<TITLE>09. Par 82-95</TITLE>L-82   We find that death was ready to strike Egypt at any time now. God had showed them His grace, power, and signs.

L-83 I want you to know that that's followed every revival; grace, power, and signs. Grace, to come to the people; power, to make Himself known; and the sign of the time. Just exactly what He's done today, another thing. He has done it in many ways. You could take that one Scripture there and run it around and around, for ten weeks here, and never leave it.

L-84   How it would symbolize the three stages that we've come through! It would symbolize the three mercies of God, through Luther Martin, and Pentecost... Martin Luther, and--and also through Wesley, and Pentecost, the three stages of the journey. The three stages of Israel's journey, the three messengers to Sodom, all these different things it would symbolize.

L-85 It would symbolize the ministry of today. It would symbolize the message of Billy Graham, of grace to the world; of Oral Roberts, as power to the world; and of the Presence of Jesus Christ, as the last sign to the world. For Sodom got their last sign, the Church spiritual, the one that was called out, got their last sign before the Gentile world was burned. Jesus said, "So shall it be in the coming of the Son of man, the same thing."

L-86   And we find out that these great things had been displayed in Egypt, and still their desire was not to repent or believe the message.

L-87 And if that--and if that ain't the world today, I don't know the world. They have had grace, power, and seen the signs of the age, the signs of time. God writing, and with His hand in nature, great fearful sights in the skies, that they don't know, "flying saucers" they call them, and everything; sputniks, and whatever they want to call them, astronauts flying in the skies; fearful signs, earthquakes, divers places, sea roaring, man's hearts failing; fear, perplexed of time, distress between nations. All the things that He has promised, we have seen those handwritings on the wall. We have seen it with our eyes.

L-88 We see in the church where grace has went forth to call them. We see where power has been demonstrated by the Pentecostal group, to bring back again the baptism of the Holy Ghost, power. And we've seen the supernatural Power of the identification of Jesus Christ Himself standing in our midst among us, and doing the things that He did in the beginning. The very same witnesses, exactly!

L-89   Israel coming out, just as a sign like it is today. Watch what Israel got in their exodus.

L-90 The first thing they got, to thoroughly identify that the hour was at hand, was a prophet with the message. Moses came down with the message. The Word of God was with Moses.

L-91 The next thing, Moses had to be identified. And he was identified by a Pillar of Fire. That identified his work, that God had sent him. And Moses had the Word of God, even to create things and to bring them upon the earth.

L-92 And the token that God give them, by the blood, was the identification, or the assurance, rather, that they would be passed over in the time of death.

L-93 The same thing has happened today, same thing. The Word of God has been brought to us; the Pillar of Fire is among us, identifying Jesus Christ raised from the dead, "the same yesterday, today, and forever"; and the assurance of the baptism of the Holy Ghost upon our hearts, putting our love to God. The exodus is on again.

L-94   Israel coming out, as I said, is a type like the Church coming out, or the Bride coming out of the church. The Bride will be the remnant, will be the little group, the selected, the predestinated.

L-95 When a woman lays out a piece of goods, lays her pattern upon it, the way she is going to cut it, and she has got her own way of making a choice. But what is left out of that pattern is the same kind of goods that was in the pattern, but it was ordained for her to take this. She fixed it herself.


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