<TITLE>06. Par 49-54</TITLE>L-49 Now, tonight with the 4th chapter, we're leaving off now, John had spoke to the Laodicean church age. And in this Laodicean church age, it was the most messed up church age of all the rest of them.
And we found the most pathetic thing in the last part of the Laodicean church age, Jesus standing on the outside of His own church where He had been put out, knocking at the door, trying to get back in. Isn't that sinful? I think that's about one of the most pathetic Scriptures that I've ever read: Jesus, outside of His own door, and His church had put Him out, and He was trying to get back in to only save them. "Any man that will open, let Me back in My own house, I'll sup with him and he with Me." Isn't that--isn't that pathetic? The God of heaven, put out of His own church by their creeds and denominations, and the way they were doing put them out--put Him out of the church, accepted their creed.

L-51 It's the very same thing as it was the day that Jesus was crucified. And that was that when they accepted Barabbas, a murderer, and crucified Jesus: loosed a murderer among them, that was proven a murderer, and accept--and turned down Jesus Christ, the only One that could give them Life.
And that's the same thing every denomination, and the Pentecostal denomination, has got today. They see that those denominations die just as quick as they denominate. There never has been a one in--in the pages of history that ever denominated and that ever done anything but die immediately. All signs, wonders, and gifts left them, and everything else, as soon as they denominated. And instead of accepting the Lord Jesus to give them Life, they went right straight back and loosed Barabbas among them again. Isn't that something awful? No wonder God was put right out of His church and standing, knocking, the last church age, trying to get back in.

L-53 Now, we find out that Revelations is blocked off in three parts. The first is the first three chapters, pertains to the church, the message, the angel--to the angels of the church. And from... And then she disappears right there in the 3rd chapter, does not appear again until the 19th chapter; in the 19th chapter she returns. Between this time, God's dealing with the Jew. Then, from then on, it's between the coming of the great city of Jerusalem, and the sealing away of the people of Israel, and so forth, at the end time.

L-54 Now, so tonight we leave... Immediately after this, John had saw... On the Isle of Patmos... How many remembers how far Patmos was off of the--out from the shore? How far out was it? About thirty miles (That's right.) out from the coast. And how far was it around Patmos? You remember some of the geographics? About fifteen miles around it. And it was used for an exile for the Romans, put prisoners out there. And John was out there for what? What'd he do? Did he--did he steal something? No. Was he... They put him out there because he was disturbing the people and doing something evil? No. What was he out there for? For the Word of God and his testimony (Yeah.), for preaching the Gospel.


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