<TITLE>14. Par 44-47</TITLE>L-44 And Jesus said in Matthew the 24th chapter, "Learn a parable..." As I started on last night showing you they asked Him three questions and He answered their three questions. But when they wanted to know when the time of His return would be, He said, "When you see the fig tree putting forth its buds, and all the other trees, know that the time is nigh, even at the door." Now, the old hypocrite gets a hold of that, the old unbeliever and said, "That generation passed; the other generation has passed; He lied." He didn't lie. Because they don't have the spiritual application of the Word. He didn't say the generation then, He said, "The generation that seen the fig tree putting forth its buds."

L-45 Watch back in Joel, the 2nd chapter, where I preached on here not long ago, the four insects. "What the palmerworm left the caterpillar eat; and what the caterpillar left, the locust eaten." You remember preaching, I think it was here in California, at the breakfast? I believe it was in Phoenix. What the Methodists left, the Baptists eaten. What the Baptists left, the Pentecostal eaten. It'd tore the whole vine down, "But I will restore, saith the Lord, all..." And watch, that same insect is the same thing only in different stages. The palmerworm becomes the caterpillar, and so forth and on down. And that's a insect. Started eating off brotherly love, taking the Bible and substituting something else. And I give the four major things and proved it by the Scripture, the thing they eat out, the teaching of the true Word of God. brotherly love, that Paul said, already started, in I Corinthians 13. All those things, how they eat it up, and just eat the church plumb down to a stub. But He said, "I will restore, saith the Lord (That's right.), all the years that they'd eaten," and all the things that they had done.

L-46 Notice, Israel. When He... It's always been this fig tree. "When you see this tree putting forth its buds..." What? The generation that sees Israel becoming a nation, that generation will not pass until all be fulfilled. Watch. Oh, don't you see it? Here look at them. Now, God's always had to drive the Jews; they never had the Holy Spirit. Many of them wouldn't even believe their prophets, their messengers. And He had to drive them. And that's what He's going to have to be to the Gen--Gentile church. He's going to have to break down these denominational barriers. We're letting communism start eating around us, and then we'll have to come together. God will make His Word fulfilled, because the covenant is unconditional, not, "If you will, I will; but I have already done it." That's right. Oh, I love that. Amen. That just makes me feel religious.

L-47 Notice what He did here now. Not, "If you will, I will." That--that ended when Adam broke his covenant, and Israel broke her covenant, from Exodus 19, and so forth. But this is--covenant's grace. God swore, told Abraham, He swore by Himself that it would be thus. And He took a oath by Himself. So through the true Seed of Abraham is Jesus Christ, which is the grace of God, and no more law to it, no, sir. Law's not connected with it at all. You're above the law, over the law; it's love. Love is above the law: grace. Law came by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Wish I had a few more nights to preach on "Hear Ye Him" on that. On the Mount Transfiguration, you see it perfectly, how God... We take that and work that in there and show just how them laws and the tutors and so forth, and what takes place.


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