<TITLE>04. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 In the Business Men Journal, they published a... I'll call it a vision, although I--it never was like any vision I ever had. I've seen... The Lord has been graceful to me to let me see visions since I was just about, less than about two years old. And then, I--I've seen many visions, but nothing like this, 'cause I was standing there looking down at myself. And I saw those people, shook their hands. And they were just as much people as we are people. Only there was no yesterday, no tomorrow, and there was no old age people. They were all young.
And oh, I thought... I always wanted to live to see Jesus come, because I never wanted to be a--a spirit. And I was always afraid of spooks, and I--I--I didn't want to die, and become a little cloud. And like a little white cloud floating around somewhere and see my brethren, say, "There they are. Wished I could shake their hand, but they haven't got no hand to shake. It--it's dead. And--and they're in the grave."

L-17 And then was made alive that Scripture, "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting." Oh, just move out of here right into that one. Oh, I tell you, that gives us great hopes. No matter what the world thinks, and how unsecured the world is, when we can think on those things all fear leaves. And then we become fellow citizens of the Kingdom, and respect one another. And those who are not fellow citizens, we want to woo them to that place where they can... No one should ever miss that place.
I'm a middle-aged man. I'm fifty-two years old. I got a wife and baby setting here tonight, young man, my son here, two daughters at home. And if it wasn't for preaching the Gospel and raising those children to see that they come up right, and for the Gospel's sake, it wouldn't scare me one bit to leave right now, right here in your presence.
It's a glorious place. So I--I'm... It taken all the fear out of me. That I once feared to die, I do not fear it any more. I'm thankful for that.

L-18 Now, so then what if the nation doesn't have its security? And what if Russia drops a sputnik, or bomb, or whatever the missiles are they call them? What difference does it make? Well, that's just a home going ladder for us, just a--a quick escape from all this thing, to go Home. Because we'll go before it drops anyhow.
So the Bible, I believe, teaches that. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, in the days of Lot..." In the days of Noah, before judgment struck the earth, Noah was on the inside of the ark before it even sprinkled rain. Certainly. He was out of danger. And the Angel said to Lot, "Hasten and go hither because I can do nothing until you're out of here." See? They had to get out first.

L-19 And I believe the trumpet of God shall sound one of these mornings; the dead in Christ shall lie--rise. We which are alive and remain shall be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye and be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air. And then the great punishment for the wicked will begin on the earth.
And if we know we could be blown to pieces before morning... And science says it's about a minute before midnight now, how close then is the coming of the Lord Jesus? But it'll take place before the others can.
So there's no security of the nation: nervous, men trying to sign treaties and like a bunch of children, a fussing and stabbing at one another. And we ought to watch those things, because it's necessary that we watch them.


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