Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons.
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from some of history's greatest speakers in the
Christian faith in powerful sermons for modern preachers
too.
This week we have Lester Sumrall with his
message Demonology and Deliverance Part One and then
also a Prophecy and Rapture in Time Study.
Welcome students to one of the finest series
of lessons that we'll ever be giving and
possibly one of the most exciting that we
shall ever have.
We consider that these very particular lessons on
demons and deliverance, principalities and powers to be
some of the most important lessons that we
have ever given.
And because they are so important, you will
be able to receive these in the audio
form and this way in a beautiful book
that you just put right in your library,
and you will be able to also receive
these in the video, a one-half inch
form to look through your own television set
with, and then possibly the best of all,
a teaching syllabus such as I hold here,
exactly the same as I hold here.
And so we are going into this in
the most thorough way possible, and in all
of the various operations of learning, whether it
is in the reading word or the hearing
word or the seeing word.
And so we are going at this very
thoroughly.
In the world that we live in right
now, there is no topic so important.
With the occult growing in unprecedented ways in
this country, it is most important that we,
as spiritual guides, spiritual leaders, spiritual spokesmen for
the Most High God, that we inform our
people.
We cannot make anybody do anything.
We can only inform.
We are informers for God.
We are ambassadors.
An ambassador comes to another nation, and he
presents what his nation believes and expects them
to do.
And his responsibility terminates.
He cannot make that nation do what he
wants them to do.
He can only say, this is what my
nation would like for you to know.
We represent the kingdom of God and the
kingdom of heaven, and we can only say,
this is what God wants us to know
and what He wants us to be, what
He wants us to do.
And it's very important that we teach these
things, not that we just know them, but
that we teach them.
The Word of God very plainly says, that
which ye have received freely, give freely.
We are not to be storage tanks.
I am not supposed to know a tremendous
amount about this tremendous subject from all over
the world and keep it in my own
bosom.
You see, I am supposed to share it,
and that you shall understand by it.
That's what the Bible is.
The Bible is a story of what God
has done, what God is doing, and what
God is going to do.
And then you make the decision.
If you wish to believe what He has
done, if you wish to accept what He
is doing, if you wish to understand what
is going to come to pass, then the
Bible is the book of divine revelation.
These pertinent lessons, and I must say it
very strong, possibly the most pertinent that I
have ever developed.
And that these studies have to do with
the unnatural power and dominion over intelligent beings.
That is the forces of the netherworld seeking
to dominate spiritual life, unspiritual life in the
human world.
And so, we must realize that.
Now, we are not dealing with one part
of the world.
In my living in over one hundred nations
of the world, I came to understand that
the devil wants to hurt people in India,
and China, and Indonesia, and Malaysia, and in
Australia, just as much as he does those
in India, or in Pakistan, or in the
Near East, or in Europe, or America.
That the scope of these studies is universal.
And you will see that it's universal.
It not only has to do with this
planet earth, it has to do with heaven,
it has to do with eternity in hell,
you see.
And so, we are not dealing with a
small subject.
We are dealing with a subject as big
as the universe.
When you go out and look up at
the stars at night, that's how big this
subject is.
And no man has ever understood it completely.
No man has a total of all the
answers, but bless God, we together can have
them.
And so, let's go after them, unitedly, sincerely,
in depth, and God will certainly help us
to know that.
We have discovered that the devil has no
relationship or respect for a race, for a
nation, for a person, for a society, or
for a culture, that he wishes to hurt
every human person on the face of this
earth, whether he be a primitive person in
the jungles of New Guinea, or whether he
be a person's walk in the United Nations
halls in New York City.
The devil is a devil.
He's not one thing in one part of
the world or something else in another part
of the world.
That's exactly what he is.
He may have a different approach between a
person that lives in Afghanistan than that one
that lives in Paris, France, but the end
result is the same, to destroy that person's
relationship with God, to destroy his faith, and
to help him not to know the truth
that sets him free.
And these studies, they're not only just imperative,
but they are imperative in what I call
a point in time.
I am very conscious that thirty years ago,
I was before my time.
I exposed these truths, and I made a
film about the girl in the Philippines that
was delivered from the power of the devil
by Jesus, and in America, there were actually
full gospel Christians that wouldn't even go and
see the film that documented the story.
I said, now that's interesting that you're even
afraid of the victory, much less the battle.
You wouldn't have shown up for the battle
for sure, but you're even afraid of the
victory.
This is the victory film showing what God
did, and you're even afraid of victory.
Well, bless God, if you were afraid of
victory, what would you do in a day
of war?
In point of time, I was before my
time in relating this, and it made me
to be known in this country and around
the world as a pioneer in understanding the
phenomena of demons and devils and netherworld personalities,
but now the time has come when everybody
must know the truth.
