Doctrine of Baptism (2)

I guess I could do it here. It slides pretty easy. And I'm putting this over to the side while we talk a little bit. Tonight we've got a subject we'd like to teach on. We're trying to hold just about all this meeting to teaching and tonight I've got a subject that's one of the most important subjects in the Bible. I guess it's just about as much trouble about that one as any I know of. And there's lot of controversy like there is about the subject that we talked about last night. But tonight I'd love to read a couple of Scriptures, then I'd love to take my time and talk just a little because making tapes of this we want it to be clear because somebody might hear it later, or somebody might want to come back to it and check it out just to be sure. Sometimes you get in doubt of things even after you hear it. You know, the Bible says, give the more earnest heed to the things that you've heard lest at anytime you should let them slip. And I was just talking today about people. People are kind of strange. The Bible says they hew themselves out cisterns but said they're broken cisterns and they won't hold any water. No matter how much you pour into them it just seems to leak out over a few days. You can tell them something one day and the next day it has all done leaked out. Tell them something in one revival and come back in another revival; it's all leaked out. They've done forgot all about it. So we've got broken cisterns that won't hold water. But it would pay us to patch up the holes in our cisterns. Like over in Mississippi. I've been over in that area a lot preaching and over there they have cisterns where they have to catch the rain water. But unless you screen the water when it comes in when you go to drink it you have to drink off of wiggle tails and bugs. The whole cistern gets full of wiggle tails and bugs and everything else that falls in that slides off of the top of the house. And if a cistern happens to get a hole in it you don't even get the water off of the bugs anymore, so when the draught comes you're in bad shape. I tell you, folks, there's going to be a draught and you'd better wake up. We'd better start patching up our cisterns and making sure they're holding water. You might say, Well, Brother Pike, I'm weary. The Bible says, Be not weary in well doing, for in due season  He knows what season you're suppose to reap. He said in due season you'll reap if you faint not, for God is not forgetful of our labor in the Lord in as much as we have and do. Remember, He said have and do. Not have and don't, but have and do minister unto the saints of God. So then, if you grow weary just out here running with the footman, I don't know what you'll do later. If this wearies you, then I don't know what you'll do when you really get into battle. That's right. If this causes you to be weary, just being out here with the footman causes you to be weary I don't know what you'll do when you really get into battle. Do you? So I think you'd better brace up. You say, Well, I'm kind of faint, Brother Pike. The Bible says if you faint in the day of adversity it's because your strength is small. You haven't been praying enough. You haven't been fasting enough. You haven't been seeking God enough. If you faint in the day of adversity your strength is small. The Bible says to be strong in the power of My might. Let the weak say I'm strong, in the power of His might. That's all it takes is faith in God, and the Spirit will make you strong. All right. Reading tonight I'm going to read from two passages of Scripture, take my time and just speak plain, clear and slow tonight. I'll try not to hold you long, but if I do hold you a little longer than you think I ought to just have patience. I'm a man of understanding and I'm reasonable, and I will get through. I never have took quite as long as Paul took when he was preaching, but I will get through. So in first Corinthians, if you've got your Bibles, I want to try to tie two Scriptures, or two subjects together that's really not two subjects but it's really, it's really one and the same subject but it might seem to be two subjects but we want to tie them together tonight. Now then, I want you to get your minds right on God. Don't let your thoughts wander around because when you do  How many of you know the Bible says bring every thought in to subjection to the Word? Let me see your hand if you know that. All right. Demon spirits present themselves in the form of carnal thoughts. When you're thinking natural things you are at enmity with God. How many know the Bible says the carnal mind is enmity with the anointing, or with God? That's the reason the preacher has so much trouble. They that are in the carnal mind never get anything from God. It will be foolishness to them. But get in the mind of Jesus Christ tonight and listen, cause you're going to need it in a little while. It isn't going to be but a little while and you're going to have to have it. I mean a little while. So then, tonight listen real good, and just run  Brother Branham said not too long ago, said, run for your life. I repeat what the prophet said, now is the time to run for your life. I believe him to be the greatest prophet that ever walked the earth. If not the greatest, one of the greatest that ever tread the earth. And in as much as the Bible says knowledge would increase in the last days and the forerunner of Jesus Christ would of all prophets, he should be the greatest. Indeed the forerunner of Jesus Christ told to him by the angel of God, then we are steadfast, in walking according to the message in the Bible, in harmony with that great prophet. And speaking to you in the name of the Lord Jesus I tell you tonight, just as he did, to run for your life. Whatever you do, run for your life. All right. In first Corinthians, I think I'll read three or four Scriptures here. Now, a lot of people wonder if they can speak in tongues and not have the Holy Ghost. Now a lot of times I say that and they wonder about it when I say that. But I'm going to show you right here in one Scripture. You've probably read it a lot of times. But I'm going to show you just one Scripture without saying anything that you can speak in tongues and not have the Holy Ghost. Paul said in the thirteenth chapter, 

I Corinthians 13:1-1 "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." 

That just about answers the question right there, don't it? He said I don't care if you speak in the tongues of men, I don't care if you speak in tongues of angels. Paul said, It doesn't matter what kind of tongues you speak in, he said, that don't mean you've got the Holy Ghost. He said if you've got it. If you don't have charity you can speak in tongues all day long; it won't do you any good. I think that answers the question right off the reel there. But, anyway, notice here. I want to read another Scripture here in the second verse. 

I Corinthians 14:2-2 "For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries."

Now notice in the fourth verse. 

I Corinthians 14:4-5 "He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying." 

Now, I want you to get a thought here tonight. I want to lay down a good foundation before we get into revelation. Paul said here, if a man prophesy he was greater than a man speaking in tongues. How many know that's what the Bible says there? Now, if tongues is the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost; I just want to drop this in tonight. Then the man that prophesied is greater than the Holy Ghost, according to that. That's what the Bible says. All right. Go on down a little farther. 

I Corinthians 14:6-6 "Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?" 

Now, he said, I profited a lot, but, he said, what profit is it to you. 

" except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?" 

I want to speak to you by revelation tonight, by knowledge. 

I Corinthians 14: "And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?" 

Paul said if you speak in an unknown tongue nobody don't know what you're saying. 

I Corinthians 14:8-8 "For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?" 

That's why God has suffered the trumpet, or the preachers to give an uncertain sound, so that nobody could prepare themselves to the battle except the saints. 

I Corinthians 14: "So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air." 

All right. It goes on to say I'm a barbarian. If I speak in tongues I'm a barbarian to the one that is listening, or they're a barbarian to me. It goes on over a little farther, that seeks to edify then he said, wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue let him pray that he interpret". That's the thirteenth verse. He goes on to say his understanding is unfruitful if he prays in tongues. And how can a man that occupies the corner of the unlearned say amen when he doesn't know what you're saying. It goes on down and in the nineteenth verse it says it's good to speak in tongues but in the church, he said, ten thousand words is not worth just a few in understanding if it comes. Then he goes on down and he says, "Brethren, be not children in understanding, howbeit in malice be as children, howbeit, but in understanding be men." Paul said, use some good understanding, now. In other words get your reasoning together, Paul said. Try to be reasonable, he said. Try to be understanding. Don't just grab something and run off and say it's got to be tongues or there's nothing to it. He said, Use a little understanding about the thing. Now he said, when you fight among yourselves be children. Get over that quick, but when it comes to the Scriptures, said, use a little understanding. Said, In the law it is written with men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people, yet with all that they won't hear me, saith the Lord. Wherefore it comes for a sign, not to them that believe. In other words he said for the Pentecostal Church to stop making the tongues a sign to the believers. It is not a sign to the believers. It is not the evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. He said, it is a sign to the unbeliever. It is not a test of fellowship. It's not the way you know a person has got the Holy Ghost; He said it is a sign to the unbeliever. Then he goes on down a little farther and here's what he says. Notice, now. He said, wherefore tongues are a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not. Now, does the Bible actually back up what Paul is saying there in the Old Testament? It certainly does cause right here he explains it. He says here, with other tongues and lips will I speak unto this people. In other words he said he would do that to those that are sinners. Joel prophesied he would do that to those that were lost and undone without God. That was the people he was going to speak unto with stammering lips and other tongues. He didn't say he was going to speak unto the church that way, but he said to the people that way. He didn't say for us to make it a test of the fellowship of the church. He said, If, therefore, the whole church be come together in one place and all speak with tongues and there cometh those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad. Now, I want you to remember that Scripture right there. Now, a lot of people say that on Pentecost it was just a lot of tongues and that's all there was to it. But I want you to notice that the Bible don't back that up. There is a lot of confusion about the Day of Pentecost, and we'll prove it in just a little bit. But notice right here. He said, If the whole church hadn't come together on Pentecost, or any other place and there hadn't been no understanding, he said, it would have just been like a mad house. And he goes on down farther. He said nobody would be convinced of God if you'd done that. All right. Then he said, when you come together have a tongue, have a doctrine, have a revelation. That's the twenty-sixth verse. Then if they speak in tongues let it be by two, or three, and let that be one at a time, by course. Don't let everybody do it at one time. Not to have over about three speaking in tongues. Then it goes on down a little farther. If there is no interpreter let him keep silent in the church, or let him speak to himself and to God. Like I was standing on the platform awhile ago. I was speaking to myself and to God. I was just speaking in a low voice where it didn't bother nobody. You're not suppose to quench the Spirit, just don't interrupt the others. Go ahead and talk to the Lord. Then he comes on down a little farther and he says, Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. If you've got some prophets in the church and they prophesy let two, or three, speak one at a time. If anything be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first one hold his peace. Then he said, for ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. Notice, when he said, all may prophesy he was speaking of the prophets, not everybody in the church. He went right on to straighten it out down there and said, the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. That don't mean the Spirit of God is subject to the prophets. The Spirit of God isn't subject to anybody. But your spirit is subject to you. You can let your spirit do whatever it wants to. You can let it be afraid. You can let it believe. You can let it disbelieve, or whatever you want to. Now then, he said have somebody to judge the prophet. Don't just grab it up and say it's God. Try to against the Word; let somebody judge it. Then he goes on down a little farther. Said, God is the author of peace. Let the women keep silent in the churches. Now I'm just going to hit this kind of light because I don't know how much of that we could get in tonight. Let the women keep silent in the churches. Right after he told them they could prophesy here. Speaking of the prophets. He said, Let the women keep silent in the churches; it's not permitted for them to speak. Now what kind of speaking is he talking about there? The Bible says, let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. You can see what kind of speaking Paul is talking about because right up above here he's speaking of prophesying. Speaking of interpreting. In other words, he's telling them not to take the place of leadership as far as voice in the church. They don't have any place. They don't have any right to teach Sunday School. They don't have any right to get up and preach, and if they teach the younger women it's to be at home, or just where they might call a little gathering where they can worship God, and it be the elder women then that would have that privilege. How many  Let me ask this question since we run across this. I didn't know I was going to run across it, but since we did let me ask you this question. How many know that there is no such thing as a prophetess in the New Testament? A lot of people say, Well there were prophetess' just like there were prophets, but that's not true. Not in the New Testament. There was in the Old Testament. And one is mentioned in the New Testament, which is Anna. She lived faithfully with her husband as long as she had one, and then she went into the temple and departed not from the temple day and night, serving God in fasting and prayer. And even then she didn't take a leadership, it was revealed to her, certain things. Now a woman can have the gift of healing. She can have the gift of miracles, have the gift of tongues, prophecy, all those things. She can enjoy all the things of God, gift of eternal life, but Paul said, I suffer not the women to teach, nor have authority over the man. All right. A lot of people say, Well, it means in business, Brother Pike. But the Bible says, Assist my women workers in whatsoever business they have need of thee. The Bible points it out about one of the ladies over there. So that's not right when they say it's business. Whose business is the greater anyhow? God's business or man's business? Just because me and Brother Sears decides to have a conference are you going to say that's greater than God's business of salvation and preaching? Says you can have a part in it when me and him is talking, but when it comes to God we'll let her take over the floor. Then another thing, how many men would like for a woman to rule their house? I'm sure that if you don't want her to rule yours God don't want her to rule His. I don't believe He does. I'm glad I got one amen anyway. Somebody says, You're just too hard on the women. No, I'm just telling you what the Bible says. Everything I say to you is just slapping me right back in the face, cause when it comes to Christ I'm a woman too. I have to do to Him just what you have to do to us. That's what He gave the woman for was to show what we have to do for the Lord Jesus. And I don't mind a bit in the world. I thank God. I'm willing to be tried. I'm willing to be obedient. Glad to be subject to Him. Do anything He tells me. Thank God for the opportunity. All right. Then there is no such thing as a woman prophetess in the New Testament. Anna, she was before Christ  tell  to go out right about the coming of Christ. But the thing that I wanted to point out was, the reason that the woman doesn't take the leadership is because she has a spirit that is weaker than a man. God has made her spirit weaker so that both of them could dwell in the same house. So that she would become a member when He put a head over her. And if they were as strong as a man then there would just be trouble. Both of them couldn't live in the same house. So then, we just thought we'd drop that in because we had it on the board the other night to get to and we did not get to it. A lot of other things we'd like to mention there but we better not try to get into them tonight because we'll mess up our other subject if we do. Maybe we can get into it a little later. But I want you to remember now, Phillips four daughter were not prophetesses. It was the gift of prophesy in the church, and the Bible says they prophesied. All right, now then, let's go over  Oh, yes, there is one more thing I want to say about tongues here. Paul spoke of it. He said, when I speak in tongues my spirit prayeth. I want you to remember that, too. My spirit prayeth. He didn't say God's Spirit prays when I speak in tongues. He said, My spirit prayeth. And the Bible says the spirit of prophesy is subject to the prophet. That's why he said if there isn't anybody to interpret you just be quiet. Don't quench the spirit, just don't interrupt the church. So then, the Bible says, And they (speaking of the people) and they spake with other tongues, but it was the Spirit that gave them the utterance. See it is you speaking in tongues, and it is not the Holy Spirit; it is you. But the Holy Spirit gives you the utterance. Over here I might say, I love Jesus, and over across the waters a Chinese might say, ugh, ugh, ugh, and it would be the same thing. See? God gives the utterance and it comes out of my mouth one way and it comes out of his mouth another way. See? Over in Africa it might be yah, yah, yah, but it will still be I love Jesus. It's the utterance that's important, not the language, or the dialect. Okay, now, then turn with me over to the book of Hebrews and Let's read just a little here and we'll get started in our teaching. In the sixth chapter of the book of Hebrews, it says, 

