<TITLE>17. Par 146-151</TITLE>L-146 And there was given unto him a mouth to speak great things, blasphemy... power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
And he opened his mouth and blasphemed God,... ("teaching for doctrine the commandments of men; heady, high-minded, and lovers of pleasure; having a form of godliness, denying the power thereof")... and blasphemed his name,... (took Father, Son, and Holy Ghost instead of the Lord Jesus Christ. See?)... and his tabernacle, and them that dwelled in the...in--in heaven.
And it was given to him to make war against the saints,... (There comes the persecution rising.)... and to overcome them: and power was given to him over all kindreds,... tongues, and nations.
And all them that dwell upon the earth--earth shall worship him, whose names were not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.)
"Foundation of the world..." Our names, if they ever was on the Book, was put on back there. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first, and all that the Father hath given Me will come to Me. My sheep hear My Voice (This is the Food. See?), and a stranger..."
Then he say, "Well, I just joined a church, I'm as good as you." That ain't sheep Food.
Here's sheep Food, "Setting together in heavenly places in Christ." Oh, He's so wonderful. Isn't He? All right.

L-149 Now, let's finish up right quick because it's--it's past time now. All right. "But I say..." Let's see now, I--I got the 23rd verse.
And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
But unto you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as has not this doctrine,... (What kind of doctrine was it? Organizations, bishops, and archbishops, and popes. See?)
"Has not this doctrine..." Now, the Bible, we found out last night that Israel, coming through Moab, they was not a nation. They dwelled upon the face of the earth, and they was a people free. Is that right? A type, wanderers about in tents and so forth... The Pentecostal groups is the same way, the true Pentecost, wandering about place to place. See? All right.

L-151 ... and has not this doctrine... (but organize theirself, and making a great organization out of it)..., which has not this, and which have not known the depths of Satan,...
Now, remember we found out where Satan's seat was. Last night we took him plumb back to the beginning. Where was his seat in the beginning? Babylon. And Babylon... When the--the hierarchy, a king-priest of Babylon was being pursued by the conquering Chaldeans, he come to Pergamos and made his seat...?... shifted his seat from the land of Shinar up to Pergamos. We just read that right in the histories last night. And now, there he begin, and there formed the Catholic church, which is still is mother Babylon. All right.
... the seat of Satan--and the seat of Satan, as they speak; I will put none more burden upon you.
"There won't be no more burden; just what you've already got." This little minority that's in there (See?), that's all squeezed out in this dark age. Now, it's pretty near fifteen hundred years they went through that.
But that which you have already hold fast till I come... (In other words, "You've got the Pentecostal blessing still in your hearts. Hold that till I come to give you the relief, for this next age is just coming up in the next time.")
...he that overcometh, and keepeth my words unto the end, to him I will give the power over the nations:
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; and as a vessel of the potter shall they be broken into shivers: even as I received of My Father.


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