<TITLE>16. Par 110-118</TITLE>L-110 Now, we find out also that the great Holy Spirit prophesied of that. You want to put some of these Scriptures down, Matthew 24, and then put II Timothy 3:1. The Holy Spirit speaks of a great intellectual age at the end time. Did you know that? Why is it?
Joseph, you've traveled with me much here in the nation and you've heard of meetings overseas. I go overseas and have a hundred-fifty, two hundred thousand, five hundred thousand, and the people are just... Just one thing that you see done every day that the meetings goes on nearly here in the Tabernacle, up to ten, twenty and thirty thousand will fall on their feet--from their feet, to give praise to God. They see It. What's the matter it don't take place in America? It's a intellectual time. They want someone who can speak not of judgment, not of these things, because it breaks them up from their fellowship with their clubs and--and their--their lodges, and--and the ungodly things that they belong to. Therefore, if their pastor would name something like this, the deacon board would have him ousted, and put in somebody else, some young Ricky or something that... You know what I mean.

L-112 Excuse that, see, I--I didn't mean that (See?), but I sometimes I get over-enthused, I guess. But I mean... Ricky's all right. I just don't like the name. That's right. But you look that up in numerology, you'd rename your child. Yes, sir. Now, Ricky or Elvis, or something like that, oh, mercy... So, oh, anyhow, now, you see they have to. They didn't have those names gone by, it has to come. This is the age for it to be here. That's exactly right.

L-113 Now, "And now the Spirit says." Now listen, I'm quoting to you from the Scripture.
Now the Spirit speaks expressingly, that in the latter times... (See?),... latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits,... doctrines of devils; (and so forth.) See?
Look how they would be heady, high-minded: big shots. Excuse it, but you know what we call the big shot, the street expression now. We all know it better to say it like that. "Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God."

L-115 I stood there yesterday and looked at that swimming pool just below us. And I wondered, when a man, who's a Sunday school teacher, said to me, "That oughtn't to be in the Bible, where Jesus spit." Said, "It's against the sanitation rules when Jesus spit and made... and took His spittle."
He was standing, talking, the original Greek said, "He was spitting on the ground." Talking to this man, and spitting on the ground. When He got through, He took His hand, reached down, picked up the spittle with the dirt and rubbed it on his eyes, and washed it on his eyes, and said, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (sent) and your eyes will come open." And he went and washed; his eyes come open.

L-117 So this fellow said to me, "That would not work today. That's against the sanitation rule, health rules." And then that same man take his family, wife and all those children down there to that swimming pool where all those women and men, and in that water at times of the month that they shouldn't be in, and all that. They--they never go into the--the rest rooms sometimes, and--and all them dirty bodies and filth in there, and them spurting it through their mouth, and eyes, and things like that. And then say that Jesus spitting on the ground and making a man to see...

L-118 I brought a little boy from there the other day, he said, "I swallowed some of that water," said, "I'm sick as a horse. I--I'm going home." The little fellow may be sitting here now, who lives in a trailer about two or three blocks down the street, where I took him, said, "I'll never go in there again."
But yet that's called modern civilization. See where you get to? The old saying of "gag at a gnat and swallowed a camel." See? I'm just anxious to meet him now. Now, there you are though. Better get off of them things. See?


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