<TITLE>08. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22 Look, the Baptists has got a revival, Billy Graham. The Catholic is having a revival. And the Methodists is having a revival, some of them, and some of the Baptists. Pentecost has got a revival: Oral Roberts and so forth, great men of God who's gone forth in a revival. And Israel's got a revival. God deals with Gentiles as individuals, Israel as a nation.
And Israel for her first time for twenty-five hundred years is restored again to Jerusalem. O people, don't let that go over your head. That's the fig tree putting forth its buds. This generation. Forty years is declared a generation. It's already been gone a long time, way into it sev--ten, twelve years. We're into the last generation.
Watch what He said would take place. As it was in the days of Noah, there'd be marrying, given in marriage. Look at the Reno, Nevada's and everywhere else, even to the ministry, leaving one wife and marrying the deacon's wife and so forth, back and forth, and allowing it in their churches. Oh, take warning, people. "They'll run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase." It'll come a time that the warning gave that the church would get to a place it'd be "heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent and despisers of those that are right; having a form of godliness," going to church, that form of godliness.
I'm not saying this to call any certain church. Every one of us is guilty. The Pentecost is guilty; the Presbyterian's guilty; the Baptist's guilty; all is guilty. "We've all sinned and come short of the glory." Exactly right.

L-23 A few nights--about two nights before I come down here, my--I believe Brother Leo there called me, or come up and told me, said, "Run down to your mother's and turn on the radio right quick." The Methodist church in Indiana, a great Methodist church, was on the television having a rock-and-roll party. And when they covered up the crucifix and things, and the minister with his cloak on, his collar turned around, and looked at it with my own eyes, and he said this, when the new--newsman asked he said, "Why this?"
And he said, "The Methodist church has long forgot and should never have misunderstood it, the beautiful art of rock-and-roll." Oh, it's a shame. John Wesley would turn over in his grave if he knowed that. Them old sanctified mothers and daddies that dressed and lived and acted like saints, and gone down, it's a disgrace to the name of the Methodist church. Not only that, but Baptist, Pentecostal, and all of us are guilty. It's a disgrace. That's what Jesus said would take place at the end time.

L-24 Another thing He said, "There'll be earthquakes in divers places." I read in your new--Phoenix newspaper yesterday, I believe it was, where hundreds times hundreds was killed. The waves will be roaring, fearful sights. Look at the tidal wave, what it done. Look in Chicago not long ago, when the bathing beauties on the beach was swept off by the big tidal wave; they never made out yet where it come from. I forget how many earthquakes are happening every hour across the world. It's on the increase all the time. Why? The old hull is getting thin. The coming of the Lord is at hand. The judgments God spoke of, He said the people would get to a place they'd fall away, gross darkness would cover the earth. When spiritual darkness gets upon the earth it's time for the enemy to attack. We're at the hour: gross darkness.


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