<TITLE>01. Par 1-7</TITLE>58-0108, The Handwriting On The Wall, Lane Tech High School, Chicago, IL, 73 min
L-1 This being Wednesday night, I promised last evening to--was going to speak, if the Lord would permit tonight on the subject of: "The Handwriting On The Wall." It's a very... Oh, we could put weeks on the subject, and then never scratch the surface. But I will try to outline just a little of it tonight by the help of the Holy Spirit. And now, I want to read from Daniel the 5th chapter and the 25th verse. And It reads like this:
And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
And now may the Lord add His blessings to the Reading.

L-2 And I wonder if our good brother, the custodian here, would just turn these bright lights out. I'm a--a... It's beaming right down this a-way. Thank you, very kindly. I can't see the audience. Then when I'm talking to anybody, I like to look at them in the face when I'm talking. It just seems more like it's a personal contact with the people.
Now, we are trusting to our Lord tonight, while we just try to take my time and speak on this subject. I know it's a great subject. And it's an evangelistic service subject, and not one for Divine healing. But it's for the greatest of Divine healing. The sickest Body that I know tonight, is the spiritual Body of our Lord Jesus on this earth: so torn up, and broke up, till it really needs Divine healing.

L-4 Now, our subject tonight begins in Babylon. And Babylon was first located, which it is yet, in the Shinar. And it was first called, "the gate of God," Babel, Babel, and later was called Babylon, which means "confusion." And Babylon appears in the first of the Bible in Genesis; and it appears in the middle of the Bible; and it appears in the last of the Bible, the last Book, Revelation. And being that it's all through the Bible, it must be in existence yet today.

L-5 And also everything that is on the earth today, in the way of spiritual things, such as the Spirit of God and the spirit of the devil, and all the cults and everything that we have today in the world, they began in Genesis. "Genesis" means "the beginning." And all those things, yet under another name and under another form, but the same spirit that began in Genesis, brings it out. And it's just like a tree growing, coming up to a head, where it'll all come to a climax in the end, for the great judgments of God, where He will settle all things. And all that had a beginning will have an end. Just those things which had not a beginning has no end.

L-6 That's why the--the borned again Christian has never an end, because he has Eternal Life. And Eternal Life is a part of God's Own Life, for God is eternal. And the same word, Greek word "Zoe" that says "God's Life," when Jesus speaks and said, "I give unto them Eternal Life," that same word is used again. Therefore, a man being borned again, his spirit has been changed, and he becomes a part of God; insomuch that he is a son of God. And he's just as eternal as God is eternal, because he's a part of God, by his birth, spiritual birth.

L-7 Now, Babylon was founded by a man named Nimrod, who was the son of Ham, a very evil man.
And Babylon was once the capital of the world. When this great city was built there, all the little cities, all around it, paid tribute, taxes, and so forth, to this great city Babylon.
And in there, if you'll read in some of the ancient books, such as Hislop's "Two Babylons," and many of the ancient histories, you'll find that they had all kinds of curious doctrines in there. They had a woman in there.; I can't call her name at this time, and she would find peculiar roots, and out of the earth, and make gods out of them. It's believed that that was the gods that Jacob took from his father-in-law, some of those gods of roots and so forth. Just little isms, and out of them things sprung these cults that we see in the world today. If you'll notice the nature of them, and the nature of these things today, it's the same nature.


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