<TITLE>04. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 Now, I thought this morning that it would be a good time to go back and get the mark of the beast in its amateur or and in its primitive, where it begin. And it's true that there is to be a certain person, a man, that it is to wind up in in the last days. But it's foreshadowed back in the beginning and also foreshadowed down into your life, and foreshadowed through every church age, and then comes to a positive place in a man in the last days.
Now, to go into this, which I say would take weeks of Bible teaching, but being today we just have a short, limited time, we will take it in it's amateur. Or not... I don't mean that. I mean in it's primitive, the origin of it, and bring it what is the beginning of the mark of the beast. How do you receive it?
I'm sure there's none of us ever wants it. Because those that are wearing it will certainly never stand in the Presence of God. And it's to be in the last day when it's to be manifested. And we certainly ought to know some reason or what is it.
Now, last night in the basement while studying and going through the Scriptures, searching as I have weeks after weeks on this subject...

L-12 Now, sometimes in speaking in a mixed audience as we have today, both men and women, sometimes using parables to get the point in, it would seem like that maybe I might say something that wouldn't be just appropriate among a mixed group of people.
But if you were setting in a doctor's office, they would--you would listen to him no matter if your teen-age girl, or boy, or whoever it was. And we're in the house of God, where we're to have clean minds and clean hearts. And if we haven't, it's our place at the altar. That's right.
So in these words... And I don't mean to use any time, anything to throw off on people. If I do that, then I need to be at the altar. But it's to bring Gospel truth, to know this: that if you fail to tell the truth, God will require it at the pastor's hand. Then if it's off of the pastor onto the congregation, then the congregation will answer for themselves.

L-13 Now, all the old, the types, the shadows, Christ in the shadow of the Lamb, God in the beginning knowing all things, nothing has ever been predicted or put in the Scripture, but what God already spoke it before the foundation of the world. The whole plan of God was laid out. You believe it?
Saint John the 1st chapter, about the 7th verse, It says,
 In the beginning was the Word,... the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Then what this Bible was, is God before the foundation of the world. The only reason it's written in here, is prophets receiving from God foreknowledge of His predestinated plan of the ages.
A lawyer, studies the books to find out all the knowledge that he knows how to find out, so that he can give it to his--his client. Oh, that's the way the prophets are, the teachers are. They study the word.
First the prophet goes to God. And the Word comes down, and he wrote it in the Bible. And now, that was God's foreordained plan the prophet saw. And he wrote it in word so that the people following would be warned of situations and things to come. See?
Now, by inspiration that Word was spoke by God. By inspirations the prophets brought It. And by inspiration we have to receive It. It's not a material. It's not a natural thing. It's not a... The carnal mind... Listen. The man in his carnal conditions can never understand it, no way at all. It's impossible. For the spiritual things to the carnal mind is foolish, says the Scripture, and vice versa. Now, we must be spiritual minded.


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