<TITLE>03. Par 8-10</TITLE>L-8 Now, this great subject that we are approaching has certainly caused some great controversy and some pro and con on the--on the subject. And I for myself believe that it's such a great, vital part of the Scripture, that all the Scripture should be taught: all of it. We should not leave any of it out. God has spoke through the Scriptures about the mark of the beast and how that it was to appear in the last days. And as a minister of the Gospel, believing that we're living in the last days. I believe that it's a timely message that should be approached reverently in this day.
Now, there has been many thoughts projected to the peoples concerning this vital, God sent message, warning to the church. It's been many things has been thought and given to the people what this mark of the beast was. And of course, like all other Scripture, it causes cults to rise, and... But surely, if there is such a thing fixing to befall the people of the earth, there should be some Gospel sensible answer to the question.

L-9 If God so placed it, that those who received this would be tormented in the Presence of the Lamb, and of the Angels, in fire and brimstone, and will be an eternal, everlasting judgment to those who receive this great mark, we ought to have some conception of what it is.
And then, it ought not to be approached by some mental theology. It should be approached by the Scripture. Scripture must answer to Scripture.
We realize that reading the Bible... You do not read It like you would a newspaper, because It's been the wisdom of the Holy Spirit to hide many things from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and would reveal it to babes such as would learn. God wants somebody who's hungry, so He can just take them over to one side and set them down and say, "Here it is child of Mine; this is it. The world don't understand this, but ye shall understand." See, see?
Let it be this way. Then all Scripture given by inspiration, then It must be interpreted by inspiration. And then Scripture must compare with Scripture.

L-10 And I thought perhaps maybe today, that realizing that through the grace of God and the ministry that He has 'lotted me, to bring to the people... How people fasten to the words and hold on to them, I always try to approach it just as reverently unselfishly as I know how, because--and by the Scripture. And if it doesn't compare with the Scripture then I just leave it alone.
Now, this has been said many times; it's been projected here some years ago. I remember as a young minister that people wouldn't put the little N.R.A. in their windows, said that was the mark of the beast. It's been projected many times that the Vatican hierarchy, pope of Rome, and many times the different characters that's raised like Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, and many of those being the beast and so forth.
Now, as uneducated person, I try to use the Scriptures of the Old Testament as a type or shadow of the New. God always foreshadows everything before it happens, all ages, never without one time failing: all ages.


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