<TITLE>38. Par 316-325</TITLE>L-316 Now, do you understand what the remnant of the Jews is, and the hundred and forty-four thousand, where they're setting, waiting, right at the hour? Can you see now that the foolish virgin that won't take the--wouldn't take the Oil, and will have to rise and be separated, the rights and wrongs at the day of the judgment? Do you understand that when the--the foolish virgin begin to receive, just like now, that she needed this, she went after it, it was that very minute that the Bridegroom came?
Then how close are we? Right now. We have now just a short time. I don't know how much longer it might be. I couldn't say when; I--I don't know. Might be another year; it might be another ten years, forty years, might be forty minutes. I--I don't know; I can't say. But I know it's near; it's real near. And the Spirit of the Lord...

L-318 Now, it'll come a time where, first thing you know, the church will just start cooling. Now, how many people that--that's noticed the cooling off of the church in the last few years? Sure. What's it going into? Laodicea. Where we'll pick up tonight and bring the angel of the Laodicean church out, bring it out there so you can see it, and see his message, and what it'll be, and at the end of the Laodicean church age when she laps over in and spreads out into eternity then.

L-319 Oh, I just love Him. Don't you? Yes, sir. Oh, the... What is the--what is the Seal of God? Holy Ghost. What is the mark of the beast? Reject It. That's the two. One is to see, and...
Well, they're... And how many was on earth that didn't get it? All that was not sealed took the mark of the beast. All that had not the Spirit of God had the mark of the beast. The Seal of God is the Holy Spirit. The Bible said so. Every place in the Scripture speaks of it, says it's the mark of God, the Seal of God. And all that did not have it, was the one who reject it. And how did they reject it? By refusing to hear it. Is that right?

L-321 Now, remember, how do you get faith? Hearing. Where was it marked? In the hand? No. In the head? No. In the ear. See? In the ear, hearing. What did it do? Scarred over the hearing. "And no more," you say, "no more of that for me. I want nothing else to do with it. I'm... don't want nothing to do with that." It's just like them...
Brother Neville, I--I--I'll--I'll just let that go till some...
I was going to tell you about that "impossible for them which were once enlightened (You see?) to get to come into the Kingdom." You see? It's like them borderline believers. Look.
It is impossible for those which were once enlightened... been made partakers of the Holy Ghost.
... tasted the power of the world--world to come,
If they should fall away, to renew themselves again to repentance; seeing that they would crucify to themself the Son of God... and bring him to an open shame.
... and count the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified with, an unholy thing,...
See, for the Elect to do that, it's absolutely, totally impossible. He could not do it. See? Because what would he do? See? "But counting the Blood of the covenant..." Now, you see, if he's elected and in the group, he cannot do it. It's impossible for him to do it.

L-325 Now, we've taken and brought it right on down.
...for the rain cometh oft upon the earth, to dress it...
...and thorns and thistles which is nigh unto rejection; whose end is to be burned... (The Wheat's to be taken home to the garner.)
But this life giving rain falls on both weeds and wheat. Both of them rejoice and feel the same way about it when the--glad to see the rain come. But by their fruits you shall know them, whether they got their fruits of a weed or the fruits of the grain, now, or the wheat.


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