you searching my heart and I feel some other hearts that are yielded to you. And while you search their hearts, you said with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and that, Dear, Wonderful God, the only way that man can find salvation was with a pure heart and that you'd purify the heart by faith. That we should not be of a doubtful mind. So then, I'm asking you to search my heart as a shepherd to see if there's any ill motives, any personal motives, as to any intent that would be unchristlike. And I'm asking you to deal with me accordingly, Heavenly Father. Move everything out of my life except Jesus. And I'm asking that these that I called up here, Father, Lord, enter into their hearts, open up their hearts, search their hearts and let them yield their hearts to you that it might be pure, that they might be able to believe, for knowing, Heavenly Father, that if we don't have a pure heart and if we do not yield to Thee then we cannot believe because our heart is desperately wicked outside of Thee, we cannot know it. We have no control over it. But if we do the things that please you hereby we assure our heart to faith and then it will yield and believe. So as the song is saying, Father we are yielding our hearts to you. Our hearts are yielded to you that you might have your own way in our heart. Father, open these hearts. Purge these hearts. Put faith into these hearts and let your wonderful Spirit, even the power of the Holy Ghost, the great Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Christ, God, Himself, the mighty Holy Spirit, let Him enter into these hearts to seal these spirits within these hearts unto you. And may the same thing happen to the congregation. Do these same things that I speak to you of, Heavenly Father, in the hearts of my congregation. Not only them but everyone that hears my voice. Open up their hearts, cleans and purge and purify to bring forth faith unto salvation that their hearts might conceive of the great wonderful spirit of the Christ of God. And help us, Lord, to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus, to conform to Thy ways, Father, that our bodies might manifest this Christ that Christ inwardly might be revealed through us to the world. O Lord, let it be. Father, let us go on to a full reward and a full measure of the full stature, Dear God, until we can say, as Paul, that it's no more us that liveth but Christ that liveth within us and the life that we live we live by the Son of God. So then, God, give us eternal life. Give us Thy wonderful spirit. Bless my people. Don't let my labor be in vain, Heavenly Father, for these are my crown. And I pray that my labor will not be in vain, but every yoke will be broken, Dear God, until they are perfect even as the Father in Heaven is perfect; going on to perfection to be perfect even as their Master, Lord, spotless and blameless in their thoughts and their desires and in their deeds. O, Holy Father, I pray, I pray that you would do the this for me to these people tonight, both in the audience and these that I've called up here for they are very dear to me, Heavenly Father. And God they are my treasure in Thee and I'm jealous over them with a godly jealousy that Satan should never touch them. You said they that are born of God are sealed by the great Holy Spirit and you said, Heavenly Father, they keep themselves and the evil one toucheth them not. I pray that these will not be touched but they'll be sealed to be presented whole, body, soul, and spirit, in the day of your coming to be presented a chaste virgin unto Thee, O God. I ask you to do this. Help me. Help my wife, my children naturally speaking and my spiritual children around the world. Open world evangelism to us, as a people, and help us to have the desire to lay everything aside as to the weights that doth so easily beset us that we might run with patience this race that's set before us, to do Thy will, O God. For as it is written of me in the book, I come to do Thy will, O God. I'm in the world to do Thy will and so are these in the world to do Thy will, O God. These is why that I came into the world, even to love Thine own the way that Thou hast love them, even with an everlasting love. Let it be so. In the precious name of the Holy Ghost of Jesus Christ, Heavenly Father. Hallelujah! Can you lift your hands up while we're singing this little song that Dale's singing. (Sings I Come.) While we've got our hands lifted up let's sing this little chorus together before these go down. The song is called I Will Praise Him. Let's sing together. (Leads in singing.) Can you sing it again, now? If you mean it sing it. (Continues singing.) Now you can go back to your seats. (Continues singing.) One more time. (Continues singing.) Can you praise Him now? Can you praise Him? (Continues singing and sings Time Shall Be No More.) Sing it once again, now. (Continues singing.) Can you sing it one more time, now? Remember, I say again, Calvary was the ending of