The Angel Of His Presence

I want to read just a little bit from the book of Jeremiah and talk with you some. The Lord may give some thoughts tonight. In the fourth verse: The ninth chapter of the book of Amos. You know the thought here, we're told in the Scriptures that everything seems to know its appointed time, but the people of God know not or understand not the judgments of the Lord. Now there's a lot that could be said tonight concerning the judgment of Christ. But I'd like to dwell just a little bit on the presence of the Lord. The presence of the Lord. In the old testament going along with the judgments. When I speak of the judgments it shows what God did when they rejected His presence. There's two things that you can have in serving God. You can have the presence of God, or, you can have the judgments of God. And what happens when we reject the presence of God, we receive the judgments of God. And we're told in the old testament, He said to Joshua, He said I will send Mine angel before thy face and ye shall not grieve him, for he will not pardon thy transgression. A lot of times you know we love to feel like God is good and God is grace and we like to feel like that no matter what we do that God has got mercy and He will give us a atonement for it and we don't have to worry. But you know, there's a place that we can get to, to where what we're doing is no longer as error of our lives. but it has become a practice of our life, and when we get to the place to where our wrongs is a practice then we are in trouble with God. As long as I error, as long as I make mistakes, as long as I don't know, as long as I don't understand, God will give me mercy and God will help me. And even if I do understand and I get under tremendous pressure, and I'm overtaken in a fault God still will bear with me. But when I learn the ways and desires of God and then after this I just carelessly go along and I am negligent toward my duty or my growth in the Lord Jesus, In the knowledge and grace of God. I'm Just careless and I don't perform my duty, Then I am in trouble with God. There is no pardon for the transgression that is willful. There is no pardon for it. There is no atonement for a willful sin. Jesus did not spill His blood for somebody that's going to willfully transgress the desires of God and the ways of God. He did not do that. There has never been an atonement for that kind of sin and there never will be an atonement for that kind of sin. I remind you again that in the Old Testament it was said to the people that they were to bring two doves. If a man sin ignorantly that he was to bring these doves one of them was to typify the presence of the Holy Spirit and one was to typify the spirit of man that was innocent, in that a dove has no gall bladder and cannot digest bitter things, and it typifies the purity and that the Holy Spirit was accepted in the place of the error that the man had committed. God loved Israel didn't He? God done everything that He could with Israel and for Israel and He told Israel that I will send Mine angel before thy face and ye shall not grieve him for he will not pardon thy transgression. Israel rebelled against God. Even though God blessed Israel and done everything that He could to help Israel yet they still rejected the presence of God. Is that right? They still would not listen to God and they still rejected His presence. He said I will send the angel of My presence with you. The angel of My presence. When you say the angel of the presence of God you're saying the Spirit of His presence. For an angel is a spirit. Like when the shepherd's went out in the field. The Bible said they were out in the field abiding with their flock when all of a sudden the angel of the Lord came upon them. The glory of God came down. And on different occasions it speaks, where the angel of the Lord came upon a certain man. The angel of God is a Spirit. It's like a beautiful sunshiny day, just dawning on you all of a sudden. It's an angelic being like a misty cloud that overwhelms you, just swallows you up in joy and jubilance if it's an angel of God. If it's a fallen angel, you might be doing real good. You might not be temperamental. You might be feeling fine and all of a sudden somebody crosses your path that's possessed with a devil and all of a sudden you just become so angry and so temperamental that you just can't restrain yourself. Because that evil cloud, that evil spirit that's following with bitterness, and with anger and you just can't be pacified unless you just turn loose as the world says. Now the angel of God's presence is a wonderful jubilant thing. To have God with you is the greatest thing that ever happened to mankind. This afternoon in my room I was praying, talking to God. I was troubled about a little something that had taken place today. While I was praying. While I was talking to God all of a sudden I felt the angel of God's presence as it came into the room where I was. And it broke me up as He moved into my room. I felt the Spirit of God. I felt the angel of God. I felt His presence as He come near me. It just swept over me and it just broke me up. I could feel all broken up as His Spirit came upon me. In the Bible in the Old Testament a lot of times God would call for a prophet maybe a king had done wrong or maybe they had went to battle when God had told them not to go to battle. In that day they had to listen to the prophets of God. They couldn't just do like they do today. Our world would be far better off today if the president would get a word from the prophets of God before he started doing something instead of having Congress to come together to try to figure out what should be done. But in that day they went to God. They inquired of God. They had a man of God in the land and they'd inquire of the prophets and the prophets would get with God and God would tell them what to do. A lot of times some of them that failed to inquired of God got themselves into a perplexity like we're in today, In that we've not inquired at the hand of God. Today the world is in a turmoil. Everything is in a terrible turmoil because we've not inquired at the mouth of God to know