The Children Of The Rapture

Clyde was telling me before I came into service that the people that came this morning that they were speaking of that they really enjoyed the services. Said that they really enjoyed the ministry and that they would be back. That's wonderful! That is so wonderful to know that people are interested in the Lord and in the things of the Lord. We're back tonight to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus. We tried real hard in the last number of years to try as much as we're able to do it, to make you understand the gospel of Jesus Christ as to the deep mysteries of God. And these are not given to everyone. You wonder why the mysteries are not just preached everywhere. But Jesus said, They're not given to everyone. Having been right with his disciples and ministered to them and having told them about the wonderful hidden secrets of God, they asked, why is it that you speak to these that are without in parables? And Jesus said, For it is not given unto them to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God. He said, Unto you it is given. I want you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God. He said, But unto them that are without they just hear the gospel. The gospel goes into all the world for a witness. Then shall the end come. But it is not given unto them to understand the mysteries of God. But unto you it is given to understand the mysteries of God. And this is why people think sometimes that you are so peculiar. They think you're so peculiar. You're doctrine is so strange. Like they ask Jesus one time, they said, Who gave you the authority to go around preaching like this? You know that is the Sanhedrin was saying, We didn't give you any license to do this. Where did you get your license from? And Jesus said, Well, he said, I'll ask you a question. And said, If you can answer me, then I'll answer you. And he said the baptism of John, was it of man or of God? And the Bible said, They reasoned within themselves that they were afraid to say it was of man, because everybody esteemed John to be a prophet, and they was afraid the people would stone them. And they were afraid to say that it was of God, because Jesus would ask them, why then did you not receive it knowing that John had spoken of his coming? So then they said, we can't tell you. He said, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. And so then we have an authority that comes from God, and we're licensed of God and we are commissioned of God. And that is as Paul said, I am a steward of the mysteries of God; and we go about to preach the wonderful, glad tidings of great joy. And that is that a Savior is risen from the dead and He is our Savior. And that the world knows nothing of these things. And the Bible said, that they shall not understand the mysteries, for they shall not understand when the good cometh. For Lucifer, even Satan, the god of this world, the god of the flesh has blinded their eyes that they cannot see, even their eyes of understanding that they cannot see when good cometh. And so then we preach on the wonderful, glad tidings of great joy, this wonderful Jesus that we know and love so much who tells us the way. Having given unto us this wonderful mystery of Christ, we're so grateful. It's called the Revelation of Jesus Christ. You can read in the book of Revelation here it says, in the beginning of it it says: (Revelation Chapter 1:1-3) " The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." I say so often that when you come to these things as to the mysteries, then the revelation, it means that the time is at hand. It was shortly after Calvary that Paul confessed that he had the Revelation of Jesus Christ, because the Revelation of Jesus Christ had not been given until Calvary, because the Revelation of Jesus Christ was the revealing of the Christ as to the rent veil, that the ark of the testimony might be seen. We read to you this morning, maybe I couldn't detail that too much because it would have taken a lot of time, but we read to you from the fifteenth chapter of the book of Revelation concerning these things. Was it the fifteenth or the sixteenth chapter? It was about three chapters that we read there I believe. But anyway, we read these things to you concerning the temple in the fifth verse of the fifteenth chapter. "And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:" And we brought out concerning the temple, concerning the tabernacle, and concerning the testimony as to what it had to do with. And we didn't have time to elaborate on it. But we did make mention of these things. Sister Betty was telling me today said, You know, said it's a strange thing, but out of all the time I've ever heard you elaborate concerning this, I've never understood what the temple was as to the temple of the testimony. She said, But this morning said, I understood what you were saying. Well, we brought out some things concerning it before. We approached it just a little bit different this morning, and we said some things that we have repeated before. But this particular thing we was just trying to hit it kind of light as to give you some idea to where you would have a reference. You have to have a point of reference if you're going to understand the mysteries of godliness. And just as the spirit gives unto us, and we try to give you those points of references to where you can understand what is happening. Let's read again chapter ten beginning at the first verse. (Revelation Chapter 10:1) "And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:" Now if you'll notice that when we read this: "And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven" there is a significance when it says, "come down from heaven". Said, He was clothed with a cloud. There is a spiritual significance of the clothing of the cloud. And a rainbow was about his head. And there is a spiritual significance of the rainbow about his head. And his face was as it were the sun. There is a spiritual significance in his face being as the sun and his feet as pillars of fire. And there is a spiritual significance his feet being as pillars of fire. " And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth." And all of this has spiritual significance. Everyone of these things has a spiritual understanding as to a revelation. And the Bible said, When you come together, have a revelation. Have a doctrine, have a song, you know have a praise for God, but also have a revelation. Let everything be done decently and in order. And according to the Bible, this is what God calls the order of the church: is when you come together and you have a revelation. All right so it says, (Reads Revelation 10:1-11) As I was reading there it came across my mind. And I'd like to remind you that Brother Bob is up in Virginia. He had ask the last time we was in that area if we would come and minister for him under the tent, which we did not do. We did go to the Carolina's, but we didn't go over to Virginia. And this time he has ask us again if we would come. Starting in this Wednesday, is it Frank? And he'll go on through July, the first of July. And he said, At anytime that we wanted to come that he would like for us to come. So it might be that we would run off up there for a night to be with him. It's been quite a while since we ministered in Virginia. That we might run off up that way. Try to get with you all on it, Brother Taylor. All right now, what did we read here? It said, And in the days of the voice; "But in the days of the voice". Now this indicates that there is a voice and there is a day for this voice. It says the voice, whereas it speaks of the trumpets. Notice now, Revelation 8 it said concerning the silence, and then seven angels with seven trumpets. But at the sounding of the trumpet, the trumpet obviously was a voice. See, everything having a spiritual significance, we find here that the trumpet has a significance. And what is the significance of it? It is a voice. Whereas the Bible uses the terms, And the trump of God, which is the voice of Jesus of course. So then every voice is a trump. And it says here these seven voices or these seven trumpets. What makes us to know that it's voices? It says right here: "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel". And the seventh angel is the one that has the trumpet. Now I pointed this out to you a number of times before trying to make you to understand to where we wouldn't misconstrue things. And it says here: the seven trumpets hath uttered their voices. When had they uttered their voices? John said, I was going to write it down. You remember Philip? Philip went close to a eunuch and he said, Understandesth thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I understand, if I have no man to teach me? So Philip expounded the Scripture. So God always sends His Spirit to expound the Scriptures. When the seven thunders had uttered their voices, we say, seven thunders. Now, these trumpets are sounding as seven trumpets, and then the seven thunders. It said, And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices. So it's very obvious that even these thunders were voices. And it was seven voices from the seven thunders. And the trumpets were also voices because it shows right here, it said, And in the days of the voice of the seventh angel. And the seventh angel is the last angel of the seven that was given a trumpet. And then I pointed out to you that when these trumpets had sounded, the different things that took place, we told you how that, as they sounded, when the fifth angel sounded, a star fell from heaven, and under the earth, and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit, and went on and spoke about when the sixth angel had sounded, they loosed the four angels which was bound in the great river Euphrates. And each time that one of these things sounded it brought forth a great, outstanding thing in the earth. So then we come right down to the last one, and then there came a breach between the sixth and the seventh. And this angel came forth. And this angel stood on the land and on the sea. And then we brought out to you that the last three of the seven had to do with the three woes. The Bible speaks of the three woes of the tribulation period which is recorded in the book of Revelation. And that this had to do with woe, woe, woe. The angel flew through heaven saying, Woe, woe, woe! unto them that are on the earth, for Satan is among them. And we see here that the last was: Woe, woe, woe! So between the second and the third woe, there came a breach; and this great angel who was so great and mighty and tall, he reached all the way from the earth up into the heavens. His head was up in the heavens and there was a rainbow about his head. And his feet extended all the way down to the earth. I never heard of so great an angel, never so great an angel that filled heaven and earth. But his feet come all the way down to the earth, and he had a foot on the earth and he had a foot on the sea. And he stood there, and he had a little book in his hand. And the Bible said, While he had this little book in his hand, that it was said to him: Give me the little book. Because the voice had said, Go take the book from the angel's hand. And he said, Give me the little book. Said, And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven and sware by him that liveth forever and forever, who created heaven and the things that therein are, and the earth and the things that therein are, and the sea and the things that which are therein, that there should be time no longer. Now, who was this? This has to do with Calvary. No one has ever been as great as Jesus. And what He did at Calvary in lifting up his hands to heaven, saying that time should be no longer, or that this is the fullness of time, or that time is finished, He reached all the way from earth up to heaven. And the rainbow that you saw about His head is reckoned for as the same thing, when you look over there where He's sitting on the throne. And the Bible said, As He sit upon the throne there was a rainbow around about His head, which indicated that the knowledge and understanding and the mind of this body of the Lord Jesus reached all the way up in the heaven, even to the throne itself. That His mind was the mind that was in control of the throne itself. And the rainbow which represented the church ages as to the seven spirits of God and the seven angelic messengers, as to that refracted light that came from that pyramid that we spoke of, this rainbow was about his head, because it all emanated from Him, even the capstone. So we see this great, marvelous thing of the Lord standing as we say, one foot on the land and one foot on the sea, which indicates that with this that He is both in the spirit and in the natural. He made of himself twain. And all these things are symbolic. And they're naturally symbolic of something spiritual; and that's what this has to do with. His feet as to the preparation of the gospel. The Bible said, Having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel; in that the feet is noted as to the soul, that which the serpent strikes at. Then we see that this thing was symbolic. If you will kind of watch the rest-room? There's no reason for those boys to just go down and stay. If they go down for necessity, it's okay. But I don't need the traffic going to and fro about the time that the anointing starts moving. It's not necessary. They can go and relieve themselves before service unless there's some problem with the body. So then I'd appreciate it if you would stay still. As Billy Sunday said, I'm a travelling evangelist, but it's very difficult for me to preach to a travelling congregation. All right so then we find that this great angel, this great and mighty angel stands on the land and the sea. Now Satan will do anything to move somebody about, to strike at your mind, to cause you to be resentful, to cause you to be surmising, or cause you to come against the ministry or the spirit or anything, he will do it to stop the Revelation of Jesus Christ; because he is the god of the flesh, and he works the mind of the children of the flesh at his convenience; and he makes them run headlong into the things of God. He does that. You people need to wake up to that so that you can stop Satan from robbing you. He's a thief and a robber. And you'd make your children to sit down, or cause them to have a little discipline. And boy this is just flying back at me tonight, so you might not get a revelation, you might get a good sermon here tonight. Because it's flying back. Maybe God's wanting me to preach to you instead of teach you tonight. But anyway I can feel this flying back. Some of them that's got your mind on money and the things of the world, it flies back like a lead you know when I say this because you are one of his instruments. And he uses you. So everyone that can sit in the seat of the scornful, you are of the devil, and Satan uses to fly back in your mind. But you that dwell in heaven, you have that wonderful mind of peace, and you have that wonderful mind of God, and you are the children of the Lord. But the others are the children of Satan and the children of darkness as to intellectual reasoning. And they enter into his gates not with thanksgiving and praise, but with resentment and fault-finding. And like somebody was telling me about the vision that they saw. Here they said, Brother Pike, I saw you as to you was suppose to speak to those at the University of Georgia, and said, as you stood before them, they become aware that it could have been the brethren. And they said and what you had to say, said, it was to be given to the people, and the people wanted to hear it but not all. And said, Some of them they wanted to hear it, but they didn't want you to say it. They wanted to know what you had to say and wanted to hear it, but they didn't want you to say it. And they were contrary to him. And so see that's the way it is. Here at Little Bethlehem, you don't know it, but I have all kind of spirits in here, all kind of people. And those carnal minds are working against the mind of Christ. And the very minute that the anointing breaks through and everything is sweet, then they begin to cause problems. Because when it causes problems, then I say things. When I say things, you come against me. And when you come against me, I get grieved, and the Holy Spirit just departs like that. Then I find myself just anointed to preach to you and upbraid you and come down with that whip from heaven that corrects, and drives out the evil ones and turns over the money table. So then it is the devil that tries to keep you from these things. You know the reason a lot of people don't get the Revelation of Jesus Christ is because they're not sweet in their spirit. Did you notice that all through the disciples as to their preaching and all these kind of things, that the Revelation of Jesus Christ is not spoken of as being given unto them. It was Paul. And Paul was the one that magnified charity as being sweet in his soul. And it was given to John; and John was the one who was so loving that lent over on the breast of Jesus. It wasn't that John didn't have a backbone, when John spoke and said, I'll remember the prating of them that does such and such. And he did. And told what he would do when he got there. And it wasn't that Paul didn't have a backbone. Paul said, There's some mouths that ought to be stopped. And he called the man a whited wall. He had a backbone, but beyond that he was sweet and loving. Because he was sweet and loving, his spirit was mellow and sweet. And it always fellowshipped God and God fellowshipped it. And the sweet, wonderful, humble, submissive spirit was always wrapped up in the wonderful things of God. It wasn't always a spirit of seeking knowledge, and being vainly puffed up as to see how much we can know so we can tell somebody; but it was just that loving thing that wanted to be like a little babe in the arms of the mother. But anyway that's the reason that you don't get very much from God individually speaking. And that's the reason a lot of times you don't get the things from God in the services is because you don't work with me. And when I strike at a spirit or something like that, when the old serpent's head pops up, then like that all over the audience. Because there's usually a number of people, the sons of God come to present themselves before God and Satan he comes, too. And there's a number of people that are filled with Satan that comes to church. And they're waiting there. They humble themselves. The Bible said, Satan humbles himself, that is for his own benefit. He'll humble himself and hide to try to get everything that he can. To know everything that he can know, to intellectually use it against the kingdom of God, and to conflict with the saints of God, so that he can keep his program going. But nevertheless, God knows his number and God knows the street he lives on. And God knows them that are his. And so then He lets me know them that are his. And wisdom is justified of her children. So then I say something, the children of God will justify it in a sweet, loving spirit, stand with me one hundred per cent, and they'll justify wisdom just like that. And the others all out of sorts, they get all out of sorts. Their minds just go wild like a little kitty, all balled up in a twine; and they are constantly surmising and evil surmising. And just like that they're flashing on and off as they reflect the things of God as they go back into the darkness, contrary to me and to the Holy Spirit, bringing to themselves swift damnation and bringing the curse upon them. They want that. They try to hid to keep from being cursed. But nevertheless, that's the thing. See, we done got way off of our thought here, way away from the theme of our thought here. You know, it's really amusing to me because I have men that come in here with a regularity, and I have women that come in here with a regularity, and they slip in like a weasel. They come in. They know that they're not right with God. They know they're full of lust and covetousness and the things of the world. And they've come here for a number of years. And they know they cause me trouble. And they'll try to slip in here and hide. And as long as I don't ruffle the feathers, as long as I don't ripple the waters, they're just as smooth as silk. They can grin at me and they can just be sweet and they can prop up like this you know, just as sweet as honey. But the very minute that I cut across their grain, they sull up like that cat with his hair and bristling up you know, and they're just as mean and contrary as they can be, and their old ugly nature shows. And of course that aggravates me because I would just love to pop the whip you know. Take the whip and pop the whip like that angel that stood down there with a sword waiting. You know the Lord will have an angel, he's just waiting to take your head off if you don't do right. Did you know that? That God is waiting to take your head off. He don't like your head, and he'll take your head off. He let them take John the Baptist's head off so that it would let you know that there was a new head and that was the end of the law and the prophet. And there was a new head called the Lord Jesus Christ. And the head of Moses wasn't there anymore. See, to let you know that that sinful head wasn't there anymore. Somebody said, I got to get my head straightened out. You got to get your heart straightened out. And so then that old head, you don't have to worry about getting it straightened out because God's going to take it off anyway. So today we have a new headship. That's the mind of the Lord Jesus Christ. And God has an angel waiting for you to take your head off if you don't do right. That don't set well at all. But every word of it is true. All right I don't think that we're going to be able to get into revelation tonight, because that just knocked it away, just went away, so we're just going to say whatever He says to us. All right so then, we'll just go back here to where we know then that the mysteries of God are finished. I wanted to bring out something concerning that angel and Calvary. But anyway maybe we'll do that another time. So then we find that the mysteries of God are finished in Revelation 10 and 7. Said, "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." And of course it is a voice. It is the last of those seven voices. It is the third woe. And this angel sounding isn't going to bring joy and peace and gladness to the earth, because he is one of the angels that the Bible said, will bring the woes into the earth. One woe cometh and then another woe cometh. Whereas the Bible said, Woe unto them that forget the Lord, for He will tear them into pieces. And so the woes are coming. John speaks of the earthquakes and the buildings falling to the ground, and all these horrible, hideous things taking place. So the woes are on their way. They're coming. And the king of the North is on his way to bring the woes. So then we find that that last voice is a woe. It's going to be a terrible, terrible thing. When looking at the woes, someone would say, What do you mean a woe, Brother Pike? Well all we got to do is back up here a little bit. And it says here: (Reads: Revelation 9: 1-4) Remember the seal of God in the forehead. Go back there in Revelation 7. Take six and seven and read it, and you'll find out that a 144,000 were sealed. (Reads: Revelation 9: 5-11.) That's why we spoke of them making the nest among the stars calling it the Apollyon. And he said, from thence I shall cast thee down to hell. (Reads: Revelation 9:12) "One woe is past and behold, there come two woes more..." So that's what a woe is. That's a woe. And then this next woe comes it says: (Reads Revelation 9: 12-21) And that is the second woe. Now I'm reading quite a bit fast because that's the only way I can get through these things. It takes so long to say so little and people are so impatient that they don't give me but just a little time to say what you to say and they're spirits are gone. So I have to rush through it like a horse racing. All right so then we see that that's two woes. And then the last woe was the woe of him that was to finish the mysteries. The third woe which is the seventh angel. So five, six and seven that is the woes. And they are voices. And it says here that when this last voice, "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." And then the question arises a lot of times: when and where is this voice to sound? How do I know about this voice? When is this voice going to sound? Who is it going to be? And will I know anything about it? Of course you will. And when will it sound? Will we know when it's going to sound? Or will God let us know what is to be done about the seventh angel? It's very simple: "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel," it says, when he begins to sound, and then he goes right on from Revelation 10 to Revelation 11 and 11:15 and it says, (Reads Revelation 11: 15-19; 12: 1-17; Revelation 13: 1-18; Revelation 14: 1.) All right of course these were those that was sealed back over there that we spoke of. But I just want to point out one or two things. It's very obvious that Revelation 12 is referring back to Calvary, where is the war in heaven and where the child is caught up. It was Jesus that was caught up. And this has to happen again in this sense, that as the headship was caught up, so shall the members be caught up, and that's why I read to you a hundred and forty-four thousand caught up to mount Sion here as Jesus touches his foot upon mount Sion. So we see that there's a number of things that would take a long time to explain as to the coming of the Lord Jesus, as to two or three different times where He appears. See, so it is the Lord. There is war in heaven. Satan is overthrown. But if you notice that the casting out of the dragon, though Jesus said, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven, yet, though it happened at Calvary, here it is made manifest as to be in a personification right here in the middle of the week. And of course you say, Brother Pike how do you know that it's the middle of the week? Why do you speak so boldly and freely as to say, thus and thus, when the Bible said, if any man add anything unto the revelation here, that these plagues would be added unto him, or if he'd take anything away, his name should be taken out of the book of life and whatever. But see, it's very obvious that when we speak like this, we speak of that which we know by the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Not to add or to take away but to reveal what John has said. See, and it's very obvious that this is the middle of the week, the middle of Daniel's last week, 483 years. I told you that this was 483 years unto Calvary. And after that that it was seven years left to make an end upon Daniel's people. To bring in everlasting righteousness that is to say, people that cannot sin and to anoint the most holy, that is to bring in the kingdom of God, as to set Jesus upon the throne over in the millennium, and to bring in the kingdom of God at Calvary. So there is seven years from the 483 years. In this tribulation period, it is called the last week of Daniel; because the angels referred to it as seventy weeks. And God gives the prophet a day for a year. You can read it for yourself. And as to determine the judgment upon Israel. So we look and we see that this is the middle of the week. Lucifer is cast out in the middle of the week. Why is he cast out in the middle of the week? Because the man child is caught up in the middle of the week. So what is this man child? It has to do with Israel, the 144,000. See, that is to say, a natural Jew, and then the whole house of Israel. Or Jesus being Jacob, his name changed to Israel as to a prince, like from Jesus to the Christ. And then there are the Christians as to Israel, then there are the Israelites. And so then this natural shows Jesus to the whole house of Israel. Or that is Jacob coming for his children. Now in this, this is caught up, for Jesus is caught up at Calvary. His body is caught up at Calvary. And then it becomes a spiritual thing from the 483 over to the 7. It is a heavenly episode. And we find that in this rent veil, it was from the 483 the seven on one side, the 483 on the other, 483 having to do with the law, and the seven having to do with the tribulation, and in between having to do with the church ages. So it is the ark of His testament revealed as to the church ages. Or that is to say this great, wonderful gospel that we're preaching, or those seven angels as to the messengers that they are bringing during the church ages to get the church ready, because that is His bride. That is the body of the Lord Jesus. And immediately they are caught up to the throne. You're not of this world. I've chosen you into heaven. And so it is a heavenly episode. And this is why we preach to you that you belong in heaven, that you are they that dwell in heaven. That this thing is not walking ten miles to get to heaven as we would say. But it is a spiritual transition. And by faith you are being transformated by mind and translated by spirit, and then the ultimatum will be as to Thessalonians' change as to a transfiguration by body. So then this is a transitional thing as we preach to you. You hear and then you believe. And when you believe, faith translates you. So then we are preaching you out of Egypt into Canaan. Or we are preaching you from the flesh to the spirit, or we are preaching you all the way from earth to heaven. Like the man that wrote the song when the boy was about to go to the electric chair, and they gave him a chance to have his last request that his friend play the guitar, he said, let my guitar playing friend play me back home or sing me back home. See, it is us preaching you back home. We are preaching to you the wonderful word of God, and you're hearing the words as God has laid it out in the fore-knowledge. And as you move along transitionally speaking you are transformating in mind and moving right on into the heavenlies. And when this great expose' is finished then the mysteries of God are finished. Because what the mysteries are is that which was behind the veil. And when the 483 went one way and the seven years went another way, then the expos‚ come, and that was the revealed mysteries as to Christ, the mind of God within you, the hope of glory. So then we see the beautiful mysteries of God. And we see what God is doing. And we see that from this rent veil comes forth from the throne these seven candlesticks as the messengers of God, or as we say these wonderful spirits of God, in that the Bible speaks of the seven spirits of God, as to that which ministers to mankind. Though we could go on and on saying many things concerning this. But I'm trying to get over a thought. And the thought that I'm trying to get over to you is that we are the children of the rapture. We are the children of the kingdom. We are now beloved sons of God, and we do have eternal life, and we have passed from death unto life. And now we find this thing as to that last seven years approaching now as to the tribulation period. And we've explained to you how that Mr. Bush, as we say, George that cast out the dragon or overcome the dragon, and now Mr. Bush is in office. And his administration goes right over into the middle of the tribulation calendar wise. So we find that right here at this particular time something is taking place. The man with the mark comes. And there is the man with the mark right at the time that the child is born, as to say Mr. Bush ruling with the rod of iron, the red dragon as to communism is laying right in there. You remember the round that he had with the Chinese, in that he boycotted the Chinese because of the killing and whatever, the red dragon. See, all this and remember how Mr. Gorbachev and sometimes I say, Khrushchev. Mr. Gorbachev and the Chinese leader tried to get together in this thing called Communism. So then it would take hours and hours so I just have to hurry and try to say these things so that I can get them on tape or get them on film or wherever to get them in your listening ear, because we don't have time to teach them these to you. It should take months of every day of the week at least five or six hours a day teaching you every day of the week, it should take that long to be able to teach you these wonderful things. It took Paul three and a half years to get this understanding, constantly day and night after that he had spent almost a lifetime studying up to this point to get the groundwork. So you can know that you people are getting but just a fragmental thing. This is all you're getting. Though I say all of these things; and all these things pass by you; as to what you're getting and what you're retaining is just a tiny fragment; because we don't have time to really give it to you and teach it to you; because you don't have time to hear it as to one thing. So then being pressed with necessities of life it is passed right on like a shadow, and so you're gone. You come and soon you're gone. One generation and then another generation. But at least I say this to you in the way of trying to get over to you, that we should contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints of God. Letting this mind be in you which is also in Christ Jesus, which was a mind that thought it was in heaven, and it thought heavenly, and it spoke heavenly, and it moved heavenly, and it acted heavenly, and it believed that it was equal with God. That it was the body of Almighty God, and that it was one with the Heavenly Father. That it did always the things that pleased the Father. And of course in Christ Jesus as reckoning His works to be our perfectness, then we are perfect in the sight of God, having this mind in us, because God has so wrought within His body these works for us; therefore the mind within us gives us this credibility. So then you don't understand what I'm saying. But nevertheless, this is the way it is. Now the tribulation period is moving in. Seven years is moving in on you now. This seven years is about to come in. Now with the coming of the seven years, what happens? It begins the last week of Daniel. It begins the last week. Over about three and a half years into that, I read to you where there's war in heaven. And the man child is caught up. That is to say the members of the body of Jesus is caught up as to the Jewish side of it. Whereas in the Christ side of it it's already happened here. Now, so then the church is already sealed in. Even where the door's open in heaven and John is caught up into the heavens. Now the others were sealed to go through the tribulation period that the locusts couldn't hurt them. Here we see a war in heaven. Michael and the angels fighting. We see a third part of the angels going out. I could bring a typical thing to you, and many phases of the gospel to where you would go a natural thing to see this thing very clearly. But we don't have the time to do those kind of things. Now even the interruptions take away from it. So when you say, Brother Pike, how can you so profoundly declare that this is the middle of the week? How do you know it's the middle of the week? It could have been anytime. You don't know that it's the middle of the week. But it's very obvious that it is the middle of the week, because here it says the war, and then the woman fled into the wilderness. And it said, the dragon that was cast out pursued the woman, the beast pursued the woman. And the Bible said she had a place prepared for a times, time and a half a time. Times, time and a half a times is three years. For times, time and a half a time tells us that that is the middle of Daniel's last week. It is three and a half years that is left. So it is a time, times and half a times. A time is a year. Times means more than one time. It is times which means two years. And a half a time means six months. So it is three years and a half. That is time, times and a half a time which is the middle of the week. And Satan goes out in the middle of the week. So we know that that's the middle of the week when that great conflict takes place. And we know that when he is in the earth, it is said, Woe unto the inhabitants of the earth for Satan is among you. And knowing that he hath but a short time, that is knowing that the powers of consummation are closing in on him, that he's no longer concealed in the spirit, that he can feel the pains and miseries, even as humanity feels it. See, Jesus came down as humanity. He was manifest in a human body, and he feels our pain and he feels our miseries. And the Bible said He's a high priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. But not Lucifer. See, but Lucifer is now forced into a human body to where God can bring His wrath upon him and make him feel the pain and the misery to gnawing his tongue, even as he has caused others to suffer, so shall he suffer the more. And the Bible said, putting him down into the pit, down to the sides of the pit, that they that are in the pit are in the flames shall look at him and say, How is it that thou art fallen, Oh Lucifer, the son of the morning? How is it that thou art cast down? Hast thou altogether become as such a one as we, as they will say? That you are down here and you can't do anything anymore? You that would not release your prisoners. You that was of great power of preeminence and now you've fallen. How art thou fallen oh son of the morning, they will say unto him. So then we see that God says, even in the millennium he'll be bound for a thousand years, cast into the bottomless pit. And the Bible said, He shall not be loosed until the thousand years is over. And then for a little season. And during this time the Bible said, And nothing shall harm in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord. A lot of times we get things misconstrued, because I preach that during that time the plague will consume people. And that problems will happen to the nation. And we say, Well we don't understand it. It says, In my holy mountain nothing's going to hurt. And here you say all these things is happening. And then we say, Of course, there is nobody that's going to die during that time. Death will be lifted, be taken away. And then we say these people are going to be consumed. You say, My, I don't understand this. This is all confusing to me. But the point of differentiation is this: Nothing shall harm in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord. As to Jerusalem, as to His place of dwelling, as to you, and as to I, as to we. We are the holy mountain of God. Death is lifted from us. Miseries is gone from us. No sorrow and heartaches to us. But those that are without that's still in the earth, that's under our regime and under the constraint of the powers of God as to the twelve apostles sitting on thrones, and as to the Jewish nation that will be ruling them, those people if they don't come up to Jerusalem to worship, the Bible teaches they'll have no rain on their crops. And the Bible teaches that if they rebel against God, their eyes will consume away in their sockets. And even as the same thing that happened to their armies when they fought against Israel, and the boycotting as to the abomination of desolation, so will it happen to the nations that are left, if they go the same way as to the error of their armies. So we can see that there's a great thing here and a lot to be learned and a lot to find out as to know what we're saying and why we're saying it, how that this thing will come about. All right so we'll slow down just for a minute as we go to close. You can see a great thing took place when the mysteries of God was finished. The mysteries of God, the seventh angel sounded. When he sounded, what happened? It said, there was war in heaven. I, we, published a book on The Thunders. Remember the thunders, war in heaven. We'll be saying more about war in heaven as to what war in heaven is. But it says here that there was no more place found in heaven for the dragon. He and his angels were cast out. Again that's, goes back symbolically speaking of Calvary, when Jesus was smitten. It had to do with the head of the serpent. And when the Jews went out, it had to do with the body of the serpent. And they were cast out. That was the end of it. And Christ and the true Jew came in. Whereas the Bible said, They come from the east. They come from the West. They went into the place of the children of the kingdom. The children of the kingdom as the children unto David's kingdom went out, and there was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, as they went through the Holocaust and all these things of the dark age. But we, the Bible said, coming from the east and the west they'll be translated into the marvelous kingdom of God, and these have pressed their way against this old nature of the flesh, and against the body of this death and against Satan, overcoming. They went right into the kingdom of God, the translation through faith. And Enoch was translated by faith that he should not see death. All right without faith it's impossible to please God. So I look at this and I find that all of a sudden Satan is cut off. All of a sudden he's gone. Why? Because the blood come off the seat of atonement. This is what we've been trying to tell you. And of course we'd have to go into a lot of things to try to explain that. But the blood come off of the seat of atonement; and all of a sudden I said, those people that's in heaven, they're not in heaven anymore. I say and Satan that was in heaven because he could live in humanity, and as long as the blood was on the seat of atonement, the grace of God, the rain was on the just and the unjust. And the grace to the just and to the unjust, Jesus having taken away the sins of the world that God could not see them, because Jesus had been smitten for those sins. But when the blood comes off, God will see it as it is. And the Bible said, He cannot look upon iniquity. And immediately He'll smite everything. The very day that Lot went out of Sodom and Gomorrah fire and brimstone came down upon them. So that means that that will be the expulsion or the casting out of the old dragon, the old beast, the generation of vipers. See, and Satan himself will appear to be personified, just like Jesus Himself will appear in His personification, that He might take the church, that is to say Jesus; and Satan might take the beast, his members as his body. All right so we see all these things taking place. And the tribulation period is almost upon us. Which means when the seven last years come in, then the seven last years will end the 490 years that's determined upon the people, that's given 500 years as to the silent ages unto Calvary, and the seven years will finish as to the last week. And in the midst of that week, you won't be around, but in the midst of that week, that's when Lucifer shall be cast out. And he shall be in the earth. He shall be in the earth. Now he is right there in the presence of God to the extent he came before God in the days of Job and began to accuse. And at Calvary the accuser of the brethren was cast out. And thus the man child was caught up. Which means that God will not receive any accusation against you anymore. For now is come strength and power and salvation, because your spirit is now made holy; the evil one toucheth you not. God hears not one accusation against you. And no one can lay anything to the charge of God's elect. You are now they that dwell in heaven. Said, Rejoice forevermore. You don't have to worry anymore. For He's given you all things that pertain unto life. That's your security as of today; because now beloved are ye the sons of God. See. So the strength and power is already to us, but not the Jews. See, it's not to the body as of yet. That is to say, being made manifest. So then as to the catching up, when the 144,000 goes up, then it can be said, and now is come strength and power and salvation. That is to the world, because the Jews will go into power in this natural world, because the redemption of the body will be there, and the manifestation of the sons of God will be there through that millennium government; because three and a half years before this catching up of the Jews, they were caught up, and they were gone at Thessalonians change there at the first of the week before the tribulation period set in. Let's give the Lord a hand. I'd like to say a lot of other things, but maybe we can get to a few of these things that we've said and perhaps enjoy a few of these things that we've said unto you. Let's stand again. Brother Taylor. All right. If I talked a little bit fast, why you'll just have to pray for me. I don't know of any way to say. You can see that I've said very few things as to things that you could understand. And yet we said a lot of things. During the time of these things we have to as we serve meat, serve a little bit of milk for the children, for the babes in Christ. And it makes it real difficult, folks. And especially if you've got some people like Judas' among you that's going to resent, that's naturally minded, that don't have the Holy Ghost. And every time you cross the wire a little bit they're going to fly up at you. It makes it very difficult. It makes it very hard. See, we should be dead to the flesh. And when the preacher's preaching, when he goes to rebuking, we should instead of having a nature that rises up to find fault and to come against him in the mind and all these kind of things, to set in the seat of the scornful, we should be in a position where we're filled with the Holy Ghost, and that Holy Ghost looms out and says, Amen! Glory to God! Get that devil out of here. Without that should be our respond as reflexes, without crossing the Spirit in any way. As Brother Branham said, Your thoughts speak louder in heaven than do your words do on earth. And so then when all these things come about as to I'll say this thing and the spirit moves as to the mind of Christ, and He sends His word as to His thoughts to cast out the unclean spirits, then you rise up, letting the spirit get ahold of you. Like Brother Branham said, Here sets somebody over here, and here is a spirit working with this person over here, and all of a sudden if you go to cast it out, this thing calls over here and you see a spirit over here. And they start linking themselves together to strengthen each other so that you can't cast them out. For it takes one to put a thousand to flight and two to put ten thousand to flight. And the Bible said, Behold, I give you power over all the powers of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. So then we find that these things are in the midst of the people. Even a great and a mighty prophet as he was, yet in his services there set those evil spirits. They came to present themselves. And in the days of Jesus the great God of heaven and of earth, even in His services there set those evil spirits. And they were there. And they rose up in His services. And cried out saying, Jesus of Nazareth. We know who thou art. What do we have to do with thee? I've had them to rise up in my service. I've had them to jump right up in the midst of the services and blat (blurt?-ed.) right out. All right, let's sing together. Let's sing the little chorus we sing so often. (Sings: I Love Him) Jesus said, If you love me you'll keep my commandments. (Sings) (Sings: Every Promise In the Book Is Mine). All right while we sing this little chorus. There's Room At The Cross For You. The altars are open. Appreciate the card that I received this morning. In that of course having to do with the little pyramid. Truthfully the stone that the builders rejected, the Bible said, the same is become the head of the corner. This is the work of the Lord. It's marvelous in our eyes, and he shall come crying grace, grace, grace. And so it is we're living in the days of grace. And He hath given great and mighty grace. And the Bible said, Great grace was upon the people. So then He's living with us in the day of healing, in the day of salvation, in the day of forgiveness, the day of love and concern, God's compassion. This is the hour when the rain is even upon the unjust. So we sing about His grace and we sing about His love. How wonderful is His ways. They're past finding out. Let's sing the little chorus. (Sings: There's Room At The Cross For You.) (Sings: At The Cross, Sweep Over My Soul.) (Sings: Every Hour I Need Thee.) (Sings: Don't Turn Him Away) You love the Lord Jesus? Let's give the Lord a hand can we? Let's sing this little chorus can we? (Sings: I Claim Jesus.) Can you sing with me? (Sings) One more time. (Sings) One more time. (Sings) Let's give him another hand. (Sings: Move Over A Little Bit) Can you sing that with me? (Sings) Can you sing that with me? (Sings) Can't you tell somebody if you've been down that road that you'd like to help them? (Sings) One more time together. (Sings) You know I've been through a lot of things during my lifetime, and some of you have been through a lot of things, and a lot of times when I'm preaching or when I'm singing, I can by discernment reach out and take your spirit, and I can tell that it's really troubled. It's really tore up. Sometimes you've been going through some hard places. And some fears, real fears that just tears your spirit all to pieces. And you're just cleaving and you're just reaching, you're struggling just to get one word of consolation and a helping hand to where you know that you can truthfully feel that you are a child of God and that the Lord is still with you. And when we sing these songs it is true. We have been down these roads and we can help you. You know if you'll give us the chance. All right together again. (Sings) Isn't that wonderful? We can shout together. Together we can sing. Together we can stand. You can't stand by yourself. But together we can stand. And this is what we want to do is unify an effort toward Christ, a brotherhood that is impenetrable. That cannot be broken, and one that people will not break in any form or fashion, but they'll stay right together. The Bible said, When I bring Zion again they'll march hand in hand. They won't pierce each other through, but they'll march hand in hand and walk together. Right now they're all broken up. All kind of doctrines and ideology; but when God brings this great, wonderful army of Joel, there won't be any broken links in it. And there won't be any missing links. There won't any schisms in the body. But we'll all walk as a great and mighty army in the Lord Jesus Christ. All right let's sing another song or two and we're going to let you go. (Sings: One More Valley) Can you sing it? (Sings) Sing it with me. Can you sing that with me? (Sings) Can you sing it one more time with me? I know it's hot and uncomfortable, but let's sing. (Sings) One more time let's sing it together. (Sings) Can you lift your hands up and close your eyes? (Sings: I Will Praise Him) Sing it again with me. (Sings) Once again now. I'm going to ask Brother Larry Bullard if he'll come up and dismiss us. Can you sing it with me? (Sings) One more time together. (Sings) Can you sing it with me? (Sings)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord