<TITLE>23. Par 183-191</TITLE>L-183 Now, but there they go, and they're trying to go back. And you remember how close we are. The very time that they went to buy, that's when the Bridegroom come.
O Brother Stricker, we're near there. We're pretty near home, Oh, one of these mornings...
The trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more,
And morning, breaks eternal, bright and fair;
When His saved on earth shall gather to their home beyond the sky, (What a time that'll be.)

L-185 Yeah, the sleeping virgin... Will the... This sleeping virgin now, you want to know what will become of her. Is that it? One thing I want to explain. What will happen to these churches? What will happen to these people who come part of the way with Christ, and didn't come, or did not go all the way with Christ?
Now, in Romans, I believe, 2:22, the Bible said; Paul said, "If the Spirit of God is not in you, you are none of God's." You belong to the organization but not to God. See? If the Spirit of God isn't in you, you're not of God. You have to have the Spirit of God to be of God. Certainly.

L-187 All right, sir, the great tribulation... Now, now, if you... They'll have to go through... Now, you remember, He said... Now, let me get the rest of that, "They were cast into outer darkness, and there'd be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth." All right, that's the great tribulation, isn't it? The great tribulation... Now, after this tribulation, those people...
Now, let me catch it again here: it is the remnant. Now, look. Here is a piece of goods. All right, the lady lays it out like this. Now, she's going to make herself something, you know, some kind of a garment. Now, this is all of the--of the goods she's got. Now, every bit of it is the same kind of goods. That right?
Both of them were virgins. See? All right. They had faith in Christ, form of godliness, went to church, done good things, charity; nothing could be said against their works and things. "I know Thy works," He said in every age. "I know Thy works, but yet thou lackest." See?

L-190 Now, when the woman, she makes up in her mind which a way she has a pattern here, and she makes up in her mind which a way she is going to cut this pattern, what it's going to be cut from. Is that right? Well, she gets what she thinks is the sufficient and best part of the--of the pattern. Is that right? 'Cause it's all the same goods, but she lays it like this maybe or like that; she lays it down. Then she takes her scissors and she cuts it out. Now, what's left over is called "remnant." All right. Now, what is this pattern? How was it known? By the one--the place that the lady elected to cut it from.

L-191 God, before the foundation of the world, Who knew the end from the beginning, by foreknowledge He elected where to cut; He knowed the difference between Esau and Jacob. He knowed the difference between sinner and saint. He knowed the difference. He knows the motive of every heart, so He elected us before the foundation of the world and put our names on the Lamb's Book of Life; and also the Lamb that was to be slain (and put our names on before He was slain), and the Bible said that Christ was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. And our names were put on the Book when He... When He was elected back there to be the Lamb to be slain, we were elected to be the one that He was slain for. See it?


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