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The Bible says it's not My will that any should perish, but all should come to repentance and have everlasting life; but in that the wicked will not repent, then the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh will continue, and they will continue to pay with their lives, with their freedom and with their soul. There's so many things that we find in the Word of God, until a preacher can just continue on preaching all the time. In his heart, he's ever aware of the wonderful things of God. Everything that I look at, I see the wonderful things of God, and I see the wonderful messages of God that can be preached over and over. And yet, I try to find what I would have as something from God that it might be edifying to you, and might be the thing that you need. 

A lot of spiritual things that I would like to go into. I look at these things and I see these spiritual things. A lot of things I'd like to go into, but at the same time, many of you don't understand spiritual things. And though I say these things to you, you still don't understand them. Therefore, the Bible says the meat being for the strong. You've not spent enough time with God to exercise your senses as to be able to discern even between good and evil, and you're continually trying to mix darkness with light; that is to say, your intellectual reasoning, as to your concept of right and wrong. You're going about still doing the natural things, still entangled with the natural bondages of life and the natural desires of life. Paul asked, "Are you not yet carnal in that you are still entangled in these things?" But he said, "I would that you were spiritual so that I could speak unto you as unto spirituals. But seeing that you're babes in Christ, the only thing I can tell you is to desire the sincere milk of the Word that you might grow thereby". So as babes in Christ we try to feed you until you can come to the place to where you can understand the mysteries of Christ Jesus.

We spoke to you about the celestial body and the terrestrial body, and how that there is a difference. Reading from over in chapter fifteen in I Corinthians, if you've got your Bible, you can read with me, starting at the twentieth verse.

[I Corinthians 15:20-27: "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him."]

That is, Paul was telling us that He's already put all things under His feet by Calvary, but it hasn't been made manifest yet as to the actuality of it as to the time and season. 

[I Corinthians 15:28: "And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all."]

That is, the Spirit that we're speaking of is God the Father, the eternal Spirit shall be all in all, for the Spirit is what put all things under subjection to Jesus, and one day, the body will be altogether subject to the Heavenly Father as to the new earth. 

[I Corinthians 15:29-58: "Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead? And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. 

"But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 

"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."]

So then, he tells us here there is a mystery. The Bible says at the sounding of the last trump, the mysteries of God should be finished, whereas the mystery of God is being finished now. Great is the mystery of godliness. There has been a mystery of iniquity. There has been a mystery of godliness. There has been many mysteries as to the great mysteries of God. But now, it's being finished, and we're beginning to understand all the way as from the creation of the world to the end of the world, and those transitional things that happen in between. We're knowing now why that salvation came, what the purpose was as to the differentiating between good and evil, and what the plan of salvation is from the origin of it to the end of it, and as to the beginning of the world as to the consummation thereof. 

So we're beginning to know, by revelation, what is, what has been, and what is going to be, and with this, the mysteries are being finished. As the unveiling comes, so then the mystery is finished. A mystery is something that has not been unveiled, and a revelation is a mystery that has been unveiled. So that which is secret, the Bible says, belongs to God, and that which is revealed belongs to mankind. Anything that we come to understand, then it belongs to our world.

He tells us here there's a natural body, and there's a glory of this natural body in that the glory of this natural body is that as to the terrestrial glory. It is to be a celebrity in this world, to have the praise of this world, the magnitude of all of the benefits of this life, and to be praised in this life, to come to great power as a celebrity or to sparkle in this life. 

Then he says there's a glory of the celestial, which is to be praised of God, to come to the great magnitude of that which is in the Spirit, to be great and mighty as that which is in heaven, to have the Lord to say, as He said concerning John and Moses, that these are great men and mighty men, and they are great, as to prophets and those wonderful things that God says about us, and to come to the power of the angels, in that we're equal to them and cannot die. This is the wonderful glory of that which is in the other world. The Bible says that Jesus appeared in glory with Moses and Elijah, as to the wonderful illumination of the Spirit of the brilliance of God; as to that great light, as to the enlightenment of the understanding, that so made His raiment shine as the brightness of the noonday.

