<TITLE>03. Par 11-16</TITLE>L-11 So things taken place, so went back across the hill as they did, and He begin to say, "Who'd you go out to see? What went ye out to see? A--a man clothed in soft raiment?" Said, "They're in king's palaces. Did you go to see a prophet?" Said, "More than a prophet," and He begin to--to praise John, after John had give Him the lowest thing that he could... Almost the worst thing he could've said about Jesus was question Him after he'd introduced Him. And then Jesus, turning right around, and know that John was exactly the spirit of Elijah... Both of them went forth blasting just as hard as they could, and--and cutting, and letting the chips fall where they wanted to.

L-12 And then did you notice? Immediately after Elijah's ministry with that Jezebel, and all the people try to pattern after her and everything... How he must have rammed and cut that Gospel in there that day, then finally after he done proved God that--was God, God come down and a vindicated that He was God, then he had a nervous breakdown. He went out and set under the juniper tree, and wanted to die, and--and prayed for God to take his life. Forty days and nights he was out there in the wilderness wandering around, and God found him pulled back in a cave somewhere.

L-13 Did you notice John coming the same way? Notice how he come? Just the same way, cutting, and slashing, and--and saying, "It's not lawful for you to have your brother's wife," and--and that finally had his head cut off. And when they throwed him in prison, as soon as he had proved God and introduced, and said, "This is Messiah"... I believe it... In Pember's "Early Ages," or one of the great writers, said that John... All prophets are eagles, of course. They have to go high to see far away. And he said his eagle eye got filmed over in that prison. But what it was, he was exactly the type of Elijah. You see? He had to have that shaken-up condition.

L-14 Then we see today. Do you realize that all these years that we have fought for this ministry, for this baptism of the Holy Ghost, the Pentecostal blessings and things, it's sad as we look upon our church and see that many of them are--are falling away. But yet in the midst of that, we look out here and we're getting our eyes... Think about the ecumenical world coming in, the Presbyterians and Lutherans. But turn that around now, if you got spiritual discernment and look at the hour. It shows we're here. The very hour that when the sleeping virgin come to get the oil and went out to buy it, that's when the Bridegroom come. See, see?

L-15 When you see the Methodists, and Baptists, and Presbyterians, and so forth, seeking after the Holy Ghost, be careful. That's the hour. When the sleeping virgin begin to come, and they said, "Give us your oil..."
Said, "Now, you go get it the same way, where we got it." And when they went after it, it was that very hour that the Bridegroom came and the bride was taken in; and they were left out, where there was weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. I wonder if my Pentecostal people have their eyes open to such as that, to realize we're right on the--the verge of His appearing, just at any time, nothing else left.

L-16 We've just been through the Seven Church Ages at home, and all those things; and under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit seeing each age, and how it divided itself, and down into this Laodicea church age, and see Christ being put out of His own church and standing at the door knocking, trying to get back in His own church; and seeing exactly the message, and what would go forth in that day; and how that the sleeping virgin would act, and all these things and that; and see it everything right ready, right now, just at... The rapture could come at any time. That's right. I'm so glad. "All they that love His appearing..."


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