<TITLE>15. Par 152-161</TITLE>L-152 And that kingdom in the days of those kings, the God of heaven cut a stone out of the mountain without hands, that smote this image in the feet and broke all the Gentile kingdoms down. And the Kingdom of Christ ruled, and reigned, and growed, and covered the earth and the sea and the sky. The Gentile kingdoms faded away like trash, like the husk on a thrashing floor in the summertime. What a picture that we're living in. That's true.
And today, you see Catholic and Protestant marrying among one another, trying to break the power down; raise your children, have to promise them to raise them this way or that way. We'll get into it, after a bit in a few nights. Notice that how it is, and how the other, the strong of the iron dominated over the other, broke it to pieces and shattered it away.
But the Lamb came and stood. And the holy people in that day...
And how that that Roman power went through every nation. There's not another power in the world, and only one way it can go through, is through Catholicism, the Catholic church, into all the world, breaking out in there. It's a marvelous, great picture here.
Now, to you Protestants, just keep your shoes on, 'cause, brother, you're right with it. And I can prove it by God's Word. You're right into it just as big as--as the rest of them.

L-157 Now, watch now, "The First and the Last. What you see, write in a Book." Now, He said unto him:
 ... Write this in a book, and send it to the... churches, which are in--in Asia; unto Ephesus, and to Sardis, and Pergamos, and... (so forth), and Philadelphia, and Laodicean.
Now, we'll stop there, just a moment or two, just see how much time I got, 'cause I want to get to this last keynote here on Ephesus, and pull it over to Laodicean, and see if we're not patterned up in the same church (See?), see if we're not living in this day.

L-159 Oh, Church of the living God, rise and shine. Look. You don't realize. I wished I had some kind of a shock that I could give you, some way. I wish the Holy Spirit would come in His great power and move you to a place that you'd grab this Bible and say, "Let me look into This," when you see:
 Nations are breaking,
 Israel awaking,
 The signs that the Bible foretold;
 Gentile days numbered,
 With harrows encumbered
 "Return, O dispersed, to your own." (That's right.)
 The day of redemption is near,
 Men's hearts are failing for fear;
 Be filled with God's Spirit,
 Your lamps trimmed and clear,
 Look up, your redemption is near!
That's right. Oh, what a day. "Write it, and send it to the churches."

L-161 Now, just as Israel come in in its beauty, back in the beginning under Abraham, come on down through the patriarchs. And in the day of Ahab it went into the dark ages, the darkest age that the Church seen. Went out of there... And in that time, how that Ahab married Jezebel, brought idolatry into the orthodox church.
The same thing, that Protestantism married Romanism in the fifteen hundred years of dark ages, in the Pergamos church and come out with idolatry, under the form of Christianity, going on out into lukewarm age that's coming on before us. And we're in it right now. We're in the lukewarm age.


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