<TITLE>03. Par 17-25</TITLE>L-17   I believe that we are living in the end time. I think most anyone that... The Scripture reader, or even a--a believer, knows that we are now at the end of the history of the world. There will be no use of writing it, because there won't be anybody to read it. It's at the end of the time. Just when, I do not know. Just how long it will be, not even the Angels of Heaven knows that minute or hour. But we been told by the Lord Jesus, that, when these things that we see now begin to come to pass, then to lift up our heads for our redemption is drawing nigh. Now, what "drawing nigh" means, I do not know. May mean...

L-18   As the scientists said the other day, on the television, speaking of the great thousands-of-miles break in the earth that's going to sink. He was asked the question, "It could sink there?" That's Los Angeles, the West Coast. And many of you seen how they followed it with radar, and went up through... broke in below San Jose, went across over into Alaska, out through the Aleutian Islands, about two hundred miles out into the sea, and come back down into San Diego, went around in behind Los Angeles, and come up there, a great pocket.
And all these earthquakes we've been having is the volcanic hitting this great hollow dipper, like, in there. I can't call the name that they--they called it. However, when that shakes, that gives these earthquakes we been having for years on the West Coast. Now it's cracked all the way around. And the scientists said, one...

L-19   The man said to the other, "That could fall in?"
He said, "Not 'could,' but it will."
Said, "But not in our generation, perhaps?"
Said, "In the next five minutes, or the next five years. We don't know just when."

L-20 This week, was sent me a headlines in the paper, of big hundred-thousand-dollar homes cricking and cracking, the people moving away. And they don't know how to stop it. There is no way to stop it. See, God can do whatever He wants to, and there's nobody can tell Him how to do it.

L-21 You build homes, you can make scientific things, and God is the creator of science. How you going to stop Him? He can destroy the earth this morning by fleas if He wants to. You realize, He could speak fleas into existence, and they'd be forty miles deep in a half hour's time, see, there's no... and eat people right off the ground. He is God. He just does as He will. He is sovereign, in Himself.

L-22   Now, seeing all this accumulation of evidence, that the hour that we now live in, I think it's a good thing to rehearse these things and to draw them out, since the Seals has been opened, and find out the truth of these things, as God has been so loyal to us, with His grace, to show us these things.

L-23 I want you to notice here in Matthew 24, Jesus used the term of "Christs," C-h-r-i-s-t-s, "Christs." Not Christ, but "Christs," plural, not singular. "Christs." Therefore, the word Christ means "the anointed One." And then if it's "anointed," there will be not only one, but many, anointed, "the anointed ones." See?

L-24 Otherwise, if He wanted to break it down so we would more or less understand it better, He would say, "In the last days there shall rise false, anointed ones." Now, that seems almost impossible, see, the terms of "anointed." But notice the very next words, "and false prophets," p-r-o-p-h-e-t-s, plural.

L-25   Now, anointed one, is, "one with a message." And the only way the message can be brought out is by one that's anointed, and that would be a prophet, anointed. "There shall rise false, anointed teachers." A prophet teaches what his message is. Anointed teachers, but anointed people with false teaching. Anointed ones, "Christs," plural; "prophets," plural. And if there is such a thing as a--a Christ, singular, then these would have to be "anointed ones," that their prophecy of what they were teaching would be the difference, because they are anointed ones, anointed.


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