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Questions 10 (COD Page 77)
Who these giants were in those days?
113 Now, Josephus there... Course, I know, our church, you’re just like me. I-I’m a seventh-grade dummy and I-I don’t care about education and things. I think it’s the biggest hindrance the Gospel’s ever had. But yet, just sometimes, I take up a book or two. Now, my dealings with people like myself, we’re just all on the same line, we’re just the common people. And I’m so thankful. The Bible said, “The common people heard Him gladly.” The aristocrats, then there was another class, but the common people... Just the ordinary run of people like we are, the people who love God and don’t have much of this world, have their children and families, we love God and like to go to church, give the-the clothes off of our body for His Kingdom, anything like that. We love Him, we’ll do anything, that’s the common people that heard Him. And it’s still the same way today, the common people heard Him gladly.
114 Now, the rich man’s got too much of the earth to think about, see. And-and the real fellow down there who you can’t do nothing with him, on skid row, he just won’t pay no attention to It. But just the common people heard Him gladly.
115 And now in Josephus, his writings, he said... Now, here was his interpretation of these “sons of God” that taken daughters of man. He said that “The fallen spirits that were on the earth... ”
116 Now, you know the... in the Revelation, the 11 chapter... or the 7th, no beg your... 12th chapter of Revelation, the woman standing in the sun. “The red dragon put his tail around two thirds of the stars and pulled them to the earth.” We realize that Satan, in the beginning, set up a kingdom in the northlands to be more beautiful than what the-than what the Michael was, and there was a... then he declared war in Heaven. And he pulled two thirds of the angelic beings with him. Is that right?
117 That’s the reason we’re only a minority. I mean the-the-the side... the small side of the people this morning, in the Christian realm, the Holy Ghost born people, because they are in the-the-the little part. That’s right.
118 And if you watch the spirits that come up out of Genesis and begin to raise up, watch that real classical, high classical church worship. Look at it back yonder in Cain, look at it today. Comes right down in, moves on down through into the Pharisees. And there’s two sects of them, Pharisee and Sadducee. See, moves right on out, and look at it today in Catholicism and great moves like that, great beautiful places.
119 Well, look at Abel with the little lamb, see, just a common. Look at it in the days of Jesus. Look at it all the way down through the Scripture as you move it up, seeing how it is. We’re living right then in that day that when God has called His church all the way down through. That little streak, that little red streak that’s come right down through the Bible, all the way, of the Blood-washed people. Notice!
120 Now, these “sons of God,” to my opinion, not, certainly not disagreeing or trying to act smart or say that Josephus didn’t know what he was talking about, but he was a man like I am. No matter how much scholar he was, he was just a man. And the only thing he had, he researched old scriptures, and so forth like that, and old relics, and so forth, but he had no more than what we have today, the Holy Spirit. Now, he was just going by the natural mind.
121 But we’re taking it by the spiritual mind. Those “sons of God,” when, that they were angelic beings. I believe they are. And I-I believe that the...
122 Now, Josephus said the same thing, but he said, “They forced themselves and pressed themselves into human flesh, and taken sons... and-and taken the daughters of man.” Now, we’re a mixed-up crowd; we’re different here this morning, man, women, and little girls and boys, and I speak this so the adults would certainly understand. But when... He says that “When the angelic beings seen the desire of women, how man lived with women, that they forced themselves into human flesh. So... and they took unto them the daughters of man.”
123 Well, I-I don’t believe that. I believe this, that they were born there in Canaan, and they were born out of the-the group of Cain that was sent forth to the land of Nod. And he had a mark upon him that nobody would kill him, because of his murdered condition, murdering his brother. But if, you notice, even the Israelites found some of those people when they went over there. They was so big, and he said, “We looked like grasshoppers, up the side of them.” Is that right? Hundreds and hundreds of years later, there was great, burly man, big fellows. And sometimes they do dig up the-the carcass of them, and they found that they were great man.
124 Now where I think that come from. Now, here’s a little of my own doctrine now. It’s just church folk, see. I think that Cain was the son of Satan. I know you disagree with that, my own church does. But that’s still... Till God shows me different, I-I’ll believe the same thing, see, that he was the son of Satan. Cause I couldn’t place that ungodly, murderous spirit coming out of God. No, sir. He had to be after his daddy, and his daddy was this... here, when the Satan got upon the serpent.
125 And the serpent was not a reptile, the curse made him a reptile. He was just like a man, he walked upright. And he was with this woman out there, and she committed this adultery and brought forth her first son which was Cain, the nature of his daddy. And I believe that big beast was up like a man, and he walked upright, and that’s where these great giants come from. Yeah, that’s exactly. Now, that’s my own thought and I-I could be wrong. That’s my thought, see. But they were great man.
126 And if you noticed, God standing there before Adam and Eve, He says, “I took you out of the dust, dust you shall return. I...
127 “And because you’ve brought your... you listened to your... the beast instead of to your husband, that you took life out of the world, you’ll bring it back into the world.”
128 And He said, “Serpent, off comes your legs, see, you’re not going to walk up no more. And you’re not going to be a beast, you’re going to be a reptile now. And on your belly you’ll go, and dust shall be your meat.”
129 There’s where I think that those... Cain, after the nature of that brute that lived with... like an animal, that lived with this woman that brought forth this child, which was half brute and man-like, a great big ol’ fellow. And then he went out there and his children begin to come from him, and then beasts, sexual lusts like their daddy in the beginning, that old lust beast found these daughters and things, and took unto them the daughters of man. That’s right.
130 And what brought on these fellows, sure, it come down through that same lineage which was these fallen spirits that come upon the people. Remember, the same spirits that lived back there, today... live today.
131 Look at it today! Well, we’ve got people in this country that’s... Now, I’m not... This, I’m an American, you know I am. But let me tell you, this is the lowest nation outside of Paris, France, that I know of anywhere in the world. It’s so degraded!
132 Why, even the foreign people, in Africa, in-in Sweden and... up there, they say, “What in the world’s the matter with you American people, don’t you all have no more respect for your women? For all the songs on the radio, some kind of an ol’ dirty, vulgar song about women. Don’t you have no respect for your women over there?”
133 All our songs are about women, or sex and lust, and things like that. It’s because the devil has got a hold of it. That’s exactly right. Old Hollywood and televisions and everything is pushing out that vulgar and ungodly stuff, will go to old newstands and everything else. Everything is some stripped women or something. That’s exactly what it started in the beginning, and ending the same way. It’s a shame!
134 And the backbone of any nation is womanhood, when it comes to morals. And you break motherhood, you’ve broke your nation. We’ve got to a place today till our women... smoking cigarettes, and things like that, and drinking whiskey, and carrying on, and it’s-it’s disgraceful!
135 A young man to try to find a wife that’s even a virgin, that’s moral, he’d have to go around some good, little, old, Holy Ghost church, almost, to find one; and that’s exactly right, where a man just kept her in and things like that, and got a little decency about her.
136 You might think that’s crazy, but, brother, you look it over and find out, and see if that isn’t the Truth. It’s a disgrace! All right. Them was the sons of God which are at... Now, that, I can explain my... When-when I know if...
137 I had another question today, they say, “Why, Brother Bill, the Bible said Eve said, ‘I have got a son from the Lord.’” Exactly right. It had to come from the Lord. The Lord’s only Creator there is. He... God created the devil. How’s that? God created the devil. God created every fallen angel there is. Is that right? Why, certainly. That was their choice, not His. He created you, what are you doing about it? You’ll be judged the same as they are. There you are. Certainly!
138 These were sons of God, but they had fallen from grace and had come into these beastly man, and run out and lust. When they seen women, they just got them. Why, they’re still here. The immorality of America is full of... A man without the Spirit of God, would throw a baby out of a mother’s arms and ravish her. Without God, he’s not-he’s not much better than a beast. He’s still got that beast, ungodly nature. And a man with... They say religion takes you, say men went crazy over religion. Religion’s the only thing that can give a man his right mind, that is, the religion of Jesus Christ.
139 I could prove by the Bible that you’re not in your right mind till you’ve found Christ. That’s right. That’s pretty strong, but I can prove that by the Scripture. That’s right. You become beastly, lustfully, and everything, until you’ve found Christ Jesus. He’s the lovely One.
140 Now, I’ll admit that people study too much, and try to go too far ahead, and try to think too hard, and sometimes have mental breakdowns and things on account of studying about the Lord. You must quit that! You don’t have to do that. The only thing you have to do is fall in love with Him, and just go right on loving Him. Amen. It’s not trying to push into something or make yourself something you’re not, just go ahead and let God use you in the way He wants to. Just yield yourself, commit yourself and walk on, happy, singing, rejoicing. That’s the way.
141 The Bible said, “All things work together for good to them that love Him,” so just be sure that you love Him, that’s the only thing you have to know. Amen! Just love Him and walk on! Say, “Lord, I love You, You know I love You.”
“You love this?”
“No, Sir. I love You, Lord.” See?
142 Say, “Well, don’t you want to be... Wouldn’t you like to be a great preacher? Wouldn’t you like to be this?”
143 “No. Now, Lord, what... If You want me to be, I will. If You don’t, Amen. I’ll be right here, just a doormat at this church.”
144 “Well, now, I believe if you do something like this the people would think a lot more of your church.”
145 “I don’t care what the people think, I want to know what You think, Lord. I-I’ll just stay right with You, what You tell me to do. I love all them, sure.”
“Well, now, you know Sister So-and-so, you don’t love her.”
“Yes, I do, Lord. Yes, I sure do. I love her.”
“Why?”
146 “Cause You love her, and You’re in me. And I have to love her, ’cause it’s You in me loving her out of me.” Whew! That will get it.
147 But I think that that was those beasts that fell in there, that’s the lustfully beast that fell, see.