Millions are desirous of knowing the truth, and
this is the way to give it to
them.
As we create this class here, and this
class here goes out to millions of people
other than ourselves, then we are disseminating divine
truth that must be given today.
This is our day.
This is the day.
This is a good day.
This is God's day.
This is the spiritual day.
This is the prophetic day, so let it
ring deep in your heart.
Let it ring deep in your souls, and
let this be a day that you will
never forget, but more than that, it is
time for us to understand that we are
all deliverers, that God created us.
You have no right to sit in a
comfortable situation and say, well, I'm free of
the devil's power, and that's all right.
How about your neighbors with a boy that's
been on drugs and has no more mind
to function?
How about the girl that has broken her
life in sin, and the devil has possessed
her with a spirit of the craving for
sex that she has no control of herself?
These people need love.
They need an understanding, and they need to
know there's a big bad devil out there
that's to blame for this problem, and that
Jesus can set them free.
There is nothing the devil's ever done that
Jesus cannot undo, and there is no power
that he has demonstrated that Christ cannot subdue.
He is the King of kings.
He is the Lord of lords.
He is the Mighty One.
He is the Deliverer.
Know it.
Believe it.
Accept it.
You'll sure be glad that you did.
Our world today, not just America, but Europe
is in front of us, and England is
in front of us.
Our world today is rapidly and drastically changing
in its relationship with that which is a
power beyond human power, whether it's ESP, or
whether it's EP, or whatever, or ET, or
whatever it might be.
Our world today is being attacked by occult
forces.
Magic is one of the greatest resurgence in
the total of human history.
It's enjoying it right now.
Never has there been a time when the
world has sold as many books, has as
many meetings, and has been accepted by so
many people.
It's riding high in the world today.
Now, that would be distressing except for one
thing.
The Lord Jesus Christ predicted that in the
last days.
The Word of God teaches us very clearly.
The Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 4 and
1 says, "...the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in
the latter times some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines
of devils."
We will be studying that in this series
of beautiful lessons that we have together, that
we shall discover and join together in our
knowledge, and we'll grow in these things, and
come to know the truth that helps people
to be set free.
Neighbors, there are literally millions of people right
now who need to be set free from
forces and powers beyond and outside themselves.
They cannot set themselves free.
They need God.
They need the Lord Jesus to come and
set them free.
I'm sure you are aware of this, and
that we're right on the ball, and we're
right on the time schedule.
At this point in time, it is the
time to do this.
And so with all kinds of magic and
occultism, with its greatest resurgence in modern history,
Satanism springing up in every city and every
town throughout our land.
It's not isolated in the big cities like
New York and Chicago and Los Angeles.
It's also in Timbuktu, you see.
It's in all the villages, and I can't
go into that at this moment.
And so these studies that we have especially
prepared for our class and our Bible training
center here in South Bend, Indiana, and that
we are now sharing through you from our
World Harvest Bible College, sharing it with the
whole of the world.
We're delighted to share, and we can share
it through the audio tape and through the
videotape and through the printed page that they
can know exactly as you and I know
and understand these great truths.
We thank God that there are many church
leaders who are tremendously concerned about occultism and
demon power.
It is not an isolated situation where Lester
Sumrall is the only one concerned.
Pope Paul said these words, whole societies have
fallen under the domination of the devil.
Now when a pope in Rome makes such
a statement, it reveals that he has been
studying the needs of the world, the problems
of the world, the sorrows of the world,
and that he has made a declaration that
whole societies, what a statement.
It's further than I have made personally.
Whole societies have fallen under the domination of
the devil.
He says sex and narcotics provide openings.
You see, he has an understanding of this.
When you lose your normal thinking, that is
an open door for Satan to walk in
and to do whatever he wishes and desires
to do in your life.
So he tells us here that sex and
narcotics, he means perversion in sex, provide openings
for Satan's infiltration of mankind.
He says one of the great needs of
our time is a defense against the evil
which we call the devil.
Isn't that amazing?
Now you wouldn't expect the pope to be
such a preacher, would you?
You'd expect him to be an administrator of
his church and all, but listen to what
he's saying, that one of the great needs
of our time is a defense against evil
which we call the devil.
I'm going to teach you what those defenses
are and how you can rise up.
There is no infernal power that you cannot
overcome.
We're going to teach you that you have
as much right as any other person living
on the face of this earth to set
others free, that no one has superior responsibility
to you to set these free.
This is not for apostles and prophets and
pastors, it's for everybody.
You'll find that in the Great Commission, which
we will very carefully, very carefully go through.
And so he says the world is under
an obscure domination.
Isn't that amazing?
The United Nations under an obscure domination.
The common market countries under obscure domination.
The third world countries under very obscure domination.
Isn't that amazing?
Only the church can reveal this.
Only the church can rise up and say,
wait a minute here, we need something.
We need God.
We need help.
We need blessing.
Only God, only God can do that.
And so in this introductory lesson that we
are bringing you into, we're hoping to stir
up your pure mind, to stir up your
soul within you, to rise up stronger than
ever before and say, hey, here, we want
to know this, and we want to understand
this, and we want to be able to
do it.
In the last statement that the Pope made,
he said, it is by Satan, the prince
of this world, the number one enemy that
we must fight.
Isn't that amazing?
Isn't that something?
Now that's stopping fighting denominations, you know, our
doctrines to know who our true enemy is.
Now that's on the side of the Roman
Catholic friends.
On the Protestant side, Dr. Billy Graham said
these words.
He says, the devil is actively engaged in
combating America's growing religious revival.
Now you have to pause for a moment.
There is a mighty revival in our land
today.
It is being misunderstood.
It is being ridiculed by the mass media.
It is being spoken against, against the older
faiths and denominations and so forth.
And so he's saying something, that the devil
is actively engaged in combating America's growing religious
revival.
Not denominationalism, but revival.
There is a revival in this land.
There is a revival in this land, and
the devil don't like it.
He wants to fight it.
He wants to speak disrespectfully of it, and
he uses the mass media and anyone else
in order to carry it on.
Now he says the proof of the devil's
work is the increasing interest in the occult.
This is Dr. Billy Graham, a Baptist, a
Baptist minister and a minister for the whole
world and for all denominations, as you know.
He says that the devil is doing this
in an increased interest in astrology, tarot card
readings, Ouija boards, palmistry, fortune-telling, and particularly
witchcraft.
These are the words of Dr. Graham, and
they're in this teaching syllabus here that you
can obtain.
It is perfectly obvious to all of us
in spiritual work that people can be possessed
by demons.
Now you ought to underline that.
That's what Dr. Billy Graham says after his,
you know, thirty or forty years of experience
all over the world, not just the reading
of the Bible but by living.
He says it is perfectly obvious to all
of us, that's not leaving anybody out, in
spiritual work that people, human persons, human beings,
can be possessed by evil spirits that don't
belong to this earth.
They belong to something else beside this earth.
They can be harassed by them, they can
even be controlled by them, and more and
more ministers, now this is the challenge, the
challenge, brother, this is the challenge that should
reach every person in America today.
More and more ministers will have to learn
to use the power of God to release
people from these terrible possessions by the devil.
That's the words of Dr. Billy Graham.
Isn't that exciting?
Isn't that exciting that he warns you and
he warns me that more and more of
us, but I believe he said ministers here.
He did say, and I want to take
it a further step and say Christians, believers,
followers of Christ, that every lay person has
the same right.
You know, in the Great Commission it does
not say you have to be a minister
or a missionary or a pastor or anything
like that.
It says they that shall exercise demon spirits,
that if you believe you can do it.
And so this lays it into the hands
of every believer, and of course the ministers
do have to lead the way.
If you don't get preachers leading the way,
you won't get far.
They control those congregations.
They are the fathers of those congregations.
They are the leaders of those congregations, and
unless you can get it instilled deeply down
inside of the spirit of a minister, then
it won't get much further.
The lay people can do their best on
the perimeter, but if it's going to go
right down the main street, the minister must
be the one that speaks it from the
pulpit, believes it with all of his heart,
and pray over his people.
Now it is very simple to set anyone
free from demon power.
You can command that thing to come out,
and as you believe it will be so.
It is not difficult.
It is not a great deal that you're
working with, some mighty object, you know, some
mountain.
It is not.
It's in just the pure way of living,
a spiritual life, that when you come up
against evil, as the Bible says, you resist
it, and it flees from you, you see.
You have the power and the authority.
He that is in us is greater than
he that's in the world, and so we
are not pushed back, and we're not pushed
down, and no one can say that we
don't have the right to do it.
We have been commissioned, commissioned to do it
under the general of the armies of heaven,
whose name is Jesus.
We have been commissioned to do it, so
it's not a matter of we do it
if we wish to, or we don't do
it if we don't want to.
It is a matter that Jesus said, do
it, and so we are divinely inspired to
bless our neighbors and our friends, and if
you had compassion in your heart, if you
could see the things that I've seen, and
if you could have been with me in
Brazil when I was riding a bus, and
could have seen, we pulled up at a
little village way back in the backlands, in
the hinterland of Brazil.
There they had a man tied to a
post, tied to a post.
He had no clothes on, and his hair
was down at his shoulders, and was matted,
hadn't been combed maybe in months, and he
was crazy.
He was screaming, yelling, jumping up and down
like an animal, cursing the people there, and
the people were laughing.
The people were laughing, and he was just
a somebody in that area that nobody could
control, so they tied him up like an
animal to a big round post, just like
you tie up a horse or something, and
he would go around and around that post,
and screaming and yelling, and they'd throw him
little things, an orange or, you know, or
a banana or something or another, and he'd
eat it like an animal.
And I got back on that bus.
I can't explain to you, you know, the
depth of my feelings when I said, oh
God, He is an immortal soul too.
He is an immortal soul, and inside of
me I said, if that man was born
that way, and he did not deliberately transgress
against God, his hard times are here.
God would not permit a person like that
to go to hell, because you can't go
to hell unless you want to.
There are no accidents in hell, you know.
There are no people that slid in there
sideways.
You walk in straight forward.
You walk in there in pure disobedience.
You don't get there by accident.
Never.
Nobody does.
But my feelings were so deep for this
person.
If you could have been with me in
the Philippines when I prayed for Clarita Villanueva
in the city jail, in Villabid prison in
downtown Manila, and if you could have seen
those teeth marks that I saw that sunk
into her body a quarter of an inch
deep, and blood run 12, 10, 9 to
10 to 12 inches across as that monster,
invisible monster, bit her, and that it had
been in the local newspapers for three weeks.
The doctors had reported it every day.
They had sent out for help, for psychologists
and psychiatrists and anybody to come and help,
and nobody was coming to the rescue of
this little girl.
If you could have seen her faint into
a coma, bitten by this thing, and look
with your own hand, with your own eyes
and see.
You talk about getting angry at the devil.
Brother, I got angry at the devil, and
that day we set her free, and she
is free until this day.
But you've got to have compassion.
The church doesn't have compassion.
You know, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus looked and saw
the people hurt.
When He found a person that was possessed
of the devil, He had compassion.
He had feeling for them, and most of
the church today, including the preachers, they have
a feeling.
It's a feeling of fear.
They want to run away, and in our
own town, in our own city, a family
went to a local full gospel pastor and
said, we have a problem in our home.
Emotions have gone away, and my husband is
about, is talking about suicide.
And the minister said, well, put him in
the asylum then, put him away.
And she began to cry and says, he's
my husband.
I can't put him away.
And though they didn't come to our church,
they do now.
They do now.
She came to me with tears, and I
went to see this man.
Now you talk about the last rung of
the ladder.
He'd make new rungs on the bottom.
He was way down there, and he wouldn't
even look at me when I walked into
the house, you see.
And very slowly, I brought him up out
of his despair.
I brought him up out of that.
He was a good, fine Christian, and he
said, I'm lost.
He says, I've never been saved.
I'll never go to heaven.
And I had to bring him above that,
and that thing of taking his own life.
I'm worthless.
I'm useless.
I'll take my life.
And that man is completely, gloriously, wonderfully, joyfully
restored as of this very moment, you see.
And so we know the power of God,
and in our introducing these studies to you,
we want you to come to know the
power of God.
And you know the power of God by
deep compassion.
You got to feel something.
Yeah, you got to feel something.
If Jesus had not had compassion, He could
not have set men free.
And unless the church today can go on
their knees before the Almighty and search themselves
out and have compassion, we cannot set this
world free.
There are literally millions of Americans right now
who've lost their mental equilibriums and their emotional
balance, and they need love, and they need
compassion.
They do not need sympathy.
Oh, dear darling.
Oh, dear.
No, they don't need that.
Love is deeper than that.
Love will spank you, mom and daddy says.
Yeah.
Pure love will spank you.
Pure love will discipline you.
And so we're talking about something deeper than
saying, oh, I'm sorry.
No, no, no.
We're talking about deliverance by the mighty power
of the Most High God setting you free
and commanding your mind to be stable and
commanding any interference into your life from outside
entities, disturbing you to say, you go and
don't you come back.
I set them free from the authority of
the one who died on Calvary to set
the world free, and you better believe it.
You know, it works.
It just works.
That's all.
It just works.
And so we want to wake the Christians
up to see the world that we live
in today.
Now, I have been greatly criticized for what
I have shared with you in this first
lesson.
You've got to be able to accept that.
If you're not able to accept that, the
devil will defeat you quite easily.
You've got to be willing to be mocked,
to be laughed at, to be misunderstood in
order to do what God wants you to
do.
But we live in a time when millions
of Christians want information.
They're seeking information.
They want to understand how to discern demon
power and how to exorcise demons from people.
And they want to know how to keep
people free from all satanic forces.
I mean, we live in a beautiful moment
of history.
God wants them to do it.
Now, Father, I believe you right now to
set my neighbors free.
I believe you right now to set everyone
free.
I believe you right now.
I break the power of the evil one
over you.
In Jesus' name, be free.
I'd like to hear from you.
I'd like for you to communicate with me
and say, Brother Sumrall, I do want to
be free.
And we will help you to be free
in Jesus' name.
I'd be delighted if all of you had
this beautiful syllabus.
This is a handmade book.
It's expensive.
It's a handmade book.
And it's not easy to create.
But it's a lesson book for students.
And you should have it.
And also in the audio, we would be
glad for you to have the whole audio
story of all of these lessons, of all
of these lessons.
And hear them.
If you hear them and read them together.
And then the video.
The video is as the audio.
It's exactly every word that you have heard,
it is there.
And these are the three ways in which
you can obtain these lessons and study them
and grow with them and share them.
Maybe that's the strongest word.
And share them.
This is the most wonderful hour of the
Christian church.
This is the golden hour of the Christian
church.
Let's go and set the world free.
Let's go and bless the world in which
we live.
May God bless all of you students here.
And may God bless all of you that
will receive these words as they come to
you through television and also through the tape
ministry.
May God bless you.
And above all, may the Lord set you
free.
Whom the son sets free is free indeed.
Be free.
Thank you.
God bless you, everybody.
You may be seated.
It's a great honor to stand before you
and to explain the word of God as
we see it.
And we thank you for being a student
of the word.
There are so many people today that for
none obvious reasons do not study the word
of God.
And so they don't have an answer in
the time of trouble.
They don't have an answer when they have
a person that needs talking to because they
haven't attended unto the word of God.
We are in the middle of a very
exciting topic.
It's called the rapture and the revelation of
the Lord Jesus.
The purpose in dealing with this so strong
was that many people think there's just one
coming of the Lord.
And they don't realize that Jesus is coming
by what we call rapture.
The word may not be in the Bible,
but that's not necessary for it to be
there.
We can call it the catching away of
the church, which will be possibly sometime during
the tribulation period.
And then we will go and be with
him and have the marriage supper of the
Lamb and also have at that time the
judgment seat of Christ.
At the judgment seat of Christ, there will
be no sinners there at all.
There will only be the righteous there.
And maybe judgment seat is a kind of
a bad name for it because at that
time God, the Lord Jesus, will be giving
us positions for the millennial kingdom because it
says we shall reign with him.
Because soon after that, we come back with
him riding white horses to fight the Antichrist.
We are in his army at the time
of the destroying of the Antichrist and the
nations that have stood with the Antichrist.
And then you have the revelation of Jesus
when he comes to fight.
So maybe it's at least three and a
half years difference between rapture and revelation.
But they are two different and remarkable events.
The first one, Jesus does not touch the
earth.
He appears in the air.
And he takes his church.
The dead in Christ shall rise.
We that are ready remain shall be caught
up together with him in the air.
And we shall forever be with the Lord.
You like that word forever?
Yeah, I believe that too, that we shall
forever be with the Lord.
Then we shall come with him.
And at that time they shall see him
whom they have pierced.
Not the first time.
No one shall see him except those that
are caught away into the bride of Christ.
And so they are the two different comings
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We have worked our way over to page
77 in the teaching syllabus.
And in your lesson it says that we
should begin with a manner of his coming.
That would be point number eight in this
lesson.
When he comes, he told us himself in
Matthew 24 and 27 that he will come
as lightning that flashes out of the east
into the west.
And lightning moves with a rapidity of light,
of course, which means it will be an
instant coming.
It will not be a slow event.
It will not be an event that takes
place by steps.
And that'll be it.
He will appear, the trump of God shall
sound, and God's people will hear that.
And the dead in Christ shall rise again.
Now, the dead in Christ are not in
the grave.
They shall have to come back and pick
up their remains there.
They are with Christ.
They'll come back and pick up their remains,
and then they shall go to meet the
Lord in the air.
And we that are ready to remain, we
should be caught up with him, and we
shall go and be with the Lord forever.
He will appear publicly and will be seen
by all men in the manner of his
coming, Matthew 24 and 30.
And then shall all the tribes of the
earth mourn, and they shall see the Son
of Man coming in the clouds of heaven
with power and great and great glory.
Now, that has to be at the time
of the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ
and not at the rapture, because at the
rapture they will not see him.
Only those that are caught up with him
together shall see him at that time.
He will come in brightness.
He is the giver of light, and his
brightness was as the light.
He had horns coming out of his hand,
and there was a hiding of his power.
When he comes, he will come at that
time as the brightest spectacle that has ever
taken place upon this earth.
The brightness of the sun will be very
insignificant to the brightness of his coming.
So he will come quickly.
He will come publicly.
He will come with great brightness.
D, he will come back to the place
from which he departed.
And Zechariah 14 and forward, and it says,
And his feet shall stand, and that day,
say, that day, not before, and that day
upon the Mount of Olives, which is before
Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of
Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward
the east and toward the west.
That is very remarkable, because the structure of
the earth in a hill is north and
south, you see.
It strings itself along up and down, and
he's going to abruptly change the direction and
go east and west with this breach that
shall come into the Mount of Olives, and
which shall make Jerusalem almost a seaside city,
that water will flow up.
And scientists have already discovered that sea of
fresh water far down below Jerusalem, and they
can't get to it.
But after the earthquake, it won't need them
to look for it.
Everybody will see it.
There should be so much of it that
it will heal the Dead Sea, and waters
will flow from the Dead Sea down into
the Red Sea, and there will be no
more of a Dead Sea after that time.
East and toward the west, and there should
be a very great valley, and half of
the mountains shall remove toward the north, and
half of it shall be removed toward the
south.
And so when he comes back, there's going
to be a great movement in the earth.
And this number here, we're trying to tell
you something about what will happen at the
time of his coming.
In your E, it says he will come
in the same manner in which he went
away.
That's in Acts 1 and 11, which also
said the angels did.
You men of Galilee, why stand you gazing
up into heaven?
The same Jesus, say same Jesus, this is
2,000 years later, but it's the same
Jesus, which is taken up from you into
heaven, shall so come in like manner as
you have seen him go into heaven.
So he will be seen at that time,
and he will come back to the same
spot that he went away from.
And so what a day, what an opportunity
that will be to be there with him.
Don't you like to see great things take
place?
And we will see them at that time.
He will come back, your F point, and
that's on page 78.
He will come with clouds, that's Revelation 1
and 7.
Behold, he cometh with clouds, and you see
that over in the book of Daniel.
We'll read that in just a moment.
He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall
see him.
Now that cannot be rapture, that has to
be revelation, when he comes back.
For many years, people said, now how in
the world could that be?
Says it don't matter if he's big as
a mountain, everybody couldn't see him.
Well, they didn't know that God was going
to release the facilities of television.
And now he has released it until one
can be in any part of the world
and can see something taking place in any
other part of the world.
And so we today have the facility, which
means that we're close to the time of
seeing it because a man might use these
things, but God ordained them in order to
bring about the completion of his word.
He will come with clouds, Revelation 1 and
7.
Behold, he cometh with clouds, every eye shall
see him.
That has to be by television.
And they also which pierced him, and all
the kindreds of the earth shall wail because
of him.
And so when he comes in his revelation,
even his enemies, those that said his blood
be upon us and our children, that they
shall come to understand that they were wrong
and that he was the Messiah, and that
they made a mistake, and they will wail
because of it, and they will seek the
Lord at that time.
Daniel 7, 13, I saw in the night
visions, and behold, one like the Son of
Man.
Jesus called himself the Son of Man 78
times.
And it's a beautiful designation in that it
makes him a part of mankind.
It makes him have a relationship with mankind.
The devil has no idea how you feel
about anything.
He has never been a human, never been
one, so he has no idea how you
feel about anything.
But Jesus, having lived here, and having suffered
anything, everything you might have suffered, then he
has an understanding and a comprehension of anything
that might happen to any feelings you might
have, any sorrows you might have.
He has an acute understanding of that.
And so Daniel says, I saw in the
night vision one like the Son of Man,
who is identified with mankind as a man.
And he came with the clouds of heaven,
and clouds are so often used as a
time for the Holy Spirit.
And the clouds of heaven, and he came
to the Ancient of Days.
Now, I don't see how any Jewish person
or Jesus-only apostolic person could read that
verse and have any understanding of it and
say that there was only one in heaven,
you know, because it specifically says a thousand
times in the Bible that there are more
than one.
And so how one could say there was
only one when there's so many references of
it, there being more than one.
If we just follow the word simply, and,
you know, and like a child would follow
it, I think we'd come to a better
understanding of what God was saying.
Can you say amen?
And so he came to the Ancient of
Days, which is the Father, and they brought
him near before him.
And, you know, you should really mark that
and keep reading it, because the Father gave
unto him power, glory, and majesty, and all
that the Lord Jesus Christ has, he received
from the Father.
And it's a beautiful prophecy that is going
to come to pass, and we're going to
see it.
In Eugenia, it says he will come as
a judge and a king.
Not only will he come with glory and
majesty, but he shall come as a king,
in Isaiah 11, 3, and shall make him
of quick understanding in the fear of the
Lord, and he shall not judge after the
sight of his eyes, neither reprove by the
hearing of his ears, but with righteousness shall
he judge the poor, and reprove with equity
for the meek of the earth.
Now that's going to be for a thousand
years that this is going to come about.
And he shall smite the earth with the
rod of his mouth, and with the breath
of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
And so here we have a direct reference
to the terminating war with the Antichrist, and
then with how he shall rule this earth
for 1,000 years.
And he will rule in righteousness, but not
only in righteousness, but also with great authority.
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his
loins, and faithfulness of the girdle of his
reins.
And so he shall rule in righteousness, and
he shall also rule in faithfulness to the
people upon this earth.
Are you really interested in the things that
are to come?
It is remarkable to me that we have
a book that tells us the things that
shall come to pass.
And the devil would like for the whole
world to be dull.
2,000 years ago, he caused a whole
nation to be dull.
Here, dozens of scriptures were fulfilled that were
written by the prophets of the Old Testament,
and they knew those scriptures, but they couldn't
place them into the life of Jesus.
You know, they were dull.
They just had no ability to do it.
If they tried to do it, it just
seemed to them, you know, that it wasn't
the one that they were looking for.
Now, in these last days, the world's going
to be in the same shape.
Religious leaders are not going to accept the
nearness of the coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
And those that should be teaching won't have
anything to say for the simple reason they
haven't studied the scriptures to understand how it
will happen in the time of the return
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
But we have studied for many lessons all
of these mysteries that are coming to pass.
And they're preachers that just refuse to give
a lot of attention.
They say that's a difficult part of the
Word of God.
It don't matter whether it's difficult or not.
I think we have a responsibility to people
to teach the entire and the whole complete
Word of God.
And so I think the Lord wants to
talk to us and say, learn it all,
teach it all, live it all, until He
comes in glory.
And all the people said, let it be
that way.
Now, in your point number nine, His appearance
and characteristics, we're trying to give you a
lot of details for the simple reason we
want you to be so full of facts
until you can't miss it, you know.
We only give you one or two scriptures,
then you say, well, I don't, I'm not
so sure of that.
But if we give you a few dozen,
for sure you're going to come to understand
what the Word of God teaches.
In His appearance and characteristics, He will have
eyes as a flame of fire, Revelation 1
14.
His head and His hair were white like
wool, as white as snow, and His eyes
were as a flame of fire.
Well, the righteous will be the same.
We will be like Jesus, and the righteous
will be the same.
We will have eyes like what Moses saw.
It burned, but it didn't hurt the tree
any.
And we will not have blue and black
eyes.
We're going, neither will we have skin that's
tanned or brown or black or white.
We won't, there won't ever be.
We should be a bronze color, something new
in the world.
We'll be like Jesus.
If you want to know what we're going
to look like in heaven, we are going
to look like Him.
In Revelation 2 18, and under the angel
of the church of Thyatira write, these things
saith the Son of God, who hath His
eyes like unto a flame of fire, and
His feet are like fine brass.
Then in Revelation 19 12, His eyes were
as a flame of fire.
And so you have those three references there
as to how His facial expression will be
at that time.
We won't be afraid of Him, of course,
because ours will be the same.
And it will be something so beautiful, we
will have never have seen anything like it
on the face of this earth.
And your B, it says on His head
there will be many crowns, Revelation 19 12,
and on His head were many crowns.
He will wear a vesture dipped in blood,
Revelation 19 3, and He was clothed with
a vesture dipped in blood.
Maybe you don't quite realize it, but the
only person in heaven who will bear any
marks of the earth will be the Lord
Jesus.
For all of eternity, when He raises His
hands, you're going to see the marks in
His hands.
You say, why?
He forever wants us to know that we
got there through those marks.
And so those marks have to be there
as a reminder that I paid the price
for you to be here.
Yeah, you did get in free, but I
didn't bring you in free.
I paid for those.
And so it is so essential for us
to know and to realize that in heaven
we will bear no marks.
If you've had your body cut 40 different
ways, in heaven there won't be a mark
of any kind there.
But the Lord will have in His feet
and in His side and in His hands
and possibly on His forehead marks of where
He purchased our salvation for us to live
there forever and ever.
And that that thing must not be forgotten.
You wouldn't like heaven anymore.
Or you think you merited your way to
heaven.
But when you see Him, you'll know that
He paid the cost for all of us
to go to heaven.
Are you glad for that?
Now, He will have many crowns upon His
head.
This earth is so eager for crowns.
It's a crowny place.
Everybody wants a crown of some kind.
And the Pope wears a triple crown.
And many of the kings of the past
have worn double and triple and quadruple crowns,
trying to show how great they are, trying
to manifest that they are something very important.
But this one here that's written, that's worn
by the Lord Jesus, He should have it.
He merited it.
He is King of Kings.
He is Lord of Lords.
He's supposed to have this crown and forever
He will wear it.
And we rejoice in it.
And as for what it looks like, just
wait until you get there.
Some things are so beautiful that the Scripture
defies us.
And so at that point in time, we'll
know and we will be sure of all
these things that are like a vision at
the present time.
And this fester dipped in blood, the purpose
for that is to show everybody in heaven
that it is by His blood that you
and I are in heaven through our salvation.
Number 10, He will also display regarding His
might or His strength.
Armies will follow Him on white horses, Revelation
19 and 4.
And the armies which were in heaven followed
Him upon white horses and says they will
be clothed in fine linen, white and clean,
Revelation 19 and 14.
And out of His mouth shall go a
sharp sword and He shall rue with a
rod of iron, Revelation 19 and 15.
And out of His mouth goeth a sharp
sword and He shall rue them with a
rod of iron.
You say, well, that don't sound much like
love.
We live in a very weak dispensation and
we live in a very weak generation.
We think if a parent disciplines a child,
that that is cruel, you know.
But that same person then goes and disciplines
the dog and goes out and disciplines the
horse and lets his kid run around like
a jackrabbit, you see.
Shows you how stupid we are.
If you are going to have something good,
you have to discipline it.
If you have this pot of flowers in
your backyard, if you don't keep it trimmed,
say trimmed, if you don't keep it trimmed
back, you're not going to have what you
want out of that pot of flowers.
And so discipline is so necessary for all
of us.
When you look through the Bible, most all
of the great men of God were men
and women that got disciplined by God somewhere
along the line.
And through that discipline, they gained strength and
they gained a knowledge of God.
We miss the true elements of what love
is.
We think that love is just something mushy,
you know, that never touches anything.
But that is not true of true love.
True love is strong.
True love makes demands.
And true love is a disciplined situation to
where we know we have to do certain
things and that is love.
When we know that we do have to
do those things.
All right.
And page 79.
The titles and names that the Lord Jesus
Christ would be having.
He would be called faithful and true.
Those are things you'd like to preach on
for an hour, you know.
Faithful.
That's the thing that most people are not.
They're not faithful.
They'll make a commitment to God, but they
won't keep it, you know.
They're not faithful.
They'll say, I'll do something and they don't
do it.
They're not faithful.
His name is faithful.
He is faithful.
He is the essence of all faithfulness.
If you have faithfulness, you got it from
Him.
And He is true with a capital T.
That means a personality.
That in Him there's no lie.
In Him there's no error.
In Him there's no falsehood.
There's only integrity inside of Him.
Truthfulness on the inside of Him.
And He that sat upon Him was called
faithful and true.
His name is the Word of God, Revelation
19, 13.
And His name is called the Word of
God.
That whatever God has said, He is the
expression of that.
A word is an expression of a thought.
God is that great and mighty thought.
And the expression of God is the Lord
Jesus Christ.
We know God the Father because of Jesus
Christ.
He is the essence of what the Father
is, comes out through the Word.
The way we know what you're thinking is
when you speak.
The way we know what you know is
when you speak.
And so the Lord Jesus is the spokesman
of heaven, and He brings to us the
essence of God.
He is the true Word.
His name is the Word of God.
And then, and you see, the Lamb is
the King of kings and the Lord of
lords.
And these shall make war with the Lamb,
and the Lamb shall overcome them.
For He is the Lord of lords, the
King of kings.
And they that are with Him are called
chosen and faithful.
That's a good name for us, isn't it?
We have been chosen because we're faithful.
So let us, by all means, be that
way.
He will have a name that no man
knows except Himself, Revelation 19 and 12.
And He had a name written that no
man knew but He Himself.
You say, what does that all mean?
I don't know.
When we get there, we'll find out.
And there needs to be some things to
know over there.
I don't know it all over here.
Know enough to get there and learn the
rest of it after you arrive.
Is that all right?
And never will there be a more glorious
event or a more beautiful sight than the
spectacle of the armies of heaven clothed in
spotless white and in perfect order and perfect
rank riding behind the Prince of princes, the
King of kings, the Lord of lords, our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
What a day.
What a future.
I believe it's worth living right for.
You know, sin is degrading.
A transgression is a regret, finally.
And when you live for God, the future
is bright.
You don't have regrets.
I've never seen a person, well, I'm just
sorry I live for God.
You know, everything you do with God, you
can always be happy about it in the
future.
You don't look back and say, hey, that
didn't work.
No, if you live for God, it's working.
And so what you and I are doing
today, when we look back upon it, we're
going to say that was the right thing,
the correct thing, the best thing to do,
and how glad we are that we did
it.
Let's walk with him.
The book of the revelation is a true
book.
Let's follow it.
Father, we thank you for these that learn.
There's some that don't learn.
We thank you for these that learn.
Bless them, we pray.
Keep them, we pray.
And let us all arrive at the great
throne of God, where we shall live together
with him forever and forever.
And all the people said, amen.
Give the Lord a good hand, everybody.
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