We have published other messages explaining that the serpent in the garden of Eden was an upright creature much in the physical image of Adam, even though he was of the animal kingdom God created. He was a servant to Adam. It was his responsibility to do the manual labor for Adam. However, when he (the serpent) allowed the devil to persuade him to seduce Adam's wife, the whole story changed. I am not going into proving to you that the eating of the tree of knowledge was absolutely a sex act, because we have all of that fully explained in other messages. The truth is, the serpent introduced the sex act to Eve strictly upon the basis of the pleasure that could be had in partaking; when the true purpose of God was that the act be entered into purely for the purpose of reproduction, not only the humans but the animals likewise. Having sex only for the purpose of reproduction, would have been eating (or partaking) of the tree of life, had the pleasure part never been introduced. However, the serpent did introduce sex to Eve strictly for pleasure; and when she learned how pleasurable it was, she went directly to Adam and introduced the same act to him for pleasure. Most of the religious people of the world reject what I am about to say because it is contrary to their traditional religious beliefs, but Eve came out of that with a dual conception; and do not tell me that is impossible, for we have scientific proof of dual conceptions. We just have to believe God allowed Eve to conceive from that serpent for a reason. Therefore she gave birth to what looked like twins, but in reality those two boy baby's were the offspring of different daddies. Cain was the serpent's son; therefore he was part animal. Abel was Adam's son with those attributes in him that made him God conscious and a revelatory capacity that caused him to know how to worship God. On the other hand, Cain being Eve's son, he had a desire to make an offering to the Creator, but he had too much of that animal nature in him to have a revelation of how to make an offering God would accept; so he just brought a nice basket of his fruit and vegetables to God, and God refused to accept it. That was just like his kind do today. They build these beautiful buildings, furnish them with the best furnishings money can but, and think God ought to be thrilled to meet with them in such a beautiful place when the truth is, they want no part of a true revelation of the Godhead, nor of His true purpose. Up until the account of Genesis Chapter 6, there were two separate seed lines of mankind upon earth, the seed of the serpent, and the seed of Adam which made them the seed of God. However, after the events of chapter 6, when the two lines began to intermarry, every child born to those mixed marriages had attributes of both sides, and could go either way, depending upon the balance of attributes. That is how those serpent seed genes survived the flood; they were mixed within the family of Noah. Also that explains why some families even today, will have one true, God fearing child and the rest be renegades, or maybe one renegade among several that serve God. The thing about it is, God knew before He ever created anything, every one that would ever give their heart to Him and that is why it can be said that they are predestinated seed of God. Their destiny was known before they were ever born, simply because of the foreknowledge of the Creator. It is not His will that any of His predestinated seed be lost. He will reach into the most remote regions of the planet to get the attention of one of His lost children; and while that one is hearing the message of his inheritance, (the gospel of Jesus Christ) a thousand serpent seed may hear the same message, and it will mean nothing to them. Oh, a lot of them may get religion, but they will never go all the way to a born again experience of salvation. These are the make believers of the world. No. You cannot pick them out for they will do every outward thing they see a true Christian doing, but deep within their heart's they have no revelatory capacity to worship God in Spirit and in truth. The one thing we can say dogmatically, is that every baby born to woman has that inherited sin lying within its genealogical makeup, and stands in need of this regeneration, or rebirth experience. The gospel is preached to all, and those who are foreordained to eternal life (because of God's foreknowledge) will eventually believe and obey from the heart, and be made clean by the washing of regeneration. Praise God! Does that sound like God picked some to be saved and left the rest to be damned? It may sound like that; but if you will examine the whole picture, it is not a matter of God picking anyone for salvation above another; but the balance of attributes in the genes of every individual. That is what makes the difference. No one will have any reason to blame God when they stand before the great white throne to be judged because the same gospel is preached to all. Whosoever will, let him come; but God already knows which one's will come to Him. God does not have to worry that more may accept the invitation to come, than what He has made preparations for at the marriage supper of the Lamb; (HIS SON JESUS) for He already knows those who by their own inability to accept the true word of God exclude themselves from that glorious gathering of the true saints of all ages. If you are hearing this, or reading this, and you can yield your heart completely unto God He will accept you. However, when Jesus sits upon the throne of His glory, He will no longer be high priest. The time of a salvation experience will no longer exist. Now is the time of salvation, just like the Bible says; but you have to remember, there are serpent seed out there that can never have a true salvation experience, no matter how much they hear the gospel preached because they are void of that revelatory capacity that must be there to receive the true experience. Do not say, Now Bro. Jackson that is not fair, because it is fair. God did not design them like that. He designed each species perfect. These are like that because of the mixture of animal and human genes way back there in the garden of Eden, when Eve allowed the serpent (their animal servant) to seduce her. Cain was of that union, and the results of that union are still present in the world today. Only when regeneration is finally completed, will that reproach upon God's human family be done away with forever.

