<TITLE>22. Par 89-93</TITLE>L-89 They rejected it. The people re... What did they call Him? Beelzebub, a fortuneteller, a devil. What happened? They waded in their own blood. Josephus tells us in his writings of the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, the great Roman general, when they sieged it there for years, until they eat the bark off the tree, and killed one another's children and eat it. What was it? They failed to see their sign.
What did Jesus say? He said, "You hypocrites" (with all these priestly robes on, and doctor's degree behind you, all these great big Pope Johns, and everything else, all these titles, and things), "walk down the street and desire the high places," (the best places to go to), "devour widows' homes, and make for--for--for pretense a long prayer, and learn how to say it." He said, "You'll receive more damnation." Said, "You can look at the sky. You know more about--you know about science than you do the Word of God." Oh, brother, that--that knocked them.

L-90 Said, "You look at the skies, and you listen to the weather prophets more than you listen to My Word. Why, you say if the sky is low and red, and so forth like that, and tomorrow it'll be foul weather. And if the sun sets clear, it'll be fair." He said, "You can discern the face of the skies, but the signs of the time you can't discern. If you'd have knowed Me, you'd have knowed My day." There's the signs: Messiah. Oh, how, how, how they miserably failed. (How we could stay here a long time. But we can't now. We got to hurry.)

L-91 Listen. Then came the promise through Jesus, what would take place before His coming. Now, let's check that a minute. Just about a few minutes now, just in a little bit. Are you tired? If you are, why... See? All right. Let's just check this a few minutes. Now, listen real close. Lay back. Now, we see all signs. We could stay on it hours, weeks, and months, and never leave that one subject. But let's stay right back now just a few minutes and come back.

L-92 Now, Jesus was asked, "When shall the time come when there won't be one stone left upon another? And what is the sign of the coming of the end of the world? When is it going to be?"
And He begin to tell them. "This Gospel will be preached to every nation and kingdom for a witness unto Me." You know what? Now, He never said. He said, "this Gospel." Now, He didn't say, "Go teach the Word"; but, "preach the Gospel." There's a lot of difference, certainly. The Gospel is the power and demonstration of the Word (See?), the power and demonstrations of the Word.
You remember when that Angel come down on the river (which you have the picture of it, and you know about), when it said here about--in 1933, when I was baptizing my first group, that the message would sweep the world? And every nation they've got a revival going. They've had it everywhere. See? Sure. Pulling the elected out. That's right. "This Gospel shall be preached."

L-93 Then we find out in Revelation 3:1-3, there's to be three church ages in this last days. Did you know that? That's right. We've had it. Remember as they've come through those elements: justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost (Luther, Wesley, and Pentecost), the three messengers of the last days, find that out... The coming of His own in the last times, we find this again. That we find the coming now of His--the rain--the Holy Spirit being poured out in the last days. You believe it's been poured out? What upon? Somebody's sowing seeds to bring forth His latter-day crop. You know Joel said, "In the last days..."


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