So we see there is one glory as of the stars, another of the moon and another of the sun. All of these differ in glory. And there is, as we would say, worlds without end. The Bible speaks of worlds without end, and as to the increase of God's kingdom there will be no end. So then, when I look at you, then I know that you are a world. When I examine you, I find that you are a sovereignty, and that you are a world. Within your own mind, your own life, you are an individual world. There will continue to be great worlds, for the increase of God's kingdom, as to multiplying and replenishing, shall never end. God is the God of creation.

All right, so then we find that there are worlds. Worlds plural. Worlds without end. To the increase of this kingdom, these worlds continue. So we that have come to the knowledge of God, therefore it is required of us, for to whom God has given much, He will require the more, and to the one that comes to understand, he is indebted to tell the other. If we do not share, then we are considered to be the wrong kind of people, because the Bible says freely you have received, freely give.

We're commanded to go into all the world and to carry this gospel to every creature. If you can't go, as to an individual, you should stay on the home front and do what you can to launch the program of God and to see that it has that which is sufficient as to the cause. If you can go, then go. If you can go, then we'll help you, and we'll send you. If you're called, then we'll send you. We've helped send many people, and we'll share with you. But if not, then you send somebody. They use to have a little saying over in the Carolinas at one church there, "If you can't go, send someone." So then if you can't go, send someone. If you're not satisfied in sending Brother Pike, find someone else. There are numbers of people that go to work for God in world evangelism, and whether it's thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold as to what they carry, they still go to work for God. If you cannot be satisfied with one, then find one that you can be satisfied with and support that, because it is for sure that you cannot get by the judgment by saying, "I do not believe in the man or what he was preaching." 

So, there's bound to be somebody, else God's program would be altogether void, and His Word would return to Him void, and there would be no purpose in the death of His Son. There has to be somebody somewhere that is pleasing to God and carrying on God's work, for He's never left any generation without a witness. That means that there's somebody somewhere, and you're indebted to find that somebody, and search them out if you are a true son of God. If you're not a child of God, then of course we understand that. But if you are, then you must do something for God. You must be about the Father's business.

*So then we're dealing here with life, and we're dealing here with death. Jesus was raised from the dead by this gospel that I'm preaching. This gospel that I'm preaching actually raised Jesus from the dead. And this same Word that I speak, whereas the Bible says by His Word He created all things, and He upholds all things by His Word, and to the sick He has said, And He sent His Word and healed them, and the Bible teaches that by His Word He cast out the unclean spirits, and it is by the Word of God, as to faith in the Word, faith in the Word as the Word to a thousand generations, never changed, never altered, God hastening to perform His Word. He takes pleasure in performing His Word.

A lot of times we get the feeling, because of Satan's discouraging power, we get this feeling that God doesn't want to perform the Word, and that we're too wretched for God to do anything for us. And so then, we find ourselves mistreated by Satan, and as an outcast to the extent that we do not draw the benefits of faith that God has given to us in Christ Jesus. As pertaining to life, all things have been given unto us. So then we find ourself under-privileged because of our unbelief. But I say again, that if God so loved us while we were yet in our sins that He gave the best thing for us, truly we can expect that God should care for us even with our stumblings and staggerings if we make an effort, that He would give us that which is of less value. So then, as to healing and salvation and all these things that are far less valuable than that which He gave, which is His Son. So we can expect all of the abundance of those wonderful blessings following the best thing that He gave.

We should never draw back from them. We should never question God. We should be fully confident, in that God rejoices in the fact that we're fully confident, because that puts His enemy to shame and that saves His child, and that gives His child a chance not to be abused by Satan. As it was with Abraham, the Bible says, he was called the friend of God, because he believed God, and God showed many things to Abraham. So then, not withholding even his son, he became the father of the faithful. And the Bible speaks of Abraham like this, as to the New Testament teaching it says, And Abraham staggered not at the promises of God, but was in full confidence, or he was fully persuaded that what God had promised, He was able also to perform. So then, we have the promise of God. We should never doubt it. We should never wonder about our righteousness. We should never wonder as to whether we are a candidate for this, or whether God is going to share with us, or as to God being a respect of person to give it to some and not give to others, or of God being respect of creed or color. See, we should realize that God is the God of all people, and that God has given His Son to die for the sins of the world, whether it be the black, the white, the yellow, the red, the German, the American or the Russian or whoever it might be. God has given His Son to die for all of them, and they are part of His kingdom to the extent that He is trying to woo them to Him, and everyone that will freely come to God can be partakers of these things.

But they have to willingly come to God of themselves. He doesn't make anybody come. They are a sovereignty of their own and they have to come. And if they come, then they can be partakers of this eternal life and have this celestial body that we're speaking of. I say again to you that this celestial body, as to you recognizing it, as to human sight, as to you seeing this thing, it will not come to pass until the Jews come in. When the Jews come in, the Gentile days will be over. That means that the working with the church, as to the church ages, will be ended when the door is seen open in heaven as at the end of the church ages that John saw. That was the rapture of the church, the fourth chapter of Revelation. So then, the church is on the verge of being translated, and when we say that, it is not as on the verge of being translated in that it has not already been translated, but as it is said of Jesus that, in that day, all things will be put under His feet. And Paul said, Not as though it had not been put under His feet, for it has already been put under His feet, in that He hath conquered all things at Calvary; but when that is made manifest as to the sight. And so it is, as to the casting out of Lucifer in Revelation 12: not that Lucifer is to be cast out, in that he hasn't already been cast out; for Jesus said, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven, and I have destroyed him that hath power over death. And that enemy is conquered for your sake, and yet it said it's the last enemy to be conquered, in that death will be bound and cast into the lake of fire as to your sight.

So then these things that are coming to pass, the Bible speaks of, will be at the end of the time of the lying vanities, when reality comes. But right now, you're like those that's in a deep sleep. You are in a state of slumber. And because of this, all that you see are lying vanities. But these vanities will pass away. And I must remember, that when it comes to anything that the Bible does not declare to be, I must speak it out of existence. I must think it out of existence. I cannot have those things. I must believe myself back to the originality of God. I was in the garden, as in the creation, to this extent: that when God made man in His own image, I was made in His own image as a son of God. When Adam, who was the Son of God, lost that image, or that is to say, the feminine part, as to the flesh, departed from the spiritual image, then Adam was subjected to death, as to the creature being subject to the things of this world, and subjected to the vanities of this life by human senses. Now then, if I am a son of God as to the original creation, and I had this in God before the world ever was, I can say to the Heavenly Father, I'm bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Therefore I say with Jesus: My Father and I are one, in that Jesus said, Make these one and give them the glory I had with Thee before the world ever was. And I can say that I had that glory with God before the world ever was. As He said to Job, Where were you when the sons of God leaped for joy before the foundations of the earth was ever laid? So then, in Christ, I was chosen in the lamb that was slain in the mind of God from the foundation of the world. So then I make my confession as to sonship, and my confession as to the originality of the act of God in the garden, so that I believe myself to be that as the Son of God, and I believe myself to be bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, and I believe myself to be the original creation of God, as to the beginning of the creation of God, in that Jesus was the beginning of the creation of God.

And when we look back to the garden, we find then it was the image, as to Jesus Himself, which image was lost in the fall as to the ignorance of mankind; that is to say, by darkness or shadows of the lying vanities of this world. So then, I find myself believing myself back to originality. I have now come to my senses, as it was when God through the body of Jesus entered into the land of Gadarea, and there He met this man in the tombs, and then He restored him to his right mind and put him on his right garment. I now have been restored to my right mind. I've been taken from among the tombs of this world, and I have put on the right garments as to the body of the Lord Jesus, and I am free from the tormenting devils that tormented me. And I am now back to originality by faith in God through the mind of Christ, as to what God intended the Son of God to be. That is to say, that when the creation begun there in the garden, it was Christ. And now it is Christ on this side of Calvary all over again, and that little episode of life, as from Calvary back to the garden, is the shadows and the lying vanities that is passed away through my Calvary experience, in that I'm dead to the world by the body of the Lord Jesus. I'm alive unto life by the resurrection. He that knew no sin was made my sin, that I might be His righteous body before God for the rest of eternity.

