Calvary - The Capstone

Perhaps I got in the way of things; I don't know. I was so encouraged to find that there was a hunger and a thirst and a drawing for some of the deeper things of God and we just got right off into some things and then momentarily we kind of stopped to say a word of two and everything got off base. So, I didn't have really what I thought, as to the hunger. And I was going to try to get into some little deeper things and I should have just gone on. Which I did go on and try to exhort a little bit. But I didn't get to talk to you like I wanted to and I thought maybe tonight — I said, Well, who knows. At night, as a rule, you don't get to do it for sure. But I thought, who knows, maybe tonight we will. Maybe something will happen tonight, or it will be of those unusual sort of a thing. And it could; it could happen. I want to say again that we're glad to have you. We've had so many visitors and of late I've not be able to know who they were until after service. And then after service they tell me that they have been here. Which I would like to know before so that I could speak of them but I don't find out until afterwards. And it makes it a little bit embarrassing but I want you to know you're welcome. If I don't speak of you, if nobody writes me a note to let me know you're here, well, I'm still glad to have you. A lot of times we refer to revelation 10 and 7. It's strange but in the Old Testament when the Bible speaks of the day of atonement there is a great similarity, as to the day of atonement, and this particular Scripture, as to the reference, and we refer to it as the finishing of the mysteries. And this particular passage of Scripture holds something that is to me very outstanding. And whether we can say anything about it tonight I don't know. I really don't know. All I know is that I can try. I can try to speak concerning it and maybe I can; I don't know. But in this passage of Scripture — It's what I was wanting to read this morning. It say that here there appeared an angel. He had the book, the little book, in his hand and he lifted his hands to heaven to swear. Now, first of all, I'd like for you to think just a moment on that as to when you say swear. He lifted his hands to heaven to swear by Him that liveth forever and ever that time should be no more. Now I want to emphasize that because I want to elaborate on it a few minutes. Even though I might not get into my chain of thought tonight I would still like to emphasize that. It is said that when He came that He had one foot on the land and one foot on the sea. He lifted up His hands to heaven and sware by Him that liveth forever and ever that time should be no more. Now. First of all, the thought is: What is he doing swearing? What is an angel doing swearing? How many times in the Bible did you ever read where an angel swore? Or how many places do you find where God is telling an angel to do anything, to swear by Him? But here this angel swears and it seems so contrary to what the Lord Jesus has taught because He has taught the Pharisees and Scribes thou shalt swear, not at all; neither by heaven because it is God's throne, neither by earth because it is God's footstool. And He says you can't swear by the altar. And besides that, He says you can't make one hair black nor white. So why do you swear? What makes you think that you have the right to swear in that when you swear it is suppose to be an affirmation or confirmation that it is going to be just exactly like you said. And in as much as you're not able to make things to be like you said it could change all the way around and you couldn't do anything about it. Then why do you swear? So He told them not to swear. But now here is an angel and this angel is swearing and He's swearing by Him that liveth forever and forever. So then, why is he swearing? What right does he have to swear? And then the thing that he's swearing to. The Bible says that he's swearing by Him that liveth forever and ever. And when you speak of swearing, as to say by Him, or you speak of swearing by Him that liveth. Then when we say life we bring the human being into it. Life. Life is as to a human being. So we say, By Him that liveth. We could say, Well, Brother Pike, what he is saying is he's swearing by God. God who liveth forever and ever. And that is true; God does live forever and ever, because God is life. But then does God live forever and ever, as to say God has taken up life to live? Yes and no. Yes, in the sense that He took on the form of a servant and no, in that God is life. Why would He want to do that? So then, he's swearing by Him that liveth forever and ever. And in this swearing he must have reference to some object. And that object that he has reference to must be something that is subject as to life and death or else it wouldn't sound right. So then, you say, What then is he swearing by? To me he was swearing by the body of the Lord Jesus Christ at Calvary, the One who liveth forever and ever. For He said, I one was dead but now I am alive for ever more. And who is he that is swearing? This angel is so great that his foot, one is on the land and another is on the sea and his head reaches clear up to the throne of God, as to the heavens, and the rainbow is about his head. Obviously, this has to do with the spirit of Christ and they that know Him among the Jews know Him as the great angel. Not knowing Him as the Messiah, never knowing Him as the Messiah then they know Him as the great angel. And this great angel, apparently being the angel of Christ, can swear by the body, by his Own body as to him that liveth forever and ever. And so then, the Bible says he lifted his hands to heaven and swear by Him that liveth forever and ever that time should be no more. Or that is to say, the Lord Jesus Christ who came at Calvary He came bringing time to an end because He came in the fullness of time. And the Bible says, And God sent forth His Son in the fullness of time. He was made of a woman. He was made under the law. And Peter said, Ye then are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. And so then, swearing by Him that liveth forever and ever that time should be no more. Or that is to say, I have come to the place of saying whether there be time, or whether there don't be any more time, I swear by Him that liveth forever and ever; that I bring an end to time. For who is he that swear that time should be no more? that he should bring an end of time? Which angel has the power to bring the end of time? No one can do that except God, and God being manifested in Jesus as the fullness. What angel filled heaven and earth and all therein? Or what such angel? Or where do you find such angel? So then, it is very evident that when the rainbow was about His head it indicated that this angel was there as to the throne and a headship because the rainbow is round about the throne. The Bible tells us it's round about the throne and it's evident that it is a derivative of the seven candlesticks that are in the front of the throne and as the glory of God going into this light and this light reflecting back, as to this, as to that wonderful, wonderful presence of Almighty God about this spirit, then there is the great rainbow about His head. And there's a lot that we could say concerning that angel. Another this is: What is the angel doing with the book? So then, He has the book and he tells John that he should eat the book. And when he eats the book that it will be bitter to his belly but it will be sweet as honey in his mouth. So then, again we know that if the body is considered as to that of a derivative from Adam that the old serpent is on its belly and that this thing is detrimental to the belly. That is, it is death to the belly and it is life. It is sweet as honey in the mouth, in that the Bible says taste of the Lord and see if He is good. So, Jesus said, lest you eat my flesh, lest you drink my blood you don't have any life in you. Well, this gives us a little bit of insight as to what might be going on there. Then this spirit, or this great angel must play a very important part in the episode of the life of the Jews. And here he is standing on the land and on the sea and it's very evident that this particular thing relates all the way back to Calvary because if Calvary is the end of the world, if Calvary is the end of time then that means that this angel that's declaring the end of time, it has to relate back to Calvary. And here it is about the middle of the week and it is evident that at the middle of the week it is where Jesus comes to show the nail prints. And as He appears as the Lamb on the Mount of Zion He appears as the Lamb with a hundred and forty-four thousand, which makes it evident that Israel receives their blood atonement as the true Lamb and the true sacrifice. And since it is the offering of the new testament of the new blood the whole house of Israel is saved. Or that is, a nation is saved in one day. All of a sudden a nation is saved in one day. Who has ever heard of such, that as quick Zion travails she brought forth her son. So then, if that be true then it's evident that twelve thousand out of, we say twelve thousand of each tribe making up as to a total of twelve. One hundred and forty-four thousand which relates back to the measurements of the walls of the new city, as to the foundation. And then we know that there is something that is in there that's spiritual that we need to understand. That if we be the spiritual Jew and we be, as to that of a spiritual Christ and a spiritual body, then there has to be a spiritual mind and a spiritual understanding as to a revelation that comes from Christ, as it was said to Peter, And flesh and blood has not revealed this unto thee, but it is a spiritual thing. My Father, which is a spirit in heaven, He hath revealed this unto thee. Or that is, that which is in the spirit has come to thee, Peter, and thou has come to know that which is spiritual. So then, in knowing that which was spiritual the veil was rent in twain. And in that the veil was rent in twain then that meant that something was taking place. Well, anyway, it would take so long, so long, so long to explain just a little of that. So, we're speaking of the angel. And there is the angel which said that four hundred and eighty-three years to Calvary and after that it was the church ages. And then Daniel, not having seen the church ages — Kind of picking up where we were this morning. Daniel, not having seen the church ages he looked and saw the four eighty-three and the seven years which was upon the Jews. All of this was upon the Jews. That is what shall befall my people. Four hundred and eighty-three years shall befall thy people, Daniel. Then seven more years shall befall thy people, Daniel. But there is a dividing asunder that Daniel did not see. And what was it that Daniel did not see? It was the church ages. Or, it is better told, as to say it was the door open in heaven. Daniel did not see the door open in heaven. It was said unto Daniel that all you see, Daniel, it is sealed up until the time of the end. And in the time of the end what happens? The book of Revelation, that is, John caught up into heaven through that door and he sees exactly what Daniel saw. But the difference was that Daniel saw it on this level of life, as to that which was the natural level of life and to the human concept and John transcended this level of life and he went up beyond the veil and saw it where it was not veiled. Therefore, it was not sealed. Because it was said to John, seal not the book. Seal not the message, seal not these sayings. And yet it was in the book of Revelation that the seven seals were moved, as to that that was sealed. So then, we ask our self the question — I'm just a little hoarse tonight. I wasn't before I came but all of a sudden it set in. But, let's look for just a minute. At Calvary is the pivot point. If Calvary is the all important pivot point, if that is the cornerstone, if that's the thing that we have to relate to, as to them that were before Calvary, looking in that direction to them that are after Calvary looking back in that direction then we ask our self the question, why? Why do we make that the most important thing of all? Because there is the Messiah. And there is the door. He said, I am the door and if we go through heaven we have to go through the door. And if we go into these spiritual things we have to go in through the door. If we go in through the door to look back it's by Calvary. If we go in through the door to look forward it's by Calvary. So then, everything is within Christ. We would say, How can that be? Because all things emanated from God and the fullness of God was in Jesus. So then, we know that that is where we've got to go to. We've got to go back to that. That means that if there is seven years separated from the four ninety, leaving four eighty-three, that seven years has got to come back to Calvary. And when it comes back to Calvary the thing that Daniel did not see, the open door, it will be closed. Because the open door is the severally dividing, as to say seven taken away from four ninety leaving four eighty-three. And that door Peter opened, and that door remains open all the way down through the church ages and remains open until John goes through it because John has to do with the rapture after the church ages and the door is still open as from the time that Peter opened it still open because it is the church age door. And all the way down through the church ages the church is being perfected. So then, at the end of the church ages it is said, Come up hither. At the end of the church ages we see Christ standing in the midst of the candlesticks. And so then that brings to our mind as to whether there might be a difference as to what they say about the church age messengers. Whereas, in the Bible there is no such thing as church age messengers. That is, the Bible don't speak of that but they write it as church age messengers and you get books concerning church age messengers because there is seven churches. And the seven churches, of course, is the churches that Paul established. And I said that he established nine and we brought that out how that there is nine churches in that there are two that pertains as to the candlesticks. They pertain to the Jews as Moses and Elijah and then the seven as to the church age messengers. Or that is those that have to do with the seven candlesticks before the throne of God. And those seven candlesticks projecting themselves down into the open door, or through the open door as messengers, or men sent from God as it was said of John, that these are given to us in a colorful color-aroma, that is they come down through the church ages as a spectrum. So then, they are in a variety of colors showing us the attributes, or the nature of Christ, in that they are called the seven spirits of God. And we know that God is one spirit. So, severally dividing Himself, as to project Himself to us in measure in that when the wheat harvest comes it brings in the measure. If we had time to go back into the old teachings of the Old Testament to bring in the difference between the barley harvest, as to the Jew and the wheat harvest, as to the Gentiles, then we could understand what I'm saying. So then, these lights that come down through there are the church age messenger. And with them coming down through there, as coming down from the throne as with that open door which is the dividing asunder as the seven from the four eighty-three, or four ninety, leaving four eighty-three. Then we know that these messengers are during that period of time, as from the time of Pentecost when the church ages came in, all the way over unto the end of the church ages which brings it about in the fourth chapter and then all of a sudden there is a door open in heaven. Jesus standing in the midst of the church ages, or Christ, that is to say, in the midst of the candlesticks, then it makes us to wonder then is Paul the first church age messenger, or was Paul Christ in the midst of the churches that he had established? For it is evident at the beginning of it, it is Paul's churches. And it is evident at the beginning Paul said, Through all that I have experienced and went through, as to the stoning, and to five times at the whipping post and three times with rods and stone, and all these things, it's not me living but Christ. And it's evident that is Christ. And it's evident that Christ was the capstone. He was caught up. There at Calvary He capstoned everything. And it's very evident that here we find, as Jesus being caught up as the capstone, there is somebody over here on the other side of Calvary that's up in the same place, as to the third heaven, which is calling himself the Christ. So it's evident that in this ascension here that something dividing asunder here has come that it might, from that point of view, look down through eye surveillance or observation, as we would say naturally speaking, and see the foundation and the stones of the whole building of this thing coming together in a constituted thing which makes him to believe that he is the wise master builder. And being given the revelation of Jesus Christ obviously the revelation was the plan for the building. Well, anyway, we are God's building, lively stones build upon the foundations of the apostolic leaders, built up into a holy priesthood into that prism stone that capstones that beautiful city up here which Jesus capstoned as being a Jew, or being the head of the Jews, or it was put up there the King of the Jews, and they said write not the King of the Jews but that he said he was the King of the Jews. But Pilot said, That that I have written I have written, Jesus, the King of the Jews. And so then it was the capstone of the great city. And the great city was the city that we see in the celestial world right after the millennium when that great city comes down out of glory and sets down upon the new earth. Not as in the millennium upon the restored earth, but after the millennium in the new earth. So it's very evident it is a celestial city whose light is most precious like that of a jasper stone and that it is a spiritual world. It is a spiritual city and the light is a spiritual light because the Bible says the light of that city is the Lamb Himself. So it's evident that the Lamb is a quickening spirit dwelling in that city and in that city there is no need for the sun because the Lamb is the light of that city. And all the nations of the world walk in the light of that city because it's light is most precious like a jasper stone, which is the light of the Lamb that penetrates as through the stones, which stones are you and I that's built up as the lively stones upon the foundations of the apostolic leaders, in that the Bible says, And Jesus Christ picked these and laid these for the foundations and other foundations can no man lay, and let every man take heed how he builds upon these, as to the indoctrination that they left as to this tutoring of the apostolic leaders. So then, we know where the church is today. And we know where the stones are and we know that we are God's building. We are God's church. And we know that within this, in the radius of this confines, we understand that the great light which is most precious, even the light of the Lamb, as to say the understanding of the revelational mind of Almighty God; His spirit is within us. Well, the world doesn't receive this because the Bible says that they cannot see this great light. It shines in the midst of them but they cannot see it because they have eyes not to see. And they cannot comprehend because this is a comprehended light by the eyes of understanding. You'll just have to bear with me a little tonight. That's one reason I like to minister in the morning. It's a lot better. But, nevertheless, if I can get an audience to listen at night, since it's night; night shall it be. So, we realize then that something has taken place; that Jesus, who is the King of the Jews, Jesus who is born of the Jews, Jesus, as to salvation being of the Jews, then we realize that something was built from the time that Moses brought this thing into view when the Lord gave him a plan, called him upon the mountain, that something was happening and that Moses somehow must have been relative to Paul. And as to a natural there has to be a spiritual. And whatever happens in heaven happens in the earth. And as to that that is in the earth we see first and then that which is in heaven we come to the spirit afterwards. And even though it happens in heaven first; yet we as natural people see it in the earth only when it comes to pass in the earth. So we say then, in the earth first and then when we come to the unveiling we see God, as to the masterpiece. But then, we know when we consider it, it was God to begin with, that all things emanated from God to begin with. So, we know that God's masterpiece is being proportionally put together, or constituted within a veil of human understanding and within a human being; that the fullness of Him is already there but He is working with us, as through the workmanship of those that are in the earth, Christ being God's workmanship. So then, we are God's workmanship in Christ. And then that means that He has, proportionally, as to the transformating of your mind and my mind He has brought us to a great place as toward a diplomacy, hoping to bring us into the fullness of this wonderful unveiling when the sons of God which now are, as to you already being the sons of God, shall be made manifest as to this heavenly treasure that you already have in earthen vessels that shall be made manifest in your mortal genes. That is to say, coming to surface or light, and then the masterpiece is seen because the light will automatically take away the veil of the human concept, as to the darkness. So, if there is a light up there and it's darkness there is nothing but the surrounding of darkness. But if there is a light up there with a filament, if that's a living receptacle when the light comes then it comes forth as to a magnitude from that and in that in magnifies itself within a radius or confines of lighting, as according to its strength. Like one angel came down from heaven and had the strength to light the whole earth. So then, what strength do we have tonight. As a minister what strength do I have? As a minister what strength do you have? Or as a laity what strength do you have? Thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold? The full reward, going on to the full measure, as to the stature; to be ye therefore perfect even as the Father in Heaven is perfect; to be the light of the world, in that He was the light the world, He still is the light of the world, or yet He's gone and we are the light of the world. In that He is still the light of the world, He is in us and that light is so shining that men may see our good works to come to this light. And to whatever the strength is as to that projection as to the strength of that light in that it causes the confines, as to that radius. And those that come into it find freedom from the darkness and the fears and frustration and anxieties of those things that try to captivate them and bring them into bondage. So that's the way it is with that city. That city is sitting down within the middle of everything, as we would say. And it is a great wonderful light and that light extends out in such a way that this light being so extensive the nations of the world will walk in that light. Can you conceive of that? that the nations will walk in the light of you and I? We. The Bible says, And this city descending out of heaven, it came as a bride adorned for her husband. Evidently it is that city, that wonderful bride that's given to the Lamb for He dwells within it and His light penetrates into it. And so then, we are the lively stones and God said, And it shall come to pass that when I make up my jewels I shall remember thee and I shall spare thee as a man spareth his son. And so then, we are His stones. We are the jewels stones of that beautiful city. So, I say again, if Jesus comes, if He came, as we know that He did, to the Jews then we say we understand why that He gave the parable when He said to the Jews — He spoke to them about the builders rejecting the cornerstone. When He gave the parable He spoke of taking the vineyard away in the parable. He said, I will give it to another, and the perceived that he spoke of them and they knew that God had given them the rights as to godliness and all the principles and everything. Paul even speaks of that, as to the principles of the gospels and the things of God belonging to the Jews. The oracles of Christ belonging to the Jews and then he said how great this is. That is to say, as I was bringing it out to the Brethren yesterday, I believe it was, as to proportionally speaking, as to first heaven and second heaven and third heaven, and the water world and the blood world and the spirit world, or the two thousand and the two thousand and the two thousand, or first power and second power and third power, as to a first dimension, second dimension or..( Begin tape one, side two.) … four and a four and a one, or a two and a two, or as to that six and one and then going on to the Celestial. Which would take a lot of time to break down these things that we're talking about as to the graduated stages of what we see typically in school as we learn the allegorics of the world that is to come, as you would say to come. So then, we know that there is something that took place at Calvary. What is then this thing that took place at Calvary? Jesus gave the parable, And without a parable spake He not unto the people; saying that it is given unto them to hear the parable. It is given unto you to know the mysteries. So then, we know that when He said to them, What then is this that is written in the Scriptures? for the stone that the builders rejected the same has become the head of the corner. And this is the doings of God; this is the works of God and this is marvelous in our eyes. And sure enough, here He was; He was the rejected stone. And the Bible has spoken of the stone for the prophet said, And this stone shall come crying, Grace, grace, grace. Or that is, Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do. Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do. And so it came crying, Grace, grace, grace. And when it came He confronted them and He said, And now comes the head of the corner. Though ye builders have built it and built it all down through the years and you have everything just right, but where then is the cornerstone? It's like the song that we wrote about the cornerstone, as in the days of Solomon when they could not find a place for this odd, pestilent stone. But when the time came to capstone all of the operation there was nothing that would fit except this stone that had been rejected by the builders. And sure enough, as to the fulfillment of the time when the time had come and the fullness of the time had come. Then we say, What is the fullness of time, Brother Pike? It was said to Abraham, And it shall come to pass that there shall be a son; your wife shall have a son. And that as to a promised son. And it shall be as to a time appointed as to believing that it might be a child of faith, that it might be symbolic, as to that that is far reaching, and extensively speaking, that there will come a promised son which is the seed. And when this seed, as to whom the promise is made shall come then he is the heir of all things. And if you receive Him then he shall be your hope of glory. Christ within you. And if you reject Him, then as Moses said, The prophet like unto myself, it shall come to pass that God shall raise Him up and everyone that faileth to hear this prophet, Jews or whatever it might be, shall be cut off from among the people. So, when the Jews failed to hear Him they were cut off at Calvary from among the people and went into outer darkness. And it came to pass, as the Scripture was, And it shall come to pass that they shall come from the East and come from the West and they shall sit down in the place of the children of the kingdom and the children of the kingdom shall be cast into outer darkness and there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. So then, we sing the song, They come from the East and they come from the West. And sure enough the Gentiles came in and sit down in the place of the children of the kingdom of David. And the children of the kingdom was cast out into outer darkness and wandered around through the holocaust and will go through the tribulation period to come back into the millennium. But during this period of time it's the holocaust. That is, the weep and wailing and the gnashing of teeth, even at the Wailing Wall. So then, we see that all the Scripture concerning Christ is so fulfilled. So then comes Christ Jesus, the cornerstone. When He comes then He has all the answers. And they would not receive that. They would not have that. They said, Nay, we will not have this man to rule over us, so He gave them a parable and He said, And so the king sent out, and said, And tell them to come; my feast is ready, my dinner is prepared, my oxen they have been slain. These things are ready; tell them to come. But they said, Nay, we will not go for we will not have this man to rule over us. And then he sent out into the highways and into the hedges and he said, Go, bid them to come in that the feast may be furnished. Bring in the halt, lame and blind. That is; let us have a healing campaign and let's get them altogether. Because as we would say, as to the Jews and to the self-righteous, why did they not accept Me? Why did they reject the cornerstone? And so as it is written, what is this then that is written that they have rejected the cornerstone and the same has become the head of the corner. And the Bible says that the king was wroth and he sent out his armies and he destroyed their cities and burned them with fire because he was so upset. And thus it is as to the wrath of God coming upon the Jewish people, as Paul said, even unto the uttermost and upon the people of the Gentiles who have made a mockery of religion, as to real Christianity and He is going to burn their cities with fire and the bombing is on the way. So, that means that being Sodom and Gomorrah, God, as to Lot, the very day he went out fire and brimstone came. Being as to symbolic of the church, the very day that the church goes out thus comes the great day of His wrath as the heavens roll open as a scroll and then comes the fire. So, when we consider this, as to an allegoric approach, here is Paul. Paul is on his way to Damascus and all of a sudden there is a great light that shines around about Paul and Paul goes blind. There Paul is blind. This great light then hath made him blind. But then we say, No. The great light really didn't make him blind. What did the great light do? The great light revealed his blindness; that he had already been blind. All of this time he had been blind because he had been persecuting Christ. He had been killing those that belong to the church, professing Christianity, supposedly to be so great in knowledge that even the dignitaries of that day said, Much learning doth make thee mad. So, when the blindness was shown up what happened? The voice said, Paul, go down to the street called Straight. You know, that's what I say. Where is the street called Straight? Somebody said one time, we live too much on crooked avenue. So let's go down to the street called straight. We go down to the street called straight and sure enough what do we do? We get baptized, the veil is rent in twain, in that we accept Calvary, and then we are lifted up and there we are a new creature in a new world. We have a new vision, we have new sight, we see through eyes we've never seen through before. Thus the veil is taken away. When the veil is rent then we see. So, Paul began to see Christ. He began to see these things so he began to preach to the Jews and he said, Brethren, there is something that you don't understand. There is something that you need to know. There is a veil over your face in the reading of the Old Testament because there is something that is beneath that veil that ye should understand, and they did not understand because they could not see that light. For you cannot see that light except through Christ. And though that light shined in their midst they did not see it. It was evident that it did shine in their midst because it was said, even as to the prophets, And behold, great light has sprang up unto the people, even to them that sat in the regions of the shadow of death. And this great light, it is said later in the New Testament that our hands have handled of this light of this life, and this great light is Christ, even the light of the world. And now that He has gone away now ye are the body of Christ and ye are the light of the world. And it is said in the prophets that and unto this great light, as to this great shining, all nations of the Gentiles to hurry and come for they shall come to the light of thy shining. Which means the church in the midst of them. Therefore, they reflect, as to the light of the shining. And when the church has gone out and the light has gone out they don't have any heaven anymore because light is heaven. And without light it is darkness and darkness is not heaven. So then, we see again the necessity of understanding what is meant by time no more. So then, whether we get to this or not I don't know. But, anyway, I purposed in my heart that if the Lord took us back to the foundational part of this that we were going to run that trail and go down that trail and if we didn't get to the other we just didn't get to the other. We'd do whatever we could do as to what we had to do with. The Lord said, Here, Moses, here is a stick; go and deliver the people. So we know then that light and darkness hath no fellowship and that there is a point, as to a pivot point, where light and darkness is severely divided. But as to finish our little thought here before we get to that, then we know that from the time of Moses on over to the coming of Jesus, the prophet like unto Moses, that there was a building program and a building plan and something had taken place, even in the natural, and that natural thing that had taken place, there was something that the Jews didn't understand, that beyond that, as to a mind, as to a revelation, as to a light, as to godliness, as to what Moses had been able to see that there was something in heaven and that he had made all things according to the pattern that he had seen. That he had took a look; as a prophet he had took a look in a heavenly place and because these people were natural then he came down to build this thing in a molecular structure, or to bring it in a natural display that it might be projected to them that they might intellectually, like little children, get this down in their mind as to the educational system of today, which is the forerunner of that which is come. And that's why it was necessitated, as to the fall and the tree of knowledge. And so then we see this, and there Moses saw these things and then they built these things as in the earth in symbolics. And it is so beautiful if you can take away the veil. Paul could preach, take away the veil because the veil had been taken away. It had been revealed to him by this great light that there was something that had shown up a veil. And that His eyes were blinded to show him naturally speaking, allegorically, that he had been spiritually blinded. The blindness of that, he later brings this out, Oh, wretched man that I am, though I'm blameless touching the law there is no justification by the law within the flesh. So then he said, Oh, wretched man that I am, with all of my ritualistics, my doings, all of the things that I've done that was right, as to the natural things as of the law, I really haven't accomplished anything, but because of this that I try to do, as to what did pertain to the desire of God, I've become a chosen vessel and that appointed unto sufferings as to show the life of Christ. And it is fitting that he should be blameless touching the law. Well, anyway, a lot could be said about Paul and the mighty angel, or Paul and the seven candlesticks. But knowing this, as to what we're saying, then evidently when Jesus came the builders had built something all down through the years but now they were in derision, as to understand because they knew that the Messiah was to come at the end of the trail and here they were at the end of the trail, but where was Messiah. And they couldn't find Messiah and so then at the time appointed, as it was said, and in the fullness of time God send forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law. It was right on time, there was no misconcept of it; it was right there. It was said to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all nations be blessed. The Jews again missed it because they took it that Abraham was the Father of the Jews, as to the faithful. And yet the Jews were not the faithful. And yet the Jews, as to those that will come in as to the hundred and forty-four thousand that follows the Lamb whether so ever He goes is certainly faithful in all things. So when we come down to the pivot point, when we come down to the fulfillment of the promise then it is said to Abraham that the law, Paul explains this real clearly, as to the law it is said to Abraham before the law that God is giving him this wonderful promise by faith, that through grace. And that it will come to his seed and all nations shall be partakers. And then it is said by Paul, in that the Jews got off trial that the law was added because of transgression. The law didn't come as to a promise. It didn't come as to a benefit. Even though it was righteous and it was spiritual, it was added because of transgression, or that is to something that would reveal to our intelligence of those people that they were altogether misconstruing the things of God and that God was a spirit and all of their life was just a disorder. And just as to these things to stay in step, to stay in stride to where you could bring them to the promise. So it was added because of transgression until the seed, as to whom the promise was made should come, which was Christ at Calvary. So then, the law continued. But then when the law came so did sin, but when sin came, though sin abounded, where sin did abound grace did much more abound. And it overcame sin, as to say folding up the law and putting away the law. So it is evident that there is no flesh justified by the law because by the law is the knowledge of sin. That is to say, to transgress the law then that is sin. And if we be not under the law, the law folded up and laid away, then we cannot transgress the law. Therefore, I say again, we cannot sin. If we cannot sin then are we the perfect ones, being justified perfected, sanctified, then that means we are the seed unto whom the promise was made. And we are those that are heirs. If we then be heirs we are children, we are partakers of all things, even all things as to where the Bible says and He hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life because God is life. And Jesus said, I am the prince of life and we now have the prince of life, which means all things that pertain unto life. And our work, as to that work, He said it was finished from the foundation of the world. I am the works of God. I am God's work and ye are God's workmanship in Me. So, when the builders build it, as coming down to the pivot point which is the crossing of the Jordan, when Moses got down to the Jordan he couldn't get over. And this is a broad subject. Getting down to the Jordan he couldn't get over. Why could he not go over? He was numbered with them that came out of Egypt and all of the justification that they had had was by the law. Isn't that right? And Moses was the instigator of that. So then, when he got to the Jordan why could he not go over? For the same reason that Jesus could not go over, because Jesus was flesh and there is no justification as to any flesh, not even as of Jesus. Great is the mystery of godliness manifested in the flesh. He was seen of angels, preached until the Gentiles. He was justified in the spirit, caught up into heaven to be our example. And so when Moses gets down there, there has been nothing but the law. So then he cannot go in. Someone would say, But wasn't that what was to take them in, Brother Pike? No, the law could never take them in. The law only brought judgment on them. It was the worst thing that could have happen to them because it magnified their wrong and showed up their shortcomings. And what happened to them? The earth opened up and swallowed them up. So then, what was that? It was the law added because of transgression to reveal something that was happening. And someone would say, Well then, Brother Pike, you're telling me that God wouldn't take them into Canaan. I'm telling you that God did not take them into Canaan. Why didn't God take them into Canaan? Because there is no justification by law and the Jordan had to do with Calvary. And to get over the Jordan symbolically would be to get over Calvary. So then, we see Moses, we see Joshua, or we see Jesus and we see the Christ. And we see that Jesus had to die. He could not go over Calvary; He had to die. And Moses had to die, as to being the prophet like unto Jesus, then Moses, there he was; he had to die. Where was he? Did death claim his body? No more than it claimed the body of Jesus. Where is the body of Jesus? Then where is the body of Moses? We find the body of Jesus when we look in glory. So, on the Mount of Transfiguration we find the body of Moses and it's evident as to what happened. Being faithful in all of his house he went over the Jordan all right, but he went over that as to that which goes into heaven. By the power of the Christ that reached down within the grave to pick up the body so it was as with Moses and as to the dispute, which was when they had the dispute over Moses' body. I say again the dispute was not over Moses' spirit. It was over Moses' body, that when death came to claim Moses' body that the angel said, The Lord rebuke thee, Satan, and away went the body and we find it in glory just like Elijah. All right. So if you can tolerate my hacking we'll go a little farther. Now, so then, we say, Well, why didn't they go into Canaan? Because it was because of the law and the transgression. They murmured and complained against Moses. Now, someone would say, Well, how then did they get into Canaan, Brother Pike? They got in by grace. Because when God gave them the law they transgressed the law and they broke the law. It was evident because when Moses came down they were dancing around the golden calf and doing just like they're doing with this a million dollar a year on television thing that they've got going now. Not praising God through the Holy Ghost but dancing around the gold and around the image. And so then, they didn't get a revelation. They didn't wait for Moses, they didn't wait for God, they didn't get over the Jordan of the intellectual mind. They are still intellectual and still in the confines of that which is beyond. Just like those tribes that take it — They took their inheritance on the other side of Jordan. They went over to the extent that the people, that is to say they reflect this gospel. They reflect this light and they can come into the presence. And said, We will go and be religious. That is, we will fight you. We'll go on. We'll be a testimony, as to religion in the earth, but really our inheritance is back here. And we live on this side of the intellect because we enjoy the ways of life and the love of the world is in us. They could have said it like that. And sure enough, there is a refuge there. They were put there that they might be cities of refuge because in the time of the Jews when they flee from Antichrist, and they've got to have somewhere to flee to. And being on that side of Jordan, that side of Jordan had been given, if you remember, to Lot's children, the two daughters that had committed harlotry with their own father thinking that that as to Sodom and Gomorrah when the fire came that it had taken away all living human beings, they were frightened that there be no more reproduction in the earth. And with this made the father drunk and as a result of that then God gave this land to Lot's children. See? And when He gave it to them that was their inheritance. But when the children of Israel came to pass through there they were told they could not mess with Lot's inheritance. But when the people, as to occupying that place, being that of Lot's, then they rose up against the children of Israel and God let them overcome them, take their land and then let the children of Israel settle on that side, as to bring about the refuge, that in the days of the Jews then when the Jews flee from Antichrist to cross the Jordan, then there is a place as to a city of refuge as to be noted allegorically with this. Well, anyway, I said this is a broad subject and I'm just trying to get to where I want to get started. So, then we know then the pivot point. Calvary. Moses couldn't go over. How did they get over into Canaan? They did not. They died. All then that came out of Egypt. Caleb and Joshua went over, which hath great significance. So, when you say — I don't have time to detail everything. But as to when you say getting over, then who was it that got over if they that came out of Egypt did not get over? The elders died in the wilderness and so they're doing today, as to the intellectual siege of religion. And the children, they got in. We see this allegorically today. You don't see the grownups doped up and running around like you do the children in their hallucination and going into what seems to be another world which is a figment of imagination, as to wild hallucination, but still symbolic in that the children did get over the Jordan. That is, they get over the carnal mind even in their hallucinations, as would be typically speaking. So we know then that the children went in to show the new birth, that it was a new birth, that it was children. Not as to them that had been religiously indoctrinated, or as to the world of garlic and onions, but it was as to a new mind and a new child, or a new person. And then they go in, as to say shelling off, getting rid of this old body, as to the first born, and then bringing in that as of the new born. Bringing it in. And they listen because they are, they can be tutored. They can be molded. They are tender. But the others is too much of Egypt. All the time they murmured against Moses and they would say, You took us from the flesh pots, and now it would have been better if we had stayed down in Egypt. We wouldn't have died. You know, you brought us out here to die and people are that way, you know. They say, Well, you told me to evangelize and where is my Cadillac? Where is my home? and where is my income? And I'm not on television yet and I'm getting old. Somebody said, That's absurd. Isn't that absurd? So then, that's the way they are; they are absurd. And so then, we realize that in this, in this that's the way the world is. They keep looking back and they say, Well, I am a Christian. I know I'm a Christian, but where's my job, and I need a house and I've got to have something. I want something for myself; everybody else has got something. And so here they are; they're looking back. they are looking back. But the children come up, and as to the generation; they don't have anything to start with. It's all gone to start with. IRS has got it. They've got enough understanding to know that education didn't do them any good. They went to college and it didn't do them any good. They see that even the parents died in the wilderness and so they begin to do their own thing and they get out and they have a jolly good time. They enter in Canaan as to just have a good time out in the world and frolic and whatever. Like it was said to a man one time, If you'll do such and such, as to a little illustration, if you'll do such and such and if you'll get up and won't be lazy you can go to work. And the man picked up the little parabolic sort of a thing and said, I don't have to be lazy? I don't have to set under the shade tree? I can get up, I can go to work and then I can make some money and then I could buy some cars? or that is whatever they had in their day, and I can buy this and I can have this and I can have money? I can do all of these things and then after awhile I can retire? And the man said, That's right. He said, Well, why go through all of that; I'm retired anyway. So, see? That's the way the children look at it. And they're entering into their Canaan as to just being, as the world says, foot loose and fancy free. Well, then we see that these children went into Canaan. But did they go in under the constraint of the law? No, they didn't go in under the constraint of the law. The constraint of the law had only brought the serpents, as to reveal sin; that they were bitten and that unto death as the spirits of today that's devouring humanity through this religious thing of dos and don'ts, especially as to the Catholic world. But the thing is, these children went in by grace. Because Moses was upset he broke those commandments, as to the stone, to show them what had happened and by grace God took him back and gave him something else. And then, as to Joshua, took them on in to Canaan strictly by the grace of God. And when Paul brings it out he doesn't say that they were cut off, as to whatever, other than he said because of their unbelief they did not go into Canaan, or they did not enter into God's rest because God sware in his wrath that they would not enter into his rest because of their unbelief. Therefore, these things happening for us, as to an admonition, or that to admonish us, that was to come in this day then take heed, the Bible says, how that you hear these things and the way that you hear these things, lest ye, yourself, fail to enter in to the rest of God, for seeing that these that the rest was offered unto did not enter into the rest, therefore, there remaineth a rest for God's people, in that he that has ceased from his own works has enter in God's rest. And for many years I did not know there was a rest and I did not know what the rest was. When I came to know it and then after awhile I understood it and then I enter into the rest. And so I'm happy to say today that I did find it; I did observe those things, as to an admonishing, and we, as to the people upon whom the ends of the world have come, I am one of those that entered into the rest. All right. It looks like when I get right to where I was to suppose to start I'm going to have to stop and maybe bring it out another time. So then, what is this? What are we trying to say? We're trying to say, as to the pivot point, sure enough Jesus was the capstone. He did capstone something. There was something about faith. There was something about spirit back there. There was something about a rest back there that the Jews did not see. There is a veil over their face, and all of their study, that they cannot see beyond that. And it is that Moses, when he came, though this great light was in his countenance and he had seen this thing; yet it was cut off from the Jews because you could not see God and live. And this great Shekinah glory of God that was in Moses' face, they would not look at it. And they said, You put a veil over your face; you do something. That is, you speak to us. You know, you speak to God and you speak to us. And Moses, to be able to communicate with them and them to look upon him, then he had to put the veil, as to the veil which showed the body that covered the Shekinah glory of the fullness of God which was in the bodily veil of the Lord Jesus, which veil had to be rent at Calvary. That is to say, the separation, dividing of asunder, as he made in Himself twain as to do away with or to divide asunder, as to the spirit from the body, the Lord from the Christ, having made in Himself twain, even Lord and Christ. So then, the veil had to be rent as to show there is a rending of the veil as to you and I as to the separation of the body and the spirit, and the spirit going back to God who gave it, leaving the body and the body being dead, as unto asleep without Christ. And so then, there is a rending of the veil. And that veil, of course has to do with the separation of darkness and light, as to that which is inner woven with the body, no good thing. And then I get rid of it, as to Calvary, now it's Christ living, Paul said. (Begin tape two, side one.) The veil is rent. Is it rent then for everybody? OH, no. It's only rent for those that are the children of light, those that can see for this light shines in the midst of them that are in darkness, as to intellectual concept of light. But they perceive it not, neither do they understand. And having eyes they see not, having ears they hear not lest at anytime they should be, as to the righteous, to see and hear; they would convert. And so then, God would heal them. That means that the veil has been rent in twain and there is nothing between me and God anymore. And there is nothing that I have to do, as to allow some high priest to go in beyond the veil, as to that which is the very holies of holies itself, but as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ and members in particular. The high priest went right into the very presence. And we are the high priest, as to the body of that memberly body. And so then, we are his members. We are the body and flesh in particular. We have entered into the third heaven which is the holies of holies and we're not in the second place, as to the holy place of allowance, as to that reflection as to the grace of the world. But neither are we out in the outer courts of them that are in total darkness. But we are in the third heaven, in that the child in Revelation 12 when he was born was caught up to the throne. And so then, at birth he is caught up to the throne to rule with a rod of iron. Therefore, there is no veil between us. And the veil at Calvary being rent Paul said, We now see face to face and we're known as we're known, in that we do know in part until that which is perfect is come and then that which is part is done away with. Or that is, it is swallowed up in perfection and now God hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. So then are ye perfect and made whole before God. And though ye do not know this, in that you are still conceiving in part, as to your intellectual concept, in that this heavenly treasure, the mind of that understanding of light being within this earthen vessel, then it's to be made manifest in your mortal genes. But as through a proportional thing, as, as from glory to glory through this transformation of the mind to the ultimatum of a diplomacy coming to what we call the adoption, or the change, and then no more in part but face to face. So it depends on whether you can understand what I'm saying or not, as to your benefits right now. For now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. So Jesus did capstone it. The city was built. What city? The great pyramid city, the Celestial city. It was built as to the symbolics of the natural Jews. That was and Jesus came and capstoned it. And so it was, as to Paul, it was the same way. Caught up into the third heaven as to lay the foundation, to build the pyramid, as not to that as to the Babylon and the scattering abroad, as to the diversity of languages and places and colors, forms and figures and whatever, as of today. But in the coming back together as we see it now, not as to a legislative thing. Whereas, I say, darkness and light will never mix, even as to color, in the legislative act. That's just a figment of the imagination of the people. They'll never come together like that because God is the one that set it as to a segregation to cause that, as to the yellow man and the red man and the white man and the black man. And they'll always be boycotting, as to their own way of life. But in Christ, as it was before this was brought to pass, then God hath, as to one, all emanated from the world of light as spirit and when all gather back together in the church upon the foundation of this wonderful city that Paul was building, as the wise master builder, upon the foundations of the apostles, to that wonderful Christ. As to say, that that was in the third heaven, even the light, as to the revelational eye that we say that is sitting on the pyramid of this top right here that has great allegoric meaning. Then it is shone round about that all may see, as it would be a beacon light when the ship is out to sea. So the lighthouse. We sing the song of the lighthouse. There is the old lighthouse. Then we know then that He capstones it. What is this ten that the prophets have written? Behold, the stone which the builders rejected the same has become the head of the corner. And so He was caught up. If I be lifted up I'll draw all men unto me, and He capstoned all that they had done because He said, Search the Scriptures for in them ye think that ye have eternal life but these, as to say the Scriptures, they testify of me. All of this is an allegoric thing and the veil is over your face and you don't understand that all those sacrifices, all of the meal offerings, all of these things was symbolic of My body and the coming of Me. And that this that was to be done to Me that I might be your bread, as to the eater, and I might be your drink, as to the thirsty. Eat of My flesh, drink of My blood else you have no life within you. And as Joshua said, prepare victuals because we're going over the Jordan and we're going into that new harvest. So then, we know that we get in by grace and when Joshua got over what happened? The veil was gone. The veil was gone. The veil was gone. My! what we could say right here concerning Brother Branham and concerning that where he was caught up beyond the veil and a lot of things. And yet I've held you so long and I'm not going to be able to get into this tonight. But then we know for sure, as to a present day truth there is something. And Jesus did capstone that. And when it was capstoned what happened? Then it was smitten. We esteemed him smitten by God and the stone was smitten. The prism was smitten and when the prism was smitten the light was refracted for it was rent in twain. And the light, as to that innermost, as to the cherubs, as to the covering ones, as to the rent veil, going all the way back to Noah and the ark and those two that walked backwards, as to them that covered the ark that the Old Testament speaks of. Then the veil was rent in twain and thus came the light. And this is as the waters of Noah to me. Which means, allegorically, all of it fits into one. So then, when He comes, and Moses and Elijah as to the covering cherubs, separate, we find as to Jesus the prophet like unto Moses here, and then we find over here, Elijah over here, as to one having to do with the Jews of the seven years and one having to go with the Jews of the four hundred and eighty-three. Moses to Moses. And there it was, the dividing asunder and that that was revealed on the inside was the ark of the covenant. And what was the ark of the covenant? It was as to Moses and Elijah when they stood here on the mountain and there stood Christ. And so then, in Christ, in Christ that is where the life is, to the blood, the seed of atonement and the blood of the Lamb. Well, anyway, like I said, it would take a lot of detail there and a lot of explaining so we're just going to go just a little farther and close. We're not going to try to get into this as to the extensive thing of bringing it on over into another dimensional step, as to where you can come to if you will, because this is where he's brought me to. And as John said, there is a voice that's crying, the door is open in heaven. Would you like to come up here? And where is the door? Jesus said, I am the door. Peter opening it to the Gentiles and to the Jews. And so it is, as to the church ages. And here it is, we're on the verge of the closing so you have to hurry if you're going to make it because only the church will make it. And when they come up here, as to the last when the voice says come up, the door is closed and nobody else will see anything else. All right. So then, we know that of a certainty something has taken place. And when we see the stone smitten we know the prism has been struck and we do know it cried grace and we do know the light is refracted. And we do know now, as a result of that, that the refracted light has come out as to say, within the ark of the covenant there is the seven candlesticks before His throne and the glory of that light that is now shining has opened the way to the church ages, which we would have to say a lot about the sealed book and the unsealed book, the lion and lamb. So then, we know for sure that when the light came it was the spectrum. It was the spectrum. The prism, the smiting, the refraction and then the spectrum, which is the rainbow, that it comes a bridge from the four eighty-three all the way over to the seven. And that's as far as we're going to go right there, as to say whatever. We do know that that is the covenant. So then, in those things, as to getting across a few things tonight then we'll let it rest right there that maybe by understanding these things, or coming thus far that we can pick up at another time and go a little farther. Who knows but what we might even get into heaven. Let's sing a little chorus together. Can you stand with me? Paul said, I say we, as to I, to keep from saying you for we are they that dwell in heaven. Someone would say, Well, now, Brother Pike, if you try to get into heaven you know what happens. The Lord will cast you out. That's true if you try to get into heaven any other way. But we're speaking about a door. He that goeth through the door is the chosen and if you try to go another way you might intellectually try, you might religiously try. Through the reflection you will get into heaven, but being in heaven another way, as to the second heaven, the reflection, there is war in heaven and Lucifer, as to the old red dragon, is cast out, as to the blood life and the stars fall from heaven. And much we'd have to say. But thanks be to God we're not trying to climb up another way. Let's sing this little chorus, can we? (Singing) Sing with me, now. (Singing) Sing that with me. (Singing) The altars are open if you'd like to come to the altar. (Singing) Sing with me now. (Singing) Do you need Him tonight? (Singing) Let's sing this little chorus, Brother. (Singing) Can you sing it with me? (Singing) Let's sing another little chorus or two and we'll let you go. (Singing.) Sing that with me. (Singing) Sing that chorus with me now. (Singing) Let's lift our hands up to worship the Lord tonight in spirit and in truth. This is what the Lord wants us to do, to love the Lord, to worship the Lord. Let's sing this song together. Let's lift up our hands and praise Him. (Singing) I'll tell you what we're going to do. Everybody is expecting us to dismiss so we're just going to go right on and let you come to the altar and everybody just knell at the altar and that way we'll just put that thing all out of shape and give the Lord a chance, maybe, to save a soul. Who knows but what He will. (Singing) He said pray always. (Singing. Begin tape two, side two.) Let's sing this chorus. (Singing) Sing it again, now. (Singing) Are you ready? (Singing) Sing it with me, now. (Singing) One more time together. (Singing) One more time together. (Singing) Give Him a wave offering. (Singing) Sing it again, now. (Singing) Do you love the Lord? We'll sing one or two more choruses and give them a chance to pray for a few minutes. (Singing) Can you sing that with me now? (Singing) Sing that with me. (Singing) Sing that one more time with me. (Singing) While we lift our hands up together to praise the Lord if you've not given your heart to the Lord then give your heart to the Lord. If you've not made the commitment to Christ then make the commitment to Christ. Paul said, I am persuaded to believe that God is able to keep that which I've committed unto Him against the great day. So then, let's make the commitment. While we lift our hands up to praise the Lord, to love the Lord and once again to sing this little chorus together. Jesus said, It shall come to pass that whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved for if you will confess your sins I am just; I will forgive you of your sins. And the Bible says, In Him there is no sin and he that abideth in Christ sinneth not for the seed of God remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God. Even Christ within you, the hope of that glory. How then shall they call upon Him, the Bible says? Him of whom they've not heard. And how can they hear of Him, of that that they do not know, unless there be a preacher? And how can he preach unless he be sent? For he that God sendeth will speak God's word and how beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of great joy, that tells us of a risen Savior? So then, there is hope today. You don't have to fear and the Bible says, He that harkeneth unto Me shall dwell safely and shall be in quietness without fear. So, we're going to sing this little chorus together. (Singing) I'm going to ask Brother Ron Pasdon if he'll come and dismiss us. (Singing) If you love Jesus tell Him you love Him. Ask Him to forgive your sins and He'll forgive your sins. If thou canst believe in thine heart that God hath raised up Christ from the dead thou shalt be saved. Once again now? (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