<TITLE>04. Par 32-42</TITLE>L-32 Now, before we speak to Him, or speak of His writing, let us bow our heads and speak to Him just a moment in a word of prayer.
Our kind heavenly Father, as we solemnly bow our heads to the dust, whence we were taken and shall return someday if Thou does tarry, we bow in humility to ask that You will be near us tonight, to bless us. I can lay back the pages of this Bible, but there's no man that's able to open the Book or to loose the seals thereof. And it's written in Here, "He that takes out of This, shall be taken out of, his part, of the Book of Life and who adds to It, the plagues of God will be poured out upon him."
Father, realizing as mortal men and women setting here tonight, knowing that we're an eternity bound people, God, may the Holy Spirit come, the Writer of this Bible, and open up these pages to us. And may Thy humble, unprofitable servant preach as a dying man to dying men, as if this would be the last service I'd ever have this side of eternity, the last night we'd ever gather together. And may every one of the laity act tonight as if this was their last sermon they'd ever hear. God, take away all folly. Make us sincere, knowing that we must answer at the judgment of God someday. And our attitude towards Him and His Word now, will 'termine our eternal destination.
So Father, with trembling hearts, we come to Thee, and ask: Let the Lord Jesus in the form of the Holy Spirit, take the Word of God tonight, and give It to every heart, as we have need. For we ask it in His Name. Amen.

L-36 It just may seem a little strange to me for a few moments now, in trying to start opening up a subject to teach. Because it's always been on Divine healing for the last few years, and then--then not on prophecy, by no means, and then--and then go right into a prayer line.
But now, tonight we want to get the background of the Book that we're asking God to open for us; that's the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

L-38 This Book was wrote about A.D. 96, according to the writers, and it was John the beloved.
And he had this vision on the Isle of Patmos, an isle in the Asian Sea, about fifteen miles, or something, around it in circumference, a real rocky place full of serpents, and so forth; where the Roman nation used it as an Alcatraz, as we would have it today, a place of exile of criminals that the government could not control.
And this Book was wrote by the last one of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, believed to be the beloved that leaned on His bosom after the resurrection, and He said, "What is it to thee if he tarries till I come?" John died an old man. Every one of the martyrs sealed their testimony with their own blood.

L-41 John, his destiny was met like this. He was caught and boiled in a vat of grease for twenty-four hours, of hot boiling grease, and without any harm coming to him. And they put him on the isle, as commonly believed, as a witch, "He bewitched the grease so it wouldn't burn him," they said. 'Course, it was the power of God, that... You can't boil the Holy Spirit out of a man. Why, so they tried to boil It out of him, but God wouldn't permit it. And He had a work for him to do. And until God was finished with His man, there's nothing in the world can bother him. That's all.

L-42 Now, John being old, he... They are told by historians, that he was brought to the--to the church to preach. And he was so old, the only thing he would say, was, "Little children, love one another."
I tell you; that's a very good thing to preach on. "Little children, love one another." As I get older in the ministry now, and my... about in my twenty-first year. I think, all the time as I go along, that this... The more I think of the Lord Jesus, the more I begin to find out that it's love that covers the whole thing, the love of God, shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Spirit.


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