<TITLE>05. Par 46-56</TITLE>L-46   I say this with all godly respects for my brethren and my sisters, and for the men and women of this day, who I preach to, with love in my heart for all people: I wonder if we are not about ready to see the same thing as they seen then! The government had become involved in this, and the--the issue was on. The question must be settled. It was at a showdown.

L-47 So has it been today, so is it in this hour! The showdown is on! Something has got to be done, you've got to say "yes" or "no." But, remember, it won't be when you're forced to do it. You have to do it on your free moral will now. Now! Not when that time takes place; when it does, it's over. Now! This may be the last day you'll have time to make choice. You can't do it then, you've already took it; it's too far, at that time. You must do it now. Don't wait till the last minute, because the boat will pull out and leave you. The doors will be closed.

L-48 Many people would have come into the ark if they could have gotten in there, when the rain started falling. But the issue was made, the Gospel was preached, the signs was showed; and the time was over, the rain was then falling, judgment was on.

L-49   Now, the whole nation had to reject Him, because that it was called, as we would say today, "a Christian nation," like this is called a Christian nation. Therefore, if it was called Jehovah's nation, His selected people, then the whole nation had to turn Him down. The church had already turned Him down. The church had kicked Him out. They wanted nothing to do with Him, but now the government is involved in it.

L-50 So is it back again, it's right back in the lap again, with the Scripture laying here, identified, just exactly what Jesus said would happen. Why do we stagger on in this hours of darkness? Why do we let this come upon us, when we been thoroughly warned? Just as it was in the days of Lot, we see the very same thing. Jehovah has set the scene, and told us, "As it was in the days of Lot!" You see the messengers out yonder into Babylon, trying to get Lot out; and you see the Message to the Elect, Abraham, that was already out. And everything, exactly, to name, place, and time, has been thoroughly identified.

L-51   But now it's in the hands of the government. The government has got to condemn it now, and they're going to do it. Don't you worry about that. It's a Christian nation, it's got to take its Christian stand, if it is. The showdown is on.

L-52 The whole nation had to be brought into judgment. Because, it happened about A.D. 70, when the great Roman general, Titus, besieged Jerusalem, about A.D. 70, with his army from Rome, and there they paid the price for rejecting Him.

L-53   Today, as we look upon that trial there, and we go out here and impersonate it in different ways, of trials on Good Friday, and talk about it, and things. And the very same thing that we are talking about, that happened on that Good Friday, is right under our noses today! And our elders are doing the same thing they did, taking it right in on a similar trial, after a similar promised Word of this day has been a vindicated just the same as it was vindicated there.

L-54 Jesus, "a common carpenter's boy," so thought. He was the Word of God made manifest. And He was thoroughly identified, because the works of God had manifested themself through Him, and proved that He was the Messiah.

L-55   And, today, that similar case has come again, when the Holy Spirit has come upon us in the last days and identified Himself right in our church, and has proven the same works that He did when He was here in the fulness upon Jesus Christ. He did the same thing upon the Bride, doing the same thing, and still we want to get rid of It.

L-56 Remember, these are tapes that's made now, that goes over the world, not only to Phoenix here. I'm speaking to half of the world, at this time, 'cause we got a tape business that goes around the world.


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