A Great Wonder

Now we went through the book of Revelation awhile back. We read it to you a little bit at a time, and we went through it, but a lot of things we couldn't talk to you about and we just kind of highlighted a few things here and there. But maybe we can explain just a few things. I usually refrain from teaching because it takes me so long to be able to bring out something. Most people, you know, they can't endure it. They just can't! I don't know why they can't. To me, it's the most important thing that has ever been given to mankind. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened on the earth, and as far as I'm concerned, I could endure it day and night; even if I fell off to sleep, I'd just shake myself, you know, after I catch a nap, and wake back up and be ready to go again. I know that people are in what I refer to as a state of slumber. They've got to be. 

It's like if you had a Cadillac, a brand new one, and a Lincoln, and a Rolls Royce, and in each one of them a million dollars and you roll them by a group of people and say, "Now these are yours. These are yours. It's just going to take a week from now before you get them, and all you've got to do is walk down to the next corner." Anybody in their right mind, that knows anything about value, and I'm talking about you, Christian folks, if they rolled those kinds of cars by, it would be hard for me to have anybody in church this morning. You'd be down at that corner if you had to miss church to get that million dollars, and you'd come back and say, "Brother Pike, I know we need this million, that's why I missed church. I knew you would understand." But that wouldn't be all of it, would it?

I said that to say this. You've got to be asleep. Like the song said this morning, we are the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we are going to sit on the throne with Him, but when I say that, you don't feel like you do about the Cadillac. You feel more or less like it is a fairy tale. Some of you are like Esau. You say, "Well, that is for the future. I'm faint now, so just give me a tummy full of porridge." It still doesn't register to you. Do you understand what I'm saying? When you talk about somebody sitting on a throne, a real genuine throne, that isn't like sitting on the throne with the queen, or the king of this world. There is no comparison. You'll be sitting on the throne with the Almighty God, not with a bunch of zircons around your neck, but living in a palace to where they make the walls out of rare jewels of splendor that has ever been, that has never been seen by man, to walk on streets of gold, and instead of having a pearl around your neck, just go out to the gates of pearls. 

See, you're asleep. That doesn't affect you. You're asleep. Now, you say, "Why is it like that, Brother Pike?" Because of your unbelief. See, you couldn't believe anything like that without getting excited. You couldn't possibly believe that the end of the world is here, and somebody is going to sit down on a throne, and that somebody is you. Now, you might believe that somebody's going to sit on the throne, but you just feel like that it's just too good for you. You think, "I can't get up there. I just can't make myself believe that I'm actually going to do it." And then in your head, you say, "Yes, I'm going to do it. I'm not giving up. I'm going to do it." How many of you understand what I'm saying? Now, we could have gone all day long and not said that. But, it wouldn't have done you near as much good.

So then, when I talk about these things, about the throne of God, the palace of heaven, the jewel streets, the foundation, the cities with streets of gold, if you really believed that you were numbered with that city, and you were part of that city, if you really were living holy and clean and pure and upright, that thing would strike you in such a way until your cup would run over because that's real. To think that we're actually going to sit there in that city, be kings and rulers and governors and look out over that beautiful land, with the smell of sweet shrubs, so to speak, everywhere, and roses and flowers and streams and every bird, just like you were walking through a beautiful jungle somewhere, and the radiance and the music of the angelic choir filling the air and floating through the air, and the colors of the rainbow in a conglomeration that's so breathtaking, that if a man saw it, it would probably kill him if he took one glimpse of it in the natural. It would cause his heart to stop. To think, I'm going to be there and I'm going to be a part of it. I'm going to be there with Jesus and be part of it. Somebody said, "That's too good to be true." No, it's true. He made it possible. Somebody said, "Oh Brother Pike, you aren't good enough to get there." That's true. But He is good enough to get there, and He and I are one. Wherever He is, that's where I am, and whatever He is, that's what I am.

So then, it is real. It is real! What makes it so wonderful, is that we have at last come to the day to where it is beginning to emerge to where we can see it more clearly. I like that song they sing, "I can almost see the lights of that city." So beautiful! It is so wonderful. To be like Paul the apostle, caught up to the third heaven and see things that are not lawful for you to utter. Paul went into another dimension. He saw it. He couldn't even speak it, because the things that he saw, unless a man was in the Spirit, it would kill him. His heart would stop on him. Even Daniel just caught a glimpse of one of the angels, and said, "I become as a dead man. I retained no strength." He didn't see that city. He just saw one of the angels, and said, "I become as a dead man, and I didn't have any strength until the angel touched me, and lifted me up. My inwards turned into corruption." It was such a great thing. It is wonderful. It is wonderful. It is joy unspeakable. It is joy that cannot be spoken. It is unspeakable. There are no words of description. It is joy unspeakable and it's full of glory. 

I have read this a lot of times, many times, and I want to take a few minutes and read it again. It's hard to understand the book of Revelation. It is hard unless you really have a spiritual mind. Now, if you've got a spiritual mind, well, you can understand. I want to try to talk to you for just a few minutes if I can. Let's turn over to the fourteenth chapter of Revelation and let's read at the beginning of the twelfth verse. The fourteenth chapter, the twelfth verse. "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." I want you to get that now. Here is the patience of the saints. I want you to check yourself and see if this is the kind of patience you've got. "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." What is the patience of the saints? It is that they are willing to endure by keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Christ. "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." 

I want to talk on that just a little bit if I can, if you will listen to me. It's no little wonder that we should choose this; yet it's not my choosing. I don't have any prearranged plans when I come up here, or prearranged thoughts. I just come up here, and whatever the Lord does, well that's what I accept. It is no little wonder that I should read from this today, because this today has to do with yesterday. I got into quite a few things the other night. I had a good audience as far as listening. I didn't have any real spiritual response. I just had to go ahead and pressed on to get it on tape because I had already started it. It's been a long time since I've resorted to the board to talk with you, because I was waiting until I could bring you to a place to where you considered what I was saying as important. I believe you are beginning to evaluate a little better, beginning to consider things a little more and realize that they actually are God's Words. 

