<TITLE>09. Par 85-100</TITLE>L-85 Now, in this great coming age that John saw... Now, these... This Revelation was given to him strictly to unveil the specific purpose of Christ, what He would be and be like in every age. That's the reason I said this morning: keep your mind on the true church. The true church begin on the day of Pentecost.
There's no theologian, Bible scholar, or historian, can ever say that it begin in the days of Martin Luther, Wesley, Catholic age, or any other age. It begin at Pentecost, that was the inauguration of the church. That was the beginning. So therefore, in a discussion with anybody, stand at that gate of Pentecost, and they cannot go nowhere else.

L-87 Just like putting a rabbit in a field. You know where every hole is, so you got it stopped up; he'll have to come right back to this same place where he come in at.
Well, that's the way anyone talking about churches and church ages and works of the Holy Spirit; you'll have to come back to the original beginning. It's got to come back to there, because God is infinite and He's omnipotent. Therefore, Him being infinite, He cannot do something here and do something contrary to it over here. He's got to do each time like He did it the first time.
Like Peter said on the day of... When the Gentiles received the Holy Spirit, he said, "Can we forbid water, seeing that they have received the Holy Ghost like we did at the beginning?"

L-90 Jesus, when He was on earth, spoke and said, "It..."
Someone come and said, "Is it lawful for us to put away our wives for any cause?"
Jesus said, "He that made male, made female; for this cause a man shall..."
He said, "But Moses suffered us a writing of divorcement."
Jesus said, "It wasn't so from the beginning." Go back to the beginning. Therefore, if we're going to talk on the church age, we've got to go back to the beginning, laying aside every statement that any man has made down through the age.

L-96 This is the most official Book of any Book in the Bible. This is the only Book that Christ put His seal upon. It starts off with a blessing and ends with a curse. "Blessed is he that readeth, and cursed is he that takes anything out of It."
It's the only Book that Christ wrote Himself of the whole Bible, the Ten Commandments He wrote with His fingers; that's right. And Jews held onto that. And today it's the--the Revelation.
And if Satan hates any Book in the Bible, it's the Revelation. There's two... He hates all Scripture, and it's--the whole canon of Scripture. But if anything, he despises mostly, is Revelations and Genesis; because Genesis tells the beginning; Revelation reveals what's going to happen to him in the last days. He's going to be bound a thousand years. Then him and the false prophet and the beast is going to be throwed alive into the lake of fire.
And he'll attack the Book of Genesis upon it--it's being authentic. He'll say that, "It--it is not authentic." He'll stir the minds of people. Watch where the devil lays that Book of Genesis or the Book of Revelations, the first and the last.

L-100 And the Book of Revelations has more symbols in it than all the rest of the Books in the Bible. It has more symbols because it is a Book of prophecy. It's a prophetic Book. Therefore it has to be understood by a prophetic class. This Book is not meant for everybody. There's nobody can understand it hardly. This Book is made for a certain class of people. On over in Deuteronomy It says, "The hidden things belong to the--the Lord." That is right. And He reveals to us, His children, the hidden things. So it doesn't go...
The carnal mind cannot comprehend them great things of the Scripture, because it's foolish to them. But to the ones who are lovers of the Word of God, that's who the Book was written to: to the church: The Revelation of Jesus Christ to the church at Ephesus, to the church of Smyrna, to the church, to the churches on down: the Revelation of Jesus Christ to the church. I like that.


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