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The
Great Suppers
Let us not
forget when we deal with kings, we deal with, In
Revelation, the mighty men and the captains. That is what
God's people are having to eat today. Do you mean the
flesh of men? NO, the sayings of these men, their beliefs
and creeds, the heads of different organizations. The
flesh of horses also, the teachings that these men put out
instead of the true Word of God. All some of them have to
say when they get in the pulpits are words of other men
and their opinions both of today and the past.
In the
6th chapter of John, Jesus said: "Except you eat of
the flesh of the Son of Man you have no life In you. But
ministers today are trying to feed people the flesh (or
words of men rather than God). But, we must partake of the
body and blood of Jesus Christ if we would live. When we
take of His Word we partake of His flesh. In the Bible we
read: "The Word became flesh and dwelt among
men." There is a great supper going on and Babylon
has her table spread. But there are some who won't sit
down to it. These are God's true children. Why not?
Because they have already eaten something better. Thank
God!
In the
19th chapter of Revelation, we read, "After these
things" (after the fulfillment of this 18th chapter),
after the Word of God has been turned loose on old Babylon
and she is fallen and God reaps out of her a people (and
they are gathering together, and God's true ministry sets
her on fire with the fire of His Word, God's eternal Word
and the Holy Spirit). When we get Babylon on fire the
saints start rejoicing the holy saints of God, wherever
they are. There is one thing the saints rejoice in and
that is old time, Holy Ghost fire and brimstone preaching
of God's eternal Word.
In the
sounding of the trumpets, you will find In the 9th chapter
of Revelation that they did hell fire preaching and put an
end to the sin business. Through that preaching men either
died in their sins or they died out to sin and became
alive unto Christ. Reading further we find that they
"With their heads they do hurt." (I'm not
preaching on that now, but just carry the thought). You
will be able to see what has happened to us in the very
day in which we live. Revelation 19: "After these
things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven
saying: Allelulia, salvation, and glory, and honor, and
power to the Lord our God. For true and righteous are His
judgments: For He hath Judged the great whore (old
Babylon), which did corrupt the earth with her
fornication, and hath avenged the blood of His servants at
her hand. And again they say, Allelulia. And her smoke
rose up forever and ever, And the four and twenty elders
and the four beasts (symbolizing the saints of all ages),
which represent the four dispensations Of time; Anti-diluvian,
Mosaic, Prophetic and the Holy Ghost Dispensation--for God
had people under all four of them.
In
Revelation, chapter 4, the four beasts had eyes before and
behind. Those four beasts symbolize the saints of all
ages. Those back In the Old Testament had eyes before.
They looked forward to Calvary. They believed In Him who
was to come. Paul said that when Christ died on the cross
the transgressions of those under the law were forgiven.
And they had eyes behind. We who live in this side of
Calvary look back to Calvary. Ezekial saw them as living
creatures, saw the same vision that John saw in the
Revelation, and the four and twenty elders symbolizing the
prophets and the apostles, twelve each. What did they do?
They fell down before God that sat on the throne saying,
"Amen, Allelulia," and a voice came out of the
throne saying, "Praise our God, all ye
servants." That takes in you and I. "And ye that
fear Him, both small and great. And I heard as it were the
voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many
waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying,
"Allelulia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth."
This is a
glimpse of the saints of all ages, a multitude that no man
can number. In Revelation 7: we see a group. Verse 9,
"After this I beheld and lo, a great multitude, which
no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and
people and tongues stood before the throne, and before the
Lamb clothed with white robes and palms in their
hands". A group that came out of Babylon in 1880.
This was the group that John did not know about. John had
only lived in the morning time of the church. John said
(in so many words) who are these? I know about the morning
time church but who are these coming in white? These have
come out of the tribulation that came on the morning
church. These are the saints of the evening light.
In the
next verse he said, "Let us rejoice." When
people come out of Babylon and experience the victory that
God has for His people, over the beast and his image, and
his mark, and the number of his name, standing on the sea
of glass mingled with fire, why should we not rejoice and
give honor unto Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come
and His wife hath made herself ready. And to her it was
granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, pure and
white; for the fine linen Is the righteousness of the
saints.. And he saith unto me, "Write, "Blessed,
are they, which are called unto the marriage supper of the
Lamb. And He said unto me these are the true sayings of
God."
Now, many
People want to take the Word of God in a literal way,
especially millennialists, who are looking forward to a
big marriage supper at the second coming of Christ. They
seem to think that when Jesus comes we are going to have
chicken and beans. There is some flesh that needs to be
crucified. These are spiritual things. The marriage supper
of the Lamb is going on right now. What are the saints
feasting on? The saints are feasting on the precious word
of God at the marriage supper of the Lamb. We will have no
literal marriage supper. But some will say, "We are
not the wife of Christ yet." The scripture did not
say His girl friend or His fiancee. She's Already His
wife, and has made herself ready.
Paul says
In Romans 7, that we are freed from the old law of sin and
death that we might be married to another, even to Him
that was raised from the dead. I Cor. 12:13 "For by
one Spirit are we all baptized into one body ... 26 - And
whether one member of the body suffer all the members
suffer with it; or one member of the body be honored, all
the members rejoice with it. 27 - Now are ye the body of
Christ, and members In particular."
Many are
saying, "But I don't believe we will have a marriage
supper until the second coming of Christ." they can
put it off until 'then' if they want to, but I'm afraid
they will miss it both here and there. The marriage supper
begins for you when you sell out from all these false
lovers and cut out the spiritual fornication, swear
allegiance unto Christ, His Word and His Word alone, and
let Him be your husband, governor, and then you can sit
down to the marriage supper. There is another supper
prepared at the close of the day. That supper took place
before the coming of Christ ever appeared in the vision.
We know
that this is not literal--that a time will come when men
will sit down to a supper and eat the flesh of men and
horses. This is spiritual. John 6:53, "Verily,
verily, I say unto you, except ye eat of the Son of Man
and drink His Blood, ye have no life In you. Whosoever
eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life,
and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is
meat indeed and my blood is drink Indeed. Vs. 56 - He that
eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I
In him. 57 - As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live
by the Father; so he that eateth Me even he shall live by
Me."
Now, here
it is. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not
as your Fathers did eat manna. This is no literal
something. They ate the literal bread and they are dead.
But this is a different kind of bread. It came down from
heaven. Vs. 63 - "It is the Spirit that quickeneth,
the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto
you they are Spirit and they are life."
I speak
with all kindness, because of falling away and drifting
from God's eternal truth, and rejecting some principles of
God's Word, many have gone over to literalism until they
are now looking for everything of a literal nature. They
are looking for Christ to come back and set up His literal
kingdom. We hear over the radio that He is going to return
and sit on a literal throne. Jesus feet will never touch
earth again.
The
kingdom that Jesus came to set up is in the hearts of men
and women. He said concerning it, "It cometh not with
observation," and, "My kingdom is not of this
world, if it were my servants would fight." The Body
of Christ is assembling. The Church is gathering together
for the time when Jesus comes back to gather His bride.
There are fowls that are called together to gather at this
supper table. Job 28:7. There is a path that no fowl
knoweth, which the vultures eye hath not seen." There
Is a place where one can hide this seed and where the
fowls cannot get hold of It. "There Is a path that no
fowl knoweth." And where is it?
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