We've been criticized by people who have stated that we are out of harmony with Brother Branham, and that they are Brother Branham's followers. I think you're beginning to see that our teachings substantiates what Brother Branham said. Under ordinary conditions, our teachings would fall flat in the eyes of the people who do not understand spiritual things, but that what we are saying is substantiating, inasmuch as Brother Branham predicted the millennium would be coming in by this year. It is an absolute fact, that according to human observations, they will not see the millennium this year, and if that be true, then that would make Brother Branham look like that he didn't know anything about what he was talking about in the eyes of the people and to place very little on what he had said in the past. But it did happen, according to what God had said it would happen, when He spoke through the mouth of the prophet, and this is a substantiation of it, in that we did not plan any of this, but predicted that it would come to happen or come to pass, and it has happened exactly like we predicted. 

So then, it is obvious that we are not contrary, but rather substantiating what God has spoken before. This makes people to know that what we are saying has to be God, has to be in harmony with Brother Branham and the prophets, and makes them to realize the value of what we're saying that they might evaluate in a more proper manner. 

Now, as always, I get Brother Taylor, from time to time to do a little drawing here, if he's got his chalk. I want to say just a word or two, and I want you to listen. Don't hurry me. It's cold outside, and you can't go anywhere except on your belly, and let's just do like Jesus and use a little of that, you know, that we have to eat that they know not of. 

In Revelation 12, the Bible tells us that a great wonder was seen in heaven. I want to paint you a little picture now, so you'll have something to go on and that my thoughts will mean something to you and you'll know how to categorize them and space them to where one won't be confused and think I'm confused. Revelation says there was a great wonder in heaven. John, the revelator, saw this great wonder in heaven. I say these things and you're familiar with these things, because you've heard them preached down through the years, and the leeriness, the division, the confusing atmosphere, it just evaporates into nothing, or disintegrates into nothing. Because you're familiar with that, you can begin to catalogue and place it. All right now, John the revelator, the book of Revelation, John said, "I saw a great wonder in heaven." I saw there a woman and she was standing on the moon. The Bible says that she was clothed with the sun. She had a crown of twelve stars upon her head. The woman, on the moon, a crown of twelve stars upon her head; she was in heaven. Now I want you to remember that. She was in heaven. 

All right now, I want Brother Taylor to start down here with a line, and here with a line, that'll give me one, two, three heavens, and we're going to work a little bit in a way that maybe you can grasp or understand what we are trying to illustrate here, with a little chalk work, and I have to be real, you know, to the point bringing out the particulars. You wonder why I have to do that. You think, "Well, Brother Pike, why are you so precise? We're standing, we're looking at you, or sitting looking at you." And that is true, but the people that are listening on the tapes, they don't see anything. All they know is what I say. If I should say to you, "You see right here," that is what it is. On the tape, they wonder, "Well, what does he mean, see right here, that's what it is?" You understand what I am saying? So I have to bring out some particulars that might not sound right to you, but it makes sense to them. I say that Brother Taylor here with the board is dividing the board into three parts, from bottom to top, or from top to bottom, either way, one, two, three sections. 

Now, from this board we want to illustrate a few things to where you can see it by sight and to where they that are listening in on tape can understand what we're saying. So, I'll try my best, if we've catalogued something in the first heaven, to say first heaven, and the second heaven, the third heaven, from bottom to top, because we're coming from man's realm to God's realm. First heaven, second heaven, third heaven. But now, if you were coming from God's realm down, God would be considered first. Do you understand what I am saying? It's one, two, three to man to get up to the third heaven, but the first heaven, the great heaven, the almighty heaven is God's heaven So, it'd be one, two, three coming down from God to man. Everything works in reverse in the Spirit. I said that so that you won't get confused, and as long as I'm illustrating with this board, then you really don't get confused. Now, do you? 

Nobody can understand the book of Revelation unless they are spiritually minded. They have to have a spiritual mind to understand the book of Revelation. If they've got a spiritual mind, then they can understand the book of Revelation. If they do not have a spiritual mind, they cannot understand the book of Revelation, So then, John, in the book of Revelation, said, "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven." John described it as a great wonder. It was a great wonder that he saw in heaven, and he gave a description of it. He said it was a woman that was standing on the moon. That would be a great wonder, if you looked up and saw one of you ladies here standing on the moon. That was a great wonder, as he saw this woman on the moon. Now, to you and I, it is not as much a wonder as it would be to John, in that we understand a little better. John didn't understand it at all until the Spirit came to him. Now, it was a wonder to me before the Spirit came to me. And now, I can understand what John was saying. We have illustrated her, how that the woman was on the moon, and representing America, the spiritual woman of God. How many of you understand that I brought that out on tape? It's on tape. 

A lot of you disputed in your mind, you know, that you don't understand, and you say, "I know that can't be it, because Brother So and So said such and such, and I read it somewhere, and I know that Brother Pike couldn't be right. He thinks he's smart, but there's nothing like that at all." I'm telling you what I happen to know from the Spirit, and if I had enough time to explain and fit it together what Brother So and So said, if he had anything from God, would run beautifully with it until you would say, "Yes, it is right. It fits what I believe." It ought not be like that, but anyway that's the way it works. Now, we should believe it if God said it regardless to whether it fits what we believe or not. And if we don't believe it, as I've said so many times, if the man of God that's before us is a man of God, then we need to go somewhere where we can believe in what he says; because it's bad on us if we don't. 
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Now, when I say these things. Brother Taylor is going to have to put it up here as he understands. He'll work with you. See, when God was in the mount, and God was speaking, Moses recorded it. It was recorded. Then, when Moses spoke it, Joshua recorded it. It was always working that way. The Spirit and the body, God always uses a type to work it, the Spirit and the body, the man and the woman. The children, which we referred to as stars, gets the results of it. You understand? The moon: the woman. The sun: God. The moon being a receptacle catches the sunlight, the seed from the man, reproduces in the stars as they catch the sun. All right, 

Now, the woman standing on the moon; Brother Taylor can put that, he knows what heaven that goes in. The woman standing on the moon. Now, I believe this will be a lot better as you see it. The woman standing on the moon, there is a great wonder. Now, who is that woman? I said it is America, when we speak spiritually. Speaking of types and shadows and allegories, that woman is America. Why is she America? Because, and I'd have a lot of people to dispute this, but it's because America represents something. Somebody would say, "Well, Brother Pike, anybody that has any biblical understanding would know that that is Israel." That is true. I have some biblical understanding, so I know that that woman is Israel. But I also know that God is a Spirit, and I know that Israel is only a fleshly type of a spiritual Jew, because there is no such thing as a natural Jew. They're not even recognized, nationality speaking, as a Jew. They are as Israelites, but not a Jew. There is no such thing as a natural Jew. There is only one Jew. That is a spiritual Jew. Paul called him the true Jew. 

