...chapter of the Book of Revelation.
Let's look at it and just relax and
sort of read it together.
I'll read it and you follow along and
watch me and listen and we'll see what
it says.
The Holy Spirit is speaking through John and
he says, The fifth angel sounded and I
saw a star fall from heaven under the
earth and to him was given the key
of the bottomless pit and he opened the
bottomless pit and there arose a smoke out
of the pit as the smoke of a
great furnace and the sun and the air
were darkened by reason of the smoke of
the pit and there came out of the
smoke locusts upon the earth and unto them
was given power as the scorpions of the
earth have power and it was commanded them
that they should not hurt the grass of
the earth neither any green thing neither any
tree but only those men which have not
the seal of God in their forests and
to them it was given that they should
not kill them but that they should be
tormented five months and their torment was as
the torment of a scorpion when he striketh
a man and in those days shall men
seek death and shall not find it and
shall desire to die and death shall flee
from them and the shapes of the locusts
were like unto horses prepared unto battle and
on their heads were as it were crowns
like gold and their faces were as the
faces of men and they had hair as
the hair of women and their teeth were
as the teeth of lions and they had
breastplates as it were breastplates of iron and
the sound of their wings was as the
sound of chariots of many horses running to
battle and they had tails like unto scorpions
and there were stings in their tails and
their power was to hurt men five months
and they had a king over them which
is the angel of the bottomless pit whose
name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon but
in the Greek tongue his name is Apollyon.
One woe is past and behold there cometh
there comes two woes more hereafter.
The six angels sounded and I heard a
voice from the four horns of the golden
altar which is before God saying to the
sixth angel which had the trumpet loose the
four angels which are bound in the great
river Euphrates the four angels were loose which
were prepared for an hour and a day
and a month and a year for to
slay the third part of man and the
number of the army of the horsemen were
two hundred thousand thousand and I heard the
number of them and thus I saw the
horses on the vision in the vision and
them that sat on them having breastplates of
fire and adjacent and brimstone and the heads
of the horses were as the heads of
lions and out of their mouths issued fire
and smoke and brimstone these three by these
three was the third part of men killed
by the fire by the smoke by the
brimstone which issued out of their mouths for
their power is in their mouth and in
their tails for their tails were like unto
serpents and had heads and with them they
do hurt and the rest of the men
which were not killed by these plagues yet
repented not of the works of their hands
that they should not worship devils and idols
of gold and silver and brass and stone
and of wood which neither can see nor
hear nor walk neither repent a day of
their murders nor of their sorceries nor their
fornication nor their thefts now you know the
method which I have been using in this
series I have not been attempting to interpret
all the symbols which are here nor force
every passage to fit a pattern if you
want to do that you may do it
but if you do it at the terrible
expense of spiritual dishonesty or narrow your mind
down to a place where you can never
expand or grow and the Lord cannot say
anything to you any further but what I've
been trying to do here is to identify
the main points to discover the underlying spiritual
lessons even though we don't know all the
details nor all the symbols and symbolisms which
are found here for instance the star which
came down from heaven now there was a
star in ancient time in the 14th of
isaiah it turned out to be lucifer the
son of the morning and then there was
a star in the first chapter of the
book of revelation which turned out to be
the the angel of the of the church
church seven stars seven churches and so we
don't I don't know who this star is
but I know it came down from heaven
unto the earth there is something supernatural invading
our natural world there is the coming out
of another world across the threshold into this
world a stranger and one from another order
of being coming into the world and he
holds in his hand the key of the
abyss the bottomless pit and he opens it
in at the command of god and there
come out locusts upon the earth and those
locusts obviously are not the kind of locusts
the world has been used to seeing because
we can identify those locusts we know how
they are they're about as large as a
as a very large bee quite large two
or maybe as large as two or three
bees large is a good size beetle and
they fly and they eat things but they
don't bother people but these these locusts were
different they had they had power as scorpions
of the earth have power i was out
in california to a place called alliance redwoods
and they were starting a new alliance convention
trying to make another sort of glen rock
out of it up in the woods they
had no natural beauty such as this was
up among the redwoods as the name would
imply the sequoia trees had me there about
the second or third year and it was
as primitive as the baleen valley i slept
in tent it was so cold at night
i slept under four or five army blankets
and so hot in the daytime i couldn't
stay in it and they had other little
interesting things around around there poison oak rattlesnakes
and scorpions and they said don't uh ever
go to bed at night without looking for
a scorpion in your bed that was comforting
and soothing so i had turned my bed
down there was a little rat tail light
burning dimly there and i didn't know whether
it would i could see a scorpion but
i looked carefully and nothing looked like a
scorpion so i'd get in and say don't
put your shoe on in the morning without
shaking it out because one of our evangelists
got up one morning and stuck his foot
in was stung by a scorpion they don't
kill you but they just make you wish
that you were paralyzed for a little while
you couldn't feel them now those are scorpions
but i understand they're not as bad as
the scorpions of the other side of the
world and particularly here in the area where
john was was talking where he was an
asian miner and these scorpions are a few
that is they're not very many of them
in fact i didn't see a single scorpion
during the time that i was there i
only looked for them but locusts when they
come come in thousands and hundreds of thousands
and all they do is eat green stuff
they don't bother people but if you were
to give to locusts the power of a
scorpion you imagine what sort of thing you
have on your hands you have thousands hundreds
of thousands multiplied hundreds of thousands of scorpions
every one of them with a sting i
mean a locust every one of them with
a sting like a scorpion but they were
told not to hurt good men for the
grass of the earth nor any of the
people that seal of god in their foreheads
showing that there were people and will be
people who have god's seal in that day
and to them was given they shouldn't kill
them but they should be tormented these wicked
people should be tormented and the torment is
so terrible that in those days men shall
seek death and shall not find it that
is they'll try to commit suicide and can't
want to die and can't die and death
will flee from them and he tells us
the shape of the locusts and of course
he's using figures of speech here for the
locusts were like horses whoever heard of a
locust like a horse prepared to battle when
their heads were crowns of gold and their
faces were as the faces of men and
they had hairs the hair of women and
their teeth were the teeth of lions now
i never saw any creature like this you
never did they came from somewhere and they
came to this world they are from somewhere
and they're here and there will be here
in that terrible day and they when they
go they make the sound they have wings
and they make the sound like horses running
to battle and they had tails like under
scorpions and they hurt me in five months
now there is the depressed of the what
happens when the fifth angel sounded and they
had a king over them the old testament
says scorpions have no i mean locusts have
no king but here they have a king
and in hebrew's tongue he's called abaddon and
in the greek tongue he has named apollyon
now my friends i want you to note
one thing and it is that the earth
god is saying to us here he's saying
to us that there's another world that keeps
an eye on this world he's saying to
us that this earth is not self-explanatory
nor self-sufficient he is telling us that
this earth in which we ride is here
only as a shadow of the real world
above he is saying to us that this
earth has a spiritual origin he is saying
that there is in the earth a rebel
race inhabiting a rebel province that this is
a rebel separatist province pulled loose from the
rest of god's world and kingdom and that
it's inhabited by a race that doesn't own
allegiance to god and that yet this race
this this rebel province we call the earth
this katanga this broken off from the kingdom
of god it'll settle with god sometime and
now we we have here in the book
of revelation how this this world is settling
with god how god is visiting and moving
in past the the natural the supernatural is
moving in and there are creatures of god
from other worlds that are moving in on
this world and the prophets and the seers
and the sages and the apostles have foreseen
all this and they've told us about the
winding up of the world and the rebellious
activities of the world and they have told
us that there will be a bringing back
of the earth into the divine orbit again
that this world of ours which has been
a rebellious province with all of its people
in rebellion against the high king of heaven
that this is coming back into the divine
orbit again and the unity of god's world
is going to be restored and then preserved
that there will be a sorting out of
the good from the evil that the is
this that god will stop the evil infection
and he will balance the scales of justice
and there will be in order to bring
this about there will be in the opening
of the seals the sounding of the trumpet
and the pouring out of the vials of
god's wrath these as i've said over and
over these are what god uses to shake
the rebellious world loose from the earth of
the earth from the rebellious world of mankind
and these will be from above and from
below these invaders a supernatural the supernatural moves
into the natural and i'd like to say
to you that when that happens everybody will
know where they came from or at least
that they came from another world you know
over the last 25 years or 20 years
we've had this flying saucer deal and it
all depends upon your type of mentality whether
you believe in flying saucers or not i
have too much of my salty mother in
me to take flying saucers seriously i heard
a man reviewed on the radio that had
seen a flying saucer and talked to the
little men in the flying saucer he didn't
explain how they knew english that's the part
i didn't get how they knew english but
they did and he talked to them and
had a nice chat with them in english
i don't know whether they had an accent
but he spoke to them in english i've
never been willing to accept this just as
i've not been willing to accept the sea
serpent and the leprechauns and a lot of
other things but i believe that there will
be an invasion from the other world above
and below but i believe that when that
invasion takes place nobody will be writing articles
and asking whether there is such a thing
god will make it very plain that there
is there will be no questions asked nobody
will be telling weird stories about seeing little
men get out of the saucer there will
be no question but this is the vision
and the judgment of god upon the world
and god will send his strange creatures from
hell and from heaven to invade the earth
and nobody will doubt or question it they
won't surrender they won't repent but they will
know from whence it all came now let's
let's remember this is what the holy apostles
have taught them the holy prophets and the
seers and the sages and the men touched
with heavenly fire from the altar of god
down the years and they've said it strangely
and they've woven it as a tapestry and
we see the picture dimly and we don't
understand it all and men write books to
explain what the star is another man writes
a book to explain that the man who
wrote the first book didn't know what he
was talking about another man writes a book
about the locusts and another man writes a
book to show the man who wrote the
first book about the locusts never seen a
locust and so it goes so i am
not getting involved in these details but i
know that the great central truth is here
that when god gets enough of the world
when he gets enough of it he's going
to do something about it and if you're
close enough to god to want him to
do something about it you're a good christian
most don't want him to do anything about
it they're praying oh god hold off thy
judgments but those who are close enough to
whose heart beat with the heart of god
they're crying oh god send thy judgments and
let thy let thy judgment be revealed and
so there are about five truths here that
we can know and i want you to
get a hold of these five truths that
we can know and they're taught here they're
they're taught here they're taught because uh they
they we we gather them here we we
go in here and and come out there's
a scientist goes into a laboratory and comes
out and says now i know this much
this i don't know yet but this i
know so we can read this ninth chapter
of revelation and the rest of the book
and we can come out with about at
least five things and i want you to
take these five things you want to put
them down all right if you don't try
to remember them at any rate one thing
that we got to remember is that the
world is essentially spiritual this is what god
is trying to say to the world and
this is what he's been trying to say
to the world ever since adam and eve
sinned he's been trying to say i made
you in my image and that all this
that we see came out of that which
cannot be seen and that this world didn't
jump into being of itself it isn't an
accident it is created by out of spirit
that it came out of spirit by the
breath of god's mouth and man was made
in god's image and the visible world is
a manifestation of spirit and that we see
only external things and so we misunderstand them
we see only external things and we don't
understand them because they're only external we don't
know what's what's in there as though a
child on the seashore should pick up a
seashell and then somebody would come along and
deny that anything living ever was in that
seashell say now that seashell is there nothing
living is in it and though they have
the question how did it get like that
why is it shaped like that when it
