And how often this question arises, when Jesus
comes and the church goes, what of this
world then?
And I said to a fellow away in
the north of Scotland when he said this
to me, when you say, what of this
world then, what do you mean?
He said, I mean, what of this world
then as far as God is concerned?
When God takes the church out, will he
forget this world?
Will he just leave it to go spinning
into everlasting darkness?
I said, my dear friend, when the Lord
takes the church out, let me inform you
that he will not leave himself without a
witness on this planet at any time.
It's the mickle of a wondrous temptation we
go to.
God will not leave himself without a witness.
You see, when he takes the church out,
then immediately he will pick out a lot,
if you like, 144,000 Jews, and he'll
seal them off as his witnesses when the
Antichrist is abroad and the darkness deepens on
this planet of ours.
Sometimes people say to me, when God takes
the church out, what of this world then
as far as the gospel is concerned?
Oh, let me tell you that the 144
,000 who are sealed off will be the
missionaries of the Lord in that dark period,
and they'll preach the gospel, the same gospel.
There is no other gospel that I know,
but they'll preach it to people who have
never heard the gospel, because people who hear
the gospel in this disposition and believe not
are damned.
No second chance for them.
He that believeth not shall be damned.
Do you find to make that even when
the 144,000 go out with this great
message, that there will be a cloud come
out of this great tribulation, who have washed
their robes and made them white in the
blood of the Lamb?
Because that's where that text belongs to.
So, somebody's telling them about the blood, and
I'll be showing you this evening when the
old devil wrecks his mage with all its
fury on the Jewish nation, and this he
will most surely do.
There'll be a cloud in the nation, a
remnant, and they'll overcome Satan by the blood
of the Lamb.
Oh, they'll have learned all about it.
Don't get excited.
Sometimes people say to me, what will happen
in this world as far as assemblies are
concerned when the Church is gone?
Oh, the Antichrist won't allow us to have
assemblies like this.
You know, we can see this clearly if
we look at Russia tonight.
This meeting couldn't be in Russia.
We remember even the time of the Covenanters,
that there came a force who wanted to
put them down when they had to hide
in the heather hills of Scotland, when they
had to meet in the dales, when they
had to break bread in the caves.
And mind you, I think there's a force
abroad that would love to do this to
the evangelicals again.
I'm not sure about the four men that
went to see the IRA, I might as
well tell you.
I'm not sure about them.
I just wonder sometimes, was it a non
-truth?
And if it was, why don't they say
now that they were blocked by the IRA?
For they were blocked.
There's no question about that.
I made a fool out of you.
But I'm not too sure if it was
just I was wondering if they were not
trying to sell the evangelicals down the river.
But an old fellow told me once from
the ethnic movement, they call it, he said
to me, oh listen you, you hold the
cards, you rule in world, but the day
will come when we'll go to and we'll
ask parliament to pass a law that unless
you belong to one of the four main
denominations, you won't get preachers.
Boy, I wish the day was here.
He just said, my, we're written on it.
God knows there's something inside me itching that
they would really do it.
I would love to see them at it.
I'll tell you they're asking for trouble, will
they'll get it.
They're not sure of those four boys.
And I would think, you know, that it
could happen yet, that they would try to
put evangelicals as strong.
It'll not be done as easy as they
think.
They'll only multiply.
I believe that when trial and testing and
storm comes, that the believers only get stronger.
But when God takes the church away, what
of this world then are far as the
devil and his angels are concerned?
That's the bit that we are after.
When the church goes, and the Holy Ghost
goes, and the restrainer of evil goes, what
will the devil and his angels do then?
That's what we're after this evening.
Now, we'll not need to go outside the
book of Revelation to find the answer this
evening.
You'll find it in the book.
Now, let's go to the book of Revelation
because I want to show you one of
two things as we get this subject launched
this evening.
You do see the title that's given to
this book in your books.
It's called The Revelation of Saint John the
Divine.
Now, of course, I believe that every jot
and tickle and sound and sentence of the
original scriptures were God breathed.
I believe it's an inspired word from end
to end.
But then men came and put headings to
some of the books, and they put it
into chapters and verses, and I'm quite willing
to admit this evening that the chapters and
verses have been a great help.