So then, whatever Israel is in a natural type only points to a spiritual thing. If she is a natural woman, she is pointing to God's spiritual elect lady, which is the church, for God is a Spirit. How many of you understand what I'm saying? So then, America, being the spiritual Israel of God, and when I say that I'm speaking of the natural America being another type, but the true Christian, which is represented by America, is the elect lady that is to bring forth the man child. It is true that Israel is the woman, and we will have to resort to the teachings in this way, that we refer to Israel because you know that Israel is a natural nation, and you know that the flesh represents a woman. So we refer to it as that way, because Jesus was born among the Jews. In other words, the Lord Jesus Christ, being born among the Jews, then because of that He is referred to as a Jew. But Jesus was not a Jew. He was not even born of the Jewish blood. You know, Brother Branham had to back up on that, you remember? The Lord spoke to me and said, "He is not a Jew." He was not born of Jewish blood. And Brother Branham at one time made the statement that He was, but Brother Branham had to just back up and say, "I was wrong, He was not." No, He was not born of the Jewish blood. He was born of the blood that God created, the second act of God in the creation of blood. That is what made Him different from all of humanity. The blood. 

I make the statement every now and then, that we can be everything that Christ is. But there is one difference between Jesus and humanity, and that is blood. The Bible says that He was partakers of whatever the children partook of. But, when it comes to the blood, it says "not all", because He was not partakers of your blood. His blood was the blood of God, created without a spiritual power of interference, which is satanic, that has been handed down from generation to generation from the time of the garden, from the time of Adam in the garden through a reproduction. Every human being that's ever been on the face of the earth has the blood of Adam, except Jesus. That's why His blood was pure. That's why Judas cried out, "Innocent blood." Have you ever noticed that a snake's blood is cold? They're cold blooded. It represents death, no life. God has taken life from it. It's not the act of God in that it's not life. All right, so then.

We see the woman on the moon, and I have to go back from time to time when I teach spiritual things, and I have to refer back to some natural thing to catch your mind again to start all over, when I start losing you. It's like slipping on ice. I feel one of you slipping off, I have to reach back just to catch your hands. All right now, the woman that is standing on the moon. She's got the crown of twelve stars upon her head. She is illuminated with the brightness of the sun. She is standing on the moon. Now, I don't have to go through this, because you know, but I'm going to illustrate a little bit so you can understand. If that is Israel, then what is Israel doing with a crown of twelve stars? Israel doesn't believe in the teaching of apostolic church. Is that right? Israel has no confidence in what Peter, Paul and James said about Jesus Christ. They rejected it all together. How could that be a crown to Israel? You understand? Now, these twelve stars represent something, and that is, they are pointing back to the twelve sons of Jacob, and the twelve sons of Jacob are pointing to the twelve sons of Christ, which are the sons of God. Whatever it is with Israel, it is the same way with spiritual Israel, because Israel is only God's Israel in that he is joined to spiritual Israel. He's only a Jew in that he becomes one with God's spiritual Jew. 

God has never at any time favored any people. If God favored Israel above other nations, He would be respect of person. He does not respect any human being. This is the thing that caused Israel to lose out with God. God had chosen Israel in this way, not as a people that was special unto Him, aside from other people, but just like you would choose a team for a ball game, if you were a kid, going to play ball. You'd choose this one, and that one, and that one. For a purpose, God chose them. And that purpose was to magnify Himself in the earth. Now, He promised Israel securities and blessings because Israel was used of God, but not by choice. Israel wasn't used by choice. If they had a been used by choice, they would have been the bride. But God, having to lay down types and shadows, or a blueprint of what He was going to do, He had to take somebody, so He took them against their will, and it was proof that He took them against their will, because when He turned them over to their own will in Canaan, they left God and wound up in Babylon when they got what they wanted.

So then, God is no respect of person. God doesn't care any more for the Japanese than He does the German, any more for the white man than He does the black man, any more for the black man than He does the Jew, any more for the Jew than He does anybody else. With God, there is no respect of person. This was the dispute that Paul had with Israel. He said, "What you need to understand is God's Israel." He said, "May peace be upon God's Israel, and he that is a Jew outwardly is not a Jew, but he that is a Jew inwardly, of the Spirit, he is a true Jew." So then, God has no respect of person. He is a Spirit that has created all men, and when the Jews were overconfident because God had chosen them for the use He had, God immediately raised up a great revelator called Paul the apostle, and Paul walked off and left the Jews. He said, "Your blood be on your own head because you won't listen to the spiritual things of God." And walked over into a heathen country, a heathen generation and took a bride for Christ, and there the excelling came. What is greater to God, the bride or Israel? Somebody said, "Now, Israel is beloved for the Father's sake." That is true. But what is more beloved? The bride, the spiritual Jew, because God is a Spirit. Israel is beloved because of they went through: the poverty, the heartaches, the woes. He's going to give her a great reward. How many of you understand what I'm saying? 

So then, with God there is no respect of person, and Paul had his dispute after that he received the knowledge of this. This woman, of course, as we say, is Israel. I want to refer to the woman as the church. Somebody would say, "But, you can't do that, Brother Pike, because Israel is not the church." But the Bible does call Israel the church. She is the church that is in the wilderness. Now what does the wilderness mean? The carnal reasoning; the carnal understanding. She is the church that is caught in her human intellectual traditions of the elders. It is an intellectual traditional thing of the elders, the ritualistics and practices. She is in the wilderness, for the carnal mind is the wilderness. But when we speak of the church that is glorious, without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish; it is not in the wilderness. It is in the mind of Christ. It is the inward spirit, not the outward body that's represented by Israel, but the inward spirit, that's represented by America. The inward spirit, this glorious spirit, which is a church without spot, without wrinkle, and without blemish. 

We refer to this woman as the church; the church giving birth to the man child. In this, I want you to see something. This has to do with Calvary. If Brother Taylor can put a little cross right there. He's got one here. This refers to Calvary. That's why that I used the terms the other night that Brother Reuben Brookshire is one side of Calvary, when we say that he's at Waycross, taking the blow, the fall from the woman, getting caught in the thing that he did with the woman. It shows Jesus. Jesus has to become sin. He had to come down to the flesh, which was the woman. Yet, He did no sin. Like Brother Reuben, it's not in Reuben's heart, nor was it in Reuben's heart, but God processed him. You say, "How do you know so much about it, Brother Pike?" I know because I predicted his fall before it came, and I said it would be by a woman, when anybody would have called me a liar because of Reuben's background. But, it came to pass. If I knew that much about it, it would stand to reason I might know a little more why it came. So then, it was not in Reuben's heart, neither is it in his heart now, because he represents Jesus, and it was not in Jesus' heart. He was made sin. It goes back to David. It points back to David, when David committed his wrong. It was not in David's heart. You say, "How do you know that?" Because the Bible says, "He was a man after God's own heart." David prayed seven times a day, which has to do with the church ages. It was not in David's heart to do wrong, but God suffered David to fall to represent Jesus, because Solomon was the resurrecting of that which represented Christ. Somebody would say, "But, Brother Pike, look what Solomon did. Could that be Christ? Didn't Solomon lose out?" Solomon did. Somebody said, "Because he took strange wives." No, that's not what the Bible teaches, because he represented Christ in taking the strange wives. When Christ left Israel, He took what the world would call strange wives, as far as Israel was concerned. You follow me? Stay with me now. I feel you slip every once in awhile, but stay with me. All right now, I'm not going to get that deep, just stay with me. 

He took strange wives but that wasn't what caused his fall. The Bible says that he built pagan places of worship for these women. That's what caused his fall. As it said, they turned his heart away from the steadfastness that he had in God. That was the thing that displeased God. He didn't approve of the strange wives, But Solomon had to take the strange wives so he could represent Christ. You follow me? Now, why should God object to Solomon marrying another person? Somebody would say, "Well, he was a Jew." But didn't God create the Japanese, and the German, and all the rest? If He is no respect of person, how could He be upset with Solomon for doing that? And the Bible says, "The preparation of a man's heart is from God, whether it be good or evil." Did not He prepare Solomon's heart to do it? You understand what I'm saying? So then, that wasn't it. That was just another woman to God. One woman is just like another woman. Marrying out of his tribe was a type that God had to lay down; a type in the rejection, to show His displeasure. All right, I know those things sound strange to you, but it's right. So then, building the paganistic places of worship is what caused his fall. So, it's a beautiful thing. 

This is why that Brother Wilson is going down to south Georgia. He represents the Jesus' name side of it, which is the resurrection, with the tent Brother Reuben had, the brown tent, indicating going unto corruption, the veil folded up, laid away. It was given to Brother Franklin Walden, because Franklin baptized him in Jesus' name. It went over and it showed that side of it because Franklin has worked among the trinities. We won him over to Jesus' name, but he's worked among the trinities, which has to do with the veil. Are you following me? Having to do with the veil. A lot of things we could say to bring out some particulars, like for instance, Brother Charlie Elliott has to do with the veil, the trinitarian side of it, connected with Brother Reuben, Sister Aline, connected with it, in that Brother Reuben esteems her brother as the outstanding evangelist of his thoughts and heart. All right. 

Brother Wilson is going down there. I'll probably have to teach this morning and tonight to be able to get over just a little bit of what I wanted to get over. But, Brother Wilson going down there, he shows the other side of it, the Jesus' name side of it. Lot of particulars, I won't be able to bring out, I wouldn't have time. But, that tent has to do with the flag. What does the tent represent? It has to do with Revelation 19. Look at Brother Mitch and his wife. Last night, they made us a beautiful cake. So beautiful. I hated to even cut it. A beautiful cake. It had a little white horse on it, a rider sitting up there with a little Bible, on it has Revelation 19, "Holiness Unto The Lord". See, the tent represents Revelation 19. That's why Brother Wilson has the little trailer called the "Man of War". The Bible calls Jesus a man of war. When He comes back in Revelation 19, He is a man of war, with a two-edge sword, the saints of heaven following, Him, and I wish I had time to go into the particulars on that. But anyway, when this flag was hoisted down here, they sought for something to use for the corner, where the grommets or the eyelets was to be. When they looked for it, they eventually came up with a piece of the white canvas that belonged to the white tent. Now why did they do that? They bought practically everything else that was on the flag. Why did they do that? Because God has His way in the good. Isn't that right? So then, they eventually wound up with that. It was a little bit soiled, so they cleaned it. Death, burial, and resurrection as it went up to the right hand of God. You understand what I'm saying? It went up over yonder to indicate the crucifixion. One time it went up, then it was taken down. Isn't that right? The cold weather hit it. My son was literally crucified. Rick. How many of you know that? That's right. Treated like dirt! But God did it for His own purpose. Rick was so torn up, until he lost out with God and went down in shame. Today, he's over there in Hawaii which indicates being caught up to paradise at the right hand of God, which has to do with Brother Harold Walker who came in here a few days ago, because Harold always has a typical angelic descent, to pick up and to carry away. And that's where Harold has been, in Hawaii, that's what he's going to, going back to. All right. 

In this, the tent went down, it is to come up in the spring time resurrection after the cold spell. Jesus spoke of them when it said that ye did not bring forth fruit. Seven times, the church ages went over it, Israel was to rise again. It is to be illustrated by the seven church ages, the spiritual Jew going down at Pentecost to come up again the natural Jew. Seven days of tribulation, going over it, to come up again. Seven times pass over the kingdom, come up again. How many of you understand what I mean? Somebody would say, "But, where do you get that, Brother Pike?" Because if you remember, God, back in the Old Testament, spoke of Nebuchadnezzar, you remember what happened? He walked through the palace and he said, "Look what my hands has done," when his hands hadn't done it. God has His way. God was displeased. God let him lose his mind. God let his fingernails grows out like claws. God said, "Let him be wet with the dew's of heaven, let seven times pass over him." Then, the angelic being came down and said, "Cut down the tree. Leave the stump, let seven times pass over it, then it will grow again." Is that right? God said, concerning Nebuchadnezzar, "My servant, Nebuchadnezzar." Isn't that right? So then, God raised up Babylon. You understand that I'm saying? It was typical. Nebuchadnezzar feared God after that. God sent forth after the seven years, picked him up, restored his mind, put him back on the throne, put his counselors before him, and made him greater in the end than the beginning. Is that right? Why then, does that point to the millennium? Because Daniel was the third ruler that was to come into the kingdom. How many of you remember that? You follow me? 

All right, I lost you then. I'll have to go back over here and pick you up again. How many of you felt that? I want to see if you've got any discernment. How many of you felt that then? Now, some of you ought to have some discernment. See, you just completely slipped on ice. I tried to bring out an illustration. All right, go back again here. The woman with her feet on the moon. You want to go back to the first part, John saw the woman with her feet on the moon. Let's pick up again. We'll go through it again. We'll pick you up and bring out what we was trying to say about Nebuchadnezzar. See, what I'm trying to do when you slip like that, I have to go back and start all over. See, so I have to bring out concerning Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar to bring out the tribulation, which is Daniel's last week. You understand what I'm saying? I have to do that to refer to Jimmy Carter, the Plains of Dura. See, when I just say it like this, all of it just come down like a bunch of bananas, and you understand what I'm saying. But when you slip, I have to go back and start all over again. How many of you understand what I'm saying? Will you try to stay with me? See, I get too far out on a limb out here, and swoop, out you go! When your spirit breaks off, I just have to stand here and start all over, and go find you again. 

All right, so then, we go back to the woman on the moon. Revelation 12. What is this? And I'll pick my thoughts up again in a few minutes and tie it back with the illustration. I started to bringing in too many things when I referred to Calvary, and referred to the church ages, and referred to the tribulation, and Daniel. I had to go back to Nebuchadnezzar to let you know that the tribulation is Daniel's week. See, what a lot of people don't understand is that Nebuchadnezzar, back there in the Old Testament, and Daniel's visions, it is the same as the book of Revelation. So when I go to teach it, I have to tie them together. But see, if I say something about Revelation, then I get way back over here in the book of Daniel and I start teaching, all of a sudden you slip, and you say, "Oh my, Oh, My, Oh my, I'm slipping. I thought he was talking about Revelation and here we are away over here in Daniel, and I don't see any tie." And then you slip, and I have to go back and pick you back up and start all over again. You follow me? How many of you understand what I'm saying? 

You say, "What did that?" When I started talking about the man losing his mind, and seven times passing over him, the devil got you leery then, you know. Getting into deep things. Now, you're supposed to have more power over him than that. How many of you know you've got power over the devil? The Bible says they that are of Christ are of a sound mind. Isn't that right? So why did you listen to that spirit, so you'd slide on ice, so to speak? Now, stay with me, because see, our time is limited when we're up here to begin with. We don't have long. I, I do it this way to keep your minds from slipping on me, because if I, I don't use the board, you really do slip and slide, like a bunch of ice skaters. Let's go back again and pick up. 

Here's the woman on the moon, in the second heaven. What tie does that have, Brother Pike, with Nebuchadnezzar? What does that have to do with Daniel? It has a lot to do with it, because the woman is in the middle of the week of Daniel, in the tribulation period. The tribulation period is the seven years that's referred to in Daniel and it's referred to as the last week of Daniel's four hundred and ninety years. We've had teachings on Daniel's four hundred and ninety years. She is in the middle of Daniel's last week. How many of you understand what I'm saying? Is that registering to where you can get, get anchored once again there? See, she is in the middle of Daniel's last week. Maybe if I talk about it this way you can hook it all together, you know, to where the devil can't throw you again. 

See, she is in the middle of Daniel's last week. This being in the middle of Daniel's last week, automatically ties the tribulation period, which is Daniel's last week with Nebuchadnezzar and the days of the kingdom that Daniel was in when he saw the vision. When he saw the vision, in his day, the Lord said, "Seal it up, Daniel. It's for the end." But, when John came in the time of the end, Paul said, "You're the people upon whom the ends of the world have come." John saw it, God said, "Seal not up the visions, for the time is at hand." Now, see the difference? Daniel sealed it up until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro. Knowledge shall increase. When John came along, he saw it, and that was what the angel was pointing to, the time of John, when it wouldn't be sealed up, and God said, "John, don't seal up the vision, for the time is at hand." Daniel, it's the time of the end. What is the time of the end? The time is at hand. What kind of book did I show you the other night that came from Germany, where the German was going to translate our writings, like he did Brother Branham's? I brought the book and showed it to you. What was it? It said, "The Time of the End." Is that right? See, the book stated "The Time of the End." Why is the flag going up? It represents the time of the end. 

How many of you are listening to what I'm saying? Now, you have to listen to me. If you don't, I'll just have to close out. I've stayed away from the teaching for a good while. I tell you, when you get into deep things, folks, you've got to be spiritual and mean business. This is why I don't talk to you any more, because you're not in spiritual things, and your spirits are just going this way and that way, like a drunken man. What it is, you get drunk off of the cares of life, and you get too drunk where you're going to be able to see where you're going spiritually, and you're staggering, just like this. You've got to get a hold of yourself. Give the more earnest heed to the things you've heard, lest you let them slip, and I fell you let them slip, and I have to start all over again. All right.

What does this have reference to? That's good, he's got it tied in here in the middle of Daniel's week, that'll help you. See this, the middle of Daniel’s week, this ties it in with Nebuchadnezzar’s kingdom. All right, this woman, standing with her feet on the moon, it was a great wonder, a great wonder. Why was it a great wonder? She was clothed with the sun. What was that sun? It was the Spirit of God. It was the Spirit of God. She was illuminated with the presence of God. God had greatly illuminated her. There was a crown of twelve stars over her head, and what was that? It was the teachings of the twelve apostles. Is that right? That is our crown of life. The understanding, the knowledge that we receive, as far as the intellectual indoctrination. It is our crown of life, the twelve stars over her head. Her illumination is the Spirit, the Holy Ghost of God illuminated from within, like Moses when he put a veil over his face. This is a veil over that Shekinah glory, until the time of the rending which was Calvary. This woman stood on the moon, What was the moon? If the illumination of the sun was the Spirit of God, what was the moon? The moon was the law and the prophets. The lesser light, the days of Moses, the veiled sunlight, for we're founded upon the apostle's doctrines, or rather the prophet's doctrine and the law. We are crowned with the Apostolic Doctrine, as a crown. 

Now, you follow me now, don't you? All right. Those things are real simple to you, in that we've went over these things before. All right now, what was this, John said he marveled at her? What was it? He said, "She was in travail with child." The time of her delivery had come. Now, why is the time of her delivery? Why is the time of her delivery come? 

I'll just cut out a lot of Revelation here, and just get some little particulars to explain things to where I can build this and maybe I can tie in another little piece, and another little piece you know, I get such a broad range because this thing, we just have to hurry with it. He that received the message in the end time, let him run with it. And we're supposed to be spiritual to where we can get a hold of it, but some of us are not. 

Why is the woman in travail with child? Why? Don't you see Mary standing there in travail? Jesus was about to come into the world, being delivered up for taxes. The red dragon is ready to devour the child as soon as it's born. The dream to Joseph, ready flee down into Egypt because Herod is going to devour the child. How many of you remember that? See, the red dragon, the blood stream, the blood life, ready to devour the spiritual life as soon as it's born. All right now, you see that here. You can see that in two or three dimensional steps, of different steps. I can't bring them all out into particulars. It'd take too long, but you can see what I'm saying. They all tie together in one. All center around Calvary. 

So then, there was a great travail. Now, we see it in Mary's travail to bring forth Jesus, which is the man child. We see another dimensional step where Jesus is the flesh, to bring forth the Christ, which is the man child. Is that right? We see Israel in travail, going, being cut off at Calvary, going through the darkness of the night, of the tribulation of the Dark Ages to bring forth the church, which is the man child, and on, and on, and on it goes. So here, why is she in travail now? 

Why is the hour of her deliverance at this particular time? Now, let’s look at it. It is because it is the end of the church ages. The seed of conception was from the beginning of Calvary to the membership of the body, and the time of delivery is at hand. All right now, if we go back to the first man, Adam and Eve, and if I get way back there, if I don't watch out I'll lose you again. Going back to Adam and Eve, that was the beginning of the conception to Israel. Is that right? The seed of life of conception to Israel came forth. All down through the Old Testament, all the way down, the formation of the child carried by the woman, as a carrier, the child in its formation, all down through, from the time of the garden over to Calvary, then when Calvary comes, then comes the time of delivery. 

Like Brother Branham preached, the birth pains of the earth. The earth is in travail, cracked open, broke open, ready to just break to pieces, because of the big ball of fire, I believe, that's in the heart of the earth. The fire, hell moved from beneath to meet the at thy coming, melting, just melting and enlarging itself without measure, just keep on melting till we stand on a little crust, and a little jolt from bombs and it just bursts open. Why is that? Because Jesus was in the heart of the earth, and the fire indicates blood, and that heart of the earth broke open to let Jesus come forth from the bowels of the earth. You understand what I'm saying? 

All right, so then, she is in travail. All the way from the garden, the flesh has been in formation of the image of God, Israel, until finally, the outer image is formed, as far as law and ritualistics. Someone would say, "Brother Pike, you mean that Israel at last become like God?" Only through Jesus Christ in the foreknowledge, for Jesus secured Israel in a time accepted by the head at Calvary. God did not blame the shortcomings on the woman. The woman gets grace, because she's carrying the child. How many of you understand what I'm saying? So God gave Israel grace. She was carrying the child. You say, "But, Brother Pike, God kept Israel under such restrictions of the law, where did grace come in?" Paul said, "Oh, how great is the wisdom of God, that God had cut Israel off in darkness that He might have mercy upon her." He gave her grace through ignorance. He cut her off to where she did know anything. If you don't know nothing, then nothing is required of you. 

So then, He preserved her through the Dark Ages because here is Calvary, when the woman travailed, and the Christ was born, which was you and I coming forth from the bowels of Israel, then Israel went into her state of sleep and slumber. You know how the woman does after the child, she just gives away and she collapses, and she goes through it, there all down through the Dark Ages, shows the spilling of the blood and the water and everything else, there down through the Dark Ages, then at the end of the church ages, what happens then? See, the child is immediately caught up to the throne. You say, "Then, Brother Pike, why is the woman shown at the end of the church ages, just giving birth to the child, if she actually gave birth to the child at Calvary?" Because there's two stages of it. The spiritual child is represented coming forth at Calvary, and the woman did that. But now, at the end of the church ages, we see Israel coming in. 

All right now, the church ages, the woman gave birth. The travail is only to bring forth headship of the church. Is that right? Anybody knows that's true. The travail is headship. The only travail of the woman is the headship. After that, the physicians work, and it's their work to bring forth the child, because her travail is over. She goes into a state of sleep. That's all Israel did. They brought forth Jesus. Her travail was over. In other words, the body of Jesus brought forth the Christ, that travail was over. How many of you understand what I'm saying? Her travail was over. 

This is why we speak about whether the birth is at the bottom of the pyramid. All right, like I said, it has nothing to do with it, in a sense, but I'll try to drop in a little thought or two as we go along. The headship being born, what happened? Immediately, the headship is caught up to the throne, which is Jesus. Can you illustrate that for me, Brother Taylor? Now, I want you to watch real close. I'll have to go back into Revelation 12 tonight, and I hope that I can bring out a few more thoughts on it. The woman is in travail at the end of the church age, because the child is caught up to the throne, or it's the time for it. It's the end of the church ages. You say, "Brother Pike, if He's caught up at Calvary, how in the world can He be caught up at the end of the church ages?" Because the end of the church ages represents the church, which is the membership that the physicians are working with from the time of Calvary, down to the end of the church ages. You understand what I'm saying? But the child is caught up to the throne at the beginning, as the headship that represents the membership. 

Now, when the matrix is opened, the first born is considered holy to God. Every firstborn that openeth the matrix, the Bible says, consider it holy unto God. So then, the travail of the rent veil, here the headship is caught up to the throne. The firstborn, holy unto God. Is that right? Now by this, the woman has escaped sin. I want you to listen. The woman has escaped sin. How did She escape sin? Because the Law says the man is To blame. you understand what I'm saying? The man is To blame. So the man took the travail and the sorrow. Jesus went through it alone To bring forth the headship, because the only travail is the headship. The church doesn't have any travail. I know it said when Zion travails, she brings forth her sons and daughters, but when it really comes to travail, she doesn't have any travail. Jesus, the headship, that was the travail. All right now. 

He is caught up to the throne here, which means beyond the spheres, the matrix of the spheres open up and He passed through the matrix of the spheres and went into the heavenlies, at the right hand of the Father. Whereas you are still in the bowels of the earth, He is already exposed to the world of light, the mind. He is at the right hand of the Father. 

So the birth has begun at Calvary. Now, you follow me? Now, this is the dispute as to whether the birth is at the top of the pyramid or the bottom of the pyramid. See, the headship is the top of the pyramid. Everybody knows that's the capstone of the pyramid. But why is the capstone missing? It doesn't make sense naturally, because if that's the capstone of the pyramid and it comes first, then why isn't it here? It is because it was taken out of the world, and the capstone was put up here in heaven, because heaven is the capstone. So the capstone, which is the head of the pyramid was taken and put up in heaven, because that is where the capstone is hid. Why? Because in the days of Solomon, like the song I wrote, they rejected the cornerstone, and that is the cornerstone. So, it is up there until the rest of the pyramid is fitted together. How many of you understand what I'm saying? 

So then, our birth is in the Lord Jesus Christ. In the foreknowledge of God, I am already born again by faith in what He did, and that's the top of the pyramid. You understand what I'm saying? Through the headship, I am secure by Him. He is here at the top. So then, the virtues that you use coming up to the pyramid to step up it to the capstone, then those virtues have to come out of my life. You understand what I'm saying? So they start at the bottom of the pyramid. This is the top of the pyramid with Jesus, but I'm just getting my start at Calvary by faith. I'm working my way through the church ages. So then, the capstone is moved from over here, because that's the base of the church. It's working its way toward the head, and the head has been raised up, and the head goes over the church ages, and sits down over here, and when the capstone's foundation from the apostolic teachings, which is the foundation, begins to build itself up with the virtues of the teachings of the apostolic leaders, then it works its way up through the church ages through the revealing of the mysteries, step by step, and portion by portion, and finally at the end of the church ages, she has finishes her virtues, the last bit of the body has come forth, and the capstones comes and sits down on it. 

So then, inwardly, I'm born again over here. We would say at the head of the capstone. How could that be? Because that's the base of the capstone. Somebody said, "Then I'm born at the base of the capstone? How could that be?" Because He's the head of the pyramid. You understand what I'm saying? The base of the pyramid, could it be there? The head of the pyramid, could it be there? You understand why I say it doesn't have anything at all to do with it? So then, I am born again in my spiritual man at Calvary by faith in God. That's what is referred to as the head of the pyramid, which is at Calvary. You follow me? The redemption of my body is the adoption of sons, where He said, "It doth not yet appear, even though I'm already a son." The appearance is the catching up of the manchil,d which would be at the base of the pyramid if we were coming from Calvary over here. How could that be? Because what appears to be the head of the pyramid over here is the base of the pyramid, and what appears to be the base of the pyramid over here is the head of the pyramid. So again, it is reverse to God. It depends on how you're looking at it. 

See, my salvation is by faith in Him. I'm born again. My manifestation is at the end of the church ages. I am recognized in God by my headship. The woman is recognized by her headship, because she carries His name. God did not lay anything to her charge. She is free from all of those things down through the church ages. Isn't that right? She is free from them down through the church ages, because the law says if the husband says it is not to be charged to the wife, then it cannot be charged to the wife. So then, Jesus said, "It will not be charged to the wife. I will let her go free. From here, I will give her grace and let Israel go free in grace, all the way down until the time that she comes back in on the other side. During the formation of the spiritual Jew, which is in the womb of Israel, during this time of the coming forth so that the child will not be marked." Now that is from Adam over here. God allowed that. He let her have her own way. But from here on over, it's spiritual Israel. You follow me? 

I don't want to confuse you. I want you to listen carefully to what I'm saying. A nation out of a nation, a man out of a man, a woman out of a woman. Now, if this is the beginning of the pyramid here, that is to say from the east, from the west, from the north, and from the south. He said that if the headstone be lifted up, crying grace, grace, grace. All nations would be built up in lively stones unto it from the four corners of the earth, the north, the south, the east and the west. So then, from everywhere the gospel is pulling in from the foundation of the apostolic church into the headship, Jesus Christ. He said, "I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." All right. In this, we know then that Calvary really is the head, because from that time the teachings go out and everything is pulling back to Calvary. He is the central object of worship, and everything is building up to Calvary. Is that right? All right. That is Israel. But, that is the natural body of Jesus. 

When it is reversed, then is it pulling up to Calvary? No! It is pulling up when Jesus appears in the clouds at the end of the church ages. There is the capstone. The Spirit. Then, the dead in Christ shall rise first, and from all four corners of the earth comes up the pyramid to Him. They which are alive and remain go up to be with Him. So there is a natural, there is a physical, there is a spiritual. One, two, three. First heaven, second heaven, third heaven. All right now. What happens when the head goes up to the throne? Satan goes out. Isn't that right? Somebody would say, "I see that, because when Jesus goes up in to the throne He kicks Satan off of the throne and He takes it." No sir! God would never sit down on a throne where Satan ever sat. You know better than that. He has never been up there to sit down in it to begin with. He doesn't kick him out up here, because he has never been up there. That heaven won't be destroyed. 

When it said heaven and earth will be destroyed, Satan is between heaven and earth. This is earth, this is heaven, he's in between. You understand what I'm saying? Making his nest among the stars. Here, he is kicked out of the second heaven. The heavens are on fire because the atoms explode, and the heavens have to be burned and purged, but not the third heaven, because he can't get up There where god is. The Bible says, in the day of Job, that he came before God, but he came down here in this court. He didn't come in up there. The high priest alone goes in there, and who is the high priest? Jesus! Satan has never been in there. So then all he can do is come up to where the blood atonement applies, which is the second court, because that makes allowance for sinners, and he lives in sinners, and they come in to the second court. 

But, only the high priest goes into that third part. That part will never be burned. Now, you say, "You mean to tell me that Satan couldn't be there?" No! He could never be in there. One time, when God made angels pure as light, that was different. But when he's cast out, he is cast out in the regions of the darkness. You understand what I'm saying? So then, this world from here down is dark. But, from here up, it is light. So God here, looking down at us here, had to put a doorway here that we through prayer, and our spirit coming from our body, go up to the throne, and back and forth. The fallen angels on either side here, and Peter said, "The angels desire to look into this." They're the fallen angels, and I speak in tongues here, and it communicates with God through the blood of Jesus here, through the Spirit of God there, my spirit through His Spirit to God's Spirit, then the angels, which are angelic beings, over here they desired to look into that, but they can't do that. That is Glory Avenue. The blood stream is Glory Avenue. We travel up and down Glory Avenue, and he can't even get into it. They're on either side here, and this is the realm where Daniel had his interference. Right here. Praying and fasting here twenty one days to get in touch with this up here to get help to find out what was going to happen to the Jewish people, then Satan ran the interference in this realm right here. 

I've got you back where you started, back to Daniel. How many of you understand how Daniel ties in with this? Okay, we'll stop right there, or I'll start, start ice skating again. Now, there is a lot of things that I would like to say, because we just barely scratched the surface in these teachings, and it looks like I have to stop right in the middle of what I'm doing, or I'd keep you here all day. But anyway, tonight, if the Lord's willing, nothing happens, maybe we'll explain a little bit again and relate or revert back to the pyramid in our thoughts to try to explain a little more clearly, why that we are saying what we're saying. 

Try to come back tonight, bring somebody with you. Now, I've not tried to get into the teachings because we've had Brother Wilson here, and we've had visiting ministers here and different ones coming in, and when they're all here like that they've got a zeal to preach. They've got a ministry, and they've got a zeal to preach, and I don't like to throw cold water on it. God sends them by to minister to us, and I want to feed, you know and get everything that I can, and whatever God wants to bless us with, and I just give in and just go ahead and let them preach, or ask them to minister for me, and then, whenever the Lord finds time to use me, well then, I try to take a little bit of time to teach my people. 

I hope that in these little spastic moments, though it's a sporadic sort of a thing, I hope that during this time that you can get those things revelated, because the purpose of these things is not just to indoctrinate you, but it is to bring you, by the mind of Christ, to bring you to the recognition of how you will automatically be charged into the glorious images of the manifested sons of God. Not changed into the sons of God, for you are already the sons of God, but into the appearance of the sons of God, to them that look on the outward appearance. It has nothing to do with us becoming sons of God. Nothing at all. You understand what I'm saying? Jesus made us sons of God. The only thing that has to do with us becoming the sons of God is that we believe in what He done and by faith. To as many as received Him, He gave them the power to become the sons of God. So this is the patience of the saints: they that keep the faith of Jesus Christ and the commandments of God. I know the commandments of God means Israel, and faith means to us, but we're supposed to be one and the same. Somebody would say, "Well I'm saved by faith." And that is true. And I won't dispute that.

The commandments are to Israel. But this is the one thing that we over look. Though I'm saved by faith, it is my inner man that has been saved through what Jesus did. I must make outer man subject to the commandments of God, the knowledge of God, that I might have the faith that was once delivered to the saints that was under the law back there. Come on! The faith of Abraham. That is to change this body. So then, the Jews have one part of it, and you have the other part. Isn't that right? They have the bodily part. That's why you have not yet come to the appearance. But, if you will keep the faith of Jesus Christ and the commandments of God, then it will change your body, and body will be tied to Spirit. There will be redemption, and then you'll see the right thing. 

As long as people keep going through the world preaching faith, arguing with me and saying, "Well, there is no difference if women wear miniskirts, or men wear form fitting clothes, there isn't any difference, you know, we're saved by faith", just as long as they do that, there'll be no redemption of the body. It'll wind up in a charismatic move, and they'll lose what they've already got. But when we mix holiness, the commandments of God, with faith in what Jesus Christ did, then we'll get a redemption of the body, and we won't have to have the heaviness or weariness of the devil probing at you all the time. That is the truth. That's what it represents. When a body of people, like folks at Little Bethlehem, decide that holiness has got to be mixed with the right thing to bring holiness unto God in the millennium, then the Jews will begin to come in because they're the body. That signifies bodily redemption coming in. The resurrection from the dead. The body can't die after that. See, death means unredeemed. When death is conquered by holiness, then that means that we believe in at Calvary has been made an application to build an ark, a bodily ark to the saving of the inner soul. Our works have gone into action. Your faith without your works is of no benefit to you. What you do proves you're a believer. 

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

Founder and first President of Jesus Christ’s Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc.

Holiness Unto The Lord