<TITLE>04. Par 16-20</TITLE>L-16 So what if people are prepared in the wrong way? What if soldiers went to the field, not trained for battle, but to go out there to--to dance. Though they--they would--might be ever so good dancers, they've got to be trained to fight. What if they went out there to--to have some other kind of an affair, and knowed not how to use their gun? They would do little good. So I think that the workers in the harvest should be prepared to know how to train the people for the coming of the Lord, for there is none of us but what wants to meet it.
And I believe that we are living so close to the coming, that these great miraculous things that we see appearing, is the indication of His soon coming.

L-17 Now, Jesus taught this parable. And if... You'll almost have to have an Oriental view of the Scriptures before you'll ever be able to understand the parables, because the Bible is an Oriental Book. We are a Western people looking at the Bible from an Oriental--a Western standpoint, when it is an Oriental written Word, for it was wrote two thousand years ago. Where the meanings are the same. But if you ever go to the East, the Bible will be a new Book for you. Its meaning, Its interpretation will seems so much brighter.
I do not mean to say that we don't know how to be saved in the order of the Scriptures, but I mean to say this: that it'll just brighten it for you, when you see the way Jesus taught in that day, in the Oriental customs. And they haven't change one bit. They're just exactly today like they were then.

L-18 So that man would not get mixed up, that these things that we are now so mixed in would not happen, Jesus taught the people in parables.
Now, as this wedding supper... Of course, we all know that the wedding supper is in the future, that when all the redeemed of all ages come up before the Presence of God, redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb, and stand there washed in His Blood, and wrapped in the robe of His righteousness, then we'll have that great wedding supper that'll be spread across the skies.
And I think of that date, that many of us here is getting down along in the way with gray hairs streaking and shoulders bent. Why, about ninety percent of our audience this afternoon are over the halfway mark, as we call it.
And many of you has worked, and struggled, and done without, and sacrificed, and--to get the message of the Gospel over.

L-19 And I'm thinking about that day when it's all over, and the wedding supper is set, and we set down across the table from one another. I'm sure if--if I'm blessed by the Lord to get to be there, I'll look over, and I'll say, "I met you at Pisgah, didn't I?" when we meet one another on the other side, and talk about the times that when we come together like this, to take instructions on how to go out and to win souls, and look down along that long line, Papa and Mama, and all of them present. If won't that be a wonderful time, that wedding supper.
We'll reach across the table and take each other by the hand, grip each other's hands. And I'm sure a little tear will run down our cheeks for appreciations of God's grace getting us there. Then the King will come out and wipe all tears, as I've many times said, from our eyes, say, "Don't cry no more. Them days are finished now. Enter into the joys of the Lord that's been prepared for you since the foundation of the world."
And we all want to be there. And we want all that we can get to be there, because it's urgent. The time is passed, and we're waiting for His coming.

L-20 Did you notice, He said when He sent forth first. The first group, they come back and they had excuses made. Oh, they had this or that to do. The King; supper, of course, is God. The Son is Christ, the Son of God.
And we, the Bride, are the one that's invited. The Bride is... Would be the whole earth is invited, everybody's invited. But there's some things that we've got to do before we can ever attend that wedding supper.


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