Address—P. Wilson
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This is an address given by her brother Paul Wilson in the 9.
Old Testament prophecies fulfilled.
Constantly before me this evening.
This is the ordinary evening for the young victim.
Oh, we'll all be young people together tonight, I trust.
And I would like to speak tonight.
Tonight.
Of prophecy.
And don't get the wrong idea, I don't want to speak of prophecy as something.
With the future and failure of minds with that.
I would like to go back into the Old Testament a little tonight and speak a little of.
You see, there is a wondrous works of God in his book.
You know how many people have gone with Hicks and Spades?
To the old lands.
Archaeologists, they call themselves.
To dig up rocks and evidences of.
Christianity.
A man by the name of States.
We found out many things that were profitable to establish and strengthen the faith of the believer in the Word of God.
You know the antelope likes to reason against the word of God.
And anything that doesn't mind is wrong, so he says.
They find fall with everything they can think of.
If they can't find a certain king mentioned in the word of God, they say the word of God is wrong. He didn't live.
Then along comes some man uncovers a stone that tells about.
Well, they never always high their chagrin and never admitted they were wrong.
But we know there were. But we do not need the archaeologists paid to tell us anything that will prove the authority of the Word of God.
The greatest evidence to my soul.
Of the correctness of their precious book is its perfection inside of it, when I see that it was all plant.
All given by 1 spirit.
The book is one whole from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, and it's all tied together by indissoluble links.
You can take away one part without ruining ruining another.
We sometimes say that the book of Genesis is the same part of the Bible, and in the book of Genesis we have the beginnings and we have in tight and shadow, in embryo, shall we say, the truths that are later unfolded through the book. Everything except redemption and God's dwelling with men that was reserved with the book of Jack. Exodus.
Then the Old Testament goes on after telling of Christ and Tyson Shadow, when Christ is always before the mind of God, before the mind of the Spirit of God. But he tells of Christ coming back with his Saints to execute judgments, and of Christ reign on the earth.
Well, we come to the New Testament and we find that Christ came when he was rejected. He's gone back to heaven.
And the Spirit of God is down here now, gathering out of people for heaven. We do not read of that in the Old Testament.
We get that in the news where you say how then can you put it all together? If we didn't have the Book of Revelation, we'd not know how. We would not know how to correlate.
We all lose, for instance.
Look at the the oral Testament clauses looking for the sun to shine in its strength, writes the Sun.
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When it comes to rain.
The New Testament closes with the Morning Star, which appears first. Morning Star, of course.
Some other New Testament closes with an earlier look, with an earlier prospect than the oldest.
And if we didn't have the Book of Revelation, we'd not know. We would not know how to put together the things concerning the earth.
And concerning the heaven. And in the Book of Revelation we see them all put together in their order.
So the Book of God is like a hammock. It's tied together, both ends.
Now I meant we were mentioning night before last.
Some of Israel's failure. You see everything that God ever committed into the hand of man.
Failed in his hand.
You go back and you'll find it in Innocence in the Garden of Eden.
God leaves man outside of the garden with a conscience.
And he becomes utterly lawless. Corruption, violence still there.
And God cleans the air to the club.
Started over with Noah and his posters but no immediately gets drunk.
So I mentioned here an in for a long time was left telling a lot of things against the Bible to a bunch of unbelievers and every time he made a supposed point they all roared hilariously to see the ridiculous points of the oath of the Bible.
First he said, you know, there were three people, four people on earth, Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel. And Cain killed Abel. So there were three honors. And he said, and then King went out and got a wife. Now where did it get? And they all roll.
Then he says, there was a flood on earth and everything was washed up. Please.
Came out of the Ark.
And he made some wine and got drunk. Now where could he get the grapes to make the wine?
He says and then there was that man like Elijah and he cursed those children and two she bears came out and ate 42 of them. He says mine what stomachs they must have and they were all again.
And he said. And then there was a man by the name of Jonah, and he got thrown overboard.
A whale swallowed him, and he says, and you know what? A little throat they have, They couldn't swallow a man. Well, they're all.
This Christian was in the adjoining room. He pulled the sliding doors apart. He came out of his Bible in his hand with his fingers in four places.
He said. Gentlemen, I have heard.
All has been said against the Word of God here tonight.
I will let the Word of God speak for itself.
And he read the summary of Adam's life in Genesis 5.
Adam lived so many years and he begat sons and daughters.