Do you never wonder why you can go from church to church out here in this Gentile church world, and every one of them would have their own interpretation to the scriptures I am using? Is that the way the Church of the living God is supposed to be? You know it is not. It is like little children coming to the table just learning to eat good food and Daddy is saying, Do not eat that sonny, it is not good for you. Then when he drops it Mommy comes in and says, You must eat this, you need it. One says do not eat it and the other says eat it; and after a while the poor child will wonder what is right. I just use that as an illustration. How often do the same preachers get in the pulpits of the denominational churches and say we believe the word of God, and by their own preaching deny that they do. Even what they profess to believe they tear to pieces later, trying to use another verse of scripture they have no revelation of. That is just simply playing with the scriptures, and not preaching the word of God at all. When you use the word of God like that, twisting scriptures around trying to make them fit a certain traditional idea, you distort the whole picture. As for prophecy of the scriptures, there is not one verse of prophecy written to tear another one. It is carnal minded mankind that presents them like that. Every prophecy of the scriptures will somehow compliment every other prophecy of the Bible; for God has always been looking at the whole picture when He gave His prophets a certain portion of it to proclaim. Somewhere it all has to fit together. One cannot cancel out another. If God gave prophecies like that, He would be playing and we know He does not play with His word like that. That is the purpose of this message, to give the listener or reader an opportunity to see the word of God as it really is. We are not preaching this from a theological standpoint, because to me it is sickening to think of preachers doing that. What does theology have to do with presenting the gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world of humanity anyway? Just as our alarm went off this morning, (it turns the radio on instead of an alarm) a preacher was talking. It was a talk show, with a Catholic priest, a Presbyterian preacher and certain others that I do not remember, but it was a gathering of a bunch of preachers in this area. They were discussing the lottery and all of that kind of nonsense. It is bad when the religious world has come to the place that this is all they have to talk about. Will the Lottery be beneficial to our community? Is it right to have it? What will the long term effect be? I just have to say this: Nothing designed by carnal mankind is ever going to be a perfect solution to anything.

We are going back to Isaiah 24, to the scriptures dealing with and portraying the day of the Lord, which is judgment and wrath. The day of the Lord is the ending of what this era of mankind has done on earth in relationship to, and because of being sinners. He (natural man) has corrupted the earth. This prophecy portrays the earth as we see it in our day and hour. We were down to verse 5, "The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant." Like I said, the environmentalists are warning us everyday of the greenhouse effect that is threatening this planet because of our ways of living; but who can do very much about it at this late hour of time? The ocean waters are being polluted. That is a warning. The subterranean water table is being polluted by chemicals. That is a warning. Regardless of what some may say, The earth is not being defiled by the ground hogs, nor the polar bears. They are not the ones defiling this planet. They only add to the ecology. It is man creating a false environment of livelihood, that is defiling the earth. He has polluted the air, the water, everything that is vital to a healthy existence. I am not a meteorologist, but common sense will tell you, all you have to do is watch the pattern and trends of the air currents, especially in this Ohio valley that acts as a trough affecting the air currents that flow from the north and from the south, and you will understand a lot of what people are talking about. It picks up all the industrial pollution from St. Louis, Paducah, Evansville, Owensboro, Louisville, Cincinnati and right on up the trough it goes. It is no wonder that this area is called "consumption valley". Weeping eyes, runny noses, shortness of breath and tiredness are common complaints among our residents. Did God create it like that? No. All of our problems are a result of what mankind has done to the perfect creation the Creator created. When I was a boy we hardly heard of anyone having sinus problems. If you caught a bad cold you could usually blow it away in three days. I know a lot of people do not like my way of saying things, but you cannot help but know what I mean when I get finished. I do not leave you hanging, with a lot of fancy words some people have to go to the dictionary to get the definition of. Medical doctors in this area will admit that this particular area has the most respiratory infected realm of human population there is in the nation, unless you were actually living right in the cities of St. Louis, New York, or Chicago. It is because this valley traps in all of the pollution. There are certain mornings when the air temperature is just right for it, that the chemicals from the various plants up and down the Ohio River have deposited something in the air that will actually burn your nose when you breathe and burn your eyes. It was not like that when I was a child growing up. That is why I say, If time was to last another 50 years, what would our environment be like? Will it be better? No. They used to catch the fish and eat them. Now they are telling you not to eat those caught from the Ohio River. Why? Chemical pollution. Some of them taste just like diesel fuel. Something is wrong. You cannot tell me this is a natural way to look at things. This is not progress. It is a greedy, covetous, Satan planned, false environment, created by people who presume that the almighty dollar is going to take care of everything, and provide all the answers. It will not. Time will tell. It will take its toll. Therefore, the reason the earth is defiled by the inhabitants is because they have transgressed the common sense laws every one of us should be morally obligated to uphold. Every common, logical law of nature, man has just broke and tore to pieces. They have changed the ordinances and broken the everlasting covenant. That is how mankind exists here at the end of the age. I am sure of one thing, That when the fire of God's judgment starts burning, just like the rain started falling in Noah's day, it will not be because man learned how to make liquor. Back then, it was because man had defiled his own moral conduct; and that is what it will be because of the next time God's wrath is poured out upon the earth. All these other sinful things just go along with that. They are companions one of another. (Verse 6) "Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left." In what way has the curse devoured the earth? What is this curse? It is the side affects of what man's greed has produced. Did you ever notice, Malachi 4 verses 5 and 6, as it speaks for our end time fulfillment, God said this, and He will send again that spirit of Elijah to do what? To turn the heart of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. When we look back to the 60's and on back, you did not hear of this greenhouse affect. We did not hear so much about acid rain and all that. They were in the making, but they had not reached the danger proportions. However, after that Elijah message hit the earth, it looks like the minute God reached out and took him off the scene, then it was the signal for all hell to turn loose. It was just about that time, that prayer was taken from our schools. The minute prayer went out of the school houses, God took His hand off the White House, and off of the U.S. Supreme Court. This nation is leading the world in the image of immorality. There has been more rapid