<TITLE>05. Par 47-59</TITLE>L-47   Across the nation, will come, those who are dead in Christ will rise first. The Rapture will take place, the Church will be taken Home. And then the Tribulation will set in, and, oh, my, we don't want to be here during that time. I don't want to be here in the Tribulation. No. God forbid that any of us would ever be here during that time. Because, "he that's filthy is filthy still; he that's holy is holy still; he that's righteous is righteous still." There is no... The Lamb had come forth with His Book of Redemption, and the Bride has been taken out. Those who turned It down has to go through a Tribulation period, both Jew and Gentile. What a time of Tribulation! I don't want that.

L-48 "Lord, sanctify me now." That's good Nazarene doctrine, ain't it? [Brother Neville says, "Amen."--Ed.] And it's true, too. It's true. That's right. "Fill me now with Your Holy Spirit, Lord. Take all the world out of me now, Lord. Don't--don't let us have..."

L-49 As the old colored brother said, "Sir, I got my ticket in my hand. It's already punched. When I come down to the river, that morning, I don't want no trouble."

L-50 So, that's about right, I--I don't want no trouble. Hold your ticket in your hand, 'cause we're going over. Just think of it, the great time of redemption is at hand.

L-51   And now another thing. Brother, what's his name, up here at Utica? I think Brother Graham, and another brother there that's pastoring there. A Brother Shanks or something like that, or Sink? [Brother Neville says, "Brother Snelling."--Ed.] Brother Snelling is the pastor, altogether. Brother Snelling is the pastor up at Utica now. I think their prayer meeting is on... ["Thursday night."] Thursday night. Now, you know, it would be real nice if we would slip up there on Thursday night and show those fellows a little fellowship. See? And then when Brother Jackson, the times that he has his, if we'd just get a little group of us together and go.

L-52   Just keep praying, keep digging! Yeah, don't stop. Just like when Elijah told them, said, "Dig ditches out there!"
When you get down, you hit an old tin can, say, "I'm too tired"? Throw it out of the way and keep digging. See? Just keep digging, 'cause we've got to dig. We've just got to dig, that's all. Cause, if you--if you expect to miss the Tribulation, you better start digging.

L-53 Now, for myself, I'm preaching to myself there. I'm going to start digging deeper than I ever dug. Because, I feel like that, in the nation and around the world, that this ministry will again, as it's known now about everywhere over the world. I--I must go again.

L-54   Wife said to me... Other morning, I said, "I want you to go with me when I leave. I'm going to leave around January, the Lord willing. I want to take a complete world tour, all the way around; come back and maybe have services in the United States, sometime next summer."
And she said, "I'm too old to go."

L-55 "Well," I said, "I've went when I... about my last trip overseas, about eight years ago, and I feel like I'm in better shape now than I was eight years ago, you know. See? I know more about it now."

L-56   And then we got on the subject, "If the Lord said, 'I'm going to allot you twenty-five years. You're not going to get feeble. You'll be able to go, and I'm going to allot you twenty-five years on earth,' would you take from--from birth to twenty-five, or from twenty-five to fifty, fifty to seventy-five, or seventy-five to a hundred?"

L-57 Now, any man that's allotted any time on earth, would certainly be a most rashel thing if he don't spend that time in service of God. I don't care what he does.

L-58 Now, if you're going to be a heartbreak for the women, or so forth, you better take that young age, that first twenty-five. See?

L-59 If you're going to be a carpenter, a mechanic, or something, you better take the second twenty-five. See?


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