<TITLE>03. Par 21-26</TITLE>L-21   All these signs are the--are the marking of a spiritual darkness. All these things that we see happening in these super, super, super, if we only know! We're in a hurry, we got to get there, and what do we do when we get there? Used to take, walk home from the work, used to be the kids had to walk to school, and now they have a bus to come to the door and pick them up and escort them in to school and out of school, and then pay a half a million dollars for a recreation room, to give them a little exercise, or they die. Well, they used to get it walking to school. Super age! Now isn't that right? Even the churches has to have, they ain't got enough activity among them, they have to have them a--a--a room where they can all play and jump up-and-down. Used to be the Spirit made them do that, but now they have to get out there, sort of a super time. See, all leading to a spiritual darkness, a great day that we're living in.

L-22   You know, His people, God's people of the Bible, has always been warned, of God, to watch for the signs of the time. Jesus, when He was on earth, He said to the Pharisees of His day, He said, "You blind Pharisees." Said, "You go out in the evening and you look and see the skies are clear and red," said, "'Tomorrow,' you'll say, 'it'll be a clear day.'" And He said, "Then you go out and they're lowering, angry looking, then, 'Tomorrow it'll be foul weather.'" He said, "You can discern the face of the skies, but the sign of the time you can't discern." Said, "If you would have known Me, you would have knowed my day. If you'd knowed Moses," He said, "you'd knowed Me, because Moses wrote of Me."

L-23   In other wise, as I have been saying, they would have knowed that the Scripture that must be fulfilled in that day was being fulfilled, and they didn't know it. They had their--their eyes so set on their traditions, and things, until they couldn't see the actual Scripture unfolding before them.

L-24 I would liken this age to that. That even amongst the--the fine people, sometime, they fail to see it. They just walk away, and, honestly, I--I... It would discourage me if I didn't know that Jesus said what He did about it, that, "No man can come except My Father draws him, and all the Father has given Me will come." They'll never be able to see It. He said, "Well did Isaiah speak of you, saying, 'You have eyes and can't see, ears and can't hear.'" It's a pitiful sight, but that's the way they were.

L-25   And now we find just about the same thing existing today, when we know that we're living in the hour that gross darkness is to cover the earth and the people. And we find, that all these modern achievements, of super age, and so forth, that we're living in, is only the sign of gross darkness in the spiritual realm. We're in the Laodicea church age, where they're just lukewarm. They could go to church, and people does, and--and seems to have a zeal to go to church; but to know anything about the Spirit, the time that they're living in, some of them are as blind as they can be about those things. No matter what God would do, and how well it would be proved by His Word, still they just can't see it. I wonder if it isn't just about like what He said, "We have eyes, but we can't see." We ought to look around and see all these things that's happening are a sign that the end is at hand, because these are the things that was predicted to be at that time.

L-26   I want you to notice the unchanging continuity of God's Word and His works. See, He never changes His--His program. He never changes His ways. Just as perfectly, the Scripture is in perfect continuity. Everything that God does is in continuity with what He done. See? And what He did first, that's, He'll do it the second time the same way.


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