The Seventh Angel Sounded

I have been saying things pertaining to the revelation of the Lord Jesus. The Bible said that there might be meat in my house. He wants meat in His house. The meat is for the strong, those who have by reasoning exercised their senses to be able to discern between good and evil. That is, people who have meditated in the laws of God and prayed and searched out these things, they are ready for meat. Like the lion, you couldn't give a lion a bowl of pottage, he wouldn't want that. He is a meat eater, and he'll travel for miles to stalk the prey until he can kill that he might have fresh meat and have the taste of that fresh blood, because he is a meat eater and he is strong and powerful. There is meat in the house of God. We do bring meat, and we talk with you about these things, yet the Bible said that if you love Me, feed My lambs, and you have to go back to the milk or something very tender and soft.

I know that Jesus is likened unto a lamb, for the Bible said to be as gentle as a lamb, but He's also liken to the lion of the tribe of Judah. When a lion roars, just about everything in the jungle and around about kind of shirk away and tremble. When he roars, he's the king with those big powerful arms of his and the claws and those powerful teeth, that big old mouth, he throws up his head and he roars. Like Brother Branham said one time, if you're ever in a canyon with a lion when he roars, you just about have a heart attack. When he roars and that roar comes rolling down that canyon, you just about have a heart attack, and you know he's loose and you're in there with him. A lion is like that. He's powerful. So, Jesus is likened to the lion of the tribe of Judah and He's the king. Even in the jungle you find the lion is the king. Although the king lion doesn't really live in a jungle, because if you'll study his life you'll find out that he likes the plains and the open prairies, yet he's right there to go in and out the jungle. It's the same way with Jesus. Jesus really didn't belong to this world or to this sinful image that He bore. He came in and out among the people because He belonged to that wonderful open world that's not a wilderness, to where you can understand and see for miles all around you. Whereas, the beast that are in the jungle can't hardly see anywhere. It's just a chattering of the monkeys and the elephant bellowing and all the conglomeration of confusion and all kind of things going on.

Jesus didn't belong to this world, but He did come down like the lion as to take on this nature. Even among the beast and these that are in the jungle, He was still king, and even though He dwelt in the likeness of sinful flesh, as to relate to the beastly side of life, yet He was a king among them. Jesus conquered everywhere He went. He was outstanding everywhere He went. No one could conquer Him and He always conquered everyone. Even Legion, when they bound Legion with chains, the Bible that said Legion plucked them asunder. He broke those chains and fetters and they could not bind him, no not even with chains. Yet Jesus, gently, loving, kindly, with the God force of heaven just took control of him and made him like a little child. All because He is the master. Like the song we wrote. He's the master wherever He walks. So then, we see more than one portrayal or projection of Jesus. He's gentle as a lamb, harmless as a dove, wiser than a serpent and as strong as a lion. That's Jesus, and if we follow and love Jesus and if we are part of Him, as to His body (bone and flesh), then we are the same. And if we are a part of Him, as to His indwelling Spirit and nature, then are we also the same. We're powerful and strong and ready to handle any situation through Christ.

The Bible said that we should never fear. Jesus said, Fear not. Most people are defeated because of fear. Something can happen that's overwhelming, and all of a sudden fear will come up because Satan likes to conglomerate things. It's even like paying your bills. You'll have everything systemized and going along real good, and then the Devil will cause some carnal minded person that you're trying to work for to hold up your money, and he'll cause this bill to pile up and another bill to pile up, when you'll have them so systematically, and you are so willing to work. Then all of a sudden, as the Bible said, The enemy comes in like a flood. Satan likes to do that. He likes to come in on you as a flood and conglomerate all these things, and we know that, so then we get frustrated and fearful. We get torn up. Even though the Bible teaches that he the enemy, will come in like a flood, yet the Bible also teaches that God will lift up a standard against him, and that if your ways please God, He maketh even thine enemies to be at peace with you. I will make them to come and bow before you and know that I have loved you because you're the temple of God and God is in His temple. Let all the world keep silent, for they shall all be taught of God, and when you speak, that is God.

So, we see that God has given us a great thing. We're one with our heavenly Father, and need to refuse to be afraid. Jesus said, Don't be afraid. Don't fear. He would say, Only believe. When these things come sweeping in on you like a flood and it looks like the whole world is falling in on you, and you can't pay your bills, and you can't find your way out, and you're just nervous and shaking like they're just going to completely rob you and take all that you've got, don't do that. That's foolishness, because your confidence is not in your ability, and neither is your confidence in the arm of flesh, as to trust anyone with whom you deal with or whatever. Your trust is in God. It was not a man that said he would supply all of your needs according to his riches in glory, for man hath no riches in glory. It was God that said that. So then, God is with you, and He'll never leave you nor forsake you. He said, Lo, I am with you always, even until the end of the world. So, you can walk in the Lord and you can talk with the Lord, and you'll never lose anything good. He'll give you all good things, and the Bible says that all things will work together for you and to your good, and you'll be on mountain top after mountain top, and you'll just glide over the valley like a glider, and stand on the mountain tops of victory over and over and over. They sing that song about palms of glory. Have you ever heard that song? Songs of victory, and it speaks of a man in the evening time that was struggling to get up the mountain, and how that he reached the mountain top, and then he sings songs of victory. So that's the way we are.

We are on the verge of a great, mighty move of God. Whereas, there's already been a great, mighty move of God, but you didn't see it, you didn't get it, and you didn't take hold of it. Even to the extent that you did not see it manifested in your mortal genes. But those that are true saints of God are on the verge of a great, mighty move of God. It will be so powerful that it will actually change their mortal bodies into the brightness that's greater than the noonday sun, and it will be so tremendous because we already have this heavenly vision of God. The heavenly work has been done inside of us, and we have this heavenly treasure in these earthen vessels, and it's gradually working its way out. For now is made known to the church, the manifold wisdom of God, and it's gradually working its way out, that this life of Christ on the inside might be made manifest in your mortal genes, that all the world may see the glory of God within you, and we're on the verge of this. See, and much that we could say about it.

Peter said that though you know these things, yet as long as I'm in this tabernacle, I see fit to stir up your pure mind in these things. This is why that I refer sometimes to the things that I'm about to refer to now, to bring it back to your memory to dwell on it. The other night we started talking on Revelation chapter 10, and I've never talked to you from this chapter, concerning time no longer, except for that night. I've talked to you a number of times about time being over, but I never took anything to minister to you about it, as to time no longer, yet I did the other night, and I only got to talk about it a very little bit.

So, it says here in the fifth verse, "And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And swear by Him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:" (Revelation 10:5,6). I don't know whether you've ever paid any attention to the book of Genesis or not, but as in the beginning, so is it is in the end, for the Bible said that God created the heavens and the earth and the seas and all of the things therein, and when this angel speaks of this, he refers back to that. He has the reference, as to God creating heavenly things after a heavenly order, and then creating earthly things after an earthly order, and then creating things in the sea after an order of that which is water. So, he says here that He created heaven and the things that therein are, and the earth and the things that therein are, and the sea and the things which are therein, and that there should be time no longer. Now, this angel is swearing by the God that did all this creating, and it says, "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the prophets." A lot of people read this, and a lot of people comment on this, but they don't go any further with it.

Now, things have been happening as of late. I know that many of you that hear my voice are natural minded, and you don't see things happening around you, yet something great and mighty in the Spirit is taking place and I'm looking at those things, and I'm watching those things. While you eat and drink and have a good time and frolic and do the things of the world and buy and sell and reason in your human being, as to what you are and who you are and what you know and all these kind of things, I just kind of sail along on the wings of the Lord and enjoy the wonderful revelation of Jesus Christ.

Whereas, I have a few, very few, that see these things and occasionally see something godly. So, I know that I have some here that are watching and some that are getting some things from God. Some are in the mind of Christ, but the most of you are not in the mind of Christ, so far as being active in the mind of Christ. You're active all day long in your natural mind, in your natural desire, in your fleshly passions, and your fleshly ambitions, and all these things that are natural, as to your body, as to your face, as to your money, as to your position, as to your wife, as to your husbands, as to your family, as to planning and digging and buying and selling and building and going and all these kind of things. The devil, who savors the things that be of the flesh, he uses up your entire life with these things, while others live differently, meditating in His laws. There always listening, and always standing upon their watch to see what He will say to them when they are reproved of Him.

So then, He said, In the days of the voice. A lot of people read this and they say, "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the prophets," and that's about all they do. That's about as far as they go. They may comment and preach on it, but it seems that they never get around to pointing out that this angel sounded. And we've tried to point out to you that it isn't just something hanging here in the balance, but as the things of God have an end, these things have an end. Though the declaration of this thing was made here, as to the fact that he would sound, yet it continues on like all the other Scripture, and it points out that it did sound, as to when he sounded and where he sounded, and what significance it was. So, it says when he sounds, the mystery of God should be finished. Then, immediately leaving Revelation 10 and following right on through Revelation 11, coming down to the fifteenth verse, we find the seventh verse said that in the days of the voice when he sounds, the mystery will be finished." Then we find in the fifteenth verse of the eleventh chapter, "And the seventh angel sounded," and he sounded, which means, beginning from the eighth chapter these seven angels begin to sound. Each one of them sounded until it got down to the last three, and when it got down to the last three of these angels, it was said then, "Woe, woe, woe." Like we say that one woe cometh, and then another woe cometh. Woe unto them that are at ease in Zion. That is, problems, problems, problems, or sorrows, sorrows, sorrows. So, the last three of these soundings are the three woes of Revelation that Revelation speaks of. But it's still the same seven trumpets that's sounding from Revelation 8 where the last seal was open, and when He had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. That's the eighth chapter. The others had been opened, and now here the last one is open.

So, we find that prior to the sounding of the seven trumpets, these seven seals are opened. Beginning in chapter six: "And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see." Then, all through the sixth chapter these seals are opened, and all through the seventh chapter it goes right on. And then the last one is opened in the eighth chapter. So then, seven angels stand with their trumpets. They sound and all kind of things begin to happen in the earth. I can't elaborate on that now. I've talked on it just a little bit before, but all kind of things begin to happen. There was locusts turned loose upon the earth. There was hail mingled with fire, and there the ocean and the sea began to turn into blood, and these torments of a scorpion began to strike, and all of these horrible, hideous things begin to happen. The moon begin to turn into blood and the stars began to fall from heaven. All these things began to happen, and it was during this time that in the fourteenth verse of the ninth chapter, it was said to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, "Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates."

