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Mat 21:1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,
Mat 21:2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.
Mat 21:3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
Mat 21:4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,
Mat 21:5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
Mat 21:6 And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,
Mat 21:7 And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.
Mat 21:8 And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
Mat 21:9 And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
Mat 21:10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?
Mat 21:11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
Zec 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION ON THE MOUNTAIN?
So I've got my mind set on this Message, that's that Third
Pull, and it's the one I must be loyal and reverent to.
28 Matthew 21:1 to
11. I said that so you could be watching for the... or turning to the
Scriptures.
And when the... And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and
were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives,... Jesus sent two of his
disciples,
And saying unto them, Go into the village over against you,
and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and
bring them to me.
And if any man say ought unto you, you shall say, The Lord
has need of them; and straightway he will send them.
This was all done, that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by the prophet, saying,
Tell ye the daughters of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto
thee, meek,... sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,
And they brought the--the ass, and the colt, and put on them
their clothes, and they set him thereon.
And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way;
and others cut down branches from the trees, and strew them in the way.
And the multitude that went before, and that followed, cried,
saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of
the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved,
saying, Who is this?
And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth
of Galilee.
29 Now if I would take a text from that, for about thirty minutes before the prayer line begins, I would like to take this for a text: What Is The Attraction On The Mountain?
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30 Now, it had been a very weary, nervous
day, and it was an unusual day. We find Jesus here coming up to Jerusalem,
ready to attend the passover. And the passover is where the pascal lamb was
killed, and the blood was spread upon the mercy seat for the--the atonement
for--for the people. And He had come up from Bethphage and had come to the top
of the Mount of Olives, which looks down upon another little hill where Jerusalem
was built. And as He looked, and knowed that this was His final visit.
31 This was the time that when He would be delivered into the hands of sinful man and they would kill Him. He would die the horriblest death that was ever died by a mortal, and be buried. He would be betrayed by His Own, some of them standing right with Him. And Him, being God, knew what was in their hearts, and knew from the beginning who would betray Him. And knowed that man was with Him who set by His side and counted His money to Him, and so forth, knowed that man would betray Him. And knew that a cruel Roman cross waited for Him out there. He knew that His water in His body and the Blood of His body would separate, and that the Blood would drop off of His forehead, great big drops like perspiration. He knew all that was before Him. And He stands upon the mountain, looking over to Jerusalem.
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32 The people of that day, the... what they called that day, "a better religious class of people," hated Him. The churches of that day hated Him and denounced Him, and denounced all that listened to Him. And if they went and attended His campaigns, they were immediately excommunicated from the fellowship of the church. No wonder the Scripture said, "He came unto His Own, and His Own received Him not." The ones who ought to have loved Him, the ones who ought to have been for Him, was His bitter, bitterest enemies.
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33 And He had made up His little group out
of a bunch of poor people, fishermen, tax gatherers, uneducated. The Bible said
some of them was even "ignorant, unlearned." Some could not even sign
their name. He never went to the churches to get His people.
34 And He never agreed with any of the church leaders. And, besides that, He followed the very trend of a prophet. He condemned everything that they done, as the ones before Him had; because they were a portion of the Word, and He was the Word in Its fullness.
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35 But in the midst of all of it, through
every age and every prophet that had been or would be, there is going to be a
certain amount of people that's predestinated to hear that Message, and they'll
follow It. Those ignore the crowds. They ignore the criticism of the
unbeliever. They--they have no argument with them. They've got one thing to do,
that's believe and to get every bit of It they can, soak It in like Mary who
set at the feet of Jesus.
36 And Martha was fixing His dinner, and Jesus said to her, "But, Martha, you are so concerned about the things of life, but Mary has sought the better things," see, the things of Eternal Life.
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37 Now, we find that many of the people that had understood... They didn't have literature as we have today, they didn't have television or telephones, or anything, of that day, but had been kind of breezed around that He was going to be at the passover. For many of the people, being spiritual-minded, knew that He was that passover Lamb, because He had already told them the things that was going to happen.
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38 And then, of course, knowing that He was
to be there, and loved Him the way they did, they was waiting for Him. There
was a crowd that was probably pushing, shoving from one gate to the other one,
watching out in every way, for they knew that one of the hours He would appear.
They were watching.
39 Others were
wondering what was the matter with these people running from gate to gate.
"What's the attraction?"
40 And they would
look this way and look that way, to find out. Looked like they were looking for
something, under expectation of something going to happen.
41 Oh, how I would like to change my text for a few minutes and say this, that that's what's the matter today. The people who are looking for Him coming is under great anticipation and expectations. We can feel it, the pressure. And they are seeking, watching every move and every sign, comparing it with the Scriptures.
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42 And when they seen all those things that
was predicted of Him, right up to the end, they knowed the end was nigh. They
wanted to be there, so they watched. Part of the crowds was for Him, in the
minority. Some was against Him, most of them, ninety percent was against Him.
43 And that's about the way it is today in the religious crowds, when it really come down to the Word and Christ, there's about one percent that would believe It. The other part wouldn't pay any attention to It, no matter what was done, they would pass off some kind of a joke or throw a slam about It. Just about the same. Time, things don't change very much, history just repeats itself around.
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44 Well, we find that drawed a nervous tension. It had to. It must do it. They were waiting, they were wondering what He would do when He got there. They wanted to be there to get anything that He done. They wanted It. They wanted to see It. They believed Him. Others had heard He was coming, and they went up there to make fun of Him. So after all the nervous anticipation, a very unusual day, very unusual time, churches asleep, the people's nerve was on edge, there was so many people there, and then it happened!
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45 On top of Mount Olive come a little,
white donkey coming, walking down the hill, with a group of people fanatically
screaming, pulling off palms' leaves off the trees, throwing their clothes in
the road, screaming, "Hosanna to the Son of David that comes in the Name
of the Lord!" The... this little mule, his Rider was none other than God's
anointed Messiah of the hour.
46 God, then, what was He doing? What is that attraction up there on the hill? It's God making history, and God fulfilling prophecy. And that always causes an attraction. It brings all the critics up, the vultures (of this morning's Message), and the eagles also. See? They come together to find out what's going on. Some coming for curiosity, some coming to find fault, others coming to criticize. There's all kinds gathered, as we said this morning: believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. What's on the mountain? Prophecy is being fulfilled. Now we'll see what takes place.
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47 Now, in the Book of Zechariah, in the 9th
chapter and the 9th verse. Zechariah, one of the prophets, spoke in the Spirit,
saying this.
Rejoice greatly, O daughters of Zion; shout, O daughters of
Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just,... having salvation;
lowly, and riding upon an ass, upon the foal, a colt the foal of an ass.
48 Now, what was the
matter with those scribes? What was the matter with those priests? What was the
matter with those religious people? This was wrote four hundred and
eighty-seven years before it happened, by a vindicated prophet, and was already
put into writings and called the Bible, the scrolls of the Old Testament. Why
couldn't they see that that's prophecy being fulfilled? The same reason they
can't see it today. They had took the Word of God and made It of non-effect to
the people, by teaching (for traditions) for Doctrine the traditions of man.
49 And if scribe, preachers, ministers, spiritual man (so-called), anointed ones, would only read the Bible, they wouldn't be wondering what's taking place, they would know what It is. God fulfilling His Word!
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50 History was being made, prophecy was
being fulfilled. Salvation to the world was arriving, the great day that all
the prophets had looked forward to. All that was in the grave was waiting for
that day (my, think of it), all that had died, all the righteous of the blood
of the martyrs and the prophets.
51 Which, He had just screamed out, "Jerusalem, O Jerusalem, you that stone every prophet that I send to you, and kill the righteous, how oft would I have hovered you as a hen did, would her brood, but you would not. But now your hour has come."
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52 Everything that was in the grave,
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, all the prophets, were waiting for this hour.
53 And the church
was blind to It. "Who is this that's causing all of this noise? Who is
that Fellow?" They said one time, "Is not that the carpenter's son
over here? We know Him. Where did He get this wisdom? Why, we don't see Him
connected with any of our schools. We don't know any books He ever learned
from. Who is It?"
54 He was the answer of the prophet's prophecy. Here He comes, riding upon the foal of an ass. What an attraction! God was fulfilling His promised Word, the hour that had been waiting since four thousand years. In Genesis, the 3rd chapter and the 15th verse, God had made the prediction, "The Seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head, but his head shall bruise her heel," that prophecy down through the Bible that had been predicted of this Man coming.
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55 And here just recently there was a
prophet who stood up among them, that was vindicated a prophet, Zechariah, and
he said, that, "You daughters of Jerusalem and you daughters of Zion,
rejoice, shout, scream out, for your King comes to you, meek and lowly and
humble, riding upon the foal of an ass."
56 And here those
people that read that Scripture, day by day, watched Him come riding in, and
cried, "Who is this?" See? God fulfilling His Word to the people that
should have knowed what It was, but they didn't know It.
57 When God fulfills His Word, It always causes an attraction, always does. Causes an attraction, for It is the unusual. So unusual, when He fulfills His Word to the modern trend of the day, 'cause the modern trend of the day don't believe in It. They have their own way.
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58 Now, we see, and let us go back in the
Scriptures and take some other unusual events, just for a few more minutes,
when God fulfilled His prophecy. When God says anything, He's going to do it.
All heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word can never pass away. So It
usually causes a scene, an unusual scene.
59 Notice how
ridiculous that the Word of God to a--a people who is supposed to believe It,
and yet It's so unusual they cry out, "Well, what's this? Where'd you get
that stuff? Who is this? What is this?"
When, they ought to have been screaming, "Hosanna to the
King that cometh in the Name of the Lord!" But there was just a little
group doing that, just a little group.
Of four thousand years of prophecy, for the greatest thing that could ever happen to the nation, for all the hope of the dead rested upon It, all the future laid in It; and the religious people, that claimed they believe It, was screaming out, "Who is It? And what's this attraction?" Something unusual! About the same, it just don't change, now unusual.
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60 Let's see some of the unusual things, as
I've just said. What was the attraction just before judgment struck the world
and destroyed it by water? An old man, around a hundred and twenty years old,
building a boat when there was no water to float it in. Up there for years,
standing in the door, building away on the interior, on the inside, and
pitching it inside and out, and say, "The world is going to be swallowed
up with water," the great scientific age.
61 "What is that pounding up on the hill up there?" "Why, it's an old man by the name of Noah, and he's up there, an old fanatic. The old man stood in the sun too long. He is sunstroked. He's out of his mind. And he's building what he calls 'an ark,' and saying waters is coming from up there where there is no water, and it's going to float all the people around; and everybody that don't hear his message, and everybody that won't come into that ark, is going to be drowned. Did you ever hear of such a thing?" It was an unusual attraction!
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62 I imagine when the people wanted a good
laugh, they went up and stood before the ark door and laughed. "Why, you
said it was going to rain a hundred years ago! Grandpa told me he heard you up
here saying it was going to rain, and you're still beating around on this old
piece of wood up here. Why don't you get next to yourself?"
63 But it was God getting ready to confirm a promise and to fulfill a prophecy that His prophet had made. Very unusual! God fulfilling His promise to Noah, while others was laughing. God was also getting ready to make history to show to others, even to this day, that He keeps His Word! No matter how unreal it seems, and unreasonable, He still keeps His Word. He was making it an example, out of that old man pounding on that ark, for these people here in America tonight and all over the world. No matter what science says, what they say, this, that, or the other, He still keeps His Word. He was making history.
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64 What was the attraction one day; an
unusual thing happened back in the wilderness, and it was a bush that was on
fire. And a runaway prophet was standing down in the wilderness. He never heard
no voice, he never heard no sound, but he looked and seen an unusual thing up
on top of the mountain. God was trying to attract his attention. Same is it
today!
65 God was getting
ready to fulfill His Word, by His prophet Abraham, "Your seed shall
sojourn four hundred years in a strange land. I'll bring them out with a mighty
hand."
66 And He was preparing a man for the job, as He was preparing an ark for a safety place for all who would believe. God put this bush on fire, and this sheepherder, Moses, said, "I will just turn aside to see what this strange thing means." And when He got Moses up to the bush, He spoke to him.
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67 What was the attraction later in the Pilate's hall, when this sheepherder throwed down a stick and it turned into a serpent? God fulfilling His promise to Moses. What was the attraction at the Dead Sea, when Pharaoh's horses was all astonished, when they seen a wind come down from the heavens and part the Red Sea from right to left; and a poor bunch of slaves, walking in the duty of God, walk across that on dry land? What was it? God keeping His Word. The deadness moved away, a living people went across; and a spiritually dead people tried to impersonate it, and drowned. God fulfilling prophecy and making history. That was the attraction at the Dead Sea.
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68 What was the attraction the second day after that, at Mount Sinai, when all the people was commanded not to come at their wives, when they was asked to wash their clothes and sanctify themselves, and gather around a mountain where a man by the name of Moses had said he met God in a Pillar of Fire? And God had said to Moses, "I'm going to come down amongst the people. I'm going to confirm that what I told you, and Who I am. I'm going to show them that I am that God." That was the attraction, God fulfilling His Word.
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69 What was the attraction one day in history, where a nation had forgot God, where the people had become formal and indifferent, where the priests had all went with the modern trend, the prophets prophesied according to the will of the priests? And in that day, as usual, they had one man that they thought was a fanatic. He talked about women wearing paint, and everything, and he was a kind of an odd sort of a guy. And this old fellow had come down and said to the king, "Not even dew is going to call... come until I call for it."
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70 And we find out, then, that he had hid
hisself and run away from it, and he hid out in the wilderness somewhere. The
company had thought that maybe he had starved to death or perished; but he had
been fed pretty well, and watered, too. And here he was, come down and said,
"Do you see that I have THUS SAITH THE LORD? Now, if you're not convinced
yet, let's go up to the top of the mountain and prove who is God," for he
had another vision from the Lord.
71 He said, "Choose you a--a altar, and make it, and--and choose ox and slay them. I'll make an altar of the Lord, and also I will put ox on mine. We'll both make a sacrifice, and let the God that's God answer." He'd a by no means done that if the Lord hadn't a told him; he said so later, "I've done this at... all this, at Your command, Lord."
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72 But what's the attraction? It's got four hundred priests standing on the hill, and the king up there in his chariot, with all of his armors and guards standing around. And this old, wooly, fuzzy-faced- looking man, baldheaded, and hairs hanging down over his face, piece of sheepskin draped around him, and hairs all over his body, standing up there with a stick in his hand, and a cruse of oil in the other hand; that just said, three years and a half before that, "Not even dew will fall till I call from it, for it," taking the place of God, with such things as halos and shadows, and all they talk about. "And here that old fanatic standing up there on the hill, bringing all these people up there." What was that attraction? It was God fixing to vindicate His prophet to be right. It was God fulfilling prophecy. God also making history, fulfilling the Word.
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73 A few hundred years after that, there was a man anointed with that same Spirit, and he come out of the wilderness, not connected with any organizations; though his daddy was an organization man, a priest of an order. But he come out of the wilderness, dressed with a sheepskin around him, hair all over his face. Instead of being gray, it was black. What was this man's attraction that attracted all Jerusalem and Judea? Some of them going out and said, "There's a wild man down there. He's trying to drown the people in water. Who ever heard of such a thing as that?"
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74 Others were curious, and saying,
"This must be the Messiah." One of them said, "It could be one
of the prophets." They didn't know what to think. But what was it? It was
God fulfilling Isaiah 40, where He said, "Behold..." what He would do
in the last days, how He would send His servant and what he would do.
75 Then we find, a few weeks after that, that man being so positive of his message, till he said, "There is One standing in among you, Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and Fire, as I have baptized with water."
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76 One day an ordinary, young Man, about
thirty years old, walked down and was baptized. And when this Man come, there
was such an attraction by the prophet, the prophet act strange that day. The
congregation couldn't help from watching the action of that prophet when he was
debating with the priests across the river.
77 They said,
"God built this altar. God told us to do this. Moses is the prophet. We
believe Moses. The sacrifice will never be done away with."
78 I can hear John answer back, said, "Have not you read in the Scripture what Daniel the prophet said, 'The daily sacrifice will be done away with'? And that hour has arrived! Have not you read what Isaiah said in the 40th chapter, 'The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord'? There is two prophecies for me. And another thing, did not you recognize our prophet four hundred years ago, Malachi, when he spoke in the 3rd chapter and said, 'Behold, I send My messenger before My face, to prepare the way'? Don't you know this fulfills prophecy?" Prophecy was being fulfilled!
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79 And about that time the prophet turned
and said, "Behold, there comes the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of
the world!" Now what's the attraction? It's changed from the prophet to
his prophecy.
80 Now notice what
comes to pass. Here comes an ordinary Man, known of no one, a carpenter's son,
come walking out in the water. When John, the great prophet, said, "I have
need to be baptized of Thee. Why comest Thou to me?"
81 He said,
"Suffer that to be so. But, as a prophet and the Word, it behooves us to
fulfill all righteousness."
82 So he understood the Sacrifice had to be washed before presented, and he baptized Him.
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83 Now there's another attraction takes place when He went up out of the water. This prophet who had been so loyal to declare his age and the time, he looked up and he saw the heavens open. He saw the Spirit of God, like a dove, descending upon Him, and a Voice saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm well pleased." God was vindicating a prophet's message, what was attracting the attention at the Jordan.
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84 A brother sang a while ago, or he was
supposed to sing, "On the hills far away stood an old rugged cross."
What's the attraction on Mount Calvary? When we see the religious world had
condemned Him, and the Roman government had sentenced Him to death. And here He
was hanging between two malefactors, starving for a drink, Blood running out of
His body. There He hangs, crying, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken
Me?" And the religious people standing there, looking at it, little did
they know that the prophecy of the Old Testament was being met right there at
Calvary that time.
85 David himself
wrote, act... fell into the Spirit like all prophets, he act like it was him.
David cried, in the 22nd Psalm, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken
Me? All My bones they stare at Me. They pierced My hands and My
feet." David, speaking like it
was him. And it wasn't David, it was Christ in David.
86 And here the very prophecy that went forth, of all the different prophets, was being fulfilled on Mount Calvary. What's the attraction on Mount Calvary? God fulfilling His Word.
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87 Another attraction was on a mount, was on
the Day of Pentecost, when all of them was up there in a religious feast,
thought they had got rid of all the fanatics. They hadn't heard from them for
ten days. All of a sudden, like a beehive, they broke out of the top of the
building, out into the streets, a screaming and carrying on.
88 "What is
this? What meaneth this? Are all these man drunk?"
89 Watch! And a prophet stood up among them, as the order of a prophet should be, and said, "Ye men of Israel, and you that dwell in Judaea, in Jerusalem, let this be known unto you, and hearken to my words. These are not drunk like you think they are. But this is that which was spoken of by the Lord through Joel, the prophet, 'It shall come to pass in the last days, I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh.'" That was the attraction.
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90 The religious people, after crucifying
the Prince of Life, and everything, still didn't see the promise of the coming
of the Holy Spirit. The attraction, "Who is this? What meaneth this?
What's the matter with them people?"
91 Oh, my! It's the
same today. We'll bypass a lot of this to bring it to this hour. The same thing
is today. The same thing is taking place. The same question is asked.
"What's all that racket?" Look up-and-down the street, cars from
Michigan to Florida, from Maine to California. This morning when I was riding
out, or right after noon, we was going down the street, wife and I was looking
at licenses on cars. That's where I thought of this text.
"What meaneth this?"
92 Just as It said, "Where the Carcase is, there the eagles will gather."
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93 I said to my wife, "Honey, you
remember the last night when I had to say good-bye to everything was dear to me
on earth, and go into the fields to start something that God had said do? You
sang that song."
Oh, they'll come from the East and the West,
They come from the lands afar,
To feast with our King, to dine as His guest;
How blessed these pilgrims are!
Beholding His hallowed face
Aglow with love Divine;
Blest partakers of His grace,
As gems in His crown will shine.
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94 That's what the attraction is. The
predestinated Seed of God who can't do nothing else but follow It, means more
than life to us. Take our lives, but you don't take That. What is the
attraction? God, as usual, fulfilling His Word. He is fulfilling the Word of
Zechariah again, of prophet Zechariah.
95 Where I read the 9th verse a while ago, when Jesus entered His temple, riding... or entered Jerusalem, riding on a little, white donkey, the prophecy was fulfilled that Zechariah said. Here It is, "Rejoice greatly, O daughters of Zion. Shout, O daughters of Jerusalem. Behold, thy King is coming unto thee; He is just, and having salvation; lowly, riding upon an ass, and upon the colt the foal of an ass." That's what the attraction was at Jerusalem, at the religious headquarters.
