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Elect – Bright Future Neal Frisby’ Sermon CD # 1552 12-25-94 (AM)
Well, praise the Lord. You are still around, aren’t you? It’s really great, you know, to have Christmas, sometimes in the world, there is a great letdown, a lot of them drank and all that the night before and they have big parties and so forth like that. But if you really love Jesus, you don’t have any letdown. It’s just another day that you believe in your heart. Amen? Then when it gets to the new year, then they all try to drink, you know, and forget the problems and get up there if they are going to make it over into the new year and so forth like that. Well, I can tell you, you say, you know, when they all gather out and get together, they all gather together there, you know, and waiting to see if they are going to make it past the new year, what’s that all about? Maybe deep down in their hearts, they think the Lord’s coming, amen? That’s right. One of these times when they gather, saith the Lord, I will have been gone. Oh, my! How many of you believe that? He’s really great!
Lord, what a privilege! What a time for us to worship you with all of our heart! And everyone in this audience, touch them, for the year ahead, Lord, for you can come at any time, we believe that. And what time we got left, we are going to do everything we can for you and believe in our hearts. Touch any new heart here this morning, bless them. I command any sickness, any pains in their hearts, troubles, oppression, nerves, anxieties in them to depart. And on the people in the audience, too, I command it to go in Jesus’ name and I believe that now. Now guide thy children as never before. And I believe, Lord, this is the hour that you are positioning your people where they can testify, where they can know and believe in their heart and the faith that you are going to give them, I believe. Now, anoint them and bless them. Give the Lord a hand clap! Go ahead and be seated. What it’s all going to boil down to, no matter what faith, doctrine, or whatever, I only have one doctrine, and that’s the Bible. King James Bible always said that. I’ve never had a denominational doctrine except when I was a child. I went to Assemblies, I believe, when I was a little child, Sunday school for a little while. But my doctrine has always been the King James Bible, the Word of God. That’s the best doctrine you can find. Can you say amen? Amen to all the traditions there.
1.But right now, where we are at, at the time of the year, everyone is gathering together. Somebody sent me a letter. Well, it was a letter, and plus it was a newspaper, I said, Pentecostalism is growing? Well, in some ways Pentecostalism is growing, but the fact is this, that it is growing into Laodiceans. Many are called, and few are chosen. This is a separating hour. Now, no matter what faith or what, like I said a while ago, that you are raised in or whatever it is, what is going to count is going to be, who is going to be able to stand that powerful anointing that Jesus is pouring out on those that are going to be translated. That is called translative faith. Elijah the prophet had it, Enoch, we know left with it. And no less, the Church of the Living God will have that steadfast faith, patience in the coming of the Lord. Who can stand that great anointing? Miracles, I’ve had dead people, I’ve had all types of them, wheelchairs, stretchers, when I traveled, all types of miracles. One of the hardest things I tell the people is to try to keep the people into salvation. That’s the miracle there to keep them going on with the Lord. Easy working miracles, I’ve said, but to keep those people to where they are supposed to be in the Lord and at the age we live in right now. So with the great separation and the great calling of God, we are living in an hour, oh, I’ll tell you, six thousand years or more have elapsed since that time. Man’s calendar is off some. God, by His grace, has given us time. And I believe this, the great anointing is going to come, even some of them that probably had miracles or believe in miracles in this last day revival may not be good enough. Really, who is going to be able to stand the purging that’s going to change that character to where it really believes in all of the Word of God? That is what’s going to count. Can you say amen?
2.And I love miracles, anybody that works miracles, I love them too. Let them work miracles but let them not get off the doctrine of the Lord. Stay right with it, because satan is very cunning. He will allow some to use miracles, you know, and then they come right along with a system or some sort like that. And in that system, they will come right along there, and they take the people in there and pretty soon they have something; it’s an imitation there. If you count back, clear from the time that has started, clear to the time where we are at now, Paul said one time that after tasting of the heavenly gift of God and the heavenly things of God, it’s almost impossible, he said, to restore again any that falls away. And all those movements tasted, even the Assemblies [Assembly of God Church] and even back in the Pentecostals, the Four Squares and all of that back during those days, you know, [the Sprit] was poured out in there, all of them breaking down into systems. And as you see, it’s impossible for one of them to believe and go ahead of what he believed. The Baptist are the Baptist, the Methodist are the Methodist, et cetera, et cetera. Now out of all of that, Catholics, Catholics, et cetera, et cetera, all the way down through there, out of all of that, God will bring out His children and the ones that He loves will come from everywhere. I think on my mailing list, I’ve got all types. Some Pentecostals, some of them that were Methodists and Baptists, and some were Catholics, some were Holiness, some were Assemblies, some were this, some were that, and they all just seem to have the baptism or believe in the Word of God in such a way, so it’s a mixture that I have on my mailing list because they write me and so forth like that. I don’t have just one type, but I’ve got a little bit of everything. And I believe when God calls and He says, “Come up hither,” He is going to have a variation of the group that He has called from the highway, the hedges, from everywhere. And I believe when He does, He knows exactly where they are at, who they are. You may not know who they are, but He will know each one of them, and at the midnight cry, boy, just a little bit later on in the watch, they will be gone!
3.Oh, what a time! You know, I wrote down here, you know, today, I’m coming over here, this is Christmas Day, and you know, Christmas is over with, it’s kind of moved on out of the way, and everybody says, you know, “Merry Christmas” to you, and “Merry Christmas, how are you? Merry Christmas, how are you?” I wonder how many said Merry Christmas to Jesus? Did anybody say Merry Christmas, how many of you said Merry Christmas to Jesus? Amen in that. You know, let’s get into this right here. We are moving on out of this year. Things are changing already. We are moving into a new year. What a year is going to lie ahead! Boy, this thing opened up and for a while, just every event that you could ever think of happened, and we are moving on into another year. You know, in Ecclesiastes 3, it said, “To everything there is a season.” God has timed; I know the beginning from the beginning to the end. To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. There’s a time to be born, there’s a time to die, a time to plant, a time to pluck up that which is planted, and it goes on. A time to bring in stones, a time to cast out stones, a time for this move and a time for that move, a time of revival, a cycle of prosperity, a cycle of depression, cycles of war, cycles of peace, and cycles of miracles, and cycles of salvation, so forth. And moving as God moves across the earth, now we are reaching into the last cycles of the Lord.
4.Let me tell you this, my sermon this morning is A Bright Future for the Elect of God, but a gloomy future for those who are in the world that will not find God. There is a very gloomy future, but a bright future for every person that loves the Lord Jesus. It’s really great! So, a time has come for everything under the heavens, God has a timing. [The year] 1995 has already been timed by God in the celestial, on earth, and in the Word of God. It’s already in the pyramid inches, probably, if you could figure it all out, but it’s already there. He will come at His appointed time, event after event, from the littlest to the greatest. You know, when Jesus came the first time, oh, what signs! See, I can get into this right here. Rome, there was an empire rising. There is one rising now across the earth in world trade. You can’t see all of it, but it’s rising right now. It will soon come together. Western Europe is already coming together, practically, and Eastern Europe is moving in there together, that was one of the big tip off, that was almost the biggest sign of Israel when they went home, according to the scriptures there. The Roman Empire, the time they rose up, Augustus made it an empire, Jesus was born, new beginnings, new Star, new things began to happen. In the celestial, wonders began to speak forth, but nobody realized it. They had, at that time, the same as today, 1995, they had new highways springing up from Rome everywhere. We’ve got new highways everywhere, and we will go into electronic computer highways. They’ve got everything. It’s only a matter of some money that they need and they will have it. It’s near the coming of the Lord at the end of the age, because they need somebody to be in that car, probably going to the highway, they will go up and meet Jesus. Can you say amen? Watch, we are getting ready for it. There will probably be wrecks and this and that happen on the earth, but He is coming there. A new temple was being built by Herod. Now, in Israel, they are preparing, or they already got a new synagogue, but they are preparing also, they say, for a new temple. They are going to make it an international city. Underneath, as they are preparing a covenant, they are also preparing that there will be a temple, or use the one they got, but there will be one there, and they are preparing. New things are breaking forth there. The new spiritual leader was Jesus, coming at the end of the age that we live in. He will be coming soon. A new spiritual leader, a false leader, will rise at the end of the age. New signs in the heavens, new beginnings.
