<TITLE>31. Par 273-280</TITLE>L-273 And to make the spiritual application with it, do you know what the bishop said? The bishop said, "We have a right to do this because he is the Sun of righteousness." Umm. Oh, they get a loophole, like they did on Father, Son, Holy Ghost, in Matthew 28:19, same kind, exact. Sure, they got a loophole; they have to have some kind of a spiritual application. You see? But it don't...
The Bible said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses let every word be established." God said it there, and He says it three times. If God take up to vericate something else, He took Peter, James, and John; everything He done, He had two to three witnesses to prove everything He done, all the way through the Scripture. That's right.
But, you see, those little things has to come there so they can pick it up to be that. God knowed it before the foundation of the world. There they got it, the spiritual application, "Because he is the S-o-n of God, we'll just take the pagan s-u-n's birthday and make it S-o-n's birthday, and 'cause he is a Sun of righteousness.'" Um-um. You know, Protestants still fall for that, something like that. Sure, they would, take it right away from the Scripture to somewhere else. Oh, my. I... Let--let's just stop for a minute. All right.

L-276 Here's one little thing I'd like to get. Let's get the last of this verse here right quick. Can we do it? Yeah. Well, I'll hurry real, real quick now, and you... We'll hit the highlights of It. All right. Where we at now?
But a few things I have against you,... Balaam,... (That's right, I got that.)... So hast thou also... the doctrine of the Nicolaitane...
Repent;... else I... come... quickly, and... fight against thee with the sword of my mouth. He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches;...
My. Here when Constantine did this, it was... When they fixed up this great festival... I--I just... I started to move away from that; I'm going to wait before I read that 'cause the Holy Spirit keeps moving back; that's the reason I did what I did then; said, "Don't you hold that back." So here it comes. Uh-huh, uh-huh. All right. The reason...

L-278 When they fixed up this big thing (I want to tell you what happened so that you'll understand.), that was the birth of postmillennium. Because the church had gotten rich; it was rich as it could be. And it was what? Powerful. It was over the state; state and church was together.
Now, God with a kingdom? And didn't Jesus say that they... Every one of these nations was his, told Jesus so, and showed Him the kingdoms of the world, said, "They're every one mine. I do with them anything I want to." And then unite God and the devil together? Oh, you can't do it. Certainly, you can't. That's the reason the state is organized. God's not this organizations. Certainly not, you can't do it.

L-280 But they had it then; they had their church called Christianity; they had it united with the nation, the whole emperor of Rome, all of it. The big bishop up there over all of it, which was... After while called him pope, but he was a--he was a bishop then. And Boniface III was the one who become the first pope.
Then we find out that here he set up there as really a pope over... A god they had in human form, they had a great altar. They had fine riches. They had great, powerful, marble-laid altars, and decked with gems, and so forth all over it. And they had big churches. They controlled the state. And you know what? The word went out that that was the millennium, that all the promises to them poor Jews, that God had forsaken them (which He said He could never do it), and tried to bring in the millennium before the coming of the Lord Jesus. When Jesus comes is when the millennium sets in.


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