decay in the moral, the social family structure in this nation, in a shorter time, than any other nation on the face of this earth. Yet the nation boasts that we are the nation the world should look to as the model of democracy. That is a laughing matter now. We have got one of the greatest sicknesses running rampage over the face of the earth that mankind has ever known. The curse is the side effects of all of man's excesses. I am convinced that man has known for centuries what dope is, and what it can do to a human mind, but it is a fact that just as there has always been the knowledge of dope and what it can do; yet in every generation there was always a small percentage that was low enough and stupid enough to give themselves to it. Just look at a nation today that is crying out, We need to better educate our children. How can we expect to create more millions of dollars to educate our children in a better way of learning, and yet standing at the door in the bathrooms, in the streets, in the alleys, is every contraption of the devil to insert that evil dope, pill, powder, snuff, whatever it is, into their bodies? What good is the best mathematics going to do a human mind that is being gradually destroyed by the effects of that? It is not enough to just take the few leaves off a hemp bush, which is marijuana, and smoke it, but when they learn how to take certain chemicals and make artificial or synthetic dopes, which they say just a little bit of it can ruin you for the rest of your life. What kind of human being, what kind of brain do they have that wants to ward off the warning signs and say, give it to me anyhow? I have to say there is something wrong in this modern nation, and world. You cannot say today, that all our education has made it better for us. Our education was beneficial to us when we were willing to respect the God above that put us here to fulfill a purpose of His, and use certain things here for His glory in serving Him; but when we said, We do not need you any longer, we can get along without you, then He said, Go to it. Just go until it runs out your ears and out your mouth. We sure have that kind of a sick condition in our nation today. "And they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left." Now this is the last picture of this prophecy as we look at the effects of that day of the Lord. This is setting the stage. This is why God is compelled to eventually burn this planet with a terrible fire. You know when God does it, He will do it right. He will not cut it short because people are screaming too loud. My opinion is, when He turns the fire on, whatever method and means He devises to start this terrible inferno that the planet is to go through, it is not going to last for days and hours; but in a short interval of time He will have snuffed the light out of billions of people. They will hardly have time to scream because when He does something like this, He does not intend to play around just to torture people, just play with them like a cat with a mouse. No. The end effect is this, "Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned." That has to fit in with what we have already read out of 2nd Peter the 3rd chapter, "Seeing therefore brethren that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of men ought we to be in all manner of godly living and so forth." As Isaiah saw it from the way God showed it to him, he saw all this evil, how it has corrupted and defiled the planet, and Isaiah could see how God would bring it to an end by a terrible fire. Now right here it shows. Sure there is going to be a fire, but out of the terrible fire there is going to be a few men left. The Nazarenes and Methodists do not read it like that, but Isaiah said it; so there will be few men left. Now who could this few men be? I am sure that the few men that are left is a mortal realm of mankind that God has ordained for a purpose, that will be left alive to move into the era of time when Jesus will sit on His throne of glory and the Bride will sit in her positions, (thrones) relative to the nations she was taken out of. Those few men left of the nations, will be the nations of people they will rule over. That is what we see in Revelation 20:4.

Let us see what Jeremiah says, as we turn to his writings. Chapter 25, verse 31, "A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations.(He has something in His heart He wants to deal with, based on something that is then in existence, and it needs to be discussed.) He will plead with all flesh; He will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord." The word here is applicable to anything God sees fit to use, because when it speaks of sword here, it is an anonymous way to say He will pour out His wrath. It is judgment. It can be earthquakes, it can be terrible tidal waves, it can be raging infernos, the belching of volcanoes, or anything like that. Whatever it is, it is His sword of judgment. "Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth." The word coasts, many times is translated, from the borders of the earth. Verse 33, "And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; they shall not be lamented, (no weeping) neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground." They will just be left to decay and stink. Let us analyze that. For too long religious philosophers of prophecy have read Ezekiel 38 and 39 and have read this as well as in the 14th chapter of Revelation, along with the 16th chapter, and they group Ezekiel 38 along with Revelation and say it is all pertaining to the day of the Lord. Well, what I have read to you is pertaining to the day of the Lord here, and what I have read to you is exactly the same thing we will read in Matthew 24 and in Revelation; but Ezekiel 38 and 39 is not even related to this. In this one over here it says, and the slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth to the other end. It is going to be such a devastating condition. It is going to be done under certain conditions that they are not even going to be wept over. It literally means there will be no funeral directors around to gather them up and give them a decent burial. There will be no flowers to decorate their graves. It is going to bring such a tragedy, such a startling experience to the ones that do survive it, when it is over, they are going to know exactly why it has happened. Therefore they will not weep over the effects of it. However when we read Ezekiel 38, we do not read of that same kind of picture. What we read in Ezekiel 38 is a description of a war, a war that will have a short duration, and it is a miracle war. Yes. God will miraculously slay a great host of that army of Gog and Magog and so forth, that come against Israel, somewhere in front of us; but it does tell us, that for seven months Israel will be gathering up the dead bodies that are slain by that conflict, and they are going to be hauled, transported to a certain predetermined spot in the land of Israel, given a burial, tombstones, crosses, or something erected there to mark their place. God has already named the place, it is the valley of Hamongog. Hamongog is not Jezreel, nor Armageddon. Hamongog is not this picture we are looking at, where God pours out His wrath upon all wicked mankind. Hamongog is not the effect of the day of the Lord. It is a war designed by God and brought about by God's leading. It is one of those things that precedes the day of the Lord because it is one of the signs, the developments that shapes the social structure of man, bringing it closer to that terrible day of the Lord. In verse 33, it tells us that when that terrible wrath of God is struck in the earth, it is not going to just be somewhere in one little strategic spot. It is going to be a universal picture. Since it is a universal picture, let us try to analyze the various prophets as they saw it. Yes, there is going to be a terrible raging inferno of fire turned loose, but we must understand this: the God of heaven who has caused His various prophets to write, let us know what the end result will be just like I read in Isaiah, where it said the earth shall be burned and few men left. Now if there are few men going to be left, then we are going to read in a minute in another prophecy, Revelation 19, how that He will call for the fowls of heaven and beasts of the fields, to come to the great supper of God, that they may eat the flesh and drink the blood of the rich, small and great, the captains of the hosts and such like. You and I know, for a few men to be left on this planet, then it literally means that era of fire cannot annihilate all life, because it would mean there was no oxygen left. How many understand what I am saying. Anyone that is familiar with the atmosphere, knows hydrogen bombs, atomic bombs consume vast cubic feet of oxygen. That is why scientists for years have been fearful of a terrible hydrogen bomb to exploding, it would set off a chain reaction and you would have one explosion right after another as it is able to engulf more oxygen and feed on that. Well if we can trust the word of God, He knows there is going to be a terrible baptism of fire that is going to literally scorch and burn this planet. In some places it is not going to be to the degree that it will destroy all living species. All living species, whether they be birds, or animal life, breathe the same oxygen that you and I do. If all the oxygen is burned out of the atmosphere you can rest assured, trying to get your breath is not going to keep you alive one of these days. It will be worse than being shut up in a vacuum with no oxygen to breathe at all. I am saying these things to help you understand these scriptures. It is because of people's ignorance and unwillingness to allow the spirit of God to plant a picture of understanding in their mind's that they walk in ignorance. They would rather please the system of the church they are in than to please the God that is the author of these scriptures. We do not have another generation to make up our minds about what we are going to believe, and what we are not going to believe. I am convinced we are a generation God is giving an opportunity to have the understanding of what is and what is not laying in front of us. We do not have another generation of time to run around and try to find a church that pleases our flesh. Let us go to Matthew 24. This is the words of the Lord Himself, as He spoke in relationship to this day. This day of the Lord is the coming of the day of Jesus Christ, as He comes from heaven with all His hosts, His Bride and the angelic bodies of heaven. What is He coming to earth to do? He is coming first from the heavens to execute the judgment and wrath of God on the earth and upon wicked, sinful mankind. That judgment will be carried out in the earth in many ways, by nature being disrupted, catastrophic conditions turned loose. When we go back to Isaiah 13, as it said how the earth will be turned upside down and it will remove out of its place, only God can do a thing like that. There is not enough dynamite to make the earth change its course; but if there was a terrible earthquake brought about by an internal combustion of the pressure that bursts forth in these volcanoes scattered throughout the earth, deep down in the bowels of the earth, let us just say there is a renewing of pressure of gasses that suddenly begins to crack the earths surface, to the extent as it says in Revelation, and the cities of the nations fell. It will be worse than Los Angeles, it will be worse than Sacramento. That is not an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude. It is an earthquake that causes mountains to sink, it is an earthquake that causes islands to disappear. An earthquake that raises mountains up in other places where they had never been before. Now when you get that kind of convulsion taking place down in the earth, then this planet can absolutely rock and become ever so unstable. It will take the hand of God, after a period of time, to stabilize it again, in its transit through the universe. Yes, it is all in the plan of God. As He does it, what is He doing it for? God is going to make a fast burial of a lot of this stuff He destroys. When He makes an end of it, in some places you will never see their dead bodies, because He is going to bury them, and turn them upside down, so deep in the ground that they never will be seen. There will be tidal waves come and wash many away. Yet we do know this as it says, and as I read in other places, they will lay from one end of the earth to the other. Therefore we have got to realize, that this terrible day of the coming of Jesus, which is the day of the Lord and executing of the wrath of God, is going to bring a disastrous, chaotic period of judgment upon this planet. However each prophet saw it, you can rest assured, somewhere on this earth there will be a condition prevailing, that will be just exactly the way that prophet saw it to be. Here, in Matthew 24, is the words of Jesus as He personally speaks of the day of His coming. Verse 27, "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." This is not talking about the rapture. No. This is not the rapture. The rapture will have already taken place before this time. I hope every one of you realize that. This is the visible coming. This is when the heavens are opened, and they will see Him coming, as we see it in Revelation 19. "For wheresoever the carcass is." Verse 28 has to be understood in this light. Verse 28 is a condition that prevails, and is applicable for and to a people that precedes verse 27. "For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together." Well that is the Lord's own way of saying, or of illustrating how eagles will only come and eat on fresh killed meat. Right? How in the world do you think there is going to be a people on earth prepared to be taken out of here, sitting around listening to all these doctors of divinity chew, discuss, or debate. Are you going to get your mind made up by turning your ears to listen to that? Would eagles come down and sit near a carcass with other kinds of beasts standing there saying, Now that is not good for you? You better leave this alone. You know better than that, eagles know what they are after. They know where they are landing. They can tell by the scent, whether it is fit to eat or not. So that is like it is right now. Somewhere there is an eagle people, and they have a spiritual sense of understanding of something going on, how to appreciate the word of truth that is able to get themselves ready to be taken away to meet the Lord. Verse 28, because it is put there in that manner, helps to throw the doctors of prophecy off course. They will say, That is Armageddon. Well, Jesus was not even talking about Armageddon here, if you understand what I mean. Now verse 29 puts verse 27 in the order of time. Here He tells us that His coming will be visible from the east to the west. That proves His visible return to the earth is not something some man is going to have a monopoly on. That is why He warned us in verses 25 and 26. Verse 28 gives us a description that while you have verse 25 and 26 going on, eagles do not run to that type of stuff. Eagles know where the freshly prepared food is. Verse 29, puts the coming in its order, because He tells us, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days." What is He talking about? The ending of the week of Daniel, which is the last three and one half years of that week of prophetic time. Therefore in our mind, that tells you and me, Jesus visible coming back to earth to fulfill all these prophecies we have read about up until now. That is going to be consummated and carried out at His visible return, as tribulation on earth is drawing to its climax. Then tribulation is ended by His terrible descent and wrath, and judgment, destroying wicked men. That ends the whole cycle. "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened." Did we not read that in Isaiah 13, how the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, how that the moon would not give its light and the powers of the constellations will be shaken? I am fully persuaded that every word of God will be fulfilled, and just exactly like it is written.

This is a day of fantasy. Fantasy is something that liberal minded thinkers like to use to fantasize something, to catch the attention of other people. We used to read about fairy land; and I want to use this little illustration. When I went to school, they used to talk about Cinderella. How many know about Cinderella? Was she someone from outer space? No. She was a make believe person that something had come along in the magic realm and changed the whole picture of her future. It was not someone coming in on a flying saucer, like we see so much of today in these make believe stories. It was not her being visited by some of these lion faced, cat faced, dog faced, monkey faced, outer space creatures. Cinderella was not escorted to the ball by that kind of creature. The truth is, they do not want Cinderella any more. They do not want fairy land with the little angels fluttering in the background. No, that is too much like the Bible. That kind of fantasy is gone forever, to the liberal minded people. They like to brag, We are people of knowledge; we believe it is possible that there can be life on other planets. Oh yes, here they come, weird looking heads, funny shaped bodies, and this modern age of mankind just simply eats up that kind of picture. How do they know what they look like? Some of these drawings could be some imaginative mind that is actually devils they are drawing. I am not altogether sure that devils (or demons) have good features when they manifest. How many know what I am talking about? God can let those devils appear, and project their image to humanity in any likeness He sees fit, to confuse this bunch of scientific, liberal minded thinking characters. We are living in an age of science, when man's mind is turned toward space; so his whole mind is being bombarded with all this fantasy. They show bodies like a man; but a head like a dog, and all sorts of things like that. Well I can imagine devils acting like that; and we know their chief enjoys pulling the wool over the eyes of carnal minded mankind; so do not be surprised at anything you may hear of. God can allow any amount of that kind of deception to come and capture the mind's of people who have no regard for His word. As we think of man today, how he looks at life, the future and so forth, we see some grim pictures. Tribulation is going to close with some conditions having developed, and having affected mortal, sinful mankind, and I tell you, I would not want to be left here to face it. "Immediately after those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken." Now I come to what I was leading up to. A few months back, they had put together a scientific film, whereby, all of a sudden scientists zeroed in with a huge microscope that peered through space of time and they saw a great big mass of asteroids, moving at a rapid speed toward the earth. Russia was notified. The United States talked with Russia. They got their rockets all ready and decided, either we will use our atomic rockets for a good thing, or those things are going to blow us to pieces. I sat and watched this thing and thought, Oh you silly, just plain stupid creatures. To imagine such a catastrophic thing could actually be, yet at the same time, how do we know but what maybe there are a few flying particles of certain substances way out on the fringes of you know where, and God has just kept them there, just enough that when the time is right He will turn them loose and let that take care of fulfilling some of these prophecies. When man is least expecting, then it will happen; but remember, I am not saying, "Thus saith the Lord" to this, I am merely dramatizing something that is in the realm of possibility; because it says here that the powers of the heavens are shaken. It also says the stars shall fall as a fig tree casts its untimely figs. I am not so sure that is Jupiter falling. Or Plato, Venus, Saturn, and those major planetary bodies; but somewhere out there, there could be a few old junk asteroids that have been floating around, just waiting to be brought into the time to fulfill God's purpose. When those things go zipping around, flying through space, creating streaks of light, anything can happen. Yes a few can land in the Pacific Ocean, and one could hit a city, and bingo, it leaves a crater. I tell you, that may be fantasy on the part of man entertaining man in this age of unbelief toward God; but it can all fit into the plan of God in the day of His wrath. Why do I say that? Because He is going to shake this old planet, and He will shake it in a way that there is nothing the scientists can do to stop it. It will not do Russia or the United States any good to do anything with their rocket; because their rockets will never get off of the ground. "And then shall appear the sign." This is why I said earlier, This sign is related to verse 27, for in verse 27 He is warning people, Take stock. When you are thinking of the coming of Christ in His visible earthly return, His visible appearance from the heavens, is going to be of such a magnitude and such a phenomena, no earthly creature is going to say, We have a monopoly. We have Him here, or we have Him there. No. They have no option on this. God has Him yonder, so to speak; and when God says, Now you can go, then He is coming. That is why you have to see verse 27, as we see it then in verse 30. "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." His wife the Church, and all the saints of the ages are going to be with Him. I believer it is Zechariah chapter 14, that says, "Behold the Lord cometh and all His saints." Even Enoch the seventh from Adam, prophesied, "Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of His saints." To do what? To execute judgment on earth. Therefore that day of the Lord is going to literally be at the second coming of Jesus the Christ. we have one more verse of scripture to go with this. Turn with me to Revelation 14. We touched on this a little bit already. I have said this before and I say it again now, When we read from the first chapter to the ending, throughout this prophetic letter of Revelation, we are made to see Jesus, the immortal, glorified Son of God in five different image settings. We see Him in the introduction of Him in His priestly office standing in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks. You read that in Revelation 1. He is High Priest. The next image you see in chapters 4 and 5, He is sitting on the Father's throne. There, He is enveloped with the manifestation of God's divine presence. That is why His countenance takes on a different resemblance. When John saw Him standing in the midst of the golden candlesticks as the High Priest, when he turned to see, he saw one like unto the Son of Man. John knew His earthly features. That is what you have to understand. When he saw Him in the Father's position of glory, he saw Him there veiled with the manifestation of God's divine authority. That gives God the Father first and foremost attention. That is why it is that way. Simply because the throne is not Jesus' throne. It is the Father's position. Where is it? It is not on earth, it is in heaven, the realm of God's divine presence. The third place we see Jesus, is in chapter 10. We see Him there as an angel. Yet with the same rainbow, and the same scroll, only the scroll is open. That shows He has come to earth in spirit form to get His Church; to take her to glory. Next, we pick Him up in Revelation 14, and let me say this, Whoever reads this article, or watches this video, when Jesus leaves the throne of God in heaven, as He is portrayed in chapter 4 and 5, He will never be seen as He was in chapter 1, or chapter 4 and 5, again. You need to understand that. The next setting is as He appears on earth with one foot on the land and the other on the sea. Within His hand a scroll is opened, and He lifts one hand toward heaven and cries with a loud voice. That is His next position as time moves forward in relationship to this prophecy. It is dealing with His coming for the Church; instead of Matthew 24, because the world will not be seeing Him when He comes for His Church. When He has taken His Church, we are moving through time, and we are moving through the tribulation on earth; but we (the bride Church) is in heaven, and time is running out. In chapter 14 in the 14th verse, let me word it like this, The same one that had been on earth with the open scroll and the rainbow about His head, is now in heaven. "And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man." Is it not strange, He has the same facial features He had when He was High Priest? but He is not High Priest here. Hear what I say! He is not High Priest any longer. Why? "Having on His head a golden crown." This crown cannot be placed there until His mediatorial work is finished. When the crown is placed there, He has already got His wife in heaven with Him. The rapture is over. The tribulation has been going on, down on earth, and it has just about run its course. Now the attention is on what is about to take place up there. There, He sits on the cloud. He is crowned. This is the crown of a King. "Having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle." The scroll has been laid aside, because it has done fulfilled its purpose. "And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe." This is another way that the Spirit is saying, The day of the Lord has arrived, and it is time to turn loose God's wrath. Here is one way it is turned loose. "And He that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped." That is portrayed like a man taking a sharp sickle and stepping out into a field of small grape vines. May I say this, In the land of Israel, grapes do not grow in arbors like we see them here. They grow on grape vines, bushes, they crawl around on the ground. I used to think all grape vines had to be trellised up, put on poles or tight wires. Not in Israel. They grow on a shrublike vine. That is why, when the spies went into the land of Canaan, they just pulled up one of these fruitful vines, the whole thing, turned it upside down and stuck a pole through it and came back. That is what you have to see, to understand what is written there. "And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God." Here is how Armageddon, spiritually, is set in motion, for the great battle, from the military standpoint, as to what man in his destructive means will bring about on the face of the earth. "And the winepress was trodden without (or outside) the city, (Yes, in the plains of Megeddo, where ancient battles have been fought.) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs." That is going to be a terrible war. Saints, I want to ask all of you seriously, How do you listen to the news? What do you see coming together? We have watched the Communist world topple in just a few short months. It is very evident that soon as it becomes concrete and positive that the nations of Europe themselves will never pose as a common threat to each other, and as soon as it appears that Russia is no longer a common threat to disrupt the process of what is being accomplished in the European structure, you will see this nation, by conditions that prevail, gradually bring her armament home, because Europe will do it alone. She will have to do it alone. Something will make Europe become such an empire, with such an industrial potential she will be forced to do it alone. She will gain in a short period of time, such a structure, economical wise, and such a unity in her objective, that it will be said, just as it is said in the Bible, Who is able to make war with the beast? Listen, I hear also that we are to start pulling troops home from Korea. We are going to start pulling troops from the Pacific. Our Secretary of Defense goes to Manila and they spit in his face after we have given all that aid, aid, aid, for years. Now they are saying go home! go home! go home! Why is it that way? Sooner or later the kings of the east will no longer have a power to protect them there as to what will happen in the Far East. That Far East, just as Russia has fell to bring this one up, will fall to bring everything under one flag. When this battle of Armageddon is brought about, it brings the kings of the Far East to fight in a battle. I have to say, I pray that none of us are around when it takes place. I pray that we are in the balconies and courts of heaven, waiting to come in the great descent with our Lord. I tell you brothers and sisters, all this mass armament that the world has built over these last years, which right now they are thinking we can stack it up, we can begin to dismantle because we will not need to fight any more. Do not worry; there will still be enough of it laying around to fulfill the scriptures. Armageddon is going to be a terrible thing for those who are left here; but that is all in the hands of a very capable Creator; and His plan and purpose is flawless, so we need not worry. If worrying would help, we have plenty to think about; because we know so many who are completely without regard for a righteous God; but it takes more than worrying to change a picture like that; so just be thankful that you are among that number that will escape the wrath of God, when the abominations of the earth have reached the point of reckoning.

Israel is coming home, but I want us to look at something. If this is the hour God is going to show His miraculous power as it says in Isaiah and Zephaniah, when he will lift up an ensign to the nations, saints, I want to be spiritually alert. I do not want to miss anything. That ensign refers to some kind of miracle He will do on the international scale. He will make a way. That is not a highway, yet it is referred to in prophecy as a highway. We realize that kind of highway is a spiritual way for the Jew to be brought home by a miraculous act of God on the international scene and that emphasizes the nearness of the coming of the Lord for His Church. I just have to laugh when I read how Washington stipulates concerning their aid to Israel to help resettle these immigrants from the Soviet Union, that Israel is not to use any of it to resettle them in the occupied areas (which in reality are actually areas of prophetic insight). If that has to build up first, then remember, the scene will build up international wise so that when God does act, no man can claim to be the manipulator of it. People will be forced to recognize God is God. I believe God has timed a lot of things for your and my benefit in line with that. He is giving us a chance to recognize something that the world knows nothing about. When we Gentiles can begin to recognize the hand of God, I believe we can begin to see His hand because the two pictures of God begin to move together. Look what happened following World War 2. There was on the political scene a bringing out of Europe, of those displaced Jews. Then, at the same time, God began to move in the Gentile church world in a supernatural way. He did not do it within the ranks of the old fundamental systems, which was the last thing He had moved among. He just picked up there and began to move on. That is why divine healing and soul salvation, the way it was administered, became a great move of God. That move carried out its potential purpose while God was in the process of regathering Judah and establishing it as a nation. However, when Judah became established, that deliverance hour just sort of played out. That does not mean God changed His mind. You just have to remember, He has a plan and He is going to fulfill His plan. There is a lot more to this, and we will see a lot more take place on the international scene as time moves toward the end. Let me say also, "The Age of Regeneration," covers to broad a scope to deal with it entirely, the way we would like to, at this time. I will say this at this time, There are entirely too many prophecies within the total scope of God's word to even try to put them all in four sermons. However, we are going to do our best to cover the most important ones in an effort to project the picture of what the age of regeneration is all about. We read the text from Matthew 19:28, where Jesus was answering the question Peter asked, What shall be ours, seeing that we have forsook all and followed you? Jesus answered, "Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, (that is talking about taking His earthly, kingly position in Jerusalem, on the ancient throne of David, which was prophesied, because He, Jesus, is the seed, the Son of David that will fulfill that.) ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." That part lays over here in this, (pointing to the chart illustrating the Millennial reign of Christ and His bride Church) as we recognize how the entire Bride of Christ that will be taken up in the rapture and married to Him, will consist not only of that first age of Christendom beginning first with Jewish saints, then moved off that scene among the Gentiles and the whole Bride of Christ is made up of the beginning Jews and finally the Gentiles which the Lord called to make up the major body. We covered the major prophecies that deal with the day of the Lord and what it is. It is the coming of Christ to execute wrath, judgment and destruction on the earth. For what reason? To fulfill what God has foreseen and shown through the prophets, how this world would be in these later days. How evil and sinful, rebellious, and corrupt mankind would become. That is what constitutes the necessity for God to judge this world of humanity as we see it pictured here. We want to go to the 19th chapter of Revelation, and we are going to pick up a prophecy there, beginning in verse 11. This is a scriptural scene of the actual event of the Lord's descent from heaven, just as it is described in Matthew 24, how immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun is to be darkened and the moon and stars be affected, and then shall appear the sign of the coming of the Son of Man in power and great glory. It is portrayed by the Spirit of God, as He gave John an insight into that great and glorious event. This scene is not the rapture of the bride Church; it is the visible, bodily return of the Lord in glory, with His saints who have already been taken there. He is coming first to execute judgment and wrath and to destroy wicked mankind from the face of the earth, and to renovate the earth of the conditions that man in his carnal, sinful state has built upon the planet. God has many ways in which He is going to get rid of it, so let us begin reading. (Rev. 19:11) "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True." Let us analyze Faithful and True, and compare it with Isaiah 7 and Isaiah 9. Isaiah 7, speaks of how the virgin would give birth to a Son, and thou shall call His name Emmanuel, which we know in fulfillment means God with us. Then in Isaiah 9 it speaks of how He is to be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. All those titles are attributed in and to the person of Jesus Christ. We know all those titles are in relationship to Him in His personal identity, as He came to be God's means of salvation to lost mankind. That is why for 2000 years, if we understand the scriptures, (the Godhead scriptures) in the right revelation, we can see what all those titles are bringing out in the redemptive work of Christ in the whole scope of the plan of salvation. Right here, we see another title brought forth. "He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war." This is not names, but titles that describe the character that is to be expressed in and through His kingly work. Once God has invested in Him the authority to come to earth to be King, to be Judge, not as we see it in heaven, but to be a Judge in wrath for a period of time on earth. These titles are pointing to the attributes in the way the Spirit will use Him to bring this all about. It says here, "His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns." Well you know that many crowns on His head is only figurative. What a crown symbolizes is a kingly government or authority. He now has been given the right to come to earth and take over all governments and kingdoms of the world. We would not literally see a huge pile of crowns stacked upon His head, because when we look at the world and the many nations, and races, and governments that there has been through time, that would be sort of an abstract picture. Nevertheless, that is the way it is portrayed to John and we see it by revelation of the Spirit. Then we have to put it in reality, as far as application. It means the authority to be King of kings, and Lord of lords over all the earth is in effect. "And He had a name written, that no man knew, but He Himself." This name is evidently to show how, or this name brings out His kingly role. Jesus, as we know Him from His first advent, is a name that brings out how God will name His whole family. That is God's family name. That we really must understand. As I have said before, It has a compound meaning. It is not only God's family name, but it also means He (God) will save His people. However, as He comes again, whatever that name is, it is not talking about a salvational role. It is laying emphasis upon another role that pertains to how He will be seen, and addressed in His kingship. The name is not written, but we do realize it is a new name that has to be tied in with the fact you and I are going to be given a new name also. You can read that in Revelation, chapter 3. This has caused many people in the Branham following, (because Bro. Branham made a statement along this line and they immediately jumped to the conclusion that William Marrion Branham was the Lord's new name) because they saw how God used him in the power and demonstration the Spirit, in a way comparable more to that of Jesus than any other man. People are very prone to jump to conclusions way ahead of time, than they are to wait for a clarification of terminology. As long as we are in this mortal flesh, we are not going to know that name. You can be sure of that. There is another thing sure. When we are changed to be like Him, (Jesus) to have a body like Him, then it means our spirit is going to see things altogether different than what we do through this carnal realm of understanding. Therefore those things will be known then, and not before. This new name, He Himself was the only one that knew it. "And He was clothed with a vesture." If you look up the word vesture in the dictionary, it literally means, He is clothed with a cloak. Many of you have seen pictures of kings in their cloaks; but how many ever saw a picture of a famous general? Generals today do not wear them; but back many centuries ago, generals, in their dress, wore a cloak draped over their shoulders. This cloak was so ornamented, it brought out all the rank and authority of the man who wore it. Therefore, we can actually say this word vesture, pertains to a coat or cloak. A coat puts it in the twentieth century, but in the true translation, it literally means a cloak. This cloak is significant of the fact that as Jesus has already chosen His Bride, and they are married in the plan of God. He is ready to execute His wrath upon the planet earth, upon sinful mankind. This wrath is going to be executed and carried out in and through the person of His only begotten Son whom we have known by the name JESUS. Now for that to be, He has to be invested with the authority and power to carry out that phase. Therefore, as He sits astride this white horse, He is to be looked upon not only as the King which He is, but He is to be known for something else at the same time. Remember, in ancient times, kings, when war was going on, did not sit at home on their thrones while their generals were leading the forces. Usually the king was out in the battlefield somewhere, supervising the operations. That is what we have to see in the person of Jesus as this scene is unfolded. This is a cloak, but it describes this cloak as dipped in blood, which is red. What is this signifying? We will read. "And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood." All of this signifies how He now has the authority to fulfill every scripture of prophecy, major and minor, that deals with whatever the prophets of old have spoken concerning this terrible day of the Lord. In other words, Jesus, this immortal Son of God, has the power and authority to set in motion in His descent from heaven to earth to carry out every means of wrath, destruction, and vengeance upon the face of this earth. As we read the various scriptures in the many places, we find that there will be terrible earthquakes. In many places terrible volcanoes will be belching out lava. In other places the mountains will disappear, and the islands will flee from sight. What does all of this signify? Jesus is coming. He has the power to execute and turn loose every force there is in the universe to constitute God's wrath. It is all accomplished in and through the person of Jesus the Christ. Think of how mankind has preached about Jesus being the compassionate Son of God, the one that was willing to take your place and my place at Calvary. We, who were unloving, were loved by Him that much, that He would literally die for us. He is merciful and that is all we have ever seen of Him, his mercy. We do not see, or even imagine Him to be one that could execute such terrible wrath upon the earth. We do know this: When this era or period of God's grace and mercy is over, and God begins to set in motion things to change the world order and execute His plan, Jesus, as this scripture is fulfilled, is no longer going to be seen as that merciful, compassionate Savior. He is going to be seen as the King of kings, and Lord of lords. He is coming in wrath to execute judgment upon wicked mankind. He has the authority to turn loose any means there is, both in nature as well as in political and military forces to accomplish God's purpose. That is why there will be an Armageddon that will be, we might say, one of the final earthly things that will help bring about what we see here in this cloak dipped in blood. We do know this, as I read the other night of the last scriptures showing how Jesus is seen in the book of Revelation in five different images. Two of them portray Him in His mediatorial work. The third one is chapter ten where He is seen coming for His Church. That is the secret catching away of the bride Church. Then the fourth one is in the fourteenth chapter where He is already crowned, sitting on a white cloud. He has the authority to unloose spiritual forces for the purpose of gathering together the vines of the earth, which is none other than the forces that make up Armageddon. The fifth one is right here. He is King. He is the King that is going to fulfill that long awaited picture the Jews have read about in all their prophecies. They know that one day their Messiah, which will be the seed of David, will come. The part we know, that they do not, is that He has already come one time and their forefathers condemned Him to die.The Age Of Regeneration - Continued