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AS WE TURN IN OUR THINKING TO THIS SUBJECT, WE HAVE NOTICED A TREND IN MUCH OF ORGANISED RELIGION which requires that you and I renounce it. Often I hear the words ‘why is it that so many of the churches go along with Communism, Socialism and its friends. Why are they against other religious activities? Why are they against the national Council of Churches? Why can’t they deplore all other judgments?

I want to point out to you this afternoon, that there are certain operations taking place in America in the name of religion that all true Christians must renounce. In these areas we have some most significant developments. There is a trend today upon the part of left-wingism and of liberalism upon the part of those who deny the part of deity and all of the things which God has unveiled, to play down everything which relates to God, or Christ, and to take away the responsibility and respect that belongs to the Eternal God. And they seek to belittle all of these operations.

Not so long ago, the Unitarians were trying to prove that Christ should be understood in modern manifestation of what HE would be like here today. So they presented a picture of the Christ seated in a bar, smoking a cigarette, and having a cocktail with those who were there, saying HE was a wine-bibber in HIS time, associating with the publicans, and this is the way HE would be today. And in this character that they rated HIM, they sought to downgrade Christ and to belittle the patterns of HIS deity and HIS nature.

AS WE SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT THIS SUBJECT ‘THE GREAT TRIBULATION’ we would point out to you a great many things which are significant as to this Tribulation. And also the fallacies that concern this declaration of such a period of time.

The first thing that touches on this great tribulation as concerning the thoughts of the Christ come out of the book of Matthew. And it tells us that false prophets would start arising on the face of the earth. And then we would hear of wars and rumours of wars. But the end was not as of yet. For nations would rise against nations, and then kingdom against kingdom. And there would be famine and pestilence and earthquakes in many places. In the last 80 years, we see that we have had a tremendous swelling of the number of earthquakes around the world. And in the last two years, then every month brings an earthquake somewhere in the world. (Compare this with today 1997 and see what you find.) We have also had a great earthquake in the past week in the areas of Albania, Yugoslavia and into Turkey. Then from South America to areas of Alaska. We had the great earthquake in 1906 in San Francisco which perhaps signalled the pattern for the latter days. But the pattern was that the end was not as of yet.

So we are told in the book of Matthew, that false prophets would arise, and many would be deceived. And there is no question, that inside of the church itself we have had the great apostasy which has taken place. And of course, we can well identify the scoffers and leaders of this apostasy as identified by Christ, as being the very sons and daughters of Lucifer who were seeking to destroy HIS church.

WE TURN IN OUR THINKING THIS AFTERNOON TO THE SUBJECT OF THE GREAT TRANSITION. I can assure you that we are truly in an hour of Great Transition, and this transition is from an Old Order to a New One. It is the consummation of the struggle of the Kingdom of God against the Powers of Darkness, seeking to hold, to retain control over the earth. This is an hour of Transition in which the Sons of God with Mighty Power of God will consummate the work which God has ordained. It is a transition of sleepiness to wakefulness, from lack of power to complete power. It is a transition from darkness to light, and one to triumph made manifest in the earth.

There is no question of the fact that this is one of the most important hours in all history whether you understand the hour you are in or not. But you should realize before we get thru speaking that you are in the ‘Last Days’. More than that there are some people who are not even aware of this so I read this passage of Scripture found in II Peter 3:2‑5; for this is spoken to you. ‘That ye may be mindful of the words spoken before, by the Holy Prophets, and of the commandment of us the Apostles of THE LORD, OUR SAVIOR. Knowing this, that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts, and saying: where is the promise of HIS coming? For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they are willingly ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing (Greek‑consisting) out of the water in the water:

WE ARE LIVING IN A TIME WHEN ELECTIONS HAVE A GREAT IMPORTANCE ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT HAVE TOO MUCH TO DO WITH THEM.  We think that we have to take our choices and take our chances, and think that we have voted for something.  In these instances, we watch our candidates selected in our national elections, at the conventions.  And the general thought is that if you are a Republican you will get a Republican candidate and if a Democrat then you get a Democrat candidate.  Although today the issues which divide the two parties are not the essentials of a modern election. The modern election today is decided before you ever get to the polls.  They have selected candidates who do not give you any place to go.  So you go down and select a person who you think will do you the least amount of harm instead of selecting someone who will do America the most good. But the idea is that we vote and we have selected the individual that we desired to elect.  And we accept the decision of the people and we think it is the decision of the people.  But we are not always sure.  We are not sure, but we think in the last election that Mr. Nixon lost Illinois and Texas by fraud.  So you cannot depend upon these elections.

But the election I am interested in this afternoon had only one person casting the ballot.  And this ballot was cast by HE who can make all things come to pass.  And that, my friends, is the election of God.  In this instance, the most important thing for you and I, is to be classified as the Elect of God, for the task of God which God commits HIS Elect.  For in this instance, it does relate to offices and power.  It does relate to destiny.  And it does relate to the earth and all that is in it.

AS WE TURN TO OUR SUBJECT IT IS WITH THE REALISATION THAT WE HAVE MOVED INTO A VERY STRANGE PERIOD OF TRIBULATION. The Book of Revelation talks about the day and the age in which we live. It refers to a large physical institution called the church as being in the church age of Laodicea. At the same time it talks about a true church that has been built out of the household of God’s family who have been guided by the Spirit of God, to whom the knowledge of God is constant. And from which the doctrines of God’s truth emerges forth from this church, and is referred to as the church age of Philadelphia. But in the course of these patterns the doctrines of the true church stand so far apart from the doctrines of Apostasy that today are sweeping the nation until we can well see that we have arrived at the period spoken of in the Book of Thessalonians as the period of Apostasy and falling away.

In fact in the second chapter it tells us: we beseech thee brethren, by the coming of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, and by our gathering together unto HIM, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter. Let no man deceive you by any means for that day of Christ shall not come except there be a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the sons of perdition.

There is no question of the fact that we have approached the climax of events that lead up to the return of The Christ. And we have also come to the day of the Great Apostasy.

WE TURN IN OUR THINKING THIS AFTERNOON TO THIS SUBJECT “THE GRACE OF GOD TO YOU.” It is most important that we understand this part of theology, for this is a related experience to those who relate to the people who constitute the household of God. Often we hear that those, who have any identity with the household of God, do not understand Grace, and they do not understand God’s purpose. But I want you to know that this is Grace unto a race, and Grace unto a family.

And the Grace which constitutes this is one of the great dynamic patterns of a divine force flowing from heaven earthward, carrying out the program of God as it relates to you. There is much confusion today in theology due to improper translation. Sometimes there is continuing confusion because of the contention of God’s household in the world, due to translation and the words in the King James Version or in the Doray version. Sometimes the translation leads into confusion because of the identity of the various branches of God’s household. And sometimes the King James Version and others were translated not as they should have been, but into the areas of confusion, and those making the translation helped with this confusion as they translated certain passages.

TONIGHT WE ARE SPEAKING ON A SUBJECT WHICH MAY BE VERY CONTROVERSIAL, especially for the treatment it has received from official sources in our times. We are talking about the subject often referred to as ‘flying saucers.’ And possibly this was not too bad a name for some of the things which some men beheld. But we have just had in the last two weeks, an official announcement from one of the government investigative agencies of the U.S. Government related originally to the Air Command. And then later to the ‘Flying Saucer Project’ and then later to the HOP which is carrying on identifications concerning flying objects.

We are told as to that period of time and for the reports which came since 1947, that a great number of objects were observed, some of which were indefinable. Some were identified as weather balloons and then as aircraft, and in late periods, as satellites moving through the heavens. But a great number of the sightings could never be confirmed by those investigating them as some natural object easy to identify or explain, which had originated from some experiment or from the earths surface. A great number of the sightings were confirmed as being beheld by a great number of men, many of them technical experts on objects that move through space. Objects that travelled at speeds from a few hundred miles per hour up to 600 or 700 miles per hour. That such objects did pass through space and did surround our physical world and in our atmosphere of this there was no question. For there were enough witnesses to prove that something was going on. Something was happening in this world that we live in.

OUR SUBJECT TONIGHT, ‘THE GOVERNMENT ENDS AT ARMAGEDDON,’ for surely you are much closer tonight to Armageddon than many people realize. The strategies for world government are being prepared by high officials in our government. And of course we gave this mighty input when we signed the charter of the United Nations in 1954. For this United Nations even said that the justices of our courts would now depend upon their edicts. And of course you know that we have a constitution that says that the courts would defend the constitution and the treaties there of. And when we entered into the United Nations, we were told that this was the way to peace. They said that the world was longing for peace. They had brought a tremendous way. And we had come now to the great crossroads. And as we joined the United Nations, we joined a tremendous society. We joined around a table with men of all colours and races and backgrounds to decide the issues of the world. People were not told that this was to be a super government. Rather, they were told that this was rather a super gathering like a great debating society. Senators of the United States did not realize that a super world government was being set up.

Many have cited that they would never have signed the charter of the United Nations had they understood this. Along with this, we are to discover that Senator Langor was the only man in the United States Senate who had the courage to say ‘this thing is treason, this would dissolve the Declaration of Independence. This will dissolve my society. I cannot sign this.’ And he called on other Congressmen not to sign it, and other Senators to refuse to sign this measure. But they did not take the time to read the charter.

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TODAY WE ARE TALKING ON A SUBJECT ENTITLED THE GOSPEL FOR TODAY. There is no question about the fact that you hear much about the Gospel, about the preaching of the Gospel and the acceptance of the Gospel. But there are a lot of gospels. I think it is most important that we recognize that God has a Gospel for today. And it is important that we understand what that Gospel consists of.

I would turn to the first chapter of Hebrews for a moment where it tells us that God in Sundry times and in divers manners, spake in times past through the prophets and has in these last days spoken unto us by HIS own embodiment, whom HE has appointed as heir of all things. And this is HIS revelation by whom the very creations, worlds and cosmic orders were made. And that this personage was the brightness of HIS Glory and the express image of HIS spiritual or Celestial person, upholding all things by the Word of HIS power, and is speaking of this embodied Christ seated in the seat of authority in the heavens.

Now, I point out this to you, that God knew in Sundry times and divers manners, and spoke in times past unto the fathers by the prophets. When we talk about the Gospel, this word ‘gospel’ is Good News. But it is also ‘good news’ from God unto HIS Family, and to the dwellers of earth. It is the Good News out of the plain of spirit to earth. That is what the word Gospel means. When we talk about the Gospel according to the words of Jesus Christ, then you will also note in Mark 1:1, that it refers there to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which HE received out of the spirit and brought to earth by HIS coming. So the Gospel is the Good News. The Gospel is the plan. The Gospel is the purpose.