<TITLE>14. Par 57-61</TITLE>L-57 Jesus said, "What'd you go out to see? A reed shaken with any wind?" Not John, No. Now, when these disciples left, He said, "What went you out to see?" He said, "If you can receive it, this is he who was spoken of, 'I send My messenger before My face.'" That's Malachi 3, not Malachi 4.
For if that... John at that time... Then the Scriptures are not fulfilled and was misleading, because before that great day of the Lord should come, He was to send Elijah. And that great day of the Lord is going to burn up the whole earth, and the righteous will walk out in the millennium upon the ashes of the wicked. That could not have been to John. That could not have been the Elijah.

L-58 Now, notice, so the Scripture is strictly interpreted by Itself. Notice. "And he shall turn," his first coming, "the hearts of the fathers to the children," taking the old patriarch fathers, and turning their faith to this new children's faith of Jesus being... coming before Him... "I'm coming before Jesus." The Messiah's coming, turning their hearts to this--away from the law to This.
And in his second coming, He will turn the hearts of the children back to the original Pentecostal fathers again. That brings to pass Joel's prophecy saying, "I will restore all the years that the palmerworm, and cankerworm, and so forth, has eaten."

L-59 In the garden of Eden there were two trees, one woman, and one man. All that lived by that woman die. She's a tree of death. If you was borned of a woman you die. When you're borned of a man, Christ Jesus, you live. Notice. Then Adam's bride was defiled before he got to her.
When Jesus came, He was that Tree of Life. "I am the Bread of Life, the Tree of Life, come from God out of heaven. If a man eats this, he never dies."
Then when He went away, He purchased a Bride Tree. And that tree was established, and putting in the roots of the earth on the day of Pentecost. Her doctrine and everything happened right then at the beginning. Everything that she had need of was give her right then. She growed, and she growed for about three hundred years.

L-60 And then the locust and palmerworms begin to eat on her, until it sucked the life out of her, and it went through about a thousand years of dark ages. What did that locust do? What did the palmerworm? It's the same insect in a different stage. What happened?
First, it was the Nicolaitanes. Mean... "Nico" means "to conquer the a-laity," take all the Holy Spirit out of the laity, and put it on one man, a bishop, pope, or something. The dignitaries want it that way, so that he could be the sin bearer for all of them. We got one sin bearer: that's Christ. But that's what they want. Nico-laitane... "Nico" means "to conquer." "Laity" is the church. Take all the Holy Spirit... They're not holy; just one holy man. It's the idea of getting money into the church on confessions.
Somebody said the other day, "Do you believe in purgatory?"
I said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Not the kind you pay some priest that prayed for you. I believe that God purges our souls right now, and we go through a time of cleansing, of purging out the dross." Certainly.

L-61 Notice. Now, they took all the Holy Spirit out of the church, and made a holy man--the solemnity from the church on a holy man, conquered it. That went through for that great denomination of Catholicism ruled the earth for hundreds and hundreds of years.
There come forth a reformer, Luther. And as soon as Luther died, they organized it, and the vine dried up, and the Husbandman pruned it. Where did it go to? It's dead. Show me where it ever raised after Luther's revival. It died.
Along came, after that, John Wesley, the next stage of the tree--a great man of God that preached justi... sanctification. What happened? What happened? As soon as Wesley, and--and Asbury and them died, they organized and made a church out of it. And God, the Husband, pruned the branches off and it died. Tell me where they ever had another revival.


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