He says there it tells you where he got his wife. She was his sister.
It says Nora came out of the Ark and the script and he read the scripture and know all planted a vineyard.
And began the real husband, he says. That's where he got the grace the word of God tells.
And he went to Second Kings.
Two and he said, and two she bears came out of the wilderness and tear 40 into children. You know, it's no difficulty for a very slight children of men. These were young relatives. They were children, little children.
It says they didn't. The Bears didn't need big stomachs to terror.
And he said, And the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow junk. It never said it was over here.
Close his book and walked out of the room. close the door.
That man got up and left without saying another word. Never came back here while that Christian lived. When the info criticizes this book, dear young Christian, remember he's ignorant.
He just doesn't know.
And the oil, there is the oil lies that the devil is propagated for the last hundreds of years. They still tell it. I had a young man come to me not long ago.
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He was quite troubled, a young Christian.
He said work. They tell me that.
The Bible is wrong because.
It doesn't tell us how Cain got away.
I hope my Bible and register and I said you see it.
Yes, but that wasn't the way they told it to me.
They'll tell you anything against the word of God, but don't believe it. If they speak not according to this word, it is because I have no life in them.
Now the streets go on a little further.
Everything failed and began to fail again in the hand of Noah, and after Noah's day they started to worship idols behind which were demons.
That was an innovation of Satan that man accepted.
Finally, Bob picked up one man, Abraham.
The choicest sample of the human race.
Called Abraham and he said, I, I want you to leave your, I believe your family, leave your home, leave everything that you've known and come out.
He is strange. Abraham obeyed, he went out, and God made a covenant with Abraham seek and he revealed himself to them as joy. Regard the one who never changed.
Who is who was who is the past?
And he had them. He separated from them, from the nations. He dwelled in their midst, and immediately they started worshipping false gods.
They had already come out of the land of Egypt until they were making a golden calf.
With the idol that the Egyptians were, they brought idolatry with them out of Egypt.
He sent prophets to them, they wouldn't listen. And last of all, he sent them to them, his son, and they said, this is the air, let's kill him. They fought him and cast him out of the vineyard and soup.
Now that's the Old Testament.
In that's abbreviated form, but it's failure, failure, failure of everything in the hand of Mass. You come to the New Testament. The Lord Jesus is here on earth, and he's rejected.
Then we go on, we come to the action. We see the Church of God formed on earth and the gospel going up. A man rejected that.
Judgments on its way. It's headed this way. It's decreased the day for the judgment of the point is set, the judges appointed, everything is ready.
Now let's go back to something else. Go back to Israel's closing days. Look at the last chapter, Second Chronicles.
Chronicles in the last step.
This last chapter of Second Chronicles brings us to the end of the Kingdom of Judah.
And the captivity of the jewels to the Babylonians.
Now we'll notice.
14th verse of Second Chronicles 36.
Moreover, all the teeth.
Of the priests, that's the highest point there in religion.
And the people transgressed very much after the abominations of the heathen.
And polluted the House of the Lord is over, which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers. Prophets rising up the times and sending, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remnant.
She's a long-suffering of God.
See the patience of God.
All through Israel's history.
When he set up the priesthood.
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It failed almost at once.
You set up with the Kingdom of Judah, with Day, with his anointing and Passover saw and in his son that they have broken up.
In Solomon's son is what David grandson broken up?
They went into idolatry first, the 10 knives and the two, and God said prophet after prophet to them and they wouldn't listen. Why did he send notes so many times? Because we had compassion on His dwelling place and upon His people.
He wanted despair, he pleaded.
Think what God and the patience of God these last 2000 years as the world had passed out his country, how is waited waited in patience for man to be saved?
He will not always wait.
Well.
Let's go to Jeremiah.
Prophet Jeremiah and the 25th chapter.
We mentioned night before last.
Jeremiah prophecy was given in the days of Josiah.
And at the close of Josiah life.
When the evil pronounced against Israel for their idolatry was coming upon us.
I would go to Jeremiah 25. We see what the Lord gives the prophet to say.
The Word, the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehovah son of Josiah king of Judah. That was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah.
Happens to Jerusalem, saying from the 13th year of Josiah, the son of Ammon, king of Judah, even under this day that is free, the three and 20th year. The word of the Lord had come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking, but she have not hearkened.
And the Lord has sent unto you by all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but he have not.
Harken are inclined here to hear, they said.
Turn me again.
