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WE ARE TALKING THIS AFTERNOON ABOUT A SUBJECT WHICH IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO EACH ONE OF YOU, AND THIS IS YOUR DESTINY. In the past we have talked about your National Destiny and about the nation’s of God’s Kingdom, and of course your Destiny is found within the Destiny of Nation’s and in the Destiny of people who constitute God’s Eternal Purpose. But it must also be considered from the standpoint of how it relates to you as individuals. Probably one of the greatest problems that we have today in Christianity and among the Churches of Christianity is the varying concepts that we have in its sects and of the various denominational divisions of Christendom.

The reason for the variant concept largely lies in the subject matter which they had, and of the understanding they possessed concerning the material which they used. Someone said: they used the Bible, they had the Holy Scriptures, how could they err in their concepts? Still we do find a great diverging view existing among the Churches as to the Destiny of Men, and the processes through which they might pass and what conditions would take place. There is a converging concept upon some great Truths, and it is still today that every great branch of the Christian Faith recognizes that Jesus is the Christ. But there are still distinctions even in this point as to whether he is one or three. Or whether God is made up of a multiple of people, or whether God is made up of ONE person.

AS YOU TURN TO THE BOOK OF ISAIAH, YOU WILL FIND THAT ISAIAH 28:15, SAYS ‘O YE SCORNFUL MEN, ye leaders of Israel, because ye have said we have made a covenant with death and with hell, you are in agreement when the overthrowing scourge shall pass through, and it shall not come unto you. Know ye then, ye scornful men, that I will destroy your covenant with death, and your agreement with hell shall not stand, and when the scourge shall pass through, they ye shall be trodden down.’

This, my friends, is a significant situation as we look back over our history in the past. For you and I are a part of the pattern of a great society, a great civilization, a great culture and a great Kingdom. We have watched the development of the program of God’s Kingdom from the days of the begatting of the Adamic race down to the fulfilment of this great nation of which you and I are a part. As we look back over these patterns of prophecy, we can recognize that our history is a fulfilment of Divine prophecy. For God has prophesied and declared the development of HIS society and HIS Kingdom.

And HE planted your race in the earth for the overthrowing of evil, of this there is no question. But in the course of this design, we have watched the fulfilment of Biblical patterns of history from Adam down to the establishment of the Kingdom at Mt. Sinai, and from that Kingdom into a great nation, and from that nation into its divisions and its migrations. And then in to a great nation and a company of nations as God has fulfilled these prophecies which HE has ordained. In all of this, HE promised that HIS Kingdom should emerge, a growing Kingdom, the mighty Kingdom which HE had ordained. We have watched this expansion of the House of God. We have watched the Westward migration and its occupation of Western Europe, and then its colonization to the ends of the earth as they developed Australia, South Africa, and came to this continent, and to other areas of the earth with their programs of civilization.

WE NOW GO TO A SUBJECT, WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT ONE WITH WHICH PEOPLE SHOULD BECOME MORE FAMILIAR, since it contains areas of tremendous interest to the Bible student; as it surely should, since it pertains to the household of the Most High God. We are now going to talk about you, you, before the foundations of the world, you, before the worlds were framed you, in the beginning. Strange as it may seem, there is one problem that has been besetting Christianity for some time, and this is, as they follow the passages and texts taught in individual denominations to support areas of doctrines of the faith, and have familiarized themselves within these areas, dealing with important events, such as events around the Messiahship of Christ and His atonement; here they have lost all concept of the great background of our history as it relates to us, before we entered into this world of experience.

WE ARE GOING TO TALK TONIGHT ON THIS SUBJECT, THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE KILLED FOR GOLD. Turn to the 5th chapter of James, and it says, Go ye rich men and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

Now; it does not say that all rich men are evil. God is talking now to the wicked rich men. “Ye have heaped up your treasures in the latter day.” And he is talking about now. Behold your fraud, you have taken from the labourer and it has reached the ears of the LORD of the Sabbath. You have been seeking after gold in this day of slaughter, Ye have condemned and killed the just, and they have not resisted you. And God has more to say but we will come back to that.

Now; He is talking about a certain people, he is talking about how they raised their fortunes and raised their power, in the days of war and they do this on the bodies of men. I want you to know that one of the strangest things that you have to deal within revelations is that Lucifer who is ‘son of the morning’, and overseer over one quarter of the Universe, who would not then accept the concept that God was going to have a family, sons and daughters, that would be greater than he was. Actually went so far into the areas of perversion that he turned from the truth and refused to accept the light. He thus became the most twisted person in the Universe. He who was a light, bright, shinning like the sun became so enamoured by material things, that he lusted after gold and after silver, and after jewels, and then he only had one tenth of the glory he used to have.

AS WE TURN THIS AFTERNOON TO OUR SUBJECT, it is with the realization that across our nation and across Christendom that out of thy household there moves this day various things in the thinking of the people of God. It is with the realization that one of the strongest structures of God’s kingdom starts with the structure of the home. For the home is one of the most vital structures of any society. But the Kingdom of God finds this the most valuable unit from which society must grow. For we find that the multiple of the homes of the city, the country, and the state and the nation are vital. And we find that it is here that the spiritual vision and power must start for any movement of force in the nation.

It must be from the home. There is nothing more crucial to our homes and to our nation than the continuation of the effectiveness of the mothers to use their influence to guide and to lead their children in the nurture of God. But the admonition through out all of the background of the scripture, it calls upon the fathers to take a firm stand against the powers of darkness and to lead with the same Patriarchal history which has been a part of our race. It has been left up to mothers to leave their guidance through out all generations and their impact in the carrying forth of the truth and the teachings of the traditions and the culture as they mould their young minds before their contact with the world. Before they move into adulthood and face the greatest impact against their culture and their manifested way of life.

We turn this afternoon, to the 42nd chapter of Isaiah, and in this chapter, God gives some clues concerning as to how HE informs HIS people. In this declaration, HE says, ‘Thus saith YAHWEH, HE who created the heavens and stretched them out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it, and HE that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and Spirit to them that walk therein: I the LORD, have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand and will keep thee, and give thee, HIS covenants, for ye shall be a people who carry a light unto the nations.’

Verse 8; ‘I am YAHWEH, that is my name. And my Glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.’

Verse 9; ‘Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.’

Thus, Isaiah the prophet talks about how God with guidance and wisdom unveils the course of prophecy, the events that will transpire. We thus live not in ignorance, but in knowledge of the things which are coming to pass

TURNING IN OUR DISCUSSIONS TONIGHT, TO THE WORDS THAT CAME OUT OF THE MOUTH OF ENOCH, who captures the climax of an event at the end of an age in which he writes concerning the Sons of Light, that they shall be stirred of God, and the acts of God shall cause them to rise with anger, that wrath shall rise up in their countenance and they shall cleanse the Household of the MOST HIGH, then we have a similar statement in the book of Zachariah which demonstrates that the prophet 4000 (Enoch) described after his experience of being taken into the heavens into the presence of the MOST HIGH, escorted into space in one of the fastest of vessels of time.

And having travelled into the dimensions through out the vastness of creation where he was told of the things which would effect our civilization of which he was a part, he was given the reason for his own ministry which has demonstrated to have been one of the greatest of the Patriarchal age. But he also saw a climactic hour when the people of God would be scattered out over the earth as nations. He saw these nations as God’s Household in earth as what he describes as the ‘sons of darkness.’ He sees that the sons of darkness gathered from their strongholds from various places in the earth. They flocked together in their secret assemblies, and they gathered together in their planned and designed program for the overthrow of God’s Kingdom.

AS WE TURN TO THE SUBJECT OF WORLD UPHEAVAL WE REALISE THAT THE COMING WORLD UPHEAVAL to ordinary people is so far removed from their minds that they would never have accepted the possibility of such a thing transpiring. That the world today is an evolution of all of its problems and looking for its survival from all the situations that effect it — completely and absolutely upon its own political and economic possibilities, and upon the concept that out of the sheer weight of its own force of arms, upon the decision of mass enemies and their ability to encircle them depends the history of the earth.

There is no question that there is no more important subject for the student of political history, nor to one who would properly deliver the responsibilities of his own life, of his living and his society. There is no more important subject as it relates to the citizens of earth, to its raw materials and to its environment. On the other hand, there also emerges within the entire history of the development of our race another influence and force, and we see it work, which is stronger than the political concept, which is greater and more powerful than the defences of our history through out the course of time. Far more powerful than the armies we might muster, and demonstrates its force upon our human destiny, to be much greater than any massed force we have been able to put together, and even in this great period of the typist when we who walk in earth, and have become the master of so much of its knowledge.

Out of the vision and the inspiration, and the technological achievements are the taking apart and the putting together of the atom, and the experimenting with it for even greater destructive power, for this passing hour. But in this hour this is some of our experiments and our achievements. And the conditions we think we are creating would make us masters of all that we seek, but are very small when compared to the amount of energy God releases in one single display of divine power.

There is more energy in the passing storm than there is in all the hydrogen bombs. The only thing is the deadly patterns of upset LAWS that we release with its fall out, and the catastrophes which are so concentrated in a single place that we think of them as so horrendous. One time when the volcano Cap Atola blew up, remember, that it shook more worlds than all the atom bombs if we were to launch them at one time. It wiped out the whole Caribbean, and all the people of Martinique. In the vicinity of that city all were wiped out in one stroke, and only one man survived. He was lying down in a jail cell where the sweeping wall of flame and the unusual power of gases sweeping out from the blowing of Cap Atola just passed over him, and he in that dungeon escaped, the only one in the city which survived. British ships were in the harbour when that explosion took place and they were filled with the gases and great flames of burning gas swept down virtually killing everyone on the ships. That was strange gases which emerged from that volcano explosion which was considered the largest and most powerful single noise that had been recorded in all the history of mankind. (Cap Atola is on Mount Pele, which is in the northern end of the island, and the city of Sainte Marie is now the city close to the volcano which was at one time called the same as the Island — Martinique.)

IT IS MOST SIGNIFICANT THAT WE GET THE PROPER PERSPECTIVE CONCERNING THE CHURCH AS WE APPROACH THIS SUBJECT, of the work of the Church which it has yet to do. Because we hear much today from those who are informed, concerning God’s Kingdom and about the nations. And a great number of people have come to the realization that God’s Kingdom is tangible and real, and that it is made up of nations and people who comprise these nations. And by the same token, they do not recognize just what the work of the Church really is. On the other hand, there are a great number of people who belong to churches of every denomination and every description, and they think that the Kingdom of God is just an abstract word for everything which is related to religion and worship. And they think that the Kingdom of heaven is some how removed from earth in the far distance of space. And such, they have little knowledge as to why the church was created for and of what is consists of.

As these tapes go out over the nation, there comes a gradual understanding as to who they are and what they are here for. But the church itself, does not at times understand what its responsibility is. We have received a pamphlet from the Evangelicals this week and I would think that they would know more about what the church is here for than some, but they had no idea what it was here for. In fact, having listened to a great number of references which they refute, they decided that they would hurry and get me saved, for they decided that we were doomed for hell. And everyone we preach to must be on the same road. One of the amazing things about their discovery was, they said, that they realized after listening to the second and the third message, that we must mean what we said.

THERE CAN BE NO QUESTION IN THE MIND OF THE STUDENT OR OBSERVER THAT THE TREND OUR NATION IS TAKING, that the policies being endorsed and ratified by the administrative power, the policies being pursued by advisors in many areas of portfolio of authority, some which have never been created by the people, that the trend is not the path our forefathers have taken in the past. It is not the course which made this nation great. In fact, we are at the crossroads tonight, in many areas of decision.

We find ourselves not unlike the declaration of the prophet Joel, who talks about multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision. Unfortunately, we have the parity of prophecy and of time. In fact, we are told that the road the great masses travel upon is not the route to security and development, or the attainment of God’s Kingdom. The road into which we find Christ referring to in the book of Matthew, states unto us very clearly. That broad is the gate, wide is this route to destruction. And he tells us that not many enter into the right gate. It says, ‘Enter ye in at the right (straight) gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be who go in thereat. But straight (right) is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it.’ (Matthew 7:13-14)