<TITLE>16. Par 57-59</TITLE>L-57 Then organization set in it, and the Roman Catholic church today was first the Pentecostal church. Anybody that knows church history knows that. I've just went through it all: Pre-Nicene Fathers, and Nicene Council, post-Nicene Council, Hislop's "Two Babylons," Foxe's "Book of the Martyrs," oh, Pember's "Early Age," all--all that. I've taken it all. And the Roman Catholic church was first Pentecost.
The Roman Catholic pope has just said, "All the churches come back now to where the churches began, in Rome." I want some scholar, some theologian, some historian to tell me that the church begin in Rome, or show me. I'll go back with him where the church begin. It begin in Jerusalem, on the day of Pentecost.
Now, I will admit that the Catholic church, the denominational church begin in Rome. Denominations started in Rome, and that's where they're going back, the old mother harlot, and her daughters. It's truly. He will go back there.
But the original church begin in Jerusalem, A.D. 33, on the day of Pentecost. That's where we'd have to go back to. I'm trying to get back there. But see that antichrist move, trying to make that antichrist, when the real Spirit of God's trying to move them back to the original faith again? Looky there. "What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eat, and what the caterpillar left the cankerworm eaten," on down, down till it get down to a stump. Joel saw it. But he said, "I will restore, saith the Lord, all the years that they eaten."

L-58 Now, it was about a thousand years there, there was nothing but a stump. But you cannot, because the Life of that tree's predestinated to bring forth a Tree... Up come Luther, started It growing. What did it do? Organized. The husbandman pruned the branches. Come up into the Methodist. What did it do? Organized, just like the mother: prune the branches. Come on up into the Pentecostals. It's done the same thing, organized. God's pruned the branches.
But that life in the heart of that tree has to live. God said, "I will restore," for the evening Light's to--to ripen. In the middle of that tree stands the heart of God. That's the Bride Tree to meet the--the--the Bridegroom Tree, just like was in the garden of Eden originally--the tree, the two trees of life. Take Adam and Eve as--as a shadow of the two trees that actually stood there, life and death.
And there's where it goes to today. Oh, they're a bit confused. They don't know what to do about it. When they hear the trumpet sound, they don't know which way to go. They say, "Well, I--I--I don't know." It's pitiful, it's pathetic. That's right.

L-59 The churches of His day, they knew not the sound. Look what the churches had done. They'd become ecclesiastical, educated, smart, shrewd, and had took all the commandments of God and made traditions out of them. Jesus said, "You take the commandments of God, and make them of non effect by your traditions." They were holy, righteous men, couldn't lay a finger on one life. He'd be stoned if he done something wrong. Their great-great-great-great-grandfathers was priests.
But Jesus said, "You're of your father the devil." And when Jesus came and sounded forth the trumpet of the Messiah, they didn't know it. It was an uncertain sound. They didn't know what to believe. Believe me, it's the same thing again. It's repeated itself. The Gospel sounds in the purity of its Word, and of its manifestation. And still they don't get it.
They can't understand it. They're not trained to that sound of the Bible. They're try--trained to some denominational creed instead of the sound of the Bible. Therefore, when the Bible sounds it out, they don't know what you're talking about. That's right. If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who knows how to prepare himself? People just go on, live just like the others. But if they could only see the sound, God moving.


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