what's right and what's wrong. Isn't that right? And a lot of times the kings of old they'd do the very same thing and then God would call for a prophet. A lot of times the prophet was upset. A lot of times he was angry as it was in the days of Ahab when they called for the prophet and the prophet was so angry, said I wouldn't even speak to you if it wasn't for the king of Judah, said I wouldn't have anything to do with you when he spoke to the king of Israel. He said I told You not to go up to battle. God told you not to out there. But you was stiff-necked and stubborn and went on and caused a slaughter of the people and all these things. That's the way the prophets would talk with them when they come to them. And so then when this great tragedy has befell them and all these things happened they didn't know what to do so and they realized the troops and strength of the human arm would not stand then they decided they'd have to go to God. Isn't that just like America today? Isn't that just like the nations today? They don't want to inquire of God. They don't want to know what God thinks about it. But just as quick as they find out that the power of arms won't stand then they send out a plea and they say, let's everybody pray and talk to God. The time to pray is before it happens. The time to pray is before the calamity befalls. The time to pray is before you got a hornet's nest stirred up. And find out whether that's the proper thing to do. So then, the prophets would come out and they wouldn't speak. The reason they wouldn't prophesy is because they did not feel the angel of His presence. They were devoted men. They were devout men. They fasted. They prayed. They stayed in a place to where they could just be subject to the Holy Ghost any time He moved. A lot of people don't believe that the Holy Ghost was back there but He was. He was the same Holy Ghost and they stayed subject to the Holy Spirit, waiting for the move of the Holy Spirit before they'd ever say anything. And a lot of times it was as in this particular case, before they'd ever prophesy they'd call for a minstrel and they'd get a timbrel and start playing the timbrel you know to try to create an atmosphere to where faith would come up and try to get rid of the anger and get rid of the temper that they might not prophesy presumptuously. Because God warned the prophets said if you prophesied presumptuously that prophet shall die. Any person that presumptuously takes to themselves the ministry and tries to lead the people and direct the people and tell the people what God has said, if it is a presumptuous thing, that prophet shall die. Any man doing that you cannot take the priesthood to yourself. It doesn't matter how religious you feel. It doesn't matter how much you feel like you're called. The Bible said to make your calling and election sure. You can't send men off to seminary and put him in college and make a preacher out of him. God doesn't talk with people like that. God calls to His own ministry and He doesn't talk with them people. That's a formalistic practice for the soothing of the conscience of them that are in the world. They're twice dead and pluck up by the root. They come together with a ritualistic practice and they don't know nothing about God. But God calls His own people. God calls His own prophets. God indoctrinates His own preachers. God anoints His own man with the Spirit of His understanding, and the Bible said this Spirit that abides in with you teaches you. It's an anointing that teaches you that forth in your heart and in your mind that it might direct you and open your understanding and cause you to do the will of God. Is that right? The prophets wouldn't prophesy. They'd have to get the timbrel and start shaking the timbrel. As they began to shake the timbrel all of a sudden they would begin to get in a mellow spirit. You know like Saul. When Saul was troubled he would call for David. The evil spirit would come upon him and he'd call for David and David would begin to strum over his little harp. Then as he began to sing and began to play all of a sudden the demons and devils that had the atmosphere charged with evil, would begin to back away. And the mellowest thing begin to sweep over Saul and a sweet atmosphere began to come in and he'd just feel so rested and he wouldn't feel troubled anymore. And he'd feel like you know, God was with him again and the presence of the Lord was there again. It just made so much difference because David was a man anointed of God. David was a man that could get in touch with God's Spirit. David was a man that kept God right at his right hand all the time. He never got away form God. While Saul was interested in the things of the world David was interested in the will of God and he was watching them sheep back off in the pasture. Way on the hillside somewhere. David was interested in Gods' people while Saul was interested in the things if the world. Isn't that the way it is today? The ministry out yonder today. They're not interested in Gods' people. They are interested in money they're interested in prestige, They're interested in education, they're interested in securities, but they're not interested in Gods' people. They don't do anything really for Gods' people. But I thank the Lord tonight because we can be interested on Gods' people and have God interested in us. And David he'd just play on the harp and all of a sudden that right atmosphere was created. The prophets of old when they got ready to prophesy they'd got somebody to play on the timbrel. All of a sudden the atmosphere would get just right. And then they'd feel the angel of His presence. They'd feel the moving of the Spirit and they'd feel that God was on the scene. And then as they'd begin to move they'd feel an unction. the Bible said we've got an unction from the Holy One. They'd feel that stirring that unction, that driving on the inside. All of a sudden it was just like they'd burst open if they didn't say something. Something would begin to charge them and rejuvenate their being and all of a sudden that prophet begin to move and he'd say, Yea, thus saith the Lord. He'd begin to speak and the Bible said it is not him that speaketh but the heavenly Father that speaketh from within him and that verbal inspiration begin to move on him and that voice began to speak and the angel of His presence began to come around. And then, it was God giving His own mind to the people to deliver them from the corruption of the world. Hallelujah! Isn't that wonderful. To think that today we've got God and the angel of His presence today right here with us. I think that's wonderful. I don't know how you feel about it. But I'm excited about it myself. Hallelujah! I'm glad to have the angel of His presence here. As I said in the afternoon in my own bedroom, feeling the wonderful angelic presence of His being in my room. How it thrilled my heart! How it broke me up! And as He come upon me and as He began to talk with me I just thought Lord how wonderful. I thought Lord the world has nothing for me. The world has nothing that I want. I have no desire for the world. I have no desire for the things of the world. But God for Thy Spirit I hunger and I thirst and as David said, My heart panteth after Thy Spirit O God as the hart did after the water brook. I have a desire a thirst a hunger a burning that drives me into the things of God. I love the things of God. I long for the presence of God. I care nothing for the world. But I love God and His presence. The angel of His presence as it comes down with Israel I will send the angel of My presence with you. I will send My presence with you. I will send My Spirit with you. As I have covenanted with you He said. I have made a covenant and as I have covenanted with you so My Spirit remaineth among you. You know like the song "God put a rainbow in the clouds, when it looked like the sun wouldn't shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds." You know you can have a dark dismal day but if the ark of the covenant is with you God will put a rainbow in the clouds. I said God will bring forth some clouds with silver linings. It might be a dismal day, it might be a dark winter morning, it might be a stormy time for your little ship. It might be tossed about everywhere but in just a little while if you'll call on God, God will move the darkness away and you'll hear the springtime of the morning as the birds begin to sing and you will see that God can change the situation and bring you into something that can really lift you up and strengthen you in your experience with God, You don't have to be cast down. You don't have to be half hearted. You don't have to be somebody that don't know where you're going and what you're doing and why you're doing it. You don't have to be a hit and a miss in the world. But you can have a sure way. Paul said I show you a more sure way. Sure foundation. There is a sure way. You say what is the sure way? The angel of His presence. The Bible said that they that were of old endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Is that right? Hallelujah! There's a young lady here tonight and she's not walking with the angel of His presence. You know why? Because she got double minded in what her heart desired. And because she did that she's not walking in the angel of His presence. And she's confused and the devil is going to rend her because of what she's done if she's not careful. But the angel of God's presence. The angel of God's presence. To have the angel of God's presence with you. To have him with you. They endured they continued they went on their way. How did they do it? They did it by one thing. The Bible said they endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Is that right? He is the invisible God. They endured as seeing Him who is invisible. The mighty God Jehovah! Hallelujah! Somebody would say that crazy old bald-headed prophet. Walking around mumbling to himself. You know the Bible said speak into yourself. Somebody said that old Brother Taylor walking around talking to himself. He's lost his mind. But the Bible said making melody in our heart. Speaking to ourselves in spiritual songs and hymns. Making melody in our heart talking to God and people think we're crazy. Hallelujah! What talking with Him. They say that old prophet he's mumbling and grumbling and he don't care for anything and he's lost interest in the world and all he does is mumble and grumble and wind up in the wilderness and all you ever see of him is yea or thus saith the Lord. But that prophet hath gotten ahold of something. That prophet had come in touch with something. That prophet was walking with the angel of His presence. When you come into the angel of the presence of God and when you get acquainted with the angelic world and you get acquainted with God's Spirit you don't have any desire Brother Lyman, to go into the things of the world. You're drawn away from it. There's something that draws you from it. The angel of His presence. There's something about the angel of His presence. The Bible said they endured as seeing Him. They couldn't see Him with their natural eye. The Bible said no man hath seen God at anytime. But the thing is the angel of His presence walked with them and they walked with Him and they talked with Him. And all along the road of life they'd be talking with each other. Talking to each other and they could feel His presence and they could talk with Him and they could tell He was close by. And they'd say Jesus I love You. And they'd feel the Spirit of God come over them. They'd say Lord I'm for You and the strength of God would just sweep over them you know, and as they talked with the Lord what would You have me to do? And the Holy Spirit just sweep over them and enrapture them and a voice began to speak from within and they'd feel the presence of God. Feel the Spirit of God. The little woman that got the virtue when she got close to Jesus she pressed in and she felt the virtue of God and she felt in her body she was healed and the God man felt the virtue go out His body. He felt something move out of Him. What was it? It was the angel of His presence! That healed the woman. It was the Spirit of God that healed her that's what it was. It was the Spirit of God. In other words she used her faith and though the multitude