Hebrews 6:1-1 "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God," 

We read it the other night. The second verse says, 

"Of the doctrine of baptisms," 

I better read all of this. 

Hebrews 6:1-3 "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God permit."

I want to point out something here. Here in the second verse it's not telling us to leave the doctrine of baptisms. It's not telling us to leave laying on of hands. It's not telling us to leave the resurrection of the dead. And it's not telling us to leave eternal judgment. It's says we are to go on with these things. That's what it said. That we go into the perfectness of the Lord Jesus Christ. So then, we see here that there is a Scripture that speaks of the doctrine of baptisms. Now let's take our time tonight and see if we can see if we can just go right along with the teachings. Here's a little chart now I drew right here. I didn't erase the other because there are a lot of things I want to point out later but I drew a little block right here. It's a little chart and you can draw you a little chart because you really need a little chart like this to go along with what we're speaking of. Now, I read about baptism in tongues because they all go together. All right now then. Now, let's notice beginning here, the first thing I'd like for us to notice, children of God, is that way back here in the Old Testament, way back there in the book of Leviticus, I believe it is, you'll find the tabernacle of the wilderness that we spoke of, and then you'll find, there around the tabernacle you'll find three tribes on this side, three tribes on this side, three on this side and three on this side, which are the twelve tribes of Israel that we spoke about the other night typifying the three. Three gates of pearl, of one pearl, on each side of the great city of New Jerusalem. We explained that the other night about the allegories in the New Testament. Now then, notice here. Here is the inner court if you can see it. It's just a little block drawn, holies of holies. If got a little 'a' in the middle of it which shows that the ark of the covenant is there. I said the other night the ark of the covenant came from the day of Noah when God gave a rainbow in the sky and saved them by an ark. So they built a little ark as a memorial of it, covered it over with gold and called it the ark of the covenant and took it with them. Over that ark there were cherubs with their wings folded over the ark, stretched out over the ark, and then there was a mercy seat on the ark. The ark was covered with gold, and just outside of it, along in here, there was a table and there was a candlestick with, seven candlesticks, I believe it was on it. And then right outside of here, right along in the inner court just outside of the holies of holies, in the inner court, right where I've got this little thing here, this stick here right at the doorway, there was a brazen altar built out of shittim wood, and it was overlaid with brass just like the ark was overlaid with gold. And right here was the entrance and outside of here is the outer courts. Considered the outer courts. Now then, these little things that you see here, little round drawings. I've got little dots around them. shows the little tents, or tabernacles that's just outside of the camp. Now, I've already explained this one time but I'd like to explain it again. This tabernacle represents God, the body of Jesus Christ, is the Holy Ghost within it, the kingdom of God within His body. And since right here represents the hundred and forty-four thousand, right here. You remember it was the eunuch that escorted the Bride over there when Philip was talking to him. All right, you notice these people are symbolic somewhat of the Gentiles, or the great multitude, because there is the outer courts here and these little tents are symbols of your body in which your inner man dwells. These little tents right here never moved until the big tent moved, and the big tent never moved until the clouds that were in the wilderness moved. They had a cloud that led them by day, and they had a fire, a pillar of fire that lead them by night. I explained the other night what it meant, how that in the daytime when they were rejoicing it was symbolic of the Christian. When they're singing and shouting and the glory of the cloud goes before them, which is the Holy Ghost. But at night when you get into the dark carnal mind of carnality, and trouble and frustration and fears then the fire of God comes before you to give light and to burn out the chaff. All right. Now then, these little tents moved only when they moved As many as are lead by the spirit of God they are the sons of God. These people here when they would commit a sin, an ignorant sin, they would have to bring a lamb, bring it through here. They would have to come over here to this brazen altar and the Priest's son, Aaron's son, would take that lamb, or goat; they'd take it after the man come, or that individual that has sinned, after he came in here and stood near the altar, or near the door and spilled the blood of that animal, then the Priest's son would take the blood and put it on the four horns that were on the four corners of this altar here where they burned the sacrifice. Everything was out of brass; shovels and everything. It was a brazen altar. Then they would kill that lamb, or kill the goat. What they would have to do when they killed it, they would have to take the inward parts of it and take the legs of it, and wash them. They'd have to wash them. And then they'd spread it on the brazen altar. Now. I want you to get a good thought here tonight, and remember this. That in the natural, we've got a chart drawn here with three crosses on it, and we've spaced it out two thousand years apart, meaning from Adam to Noah, from Noah to Jesus, from Jesus to the millennium, or William Branham of our day. So you can see here that on the chart that this first is considered to be the natural part. It's considered to be the natural part. Now, it's used as the water world because it's considered to be the natural part. Now. I want you to especially notice that there were three things that they observed. They had a cloud. They had a pillar of fire, and they had water. How many of you understand that? Clouds, a pillar of fire, and they had water. All right, now then, here notice that coming on down through the years they kept this thing as a memorial. The Old Testament being a type and a shadow of the New Testament everything had to be done just exactly in the New Testament as it was in the Old Testament. Couldn't be nothing changed because the New was the fulfillment of the Old. So then, we see that everything that was done back there had to be done in our day. Now, in our day, in our day we go through this very same thing but people doesn't recognize it because they don't understand revelation. They don't realize that what we do is identically what the natural Jew done, except the natural Jew done it in the natural and we do it in the spiritual. That's the only difference. Notice right here on the crosses we've got. On the first two thousand years, from Adam unto Noah, water bathed the natural earth. Water bathed the natural earth because water was a type in that day of baptism. Peter spoke of it in his day. When he spoke of Noah and spoke of the water he said, the like figure whereunto baptism doth also now save us. So then, in the days of Noah, back beyond the flood, the natural earth was bathed with water. Now, remember the three parts of the human body and that represents three different people in this world, which is Jew, Catholic and Christian. Now, notice that the third world, the Bible speaks of it being destroyed by water. It was swallowed up by water. And from Adam to Noah, two thousand years rolled by and the earth was bathed