5.Gabriel came to Daniel. He told him seven things that would take place with the Messiah. The last one would run into the Millennium and anoint the Most Holy. I say that it’s a matter of a few years away that the Most Holy will be anointed and sit down on David’s seat and rule in the Millennium there. Gabriel appeared, told him of the 70 weeks, which were 400 and something years at that time, when 483 of them ran out of there at that time, the Messiah came. The Messiah came right on time. One [week] is left, that’s at the end of the age. Some say it will only amount to about three and a half years because Christ fulfilled the first, but it says one week, seven years. The Bible speaks of it but anyway, we are coming down to the last part of that right there. The deep part of the tribulation, I think, and I believe, and I know this according to the scriptures, will be 42 months, that’s the mark. But entering into the first 42 months will be peace and prosperity and they will say this and they will say that and so forth, that first part. The elect will push into that somewhere in there and then they will be taken out just before this code mark or electronic thing takes place. And I’ve preached all around that, what will cause them to bring it, the crises, the things in nature and what will happen upon this earth that will cause that to come into being. And they got Gabriel then, after he got through telling him about the time that it would appear and how the Messiah would come, And then right at the end of the age, the very end, there would be a false agreement in Daniel 9: 26-27, that would come, the covenant. They are working on it now.
6.Later, Gabriel appeared to Mary, the beginning of new things. He appeared to Mary, told him of the great One to come, Messiah, that would come upon the earth. So he’s a messenger of time and good tidings. Right now, the way we live and where we live right now and the time we live, there is a time for everything. There was a time for Gabriel to come to Daniel and not to me at that time. He was born then, I’m born now. What’s coming to me did not exactly come to Daniel, but it does in some way the fulfillment of his prophecies, God gave me. But he was born at his age. I was born at my age. Now, we are born in an age, I believe, the generation that will see the Lord Jesus. How many of you believe that? There is a time for this and there’s a time for that and it’s getting very, very close to that, new beginnings. So ‘95, we are getting ready. In 1995, you know, the first thing they noticed, the year will start off with a new moon. Under the new moon, the Old Testament, the Lord of hosts, He told them to bring their sacrifices under the new moon. It speaks about it. David speaks about it. The bible speaks about it. Isaiah speaks about it. It’s all over the bible. But as we opened up the new year, we’re finishing this year up. What a climatic year! Who knows what’s going to happen next year? But new beginnings, sweeping changes will take place next year, leading into world crises and world leaders and different things that will take place. And into great events in nature and quakes into 1996. I’ve written about it, so I won’t talk about it. I want you to read about some things that I’ve got there that will be there, and everything. Some new beginnings. As we look around also, as that takes place, you are under the new moon, we have tides rising under the moon. Hunters use it, fishermen, farmers, they plant under different phases and hunt and fish under different phases of the moon. Under the new moon, they plant their crops. But it just so happens, as we enter the year, we will be under the new moon. New things, new beginnings, as the scripts have already spoken about.
