<TITLE>14. Par 149-159</TITLE>L-149 "He that believeth in Me..." Saint John 14:7, "He that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he also. Do the same works, and greater than this..." Because Christ cannot preach the baptism of the Holy Ghost would be greater. He could not bring it to them, because the Holy Ghost hadn't yet been given. But when Jesus came and sacrificed His Life, and the Holy Ghost returned, then they could impart Eternal Life to the people. That's the greater.
But the signs and wonders, Jesus plainly said in Mark 16, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." How far? All the world. How many? Every creature. Long as the Gospel's being preached, these signs shall follow them that believe. And when that becomes a revelation, brother, you're near the Kingdom then. "On this rock I'll build My church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it."
Because the man or the woman that's ever been in that back desert alone like Moses was, and the revelation of God be made manifest to him through the Holy Ghost, there's nothing can shake him. He's just as sound and solid as he can be.
Satan hates revelation. He don't like it at all: upsets his plans.

L-153 The nature of the Book shows that John did not write It. That's right. For they are... They are for other... They're his writings, but not his inspiration. It's God's inspiration that writes the Book.
All right, let's see what It says now.
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear... this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Now, "Time is at hand." What? When the complete revelation of Jesus Christ has been made known to His churches. And as the ages go by, it's just revealed to them.

L-156 Now, we're right down at the end time, so now we really are at the end of the world. We're at the consummation of the world's history. And before this week's over, and God being with us, helping us, we'll prove that we're at the consummation of the church ages. We're in the Philadel--or the Laodicean church age, the consummation of all ages. We're at the consummation of the political world. We're at the consummation of the--of the natural world. We're at the consummation of all things. We're at the end of every natural thing, ready to enter in.

L-157 Coming the other day, I believe I was going to Shreveport or coming somewhere, I looked; I said, "The trees are dying. The grass is dying. The flowers are dying. I'm dying. The world's a-dying. Everything's dying. Everything in this world's a-dying." We're setting here this morning, dying.
Surely there's a world somewhere where everything don't die. If there's one where everything's a-dying, there's got to be one where everything's a-living. That's what we're longing for to get to that place where there's--the trees immortal stand: go where everything is immortal and it stands in the--in the glory of God.

L-159 Now, now, the first three verses we have had now, laying the background. First the Revelation of Jesus Christ. The second, it was given to John by an angel. And third, is "Blessed," the blessing to them that read. And if you can't read, "Blessed is he that hears." If you can't read, you just hear it; that's all. "Blessed is he that readeth," and if you can't read, "Blessed is he that hears, for the time is at hand."
Now, imagine what the canon of this meaning is that John, the writer there, in writing it out was... This is John here just saying "blessings" and so forth. Now, what I think it was, in the Old Testament the priest stood up of a morning and read the Scriptures. The congregation listened. Many could not read. So he said, "Blessed is he that readeth and he that heareth." See? The reader and the hearer: the one who reads and hears is blessed. So if you just set and listen at It, you're blessed. "Blessed is he that readeth, and he that heareth; for the time is at hand."


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