<TITLE>24. Par 196-202</TITLE>L-196 Now, now of course when they set up a church like that, what happened? Now, listen closely, my children. What happened? Why, of course, that took the Holy Ghost right out of the church. No wonder none of their bishops raised the dead or done the miracles. And them talking about some of these saints being in their church, they protested the thing, but they claim them.
Look at Joan of Arc, that young girl. I ask you Catholic people, or you Protestants, any of you. Joan of Arc, in her day, there wasn't nothing in France there but the Catholic church; they'd smothered the saints down. But God moved upon that girl and she had the Holy Ghost. And what did she do? She could foretell things, the Lord would give her visions and foretell it. She prayed for the sick. She prayed for a little dead baby, and it come back to life again. That's Pentecostal. See? And what did the Catholic church do to her because she protested the Catholic church? They called her a trial and burned her to a stake as a witch.

L-198 And now you say, "Saint Joan of Arc." Two hundred years later, about, when the church found out what they had done, and she was a Saint, oh, of course, they done repentance for it; they dug up those priests body who sanctioned her death and throwed them in the river. You think that'll ever wash the blood off its hands? The Bible said, "The--the blood of every martyr was found in her." That's what the Angel of the Lord said was found in Babylon, "Every murder, a martyr, and all the saints of Christ that was ever martyred, was found right here from the Nicolaitane age on through, every martyr." Think of that. (Thank you, Brother Ben.) Now, think of that.

L-199 Now, just a little further now. The Christian church married to a--to a--to Babylon. "Pergamos" means the "wedding."
Now, the doctrine of Balaam. "You have them among you who has the doctrine of Balaam."
Oh, I just love these things. Oh, if you could just stay a little longer on one (See?), but you just... We want to let you see it and then move on to something else, 'cause it's just--just full of golden nuggets. I'm a prospector; I like to go down and dig these nuggets up, and shine them up, and polish them up like this, and look at them. And every one of them will reflect Jesus Christ, every one of them. See? Every one of them reflects Jesus Christ. He's the Alpha and the Omega, every--every karat of gold in the nugget. That's right. He is every bit of it. That's the reason He's Deity made flesh among us.

L-202 Now, in order to get... I--I won't take time for this, 'cause I got... I see it's nine. And I--I got another thing I want to get in tonight, if God willing. And I want you just put this down and you read it tomorrow; you put down Numbers 22 to 25. I want you to read that now, and you can follow behind me. And now--and now Numbers 22 to 25.
We know that Israel... Israel was the chosen people of God. Is that right? They were the... They were Pentecostal. They had the Spirit among them. You remember last night's message, how that Moses when he had crossed over the Red Sea, or the Dead Sea, and found behind him in the Red Sea, the blood (representing the blood), all the taskmasters that ever beat him and all the children of Israel... Moses raised his hand and sang in the Spirit. Oh, every one of us can be a Moses when we look back in the red Blood of the Lord Jesus and see every old drunk, every old bottle, every old vulgar woman, every old dirty thing that we ever done in our life, all dead in the Blood of the Lord Jesus. Makes us sing in the Spirit. Cigarettes, tobaccos, and bad habits, and everything else dead in the Blood of the Lord Jesus, then we can raise our hands and sing in the Spirit. See?


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