7.Read that Psalms, we are coming into some things there and the bright future will be for the elect. God is going to begin to bring that elect like never before. Already, I notice in the mail, the people are gathering where they are speaking a little differently. They are expecting. They are no longer wondering, you know, “We’ve got a lot of time.” It’s almost as if, “Will I be able to write another letter?” Will the Lord be coming soon? Will I be able to? I won’t be in this century, probably.” They are wondering about it. As the world goes on, the bible says, and as everything is rushing here and rushing there, all of a sudden, God will have moved in a great movement upon His people, and they are gone! It will be suddenly, unexpected. The news headlines will probably read, “Multitudes missing,” and no one can figure them out. Oh, there’s some crackpots over here, quacks over here, saying that the Lord came and got them. The world will be so steeped into sin, so deep in the following of the world leader, and so caught up into the inventions of pleasure, and the inventions of this and that, until they will be hard to convince. But yet, a group will flee into the great tribulation period of that time. But just as true as God’s Word is, there will be a group that will be gone! And that’s the group I want to bring to Jesus. That’s the group that I want to be in. How about you? I don’t want to hang around on a planet; it’s like a planet that it’s time to blow up. Tremendous winds and quakes and nature; heaven breaks up, stars falling, fragments and asteroids, crates in the center of the earth, something’s happening to cause greater earthquakes. Plates moving under the sea, they’ve never seen great volcanoes breaking forth, everything happened. Nature moves in a different way, it’s never moved before, heaven shewing forth great and powerful signs that are given to us, signs on this earth. But if you are not looking for them, saith the Lord, you will not see them. And you cannot look with a natural eye, but you must look with a spiritual eye. To the natural man, they are foolishness, but unto the spiritual man, they are a signpost. How many of you believe that? They are a road map, and God is really revealing that to us there.
8.Do you read those Psalms there? Changes are coming in every way that you can think of. New beginnings everywhere. I wrote down a few things here, if I can get to it here. You’ll have nature, there will be different changes going there. Men, the societies will be changing. Things will be changing like never before. Now, at the time I was writing this, this scripture moved on me, and I had to even go have it looked up, try to find out what it was. “No man puts a piece of new garment upon the old vesture.” We’re getting ready for a new garment, or He would not have given me that. And the Lord Himself said, “Get that scripture, read it to that audience.” No man puts a piece of new garment on an old vesture. All of the systems, all in the past, all that we’ve seen, the new thing, the new beginning, breaking forth…. Soon the earth will receive a god right out of hell, g-o-d, a little g-o-d, a god of forces he will use. A man will appear upon the earth, and out of the pit in Revelation 13, the beast, that will enter the leader after 42 months, character change would be satanic and a genius like that they’ve never seen before. But even real, real genius like even before that, moving the people just exactly around like you’d move a puppet. Everything is set now, watch! The elect is getting ready for restoration. If you think you’ve been restored, you’ve just got another thing coming. You have partly been restored. You have the baptism, many of you, and you have the Word of God, and you’ve got faith. But a quick, short work, we are getting ready for the very cloud of God to just move right on in there. He’s going to move right on like Israel with that Pillar of Fire. He’s going to come right in there when He does, it will be just like that ark. He’s going to pull us right together. All over the earth, He’s going to bring them here and there and bring them together. When He gets them just where He wants them, and He’s going to suddenly, boy, put us in a sickle! When He does, you will have translative faith, power, great faith, great confidence. You will feel something in you. We are entering new beginnings as we’re entering this next year, gloomy for the world, as I said, but not for the elect. If you keep your eyes open, new things are going to appear besides the different changes, sweeping things that sweep us right on in as we go up into the century. My opinion is get ready to get out of here before this century ends.