time and you are the people upon whom the ends of the world come, Peter said. And Jesus declared that it is finished. That time should be no more. The angel with one foot on the land and sea, raised his hand to heaven and swear by Him that liveth forever and ever, saying time shall be no more, for in the days of the voice of the seventh angel when the mysteries shall be finished, as he begins to sound then time shall be no more. Calvary, the end of time. Calvary, the end of time. You're living in your day. You been born into your generation. Looking back to Calvary, now. And Jesus made an end and in the fullness of time God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that were under the law. Calvary, in the fullness of time, to gather all things in heaven and earth into the body of Jesus and today you are just now recognizing it. You're just coming into the place to where you realize you are not time creatures and that you've passed from death unto life. And we're on the verge of the coming of the Lord now and everything is just ready. (Continues singing.) And in the book of Luke He said, Come. Come, now for all things are ready. Come, now, for all things are ready. Now is the time. Now is the time. All things are now ready. (Continues singing.) You know, I wish, I wish that I could just reach out there in my heart to you, to my natural relatives, even my own wife, to my spiritual relatives and could feel the trueness of your heart, the sacredness of your heart, the holiness of your heart, the pureness of your heart, to know that you are free from the things of the world and the lust of the world. But I can't. With many of you I can't do it. It just isn't there. All the doctrine in the world, teaching, it won't change it, but there are some of you that are making an effort down in your heart. Paul said, not until we have obtained unto that, but this we do, forgetting those things that are behind we're pressing forward to the prize and the mark of the high calling, which is in Christ Jesus and he said to you and I, Lay aside every weight that doth so easily beset you and run with patience the race that is set before you. So then, I can tell that of your hearts are toward me. It's toward God. It's toward the things of God. And I can tell that you are going to be pure. Only the pure in heart shall see God. Purify your hearts by faith in Him. See? For only the pure in heart shall see God and if you don't do the things that assure your heart, your heart won't believe. If your heart don't believe it won't be pure, because it's purified by faith. And so then, the only way to make it is through faith and to have a pure heart you've got to convince that heart. And to convince it you've got to do the things that please Him. How often should I do these things? Jesus had this testimony, that I do always the things that please God. And how was it when Enoch was translated that he should not see death but by faith. No other way but by faith. And how was that? Before his translation he had this testimony that he please God. So, beloved friend, let us please God, for he giveth the Holy Ghost to them that please Him. And in giving the Holy Ghost to you the Holy Ghost translates you into another world. So let's do the things that please Him. Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? Let's just lift our hands up together and close our eyes. God loves you and He wants to help you, but you've got to draw nigh to Him. He said, If you'll draw nigh to me, I'll draw nigh to you. But you've got to draw nigh to Him with a pure heart, casting down imagination and all those things that exalt itself against the knowledge of God to bring into captivity every thought to the obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ, to cause this body to conform to His way of life. So whatever you do, draw nigh to the Lord. Draw nigh to the Lord and He'll draw nigh to you. He'll draw nigh to you. While you're standing there I'm going to ask Brother Atlee Beachy to come up here and dismiss us. And while Brother Atlee is coming, Brother Atlee Beachy, if you will come and dismiss us and while he's coming let's just mediate for a few minutes, see if we be in the faith. Faith by the hearing of the Word. If you're listening to the Word, following the Word, then you'll believe. See if you be in the faith. Just to believe what you think, or what you've heard is not enough. That's not faith. See? But to believe the Word, faith by the hearing of the Word. So see if you're believing in the Word and what He says and He desires. And your faith is made known by your deeds. What you believe you'll do. And the Bible said the child is known by his doings and show me your faith by your works. So then, what we do is what we believe, what we believe that's what we do. While Brother Atlee is coming to pray let's everybody just examine ourselves since the day is so close and see if we're in THE FAITH.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord