Babylon Is Fallen

And so tonight we are very grateful to be here and have the opportunity to talk to you about Jesus. Now, I don't know how it is with other ministers. I can't speak for them. I have to speak for myself but I find as I travel across the land of America and in to the foreign fields that people have very little interest in God. They have become so oppressed in and so obsessed with the things of the world that it has almost killed their interest in God. They very little interest in the things of God. And they spend very little time fasting and praying and searching after God. But it is the fulfillment of the gospel. It's the fulfillment of the prophesies of God that in the latter times people will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, in the last days He said this would happen. He said that they would be lovers of self more than lovers of God and they would be heady. You know, educational, heady, high-minded. Shooting at the moon, you know. Want to live above their means. High-minded and heady in the last days. They'll be lovers of self more than lovers of God and lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, and in the last days they would be marrying and giving in marriage. That is there would be an excessiveness of marrying. Marrying one time, two times, three times, you know and they would be eating and drinking. there would be an excessiveness of eating and drinking. Now it's all right to marry and it's all right to eat and drink, but the Bible teaches that one of the signs of the latter times is that there would be a great excessiveness if eating and drinking. I wonder if we could kind of get some people to shift over a bit? Could we do that? You know the door is over here and everybody comes in and sets over here and it kind of makes everything one sided when you go to try to talk to them. So if we can get some shift over here in the side where Brother Red is, it will be much better and this way we can talk to you just a little bit better. Now, last night we had a real good crowd of folks here. We are expecting to have bigger and better crowds before the meeting is over, but if we don't have them we will preach to what we have and enjoy it just as much, but the Lord has blessed us in our tent meetings and He has always give us people to preach too, and I know that He will here in Moultrie. But it makes it so much better when we can balance the congregation up a little bit. Be better I guess if we had a door out front here where they'd come in and sit on either side, you know. Wouldn't have a vacant side over there. How many of you know it's time to change sides anyway? Hallelujah! All right. So it's a wonderful thing to be here tonight. Glad to see Brother Howard out with us. He didn't get out last night. He got out on Saturday night, but he didn't get out Sunday night, but were glad to see him here with us tonight. Now as I was saying, the signs of the end is that there will be an excessiveness of eating and drinking. That is to say, people will be continually eating. They will want to go over to the cafe and eat. They'll want to go out and picnic. They'll want to buy them a motor home you know. Go out on a luncheon. Have get-togethers, all kind of things that pertains to eating and drinking. Jesus and the apostles said this would be one of the major signs of the end time. To watch for that day. Told them to watch for the day when everybody got hungry, you know, and this is the day. The appetite is all worked up. I think it was David that said, Let their table be made a snare unto them. The biggest snare that has ever happened to mankind is the table and if you'll look along the highways you'll find on the billboards, hamburgers and hot dogs and coca cola and everything builds up your appetite you know because of the eating and drinking that God said would happen in the last times. You know God has a way of doing it, When He said it's going to come to pass, it's going to come to pass. And there are things that build up and excite the passions of the body and of course, in exciting the passions of the body, you know a few false eyelids and a few wigs, and a few form fitting clothes and everything all dolled up and a little perfume, you know to make them smell like roses and sex gets in a rage. Such as the marrying in the latter times. Somebody say amen. Said in the latter times that they couldn't be satisfied with one woman. Amen. They'd have to have two or three, and wouldn't be satisfied with just one man. They'd have to have two or three. And so then marrying and giving in marriage, and the demons, the evil spirits are inhabiting the bodies and they are making havoc of the people. But Jesus said beware for this will happen in the latter times. People will be presumptuous. They would be self-willed. They would be stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart, but very religious like Cain in latter times. How many of you know we are living in the last days? All right. So we see the signs of the times. Now the Lord rebuked them one time and called them hypocrites. He said I see that you can discern the face of the weather. Is that right? Said if the skies are red and lowering in the evening time said you say it's going to be good weather but in the morning if it's that way it's going to be foul weather. Is that right? But said you are hypocrites because you can't discern the signs of the times, but how many of you know that we can discern the signs of the times? Hallelujah! So then that day will not come upon us unawares. We know when it shall come. It shall be nigh at hand. All right. So then, it's easy to see that we are living in a very critical time, in a time of crisis. But it's so wonderful to be a son of God. You know, I'm glad tonight that I'm a son of God. Are you glad you're a son of God tonight? I'm glad that I'm a son of God. Somebody would say, well Brother Pike, do you really believe that you are? I really am a son of God. See, John said, now beloved are you the son's of God. You are not going to be, but already are the sons of God. And I'm glad that I'm a son of God. I wouldn't want to be a son of man. I wouldn't want to be a son of monkey. You know like scientist try to prove that we are, but I'm glad that I'm a son of God. I'm the son of God tonight, and I'm so grateful that I'm the son of God. Hallelujah! So then, that makes me live on a higher plane and it causes my heart to rejoice. Now if you are a son of man then you are like the gentiles. You are always seeking after money and prestige and the things of this world, the comforts and conveniences you can afford in life, but if you are a son of God you don't have the love of the world in you. The Bible says if the love of the world is in you the love of the father is now there. And if you are a son of God you've got your mind on heavenly things. Your conversation is in heaven and everything is looking up. Isn't that right? Hallelujah! All right. Now. I don't know just exactly what I'll say to you tonight. You know, when you are a holiness preacher you don't ever know what you are going to say. Now, if you are some other kind, well, you've got it outlined pretty good. You are not a Holiness preacher. The Bible says it's not him speaking but the Heavenly Father speaking from within you. He doesn't ever know what he'll say. But I know I got excited last night and I hollered at you quite a bit and the night before. Maybe I won't do that tonight. But anyway, I do have a lot of things to say. I just have well, heaps upon heaps. Paul said, much revelation, and my heart is so filled up and overflowing that when I get up here I don't hardly know where to start. I know people, you know people, you know, and I know that people have a time limit in their minds and their hearts and you go so far and they get cut you off, whether you quit or not they have already quit. So it really makes it difficult because when you are a preacher not just a passerby, or an evangelist, but a preacher, you've got something to say. You see Paul was a preacher and it took him all night long to say it. He had to preach till midnight and then have a resurrection and preach his sermon. Now, if you are just a passerby well you have to say a little bit and the people say good night and they have to go. Now, ( Bad tape part left out) of course there are other things. there are people that are pressed with necessity. They have to go on jobs. They have to work. Some of them have to leave, you know, at a certain time to go to work and I understand that. I wish it wasn't that way but it is, and then we have some that leave to try to make you think they have a certain time. And they have a certain time. They are not the ones that are going to work, but they have to get out of there somehow or another when the devils get to bother them. You start preaching the gospel, you stir up the devil and they have to go somewhere whether to work or whatever. But anyway we are glad tonight to be a Christian and have a chance to speak to you and through the few scattering remarks that we share with you in these meetings, I hope that it will do you some good. And I'm trusting that in this meeting I'll be able to say a few things because I know we won't be able to get in to many things that might edify you and lift you up into the great strength of the Almighty God. There are so many lovely things that I would like to share with you tonight but you know when you really preach to people you have to do like Jesus did. You have to get them somewhere, where maybe get a little boat and shove out to where the crowd can't get to you and then just sit down and just talk to them for a little while. You know, Jesus would tutor them and they say, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher sent from God, and so then, in this you just tutor the people. Paul said, I'm a teacher and a preacher. Isn't that right? And so then, you tutor the people. You sit them down and you begin to talk to them and you get their attention and they begin to listen, but in the day we are living in you have to shout and just jump and run and holler and scream to get their attention. If you don't they'll sit there and you can be saying things that's way out of this world. And they'll be looking straight at you and they'll say I wonder when he's going to start and when he starts hollering, screaming and jumping they'll say, praise God, he's really preaching. You know, so you have to do something to keep their attention, but anyway we do scream and holler sometimes and get beside ourselves. We have to do that to keep you attention and be able to get just a little something over to you. But I long to see the day when the saints can come and sit down and hunger and thirst after the things of God and realize that Jesus Christ wants to tell you something. And not just holler and scream and have a bunch of people jumping up and down like Mexican jumping beans everywhere. It's all right to shout. It's all right to holler. It's all right to scream. It's all right to run through a troop and leap over a wall. Solomon said there is a tine for all things, but there is a time for listening. The children of Israel back there they had a real Godly time. They hollered, screamed, Miriam beat the timbrel, and they shouted, but there came a day when the serpents started to biting them and they couldn't shout anymore. And while the demons and devils are jumping on people now the shout has just about gone out of them. And they got down to business and they begin to listen to the word of God. You are not going to shout the devil off. How many of you know that? You are not going to run him off with a shout. The Bible says God cast out the unclean spirits with his word. It's going to take the word to get rid of the devil. And so then we need to grow in the grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus. So there's a revelation. Paul had a great revelation. John was exiled and wasn't doing much shouting but he sure was learning. Paul stayed about three and a half years and he wasn't shouting but he sure was growing. You understand what I'm saying? So then, I love to shout, I love to praise God. I love to dance. Sometimes when I'm by myself I'm like a wild Indian, having a good time. Amen. But I also love to see things done to edify that we might grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus, and there are times when we come together I love to just shout and praise God and have a good time, see people healed and pray for the sick. And then there are times when we come together, I love to see people sit down and be still and listen, and to absorb the word of God and understand the mysteries of Christ, and that is the part that the church hasn't received. Now, if the church doesn't receive it, and I say this without apology. If the church doesn't receive the mystery of Christ they will not be translated. Somebody would say, well I feel God. That doesn't have anything to do with it. Somebody would say, I feel God just pouring His spirit out on me. So does the hypocrite. The Bible, says the rain comes on the just and the unjust. So does the tare. That doesn't prove you've got anything. You understand what I'm saying? But I'll tell you what. We've got to get the mysteries of God, and we've got to understand the revelation of Jesus Christ. We've got to simmer down to where we can take time to be holy, or else we are not going to be translated. You know, so many times we come into the service and I pick up people spirits and I don't say anything to them but I pick their spirit up. I pick up, maybe two or three women's spirits and two or three mens spirits, whereas the Bible says not to know anybody after the flesh but after the spirit, and I'll pick them up, you know, in the spirit and I'll check them out just to see what they are doing and where they are. And I'll tell you what, you can't hardly believe it. You just can't hardly believe it. And yet they profess Christianity, but you can't hardly believe it. And every once in a while I pick up a man or a woman's spirit and a real genuine love of God and sonship is in there and they are eager and hungry and thirsting after the word of God. Few. There are not many, but few. The Bible says few there be that find it. Just a few. You have always got those that will come to a service and they will sit in the in the service, and I've had a tent full. You know, have them sitting in the service and the Holy Ghost will begin to move. You know, the Bible says as Peter preached to them. You'll begin to talk and after while you'll strike some faith, and then the Holy Ghost will fall. You can feel him when He falls, while we're preaching, you know. But you've always got somebody sitting out there that just about the time the demon spirits cause them to do that. The demon spirits brought then there for that purpose and caused them to do that, to distract the man of God and the word of God, to make it look like it was having none effect, you know, and the devil has always got somebody to do that. The Bible says when the Sons of God come to present themselves, Satan comes also. So then when the Sons of God come to present themselves, Sons of Satan comes also to present themselves before God. All right. Now then, I wonder if I could talk to you just a little bit. And if I get to talking with you I probably get excited I usually do, but any way, I wonder if I could read just a little bit to you and maybe talk to you for just a while. Over in the book of Revelation, I believe it's chapter, it's chapter seventeen. If you've got your Bible's you can read with me. 

Revelation chapter seventeen: "And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth."

Revelation chapter eighteen: "And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double."

Reading this passage of scripture we see that God is talking about some great women, an outstanding woman that is in His sight a harlot. Though the woman is great and though she is mighty, yet in the sight of God she is a harlot. This great woman, the Bible tells us here that she is a great person but she is a harlot. So then, if God speaks of such a person there must be somewhere in the world today, a woman that fits this description. A great person, but yet she is harlot in the sight of God. Now, it is obvious to those that can interpret the scripture, or understand the word of God, that God is speaking of some great system that is in the world today. And that this world to God, or this great system, this woman, that is a feminine thing in the sight of God. How many of you understand that you being flesh that you are feminine to God, that the spirit is masculine, but the flesh is feminine? How many of you understand that? See, to God, all people are men. You understand what I'm saying? Now, in the world we have a woman and a man, but it's only typical of God in human beings, for the human part is the woman. Do you understand what I'm saying? God took Adam from Eve. Is that right? So then, the human flesh is a woman to God, for God is the masculine part. So then, He sees this woman and He says that she is a great harlot. She is drunk off of the blood of the martyrs. She has lived so great and mighty here in the earth. Adorned herself with all the precious stones and ruby. Having the very best of everything in these dainties of life, but God said there is a day when He is going to call her in to the judgment and there is a day when He is going to tear her down and so the angel of the Lord flies through the heavens crying, Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen. She has become the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. It is obvious that this that He speaks of must be the church. It must be some kind of a religious system that He's speaking of, because the woman shows herself to be a great prophetess, therefore she must be some kind of a religious symbol. Now. In this, when the angel cries that Babylon has fallen, he also adds that she has become the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Now, when you say unclean and hateful bird, knowing that God speaks to us in symbols, we understand that He is talking about evil spirits. Unclean birds represent evil spirits. How many of you understand what I'm saying? See, something that's heavenly, something that's flighty something that's not grounded, something that is a spirit. It represents a spirit. Satan is a prince a ruler over the powers that is in the air. There are powers that are in the air tonight and this world is totally dark. Is that right? There are spirits in the heavens tonight, and Satan is the prince, the rulers over those powers. He is the prince of the powers of the air, the Bible tells us, and those spirits work in the mind of children and of disobedience and at any time that Satan desires, those evil spirits, lust, covetousness, haughtiness, all of these things go right into the minds of the children of disobedience, right in there, takes them into captivity and they do the will of devil because we have no resistance against these things unless we are felled with the Holy Spirit. If we are filled with the Holy Spirit then we have a resistance. We give off a resistance against those things. You understand what I'm saying? How many of you tonight as Christian people understand that this world is in total darkness? See, this world is in total darkness. You say, Brother Pike, why this is a great world of light. But not with God. This world is full of darkness. There is no light, here in this world, except the Christian. This world is in total darkness. You'll notice when God created in the garden, that He reckoned His tome from evening until morning. Is that right? We reckon our time from morning until evening. But not God. See we see daylight, so we say from morning until evening is the day, but with God He doesn't see any light. So He said from the evening until the morning. Do you follow me? See, it is darkness with God all the way from the act of creation in the garden, it is darkness all the way over to Calvary, and then when Calvary comes the bright and morning star comes Jesus is the bright and morning star. That's why Revelation said, He that overcometh, I will give to Him the bright and the morning star. Hallelujah! Christ came at Calvary as the bright and the morning star and He dispels the darkness that comes over from the evening until the morning. So then, the fall in the garden takes us into the night, and from the evening until morning it is dark, so then this world is dark. God can't come down here in this world. He has to stand afar off. He can't come down here because it's dark and the devils are in this darkness and Satan is the ruler of the darkness. See, the Lord cast him out of the light. Is that right? As he's cast out of the light He has become a ruler of darkness. And so then today this world is dark. You say, what do you mean, Brother Pike, dark? I see daylight around me when the sun is shining. But see God, when God speaks of darkness, he was speaking of intellectual reasoning. Ever since the time of the fall in the garden, ever since man partook of the tree of knowledge, it has been a dark, dark night. You understand what I'm saying? Paul got a revelation, and God knew that he was a son of light, and God said, Paul, go turn my people from darkness to light. ( tape turned over) the earth was dark. But when the angel came down the brightness of his visage, the brightness of his presence, it lighted all the earth. Now, it is a true fact that God is doing something here, now, that He has never done before. God said I'll do a new thing. And so He's doing something now. What is He doing? He said in the evening time it shall come to pass that there shall be light in the evening time. See, gross darkness shall cover the people. Intellectual reasoning. Education. Everything will be heady in that day. Everybody get an education. Everybody get understanding. Everybody go back to the tree of knowledge. From that very moment that the great angel came down from the heavens and lightened the earth with His glory. The Bible says when He came down, He said there shall be light in the evening time. When gross darkness covers the earth, when intellectual reasoning swallows up the people when Satan is so in control of darkness and humanity, taking them into captivity at the will of the devil. Now, during this period it's dark. Everything is dark. All around is dark. And God is trying to come into this world but He can't come into this world. See God, can't look on sin. Somebody would say. Now wait a minute Brother Pike, don't you know that God can come down here whenever He gets ready? Now let's just look at it and see if He can. God, I say, cannot come down in this world. Somebody would say, well, He can come whenever He gets ready. Did you know that God is a great light unto to which no man can approach, which no man has seen, nor can see, and Jesus Christ alone dwelling in that light has immorality. Did you know that if God, the great light came into this earth that not only would the darkness move away but there would be no place found for the mountains? There would be no place found for the desert. There would be no place found for the stars of heaven? Everything would pass away. John tells us in his writing that the ancient of days, said, after the thousand years reign, he said I looked and the ancient of days whose hair was white as wool, said I saw him sit to judge the earth. And he said as he approached the earth, the earth fled away from the presence of God. There was no earth. You see, God can't come down in this world. There isn't any way he can come down here. If God comes into the world you'll vanish away into nothing. The earth will vanish away into nothing. And God has to work through Jesus Christ. Has to work through human instrumentality to be able to win them to God. That's why He's got preachers. He has to work through human beings, Because of the brightness of His glory, one day will come to the throne and He said I will destroy with the brightness of my coming. That ended the perversion and that wicked one. Hallelujah! All right. Do you understand what I'm saying? Now. If this world is dark, very dark, there is no light, then what must we do? I must come together with you and must come together with me, and you take your little candle and I take my little candle, and we come together and we have, like they sometimes, what they call a candlelight service. You know, the Bible tells us that the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord searching out the inward parts. And so, we get our little candle and we come together, and then when we come together we create a great light as we come together and light shines out of darkness. Hallelujah! The Bible says, God commanded light to shine out of darkness and He looked upon the face of the earth and it was dark and void, without form. But god said let there be light and there was light. You follow me? All right. Now. If God is looking upon us physically. If we are in the world of darkness. If the world is void and without light. If we are void in dark form concerning the news of Jesus Christ, then God said let there be light and there was light and the light sprang out of the darkness, but the Bible says, the darkness comprehended it not. Is that right? The darkness comprehended it not. Why? Having eyes they see not. Having ears they hear not. See, Paul said the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, you must comprehend the heights, the depths, width and length. But the Bible says the light shined in the darkness but the people comprehended it not. That is the darkness comprehended it not. See, Brother, you can be a great intellectual scholar. You may be fresh from seminary, you may be fresh from college, but, Brother, when this light shines, you won't be able to comprehend it. You won't be able to comprehend it, because the Bible says it is foolishness, to them people who esteems themselves to be heady, high-minded and wise. It's foolishness. God made it foolishness to the wise, but made it revelation to the babes such as will learn. So then the writer said, unto you, great light has sprung up. Hallelujah! See we are the light of the world. Let your light so shine that men may see your good works, and glorify your Father in heaven. How many of you know, the one thing the church doesn't have today is good works? The church needs some good works today. Hallelujah. If we'll get back to old time Holy living, and the church would get some good works to glorify Him in the earth then they could distinguish between the church and between the people in the world. Hallelujah! Somebody say praise the lord. All right. Now then. The light came. Where did it come? In the world of darkness, where it was dark, without form, couldn't see the image of Jesus but He said let there be light and there was light. And great light sprang up to them that was in darkness and He commanded that light to shine out of the darkness. The Bible says, God veiled himself in darkness. You know, it is within the intellectual carnal reasoning that is the results of the fall in the garden, it is within that that God, the Holy Spirit, hides himself. You know, it's like the power was in the nucleus of the atom. Is that right? You split the atom and now it's turned to power. Is that right? It's the same way at Calvary when the veil was rent. John said, I looked and in the heavens, I saw the ark of His testament. See the power is on the inside to as many as to believe, to them he has given power. Do you understand what I'm saying? Hallelujah. The Bible says when the Holy Ghost comes upon you, then shall ye receive power. Jesus went into the wilderness and fasted forty days and when He came out the Bible says He returned in the power of the spirit. Hallelujah. All right. So then, the light shines out of darkness. I like that, don't you? In this great world of darkness that shows the light in the evening time. There's somebody going to preach the gospel in the evening time. There was an angel that came down from heaven, and the Bible says he had the power to light the earth with his glory. You know, there's something I really like right here. It said that this angel gives glory. That lit up the earth. Did you know that we have, we have a special thing from God. You understand what I'm saying? We have the glory of God. Come on now, Somebody say, Brother Pike, God doesn't give glory to another. I'm not talking about another. I'm not another. I'm bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. Jesus said, Father glorify me with the glory that I had with thee before the world ever was and Father glorify these with thy glory. Make these one, God, as we are one. Somebody said His glory He won't give to another. He won't give it to the Baptist. He won't give it to the Methodist. He won't give it to the Church of God or to the UPC. He won't give it to the Non-Denominationals or, the Catholics or the Presbyterians, or the Methodist because they are another, but Brother He will give it to us because we are His own body. We are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. It's not us living. Paul said, It's Christ living in me. The life I now live I live by the Son of God. He said, father, glorify these with the same glory that you glorified me with. Oh, Hallelujah. That's the glory I'm talking about. He said, and his glory lightened the whole earth. It's like Revelation ten. That angel stepped out with that rainbow over his head. He was clothed with a cloud, He stepped out there and the glory of the lord shined down upon him. And he began to speak to John, and he said, John eat the little book. Eat the little book. Do you understand what I'm saying? Somebody said, Brother Pike, who was that angel? That was the Lord, That was the angel of the Lord. Somebody said, now wait a minute, Brother Pike. Why do you say that was the angel of the Lord? Because he spoke of the two prophets and He said these are my servants. Hallelujah. He didn't say somebody else's servants. Hallelujah. That's Jesus. The two candlesticks coming forth sending the two prophets Jesus giving the confirmation and I will send my servants. Hallelujah. When have you ever heard of an angel talking like that? You understand what I'm saying? So then, God is doing something special in the world today. God is giving us a special outpouring and I said the other night, He said, why do you speak in parables? That was what the disciples said to Jesus. And Jesus said I've got a mystery and it's not for them. It's for the church. It's not for them. Why is not for them? Because the darkness cannot comprehend it. The darkness can't get a hold of it. You understand what I'm saying? The darkness can't get a hold it. The darkness can't see it, but your eyes of understanding being enlightened you can comprehend it. Paul said you can comprehend it. Have you comprehended it tonight? Have you? Somebody said I'm just waiting to see God. You'll never see God. The Bible says God is a great light unto which no man can approach, who no man has seen, nor can see. Is that right? But they can comprehend the great light. the darkness can't comprehend that light. But I can comprehend God tonight. How can I do it? Through Jesus Christ who went about doing good and healing all. Isn't that right? I can comprehend God tonight as I see Him move in the life of a Christian. I can comprehend God tonight if I see the light in the church shining through them and men can see their good works. I can see it too. And I can comprehend God. Somebody say I love Jesus. Hallelujah. All Right. Now, let's just look at it just a few more minutes. Now then, this great Babylon. What is this great Babylon? How many understand that way back in the days of Nimrod down in the land of Shinar, that there Nimrod the great hunter began to build a great thing that they called the tower of Babel? Do you remember that? Out of that sprang forth the great city from that very place Nimrod started. See, and a great thing sprang out of it. What was it? It was the city called Babylon, which means the tower of Babel. A confusion. They had that which is called a mythical brotherhood. They had a priest called (tape messed up) See it was a state of confusion. It was something where they blackmailed the people. You confessed to the priest. They'll hold it over your head, you had to pay him you understand what I'm saying? He blackmailed you into it. That started a mystical priesthood, with ( tape messed up) You see, somebody ruling over the people ( tape wasn't plain enough to understand what he said) And they confessing to the priest (tape messed up) back to their people. That was Babylon. That was Babylon that Daniel spoke of. That great Babylon that the children of Israel had to be taken away into. They showed the captivity of the church of today being seriously bound by the powers of Satan. The days of Nebuchadnezzar, when it was so great and in that hour when the children of Israel started down there. In 606 they were carried down in Babylon. 606 B.C. they went down in Babylon. Now, God let them stay 70 long years to give us a typical thing of what was to happen to the church in our day. In our day the church had to go into an intellectual reasoning an intellectual religion, into an intellectual place of darkness, and was to stay there for a long time. You remember when Abraham gave the sacrifice to God, after he divided the sacrifice, the Bible says a great darkness come over him and God said Abraham, thy seed shall sojourn in darkness for 430 years. After that I will deliver them with a great and a mighty hand. Is that right? See, that darkness, they had to go in that intellectual Egyptian darkness. Somebody would say, well, Brother Pike, what has that intellectual Egyptian darkness got to do with us today? Did you know that civilization comes out of Egypt? Did you know that it is from those Rosetta Stones and hieroglyphics? Did you know that these things are the things that bring back what we call civilization? And did you know that the civilization of today that's here in America is nothing more than the Egyptian thing. And did you know that God said, in the days that the iniquities of the Egyptians is filled up that the prophesy is fulfilled, then I will send forth a deliverer and I will deliver my people from the darkness. Great darkness came up over the land. Now, this is why that your president of today and this is why that your governors of today, and this is why your educational systems of today favor the Egyptians instead of Israel. And that's what's going to bring about the problems. That's what's going to bring about the trouble. Did you know that Jimmy Carter has already signed a paper, I've got the writings on it, he has already signed a paper that puts you in a bad fix. He signed a paper that says that cannot go out and talk to people about Christianity and try to convert them contrary to their faith. That means that I can't go preach to the Baptist and Methodist and tell them they need to be Holy. I can't preach to the different people. That means that every man will be frozen to his position. How many of you remember the war when they froze a man to his job? They froze him to his position. They couldn't switch him about. See, the government is going to freeze people to their religious beliefs and the only way that they can change their beliefs is that they do it themselves. Nobody can't talk to them about nothing. And Brother, let me tell you. If somebody don't talk to you about it you will never change. When you get in a religious rut if somebody don't tell you better. If somebody don't dispute with you, if somebody doesn't cross your grain and somebody doesn't teach you the word of God, you'll never get out of that rut. See, God sent preachers into the world to preach the word of God. How can you preach the word of God without converting people? If somebody wants to be a Woodsman of the World, somebody wants to be a mason, somebody wants to do this or that, or whatever, you can't say anything about it. And he has already signed the papers. Already. Now, you say what has that got to do with us? It simply means that you are in the end of the world. Now, what about that great statute back there in the plains of Dura? What about that great stature that was raised up in 606 B.C. in the days of Nebuchadnezzar when he had his vision. What about the great statute that was raised up back there? See, what's that got to do with us today? There's something that just came out of the plains of Dura. That's not very far from where Brother Red lives and some of the others. See, the plains of Dura, right there in South Georgia. Now, I told them when they spoke of the Plains of Dura, I told them what it had to do with ( tape messed up)  and it had to do with the Bible. But some fellow checked it out and said it's a known fact, they actually gave it its name from the Bible. The same place in Babylon as the plains of Dura. Now. What is it? It points to a monumental government that will raise up and take control of the world. Do you believe it? How many of you have time to listen a few minutes and I will prove it? Look at the statute. When did it get started Nebuchadnezzar had a dream. In this dream, still talking about Babylon, Babylon is fallen, Nebuchadnezzar had a dream. In this dream he saw a great statute. It's head was of gold. It's chest and it's arms was of silver. It's belly part and it's thighs was of brass and the legs was made out of iron and the toes was out of iron and clay. This great statute, this great man that was made out of metal, that Nebuchadnezzar saw in the dream. See, it's Babylon. He had this vision in the days of Babylon. Daniel was in Babylon. Is that right? See, 721 tribes the ten tribes was taken away into Assyria. They fell into the hands of Babylon captivity. 606, here's Judah coming down into Babylonian captivity. You understand what I'm saying? So the Bible says, 70 years ye shall remain in Babylon. In 445 B.C. the seventy years was ended and the King Artaxerxes was in power, and the prophesy was given to Daniel that they would go forth and build the walls back to the coming messiah and brought in Daniel's 70 weeks. But during this period of time, Daniel was down in Babylon. He was down there and when Nebuchadnezzar had this great dream then Daniel went over and Nebuchadnezzar wanted him to interpret the dream and remember, here is what Daniel said. Daniel said, Nebuchadnezzar, O great and mighty king, thou art the head of gold (bad tape, left some out) 606 B.C. Thou art the head of gold. So we know that the great statute that he spoke of got started in the days of Nebuchadnezzar. See, this great head of gold, this power, that ruled Babylon. Babylon the great, the mother of harlots. So then this great statute. Where was it? It was in the plains of Dura. It was right there that this great leader, this great king, lifted up the statute and commanded the Hebrew children to bow to it. Isn't that right? Didn't you notice that everyone in that country bowed down to that image. He made an image and set it up. And did you know that everybody in that country bowed down to it? Did you know the initials of that thing comes out 666? Did you know that everybody in that country did obeisance to it? After the three Hebrew children, called Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, they came around and the King said, I want you to do obeisance. Said when the flute sounds and the music sounds, the cornet sounds, the pipes, and all these things sounds, said I want you to bow down to the image. And those Hebrew children said, King we are not careful to answer you concerning this matter. Everybody else can bow down to it, but oh, King, let us tell you something. We can't bow down to it. Hallelujah. Do you see what I see in that? Do you understand what I'm saying now? See, everybody had bowed down to it. Brother, the Gentiles are going to bow down to this statue that's coming in. The Gentiles are going to take a bow to it, but these three Hebrew children will refuse. The Jews will never bow down to the gentile system of the antichrist of the (bad tape) government that will be lifted up as the great kingdom of all the world. Those Jews said, we will never do it. We will never do it. See, the Jews will never do it. But out of the Plains of Dura, here comes your government. Out of the Plains of Dura. Before Jimmy Carter ever went into office I made the statement, I said the government will shift from Washington D.C. and it will shift down to Georgia. Some of them didn't believe it, but it did. I said when it comes in it will close the power of the black man. Because the Bible says gross darkness will cover the people. Jimmy won favor with the black people and came right on in. The Bible says it shall come up with little people. He went from place to place and from store to store and won the favor of the people. (bad tape ) Said it will come in the flattery (bad tape) promising everything they could (bad tape) and all ready people fussing because he hasn't given it to them. I'm telling you what the Bible says. The Bible teaches that that great government that the statute in the Plains of Dura will come up. That this great head of gold which come up, this great statute would come up, and that it would be a great kingdom. Now let's look at it for a minute. If Nebuchadnezzar was the head of it, down from 606 to 548 B.C. that Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom continued, that great Babylonian power continued. Is that right? Until one day Medo-Persians came in. According to history. When they came in they took over. They fought against the city and they took the city and they took over Babylon. Do you understand what I'm saying? The head of gold was Babylon. The arms and breast were the Medo-Persians, the two world powers. The gold, the silver. See, another great kingdom that continued on until 330 B.C. and then after that here comes somebody by the name of Alexandria, the great. Coming down from Greece, conquering everywhere. Sweeping over the country nothing could stand before him. Here he comes sweeping down, as he came down he attacked. Took over. He got to Babylon. (bad tape) History said he took ten thousand people he wanted to go into the city and he wanted to take the city. Why did he want it? Because it was so wealthy. See, there was so much gold, so much silver, so much wealth. Have you ever read about Babylon? It was such a great place. You understand what I'm saying? Such a great place. He wanted to take it. 331 B.C. He swept in there to take the city. Alexandria, the great. That was the third kingdom coming in. If the Medo-Persians had to do with the silver, or the chest or the arms, then here comes Alexandria, the great that had to do with the brass, here with the belly and thighs. Do you follow me? I want to show you something. (Bad tape) See, three kingdoms coming together. Babylon. Why did God speak of Babylon? Why, in the book of Revelation, does John go back and preach a sermon on Babylon? Why did the angel all the way over in the New Testament go back to history to talk about Babylon? Because Babylon was the (bad tape) Why does Brother Pike, tonight stand up here and when he is suppose to be preaching the gospel of the New Testament and go back to Babylon? Do you understand what I'm saying? All right. So Alexandria, the great, went into the city. To his amazement, according to history, as he went in there, instead of fighting against him everybody accepted him. He really conquered. Here he is about 33 years old marsh fever hit him and killed him then four generals picked him up. They went in four different directions ( Bad Tape ) Do you understand what I'm saying? Babylon suffered greatly at the hands of these leaders until one day Rome came in. Are you listening? How many of you understand what I'm saying? See, this great kingdom lasted for a long time, from 370 to 323 B.C. and them from that those four generals came, and then that thing lasted over to 30 BC and then Rome. Just before the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ come in there and took over. Do you follow me? I wish I had time to talk to you and you had time to listen and I would show you just exactly according to history how it all happened and prove to you beyond the shadow of doubt that the same system is coming out of the Plains of Dura today. (Tape turned) What did John see? You remember when he saw this beast coming up out of the waters and the Bible spoke of it being the Antichrist that would come in the latter times. When it came up out of the water, what was it? The Bible says that it had a leopards body, and it had feet like a bear. Is that right? It had a head like a lion. What was it? It was a composition of the return of Babylon. See, these were the powers that controlled Babylon. You say where did you get that? Daniel's vision. Four hundred and forty eight years after Nebuchadnezzar had that vision then Daniel had a vision, and when Daniel had a vision, he saw in this vision a lion. Do you remember? He saw a bear in it. He saw a leopard in it. Do you remember that vision? That vision was a bear. That vision was a bear. That vision was a lion. That vision was a leopard. What did John see? See, God said Daniel seal it up till the end of time, and when John saw it, God didn't say John seal it up. He said, seal not the vision for the time is at hand. See, the leopard body, the feet of the bear, the head of a lion, all of those Babylonian authorities, all of those Babylonian Kings, all of those Babylonian powers coming back together in a constitution in the last days, all of them coming together. That's why the Bible says, Babylon has fallen, Babylon the great has fallen, because the constitution of that great image that came down there that came from Babylon, that great image, that came down was the government of four great major kingdoms in the earth and it was to ball up into one society of the end time that would come up in the United States and reach the government, the powers which are the ten toes of that image over in foreign countries. I just wish we had time tonight to talk to you about the gospel. It's no wonder Paul had to preach all night. It takes a little while to get some things over. At any rate, this great image, look at it. If the belly and the thighs were brass, the Grecian kingdom, then the legs of it being iron would be the Roman kingdom. And the Bible says in the latter times that the ten toes would appear and then clay would try to mix with it. Now, what is the clay? It's Russia. See, what is Babylon? Babylonian powers? The Roman powers? It's iron. The Roman powers have always been symbolized by iron, but Khrushchev (bad tape) Do you remember him? It (bad tape) See, Russian. Clay. It won't mix with iron. Do you understand what I'm saying? See, iron represents a spiritual strength. The Bible says He'll rule with a rod of iron. Clay represents the bodily power of human reasoning and religion and human reasoning won't mix. See, the ten toes? It's the confederation. It's the confederation of the ten kings. The Bible says God would put it in their hearts to give themselves to this great antichrist for one hour. Is that right? But said they would hate the antichrist. See, those nations hate the powers of Rome. They come to that power in the dark ages. 606 (bad tape) They know what it is to be under that power, and they hate that power, for that confederation will come together, and when they come together they will give themselves to the antichrist. But one day they will burn the antichrist with fire. Are you listening? If in 30 B.C. Rome got started then that means that the Roman power continued over to 364 AD Remember to this side of Calvary? Then when that kingdom fell it split up. In the Eastern Orthodox (bad tape) of the (bad tape) and the western Catholic side of it, when it split up then them legs. (bad tape) See, it split up. One went one way and one went another. (bad tape) And then it was to come on down from that time, which was after Calvary, over to this side of it, of the United States when those ten kings was to come in, in the latter times and form the ten toes. Are you listening to me? See, this great power was to continue all the way down to our day. In this day when the ten confederations confederated, nations was to come together. Now, my wife and I, we just come back from Europe not too long ago, and we went over to Brussels. Over where these ten toes are coming together. See, the ten nations are coming together. We saw the building where they are coming together. Out of these ten toes comes the antichrist. You remember that? See, the ten horns of the beast represented the ten toes and then he said he saw a little horn come upon one of them. It subdued three horns therefore there wasn't but seven left, and (bad tape) six of the seven. Do you understand what I'm saying? (bad tape part left out) One is yet one is to come and the eighth shall be of the seventh. See, it made eight when he subdued the three horns. The one was the antichrist that will subdue the three powers or three of the kingdoms of the ten that one shall be antichrist. Do you understand what I'm saying? That's why the other seven will hate him, because when he subdues the three major parts he will rule over the others, and then the other will hate him and will burn his flesh with fire. But the Bible teaches that the thing will continue for a long time, times and a half a times which is three and a half years through the tribulation period. I wish we had time to preach this tonight or teach this tonight. But anyway, you see, this great kingdom as you look at it, it gets weaker and weaker and weaker, then it starts with the gold. That's about the greatest metal in the earth. Isn't that right? See, the lessening of the value of the metal shows the kingdom getting weaker. It shows that it doesn't retain the strength of the others. How many of you understand what I'm saying? See, look at your gold. If you understand anything about gold, look at it. The value (Tape is hard to understand) 1945, but see as it dropped on down to (bad tape) See, the value of it gets lower. It drops on down to brass, which is (bad tape) comes on down to iron which is (bad tape) on down to clay which is one point ninety three. See, it continues to get less and less in its value until it comes tight on down until it's nothing in the sight of God. See, God raised up Nebuchadnezzar. The Bible says he raised up Nebuchadnezzar, but when it gets down to the end time it's nothing just clay. Do you follow me? Do you know what I'm saying? Now if the plains of Dura have to do with it, that means we are at the end time. Look at Elvis Presley image that they are raising up. Look at that brazen image that they are raising up of Elvis Presley. The money that it cost them, look at them raising it up. Jimmy is wanting to make a national shrine at Graceland over at Elvis Presley's grave. Lifting up that golden image (bad tape) The man moved like a snake, the man that corrupted all the earth, the man that raised up sex all over the world, and had more people to come to his shows (bad tape) than ten presidents. Do you understand what I'm saying? He that corrupted all the earth. I wish I had time to preach to you tonight. Hallelujah! Glory to God. Do you know what? There is something taking place. There is something taking place. Do you love Jesus? Hallelujah. See, the Bible says Babylon is fallen. She's fallen. Why must she fall? Because she is the habitation of every unclean and hateful bird. What is Babylon? See, Babylon is that great whore. How do you know it's Babylon? How do you know it's Babylon? Read in the book of Revelation when God speaks of the Pergamos age. Have you ever read of the Pergamos age? Read of it. When he speaks of Babylon back there in the Pergamos age, what does he call Permagos? Calls it the seed of Satan. Is that right? See, it's the seed of Satan. How did it get to being the seed of Satan? Because the High Priest, (bad tape left out a lot in this area) A hundred and thirty BC he speaks, (bad tape) to Rome the power of Babylon. Do you understand what I'm saying? See, Julius Caesar took it over and became the great emperor, the great ruler. Do you understand what I'm saying? How many of you know we need to get back to school? How many of you know about Augustus? (bad tape) Caesar Augustus coming down from Lydia in Rome. That's how they got it down there. See, (bad tape) was in the areas of Pergamos, and that's where the (bad tape) went to when Persians and the Medes come in. The over threw the kingdom of Belshazzar, when Cyrus, 541, came in and over threw the city, how many of you remember the Bible history on that? Came in there and over threw the by re-routing the river Euphrates, turning the water around and came in under the walls of Babylon, came in and overthrew the city, three days. It was three days before they ever even knew the city was over thrown, even (bad tape) coming in the river beds and coming in through the gates upon the surrounding banks (bad tape) to kill (bad tape) the king. Do you understand what I'm saying? See, the (bad tape) Priest left them there and went over to Pergamos and there he became king in that area. In the areas of Pergamos when (bad tape) came down to Rome they brought the same (bad tape) according to history, they brought it down there and Julius Caesar received it, and Rome received it, as their civil rights leader. See, and that thing continued on until Rome became the head of Babylon. Do you follow me? Just a few more minutes and we're going to close. It was in 74 B.C. that this great power came in through the (bad tape) It came down there to Rome. Julius Caesar was elected in by 63 B.C. he was already the great emperor, the great ruler, the great leader. He had become what they called Supreme (bad tape) and he took over. That started a religious thing in the Roman Catholic church. Now just listen for a few more minutes and I'm going to close. This started a religious thing in (bad tape) from Babylon. All of the mysteries of Babylon, come over from Babylon to Rome. This is why John, when he saw the revelation, said Babylon is fallen, Babylon is fallen because it was bequeathed by the (bad tape) who was the priest over Rome at his death. See, Julius Caesar taking rights. By bequeathing over he became the great supreme leader. Do you follow me? Now it was 378 when the thing really got under way. It was 378 A.D. which was on this side of Calvary when the thing really got under way. It was 376 when the great ruler of Rome, a great emperor rejected the powers of Babylon because they had turned to Christianity. Do you follow me? So then they had to have somebody to take over and so they took a leader from the church which was Bishop (bad tape) Been a Bishop for about twelve years, took him in there and made him leader, but when history runs it back, it says that this man was elected in by the monks of Jezebel. It said the college of Jezebel elected this man into office and Jerubbaal the leader, the leader of the Babylon system from the powers that is over in Rome. And it was a religious thing. Do you follow me? They elected him in 366 A.D. and then by 378 this man was in full swing and by that time they had united the states and they stuck together. Now you say, what has that got to do with us, Brother Pike? It has this to do with us. If it was united together to come all the way from Babylon to Rome then where did you come from? Where did the Protestant age come from? Somebody said I'm Baptist, I'm Methodist, I'm Presbyterian. Where did that come from? You'll consent right off that that's the protestant belief and the word protestant goes back to protesting and the word protesting goes back to Martin Luther. Is that right? When Martin Luther came in, in about 1520, when he protested against the Catholic religion. That's (bad tape) he protested against the Catholic religion. He became known as the Protestant leader. After that all the churches was Protestant churches, which protest against the Catholic religion. Is that right? So then that means that (bad tape) that mystery Babylon that (bad tape) that she was breached over to the United States. The Bible speaks of her daughters. The mother of harlots. She's got daughters. Everyone of those churches will join up with the confederation of churches, everyone of them will join the government of that (bad tape) Join that great image. All of them will come together. That one great power that one great government but those three Hebrew children, the Jews won't accept it. Did you know that, Brother, right now we are in that hour. Right now those ten kings are coming together and the Bible says, in the days of those ten kings there was another kingdom hat came up out of the (bad tape) David got a little sling and he got a stone and he struck down the image of (bad tape) See, right at that time that stone (bad tape) it wasn't out of the seminary. The Bible says it come but it was not cut out with hands. It rolled down through Babylon tearing down the kingdoms of the world, and the Bible says (bad tape) it (bad tape) no end. It will fill all of the earth. Revelation nineteen, the returning of Jesus Christ. A vesture dipped in blood and the saints of God following him. Do you understand what I'm saying? That means that America is Babylon. She's Babylon the great. She is the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. One time she was the beautiful land of America. today she's a confusion of Elvis Presley and rock and roll, governmental powers that don't know where they are going and don't know what they are doing and people that are just pushed here and there that don't understand anything anymore. Send kids to school and let them learn about the government. In two years they have changed the school and the government, and it's confused and don't know it's right. The church, one time was a precious thing. People shouted the victory. Folks were saved. In the days of John Wesley people gave their hearts to God in Methodist church, but the Methodist church now, what's happened to it? Like all the rest she has become the cage of every unclean and hateful devil. People want to paint their face, and look like Jezebel, wear form fitting clothes, frolic, look at every evil thing when the Bible says to shun the very appearance of evil, trying to mix dark and light. And she has become the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. Every evil spirit has moved into the streets (bad tape) Everybody that holds up the standard of holiness in the church today they want to boot them out of the churches. That's why she's becoming a cage and not a church anymore. God said He's bind the tares and throw them into the fire and then gather the wheat. Isn't that right? A bunch of denominational tares. God's getting them ready to bundle them up together to throw them in the fire. Somebody say I love Jesus. All right. So them we are tight here at the end of time. This is the end of the world. And I'm going to close. This is the end of the world. We have come right down to the and the Plains of Dura is right close by to here tells me a story. And I see something happening. And right down here at the end time at the close of the age, God said, Thou Satan has worn the saints out all of a sudden another sermon another story, but Brother it's about to happen. It's about to happen. You might not believe it but as I said, they have already signed the papers. That you are not going to be able to change anybody from anything unless you want to go to prison. That means that the days of evangelism will be over and Brother when the days of evangelism is over God will burn this earth with fire. The only thing that's keeping God from doing that now is because we might when win another soul. When they stop men to where they can't preach the gospel then Rome will be back in power and that dark age will be here again and she will be a religious bunch of charismatic's that will do anything. Somebody say I love Jesus. Amen. We've got a bunch of religious charismatic's coming up that can huff and puff and skip and dance and do anything they want to and still claim that they have got the Holy Ghost. I made the statement years ago that she would come to that and I said when she comes to that I said the pope will come over and put his blessings on it. It happened just that way. When it started the pope went over and put his blessings on it and said this is the real thing. The hypocrite. Everybody stand with me will you? Right at the end time religion is taking over. Now, I didn't mean to get off into a stream of history and go that way tonight like I did, but I'm glad I did, but I didn't mean to do it because I have to push and shove and cry out and it bothers me because I live to have smooth sailing and take my time when I'm teaching, you know, and do those things. But maybe God held the crowd down tonight for that reason. Maybe He just had a few people here that he wanted us to talk with. Wanted you to listen for just a few minutes, you know, to some things concerning the history side of why that John said that Babylon, the great, is fallen. Folks, it is Babylon. It's a time of confusion. It's Babylon. A great Babylon. I wish we had enough time tonight and we'd describe it just a little bit for you and you'd see why Alexander, the great wanted to go in there. Maybe one night we'll bring out a little something about it. Of what kind of city it was and then you'll understand why Alexander, the great was so anxious to get a hold of it. You love the lord? Just in its temple alone the utensils were worth two hundred million dollars. All right. So then we are down at the end of the day. The world of darkness is about us. Great light. Light has shined out of darkness and in this little light as we come together, we create a combination of lighting and in the midst of that lighting, Jesus steps out into the world. See, Jesus, or God, the Holy Spirit, He can't come into that dark world, but if we create a light, where two or three come together, He said I will be in their midst, if they come together in my name. Not the name of a church, but in the name of Jesus. They have a name, the name of the church, that they live but they are dead. But in the name of Jesus. He said then I will step out in their midst. Create the light. Come together. Put your little candles together. Create a light in this dark world and them Jesus steps out in the middle of it and He begins to talk with us. Do you love Jesus? On the way to Emmaus they said did not our hearts burn within us as He expounded the word by the way and opened our understandings? He opened our understandings. Let's sing a little chorus together. There are so many things I would like to say tonight and share with you, but the thing is it takes too long. People have many things that they have to do. They are pressed with necessity. They have jobs. They have things in their life that they are compelled to do, but you know, isn't it wonderful just to stop, just for a few minutes. Be still and know that I am God. Just stop for a few minutes. Stand still and say Oh, God. Oh, God! It's so wonderful to be a son of God. So wonderful in this last hour, in this fleeting moment of time, when Jesus is with us, when we are together in the Holy Spirit, when everything is closing in, in a little while there is going to be trouble, in a little while your President is going to lift himself up against Israel and when he does God is going to tear this world apart. The Bible says I blessed Israel. Whosoever blesses Israel will be blessed. If a man shall curse Israel he'll be cursed or he that touches Israel touches the apple of mine eye. And brethren, God has blessed us because we have stood by Israel, but did you know that Israel recently made this statement, Said we are ready for a war of annihilation. Said if the Arabs don't get off of our backs we will put them out of commission. It will take them ten years to get started again. See, that bonds child and that free child both of them Abraham's son. That old flesh is created by God just like that spirit, you, know both of them God's son. You understand? One the created son of Adam unto death. One the spiritual son of God, by the spoken word, begotten of the word, unto life. Ah, there's a great mystery in that but it's a true fact the bonds child is ( bad tape) And see, the Arabs (bad tape) that means that the hour of the world as a church has come to a show down the saints will arise and take the kingdom, but Brother, Israel (bad tape) I make the statement years ago, I said someday they will confederate the nations and they will demand that Israel be part of the federation, I said but Israel will reject it. But when she rejects it she's Naboth's little vineyard but Jezebel and Ahab runs together. They can get all the world but they can never get Naboth's little vineyard. See, that's their homeland and they are ready to die for that. (Bad tape) Somebody said supposing (bad tape) and the (Bad Tape) lifted up their hands and said no. Said then what would you do? They said they would say, America mind your own business. Do you love Jesus? Hallelujah. Something is taking place. Something is taking place. (bad tape) a few days ago. You know these great scientist, these great intellectual powers (bad tape a lot left out) They said that Jimmy (Tape messed up) an expression, and some of the words he spoke proves that within three years that we would be in war. Said because he will be a (bad tape) and if he will be a (bad tape) and said you will be in war. I know one thing. I know the end is nearing. I know the end is nearing. I know the Bible says (bad tape) Jehu ( bad tape) Jezebel and I know that Israel is God's Jehu and I know that Jehu is just about to get in his chariot because something is about to take place and Elijah went out to (bad tape) and the days of the Gentiles is over. That is what it meant. The days of the Gentiles (bad tape) then come Elisha. Then comes Elisha with the double portion. The gentiles got one portion. How many of you know that? The spiritual Jew (bad tape) then Elisha goes out. Elisha. But then Elisha stays here. Is that right? They have all ready got the body under control. They have always (bad tape) holding the body under control. Then when they get that spiritual portion (bad tape) a spiritual Jew that got a double portion body and spirit. (bad tape) And you just watch and see. Babylon the great is fallen. She's fallen. She's fallen. (bad tape) she's the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. (bad tape) the mill stone in the middle of the sea. Do you love Jesus? Do you love Jesus? Now, he's sitting back up there with that great spirit. ( Bad tape) sitting on that cloud and an angel come by and said, cast in your sickle the harvest of the earth is ripe. All the grapes are ripe. And the Bible says he thrust in his sickle and he reaped the grapes. He reaped the grapes. And then he cried out thrust in your sickle and the Bible says the time is fulfilled. Is that right? You know there is going to be a harvest. The last harvest. Is that right? Like a song we wrote about the last harvest. See, the sickle goes in and then he gathers the grapes. Have you ever heard that old saying, It went through the grapevine? God's going to take the grapevine down. And the Bible says that when it was reaped of was gathered into the garners. It said (bad tape) into the wine press of the Almighty God and this (bad tape) until the blood run up into the horses bridles sixteen hundred furlongs about two hundred miles (bad tape) Not too long ago we were over in that area and we looked and saw that valley, (bad tape) Did you know that the Russians are all ready there around it? I was amazed to hear the guides say that all if the areas was surrounded by Russian people. They've done got (bad tape) to surround the area. Gog and Magog in that day, and evil thought coming into the hearts said let us (bad tape) Do you follow me? Back in the Old Testament (bad tape) offer the children to the fire and upset God. And said someday you (bad tape) to the valley of blood and right there is that very place where they offered the children to the fire. (Bad Tape) They fed the wine press. (Bad tape) Gather the people in a unite. Get them in the confederation. Send them out in the valley of (bad tape) get them over there and them turn the Jews on them, (bad tape) until the blood runs up to the horses bridles. The Bible says they were trampled in the wine press of the Almighty God. Do you love Jesus? Let's sing this chorus together can we? (Brother Pike leads singing of " I Need Thee"). Now while they are playing for just a minute. I won't hold you but just a few minutes here. Step out and I won't hold you but just a few minutes and give you a chance to re-dedicate your hearts. (bad tape) Everything is over. Everything is finished. The covering of the Lord is right at hand. Everything is ready. God has taken care of everything. Everything is just right, and tonight He wants us to come together. See, the confederation of churches means the coming together (bad tape) If there is a confederation of churches that means that we are going to come together a Christian people. All of us see eye to eye. Speak the same thing. What a glorious day when we all come together. What a time that will be. All see eye to eye. Jesus said, When I bring Zion together again we will see the same thing. We will see eye to eye. We will walk hand in hand and we won't break ranks. Hallelujah. What a time that will be. I want you to close your eyes with me. Let's just close our eyes together can we? Children of God. Just close your eyes for a few minutes. Lift up your hands tonight for just a minute as we lift up holy hands without wrath and without doubting. Lift up your hands tonight. Don't doubt. Don't have wrath at anybody. The Bible says forgive. See, when you pray forgive. When you have ought against anybody just forgive that your Heavenly Father might forgive you. If you forgive not them that trespass from your heart God will not forgive your trespasses. From your heart when you say Jesus, I know they have hurt me and they've done me wrong and they have cut me to my heart but Jesus you suffered and bled for me and because you did it for me I'm going to (bad tape) and this is my hour. I'm going to do it for you. It tears me to pieces Jesus but for your sake I'll never carry anything in my heart against anybody again never as long as I live again. Jesus forgive me. (bad tape) I want you to lift your hands tonight and let's move in close to God tonight and ask God to do something for us. (Brother Pike prays with the people)

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord