<TITLE>13. Par 104-111</TITLE>L-104 Now, now, at... The--the church, at his manifestation... I better leave that one alone. At his manifestation, the--the church... When he makes hisself known, this mighty Elijah that God will send to us, when he makes hisself known like Elijah did, the church was ready to be delivered, was delivered out of the hands of paganism. Is that right? Just when he come up there and said, "We'll prove Who's God," Elijah delivered the church. And John, just as John did, he said when he seen Jesus, he said, "I must decrease and He must increase." John started preaching and made hisself known just before the coming of the Lord, right at the end, the manifestation. All right.

L-105 Now, we find out that Elijah must mean the age to this church... To prove that it was Elijah, Elijah after he had give his prophecy... Elijah did not have to die; he was translated and was taken up into heaven, a type of the church at the end of this Elijah that will come. At the end of his time, the church will go in the rapture, without going through the shadows of death. It'll be the rapture. I believe the great Elijah, the great one that's to come, will be the anointed Elijah that's prophesied for the last day. Amen. I think he will be, when he comes, the angel, or the messenger to the church in the last days (a rejected, degraded people, as this church will get into, and is already). I think Elijah is promised in the Bible. I think we can understand that, that Elijah was the one that was promised in the Bible to come in this day. Do you believe that?

L-106 Now, let's turn now to Laodicea, and we'll see what our Lord has to say to us tonight about Laodicea, a Laodicea. All right, the salute to the church:
... unto the angel of the Lord...
The 14th verse to the 3rd chapter of Revelation:
... unto the angel of the Lord... of Laodicea write; These things which saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, and the beginning of the creation of God;
Oh, my. We got all... If we had all night on that right there, how the Lord would reveal that to us... Watch.
The "Amen" is the "Last." He's appeared all the way down through in different things, but here's the last church age where it says, "I am... This is the finish; I am the Last."

L-110 Now, to show that He was the "First" also, as He was, He's the beginning of the creation of God. Oh, do you catch it? See? How could God be created that He's a Spirit? How could He be? He's--He is eternal. He never was created; He never will be created, because He was God at the beginning. But He that is the beginning of the creation of God was Jesus Christ when He was made manifest, when God lived in Him. He is God's creation. Oh, my. See? "The First and the Last, the Amen, the beginning of the creation of God." When God created Himself a body, He come down and lived in it, that's the beginning of the creation of God. See? Oh, isn't He wonderful?

L-111 Now, we find at the first He showed His Deity right here, "I am the Almighty. I am He that Was, Which Is, and Shall Come, the Almighty," to the church of Ephesus: said it three times. Is that right? Comes right on over to the Laodicean and said, "I'm the Amen. I was the First back here; I'm the Last over here. And I am the beginning of the creation of God. Through the church ages that we're to have, you'll learn that I am God, God created in man form. I'm the beginning of the creation of God." Amen.
That would make a Presbyterian shout. Just think of it. "Beginning of the creation of God..." Now, I... Oh, how I like that, the creation of God, when God was created, when God was made flesh in Jesus Christ and dwelt among us.


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