<TITLE>08. Par 53-61</TITLE>L-53 And then here come the dragon, the Roman hierarchy. Which, the church itself had been raptured and was in glory at the wedding supper for three and a half years. Then the dragon... See? The dragon is always Rome, the red dragon. Now, to make that sure to you, in--in Revelations 12, the dragon was wroth with the woman that was to bring forth the man Child that's to rule all nations with a rod of iron, and he spurted water out of his mouth and--or--or to make war with the remnant of the seed. But the red dragon, first, he stood before this woman. As soon as the woman was to deliver this Child, he was to devour that Child as soon as He brought it forth. Now, who stood before the Israelite church (the woman Israel), to devour her Child (Jesus) as soon as it was born? Rome. Herod issued a proclamation that--that everybody was to kill every child from two-year-old down; there went a slaughter through that killed all the Hebrew children throughout the country. Very same thing that Pharaoh done to catch Moses, which was the type of Him, slaughtered all the children and missed him. Oh--oh--oh, God knows how to hide them.

L-54 Oh, aren't you glad you're hid? Oh, a hiding place... The Bible said, "For you must reckon yourself dead and your life in Christ, hid in Christ and sealed away by the Holy Ghost." The devil couldn't find you if he had to. He just couldn't do it. See? You're hid in Christ. Reckon yourself dead, and your lives are hid in Christ, hid in God through Christ, and sealed by the holy Ghost.

L-55 Now, now, this remnant was the sleeping virgin that he spurted the water from his mouth to make war with the remnant of the woman's seed. Now, what is a remnant? Now, there you--you have to get these types together now. There is a church which is church natural.
I'm going to... Maybe I can draw it here and make it a little bit plainer. Now, Brother Neville, if I take up some of your time, you just forgive me. [Brother Neville says, "Amen. I don't have any."--Ed.]

L-57 Now, there is the... Now, remember that there is the what? The unbeliever. I'll put that "U-b," unbeliever, and that's the sinner. And here is another one which is a formal; I'll put "F-o," formal church. And then, here is the other one which is the saved church, "S-a," the saved church. Now, keep them in mind all the time.
Now, in this saved church there's two classes in this church right here and right here, which was typed by Christ: one of them was a sleeping virgin, and the other one had Oil in the lamp. Now, you all... How many remembers the story? We're going to get to it just in a minute.

L-59 Now, first, 'fore we do that, we're going to the hundred and forty-four thousand of Revelation 7, so that it can really be understood. Now, you must remember this. And you that's marking it down, Revelations 7...
Let's just kind of take our time. (And--and you--you're not going to baptize till--till... After service this morning, all right.) We'll... I'll try to lay my watch up here and watch what time it is so we can get out. Now, we got--we got around almost two hours now, and the Lord help us to give us this study.
... after these things...

L-61 Now, we... The 6th chapter deals with the--with the white horse, which was the Holy Spirit went forth conquering, to conquer. Then come the pale horse, Death, and hell followed it. And each one of those riders on the horses...
Now, "after these things," after this great destruction. First went forth was the Holy Ghost across the earth, "conquering and to conquer"; then come the one in the great famine time, "a measure of wheat for a penny, two measures of barley for a penny, and so forth, but don't hurt My oil and wine"; and then on down till He opened these--these seals.


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