<TITLE>20. Par 187-197</TITLE>L-187 Revelation 17, said, "She is a whore, and she is THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS." That can't be men. That's women. See? And they were all throwed, alive, into the Lake of Fire, and consumed. That true? There you are.

L-188   Notice, when that Jezebel rose on the scene, there was a man rose up against it. God brought a man. We don't even know where he come from. He had no background of ministry. He never was no priest or nothing. He come forth, an old rugged woodsman by the name of Elijah, and he laid the axe to the root of the tree, and they hated him. Not only that, but his whole congregation hated him.

L-189 And one time he thought he stood alone. He said, "No, I got seven thousand yet that's right with you." See? That was that elected group, see. There is always that group. Said, "Don't fear, Elijah. I know you think you're run out, because the denominations run you up there on top of the hill. But," said, "I got seven thousand that believes the same thing you're preaching. See, I got them."

L-190   Then after his day, Rome took over, and there become a time it was a woman's world again, all the fashions of--of the women, how they come out in their bonnets and things, see. And God raised up another one with the same Spirit on him, the Spirit of Elisha. Is that right? And he said, "The ax is laid to the root of the tree."

L-191 And there was a little old feisty woman in there, had married her... left her husband, married his brother, Herod. Herodias, and she was a--a painted-up clown of that day, danced. She taught her girl how to dance. She had a daughter, by her foster father, the--the foster father; by the father, his brother. Herodias! That was the daughter of--of--of the woman. And then she taught her to dance, and she became a real striptease dancer, after her mother. And she thought she could marry four or five times, do anything she wanted to.

L-192   And here come Herod out. They were all Jews, now remember. They were church people. Here come Herod out, and his church, to hear this prophet, the people believed was a prophet.

L-193 He walked right straight into the both their faces, and said, "It's not lawful for you to have her." And did that make her blow up! See?

L-194 Now, some ordinary man would have said, "How do you do, Herodias? We're sure glad to have you in our congregation today." But not John.

L-195 Jesus said, "Who did you go to see, when you went out to see John? Did you go to see one that's all dressed up like a priest? No, that can, that kind kisses the baby and buries the dead." See? He said, "What did you go to see? A wind, a reed that's shaken by any wind? They say, 'Come over here, John. We'll pay you more if you preach to us. And, we, we're the biggest organization'?" Not John. No, he never went to see that.

L-196 Said, "What did you go to see, then, when you went to hear and see John, a prophet?" He said, "And I say, to you, more than a prophet!... you can receive it, this is he who the prophet spoke of was coming, 'I'll send My messenger before My face, and he'll prepare the way for the Lord.'" He was a messenger of the Covenant. He said, "There's not been a man, that's born of a woman, as great as he is." See?

L-197   That's the kind of a man that God raised up for that day, Elijah, a backwoodsman. John, the same thing. See? The Spirit of Elijah was upon John. And He says, when it comes a woman's day again, that Spirit will rise again, "Before the Coming of the Lord, when the earth will be burnt, and the righteous will walk out upon the--the ashes of the wicked, like ashes under their feet." He promised it, again, in these days. Notice, the Holy Spirit promised that. It's a fitting to the time that we're living in.


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