9.This earth is going to shake. It’s going to turn. It’s going to flip. It’s going to jump. It’s going to bounce around a little bit. God’s going to move it with His hands. He sitteth upon the circle of the earth. And you say, how can He observe everything? He doesn’t even have to let it turn. He knows things already, everything that’s taking place and there He is! I believe this in my heart right now. The Lord said at the very end of the age, He will be standing at the door. Hold no grudges, in James, He would be there knocking right at the door. They wouldn’t let Him in. Laodicea, we are right at the age where Balaam, the Laodiceans, and the Nicolaitans are coming together. God is not going to let His group come into that. He’s going to hold them back by His hands. You may witness to them. You may even be around them. You may talk to them. But I know one thing, that you will not be part of them. You will be the new thing. God is moving. And listen to this right here. Here’s the other scripture, “No man putteth a piece of garment.” Here’s the other one here, right here, “No man putteth new wine into old bottles, lest it break the bottles” (Luke 5: 36-37). You don’t put a new piece of garment on an old one. He is not going to do it. He is going to take out something new; He is going to bring, “And behold, I shall do a new thing. It shall spring forth, and it will spring forth to my people.” And no man put new wine into old bottles, He said, lest it blow them clear up. If He put what He is going to give the elect directly into that system, it would tear all them clothes, all the pieces. If He put the new wine, which is the Holy Spirit wine of revelation, if He put that in, directly into the new systems, it would blow it all to pieces. They couldn’t handle it. But if He puts that new revelation wine into what He’s given in this last revival, the new people of God, the ones that love God, they are going to be translated! They are not going to blow up. They are going to change, says the Lord. How many of you believe that? And what is Jesus trying to say? What Jesus is trying to say is this, when the Pharisees were there, they had the Old Testament, and what they had, He said, if He put that in with what they had in their traditions, mixed up with the Old Testament, it would burst them asunder. If He put the new wine into old bottles, the same way it would blow them right up. What did He do? He called forth a people and brought them forth out of there, and preached to them, and worked great signs and great wonders. Same thing today, out of all of this that we see today, the Lord Jesus is going to move the same as turning into like religious Pharisees. They are turning into the Laodiceans, the Balaams, the Nicolaitans, lukewarmness will set in, even among the miracle workers. Some today, they think nothing about the real Word of God, just so there’s maybe a huge crowd, money, maybe a glass of wine afterwards, that won’t hurt anybody. Oh yeah? You just asked me when I was about 16 or 17 years old what it did for me before God pulled me out of there. Amen. You remember my experience with alcohol, and how that God later, as I was almost consumed by it, and how that He appeared and turned my life around.
10.I believe that the elect will separate themselves, and I believe this with all of my heart, that they will be ready for the coming of Jesus, and they will be expecting Him. How many of you believe that? They won’t be on a drunken binge. It doesn’t stop at one drink. Pretty soon, there’s another drink. I’ve known even gifted ministers, and I had one, I will bring this up because somebody the other day wrote to me about it. He had a vision one time, and we will have to leave it in the hands of God. He was well known and he had seen at the end of the age, a great marching power of God, and so forth like that. Well, a little bit after that, or before that, he called me a little bit after that. Before that, he had the largest meeting that anybody has had on the earth, probably except for the Pope, among the ecclesiastics, among the Fundamentals, among the Baptist, Methodists, and so forth. He had, I don’t know, three, four hundred thousand, maybe even more than that. And he had the largest meeting, even larger than Billy Graham’s ever had, larger than William Branham ever had overseas. Larger than Tommy Hicks ever had or Brother Osborn ever had, but not Tommy Hicks. I about told you the name, didn’t I? But anyway, the man that had this began to get exalted a little bit. Everybody wanted him. He had miracles, too. He didn’t have quite the gifts like you’ve seen in our ministry here, but there were miracles that he had that would come out of the audience from building faith. He was a good, good preacher, very powerful. And he could build faith in the audience, and they’d get healed in the audience, and so forth like that. Some have to do that because they don’t have a direct gift, and then when they get them to believe, then they can pray for them and that’s kind of the way he was. The fellow that had come here to visit me was a very close friend of his and watched him die. And I was talking to him about the time and I said, “Yeah, he phoned me.” And I told him some things that he didn’t even know. And after the great meeting, Peron, I believe it was, ruled a country in South America. Later, after Peron’s death, I think his wife did. And because he was so famous and so popular, beating out all the other ministers in crowds, they carried his revival that he had all over the world in the news, because it was such a huge gathering. I think the stadium probably held several hundred thousand, there’s that many outside. It was such a great gathering of people that he had, and he got to meet all the higher-ups, all the government officials. Pretty soon they offer you this, and they offer you that. And so he began to ride that wave of popularity. And as he rode that wave of popularity, he began to take a little bit [alcohol] more here and a little bit more there.
11.The next thing you know, it began to get a grip, and he couldn’t do anything unless he had some [alcohol] with him. And nobody hardly knew it, he was able to control it, except his close friends. And towards the end, he just closed in Stockholm with Brother Branham and Brother Kane, and another one that was there. He was the main speaker even. After that, the downhill road. Full Gospel Businessmen, they used him. I was home. I just finished touring quite a bit and had decided to take some time off. It was just before, no it wasn’t, I was writing. I just started my writing. Brother William [Branham] had just passed away about a few months before that, I guess. And the Lord appeared to me that night, and I got a pencil and a piece of paper because I never wrote anything, you know, about prophecy or anything in my life. And so I did, when I did, I noted down about fifty [prophecies], I think, I don’t remember a whole lot of things, even man landing on the moon, I wrote that in advance. A man landing on the moon, a new invention, different things that would come and the Lord said in that generation, he told me he would come. In 1969, landed on the moon. We don’t know if it’ll be 30 or 35 years from that date that man landed on the moon, but He will come in the same generation that man landed on the moon, He told me and I believed that with all my heart.Well, anyway, that night, I began to put out one or two scrolls.
12.Well, somebody got ahold of him because they’d been praying for him, all the great ministers, he’s got down to this, being so popular. The phone rang, and they called me over the phone and said, “I want you on the phone here.” So I got on the phone. They told me the first name, you know. And he said, “Brother Neal Frisby? And I said, yes. He said, “I’ve read your book, and I’ve heard about you entering the ministry.” He said that the way that God moves on you is that nothing hardly stands before your prayer. And he said, “I’ve had gifted ministers talk to me about you. I better get ahold of you.” And I said, okay. And he said, “I am the man that had the meeting, you know my name.” I said, “Yes, I know all about you. I’ve read quite a bit about you.” He said, here’s my problem. He said, “I know that before you entered the ministry that your life had been one of alcoholism and stuff, and then Jesus called you into the ministry.” And I said, “Yes, and I’ve never turned back.” It was just that simple. When He got me, He got me. The only thing was He called me alone for about six weeks, but I didn’t even go into detail with him about that, because I knew he’d probably been a man of fasting himself. And he said, “I am going to tell you my problem.” And I guess I’ve kept it a secret from my father and from everybody for probably up until the last year. I might have mentioned it out of turn, but I would never tell the name. I didn’t mention it to any preachers, only I mentioned it to another because he knew him personally and had talked to him at one time, the one that wrote my book. And he said, “What do I do? I’ve had the largest meeting in the world and some big ones afterwards, and I was called for, all over the world. I got kind of caught up in with the modern world and the preachers.” And he said, “Pat on the shoulder, and pretty soon” he said, “I thought I was the greatest, and I found out that big crowds don’t make you the greatest. They’ll destroy you.” He said, “I want you to pray for me.” He said, “I am an alcoholic, but I want you to keep it a secret.” So I never did mention his name. He said, “What do I do?” I’ve prayed and prayed and prayed, and I can’t quit.” I said, once knowing the truth like you knew the truth was different in my case, I didn’t know it like you.” But I said, “Jesus said, He will in no wise cast you out, that there’s help.” And I told him, I said, “Here is what I will tell you to do. You’ve got to do it this way. You can’t just keep saying, praying, Lord, I’m going to quit and get up again and start drinking. I said, just throw it out. You are going to shake. You are going to feel terrible.” But I said, “If you can fast, that’d be good, but if you can’t, go get that bible again.” I said, “Get in that pulpit, don’t look back. Preach and preach and preach and preach and preach and preach. Throw yourself on the mercy of God and never look back, and you will never drink again.” I said, “I won’t even have to say, Lord, take the desire from him. You throw it [alcohol] down now. You get your bible and take off. You haven’t been refused. Go on. Just preach, or you are going to lay there and die in that motel room or hotel room.” That’s where he told me he was at. You get out of there and you start. He said, “Just throw her down and start preaching, I am allowed to preach? I said, “You are allowed to preach and you keep preaching.” He got up from there. I lost count of him. I didn’t know what happened. But later they told me he did go back to preaching and he preached for quite a long spell after that. But he developed heart trouble and had to use some kind of digitalis that he mixed with some pills in there. But later on, his brother that visited me told me about watching, that he passed on down the line.
13.He said it started with a pat on the shoulder here and there and a little drink, biggest preacher in the world, massive crowd, it wound up into mass destruction. Now, why did God want to bring that out today? It’s because in Laodicea or the miracles, even among independents, the TV evangelists, the other independents that are working on radio, they are beginning to take a drink here and take a drink there. I believe one of the lady preachers that died with bad publicity. I pray that God forgave her and I believe maybe she got forgiveness. But they said after the bad publicity she had on something else, after service, she used to have a glass of wine and so forth like that. She was one of the well-known and so forth, not one to emulate, you don’t want to emulate that. But it got her into trouble because it led into some man. It led to some problems and trouble and different things. She passed on at a late age and did a great work for God. She also taught people how to believe, wrote books and so forth like that. So, at the age we are living in, that’s creeping in. It’s creeping into the Balaamites, the Laodiceans, the Pentecostalisms and all of that. Be careful. One drink, two drinks and the next thing you know, you are out with a crowd of the same type of believers. It will not work. You better stay with a new wine that you can’t put in old bottles, saith the Lord. Glory to God!
14.The scripture says, Behold, I will make all things new (Revelation 21:5). The bride will make herself ready at first. We are approaching the midnight hour. How many of you believe that? Anyway, possibly a happy ending to the man. Maybe he remembered what I told him. He’d phoned the right place if you’re talking about that stuff because I told him this. If you would have said, “Let’s pray, let’s pray.” Uh-uh, uh-uh, “just grab that bible, quit and run, start preaching, don’t stop.” That’s the way you do that. How many of you believe that that is really an act of faith? That is the best way. I pray that he made it. I don’t know, but I know this, you better watch out! The mixture of the world mixes the hot and cold, the lukewarm comes and He spews it out of His mouth. Be careful, Pentecostals out there. We are entering the book of Acts again; I will restore all things. Behold, I will make all things new now. We are breaking forth. Next year will be new things, new beginnings. It will be different things. And every facet of our government, every facet of civilization, including our president, everything that he does, we will see it coming up on the agenda that he will be preparing as the years come by there. Faith will increase for the elect. It will decrease for the world, but it will increase for the elect. New beginnings, society, new inventions, technologies of different kinds there.
15.You know, there was a tree. It’s another parable. And it was a little seed that grew up into a big tree. It is called the kingdom of God. And in this tree, as God was growing His people up in this tree and it was building the kingdom of God, here come these birds. Here come these birds from the systems and they were landing in the tree and finally they took the tree over. That’s where we are at now at the end of the age. We are that tree that is full of birds, I mean, they are all filling it up, the kingdom of God. He is going to take his wheat now, take the tares and bundle them on one side. The wheat He will gather on the other side. Immediately, He will take it into his barn! We are entering that hour. What an hour that we’re living in! Boy, the midnight cry! The hour of the midnight, the foolish virgins, the hour of the bride, the hour of the watchers of the midnight cry is here. The century is here, centuries of centuries, we will probably, if not before, cross over with death and fire somewhere in there. And I pray that our bodies are changed to Shekinah, the glory inside of us, that kind of fire and we will be gone before the end of this century and out! I don’t know the exact day or hour, but in my opinion, a lot of people’s going to be fooled. They are going to be like I was talking about a while ago, caught up in the worldly things, not just drinking, but a lot of other things that will take their attention away. They will not be prepared. Going to make Pentecostals popular, get them on in there, bring them on in there, bring them right at the tail end of this thing. Get them systems in there, get them all into Babylon, get them all in there. And then God, His people will not go nowhere before He’s at, saith the Lord. Man, I believe that. Don’t you? New Pentecostals, I’m telling you, the age that we live in, a bright new future now. Remember, the Jews knew not the hour of their visitation. Right now, the world does not know the hour of this great visitation that God has given, but we are in a visitation. And I believe He is visiting His people like never before. Hold on now, take heed to everything you’ve heard in these messages, everything that God is guiding you to read yourself out of the Word of God. Don’t be misguided by crowds or popularity. Of course, people can get large crowds, that’s all right, but don’t be guided by the wrong thing, not even by miracles, Jesus said, unless the Word of God was stamped on it 100%. How many of you believe that? I believe with all my heart. Don’t be misguided into three persons, but be guided into One God and three manifestations, and you will survive. How many of you believe that? I believe that with all my heart and everything that’s within me. It is coming, it’s coming fast.
16.So we are going to have new roads, huh? We’ve got them now. The empire was rising at the time of Jesus. Jesus was coming at the time of the Roman Empire, a new temple, the Jews down there. Everything happening right now, the world is moving into the same kind of a trend. As I read in the bible, there’s a time for this, there’s a time for that. To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. I believe that with all my heart. I didn’t get into prophecy because I brought out some important things about the spiritual. A bright future for the elect, but a gloomy, dark future for the world that has forgotten all about the One who created it. Boy, what a time! Little ones, old ones, middle ones, all of you together, thank God! What a time that you’re living in! You get home and you thank the Lord that you will never, no one, will ever enter an age like what we are living in right now, never has been such an age after 6,000 years. He said on the 7th [day], He would rest. He told the end in the very beginning and people are too dumb, I guess, spiritually, to understand. But my, this new wine ain’t going into the old bottles. You say that again, sir! It’s going to go where it’s supposed to go. And that’s that revelation, that’s what I’ve been doing this morning, revelating, instead of so much prophecy, we revelate. And boy, when that gets in you out there, you will be able to hold it! It won’t bust you. I busted a few and blew them clear out through the door. You saw it yourself. I’ve been able to separate. He told me that it was my duty to cut the weeds, to get rid of them. My duty is to cut, get rid of the falling away, get it out of the way. It’s my duty, so that the real thing together could gather and when they do, what a day that will be!. What an hour we are coming into!
17.Stand to your feet. That’s all. You’d be expecting, you’d be expecting things coming into the next year. Read my Psalms I wrote, I told the future in it, prophetic Psalms. I was doing the future myself in it. Read about it, it’s a scroll. Read about the other ones, it’s coming. And I will tell you; you keep that heart right up with Jesus and you keep praising the Lord, because I will tell you what, He has chosen you and brought you forth in this generation. And in this generation, I believe with all my heart, that we will get to see Jesus come again. I really believe that. I do. And according to different polls and different ways of ministers that are in the gospel, kind of in the field watching, I’m not alone. Many of those now are approaching TV, they tell me, and they tell them there’s just a few years left in what prophecy says. And there are students of prophecy, maybe not revelative and gifted in similar ways like praying for the sick like I do, but they do know and they’ve studied the bible. And they claim some of them, they can’t see, for the ones that are going to get out of here, they can’t see anything but the gathering and going up and going away. That’s how close we are getting. How many of you feel the presence of the Lord? I will do a new thing. I will tell you one thing, He is going to pour out upon you that new spirit, the Spirit of the Lord, to restore, to renew, and give you that translative faith, and you will have it. So, be prepared in your heart, keep your heart wide open, and Jesus will do it. Right now, before this year closes, the best thing you can do is thank God.
18.You know, the other day I was telling you to be careful you get run over. I might not have finished that. What I meant was, there are so many cars out there that you can’t help but get bumped into if you are not careful. So, be careful out there in the world. That’s what I was saying last Sunday. I didn’t get to finish because I preached so long and I was getting out of here. God will keep His hand on you. A few bumps ain’t going to hurt you probably, but nevertheless, keep your eyes wide open because, boy, it just seems like a great convergence. Something is going to happen. I will be praying for every one of you here this morning. If you are new, I’ll be praying for you because I am going to tell the Lord to pray for every new person here this morning. And if you come to hear something, where we are at, what time is it? Then you’ve got to hear, we are at the midnight hour crossing over. And I’ll tell you one thing; you take advantage while you’ve got the time for the night cometh when no man shall work. Now let’s praise the Lord together. I’d have got out of here pretty quick if I’d have shut up a while ago, wouldn’t I? I want you to just praise the Lord, thank the Lord, and as you are praising the Lord, a spirit of power will move over, and the anointing of God will come upon you. And I hope and pray that He pours it into that bottle that doesn’t bust. Amen. You will receive it. Throw your arms in the air and begin to praise Him. Come on now, everybody, praise the Lord. Come on now, shout the victory! Shout the victory! Shout the victory! Oh my, great!