<TITLE>03. Par 30-37</TITLE>L-30 That taken place in A.D. 70, when the great Roman soldier, or great army, Titus and his group come up there, the great general of Rome, beseiged the walls as Jesus had foretold them. "And see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then let him which is in the field don't come back into the city again." Now what good would it do...

L-31   And some people try to support their doctrine upon that, that people will still be living in the sabbath hours, keeping the sabbath days, when He comes. Well, if the--if the Coming is universal, you couldn't be keeping the sabbath; for, one side, it's the sabbath day, and the next day is a day a-passed the sabbath. See, so it isn't. The sabbath-keeping was for a people in the wilderness, not for the universal Church. See? And all these different things, they take those Scriptures without having the Holy Spirit to divide them rightly and show what they are.

L-32 But here is what Jesus was speaking, to my most humble opinion, was that He said, that, "This generation," in other words, "the generation that saw the fig tree putting forth his buds." See, He said here, "And when the fig tree is beginning, is tender, and putteth forth its, his branches, you say summer is nigh. Likewise, see, when you see all these things, know the time. When you see all these three questions fulfilled, the time is at the door. That generation that sees the fig tree!" And the fig tree is always "Israel." "And when Israel goes back to her homeland and becomes a nation, that generation will not pass away until these things are all fulfilled."

L-33 And Christian friends, tonight, in this great scruple in the Scriptures, that people think is scrupled, we are now living to see the very... Everything that He has said here is fulfilled, just the next thing is for His Coming.

L-34   Israel is in her homeland. She is her own nation. She got her own money, own flag, a member of the U.N. She is just a nation; the first time, for about twenty-five hundred years, since she has been a nation. And Jesus promised that, "The generation..." And, in the Bible, a generation is allotted to forty years. From the time that Israel become a nation, until forty years, somewhere within that time, He will come. And if that is true, then that brings the Coming.

L-35 Well, and another thing, every two thousand years, something has happened on the earth, and politics and everything give out, God had to send help from Heaven. And the first two thousand years, the world was destroyed with water; the second two thousand years, Christ come; and this is 1964, and they claim that we're seventeen years short on that.

L-36   Now you see it's at the door. The next thing, is, watching for the Coming of the Lord. All the other signs are blending right in with it. So that's why, tonight, that I try to get the people to stay exactly on the promised Word. Just what the Word says, stay right with That.

L-37 Now, when I come to Christ, I knowed I had to have a foundation somewhere, to stand on. I was ordained in the Missionary Baptist church. Then when I seen the doctrine of the Missionary Baptist church was so contrary to the Scripture, then I could not place, base my hopes upon the doctrine of the Missionary Baptist church. Then I thought I would go over to my mother's church, she was Methodist. And I thought I would go over there. I found again. So I knowed that if Jesus come for the Methodist people, He would sure leave the Baptists. If He come for the Baptists, He would leave the Methodists. But I found, in both groups, fine people. And I knowed if He come for a church, which church would He come for, nine hundred and something different organizations? He isn't. He isn't going to judge people by the church.


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