<TITLE>11. Par 43-46</TITLE>L-43 Ernie Ford, sing those hymns, and like a face loud enough to drink buttermilk in the bottom of a churn, so sanctimonious, and come back around, and put his arms around them women, and those things.
And this awful Godfrey, and them, with them dirty army jokes. And you people listen to such stuff as that. And you children take that for your example? Read the Bible and take Christ for your example, and get away from that stuff. This nation is perishing. That's exactly right.
Oh, that's the way they did in Babylon at that junction. Now, they had--they had known better, because there was a real prophet of God in that country. They had a revival going on in that country, but not among that class.
So notice what taken place. They said, "Let's tell a little joke now."
And this young shyster got out there and said, "Now, we'll just have some fun out of them holy-rollers. You know, a few years ago, there used to be a lot of holy-rollers through our country," he said. "My father, King Nebuchadnezzar, brought them over here. And let's go get their vessels and have a little fun."

L-44 Oh, brother, there is a place where you can step across the separating line between mercy and judgment, and I'm afraid we've done it. Frankly, I know we have as a nation.
And they went and got the holy vessels of the Lord. What is a vessel of the Lord? What contains the blessings, and that's His Church. Ye are vessels of the Lord.
What did they do? Made fun of them. Come out and poured wine, and whiskey, or whatever it was, in there. And let's just--just dramatize this a minute. I can see this modern fellow, Elvis, or what he could compare him with today, and this modern rock-and-roll dance he was doing. And they were the soldiers, and the women back on laps and everything and some babysitter, home, taking care of it. Now, they called them concubines, which is a legal prostitute.

L-45 Today that's what the nation's filled full of: Married and divorced, and married and divorced, and married and divorced. And because they got some kind... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... they call a "pretty frame" or whatever, some kind of a pretty face... Brother, they become idols to the nation.
Why, used to be, we had to send to Paris to find out how to strip our women; now Paris sends over here to copy after us. I'll preach on that... No, I won't have time, one of these nights...?... on the invasion of the United States and overthrow of the government by the devil, see where we're at. One of the lowest there is in the world in them things... More divorces in the United States than there is the rest of the world put together. That's right. What is it? It's this age that we're living in.

L-46 But all the time, right in this, there is a genuine Holy Ghost revival going on. You ought to see it. It's shook before the eyes and they don't see it. But God's just to send it anyhow.
Now, about time he got the glass up in his hand, I can hear him say, "Say, you know them holy-rollers that we had? Here we are, we're going to drink a toast to them."
Oh, brother, if that ain't a good telecast. Oh, they think that would shake the nation. It would.
But God does some shaking too. So just as he was ready to drink the toast, the first thing you know, he happened to look, coming down from heaven come a Man's hand. And there was a great plaster wall, and the candles... Not out in the dark, but right in the light, a Man's hand come down and wrote: "MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN," writing on the wall.


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