The Revelation Of The Light

And while we're talking about the Word of the Lord we'll pray. The Bible said, When you pray believe. And we'll pray and believe that God is going to take care of us through those severe winds and tornadoes, whatever they might be. Not only pray that God will take care of us. You know a lot of times we get real sacred like in our thinking and real religious. And we think, we better pray. That thing might come you know. But as long as we don't think it might come to us, a lot of times it doesn't occur to us that we need to be praying for somebody else, that it won't come to them, that God protect them from it. You know we like to pray that God will protect us and turn that thing. Somebody says, if it goes through another man's front yard, you know that's not too bad. But Lord, don't let it come my way. But the thing is we need to pray that God will lift the thing and take care of the people, because as Samuel of old said, God forbid that we should sin against God by not praying for the people. So then we are considered a royal priesthood in Christ's stead, beseeching the world to be reconciled unto God. Then it's our godly duty that we should pray that God would save the people. The tornadoes come and a lot of times people are killed. And those people that are killed they go right into the lake of fire because they don't know the Lord Jesus. So we should pray that God would be merciful. God says concerning the ministry, He said, Lay in the altars all night long ye ministers of God and howl for the people. Because of the things that's coming on the world. To pray for mercy. Someone would say, Well Brother Pike, why would God want a man to pray or the minister or the people to pray, you know Christian people that is, why would He want them to pray that these things wouldn't come on the people, when He's sending them things to make them pay for their sins and He's tearing them to pieces because of their wretched doings? Well to begin with it is true: the Bible said, Beware ye that forget God, lest I tear ye into pieces. But life is like a cafeteria. It is a serve yourself. You know the Lord just put it out there before you. And He said, You know if you want a tornado, choose a tornado. If you want to be ravished, to be killed, to be robbed, to live in poverty, said, You choose that. I'll let you chose it. I'll let you make the decision. And He said to Israel, chose ye this day whether you want the curse or whether you want the blessing. And of course somebody would say, Well I would choose right off. I want the blessing. But that isn't the way you choose it. You choose it by self-denial and by turning away from the wretched, sinful way of living that Satan has brought into the world. You choose it by denial in that you turn away from the lust of the flesh, the pride of life and the lust of the eyes, and the lust of the heart. This is the way you choose it. And according to your thinking in your heart as to your choice. Someone would say, Do you mean that if I think that I want to do right, and I think that I don't want to be chastened, and I think that I don't want to be hurt? No. It's when you think love thoughts, brotherly love thoughts. When you think kindness, gentleness, patience. When you think pure, holy thoughts of salvation. And thoughts of helping someone, thoughts of feeding the poor, the hungry, clothing them. When you have thoughts of esteeming someone better than yourself and your admiration is toward the Christ in the heart of another. And when you esteem your fellow man to be better than you are. And when you look on the things of another as an admiration as to say, Lord, I'd love to be more holy. I believe that person is living good. I'd like to be like them. You know, on and on and on. These are the kind of thoughts, when you have thoughts that are confident thoughts as to: He will never leave me. He will never forsake me. Lo, He will be with me all the way, even unto the end of the world. When you have thoughts that everything is going to be all right because I love Jesus and Jesus loves me. And when you have love thoughts toward Jesus, to praise Him and to pray. Thoughts that say, Lord, help someone. Feed someone. Lord, protect someone. And on and on these thoughts go. As you think in your heart, so you are. If you have thoughts as: I want. Lord, give me this. Lord, I want. Lord, give me that. Lord, I want. I want to make a thousand dollars. I want to make a million dollars. Lord, if You just let me make a million dollars you know. I've got a thousand and I just can't divide that with the Lord. But if You'd give me a million, I just know I could pay my tithes out of it. Well anyway, we get the cart before the horse, and we get everything backwards you know, and we bargain with God. And we ask God if He'll just help us along to be a millionaire, that we'll share something with Him. Whereas He asks us if we'll share our pennies with Him, He'll make us a millionaire. But nevertheless you want and you want and you want. And the Bible said, You lust and you desire and you want, and you can't obtain there unto. It's like I told the brethren sometimes. As a rule when you find yourself wanting, it's usually of the devil. Most of the time people that want, it's of the devil. Because they want this and they want that and they want everything and they want their way. They want everything they can get a hold of you know. But when you find desire with understanding as to the knowledge of God, it's usually God. And when it's want, it's usually the devil because in the first place, David of old said, The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want. And if you was really serving God and God was your shepherd, you wouldn't be wanting all the time, because you would have the desires of your heart. You'd have everything that you wanted, everything that you could wish for. He would give thee the desires of thine heart if ye shall delight yourself in the Lord. Make all of your beds in the time of your sickness. His blessing will make you rich and add no sorrow. So when you want, want, want, then you know something's wrong with you. So I think that we ought to get back to: as a man thinketh in his heart so he is. And begin to think the right kind of thoughts; and that is to desire the Lord with all of our heart. Desire to be like Jesus. Desire to think like Jesus. Desire to talk like Jesus. To let our conversation be in heaven. All these wonderful things: to be like Jesus, to be like Jesus, on earth I long to be like Him. My sins forgiven; a kin to heaven. On earth I long to be like Him. 

Reading from the book of Jeremiah - let's see. I guess maybe I ought to bring this to your attention first. It's a little thing that somebody passed on to me. We was talking about the gates closing or the gates being closed; and if the gates should close as to the gates of glory, I guess then it would be time for the gates of hell to open. The title of this of course is: "The Gates of Hell Open". It says it's translated from Ammenusatsastia, anyway it's translated from this paper, a newspaper published in Finland. And we was over near Finland a few years back, we went to Norway, the land of the midnight sun. And the next step over was of course Finland. And we almost went into Finland. But it says here, "The Gates of Hell Open". "Scientists are afraid that they have opened the gates of hell. A geological group who drilled a hole about 14.4 kilometers deep (about nine miles that's what it is according to the figures) in the crust of the earth are saying that they heard human screams. Screams have been heard from the condemned souls from earth's deepest hole. Terrified scientists are afraid they have let loose the evil powers of hell up to the earth's surface. The information we are gathering is so surprising that we are sincerely afraid of what we might find down there stated Mr. Azakel, the manager of a project to drill a 14.4 kilometer hole in remote Siberia. The geologists were dumbfounded after they had drilled several kilometers through the earth's crust. The drill bit suddenly began to rotate wildly. There's only one explanation that the deep center of the earth is hollow. The surprise Azakel explained. The second surprise was the high temperature that they discovered in the earth's center. The calculations indicate the given temperature was about 1,100 degrees Celsius or over 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, Dr. Azakel points out this is far more than we expected. It seems almost like an inferno of fire is brutally going on in the center of the earth. The last discovery was nevertheless the most shocking to our ears. So much so that the scientists are afraid to continue the project. We tried to listen to the earth's movement at certain intervals with super-sensitive microphones which were let down through the hole. What we heard turned those logically, thinking scientists into a trembling ruins. It was sometimes a weak but high pitched sound which we thought to be coming from our own equipment, explained Dr. Azakel. But after some adjustment we comprehended that indeed the sound came from the earth's interior. We could hardly believe our own ears. We heard a human voice screaming in pain. Even though one voice was discernable, we could hear thousands, thousands, perhaps millions in the background of suffering souls screaming. After this ghastly discovery, about half of the scientists quit because of fear. Hopefully that which is down there will stay there, Dr. Azakel said." 

So it sounds like that they're having an exciting time. You know this world wants excitement. They want wrestling where they break their necks. And they want boxing you know where they beat their brains out. And they want races where they turn flips. And now they got hell to really excite them. They can hear the screams of hell. Now that's different from everything. And according to the calculations that is you know. Different from everything and now they can really get a thrill because they hear something that nobody else don't hear or hasn't heard yet. All right, let's read this Jeremiah in the thirty-second chapter, thirty-eighth verse: "And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them."

