<TITLE>08. Par 53-57</TITLE>L-53 Now, my church here knows that all through the years I've always told you, "If you want to know what day of the week it is, look at the calendar. But if you want to know the time we're living in, watch those Jews." That's the only timepiece. God 'lotted no--no certain times for the Gentiles. There was no certain space of time. And that's where I think that many great writers, mixed it up, was trying to apply this to the Jew and Gentile, because He said, "Thy people," but He was talking to Daniel, not to the church, Daniel's people, the Jew. If He was talking to the church, you can't make that run nowhere. You're--you're way back, even before the coming of Christ. It'll run out in any kind of prophetic weeks you want to put it in. It's already run out. But He was talking to the Jews, so therefore the Jew is God's timepiece.

L-54 You remember here not long ago when Brother Arganbright of California, the Vice President of the International Full Gospel Business Men's Association, come to my house and brought a--a tape and--not a tape, but a--a movie film, that they'd--of "Three Minutes Till Midnight." That was taken on a scientific research. When I seen those Jews return in, back into Jerusalem, I come down here at the Tabernacle, and I said, "I feel like I've had a reconversion." Many of you remember that. I said, "To see those Jews returning back..." Jesus said in Matthew the 24th chapter, "When you see the fig tree putting forth its buds, you know what to look for." See? The Jews returning...

L-55 Now, I've got some comments wrote out here. I would like to go into them. Now, and I'll--I'll--I'll take my time so that you can also write them out. Now, this all takes place... These... Now, we... Up... During the time that we're in now, all this takes place to... It's Jewish, nothing to do with the church at all. Anything from Revelations the 3rd chapter on to the 19th has not one thing to do with the church. You cannot make it come out right. It's just not there.
Now, I want to explain how I found this. Now, on the board many of you will see that I've got drawed out space-times, how that it comes into space, so that it could be made that everyone can understand it. Can you... You can't see it from the back I suppose; it's too small of writing. And that's Becky's writing, so... And that picture... I had one worse than that, but Becky drawed that, of the image of Nebuchadnezzar's dream. And I think it looks more like a girl, Becky, than it does a man. But anyhow, it'll--it'll furnish the information, what we want.

L-57 Now, if we read in the Bible that there is seventy weeks determined upon the people... Now, the... It has nothing to do with the church; the seventy weeks has nothing to do with the church. If you notice here, on the chart I've got the church age in between those seventy weeks. We got it over here. Some Brother down in Georgia drawed it for us over here as we went through the church ages. And we're sure we can understand what this means.
This white in the church here, that means it was all apostolic. And then in the second church age, they had the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes--or they had the works of the Nicolaitanes; it had not become a doctrine. The third church age it become a doctrine, and in the fourth church age it was organized, and it was a Roman papacy. And in the--the fourth church age that was the Dark Ages. You notice, all the darkness on there represents Nicolaitanism or Romanism. The white part represents the Holy Spirit, the church. As it was begin in St. Paul's time, all the whole apostolic church was filled with the Holy Ghost. Then the aristocrats begin to come in. Then they finally consolidated and made a complete new church out of it, and just the little church was burnt, and stoned, and fed to lions, and everything.


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