Now, a lot of times we don't connect these things together, but if you'll notice, it said that it was in the sounding of the sixth trumpet. Then, if you'll go over to the sixteenth chapter of the book of Revelation, down at the twelfth verse, you'll find where it says, "And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared." You see the harmonious connection? It was the sixth trumpet that spoke of the river Euphrates and the loosening of angels, and it was the sixth vial that was poured out on the river Euphrates, as to make way for the coming of the kings of the east, and I said that was to bring about the abomination of desolation that Daniel spoke of, which would be the end of the world. That is to say, the armies of the world compassing Jerusalem. So then, we see all these things are harmonious. When does this happen? All these other things happen before this seventh angel sounds in the fifteenth verse of the eleventh chapter, even the loosening of the angels in the river Euphrates. But the pouring out of the vials, as to the sixth vial, it is after that the seventh angel sounds because this is the seven last vials, filled up with the wrath of God. The fifth vial that is poured out here is upon the seat of the beast, and his kingdom is filled with darkness, which means intellectual ignorance, and they can't even find any healing medicines anymore. God the healing is gone because there's really no healing in medicine. It's only God giving you that as babes until you can come to your perfection in faith to believe in healing without some kind of a herb or some kind of earthly remedy. He only gives you these earthly remedies, just like He gives to you earthly life, but then after a certain period of time, you don't have this earthly life anymore because this earthly life is given to you with all the earthly cares and comforts and additives. It is given to you for a certain period of time that you might, during that period of time, perfect your life before God or to find eternal life. If you don't find it during that period of time, then when this period of time is over, you are eternally gone. You are eternally cut off.

It's like a baby that's growing. The little baby is nursing a bottle, and then from that he goes on baby food, and after that he has to switch over to a new way of life. He's continually switching over to a new way of life. He's got to get off of milk. You that are babes in Christ, you know you desire the sincere milk of the Word that you might grow thereby, but someday you have to switch over to the meat because you can't live on milk all of your life and have any strength or really mature into manhood. You can't do that. You've got to switch over to meat somewhere. You've got to do it. That's why we teach you what we teach you, because we want you to switch over to the meat.

I like a glass of milk myself, but we're bringing you milk, and we're trying to get you to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are trying to feed the lambs. Jesus said that if you love Me, feed My lambs. We're trying to gradually switch you over and teach you everything that we can. Even our little ones that we have in school, we try to tell them all that we can on a child's level, and then the more that they develop, we try our very best to get them into some meat of the Word, even if it's ground up meat, as to baby food, as we would say, that we might switch them over.

I watched the little calves today, and it was real amusing because a few days ago, they were catching the bag of the mother, and they'd just hunch and pull and suck the milk. Then, today I saw one of them going along the little pathway, and he was nibbling and eating the grass. He had switched over and he wasn't bothering the mother. He wasn't even right at the mother, but was off from the her, just eating and going along having himself a time. He was getting off on his own. That's what you have to do. You've got to get on the meat of the Word. So then, we're working with you and we're trying our very best to do that.

It says, "And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever." So then, what are we saying? We're saying that in the time of the voice of the seventh angel, there was a declaration made. It said that the seventh angel shall sound and the mystery of God should be finished, and here the seventh angel sounds, and what is the finishing of the mysteries of God? It said that when he sounded, there were great voices, not as a voice in heaven saying, but there were voices in heaven saying that the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ, and He shall reign forever and forever. I believe that some of those voices had to do with the saints of God, don't you? Some of them that's departed from the body and went on, and even you and I which are in heaven, making this declaration from the heavenly place that we are in, and these voices ringing back saying, The mystery is finished. The mystery is finished. The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and forever, and the Bible said that at this, the four and twenty elders fell down on their face before God. Then, they threw their crowns down, as we would say, and began to worship God and say, We give Thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art and was and art to come, because Thou hast taken to Thee Thy great power and hath reigned.

So, we know that this is the catching up of the man child. This is the reigning of God, and this is where He begins to exercise His power, because the Bible said that at the time that the man child is caught up, he rules with a rod of iron, and the nations were angry and Thy wrath is come. It's very obvious that the nations are angry right now. The nations are angry everywhere. Cuba's angry, Russia's angry, America's angry, and the Philippines, everywhere people are angry. They're angry one with another. the man with his wife, the wife with the man, the parents with the children, the children with the parents, the prisoner with the guards, and the guards with the prisoner. Nation against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and person against person. All these things are happening because the nations are angry. It says here, "And the nations were angry," and it goes on to say, "And Thy wrath is come." This is why they're angry. "And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear Thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth."

Now, let me comment as we go along here. It goes on to say, "And the temple of God was open in heaven, and it was seen in His temple the ark of His testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail." Remember, already long before now, there has been a sixth seal opened, and the Lord has already appeared in the heavens, as to the sign of the coming of the Son of Man, and here we are way over here now, and we're talking about something else. Then, when we get over a little bit further, as into Revelation 14, we see the Lamb standing on the mountain, and the Bible here again speaks of one coming out. It says, "And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one set like unto the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle." That's 14:14 in the book of Revelation. See, it seems like He comes and He comes and He comes. I wish we had time to go into that and explain it, but I want to dwell on a thought or two here, as to try to exhort you a little.

We notice now that the seventh angel sounds at the time when the nations are angry. It also says, "And the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever." So we know that the last angel sounding also brings the kingdoms of this world to be the kingdoms of God and of His Christ, that He might rule and reign forever and ever. Then we look at it again and it said that the time of the dead, as to them being judged, is come. So, we know then that the resurrection is also at the time of the sounding of this last trumpet, which makes us to understand something else, for the Bible said that the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with the voice of God, and the trump of God, and the voice of the archangel, and He will come and descend right out of the heavens. Of course we know that's got to be the last trump, because the Bible said that then the dead in Christ shall rise. So, now we're looking here at the seventh trumpet, and we get confused if we don't understand, because we say that this is the seventh trumpet of the seventh angel, yet we're talking about Thessalonians change and the coming of the Lord, when the trump of God shall sound. So then, we wonder what's going on. See, but again I tell you, it's very obvious that here it says the nations are angry, and the time of the dead that they should be judged is come, and reward to the servants, and reward to the saints and them that feared Him, small and great, to destroy them that's been destroying the earth with all these things.

Well anyway, I just said all of those things to make you stop and think, or to remember, that in this there is a great significance, as to the sounding of the voice of the last angel. We say the sounding of the voice because the Bible said to lift up thy voice like a trumpet. Like the thunders, when they rolled, they uttered their voices. So, we know that this is an angelic thing. It's an angelic source. It's an angelic activity, and it is the angels of God, one behind another carrying on the work of God, in that the angels are ministering spirits for them that are heirs of salvation. These angels came to Jesus during the time of the wilderness and they comforted and talked with Jesus, and they tried to help Him. Whereas, someone would say, "Brother Pike, won't they come and comfort us?" They could come and comfort us, but there's no need for them to come and comfort me, because I have the Holy Ghost, and He is the angel of Christ Jesus. He is the Spirit of Christ that is inside of me and with me all the time to comfort me. So then, He is a comforter. I will send you the comforter, even the Spirit of truth. That is the angel of Christ whom the world cannot receive because they cannot see Him, but we see Him through the eyes of understanding. We comprehend and see Him, and He shall be in you the Bible says, and He shall guide you into all the truths of God, all the ways of God, and He will save and heal you, and He will deliver you from all of your diseases, and He will deliver you from all of your sins and trespasses, and He will comfort you in the time of your bereavement.

So then, we find that this angel is to sound. What relation does he have to the seven angels? He is one of the seven angels. He is the last angel of the seven that starts to sound in Revelation 8, and he is related to them even more because he is the third woe. He is the last of the three angels that are considered the woes. So, his sounding is still a woe, which means trouble and problems in the day of his sounding. It's going to be a great judgment. There's going to be a great troubled time, and all these things are going to come upon the world during the time of the sounding of this last angel.

So then, I know when I minister to a lot of you, that you're not ready for the sounding of that last angel. You're not ready for the things of God. You're not ready for the change. See, you're not ready because you're not applying yourself, and you're not going on into spiritual things, and you're still looking back into Egypt. Whereas, I tell you again, the Bible tells us that any man having put his hands to the plow and looking back into Egypt is not fit for the kingdom of heaven, which means he's not ready. He's not ready for the change. If you put your hands to the plow and you still have making money on your mind, or having businesses on your mind, or being in the world and being a celebrity, or gossiping and backbiting and having tempers and all of these things,

Paul said, Are ye not yet carnal? When you come to church, you come to hear the Word of God, but you don't listen to the Word of God. You get up and go out to the fellowship rooms and sit down there, or you go up to the rooms where the little children are to be taken when they're out of sorts. You wander to and fro, and your minds wonder to and fro. Paul said, Are ye not yet carnal? Aren't you still taken with spirits, and are you not yet carnal? The Bible said to be carnally minded is death. Today, you're with this group over here, tomorrow you're with another group. You're over here doing your thing one day, and the next day you want to do the things of God. Are ye not yet carnal? You have your mind all day long on how you're going to make money and pay your bills and do all of these things. Like they were doing down there in Egypt, the same thing that the Jews were doing. Are ye not yet carnal when you do all of these things, when you're temperamental and when you're always talking about something natural, and always your conversation all day long is natural, when the Bible said to let your conversation be in heaven, and that ye are they that dwell in heaven? How could you talk of anything else if you are in heaven? You are not in heaven, that's why you talk of earthly things. If you were in heaven, you would talk of heavenly things. You wouldn't stay in California very long talking about things in Georgia. Your heart would be back in Georgia. It's like your looking back into Egypt, and your heart is back in Egypt, you've turned back into Egypt, and after a while you'd be coming back to Georgia leaving California. You understand what I'm saying?

Many of you have started out into this. Whereas, the Bible said that God was not pleased with all of them that came out of Egypt, for all that came out of Egypt is not of the army of God or the people of God. They're not of them. Many of them have turned back into Egypt in their heart. Though they're with the people even as Judas was, yet their heart, their life, their desire, their ambition, their thoughts, and all of the meditation of their heart is back out into the world. They still have those things out in the world in their heart, and the Bible said that if the love of the world is with you or in you, then the love of the Father is not there, so you couldn't be ready.

They that are meditating in His laws day and night, they that are searching and seeking for everything that will please Him and are trying to conform to His way of life, these are children of God, and these are they that love God, and these are they that have not their minds back into the things of the world. They don't have their minds on the flesh. Satan savors the things that be of the flesh. All that is of the world is of the flesh, and the flesh desireth it because Satan stimulates the appetite toward that. So then, all of the world is to pass away, and everyone that's in the world must pass away but we're not in the world, for God has chosen us out of the world and we're hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the time of the restoring of all things.

So then, though you see our body, as to a natural source in the earth, it is dead and buried and inactive, and we've mortified the deeds in the flesh. We've done away with that. We're not active in that. We don't follow after that. We don't desire that. We have no time for that because in our heart we are constantly meditating, continually praying to God, continually programming our mind to try to be about the Father's business and to please the heavenly Father, to do the things that is of God, to love Him with all of our heart, with all of our mind, with all of our strength, and to do everything that we can toward humanity, as to turn them to Christ, and let them know about this wonderful salvation. Always praying, "Father, Thy kingdom is now come within our heart, thy will be done on earth as in heaven." The law and the prophets until John, since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, for the kingdom of God came and God gathered all things into Christ and thus came the end of the world. Little wonder that Peter should say that ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come because here comes the kingdom of God. When the kingdom of God came, then the world was no more, no more, no more, no more. So, the world was no more. Jesus said that it is finished and then He said, as to the Word, that in the fullness of time. So then, we know that was it, and we know that from that time it's been the church ages, and we know that from that time the kingdom of God has been here.

