<TITLE>09. Par 71-78</TITLE>L-71 Then we find out here, after these things, he heard a voice was speaking to him, that... What was it? The Spirit left the earth. "After these things," starts out the 1st chapter--or--or the 1st verse.
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven:...
Revelation 4:1, after the church is gone, then a--a Door was opened. And we've went through all of that and found that that was Christ was the Door. And the same voice that was walking in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks also was the same voice he heard in heaven, saying, "Come up hither." John went up. It represented the church going in the rapture.
John went up in the Spirit, was took away into heaven and foresaw all the things that God promised and said to the disciples, "What is it to you if he tarries till I come?" He saw the coming of the Lord and what would take place. He saw on earth what would take place on earth to the rapture of the church, and was taken up and showed plumb on down even to a past the millennium. Oh, isn't that wonderful?

L-74 Now, we left him last Sunday on the 4th chapter and the 4th verse.
And around about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders setting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
Now, we found out that these were elders. An "elder" is never applied to an Angel or any Being. It is a redeemed human being: elders. 'Cause they... Thrones, crowns, dominions is never referred to, to Angels. But the--the crowns and thrones, so forth, pertain to human beings. And these elders was crowned, and clothed, and setting on thrones. And we found them over other parts of the Scripture that they were the twelve apostles and they were the twelve patriarchs: Twenty and four of them, which means twenty-four: twelve apostles, twelve patriarchs.

L-76 And we found even the city that descends from God out of heaven... After the earth is exploded and all gone to pieces and nothing left on the earth but volcanic ashes (That's all will be left.), there'll be no more sea. The sea will dry up.
As I was speaking last night to someone, or yesterday, in somewhere, the earth once stood up like this, right, around the sun, equal heat all the way up and down. Up in British ice fields, you can blast down there five hundred feet and find palms. It come suddenly, froze them like refrigeration now. Like your dehydrating, and so forth, and your freeze and deep freezes that keep strawberries and things for years and years and years to come. See? That's the same way it was in that time. Quickly there come an antediluvian destruction and flooded the whole earth over. And when it did, atomic powers rocked it out of its orbits, and it froze over and there she laid. See? Dig down and can find them, up around the arctic zones and things, palm trees and so forth. Showed that it was once inhabited, beautifully set up. And now it's shook back.

L-78 Now, where I think God got that water, when the Genesis starts, Genesis 1, "The earth was without form, and void, and water was upon the deep. The Spirit of God moved upon the waters, said, 'Let there be light.'" God separated then the land and the water, which made the earth. But the whole earth was covered over. Now, what He did, He just through the atmospheres, He just... Atmosphere is... The atmospheres is filled with hydrogen, and oxygen, and so forth. Then He just lifted it up off the earth and separated it. There was no sea on the earth then. God watered the earth, didn't even come rains. He watered it through springs and things, irrigation. Then when He... Only thing He did then...
When man blowed it out of its orbit, out to one side, what happened? It throwed it back in the heat down here, and the cold up there. And hot and cold, what accumulates? Feel it here on them windows right now, hot in here and cold outside. See the sweat? And rain is nothing but sweat, perspiration. And water is ashes. And so then when it...


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