Now everyone from his evil way, from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord had given you, and to your Father's forever and ever.
Going on after the other gods to serve them, to worship them, and provoke me to anger with the works of your hands. I will not, and I will do you nor her.
But you have not hearken unto me, saith the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt. Therefore, saith the Lord of hosts, because you have not heard my word. Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, said the Lord, and never could measure the king of Babylon my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof.
And against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing and perpetual desolation.
And this whole land should be a desolation and an astonishment. And these nations will serve the king of Babylon 70 years. And it shall come to pass, when the 70 years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon.
And that nation set the Lord for their iniquities and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
The Lord had prophesied to the children of Israel through Jeremiah that He was going to turn them over to the Babylonians.
He was going to let them come and destroy their land, destroy the temple, take them over to Babylon as captives and they be there for 70 years.
Now that was a specific prophecy, wasn't the Lord said they're going there, You're going there for 70 years.
Now Jeremiah was permitted to stay with the few that were left in the land.
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And he pleaded with them to stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, but many of them would not. Most of them would not. They went down to the king of Egypt and took Jeremiah with him. And that's the last we hear of Jeremiah.
But they were thorough, that is sure, as it went down to the king of Egypt, the shore would overtake them there.
Now, if you would follow several of those Old Testament prophets.
You will find that while Jeremiah stayed with a few in the land and later was carried to Egypt, violence.
Ezekiel went over, was taken captive, and he prophesied to the captive by the river keyboard.
Daniel was taken captive as a very young man, and he was taken to Babylon.
And he lived through the whole of the seven years of Israel's captivity and battle.
Now when you come to the 9th chapter of Daniel, you find that Daniel was reading this prophecy that they were only to be there 70 years.
So Daniel says I understood by books.
The time comes with the ending of that captivity in which a return Daniel praised confesses his sins and the sins of his people, preparatory for them to be restored to their land. Then Daniel was given the prophecy of the 70 weeks.
Carries them on to the coming of Christ and death, and even though he's coming again to reign.
Daniel was given understand that it was not for him to go back at the end of the 70 years.
He was to go his way and rest.
But he fully believed what God said, that when 70 years were up, the people would return.
He understood by books.
I like to think of Daniel as a student of prophecy.
We always think of Daniel as the cross, and indeed the Lord called him Daniel the Prophet. You know the There's another place for dancers.
I was talking with.
One who has had very close contact.
With infidelity in the schools of higher learning.
And I was told yes Lord, this last Lords day.
I'm a professor that insisted the Daniel didn't lawyer when scripture said he that he lived much later and wrote history and not prophecy.
But you know that can be smashed to atoms.
You can just eradicate that whole thing.
Why? Well, in the days of Egypt's greatness.
They had a Greek translation of the Old Testament.
All the Septuagint version made by 70 Hebrew stars who translated the Old Testament in the Greek.
And that was long before the day that Christ came.
And the book of Daniel is there.
The Book of Daniel is in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, and the the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament was made long before.
The Imperial, says Daniel.
Therefore the infidel can't be right and there's the evidence to prove is false is is false statement.
Now.
Seven years were to be accomplished.
There was a definite time children and children were to be in captivity and then they were to return.
Somebody might have said, well, I don't believe it.
And in Albert who 70 years riding her course and when they were up and went back. But let's see more about that turn to Isaiah now.
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Not the 42nd chapter, I think it is.
Isaiah.
A long time before that, read The First Capital of Isaac you see when he lives.
Final king.
And whose reign he lived with Hezekiah. Oh, you see, it was quite a ways back.
I said 14 two.
Isaiah 44 and the last verse.
That Seth Osiris, he is my shepherd and shall perform all my pleasure, even saying to Jerusalem.
Thou shall be built, and to the temple thy foundation shall be laid.
5th verse to the next gap. This is the word to Cyrus, the Persian king from the Lord. I am the Lord, and there is none else. There is no God beside me.
Girded thee, though thou has not known me.
They may know from the rising of the sun and from the West.
That there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.
I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I, the Lord, will do all these things.
Now why does the Lord?
They this desire he named this man. He called him by name 150 years before he was born.
We found out here that Jeremiah told over 70 years before the captivity, before they went into captivity, that they would remain in captivity 7 years.
Now we go back further, go to Isaiah and he said the Lord says Cyrus is the one that's to send them back.
Is my shepherd. He'll perform all on my list.
And now he said that Cyrus himself I am the Lord, and there is none else. You know why he said that?
