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Questions 9 (COD Page 66)
What position will the church be in when the Gospel returns to the Jews?
51 Now, the person that did this, was referring here to Luke, the... He-he told me, our brother, that he was referring to where It said, “The-the Gentiles will trod the walls of Jerusalem till the Gentile dispensation would be finished.” That’s in Luke 21:24. Now listen closely and this may get it. Beautiful question! Wonderful!
And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed about with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
52 Now, let’s catch this close now. “The desolation is nigh when you see Jerusalem compassed about with armies.” Now, that’s been a lot of confusion right there, with the people in the... But approach it from a historical standpoint with the Bible.
53 Now, the Advent brethren, the Seventh-day Advent brethren, they believe that-that Jerusalem will again be compassed about with armies. Well, now, that could be true, ’cause Scripture has a compound meaning many times.
54 And how many knows that Scripture has a compound meaning to every prophecy? Sure does! Yes, sir. It’ll say it and mean it just exactly to this time, and turn right around and repeat it again back over here somewhere. See? Like... And I’ll refer to one of them if I can think of it right quick. Oh, yes, here’s one in Luke... In Matthew 2, said, “And Jesus was called out of Egypt that it might be fulfilled which was spoke of by the prophet, saying, ‘My... I’ve called My son out of Egypt.’”
55 Now, that prophecy, referring back in there by the prophet, was exactly referring to Israel (which was God’s son) He called out of Egypt. That’s right, in-in Genesis, Exodus. But it-it was referred to-to there, but was repeating again. “Out of Thy... ” Israel was God’s son. You know that. He told Pharaoh, said, “You... ” Said that “You-you... ” what he had done to His son, that He would take the life... He wouldn’t let His son go, so Pharaoh... God taken Pharaoh’s son from... and... or the death angel that night. So it’s a compound meaning.
56 And so, now, as Jerusalem, compassed about with armies, but, literally, historically, that was during about A.D. 96 when Titus had beseiged Jerusalem. But now watch this closely, you can see the different, I believe that Jerusalem will be compassed about with armies again at the end time. But I believe this here was comparing with when Titus besieged it, when the desolation thereof.
57 Now, “The desolation,” speaking... was when Daniel, the prophet... “standing in the Holy place.” Notice, he said, “When you see the abomination that maketh desolation standing in the Holy place.” See, “the abomination,” abomination is “unclean.” “That maketh desolation,” desolate is to “do away with,” is to “destroy.” “When you see the abomination that maketh desolation standing in the Holy place,” scripturally fulfilled when Titus beseiged Jerusalem, took the...
58 In beginning of this chapter where they was asking Him, “When will the end time be? And what will be the signs of the coming of the... of Christ?” And they told Him about the temple, how it was, how goodly it was adorned with great stones and things.
59 He said, “There’ll come a time when there won’t even be one stone left upon another, that this will be torn down.” He begin to give them signs and wonders. Then, Jesus speaking now, turns now to Daniel, to fulfill, ’cause all prophecy must dovetail one with the other. The whole Scripture is not broken nowhere.
60 Jesus said, “The Scriptures cannot be broken.” Amen. And there... Am I going to Heaven? Sure, I am! The Scriptures cannot be broken. To you who don’t believe in signs and miracles and wonders, how could you get away from that Scripture? The Scriptures cannot be broken, no more than Christ can (up here above), can be done away with. Just as His great body above, and every move of His body reflects a motion down here on the earth, it’s bound to be. Then if Christ... if your... Divine healing, the power of God is taken from the literal church, or the spiritual church here on earth, then it’s been taken from Christ. He no more...
61 But, oh, what a picture of the true Vine there, and we are the branches in that Vine. See? Just as the Vine moves, so does the branches move. Is that right? How beautiful then of His great body, oh, His great bleeding arms and dropping tears, and His bleeding sides, and His striped back hanging over the earth like this between God (the Father) and the mortals of this earth, pleading and loving them just as His body comes into motion and power, it’s given into the Church.
62 Just as He said, “I’ll move my hands this way,” and His literal body moves. “Go here and preach the Gospel,” you’ll see that Church move right straight. Because, my shadow has to move with my hand. Amen. Is that right? Amen. Oh, my, when I think of that! There it is, His Body moving, “Go ye into all the world, demonstrate the Power.” No matter if we run on our theology and teachings and so forth like that, we bitterly fail. But now the hand of God is moving, signs and wonders are appearing. Why, my!
63 Jesus said, down there when He was casting out devils... Not getting off this question, now, just for a moment. But Jesus said, when He was casting out devils, He said, “Who do your sons cast them out by?” If I with the finger of God cast out devils, who does your sons cast them out by? If you got a better policy, show us.” See? “If I with the finger of God... ” Amen. Just think, the “finger” of God. There’s God above Christ; Christ above the church. There’s God, the Father, says certain-certain thing; then God, the Son, moves His hand and the shadow follows it. “If I with the finger of God cast out devils, who does your sons cast them out by?”
64 Look, I want you to notice. Oh, no matter how great a disease or how much affliction the devil could put on you, it just takes His finger to move them. Oh, my! My! Look at them big strong shoulders and arms and muscles. Just His finger moves every disease and casts out devils. And what a little thing the devil is! He just takes His finger and moves him away then. “If I with the finger of God... ”
65 Now let me show you some love of God. But when a sheep was lost, He didn’t use His finger, He laid him upon His shoulders, and He took His whole Being, hands, sheep around His shoulder. The strongest, most powerful part of man is across his shoulders and back. You know that. For all of His arm muscles and muscles move out, and He taking the whole sheep; put Him upon His shoulder and here He comes, not with His finger, to cast out a little, old devil, but here He comes with His... all of His muscles of His leg, all the muscles of His arm, moving through the wilderness, packing the lost sheep on His shoulder. Oh, my! “If I with the finger of God cast out devils, who does your sons cast them out by?” Oh, hallelujah! My!
66 All right, back to the subject:
But when you... see Jerusalem compassed about with armies,... Then let them which are in Judaea flee into the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart not out; and let... them which are in the countries enter... into. For these shall be days of-of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon the people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations:...
67 Notice how beautiful here the Scripture is to make it specifically. First thing, “By the edge of swords.” This last one will be by atomic bomb. See? But this is by the edge of sword, and the Jews was to be led away captive to all nations. It’ll never be that way again, they’ll be gathered in Palestine for the last time. See? This was referring to days that’s passed by. And that’s just exactly according to history, come to pass just that way.
68 They were led away into all nations. Every nation under Heaven today, you find Jews. Oh, every nation! You go to China, and you find Jews. You go to Russia, you find Jews. Go to the little islands, you find Jews. Scattered in among every nation! What is it? God’s prophecy. God intended it. And those Jews are mileposts, brother. When you see them...
69 I know they’re blind and led away, and deceiving and everything, but they was deceived by God that you and I might have sight. That’s right. But I’ll say this in the spirit of prophecy, by the Bible, that, the hour of the Jew to return home is at hand. Yes, sir. He hardened Hitler’s heart, drove them out of Germany; hardened Mussolini’s heart, drove them out of Russia. He’s driving them from everywhere, like He did in the days when He brought them out. And then when they
got out into the wilderness there and was ready to cross over, what taken place? God visited the land with great plagues and things. Which. He’ll repeat again with His two servants, the
two olive trees of Ezekiel and also of Revelation 11. He will repeat those signs and wonders.
70 Look at them two witnesses in Revelation 11, “I’ll give power unto My witnesses, and they’ll close the heavens in the days of their prophecy, or send plagues upon the earth as they will.” There you are, the two witnesses in the last days.
