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Church. He doesn't say, "I will
create several different groups
of churches."
"I will build
my church and the gates of
hell
[or the gates of the grave,
which it should be translated]
shall not prevail against
it."
And He did build His Church,
and the gates of the grave have
not prevailed against it. It is
still here. We have a number of
Congregations; but we are all
organized, we are all together,
and we do all speak the same
thing -- and that one thing has
to be what Christ speaks.
Christ is the Word of God. He
is the Spokesman.
Well, now finally I'll get
around to what I was going to
speak on for a sermon today;
but come back to the book of
Hebrews. But speaking about
prophecy, I do want to get to it
because ... Before I start this, I
want to say another word; and
I would just like to sort of talk
to you a little bit today. I don't
get to do that very often.
Lately I have been coming with
a planned, set sermon. I've
tried to stay right on the beam
and not sidetrack with some-
thing else, and I think I've
been doing that fairly well
lately. All my life I have had to
try to avoid getting sidetracked
and jumping off onto some
other thought that will flash in
my mind as I go along, but to
stay right on the subject. Well,
I've been doing that lately.
TIMES OF TROUBLE
COMING
But today I just wanted to say
what comes to my mind. That's
what I am doing. I just want to
talk to you as one of you, and
we need a time to talk like that
and be together because we are
all one in Christ.
But speaking about prophecy,
how many of the 4 billion
people [today 7 billion, plus]
that exist on earth today do
you think are still going to be
alive when Christ comes? Now
I think Christ is coming very,
very soon because ALL of the
prophecies and everything in
the Bible that has to do with
the time of His coming, the
conditions of the world at the
time of His coming, show that
we are in the very last days just
before the actual coming of
Christ.
Now by that I don't mean that
He can come tonight or tomor-
row, because a number of
things have to happen before
that. At least there has to be a
3½-year period. There has to
be a Great Tribulation, and it's
coming.
There has to be the forepart of
what we call the Day of the
Lord, and the Day of the Lord
is when God intervenes and
begins to supernaturally inter-
vene in the world's affairs and
take over PRIOR to the coming
of Christ; and then He will take
over completely when He
comes.
But even prior to His coming,
there are going to be frightful
signs up in the sky. There are
going to be plagues, and you
know you will find that a
tribulation is coming on this
nation and 1/3rd of our nation
is going to die of disease
epidemics resulting from
famine.
In other words, famine and the
disease epidemic that will
follow -- pestilence, as it is in
Matthew 24,
and again back
in Ezekiel (Let's see, in the
5th
chapter I believe it is of
Eze-
kiel.),
and our cities are to be
destroyed. Then another 1/3rd
of our people are to die by
military warfare, which in our
day now means nuclear war-
fare.
Famine
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