Sometimes I believe and others believe that the
chapters are wrongly placed, but we'll not go
into that.
But I don't know who put this heading
on this book.
This is called The Revelation of Saint John.
I'll tell you, John will go mad about
that.
John will not like that.
And if the man who did this had
only read this book, have a look at
what it says in verse four.
It says, John took a serpent church, and
he just called himself John.
If you look, thirteen letters written by Paul
in this book.
Every one of them begins with the word
Paul.
This is Paul, that's all.
And if you look at the two letters
written by Peter, one begins with Peter, and
the second letter begins with Simon Peter.
I don't know where we get all this
potpourri from.
Creeps in everywhere.
I don't think John will be pleased with
this.
You see, verse nine, he says, I, John,
who also I'm your brother, I don't know
who called this Saint John.
I smell potpourri nonsense here.
I think we'll have to get it fixed
up in heaven.
And I can see this.
Whoever was daft enough to say this, they
said that this is the revelation of Saint
John the Divine.
This is not the revelation of Saint John
the Divine.
Look at your first verse, of your first
chapter.
It says, The Revelation of Jesus Christ.
You would think some of these old fellows
couldn't read.
That's not the revelation of Saint John, nor
that's not even the revelation of John.
It happens to be that this is the
revelation of Jesus Christ.
This book is the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Let's get that into our minds.
This is a book that reveals Christ in
all the glory and wonder that belongs to
him.
Now, if you want to know the book,
I'll show you an easy way.
In the first three chapters, one, two, three,
you have a revelation of Jesus Christ, our
Lord, in the midst of the churches.
That's what he is today.
He's the Lord in the midst of the
churches.
Now, we don't want to deal with that
because that's the very dispensation we're in.
But one of these days he keeps the
church out, and what will the devil do
then, is what we're asking.
Then, when you come to chapters four and
five, you see we have a revelation of
Jesus Christ, our Lord, in the midst of
the throne.
Did you see the difference?
In the first three chapters, we have a
revelation of Jesus Christ, our Lord, in the
midst of the churches.
He's got things to say to us tonight.
And then, when the church is gone, we
have a revelation of Jesus Christ, our Lord,
in the midst of the throne, with the
sins around them.
If you've any bother with it, if you
just look at chapter five, because it's not
our subject, look at verse six.
John says, I beheld, and lo, in the
midst of the throne, and the four beasts,
and in the midst of the elders stood
a lamb.
Did you know all the sins were around
them in the second verse nine?
And they sung a new song, saying, thou
art worthy to take the book, and to
open the seals, for thou wast slain, and
hast redeemed us to God.
Tell me who the Father redeemed, or rather,
not her, that's what you're told.
Now, you see, the revelation, we have three
chapters revealing Jesus Christ, as Lord, in the
midst of the church.
We have two chapters revealing Jesus Christ, as
Lamb, in the midst of the throne.
Now, while they were singing up there, the
church is gone, things were happening down near.
See, chapter six, that's the chapter with the
four horsemen, isn't it?
Ah, yes, you can see the first horseman,
the white horse, and he that sat on
him, and rest to, and he's going forth,
conquering, and to conquer.
We'll be getting a picture of Christ, because
it's the Antichrist.
And I want you to see what will
take place.
This fall, there went out another red horse,
and power was given to him that sat
there on to take peace from the earth.
What's this we get?
And that they should kill one another.
That's what you call civil war.
We've been on the verge of that in
this little province of ours for some time.
And I can tell you that when I
talk to some of the Protestants, whom you
might call extreme, you may call them that,
they're just about tired of being soldiered out,
and if they get very much more tired,
we'll have our bodies back on our hands,
and there'll be thousands of Roman Catholic murderers.
Just take your time with it.
And just, if this fellow here pushes it
just too far, we'll be trouble.
I never wanted that sort of thing.
I pray it will never happen.
I wouldn't take anything to do with it,
but it might well happen.
There's civil war in this book, and it
might well be that one of these nights
the Lord will take the church out, as
we've been looking, and civil war will come.
But we don't find the devil there, we
just find the conqueror, and I know he's
the Antichrist.
We've been through this.
Then when you come to chapter seven, you
find God sealing off this 144,000.
