<TITLE>09. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 And they had a--a regular big tea party one night, or a big drunken spree--what it was, something like some of our modern television programs, where they--after they got all good and drunk--they thought they could crack a few jokes about the bald-headed preacher, or something like that. And what happened? They went and got the vessels of the Lord and drank wine in them to make fun. And that night that was... You remember, that was the beginning of the Gentile kingdom.
I want to ask you people something that might be a little critical. Anyone that knows the Bible, knows that God begin--dealt with the Jews until King Nebuchadnezzar. The head of gold, was the beginning of the Gentile empire. Ends out in the feet in Rome. Is that right, brethren, you Bible students? Watch what happens. What did He do at the end of that kingdom? There come a handwriting on the wall that was in unknown tongues. No one could interpret it. But they had a man there had the gift of interpretation. So, he came and read the handwriting on the wall.

L-32 And it's been read here again tonight by the same kind of a Spirit, given by the same God. The handwriting's on the wall. All the time that we've been spending our money, and jokes, and all... We become just a big bunch of jokesters, laughing at religion, making fun of it. And all the time, Russia has been putting things in the air that's so far ahead of us, till they're years and years and years ahead of us.
You remember the Medo-Persians was at the gate, waiting, when these things happened; and they knowed nothing about it.

L-33 There's no more national security. When they tell you we're secure, that we can do this or do that, they're mistaken. "Dig a hole in the ground" (some of this here national defense stuff) "and run into the ground," and that bomb will blow a hole in the ground a hundred and fifty feet deep, a hundred and miles square. Well, if you were five thousand feet under the earth, you'd be in the lava. And if you was five thousand feet under the earth, the shock would break every bone in your body.
So you can't dig down and get away from it. There's no way at all to escape it. There--there's only One shelter that you can get under, and that shelter's not made of steel; it's made of feathers: under His Wings...?... That's the Only shelter. Go up above it. the rapture coming...

L-34 Now, there's unsettled peace. You don't have to think great big nations like Russia. Little bitty nations can do it. We're just at the end of the road.
And ban... What are they doing? One... We selling a whole lot of stuff to one nation, trying to buy friendship with our money. And the very indian that we've taken the money from, or taken the land from, we're starving to death out yonder on the prairie. And taking his sheep away from him and letting him live out there with TB and everything else, in a tent. And then sending money overseas, over there, calling it national defense, trying to buy friendship... You can't buy friendship.
And spending millions of dollars every year for whiskey and beer; and our missionaries on the field, starving to death...?... Oh, sure we're gone. The nation's gone. All nations are gone. Not only this nation... I think this is the queen of nations. It's the truth. It's the great last civilization we have; but she's finished; it's all over.
We're just ready for the coming of the Lord. That's right. The Church making herself ready... By time I get through tomorrow afternoon, if the Lord willing, you see if it isn't right. Now, with the--with the Word of the Lord, see if that isn't true.


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