<TITLE>18. Par -</TITLE>L-29-1 There was a time when Mussolini was the absolute of Rome. I don't know, I might've read an article, or it could've been that I read it in a book, or somebody told me; but when someone was being interviewed by Mussolini he was--he was--wanted to bring Rome into athlete--athletics. And there's a big statue used to stand there of him about athletics. That's all right. Greece had that idea many years ago. Rome's always tried to have it. Athletes is all right, but--but--athletics, but--but remember, that won't take the place of Christ. No matter how strong you are, that has nothing to do with it. He's the all power.

L-29-2 And you see what he tried to build Rome upon? And he tried to build Rome upon the thing of an absolute; that he was that absolute. And they said that one day that his--his cab--his driver was one minute early, and he shot him. Said, "I didn't say be here at one minute before nine; I said be here by nine." Plowy, and shot him. See? "I don't want you here one minute before; I want you here at nine." See? Look what an absolute he tried to make hisself. But you see what happened?

L-29-3 You remember, many of you here, the old-timers, Roy Slaughter maybe, and farther back than that remembers down yonder when I told you about prophecy? One day down there at the Odd Fellow's building, before we ever come to here, I said, "Mussolini will come to a shameful end." I said, "His first invasion, he will go to Ethiopia; and Ethiopia will fall at his step, but he'll come to his end, and nobody will help him; and disgrace will he be buried." There he is.
I said, "There's three isms has rose up: Nazism, fascism, and communism." I said, "Them isms will revolve and come around into one; it'll he communism. Watch. Communism will burn Rome." See? You watch it. Uh-huh. It's a tool in God's hands. They think they're against God; they're working right into it all the time, don't know it. He's just using them as a puppet, some tool in His hand like He did Nebuchadnezzar and many of the others.

L-29-5 Now notice. See? Now, there was a time when Pharaoh was a absolute of Egypt, but look where it's at now. See? It all fail. Oh, it's a wrong kind, so they always fail. They're a man-made absolute. You can't take a man-made absolute, I don't care if it's a--a president, if it's a dictator, if it's a king, if it's a church, if it's a organization, if it's a creed, any of those things are going to perish, just like all the absolutes of that kind through the ages.
We can look back... Look back. Look at men who trusted the emperors; look at men who trusted the dictators; look at men who built their hopes upon them kind of absolutes; and look where they are today.

L-30-2 Now, let's turn ourselves around and look at the men who put their hopes upon the Bible, upon God's Word and held It for an Absolute; look where they are now.
Paul gives you a little brief of them in Hebrews the 11th chapter: what they did, how they subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, and so forth; and they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, of who the world's not worthy of, waiting in glory for that grand resurrection. See? All right. For they... Some of them didn't--didn't obtain to these miracles, and they give their bodies anyhow, looking forward to that resurrection. To finish out their lives, they didn't care for it; they wanted to go on and sacrifice themselves so they could obtain that resurrection; and that's what they did.


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