<TITLE>35. Par -</TITLE>L-53-2 Look where we're living now: in Laodicea where the church was the worst church age they ever had. In the Bible we find out it's the only church age that God was on the outside of the church, knocking, trying to get back in His Own building. The creeds and denominations had even put Him out of His Own church. "Lo, I stand at the door and knock. If any man thirst and will open the door, I'll come in and sup with him." See?
Here it is in this church age, they gradually throwed Him out, until in here they completely ousted Him. They don't want nothing to do with it.
Now, you see today where we're going. Even when the ending of the Laodicean church age has got so formal, till it and Catholicism (which broke it up right in here) is coming together and uniting as one great church. With a federation of churches it's the same as Catholicism.

L-54-2 There's only one difference, if they can just get over that--that's taking the communion. That's the only thing in the diocese that--that--that stops the--the Catholicism and Protestantism from uniting is the order of communion. The Catholic church says, "It is the body," and the Protestant church says, "It represents the body."
The Catholic makes a mass out of it. A mass is that they take the communion, hoping they are forgiven; the Protestant takes it by faith, thanking God in communion that they are forgiven. The Protestant says, "We are forgiven."
The Catholic says, "We're hoping we're forgiven." Mass and communion...
They call it a mass; we call it a communion. A mass is hoping it's so. A communion is knowing it's so and thank Him for it. See? And there's the only thing that they cannot get together on. They'll do it.

L-54-5 Oh, it looks very pretty. They'll unite to run. It'll--it'll run all the... Why, the Bible says, "And these beasts gave their power unto the whore," (See?), united themselves together. See?
Just exactly what the Bible said they would do, they're doing it now; it's right in procession this very week. That's right. It's not that I have anything against Catholic people, no more than Protestant people. You Methodist and Baptist and a lot of you Pentecostals, when your churches has gone right into this federation of churches, when they got the big morgue built there in New York of that federation of churches; it's the same as the United Nations and things; they're trying to unite all Protestantism together.
Now, the Catholics are wise to that, and going to bring... This Pope John the 23rd, or 22nd (whatever it is), he's trying in a little humble way to bring all Protestant faith and Catholic faith to one faith: exactly what the Bible said they would do. There you are. And the Protestants falling for it hook, line, and sinker. Why? Why? Because they don't possess these things. Knowledge, the Word's right; patience, "They that wait upon the Lord." See what I mean?

L-55-1 Like that Methodist bishop said the other day when they passed that... And anyone knows that--how--what inspired that--trying to get a certain prayer to be said in church, or in school, and wanted to... I believe--I think it was a Presbyterian prayer book or something or other. And the parents sued the--the--the school because they wouldn't accept this prayer to be said in school. And this Methodist bishop was a wise old fellow. He stood up and said, "That's wrong." Said, "It's unconstitutional." He caught the breeze of it. He said, "Like in our Methodist church..." He said, "In our Methodist church," said, "many of our people are always talking about the scandal of Hollywood and ninety-five percent of them go see it anyhow." What's the matter? They left off this. That's exactly. They left off that.


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