Created life and create darkness. Well, the Persians.
Had a dual dual personality for a God, Allerman and Orman. You'll find variations of those words, but they have a religion of they have a God of life and the God of God.
I think our word matters there from the for the electric light bulb comes from that gulf.
Hormones.
I'm not positive, but they had a God of light and the God of darkness that was the Persian religion.
God says to Cyrus, I'm jealous and there's none else. I create life and I create darkness.
And so he corrects right at the foundation when he mentions him 150 years before he's born, the error that he would have in his Kingdom, his dual God, the dual God.
Now, he says, Jerusalem shall be built and the foundation shall be laid.
How do you believe that all took place just as Buck said it would?
Let's see turn to evidence.
Right after Second Chronicles comes out.
And right here, maybe I should make a comment for the message of the young people.
If you know, the books of the Bible were placed in their order by man.
That is most government, the Psalm. We have divine order, and that's verified in the New Testament.
Because the 2nd Psalm is named by number.
There were five books of songs when they each have their own character and their series of songs which one follows the other.
Most of it man put the books in their order in which we find.
Now, if you want the last books of the bite of the Old Testament historical, you'll find them at Ezra and Nehemiah and Esky.
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Ezra is the one book that takes the people back to Palestine.
To build a temple, Nehemiah tells that they're going back to later to build a wall.
Esther is a book of God's providential care of the Jewish people that stayed in the Persian Empire.
Those three books are the last books historic Ezra, Nehemiah and Ezra and Nehemiah taking the people back, first to build the temple, then to build the wall, but Esther Speaking of the Jews that remained in the Persian Empire.
And showing God's providential care, I also make this comment.
In the book of Esther, the name of God is not found once.
The envelope has criticized that as though it weren't true, that Made Book wasn't true.
It is a part of the divine perfection of the book. Esther never named the name of God.
That whole book doesn't mention because God is his own, the people. The sentence of Roy am I are not. My people have been written on them and God is dealing with them from heaven in a providential way, not openly acknowledged.
But in Providence, so overseas, moving the scene but from behind the sea.
Now, may I also make a comment on that?
I hope I'm not getting into these young people, but not maybe I. But I'd like to make a comment on the book of.
You know there is what we call the apostles.
It was formerly found in the Catholic Bible, the Old Joy Version.
Martin Luther put it into his German box.
We did not have it in the King James version, the Revised version, Shandy translation, or any of those we're familiar.
What is the Apostle? The Apocrypha is a group of additions to the Old Testament.
That do not belong there. They're not a part of Scripture.
And I'll give you 4 reasons why they're not.
One is they never claim to be the word of God.
And never say once dust set the law.
The next thing is the Jews were the custodians of the Old Testament. Under them were committed the oracles of God, and they never recognized one part of the Apocalypse as God's work.
The third reason that I will mention is that it was never written in Hebrew, all in Greece.
And the fourth reason I'll mention is that the Lord and the and his apostles never once quoted from the apostles.
Four reasons why we do not recognize the apartment. Now let me add this.
That the revised standard version.
This corruption of the King James Version that came out first in 1946 in the New Testament, later for the Old and the New English Bible put out now by Oxford and Cambridge and bringing all of these new translations are coming out with the Apocalypse.
Now, if you doubt my correctness on this, all you would have to do is read parts of the Apocrypha and you would recognize it. Once that it's not the word of God, it's a lot of nonsense.
1St and 2nd Maccabees are pretty good history, but that's all it is. But all that stuff that they've added to the book of Daniel about Bell and the Dragon, just so much rubbish.
Now, when we come to.
The book of Ashton I just said that the name of God isn't mentioned in it. In the Apocrypha there's a whole lot more the savage to look up, and the very first verse of the apocryphal apocryphal part of Esther gives the name of God, showing that they the thoughts who added it had no understanding of the purpose of the book.
My dear young Christian friends tonight.
My aim tonight is to establish you.
More firm than ever before in the truth of this book that is the Word of God.
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That where our faith might stand in the whole Word of God, it's perfect and complete and there's nothing can be taken from it and nothing added to it.
Well, now in the book of Ezra, now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, where do we read about him before? In the book of Isaiah, 150 years before.
That the word of the Lord might by the mouth of Jeremiah. Here's Isaiah and Jeremiah corroborated bias is.
That the word of the Lord by the mouth of that Jeremiah might be fulfilled. The Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus being a person.
That he made a proclamation throughout all his Kingdom and put it also in writing.
You'll see later if we had time to go into it, but that was important that he put it in rice.
Saying thus says ours, King of Persia, the Lord daughter, Jehovah God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me.
To build him a house, that Jerusalem which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? His God. Be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah, and build the House of the Lord God of Israel. He is the God which is a Jerusalem.
And whosoever remains in any place where he sold journals, let him let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, and besides the free will offerings to the House of God, that is in Jerusalem.
How perfectly this is being looked dangerous.
Bringing together.
Israel's condition, The why of Israel's dispersion.
The time of Israel's dispersion, the time for them to go back.
The according to Jeremiah and according to Isaiah, the man that should proclaim us, the man that should say start now. We go on in the book of Edges.
4th chapter.
Well, there's one thing more we should we should stop, start to look at the place before that, the third chance.
Second verse then stood up Joshua the son of Josephic and his brethren, the priests, and Rubble the son of Cialgio. Incidentally, Zerubbabel mean deliver from Babylon.
The last verse we have the property.
Nerabool is delivered from Babylon as a type of Christ.
The son of Shalgil and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel. To offer burnt offerings thereon is, as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God. And they set the altar on his basis, for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries, and the author burnt offerings. Their honor to the Lord even burnt offerings morning and evening, and they kept the Feast of Tabernacles.
Reverting to what Leviticus 23 gave them, the Feast of Tabernacle, the tells of the grave in gathering in the future day or they've gone back to the place in ruins, but they kept the feast of Tabernacle. The time of the year came forward and they kept, but the first thing they did was build the Oliver and offer bird offerings on there on morning and evening.
Now we go down.
10th verse of that chapter. When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, they set up. They set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the tons of ASAP with symbols to praise the Lord after the ordinance of David, king of Israel.
And they stand together by course, and praising and giving thanks unto the Lord, because He is good for His mercy endured forever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shot when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the House of the Lord was first they set up the table, then they started delay the foundation. But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers who were ancient men, they had seen the 1St house when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice, and many shouted a loud rejoice, so that the people could not discern the noise and the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people.
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For the people shouted with a loud shout and the noises heard afar off. What mixed emotions filled with people's minds when they saw this zoo temple built.
Instead of Solomon's that had been destroyed. Solomon's glory. Probably more gold in that than the United States has at Fort Knox.
Wealthy things, beautiful, magnificent, but now they go back and they do it without this and it seems so insignificant in comparison to the old men that they wet and the young men shouted for joy that the foundation of the Lords House was laid. Both thoughts. You're all right. We can't condemn your own men or the young men. Isn't so today?
We look at a people company gathered through the name of the Lord Jesus.
And our thoughts go back to the day of Pentecost and say all the church together, all all in one place, all in one mind, all with one testimony. And we see the Church of God broken and scattered today. And we see a people testimony left. Well, if we compare the two, we can shut week a week.
To see how the testimony of the Lord indeed David is been so broken in shack, and yet you see somebody brought into the truth of what it is to be gathered to the Lords name as at the beginning. And he so thankfully found it, and he saw all a new revelation to him. He could shout for joy.
The Lord has brought him into well, both attitudes are right in their place.
Well, we go on 4th chapter, When the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity built at the temple under the Lord God of Israel, they came to the rebel under the teeth of the fathers, and said in them, Let us build with you.
Oh, the enemy now wants to get in and join the world. That's always been attempt to do of the devil is to join us. If you can't fight it, join.
See, that's what they did when they.
The devil got this.
Woman in the 16th of last to go around proclaiming these be the men of the most high God. He was trying to join us and when Paul rebuked the Spirit and their hope of their the hope of their games was gone and they persecuted all the time.
So.
Forth first, then the people of the hand weakened the land, weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and trouble them in building, and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose. All the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of the Rise, king of Persia.
All opposition now.
You know that wherever anything is, according to God, you can expect the devil's opposition.
Anything when it was a case of building this temple, this temple to the God of heaven in the land that have been forsaken and in which enemies dwelt.
They couldn't tolerate the idea of a house being built to the God of heaven, and they opposed it and they they tried to join them. When they couldn't join it, they opposed it and they did everything they could to stop the work.
You lost the day and you can reach the Gulf.
If you'll preach a popular prosecutor, if it'll tell a man that you could be sure you can get to heaven when you die.
If you'll give your heart to Jesus now, you'll never find that expression in Scripture, you know?
God tells man to repent.
Except Christ, as you say, but they it's something they can do. What does God want with an unbelievers who wicked heart give your wicked heart to Jesus. No, he wants them to repent believe the gospel. But if he goes out and preaches a popular gospel that the let him go on with his amusements, let him go on with his all his affairs in the world. It can be popular. You can preach that kind of a gospel and get thousands to hear you.
But you go out and preach A crucified Christ. Rather the world rejected what the world still doesn't want, and they won't watch it. And then you go out beyond that and tell them, I found the place. There is a place where you can give up all to men.
All encumbrances that have been added to Christianity and get back to the original and keeping Christ's name and keeping His word, honoring his name, just that and you will find opposition. What the world doesn't want that, the enemy doesn't want that. And whatever is of God at the moment is the object of the devil's opposition. If it was building a temple, that was it. Today you stand true to the name of and the Jesus and the word of God, the word of his patience. Say that this world is going on the road.
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And God was calling out a people for heaven to be separated from this world and just to wait for Christ to come back. And it won't go over at all.
You don't believe me, Try it on your friends. Now in the 24th verse of work chapter, then cease the work of the Lord, a work of the House of God, which is at Jerusalem. So it seems that for the second year of the reign of the rice, I have forgotten just exactly how many years it was. But I think it was the memory surgery, right? It was about 27 years, may have been more, but it was a long time ago. Your work stopped after it was started according to the Word of God by Cyrus.
The Queen of Sirens, I'm going to have you.
This calls for another bit of explanation.
The last three prophets of the Old Testament were the three prophets that prophesied through the remnant that returned from captivity has the Zechariah Malachi are what we call post captivity problems.
The last three historical books, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther.
The last three prophetic books as I think of our Malatha. The last three books of the Old Testament.
In the second year king in the sixth month and the first day of the month came the word of the Lord by Haggai. The Providence is rubble, the son of Cialgia of Governor of Judah and the Joseph Joshua, the son of Joseph. I agree, say the state of the law.
Hope that this people say.
You notice they stopped building the House of God in Jerusalem because they were disturbed.
Doesn't say anything about this, about their being disturbed. This doesn't say anything about their opposite, the opposition of their enemies.
This people say.
The time is not come to build a time. The Lords House should be built. It simply isn't the right time.
How they reason about it, they have satisfied themselves now that it wasn't the time to do it.
So we relax, they just settle down and in those God had sent them back, allow them to go back, sent them back.
To build the temple. Now, as soon as they meet discouragement, they drop the work and they they quit. They let their hands hang down. Now, young people, you fall. We're living in the last days. We're living in the days when the devil would turn everyone of us aside, when he'll oppose every bit of faithfulness to Christ.
Now what's our attitude going to be? Are we going to say, well, these are the last days?
It doesn't seem hard. Let's get there anytime.
All right, 50 years ago, that was all right. 100 years ago, that was all right. In the Day of Pentacles, no grabbing. There is room for faithfulness right to the end.
Lord Jesus said this do in remembrance of me.
And says as often as you eat as bread and drink this cup, you to show the Lord's death to the economy. There is something to go on right to the moment that is coming. Suppose you say, well I know the Lord is coming next week. Would you give up remembering the Lord this week?
Would you give up faithfulness this week? Now notice something else. Then gain the word of the Lord by having either prophet saying there's a second message to men, Cut the skirt. Is it time for you, oh ye, to dwell in your sealed houses, and this house highways?
Now therefore thus that the Lord opposed, consider your ways. You have sown much and bring in little ye, but you have not enough events that you're not filled with wrinkly clothes you but there is none warm. And he that earns wages, earnest wages, to put it into a bag of holes. Thus set the Lord of hosts consider your ways.
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You know, sometimes.
That's a wholesome work wrong. Consider your weight.
Not that the Spirit of God would turn us inward on ourselves. That isn't the point. But there is such a thing of discouragement. There is such a thing as violence.
In the things of the Lord, Well, it was an idleness and other things. He says you live in your sealed houses. All these years they quit building the House of the law.
They had been building their own house. There wasn't any opposition to that. Brandon, you won't find any opposition. If you want to go and build a $50,000 ranch home because everyone opposed, he may help you do it.
But it may disclose her state of mind if that's what we if that's where our hearts are being set.
I'm afraid today, you know, there's nothing that's so hard on the people of God is prosperity. Your old brother Popper used to say. All that enemy, the Christian.
Prosperity. We often pray for the Saints and trouble, but Greg and I'm persuaded we ought to pray for those who prosperity.
That's where the danger is, really.
When you see me prospering, you better better be praying for them.
Because prosperity turns the heart the other way.
They could give up because of discouragement, but discouragement didn't keep them from building their own sealed houses.
Somebody said I'm calling to go to Better Homes and Gardens is going to be there on us.
He wasn't talking about a night, but all the danger of getting.
In our own mind, getting our hearts out of something grand down here.
And you know, it's all going into judgment. Suppose the Lord would come next year. Suppose he'd come next month. And and I was just living for myself and spending all for myself and having and enjoying the things down here, getting lean in my soul, something that I'd be ashamed. Then when I found out that the Lord had come, I wasted all that time and that money.
I thought we would. I think. I think that it was. We'll have some things to regret.
An officer is going to be sorrow in heaven.
To find out if the Lord has come in. The days of opportunity are gone and we let things slip by. We took this courage, retired the enemy, weakened our hands, We stopped to work diligently in the Lords.
Same Saints.
They live near our meeting.
We'd have it in California and they'll move 30-40 miles out to the outskirts. You got to go farther in Los Angeles, 30-40 miles out, and they did a lovely ranch home. They said, oh, it's only 40 minutes on the freeway. We can make, we'll make it all the time just like we did.
They don't. They don't. You come home tired and worried, 40 miles of freeway traffic looks pretty hard, and 40 miles back home.
Brothers here, then out there, they know what the three ways they're like, but it's the same thing can be true anywhere.
We have to go farther out to get what we want and all how easily our hearts get distracted. Most words are better than yours, but we're constantly in danger of giving up. And then when we give up faithfulness to Christ, devotion to Him.
We move out well, there's some of the Saints closer in that need a little bit of encouragement.
We used to drop in this season. Now we don't have time. It's so hard to get to meeting now. We make it most occasionally. I remember one night taking a brother to meeting. He said he didn't feel like going. He lived over on our end of the town. I said, well you come. He was just a mild smoke from our house. I said you stopped by here and go with me. I'm on the way down. He says I have a.
I said well brother, you know the Lord is not a hard master.
Maybe it would have been better if you just stay home tonight, he said. I'll tell you why I better.
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He says I know I have a bad headache tonight, but he says if I stay home for the headache tonight, it's going to be easier for me to stay home next week without permitting.
Well, there's some truth to that. We would like to calm ourselves. We we like to do things that.
We we, we we tend to get into ease and so the Lord says no Israel by the property says consider your last. He says what are your what are your benefited by? Said you've got your sealed houses, but I've grown on everything else.
He says you earn wages and you put it in a bag with holes.
There's a young boy here that makes some money cutting lawns if we want to take his money home and put it in the back blue holes.
No, but you want to keep it as you get. But God allowed the pastor lose the money.
We haven't any more time. I've gone back in time now, but my thought was to seek to establish the dear young folks on the truth that the Word of God is filled with examples of.
Rock not merely that which is to be fulfilled, but that which has been fulfilled. The Word of God is always prepared, exactly as God says.
And if God says it's going to happen, it's going to happen.
I remember reading one book one time on the Lord saying to the disciples, they said look at the beautiful buildings of the temple. Why he says there's not one stone there that's going to be left standing on another. The writer said if they had faith, they could have seen those tones. Some they did come down.
You think that? You think, well, at least there'd be two or three stones stuck together. The Lord said. What, one stand on another? But how did that happen? Wouldn't stone stick together? Wouldn't they be cemented together some way, or put together in grooves or something that hold them?
Letting all of that terror, that temple with Herod's temple, beautiful marble temple into 40 secures to build, embellished with gold and other things.
And when Jerusalem was destroyed by a touch of the armies of Titus, he gave explicit directions to his soldiers. Do not destroy the Temple.
That's the thing, one soldier, Joseph says through a firebrand into it temple was burned.
God, the goal with which it was embellished, was melted and ran down around the cracks of the stone.
People were so eager for the gold they literally took every stone apart from every other stone.
See if those little golden cracks.
We know and the Lord speaks. It's coming to pass and everything in the past, in the past that was prophesied came to people build exactly as it was given.
So it will forever, O Lord, thy words settled in.
Lord, we can see by differently apart of that right on the road.
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