continually with water. Then after that two thousand years, then there came two thousand years more. From the days of Noah right on up to Jesus, and you, if you understood revelation you could see that everything that took place in the days of Noah took place in the days of Jesus. I've brought it out in spiritual revelation; it shows step by step that everything, including the raven that went out, including the dove that went out. Everything that happened here happened here in the physical body to the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, there was two thousand years in here, and during this two thousand years it was a blood time. It was a blood time. In the first two thousand it was water to the natural world. In this two thousand it was blood on the physical world, which is the human body. Now this right here that you see, the tabernacle, and all of this was in the two thousand years of blood. Though we account for the Jew as being the natural here, yet really he was in the two thousand years of blood years. It has to come out that was because the law didn't come until Moses' time and we're counting Moses and Jesus and Brother William Branham as the three Messiahs of the age. Age Messiahs, Jesus being the only THE Messiah. This blood offering, the tabernacle and everything, this was in the middle two thousand years. It was blood. All they did was offer blood. Before this it was water. All they did was offer water. That's why Cain offered up the fruit of the ground instead of offering blood. But if you notice, God didn't accept that first one. Now this would be a good thought for you tonight. You that believe that you're going to get by and get to heaven by water baptism, this will be good for you tonight, so notice that this was baptism because Peter spoke of it; the like figure whereunto baptism doth now also save you. Now then, all of this water was spilt on the earth. Cain offered up the fruits of the ground, which was water, but he did not become justified in the sight of God. God does not accept water for justification. Now, you say, Is water baptism important, Brother Pike? It's very important, but people place the emphasis in the wrong place. Water baptism, here as you can see, water baptism was to the natural earth, which means that if we are divided into three parts it would be to our body. Water means the cleansing of the body. Everyone of us know that when we get dirty we wash our bodies with water. That's why God uses it. It's the cleansing of the body. That's what they had to do here, they had to cleanse (?) with water and then had to cleanse the inward parts. Now then, the inward part represents something else and we'll point out to you a little later. All right. Here it is the first water baptism. The earth, the first earth got water baptism because it was a natural water world. Now then, that was the first world of Adam and Eve. Water. They were in a water world to that extent. That was the first place they came to, to show that they were in the water world. The second realm is the beast realm. Notice, in the first realm you find no mention of God saying anything about beast until the days of Noah down there as Noah marked the end of the water world. All right. Two thousand years started, because the beast went into the ark. They were brought over and then the beast lineage started, which was the offering up of blood sacrifices for two thousand long years. They were offered in the evening time because it was symbolic of Jesus that would come into the world in the evening time, for in the water world back here at the garden, the Bible says that He walked through the garden in the evening time of life. So then, He came here as the beast sacrifice in the evening time. And Jesus here being offered up on the cross, when He came right here it showed that that was the end of the blood sacrifice. Just like this was the end of the water sacrifice. Man has fell from spirit all the way down to here. That's what he's done. All the way down, but his soul was taken into captivity here in the blood world, but he fell here to this extent that Satan climb up from the world of darkness, trying to get through here and I told you that the Spirit of God warred in the soul, and Satan warred in the soul, and here was the battle ground where they fought each other, so Satan came in here. He just pushed man out right on over here and took control of him. Now then, notice this, that in the second world Jesus died here. That made an end of the blood world. That was two thousand years that he'd practiced sin. Then in the next two thousand years, coming from right here at the cross of Jesus, we see the next two thousand years run into the spiritual realm. Now, we account for it as the blood realm. I don't want this to be confusing to you. Now, we have to set it one behind because God gives us the complete type and shadow of everything before the spiritual world comes in. And to be able to do that he had to set it back two thousand years here to bring the spirit out over here in America, as America a type of the Canaan Land. Let me explain it a little better. Because He wanted to show us a type of the millennium before it ever came. Do you understand what I mean? He wanted to give us a type of the millennium reign before the millennium ever came so He had to drop it back here and give it to us in types and shadows. That's why He sets it back just a little bit. Now, you might not understand it but think of it like this, that the Bride of Jesus Christ reaches maturity three years before the Jew reach maturity. Now, I base that on the laws of the land. A woman at eighteen is ready for wedlock. The man is not ready until twenty-one, as far as considering him a man. So then, she's a woman at eighteen; he's a man at twenty-one Now that means that God had to drop it back a little to show us what He was doing to give us a type of the millennium reign. But I base it on two thousand years which is comfortably based so it wouldn't be confusing to you. Now if you wanted to you could just come up here and say two thousand years, two thousand years, forget about this back here and jump right over to the millennium and say I'll take that one as my last one. You could do it that way, see? But back here we've got two thousand years to Noah, two thousand years to Jesus, to thousand years to the millennium reign. That way it'll keep you straight and you can change it about anyway you want to, understand it spiritually, but this is your blueprint, or this is your formula by which you go so that you can keep it straight in your mind. So then when Jesus came the blood was spilt; that ended the blood reign. That was the baptism of blood, or just as the water covered all of the natural earth and it signified by water baptism in Jesus name. Just as the water did that and was signified by water baptism in Jesus name, it was the same as right here in the inner court where they took the water and washed the beast with it. That's was the beast sacrifice. That was water baptism, right there. Now then, this was water baptism, but the blood baptism right here, the blood baptism was on the human body, which was the physical world. Now, let me get this straight now in your mind. There is a natural water world of vegetation, and plants, trees. It lives off of water. There is a blood world. It is a physical world of beast and humanity that lives off of blood. Then there is another world which is an angel world, which is the spirit of mankind as the angels in the heavens which lives off of spirit. Now, have you got that in your minds real clear? All right, then what we want to do is compare these three dispensations of time. The law, grace and righteousness. These three dispensations of time, we want to compare them to the body, soul and spirit because in this world it was a natural world, but when He came forward and came to the cross here it was a physical world. I said the other night He worked miracles with the natural world. Opened the Red Sea, opened Jordan, made the sun stand still, dealt with the natural world but when He came up here He began to heal the sick, began to deal with the physical world, cast out devils. All right, on and on, He came to the spiritual world. Now we're getting revelations, and dealing with the spirit, and taking away the fears and frustrations and doubts. All of those things, see? in the (?) dispensations. Are you with me? All right, let's compare it to body, soul and spirit. Now, you've heard that the moon will turn to blood. Blood means fire. How many of you know that? That's the fire realm. This is the fire realm, right here. Blood means fire. Now by moving this forwards, like we said awhile ago, bringing it into its proper place then that means that the blood with fall right in there from the cross where Jesus died over to America. It will fall right in there. How many of you know that in the dark age that they spilled the blood of the martyrs continually? They continually spilled the blood of the martyrs? Why did they do that? Because it was a type of the priesthood. The real true church of this world is the Catholic Church and they type out the priesthood, spilling the blood there of what they called the brute beast, and yet it was the real truth. When you reverse it the last is first and the first is last. In this world the Antichrist rules, the anti church rules, the anti plan of communism rules. But in that world, when you reverse it, it will be Jesus Christ ruling, the true church ruling, the true plan of all things common ruling. It's the coat that's reversible that's turned inside out. That's a good way to remember it. And these three things, I said, the way to remember them is just like a telescope where you pull out another and you pull out another because these three realms fit law, grace, righteousness which means Jew, Gentile, Catholic and Christian. They fit those three realms. All right. We call them natural, physical and spiritual. Body, soul and spirit. Now when it comes to our day we deal with them as body soul and spirit Notice now, as we go just a little bit farther. The sacrifice was washed in the days of water. Then it was brought to the fire, which is the blood realm. It was brought to the fire in the days of grace. And then from there it was turned into ashes. I said the other day, you grow a tree then you cut it down and you throw it in the fire, it goes to ashes which means it's going back to infinity. Going back to its original elements. Scientist says you can't destroy nothing. All you can do if just change the form of matter. If you burn a piece of paper it just goes back to carbon. Goes back to its original elements. That's what God has been trying to do all these years is bring us back to spirit. That's how we get to spirit. All right, when your natural body goes back to carbon, or goes back to the atoms, then your spirit is released and at death the spirit goeth back to God who gave it. Do you understand what I'm saying? Going back to God who gave it, but if you've been faithful someday that spirit will come back and gather every little atom together and you will receive your body as a gift from God forever. Those that stay in unbelief will not receive it. We'll tread the ashes of the wicked under out feet. All right, now then, notice here that this pertains to the dark age. All right, let's consider a little more now. We find that when he came into America then we find a type there of the High Priest which went into the holies of holies. Can you get that thought tonight, that went into the holies of holies and America became a type of the Canaan Land because the middle wall of partition has been broken down by (?). You understand? There is a natural Jew, a spiritual Jew and a physical Jew, but the Bible only mentions the natural Jew and the spiritual Jew because the natural Jew, the Bible says is not the true Jew. That means the physical Jew wouldn't be a true Jew, but the spiritual Jew is the only true Jew. Now the Bible has divided them into three people. All right, let's get a thought. Right here at the cross we taught the other night how that Jesus  The Bible says that the temple was rent in twain, how that the spirit went into one place, which is the heart of mankind. The body of Jesus Christ went into the grave, right here. The Spirit went into the heart of man, which was paradise, right here. It went into the heart of the earth and then moved paradise into the heart of man. All right, then His soul came into hell, for the Bible says God suffered not the soul of His Holy One to remain in hell. All right, now then, here we see the three different people at the cross. You've got your chart; we won't have to go through that because you got your charts on it the other night and how it happened. All right. Going on from here notice what took place now. After this those three people was each given a certain baptism to represent these three different ages and these three different things with all grace and righteousness. These three people live under one of those two things. Did you know that? All right, now then, when Peter came on the day of Pentecost, he stood there; he commanded them to repent. Repentance represented death. When he spoke of repentance he had the sword of the Spirit in his hand, which indicated death. Death to the beast, which is the outer man, which repented it was accepting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, or the death of the Lord Jesus, which means death to us. Reckon ourselves to be dead. All right. The next things was the watery grave where they buried the body. How many of you know that water is the grave? Speaks of the sea giving up its dead. All right, water was the grave. He couldn't bury us in the dirt so he had to use the type and shadow of a watery grave. So then, they were buried. That shows you that sprinkling won't never do. It has to be buried in the water. It was buried in the water. Now it was cleansed by the water. That's the first one, right here. That was where the animal come in, right over here. Repentance was the killing of it and then the water, right here was baptism, the washing of it. How many understand what I'm saying? Washing of the outer man after it has been killed. Now who kills it? We have to kill it through repentance. It that right? The letter killeth. The preacher preaches the Word, the letter killeth. We accept it; it kills it. All right. Now then, after that it is up to the priesthood to take control. So then, they take you and they put you down in the water. That's the washing and the cleansing. The next thing they done to the beast they took it and put it on the altar where the fire was. That's right here in the second realm. This is the fire. How many know the Bible says He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire? So then, he takes the sacrifice to the fire. There was a pillow of fire that followed him right here. Now after he'd been burned then I said it was back to ashes which released the spirit of the animal that goeth back to God who gave it, symbolic of the cloud that was with them here, which was the spirit. And here we see that in the last age it was the spiritual age. Which means the in filling of the Holy Ghost after that you've been taken to the fire to burn out the chaff for sanctification. God will not dwell in an unclean temple. Here they acknowledge three things. They were baptized in the Red Sea, all of them unto Moses. The Bible says they were. And then they followed the fire and the cloud. The same thing with Peter on the day of Pentecost. He baptized them and took them to the fire, and took them to the cloud. They received the cloud, which was the Holy Spirit, a type of the Spirit of God, and today we are called the great cloud of witnesses. All right, now then, there is one other thing I want to point out here. Notice that in this, on the day of Pentecost when all of this was taking place, he said go back to Jerusalem to the upper room and tarry until you be endued with power from on high. Now, a lot of people say, Well, nobody ever got the Holy Ghost, Brother Pike, until the day of Pentecost but that is not true. That is not Bible and that is not true. Zachariah was filled with the Holy Ghost before the day of Pentecost. The Bible says he was filled with the Holy Ghost. That's the Word of God. The Bible says to preach the Word. The Word said he was filled with the Holy Ghost and he arose and prophesied to them and become dumb for a season. Then it said John was filled with the Holy Ghost. Filled in his mother's womb before Pentecost. And then Jesus breathed over the disciples and said receive ye the Holy Ghost. All right, other places. All the way down through the Bible the Holy Spirit was with them. God had been with them always, but what happened on the day of Pentecost was that they received the Holy Ghost as a gift. It was the gift of the Holy Ghost. Zachariah was filled with the Holy Ghost, but the Holy Ghost could do no more than sweep through a human's life christening them for the work that they had and then had to be parted from them. But when the fire came, which was the blood at Calvary, and burned the chaff out, sanctification. The Bible says we're sanctified by the offering up of the body. Then the Holy Spirit moved in as a gift and said, I'll never leave you, nor forsake you because by His righteous body you've been made the righteousness of God. I don't have to leave anymore. Just as I abode with Jesus, I'll never leave you nor forsake you. That's why Jesus said it is expedient for you that I go away. He said, Because if I go not away the Holy Ghost as a comforter cannot, He will not come. How could He come? Because the chaff has to be burned. The sacrifice had to go over here to the brazen altar. It had to be burned. It had to be burned. So what is this right here? We are washed. Washed by the water outwardly in our body. We are washed by the blood in our soul, which is the fire baptism burning out the chaff in our soul. The soul that sinneth; that's where the chaff is. Then in our spirit the Holy Ghost comes into our spirit and cleanses our spirit, fills our spirit and makes our spirit one with God setting up the Kingdom within us. Three major acts, or works showing to us justification, sanctification, and glorification. You can see every bit of it right here; that's what it was. All right. Then what happened? On the day of Pentecost they went up into the upper room and the Bible says that they were all there in the upper room waiting for God to confirm His promise. Isn't that right? In the upper room. Now what took place in the upper room? If you're spiritual you can see it. The very same thing that took place in the tabernacle. There appeared unto them that same God that is the same yesterday, today and forever. That same fire that burned in the bush to Moses. That same pillow of fire that lead the children of Israel, it appeared right there in the upper room; the same God. The same God. The Bible says, our God is a consuming fire. That same consuming fire, it appeared right there in the upper room to show He was the same God of Moses. Hasn't He done it in our day. That same pillow of fire appeared over William Branham's head because there is no other God. It's the same God. He appeared to Moses, the first Messiah. He appeared to Jesus here, the Messiah of the age and the Messiah himself, and appeared to William Branham here in our day to lead the natural, physical and spiritual Jew, right on. God did it. All right, on the day of Pentecost, we just use the little chart here to type the upper room. On the day of Pentecost they got into the upper room and they tarried there and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like unto fire. A pillow of fire came into the room with split tongues. Cloven tongues. Now then, why was it cloven. Who can tell me why it was cloven? Do you know? It was cloven because the Bible has taught in the Old Testament that if anything had a cloven hoof it was clean. It signified cleanliness. It appeared as a fire because God is a consuming fire. Do you understand what I'm saying? It came as a mighty rushing wind because Jesus said, He that is born of the Spirit is as the wind. And in the wilderness they had the cloud and the wind was symbolic of the cloud that came into the upper room. Do you understand what I mean? All right. Now then, it appeared unto them in this manner to show what God was trying to do. Here is a good thought tonight if you can get it. They spake with other tongues for the blaze of fire set upon each one of them. Then Peter got up after this great experience and he preached, he preached in the Galilean reign. And the Bible says out of every nation under heaven there were Jews that had gathered together. They had been scattered into all the earth. They came together there at Pentecost. They stood, out of every nation under heaven there were Jews gathered together. They heard Peter preach in the Galilean language but to them it wasn't the Galilean language. He did not preach in tongues as some people suppose. He did not. He preached in the Galilean language but when the Arabians heard it, those Jews from Arabia, they said, He's talking in our language. When the others heard it they said, He's preaching in our language. There as Peter preached a sermon in one language the Holy Ghost was the interpreter and every man, with no confusion, heard it in the language wherein he was born. There was no confusion on the day of Pentecost, and I pointed out over there in the Bible where Paul spoke of all them coming together and speaking in tongues he said, When people said we were mad on the day of Pentecost it wasn't like that. He preached in the Galilean language and every person said, He doth speak in my own language wherein I was born. Now wouldn't that be wonderful if I could stand up here and preach a sermon in English and it would go out in German, go out in French? We've got a type of it today. They can take one sermon and interpret it and put in every language in the earth, just about it. All right. Then it's not confusing, is it? On the day of Pentecost  You say, Brother Pike, did they actually speak with tongues? They certainly did. I know the Baptists say that just means speaking in a new tongue, just means you'll be a new creature. That's one interpretation of it. When the Bible says, Howbeit then in the spirit they then speak mysteries, nobody understands them so it's got to be a little more than just speaking in somebody else's way of talking, hasn't it? Nobody understands it. So then, that means that they did speak in tongues. They all spake in tongues and the people accused them of being drunk off of new wine. But when Peter preached the sermon it certainly wasn't confusing to the people, and it wasn't in tongues it was to every individual according to their understanding. Now then, why did the Lord appear to the Jews? Because the Bible says salvation is of the Jews. When he came first He came to the natural Jew here at the tabernacle. When He came on Pentecost that was the spiritual Jew. He had to come to the Jew. But the reason that He came in tongues was to keep the Jew from claiming salvation and feeling, that is the natural Jew, and feeling that they were the only ones that had a right to salvation. Do you know that if the Lord Jesus had come when He came as the Holy Ghost in the second operation, one spirit many operations. When He came in the second office as the Holy Ghost to the spiritual Jew like He came in His first office, the Son of God, to the natural Jew. When He came as the Holy Ghost to the spiritual Jew, if He had come in the Jew language the Jews would never have preached this Gospel to anybody because Jesus had already told them that salvation was of the Jews, and the Jews had already called everybody else dogs, and when God gave Peter the vision on the housetop and told him to go down to Cornelius' house he absolutely refused to go down there at the beginning. He said, I'll not eat anything unclean. God said, Don't call common what I've cleansed. He compared the Gentiles to the beast of the Old Testament and said, By my sanctification, purification, I've cleansed them and they are no longer unclean. That's why God caused the Jews to partake of gentle natured beast to show that spiritual Jews should not fellowship the brute beast of this world, but (?) to pursue the still waters, to go along to the gentile people. All right, here He could not come in one language, then one nation would have accepted Him. But how many languages did He come in? Said, Every nation under heaven, said, He came in our own language. Isn't that right? Is that what the Bible says? We do hear him speak in our own language wherein we were born. The wonderful works of God, they said. He did not come in one language. He came in tongues. Tongues. Many kindred and many tongues, Revelation speaks of. He came in multitude of tongues. Why? Because He wanted tongues to be a sign to all the nations that He was one God, coming in one language and that was the tongue of a whole multitude of His creation. That he would not come in one language as far as man's language, but one language which would be God's language. All right. Now then, He came this way to keep the Jew from claiming that they were the only ones that were heir to salvation. He went down to Cornelius' house. Peter heard them speak with tongues and that was the only way that he would believe that they had the Holy Ghost, was because they spoke with tongues. He wouldn't believe it no other way. They had to speak with tongues and that was the only way that Peter would believe it, and from there it got started that tongues was a sign to the believer. Then God raised up Paul and Paul ran into it and Paul said it's not a sign to the believer. Why is everybody speaking in tongues, he said, when they come together? They said, Well, Peter done it. Cornelius done it; that's the only way it comes. Paul said, Children of God, he said, don't act like that. Said, Have some spiritual reasoning about you. He said, Does everybody speak with tongues? Let me ask you a question? Does everybody have the gift of healing? The Bible asks you that. The first thing you would say is no. Does everybody have the gift of discernment? You say, no. Every question that's ask in there, does everybody have the gift of healing, miracles, discernment, prophesy? No. Does everybody speak with tongues. No. No. They don't. Everybody don't. You say, Well, they just aren't in my class. Well, I don't know; you might not be in their class. Paul said you could speak in tongues and if you didn't have charity that didn't even put you in the church. So then, it's not tongues. Paul said, it's not tongues. He said it's charity. You'll know a tree by the fruit it bears. And God is love, and the fruits of the Spirit is love, peace, joy, longsuffering, meekness, kindness, gentleness. All these things against which there is no law. So then, does everybody have to speak in tongues? No. Is tongues the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost? No. The rains comes down on the tare. It comes down on the wheat. They both shout. They both speak in tongues, both do the same thing and you can't tell the difference. Why? Because God is pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh. There is no way you can tell a difference. So then, there's no way that you can just look at a man when he gets an experience with God and say He got the Holy Ghost. There is no way you can do that. Well, you say, how does the Bible say we can tell them, Brother Pike? By the fruits that they bear. You have to watch them day after day. You see how they do; see how they live, and then you'll know whether they've got the nature of Jesus Christ, or not. You say, But, Brother Pike, I know Sister So and So, and Brother So and So got saved. Well, you know more than the Bible cause the Bible says he that endureth until the end the same shall be saved. Well, how did you know they got saved, because the Bible says if they endure to the end they shall be saved? All right. There is no way you can tell until they get to the end. All right. Now then, that's why Jesus said not to judge anybody cause you don't know. You don't know. You can't say cause a man spoke in tongues he has the baptism. I know of people speaking in tongues smoking, dipping, chewing and taking up time with other men and still spoke in tongues. There are people across the waters that speak in tongues and they make pencils walk while they're speaking in tongues, but it isn't the Holy Ghost, and they don't do it in the name of Jesus either. Men walk on coals of fire, broken glass and all that kind of stuff, and they do it. It's miracles. In other words speaking in tongues is not the initial evidence. There is no such word as the initial. God never gave it as a sign to the believer, but a sign to the world of what He was doing. We have just about wrecked the Pentecostal Church by using tongues as a sign, or as an interest in the church. Even the Assemblies of God, the greatest Pentecostal Church on earth, the biggest on earth, their leaders made the statement, said, we know we've been wrong in teaching the people that the initial evidence of the baptism is speaking in tongues but, said, we can't even change it. Said the people have outgrown us so much there is nothing we can do about it. Why if even we went and told them, said, they wouldn't believe that. So you see what I mean? These signs shall follow them. They shall not follow the signs. God didn't say I follow the sign of healing like a sinful, wicked and adulterous generation would. They follow the signs, but he said that the signs shall follow them. Now then, if we see tongues as a sign of Christ coming into a human life we're following tongues and we're putting our faith on tongues. Now, like I ask a man not too long ago, I said, do you believe a man could be saved without the Holy Ghost? He said, No. How many believe a man would have to have the Holy Ghost to be saved? Let me see your hands. All right. Said, Do you believe a man could be saved without the Holy Ghost? He said, No. I said, Do you believe you've got to speak in tongues? He said, Yes. I said, That means you believe a man can't be saved without speaking in tongues. Is that right? Well, he never had thought of it like that. And he stopped and thought. Well, he had to say yes, that's the way it's got to be. I said, Well, that annuls the whole Bible cause the Bible says he's saved by faith and you say he's saved by speaking in tongues. Now then, am I to preach from the pulpit that man is saved by faith, or by speaking in tongues? You say, Brother Pike, I don't see how that could be. That's the way the Bible teaches it. That's the way the Word of God teaches it. You've either got to go out here and preach that a man is saved by speaking in tongues, or you've got to preach that he's saved by faith. You can't have no in between. It's just one way or another and that's what Paul run into over there. And he told them. he said, Brethren, in understanding be men, but in malice be children. Everybody don't speak in tongues, Paul said. And if everybody in the church comes together and tries to speak in tongues they'll say you're mad and nobody will be saved. So then, it is not the initial evidence, children of God. The Bible doesn't teach that it is. There is one thing to follow and that's charity not tongues. Follow after charity, not tongues. He pointed it out. He said tongues would fail. And you can speak with tongues and still not have charity. And he said all the others would fail, but love would never fail. Love will go with you in the next world. Love will stand by you. Love will never fail. Love is the fulfillment of the law. Love is the spirit of God. Base your salvation on love, not on tongues. If you do you're going astray. All right, we're going to come to a close in a minute. There is a lot more we could say about it, but I don't want to go too much farther. You've been real patient. All right, then we see that in the wilderness in the tabernacle they done exactly what they did over there on the day of. Pentecost when Peter commanded them to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. All right. What does it mean to you and I? In that upper room tongues came to represent a baptism. And I want you to get that. There are three baptisms. One of them is a water baptism. Are you listening to me? One of them is a water baptism. One of the is a fire baptism, and one of them is a spirit baptism. Are you listening? All right. The fire baptism was represented by tongues. Now I want you to remember that. The fire baptism was represented by tongues. It came on the day of Pentecost to burn the chaff. It was to the soul, which went back to the cross. Pointed back to the cross. It was three baptisms in one. The body, soul and spirit and when the Bible speaks of one baptism it is speaking of just one human body and the three parts of one baptism, which is baptism in Jesus name in water, baptism of the soul by fire. The tongues of fire that came on Pentecost, and baptism of the spirit by the Holy Ghost. Now I'm going to ask you something right here. One baptism. And all of that was one baptism to one man. The Bible speaks of the waters of separation. Peter said the light figure whereunto baptism doth also now save us. I want to ask you this. Which is the greatest, water or spirit? Which is man's baptism? Peter baptized with water. The Bible says Jesus was baptized with the fire and Holy Ghost. Now which is the greatest baptism? His baptism, or Peter's baptism? Water baptism was given to the Jews. To the Gentiles fire baptism was given. To the Christian spirit baptism was given. That's why the Catholics are always spilling blood. That's all they know, to kill people when they take over. They baptize you in your own blood. That's all they know. All right. Over here the Jews, all they know is to use water. Water for this and water for that, the washing of pots and pans, That's all they know. All right, over here you can't get the Protestants to do nothing but preach the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You can talk to the Church of God all you want to, but when they come back to the main thing they'll say it's the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Why do they do that? Because God divided His body up here on the cross, gave a baptism to each one of them. Now I'm going to prove to you and it is one and the same baptism. There is not one of them that has been able to reach perfection by separating the baptism. There is not one of them that has been able to reach perfection. If they had they would have done been translated. There is going to be one group of people that are going to reach perfection and that is the person that put all three of these together; that's going to bring perfection. They're going to put everyone of these together and it's going to be the three people that was separated. It's going to be typed out by them because I just read in the paper today where seven of our major churches have already agreed to come together in a council. Already agreed to a merger. All of these are going to come together, the Jew, the Catholic and the Protestants, which represents the spiritual. All three of them are going to come together in one, the National Council of Churches, to show the perfection, they show the three baptisms coming into one baptism. The three people coming into one people. The three religions coming into one religion, which will be a type of the spiritual Jew, which is the Jesus name people that they will come into every bit of the light, and truth of Jesus Christ. Every baptism. Everything God has ever taught them, they will accept it. Come into that one. All right. Now then, doing this, what will it mean? The telescope was pulled out three ways; we spoke of it the other night. Going back in it means the resurrection. I'm going to explain that a minute or two and then we're going to close. The Lord willing. Now, I am dead by the body of the Jesus Christ. At death the spirit goeth back to God Who gave it. My spirit is absent from my body because it's hid with Christ in Heavenly places. Now, I am just as dead as a man out yonder in the grave, as far as life is concerned. If in this life only we have hope we're more miserable than anybody. We're dead to the things of the world and we can't be active. All right, my spirit is with God. When God returns  I explained this the other night. When God returns my spirit will return with Him, into this body, which is the rapture, the change. It's taking place. Beginning to take place. Return back into my body. At the same time the spirit of God will return in the saints of God, (?) the sleeping of the grain. At the same time it's represented by the Protestants going back into the Catholic Church. Now, get this thought good. The Catholics came out of the Jews and the Jews died and didn't rule the world no more. And then the Protestants came out of the Catholics and the Catholics died, and didn't rule the world no more. And the Jesus name people came out of the Protestants and they started to withering up, and began to lose their power. Now then, the Protestants will go back to the Catholics, the Catholics will come alive. The Catholics will go back to the Jew and the Jew will become alive and they'll all emerge in one to show body, soul and spirit that was separated through Jesus here in types and shadows all going back together which will show the perfect man within the church and we'll be in the resurrection in the rapture. How many of you understand that real clear? That's how close we are to the end of the world. We're that close. The Nation Council of the Churches is the image of the beast. That's what it is. I believe Billy Graham is a false prophet and there's no doubt in my mind that the Pope is the antichrist. I believe that. You might not agree, but I believe that. I believe it with all of my heart. So then, we're going to let it go with that tonight and not try to go into any more, but how many of you understand that the spiritual Jew does the very same thing the natural Jew does? You understand? How many understand that there's one baptism. It's the same baptism. Divided among three people and that's why they never come to perfection, is because they never would accept the whole Word of God. That's why there's no need in trying to preach no other baptism to them. They know that your baptism is not their baptism. They know that. You say, Well why does the Jesus name accept water baptism when you said it was to the Jews? Cause they're spiritual Jews; that's the only reason they accept it. Otherwise they wouldn't accept it. Let's all stand together while our Brother is coming. I appreciate your kind attention tonight, and I hope that this is clear. If there is anything else we can clear up to you we'll do it. Wish we'd had more time to have gone into it, but I think that this is enough that we can understand. May the Lord bless you. 

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

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

Holiness Unto The Lord