So, someone would say, "Well, what I don't understand Brother Pike is if the kingdom of God is here, then why am I still in the world?" I do not know how to explain that to you, other than the fact that the Bible said that if this be hid, it be hid to them that are lost, in that Satan, the god of this world, has blinded your eyes of understanding, and you cannot see when good comes, and you cannot find your way through the intellectual darkness of the wilderness that you dwell in. Because it's very obvious that since the kingdom of God has come, all of them that love God has been translated into the marvelous kingdom of God. And the Bible said for God hath already translated us into the marvelous kingdom of our God. That's why we're in heaven. How could you be in the kingdom of God and not be in heaven? How could you do that? So then, we know that we are in heaven. We're not in the earth. We're not of the earth. We're not part of the earth. We've been translated out of this body, out of this world, out of this flesh, out of the kingdom of darkness and into the marvelous kingdom of light. For the Bible said for God has translated you out of that kingdom of darkness into the marvelous kingdom of light by the transformating of your minds and the renewing of your spirit, even to the washing of your bodies by the pure water, having been baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin, having been planted together with Him in His likeness unto death.

So then, we have been resurrected with Him in the likeness of His resurrection, and we are sitting in the heavenly places. So, the kingdom of God is come. Now then Father, Thy will be done on earth as in heaven. That's what I'm trying to do, is preach His will in the earth and say, "Folks, be holy in body and in spirit, that you might do the will of God, that ye should not walk after the flesh, to go after the spirit of this world, whoring after the things of this world, even Satan's spirit that savors the things of the world. That is to say, within your flesh there dwelleth no good thing. Your body is now dead by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, and your spirit is free now from the body and all of this lust of that satanic force that works within your flesh, and now the warring is over to the extent that you've won the battle through Christ, as God said concerning Israel, Thy battle is won. So then, our battle is won, and we've passed from death unto life. Now we've won the battle and this is the victory that overcame the world, even our faith of Christ Jesus, in believing what He did in our behalf in that He overcome the world for us.

So then, we should never let our hearts be troubled or afraid. We are the saints of God. We are the children of light. We're translated into the great kingdom of light, which means understanding. In God, we're not in arrears or in darkness anymore, as to intellectual frustration, confusion, anxieties of the world and covetousness, and all of these other things of the flesh. We're not in that anymore. We're not in the flesh. We're not in the world but we're in Heaven, where all things are peaceful and where there's never any confusion. The Bible said that he that keepeth his mind stayed upon Christ Jesus shall have perfect peace, for all the paths of God are peace. They that make peace shall be called the children of God. So then, we see this marvelous thing again. We understand again, and I know when I dismiss the service, the light will go out, and you'll go right back into your natural, dark, frustrated way of life. You'll go right back to your fears, frustrations, anxieties and ambitions, and just saying within your heart, "I'm a child of God. I've just got to make more money. I'm a child of God. We've got to get us a little home. I'm a child of God. We need a little plantation. I'm a child of God. We need to eat, drink, ride, buy and sell and do all the natural things of the world. I'm a child of God. We need to visit our relatives, and we need to do a little bit of this and a little bit of that, and read a little bit of the newspapers, and a little bit of the magazines, and look at the television a little bit. We need to mix all this up. We're happy children of God, and now we need to know all about this world, so that we can get our part of it."

Folks, let me tell you, that has nothing to do with God. That proves that you are not a child of God. You have nothing to do with God. You're completely alienated from the wealth of God, and you are wandering around in darkness and you've never come to this marvelous light. But when you begin to think, "I'm a child of God. I don't want to mess with the things of the world. I'm a child of God. I want to pray. I want to fast. I want to help somebody. I want to talk to them about the Lord. I want to evangelize the world. Whatever I do, I want to share with God, and anything that I have to do, as being pressed with necessity, as to what I'm to do in this world, I want to make it a ministry for God. I want to do something for God. I want to meditate in His laws day and night. I want to sing and praise God. I want to rejoice in the Lord always. I want to be about my Father's business," then are you children of God. So, by their doings you can tell them. You can tell the difference. No matter what they testify to, you can tell the difference as to what they are.

So then, we get back to the major theme of our thought here. The law and the prophets until John, and so what now? The kingdom of God is here, and men are pressing their way into the kingdom of God. Now the enlightenment of the kingdom of God is toward the end, as to the finishing of the mysteries, that we might recognize that the kingdom of God did come at Calvary and that it was over at Calvary, and now that time shall be no more, we're to be under the control of time no more. We're no more time creatures. Time is a killer and has been a killer ever since it started from the garden experience. It is a killer. It kills your loved ones. It kills you. It kills your inspiration. Time is a killer because the Bible speaks of that killer as being the shadow of death. As I said, when that shadow came, they started to telling time by a little dial clock. So then, the shadow was the killer, and the shadow is what became time.

David said that I walk in this valley of the shadow. I'm from the mountain tops of glory. I'm not of this world. I came from there. I'm in the valley. I go back to there, Jesus said. Now you're of the dust, He said, you that are not children of God, you that are not quickening spirits, you that are not born of the heavenly body, the heavenly Spirit, you are of the world. You come from the world. You go back to the world. But see, we are one with Jesus, and we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, and we're one with His Spirit. We're one with the heavenly Father, which means we came from God, and we were in the foreknowledge of God. That is to say, I was in the foreknowledge of God, and here I am down here, so I came from heaven. I was over there in His foreknowledge before the world ever was, and now I am in the kingdom of God, for God hath translated me into the marvelous kingdom of God, and there is no shadows there because that is the world of light. This is the great city wherein we are the lively stones, and being this bride of Christ in this city, there is no shadows, for the Bible said the Lamb is the light thereof, or that is the Word of Spirit. It is the Word of life. That light, that Word, that Spirit, was made flesh and the Bible said that lest we eat of His flesh and drink of His blood, we have no life in us. So then, here we are in the end of the world. Where is the world? It's gone and time shall be no more. Because what is the world? It's the era of time. So, when the first world passed away, that was the end of that world.

So then, the world is a system. Someone said, "But we're still on the earth." I know, because it doesn't speak of that. It speaks of the end of the world. Peter spoke of that as the old world having passed away, and then comes Calvary. Now, here is the second lap of the way. You are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. We came into this place, as to the first world going away, then there came in a body of people and a kingdom. Then, with that kingdom being put away, in that the Jews looked for it in the wrong way, as to observation, then there came in the kingdom of God, the kingdom taking its second dimensional step, as to first heaven and second heaven, and it was in that heaven that Lucifer is seen, as in the book of Revelation, because Satan can live within the human body during the time of this kingdom age. He can live in the human body because blood is on the seat of atonement, and in that he is there, he is not out into the outer darkness, the intellectual darkness. He can transform his mind even as preachers, and minister the words of light, and be religious like that man was doing in that state of hypocrisy the other night. See, and being a reflector, bringing all of this glory to himself, and the praise and the honor, as they bow to you that you might praise them and make a fuss over them. Whereas, Jesus said, I can do nothing of Myself. He sought not to make a reputation of Himself, and yet He had a mind that believed that He was equal with the Father.

So then, we see all of that is to pass away. I say this to you again as I've said in the past, in Revelation 12, where the great war starts, which I could say something here that I said to my wife the other night concerning this battle royal and what it has to do with Brother Branham's followers and some of our people here. But I'm not going to try to say that tonight. Maybe sometime I will get into the present truth as today's revelation, but I'm saying this that all of a sudden here is war in heaven. The woman is in travail and the child is being born now. That is to say, the rent veil, as to the opening of the matrix, the curtain is opening on the last drama and the child coming forth. The man child ruling, caught up to the throne to rule with a rod of iron. There he is, the members of that body, and there he is caught up.

So then, he is born, and then there is war in heaven. The red dragon is in heaven. That is to say, the old blood life is covered by the blood, to the extent that Judas was covered by it. See, because God has never let Satan, as of yet, enter into their heart, as he did Judas at the last supper, when they went out into the darkness. He hath not let him enter into their heart, as of yet, as to this extent, that they know exactly that they are betrayals to God Almighty. And in that they are betrayers to God, once they come to this knowledge of the truth, Satan enters in and there's no more sacrifice for them, which is at the end of the age, and then the light goes away and the darkness comes.

The sun, as to the light. The nova, the catching away, as to the bride, and then there is ignorance in this world. They still frolic. They still do their natural things. They still go on with their lust. They call themselves freaks and demons, and they call themselves all kind of things, and they go on with these things. But as to knowledge and understanding of life which is God and the right way, it's no more. They'll eventually drift away from religion altogether. Right now, they're in a state of hypocrisy in religion, because they are reflectors of your light. That's why they are so many churches and so many preachers. That's why there's so many people that are religious in the world today, but they are reflectors. At the end time, the Bible said that even some of them that have knowledge shall fall, which you see that in the people that are on television, preachers and whatever. They're fallen. The Bible said to try some of them, to purge them, to make them white in the blood of the Lamb, as to them that are God people that shall fall seven times, and yet get back up.

All right, so we see it is the end of the world. The world is passed away, and now the kingdom of God is here, and we, as the dear children of God, have been translated into the wonderful kingdom of God. Somebody says, "Brother Pike, when is the rapture going to take place and when are we going to just be caught away? Now, is there a difference?" There is a difference, as to using the term rapture, because it's not a biblical word, and there is a difference in the sense that rapture has to do with catching up, but at the same time, the catching up is to be elevated above the flesh, as to your spirit coming out of the body, being caught up into heaven and your body being buried in the earth, as to a water baptism, and though you're in the world today in your body, that is a burial ground. People that are there are dead in trespasses, and they are dead while living in pleasure. They are twice dead, some of them having committed the unpardonable. So, your spirit went back to God who gave it. You're equal to the angels. You've passed from death unto life, because you're now a quickening spirit.

So then, differentiating the separating, the catching up of the man child. That is to say, the resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection, over which the second death hath no power, as to the lake of fire. I am caught up in the first resurrection. How can that be? Because Jesus said, I am the resurrection, and I've passed from death unto life because I believed in the resurrection. He's in me and I'm in Him, and I have been moved to the marvelous kingdom of God.

So, where am I? I'm in heaven. I've already been caught up, but if we want to go to the body, in relationship to the resurrection and the change of the purchased possession which is the body, as to the body of that death with the purging and purifying, which relates to the coming in of the Jews which will bring Thessalonians change of the body, and bring the dead bodies out of the grave; if you want to go to that, then you say rapture or the body being caught up, because He appears in the heaven in His natural body, as you would say, and yet He's a spiritual being, and you that are alive and remain, seeing Him at His coming, will be changed into His likeness. But you that are spiritual and that understand, you that can hear My Words, Jesus said; folks, that's over. That's gone. That's past. You are in that place like I said in the millennium vision that I had. You made it. You went into that place. You are there, and it would take a long while to exhort you and stir your minds toward those things.

So, we find that we're already there. We've already done that. We're already about our Father's business. We've already got power over the devil. Greater is He that is within us than he that is in the world. We're not waiting for the change of the body, though we know our redeemer, as Job said, shall stand and set His feet upon this earth. I know that, and I shall see Him with my own eyes and not another, I shall see Him myself. But folks, let me tell you, things are happening far greater than you can ever imagine. You that wait for that event and look forward to it without coming to the understanding of what we're saying, as to what God is doing, you're not going to be in that event. You're not going to be in that. The Jews looked forward to the Messiah coming, but they were blind. They did not understand spiritual things, that His kingdom was not of this world. And when He came, they were not in that kingdom. They're not in that kingdom today. They're in the outer courts, in the outer part. They don't have anything to do with this innermost, as to the holy of holies, or this holy place, as to that which is within you. They don't have any part in that because they cannot see. They cannot understand.

