<TITLE>07. Par 46-52</TITLE>L-46 Now, now, we find out then that when we brought down, the next article we have here, finding out that--that's the reason we are a non-denominational... And we believe that there's borned again Christians, sainted people in Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, and whatmore. We believe that God's church is that seed that's mixed down through this realm down through here, and it come in by what we spoke of last night, and will further discuss it: predestination. Not that God predestines anything to be, but by foreknowledge He can predestinate, for He knowed all things.
And we found out last night that there's nobody ever got saved, like tonight, and had their name wrote on the Lamb's Book of Life. Your name was either put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the world begin or it never was there and never will be. We find out when God slayed the Lamb before the foundation of the world, you was slain with your Lamb. You believe that? Find out just in a minute.

L-48 Let's turn to Revelations to begin, Revelations 17--or Revelations 13:8 and find out here what the Bible says about--about whether--when the Lamb was slain, see if It was slayed in A.D. 33 or A.D. 33, or whether It was slain, what--when It was slain. All right. Now, this is the United States in prophecy here, of course, now we read it.
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,... (What? The beast)... whose names were not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
When was the Lamb slain? Two thousand years ago? Maybe a hundred million years ago. Before the foundation of the world was ever formed Jesus Christ died for our sins. Oh, but now I get religious.
Before there was a world Jesus Christ died to save it. "Well," you say, "then why did God, the infinite God ever permit sin?" You know, there's attributes in God. And if God would've never permitted Satan... He knew when He created Lucifer that he was to be the one to corrupt the world. Oh, our God's not something little, pushed off in one corner, but He's the infinite God Who never had a beginning or never will have an end. And in Him He is in His attributes. He is a Saviour. And how could He ever been known as a Saviour if there hadn't have been something to save? How would we have ever known...

L-51 Which was first, as I ask the question, which was first the Saviour or a sinner? Well, if the Saviour was first, and the Saviour is higher than the sinner, how did the sinner ever happen to be? If there hadn't have been a sinner he would have never knowed Him as a Saviour. Which is the most powerful a Healer or a sick man? The Healer just takes the sickness and destroys it. Which was first a God or a cancer? Why, there was a God first. Why did He permit the--the disease then? Because if He can destroy it now, He could've caused it not to happen. And if He's infinite, He knew it would happen. But then, if He doesn't--if He doesn't... If there is no disease, then He'd never been known as a Healer. But being that He is a Healer there had to be a disease. You see what I mean? Now, He knowed all things.

L-52 Now, in Revelations 13:8, listen. And the Lamb was slain when? Before the foundation of the world. God in His infinite mind looking down through the streams of time and He saw what would take place, and how He would have to create and drop down into the time of space to pull out what He really was.
Why don't you young--you men that's got your wives... Put a woman under a test and you'll see what she's made out of. That's right. Put a man under a test; it'll... Shake a bottle under his mouth, if he's a--been an alcoholic; it'll tell you whether he got saved from it or not. If he's been a rascal, a run around, a filthy hound that broke up other men's homes, strip some woman and start him--start her by him; it'll tell what he's made out of. That's right. Certainly.


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