Two hundred and forty-four, please.
Two forty-four, I to the hills will
lift mine eyes, from whence doth come mine
edge, my safety cometh from the Lord, who
heaven and earth hath made.
Two hundred and forty-four, please.
And for five Tuesday evenings past, we've been
looking at this Common Market, and when you
look at the map of Europe, and you
can see this Common Market spreading itself over
Europe, almost all Europe.
You can see Germany, and Italy, and France,
Belgium, and Great Britain, and of course you
know that Israel has applied for membership association
with the Common Market, and they have been
already received.
And now Greece has made applications for full
membership, which would make the same.
But we have brought the magnifying glass of
the Word of God to look at this
Common Market.
And we have found out that the ten
toes of Daniel's image, and the book clearly
tells us that these ten toes are ten
chains, and the word that's there means ten
towers, or ten rulers.
We have found out by putting the magnifying
glass of the Word of God upon the
unity of the market, that it's not as
strongly united as some of the politicians seem
to think.
But I've dealt with the unity of the
market.
And then we looked one other evening at
the policies of the market, because they're spread
through several books of the Bible.
And when we bring the Word of God
to bear upon the policies, we find that
some of them are diabolical policies.
Seems that the devil has been in at
the making of these policies, and we dealt
with that one evening.
And then, of course, we looked one evening
at the presidency of the Common Market.
We believe that these ten toes that are
twiggling just now in Europe, this European economic
community, or confederacy, whatever word you like, we
believe that soon, and very soon, they are
going to establish a European Parliament at Brussels.
And we believe that when the European Parliament
is established, this book declared that out of
these ten toes, or these ten toes, would
rise a super bee.
And it's interesting that one of the members
of the Common Market said, not so long
ago, it's reported, I have it in the
paper here, if you care, I'll read it
to you.
This is what he said.
Henry Spach, formerly a member of the European
Common Market and General Secretary of NATO said,
send us a man who can hold the
allegiance of all the people, and whether he
be god or devil, we will receive him.
Oh, he'll get them all right.
And we looked at this character that would
arise, and we saw this full-on picture
of him given us in the word of
God.
So that we looked at the so-called
unity, and then the policies, and then the
presidency, and in for two Tuesdays past, we
have been looking at the religiosity of the
market.
And we found out that this super sinful
character that will arise and take full command,
as we shall see tonight, that this super
bee would bring in the Roman Catholic system
to be the religion of the Common Market,
and whether we promise to like it or
not, we've got to face the books.
Because I took a whole night on looking
at the scarlet woman that's in Revelation 17,
and we found that this scarlet woman was
the Roman Catholic system, and that she was
riding the beast who is, of course, the
man of faith.
And we found that that would be the
religion of the Common Market for a very
short period, and I wish I could get
that bit off.
Because I think that this European Parliament has
already been discussed and it can't be far
away.
I believe that the president that will come
may be the first president, which is the
man of faith.
I believe that he'll soon organise the Roman
Catholic system to be the religion of the
market.
But we found out that the ten toves,
the ten kings, the ten powers, they will
hit the whore.
It's an ugly word for the Roman Catholic
system.
And burn her with fire.
That's in the book.
So they're going to blot it out.
And then this president is going to destroy
three members of the market.
Wonder who they are.
It wouldn't be fair to guess.
You're not allowed.
I don't know.
When they get here over time, they'll find
out.
I would have a go at saying that
Germany will be one of them.
I don't think that God is going to
let the German go through the atrocities.
The Germans try to say they didn't know
what was going on.
I don't believe it.
Their soldiers guarded the trains.
Their soldiers tended to get the Jews.
Their soldiers pushed these men and women and
boys and girls into the gas chambers.
Don't tell me some old lady in a
back street didn't know.
I don't think God is going to forget
that.
He says, Vengeance is mine.
I will repay.
Now, what we are going to think about
tonight is the power of the market.
This common market is going to have mighty
power.
And we're going to think about firstly, the
power of the president.
I want you to get the hold of
this and see it from the book yourself.
And then secondly, and I think this is
going to shock you a little bit, the
might of the market will be the mark
that will be used on men's foreheads and
on men's hands.