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96 Now we see a last-day happening! Let's
just turn a few pages on, in Zechariah, and see what he said about it. Let's
turn it over then for the last days. That was the middle age; let's turn now to
the last days. And turn over to Zechariah, the 14th chapter, and beginning with
the 4th verse. And listen! And we're going to read down a portion of the
Scripture, about nine verses, from 4 to 9. Listen close. And it's prophesying
of His Coming, the last days. Listen close now. This is THUS SAITH THE LORD.
It's the Scriptures, Zechariah 14. Remember Zechariah 9, what It said? And they
didn't recognize It. Now what is it today? Zechariah 14, speaking of His
Coming.
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of
Olives, again, which is before Jerusalem on the east, on the mount of Olives
shall cleave in the midst thereof towards the east and towards the west, and
there shall be a very great valley;... half of the mountain shall be moved
towards the north, and half... towards the south.
And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach from Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like you fled in the days of the earthquake in the days of Uzziah the king of Judah:...
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97 Another earthquake splitting open the
earth! If you want to follow out a Scripture here, notice in this 5th verse, it
applies that the cleaving of the Mount of Olives is due to an earthquake, and
this is confirmed by Isaiah 29:6 and Revelation 16:9. Exactly! What is it? The
same prophet told of His first coming, seen His second Coming. Notice, "As
in the days of the earthquake." See what the earthquakes are doing? See
the predictions of them?
... and the LORD your God shall come, and all of his saints
with thee.
And it shall come to pass in that day, (hallelujah) in that
day, that the light shall not be clear, or dark:
But it shall be one day with... one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that in the evening time it shall be light. (O God!)
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98 "It shall be Light about the evening
time," same prophet. And the people is blind! What's the attraction? Let's
read a couple more verses.
And it shall be in that day, that the living waters shall go
forth from Jerusalem; half of them towards the former sea, and half... towards
the hinder sea: in the summer and... winter shall it be. (The Gospel going
forth; both Jew and Gentile.)
And the LORD shall be king over... the earth: in that day,
and there shall be one LORD, and his name one.
It shall be Light about the evening time, (right)
The way to Glory you will surely find;
In the water way is the Light today,
Buried in the precious Name of Jesus.
Young and old, repent of all your sins,
The Holy Ghost will surely enter in;
The evening Light has come,
It is a fact that God and Christ are One.
See where we're at?
Nations are breaking, Israel's awakening,
The signs that our prophets foretold; (that earthquake to the
Gentiles to the last day)
The Gentile days numbered, with harrows encumbered;
Return, O dispersed, to your own.
99 You that's been kicked out, and these arks carried on new carts, get out of there 'fore death strikes you. God has confirmed It. It shall be so.
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100 Let us turn over to another Scripture in
the Old Testament, Malachi the 4th chapter, and read that little 4th chapter.
... behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and
all the proud, yea,... all that do wickedly, shall be as stubbles:...
101 Now, this is
not... That's Malachi 3, was the first coming, now here is the next coming.
Even the Doctor Scofield here, I certainly don't agree with him in his
footnotes, but he's got it lined out here right. "The commission of
John," to Malachi 3; and, "The second Coming of Christ," and
Elijah beforehands. All right.
... all the proud shall burn up, saith the LORD of hosts, and
it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Where's the "Eternal"
hell then?)
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness
rise with healing campaigns, healing in his wings;... you shall go forth, and
grow up; as calves of the stall.
And you shall tread down the wicked;... they shall be ashes
under the soles of your feet in that day that I shall do this, saith the LORD
of hosts.
Remember... the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded... him in Horeb for all Israel,... the statutes and judgment.
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102 Here is the coming of Elijah.
Behold, I will send to you Elijah the prophet...
103 The last closing
Scripture of the Old Testament!
... I'll send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of
that great and dreadful day of the LORD:
104 Now, that
couldn't a been John. No. See, the world wasn't burnt up and the righteous
walked out on the wicked. See? No, no.
... before the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,
and the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth
with a curse.
105 Notice the accuracy of the Holy Spirit, that It would not confuse them two comings of Elijah. Malachi 3, said, "Behold, I send My messenger before My face." Jesus was asked about John; He said, "If you can receive it, this is who the prophet said, 'I'll send My messenger before My face.' This is the Elias that was to come." Malachi 3.
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106 Notice the Scripture so accurately gives it. Watch what this... to show the... them who wants to believe, them who wants to see. Remember, Jesus stopping in the middle of a Scripture, 'cause part of it was fulfilled then, the rest for His second Coming? "To preach the acceptable year of the Lord, bind up the brokenhearted," and stopped; not "bring judgment to the Gentile" until His second Coming.
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107 Notice this Scripture here parallels
that. "And he, Elijah, shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the
children." (Now speaking of Malachi 4, not get it mixed, or Malachi 3.)
John, Elijah, who came in the days before the first coming of Christ, turned
the hearts of the old patriarch fathers to the message of the children, the new
message.
108 Now watch.
"And the hearts of the children to the fathers." In his second
coming, in the last days, he turns back to the apostolic Faith again. See how
perfect the Scriptures line up?
109 That was the end of the Old Testament, the Old Testament. Now we see there's Light in the evening time. What is It? It's the top, Mount Treetop.
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110 As I said this morning, we've come up
through denominations, through (not a orange tree) like I spoke of this
morning, but we've had grapefruit, lemons, all kinds of other things that
wasn't like the beginning at all. But after... Don't miss It. Here It comes.
After all the denominations has played out, they didn't have any Light to begin
with, there'll be a day that can't be called day or night.
111 What are they doing? What are they doing? What does a--a lemon do on an orange tree? It takes the original life of the orange that's coming up and perverts it through a lemon. That's what the denominations has done to the Word of God, made the Word of God of no effect by their traditions. That's THUS SAITH THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD. They have brought forth lemons, grapefruits, not oranges.
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112 But what did the prophet say? The same one that said for our text tonight, "Rejoice, O daughters of Jerusalem, shout loud, daughters of Zion, for your King is coming to you, meek and lowly, sitting upon the foal of an ass," notice that same prophet said, "There'll come a time of the ripening." The sun is sent upon the earth to ripen the fruit. Why couldn't it ripen? There's no fruit there to ripen. But the Life is still traveling on.
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113 It come up through a grapefruit, to be an
orange, found out it organized; it was a grapefruit. It went again, it come out
that time a lemon. Went on again, it turned out to something else. And in the
last, top of the tree, it's turned out to a tangelo, which is half orange, half
lemon; a mixed breed, a perverted thing; come on to a perversion, living off
that same tree; the shuck, "almost deceive the Elected." Looks like
an orange, but it ain't.
114 "But it
shall be Light," when she grows beyond organization. When she gets out
a-past organization, it blooms out again, she'll put forth oranges like she was
when she went into the ground, and then it shall be Light.
115 What's this attraction; what's this happening? Fulfilling God's Word. There is two witnesses of the Old Testament, that this would happen.
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116 Let's take John 14:12, of the New
Testament, Jesus said.
... He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do
also;...
117 Also, in Luke
17:22 to 30, He said.
As it was in the days of Lot, before Sodom, was burned, so
shall it be at the return of the Son of man, that day when the Son of man is
being revealed.
118 Oh, just look at the Scriptures! "The Son of man," Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, growed a-past denominations, growed into the top of the Tree. What did He say in John 14, or 15? "Every branch that's in Me, that doesn't bring forth the fruit, it'll be cut off and pruned, throwed into the fire and burned. But every branch that'll bring forth fruit, it'll be purged."
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119 Oh, there will be a true former and latter rain in the last days upon that little group that come with Him on this little donkey, low and humble, no don-... or denomination, crying, "Hosanna to the King that comes in the Name of the Lord!" What's the matter today? What's the attraction on the mount?
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120 Not long ago, standing at this pulpit, it
was said by the Holy Spirit, "The day will come that when they'll drive
down a stake in front of your house; they'll move your gate. So, that, you'll
bypass it, not be angry." I seen my gate tore up and laying out upon the
hillside. I seen the hill in front of me, all dug up, boards and things laying
there where something had mashed it up. He said...
I looked, and there was a little Ricky that had got up there
and knocked that gate out, done this. I said, "Why didn't you tell
me?" He got smart with me, and I had to hit him. And when it did, I said,
"I haven't done this since I was in the ring, but I just want you to
know," and I swatted him one. And when I knocked him down, I picked him up
again and knocked him down again. I picked him up, three or four times, then
kicked him over the hill. So then I went over there, and I said, "That
ain't right." And I picked him up and shook his hands, I said, "I'm
not angry with you, but I just want you to know you can't talk to me like
that."
And then when I turned and come back, the Holy Spirit was
standing there at the gate, said, "Now bypass this. When that stake is
drove down, turn westward."
This Book, everything that I need,
This Book is a good Recipe,
The way that shows to go around my trouble. Amen!
121 And that Book is the Word, and that Word is God. Bypass your troubles, It'll tell you what to do.
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122 Three years ago I heard a friend of mine,
the city surveyor, lives down the lane from me, driving a stake down. I went
out there and said, "What's the matter, Mud?" Mr. King's son, personal
friend.
Said, "Billy, they're going to widen this road."
123 You all
remember. I said, "It may be the bridge." I told Brother Woods, I
said, "Hold your property. Maybe that bridge is going to come through up
here, something." The lane was tore up; bricks, rocks, throwed all over
everything. So he said... I said, "Hold your property." Then when
I...
Mr. King told me that was going to happen.
124 I went in, said to my wife sitting there, "Honey, there is something written about that. It's THUS SAITH THE LORD, somewhere."
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125 I went in and got my book, looked into
it, and it said, "It shall come to pass..." Eight years later!
126 Then when I
looked at it, I said, "It's time now, honey, we must turn west."
127 Two days after that, standing in the room about ten o'clock one morning, I went into the Spirit of God. I saw that little cluster of doves flying, looked at them little birds. You remember it. I seen seven Angels in the form of a pyramid, come rushing in to me. Said, "Turn westward, go to Tucson, be forty miles northeast. And you'll be picking a cocklebur," or a bullheader, they call it there, "off your clothes."
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128 Brother Fred Sothmann, sitting there
looking at me right now, was there that morning. I had forgot about it.
129 I said, "A blast went off like an earthquake, that shook pretty near everything there was in the country. I don't see how a man could survive it." I was scared. I stood at Phoenix, you all listening in tonight bear me record. I preached on the sermon, Sirs, What Time Is It? "Where are we at?" I went West. Many of you here got that tape, many of you here heard it said, year or more before it happened.
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130 I went West, wondering what was going to
happen. One day I got a call from the Lord. I told my wife, I said,
"Honey, I'm... probably my work is over." I didn't know. I said,
"I... God, God is probably finished with me now and I'll be going Home.
You go get with Billy, take the children. God will make a way for you, somehow.
Go on and live true to God. See that the children get through school, raise
them in the admonition of God."
She said, "Bill, you don't--you don't know that's
true."
I said, "No. But a man couldn't survive that."
131 One morning the
Lord woke me up, said, "Get up there in Sabino Canyon." I took a
piece of paper and my Bible.
The wife said, "Where you going?"
I said, "I don't know. I'll tell you when I come back."
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132 I went up in the canyon, climbed plumb up
where the eagles was flying around. I was watching some deer standing there. I
knelt down to pray, and raised up my hands, and a Sword struck my hand. I
looked around. I thought, "What's that? I'm not beside myself. Here is
that Sword in my hand; bright, shiny, glistening in the sun." I said,
"Now, there's not people in miles of me, way up here in this canyon. Where
could that come from?"
I heard a Voice, said, "That's the King's Sword."
I said, "A king knights a man with a sword."
133 He, the Voice, come back, said, "Not a king's sword, but, 'The King's Sword,' the Word of the Lord." Said, "Fear not. It's only the Third Pull. It's the vindication of your ministry."
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134 I was going hunting with a friend, not
knowing what was going to happen.
And someone called me, the one that criticized me about that picture of the Angel of the Lord, the one that took it. I had to go to Houston about his son, for he was going in the death row and was going to be killed in a few days. And he met me in there and throwed his arms around me, said, "Think, the very man that I criticized comes to save my only son!" The humane society give me what they call an oscar, or whatever you want to call it, for saving a life.
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135 Then we went back, I went up in the mountain to hunt. There, Brother Fred and I, one morning when I walked out, and I--I had already got my javelina, and I looked and seen the place where they went. I said, "Brother Fred, go over on that mountain early in the morning now, about the break of day, and I'll get on the other one. I won't shoot at the hog, won't kill him. But if they start over this way, that herd, I'll shoot in front of them then run them back."
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136 Brother Fred went out there and there was
no hogs. He waved at me and I seen. I went down in a canyon, some big chasms,
the sun was just coming up. I come around the other side of the hill, not
thinking nothing about the prophecies. Set down, waiting, resting; I thought,
"What happened to those hogs?"
137 I picked up
my... Set down like Indians do, you know, cross-legged. I looked on my overall
leg, and there was a bullheader. I picked it up. And I said, "That's
strange! Here I am, about forty miles northeast of Tucson. There's my little
boy Joseph sitting there waiting for me." And as I started to look, I seen
a herd of hogs come out about a thousand yards from me, up on a mountain, I
throwed the bullheader down. I said, "I'll get them. I'll go get Brother
Fred, and I'll hang up a piece of paper to let know which way to go, on this
ocotillo here, and we'll get Brother Fred."
138 And I started up the mountain, running as hard as I could on the other side. All of a sudden, I thought somebody shot me. I never heard such a blast; it shook the whole country. And, when it did, standing before me was seven Angels in a cluster.
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139 I met Brother Fred and them, a little
after. Said, "What was it?"
I said, "That was it."
"What are you going to do?
140 "Return
home. For, THUS SAITH THE LORD, the seven mysteries that's been hid in the
Bible all these years, these denominations and everything, God is going to open
those seven mysteries to us in the Seven Seals."
141 There was that circle coming up from the earth, like a mist forming. When It did, It went plumb up into the mountain, begin to circle on westward, from the way It come. Science found It after a while, thirty miles high and twenty-five miles across, just exactly in the circle of the pyramid.
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142 And the other day, standing there, turned the picture to the right, and there is Jesus as He was in the Seven Church Ages, the white wig on, showing Supreme Deity. He's Alpha and Omega; He's the First and the Last; He is the Supreme Judge of all Eternity, standing there, confirm the Message of this hour. And there shall be Light about the evening time! What's it all about? What was it?
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143 I went westward. Upon that same mountain,
passing up with Banks Woods there, said, "Throw up a rock. Say to Mr.
Woods, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD, you'll see the Glory of God.'"
144 The very next day,
standing there, a whirlwind came down and blasted the mountains out. Rocks cut
the top of the trees off, about three or four feet above my head. Made three
big blasts, and the brothers come running over. There was about fifteen man
standing there, preachers and everything else. "What was it?" He
said, "What was it?"
I said, "Judgment is striking the West Coast."
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145 About two days after that, the earthquake almost sunk Alaska. What is this Light up on Sunset Mountain in the Coronado Forest of Arizona? What is this strange thing that happened up there, that the people has been driving east from west, picking up the rocks that laid around there where It struck? And every one of them, every one rock, has three corners on it, that It tore off. (The three are One.) They're laying on desks, on paper weights, across the nation. What is this strange thing upon Sunset Mountain in the Coronado Forest?
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146 Junior Jackson listening in, you remember the dream he had that I interpreted, "going towards the setting of the sun"? And this happened on "Sunset" Mountain. It's the evening time, sunset time. The sunset Message through a setting of history, a setting of prophecy, rather, being fulfilled. And it shall be Light at the evening time, upon Sunset Mountain in the Coronado Forest, forty miles north of Tucson. Get on the map and see if Sunset Peak there. That's exactly where it happened. I never know it till the other day.
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147 Everything that... That shall never die. It's constantly unrolling Itself. From the very thing happening, to the picture being Jesus standing looking at us; and now exactly on Sunset Mountain, and the sunset Light. The evening Light has come, God vindicating Himself. What is it? It is the facts that God and Christ are one. The "white," how many seen it, the white wig upon Him, as we talked in Revelation 1? See, the Supreme Deity, Supreme Authority; no other voice, no other god, no other nothing! "In Him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily." The Angels Themselves was His wig. Amen.
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148 What's happened upon Mount Sunset? God
confirming His Word. That's what all this noise is about. Notice, it's God
fulfilling His promised Word again, of Revelations 10:1 to 7, "And in the
days of the sounding of the seventh angel's Message, the mystery of God should
be finished." The hidden mystery of Revelations 10:1 to 7, the last
Message to the last church age. Fulfills exactly, in this age, Saint Luke
17:30, "The day when the Son of man shall be revealed."
149 "And there shall rise false prophets and false Christs, show great signs and wonders, insomuch it'd deceive the Elected if possible." The people still in doubt. And, as usual, the church is just as puzzled.
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150 And the science, all through Tucson yet, they're writing pieces and put in the paper. Way back over there on Mount Lemmon, them big cameras didn't see It rising up from where we was standing; drifting on towards the West, showing the time is over. It can't go but a little piece there; it's at the West Coast. Judgment struck just in the very way it went. Going right up over Phoenix and right on across, on to Prescott and across the mountains to the West Coast, right on up into... Where was they going? Right on up into Alaska, and she is thundering, heading right that way.
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151 And the observatories and all of them in Tucson are still asking, research of science trying to find out what it is. So high they can't be fog, mist, or nothing up there. "What did it? Where is it at?" They're just as puzzled of that supernatural Halo hanging yonder in the sky as they was when the Magis come in following a Star, saying, "Where is He that's born King of the Jews?" What was it? God fulfilling His Word, "And there shall rise a star out of Jacob."
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152 And the God of Heaven promised the
evening time would have evening Lights. Three years ago this mystery was a
prophecy, "What time is it, Sir?" But now it's history. It's passed.
The promise is fulfilled. What time is it, sir, and what's this attraction? God
fulfilling His Word! He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Let us pray.
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153 Dear God, I have held the people at
length, much longer than I intended. I pray, God, that something was said or
done that will cause people out everywhere to understand. And by seeing and
understanding they might believe that Thou art the true Christ, and the Words
that's being confirmed is the confirmation of His Word being perfect and being
fulfilled in Its season.
154 Now, Lord Jesus,
from Your Own Words, You said that the world would be in a Sodom condition. We
know that, we can look at it. And You said, in that day, "As it was in
Sodom." There was three messengers sent to the Gentile and Hebrew world.
And one of them, which was God Himself, the Son of man, revealed Himself in a
human form and performed a miracle, insomuch that told Abraham what Sarah was
doing behind Him in the tent.
155 You said it would repeat again when the whole Gentile world would be in a Sodom condition. And we're here, Lord. Other prophecies confirming the same thing, of sending Elijah in the last days, the Spirit of Elijah upon the earth, to bring the hearts of the fathers, or, "the children back to the fathers." And I pray, God, that this hour that You will confirm Your Word, that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. Grant it, Father. They are all Yours. I pray that You'll grant these blessings and confirm what's been said, for the Glory of God. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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156 To speak a word, is a man; confirm a
word, is God. To say something, is one thing; God to do it, is another thing.
God don't need any interpreter; He does His Own interpretation.
157 Now we're fixing to have a prayer line, to pray for the sick, God willing. And we know that there's no one, no man, no woman, no human being, no angel, that can heal you, for God has already did it. He made the preparation, the only thing you have to do is receive it.
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158 There's no man, no angel, no nothing, not
even God Himself, can forgive you for your sins. It's already done. Jesus did
that at the Cross. But it'll never prosper you, or anything, or profit you
anything, until you accept it. See?
159 The only thing can be done, is orders that's been give by God, for believers to lay hands on the sick. That's been through the ages they've done that, through revivals. And they've called it, "God."
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160 Abraham seen many signs. But there come a time when Abraham saw his last sign, just before Sodom was burned, and that was God manifesting Himself in the form of a man. Do you believe that? Did Jesus say it would repeat?
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161 Now, how many in here... And out in radio, or out on the telephones across the nation, if you're still listening in, get ready now for prayer, be praying, and you that's got these handkerchiefs here. Now, I cannot tell God what to do. No, far be it from me even trying it. He is sovereign; He does what He wants to. I can only obey and only can say what He says.
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162 And now they're standing around the walls, they're packed in, is congested. I wonder if we could ask God on these words, "What is this attraction?" If God would move among us again (there may be strangers here), and move among us and show His blessed face among us, show His Spirit's here, show that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, that every one of us (after these two strong Messages) could believe it to be so? Could you do it? All right.
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163 Instead of calling a prayer line, then; hot, congested, standing against the wall. I look around this way, to call my prayer line, you couldn't do it; look, standing there. Could I call it this way? Your sick, cots, everything else, laying; you couldn't do it. So sit where you are, and believe God. If you do have a prayer card, hold it, it'll be good. We'll get to you if you want to come through a line. But you don't have to come through a line.
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164 That Mr. Shepherd, last Sunday night, never come through no line. I don't--I don't guess he had a prayer card. Is Mr. Shepherd here tonight? Where is he? Is he here? He's in the back. Did you have a prayer card, Mr. Shepherd? You didn't? He didn't. He's sitting right there again, tonight. That's a good place to be, Brother Shepherd.
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165 Not only you have to be there, but just
have faith. For, remember, a little woman touched His garment and He felt it.
And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And the Hebrew letter, in the
New Testament, said that He is the High Priest tonight that can be
"touched by the feeling of your infirmities." Do you believe that?
Have faith then! Don't doubt It. Believe It, and it'll come to pass. You can
have what you--what you've asked for, if you can believe It. But you got to
believe It. Will you do it? Will all of you believe It? How many will believe It
now? God bless you.
166 I don't know who is who. I don't know none of you. It's not my business to know any of you. It's God's business to know these things. But He will do it if you'll believe It. Will you believe It now?
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167 Now, Dear God, surely we're not a bunch of hybrid Christians, we shouldn't be, somebody that has to be petted and babied. You don't have that kind, Lord. You have rugged believers. The very Presence of God sets a man's heart on fire. Like Abraham, he believed God. You made Yourself known to him, then You appeared to him and performed a sign, and he believed You. You turned his body back to a young man, and also his wife, which, his wife was part of his own body. Then come forth the new child, the promised son.
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168 God, You promised that it'd be the same thing in this day. I pray that You'll confirm this Word. And we'll deal right on that one promise there, that it will be like it was in Sodom, just before Sodom was burnt and judgment struck Sodom, the Gentile world. So judgment is fixing to strike the Gentile world, and the Jews got three and a half more years through the period of Tribulation, Jacob's trouble, the continuing of the seventy weeks of Daniel. But, the Gentiles' are numbered, it's time to go. And You give that sign, and You said it would be again. Grant it, God. They're, we're in Your hands, do with us as You see fit. In Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
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169 Now don't be nervous. What would it be if
I was nervous? Now, I'm making a thing here that it has to depend on the sovereignty
of God. But why do I do this? He said it would be. That settles it. And if He
makes Hisself that, confirmed like that before you, well, can't you believe
Him? Certainly. You just have faith now and believe.
Let me just look around, see where the Holy Spirit will lead, what He'll do. I don't know what He'll do, that's up to Him. But if you'll just only have faith, only believe, "All things are possible to them that believe." Do all of you believe that, raise up your hands and say, "I do believe It." [Congregation says, "I do believe It."--Ed.] With all my heart, I believe It.
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170 Now three will be a confirmation, if
He'll do it three straight times, to prove you that It's right. I don't care
where you are, who you are, you just have faith and believe. Now, don't--don't
stir around. This way.
171 Lady, praying, I
don't know you. Just set where you're at; you don't have to come. I don't know
you, but you're holding a little girl in your hand, or in your lap. I'm a total
stranger to you. And the little girl looks normal, she looks well. She's a
pretty little girl, little red-headed girl. I looking here at her, she don't
look like she's crippled or anything. I don't know what's wrong with her. It
might not be for the child; it might be for you. But I just happened to see you
sitting there with that child, and praying. I have to talk to you a minute, to
catch your spirit, like Jesus said to the woman, "Bring Me a drink,"
see, just to figure--figure out one person. Brother Bryant and them sitting
here, I know these people sitting here. They may be needy, too, but you was a
stranger.
172 Do you believe me to be God's prophet? Do you believe these things that you've heard tonight is the Truth? Now, if God will reveal to me something that you've done, or something you ought not have done, or something's wrong with you, or what your desire is, you'll know whether it's true or not. Won't you? And if He'll do that, will it confirm His Word that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and that Saint Luke 17:30 is being manifested? You believe It?
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173 Now, the lady raised her hand that we're
strangers. I don't know you, but I'm trying to contact her spirit, one person.
There's so many of you pulling. Now, you believe This with all your heart.
Now, it is for the little girl. It's not you. You're nervous, but it ain't the nervousness that's bothering you. The great thing on your heart is that little girl. And you believe God can tell me what it is? You believe it? Would it help you, would you believe then? It's a brain injury. That right? Now put your hand on the little child's head; your hand.
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174 Dear God, You said, "These signs
shall follow them that believe. They'll lay their hands on the sick, and they
shall recover." The woman is a believer. Her hand is upon the child. May
it recover. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I offer this prayer. Amen.
175 Now do you
believe, all of you? If thou canst believe, all things are possible. Certainly!
176 I know the lady
sitting next to her, but she is so sincerely looking this way. I can't call her
name, but I... If I look at her a minute, I would know. But I know the woman by
looks, but I don't know what's your trouble. Do you believe I... God will let
me know what your trouble is? Would you... Would it help you? Sugar diabetes.
Now, if that's right, hold your hand. Certainly!
177 Happened to be the lady laying... sitting next to you, has got the same thing. She's a stranger. The other lady is praying for somebody, a crippled child. You believe with all your heart, God would grant it.
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178 Somebody back in here. Man sitting over
there, trying to get rid of smoking cigarettes. You believe God will take them
away from you? All right. You believe? You can have it. I never seen the man in
my life.
179 Here is a man. See that dark shadow hanging over this man right here that's laying on a cot like, or a chair? He's dying. He is shadowed. He's got cancer. I don't know the man, never seen him. God knows all about you. That's the truth, sir. Do you believe God could tell me something about you? Would it help you to receive your healing? [The brother says, "Yes, I do."--Ed.] You was brought here by a friend. But you're not from here, you're somewhere where there's a big body of water that people fishes at. ["Yeah."] Yeah, Albany, Kentucky. ["That's right."] That's right. Believe, and you can go back home, well. Believe that it's gone. If you'll believe It! You must believe It, and believe it's been done for you. You believe?
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180 You, from Tennessee, got a boy that's got
asthma. Not here, but you believe that he'll be healed? Then take your
handkerchief, your... in your hand there, to him. He'll be healed if you'll
believe It.
181 The lady crying,
sitting across from Doctor Vayle there. She is shadowed, also, a dark shadow. I
never seen the woman in my life, but she's got cancer. She'll die if something
isn't done for her. Do you believe He'll heal you, lady? You can? You can have
your healing, if you'll just believe.
182 There's a little lady sitting right behind her with a handkerchief up over her mouth. She's also got ulcered stomach, sick. You been having passing-out spells, blinding, falling out. Somebody brought you here. You got female trouble. If you'll believe, you can go home, be well.
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183 You, young man, you're a stranger;
sitting right here in front of me, looking at me. What are you, Puerto Rican or
something? Yeah, what I meant,...?...! I'm a stranger to you. You know that;
you're not even from my country. But you believe that God can give you the
desire of your heart? If I'll tell you what your desire is, will you receive
it? You're seeking the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That is true. Receive the
Holy Ghost, my brother.
184 Here is a colored man sitting way back here, got a burden on his heart. It's for his wife. She is not here, even. She's got trouble with her feet. You believe that He'll heal her? You do? You're a stranger here. You're from across the sea. You're from Jamaica. Do you believe God can tell me who you are? Mr. Brady. You believe? Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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185 This lady sitting right back over in this
end, next to Mrs. Wright there, she's got a burden on her heart. She is praying
for a daughter. She's up for an operation. You believe with all your heart, for
her? She won't need it if you'll get her to believe It. I can't heal.
186 Way back yonder in the nursery, I see the Spirit of the Lord, a Angel, a Light moving in the nursery. It's over a young woman, and she's got a spiritual trouble she's wondering about. Seems like I ought to know the woman, somehow, a young woman. She's also got a female disorder. Yes. Her name is Mrs. West, from Alabama, Mrs. David West. Believe; God will grant it to you.
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187 "It shall be Light, and in that day
when the Son of man is being revealed." If that isn't Jesus Christ the
same yesterday, today, and forever, I don't know nothing about It. Do you
believe That? All things are possible to them that believe.
188 Out upon the
microphones across the land now, and in this tabernacle, how many of you will
raise your hands and say, "I am a believer"? Now, you out there in
the lands, everyone has got their hands up, here. And way out, in yonder
somewhere across the nation, you got your hands up, no doubt. Now close your
eyes, just drop your hands upon somebody near you. Take a hold of their hand.
Lay it upon their shoulder. I got my hands on the handkerchiefs. Look what's
been done today! Look what's done now.
Beholding His hallowed face
Aglow with love Divine;
Blest partakers of His grace,
As gems in His crown to shine.
Now pray. Let's pray, everywhere.
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189 Dear God, the hour has arrived. What
meaneth this? God fulfilling His Word! What's the attraction, Lord? It's God
fulfilling His Word. What is this out across the nation, through the medium of
a telephone, that hundreds of people have their hands laid on one another
across the nation, from one coast to the other, from the North to the South,
East to the West? Here sets people here from foreign countries, many of the states,
Mexico, Canada, and we got our hands laid on one another. God fulfilling His
Word!
190 How is this that
a person could stand here by the Holy Spirit and call a man like He did Simon
Peter, "Your name is Simon, you are the son of Jonas"?
"Go get your husband and come here."
"I have no husband."
"Truly. You have five."
191 She said,
"I know that Messiah is coming to do this, but Who are You?"
He said, "I am He."
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192 And
You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. And You've promised, "The
works that I do shall ye do also. More than this shall you do, because I go to
the Father." "And, behold, in the last days I'll send to you the
Elijah, the prophet, and he'll change the thoughts of the people, turn the
hearts of the children back to the apostolic Teaching of the Bible."
"And it shall be Light about the evening time."
193 Here we are,
great God of Heaven! The hour is here! The hands are upon the people.
194 Satan, you're
defeated. You are a liar. And, as a servant of God, and as servants, we command
that in the Name of Jesus Christ, that you obey the Word of God, and go out of
the people, 'cause it's written, "In My Name they shall cast out devils."
195 And all the people may be set free. Grant it, Dear God. You are the God of Heaven that defeated, that day with an attraction on Mount Calvary, all sickness and diseases and all the works of the Devil. You are God. And the people are healed by Your stripes. They are free. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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196 God, every handkerchief that's laying here, while the Spirit of God is present, while the anointing of Jesus Christ is upon the people, and the great signs that He promised are being fulfilled, and the earth is trembling, the earthquakes are happening, the great signs that He told, and the Scripture being fulfilled, and the evening Light shining. I lay my body across these handkerchiefs, representing this whole body of believers from East, West, North, and South; and say to the Devil, "In the Name of Jesus Christ, leave every patient these are laid upon," to the honor and glory of the Word of God. In the Name of the Word of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
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197 Now, quietly, sanely, soberly, and in your right minds, as believers, do you now believe and accept your healing from God Almighty, in the Name of Jesus Christ? If you do, hold up your hands. All out in the lands, hold up your hands out there. Every person in here, as far as I can see, had their hands up; inside, outside, against the windows, in the doors, in the nurseries, and all around everywhere, people with their hands up. They accept It. Satan is defeated! The stripes of Jesus Christ heals you, and the Presence of Jesus Christ verifies the fact that He's a living today, ever able to keep every promise that He made. Amen! I believe Him. Don't you? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
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198 Now let us stand up to our feet. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, accepting everything that's been done or said, we love Him with all of our hearts. We cherish Him with all that's in us. Now as you go to your different homes from tonight, God go with you. God give you the Holy Ghost if you don't have the Holy Ghost.
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199 Every man, woman, boy, or girl, here,
that's not been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, there is clothes, pool.
Don't put off tomorrow what can be done today. Tomorrow may be too late.
"Sufficient for today, for the day, is the evil thereof." There is
ministers standing, waiting, clothes are waiting. No excuses. Are you waiting?
If you are, you believe. No matter how you been baptized, sprinkled, poured,
whatever it is, it's an error. The Light has come. Come, believe, and be
baptized.
200 Everyone without the Holy Ghost, may you receive the Holy Ghost, every one of you, in the full Divine power and love that He promised you, to make you a new creature in Him. God bless you.
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201 Now, till next Sunday morning at
nine-thirty, let's sing this little song that we used to sing years ago.
Don't forget the family prayer,
Jesus wants to meet you there;
He will take your every care,
Don't forget the family prayer.
Let's sing it together now.
Don't forget the family prayer,
Jesus wants to meet you there;
He will take your every care,
Oh, don't forget the family prayer.
202 Now as we sing
it again, shake hands with a pilgrim next to you, see, as we sing it.
Don't forget the family prayer,
Oh, Jesus wants to meet you there;
He will take your every care,
Oh, don't forget the family prayer.
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203 Don't you love Him? I love Him. I love
Him because He first loved me and purchased my salvation (that was the
attraction) on Mount Calvary. The same attraction on Sunset Mountain, Mount
Nebo, Mount Sinai, all the different mountaintop experiences. Then, all right,
let's sing it now.
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And pur-... salvation
On Calvary's tree.
204 All that love Him, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] So be it! Now just think of what He's done for you; think, that you could be out there in a barroom tonight. You probably would have been in the grave like I should have been, outside the mercies of God. What did He do for you? Oh, how could we keep from loving Him? Don't make any difference what anybody says, He is first.
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205 Let's close our eyes, and bow our heads
as we sing it to Him now. He likes songs, singing hymns. Let's sing it to Him
now.
I love Him, I love Him
Because He first loved me
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary's tree.
206 With our heads and hearts bowed in His Presence, gratefulness for what our eyes has seen, what our ears have heard, what's recorded in God's Word, what His promise has been to us today. God bless you.
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207 We have a--a guest with us tonight, a
brother, Ned Iverson, formerly a Presbyterian minister. His father, his
brothers, are Presbyterian minister. He, I understand, was baptized today,
again, in the Name of Jesus Christ. He's a minister, and a good one at that.
And now I'm going to ask him, as I believe him to be God's servants, to ask
God's blessings upon this congregation as you go to your home.
208 Brother Iverson,
come forward, while we have our heads bowed in prayer. God bless you, my
brother. `
