<TITLE>16. Par 199-212</TITLE>L-199 The hour has arrived now, that He wants to get a Church ready. I'm going to say this with a prophetic voice, I trust. I'm not saying it in the Name of the Lord, but I believe this is true. The Rapture, you'll be talking about the Rapture, when the Rapture has been gone, a long time. Yeah. You'll be saying, "Bless God, the Rapture is come." It's done past.
Didn't Jesus say about John?

L-200 "Why does the scribes say that John, first? Or, how did he say that Elias must come?"

L-201 He said, "He's already come and you didn't know it. But you done just exactly what you said he would do."

L-202 One day there will come a judgment upon earth. And the first thing you know, you're going to find people here looking for the Rapture, and they done been gone a long time ago. It'll be such in the minority. He said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. As it was in the days of Lot!"

L-203   We think this great big bunch of cannon fodder here, atomic ash, is going. It'll only go if it's got the Life of Christ in it, because God will raise it up. That's right.

L-204 There'll be a Rapture. You think, two or three people here, and one over here. And somewhere else, somebody come up missing, thought they run away from home. They, better be careful, they might be gone. Looking for a Rapture, and it already passed. Now, that isn't contrary to the Word. No, it isn't. He come like a thief in the night. See? They would be gone before you know it.

L-205 God places His--His great power out in the Church, and it don't take a great big group in. It takes a minority. "Fear not, little flock. It's your Father's good will..." You that's holding to the Absolute, that's right, with the confirmation of God working in it.

L-206   So, you see, we're living in a terrific time, and that's what, that pressure is upon the church. Well, you want to see something. You want to see something. But, now, how can God ever watch over His Word, to vindicate It, and the person disbelieving that Word and won't receive It in their heart? How can the sun shine upon a seed and bring it to life, when it hasn't got any life in it? It's got to be a germitized seed. So, a creed is germitized to make more members.

L-207 But the Word is germitized to make saints, make believers. That's right. God works to perform His Words. He--He watches over It, to vindicate It. Yes, sir.

L-208   Now, now, certainly, the Catholic church takes their anchor, their north star, and for their achievements. And it's what the pope says, is an infallibility to the Roman end of the Catholic church. The Protestants, a bishop, some creed. "That's against our creed." And some of them is against the different things, their denominational beliefs, and so forth.

L-209 You know, I feel like Paul said here. I'm looking at a Scripture in Acts 20:24. He said, "None of these things move me." Amen. Why? For he was anchored. He had an absolute. "Since I met Him, on the road to Damascus," if I could talk to Paul, "He turned me around, started me back in the right way. I was off the Word. He put me back on the Word." Yes, sir.

L-210   Listen. I feel that way, too. I feel that any man that's born of the Spirit of God, that loves God and loves His Word, God has a purpose in that. God had a purpose in turning Paul around. Did not He say, "I'm going to show in him" His glory?

L-211 God had a purpose when He saved me. I am determined to do His will, "Not add to It or take away from It." Revelation 22:19 said, "Whosoever shall do it, will be his part taken from the Book of Life."

L-212 I'm determined to never add one thing of my own opinion to that Word. I'm determined to read It just the way It is, and--and ask God that I'll open in my heart and receive It. "Work It through me, Lord, that others might see. May It become salty and something real, that others might see." Yes, sir.


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