<TITLE>14. Par 56-60</TITLE>L-56 How many in here is Christians? Now, raise your hands. All right, thank you. I guess a hundred percent. All right. Watch, close now, when we bring this end-time seed sign. Jesus said, "Learn a parable of the fig tree." Now, when you see the fig.
Now, learn a parable of what? The fig tree. Now, anyone knows, that reads the Bible, that the fig tree has always been the Jewish race of people.
Joel said, "What the palmerworm left the caterpillar eaten," and so forth. That was the stump, that the creeds and things eat the church down. But said, "I will restore, saith the Lord."
Now, the Jews was cut off, Paul tells us, and the Gentiles grafted in again into the Kingdom. But notice. Jesus said, "Learn a parable of the fig tree." Now, that tree, like Job saw, if it dies, will it live again?
Sure. He said, "Now, when you see the fig tree, and all the other trees..." Trees--trees of what? There's a Tree of Life, there's a tree of creed (denomination), there's a creed of nations. "When you see the fig tree, and all the other trees putting forth buds (broughs, fixing to leaf out) you say summer is nigh." Notice, making a parable out of the nations.

L-57 Now, God deals with the Gentiles for a Bride, one here, and one there. But He deals with the Jews as a nation, not as a individual, as a nation. He's always... that's been God's chosen nation. God chose them as a nation. Missionaries going into Jerusalem, and things--when Israel is saved, she'll be a nation. The Bible says will be born in a day. That's right. So Israel will accept Christ at one... just... as a nation; not just as individuals.
But notice now, what He said, let's take it. Watch it clear. "When you see the fig tree begin to bud again, and all the other trees putting forth its buds..."

L-58 Now, everything is having a revival or just had a revival. The Jews are back in their homeland as a nation, flying their own flag, their own government, their own money. They are a nation for the first time for about... I guess, about Eighteen hundred years. Oh, more than that--about twenty-two hundred years, about twenty-two hundred years. Israel is a nation again. The oldest flag in the world, the six-point star of David, flies again, and for the first time for twenty-two hundred years. And Jesus said, "When she begins to put forth her bud, the time is at the door." Israel, talking to the Jews.

L-59 Now, watch. He said when all the other trees begin to put forth... The Roman Catholic church has had the greatest sweep it's ever had. The Protestant church has had the greatest revival it's had. Billy Graham, and Jack Shuler, the Pentecostals has had the greatest revival they had. Oral Roberts, Tommy Hicks and the rest of them, great men--a revival.
Notice. The powers has had a revival, the national powers. There's a revival on now, who's going to be the greatest power? Communism? Everybody you hear, preacher stand in the pulpit talking, "Oh, let us fear communism." Nonsense. Show me the Scripture where communism will rule the world. Romanism will rule the world, not communism. Look at King Nebuchadnezzar's vision, the word of the Lord, the head of gold, brass on down into the Roman feet which was iron, and never changed. The stone came while it was still in the iron and smote it. Remember at the end it was mixed with clay, the weakness, clay and iron together.

L-60 This great meeting they've just had up here between Khrushchev and Eisenhower... You know what Khrushchev means in his own nation, national tongue? Khrushchev means mud, clay. You know what Eisenhower means in English? Iron. And to even make it so plain to the people, Khrushchev took off his shoe and beat the desk. They will not agree. What's going to rule? Rome will rule. A confederation of churches, with--Catholicism will bind it together, and right there you are, the ruling power. The Bible says that. That's the seed that can't fail.


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