<TITLE>08. Par 50-55</TITLE>L-50 Now, in here you see what taken place. Then in here the Jezebel doctrine come in. Jezebel was a woman, a pagan who... Ahab did the same thing that Constantine did: married this woman in order to strengthen his kingdom, and brought idolatry into Israel just exactly like Constantine did back there. And the Pentecost was almost gone completely.
Now, God raised up Martin Luther. I want you to notice how it goes out here and almost fades completely out, then barely starts here, and comes down to here. See? And I kind of marked across that because it's a--it's a great lesson for Sunday night, the Lord willing.

L-52 Now, now, I believe we're kinda caught up now to where we are at. Now, right in here is the--the dark age, right here, from 1500--from 606 to 1520. Right in here. I'll put this here so you'll... 606 to 1520, that's the dark age, this church right here, the dark age. Now, this church that we're coming out on now is the Lutheran church.
Now, most everyone back there, those people died out in the... These men like Irenaeus, and Martin, and Columba, and they faded out. And now, you take anybody that wants to, search back any history you wish to, if it's an authentic history, and when they tell you that Saint Patrick was a Catholic, they don't know what they're talking about. Saint Patrick protested the Catholic church, and never went to Rome, and firmly refused their doctrine. It's exactly right. Go to northern England--or Ireland today, and you'll see the same thing. Saint Patrick was a man of God. But Saint Patrick, when it said in there that he--he chased all the snakes out of Ireland, that was a legend.

L-54 How many of you ever read and heard about William Tell shooting an apple off his boy's head? That's a Catholic legend, never was a word of it so. I was right there where it was supposed to happen. It's wrote up there, "A legend, not so," in Switzerland. Billy and I was setting right there by the side of Lake Lucerne where he done the--the things. Was, he shot a man, that's true, but not a apple off his boy's head. That's just legend, superstitions and things; it never was so. They have no record of it there where it happened or anything, that they ever did it. And it really spills her out there and tells what it was. Now, but in this, and there's no actually history that says he does.

L-55 So now in here, in the church age, that's where it almost faded out, completely gone out of existence. Now, in this other age comes the age of Reformation. Now, these things here after almost a thousand years of blackness and darkness and fading out, and so forth like that, the church kinda lost the sight of Irenaeus. He was a great man, a godly man. So was many hundreds of those precious saints that gave their life's blood just as freely, standing in that arena, as they could (See?), for the cause of Christ, for the baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ, for speaking in tongues, the resurrection of Jesus Christ living in the life and His Divine Presence there, while the people that call themselves Christians was persecuting them. That's right. That's exactly.


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