<TITLE>16. Par 93-98</TITLE>L-93 All the other beasts come up out of water, which is thickness and multitudes of people, the Bible said; but this little beast come up out of the earth, where there was no people. Yet, he was a lamb, freedom of religion; then he spake like a dragon, and united himself with the power and done all that the dragon did before him. Exactly. So there you are. It's--it's just got to be that way. No other way of getting around it.

L-94   And here we are, today, forming a system. A system! We can't wait till some... We tried to make everybody become a--a Lutheran; and couldn't do it. Try to make them all become a Baptist; we couldn't do it. All become a Methodist, or all a Pentecostal; they couldn't do it. So, to order to do this, the time is so short, they have formed a council, a head, a image to the beast. That's exactly what they've done. And what is it? The crucifixion of the Word, again, is at hand. It's on trial and will soon come to the floor.

L-95   Notice, the manifested Word, from the denomination. It manifests. The--the Word difference from the denomination.
What is this, what is this system? It's a satellite to Rome. Did the Bible say it would be that? Yes, sir! Revelation 17, they saw Rome raise up itself in an ecclesiastical system, of a woman. A woman, the church is always represented by a woman.
Cause, the Bride of Christ is a woman. Eve was the one fell; she is the One to be redeemed. And the Church (is what?) is a woman that's redeemed.

L-96   And this woman set upon the beast with seven heads. And we know about the seven hills, and so forth, as the Bible said it would be. There is no mistake. There is no chance for a mistake. See?
And notice then, we find out, that she was a "MOTHER OF HARLOTS." See? And mother and daughter unites together again in friendship. Where, once, the daughter run away from the mother, to try to live decent, for her mother was so low-down and ornery till the girl left home. Uh-huh. But now, since she's begin to get a little age, she, and doing so many evil things, herself; she sees her mother, she thinks her mother was right, so she is forming a system of her own. See? Exactly.

L-97   Uniting denominational, Protestantism, fulfills exactly what the Scripture said of Revelation 17. "All, whose names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life, was belong to her." One or the other, either the beast or the image of the beast. The Bible said so.
And Jesus spoke of this, not as communism. But in Matthew the 24th chapter, beginning with the 21st to the 26th verse, He predicted that the spirit in this system would be so much like the real thing till it would deceive the very Elected if it was possible; the Elected, whose Names are put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world. And, frankly, it got them so tied up, until He said if He didn't cut the work short, for their sake, there would be no flesh saved upon the earth. And we've only got...

L-98   This is--this is '64, isn't it? And I think they claim about seventeen years is off of that, so, according to the calendar. And we got '64, 1964, which will make (what is that?) thirty-six years left, to the twenty-first century.
And every two thousand years, the world has come to the end of its world system, religious system, to the end of all systems, and God had to step in. He did in the days of Noah; first two thousand years. The second two thousand years; the system come back to where our text calls, this morning, and He sent again His Word. He sent His Word by a prophet, Noah's time, prophet Noah; and the people rejected It, for their system. He sent His Word again in the time of Jesus, the Word manifested in the fullness; the people rejected It. And now it's 1964, leaving thirty-six years until the even two thousand more years; and the Word has been brought forth, and the system has rejected It.


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