<TITLE>28. Par 182-186</TITLE>L-182 If you'll notice at the beginning, when God begin to deal with the Jews, and they went through the golden age. And then the darkest age of the Jewish dealings, God had with the Jew, was in the reign of Ahab. And if you'll notice, reading those church ages there, He gets right back to it again. He said, now, a few things ago, and said. Now, right in that dark age, fifteen hundred years there, or the time of Ahab, first, and the Jews, the darkest age they had, when Ahab married Jezebel and brought idolatry into Israel, and made all the people worship after Ahab, after Jezebel's god. You remember, they took, put up the groves, and took down the altars of God. And Elijah cried out he was the only one, and God had seven hundred who'd never bowed their knee to Baalim yet. You remember that? That's that type of that elect church coming out. See there, see how it is?

L-183 Now, in this church, if you'll notice the first church, the first church, the church of Ephesus, was a great church. He said, "You got light yet." And if you notice each church, it begin to dim out, dim out, dim out, until it got to Thyatira, then the fifteen hundred years. Then He come out on the other side, "And you've got just a little light. Strengthen that which you have got, lest your candlestick be removed." And it come on down then to the Philadelphian church age, and then into the Laodicean church age.

L-184 Now, here's the beauty. Oh, my, I just love this, Brother Smith. See, look at this. Now, in this church age, as we went through... Now, watch this. The first church age was the Ephesus, the Ephesian church age. Now, each one of those church ages, till it got to this fifteen hundred years, if you'll notice... Read it now when you go home tonight, if you have time, or early in the morning 'fore you come to church, on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd chapter of Revelations. You'll find out, each one of those church ages, He said, "You have a little strength, and you haven't denied My Name," until He got to this fifteen hundred years of Thyatira, the dark age. Then He come out on the other side, and said, "You have a name that you live, but you are dead."

L-185 And these, none of these other church ages, that or the Philadelphian church age, never did pick up that Name again, never got that Name, 'cause it went out during this time. Now, oh, how we could lay that on to them false teachings now, right there, show you it's a mother, the Catholic church the mother of all of it, how she's "Mother, Mystery, Babylon." And that's that... Look, this church age here when she come out, she had a little light, then she went getting dimmer, dimmer, and then she come into an organization back here, this fifteen hundred years. And she come out now, not as a church of the Lord Jesus Christ, but as the Catholic church. What did Luther come out? As the Lutheran church. What did the Baptist come out? As the Baptist church. Not His Name, not His Name; another name: "you have a name." For there's not another name given under heaven whereby you may be saved, only the Name of Jesus Christ. "You have a name that you're living, but you're dead," that's with that denomination.

L-186 "Oh, I'm a Presbyterian," and you're dead.
"Oh, I'm a Baptist," and dead. You're only alive as you come alive in Christ Jesus. That's right. And your false baptisms in water, false baptism, sprinkling, pour, instead of immersing, using "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" instead of the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ... All those false things coming right down, the Bible speaking, like pouring it into it just as hard as it can. And here we tolerate right along with them, "Well, my church believes it this a-way." But the Bible says this. See? No such things, there's no such a thing.


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