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Questions 237 (COD Page 930)
Matthew 24:24: “And there shall rise false prophets–and false christs, and false prophets, and will show great signs and wonders.” How shall we recognize them?
41 “There shall rise...” In that now you’re coming on down into another age. See? “...raise false christs and false prophets.” A false christ is a false anointed, because Christ is the Anointed. How many knows that the Christ means “the anointed One”? There will be false anointed ones, and they’ll call themselves prophets. But how will you recognize them? By the Word; that’s how you’ll know it, by the Word, whether they are right. How will we recognize them? Will be by the Word. If they’re...If they say that they have the Word, and then deny the Word, then there’s nothing to it, no matter what they do. They might heal the sick; they might open the eyes of the blind; and deny the Word, stay away from it. Don’t care what it is, stay with that Word regardless (see?), because many times I’ve seen voodoo and all kinds of things take place under–under healing.
42 Here sits Brother Sidney Jackson, Sister Jackson this morning from South Africa. He could stand up here and take that subject and really tell you some things about it down there. Why sure, people come to idols and are healed. See, because why?
43 Just like Dr. Hegre gave me that bawling out that time, of me saying that the devil cannot heal. And it said, “A man that stands before as many people as you do, and such poor theology,” said, “saying that the devil can’t heal.” Said, “We got a woman right in our neighborhood carries a apron around her, and goes there; and the people come around her and is supposed to drop money in this apron; then she’ll rub them and take hair out of her head and blood out of their veins and–and put it on a hair and throw it behind her; and she’s constrained to look back around, the disease comes back to people. And,” said, “thirty percent of them get well. And then you say the devil can’t heal?”
44 And I thought, “Oh, my!” I wrote him back, and I said, “Dear sir:” I said, “It’s a strange thing to me that a dean of a Lutheran college would base his theology upon an experience instead of the Word of God.” See? “The Word of God says that Satan cannot cast out Satan. That settles it; Jesus said so.” If Satan...Say, “Then you might wonder how these people are healed through that, that witch, is because the people themselves think they are approaching God through that witch. And healing is based upon faith, not upon how righteous you are, how good you are, how much you keep the commandments, or whatever it is, it’s based solemnly upon faith. ‘All things are possible to them that believe!’ See? It’s not based upon how good you are. I’ve seen prostitutes come to the platform and be instantly healed and a sainted woman cross the platform and miss it. Sure, it’s based upon faith, ‘If thou canst believe,’ not upon righteousness.”
45 Look down here in France where they go to that shrine of that woman, go in there in wheelchairs and come out walking, upon nothing but a purely a superstition, if anything, spiritualism–to worship a dead person. See? And yet they’re healed, because they think they’re approaching God. Now, not degrading Catholic people, I’m degrading Catholic system, just like I am Protestant system (see?), all these things.
46 Now, ministers, I know this is going to tear in, but I’m answering questions; and I want–I want you to understand that (see?) I just–just telling you the Truth from my heart; Christ before me the best of my knowledge. See? It’s all systems, and those systems has wound people up like...People go join the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostals, Catholic; and they think they’re approaching God when they’re
just going through a system. God honors it sometimes and takes their–their diseases away from them through idols. Well, right in the Hottentots of Africa they get healing with idols and so forth (see?), but they think they’re approaching God.
47 You think a Catholic nun goes and joins the–the Catholic nunnery because she wants to be a bad woman? She joins that nunnery because she wants to be a good woman. A man don’t go join the Catholic church just to be a bad man; he goes there to join to be a good man. You don’t...Say, “Well, what is it?” Neither does those–neither does the Indian in India, or the Hindu join Hinduism to be a bad person.
48 When I went into the temple of the–of the Jains, where I was interviewed there by that priest–like a pope setting upon a big pillow, his feet wound up under him, holding his toes–with such eyesight that he wrote a comparison of Scripture of the 23rd Psalm with his naked eye on a piece of steel that was less than a–not much more than a quarter of an inch. Now, and it’s beyond any human reasoning to write it, and he engraved it
on there with his natural eye; and he was a man forty years old or better. See?
49 Why sure, you–you just stay around here, just hear about Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian; you ought to go out and get into the mission fields one time. Get things to open your eyes! See?
50 Now, you think that all them sisters setting there; they won’t even–they won’t cook; they won’t eat; they have to beg everything that they get. They won’t–they make little mops with their hands to mop the ants and things off the street, because they believe in reincarnation; they might be stepping on their relation. Wouldn’t step on ants, kill flies, or nothing; wouldn’t even sterilize the knife to operate on a finger. Let the man die, because they kill a germ; it might be their–some of their relation returning back. See? You keep getting better, and better, and better; finally, you become a human being, a better human being, and on and on like, till you become a god. Just on, and on, and on, rotating, getting better and better.
51 Now, they don’t do that to be bad people. They do that with sincerity, but you see, “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man.” There’s only one thing, people, that I know to tell you as a–as a class this morning on these questions, is the Word, the Word of God. Then you believe that Jesus Christ is that Word, and that Word is made flesh now among us, fulfilling exactly what He said He would do in this age. All right.
Now, that’s how you’ll know them, not by their church, not by their creed, not by their sign, not by their denominations, not by any healing, not by anything, but by the Word. See?