This will give it both power and might.
I think that we know this, you know.
Let's go back to Daniel chapter 8.
Now, when we go back and read some
of the verses we have maybe touched on
another evening, remember that we're bringing on the
young folks with us and you young folks
try and gather it up quickly and remember
where it is and so on.
Now, this is something about the president of
the market.
We read Daniel chapter 8, verse 23, And
in the latter time of the kingdom, and
you want to mark the words or the
phrase the latter time, when the transgressors are
come to the full.
Now, that's a mighty statement because Hitler transgressed.
But remember transgressions and transgressors had not just
come to the full at that time.
But we're seeing things on the TV all
over the world beginning to show that there's
a shaking in the mulberry bushes of sin.
It says, And in the latter time of
the kingdom, when the transgressors are come to
the full, a king of fierce countenance.
This is this man of sin.
This is this first president.
I think this is president.
And on the standing dark sentences.
What a thing to say.
Dark sentences must come from the devil.
But he understood the language of hell.
This man shall stand up.
Now, here's the bit I'm underlining this evening.
And his power shall be mighty.
This fellow's going to have mighty power, the
Bible says.
When it adds a little bit, this doctor
was watching, but not by his own power.
He's going to have mighty power, but not
by his own power.
Where's he going to get this from?
All right, let's have another look at him
in another place.
We're at 2 Thessalonians just now.
2 Thessalonians and up a second chapter.
Paul's writing to these saints in the church
of Thessalonica.
And he's trying to teach them what's going
to come to pass.
2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 3 is saying
to these believers, let no man deceive you
by any means.
For that day shall not come except there
come a falling away first.
And that man of sin be revealed.
That's the title that's given to him there.
In fact, there are two titles there.
The man of sin.
The son of perdition.
Now, here's what it says about him, verse
9.
Even him whose coming is after the working
of Satan with all power and signs and
take a good look at this phrase.
And lying wonders.
I was preaching in Geneda somewhere when some
old fellow came round and said, explain to
me lying wonders.
If a man deceives somebody and does something
is it a wonder?
Lying wonders is a mighty shame.
They're just concerned about this man just at
this moment.
We know that he shall have mighty power.
It'll not be his own.
It'll be after the working of Satan.
It'll enable him to do lying wonders.
You know, in America at this very moment
please take this very carefully.
I've got a mixed thought here.
You said you're good to me.
In some of the great healing campaigns.
Now, before I launch out remember I believe
that God can heal.
I would be a fool if I didn't.
Oh, I'm sure that God's quite capable of
healing.
I'm sure he can heal miraculously if he
wants to.
I'm sure he can heal surgically.
He can use the surgeon.
I'm sure he can heal medically.
I'm sure he can use medicine.
And then I know from a long experience
that there are times he doesn't heal at
all.
And the boys that do the talking are
left high and dry in the church because
they go blind.
They go lame and they go dead.
And they go dead.
Oh, I believe that God can heal.
But in America at this very moment in
some, let me say that carefully, in some
of the healing campaigns they put the big
tent in New York and then they fly
a plane from New York to California, 3
,000 miles.
And they charge around for all the down
and outs and bombs as they call them
on the Californian coast.
And they're prepared to give them a hundred
pounds in the hand if they make the
trip and do what they're told.
So they bring about a hundred of them
in the plane.
And they tell this old fellow, now you,
you're going to walk up in time tonight
with a white stick and you're blind and
you're going to be asked questions, you've been
blind from birth.
And this old fellow's quite prepared to do
this.
And so he staggers up the aisle with
his white stick.
And somebody has to get his arm to
take him up the steps.
And there he stands before this mighty audience.
It's packed, thousands of people.
And then the preacher says, have you been
blind from birth?
He says, yes, sir.
And then he just touches him.
And the stick goes.
And he can see.
And if you were in the congregation, you
know what you would do.
You'd be blind.
And it's the devil.
And it looks like a wonder, but it's
a lie.
Now, I could go into lying wonders for
you, but then that's not my subject, is
it?
And just after the power and the might
that this character has, let's go to Revelation.
We're at Revelation 13.
And all of us need to be very
careful that we're not being lost.
That's why we turn the pages over and
you can look at them and see.
And that's why people come from far and
near.
Yes, here we are again and here's this
character.
We're at chapter 13.
And look at the last phrase of verse
3.
Just want to get round to the power.
All the world, that's a big phrase, wondered
after the beast.
And they worshipped the dragon which gave power
unto the beast.
That's where they got the power from.
You want to know who the dragon is,
look again at verse 9 of chapter 12.
And the great dragon was cast out, that
old serpent called the devil and Satan.
Why, the Holy Ghost has put all the
words in.
Serpent, devil, Satan, dragon.
You know who that is.
Yes, it's the devil that's working with this
man.
This superman that's going to arise on this
very market that we're in.
Yes, he's going to have mighty power, not
his own.
This power will enable him to do lying
wonders.
This power is the power of the devil.
He's going to be supercharged continually, body and
soul, by the power of the devil.
He'll be a mighty thing to handle.
Now, I've put out a whole lot of
headings that I don't want to sort of
shake up tonight, but you look at them
with me.
You'll find that he has power to subdue
three things.
Now, we've looked at that at the night
gone by.
And you'll find that he will have power
to speak against God.
You'll find that he will have power to
war against the saints and power to destroy
the holy people.
And when we're thinking of that day and
hour when he will be upon this planet,
and we talk about saints and the holy
people, we're talking about the tribulation saints, not
talking about the saints that are here now.
You see, before this man is revealed at
all, Christ must come and take his church
home.
If we can see the tolls trickling, if
we can hear the rumblings of them about
to set up the parliament, how near we
must be to being removed from this place.
Mind you, the saints are rising to meet
the Lord in here, and they can keep
all stuff.
And we're over-like them.
And we say to you, this is not
my home.
I've got a city that has foundations whose
builder and maker is God.
Yes, you can see this little mighty phrase
that I found.
You see, in the midst of those, the
power to do according to his will.
That's a mighty thing.
Let's go to Daniel chapter 11, just to
make sure that we're quoting correctly.
Daniel, and we're at chapter 11, it
says in verse 36, Daniel 11, verse 36,
And the king shall do according to his
will.
Ooh, it's there all right.
He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above
every god and shall speak marvellous things against
the god of gods.
That's what I was trying to tell you
in this little passage before you on the
notes.
He has power to speak against gods.
He will do according to his will.
You see, he'll have such power that no
national force will be able to resist him.
Oh, no, he'll be able to manage them.
And certainly no political machine will be able
to remove him.
And certainly no rebellious crowd will be able
to take him on or surprise him.
He's got to do according to his will.
He's a mighty character.
It says, power to change times and laws.
That's in the very same book of Daniel.
You know, I think that when it comes
to take absolute control of this market, the
whole world has to bow its feet.
There'll be no more Christmas.
You don't expect them to keep Christmas, do
you?
There'll be no more Easter.
And the governments of this world are working
at this moment to remove Pamela and every
other kind of notes.
You'll get the credit card.
And you'll not be able to keep the
sock with the money below the bed.
It'll be no good for you.
The sovereigns and the silver and the smelly
sock will have to go.
Finished.
Yes, somebody was saying to me, why we
shouldn't keep too much.
I said, no, give it to the bunchers.
What are you thinking about?
Yes, now he's going to change times and
laws.
It says he will have power over all
kindreds and tongues and peoples and nations.
He's going to have mighty power.
You know, he's called the man of sin.
I think it's put him to remind us
of two things.
He's just a man.
Don't let's make any mistakes about that.
He's a man.
He will be born of a woman.
But when it says man of sin, it
seems to intimate that the whole man will
be taken up with sin.
That his whole body will go after sin.
That his complete mind, when you take his
imagination and his memory and his understanding and
his affection and his will and his soul,
every particle of him will be ruled after
sin.
And he'll have power to do what he
likes.
And it will always be sinful.
Yes, he's called the son of perdition.
And so was Judas Iscariot.
I know that.
Yes, when Judas Iscariot was called the son
of perdition, it just meant that he was
totally corrupt.
I never get it wrong.
It wasn't that he couldn't be saved.
It was that God knew he wouldn't be
saved.
And you always learn the difference between couldn't
and wouldn't.
And then God knows, because this is the
foundation of God, his knowledge.
The foundation of God's standard.
Sure, God nor said that to him.
You know, it's the full knowledge of God
that lays the foundation for our predestination.
Some of the tight scholars come to argue
with me about predestination and election and sovereign
choice.
Look, you're starting at the wrong place.
Pretend you're only starting in the middle of
the subject.
You're not allowed to do that.
You see, we're predestined according to his full
knowledge.
Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate.
Let's get back to the full knowledge.
When Peter's writing about election, he says, I'm
elect according to the full knowledge.
Oh God foreknew all about me.
You wouldn't like to tell me he didn't
know.
What a God that would be.
He knew that I would be born on
a back street.
Knew I would be brought up in a
family where I'd be looking for bread.
Knew I would go to school on my
bare feet.
Knew that I would become a drunkard.
Probably the greatest one in the town.
He knew that one day I would get
saved.
Yes, he did.
And according to his full knowledge, he predestined
me.
What's wrong with him?
Oh, friend.
You see, this man is called the son
of perdition because he's not only totally sinful,
he's totally corrupt.
He wouldn't get saved.
Take care it doesn't apply to you.
Maybe you could be saved this night, but
take care.
Maybe you wouldn't be saved tonight.
Maybe you wouldn't be saved tomorrow night.
You may go to perdition.
Yes, what a character, sinful character.
Now, I want you to get the hold
of this.
This is the power that will appear and
govern and direct and control, energize.
This is the power of the president.
Now, I want to switch on to the
might of the market.
Let's go to Revelation chapter 13.
Book of Revelation, and we're at chapter 13,
and it says in verse 7, and it
was given unto him, we're talking about the
same character, to make war with the saints,
and they must be the tribulation saints, for
the saints of this dispensation will be gone,
and to overcome them.
Power was given him over all kindred, and
I think the word to overcome them should
make you differentiate between them and the church.
For when Jesus Christ said, I will build
my church, he also said, the gates of
hell shall not prevail.
All fear of the devil defeating the church.
I read the big article tonight, just in
the newsletter, or out of the newsletter.
They're trying to get people into churches.
They don't know what to do.
They can't get them in.
This is Tuesday in a barricaded time.
We haven't any more.
Because we're teaching them the truth, the blathers
that some of them are talking, no wonder
folks wouldn't even hear it.
We fellows would write a letter like some
of them preachers would get called into the
mosque.
Ah, don't worry yourself.
I'll say what I like when I'm here.
He's always there.
Him and I will be here to finish.
No bachelors.
I'm doing my best to get him a
woman.
Yes, now let's get on with it.
You see, it says here, verse 7, we're
at the end of the verse, and power
was given him over all kindreds, and tongues,
and nations, and all that dwell upon the
earth shall worship him.
You see, they questioned me on this.
They said, this is the president of...
Do you mean to say the communists will
bow?
Yes, sir.
Do you mean to say the Chinese will
bow?
Yes, sir.
That's what this book says.
Listen to it again.
And all that dwell upon the earth shall
worship him.
The phrase before it was, and power was
given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and
nations, and I'm trying to sound the air.
They could argue with him.
Now, he must have some way of doing
this.
This is not easily done.
Now watch this, verse 16.
And he causes all, both small and rich,
and all means all here, rich and poor,
free and bond, to receive a mark in
their right hand, or in their foreheads, that
no man, no man, remember means no man,
might buy or sell, save he that had
the mark.
So the moment that they can engineer this,
then I'll tell you the communists will have
to bow, because he's going to control the
markets of the world.
Now, this marks very interesting, isn't it?
Do you know anywhere in this book where
they put marks on people?
Oh, well, I'll show you a few.
You're out for the night, aren't you?
Yes, let's go way back to Genesis, chapter
17, Genesis 17.
And when Abram was ninety years old and
nine, ninety-nine years of age, the Lord
appeared to Abram and said unto him, I
am the Almighty God.
Walk before me and be thou perfect.
I will make my covenant between me and
thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
Verse 6.
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and
I will make nations of thee, and kings
shall come out of thee.
And I will establish my covenant between me
and thee, and I'll feed us to thee
in their generations for an everlasting covenant to
be a God unto thee and to thy
seed after thee.
And I will give unto thee, this is
the God that's making the covenant, I will
give unto thee, and to thy seed after
thee the land wherein thou art a stranger,
all the land of sin.
Does God mean that?
Some of the boys that come here argue
with me that the Palestine was never given
to Israel.
It's a pity.
You should go home, you know, leave your
job and go back.
Don't you think I won't take it out
on you because I will.
When a wee, small, tiny thing comes up
and says to me God never gave them
Palestine, sure I've got about a hundred packs
that I can open up.
Sometimes I feel like lifting them and throwing
them through the roof.
Oh, you get fed up with this emptiness.
All right, we're reading the book now, you're
right, you've got your nice cloth on it.
I hope you know what Canaan is.
Oh, will I catch you or not?
Oh, this is God talking to Abraham.
I will give unto thee, and to thy
seed after thee the land wherein thou art
a stranger, all the land of Canaan.
Watch this, read this.
For an everlasting possession.
And I'll tell you, neither the Egyptians, nor
the Lebanese, nor the Arabs will take it
from them.
An everlasting possession.
They will not take it from them.
They give them an hour or two of
trouble.
And all the diddling that Kissinger can do
won't take it off from either because I'm
on the side of the boys who take
feet diddling.
I wouldn't trust them because we've got a
lot of boys about us but not much
better.
Don't push me now, don't push me.
That's right.
Okay.
Alright.
Now watch this.
I'll say it over again.
I will give unto thee and to thy
seed after thee the land wherein thou art
a stranger, all the land of Canaan for
an everlasting possession.
I will be thy God.
And God said unto Abraham, thou shalt keep
my covenant, therefore thou and thy seed after
thee in the generations.
And this is my covenant which he shall
keep between me and you and thy seed
after thee.
Every man, child among you shall be circumcised.
So, that was a mark on their flesh.
That sealed it, didn't it?
And I will tell you every Jewish boy
is circumcised.
It doesn't make a matter whether rich or
poor.
That's the mark of the nation.
Got it?
Okay.
Right.
Let's go to the book of Exodus.
Chapter 21.
Next book, Exodus 21.
Verse 1.
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt
set before them.
God is talking to Moses.
If thou buy in Hebrew sevens, mind you,
it's sad that there was slavery in those
days.
If thou buy in Hebrew sevens six years,
he shall serve.
And in the seventh, he shall go out
free for nothing.
That was the law.
If they did buy them, they couldn't keep
them any more than six.
Here's the law again.
If he came in by himself, he shall
go out by himself.
If he were married, then his wife shall
go out with him.
If his master have given him a wife
and she have borne him sons or daughters,
the wife and the children shall be her
masters.
He shall go out by himself.
Take them off.
And if the servant shall say plainly, that's
at the end of six years, I love
my master, my wife and my children.
I will not go out free.
Then his master shall bring him on to
the judges.
He shall also bring him to the door
and on to the doorpost.
And his master shall bore his ear through
with an oar.
That's another mark.
That's a mark again on the flesh.
Now that's the mark of adoration.
You must get it this time.
You know it's just his love for his
master and his wife and his children that
makes them subject to this.
If you have your ears pierced, dear, tonight,
if it's out of love for your Lord,
it's okay.
But I don't know where you were told
to do it.
And if it's just for show, dear, I
think you'd better learn to leave the world
behind.
On to the trading in somebody's stores.
That's what I'm here for.
I don't need to see you.
Yes, this is another mark.
Here's another one.
In Exodus 29.
Book of Exodus 29.
And it's talking about the high priest and
his sons and the garments.
We spent many days in this place talking
about the glorious garments.
Verse 4.
And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring
unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation and shalt wash them with water.
And thou shalt take the garments and put
upon Aaron the coat and the robe of
the ephod and the ephod and the breastplate
and gird them with the curious girdle of
the ephod and thou shalt put the mitre
upon his head and put the holy crown
upon the mitre.
And it says here.
Verse 19.
And thou shalt take the other ram and
Aaron and his sons shall put their hands
upon the head of the ram.
And thou shalt and then shalt thou kill
the ram and take up his blood and
put it upon the tip of the right
ear of Aaron and upon the tip of
the right ear of his son and upon
the thumb of the right hand and upon
the great toe of the right foot.
This was another mark.
You see the tip of the ear and
the tip of the right thumb and the
tip of the right toe had to be
marked by blood.
You see these were God's servants and this
is the mark not so much of the
nation or the mark of adoration even.
This is the mark of dedication that they'll
walk and they'll work their hands and they
will because they'll be listening to every word
from God and they'll walk and they'll work
and they will will be absolutely given over
to God and I don't think you can
serve the Lord unless you do it.
You need to give them your feet and
your hands and your ears.
Yes, that's the mark again.
You know, here's a very interesting one.
Let's go to Galatians.
Letter to the Galatians.
It would take time to sift this one
out a little bit but I think you'll
get it and I'll try and do it
quickly.
Paul is writing to these saints at Galatia
and they're being troubled by Judaizers who want
to bring them into the temple and to
make them vow to some of the old
Jewish traditions.
And here's what he says.
Verse 12 of chapter 6.
We're at Galatians 6, verse 12.
Those of many are desired to make a
fair show in the flesh.
They constrain you to be circumcised.
That's these preachers that came from Judaism.
Only lest they should suffer persecution for the
cross of Christ.
You know they wanted these fellows to swing
in with Judaism so that they wouldn't get
into trouble from the temple.
Ah, you can't do that.
You can't run with a hound and you
can't run with a hare and hunt with
a hound.
You'll have to take your stand somewhere.
He says, for they themselves who are circumcised
keep the law.
But desire to have you circumcised that they
may glory in your flesh.
And then he comes out, Lord, but God
forbid that I should glory, save in the
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom
the world is crucified unto me and I
unto the world.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything,
not on circumcision, but a new creature.
Ah, these rituals don't count.
And as many as walk according to this
rule, peace be on them and mercy.
And upon the phases in the original, the
true Israel of God.
And then he said quickly, from hence let
no man trouble me, for I bear in
my body the marks.
I don't think many of us have marks
for sure.
I think a whole lot of the Christians
dodge the issue.
Up the factory and you're frayed and closed.
When your turn comes to speak up for
Jesus, do you become a dummy and keep
to say something?
No, you escape all right.
But we look back at the Covenanters.
The old Heather Hills of Scotland were stained
with the blood of men who would make
a budget.
They would need to try standing up.
We might take a mark or two home
to heaven.
I want you to get this one.
This is rather the peculiar one.
We're at Ephesians chapter one.
You must be just there.
Ephesians chapter one.
And he's talking about Christ in this first
chapter.
In verse thirteen he said, in whom ye
also trusted.
After that he had the word of truth.
The gospel of your salvation.
See, there's that phrase again.
The gospel of your salvation.
You see, it's the word of truth.
If you take it backwards it's easier.
The gospel of your salvation is the word
of truth about a person whom you can
personally trust.
Hear that?
Is that why you get saved?
You see, the gospel of your salvation is
just the word of truth that brings before
you a person who came to live and
die and rise again as your saviour.
And you can personally and experientially trust them
by faith as your own personal faith.
That's the whole thing in a nutshell.
Now watch what it says.
In whom ye also trusted.
After that ye heard the word of truth,
the gospel of your salvation.
In whom also, after that ye believed, ye
were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.
Oh, what a mark that is!
That marks you as the Lord, you know.
That's the mark for this dispensation.
You see, you're sealed with the Holy Spirit
of promise.
You know, the day that when I arrived,
I ventured.
They can remember it well.
On Christ's atoning blood the Holy Spirit entered.
And I was born of God.
Now that's the mark of salvation, isn't it?
You get the marks also, the mark of
the nation.
And the mark of adoration.
And then the mark of preparation.
The mark of consecration was the high priest.
Then the mark of persecution was Paul's one.
And then the mark of salvation.
See this mark that we're talking about tonight,
let me tell you it's the mark of
domination.
Now let's go back to Revelation 13.
Let's just see it through just now.
You know, some people think, in fact the
man argued with me once, the way often
they follow Iose, that even if he was
left behind, and even if Christ took the
church, and even if he bowed to the
Antichrist, and even if he got the mark
on his hand, or on his forehead, that
eventually he could come upon his knees and
plead for mercy and get saved.
And I said, no you can't, you know.
He said, there's no way you can show
me it.
I'm afraid there is, or I wouldn't have
said you can't.
And I don't want to just say you
can't to anybody.
I'll have to know where it is.
Now look at this again.
Verse 16.
He caused us all, both small and great,
rich and poor, free and wrong, to receive
a mark in their right hands, or in
their foreheads, that no man might buy or
sell, save he that had the mark, or
the name of the beast, the mark of
the beast, or the name of the beast,
or the number of his name.
Now if you just go to chapter 14,
and you go on down the chapter to
verse 9, John is watching the angels here,
and he says, The third angel followed them,
saying with a loud voice, this is what
the angel said, If any man worship the
beast and his image, and receive his mark
in their forehead or in their hand, the
same shall drink of the wine of the
wrath of God, which is poured out without
mixture into the cup of his indignation, and
he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
in the presence of the Holy Angel and
in the presence of the Lamb.
And is that correct or is it not?
That's the mark of damnation.
Friend, I believe with all my heart and
soul that Jesus Christ is about to come
again, a believer.
I know the world doesn't believe.
I believe that some of the believers don't
believe it.
Unbelieving believers.
I'll tell you this, Jesus said, I will
come again.
Paul said the Lord himself shall descend.
He will come.
And the saints will rise.
And those who are left behind will either
have to bow to the beast or die.
Are you not saved in this meeting this
evening?
I'll tell you if Jesus Christ comes and
takes this church home, you'll be left in
bed somewhere and you'll have to bow.
And they'll put a mark on your head.
Now next Tuesday we're going to look at
the finish of the market.
For the Lord will finish it.
It will be smashed.
I haven't any doubts about that at all.
That it will be smitten and it will
be smashed.
And the Lord himself will take it over.
Let's sing a couple of verses.
Just a couple, I'm afraid.
178.
Jesus is coming.
Sing the glad words.
Coming for those he redeemed by his blood.
And we're singing the first and the second
verses.
Now let me say this to you.
Every year at the Bible class here, when
it runs a year, and it has run
more than a year because of my fault.
At the end of the year we say
that you should thank the Lord in a
tangible way.
Now we're not looking for money for us.
Just let me correct that.
Last year, every week, this little assembly here,
it gave 178 pounds away per week, sir.
That's what we're given.
And we'll be given more this time.
I've given to a school in Canada.
I've given them about 5,000 pounds this
year already.
Yes, I'm not keeping it.
Now we are going to ask you in
the Lord's name to give us a thank
offering.
Now we may give it to the orphans.
I've got a lot of orphans.
We'll give it to them.
Or we may give it to some missionaries.
Pat Harrison's in a tight corner just now
in Eritrea.
We have a letter of it in the
Bible.
Camden, way out in Eritrea.
Big laughs from Union Street.
Tell the old guys, sir.
Or we may give it to somebody else.
We give it to the spastics on one
occasion.
Oh, we're not too worried what you're saying.
I'd like to help them.
Now you think about it.
We'll take it in the Lord's name.
And we've got a lot of orphans.
You should see them all when they arrive
here.
There's about 14 of them.
And I'll tell you, if you'd lose a
hippie among them, you would be a good
man.
They will direct affairs.
I haven't a say in it.
Nothing to do with me.
But if God has blessed you, then look
for that sock.
You'll get something out of it.
Two verses only.
First and second.
178th, please.
Oooooooooooo Pass us
now in Thy Shear, Take us to our
homes and chastening, With glory by Thy Name.
Amen.