<TITLE>11. Par 69-75</TITLE>L-69 So now, it was finished, the Nicene Council, the church had been--been under the papal reign for almost a thousand years. They had killed off all who disagreed with them. That's right. You either come under that or you was--you was--you was killed, like Jezebel did to Israel.
The Holy Spirit had left altogether but just a very few during this age, like Elijah and the remnant of Israel that had not bowed a knee to Baalim. If you'd like me to read that down there, that's I Kings the 19th chapter and the 18th verse, when Elijah was standing back there in the cave, and he said, "Lord, they--they've killed all your prophets. They've done everything, and I--I'm alone. And I'm the only one's escaped." But God told him He had several hundred yet that hadn't bowed their knee to Baal in the laity out there.

L-71 And so, Sardis, now we start out. The very word "Sardis," the 1st verse, the word "Sardis," in the English terms, means, if you want to look it up, means "the escaped one." The true Sardis was "the escaped ones." That's what "Sardis" means (All right), "the escaped one."--now, see and "the escaped one."
Now, we're going to start on the 1st. Very... We're going to call it the age of Reformation, and it's a very fitting thing for this reformation if we should call it that, because it's... The reformation was the escaped ones that come away and escaped out of it.

L-73 Now, let's take the 1st verse.
... unto the angel of the church of Sardis write; These things saith he that has... seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know Thy work, that thou has a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Now, the salute. Now, the seven Spirits are... The seven Spirits and the seven stars... The Spirits was the angels that went to the stars which were messengers: seven Spirits, seven different times the Holy Spirit would anoint a messenger, which was a star in his day. A--a Spirit is eternal, and the star that was made for a purpose to reflect Light in the dark of these church ages where candles and stars are represented. The angel, the Spirit, was the one that went to the star and reflected the Light of the Holy Spirit through the star to that church age. That you might wonder who the seven Spirits are, it's the seven messengers of the seven church ages. See? Now, and each time that the star came in on the scene, the Holy Spirit came down and anointed that star and kept it just exactly like the first one was.

L-75 Now, let me--let me confirm that to you. Paul said... If you want to know what kind of a star it was, because remember, Satan is a star too, star of the morning... Now, notice, Paul said... Do you believe he was the star to the Ephesus church? He said, now, if you want to know whether It's true or not. In Galatians 1:8, Paul said, speaking there, that after the time would come, and grievous wolves and so forth, he said, "If a angel come down from heaven and taught any other gospel..." Now, you know, this man was coming, look like an angel, a big vicar. He said, "No matter who it is, if any angel or anybody ever comes and teaches any other thing than this Gospel we've taught to you, let him be accursed." Is that right?


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