I know there are lots of lights put
around the doors, and they say they belong
to the 100, at least some of them
say they belong to the 144,000.
Remember, we last come into the door, and
you're like, well, but the books belong around
who she was.
I said, oh you dear, I was trying
to be nice.
Terrible hard for me to try to be
nice, because I've got a face that's the
other way, you know.
I said, oh you dear.
She says, I'm one of the 144,000.
My God, they must have left me behind.
I said, that's Revelation chapter seven?
She said, yes.
I said, there's 12,000 out of each
tribe?
She said, yes.
I said, what tribe are you out of?
She said, Dan.
I said, well, let's have a look at
your Bible.
Frankly done, there are 12 tribes there, but
there's not one out of Dan.
She picked the wrong one.
And there's big dreams.
You sit there, smiling, as you usually do.
He did the very same as the Russell
right at the door, and the boy at
the door said the same thing.
I want to teach these Russellites a bit.
The tribe of Dan is not there.
There are 12 tribes, but Dan is not
there.
You just look up to them, sometime when
you are praying.
It is 144,000 Jews, not Russellites.
And God is sealing them off, because he's
going to make them as witnesses.
And you know, they're going to work hard
for God.
But you'll find out that when this man
goes abroad, this man of sin, and God
has these 144,000 sealed off, that certain
things will happen in this world.
See chapter 8.
Because we're going to have an atomic war,
whether we like it or not.
But mind you, I don't know if Israel
will not be the first to have a
go at it.
However, we'll not go into it just now.
But I know this, in chapter 8 and
verse 7, if you'll follow me, because I'm
rushing.
I don't want to deal with this at
all.
The first angels founded, and there swallowed heel,
and fire mingled with blood, and they were
cast upon the earth.
And the third part of trees was burned
up, and all green grass.
You see, a third part of all the
forests on the face of the earth was
burnt, and all the grass.
I'll tell you this, that one day after
the church is gone, these weapons that they're
building up, and they have secretly set here
and there, they're going to go off, you
know.
They'll burn the third part of the trees.
There'll not be a blade of grass that's
not scorched.
Look again, and see what it says in
verse 8.
Second angels founded, and as it were, a
great mountain burning with fire.
What a description of atomic energy was cast
into the sea, and the third part of
the sea became blood, and the third part
of the creatures which were in the sea
and had life died, and the third part
of the ships.
I'll tell you, they'll give it a bit
of a waking up.
You know, when I was in Germany with
the soldiers in the Rhine, the colonel took
me down to see these great rockets, all
about 60, maybe more, all sitting in what
would be twice a football field.
And they're all sitting, must be 60 feet
high, and here they were, and they're all
clicking.
The engines are clicking.
I said, colonel, what's this about?
He said, they're all aimed at Russia, and
let them just take one straight out of
place.
I says, you must be daft, they must
have as many over there aimed this way.
So he says, and nobody has.
Well, we've got a lot of fools in
the government, you know.
Of course, you would know that if you
watched TV, wouldn't you?
You're far better looking at the cartoons.
Yes, they're going to blow the place up
on us.
Only I think the church won't be here.
They're going to burn all the grass, and
the trees, and the ships, and this atomic
energy will destroy the creatures in the sea,
the fish will be destroyed.
Look at this bitch, verse 10, third part
planted in the cell, a great star from
heaven burning as it were, a lamp in
the trail upon the third part of the
rivers, and upon the fountains of waters, like
the way down into the wells.
That'll make a mess of things, won't it?
You'll be looking for water if you're left
behind.
Look, if you're getting it as quick as
I want you to get it, a third
part of everything on the earth, and a
third part of everything around the earth, and
a third part of everything under the earth,
and here's another one for you, quick, and
the fourth angel sounded, and the third part
of the sun was split, and the third
part of the moon, third part of the
star, we've got the whole thing.
When this atomic energy blast goes off in
all its fury, either Israel setting it off,
and Russia following, and America coming in, and
all the rest of them, there'll be a
third part of everything on the earth, a
third part of everything around the earth, a
third part of everything under the earth, and
a third part of everything above the earth.
What a blast it was.
This book wasn't written yesterday.
The book was written a long time ago
by a prisoner on the Isle of Paton,
John the Apostle.
This must be God's book.
Nobody else could do this.
Now, looking after this, I want you to
get this.
The church is going to go, and the
Antichrist is going to be revealed, going forth
conquering and to conquer, and civil war will
follow out of the fields.
God will have 144,000, but he'll keep
no matter what kind of blast goes off,
and they'll lead others to Lord of Sages'
precious blood.
But you'll find that after this blast has
gone off, well, it's up to man now.
You see, and this is where it says
a star shall fall from heaven onto the
earth unto him.
Don't mix up the star with one of
the stars in the sky.
The word star is the old Greek word
for messenger.
It's the word for angel.
God's directing.
You can see unto him was given the
key of the bottomless pit, and he opened
the bottomless pit.
Oh, he's going to let demons out.
And you know, you can see that while
they use the word locusts as a source
of textual language, you can see that these
demons or locusts, verse 4, and it was
commanded them.
You can't command ordinary locusts.
Commanded them that they should not hunt the
grass of the earth, neither any green tree,
neither any green thing, neither any tree, because
the grass will grow again as the dread
and heresies.
But only those men which have not the
steel of God in their forage.
Yes, these demons have got their commands because
they're limited.
God won't allow them to do what they
like.
They'll not be allowed to touch one of
144,000.
They'll only be allowed to touch those men
who have not the steel of God.
So you can't be working with ordinary locusts.
And you'll find that it says this, and
to them it was given that they should
not kill them.
They would love to do it.
But that they, these men, should be tormented
five months.
See what it says down in verse 11,
And there the king over them which is
the angel, still getting the word proper now,
of the bottomless pit.
You see, this is abaddon, this is a
destroyer.
That's what the word means, even if you
take it in Hebrew or Greek.
Apollyon means destroyer, so does abaddon.
Now, there's more to follow.
It says in verse 13, The sixth angel
sounded.
And when he sounded, there was a voice
saying to the sixth angel, which hath a
trumpet loosed 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
a third part of men.
You see, this book reveals that when the
church goes, then the devil and his angels
are going to bring an awful time upon
the unbelievers on the face of the earth.
They're going to be tormented and then they're
going to be slain.
And you know, this has always been the
tactics of the devil.
You know, he will energize men.
This is seen and has always been seen
in the gang warfare in America.
You know, there's a big boss over, and
he's got a lot of sharpshooters who look
after him.
And he says to John Smith and James
Brown, they're to be shot so they get
them off the face of the earth.
And of course, this voice will run up
his very word and do so.
After a while, he gets somebody else to
shoot them.
It's the way the devil works all the
time.
That's the way the devil works in all
these gang warfares.
Yes, they're moved to do this, and then
somebody behind their backs is moved to do
them.
That's the devil.
And he's going to give the unbelievers on
the face of this earth a time of
torment, and then a third part of all
on the face of the earth will be
slain.
What a day it will be.
When you come to chapter 10, you will
find that the Lord Jesus is seen again.
He's coming near, and it looks as if
he's just coming like a mighty angel, clothed
with the clouds, and the rain will go
upon his head, and his face was as
it were the sun.
His feet are filled with fire.
Now, I want you to get this.
He had in his hand a little book
opened, and he set his right foot upon
the sea, his left foot upon the earth.
You know, he's just claiming everything that's his.
It doesn't make a matter about atomic warfare,
and it doesn't make a matter about the
Antichrist, and it doesn't make a matter about
the demons.
The Lord is just going to let them
see that he owns everything.
Puts his foot on that, and puts his
foot on that.
That's why.
Now, when you see the Lord in this
book, in chapters 1, 2, 3, and when
you see him in 4 and 5, and
when you see him in 7, and when
you see him in 10, you know the
devil's put into the background.
And you'll find the same in chapter 11.
You see, you have two witnesses there, because
in those terrible, horrible days, even when the
demons are loose, God's going to send two
witnesses.
Now, I want you to get this.
It says that, And there was given me
a reed like unto a rod, and the
angel stood, saying, Rise and measure the temple
of God, for the temple will be built
in those days, and the altar, and them
that worship therein.
But the court which is without the temple,
leave out, and measure it not.
For it is given unto the Gentiles, and
the holy city shall they tread on the
foot forty and two months, three and a
half years.
And I will give power unto my two
witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two
hundred and three scored days, three and a
half years.
Because God's going to send two witnesses, and
there'll be nobody on the earth able to
do anything with them.
You know, it's wonderful when you're a servant
of God.
You know, so many people say to me,
it's a wonder big Jesus was not shot
long ago.
Some years ago, when he was in a
little bit of trouble, it's maybe a couple
of years ago, came to our house at
two in the morning.
And I don't like to see him coming
at two in the morning, because then I
really think that he and I are going
to take off between us.
But it was just the thing he wanted
to talk over with me, and it took
us some time to talk it over.
And he's leaving about three in the morning,
and he's on his own.
And I said to him, I said, listen
here, you're going to get shot one of
these nights.
He said, Willie, you ought to know that
I belong to God, and I'm immortal until
my work is done.
And that's what he believes.
And he's right.
If you're a servant of God, and you're
serving the Lord, there's nothing will touch you
unless God allows it.
I think it's time that we began to
cheer up a bit.
Nobody's going to touch you.
Ah, we belong to God.
The fellow that shouts hallelujahs in bed tonight,
I hope he shouts a hallelujah in bed
tonight.
Yes.
No, not until, watch this, verse seven, and
when they, that's the two witnesses, shall have
finished their testimony, that would finish a lovely
woman.
My God will allow them to be killed
then.
It says here, verse eight, and their dead
bodies shall lie in the streets of the
great city.
That's Jerusalem, which spiritually is called Sodom and
Egypt.
It's Jerusalem, just the same, where also our
Lord was crucified, in case you would make
a mistake about it.
Wanted to get the dead bodies to lie
in the street.
And you know, the whole world will see
them, because the TV will be on them.
And they'll be looking at them from every
quarter of the earth, these two boys are
dead at last.
And they of the people and kindreds and
tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies
three days and a half.
Write that bit, you know.
Because these dead bodies are going to lie
for three days and a half.
You don't want to wake up, oh well,
my Lord.
Now I want you to get this.
And they that dwell, verse ten, upon the
earth shall rejoice over them, make merry.
Verse eleven, after three days and a half,
the Spirit of Life, capital S, Spirit of
Life from God, entered into them, and they
stood upon their feet.
I would like to ask the Russellites, is
this bodily resurrection?
Because they don't believe in bodily resurrection.
I want you to get this.
These three bodies, let's get the wood bodies.
The dead, the whole world sees them.
Every house will rejoice.
These three boys that gave the so much
trouble, they're dead.
While they're watching, these bodies will move.
They'll stand on their feet.
Is it bodily resurrection?
Now you see, while these witnesses are here,
we don't see the devil and his angels
just in that sense.
But when you come to just the dwells,
three twelves, and there appeared to great wonder
in heaven a woman clothed with the sun
and the moon on her feet, and upon
her head a crown of twelve stars.
You would know that that's Israel, even if
you couldn't get the figures at all.
And she being with child, cried, surveilled and
burst, and came to be delivered.
Because it was Israel, remember, that brought our
Lord to this world.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and
behold, what's it?
A great red dragon.
Having seven heads and ten horns, and his
tail drew the third part of the stars
of heaven.
And when we are at the word stars,
it's the same word.
It's the angels, a third part of them,
following them.
He's a fallen angel.
They know he's after Israel here.
It says the woman, six, the woman fled
into the wilderness, where she had a place
prepared of God, that they should keep her
there a thousand two hundred and three score
days.
The same time, three and a half years.
Israel is going to go through a terrible,
awful time.
This book reveals that when the church goes,
then the devil is going to put on
believers through an awful time.
Then the devil and his angels is going
to put Israel through an awful time.
You can be very sure of that.
And it says this in verse fourteen, that
the woman were given two wings of a
great eagle, that she might fly into the
wilderness, into a place where she is nourished
for a time and times and half a
time.
Surely that's three and a half.
You see, I want you to get this.
We have the revelation of an awful time
for unbelieving sinners, and we have the revelation
of an awful time for unbelieving Israel.
Now, when we come to chapter fifteen, it's
a big chapter.
We're only taking snippets out of it.
Of course, you have no bother in your
mind about who the great dragon was, do
you?
Look at verse nine of chapter twelve.
And the great dragon was cast out that
old serpent called the devil and Satan.
So, you haven't any bother with that.
It was the devil.
And the devil means to destroy Israel.
But he will never succeed.
He will never succeed.
God will protect Israel.
Now, when we come into chapter thirteen, we
see the beast in all his glory here.
It says, And the beast which I saw
was like unto a leopard, and his feet
were as the feet of a bear, and
his mouth was the mouth of a lion.
And the dragon gave him his power, and
his feet, and great authority.
The old devil was going to give to
this man of sin great authority.
And, you know, he'd be able to do
mighty things.
It says at the end of verse three,
All the world wondered after the beast.
I think we should take the word world
up now in this chapter.
Look at verse seven.
And it was given unto him to make
war with the saints.
That's the witnesses that God has at that
time.
And to overcome them.
And Paul was giving him over all kindreds,
and tongues, and nations, and all that dwell
upon the earth shall worship him.
Because they argue with me, you see.
Somebody came to argue the other night and
said, you know, even if the man of
sin rises in Europe and comes out of
the ecumenical movement, even if he does, he
won't touch Israel, or Confucius, or all the
religions of the world, he won't touch them,
will he not?
So I have to take this character to
this passage.
And I have to let them see that
Paul was given him over all kindreds, and
tongues, and nations, and all that dwell upon
the earth.
Quick now!
Shall worship him!
Oh, he'll take their religion from them.
This is the thing I think we want
to get the hold of.
Because this is what the devil's determined to
do.
He's determined to put this man of sin
on this planet, and he's determined to get
every need from this planet to bow before
him.
And the devil's given this man this power.
You can see this very same thought again.
It says, verse 14, And deceiveth them that
dwell on the earth by the means of
those miracles.
This is the man that works with them,
the false prophet.
Now I want you to watch this.
Now how is this man going to get
this whole world at his feet?
You see, it says, verse 4, And they
worshipped the dragon, which gave power unto the
beast.
And they worshipped the beast, who is like
unto the beast, who is able to make
war with him.
And there was given unto him a mouth
speaking great things and blasphemy.
And power was given unto him to continue
for three and two months.
We've seen that a time or two tonight.
For three and a half years he'd go
marching.
I think he'd use TV.
They tell me they have it in America
now, that they can full tell when you
have it on in the house.
And I believe that he'd bring in a
law that you'll have to have it on,
and you'll have to listen to what he's
got to say, and the whole world will
have to listen.
And he'd do a lot on those.
You see, he's going to do it first
of all by mouth.
And then he's going to do it by
might, because the devil has given him his
power and his authority.
And he's going to use that might.
And then of course this false prophet is
going to come and work miracles.
So he's going to have mouth and might
and miracles.
But wait a minute.
Go down the chapter to verse 16.
And he causes all, both small and great,
rich and poor, free and bond.
We're getting the whole world in a way,
to receive a mark in the right hand
in the forehead, and that no man might
buy or sell, save he that had the
mark.
You see, he's a marketer.
Oh, we're beginning to wake up, you know,
now.
Old Arabs who shop half dozen in the
desert for years, they know the value.
They're beginning to push us around.
They've put this country and many others into
a bit of a fix just because they
know how to work the market.
And they don't know the half of what
this fellow will know.
And when he mouths on the TV and
everybody listens.
And when he shows the world his might.
And when miracles are performed which are miracles
wrought.
And when he gets control of all the
markets.
There isn't a religion in the world that
will not bow.
Every religion.
Let me say this to you.
He will select the Roman Catholic Church as
his church.
And it says that the woman in scarlet
which is the Roman Church, she'll ride the
beast.
Yes, she will.
And the Roman Catholic Church will rule every
inch, everywhere.
Whether we like it or not.
Only we'll not be here.
We'll be far above it all.
You see, when we come to chapter 14,
we have the lamb and you again.
And I looked and more lambs stood in
Mount Sinai.
And with them 144,000.
We never lost one of them.
Oh, they were all flags.
Yes, there was a dark night or two,
and a bit of a storm, and they
were all blast.
People killed.
They're all here.
I think they'll shout, do thyself no harm,
we're all here.
And when you get down to 14, you
see you don't see the devil at all
because the lamb is there.
And when you come to 15, it's all
praise.
Oh, what wonderful praises.
And they sing the song of Moses, that's
me, the servant of God, and the song
of the lamb, saying great and marvellous are
thy works, Lord God Almighty, just and true
are thy ways, thy kingdom safe.
He won't put the singing out of the
saints, you know.
Man, when Paul was in the prison at
midnight, and the feet passed in the spot,
and his hands came to the wall, and
it was terrible in an old dark, damp
room and cell in the middle of the
night, he sang praises.
Oh, the saints will always sing.
They'll sing no matter what happens.
Now, you see, we come to 16 now.
I want you to get this.
Just bear with me.
It's been a long, difficult struggle, mind you,
if you're behind this.
Let's go on down to verse 13.
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs
come out of the mouth of the dragon,
out of the mouth of the beast, out
of the mouth of the false prophet.
Now, there's a trinity there, and it's a
trinity of evil.
It's the dragon, the old devil.
It's the beast, the Antichrist.
It's the false prophet.
Verse 14, for they are the spirits of
devils working miracles.
Mind you, when devils begin to work miracles,
it's a tight day.
And through these miracles, they're going to go
forth unto the kings of the earth.
Now, let's get on with it.
Because, you see, when the church goes, the
devil and his angels are going to bring
an awful time for unbelieving sinners.
And there's going to be an awful time
for unbelieving history.
And there's going to be an awful time
for the unbelieving religions of the world.
And there's going to be an awful time
for the unbelieving kings of the earth.
You can see that the devil's going to
gather them, verse 16, and he gathered them
together into a place called in the Hebrew
tongue Armageddon.
Oh, we talk about this great battle.
Mind you, I think that's a tremendous thing.
I remember lying flat out when the sun
was beaming down, when it was 104 in
the shade, lying looking down the valley of
Armageddon, flat out, wondering about it, what a
place it was.
The devil's given him bother too.
What a place it was.
And you could see that the armies of
the world, Napoleon, who knew more about warfare
than I'll ever know, he looked down this
valley one day and he said, what a
place for all the armies of the world
to meet.
That's what he said.
And I think he didn't know a thing
about revelation.
But he was a general and he just
knew.
How will the devil bring them there one
day?
And what a day it will be.
You see, it said in verse 19, and
the great city was divided into three parts.
And when it says the great city, it's
talking about Jerusalem.
You see, the valley of Armageddon runs right
yonder from Mount Carmel, right down almost to
Jerusalem.
And of course, they'll come down round Jerusalem
and the city will fall.
Now, what's this?
And the great city was divided into three
parts.
And the cities, get the S in, the
cities of the nations, get the S in
again, the cities of the nations fell.
Oh, the devil, I think the death shield
has got a weapon tonight, even now.
I'm sure they've got one.
It was said the other day that they've
got this atomic bomb.
I'll tell you this, I think they have
got it 10,000 times better than anybody
in the world.
They're only a week old, they're hardly as
big as Austin, that's all, not that much.
And if the Arabs push them too far,
just the way the Protestants make them push
too far.
I'll tell you, Redfield, it might be as
tough as you think.
So really go for it.
And I'll tell you that they must have
a weapon, that they'll be able to knock
Moscow out, and New York, and London, and
Paris, all the cities of the nations.
What do you think?
That's what it said.
What a day it will be for the
king, sir, I think the race has it.
What a day it will be.
Yes, that's 16, and when you come to
17, you see the beast again, and he's
letting the Roman church rule now.
It's the woman riding the beast that says,
verse 4, And the woman was a red,
and purple, and scarlet colour, and decked with
gold, and precious stones, having a golden cup,
and a hand full of abominations, and filthiness
of fornication.
Verse 3 said, So he carried me away
in the spirit into the wilderness, and I
saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-coloured
beast.
Who's this woman?
Look, verse 6 would tell you all you
need to know.
I saw the woman drunken with the blood
of the saints, and with the blood of
the martyrs of Jesus.
Tell me in history, who was drunken with
the blood of the saints, and the blood
of the martyrs?
You know, people argue, but there's no argument
about this.
I know that Judaism, the old Jews in
the early days, they stoned Stephen, and they
killed a whole lot of people.
I know that Communism has killed a lot
of people, I'm quite aware of that.
And I know that cannibalism, and the heathen
of Mujibar people.
But listen, friends, let's get it quite clear,
let's go back to history.
See the Spanish Inquisition, see the Inquisition in
all the countries.
Sure Rome burned thousands and thousands and thousands
of the best men that ever walked in
sure ever.
And let me tell a Roman church, she's
not getting over that.
Because those were the martyrs of Jesus.
Those were the saints of God.
They would love to camouflage it over now.
Let me get four stupid old creatures going
down to fiddle about with them, don't they?
I think it's time we move up a
bit.
There's no call to go fiddling about like
that, you know.
At least I have no notion of it.
I'll tell you this, the God that I
serve has an end for Rome.
And God is determined to burn this system
until not even the ashes are left.
But you're no mistake about that.
They'll not get off with that.
And the blood that has been shed on
this land, they'll not get off with.
Or not.
It's just foolish now.
Ah, that's seventeen.
When you come to eighteen, it's commercial bubbling.
Oh, I would love to take a whole
night and etc.
Do you remember me doing it for all
night?
I could do it better now.
My, we have seen some sites in our
Parliament, in our great business part of our
Parliament, selling houses and selling hospitals and selling
this and that and the other for money.
You'd nearly be safe lifting the whole Parliament
and putting them in jail for you.
It seems as if there's highly enormous money.
I'll tell you, it's terrible.
And it has put this country in the
place where it is.
But commercial bubbling will be dealt with.
God will deal with it.
In chapter nineteen, the Lord Jesus will come
again, won't he?
Yes, he has come for the church.
He took them home in the early part
of the book in verse eleven of nineteen,
I saw heaven opened and behold a white
horse and he that sat upon him was
called faithful and true.
He's coming back, he's coming to the earth,
he's coming to judge.
And you know, first of all, he took
the beast.
I saw the beast, verse nineteen, and the
kings of the earth and their armies.
And the beast was taken, is verse twenty.
And then when we come to chapter twenty,
the old devil is taken himself.
It says that an angel laid hold on
the dragon, verse two, that old serpent which
is the devil and Satan and bound him
a thousand years.
Watch this, verse eight, blessed and holy as
he that part in the first resurrection.
They shall, the priests of God and of
Christ shall reign with him a thousand years.
And when a thousand years are expired, is
the verse I'm after, Satan shall be let
loose out of this person.
Just for a moment or two.
And then the Lord will take him.
And so it says, verse ten, and the
devil that deceived them was cast into the
lake of fire and brimstone where the beast
and the false prophet are, and shall be
tormented day and night forever and ever.
It'll annoy him to be locked up for
a thousand years, won't it?
It'll annoy him a bit more to be
locked up forever and ever.
Look, when Jesus comes and takes the church
up, do you see the awful time that's
coming for unbelieving sinners?
Do you see the awful time that's coming
for unbelieving Israel?
Do you see the awful time that's coming
for the religions of the earth?
Do you see the awful time that's coming
for the kings of the earth?
Do you see how it'll end?
Christ will come undone with a devil under
the angel.
Now, we have a bit to go yet.
We want to see the devil in the
very last of the last days, how he
works it just now.
That's what we're going to do next week.
Let's sing a couple of verses.
Six hundred and eighty-five, please.
Firmly stand for God in the world's mud,
Christ.
Though the bleak winds roar and the waves
be tight, does the rock alone give us
strength and life when the hosts of sin
are nigh?
First and last verses, six hundred and eighty
-five, please.
It will serve you best.
Are you baptized?
Your chance is now.
Come and tell me.
I won't ask you a whole lot of
questions.
I only need to know that you're saved
and you want to obey the Lord.
You may come before the baptismal service.
You'll be sorry if you're not baptized.
You should be.
See me tonight.
God bless you.
Last verse.
Dear Lord, part us in thy fear and
with thy blessing take us to our homes
in safety through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.