<TITLE>18. Par 127-131</TITLE>L-127 And by the way, Christ wasn't born on the twenty-fifth day of December either. He couldn't have been. If you'd ever been in Judaea, the hills are full of snow, worse than it is here: He born in April when all nature comes forth.
Now, but it's a tradition. And why--why do we do those things? Because we follow the traditions of men instead of the commandments of God. Then something like that wouldn't matter, but they just make a commercial day out of it. It's a disgrace, a shame for them to do such things as that. A pagan ceremony: when did Santa Claus have anything to do with Jesus? When did the Easter rabbit or a chicken, or colored up with some kind of ink or something, or some kind of little white rabbit have anything to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ? Don't you see how the commercial world...
That's the reason they sell these old rock-and-roll books, and dirty pictures, and vulgar and things like that, is because the nature of the people crave for such nonsense. It's because there's something wrong in the heart; they've never entered into that rest with God and ceased from these things. When they come into that and receive the Holy Ghost, then they're finished with the world and the things of the world.

L-130 God transmitted him. Oh, I don't believe he was took like Paul, now, up into the third heavens and seen things. All right, the precious Holy Spirit did a few weeks ago here, let me see... In other words, I was afraid of death, and the Holy Spirit taken me over and showed me what it was. You've heard the testimony. Then when I come back, "Then, death, where is your stinger?" Transmitted to see what was just beyond the curtain... He let me come back to tell you that beyond there we're not spooks and spirits; we're men and women, young, never die, never get sick, just beyond the veil. Death can do no more to you than pull you right into that place.

L-131 Now, John was transmitted from the Isle of Patmos, in the Spirit, over into the Lord's day. This is the day of man, men are fighting, but the day of the Lord will come when these kingdoms will become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, then there'll be the great millennium. The Lord's day, the day of His coming, His judgment, that'll be the Lord's day.
This is the day of man; that's the reason they slam you around and do what they want to with you, but there'll be a time... Call you... They call you now holy-roller and fanatic, but there'll be a time come (See?), that they won't do that. They'll scream and wail and fall at your feet. The Bible said, Malachi 4, you'll even walk out on the ashes after they're burnt up: leave them neither root nor branch. That's exactly what the Bible says; "The righteous shall walk upon the ashes of the wicked." That's exactly. They'll not be left root or branch, nothing to come back to. And they'll be done.
Now, this is a man's day, man's doings, man's works, man's church, man's ideas, but the day of the Lord is coming.


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