<TITLE>02. Par 11-18</TITLE>L-11 Now, let's see. My coat, somebody took it over here. And I--I got to do a little reading tonight. How many is enjoying the first parts of this... Oh, if it just wasn't so hot, we'd just keep right on going right on through the week with the--the Book of the Revelation. And I just love It. I just live in It. And you pray kinda for me this week, because next Sunday I've, the Lord willing, I've got to meet that--placing those weeks together. And that's something that I do not know nothing about. And so I'm just going to trust the Lord that He'll have the answer for me.
And I--I've read several different men who--who spoke of it, who's wrote of it. I've read the footnotes here on Dr. Scofield, a great scholar. I certainly couldn't agree with him on his--many of his footnotes, 'cause I can't see where... It's got to--it's got to make the picture right.

L-13 Now, if you was putting a--like a jigsaw puzzle together, and the first thing you know, you say, "Oh, this goes up here." "No, I'm sure this goes up here." Well, you got to look over here at your pattern to see what you're doing. And then if you--if you don't, you'll get your scene all mixed up.
Now, what if you was pick--had a picture of a great, beautiful countryside and a cow picking grass up in the top of a tree? Now, that wouldn't be right, would it? 'Cause she don't pick grass in top of a tree. So that's the way it is if you--the Holy Spirit doesn't place that Scripture together, then you got the whole, great picture of redemption... That's what we want, the Truth. And till we know the Truth, we'll just leave it alone. And then, when God gives us the Truth, well then I'll--I'll speak of it.

L-15 You know, I--I guess Brother Roy Slaughter and--and some of the old-timers here that started back yonder a long time ago... There was for about, I guess, the first three or four years of my ministry right here at the Tabernacle, I wouldn't even preach on the subject of hell, because I--I couldn't make out whether it was a burning place, whether it was a grave... And every time the Word spoke, grave, I'd get the translation, said, hades. "Hades" is "the grave." Every time It spoke of hell (hades) the grave... And I just left it alone till I really found out what I was speaking about, then I preached on hell. So when I really found out the whole picture and seen where it was at... Because I feel that a minister is responsible to God what he tells that congregation, because they're going to hold right onto that. And so then, what if I've got them holding on the wrong place, and then the time comes up where that hold won't stand. See? And in that vision the Lord give me some time ago, when those millions--when that one speaking to me said, "You'll be judged first by the Gospel you preach."
I said, "I preached the same thing Paul did and the rest of them."
And all those millions of voices screamed out, "We are resting on that." See? That was it. See? Right.

L-18 So I want to continue on tonight now, so we won't be too long. And don't forget now... I did this morning... I got a little notes here. This morning I was--spoke on Daniel in captivity, Gabriel coming to him and instructed him of the future. That's what we had this morning, the instruction of the future.
Now, tonight we're talking on "The Sixfold Purpose of Gabriel's Visit to Daniel," and next Sunday, the Lord willing, placing the seventy of weeks where they belong in the time element, and where are we standing? Now, if we can only find that and make it sure, positive, then we'll know just the hour that we're living. Now, we won't know when He's coming. No one will know that. Jesus doesn't know it Hisself. He said He didn't. He said just the Father only knowed that. Not even the Angels know it. None of us know when He's coming, but we can tell the--the hour that--the time that we're living--knowing just how close we could be.


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