71 I know modern teaching is that “That’s the Old and New Testament.” That’s wrong! That’s wrong!
72 It isn’t two witnesses, that’s absolutely a return of Moses and Elijah. And you notice back there, neither one of them... Moses, he died, but where did he go? He had to raise again. And Elijah was translated even without death. He’ll have to die, ’cause every mortal has to, so he’ll have to return back again. And there’s the two witnesses.
73 Now watch:
And they will trod... And they shall fall by the edge of the sword,... (24th verse)... of the sword, and all shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trod down of the Gentiles, until... (Amen!)... until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
74 Shocking, isn’t it, to know that we have a limited time? God said so! The Gentile dispensation was ushered in with King Nebuchadnezzar. Oh, how remarkable! How much time I could spend on this, just for a few minutes! But notice, everyone wants their question. But, while we’re on this, let’s think of it, because it’s very essential now, right now.
75 Look! God led the people, of the Jews. They were never a nation, they were just a people. And they never was an organized church, they were just the church called out. There never was an organization amongst the Jews, they were always led by God.
76 Then when politically, nationally, they wanted to become... have a king. And God gave them a king and it never did work. God’s their King. God’s our King, that’s right, and God’s the King of the Church.
77 Now, notice then when they were captured and carried away into Babylon because they tried to impersonate the nations of the world. What a beautiful picture today of the church trying to impersonate the world out yonder, and carried away, carried away with their-their living. The church lives just the same as the world does, carries on, acts just like it, and everything else, and claiming to be the Church. You can’t do that. No, sir. Your very life proves what you are.
78 What you are... As I said in the beginning, what you are somewhere else is what you reflect here. What you are, what your celestial or terrestial body is up yonder, what your celestial body is somewhere else is what you’re reflecting back here. In the spirit land, what you are, is what you are here. If you’re still vulgar-minded and so forth in the spirit land, you’re vulgar-minded here. If you still got malice, envy, and strife, you’re in the spirit land with that, it reflects back here. But if your whole innermost being has become cleansed and purged, it shows that you’ve got a body out yonder (waiting) that’s been cleansed and purged, and it’s reacting back in the flesh. Don’t you see? See, there it is. “If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting.” See?
79 Now, in this time, the end time, how that this carnal comparison, impersonations of Christianity will all mingle up into one big Babylon just like it did back there. And they were carried away into Babylon. Is that right? And the Bible said, “The angel of the Lord called and said, ‘Come out of Babylon, My people!’”
80 Confusion! This, “I’m a Baptist. I’m a Methodist. I’m a Presbyterian,” all that’s just confusion. There’s no salvation in it at all.
81 Now, don’t say that I’m saying the Baptist people hasn’t got salvation, the Methodist people. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about the church and its political power, it’s politics. And of politically speaking, because you’re Methodist, or Baptist, or Presbyterian, or Catholic, has nothing to do with It. God don’t even recognize it, and it’s in Babylon today. And God’s calling out a Church out of all of them, pulling out the pure in heart, making His Church. How beautiful!
82 And notice, I could state something here that would shock, but if-if it is... Listen, now. Watch how Babylon... What taken place at... in-in Babylon, when the force was brought on to the true worshippers. Remember, just a little handful, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and Daniel, of-of the true worshippers that went down into captivity, when God called them to-to really show their colors, what they were. They were forced into worship of an idol. Is that right? Idolatry! They was forced into worship an idol, and they had to bow before an idol. And if they didn’t do it, they were persecuted.
83 Oh, what a picture you could pull out of Daniel, Revelation, tying those together and show by the Scripture that the Church is coming into the same type of persecution before She’s called out. That’s the way the Gentile Church was brought in, that’s the way the Gentile Church will be taken out. As she come in so shall she go.
84 And look how he saw the image. And now, remember, the image... Now, this is home-place now. Look, I believe that the image that King Nebuchadnezzar made was of Daniel, a holy man. If you’ll notice, King Nebuchadnezzar already had called Daniel, called him “Belteshazzar” (which was his idol), and he made-made a image, and no one after Daniel had been throwed in this lions’ den, and so forth, and he said, “No one should serve any other gods, and so forth, but Daniel’s God.” It was probably the image of a holy man, great statue, and everybody was to bow down to this.
85 But the Church, Shadrach, and Meshach, and Abed-nego... Daniel being the leader, as Christ being the Leader of the Church.
86 And they was to bow before this image and do worship to the image. Notice! And you notice, in those times, Daniel was silent. Amen! Oh, and I hope you get this. Daniel was silent. Letting them... they had to make their own choice.
87 In the day... in the going out of the Gentile dispensation, there will be an image, and everybody will have to bow before this image and do worship. Though it be holy as ever, you’re not to worship an image (image-worship).
88 Now, notice. Oh, my! Right at the end, Daniel steps in again. How marvelous! That night before the great feast of the concubines and so forth, there come a Hand writing on the wall, “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN,” across the wall. And the interpretation, nobody could give, it was wrote in unknown tongues. Nobody could interpret It.
89 They went and got their best scholars. They said, “We don’t know.”
90 They went and got all their soothsayers and astrologers. “We don’t know. We don’t know nothing about It. We never seen such language, never heard such in our life.”
91 But there was a man! God had His man, Daniel was there. Said, “Go get him,” said, “for the Spirit of God live in him.”
92 So Daniel come up there, begin to read and interpret that language on the wall, and he gave... What was the interpretation? Not, “Oh, blessed be thou, O king, live forever.” But with a raw, burly, a flat rejection of him, said, “You are weighed in the balance and found wanting.”
93 Look, that’s the same way. As that Supernatural brought in the Gentile kingdom, so the Supernatural is taking out this of the Gentiles. The kingdom was ushered in by the Supernatural, it’s going out by the Supernatural. The walls of Jerusalem shall be trod, shall be... it would... “Gentiles will possess it until the Gentile dispensation be finished.” Then God turns to the Jew. Amen! Oh, my!
94 Oh, friends, I wish we could get that right down good. Don’t you? Have about a week on that one subject, see, so we could thoroughly search it through the Scripture.
95 That, watch, listen-listen close now what He said. “Jerusalem shall be trod down by the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles be finished.” The seige of-of Titus, then come in, taken in Jerusalem. He said, “Now-now, you heard about the abomination that maketh desolation?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, that’s when the Gentiles come in.”
“Yeah, we understand that,” said the disciples.
“Now, the Gentiles has had their government now.”
“Sure.”
96 “Jerusalem under Gentile government then?” Yes, sir! The Romans. They still had the government in-in Jerusalem. And it started back yonder by the abomination that maketh desolation that Daniel spoke of.
97 Now He said, “That time is near at hand, for they’re going to tear down this temple and put up the Moslem of Omar, is going to stand on the same place here, the Mohammedans, Gentiles. And it’s going to stand there.”
98 Gentile means “unbeliever.” That wasn’t the Church, now. That was the Gentile, see, the unbeliever. Now, and that will stand until the Gentile dispensation will be finished. Then when the Gentile dispensation be finished, the great Prince is to stand for the people (Who is Christ) at the end time.
99 “He came to Him,” in Daniel, “Whose hair was white as wool,” like we seen Him in Revelation 1, “to the Ancient of time. And the Judgment was set and the Books were opened. Books” (plural) “was opened and every man was judged out of the Books, the things was written therein.” Look, the Books were opened, “He saw Him coming, and ten thousands times ten thousands ministered to Him.” Saints come with Him. Ismthat right, in Daniel? “And the Books were opened,” that’s the Book of your life, “and every man-and every man was judgedmthus, the sinner, judged thus. And another Book was opened,”mwhich was the Book of Life, “and every man was judged.”
100 Now notice, always remember, carry it in three. If you don’t, you’re sure to get mixed up. There was three classes of people born on the earth; there was three classes in the beginning; there’ll be three classes in the ending. What...
101 Jesus returned with ten thousand times ten thousands, ministered to Him. You remember him saying, “Is it not a small thing for you to take... or an uncommon thing to take your business and your troubles to the law, when know not that the Saints shall judge the earth?” The Saints judge the earth! Hallelujah! I think of that, my! To see Him coming, yonder, with the Blood-washed, after the Millennium, the redemption and the redeemed of all ages standing in His Presence. The Blood-washed Bride!
102 Not just those who are good people, they certainly miss the first resurrection. The Bible said, “And the rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years were finished.” Is that right? That’s those who had their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life but refused the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
103 Just the Elect goes in that time. Just the Elect takes the-the-the Millennium. Oh, then, brother, what type of people should we be? I want to live through the Millennium! Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily beset us. If the fellow says something wrong or does something this way, pray for him and keep moving on. Let your one alternative be set towards God. If nobody else makes it, you make it! For there’s going to be an Elect who’s going to live through the Millennium Age and will go in and out with Christ for a thousand years, and then they shall go up into Glory with Him and return again. When the resurrection of the wicked is brought forth, then the Millennium will set... After the Millennium is over, then Christ will go up with the Church, and at the end of the thousand years He will return with the Church.
104 Christ comes three times. The first time, He came to redeem His Church. Is that right? The second time, He comes to receive His Church. The third time, He comes with His Church. See?
He come to redeem Her; He comes to rapture Her and be caught
away, in the time of the plagues and so forth; returns back for
the Millennium, lives through the Millennium.
105 And then the great King and Queen comes down for the Judgment. The White Throne Judgment is set and the Books were opened. And there stands the redeemed, Holy Ghost born Church of the Living God, standing there in Her beauty to judge. “The Books were opened, judgment was set and every man was judged thus,” that was the sinner. “And another Book was opened,” not for the Holy Ghost Bride, she’ll never take it ’cause She’s in the Rapture.
106 If you are filled with the Holy Ghost this morning, and God’s power is moving in every fiber of your body, what good would it do for you to stand in the Judgment? You’re already judged, and been received, and filled, and already-already translated into Heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Not you will be, you are now, right now translated!
107 “Those whom He called, He justified; those whom He justified, He glorified.” And every redeemed person in the world this morning, that’s under the Blood of Jesus Christ, filled with the Holy Ghost, hath everlasting Life and can’t perish, and is already in Heavenly places with Christ Jesus, and shall never come into condemnation. Already redeemed! Isn’t that wonderful? See? Already redeemed, sitting in Heavenly places now with Christ, and glo-... already glorified, already glorified!
108 You say, “Brother Bill, does the Scripture say that?”
109 Jesus said that, or the Scripture says that, or the writers. Paul, he said, “Those whom He justified, He hath already glorified. Those whom He foreordained, He predestinated; those whom He predestinated, He justified; those whom He justified, He has already glorified.” What is it? Oh, my! (Excuse me.) Already glorified! Then if we are filled with the Holy Ghost, our fibers and beings have already been preserved in God, there is a glorified body already waiting, and you have to go to it as soon as this is over. Those whom He has justified, He’s already glorified!
110 What I was saying a while ago, the negative and positive. Wish I had the education enough to bring that out and make it sensible and clear to you, but I just can’t find it. I know what I’m talking about, but I can’t present it the way I want to.
111 [Blank spot on tape-Ed.]... Red Sea and all these things they’re putting out. The materials is there, the Jews, real rich, then that same thing will pollute their camp again. Yeah! They’ll come right down, the cities of the world. Russia will come down, say, “We just got to have that stuff. That’s uranium and everything down there, we got to go get it.” And as they go down, then will be the battle of Armageddon. That’ll be when God will stand like He did in the valley for the children of Israel and fight again. But that’ll take place until the Gentile dispensation will be finished. And when that time is finished, she’s cut off.
112 [Blank spot on tape-Ed.] Now to my humble opinion, dear person who asked this question here, to my humble opinion about this:
