<TITLE>31. Par 222-228</TITLE>L-222 Getting the Bride ready, that's what it is. Now we're going to end right here by saying this. The end-time message is to get the Bride ready and prepared for the rapture. What can it do? According to Malachi 4, is bring them back to the faith that was once delivered to the saints: bring them back to the faith of the fathers, the Pentecostal part, in the restoration time. "I will restore, saith the Lord." That's real event--end-time evangelism.
Now I just want to say these couple words before I close. I'll bypass the rest of these Scriptures, and maybe sometime can get to them. But I want to say this. We believe we're at the end time. We believe it. And though it seems like at the end time, at this time, that the message and messenger both is about broke... Looks like Satan has tried his best to rim-wreck us, Brother Neville, his accident; Brother Crase there; and gun blowing it. See, it looks like, and right now when every church out through there is thumbs down on me. And, see, see, it looks like it's--it's just about broke. Looks like we're defeated. Don't you worry. You know, it's usually at that time when God steps in on the scene of something He's been watching for a long time. You remember.

L-224 Remember one time there was some children that--down in a fiery furnace, they were holding true to that Word. Everything went wrong. They throwed them in jail. They kept them overnight; they was going to burn them up next morning. And looked like the end was near; they was walking right up to the furnace. But He come riding down to change; the scene was all changed just in a moment.
It's always in the weakest moments, when it looks like the true message is about defeated; that's when God steps in. He--He let's the message and the messenger get to the end of the road (See?), then He comes in, and He rides the high waves. That's right.

L-226 You remember, it was Jesus, when His enemies thought that they had Him defeated; the unbeliever said, "We got Him on the cross." The Sadducees and Pharisees who hated Him and hung Him to a cross, they thought, "We got Him now." Huh-uh. It was about that time God rode in on the scene, and raised Him up on Easter morning, and broke the kingdoms of Satan, stripped hell, took the keys of death and hell, and rose up with them. Sure, it was just at that weak time. His message He'd preached, the Word He had stood by, and everything, then it was that real weak moment that when the victory come. When He done all that He could do, then God came in. He changed the scene.

L-227 It was Jacob running from Esau, dodging here and there, over to rule, and the different ones, and trying to hide from Esau. Then his heart begin to yearn to go home; and on his road home he sent messengers; he sent offerings and everything else, trying to appease Esau. But it was when Jacob come to the end of himself; it was when Jacob didn't know which way to turn. He put his wife and children across the--the water, and he crossed back over the--the brook. It was when Jacob had wrestled all night, until his strength was gone, and he was crippled, and he was weak, and his body was broke up. It was at that time when God come riding in on the scene. And next morning we find him what? A fearless prince, after his weakness. And looked like he was defeated. But we find him a fearless prince. The message was going on, and the messenger was with it. That's exactly right. He was a fearless prince the other day.

L-228 Esau, even, when he needed him worse, Esau, when he met, he... And you remember, all that same time God worked on his brother's heart too. That's right. And Esau come to him, said, "I got armies here." Said, "I'll.. You're weak, Jacob. Your body's afflicted; you're broke." Said, "I--I'll--I'll send soldiers along to protect you," right when he needed them.
But he had found something. Said, "I'll go alone." Amen. It's when he recovered from that weakness; he'd recovered from that shock.


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