<TITLE>24. Par 191-200</TITLE>L-191 Now, we find out that after Easter, Jesus, in Mark 16 told them, "Go in all the world and preach the Gospel; these signs would follow." And man... God then forced the issue to those people. They had to see them people had something. And that lasted for three hundred and six years after the death of Christ. Then what come into the church? They were catholics (It's exactly right.) Pentecostal catholic. The word "catholic" means "universal." The whole church is universal. And they were Pentecostal.
Then what'd they do? They went to getting in the businessman, converting the others, bringing them in. And they had the big society ideas.
And first thing, you know, in the Bible, we found out in our teaching when we taught the church ages, that Jesus told him before it happened, about two hundred years, that there'd be a doctrine, or first it would be a deeds of the Nicolaitanes, and then finally become a doctrine. And when it did that, He said, "I hate it." And what did the Pentecostal do? The Pentecostal up-and-ups, starchy class, organized and made the Catholic church, the first mother organization.
The little minority was forced off to one side. And it's been that way ever since. They come down fifteen hundred years, and that little minority survived it. Amen.

L-195 Somebody said the other day; he said, "Think of the Catholic church, how many great battles she's survived." Great battles? Sure, with--with the law on her side, with the nation on her side, with politics on her side. Think about that little Pentecostal that had nothing but the Holy Ghost, but she survived it. And right here this morning is a living evidence that she still lives, and she'll forever live: not the organization; the Pentecostal believers, the real ones. That's right.
Now, after the Easter, this was done, forced to make a decision. Men must make a decision; they must make it now. (I'm passing a lot of these comments.) There's no middles of ground.

L-198 And Satan's sons will be sealed in this last days. There's a time now, that the Bible spoke of, that all that did not have the Seal of God took the mark of the beast. And we know that the mark of the beast is disbelief. The first time... "Where'd you say the mark of the beast begin?" In the garden of Eden. Mark of the beast and the Seal of God was performed in the garden of Eden. Exactly. It's performed through Easter, for the death of Abel brought forth Seth. That's right.
Notice. Cain was the son of Satan. He was the son of the beast which beguiled Eve. You can call it whatever you want to. He was the son of Satan. And what did he do? God put a mark on him and sent him out from the Presence of God. Is that right? And he got him a wife, not out of the heritage of God, but got him a wife from the land of Nod, another land.

L-200 And what did the organization do? It left the true Pentecostal belief when it organized and got a wife out of the organization. That's exactly right. Now, what's he done? Look how--look how the Pentecostal wife's begin to do, and what she's saying and what she's doing; look at her action. And standing right back around, and trying to cut down now, the very Thing that she stood for at first, she's trying to cut it down, smother it out, 'cause it's against her creeds. Like it was there. But she's forced again to make a decision. She's got to make it. She's got to make it.
God, help me and my brethren who will stand with me. Help the... God, help us to stand there gallantly. No matter if it's martyr's blood, stand there. "I must fight, if I must reign; increase my courage, Lord."


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