<TITLE>05. Par 37-43</TITLE>L-37 Jesus said to Nicodemus, "The wind blow where it listeth; thou cannot tell which way it come or where it's going. So is everyone that's borned of the Spirit." You can't understand it. It comes from somewhere. And it isn't Methodist; it isn't Baptist; it isn't Pentecostal; it isn't any organization. It is a birth, born into the Kingdom of God.
Now, trying to organize it, then brings it to antichrist, because anything that's against the teaching of Christ is antichrist.

L-39 Now, where did this organization start at then? Jesus, when He was on earth, never organized any church. He spoke of a coming church, but He never organized any church. There never was a church organized for hundreds of years after the death of the last apostle. And the first organized church that ever was on earth was the Roman Catholic church. Now, I have the Pre-Nicene Fathers, Foxe "Book of Martyrs," the writings of Josephus, Pember's "Early Ages," and many of the great ancient writers, and nowhere, nowhere is it ever written on any page of history where there ever was an organized church until the Roman Catholic church was organized. And it become an organization, which was contrary to God.
Now, if such a thing was coming... Oh, I wish I could get this over to you. If such a thing was coming, it would be such a great antichrist, should not God foreknow it if He's the infinite God? He's infinite. Would He not know that these things was coming? And if it's such a horrible thing, would not He warn His church beforehands? Now, I hope you have a better understanding of why that I strike, not at the people in the organizations, but the organizations and their disposition. It can be nothing else but antichrist in every one of them.

L-40 Now, you say, "Wait a minute, I thought you didn't preach nothing but the Bible."
Let's let the Bible say it then. Let us turn now and read awhile, turn with me to Revelations the 17th chapter. This is the revelation of Jesus Christ to His church, church called out. Revelations 17, and we'll try to make this just quick as possible. But now watch as we read:
... there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying... Come hither; and I'll show thee the judgment of the great whore that setteth upon many waters:
Now, this is all symbolized, because it is a revelation of Jesus Christ, sealed up. Did you know that? It is a hidden thing, and only can be revealed, not by the intellectual mind, but revealed by the Holy Spirit through the gifts of the Spirit, "To him that has wisdom let him count the numbers of the beast. To him that has wisdom, the gift of wisdom, let him do this and let him do that." And this is the revelation.

L-43 Now, anyone knows that when a woman is symbolized in the Bible, it pertains to a church. Christ's church is called the Bride. Paul said, "I espouse you to Christ as a chaste virgin."
Now, here we're speaking of a great woman who is a ill-famed woman. "Come hither and I'll show you," said the Angel to John, "the judgment of the great whore that sets upon many waters." Now, "woman setting upon many waters," sounds very mystic, but it's all here. The Bible explains it. Now, let's turn over to the 15th chapter, so we can--or 15th verse, rather, of the same chapter, so you can see what the--the--the--the "waters" means.
And he said unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore setteth, are peoples,... multitudes,... nations, and tongues.


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