<TITLE>09. Par 25-27</TITLE>L-25 Now, watch. It's time. When we see these things that Jesus said would take place, look at Him as I quoted last night, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Just before the destruction of Sodom, Abraham, the church called out, spiritual, I might quote it again... Here they was standing out there to themselves, living hard, but they were right with God, keeping God first. Lot was enjoying sin for a season, like the most of the people are today calling themselves Christian. "If you love the world or the things of the world, the love of God's not even in you," said the Scripture.
These things were to take place. We've got them; they're here now. We're seeing them every day. Go out on the street tonight; you'll see it tonight. Why, it's plain... The handwriting's on the wall, on the streets, on the skies, everywhere. The end is here. We're at the end time. Don't be deceived, friends. "God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." We're at the end time.

L-26 And then we see these fearful sights a coming: earthquakes, tidal waves, falling away, gross darkness, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure. Now, that's all for the world. That's what the world is pointed to. But the Church has another sign. Oh, that blessed called out sign... He promised that there would be a latter rain in the church, the church spiritual. In the last days He'd pour out both former and latter rain. Remember, former rain come first; latter rain come second. Both former and latter rain in the same season, He promised it. Now, we'll notice what those rains are.

L-27 Now, when we find out that He... The prophet said, "There'll be a day that won't be neither night nor day, but in the evening time it shall be light." What kind of light? The light of the same sun that begin in the east will shine in the west at the last day. The last hour of the day, the sun shall shine over here, the S-o-n shall shine over here.
Now, we've had a time; we've had a little evening light, but what's the order? Isaiah was perfectly in Scripture order when he said, "The morning cometh and the night also." Did you notice that? "The morning cometh, and the night also." The morning cometh, "Watchman, what of the night?" When we see these things that Jesus said would be--come to pass in the last days and He predicted the last generation and we see it physically: Israel in the physical, the signs physically, the world's sinking, the atomic age, and the end of the age, the end of time, and we see it in the handwriting everywhere; it makes us call out, "Watchman, what of the night?" We have a Watchman, a Watchman that climbed the ramparts of glory. The Holy Spirit was sent back to tower in men and women who would believe God. That's the Watchman, the Holy Spirit sent to us as a Watchman that watches over us. He is our Guardian. The Holy Spirit was sent to lead man, to be the Watchman of our soul. Exactly right. Man wasn't to watch one another; it was the Holy Spirit to watch over us. He's our Tutor, our Teacher; the Holy Spirit is to teach. Then we cry out to the Holy Spirit, looking at these things, "Watchman, what of the night?"
He says just as He said here, "The morning cometh, and the night also." What is it? Watch how it takes place now.


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