<TITLE>15. Par 161-170</TITLE>L-161 And today, that's the way the world's traveled, since the first morning of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and that first church age back there in the--in the Ephesian Church Age... The very first age there, God made Hisself known through signs and wonders and miracles. It faded out in the early fathers, come down through the Catholic church to the reformation, down through here. They've had enough light to believe that He was the Son of God. They've had enough light to accept Him as a personal Saviour, and it's gone on down. But the clouds, the clouds of darkness, teachers having people bound, saying, "The days of miracles is passed. All these things has been gone long years ago." It's been a dark day, not altogether dark; they could see how to get along, but not very good. But, brother, God promised when the sun was setting on the western world, that it would be light again, just as sure as the world.

L-163 This Bible is an oriental Book. It's wrote in oriental customs. It's wrote in oriental language in the east. The sun rises in the east; it sets in the west. And in the eastern people, had their day of visitation at the first resurrection. And the sun's come across through the age. And civilization started from the east, going to the west. And just before the sun sets here on this western horizon, it'll be Light again. The same resurrected Lord Jesus will come in His same power. As He made Hisself known to Mary Magdalene and them at the beginning, He's making Hisself known in the power of His resurrection, at the end age. Where? In the end time.

L-164 He said, "Come in. It's getting late. The day is well spent. It's towards evening. Won't you come in?" And they brought Him in. And when once inside, He opened their eyes. He performed something. They said, "Only He could do it." Look how they was. They was a whole day coming over.
That's where the missionaries has failed. We have washed over washboards to support missionary that went over there to pass out tracts. We've sent over there to teach theology. And there's Muddha--Buddha, Mohammed, the Sikhs, the... All the different religions of the world is in there with their same theology that can produce the same thing Christianity can in a way of psychology. That's right.
And the world, only one-third of them on this Easter morning, knows or ever heard about Jesus. Two-thirds of the world is in communism and in darkness. Two-thirds of the world never heard about Jesus or the resurrection. But, brother, when Emmaus experience come to Cleopas, when their eyes were opened, and they recognized who they were. And a few minutes time, they traveled down the corridors of time back to Jerusalem, light-footed, lighthearted, telling the people. "We know our Lord is risen from the dead, for we have seen Him and we know that He's real."
What it is, is the last days God's going to raise men with messages, with power, with deliverance, with the power of the Gospel to prove that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-170 I know it sounds excitable. No wonder, we're living in an exciting time. Yes, it is. We're living in the last day. When God, through every holy prophet, through all the Old Testament, through the New Testament, has prophesied, that in the end time, the same things that took place in the beginning would happen in the end time, and as the darkness would fleet away, and the Gospel light would shine across the corridors of the earth, once more, before the coming of the Lord Jesus.
He has risen from the dead. He is the same yesterday, today, and will be forever. Jesus Christ raised from the dead and is living among us. I'm so happy for that. My heart is thrilled beyond words when we don't have to guess about it. It's the truth.


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