So then, I find myself free from the law of sin and death and this condition of lying vanities that exists from the garden over to Calvary. Those shadows of night continue for those that are fallen from grace. Those that have never come into the grace of God, they that have never had a Calvary experience, they that have never come to have the veil rent, as to the separation of the body and the spirit, or that is to move that old veil of death, as to the intellectual concept of religion and things of the world, they abide in death; and they go right on past Calvary right on down to our day. And they are still blinded, and they are still children of intellectual ignorance. They are still in darkness. And the Bible says they cannot see this glorious light, for they are creatures of darkness and they cannot see or understand when good cometh. So then, we see that we are children of this marvelous light. So I have been translated into the marvelous kingdom of God. It's not me living but Christ.

As I said today, the body has been raptured and taken away, for as I am to what Christ made me to be, as to death, as to resurrection, as to righteousness, so am I in Christ. As He is, so am I as to that body being caught away. So as His body was caught away, then my body was caught away because I have no body except the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am no more of the first man Adam, of his bone and flesh. Neither am I of the body of death that's been condemned by the judgments of God and smitten, in that we esteemed Him smitten of God for our sake and bruised for our infirmities and our wrongs, in that when God saw Him as the bastard child image, in that He smote that image for my sake, He bruised that image to keep from bruising me, and by His stripes, then I went free. So then, He was my scapegoat, as the Bible gives it. So that part is now gone, and I am now as He was, even the lamb of God, which is the righteousness of the Heavenly Father in Christ Jesus.

So then, my body was raptured away. My body was caught away. That was the church. And I was caught away in Him, and today I am now hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received, because when the body was hid, that was me. And you cannot see me, even though I know you say, "I see you, Brother Pike." But all you see is lying vanities because you are in a world of lying vanity. And all you see is lying vanities. So then you cannot see me. How can you see me when the Bible says I am hid? I am hid. In the days of Elijah, when he was hid, they could not find him. See, he revealed himself to Obadiah, but before that, through the years they could not find him in the time of the drought, that being the church, as to that three and a half years having to do with the tribulation period. Here we are. See, I'm hid with Christ in God. You can't find me. How can you find me? First of all, you're looking through eyes of lying vanities, and that means that you're not right with God, and God cannot look upon iniquity. So then, you are automatically cut out from the things of God. You could not even be in the presence of God. You could not be around where I'm at, because I am far, far from you.

So then, that means that I am hid with Christ. So if I'm hid with Christ, that means that you do not see me. Now, you say, "But I see you, Brother Pike." No. That is a lie. That is lying vanities. You are beholding lying vanities, and you are observing lying vanities. Someone would say, "Well I know that that's you, Brother Pike." No. No. You don't see me. Because the natural me is dead, and it's buried, and you don't see people in the grave. They are dead. They are buried. They are gone. So then, what are you looking at? Nothing more than lying vanities, and the Bible says vanity of vanities, all is vanity, Solomon said. And those vanities must pass away because they are lying vanities. And that's why I preach to you that as to your sickness, as to your problems, as to all of these things that you're beholding as to your thoughts thinking that way, as in your heart so ye are. But if you would eradicate the shadows and do away with the lying vanities and go on to know God, from glory to glory, from revelation to revelation, from understanding to understanding, and by that which God says it to be, then you accept that, and that which is, as to what is a standing thing with you, is eradicated. That is to say, if I have a thought that is of sickness, and then there comes the thought, "By His stripes, I was healed, even at Calvary, and this was given to me at Calvary," that means the other is a lying vanity. Then I do not confess it. I do not acknowledge it, because it belongs to the world of vanity. It belongs to the people of vanity and it doesn't belong to me, because I dwell in heaven, where there is no sickness and no problems, and I dwell in Christ, where I am sealed and cannot sin. And in that I cannot sin, I am not subject to sickness or anything else as to my body.

So then, I confess my body as to His body, or His body as to my body, therefore His body is holy and just and righteous and free from sin, free from fault, free from any problems of life, because He has overcome all of His problems and He is now hid in God, and my spirit which you cannot see, which is the real me, has gone on to be with Christ and it dwelleth in heaven. I am one of them that dwell in heaven. That's why I rejoice the way that I rejoice. So then, being hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the restoring of all things, I find myself free from the law of sin and the law of death. So you see, I am free from the law of sin and death and I find myself free from all of these things.

I look at you and I do not know you after the flesh. I do not know you after the flesh. I know you either as the righteous Spirit of Christ or I know you as the demon spirit of Lucifer. I recognize you as a spiritual being because I am a spiritual being. And they that are born of the Spirit, they are Spirit, and we are the generation of Christ, the second man Adam, who was made a quickening Spirit. And so then, I find myself as being in the Spirit, and because I am in the Spirit, I walk in the Spirit. I don't fulfill the lust of the flesh to the extent that I am dead to the body. There's no way I can fulfill the desire of the flesh. So forgetting those things that are behind, as to that body, then I'm looking forward to those things that are in the Spirit, and I'm looking toward the heavenly things, to believe God is with me, and God will help me, and God will make my enemies to be at peace with me. That is, they come out against me one way, God will make them flee before me seven ways, and that death is an enemy that's been conquered in my behalf, and Satan has been destroyed, in that the destroying of it was in the body of the Lord Jesus as the bastard child, and my body of death in which Satan dwelt, in that in me there dwelleth no good thing as to the body. The body of that death is now gone. I'm separated from the body of that death, and that body's been destroyed by the wrath of God. And my spiritual being, as to the true me, went back to God who gave it. And today, my spirit is now found within the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. As in the sight of God, through the great mystery of what He hath done, He now seeth me as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ as the innocent.

So then, I find myself free from the law of sin and death. By what means? Is it then by works? If it was by works, then I could boast. But it's not by works. It is the gift of God. It is by faith, that God might receive the praise, the honor and the glory. So then by faith, and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even my believing as to faith. I've overcome all things by faith. I call all things as though they are not because they are lying vanities. They weren't there in the original creation. They weren't there in the beginning. Even the image as to the bastard child, the perverted image, I call it as it is not, because it has been crucified, done away with. And I've been brought back to originality, and now, I am in the originality of God. I am back in the garden. I am back in His presence. I am now illuminated with the Shekinah. Not only illuminated with the Shekinah, but I'm born of the Shekinah. And this wonderful Shekinah glory has broken out within me, until now, my body is dissipated and gone and I am no more in this world. So then, I'm not of the world. He hath chosen me out of the world. He hath hid me with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the restitution, as to the change.

So we are waiting to wit the redemption of our body. That is to say, this natural body, when it will come to pass that what I already am, as we say, shall be revealed to them that are looking. That is to say, I am already that body that hath been redeemed. I am already that body of righteousness. I'm already bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh; but it will be made manifest at the change. When the trumpet sounds, then ye shall behold me, and see me as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is referred to as the redemption of the body. When really, what it is, it is the revealing of that which He hath redeemed, even the purchased possession, which is the body, or that is, at last it will be made known, or you will come to recognize, that I am the body of the Lord Jesus. I've always been the Lord Jesus' body. And even before the foundation of the world, I was the body of the Lord Jesus, and it is now made manifest that I passed through the era of sleep, and I passed through the shadows and down through the valley, and now I've come back to the mountain top to where the sunlight can eradicate the shadows. And you can see me truly and see me in the daylight as the daystar, and tell that I do not belong to the world of shadows. I am not of the weird creatures of night; that I've just been passing through the night, and now I am back on the mountain top of glory, and there I stand with God in the wonderful presence of His glory.

You remember when I went into the Carolinas, and we told you about this thing that happened, as when we went up on the mountain, and down through the mountain through this deep, deep, deep valley, and down into the crevice, and then back up to the other side? And how, that as we went up here and we found out that three people had been there, and the murder, and what it had to do as to the trinity? We spoke of it as to a revelational thing, and as Brother Woodruff remained here, I went on up the mountainside, and as I walked I discovered a little trail that was just about gone. Been there in the many years gone by, but I found it. And the trees were matted over this little trail all the way up toward the mountain top. And as I walked through this matted grove, I could see the sunlight as it would sprinkle the ground. That is, the sunlight from the daystar, it would come down through the matted leaves, and I could see a little light here, and a little light there all around my feet. And as I went through there, these shadows would pass over me, and then a little light and shadow as to thought, dark thoughts and good thoughts of light. Finally, I arrived at the top, and when I arrived at the top, I did a strange thing. I looked straight into the sun, which is hard to do at the noon day. But I looked right straight into it, and at that time I realized all the shadows were gone. And I was there in the brilliance of the Lord, and I had left the others in the shadow of the night. And it was there that God spoke to me to let me know what had happened. And then later, I had a vision and I went through the same thing as to the shadows, until I reached my place of abode.

So then, that means that you are walking through the valley of the shadows. But the Bible says I will fear no evil. In this world, the clouds are up there. The sun's up there. Just a little sunlight and then the shadow. But in the time when you come to that day, when the eradication of all of the clouds, then the brightness of the noonday is there. That is to say, once we get past those angelic beings, we'll not be under that shadow, but we'll be above that shadow, as to waters above the firmament and the waters below the firmament. So then, there are silver linings, as to clouds, and there are those that are fierce and dark, as to storm clouds that bring destruction. Some nourishes the earth as those of light, and some are destructive of the earth as to those that are dark and wretched. But we are on a lower level than the angels. So then, we're in this valley, and God looks down as seeing this world a valley and the angelic forces between heaven and earth, as it was as those in the days of Daniel, when he intercepted the prayers that went up. So then, Jesus dying put Calvary up here to show a crossroad. That this was a road going up as to Christ and righteousness, and that this was a road coming this way as to the angelic traffic this way, and this was to be the godly traffic going up. And when he crossed that place, then he broke through that place, because it was a battle, as shown in the days of Daniel when the angels come down, in the great battle, when the prayers of Daniel went up.

So then, we find that the door is now open in heaven. As it was with the astronaut, we referred to it as the type. This is the age of it. We're discovering this great door that's open in heaven. Now, I said that to say this: we are, by the grace of God, out of the valley of the shadows. We've penetrated. We've gone through. Just like the hole in the ozone, we've gone through. And now we are they that dwell in heaven. We are as in the mind of God that's before the waters that are above the firmament, and these things that you see, as clouds up here, then those angelic forces are always war in heaven. Lightning and thunderings, as we got out in the book of the sermon of The Thunders. And the lightning and the thunderings and war in heaven, and as Satan being cast out as lightning, because when the hot and the cold comes together, it causes a problem. As in our day, the hot and the cold is coming together. The church is trying to mix with the world, and the world is trying to mix with the church, and here comes the lukewarmness. And in this, it causes the war in heaven.

And at this time, this is where Lucifer is cast out. And so then, we're at the time of the expulsion and the casting out of Lucifer, which means the lifting of the grace, as them coming to the knowledge of the Lord, the blood being taken off of the seat of atonement, because when the knowledge of truth comes and men don't follow it, then comes the wrath of God. That means the war between Michael and the angels, as to Revelation 12, that's when Lucifer was cast out, when the man child, as to you, the body of the Lord Jesus, is caught up. Now, the Lord Jesus, as to the head of the church, is already caught up. But when you come to the understanding that Christ came to, and you realize that you are the same as Christ, as He is toward you in Him, and you come to this knowledge to know that you are just as perfect as He is; that is, by faith in what He did for you, then with that brings the war. Or that is to say, with that brings the change, and then all of a sudden, you become the body of the Lord Jesus as to your faith, and then away you go, as to the bodily change, as to the recognition.

See, so we see that God has got us under tutors until the time appointed of the Father. That is to say, when we grasp, when we come to understand, when we can wit the redemption of our body; that is to say, the time of the Jews coming in, the law coming in, to bring about the adoption, to wit the adoption or the redemption of the body. So this great thing is taking place. But at the same time, when the blood is taken off of the seat of atonement, that means the expulsion, that means that those that are now in the presence of God, in that Satan is in heaven by living in the human body, as to say, the bad coming to the supper, but the grace of God still to them; then at that time there will be no more grace of God to them, and Lucifer, as to that body which is called Judas, the devil, will be cast out. As he was cast out and went away into the darkness, though he was in heaven, as among those that were in heaven, even the apostolic leaders, yet he was cast out. The expulsion came. He went out into the darkness, and he hanged himself in that he was that of the curse. Cursed is he or everyone that hangeth upon a tree. Christ hanging on the tree, becoming a curse for us to deliver us from the curse. As the serpent was lifted up in the wilderness, so has it been with Jesus to take us from the curse, in that the problem started with the old serpent as in the tree, that is to say the tree of knowledge.

So we find that Satan is being cast out. The Word has put him out of your heart, and because of that, we're living now in the time and in the age when there will be no more grace to the bastard child image, for He said, In the morning, that is the daylight, the dawning of the time of the understanding when the church light begins to penetrate and show, I will hate your image. I will despise your bastard child image, because in Adam, all are bastard children unto death, but in Jesus Christ, all are the image of the originality as to the image of God, which He made them to be in the garden, as to the fall or as to the feminine perspective, as to the image of the devil. So we find that we are now in the presence of God. All these things have been made for us, and we are the beloved of God. And Lucifer is now being cast out as the grace is being lifted more and more, as men come to the knowledge of the truth, and the bastard child image will not find grace anymore.

So then, he will find himself in the intellectual darkness, for the Bible says gross darkness shall cover the people, and the beast's kingdom shall be filled with gross darkness, to the extent there will be an intellectual ignorance; that there won't even be any healing medicines in that day. And that little episode of heaven will be over. Won't be anymore relief for pain as you are enjoying right now. And that stage of heaven will be over and Lucifer, that's enjoying those wonderful things of heaven, as to bring healing to that wretched body that he inhabits, can no more bring healing, as to medicine, as to healing, in that body. There won't be anything else good at all. He won't have the good things of life, never, never again. And that heaven will be over. That heaven that the blood on the seat of atonement creates, as an environment for the church or the woman while she is with child and carrying this child, for once the child is born, then the woman goes into the wilderness as to the bodily perspective, that is to say, over the Jordan. But that which is of God, the Bible says, of the hundred and forty-four thousand, was caught up to the mountain where they met Jesus on Mt. Zion, and there they were with the Lord.

So then, something is taking place. As to the remnant the Bible says they were persecuted by the beast. They were persecuted. And as to that tribulation and problem coming upon Jerusalem, it had to do with the remnant also. So you see, all things are at an end, and you are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. And all of this happened at Calvary, and we are understanding, as to the church ages, by the revealing of the mind of these things that was given to us in Christ, before the world ever was. Going down through the church ages, they have been detailed to us, and we're now coming to the end of the church ages, to grasp, to understand, to comprehend the heights, the depths, the width and the length, that by this knowledge our faith may be complete in Him. And this complete faith may bring that fullness of that light as to the change of the body, as to bring about our reward in God. I know many of you don't understand what I'm saying, but some of you do, and in that you do, then it will be required of you. Or if you can understand, it means that you can come to this marvelous, wonderful revealing of the mystery. I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep. At the sounding of the trump, that mystery will be revealed that all might not sleep. And then comes the change in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, as to your faith believing you to the ultimatum of your diplomacy, to where you can graduate from this world of lying vanities.

Let us continue on to the full measure of the full stature, and we continue on to be about the Father's business. So all of that is lying vanities that must pass away. If we stand steadfast in our faith, then death hath no power over us. Sickness hath no power over us. Demons have no power over us, for He said, Behold, I give unto you, even Christ within you, that power that's over all evil powers of the darkness. I give unto you power over all the powers of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. When you receive the infilling of Christ, He said, then shall ye receive power. Or that is, the Holy Ghost is Christ, which is the power, proven to be so over all of the powers of the enemy, even as He tabernacled in the body of Jesus. This was proven. Now then He's in your body to conquer your life the same way He conquered in the life of Jesus. He mastered that body, now He wants to master your body. And by faith in the Heavenly Father, Jesus did it. And now by faith in the Heavenly Father, through the name of Jesus, as to His righteousness, in spite of all of our stumblings and staggerings, so we marvelously defeat Satan, as to putting away the body of this death, from glory to glory in that ultimately speaking, it's already been put away by the body of the Lord Jesus, and we are putting it away as to our coming into this wonderful thing from glory to glory, in that we cannot be partakers of that which we do not know and do not understand. So in that it is happening, has happened, now it is happening to us in that we are beginning to get our eyes open, and become partakers of it from glory to glory, as it is revealed to us as to the benefits. Let us overcome and sit down in the throne with Christ!

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord