<TITLE>04. Par 32-41</TITLE>L-32   I just finished a series of services on the last seven seals. And finding, in this sixth seal, that there is a great interruption in--in nature. The moon, the stars, the earth belches forth. The church is purged, Israel is purged, and everything is purged under that seventh seal, so that the Millennium can start in. There has to be a cleansing, first.

L-33 And that's what the church, today, and what I want to point to you, that we need a cleansing. Before anything can begin from God, we got to have a purging. And when we look and see things that is now, under the present conditions existing the way they are, we can see that we got to have something to happen before God can continue His program, and a purging. Many of us, I say, might look back to...

L-34   I have a tape, or, well, it's a movie film that was filmed in Jerusalem, where we were asking the Jews, when they were returning back from Iran and many places, a few years ago, about five years ago, packing their loved ones on their back, and bringing them off of ships and out of airplanes, and so forth, coming back. Asked them the question, "Are you returning to the homeland to die?"
They said, "We are coming to see the Messiah."

L-35 When you see Israel, that tree, putting forth its buds, it's a great ensign. The time is at hand when Israel becomes a nation, and she's a nation today.

L-36 We see things happening, that, to the world, it's just as blind to them as it was in the days of Noah. But to we who look for Christ, the second time, it's an ensign that He is soon coming. We see something fixing to happen, and depends on what you're looking at.

L-37   Now, Noah knew by the Word of God that there was coming a flood. By faith he saw it. He knew that was going to be, because God's Word promised it. Now, Noah, himself, by faith, saw what God's Word said. But the world could not see it, because it could not be scientifically proven that there were water up in the sky. But Noah knew it was there, because God said so.

L-38 That's the Church, the Bride, the called-out today, knows that the Coming of the Lord is at hand, regardless of how much we've been able to go in progress, and so forth, and succeed in splitting an atom, and--and sending a--a radar message to the moon. That means nothing to the believer, only a sign that the Coming of the Lord is at hand. We see nations breaking, and the nations coming, falling apart, and the world coming apart, and the church move coming apart. Then, we are taught, that, "We receive a Kingdom which cannot be moved." But as these things begin to happen, the Church binds Itself together, tighter and tighter, with the... by the Word of God. It's a great day that we're living in. And we are...

L-39   Everybody is looking for something. You might be looking today to a time you get home, to eat your dinner. There might be a--a picnic this afternoon, that you're taking your family to. There might be something another, next week, that you're looking for a neighbor to come, or some friend. But everybody is looking for something.

L-40   And as a group of believers today, assembled together, we want to fix our thoughts, our principles and things, upon the Coming of the Lord, "Looking for Christ, Who shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation, to those that believe and are looking for Him to come." God, here, the... by the writer, is inviting us to--to view this and to look at it. We... The writer says here, that, "We look for Christ, the second time, to see Him as He is."

L-41 And now we know that the Word is Christ. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And Hebrews 13:8 said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." Therefore it's the Word that we look to, then, for It is the--the expression of what God is. And when God came in Christ, He was the expression of what God was. And whatever He was, He ever remains, because He's Eternal and cannot change.


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