<TITLE>04. Par -</TITLE>L-154-27 The Jewish religion never was an organization; it was a free people. They had churches, but they didn't have an organization. The--God dealt with a nation, not an organization. It was a nation.
And now, and then the Catholic church was the first organization. Then we picked that up in the Bible to find out what that organization was. And according to the Word of God, it was supposed to be controlled by a single man, one man. And that man was to be in a church that was set on seven hills in Rome, according to the Bible. There's no... And he was supposed to have ruling power in every nation in the world, religious ruling power. There's not another in the world.

L-154-29 And--and Communism, we found out, was not no--no antichrist that Jesus spoke of. Communism is--is not a nation like Russia; Communism is a spirit. America is eat up with it. It's in the churches; it's in the people; it's in business; it's in everywhere (Communism, the spirit of it). It's in schools; it's in homes, everywhere.
And then--then when they organized this church which was contrary... And now, we taken the Seven Church Ages, and prophecy, exactly the way God brought them on through the Bible here to us. And we found out by history and the Bible, that each age come in just according to Bible, according to history; each one come in just at the time, through the dark ages. And then the Catholic church formed in the Dark Age.

L-155-31 Then the reformation come on, which is Martin Luther. And Martin Luther had a light, the light that the just shall live by faith, justification by faith, in the--in the reformation. A German priest which denied and said that the taking the communion when he held it... And they was supposed to say "this is the body of Christ," and he threw it on the floor and said, "It is not the body of Christ; it's a wafer." And so he renounced the Catholic church in doing so, and come out in the early reformation. Martin Luther did that, and that was a wonderful move.
Now, the...?... where Luther made his mistake, Luther organized another group just like the Catholic church did, organized the people.

L-155-33 Then, directly, a new light come on. And when the new light come on, God moved out with His people. The people that was organized in Lutheran church, they had to stay with their church in order to be with the... That's just the same as the Catholics had to be, but many of the Catholics come out and was Lutherans. Well, then when Wesley come along with the message of sanctification, then many of the Lutherans couldn't leave their church; but many of them did, and made up the Wesley church.
Then after justification and sanctification, along come Pentecost. And then Pentecost, many come out of Methodist, and so forth, and become Pentecost because it was a greater light. Now, Pentecost is organized just exactly like every one of them.

L-155-35 Now, the Bible says that... These are flat words, but I'll read them from the Bible. And you listen to your doctor, or so forth, say this, and I'm your brother teaching from the Scripture. The Bible called the Catholic church a prostitute, a whore, w-h-o-r-e. And He called the Protestant churches that followed it, mothers, or they were harlots of this mother. And what connection it was, that the Catholic church organized the thing and made all people believe in the light they had then, or what they had then. The Lutherans did the same thing. And the Bible said that she was a great woman of that type.
Now, what is that type of woman? Is a woman that lives and commits adultery. And the churches are committing spiritual fornications with the--with the people. See? They are; they are. Here's the Bible that teaches this, and they make up a bunch of creeds and so forth that has nothing to do with the Bible.


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