Questions & Answers
Questions 14 (COD Page 98)
Is not Isaiah’s meaning of “the beating of the swords into plowshares” to come to pass during the one-thousand-year reign of Christ, rather than something that man can bring, as so many modern religionists tell us?
239 Ever who you are, my dear brother or sister... looks like a man’s handwriting. But, anyhow, ever who you are, you are exactly right! That’s when the plowshares will be beat... or when the swords will be beat into plowshares. That’ll bring forth the Millennium Reign. And all those modernistic religious cults that’s going around trying to educate people into the Kingdom of God... That’ll be when God Himself will come in the supernatural Being and in the supernatural Power, to a supernatural-believing people, and will receive a supernatural Power that’ll mold God’s sons. Hallelujah! It’ll never be no more reading, writing, arithmetic, it’ll be by the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Then the world will study war no more.
240 Every nation today, every power, every kingdom, is controlled by the devil. The Bible says so. And one of these days the kingdom of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He’ll rule and reign a thousand years upon the earth; and rapture the Church. Exactly, that’s exactly right, dear reader.
241 The hundred and forty-four thousand is servants. The great number which no man could... “Multitudes which no man could number,” are the Gentiles.
242 Just a minute now, one more little thing on there. I can’t. I’ll just have congregational prayer then, in a few minutes. Look here, I think This is more important right now. I want to pray for the sick, but we’ll hurry up. Instead of having discernment, we’ll just go right through. I want to ask you something. Here’s even another one. I’ll just have to take this and get it next Sunday, I guess.
243 Look, friends, on this, how beautiful! Look! Want you to watch now, closely, this person who asked this question. The hundred and forty-four thousand, now, that is the servants, they’ll serve. If you noticed, positionally, in the old Scripture...
244 Always look at the shadow if you want to see what the positive is. That’s right. Look back yonder, see what it is. Now, that’s vice versa since the Cross, and look what the positive is if you want to see what the shadow is. Back there, it was leaning up to the Cross, we had to look (back there) to see the shadow, to see what the Cross would be; now you have to look from the Cross, to look back and see what the shadow is. See? Look what Christ was in the days when He was here on earth, what He was then He is now. This is His shadow. See what I mean? You know, in the beginning when I explained it, that’s what it is. Now, if I’m looking from back there, I have to look what the shadow was to find out what this will be, what the Cross was.
245 Now, one day there was sin in Israel, and there was a man... by the tribe of the name of Levi. They pulled their swords and they went with Moses to the camp, and they destroyed everything that was sin. Is that right? God looked down and said, “Because you did this and stood for Me, your... all these others will serve you. And you go right into the temple as priests.” Is that right? “You stay right in the temple, and the rest of them will work and will bring in a tenth and take care of you.” Is that right?
246 Oh, hallelujah! If you can see what that temple was, that the Levites was the Bride. Now, when sin is wakening on every hand, the Levites is pulling their swords. The Holy Ghost born Bride is standing out, saying, “Jesus Christ in the positive is Jesus Christ in the negative, just the same. Sin is still sin, it’s wrong to do these things!” That’s right, they’re standing there with a Sword.
247 God says, “Come ye now, the blessed of My Father.” That is the Bride.
248 There’s the servants, and look where the servants was camped. Twelve on this side... I mean, four on this side, four on that side, four on that side, and four on that side; twelve tribes. The twelve tribes are the hundred and forty-four thousand. Look in the Book of Revelation, he saw the City with its twelve foundations. Upon each gate was a name of an apostle, and twelve gates. And around it was the twelve tribes, (hallelujah!), sitting around.
249 And in there was the Redeemed. Hallelujah! Black, white, yellow, brown, and all that’s Blood-washed will be His servants, He said they’ll be with Him. They’ll... The sun will not fall on them any more, they’ll not hunger nor thirst anymore, and through a great ceaseless Age will they live and reign with Christ forever: Him, the King; and them, the Queen. Rule and reign forever!
