<TITLE>09. Par 74-82</TITLE>L-74 Some of them say, "Well, the great Catholic church has stood the waves. Why, it proves that she's the real church." Why, it's no strange thing to me, with the state and everything else behind her she could exist. But what's the--what's the strange thing, is that little bunch that's pulled off, that little minority, kicked out, throwed in jail, sawed to pieces. How did they ever exist? Because the Spirit of the living God moves in their being. And all the demons of hell cannot prevail against it. "Upon this rock I'll build My church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it." There's the real thing. That's what give the Holy Ghost to these Methodist preachers and so forth here. It makes them rise up, does something to you. It'll never fail.

L-75 Ahab, that hypocrite... See, he goes over, he says, "Now, if I could just consolidate now and get this big nation. And if I marry that old boy's daughter down there, well, that--we--we'll be friends." What was he doing? Selling his very birthrights.
Now, when this Protestant church does go back and unite with the Catholic church, it'll do the same thing it did back yonder. Ahab lived in the day that...
It's been three times. He was in the midnight experience of the journey of Israel, and here it come to a midnight again, and we come to the midnight again here. Three generations before this went in here, in here, and in here.

L-78 Now, if you notice, Ahab married Jezebel to strengthen his people. That's exactly what Constantine did. He set up a great big church, and took the altar, and made a big marble, dressed this man up, pope, set him up on there. And he was a living god; he could talk to them, and--and they would tell her about their sins, and that just pleased that old lukewarm church, and away they went. Sure. That's it. Well, but that didn't please that man who was borned again, when they take that and then bring in pagan ceremonies of saying prayers. What did they do? They've taken down Jupiter and put up Peter. They took down Venus and put up Mary. And it brought--it brought paganism into the Christian ranks.

L-79 And when Ahab married Jezebel, he did the very same...?... He brought idolatry into Israel. And what did Jezebel do? She killed every prophet she could get her hands on. Is that right? So did the popes. Every true Christian they could get their hands on, they killed them.
But there was a star of that age, old Elijah. Oh, yes, sir. He wasn't scared to tell them about it. Yes, sir. He was God's star of that age. He got down to one time he said, "Lord, I'm the only one left."
God said, "Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, Elijah. (Uh-huh.) I done got seven hundred hid out around in yonder. See? You don't know where they're at. They're out there, the Pharisees, Sadducees, Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians, but I--I'll get them out of there; you just wait. See? I've got them out there. There's... They're--they're--they're Mine, and they'll not bow their knee to Balaam yet." But old Elijah was the voice of God in that day. He sure was the very type of the voice of God at the first coming of Christ, and it'll be the type of the voice in the second coming of Christ again, according to the Scriptures.

L-82 Now, we find out that this little Jezebel, when she got over there, she was really going to cut down all of the altars of God and put up her own altars. And she had Israelites bowing before an idol. That's exactly what Constantine did when he formed the Catholic church. He brought paganism over into the--the Christian church, and had Christians bowing to idols. That's exactly the dark age again: dark age of Israel, dark age of--of the church: bowing to idols. And Elijah was the star in his day.
And caused all Israel to worship Balaam, and so did the Catholic church at Thyatira.


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