<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 And these Jews, they come up each year. And there was a--a fountain inside the church. And they taken the--the bread, and the bitter herbs, and the lamb, and they drank from this fountain in the church. And they rejoiced together, because that God had showed them favor.
So, this being the Passover time... And not only was it the Passover, but it was a special Passover.
You know there's sometimes that we go to church... And we always love to go. But there's sometimes that something special happens. And this was one of those times. The air was charged with expectancy, just as it is today. All the eyes of those who loved Him was watching for Him to come into the gate.

L-13 And I believe it's a great deal that way today, for those who love Him are looking for Him. The air is charged with expectancy. When we're living in this day, when the earth is--actually has become one great powder keg, and science is telling us it's just three minutes until midnight...
And I'm sure you was reading it, as I, the other day, that story of this general in the army. Said that if there was another war, it would only last just two or three minutes. The old days of battling, and shooting rifles, and digging foxholes, that's all over. They claim the next war will be just two or three minutes. Someday, some topsy-turvy person's going to blow his lid off and fire one of those bombs. And when they do, we've got listening posts everywhere to fire it right back again. The world just can't survive that.

L-14 Everyone at the Passover knew something was going to happen, but they didn't know just what it was. And that's the way it is today. Most everyone knows that something's fixing to happen. Everyone knows that. You can talk to the sinner. You can talk to the merchants. You can talk to anyone that... Oh, it's such an unresting time for the world.
But you can talk to a man or a woman that's looking for Him coming, and the glory is on their face, shining out. They're watching for that great event.
So, the whole air is charged again expecting something to happen. The world doesn't know what's fixing to happen. But the Church of the living God knows what's going to happen. They know that soon the trumpet will sound, and we'll see Him come, riding out of glory on a white horse, and the armies of heaven following Him, and those that are dead in Christ will be raptured and took up to meet Him in the air. That's what we are looking for. We're longing for it.

L-15 And we're told that the souls of those mothers and so forth we spoke of this morning, just under the altar of God, are screaming, "How long, Lord, how long." Mother wants to see you as much as you want to see her. And our loved ones wants to meet us as well as we want to meet them. What a reunion that'll be when He comes--to meet our loved ones and see them in their resurrection body, and glorified, and walking around with the air of the resurrection. Watching their character, how it changed, the meekness and quietness, and it won't be a hustle and bustle, and jump and jerk, but we'll have all eternity to live together.
Oh, this great neurotic age that we're living, just not no time for nothing, just climbing and jerking and grabbing, why, it's a terrible day.


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