<TITLE>12. Par 49-51</TITLE>L-49 What's the meaning of these sputniks in the skies? What's the matter? What is this modern Babylon that we're trying to build a machine to take us to the moon? You'll never make it. What's it all about? Science don't know. They're in a mad rush for something, and they don't know what it is, but there is a Man. There is a Man Who knows what it's all about; He was the One Who wrote it here. He knows how to read this Word. Oh, He knows what It means, for He's got THUS SAITH THE LORD. He promised it, "The works that I do shall you do also. If they call Me Beelzebub, the Prince of the house, how much more will they call His household." The handwriting's on the wall. The sputnik's in the skies, great earthquake everywhere, volcanoes coming up, tidal waves a breaking the shores... What is it? The handwriting, not only in the skies, but on earth. "There'll be signs in the heaven and on earth, men's heart failing. ("Oh we don't know what to do."), perplexed of time, distress..." What is distress? Distress between the nations, all of them. Just let one missile fly; that does it. What is it? There is a Man Who can interpret it.
She went and got this man. God, give me strength this morning. God give me power to bring that Man to your need today, bring Him to you. He's the One can interpret your case. He's the One can tell you where you made your mistake. He can--One can tell you left off. He's the One Who can tell you where to start.

L-50 And she went and got Daniel, God's representative. And he walked up. Could you imagine a holy prophet saying, "Oh, king, I'm honored to be here. Oh, if I can just say the right thing, I'll get that chain of gold." Oh, you...
Can you see where it's at today? "If I can tickle the ears of my people, keep these things the way... I don't care what they do. They pay heavy in the--the treasure. They do this, that, or the..."
"We'll build a great big church and put a big spire on it... We'll make this, that, or the other."
Oh, God be merciful to such people. Give me the truth. Yes. "Oh, if we talk anything like that, brother, our--our--our people would get up and walk out." They won't if they love God. They'll love to hear it. A real man of God doesn't look this way and that way. He doesn't look to see if somebody says, "That's good. You're doing well." Or to see if somebody said, "Oh, you oughtn't to done that." He don't care what anybody says. He's enjoying the company of the hel--Holy Spirit, and he's only looking upward and onward. He doesn't care what the preacher says or what the other people says. He's enjoying the company of the One Who sent him. That's right. He's only to please One.

L-51 Look at this. He said, "Oh Belteshazzar, you should have knowed better than this. Don't you know your father, Nebuchadnezzar (which really was his grandfather), said, "Don't you know your father..." (which was the succession of the kings), "Belteshazzar, don't you know better? You had an example back there to what God did to your father when he got heady, high-minded, and let his kingdom go like that. You've got an example of what he did."
And so have you got an example of what God did to those who didn't walk upright before Him. These are not mysterious things. This is not a hard message; it's the truth. You've got an example. You know what He did back yonder to the women who danced before the idols. You know what He did to the man who went after strange women. You know what He done to the drunken sots, and the homosexuals, and the perverts of Sodom. It's no strange thing. You know these things.
Said, "You should have known it. There's your example by your grandfather. But now, this is the meaning of the writing.
God has numbered your kingdom. You're weighed in the balance and found wanting."


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