<TITLE>16. Par 129-135</TITLE>L-129 And what do we have in our Protestant churches? Soup suppers, entertainments, skating (oh, my), rag sales, and everything else. See? Now, you know that's the truth. Well now, if that--if that is God's Word, friends, it's the truth. And all Protestant churches are guilty. See?
Now, never was God's plan to--to have soup suppers and dances in the basements, and all that there carrying on to pay off the pastor and the things. If people was just taught to pay their tithes, that'd be all there'd be to it. That's God's plan. But God has a plan, but man wants to make his own plan, hybriding God's plan. All right.

L-131 Now, in doing this they consolidated and made the early--formed the early Catholic church later. Then at the first great Nicene Council... When I read that, I just fell on my knees. The great Nicene Council had taken place in A.D. 325; all of them was brought together; the bishops and fathers of the Christian faith was brought together at Nicaea. That's the reason it's called the Nicaea Council, in A.D. 325. And about fifteen hundred delegates came to the--the--the convention, or the council, about fifteen hundred delegates, and the laity outnumbered the bishops five to one in the delegation; but yet, through the Nicolaitanes (the cold formals) and Constantine's politicianal plan, they outvoted the true church, and won the victory, and issued in bishops a holy order of men; taking this--the Holy Spirit from the meeting, and placing it upon bishops, cardinals, and popes, and so forth.

L-132 The same crooked deal that the Democrat party played in this last thing... Now, that's right. Now, we're not... I'd... And the Republicans would be just as lowdown. But I'm talking about one thing that they proved (Edgar Hoover) in California and many other places: they had those voting machines placed to where you'd vote for Mr. Nixon; you had to vote for--for Kennedy the same time. He didn't have a chance. Well, now that they've proved that wrong, then why don't they do something about it? We're living in the hour; that's it. We're at the end time. They know it; they proved that they were crooked, and now they won't do nothing about it.

L-133 That was a crooked outfit back there, and here's the birth of it again, to get in a certain man, to get over a certain doctrine: Nicolaitane doctrine, which was once just a--a deeds, now it's become a doctrine. The days of Al Smith it was a deeds, but now it's a doctrine. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Now, it's here; it's upon us. "Oh, he'll make a jim-dandy president," there's no doubt about that in my mind; certainly, and for that next term, till he can get welded in, get these pagan and Christian formals weld together.
They're working on Bibles to try to bring it together, the popes, the cardinals. The archbishop of England, the archbishop of Canterbury, I met him, shook hands with him, talked to him, myself, when I was in England; leggings on plumb up almost to his hips, and (oh) kind of a funny-dressed fellow. But he went over to visit the pope, the first time they visit for hundreds of years. What is it? We're at the last hour.

L-135 That's why I'm standing here tonight instead of out here on the platform somewhere else trying to preach and pray for the sick. And I can't meet them all on the platforms (these messages over and over), and that's the reason we're taking it on tape and sending it to the world, that they might be warned and get back to the faith.
Even at the last of the Christian age, Jude, before the Book of Revelations was written; Saint Jude, supposed to be the brother (foster brother) of Jesus, said, "I want you to earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints." They'd begin to get away from it then after the death of the Lord Jesus. And now how far is it away tonight? See?


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