<TITLE>17. Par 187-198</TITLE>L-187 And said, "Jesus Christ said in His ministry that when this Gospel has been preached to all the world (Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people), then He would come again." And she said, "Now, those planets, heavenly planets, as they move around..." Said, "They separated. They've never been on the earth since, known. But" said "every so many hundred years, they cross their cycles like this." If there happen to be an astronomer here, you might know what she was talking about. I don't. So when she was talk-... Said, "They cross like that." And said, "In commemoration of the greatest Gift that was ever given to mankind, when God gave His Son. When these planets cross themselves again, why," said, "He sends another gift to the earth." And said, "You were born on the crossing of that time." And said, "That's the reason I knew it."

L-188 Well, then I said, "Lady, the first place, I don't believe anything about it. I'm not religious, and I don't want to hear no more about it!" Walked away. And so I cut her off pretty short. So I went on out.

L-189   And every time any... I'd get around one of them, that's the way it would be. And I thought, "Why does them devils do that?"

L-190 Then the preachers, saying, "That's the Devil! That's the Devil!" They had me believing it.

L-191 And then that night up there when I... when He referred to that, I asked Him, I said, "Well, why is it all them mediums and things like that, and them devil- possessed people, that always tell me about It; and the clergy that, my brethren, tell me that it's of the evil spirit?"

L-192 Now listen to what He said, this One Who is hanging over there in the picture. He said, "As it was then, so is it now." And He begin to refer to me, that, "When the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ begin to take place, the ministers said, 'He was Beelzebub, the Devil'; but the devils said, 'He was the Son of God, the Holy One of Israel.' Devils... And look at Paul and Barnabas when they was up there preaching. The ministers said, 'These men turn the world upside down. They're evil, they're--they're the Devil.' And a little old fortune-teller out on the street, recognized that Paul and Barnabas was men of God, said, 'They are men of God who tell us the way of Life.'" Is that right? "Spiritualists and soothsayers, demon-possessed people."

L-193   But we get so soured down on theology till we don't know nothing about the Spirit. I hope you love me after this. But that's what it is. I mean Pentecost, too! That's right. Just shouting and dancing around doesn't mean you know anything about the Spirit.

L-194 It's personal contact, face to face, that's what you need. That's the kind of Church God's fixing to raise up, that's right, when they come together in unity and power, in Spirit.

L-195 And He referred to that. And He told me how that the ministry misunderstood It, and assured me that the ministry had misunderstood It. And when He told me all about this and how that Jesus...

L-196   I said, "Well, what about this, these things that happen to me?"

L-197 And, you see, He said, "That'll multiply and get greater and greater." And He referred to me, telling me how Jesus did it; how that He come and He was possessed with a Power that could foreknow things and tell the women at the well, claimed not to be a healer, claimed to do those things just as the Father showed Him.
I said, "Well, what kind of a spirit would that be?"
He said, "It was the Holy Spirit."

L-198 Then something there happened inside of me, that I realized that the very thing that I turned my back on was what God brought me here for. And I realized that it was just like those Pharisees in the days gone by, they had misinterpret the Scripture to me. So from then on I took my own interpretation of It, what the Holy Spirit said.
I told Him, "I'd go."
He said, "I'll be with you."


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