of the people was around yet by the using of that faith all of a sudden something came forth. There was something that she felt. The rest of them did not feel it. The rest of the congregation didn't feel it. I said what you felt while ago the rest of the congregation didn't know nothing about it. It was what you felt. Why? You felt the angel of His presence. Because your faith in God moved and when your faith in God moved and when your faith in God moves you felt something come down. Felt a stirring felt the moving of the Spirit felt something wooing you and bringing you to life. Something quickens you. The same Spirit that raised up Christ from the dead began to quicken your mortal body by the Spirit that's in you. You begin to feel something going up and down the avenues of your soul. The angel of His presence! I've had some of you standing around the altar. A lot of times maybe there would be maybe a dozen of you that wasn't even using your faith, but after awhile one little woman's faith would come up, one little man's faith would come up, one little boy's faith would come up, or one little girl's faith would come up, and all of a sudden you'd feel the angel of His presence come down. Old Brother Peter went down to Cornelius and begin to preach the gospel down there and when Peter got down there, the Bible said as he preached the gospel that the angel of His presence came near. And the Bible said the Holy Ghost fell on them. What is the Holy Ghost? It's the Spirit of Christ. It's the angel of Christ. It's the presence of His angel, The angel of His presence coming near. So it was the presence of the Lord came and Peter said My, said I perceive that God is no respecter of person. Said what He's done for us bunch of Jews said He's also done for the Gentiles. He said the angel of God's presence I felt when I opened the door there for the Jews he said I feel the same presence of that same Christ right here as I speak to you. I feel the same anointing and I feel the same angel of His presence that I felt there. I want you to see this, God walked with Israel. God stood by Israel. And God did some wonderful things for Israel and Israel was the apple of Gods' eye. Israel was Gods' chosen people but one day Israel got unconcerned. One day Israel forgot that God raised them up. One day they forgot, like America is doing today, that it was God who had fought their battles. Old Brother David set out and began to number his troops. I said God took him from a shepherd boy when he didn't have an army and raised him up as a shepherd boy with a sling with one little stone and defeated the entire alien powers and he didn't have a troop he didn't have an army and when the armies of Israel was at a standstill one little shepherd boy was sufficient for the job, the foolish and abase things of the world to confound the wise. Like Jonathan when he stepped out on the battle field. A brother stepped out on the battle field took one armor barrier took his sword and said the battle is not to the strong. The race to the swift. Said God doesn't care how He wins the battle said whether it be one man or a thousand it's God's battle anyway and the Bible said one man with a sword and a armor barrier went out there and defeated the entire army. Old Brother Samson picked up the jawbone of an ass and he knew that it didn't have to do with the multitude and he waded into the alien powers and he killed those men. By the hundreds. He slew them because God was with him. Is that right? Old Brother David had won the war by a sling shot and a little stone. He never had any troops but he had one thing. He had the angel of the presence of God with him. He said I come in the name of the Lord. I don't come to you in the power and strength of David. I don't come to You in my intelligence I don't come to you in my ability, But he said I come in the name of the Lord. Is that right? And he took his little sling and he took the stone and he won a battle. But it wasn't long before David sitting on the throne began to think of his great army. He began to number the army. He begin to number his strength. The Bible said cursed is the man that leans upon the arm of flesh. That goeth down to Egypt for his help. Is that right? Somebody said well Brother Pike I'm certainly not going to go down to Egypt for my help. America is turning to Egypt right now for her support and for her help and the Bible said, Cursed is the man that goeth down to egypt for his help. Why? Because God placed a curse on it. Why did He place a curse on it? Showing Moses went down there and they rejected Moses God smote Egypt. And He turned it into, He turned it into a wilderness down there. For his help. And the Bible said everyone that come out of there that was in the wilderness that turned back into Egypt in their heart and in their minds. The Bible said God slew them and wouldn't let them go into Canaan land. Isn't that right? Egypt is typical of your human affairs. It is typical of your human flesh. It's typical of your human lust and your human appetites and the senses of the body. It's typical of all of those things that are out there in the world. Why? Because civilization sprang from Egypt. (Tape 1 Side 2) People on the earth and when you go out into the world when you lean on the arms of flesh when you trust in the strength of armies, when you don't inquire at the mouth of God. When you decide to reason it out in your own mind and lean to your own understanding. The Bible said you are cursed. You are cursed with a curse because you do that. Now old Brother David, he began to count his army and he got God upset with him. He got God upset with him. And about the time he got his army counted and he thought he was really ready to win a war, the Bible said that Satan stood against Israel and God turned Satan a loose and Satan began to just literally slaughter the people. Wasn't a was wasn't nothing but, he began to plague Israel and let the plagues of God begin to hit Israel and old Brother David began to fast and repent and said my God what have I done. And he began to call on the Lord and began to say Lord what's the mater? And the Lord reminded him that cursed is the man that goeth down to Egypt for his help. You know there's one thing that we've got to remember here brethren, that God raised this place up. God is the one that brought it forth. God is the one that's blessed. God is the one that carried it and Gods' going to see it through. Hallelujah! Not trusting in the arm of flesh, But God. I feel strong in the Lord. I feel faith in God. I feel the moving of the Spirit. I feel the angel of His presence with me. As long as He walks with me. They endured as seeing Him who is invisible though the world couldn't see Him. Yet the prophets of old saw the invisible God that walked along by their side. He's with me. I see Him. Somebody said now Brother Pike you know that you don't see Him. And the Bible said concerning Jesus. Jesus said, I do always the things I see the Father do. Jesus saw Him. How did Jesus see Him? Through the eyes of His understanding. Paul said the eyes of your understanding be enlightened. You can comprehend the heights, the depths and the widths. And through the eyes of understanding they were watching. I watch Him day by day. I walk with Him day by day everywhere, I see Him I hear Him. He speaks to me. And I know He's close by me and I can tell when the angel of His presence is there. The prophets would not do anything to displease Him. They walled with Him. They were always very conscious of His presence and the least little thing that was wrong, they would straighten it out. Some of you hard hearted people today. Some of you careless people today. Some of you unconcerned people today. Why you do things wrong and it never bothers your conscience. You never stop to see about it. You don't ever have a clear conscience toward God. But Paul the apostle that has the great revelation, he said it's my daily practice I strive always to keep my conscience void of offense toward man and God. That I don't have any feelings in my heart toward my fellow man. Don't have any bitterness in my heart toward my fellow man. But the love of God he said is in my heart. And I strive to keep that love of God flowing out of me. He said that the revelation of God might lead me and speak to me and be with me and direct my heart all things. Hallelujah! The angel of His presence. The presence of God being with us. The Spirit of the Lord coming upon us. If I tell you something and God doesn't inspire it's no good to you. If I come here with a thought of my own it's no good to you. But if I can contact Him. If I can speak to Him. If He will tell me or tell you through me, then. that's something for the edification of the body of Christ and something for the edification of the church. Is that right? The angel of His presence. The Spirit of the living God. The God of heaven and earth. The angel of the Lord walking with us. The Bible said that the angels of God encamp round about them that fear Him. The angel of the Lord is round about them that fear Him and the Bible said, as it is written, I will give My angels charge concerning thee and they shall bear thee up in all of thy ways lest at any time thou shalt dash thy foot against a stone. The angel of God is with me. The angel of God. I remember the vision that I had in Florida. When the Lord Himself came and I was in the dark room laying on the bed, and all of a sudden, through I was tired and though I was weary, I suddenly felt the angel of His presence. I felt His presence as it came into the room. Though it was dark and though I could not see anybody, Though I could not see a form, yet I knew that the presence of His angel was with me. I knew that Christ had walked into that room. I knew that the Spirit of God come over to my bed where I was and I could tell the angel of His presence was there with me. I felt Him. I couldn't see Him. Then, all of a sudden when He spoke to me, and He asked me that question. Where is the stone of thy birth? I heard His voice and I said I don't know. And as Daniel said I was like a dead man, I couldn't do anything. And then all of a sudden I felt the angel of His presence depart from me. I could tell that it went out of the room. I could tell that it wasn't there anymore. I felt it as it went away. And then He said I shall get thee one and in a few minutes I felt Him return. I felt the angel of His presence come back in again. I still couldn't move, But the angel of His presence came in. As the angel of His presence came in I felt Him come over to the bed where I was and I heard His voice again when He picked up the hand and slipped the ring on the finger saying I shall never leave thee nor forsake thee but Lo, I shall be with thee in the time of trouble and in the time of need. He's never broken that promise. And then all of a sudden when the light brightened up and the room lit up and the darkness went away. Then I saw the angel of the Lord standing before me. I saw him then. I couldn't see him at first. I only felt his presence at first, But then I saw the angel of God as he stood there in my very presence and even though I didn't talk with him then I saw him and I reached and I got the little paper that had dropped from his hand. I picked it up and restored it to him and then, he looked pleased and went away. The angel of His presence. Though tonight I cannot see Him here tonight, I don't see Him in my natural mind. But I know that He is here. The same angel that came into the room this afternoon. The same one that came and talked with me. The same one that put the ring on my finger. That same angel is here tonight. The same angel. I remember asking the Lord the question I said Why? O God did you come to me in the darkness? Why? And the Lord spoke very clearly to me. Many years I didn't know what the vision was about, and one day He said to me He said while you were yet in your carnal darkness. While you were yet in your sins. Dead in trespasses and sins in the mind of darkness without any help. When you could not see spiritual things, He said I came to you. I came to you and I forgave your sins and you was born again and I gave you a stone of birth to show that you had been born again. In the dark carnal night of your own thinking in the wilderness of wondering I came to you. And though you could not see Me He said yet I spoke to you through My Word and through the voice of the ministry. And I spoke to you just like I'm speaking to many other people as I come to them. In their carnal darkness where they can't see Me. And He said I'm telling them. I'm telling them they need to be born again. I'm asking where is the stone of thy birth? Have you been born again? And then I said well Lord why was it after this when you placed the ring on my finger suddenly I was in a world of light. And God said for when you are born again you pass from death unto life. When you come out of the world of darkness into the marvelous mind and light of Jesus Christ. Paul turn My people from darkness unto light God said. Go preach the gospel and turn My presence of God. The angel of the presence of the Lord. I stood there in the light. I had come out of the darkness into the light. It had only been a few days prior to that, we was over in another house and I'd woke up in the morning and lying there on the bed I saw those two caskets come before me. And I saw the black casket. And I saw the white casket as it come up before me. I had just woke up from a sleep and was laying there and those two caskets come up before me and I said Lord what is this? What are you trying to show me? And I saw the death of Brother Branham through the white casket and never could understand the black one was until later. I come to believe that it was Martin Luther's death, which was the black casket because he was a great leader that went out shortly after Brother Branham's death. And I thought Lord what is this? And the Lord spoke to my heart. Brother Branham was Christ Jesus coming in the veil. It was God coming in the darkness. It was Christ moving in the church age in the church world to speak to us. And coming in this age and starting a great revival through the churches with signs and wonders and miracles. And men like T. L. Osborne and men like Billy Graham and men like T. L. Lowry and men like the A. A. Allen and different others that was inspired of God and inspired of his ministry. That was raised up that carried a great message through the land. Great ministers sprang up. The church of God sprang up. The Assemblies of God sprang up. And many other movements sprang up as this great man walked through the land preaching the gospel. Christ visiting us in the darkness. But God was going to bring us into the marvelous light of His Son in the preaching of the gospel. And He did it. Hallelujah! He did it. Hallelujah! I saw in Hialeah when I saw the casket and the death. I moved just across the line over into Miami Florida when the angel of God came to me, just over the boundary line. Just over the boundary, just crossing over the Jordan. Coming out of darkness into light, I don't know about you, but I'm living in a world of light. The Bible said ye are those lively stones that make up that holy priesthood. A temple for God. A habitation for the Spirit. And you are that angelic city that's coming down on the foundation of the teachings of the apostles. And Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone and Paul the revelator being the builder, that all of the world and the nations shall walk in the light of that city. All of the nations shall walk in it. A lot of people, when I saw that here, they say Brother Pike you don't really believe that from this little place called Monroe at Little Bethlehem that a light's going to go forth and all the nations are going to submit to it? I bear you record tonight, from the little city of Bethlehem, from this little place here a light will spring up and all of the nations shall walk in this light. Hallelujah! The little stone was hewn out of the mountain and came rolling through babylon tearing down the kingdom of the world. Isn't it strange that right here at this particular time that they've granted citizenship to Robert E. Lee. That's right. I always thought he was a citizen. I never knew that. But it was just the other day we received a little something Floyd had picked it up in the paper or something and told us about. Why is that? It is a typical thing. The old war between the North and the South. The first move of it, the surge from the North, was to indicate the fall of the church and then, in the end time of the church was to rise. And in the rise of the church it was two come in. That's strange see because Robert E. Lee happened to be one of my relatives or forefathers and they've got his picture up here on this stone right here in Atlanta Georgia. We spoke of that stone mountain and what it had to do with. The little stone hewed out of the mountain filling all the world. One of the wonders of the world. A little stone that was traded for a shotgun, traded for a mule considered to be nothing. All of a sudden it becomes the wonder of the world. A little stone hewed out of the mountain filling all of the world. The wonder of the would and of it,it is a head stone, because the carving of these great leaders are of the head-stone. And right here when I said the government of the United States was over and that they had ended their government and God was raising up the millenium government all of a sudden they make him a citizen of the United States. Isn't that something? What is it? It indicates that he lost in the beginning to the fall but he was to rise again in the end time typically speaking, because it was to be the move of the church that would win out and go right on into Canaan. Now, I'm not talking about natural fighting, You people that keep fighting the Civil War you need to forget about that. But I'm talking about the spiritual things of God, how that right at this particular moment, no government having stood now over two hundred years, you know that, that they just put out the little coin that where the eagle has left it. Indicating that the eagle nation is over. It indicates that the darkness has come in, for the Bible said gross darkness would cover the people. And on the coin it has Kennedy's head and the Independence Hall. Now what does it mean? I made the statement some of you know that this is on tape, that when Kennedy came in years ago, I said, that's the end of the American government, We've never had a catholic leader before and now that we've got a catholic leader it indicates darkness coming in and light going out. And even the horses that they had at Kennedy's funeral prove the very thing that I said. The white and the black horses. Are you listening now? I'm going to take a few more minutes and close. The half dollar, on the half dollar right at this particular time, I said that the Government of the millennium was established Holiness Unto The Lord. I said it would come in now and that the government was over and you know what happened in Fort Knox Kentucky concerning us when we went up there to the big brass in Fort Knox and what happened. The half dollar, Kennedy's picture, going back to the change of the Catholic powers coming in and the other government going out. I said that the government had gone out in three year spans it would roll over. And in three year terms until it would come over to where we was and that would be the end of it. I've got a tape here made about a year or so ago where I explained how about this time it would fall down toward the end of the last turnover. And sure enough here goes the eagle. What is it? It indicates the rapture of the church. In revelation the fourth beast that announced a seal was an eagle. Is that right. It was an eagle. The first was a lion, the second was an ox the third a man showing the dark age and the fourth was an eagle. Is that right. See, the third one was a man, the pair of balances that showed the dark age out there. That we came through and then the eagle nations coming spring up from Martin Luther the Protestant age. That age is over. Now, some of you remember, I made the statement, I said that, Martin Luther white man, brought it in Martin Luther black man took it out. Is that right? How many of you remember that Martin Luther white man brought it in showing the Gentile church coming in, which was the light of the world. Martin Luther King the black man took it out showing the Jew which is Gods' clock in the night, for the Negro represents the Jew, the black man taking it out at Martin Luther King. Isn't that right? And so then, the eagle's gone away. It's flew away. We brought it out here one night when we made the statement that when they took and went to the moon and they took that flag and they set it up there on the moon. Now I read to you here where it said though they climb up to heaven I'll get them. Though they dig down to he heart of the earth to hell, He said I'll get them. isn't that right? He said though thou make thy nest among the stars from thence I shall cast thee down to hell. And so then they took that flag, Old Glory, and they took Old Glory and they set it on the moon. They called it the nest. Make their nest among the stars. Like the Bible says thine iniquities have reached up to heaven. Set old glory up there and we made the statement that when Old Glory left the earth and went to the moon it was an indication that the glory of God had departed from the church and Ichabod was wrote across the door. In the days when the ark of the covenant left back in the days of Eli. The Bible said name the child Ichabod. Is that right? Ichabod was wrote across the door which means the glory of God is departed. How many of you understand what I'm saying? See when the woman was heavy with child or great with child she's fixing to bring the child in and all of a sudden they came and told her that Hophni and the sons and all was dead that the ark of the covenant had been taken, she went into travail and the son came forth but she died and they wanted to know what to name it and said name it Ichabod because the glory of God has departed. And sure enough Old Glory departed. Went up there and they set it on the moon. She ain't had nothing but trouble ever since. Isn't that right? All right let me say just a few more things and I'm going to close. Look at one more thing now. Cursed is he that goeth down to Egypt for his help. What is America doing? I made the statement, I said watch and see, America will compromise with Egypt, which is backed up by Russia, and they'll come into a world confederation and a world power. I said they'll come into it because they've got to have the oil. and I said and they'll change the capital or change what we call our standards of gold over and make oil the standard, which they did. The paper started that Egypt had made it her standard. And so then, they are turning to Egypt. I said when they do then they will refuse fellowship with the Jew. Whereas, The Jew has been the apple of Gods' eye all down through the years. And God placed the blessing on Jacob whose name was changed to Israel. he placed the blessing saying, He that curseth him will be cursed, and he that bless him will be blessed. Isn't that right? We've always blessed Israel. We've always been blessed. Other nations have rose up against Israel and they've had nothing but problems. But, I said, you watch and see, I said America will turn a loose of Israel and turn to Egypt and it will indicate that the bondschild is America and the natural minded people of this world are going back to their origin which came from Arab. Is that right? They are the Arab people. It comes from Egypt. A natural minded thing. There is a spiritual man and there is a natural man. And that natural man is one and that spiritual man is another. One is one of the twins, the other is the other twin, and all civilization, naturally speaking comes from the bonds child. Paul said which answers to Mount Sinai. Which now is and is in bondage with her children Agar. but said we answer to heavenly Jerusalem. the mother of us all. Is that right? The spiritual person will not answer to Egypt neither will they go down into Egypt for their help, neither will they reject the Jew but they'll turn to the Jew. The true church of God will hold up the Jew. They won't have the fellowship with Egypt, but look at Kissinger mocking Israel, and saying things about them. I just heard, I believe it was yesterday or day before yesterday I believe it was Brother Darel Bennett, he came to me and said Brother Pike, you remember saying something about them rejecting Israel He said already said I heard either over the radio or read it in the paper, he said I heard or read, he said they are making plans right now to reject Israel, and to excommunicate her that she can't be part of the union. Is that right? Why? Because she won't give up her land. She shouldn't give up her land. Her land belongs to her. Egypt needs to keep their dirty hands off it. Amen! If America had any real good godly sense they'd leave it alone. And they'd tell Egypt to leave it alone if they had to fight Russia to do it. I want you to know I'd rather fight Russia than to fight Israel. Anybody in their right mind wouldn't fight Israel. Nobody can conquer Israel. God said nobody would ever conquer Israel. That she'd conquer the entire world. That's just a little nation. So then, Russia to ally with a bondschild, to sell their birthright as Esau did. And to reject the thing that God's doing. That's exactly what they're doing right now. Betrayest thou the son of man with Kissinger. Wasn't that what He said when He come in the garden, and Judas come up and kissed Him? Said betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss. Didn't he go over there and talk with Israel. Try to make covenants and do everything right and nice, and turn and stab them in the back. Betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss! Touch the apple of His eye. America's fixing to be cursed. When she rejected Israel or when she rejects Israel God will curse her and blow her to bits. That's why Brother Branham saw that thing moving in he said that vision of 77 where America was blown to ashes. That's what it is. God will reject her as soon as she cuts across Israel that will be it my brother, you know there's just so many things I'd like to say tonight but you've been so patient until I'm going to close. I just wanted to say so many things there's just so many other things I'd like to say tonight. But you've been real patient. Folks it's like a song I heard today. I asked my little girl to learn it. The title of it is, We're Living in the Last Days Now. It's an old song. But we're living in the last days now. I believe that. I believe that. I really believe it with my heart. If there ever was an awakening time you need to wake up. The half dollar shows the church the eagle nation is gone. That represented the church. That's over and gone. Did you know what followed that seal of the eagle, I'm not going to get into anymore things, But do you know what follows the seal of the eagle? Have you ever read it? One other thing, said and the souls crying under the alters. Is that right? Saying how long O God holy just and true before Thou shall avenge our blood upon them that dwell on the earth. He said a little bit longer, but here I'll give you a white robe. Isn't that right. He said the time is here to give you a white robe. In other words the resurrection of the dead is here. Take your white robes. Is that right? Take your white robes but just move up here with Me and stay still a little while. We got a little tribulation period. Just a little bit longer said and then, Revelation 19 we'll avenge the blood of them as we come back on the white horses and the blood runs up to the horses bridle. Just a little bit longer. Isn't that right? And the Bible said following that seal. It was death and famine. All of the tragedies of life struck. What was it? It was the tribulation period. After that eagle flew away the tribulation period came in there. Isn't that right? In other words it was nothing but heartaches and sorrow after the rapture of the church. How many of you love the Lord? Let's stand together. I'm not going to try to get into anything else. We sing that song, "What a day that shall be, when my Jesus I shall see. When I look upon His face, the one who saved me by His grace. When I take Him by the hand, and He leads me to that promised land. What a day, what a day, what a day that will be." Can we sing it? Congregation sings ----------- I wonder while we sing this one more time if all of us could just gather in around the altars tonight. The little boy needs to be prayed for I perceive here, and we're going to pray for him and tonight if you're sick we want to pray for you. If you need an experience with God tonight come on down and God will do something for you, If you want God to strengthen you and help you, we're living in the end time. We're living in the last days now, and everything is ready, The end is at hand. The Bible said all things have been made ready, And the time of the coming of the Lord is at hand. The world doesn't see it. Like a thief in the night. They don't see it. It shall come upon them like a thief in the night unexpected. But it's coming. And it's close at hand. We see it. You're not children of darkness or the carnal mind of night. The Bible said ye shall know when that day cometh upon you. It shall not come upon you unaware. But ye shall know when it is nigh at hand. How many? I want to ask you this question before we sing the chorus again. How many of you perceive that what I told you was the truth and the end of all things really and truly is at hand? If that struck you and your understanding opened up you are children of light. Let me see your hand if you saw that tonight. See you are not children of darkness. But children of light. Let's sing it one more time can we? Sings chorus again. I'm excited tonight. I'm excited tonight. Hallelujah! The angel of His presence Brother Jim. The presence of God's with the church. Hallelujah! He said as I've covenanted with you My Spirit remaineth among you. I'm excited tonight because the world with all of its troubles and turmoils can't touch the church. The presence of God is with it. Walking and talking with the Lord Jesus Christ. Brother Taylor sings that song Lord walk with me God walk with me as You walked with Moses Lord walk with me. I wonder if we could sing a chorus of that tonight. Can we?

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

Founder and first President of Jesus Christs Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc.

Holiness Unto The Lord