So then, that means that you that don't understand what we're saying when we sing the song, "Time Shall Be No More," or when we say it is finished and the fullness of time is now come, and the kingdom of God is now in the earth, and now Father, Thy will be done on earth as in heaven, for all things have passed away in Christ, and He hath gathered all things into Christ in the fullness of time, and now there's nothing but Christ, and all of that which is without is the darkness, and it's about to be revealed, as to the gnawing of their tongues for pain. God is about to shake the cities of all the world down, and they are fixing to experience the greatest calamity that has ever struck the world. A total calamity that will ravish and tear down the entire structures of humanity.

We see this, and I know that some of you are not understanding tonight. Some of you think you understand, but you're still not understanding, and some of you that are trying so hard to understand, God will give it to you, if you will be sincere. Yet, I know that when we go about this far, you know, that some of you got to go back to your body and your eating and drinking, and you have to get back to feeling free, to walk and talk and laugh and do whatever's nothing. I know that. All day doing nothing, I know that, and we're fixing to let you go back to the tables of doing nothing. But at the same time, you that are eating at the tables of God, you cannot eat at the tables of devils and eat at the tables of God. You become vomit on His tables. All of My tables are full of vomit, because of the lukewarmness, in that I spew you out of My mouth. Religious, but neither hot nor cold.

But nevertheless, to you that are the sanctified in Christ, that have been translated into this marvelous kingdom of light, we're here as a voice to tell you this, that you might be ready at the midnight cry, as to the change. To the others, which I hope we don't have anymore of them here, we're here to tell you that you can be ready at the tables of flesh. That is to say, you eat and drink and especially on Sundays, and you can be ready for your business, and ready for your mind of planting and buying and selling and digging and going and giving. We tell you all these kind of things so that you can be ready. I'm here to tell you that. That this light may blind you so that you might not see when good comes, because when light comes, it blinds creatures of darkness, so that you can go on to your lust of the flesh and gullible desires of the flesh, and the things of your own way of life, having your own mind and doing your own thing. This is what we're here for, to blind you and to keep this sword turning every way as a flame of fire so that you cannot get into this garden. The reason for this is because you're not dead. To see God you have to die. No man can live and see God, and you're still alive in the flesh. You can't get into this, because this flaming sword is still there, to make sure that you can't get in because of you being carnal.

All you can do is come and look, but you can't come in. You can't come in. You can be right with it, just like Judas was, but he never did get in. So far as the grace of God and so far as the blood being on the seat of atonement, you can feel that. You can enjoy that. You can even get healing through that. But, so far as your spirit being translated into His Spirit or being one with His Spirit, you can't do that. You can't get in. There is no way that you will ever get in, and every day will bring you to the same place that you were before. Every day you will awake to do the same things, in that you're under the constraint of your own desire and your own doings and your own way of life. You're under that bondage, as to the mind of the beggarly elements of this world. Ye are a bondschild, as to the bondswoman, in that the woman is the world and you're children of this world. You belong to this world. You love the things of this world, and if the love of this world is in you, then the love of God isn't there.

But ye that are born of the new city New Jerusalem, as to Sarah the mother of us all, and not Hagar the bonds-one that answers to bondage, as to Mount Sinai, which is in bondage with her children as the Jew is today, that relate to the world and all of them that are in the world, as to the bondschild, but you have the mind of Christ, and you're in the world of light, in the kingdom of light, and you are born of heavenly Jerusalem which is the mother of us all. So then, the veil has been moved from you, and you can see, to know that it's nigh, even at the door, and you are people that have eternal life.

Folks, I pity many of you because I know that you don't have eternal life, and I know that you won't come to Me, Jesus said, that you might have eternal life. Yet, you hear all these things, but you do not hear My voice, Jesus said. If you could, then you would be My sheep. Someone would say, "Well, I hear." The proof that you do not hear My voice, Jesus said, is that you do not the things I say, and My sheep hear My voice and they follow Me, and where I am, there is My disciples also, and they do My will and they hear My voice, and the proof of that faith in My voice, as to the Word, is their daily activities toward the pleasure of Christ, and doing always the things that please the heavenly Father.

In the proof that you did not hear His voice, then you only heard a sound as to words from the preacher, and that because blood is on the seat of atonement still as of yet, to give grace that the demon spirits might leave your mind momentarily, while there is an atmosphere created for you that you might rest in God during the time of the sermon. That's the only reason that you even hear what you do hear, as even to the sound. But the trumpet gives an uncertain sound to you. You cannot determine, you cannot understand, you cannot position things, and you do not know what to do because you're caught with that worldly desire and hunger and thirst, and the great Holy Spirit, though it be poured out upon you, as to the hearing and the listening to the wooing, yet when the atmosphere is lifted, you go back to the mind that possesses you, even the mind of the bondschild, to be carried away with the things of the world having no time to be holy.

There is a continual warfare between your body and your spirit, and that's the crossing. That's what the cross symbolizes, as to that between heaven and earth. Heaven versus earth, and so then, it is there. In this continual warfare, one must die. Either the body must die and submit to the spirit, or either the spirit must forsake all of its ways and die. Either the spirit dies in forsaking all of its ways, which are Christ's ways, or either the body dies forsaking all of its ways, which is the body of this death, even satanic ways.

So then, as Satan has interrupted and infested the body and infiltrated the body, so has Christ, to the believer, come into your heart and spirit, to fill you up to the overflowing of the abundance of living, and rejuvenate you with life. The continual warfare is there. It's up to you as to what you will do.

I hope that you can see that it's late. It's not growing late, it's already late, late, late, and the wonderful, glorious things of God as Brother Branham has said, It's passed through the church world and they'll never see it. And they didn't, they were too busy with ball games and petting parties. Too busy with their hunger and thirst for the things of the world, as to the prodigal, filling their bellies with the husk that the swine did eat, and it passed right through them. But you that have been exposed to these things, that have some knowledge, as to somewhat of what I'm saying, you get ahold of God with all of your might. Even if you just have a little spark, begin today to change your life, and don't go back into the world with the same old mind that you had before, because if you do, you'll forget. Paul said that the only way for you to be saved is to keep in remembrance these things which I've taught you, and he said that if you do not keep these things in remembrance, you can't be saved.

So then, keep in remembrance the things that I've taught you, for the Bible says to give the more earnest heed to these things, lest at anytime ye should let them slip. Seeing that the angels received a just recompense of reward for every transgression, how shall ye escape if ye neglect so great a salvation, or trample under your feet the blood of Christ and count it an unholy thing? So then, I have again exhorted you to make you to understand somewhat of the end of the world. The world is gone. Someone would say, "When is the end of the world coming, Brother Pike?" The world is gone. It's gone. It's gone. It's gone. Like the show called, "Gone With the Wind," the world is gone. And all of them that are of the world are gone.

Someone would say, "But Brother Pike, there's lots of time, and we've got to wait to see who's going to be saved and who's not going to be saved, and God isn't going to cut this thing short until the last ones are saved. And we're right now in the stages of seeing who's going to do right, and who's not going to do right, and who's going to be saved." That's yea and nay. That is, yea to the extent that it's true. It must run its course. But folks, before the world ever was, He predestinated and sealed them that are saved, and He sealed out them that are lost, and that's why the Bible says, concerning Paul's ministering, that as many as were ordained unto eternal life, believed Paul when he preached. And those that were not before of old ordained unto eternal life, they did not believe. They, being ungodly men that had turned the grace of God into lasciviousness, were by the foreordination of God, made to be taken and burned.

So, no matter what you hear, you're still not going to believe. Someone said, "But I believe." We're speaking of faith from the heart, where the Holy Spirit comes in, that's eternal life. You'll believe, as to a reprobate and as to a reflector and being religious, but not as unto salvation, which means living godly and holy in body and spirit, and meditating in His laws day and night, as to be that innermost being, as to Christ within you, the Lord of the hope of glory. So then, all won't receive it. We're not waiting for the end of the world, or a long time to come, as to sever the just from the unjust, and all of these things, as to your own conception of what God is doing. That happened before the world ever was, and the Bible said that it was given to us in Christ before the world ever was, and brought to light at Calvary. Them that He foreknew, He predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son.

So then, you've always been God's. Someone would say, "Well then Brother Pike, if we belong to God from the creation of the world or by the foreknowledge of God, why are we going through all of these things and coming down to all this tutoring?" Well, number one is you had to be born. You had to be created. You couldn't receive something until you become created. Though it was in the mind of God before you were ever born into the world. Like a little child that was born to a millionaire. He's got it all waiting for him, maybe even having it all programmed out. But nevertheless, this was given us in Christ.

Now, here we are. We had to wait until our day when we would come, and now that we've come, what is the tutoring for? During our lifetime, we have to be told these things because we did not know these things. Even though we be born into the world and we live out there for a number of years, we're still alienated from the wealth of God, and we're wandering around in the wilderness of our mind, just doing everything contrary. And the Bible spoke of the horrible, hideous kind of people that we were before we were clean, as to come to the cleanliness of God, to know these things, that we didn't belong in the hog pens with the swine and dogs. Like the eagle lifting out of the barnyard and the stench, to get that fresh aroma of heaven and to sit himself down upon the mountaintops for which he's made. Eagles make their nests in the lofty mountains, where their great, strong wings are able to lift themselves up, to ride the wings of the wind. Chickens can't do that.

So, I said that to say this, it's for your tutoring. Somebody has to tell you all about these things. Paul said that we're set here for the perfecting of your faith. That is, these things are revealed to you, as to these promises. For God has given you all things that pertain unto life, and you are tutored in these, as to the detailing of the Word, that you might believe what God has said while He speaks through the ministry, in that they are all taught of God. And then when they receive this, it's like the child that's received his diplomacy and away he goes, to rule with a rod of iron and to be about His heavenly Father's business, as we say, as to the Bar Mitzvah and the change of the body. We could say a lot about the change of the body, but we're trying to impress upon you that the end has come. The end of all things is here. Be sober, be vigilant, gird up your loins and answer God like real children of the Lord.

Paul said that if you keep in remembrance the things that I have taught you, then you can be saved. Be not a forgetful hearer. Incorporate these things within your life and make them your lifestyle. The Bible says that if you be a forgetful hearer, then you're like a man that looks into a mirror, you go your way and forget what manner of man you are. Be not a forgetful hearer. Give the more earnest heed to the things you've heard, lest you let them slip by going back and thinking the thoughts of the world, and doing the things of the world, and drifting back out into that worldly ecstasy. Take heed how that you hear them, that you don't misunderstand and misconstrue them and get in a state of confusion, in that the Bible said that the wicked shall not understand. Listen to the sound of the trumpet. Let it give a certain sound, a true sound of holiness and salvation and righteousness, that you might believe that you've got to be holy in body and spirit.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord