<TITLE>13. Par 118-130</TITLE>L-118   Look, now, get back to the Truth of the Word. God lives alone. God wants His people to live alone with Him. They won't have tied into anything, any sensations, tradition. He wants children obedient with His Word. He can place His Word in there. God said, Jesus said, "If ye abide in Me, and My Words in you, then ask what you will." That's either the Truth or it isn't the Truth. If it is the Truth, it'll work.

L-119 Now, you want to know where the secret lies, the power of visions and things? Is back to the Word. It's the Word of God. Jesus was the Word. He was the manifestation of God. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. And He was the Word. "In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was made flesh."

L-120 And the Word wants to be made our flesh. But when we're all wrapped up in all kinds of stuff, and traditions, and permitted to live like the world, and things like that, then expect God to do that? Why, certainly He won't, I don't care how many things we impersonate.

L-121   It's getting to a place, till, brother, something is fixing to happen. I don't want to hurt you. I want to bless you. Listen. One of these days, the Rapture will come by, and the Bride will be gone, and you'll know nothing about it. They won't even know a Word about it.

L-122 Everybody is accepting, saying, "Oh, one of these days, Jesus will walk out on the skies, and say, 'Come on, all you Pentecostals, or you Baptists,'" and our traditional thoughts of it. It won't be like that.

L-123 My opinion is this. One day when Jesus had... It been prophesied Jesus would come on the earth. And he came, He lived, He died, nobody knowed nothing about it, hardly. Not even one percent of the Jews ever knowed He was on the earth. About one hundredth of the world ever knowed He was there.

L-124   John the Baptist; from Isaiah, from Malachi, why, when they prophesied of him, said, "All the mountains, the high places, will be brought low. All the low places will be brought high. And, oh, how the rams... The--the leaves will clap their hands, and the mountains would skip like little rams," all those things. Well, them traditional people had it all figured out, some other way. And here come John and preached exactly like He said, and even the disciples didn't know it.

L-125 One day they come to Him. He said, "The Son of man is going up to Jerusalem."

L-126 He said, "Well, why is it then, that the Scripture says, the scribes write and tell us, that, 'Before these things will take place, that Elias is going to come'?"

L-127 He said, "He's already come, and you didn't know it." And then He told them it was John. But said, "He done just what the Scripture said he would do, and they done to him what the Scripture said." See?

L-128   One of these days, you're going to wonder, when that Rapture comes. Remember, there's about five, eight hundred people missing every day, over the earth, that they can't account for. And He said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man, wherein eight souls were saved."

L-129 One of these days, judgment is going to strike the world, strike the nation, strike the church, clearing her out for the great Millennium that is to come. And then you're going to say, "Well, why did It say that the Rapture first come before these things taken place?"

L-130 He'll say, "It's already come and you didn't know it." Yeah. Somebody on his road to church; the little lady going somewhere on a visit; they're gone. You don't know when it happened. Passed by. It's always been that way. So will it be again.


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