was there obviously for some reason but there
was no life ever lived in it like
seeing a house someplace or a building a
building designed for a purpose and yet somebody
come and say now that building was not
designed that building happened there somebody now wait
a minute look look there are windows there
are doors there are entrances here and there
and and there are shapes of rooms inside
and they all indicate that an intelligence with
a purpose in mind made that building somebody
says no we don't acknowledge that at all
we have no way of knowing nobody's in
there let's go through it so they comb
it from top to bottom and they find
nothing they find no evidence of life at
all no evidence of there being anything in
there and they come back out and triumphantly
say there is nothing there it happened like
that somebody who knows his right hand from
his left says now wait you can't tell
me that there's every evidence here of design
every evidence of purpose every evidence of intelligence
and if we can't find nor see nor
feel nor hear nor touch the one who
made it somebody made it and so God
is saying to the world he's saying the
world is essentially spiritual because i made it
and it came out of me and it
came out of spirit and the i breathed
the life into the world and that's why
you're here and men are forgetting that and
the scientists particularly are forgetting that and the
odd thing is and the the bad thing
is the scientist can make good on what
he's saying because the scientist appeals to your
five senses and he can produce to your
five senses he can produce a microphone and
amplify a voice he can produce a light
and make it shine and he can he
can do things that that there is evidence
of but we who believe in in god
and purpose and design with no proof of
anything we have to say i believe i
believe in god the father almighty i believe
in jesus christ his only son i believe
in the holy ghost i believe in the
holy catholic church i believe i believe and
they smile and say well we don't believe
we produce and so the world is producing
they're producing their great instruments of death and
they're great instruments of life producing them but
god is trying to say to the world
now don't take this don't get too serious
about all this remember that all this i
made all this i created and the world
is essentially spiritual and the springs of human
conduct are spiritual too and even fleshly sins
however gross they may be and vile and
violent out of the heart are the issues
of life nevertheless and jesus said out of
the heart proceedeth and then he named these
vicious sins so that's one thing god is
saying to the world in his book of
revelation in his ninth chapter here when he
tells us about these strange creatures that john
could describe only by calling them saying they
look like something else this is what god
is saying to us and the second thing
the world that god is saying to us
is that the world hasn't seen anything that
yet this has been a harsh violent bloody
sinful tear stains and terror filled world in
which we live every newspaper comes out with
it and every radio broadcast every broadcast tells
us about how terrible and harsh and violent
and bloody and sinful it all is that
is the price we're paying for the monstrous
inversion that is the price we're paying for
the reckless rebellion against the high king of
heaven that's the price we're paying that's the
price we pay for forgetting that we're spiritual
it's the price we pay for going down
to the beast that perish and living such
lives that we were no longer true when
we say a man is beastly no longer
true because there isn't a beast that can
act as vicious as a man when the
man is bad and goes bad that's the
price we're paying for all this that's the
marking the spirit to be a servant of
the flesh this terrible thing i saw a
man one time take a candle and hold
it up with a light and the light
was at the top and he said now
this candle is like a man here is
the candle that's the body there is the
thread the wick that goes up in the
middle that's the soul there at the top
burns the flame there's the spirit and he
said that candle will give light as long
as it holds its right relative position a
position as long as the body's below and
the soul inside and the spirit at the
top it'll burn then he turned it over
and as soon as he turned it over
there was a sputter and a fluff of
smoke and it went out he said that
comes from inverting it and putting the spirit
down and the body up and that's exactly
what's happened to the world that's exactly what's
happened to the world we are living that
kind of life today we're body conscious and
flesh conscious and and world conscious to a
point where we'll forget that there should burn
at the apex of our lives an everlasting
flame that can never go out the spirit
of a man in touch with the spirit
of god but we turn it over and
the body puts out the spirit and men
die ah the vain hope is that someday
we'll find a way someday we'll find a
way i saw an article in the magazine
i didn't read it and i don't suppose
i shall because i know what they're saying
the article said that there's one thing man
hasn't learned to do and that is to
create life i thought well now that's good
there's good sense and then he added the
word yet to it yet he said we
haven't learned it yet in other words we're
at it where we're going to do it
edison said before he died that he felt
that naturally before he died but i mean
to say edison when he was uh at
his peak and you know before he finally
got so he couldn't talk he said that
he thought that he could make an instrument
so fine an electrical instrument so fine that
it could reach god you imagine it can
you imagine it turning the button and have
a whirr and a whee and a whirr
and a wit and a bit of static
and finally we get god how foolish men
can be the old greek said when the
gods would destroy a man they first make
him mad and i believe that the world
we're living in today is a mad world
the world hasn't seen anything yet god says
god says that this world you have turned
the spirit upside down you've turned yourself upside
down and you're living with the spirit down
and the body up instead of with the
body down and the spirit up you've forgotten
you're made in the image of god and
you've forgotten there's another world in this he
says to the world and so there'll be
a day when i'll invade the world and
you will not think it's a flying saucer
you'll not wonder if it's a ration you'll
know it's god and there will be creatures
strange creatures creatures from heaven above and creatures
from earth beneath and creatures from other worlds
and at the bidding of god they will
race faster than the speed of light and
they will go to god's earth and there
they will do their terrible wonderful awful judgment
work and the sixth angel which had the
trumpet loosed saying to the sixth angel loose
the four angels which are bound in the
great river euphrates and the four angels were
loosed which were prepared for an hour and
a day and a month and a year
for to slay the third part of men
i don't know who those those creatures are
but i know the scripture says here something
to the effect they were bound out there
by the river euphrates and god going to
loose them and when they come everybody will
know we've been visited and then the third
thing that we know is that death is
not the worst thing that can happen to
a man i remember once talking to dr
h m schuman of now president emeritus of
the christian missionary alliance that quiet philosopher and
man of god and we were talking about
life and death and he had a way
of lowering his voice and lowering his head
and looking out under his shaggy brows and
he said to me then a young man
he said remember tozer death is not the
worst thing that can happen to a man
there are worse things than death we don't
know that in this terrible day but it's
true it says here men desire to die
and cannot and death shall flee from them
it's a journey death for a christian it's
a journey to the eternal world and so
a triumph and a victory and arrest and
they like paul wanted to go i understand
how paul felt a little bit i understand
i i'd have never suffered as paul has
suffered i suppose the more he has suffered
the more you want to go to heaven
no christian commits suicide if he unless his
mind goes bad and then of course that's
something else and we god doesn't take that
into account and it doesn't judge him for
losing his mind any more than he would
judge him for judging for losing a leg
if he had it cut off by a
surgeon so apart from that no christian will
commit suicide but the christians the more he
suffers the more he'll want to go home
one of the one of the most telling
of the modern christian ages that were so
well satisfied with everything here below we like
it so well oh god please don't take
me yet for a while i like it
i like it here we say we don't
pray like that because we know it wouldn't
be pious to do it but we'll live
like that and there's many a person that
would be deeply disappointed if he thought that
god was going to take him to heaven
today tomorrow or the next day or next
week he'd say lord please hold it off
a while there are too many things that
i want here in the world but for
the christian it's a journey to the eternal
world it is the fulfilling and the reaching
of that for which he was created it
is the sudden fulfillment did you ever do
this thing and did you ever go out
in the fall of the year and find
a cocoon hanging on the little tree or
branch somewhere and bring that little thing in
and hang it up carefully maybe on the
curtain above a radiator and just let it
hang there and forget all about it and
when you dust around you saw it and
and when you changed curtains you changed it
and let it hang there there it was
and not a very nice thing and it
sort of got brown and it gathered dust
and it didn't amount to too much apparently
nobody said isn't that an artistic thing no
it wasn't artistic and isn't artistic it's just
hanging there and if anybody saw it they
thought it was a cobweb and were too
polite to mention it they're dumb and then
when the sun came back from the south
and the people came back from florida and
the spring came and the birds began to
chirp and chatter something happened there maybe you
were fortunate enough to watch it happen maybe
you didn't see it till afterward one day
you looked up where this ugly little brown
oblong thing had hung all during the long
winter and now you saw not an ugly
little shell but you saw there maybe four
inches across wider than the whole span of
my hand you saw one of the most
beautiful fragile fairy-like little creatures that ever
lived and it was slowly moving back and
forth that's the way they breathe you they
breathe by by moving their wings and that
that artificial respiration and there he was breathing
away and learning to get strong and pretty
soon he began to move and then maybe
suddenly fluttered across and landed on something about
the room and you called the family this
beautiful thing there it hung all winter long
now it had reached its fulfillment nobody would
believe that that had anything in it but
now it's there beautiful spots exactly the same
on both sides borders exactly like on both
wings and everything just done as though god
almighty and a happy mood had seized his
paintbrush and painted a fairy and sent it
to your house there it is it had
reached its fulfillment so there death is for
the christian we read in the word of
god a fulfillment the tired old man with
his weary old body and his old dentures
and his old eyeglasses and his old spotted
brown hands forgetful and tired and people are
forgetting that once he was one of the
pillars of the church now he's too old
and weary to go much and he goes
occasionally when somebody will take him there he
sits a tired old man still able to
read his bible and hum the hymns a
little but the old weary body's bell somebody
says that an old saint you wake brother
you wake god almighty one of these days
i'll put him away and when the spring
comes and the glorious son of righteousness rises
with healing in his wings that that shell
that old cracked shell that that old weather
beaten hide the hills will break open and
out of it there will come as out
of the cocoon comes the moth and or
the butterfly there will come that new thing
made in the image of god like unto
jesus christ the lord and they shall see
he shall see him and be like him
and all three worlds heaven above and earth
beneath and hell below will be forced to
confess that here was a saint in him
was the seed of god in him will
pass eternal possibilities and then he'll know the
chief end of man he'll know why he
was created in the first place he'll walk
out not looking like a moth certainly god
knows don't care the illustration too far but
looking like jesus looking like a man looking
like a man that god has created so
god's telling us that death isn't the worst
thing can happen to us too bad isn't
it when people get old and tired i
said to my wife today talking about somebody
and it'll speak to him be very courteous
today and forget tomorrow that you ever visited
them i said i hope that never happens
to me i don't want it to happen
i'd rather die in possession of my faculty
but i don't know you know the lord
said to peter when thou wast young thou
didst gird thyself and go where you please
but when you get old another will gird
thee and take thee where you didn't want
to go and maybe there'll be a day
when i'll limp downhill and slowly on leaning
on one of my big stalwart grandsons and
he'd be kind of weary and wish maybe
that nature would take its course but he'll
be leading me across the street you know
to sit in the park in the sun
and wait for the day when the son
of righteousness rises may be that may be
the last final humiliation the last final humiliation
that god will bring to show me that
i don't mount anything i don't know about
that that's at least tomorrow before it happens
so we leave it with god but death
isn't the worst thing can happen to you
man failing god's worst thing can happen to
you so here they were they were crying
for death shall men shall seek death and
shall not find it and shall desire to
die and death shall flee from them by
these three were the parts three parts third
part of men killed the fire the smoke
and the brimstone god is saying to the
world you haven't seen anything yet you've seen
wars and pogroms and tidal waves and volcanoes
and plagues and epidemics and wars you've seen
it all but you haven't seen anything yet
and remember that death isn't the worst thing
can happen to a man because death is
only the snuffing off of the body but
we live on he's saying the fourth thing
that god holds our lives in his hands
and i like that god holds our lives
in his hand hurt not them that have
the seal of god on their forehead men
shall not find death and it shall flee
from them men have a certain freedom i
believe in that all right i believe in
the freedom of the will i can't go
along with some of my ultra-calvinistic friends
who do not believe the human will is
free i can pick up that book if
i want to and i can lay it
down if i want and if i can
do that much i can do more man's
will is free men have a certain amount
of freedom but there will be times when
god withholds his permission and when he withholds
his permission the murderer can't kill and the
suicide can't die god holds our lives in
his hand oh if we could only make
the world sit if we could go to
we could have a summit conference and we
could say to khrushchev and mcmillan and kennedy
and diefenbaker and and the rest of them
death isn't the worst thing can happen to
you and god holds our lives in his
hand you've got god to deal with and
this world that you see is a rebellious
world believe on god none his son jesus
christ if they'd listen to us the solution
to the world's problems would be right there
but they wouldn't listen khrushchev sneers at god
and the others don't do too well by
him either i don't want to be unkind
i don't want to be insulting and i
hope i've been neither but i say the
great men and the mighty men and the
generals and leaders and industrial tycoons and all
the rest of the world they mention god
sometimes but they don't live as if god
existed mostly few few are different i understand
the prime minister went to church and read
the scripture yesterday in the church somewhere here
in canada and i understand that some of
the others are religious men i hope they
are i hope they are politics is politics
may god help us and the fifth and
last thing that i want to mention is
that rebellious men cannot be forced to repent
notice rebellious men cannot be forced to repent
the rest of the men which were not
killed by these plagues yet repented not of
the works of their hands that they should
not worship devils and idols and neither repented
they of their murders nor of their sorceries
nor of their fornications nor of their thefts
that isn't the way i've heard it down
the years men have said if god should
send his judgments in the earth then men
would fear that isn't what it says here
says here that there will be terrible creatures
invading the world from below and from above
that they will be so strange they will
loose angels from the river euphrates and they'll
go forth for a day and an hour
and a month and a year to slay
the third part of men they're talking now
about what would happen if a bomb should
hit north america two bombs or ten bombs
they say that men in the states have
figured out that a war in a nuclear
war there'd be 70 million men killed there
but there'd still be 110 million left to
carry on what a terrible way to think
about human beings made in the image of
god what a terrible way to think third
part of the human race shall perish but
the rest of them that were left the
other two thirds would not repent you'd think
they'd go down on their knees and cry
to god in penitence but that's not so
the rest hardened themselves and repented not all
men are morally obligated to repent and if
they do not repent they will perish and
if they do repent they do god no
favor they only do what they should do
but men will not they say if a
plague comes and carries away a third of
our population the other two thirds would have
the fear of god thrown into them it's
not always so men snarl and harden themselves
against god occasionally there will be somebody who
will repent frank jordan down on chicago's michigan
avenue robbed a bank and fled in a
car down michigan avenue south policemen standing at
michigan and adams tried to stop him michigan
and madison tried to stop him killed him
drove on the officer not knowing what it
was all about one block further down michigan
and adams tried to stop him shot him
to death and got away friend of mine
godly man went down to see frank jordan
he was a penitent man the dope or
the liquor or whatever the hell was had
worn off two men were dead they sentenced
frank jordan to die harry lynn bloom swedish
preacher went in talked with him led him
to jesus christ frank jordan read his bible
and prayed testified that he was a saved
man led him out to cook county's prison
where i have passed i wouldn't know how
many scores of times looked in through those
bars set him down in the chair and
snuffed the life out of frank jordan but
i believe as surely as i believe that
god's in heaven and christ was on the
cross frank jordan is with his lord if
he could say to the man who hung
with him the murderer who hung with him
on a cross this day shalt thou be
with me in paradise could not he say
to the murder of two policemen this day
shalt thou be with me in paradise it
works occasionally but another man was sentenced to
die absolutely hardened himself and refused to think
about it decided to play a big joke
and had some fun so as he was
led down the corridor past the other cells
to die led to the chair he said
to these poor colored boys who were in
there waiting their time to die and some
others white and colored but particularly the boys
were superstitious and full of fear and he
said to them as he went along chuckling
to himself now i'm coming back he said
and i'm gonna haunt you midnight tonight i'll
be back haunting you then when he came
to the next one he stopped and said
now remember 12 o'clock i'll be back
haunting you and he had these poor people
in an awful state of pale terror because
they believed that foolishness he went out there
and died chuckling that he had thrown fear
into some poor men who had to die
and the scripture tells us here that in
that day of the of the vast invasion
that men will not repent but will harden
themselves and refuse to repent a man said
once to another man and that man was
in hell when he said it go back
and tell my brothers let me go back
and tell them that they don't come to
this place they'll repent if one rises from
the dead and abraham answered not so if
they will not hear moses and the prophets
they will not hear one if he rose
from the dead the man who passed this
church and refused to hear the gospel wouldn't
repent if an angel came wouldn't repent if
he passed the cemetery and every man rose
in his shroud and preached the gospel jesus
said it if they will not hear moses
and the prophets if they will not hear
the word of god if they will not
react to the word of god favorably and
dare to believe and repent they wouldn't hear
even though men rose from the dead so
not all spiritualism with all its tappings and
its trumpets and its sounds and not all
of science and not all of the judgments
of god can make a man repent pharaoh
for all the judgments of god that followed
like lightning striking oak trees one after the
other after the other till 10 plagues had
struck he still didn't repent my dear friend
the human heart is a strange thing the
same act of god that'll make one man
repent will make another man hate god in
the same gospel sermon that will bring one
person weeping neatly to an altar of prayer
will send another one out chin up determined
he'll have his way the human heart is
wicked above all things desperately so god have
mercy on us this is what god is
saying to us i believe this is coming
i don't know when it's coming but i
believe that it's coming and the world will
see these creatures strange creatures the saints will
be marked and protected for the little time
they'll yet be here but the rest will
be under the judgment of god instead of
seeking god in the foxholes they will harden
themselves and repent not of their murders and
sorceries and fornications and pets i believe that
there will be an increase a recrudescence of
spiritism in the last day you can count
on it they said that in england after
the second world war that spiritism became so
rampant mothers came weeping to the spiritists and
the witches to inquire about their boys that
had died died in france died in north
africa died somewhere at sea died somewhere in
the air poor mothers you pity them you're
sorry and so the witches reaped a big
profit i believe it'll be in the last
days there'll be a revival of spiritism what
shall we do the gospel sounds in our
ears even the word of faith which we
preach that if thou wilt believe hear the
gospel and believe thou shalt be saved marvelous
words word is neither even in thy mouth
and in thy heart that is the word
of faith which we preach that thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the lord jesus thou
shalt believe in thine and shalt believe in
thine heart that god raised him from the
dead thou shalt be saved for with the
heart man believeth under righteousness and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation for a
sinner i wouldn't try to figure out all
the terrible details of prophecy but i would
come and believe on christ i'm a christian
and i've been a christian for a great
many years and i have a little book
in which i've written prayers it's all moth
eaten or at least some more and i
pray off and out of it go to
god and remind him of these prayers that
i have written here one of them is
oh god let me live right let me
die right rather than live wrong i don't
want to become a careless fleshly old man
i want to be right and die right
rather than have my life extended and live
wrong there was a man once by the
name of hezekiah he got sick and they
said to him you're going to die he
turned his face to the wall and sulked
and he said god why are you taking
my life said look i've served thee and
i've cleansed the temple and i've had a
revival i've done i've done i've done god
says all right i'll give you 15 more
years he gave him 15 more years and
in those 15 added years he disgraced himself
and hurt his reputation i don't want 15
years given me to backslide him i'd rather
go right than have 15 years to fool
around and waste god's time and mine my
christian friends we're praying in this church we're
meeting for prayer we're meeting and beseeching the
throne of god that there will be a
in the room and we're waiting we're looking
to god that he will send his revival
to us and that he'll separate chaff from
wheat and he will bless us with a
great outpoured revival are you for it amen
god bless you let's pray