Now God brings these things out in the voice of the prophet as to Jeremiah and the others. And He says here that He has brought evil upon the people. Whereas He has brought evil upon the people. But I tell you again, it's like serving yourself. You choose the blessing and the curse. You choose as to whether I'm to make you the head or the tail. You choose, that is to say, if you choose Satan, then Satan shall be your master. If you choose Christ, then Christ shall be your master. And in that this world is in the hands of Lucifer and he is the prince of this world, then he has his way in this world, except through the prayers of those that pray. So then the storms, do they come from God? No. They come from the devil. Does all the turbulence, all of the evil, all of these things come from God? It does to the extent the Bible said, Evil cannot come to a city but what I have sent it, saith the Lord. But it comes under these conditions as in the days of Job when Job was receiving evil. Job said, Shall we not receive evil at the hand of God in that we've received good? But on the other hand Job also understood that the devil was doing this, because the Bible explicitly states that in the time of Job's travail that Satan or Lucifer from walking up and down in the earth, in that he's the prince of this world, had gone before God and had said something to God about Job. And the Lord had said, Have you considered My servant Job, that there's none like him in all the earth. He's a man of righteousness and escheweth evil. He's upright in all of his ways. And the devil said, eyes, skin for skin, tooth for tooth, or whatever it might be you know. He said, If you'll just let me put forth my hand against him, said, I'll make him curse You to Your face. And the Lord said, He is in your hands to do what you will with him, but you can't take his life. And so then the devil went out. And all of the evil that came against Job was the devil. But Job kept saying, Where is the Lord? I would chide with Him if I could find Him. I've tried to do what's right. Where is the Lord? Why do You try to destroy me, Lord? Why have You put forth Your hand against me to destroy me? What have I done? What is my sin, Lord? See and he kept saying, Lord, You did this. Lord, You did this. Or that is to say, it was accredited to the Lord because the Bible said that the Lord hath created the good and the Lord hath created the evil. And He hath His way in both, that He works all things after the counsel of His own will. So then God who has created Lucifer hath created the evil, because Lucifer is the evil. But when God made him, the Bible said, He made him upright. And all of his pipes as referring to the first man Adam in the fall that sinned, in that the Bible said, All have sinned. He, all of his pipes was right in him, that is his organic parts. Everything was right when I made him. I made him upright as the son of the morning or the first act of creation, as the sun in the morning time of God's creation. I made him upright. But though I made man upright, man has become perverted and sought out many, evil or wicked inventions. So then when all of these things come, it's not God against us. It is the devil against us. I tell you again that if God is against us: like for instance if God is sending this tornado against me, I might as well pack up, fold up and just lay down and say, Lord, I'm dead. Just do what You will. See, because there is no need of fighting against God. Can a man fight against God? Anybody that had any sense wouldn't fight against God. Somebody would say, Well now Brother Pike, when this horrible sickness comes, I know that God sent it. When this horrible tornado comes, I know that God sent it. When my loved ones are killed, I know that God's the one that killed them. Well I say as I have said in the past, if that be true, why do you pray that God would change the tornado if it's His pleasure to tear this place up and tear you up? Why would you pray that way? See, why not say, Lord, pour it on. The more the better. If it's sickness, if you're going to die and you know you're going to die, and you say, God's going to kill me. Say, Lord, Thy will be done. Pour it on, Lord. Kill me, kill me quickly, Lord. See because we want His will done. Isn't that right? We're praying, Father, Thy will be done. If we're praying, Father, Thy will be done, why is that when His will is being done, that we want to change it all around? Why is it that we get so disturbed over it? See, you know and I know too that when Jesus stood upon that boat and He raised His hand up and He said, Peace to the wind. And He said to the waves to be still. When He cried out, Peace be still, then you know and I know that He wasn't telling His Father to behave Himself and stop doing those contrary things. Can't you just imagine He's standing up and He's saying, Heavenly Father, I was asleep on this boat and I was trying My best to rest, and here You are trying to kill Me before I can get awake? Now can't you just imagine Him doing that? No. See, He knew that was the devil. And He had all power over the devil; and this is what made the men marvel. These men literally marvelled when they said, What manner of man is this? He commandeth the wind and the waves and they do obey Him. And they were literally startled. But the reason is, is because He was the master of the sea. He was the one that created it. All things is made for Him and by Him and for His pleasure was they made. And there was nothing made without Him. So then that would take a little revelation to explain that and prove it. But nevertheless, here He is walking on the water. He meets Peter. He keeps Peter from drowning. Was it Jesus then that said, Peter, come unto Me. I'd like to drown you. Was that what it was? If it was, why didn't He go ahead and let him drown? See, He said, Come to Me, Peter. And because Peter made an effort to get to God and try to do what pleased God, then the Lord let him walk on the water. And then when the unbelief struck Peter to give place to the devil to drown him, the Lord looked down in compassion. And when Peter looked up, he still retained enough believing to at least believe, that if he could not walk on the water, that the Lord would have mercy and keep him from drowning; and so the Lord did through that believing He kept him from drowning. So then we see how wonderful God is. And we see that tornadoes, all these things we should pray against them. It is the devil. It is the devil doing that. Just like he'll create a race. It is the devil that creates car races. It is the devil that creates wrestling, boxing, ball games and all these things where they get broke up and the things of the world. I know some of you don't believe that. You say, Oh no, that could never be. But it is. God doesn't have any pleasure in them kind of things. Those things are of the flesh. And the Bible said, The devil savors the things that be of the flesh. This system is of the devil throughout the world. See, but we are of God; and God's system is going to take over the worldly system. And God's system is going to come in and destroy all the works of the devil. The Bible said, Jesus was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. That's why He came: to destroy the works of the devil. That's why that Herod, that's why that Pharoah, that's why that the great leaders in the days of the apostles and the prophets were so stirred up, because they said this man is come here that's turned the world upside down. And said, He's teaching something you know that's contrary to our way of life. And they were so afraid that this man Paul and others ones like him was going to overthrow their kingdom. And they would say, They're going to set up another kingdom. And even when the wise man came, they said, the king of Israel has been born. And there the king of that day, he got all out of sorts. He got all tore up. The leaders of that day they got all beside themselves. And they thought, here I am king. Here comes another king now. And all the people are going to follow Him. And I'm going to be destroyed. And so then he wanted to inquire of the wise men as to when this child was to born so he could kill Him. And you remember the little thing Ramah, and it spoke of Rachel weeping for her children and would not be comforted for they are not, because when he felt he was mocked of the wise men, he sent forth as to the time of this birth, to find it out and killed all of the little ones in the land that was males. And God knowing this had spoke to Joseph and said, Go down into the land of Egypt, for Herod will seek the life of the child. And so then we know then that all of that evil was of the devil. Some of you have been with me, and been there in Bethlehem and been in this very place. Walked over the very ground that was soaked with the blood of those little ones there where they were slaughtered and soaked with the blood of the martyrs. See, so we know then that we are fighting against the devil. God is making an everlasting covenant with us through Christ, that evil cannot touch us. David said, I shall fear no evil, for Thou art with me. I shall fear no evil for Thou art with me. Thy staff, Thy rod, they are a comfort unto me. And You prepare a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. You anoint my head with oil and my cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. And the Bible said, All of these things will fall around your dwelling, but they'll never come nigh unto you. So we are to use our faith for our natural preservation. We are to use our faith for our natural health. We are to use our faith for our natural substance in life. That is what we use our faith for. Our spiritual life is taken care of by the faith of Christ Jesus. And we are sealed by His Spirit until the day of the change until the redemption of this body. And the Bible said, Because you're born of God you cannot sin. And the evil one cannot touch you. You're without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish as to your inner man. He's taken care of. Though the devil may aggravate your mind and talk to your mind. And say all kind of horrible, hideous, dirty, filthy, unclean thoughts to your mind. It never touches your spirit, not never at anytime. I know you know a lot of people they'll take that for a chance of escape as to say, Well praise God. I know I've been thinking dirty and filthy, but you know the Lord He doesn't blame me with it. But that's where you're wrong. As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. You're just as dirty as you think. As those dirty thoughts are, so are you. As those clean thoughts are so are you. You can't go around lusting with your eyes after people and after things and being enticed every time something goes by. And those thoughts come to you and you say, I haven't done wrong. Because you have done wrong. In the first place you shouldn't allow yourself to be enticed. You shouldn't allow those things. Somebody said, Well God tempted me. The Bible said, God tempts no man, neither can He be tempted of any. The Bible said, You are tempted when you are drawn away of your own lust. That's when your temptation comes. Somebody said, Well you just can't help but be tempted. He said, You are tempted when you are drawn away of your own lust. If you can't help but lust, then you can't help but be tempted. And if you can't help but be tempted, then you can't help but go to hell. Let's give the Lord a hand. All right so then we realize that we can help it. We should help it and we better stop it and keep it away from us. Just like we pray the tornado away from us, we better pray those hideous things away from us. We're not to give place to the devil, no not for a minute. We have to pray those things away. Someone would say, Well every time it starts, I pray it away. No that's not the way you pray it away. You can start praying every time they come, but it's not going to leave. You have to pray and pray and pray. Someone said, Well, how long do I have to pray? Pray always. Then you have to submit your thoughts to the Lord and then you won't have those problems. And someone would say, Well how many thoughts? He said, Every thought to subjection as to the things of God. To meditate in His laws day and night and to never lean to your own understanding which are those old dirty ways of life and dirty thoughts. So then we find that we can do it. Someone said, Well I just can't help it. That's your defeat. That's your place of defeat. For right to the contrary the Bible said, We can do all things through Christ that strengthens us. One thing is draw nigh to God and resist the devil and he'll flee from you. You know, and if you meditate in the laws of God day and night, if you choose all the ways of God, you'll have the path of peace. You won't have those problems. But you're going to argue with the devil all day long in your mind, if you don't have a vision. Somebody said, Well, I got a vision. I want to go to heaven. That's not a vision. The devil wants to go to heaven. But a vision is when you do something as to give of your time, to give of your strength, to give of your substance, to deny yourself, to meditate in His laws, to study, to pray, to always have your mind upon Christ Jesus, and then you'll have perfect peace. See this is the right way. This is the right way. And if you'll do that, you won't have any problems. Somebody said, Well, I just can't control my thoughts, Brother Pike. You know why? You're not doing anything for God. The Bible said, Commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established. So when your thoughts aren't established in the Word of God and in the kind things of God, and in the knowledge of God, then your thoughts, you're like a computer that's out of control. See so God is not wanting us to submit to evil. God does not want us to do any evil. He wants us because of the virtues of what the Lord has done for us at Calvary, to subject this body by the power and the might of the inner man, to make manifest in our mortal genes the very life of Jesus Christ, until it's no more us that liveth, but it is Christ that liveth. That every thought that we think will be godly, and every word that we speak shall be godly, and all of our desire shall be godly. When you think of that can't you tell how far you are from God. See can't you understand that God has so wrought a work on the inside of you, and put the kingdom of God within you, and placed heaven on the inside of you in such a way that He is expecting of you to take this man that's outside, turn his desires around, wean him from the five human senses of this world, and cause him to start nursing and eating from the meat that God has placed on the inside, as it was with Samson. Samson reached and got the lion. He rent the lion. And then the bees made honey in the carcass, and he ate the honey from within the carcass. And then he gave his little riddle as to meat from the strong. See, we who are exercised in our senses, that meditate in the laws of God, that read and study and think on the things of God all the time, we become the strong, because the strength of God is in us in a great way. And that Spirit is made flesh. See, God's thoughts are made flesh. I said the other night when I was preaching that this coming through hearing into your spirit, and then is made manifest in your mortal genes as to your very blood. The life is in the blood. And this is the way that Christ, the eternal life, gets into your bloodstream as to His Spirit. And your spirit is what makes your blood. And so then it is your blood. As Christ comes into my heart as a Spirit, He goes into my bloodstream, which is in my heart, and He goes into my spirit which is in my bloodstream. So then from that I make contact by my angelic being with Christ the angelic one. And then my spirit and His Spirit becomes one as to being interwoven. And then in this He then lives in my bloodstream, which blood is in my heart. And then He purifies my heart by faith. And then this life of Christ begins to make manifest itself within my human members. Just like my angelic being or my spiritual being will make manifest that spiritual life as to my dad within these mortal genes; and that nature will cause me to conform to my father's image. So then Christ comes into my heart, the Spirit of my Heavenly Father as to the seed Word which is Spirit and life. And into my heart it comes and it is eternal life. And that eternal life then working through my spirit as a oneness with my spirit, no more I that liveth but Christ that liveth within me, then that Spirit and that angelic being, that life which is Christ within me dwelling within my temple, begins to make manifest His life through His blood. Because if my spirit creates the blood as to say, my fathers' spirit creates a blood cell, and I'm partakers of that spirit as to life as to a regenerating, then when Christ's Spirit comes in, it creates the blood cell as to Mary. Divine conception, I thus have conceived of God by being a virgin in God through the purification in my new life. And my old life gone and now I am a virgin. The Bible speaks of the five wise virgins and the five foolish virgins. And the Bible speaks of a woman keeping her virtue and of the man keeping his virtue. And it tells us that God has called us unto glory and unto virtue. So then when God gives this call then I as a virgin, in that the Bible said, He that is born of God keepeth himself and the evil one toucheth him not; if I be the predestinated of God, then I have kept myself through that predestination, in that when I come to the knowledge of my wrong, I immediately accept Him within my heart, so that I cannot sin against Him. David said, Father, Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against Thee. And he said, How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed to Thy Word. And the Bible said, By faith which cometh by the hearing of the Word, God purifies my heart. So I conceive of the Word of life. I conceive of His Spirit. Then His Spirit is made manifest within me. Paul said, I travail until Christ be formed within you. Christ the seed, for the Bible said, I cannot sin because His seed remaineth in me and I cannot sin because I am born of God. So then the seed of life begins. This life begins, this Word of life, Spirit, it begins to work through my spirit; or my spirit is now His Spirit. And it's no more I that think; it's no more I that speak; it is no more I that do. That is to say, we're ordained unto the full measure of the full stature; or that is to say the complete surrender as to conformity of the completeness of God with our heart, that we can be perfect as our master in our body of conformity; that we get to where we don't think a thought, we don't say a word, we don't do a deed, we don't go a place, we don't have a desire contrary unto Him. For we keep ourself as a virgin and the evil one touches us not. And through that the life of Christ is made manifest in our mortal genes as to whatever measure we will allow to come into our heart and into our life. So we see the divine translation of the spirit into the kingdom, that is our spirit into His Spirit. And we see the divine transformation of our mind, that is to say, Paul said, Be ye therefore transformed by the renewing of your mind, or my mind transformed into His mind. Whereas the Bible said, Let the mind of Christ be within you. And then we find that as a ultimatum in the whole thing, then our body is transfigured into His image as to the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. And this of course brings us that perfect body as to whatever measure we will allow to come into our body. And so as to that is our excelling as into the heights of His presence. For God is a dimensional projecting of light. I stand here in the light. Wherever I go if it is as I would say, the light of day or the light of the sun as to the daystar, I dimensionally approach that light. As I walk the earth, I am in one realm. If I fly a plane, I'm in another realm. If I go up as the astronauts, I'm in another realm. And as I approach that light, I can approach that light continually going right on up to the sun, until eventually it will consume me. There is a total consummation of light. I am then one with the light. So then this is the way we do as to whatever we want to be, as to whatever dimension we want to be in, as to ever how high we would like to excel in this light that's called the revealing of the light or the revelation of the light, or the revelation of the Word of light as the Son of God. So we move into this knowledge which is the light. And we move nearer and nearer to that great city. For the Bible teaches that that city will appear. And when that city appears, He the day star dawning within your heart, that when that city appears, that the Lamb will be the light thereof. Or that is He is the fullness of the understanding of God. And that city shall be lightened with understanding. Here this place is lightened with molecules and with atomic particles as to atoms and whatever. It is lightened that way. We see that, record that with the nerves as to our human sensation as to our human nerve system. As to our five senses, as to the twenty-two conductive nerves here in the eye that's relating these things to the brain. And that's all there is to this life. And when we breathe, all we do is breathe in a little oxygen. And like the formulas you know as to water, or as it is as to any other thing, then there is a composition as to atomic measures. When it comes to oxygen, or when it comes to hydrogen, or when it comes to water, liquids, whatever it might be, see. And this is the way that this world is made up. And this is the composition of it. And Satan is the prince of it. And all of it's lying vanities. It has to fade away. See, but we are not a lying vanity, if we are of the predestinated, because we are eternal. Even our substance is eternal. So then the system will fade away. Everything will go back to it's originality. And then we will come to know that Satan has sown the tares. And that all of them that are not sons of God and predestinated will go to the ashes. And the Bible said, We shall tread the ashes of the wicked under our feet. All things shall be purged with fire. See, it's like these scientists. They've learned about this hole, maybe nine miles down in the earth. And they say that they're hearing screams, whereas we would say, that would be absurd. But nevertheless we spoke of the gates closing out here. And the Bible speaks of the gates of hell, where it says, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will establish My church upon this rock, even the rock, Christ Jesus. Who is a rock but our God? Upon the rock, God. See building as the wise man on the rock, I'll establish My church upon the rock. Or that is I'll establish every member of My body, which is the church, upon faith in the conviction of the Word. See and I will establish this upon the rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. For they'll believe in My righteousness. They'll believe in My mercy. They'll believe in all these things that I've done for them. They'll believe that when I said that Satan cannot spot them, that it cannot spot them, and thus with this their shield of faith will quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. The fury of the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And who are we anyway? But the gates of heaven. Whereas the Bible speaks of those gates over there in the beautiful city, and it said it had the names of the twelve tribes of Israel there on those gates. There's three over here and three to the west, east, north and south. Or that is to say the twelve tribes. Every gate being several gates because they were divided as into threes. You understand what I'm saying? But if that be true that we are the gates of heaven, then who are the gates of hell? That is to say, spiritual Israel. The Bible speaks of spiritual Israel, so there is a spiritual city. The natural types and allegories this is how we discern it. All spiritual things understood by natural. So then we know that there is a spiritual side of life. There is a natural side of life. That's why I said, we use our faith as to protect us in the natural side of life and to believe that we might transform and transfigure this natural creature of life. But if they be the gates of hell, then we be the gates of heaven. Or if we be the gates of heaven, then are they the gates of hell. For out of their innermost being, even out of ours comes waters of life, out of theirs comes the terrors of night and the ugliness. For out of the heart comes blasphemy and out of the pits of the avis as to hell, the torture, the torment of that evil, spiritual, burning of lust, Satan, the deceiving one, from him comes the torture and the torment. For the Bible says, And he would not loose his prisoners. And he gave no liberty to his prisoners. And the Bible said, When God cast him down to the side of the pits, it was said to him, art thou also become weak as one of us. It was said to them that were in the pit. You're the one that did not loose your prisoners that had control over them. Putting people in a prison by their intellectual concept of reasoning and human thinking. See, they are the gates of hell. But no matter what they do in their systems, though they be wiser in their ways than the children of light, the Bible said, They shall not prevail against the church or against the gates of glory. Lift up your heads ye everlasting gates. And the Bible said, And the King of glory shall come in. So then we find that with all of the polished ethics of life, with all of the diplomacies of life, it adds up to one thing and that is the old tree of knowledge and their worldly system as to boycotting against God and His people. And Satan being at the head of it to control these things, generation after generation, and to control these things and to imprison these. And to set up a system where he can enslave the people like they did down in Egypt, and take tribute of them to build his earthly empire, in that God has rejected him in the Spirit. But with you, you still have the heavenly treasure. You still have that heavenly treasure: eternal life, the mind of Christ, the knowledge of God, the glory of God in these earthen vessels; and someday it will penetrate. It is hid from Lucifer. He cannot touch it because darkness cannot get near light. How could Satan the prince of darkness, the spirit of darkness touch this inner me, which is Christ the eternal light? Darkness cannot come close to light. The only reason that Satan can touch my body as to the feeling of infirmities, or smite me or cause me trouble or deceive me is that he is in the world. And yet Christ is in me. And the Bible said, Greater is He that is within you than he that is in the world, for I've given you all power over the powers of the enemy, which is God on the inside of you. I've given you the power to become the sons of God. So then when we think about that we realize that Satan can get to the outer man. He can get to the outer man, because the outer man has never been changed into that glorious light. But one time that the inner light makes its way into the mortal body as the life of Christ, then you'll outshine the brightness of the noonday. Satan won't be anywhere around in your world, because your world is light and darkness cannot come into that world. Shadows cannot get into that world. So we see that your life is filled with shadows as thoughts of evil and thoughts of contrariness. But if you've been born again, and if the body is dead by the body of the Lord Jesus at Calvary through faith in His righteousness, then it doesn't matter as to whatever power of suggestion comes to you, it hath no power over you whatsoever. It hath no power dominion over you. And you are commanded not to give place to it. No, not for a moment. See, so we know that the body is dead. Paul said, Oh wretched man that I am. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? The things that I would not do I do those things. And the things that I hate, those things I do. The things that I love and desire to do as the inner man, I find that I cannot perform these things; because there is a power that's contrary to me as to the inner man and it's bringing me into control as to destroy me. That is it is the power of death as to the law of sin and death as to condemnation. Sin getting its strength by the law, it's destroying me. It's destroying me. What can I do? He said, Who shall deliver me from the powers of this evil, or the body of this death? And he said, I thank God that what I couldn't do, or what the law couldn't do, Jesus Christ coming in the image of sin as to Paul's sinful image, has destroyed that sinful image of Saul and I am now Paul. I am now Paul. My name is now changed. So then as James and John, we are now the sons of thunder. So we can see that we are alive on the inside. But we are dead on the outside. And we are waiting for the resurrection. You're waiting for the resurrection. I'm waiting for the resurrection. That resurrection means that my man that's on the outside that's dead to the things of the world, the thoughts of the world, the lust of the flesh, the love and covetousness of life, that he'll come back alive, but he'll be raised in a new form. Jesus came form in another form. And that form will be the glorified. We're planted as a seed, and the seed takes on newness of life, and it comes forth as a stalk in a new form. And we're planted. We're sown as that seed. I wish we had time tonight to talk to you, but I can tell that there's not enough strength among you to give me time tonight. And I'm not even going to try to go where I'd like to go and say what I'd like to say. But I am going to comment. Sometimes I think the Lord lets those seventy mile winds be told to us so that we'll take a little time for Him. I noticed when we got seventy mile winds or whatever, we got a lot of patient folks. But when it's time to eat and drink and be merry and the sun is shining bright, we don't have too many patient people. But here we get a good look at something. And that is that the seed that is sown in the field is the same as the seed sown in the vagina, or the spiritual seed that's sown within our heart to bring forth Christ within us. And we are partakers of that divine nature. That divine nature is ours. One time that we come to this light, and we learn about this light, and we come to the knowledge of the truth, if we then fall away, it is impossible to renew us again unto repentance, seeing that we crucify Christ afresh, put Him to an open shame, which means that if you ever do come to that, there is no need of coming back because you can never be saved. There is no way. What is the reason for that? The reason is because as Esau sought repentance with tears, there was no place of repentance. Why is it that there wasn't any place of repentance? Because the birthright was gone. The birthright was given to the elder, given to the first born, and the first born had sold it for a morsel of bread. Whereas somebody said, Well, I wouldn't do that, Brother Pike. But that's exactly what you have done. You are the first born, and in Adam all die because that's the first born. As in Egypt all of the first born in the house of Pharaoh was smitten at the midnight cry. See, and you're the first born. So then if you be the first born, then that means that you are of the house of Pharaoh. And if you are of the house of Pharaoh, you have been smitten. Now if there is somebody that comes forth after that as the Hebrews came forth after the midnight cry, in that the Lord has smitten all flesh at Calvary. The waters of the wrath of God upon the ark of Noah has come; and God has gathered all things into the Lord Jesus Christ as the ark to preserve them to the new world. In the fullness of time sending His Son, gathering all things into Christ. And bringing the end of time or the fullness of time, or that is to say the change for another world. See Peter said, Ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. And as I was telling some of the brethren, to us that's mysterious. We don't understand that. We say, If that was the end of the world, then what is this coming now? Well this that is coming now is the same end of the world that Peter said it was. And the way that we define that and understand it is that if the angel said to Daniel that 490 years are determined upon thy people, that is to say upon the Jews, that if only 483 years came to pass as when the Messiah was cut off, not for Himself, but for the people, that is to die for sin, then that means there was another seven years left. And when Peter saw Calvary, he knew this was the fullness of time. It was the end of the world. He knew it would be no more because he was a Jew. And he knew that was the end. And sure enough Peter gave his life, and Paul gave his life, and the others gave their life. The Jews were cast out of the presence of God. That is to say they were no more. They were dead in His sight. But if that was 483 years, that was the end of the world. Because after the 483 years there's only one week left. And that one week is called the time of Jacob's trouble or the last week of the 490 of Daniel's last week. Or that is to say it was seven years from that time, and that seven years would have set in right after the 483 which was Calvary immediately, the next year would have been the first year. The next few days would have been the beginning of that last week of Daniel. So that meant that it was the end of the world at the beginning of the tribulation. But God willing to show favor to the Gentiles, He divided asunder as to that which is called the rending of the veil, that He might bring forth a spiritual church which was the Christ inside of the Jesus; or that is to say the spiritual Israel within the natural Israel. As the spiritual Christ came out of the natural head Jesus, so came the spiritual body as the mystic body as the spiritual Israel out of the natural body of Israel. And so today there is a spiritual Christ. And there is a spiritual body which is the church. And that is what John saw on the Isle of Patmos when he saw the revelation as to the rent veil, the opening of the mold, he saw this wonderful church step out. He saw the wonderful heavenlies step out. Knowing that all things as Paul said concerning the mold and the revelation, the earth is a mold and the people are a mold. All natural things is a mold and within that is the spiritual. So all of the spiritual things, heavenly things, the invisible things are understood by the mold. Looking at it we know that when it cracks open, when it breaks open, when the veil is rent, that is to say, He rent the veil in twain, making in Himself both Lord and Christ, separating the Christ from the Lord or the Spirit from the body as to the church. And now we are the spiritual beings, sealed in by the great Holy Spirit. And our body is dead. That's the mold. And we're not active in the body anymore. We've withdrawn from the body and we're not in the flesh. We don't walk in the flesh. At death, the body of death, as Paul said; Calvary, now my inner angelic being has gone back to God who gave it. But the Jews died when the spirit left, that is to say us. And there when that veil was rent in twain, there came forth the ark of His covenant which ark you and I are. The spiritual ark and this is what John saw. He saw this 96 A.D. just a few years after 33 A.D. and exiled to this little Isle of Patmos out on the coast of Asia Minor. There he saw these things; and what he saw was the Spirit. He said, For a door is open in heaven. And the door that was open in heaven was the rent veil where Jesus separated the Lord from the Christ, and where Peter was given the key as to say, you open the mold and you look beyond the veil, and now you know. You've discovered the inner man; that I'm Christ within this veil of flesh, Peter. And in that you've discovered this, now I'm fixing to go to Calvary. And I'm going to give you the key, because you couldn't have done this had you not had the key. It's not given to you by flesh and blood as to intellectual diplomacy of college or whatever, but this is what My heavenly Father has given you. This is the revelation of Jesus Christ. And so then he went to the Gentiles as well as to the Jews. Now I said all that to say this: that it was the end of the world, Peter said. But with this little dividing asunder, then that set over here past the church ages this seven years where the end of the world comes at the beginning of that last week. So now we're moving on as to the spiritual things, the lightning and the thundering and the heavenly body. We're those people that are up there. We're equal to the angels. We're the angelic host. We're up there. That's why we are in a new world over here. And they're in what we call the old world over there. And that is why that you have to cross the great ocean, the great gulf as to the Gulf of Mexico and whatever to get over to that place. That's why the astronauts have to go from here to the moon, crossing this great thing to get over there. But when they get to the moon, it's only a reflector. It's only Lucifer as to his intellectual knowledge as to the Apollo, that is the one of the bottomless pit, going up; and then when they get there, they still have to go from there into the sun. And no man can go into that sun. Because the Bible said, No man has seen God at any time. You can't just look up into the sun and see the sun without putting your eyes out. If you get close enough to the sun, your eyes will go out. And if it's bright enough when you go to look at it, then it will put your eyes out. So it is that from the moon up to the sun, we are they that dwell in that light. That we are that great body, that spiritual, mystic body. Jesus Christ alone dwells in that light. We dwell in that light because we are the body of the Lord Jesus Christ and we are one with the head. And it is you and I as that great one that stands within that light. Like my mother saw that vision of light and couldn't approach unto it, as to God showing a differentiating between the natural and the spiritual. When Israel saw that great light and they couldn't approach unto it, and Moses had to put a veil over his face, when Jesus came, He rent that veil. He done away with that man Moses, which was the law and the prophets and all of those things. The law and the prophets until John, since that time the kingdom of God has been preached. The kingdom of God is now the earth. You press your way into it by faith. And you press against Satan by pressing against the body in that he infiltrates the body. And the Bible said that the law came by Moses. But grace and truth came by the Lord Jesus Christ. And now the veil is rent in twain. And now is made known to the church the manifold wisdom of God, even that that's in the heavenly places. And Paul went up into that heaven. He said, Whether in the body or out of the body, I can't tell. That is to say, he didn't know whether by spiritual revelation, his spirit had entered into heaven. And his body was still down here or whether he took his body with him. And it could be that when he was stoned or left for dead that his spirit went away naturally speaking. His spirit actually left the body, the natural part. See but nevertheless, by Calvary our body is dead. By Calvary our spirit went away into that light. By Calvary now my spirit is free and in the heavenly places. And I'm transformating in my mind, in my spirit I'm translated into that great light; and that great light is transformating my mind. And by that it will eventually transfigure my body, for the veil is now rent in twain. So we realize that it was the end of the world. There are many things that we could say about it so far as detailing things. But we do know then that Peter knew what he was talking about. The revelation had at last come, which means the revealing of heaven, the revealing of the inner content. And now the outer mold was finished with his work. It was folded up and laid away, and then the church ages set in as to that mystic bride of Christ. Paul going to get that bride, that spiritual one. In that God is a Spirit. Christ is a Spirit. He sought a spiritual bride. Jacob took Leah, but not because he desired Leah. God has taken the body, not because He desires the body. The body is unbecoming to Him. It's not what He labored for. Jacob labored seven years, and then the laws of the land placed Leah in his hand under a veil, or he would have never married her. But when the veil was removed, the custom of that day as to the woman's humility as to show Christ's bride within the veil of this human reasoning, and the veil of death that came through the knowledge as to the tree of knowledge that's continued to this day over the eyes of the people, even the understanding, eyes of understanding, which veil isn't taken away, in that it is still intellectual, and they've fallen from grace. That when you enter into this as Rebecca into the secret chambers, then the veil of death is gone. I've entered into the secret chambers of our Father. You've entered in. If you've been born again, then you've entered into the secret chambers. And we're now in the tabernacle of God which is the secret chambers. Heavenly Jerusalem, the body of Jesus, that is the mother of us all. Not as the bondschild of Hagar, but as of Sarah. So we have entered into the body, baptized by one Spirit into this body, and we're in this great, wonderful body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And within this body is the Spirit of God and life and great wisdom and understanding. The light, we've entered in within the veil. That is to say, within the veil where the priest went, and no one could go until this great, wonderful day that we're living in. All right so we could go on and go on and the more I'd say the more I would have to say to really get into this and it would take hours and hours. But just bringing forth a fragment of these things to put it on tape, that's why we're doing this. Like I was preaching the other night and I was wanting to say some things; and I was fixing to explain to you, I was telling you how that man came from woman; and how that in the end these things, a woman coming from man these things reverse. And the man comes from the woman, and then it changes. It changes again to the male. And he comes back to the originality. And in that there is no more seed. There is no more seed as to say that a woman produces children. No more, because the church travail is over at that time. See, it has to be Christ as to the image. And if it starts as to the female coming out of the male, then it comes down to Calvary, and just before Calvary it reverses. The female come out of the male. All of a sudden the male comes out of the female. See, someone would say, Well, why was that? I mean how could that be? It's like the black widow that swallowed up her husband. They say the black widow eats her husband up and she's a widow because she ate him up. So where is he but inside of her? That is to say darkness. And if he gets out, he's got to come out of her. You understand what I'm saying? So then we understand that when it comes to this place, it reveals to us that it is seed by sonship. By the male which means as I started to say the other night, that it is impossible for a woman to be called into the ministry because a woman doesn't have a seed. And even though the Bible said, the seed of the woman, it came to pass that she compassed a man; and she did bring forth a seed and that seed was Jesus. But the conception was divine because it was not of humanity. It was of God. That is to say the flesh is feminine and that ended the feminine part and brought in the masculine part, to bring it back to sonship so that seed is from the male. So then we know for sure that a woman can't preach. So in this we see that we have come to the fullness of time. We've come to the heavenly perspective. We've done away with the feminine gender. We're no longer of the body. We're no longer in the flesh. We are in the Spirit. And so then in that we are in the Spirit, we cannot sin the sin of the soul which is connected with the flesh. We've passed from death unto life. So we see what a wonderful thing again what that Christ has done for us, in that the veil is rent in twain, and we can go beyond the curtains. We can go beyond the veil, right into the holies of holies with all boldness to come. As we wrote the book Boldly Before the Throne of God in time of need so that you can receive help. I'm going to close in just a minute or two now. So understanding this we know that there is no more repentance if you repent one time. So to renew you again unto repentance, Esau, he couldn't be renewed unto repentance because there was no repentance. What kind of repentance could he have gotten, because there was no birthright, and the repentance is to get the birthright? And if there's no birthright, then there's no repentance. And when you come to the knowledge of the truth as to a repentance, and you acknowledge the truth, that is your opportunity for eternal life. And the Bible says, that having tasted of the heavenly gift, being made partakers of the Holy Ghost, that is the blood on the seat of atonement, and this rain is the Holy Ghost poured out upon all of you, that when you come to this knowledge, see this, to believe this, Satan believes, to believe this, then when you are a believer, it doesn't mean that you have received the Holy Ghost. But it means you have become a candidate for eternal life. In the nineteenth chapter of the book of Acts, and Paul finding those people at the upper coast of Ephesus said, Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? See, that is to say, when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, and to believe, to become sanctified is to drive it out. When it is gone out of a man, then they wander through dry places seeking rest and can't find it. Dry places indicates that spirit doesn't find any inspiration, because it's cut off from God, and God is the only source of the life of inspiration as to waters of life. And it can't get to that unless it lives in you and gets to God as the rain on the unjust, and then the tare drinks of the rain. And so when it wanders through the dry places as the man in hell, he longed for one drop of that water. See, and when that spirit is gone out of you, the unclean spirit, then comes the Holy Spirit if you are a candidate for eternal life as to being the predestinated. And the Holy Spirit comes inside of you and seals you with your spirit, and you can never sin the sin of death again. You can never be lost again. That's it. But if you come to the place of believing as to the sanctified, as to do many things that you might do in coming to church, or coming to church and giving in the offering, or being part of them as Judas was, as Ananias and Sapphire was, coming to these things, and then after you repent or do those things and then go back out, you can't be saved anymore. That's it. See, because there is no more repentance. Because repentance requires blood. You must have a blood atonement. You must have a sacrifice. And that blood atonement and sacrifice, the only way that God can give it is through ignorance; that He so loved you while you were yet in your sins as to being ignorant of God, that He gave this blood for you. Now when this blood is given for you, you have a chance of repentance. I've said concerning people out in the world, they don't know how fortunate they are just having a chance to repent. Because when you lose the opportunity of repentance then you are dead as to twice dead and plucked up by the roots, dead in the body as to the day thou eatest thereof, and you're dead in the spirit because God can never come to you. So then we see that once you do this, and this is why that I warn you of the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, and the lust of the flesh, and all these other things. You can think everything's all right. You can think you got the Holy Ghost. You can think you can do all these things you know, and get by with those things because you are God's, and all the time Satan is laying a trap for *you. He's weaving the web. See, so it means that when you go back you're lost. Because you have come forth, you have taken your opportunity of repentance. You didn't know you come to the knowledge of the truth, the atonement was there because you didn't know. So then you repent and God lets the blood cover you even as it covers them today, to the extent that Judas was under the blood until he willfully sinned. And after that he couldn't find a place of repentance, so he went out and hanged himself. Though he tried to make restitution, give the money back or whatever. On the other hand, there is Peter. Peter walked with the Lord and then he denied the Lord and he cursed. Then the thought was: did Peter ever come to the knowledge of the truth? He did come to the knowledge of the truth to know that that was the very Christ. He did do that. But the thing is the Holy Ghost had not yet been given at that time. Jesus had not yet died for sins. And he was going to die. And Peter denied Him. Then is there forgiveness? Peter got forgiveness. Said, I prayed for you that your faith fail not. When thou art strengthened, then strengthen the brethren. And he went right on and became a great, mighty man. But if you'll notice, even according to history from what we can find out, Peter symbolized Satan and was crucified up side down to show the fall of Satan. And he is reckoned for as the first pope to show the personification as to antichrist in the earth, to start that Catholic church down through the church ages. Whereas Paul in the dispute as to the casting out, blaming Peter to his face, Paul being up in the third heaven as the man child, as in the spiritual side of it, and Peter showing the fall of the Jews as to the scapegoat, here Paul with a rod of iron, he said, No one could add anything unto me. And he said, I've labored more abundantly than all of them. And truly he was beaten, he was stoned. He went through so much until it's just unreal to think about a man going through that. But see I said all that to say this: down through the church ages as Peter went on as to the harlot church to show those things, Paul went on in a commemoration as to the overseer of the God church down through the church ages, as to esteem this wonderful revelation of Christ. As to the churches that he had established. The Lord picked seven of those to show the dimensional stepping as from here into glory, as to the ladder of Jacob there that he saw there at Bethel. Well anyway what I'm saying is that when you come to the knowledge of the truth, see, and then you use up your chance of repentance. Some of them would say, Well, there's Peter. I know, but I tell you the blood had not yet been shed. Though in the foreknowledge of God it had been shed as to the elect, but it had not yet been shed for the remission of sin as to repentance. So John before it was shed, baptized people unto repentance. But in our day when you come to the knowledge of the truth, then the Bible said, You fall away, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. Or that is you have ended your opportunity as to the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, which is the blood atonement. Why is it that you cannot repent? Because you've already used up your repentance. And for you to repent there would have to be another crucifixion. You'd have to crucify Christ afresh, put Him to an open shame. And God isn't going to do that. See, there would have to be another blood atonement. Why would there have to be another blood atonement? Because it would be repentance unto life, and if the birthright is gone there is no repentance unto life. And then I would say, Well why would it be unto life? Because the life is in the blood. And it is His blood that's on the atonement. That is to say your blood is gone as the blood of bulls and goats; and it has been killed in that you fell to the beast realm and your life and your blood is gone. And Paul said, the life I now live is eternal life, which is the life within His blood. And if there's no more blood there's no more life. If there's no more life, then that means there's no more birth as unto life, so your birthright is gone. And you come back and there is no more repentance. Though Esau sought repentance with tears, he found no place of repentance for it was gone. And that is why this is such a sinful generation and this is such a dangerous day; and we have so many things Jesus said, to say unto you. I wish that I was not so dull of hearing and you was not so dull of hearing, and that God would grant unto you the Spirit of revelation, that we might bring forth the wonderful, deep, hidden mysteries of God, that He has so abundantly as Paul said, through much revelation placed within our heart. Because this is the mind of Christ that is to be revealed to the image as to the body of Christ, that they might be transfigured into this wonderful world of understanding which is called light. He spoke this world into existence as to understanding. And this understanding will change your very genes of the mortal body. And this light of Christ will be made manifest in your mortal genes. Well anyway, we understand then that God has done a great thing; and that the end of the world is here. It has come upon you. And now over here at the end of the church ages the same end of the world that always was, as to beginning at the fall of the garden, and here it is over here in the coming of the Lord. I wish we could say a whole lot about that. Let's stand together. Somebody would say, Well Brother Pike, I came to the Lord. I believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and I become a Christian. And then I fell away, so I guess I'm doomed. Well it don't read like that. If you came to God, if you become a Christian, then that means that the Holy Ghost came into you. And if you fell you did not fall away, that is separate yourself from life. Did you fall? You did fall. But the Bible said, A good man shall fall seven times and get back up. Because he is good and there's none but God. And to be good then he's got God on the inside of him. But some of you, you did seal your doom because you did come. Someone would say, then I forfeited my right when I did that. You did. Even though it was already forfeited in the foreknowledge of God, and you were predestinated unto damnation and an evil person, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, or that is taking the advantage of grace, the days of grace by claiming to be religious and joining yourself to religion, and yet all the time doing the wicked, dirty things of the flesh, loving the lust of the eyes, and being enticed by faces and forms and every little thing that comes along that you feel. And yet just as religious as Cain was. So their answer is that you are already pre-ordained unto condemnation, but as many as be ordained unto eternal life Paul said, he preached and they believed. See, because they could believe, because all men have not faith, because some are pre-ordained, Ordained unto condemnation, ungodly men. So then someone would say, Well then that means that God's cruel. He just predestinated me so I couldn't get saved. No. He predestinated you according to the time that He saw that you would come and do the wretched thing that you would by trampling over His blood when you knew better. And that's why that in His fore-knowledge you were lost. And He saw the others would at that time when the preacher preached, accept the Word, be converted unto life and serve Him with all of their heart and be filled with jubilance to do anything for His name sake, and thus they became the predestinated unto life in Christ Jesus in His mind. For the Bible said, We're predestinated in Him which means in righteousness, or if we are in Him we will do righteously, because we are baptized into Him. So let everyone that name the name of the Lord Jesus depart from iniquity. So then we see that the fore-ordination unto life is of God. And as the Bible says, Jacob and Esau, the twins, the sons, never having been born, never having done any good or any evil, that it should be according to election and stand by grace of Him that calleth and not of works. It was said unto the younger that the elder shall serve thee. And it was said unto Jacob, Jacob have I loved. It was said unto Esau, Esau have I hated. So Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. The children having done no good or evil that it might stand according to election, then we see that it is of predestination, lest it be of works and some man could boast of his ability. So you can see how many reprobate churches there are of this thing where they say, if you come, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, make your confession. They said, You're saved. And after that your name is wrote down in the Lamb's book of life. And after that you can just do what you want to, but you can't be lost. That is a reprobate church and that is a lie of Satan. And that is sons of Satan that teach that. And they're drawing people into destruction. For broad is the gate or the way that leadeth unto destruction, and many shall enter there at. But the Bible said, Narrow is the gate that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. And the Bible said, For you and I to strive to make that special effort. For many shall try and not be able. Religiously try but you make the effort. Try diligently to enter in, for once the door is closed that's it. Strive to enter in. Like this hole in the earth, someone would say, Well, I don't believe that. Well, it's another conformation. I read to you another conformation of the thing that we said. I said, there is a ball of fire in the heart of the earth. Now then science believes there is a ball of fire in the heart of the earth. I read it to you where they said now they're convinced that there is a ball of fire in the heart of the earth. And someone would say, Well, I don't believe that souls could be there. But yet the Bible does say, Hell that's from beneath has moved to meet for to meet thee at thy coming and enlarged itself without measure. And it is true that that fire obviously is melting down the walls of the internal part of the earth, and the crust is getting thinner and thinner, and the blasting of the bombs are breaking it open. Isn't that right? And with this it's going to cause a great state of chaos. And as we said today in talking to some of them, that the earth is going to be turned right side up on its axis. It's coming up. When it comes up, the fertility as to the soil of that which is submerged beneath the waters, that was caused at the tilting when man got tilted on his axis in the garden, all of a sudden man becoming upright as to the rapture, the translation, then the earth is going to become upright because the natural, the physical and the spiritual parallel. And as the physical comes upright, then upright comes the natural earth. And upright comes the spiritual world. For as man is tilted on his axis as to body, soul, and spirit; and the body is dead because of sin as to a third part, then Adam having sinned as to the third part, the male, the female and the children, all as to one. So then as that the tilting, and I brought out a little bit the other night of why it had to be tilted. When it comes upright, all of a sudden this is going to cause that great earthquake that John saw; whereas if the earth is tilted here, with all the bombs bursting and the cracking of the earth; and as it comes up, whereas it's going through that change now, gradually. When it comes upright, like the woman going through her change, the man going through his change of life, the most dangerous time of life, as when it starts upright, then it stands to reason as I said today, if the Empire State Building is built on the earth, and the earth is like this. And all of the great buildings of the nations are built on the earth like that, when it comes up as John said, I saw the cities of the world, I saw them crumble. The great buildings crumbled. And as to the millennium, all of a sudden when these mountains that one time was before the flood, when these come back up after thousands of years of being fertilized by fish and all the other types of minerals and preserved under the waters, in that the sun could not create a dissipation; so then when it comes up, once it comes up, then this earth will be here like that. And when it is here then the soil will be so fertile that then it will blossom like a rose and that will be the millennium. And then the spiritual also will come up in that the natural was tilted, the physical was tilted, then the spiritual was tilted. That is to say the Godhead as to Father, Son and Holy Ghost. And this is why He manifests Himself in a trinity. Because the third part of the Godhead was tilted. And how was it tilted? Jesus: Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the Son part was made an image of sin as to the people's concept. Yet it was a holy body, but in their eyes they called Him a bastard child. And so He was smitten at Calvary. And of course we would have to go into that as to the moon, the sun and the stars and many spiritual things we would have to say, as to relate to what we said the other night about the Jews and the untimely figs. But anyway these things will happen. And they're on the verge of happening right now. The ozone is being ate up. It's being ate up. The spheres is that, that stands between us and that hot, burning ball of fire called the daystar, to where the tribulation is upon us, to this extent: that the Bible said, And they will be scorched with fervent heat, and they will blaspheme God. When the ozone and those things are eaten up or moved out of the way, the sun will get hotter and hotter. Because there would be nothing to cool it. The clouds won't cool it. Nothing will cool it, and it will get hotter and hotter and hotter until men will blaspheme God, and they'll gnaw their tongues for pain. Because once it gets so bright as brighter and brighter, all of a sudden even as science has said, all of a sudden it will go into a nova, that it it will go out and it will move way off into the distance. Or that is to say as to the rapture of the church the light of the earth is gone; and nova has to do with the word bride. So then it means that once it does it's job as to destroy, setting the whole earth on fire. For Peter said the elements shall be aflame. They'll be on fire, and they'll melt with fervent heat, and the earth and all therein shall utterly be dissolved. What manner of person ought we to be in all holy conversation, looking for and hastening unto the coming of the Lord. To let your conversation be holy, and on and on we could go about these wonderful things of Jesus. Tell them over again to me, wonderful words, beautiful words, wonderful words of life. Let me more of their beauty see, that is to say the unveiled glory, wonderful words, beautiful words, wonderful words of life. He created the world by His Word. He upholds the world by His Word. He made you by His Word. Spoke everything into existence by His Word. He is now speaking through the minister and speaking everything out of existence by changing it. As the light comes it changes it from your intellectual concept to the spiritual mind of restoration as to the originality, as to what it was as to the spiritual man in the spiritual world, as before the light receded, so that the natural image as to the bastard image of that which was satanic could come forth as the children of Satan that the tares might be sown. As in Adam all die, but in Christ the daystar dawned in our heart. And all are made alive. And now it's morning and the true light is here and the children of light can see. We're not children of the darkness. Darkness is on the other side of Calvary and under the law of death, the shadow of death. And all of them that are not born again did not go into heaven in that He's chosen us out of the flesh. But they remained going right on through that same trend of the old serpent, right on down past Calvary. No grace and they've never crossed over. They that are fallen from grace are still under the law. Let's sing a little chorus, Sister Dale. (Sings: Wonderful Words of Life) So we sing the wonderful words of life. And I speak to you and yet not I, but my Heavenly Father as Jesus said, speaks unto you the wonderful words of life. Let's sing another chorus together. (Sings: Standing Somewhere in the Shadows) Remember now: though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, this world is but shadows. Time exists from shadows. And when the light comes, there's no more shadows. So there's no more world, so there's no more time. And you're not of the world. I've chosen you out of the world, in that I've taken the shadows away from your life. The world being in the heart, the world is no more in your heart and the kingdom of light, even the kingdom of God. But in those shadows is where I found Him. I remember when the Lord Jesus appeared to me over in Miami, tired and weary from the field, trying to do what little I could there. I'd went into my room to rest and you remember the vision, it was dark. It was in the shadows, real dark; then He came to me and put the ring on my finger. But immediately from the time He put the ring on my finger, the light came and I found that I was in the light, born again. He said, Where is the stone of thy birth? I said, I don't know. I don't know. I was weary, tired. It was like something had struck me in the head and everything had exploded. And it was black as night; I knew I was laying in the room. I knew which direction I was looking. I knew the door that I came in, I knew all about it, but I couldn't speak, I couldn't see. I couldn't do nothing. And then I felt His presence and I knew it was the Lord Jesus, even as you know when He comes around. And He picked up my hand so gently and spoke to me and He said, Where is the stone of thy birth? I said, I don't know. I was paralyzed. I couldn't move. I don't know. He said, I shall get thee one. And out He went through the shadows, like out of the room, and then come back, picked up my hand, and I felt Him slip a ring on this finger, which is still on there until today. And it was the stone of my birth. I was born again. The stone of my birth. And in that all of a sudden everything became light. I found myself not standing, I mean not laying on the bed as in death and then resurrection. As looking in the wrong direction and turned around in the light, standing up looking in the right direction, and I don't know where I was at. Whether in heaven, I know I was in heaven in the Spirit, but I don't know where I was at. But I do know I saw this tall figure then like an angelic being that looked like he must have been nine feet tall, and he was standing kind of like chestnut hair, full, real full hair, well proportioned in a long, flowing garment of beautiful white, not grinning nor smiling, not frowning with displeasure but very pleasant, just a pleasant, peaceful state of being and as of appearance. That's when the little thing come down like a leaf slipped out of his hand and hit the ground. I picked it up, handed it to him. He looked very pleased and away he went. You know, and I didn't understand. But I spoke about this acrylic the other night and some of these things. The strange thing about this acrylic, I've made the statement that if you take your Bible, you get it just right, you look at the red lettering, you can't find the red lettering, because the acrylic will make it disappear. As to that with the blood and that with the rapture and away you go. The life is in the blood. He spilt His blood, there gave His blood that it might drop down upon the earth, go into the water stream as we would say. And that into the veins of the earth as to the fire, the veins of fire as to friction running through the earth. Down into the heart of the earth Jesus went as to the seed, as to recover that blood, and to come back with that light and take every drop of it as He resurrected to put it on the seat of atonement, a vesture dipped in blood, that His countenance was marred more than any man, the thorns in His head, the beard plucked, a spear. a pointed instrument that they pecked Him with, and then finally speared Him in the side. The nails in His hands, the nails in His feet. His back beaten, plowed like a field, His countenance marred more than any man; a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief. The Bible says, And they did not esteem Him. But yet He bore our sorrows. He was smitten, beaten for our transgression. The chastisements of our peace is upon Him. That is to say, I've got peace because He was willing to be bruised. He was bruised and suffered. Today I rejoice. If I believe in Him, it shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. If thou canst believe. To believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and not to say in your heart: who shall go into heaven and bring Him down, or who shall descend into the earth to bring Him up? He's done all of that. He is nigh unto you, even as the quickening Spirit of the Holy Ghost, the great Holy Spirit, He is nigh you, even in your heart. If thou canst believe. So then I found Him in the shadows, but I didn't stay in the shadows. And now the world of shadows are gone. Now we're not in that old body anymore as to that where the Bible said, Let not the sun go down on your wrath. He that sinned, let him sin no more. He that nameth the name of the Lord Jesus, let him depart from iniquity. Let him be holy. So it's understood that something has happened. In the knowledge of God it was made manifested at Calvary. And from there it was to be comprehended the heights, the depths, the width and the length as to the tutoring, as to where you can learn and believe. And Paul said, The perfecting of your faith. This what we desire and this is why we're here for the perfecting of the saints, the ministry; or that is to tell you the elect all these things. For you cannot believe, if you do not know. And you cannot know if you hear. You cannot hear unless there be a preacher. He has to be anointed to bring. It's not him speaking but the heavenly Father. So then we wish this that you should understand all of this and believe. And as you believe, to understand, whatever, then this is your measure. To whatever you desire, come freely, partake of this water. It's up to you. Ordained to the full measure of the full stature, collectively speaking and individually speaking. He that be perfect shall be as his master. Let us go on to the full reward. So let's sing that again. Can we sing it? Maybe the winds have gone now, contrary winds. (Sings: Standing Somewhere In the Shadows) The altars are open. (Sings: Come Home) (Sings: Gone) That body of yours is buried in a watery grave, because the old heart of stone is gone. He said, I'll take out the heart of stone and place within you the heart of flesh, that is to say, bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And as He the Word is made flesh in your life and write upon your heart, your table of your heart, not the table of stone but the table of your heart My laws. Because He was the Word. And upon the table of His heart was, I come to do Thy will, O God. Sacrifices and offering Thou wouldest not. But a body Thou hast prepared. And that body is to deliver me from the body of death even the body of stone. I knew a man one time his body was turning to stone. He could rub his arm and little stones would come on. Scientists couldn't explain it. Let's sing that now. (Sings: Gone) Let's lift our hands up together. Close our eyes. We've kept you a good little bit tonight. Just kind of held on a little bit because of the winds; and it could be after we go home that they'll come, or sometimes over in the morning they come. But this is what we warn against is contrary winds that they should not blow us away. The Bible said, And the wise man built his house upon the rock. Who is a rock but our God as to the Word which is God? In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. And built his faith, his confidence, his little house as to where his spirit tabernacles, built this little house on the rock, so that when the contrary winds of fear and frustration, ideology and religious convictions come, that it should not frustrate us nor that should take us away. See, for the Bible said, The winds came, the floods came and the winds blew, but that house did not fall. It was founded upon a rock. But the Bible said the man that built his house, that is established his way of going as to the lust of the flesh, the love of the world, the monetary values, that is the values of this life, built upon the shifting sands of theology as to what they scientifically believed or what religious leaders had taught them from college. But when the strong winds blew their house fell. And the temptation was too great and they could not withstand. For the Bible said, If you keep My Word, I will keep thee from the hour of temptation that's to come upon all the earth to try them that dwell on the earth, because the temptation must get strong. And where sin doth abound, grace doth much more abound. And when this temptation comes and it's here now: houses, lands, flesh, sinful, adulterous generation, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. See, when this comes, I'll keep you from that hour. I'll keep you from that hour. So it's up to us. You love Him? (Sings: After All) Let's just close our eyes as I said and lift our hands. Let's sing this little chorus. (Sings: God is Moving) (Sings: He Touched Me) I'm going to ask Brother Rick Banks if he'll come up and dismiss us. While your hands are up and your eyes are closed, let's sing that together, can we? (Give Him Glory)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord