The Latter Days

...to know that the Lord is still on the Throne. I'd like to mention one or two things tonight. There's not enough time for me to talk to you about them. It would take all night long to probably expound just a few of these things, but if you can be patient with me just a little bit we might mention a few little things to you. Over in the book of Daniel, if you've got your Bible you can turn over there with me. Really, hardly ever have time to really talk with you about the Scriptures. It's just occasionally that we get to say a few things to you. There's a lot of things that we'd like to say. In the book of Daniel he speaks a lot of the end time. And in teaching from these things it takes a lot of time, because there is a lot involved. The Bible said great is the mystery of godliness. And it takes a lot of time to teach these things, so we just kind of hurry through them and brief a few things here and there. Sometimes when I have an opportunity I expound these things a little more in detail to my wife. And even then I don't really get to go through these things with her like I'd like to. It's really something, you know, with the end of the world upon us and these things so important. We should be like children in school. We should be applying every moment to study of the word and every bit of our strength and ability toward the growth, as to the full image of the stature of Jesus Christ. But we don't. It's just something about us that we go along with our routine of Churchism. And as a result of that we never really get to what the real church is like, or we never really come to what the early church was like, as to the first initial establishing of the church. And we just kind of learn a few little things here and there. And even at that I would say here at Bethlehem the hours that I've taken with some of the brethren to talk with them, that still they probably have grown maybe ten times as much as some other churches. And even with that we've hardly scratched the surface as to what we should know in Christ Jesus, but this is the trend of today. And we just try to hurry through a thing when we talk about it. We don't take time to expound it the way that we could and give out the great detail of it. But I'd love to read just a little bit to you. The second chapter of the book of Daniel, if you remember, in the days of Nebuchadnezzar__ We've brought out some things on this concerning the dates as to when this came in to effect. And we gave the dates, the times when the ten tribes was scattered into Assyria at the time that the crown went down into Babylon about five hundred years prior to that when Daniel was taken down into Babylon, supposedly being about ninety years old when he finally deceased, and being a young man was taken down there and went on through the regime of Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, the son as it is given of Nebuchadnezzar, and then into Cyrus' time of the Medo-Persians and how that the different visions, as of to the image of gold, and as to the tree that was cut down, and as to the writing on the wall of Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. And we've got these on tape. Kind of briefed them a little bit here and there. Never really got to go through these things and detail them. But it was abut this time that Daniel was down there as to prior to the five hundred years. We bring it out about four hundred and ninety years before the coming of the Lord, and how that after four hundred and eighty-three years Messiah was cut off and made an end sin. And we tell how that there was one week left determined upon Daniel's people after the visitation of the angel. Daniel's people meaning the Jews and the Lord bringing the four hundred and eighty-three years upon the Jews as to their time from the time of the visitation. That is to say from the time that the angel visited with Daniel and the decree went forth from King Artaxerxes to Nehemiah to rebuild the house of the Lord. We tell how that Nehemiah was the cup bearer and was fasting and the Lord done these things. And from that time on about four hundred and eighty-three years later they built back the walls in troublesome times and whatever, and we bring this out kind of in some detail. And then after that, that from that time as to say the days of Nehemiah, or King Artaxerxes, on over to the time of Calvary that four hundred and eighty-three years of the four hundred and ninety expired and there wasn't but seven years left, because at that time of Calvary when four hundred and eighty-three years had expired then the Jews were driven out of their home land and God, not counting the time as to this vision, he did not count anything beyond the four hundred and eighty-three years. Because he did not count the time of the vision, as to the four hundred and ninety years while the Jews were out of their home land. So that left seven years and that seven years could not come to pass because the Jews were out of their home land. And then the Gentile age set in from Calvary. And between the seven years and the four hundred and eighty-three years, as to the rent veil and the times, time and__ Or rather not the times, time and dividing of times, which is the middle of the week, but as to a dividing of times according to our calendar, as to the B.C. and A.D., that that is the time of the Gentiles and that time continues on through the church ages. And then at the church ages when the days of the Gentiles is there, then the time of the Jews come back in and there is only seven years from that time until the millennium comes in as to the thousand years reign on this present earth as to the restoring and the restoration of all things. So, we bring this out a little bit at a time and try to detail it to you as much as we can so that you will understand, or have a continuity of thought, as to a sequence of thought, concerning__ We say continuity, we mean a continuation, a continuation of thought. And then we bring these things out to you that might have some continuity of thought and that way when we teach you can put it all together. So, when we read here in the second chapter, or speak of this second chapter it is concerning Daniel down in the time of Nebuchadnezzar and at the time when Jeremiah had prophesied that the people of Israel would go into bondage. And you know how he was withstood by the false prophet and how that it upset God and God told him to go back and tell the false prophet he would die because he had prophesied contrary to what God had said would happen to the people. And sure enough when Jeremiah said it he died. So, he tried to turn the hearts of the people away from the truth just like a lot of false prophets today. The Bible said he that God sendeth will speak God's Word and there was a prophet speaking God's Word, but the false prophet was trying to turn them away. Like the man that kept trying to pervert the men from the faith, as to the deputy in the days of Paul and Peter, the days of the Apostles, and the Apostle just turned around and said, "Thou shall be blind for a season." All right. So then, when we speak of this we are speaking of the time down in Babylon. And I say this with respect as to what's happening of today, because in the day we're living in you are seeing problems around Babylon. Over in Iraq that's where Babylon is, over in that area, and things are happening over in Iraq and it is every year that there is a feast that Hussein has there at Babylon. And he usually prints up a gold coin, or a coin, putting his picture on one side and maybe Nebuchadnezzar, or Babylon on the other side. And this is routine with him. So you can tell where his heart is and what his desire is as to be a great conqueror, and to reestablish Old Babylon and to bring that thing back in. Strange things are happening, like for instance, from maybe from England or France, or somewhere over there it is that they are putting a tunnel up under the water. And they are well on their way with this tunnel that will run all the way under the water and then there is a beaten path that is to be made from the eastern world over toward Jerusalem back in there, to dry up Euphrates, as we spoke of it, to make way for the kings of the east that they might go in there and all of this compassing of Jerusalem and the boycotting, as to the abomination of desolation when the armies come. Jesus said in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew, When you see the cities of Jerusalem compassed about with armies know that the end is there, or the time is nigh. And in speaking of this, he said that it will be the abomination spoken of by Daniel the prophet, as to the abomination of desolation. And he said he spoke of the end of the days of the Gentiles there. So, when we speak of the end of the days of the Gentiles, when God turns to the Jews it will be the end of the days of the Gentiles. Just like when he turned to the Gentiles it was the end of the days of the Jews. So the coming back in of the last week of the four hundred and ninety to complete the four eighty-three as to add the seven and make the four ninety, then that will be the finishing, as to the bringing in of, as to the end of the days of the Gentiles, and finishing the seven will bring in the millennium. And that will be the tribulation period. And it's right in the middle of that tribulation that is accounted for as Lucifer being cast out as to Revelation 12. And it shows it right in the middle of the week. And a lot of times we speak these things and you ponder about it, because we just say that, you know. We say, and here is the middle of the week, and here comes the boycott, and here comes the abomination of desolation. And a lot of times you just kind of wander, because you say, Well, where does he get that? How does he say that? How does he know that? But we're not just saying those things. If you'll go back to the book of Revelation and read these things, you'll find out that I'm saying what the Bible says. And the way that I know this, if you'll go back to the book of Daniel you'll find out if God interprets the book of Daniel to you, that these things are spoken of in the book of Daniel. It tells you just exactly where that last week will be, what that last week is, and what the first of the four hundred and eighty-three will be. And it tells you just exactly where the boycotting is and the abomination that maketh desolate, and it will give it so thorough until you will know when you read the book of Revelation that it is the unveiled and that it is exactly to the tee as to the middle of the week. You won't have any doubt about it at all. That's why I say I wish we had time to teach it and go into it precisely and detail it to where we could show you in making the comparison to where you would have the Biblical knowledge and the Bible education, as we would use in natural terms, as to where these things are and would understand them thoroughly if you decided to tell someone else. But like I said, when you speak to people you have only about thirty or forty-five minutes and then people are restless and they want to go and they feel like you've done told them everything that you ever learned in your whole life in that forty-five minutes. And sure enough you get to stumbling and round and staggering around, and the reason is, is because it's like the baby that quits nursing; the milk has done stopped coming down. And it isn't because there isn't anymore milk, it's just because there isn't anymore hunger. The Bible said he that hungers and thirsts after the things of God shall be filled. So, when the hunger is gone then the milk stops. But when the hunger is there the milk comes down. So, we just kind of brief these things to you and it makes it real hard on us, because when you stop hungering and thirsting we might be right in the middle of a sermon, and see that we're not going to be able to finish it, and we know that this will go into the foreign countries and over the different parts of the nation, and we try to hurry and then when we try to hurry we stumble and stagger, you know, because the anointing doesn't hurry. It takes It's time and if you don't want It you just don't get It. That is, if you don't hunger and thirst. Just saying that you want it is not sufficient. You've got to hunger and thirst. So, it really makes it difficult, real difficult. Makes it very difficult for us to be able to do anything to bring about these things. All right. So, here, as we find this lesson tonight as to a little bit of exhortation, we find it over in Chapter 2 in the book of Daniel. It's in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. He has a dream, It troubles his spirit. I'm not going to take time to read it. His sleep breaks from him and he sends for the magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers and the Chaldeans, wanting to show the dream because he has forgotten the dream, and he wants them to tell him the dream. And they said, This is a hard thing. Said, No king would ask of the wise men this kind of thing. Said, You tell us the dream and we'll tell you the interpretation. So it upset the king. He said, Nope. He just branded them as a bunch of hypocrites. He said, You really can't tell me. Said, If you could tell me, you could tell me the dream. So he just decided to kill them all, figured they had been lying to him all this time. Well, it was at this time that Daniel and the Hebrew children was down there, so this meant that they also would be killed. And Daniel had made friends with the leaders down there and the people, and they loved Daniel and Daniel ask one of them, said, Why is this decree of the king so hasty? Then he explained it to them and he said, Look, give me a little time, said, and we'll show the king his dream. Of course, he had to do that by faith because he certainly didn't know it, and then we'll make it known to him. So then, he got the Hebrew children whom they had nicknamed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and he prayed and he sought God and God made the dream known to him, so he went and told the king. And it tore the king up so bad that he just fell down on his face and began to worship Daniel, and he named Daniel Belteshazzar, which was the name of his God. Later his son Belshazzar come up into power and it was at that time that Belshazzar having known these thing that had happened to Nebuchadnezzar he still didn't repent of his sins. And that Nebuchadnezzar was driven out. You remember that the tree was cut down. Daniel gave the interpretation, ask Nebuchadnezzar to turn away from his sins and whatever, and Nebuchadnezzar was driven out like an animal. His finger nails drew out like claws and his hair grew out like feathers. And seven times was to pass over and the tree was to grow again. We don't have time to get into that. we mention a little of it from time to time and we've got it on tape. But anyway, I'm just saying he knew this but he didn't turn away from his sins and he went and got the vessels of God out of the house of God and he and his concubines and wives were drinking out of these holy vessels. And it upset the Lord, these being dedicated vessels, just like it's upsetting the Lord today. See? We are dedicated vessels, but IRS and the world won't leave us alone. They are determined they are going to put us under a bondage like the Egyptians did the Hebrew children and they are going to make us labor and take advantage of us and they are going to quench their thirst and their hunger with our labor. That is, they are going to drink out of dedicated vessels and it's upsetting the Lord and it's going to bring the wrath of God upon them to the uttermost, to where that their kingdom will be filled with intellectual darkness and they'll gnaw their tongues for pain and they'll beg to die and won't be able to die because of pain. Perhaps some of you remember not too long ago when I had this vision where I caught this thing by the beard and held it until it went around and around, the fire and brimstone came and all the nations were devoured and everything turned into ashes. And at that time the Rambo's came up before me and some others that we spoke of. And the Lord showed me that he was going to deal with them. Well, it was just today that my daughter was telling me that Dottie has been in such awful pain. Said it's just terrible the pain that she has been in day and night for days and days and said they've done about everything they can to give her pain medicine to relieve her and that she couldn't find any relief and they were just going to inject something into her as something that you put in__ I don't know what they call it, that would be there all the time just to put some kind of serum, or something, into her to try to lessen the pain. And it's just been a horrible nightmare for her. But anyway, this is the thing that's coming on the world; these horrible things are coming on the world. Well, here is Belshazzar, he's drinking out of the vessels and all of a sudden now, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin is written on the wall. The Bible said it scared him so bad that his joints came loose and his knees begin to knock. He called for the magicians, the Chaldeans, and they couldn't tell him anything. And then he called for Daniel and Daniel went in and interpreted it as to saying, Thou art weighed in the balances and found wanting. And he had made the statement, that is, Belshazzar had made the statement that, Whoever interprets this I will make him third ruler in the kingdom. Nebuchadnezzar was the first and there Belshazzer was the second one, now Daniel was the third one. Even though Daniel said, You know you can keep all of this and your gifts be to another. And he said, The wisdom that's given to me to do these things, as to Nebuchadnezzar, is not because I'm wiser than anybody else, but God is just compassionate. That is, saving the life of the wise men and making you to know this for his purpose. And remember Nebuchadnezzar was called the servant of God because he dealt so with Nebuchadnezzar concerning the statute where the Hebrew children were throw into the fire and came out. And how that God magnified his name all over the world. That is the name of God, as we say. And this great king, his throne and dominion across the world, and how that he would always turn back to worshipping God. Even when the seven times had passed over him, as to the dews of heaven when he was out like a beast. And he came back and God resorted him and he worshipped God and God called him his servant. Well, anyway, on and on and on we could go with those things. And each one of these, as to Cyrus and Belshazzar and whatever, it was a different regime. But here he is with this dream that Daniel comes to interpret. So Daniel tells him what the dream is and here is what Daniel said. "The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof? Daniel answered in the presence of the king and said, the secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king; But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days." Now remember, the latter days. "Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these; As for thee, o king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have for any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart." That is of the angels and of God. "Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the sliver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided, but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the sliver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him. The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret. Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon. Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king." All right, now. If you'll check this out you'll find that this stone was hewn out of the mountain. Now, let's just comment a little bit. I'm just going to talk with you now and I want you to listen just a little bit. Paul said, I am a teacher and a preacher. So, we're just going to talk with you a little and tutor you just a little bit here. First of all we preached sermons on this like as if you want a promotion. Promotion comes from God. It's in a time of your trials, as Daniel in the lions den, as the Hebrew children in the firey furnace that there comes a promotion, and it's at this time that you bless the God of heaven and cause people to believe on your God as when you use your faith and you triumph victoriously over these things and then the people that are in power they believe in your God and then they begin to command the people to follow your God and you convert them like Paul did when he was delivered to the upper echelon and begin to convince those people in the days that he went before Agrippa and Festus and the others. King Agrippa said, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. See? So, these things is when we prove to others. It's when we utilize our ability and faith and we come out victorious and others know that we are on the losing end of it but we still come out victorious. Like you people here at Bethlehem, you proved your point, you came out victorious. The sheriff he writes a letter and says, You've worked hard for what you've got; we'd like for you to join us. And they want to give their blessings, and as the vision, you know, where they turned and said, We've got a good thing out there. And they want to be part of it because you went through the fire, and went through all the harassing, and all the humiliation, all those kind of things and sometimes it was rough, but you proved you point. And you have established here a monumental thing as to praise unto God around the world. And even as today Sister Betty said according to the letters and the testimonies, which it would be just magnificent if some of them could be read here, and some of those things could be read over the radio continually of the things that are happening to these different people over there. She was telling me how that one boy got a hold of a piece of the literature. Betty said it's just spreading all over that country. And this boy was fixing to go out with a gang and as he started out with the gang he got a hold of a piece of this literature. He stuck it in his pocket. He wasn't going to read it. He didn't think much of it, but while he waited on the gang he laid it down on the table, happened to notice it, decided to read it while he was waiting and as he begin to read it struck his heart so greatly, so mightily that he told the gang he wasn't going with them when they came in, and turned to God in a great way and it's just magnificent as to him writing to us. But anyway, this is just one of the testimonies as to the many. So, here you've proved your point. But tonight I want to just talk a little bit concerning this and then drop over into another place. I probably won't even have time to get started in these things. Maybe I'll drop in enough that if you listen conscientiously, to give the more earnest heed to the things that you have heard lest you should let them slip. If you will go this then you will get some things and you will fit them together with things that we've said before and things that we will say hereafter. John, Jesus said when he showed him the vision in the book of Revelation, He said, things that was, things is, and things that are to come. So then, you have an unction from the Holy One that you should know all things. So, what little I can bring out tonight, which will probably be just a fragment of what I'd like to bring out, we'll try to make a present day comparison with one or two little things that might help you. So, he says here, God is showing you what shall be in the latter days. Remember that is, in the days following this is what's going to be. And then when God speaks to Daniel over here farther, he tells Daniel about the end time. He tells Daniel, and he says, behold I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation for at the time appointed the end shall be. And all through this he speaks of the end time. Then he goes on to say, through the craft of this Antichrist that will come up, he said, "And in the latter times of their kingdom when the transgressors are come to the full," That is, whenever (Begin tape one, side two.)....transgressors and the evil has done their evil deeds of transgressions. "A king of fierce countenance and understanding dark sentences shall stand up." That is, a great ruler. You may call him a president, or whatever, but he will become a king. "And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power." That is, it will be Satan's power. "And he shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper, and shall practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people." That is concerning the Jews. "And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand;" That's bringing in that United States of Europe, and whatever. "And he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy may:" That goes back to what we said about Gorbachev and the Nobel Peace Prize. When he got the Nobel Peace Prize when it supposedly should have gone to Jimmy Carter. "He shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;" That's against Jesus. That is, the teachings of Christ. But he shall be broken without hand. And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true:" Speaking of Daniel. "Wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days." Morning, as to that time and the coming of the end time as to the evening. "And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it." He went on to say that in that day that Prince of Princes, the great Prince shall stand up in that day. Said, "But behold I shall show thee that which is noted in the Scriptures of truth. There is none that holdeth with me in these things but Michael your Prince." And he went on to say that Michael the Prince would stand up in that latter time for his people. All right. You know Michael is the great warrior and relating back to the Lord Jesus. Whereas the Bible speaks of the angel that Daniel saw, where he was standing on the water, the man with the linen and he speaks of the end time there, making Daniel to know about the end time. And down along the river there that would probably be he Hiddekel River, in that one of the rivers that come out of the garden is Hiddekel, and one of them is Euphrates. And here he is down along that river, and this relates back when you go check it out where this man speaks to them about the times, time and dividing of times and the Ancient of Days appears with the Throne and this man on the water speaks to him and these things about the daily sacrifice and the transgression, and all these things. How long shall it be? The vision concerning the daily sacrifice. We have some of these things on tape as to when the transgression shall be taken away, or the transgression of desolation, and the sanctuary trodden under feet. "And he said unto me, unto two thousand and three hundred days shall the sanctuary be cleansed." That is, it's going to three and a half years. It would take a lot of time to go into this. I'm just going to put it in your mind so you can think as I say the few things that I say. See? Because here in the Old Testament when the angel is spoken of as the mighty angel, it is spoken of as to Israel because they do not recognize Christ. But then when it comes to Revelation over in 10 and 7 it is called the mighty angel, because it is Christ standing over there as the mighty angel, and they recognize him as the mighty angel where he is standing with his foot on the land and on the sea just as he did in the days of Daniel like an unveiling of what it was in the days of Daniel. When you look at the time of the morning, the vision, at the time of the morning, which is Daniel and the time of the evening which is John. This is what he is speaking about. And in Daniel's time of the morning it's sealed up, and in John's time of the evening it is opened up. Said, Seal not the vision. All right. I just throw those things in so you can think on these things. I wish we had time to go through those things. So he said, O king, he said, you are that great head of gold. You're that great head of gold. And then he went on to explain. I'll have to hurry through these things. There is another kingdom coming he said, it's going to be inferior to thy kingdom. It's going to be a kingdom of silver, of the breast and of the irons. This will show that kingdom, which of course is the Medo-Persian kingdom. It's very clear as Cyrus comes in. Then he said there is another kingdom that's coming and said, this kingdom will be the thighs of that body and the legs of that body. And said, even on down to the feet. And it's the__ First is the head of gold, the second is the breast with two irons of silver, as to the Medo-Persians. And the third is going to be the belly. I said the thighs, the belly first is the brass.It's coming in which is going to be Alexander the great. That's going to be his kingdom and then the fourth is going to be the iron, which is going to take in the thighs. All right, now. In these things he said that there is going to be of the feet part iron, because he spoke of ten toes, and part clay. So this is the thing that we're going to deal with just a few minutes here is, there was a kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar, which is a Babylonian kingdom and there following come in Babylon, the Medo-Persian kingdom and then there came Alexander the great, with the Helenistic religion. We brought some of these things out in detail. If you'll go back on tape we brought them out one by one. And then we likened them unto Daniel's visions of the beasts and of the images. Then after this kingdom, as to gold, silver less value. Not as great a kingdom. Brass, of less value; not as great a kingdom. Iron of less value, not as great a kingdom. And then comes one that mixes with the fourth that could be called a fifth, but it's mixed with the fourth so it's called the fourth kingdom. It's clay. And of course you know you can't mix clay with iron. So in the days of the ten toes, he said, Nebuchadnezzar. This iron kingdom, folks, when we look at it it's the Roman power. It's the Roman kingdom. In the days of this kingdom, remember they make everything out of iron, as to say their chariots, their spears and whatever. Now, in the time of this kingdom as to the iron he said, There will be another kingdom that will come up in the time of these kings. The king that will rule over the iron kingdom, and the king that will rule over the clay kingdom. During the time of this kingdom there will come forth another kingdom. He didn't speak of a king, he just said a kingdom in the time of these kings. And said, In the time of these kingdoms there will come forth another kingdom and this kingdom, he said, will be a little stone that was hewn out of the mountains, not with hands. And this kingdom, as referred to as that which came rolling down into Babylon tearing down the kingdoms of the world, or it smote the image in it's feet. The reason that it smote the image in it's feet was because, it was told Nebuchadnezzar, that this is for the latter times. And from the time of the Babylonian kingdom it kept historically coming on down until we're now in our day coming into the ten toes. For if you remember when the powers of Rome came in, as to the thighs and the thing was divided up historically, as far as we can tell, it went into the orthodox kingdom, as to the Jewish side of it, and the Papal kingdom. So then, we find that it came down to the toes, and we find that those ten nations was taken into power under the Roman kingdom, back in the dark age. And those nations literally hate the Roman power. But there is to be a repercussion of this and a bringing back of this, as to substantiate the end time to show the ten toes, or as the Bible speaks of these ten horns that come up on the beast, speaking of them being ten kings. But these kingdoms are going to be mixed. Now. Let's just look at it since we don't have time to really do into this thing thoroughly let's look at it on a present day level, as a present day truth, as a present day scale. Right now the common markets of Europe are ready to come in. Ninety-two, we're expecting the United States of Europe to come. I say that now that the Olympics has come over here that it's going to prove to be a curse to America. She's already curse crazy with sports. Even to the fact that the churches are overthrown. And when this thing balloons out in sports the churches will be no more. It will altogether corrupt the churches and the church will go so hard after sports until that will be the end of the church world. That will be the finishing off of it, because they are already tilted toward sports as of now, and all they need is that thing to bloom and blossom out with prosperity and prestige and whatever, trying to mix darkness with light. And then, as it balloons up it will be a big time of prosperity, prestige and look like something that really is going to be a blessing to the people and will turn out to be a curse. It's been proven that wherever these things go, if you will check back, I just heard some history on it today, a little bit of history. First time I've heard it. I made a statement it would be a curse, and they say that wherever it has gone that it has proved to be a horrible situation afterwards and it enumerated some of the things that took place. All right. So, we had, not knowing that, we had said that and this thing will cause everything to blossom out and then all of a sudden it will just prove to be a curse and America will just go down just like a balloon punctured, and everything will just fall flat. And at the same time, Mr. Bush is losing his prestige. Mr. Bush has a great place to play in this thing in that the old legend is that George killed the dragon. And so far he has succeeded in overthrowing Communism. The walls have been broken down, the iron curtain has gone down, the wall has come down concerning Germany, and all these middle walls of partition are being torn down as to show Calvary. It was at Calvary that Satan was cast out when the middle wall of partition was divided. Or that is to say, the veil was rent in twain. And all these breaking downs we predicted would come, they are coming because it has to do with the revealed, as to the revelation, or the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is to say, the change, as to the severing between the natural and the spiritual. God has let them all go along together just like the iron and the clay. See? They have all gone along together, but now the severing has come and God is going to sever, He's going to divide the spiritual from the natural. He's going to divide the church from the world, and as to the child being as to a rod of iron rule, he's going to catch them up and he's going to reject the other for it's from dust thou art, Adam, to the dust thou shalt return. And all that's of the first birth will go back to the dust, as to that as we would say. And the other will be caught up into heaven as a spiritual side of it, as to rule with a rod of iron, but when we see these things typically, we see America as to a Catholicism, because the church being taken out of America it will leave her strictly as a Catholicism. And we see the clay coming in as Russia, as to atheism, and the heathenistic side of it. Atheisticism. All right. So we see this coming. Now. We see that things are happening fast. And we see that as we predicted a long time back that the great whore, which is the powers of Catholicism would be carried by the beast. And we predicted that the walls, the iron curtain's would be rent and then religion would go in that direction. And they would discover that Mr. Gorbachev was religious and following after Christianity. So then, they find out he's been baptized according to Christianity. Which we had no idea of anything like that when the Lord showed it to us and we said that. But it came to pass. Now then the freedom is in Russia. But even though the freedom is there they know nothing of real Christianity. And even though God will out of every seed, every nation get his people, yet the stalk of the thing will be Catholicism. And the whole thing as to controlling power will be Catholicism. Communism has, in the past, buried priest alive, but now they are going to become religious and carry the great whore. And the great whore is going to find her preeminence over the world, for Russia, as to Communism, not only in Russia but wherever it branches out is going to find out that whereas they cannot rule through Communism that Catholicism already rules throughout the world. And that if they carry the great whore, that they can rule the entire world. When the Bible speaks of the great whore, it says, And she hath made the world drunk off of her fornication. So then, everything is just set for that, and as America now having been the iron, it will suddenly, as to a religious thing try to mix with Russia. Two can't walk together unless they be agreed. We are religious, they are non-religious. Now they are taking on the religious because the Bible said they will mingle the seed, but it will not stand. And so they are going to try to mix the atheistic side of life with the religious, believing side of life, which will never world, because those people have been brought up atheistic. They've been cut off from religious teachings. Now, trying to come together we see them with their super power over in the east. Over in the eastern world we see them over there with their super power. They've come together, see? which is your ten toes coming together, because as all of this comes together later the greater power that is among these super powers will become the preeminence, as to the ruler to make himself king and rule over them as to to the money power. The money power that is capable of ruling over all nations is Catholicism. They are the ones that have the money, and the ones that can be strong enough, as to a militant power, will be Russia. In bringing in China, the old dragon nation and as to when I say that no disrespect to the Chinese people, some of the finest people in the world. They received our literature with gratitude. But I'm speaking of the governmental Communistic powers that will come together, combine themselves. We're not speaking of people. All of the people. Jesus said preach the gospel to all nations. See? All of the people must have the gospel preached to them, and God will save people everywhere; Germans and Japanese and Russians and Chinese, and the black and the white and the red and the yellow, whatever. He'll save them all. But out of all of them, though the church will come; yet there will be of them the beast. Like I said concerning my vision the other night. I spoke of my vision that all of a sudden this translation took place and there was no visual evidence of anything but suddenly I was made to know that we over here were children of God and these over here, though they were the cultured type with ties and suits and whatever, even some in the upper echelon that they were beast. They couldn't even speak our language. That is to say, we are of a different tongue. We speak a heavenly language and they speak an earthly, but in there it was just shown to be a garbled sort of a language that they could not speak, as to our language of understanding it. Well, anyway, this is where we are at right now. So we see the super powers coming together. We see the nations mingling themselves together, all of them coming together. Right now America has the preeminence. This will continue until the time of the end. That is to say, Mr. Bush is right at the place, we are just speaking of this calendar wise now, as coming to the end of that administration in the middle of the week should he go on for another course. We've just had the election which means that the cabinet, as to our governmental offices, are going to change. What we have that will come up we don't know yet, as to the minds of those that will be in there. See? Just like Joe Frank Harris. You remember the letter that Joe Frank wrote me. It was a very nice letter. I happened to run across it today. He was a believer. All of a sudden we've got another man in there now that believes in the lottery, and he's going to bring the lottery into Atlanta. That's one of the things he's going to play in, which means that's going to be bad. And about the time that the ball games come in, the sports, all these things of corruption, as for the great whore that sits upon many waters. Now, looking at this thing the way that we are looking at it we see all the super powers coming together, and the indignation against Israel as we said it would be. And we see that irregardless to what Mr. Gorbachev has said he is favoring Hussein. And why not? They have more or less been friends as to a Communistic thing, and it would be favorable for Hussein to keep Kuwait. Which I read the papers the other day as I passed by, the headlines said, We will never, never, never leave Kuwait. And it would be profitable for Mr. Gorbachev, as to the future events, to favor Mr. Hussein, because Mr. Hussein, more or less, would be under Gorbachev's leadership and he would have the control and ruling power over all the oil. Well, Mr. Bush has stepped right into the midst of the trap. And I was informed the other day that after I made the statement it was like General George Custer. The Indians led him into a trap. They said that right after I made the statement that they sent General George Custer over into the east. Some of them said they were astounded, because they sent him, as to the man that's named General George Custer of today, was sent over there to the battle. But whatever it is, I made the statement that what Mr. Gorbachev has very cunningly done__ I believe he is a fine man. I believe he wants to be a fine fellow. Because of the Nobel Peace Prize he is trying to be peaceable and he said war is disallowed. Whereas, Mr. Bush is just on fire, because the only way that Mr. Bush can save face is by war. Mr. Gorbachev saves face by not having war, and gets the advantages by not having war. So, two can't walk together unless they be agreed, and already they are crossing up, or in position to cross up. The Bible said that they will make agreements at these tables but they will not stand. And here it says he will practice, the Antichrist coming in and by peace shall destroy many. That is, coming in with flattery, or through deception. Now, with this, as we look at it, Mr. Gorbachev has as the paper stated, the bear has released it's grip on Eastern Europe, or on__ I say Eastern Europe, on Europe. Now, on Europe he has released his grip. This seems, as to a detriment toward Communism, but in all reality it is a very cunning thing on his part. Try to keep the little one quite if you can, if you can't please step up to the rooms. That's what the rooms are for, because it very definitely goes on tapes and stops us from being able to say what we want. It breaks our train of thought. All right. Sometimes Satan will aggravate the little ones. All right. So we see that, let me get my thoughts back here. We see that Mr. Gorbachev in agreeing with Mr. Bush to turn these things a loose has, through Mr. Bush, moved his truce in that area that has never before allowed Communism to come into it. And, through Mr. Bush asking for their aid, he has gone in and set up strong holds, so to speak, as to people that already would have favored Communism if they had been indoctrinated, but had held pretty much to capitalism because they knew very little about Communism. But now they are in there to favor, just like, or indoctrinating. Just like over in Iraq, there is, I understand a few thousand Communistic people, or Russian people that are in there. Mr. Bush ask for those people to be moved. Mr. Gorbachev said he could not, they were under contract. So you can see that they are not together. All right. Now, Mr. Bush is on the spot because of that. He's on the spot, because there are American there. He's on the spot with a lot of things, and he's right in the midst of those people that could turn on him anytime just like they did Custer. So, we see, as to the super power, as to the ten toes, as to the common market, as to the United States of Europe, all of it coming in to build this great commonwealth that will take the world trade away from the United States. The United States might just drop into the back ground. See? the woman had the preeminence. She's been carrying the child, but now that the child is born, as to the revelation coming, as to the child that really believes in God getting the mind of Christ, and now that He's come to birth, see? It says in Revelation this great war as she came to travail and the dragon was standing there ready to devour. We brought this out a long time ago, if you remember, that when J.C., as to Jimmy Carter, having to do with Jesus Christ as to the type, when he went to power it was at that time that the Communistic leader, which was the murderer came out of China. We spoke of it laying right around in there when they received him. And even around the Ford Company and whatever, and they received him. And it was a great outstanding thing that they did for him. Well, anyway, now Mr. Gorbachev has been courting China, trying to get them to ally with him, which they refused. And now they are waiting for him to give in to certain things so that they will come in with him in the super power. Why not if they'll be Communistic? He knows eventually he'll rule over them. And like France, I believe it is, he is going to make an agreement with France. He's giving up something like he did with America, coming in with peace. Why not? He'll be greater and more powerful; he'll have control. And he said concerning this United States of Europe, Bring it on over into Russia. See? So if he has the money powers to the Catholic Church carrying the great whore, and then if he has the militant power, or as to the world fearing Russia, being the biggest, if the woman births the child then after that she goes into a twilight. She goes into her rest at the time of the birth, and they take her away and she stays, as to say here, bringing Israel in and the forty-four thousand going to the top of the mountain, and then Jesus meeting them there on the top of the mountain. And then the woman going into the wilderness. She goes there for that restoration, and she's there as to that times, time, and a half a time while Antichrist kills out the two prophets that were there through the first part of the week, and then after that last part, as to three and a half years, then she joins the Lord Jesus to set up the Millennium as we come back on the white horses having been caught up at the first of the week to ride over the tribulation joining the Lord Jesus for the blood to run up to the horses bridle to bring the woman, which is driven out of Jerusalem, the city of Jerusalem, the country there across Jordan, or down into the hiding place of those cities of refuge called the city of Petra, down across the Jordan where those cities of refuge was put when they came in to take the land of Israel in the early days. All right. So when the boycott comes they will ravish Israel, tribulation such as was not upon those people, such a horrible thing as was not since the world ever was. But there is a part of Israel that will flee and go out into the wilderness. And this is the woman, because at that time the hundred and forty-four thousand that follows him, whethersoever the Lamb goes, already having been sealed in the first part of the week there when the church goes up John saw them in heaven. And when the church goes up he looks and on earth he sees the others sealed, the hundred and forty-four thousand sealed. So, see? It is very obvious that at this time, they that are sealed in the first of the week, there in the sixth chapter of Revelation when the seals are opened, then at this time, seeing the sealing they go through all those hideous things, as to the locust coming out of the bottomless pit and all of these things happening. Then they, after the middle of the week when the dragon is cast out into the earth, say woe unto the inhabitants of the earth for he is among you. Lest the days be shortened for the elect's sake, as speaking of Israel, no flesh will be spared. But for the elect's sake, as to Israel, the time will be shortened. Anyway, he'll go about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, because he knoweth he hath but a short time, as to the three and a half years. Nevertheless, during this time that's when his kingdom is filled with darkness. They gnaw their tongues for pain and it will be a terrible thing. The darkness there means that they won't have any understanding. They will be intellectually ignorant, even not enough understanding to perfect healing medicines; nothing to ease the pain. All right. So, the woman will be the one that flees out of Israel, as to the birth of the child, as to the natural side of it, the hundred and forty-four thousand in that the spiritual child is already caught up. We ride over that and then we come back at the end of the week, Revelation 19. So, we at the first of the week, the resurrection of the just, and then at the last of the millennium, the resurrection of the wicked. And I brought out as to the resurrection of the just, what it has to do with. I brought out real clear to some of the people. I don't know that we've got it on tape, but it's real clear as to what it has to do with. Pre and post millennist. And what it has to do, how they got mixed up on it, and how that it will come as to one and the same as a simultaneous thing. It's real beautiful how that it comes about when the spirit reveals it. But anyway, we don't have time to go into that because we're just hitting a few highlights here. All right, now. So, we see Mr. Bush is caught in a trap. He don't know what to do. He favors Israel and Mr. Gorbachev favors Hussein. And as to the Arabs toward Mr. Gorbachev. Sometimes I say Kruschev. Gorbachev. If I happen to say Kruschev I mean Gorbachev. Anyway, if at this point they try to come together they are going to have a cross even in the war powers. And Mr. Gorbachev is going to be dragging his feet. And he's going to be an influential toward some of these nations, and Mr. Bush is going to be influential toward some of these nations, and there is going to be a cross up, because the clay and the iron will not mix. You cannot mix them together. They will not mix. And all of this brings us over to the middle of the week, as to the little stone that will smite the image, because in the days of these kings, as to Mr. Gorbachev and Mr. Bush, as to these kingdoms. It's in the days of these kingdoms that there is a little stone that's going to be hewn out of the mountain. It's going to be recognized as a stone kingdom, that coming down through Babylon, smiting the image in it's feet, tearing down the kingdoms of the world. Now, when you speak of the stone kingdom, it will also diminish. It will come forth as a kingdom, and it will smite the image in it's feet. But it also will decrease. The Bible speaks of it where that kingdom also shall decrease and pass away and there will not be any of the stone kingdom, there will not be any of the iron kingdom, nor any of the clay kingdom, nor the brass kingdom, nor the silver kingdom, nor the gold kingdom. But who is the stone kingdom? It's Israel. Israel is a composition of great stones. They build out of stone. (Begin tape two, side one.) Israel is the stone kingdom that's going to smite this image that has been a historical image, as to the constitution from Nebuchadnezzar's golden head down to this iron and clay feet, or toes. See? They are going to smite it. How will they smite it? The coming of the 19th chapter of the book of Revelation of Jesus on the white horse with the saints. And when he joins them after the boycotting and the abomination of desolation, after the woman is driven out, she comes back after the Antichrist has done his wrong, God has poured out his wrath of the last plagues upon Antichrist. You can read them in the book of Revelation, as to the drying up of the Euphrates and all of these things happening. Then the Lord comes back, the Jews join the forces of heaven, Jesus on the White Horse and the Lord recovers Israel to set up His Kingdom. And all of the nations that have gathered in there, that have boycotted against the Jews are right there holding their post of duty as to gloat over their victory and they are right there around that valley. And the Lord comes back on the White Horse and with the sword of His mouth He literally slays, as the Jews join forces with Him until there are so many people from all nations of the world, as to their armies. All the armies of the nations of the world, there'll be so many of them that when the blood is spilt it will run up to the horses bridle. This is what the book of Revelation means when it says, Cast this vine that's been cut down into the winepress of the Almighty God. And it was trampled without the city. We won't go into that because we've got it on tape somewhere and it will tell you what it was bringing it out in the book of Revelation. All right. So then, we see that they are not going to mix. Their super power is not going to stay. And Israel was left out of it because they are going to be the little stone that's going to smite the whole thing. They are waiting. God is holding them back right now. See? Those four winds were held back. And they are going to be brought forth, and after that the little stone is going to release itself. And then when Jesus sets up the thousand years millennium from the power of the little stone, as to the kingdom. The Jews will be made the head of the nation to judge the world, because of what all nations have done to the Jews. And how that they have been mistreated. And for one thousand years they will be the head of the nation. But they will be wonderful, God loving, God fearing people, Christian people. They won't be the hostile, law abiding people as to the hypocritical way that they are now. They'll be tender and merciful and they'll be people that are highly respected toward God, and respected by God, and Jesus and the twelve Apostolic leaders sitting on thrones will be Christian leaders and they will be under their dominion and influence and they will be under our leadership, as a great mighty Christian people. We will have access to the heavenly Jerusalem and the heavenly city, and they will not. They will have access to the restored earth. But at the end of the thousand years millennium they will be changed, and all will be changed, and all of the nations of the world will go into the millennium that don't take the mark. Even though their armies will be conquered and destroyed. And I brought it out and showed you all this would happen where even the Jews would gather their instruments like wood to burn it. Like fire wood for heat, and whatever. Every man set under his own vine, and how that it would be a natural world just like it is now. And these natural things, the cow would be natural and the natural milk. It would be a natural regime for the natural Jews, yet they would be a spiritual people in leadership and you and I would be there in that thousand years millennium reign enjoying the wonderful things as to the natural just like Jesus when he was resurrected and ate of the honey comb. All right. So then, we see that we are right at the end. And we could go on and go on and go on, which I would really like to, but we see that we are at the end and right now we can see by these few little scattering remarks, we had to hurry through, what is coming about right now and where we are at. And you can tell where Mr. Bush is standing in this thing right now and what is going to come about. In as much as iron is the power as the child ruling with the rod of iron, remember that Mr. Reagan took that rod that was brought to him from that picture of Moses and as to being a movie star, as to the child caught up to the throne as to a threesome thing, as to Carter, as to Reagan, as to Mr. Bush. All of them connected with the office. Even Mr. Bush was in the office back there during that administration, remember. And the terms Mr. Bush, and yet the name George, as to Washington, as to the father of our country. In other words, all these things coming together right now, and the dragon being cast out because he has defeated Communism to the extent that we made the statement Mr. Gorbachev would not follow the powers of Communism, that he would not fully follow it, though he's at the head of it. But that he would search throughout the nations and find out what would make the good government by a constitution, even taking and incorporating within his policy capitalism, which he has just recently done by giving freedom of religion to his people. But yet he would hold to Communism to the extent of bringing in, as to the chinese nation and the dragon nation in that they worship dragons and that he would bring in this thing as to Marc's Communism, as to the Mark of the Beast, having the mark on his head, remember. And that all these things would come about showing it as to the middle of the week, as to the calendar middle of the week. And that at this time Mr. Bush could go no further unless they allowed a kingship to come in. And of course the kingship will come in. But not as to the American way of life. See, because he will have run his term out, and after that they do not re-elect, or allow them to run again. So that would put Mr. Gorbachev, as to the prince of peace in his type, having the Nobel Peace Prize, having gained the popularity through Mr. Bush, having set up his fortresses in every part of the world, and to hold the fear of all the world. That is, he would have all the world fearing him and the fear of Mr. Gorbachev upon all the world. No matter who come in in America it would be of less degree as to the people respecting it, because after the super power and every thing shifted back as to the United States of Europe, all the wells would be in that part of the country. God would be through with what is called the New World here. That would be the end of it. The old country, and then they came and set up what they call the new country and now the woman births the child and then the rule goes back to the man. And as I said, you know how it is, you give in to the woman when she's carrying the little one, because you don't want to mark the little one, because you can mark a child, whether you believe it or not. Lot of folks thought that was a fable of the old folks, but it's not. You can mark the child, so the man gives in to her and usually lets her have her way, but afterwards the woman has to then come under subjection again, realizing that the man is the head in that the Bible said the man was not found in the transgression, but he woman being found in the transgression the man shall rule over the woman. And the only way she has liberty other than that is through the new birth. And then the curse is set aside, because not any, male nor female is under curse. And then if you come into the new birth that means that you live a holy clean life and it's says, wives submit yourselves unto your husbands as unto the Lord and husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church. So, it still takes it submission, it still takes it's order, but it's in a loving kind way instead of dominion as to the harshness of the man ruling by the law and authority. So it's a beautiful thing for the woman and the curse is taken out of the travail. She can believe and bring forth her children without all the harshness and sorrow. And so then God has allowed medical aid to bring this about. Even to show it in the natural to where she doesn't have to go through the severeness of it. All right. So you see that they are not going to hold together, and Mr. Bush has got to go one way, Mr. Gorbachev has got to go another way, and that's going to divide the toes, as to say different nations being influenced by the two great leaders as to the clay and iron. And they will not mix. And the powers of iron will shift as to the powers of Catholicism it will come into great power and rule as to the religious overpowering the clay. That is to say, as to it's shifting from America when the church is sealed in, the woman just going into the twilight sleep, or into the darkness. She just goes out because she won't have the wealth anymore. The world trade will be in Europe. And they are counting on this by ninety-two. And everything will shift, as to the male perspective back to Israel to bring in the Lord Jesus. It must shift back to the stone to take preeminence to bring in the Lord Jesus, as to set up his kingdom in Israel. So Mr. Bush over here, as to the name George is showing it right now as to catching up, as it was with Reagan as to the throne, the movie star and these kind of things. As in heaven so in earth. So then, I'm going to try to find a place to close here, having said these few things, see? so you see they are not going to mix. And with religion shifting it's going to go to the beast and the beast is going to carry the great whore. And nothing is going to stop the rule of iron except the rule of iron is going to win out over the clay, though they will be divided and then, as it comes to rule it won't be America anymore. It will shift and as it comes up with it's strength as to a religious rule the little stone will smite it because it will be a thing of hypocrisy and a thing that is hated by God, of standing at the door of not going in and hindering others. It will be a hypocrisy, as to the ten toes, which relates to the ten brethren, as to the half brothers when you speak of the twelve tribes as to Benjamin and Joseph, it will be Israel and America. And God will cause America to come to this place to withdraw, as to the cross between America and Israel so that God can punish Israel. Because as I said the other night God has to punish Israel and as long as he allows America, which is favored in the sight of God to watch over Israel, the other nations will not attack Israel, because they are afraid of America. But when he gets ready to punish Israel he will let America withdraw just like she is doing now, because of the cross, to save face because of the other nations. So this is the time of the problem of the time of Jacob's trouble. God has not been able to protect Israel through the years like He wanted to only in the sense of Israel's ignorance. As long as Israel was ignorant He could protect Israel, because unto him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it is a sin. And Paul speaks of the ignorance of Israel, blinding them in part so God can protect them, wouldn't require it of them. For him that knoweth to do good and goeth it not, to him it is a sin. And when they begin to come to the light by all of these tourisms, that is to say, people talking about Jesus and the hundred thousand Jews coming to the understanding of God, and even as our Brother Richard here tonight coming to the understanding of the Lord, and all this literature and all this understanding going to Israel, then it is a willful transgression now. And God cannot protect them. And America withdrawing, the nations will not be afraid of them anymore. And it's going to be a judgment upon a hard, callused, mean, contrary people, Paul says, that kills the prophets, and kills the wise men who have brought upon them the judgments of God and destructions to the uttermost. They say that at a rate of about sixty a month are returning from out of Russia into their home land. But when they are driven away after the tutoring of the prophets and the judgments come as to their enlightenment, and the judgment just, then they will return and they will be good Christian people, they will fear the Lord and they'll be holy people. They won't be Jews, because there is no such thing as a Jew outwardly. They will be converted unto Christ just like you have been converted unto Christ. And they will come to God through salvation just like you come to God through salvation, and they'll see how foolish it was as to believe down through the years that they could have God without the Lord Jesus. So, we see that when the seed was manifested at Calvary then the Jews were blinded in part and they that died under the law embracing this promise, as true people, saying even as Peter in that day that Christ went into the heart of the earth to preach to the souls in prison, they that waited in the days of long suffering of the days of Noah, as when the ark was being prepared, even coming from Adam as a good man, and Able as a good man, and Seth as good man, and on down to Noah and the others, they being under the law, died not having received the promise, and they could not be made perfect without us. But when Jesus came, going into the heart of the earth, and I wish we had time to comment on that. Maybe some night we'll go back to the seals and comment a little bit. But going down to the heart of the earth, gave them robes saying, Wait until your brethren, as to the rest of the Jews, of course, are slain like you are. And giving them their robes of righteousness, as to making them perfect through the blood of the Lord Jesus. Then at the end of the tribulation period making the brethren perfect, as to the Jewish people, to bring them all in as one great world people which are a Christian people under the regime of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then we'll all see alike, know alike, and the veil of death will be lifted. Like as of now the veil is still over the eyes of the people untaken away even until this day. Speaking of the Jewish people Paul spoke of in that day, which veil is done away with in Christ. That is to say, if they are born again, or you are born again in your day. Like the Arabs over there right now, their women to wear those veils representing in the old country the veil of death is still there, even as the Jews, that it hasn't been taken away, but you coming over the great gulf into this part of the country where they don't wear the veils, because it indicates the veil of death is gone. So you that are not Christians, even in America or throughout the world, or even at Bethlehem, wherever it is, you still have this veil of death as to your intellectual understanding, as to carnality, for to be carnally minded is death. And like those women among the Arabs have to wear those veils for shamefacedness, you have to approach God with shamefacedness, because you still have the intellectual veil of death. But through the circumcision of the Word, as to the circumcision of the heart, that is to say the outer body now dead, as the body of this death, physically speaking, and as to the earth being circumcised when the natural shall pass away and the new earth shall come, as to the eighth day after the seventh of the restoration, in the eighth day is circumcision. And as to the circumcision and the spirit, that is to say, the veil of intellectual reasoning from the old tree of knowledge that possessed and become interwoven with the minds of Eve and Adam. When Christ came at Calvary and the Holy Spirit enters into your heart the circumcision of the heart is there to rend the heart and not the garment, as they used to do when they got down in sack cloth and ashes. That is to say, the mind of death. To be carnally minded is the intellectual mind of death. And when this intellectual veil of death is gone the mind of Christ, as to the eradication, destroying the brightness of his coming that power of darkness on the inside of you to bring this wonderful light that there be no more, as to the eradication. Well, anyway, we just said these few little things that you might think on them, and that you might remember that you need to be born again, that we're living in the end time and everything is at an end. The four hundred and eighty-three years is fixing to tie themselves to the seven. And at the beginning of the seven the Church goes out and we're right there at that time. And the last week is given to the Jews, as to the first three and a half years of the tutoring. Moses and Elijah will return. It will be Moses and Elijah. They will return, and when they return that will be the tutoring for the three and a half weeks that will cause them to believe on the Lord Jesus, as to the one on the right hand and the one on the left, as on the Mount of Transfiguration, and they will set on the right and the left as to the law and the prophets, and as to Christ being righteousness in the middle as to the rent veil, as to separate as to the law and the prophets, and Christ was hid behind the veil. All right. So we see this. And in the middle of the week these two prophets will be killed. The hundred and forty-four thousand will meet Jesus on the Mount, as the Lamb comes on the Mount Zion, and then the woman will flee from Jerusalem through the boycott, as to going into the wilderness. And then at the end of the next three and a half years, as to the times, time and a half times, all this passing by, we'll find out that where the Abomination of Desolation took place in the middle of the week, all of a sudden the covenant is broken, the woman flees, the hundred and forty-four thousand goes up, those that have been sealed through the first part of the week. Then through the last three and a half years, as to the pouring out of the veil, the casting of the stone, for the Bible speaks of the millstone cast into the sea and all of these other things as the judgment of the great whore. We see then, at the end, Revelation 19, the blood runs to the horses bridle of all those armies of the super power. Like Mr. Gorbachev wanted to make one army to bring the men around Israel and with that the resurrection comes with the coming of Revelation 19, as to them that were killed who refused to take the Mark that they might set up the millennium and rule and reign with him a thousand years right here on this present earth. All right. We will have been caught up before the week, as to the first of the week, having seen New Jerusalem like John when he saw the beautiful city. And the angel showed it to him, being a type of the Church. And we will have come back at the end of the week for the marriage supper of the Lamb, as to the slaughter, the blood to the horses bridle. And we will enjoy, even through the millennium, the wonderful city of New Jerusalem, and after that the new earth will come down. The New Jerusalem will come down and fire will come down from heaven just prior to it to eradicate, to burn up even the millennium earth that it be change into the Celestial and the Jews will then be changed into the Celestial after that the nations have been set in order, everything has been restored to show that there is no inferiority as to the people that God has created and no power as to death over God's people except what they allowed, in that death come by man as we say in closing here, in the day thou eatest thereof as a day with a thousand years as a day to__ A thousand years with God is a thousand years to a day. That a man can live a full God day and show that death is conquered, that God had nothing to do with it. And rather than a man dying, just converting over into this heavenly bliss to show that God is innocent of all of this turmoil of sickness, death, poverty, and these horrible things that people have accused God of throughout all these many years. Let's stand together. God being justified in all things giving the glory to God for to Him be the glory, the Bible says. All things were made by Him and for Him and for His glory, for His pleasure, and without Him was not anything made that was made. So we sing that song, We'll Give The Glory To Jesus. Now these have been just a few scattered remarks tonight just to make you stop and think as to the end time and how close everything is upon us. To let you know the seriousness of the hour that we are living in and it's nigh, even at the door, and you need to make greater preparation, be more diligent, and that we don't need to come to church just to hear these things to learn, but we need to be steadfast, abounding in the things of God, and that we need to incorporate these in our lifestyle. We need to winning souls, going into all the world a witness for the gospel, and not just sitting around Bethlehem eating and drinking and talking and fellowshipping and passing the time of day. And just growing older doing nothing and raising a family as they grow older and do nothing, and trying to figure out how to have money and prestige and cars and houses and income and be restful as we drink and eat, because the Bible said he that winneth souls is wise, and they that win souls shall in that day out shine the brightness of the noonday. And folks, this is time that you done something for God. It's growing late. The Bible said, Woe unto them that are at ease in Zion. That is why that there is so much turmoil, some much sickness, so much heartaches, so much problems, so much poverty, children being ravished and stolen away, wrecks, all kind of things, is because the church is at ease. People are at ease in Zion and they are looking for prestige and education, homes, wanting to be dignitaries, positions and careers and all these things, and they've become lax and lazy, and they've retire on God. When you draw nigh to God and you get up and be about your Father's business you have strength. And when you resist the enemy, as to the devil, he'll flee from you. You won't have any problem with him in poverty. You won't have any problem with him in sickness; you'll be victorious. You won't have any problem with him period. All that he can do is lying vanities, because the Bible said Jesus was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. I am the Lord God that healeth thee. I heal all of your diseases, I forgive all of your iniquities. You are sealed and the evil one touches you not, because you keep yourself. So if God destroyed him that had power over death and destroyed his works then where is he if he be destroyed? And where is his works if his works be destroyed? In that we are spiritually translated into the kingdom of God and our body of death is no more, it's dead and buried and we are no more in the body, as to the flesh and no more in the world, then how can he get to us? for we be as a quickening spirit within the Spirit of Christ which is in the Spirit of Christ, which is in God whom the heavens have received. So then, he cannot get nigh our dwelling no more than darkness can get near light. So then, anything that happens to you is a lying vanity, as to repercussion of your old mind in a flashback. Like people that have one time taken dope, they have flashback. People that have done things, been in fear, frustration, have flashbacks. You are only having a flashback of a hideous nightmare, or repercussion, as to a lying vanity. All is vanity, vanity and vexation of the spirit. See? And you give place to it by going back into that old mind of the wilderness, and then Satan has chance to torment your spirit which he cannot touch but through your own mind torment as to a continual warfare between the body and the spirit. Abstain from fleshly lust which warreth against the soul. Make no provisions for it, kill out the parasites. And he actually torments your spirit through your own mind that you've given through the weakness of fear and the lack of dedication and concern of walking after Christ. And it's all a lying vanity, but you're still tortured and tormented to the extent that you are weakening in your body and sickness and whatever. The nerves break down because of fears and the frustrations and the anxieties when he doesn't even exist in your world. And all that you are giving yourself to is lying vanities. Like going and watching a movie of Frankenstein, the werewolf, or these hideous horrible creatures, getting that into your mind when they don't even exist and a lying vanity fills your mind, and in the night you become afrighted, afraid, and terrorized and can't even have peace because of fears when Jesus said, Be not afraid; let your heart not be troubled. All of these things fear not. Through that weakness of fear and those hideous things you allow that which doesn't even exist in your world to torment you, take advantage of you and rob you of those wonderful things when you are the master of Satan, as the body of the Lord Jesus, him having defeated you, and all you've got to do is have faith over him to believe that He hath defeated Satan in your behalf. And that all things are yours in that He hath given you all things that pertain unto life, health and happiness, prosperity, whatever. But because you won't walk with the Lord and subdue the body to keep it quite and make it conform to God's way of life to keep Satan from creating lying vanities before it, then you have problems. Let's sing together, can we? (Sings I Love Him.) Why does God want to bring in the Jews? Because there has to be a redemption of the body. If the casting away of the Jews be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of the Jews be but life from the dead. Paul, as a revelator understood this mystery. And since, when you are changed, as it was with Elijah when he got his double portion he went on away, and Elisha had to remain with his double portion. The church being gone and the Jews still remain. And the Jews remain when they come in to establish the millenium as (Go to part 2.)

(Begin tape two, side two.) to show the redemption of the body, that God is not inferior, His creation is not inferior and they live a wholesome happy life even in the natural body because they have been under the law and they already know natural discipline. And when they get spiritual salvation it will be made manifest in their natural disciplined body to where God can dwell among them. Even we can dwell among them, as the spiritual beings as angelic forces to help create happiness and inspiration for them. Because when we're changed into our body of redemption we go out of this world even as Enoch when he was translated, and Elijah when he was translated. All right. Let's sing this little chorus. (Sings We'll Give All The Glory To Jesus.) During that millennium everything will be changed back to a garden. How beautiful it will be, the smell of the sweet shrubs, the singing of the birds, the beauty of the animals, their coats, their fur will be like a sheen, be so beautiful. Man will be so lovely, his skin so oily and rich, his hair so rich and radiant as men and women. They will be so radiant and full of life like Adam and Eve. And everything around them will be so lovely because the life of Christ, even God the great Spirit will be made manifest in their mortal genes with that life, within that Jewish form, and those that are Christians during that time. (Continues singing.) Let's sing this little chorus. (Sings There's Room At The Cross.) Sing it with me now. The altars are open. (Continues singing.) Did you notice that after the tribulation period we who have had the bodily change before the tribulation period, Revelation 19, we come back and then the Jews are changed. I say changed, they are born again. They go into their millennium to make manifest the body, which we have as to a change and they naturally show it as to the perfection of it. (Continues singing, sings At The Cross and Every Promise In The Book.) Let's sing this little chorus. (Sings Come Unto Me.) Do you love the Lord? I remember when I was standing up in heaven holding my hands out. When I was standing up into heaven I was the Lord Jesus Christ holding my hands out saying, Come unto me all ye that labor and are heaven laden. He will give you rest. Do you love the Lord? Let's sing another little chorus together. How many of you really enjoyed the meeting up in the Carolinas? How many of you feel like you went there and really done something for the Lord? Let me see your hands, as to your efforts. That's good. We've got a few people that made an effort. You've not hypocriting on me are you? If you really made an effort, that's great. That's what I needed. I want to say this, that it was a pleasure for me to be there and I thought my people done real good and responded by coming up there. And real good in responding in trying to praise the Lord, and I was very well pleased with it. And I feel like God was pleased with it. I feel like a lot more could be done. I don't know just exactly how many we had. Some said about five hundred the first night, some said about five, maybe six hundred more the second night. And they said they counted something under a thousand the last night and said there was more people and they estimated over a thousand people the last night. But whatever it was there was a good crowd of people for the cold weather. And I thought the Lord really blessed us for that time of the year. (Sings Don't Hinder Me.) One more time. (Continues singing.) Let's just slip our hands up together tonight. On my way to Canaan's land. While we're standing here tonight__ I took a good bit of time in talking to you about the things of the Lord. And really I didn't take all that long, but as to what might seem long to church people of our day, just kind of taking my time in a few scattering remarks hoping that you'd take them, piece them together, search out the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation, the books of the Bible and pray and seek the Lord. Let God put it together for you. And there are many things that we've said. You've got tapes of all kind, got literature, and you should be a blaze of fire for God. He said, I'll make my ministers a flaming fire. They'll devour the stubble. And God would burn up that chaff with unquenchable fire. As it was said in Daniel, the wind blew away the residue of all of the gold and silver, the iron and the brass in that the little stone grinds, even stone, grinds it up. And it was like the summer threshing floor, or that is, in the harvest time when they gather the wheat and they trample the wheat and the chaff flies up, as to the suction of the fans. And the fans blow them away. It was blown away as the summer threshing, Which indicates also a trampling of the wheat. War. I believe that Mr. Bush is on the verge of making a move. I believe he's on the verge of making a move and I made the statement a number of days ago that he isn't going to take this thing sitting down as we say, or lying down, that no matter what Mr. Gorbachev says, or others, if there isn't some give or some compromise, as to a satisfaction pretty quick there's going to be war and there is going to be blood spilt. And it's going to continue on as to from one thing to another as to the unifying of the super power. And as to the clay and the iron not mixing and the kingdom of stone taking courage and uniting and fortifying as to the hour when God will say strike! Strike! Because everything has to come, it has to come. And when it comes it's going to bring the end of the world. See? We've done seen the iron and the clay. We've done seen the gold and the silver and the brass. We are now seeing the iron and clay. But we haven't seen the little stone become the kingdom of world rule yet as to the millennium regime and it has to strike before the millennium to become the world power. Even smiting the super power and it will not be able to stand. Even the great super power, a little nation will beat the entire world because Jesus will come back and they will accept Jesus Christ and become Christians. And as Christians they will defeat the entire world, because Christianity, that from the days of Noah will come forth to join forces with them. Everybody from the creation of Adam will come forth in Revelation 19. All of them will come forth and the whole earth will be filled with Christians. And all that will be there to fight against them will be the armies of today. For all the rest of the wicked will be dead and will not live again until the thousand years is finished. So what a wonderful hour. What a wonderful victory, for the saints shall rise and take the Kingdom and possess it forever and forever. While we are standing with our heads bowed we're going to sing the little chorus we sing so often, I Will Praise Him. I'm going to ask David that plays our guitar for us to come while we sing this. (Leads in singing.) That's something, calling on David tonight after having the Jew sing his song. The Bible speaks of the son of David. (Continues singing.) Can you lift your hands and close your eyes with me. Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in that the house of the Lord may be filled. While you've got your hands up, your eyes closed sing this with me. (Continues singing.)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord