<TITLE>05. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 And now, no one else could take that place. It had to be for Israel alone, just them alone was the only ones that could take this place, and still it--the blessings on the place. And if somehow or other, during these time... If they lost their inheritance by some means... It might been poverty; it might been some other way that they--they lost their inheritance where their fathers... One would leave it to his son; he would leave it to his son. It belonged to that tribe. It belonged to that people forever. It was an inheritance.
And if I'm not misunderstanding the Scriptures wrong, I believe in the great millennium that is to come (You know what I mean.) they'll take right back to that place. For we know Zion shall be lit up, that great city, and they'll not have day nor night there for the--the Light will hang on Zion. And I believe in the millennium, those tribes will take their positions again.

L-20 Now, if somehow or other the individual lost their inheritance that was given to them by God, there come a year called the jubilee year. And that was... Every seven years they had a--a rest, a sabbath. Every seven days they had a sabbath, every seven years they had a sabbath. And seven sabbaths was forty-nine years, and the fiftieth year was jubilee.
And in this jubilee every man that had lost his inheritance by some means... If he was a free born and a true blooded Israelite, no matter who held the possession, it had to go back to him free. He didn't have to pay a thing; he didn't have to do a thing, but just stop what he was doing and go back to his inheritance.
Oh, my. He had a right to it. It was a God given right. Because he, by grace, had inherited it, and it would--been given to his fathers and handed down year after year. No matter what had taken place, if he lost it, it must go free. It meant grace is way provided for each individual to return to their rightful inheritance.
What a picture it gives us tonight of the church in this last days. You see what man can do and then you see what God does. What man does is failing, and will fail, has failed, and always will fail. But what God does is eternal and must forever remain. Nothing can ever take it away. God give it; it's His free gift, and by sovereign foresight saw it and placed it, and there's nothing can ever move it. It's there eternally. And at jubilee was God's manner of expressing grace to His people for restoring or be brought back to their rightful position.

L-21 Now, I believe that this is the hour again of jubilee. I believe it's the time of jubilee. I believe that fifty years ago in Louisiana, this great state where the Pentecostal people are powerful and strong; I believe that God set in operation a church. And I do not say this critically; I say it sincerely, that I believe that though that little minority has growed to a great powerful tens of thousands times thousands of Pentecostal members that's associated in every form of--of government that we have... And every... (Like police and--and--and statesmans, and--and great men, even into the federal government...) Sometime ago I understood that during the reign of Dwight Eisenhower, that almost forty percent of the employees of the government was either Pentecostal or had Pentecostal background.

L-22 Think of that, within fifty years that the church has growed from a little handful of people down on Azusa Street until one of the mightiest churches marching forward in the world today. We are grateful for that. And I'm thanking God for that. And I am so glad to be one of them, that God, through His marvelous grace, saw fit one day to bring me into them and make me a part of them.


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