<TITLE>05. Par 47-58</TITLE>L-47 And then, after a while, it be-... received power, and spoke like a dragon; and exercised all the--the dragon, power the dragon had before him. And the dragon is "Rome," always. So don't you see? Roman denomination; "a mark," Protestant denomination; "a image unto the beast," making a power that'll force all Protestants, like a union. You'll have to be into this Council of Churches, or you won't be able to have fellowship. Or to--to...

L-48   Well, it's--it's practically that way now. You can't go to a church and preach unless you have a fellowship card or some identification. And now, on persons like ourselves, we're going to be cut out of all that, altogether, that's exactly, 'cause they won't be able to do it.

L-49 It's tightening. And then when that time comes, and the press comes to a place to where you're pressed out, then watch what I'm fixing to tell you in a few minutes. Watch the Third Pull then, see, and it'll be absolutely to the total lost, but it--it will be for the Bride and the Church.

L-50 Now we are closer than it seems to be. I don't know when, but it's real, real close. I may be building a platform for somebody else to step on. I may be taken before that time. I don't know. And that time may be this coming week, that the Holy Spirit will come with... and bring Christ Jesus. He may come this next week. He may come yet tonight. I don't know when He will come. He doesn't tell us that.

L-51 But I do believe, that we are so close, that I would never die with old age. Yet, at fifty-four years old, I'll never die with old age, until He's here. See? Unless I'm shot, killed, or something other, some way killed, just old age wouldn't kill me, until He's come. And I believe that.

L-52 And I want to say this. I've never said it before. But according to Scripture, according to what He said thirty years ago; thirty-three years ago on the river down there, in 1933, rather; what He said, everything has happened just exactly. I may not do it, but this Message will introduce Jesus Christ to the world. For, "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming, so is the Message to forerun the second Coming." And John said, "Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world." See? So, it's, it paralleled it in every way. And I know it will, the Message will go on.

L-53   Now, there's been some great things take place along the road. This morning I was having interviews in the room here. And a--a young fellow, by the name of Autry, he is probably still in here tonight. He is from San Antonio, Texas. He come to ask if... when we was going to Dallas, coming from California; if we could drop in one night at their tabernacle, just for one night. And they're looking it up, in the next day or two, to see if we can do that. And he was telling me about... I had never been to San Antonio since that first meeting.

L-54 Now, the first meeting, when I come to San Antonio. I was there, I think, with Brother Coot and the--and the International Bible School. And I forget the auditorium we had the service in. And it was either my first night or second night, I think the first night, when I was walking to the platform, someone raised up in the building, way back in the back, and spoke with tongues, like a--a machine gun firing. And he had no more than sat down, just a moment or two, till one raised on the platform and give the interpretation.

L-55 And I stopped, at what he said. And I said to the man, "Do you know this man?"
He said, "No, sir." And he said...
I said, "How did you come here?"

L-56 He said, "The people that I work for, was at... was here tonight, and they brought me." He's a... was a cowboy.
And I said, "What do you do?" He said... "Do you know him?"

L-57 He said, "No, sir. I never seen him."

L-58   And I said, "What are you?" And he was a--a merchant in the city.


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