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Israel is a type of the
kingdom and Israel is a type of the church. I beg to
differ. Nowhere, Biblically, is Israel, just as Israel, a
type of the church. Look out now! Hmmm! Israel is a type
of God’s people---the kingdom of Israel. They were still
Israel when they were down in Babylon. Jerusalem is a type
of the church. It is a New Jerusalem. They were still in
Israel, when they were down there for 70 years in Babylon,
but they were not in Jerusalem. They were not at
Jerusalem! They could not truly worship God. God called
them out of there; let them go back to Jerusalem, to build
the temple. This “evening light church” is a New
Jerusalem. Why? It is God’s people coming back from
Babylon and rebuilding the temple just like it was in the
morning time. Lots of old Sanbalats and Tobaihs. I want to
say again, I said if you are going to stand in this thing,
you have got to get busy and work and be a supporter.
There’s only one answer to give Sanbalats and Tobiahs.
When they went over to old Nehemiah, they said, “come on
down”. They tried to tell him, make fun of him; said it
wouldn’t work.
I had some say to me the
other day, you can’t do this: giving me dark pictures of
all men that ever did try to break with any organization.
Well, I’m not breaking with anything. I’m standing for
truth. I had people, when I was down in Cuba preaching,
good brethren came and said, Bro. Wilson, why don’t you
come out?” I said, “Come out of what?” Then they
began to talk about the movement. I said “My Lord, man,
if I get up and say I’m coming out of it, I’d have to
admit I was in it. I’m not in anything. No sir---God
knows my heart. I haven’t been in anything. I’ve been
on the campground before, when my father still lived, and
the ministry saw failures and said, “Come on, brother,
come on, we’re going down over the hill and pray.
We’re coming back to God. We’ve seen our failures. My
old father, with tears in his eyes said, “brethren,
I’ll stay here and pray for you, but I am not going
down. I’ve got nothing to come back to…I have never
left.” I never was movement minded or organization
minded. I saw God in His truth all through this thing, and
still see it, just as clear as ever. Thank God for His
goodness!
My friend, I pray God
will help us to see that He is calling His people back.
There’s only one message for Tobiahs and Sanbalots
today. You’ll never run them off any other way. The
first thing they did, was to make fun of the walls and
said if a fox leaned against it, it would knock it over;
but I saw a lot of foxes butt their brains out trying to
knock it down and they have not knocked it over yet.
What’s the message? He didn’t argue with them. What
did Nehemiah tell them? I’m doing a great work. I
can’t come down. Brethren, when you can’t tell them
that, the next thing you know, you’ll be going down.
Brother, when you get in tune with God and God gets to
blessing your soul and blessing everything you put your
hand to, you can tell them the truth and be a witness for
God.
I had to tell a man,
that, not very long ago. He came out here, and my, when he
saw the tabernacle full and the altar filled, he was just
thrilled. “This is wonderful, Bro. Wilson, wonderful!”
I want you to come out here and hook up with us. Out here
at the U. B. and we will have a big meeting. Yeah! Dead,
dried up, can’t get anybody to the altar; so when he saw
God working, he wanted it down there; wanted to bring it
down there, and build the U. B. I said I was doing a great
work, brother; I can’t come down. Any time the Church
has to look to some of the mass evangelism, and some of
Babylon’s latest works, deceiving people, and look to it
as a powerful work; then, go sit in the midst and promote
it because you think they are doing a greater work than
the church; you have lost your vision, if you ever had
any.
Israel was Israel, while
she was in Babylon, but she had to come back to Jerusalem
to build the temple. I say again, the church I’m
preaching about, is the New Jerusalem. Somebody said,
“Bro Wilson, what do you think about the Jews going back
to Jerusalem?” They are going every day, just as hard as
they can go, but you must get a little more mature in the
things of God and understand what a Jew is, and where
Jerusalem is. The Word of God talks about the Jews going
back to Jerusalem. He wasn’t talking about the literal
Jews going back to Palestine. The island is only 75 miles
wide and 150 miles long. There’s more than enough Jews
in New York, than could even stand on the place(?). Yet,
many preachers say, “It’s a sign of the coming of
Christ---they’re getting in boats and going back to
Palestine.” They’re not Jews anymore. Romans 2:28-29
says, “He is not a Jew who is one outwardly; he is a Jew
which is one inwardly; not the circumcision of the
flesh---the circumcision of the heart.” There’s the
Jerusalem, they’re going back to. Brother, they’ve
been down in old Babylon; they’re coming back to the New
Jerusalem, and help build the temple.
We have the same picture,
of this gathering through the Revelation, chapter
13---gives you these false things---the 12th chapter the
dragon---the 13th chapter the two beasts that raised up
against God’s people---14th chapter, you see that
evening light group of 1880. How do we know it was they?
That 14th chapter deals with the little group that started
out in 1880. They were not defiled with women. You don’t
read where they had to get victory over the beast and his
image. They were never under it. The 15th chapter group,
the people that they reaped with the sickle, had to get
victory over the beast and his image. God used that little
group there, and gave them the sickle. The Word of God
said the harvest was ripe. They poured out the first three
vials right there, under the note of the everlasting
gospel. The later part of the chapter they reaped the
earth. What did they say? The earth was ripe. I believe,
just as it was ripe then, for the first three vials, she
is ripe again for the second cup. She is ripe for another
harvest, and we are going to find out that when we take
this sickle, the Word of God, through the heart of old
Babylon, we are going to harvest a lot of people right out
of what calls itself the Church of God. What did they do?
My friend, they took the grapes. They got them in
clusters. Well, what did they do with them? They put them
in the wine press of the wrath of God. What is the wine
press? It’s God’s eternal Word. They put them right in
the wine press of the wrath of God, and what did the
Scripture say? Liquid flowed out---the blood or the wine.
There’s unity. You might have been a pretty big grape
when God got you, but once God gets us liquidized, you
can’t tell one grape from another.
Isaiah said they would
flow in the truth. When God puts the squeeze on
you---that, which runs out the lower trough, that’s what
goes in Jerusalem. He opens it up and flips the hulls
back…cannot use that. The 15th chapter said He saw a
beautiful thing after that. What did he see? A lot of
people says, “that’s out in the millennium, and the
blood is going to run to the horses bits.” What are we
are talking about---He’s talking in symbolic language.
God wants that wine press worked here in the 6th seal age.
The blood that which flowed out of the wine press---what
did it do? It reached back through, and brought out a
people clear cut for God.
The next chapter tells
that after these things, John saw them standing on the sea
of glass, mingled with fire, with victory over these
horses and riders and everything else. Thus, it gets right
up to the very controlling power. Just as the bit controls
the horse, this thing, gets to the very controlling powers
back here and turns you loose for God. I thank God for
this pearl of great price. I’ve done my best to teach it
by the Word of God. The kingdom in this age, right
here---the 6th seal age---was likened unto a merchant man
seeking goodly pearls, who when he found the one pearl of
great price, sold all that he had and bought that pearl.
It is true---when people find the truth of the matter,
about the unity of God’s people, in the church; they are
ready to sell out! Yes, ready to sell out---take a hold of
that pearl, and let all else be cast aside. Brothers and
sisters, we still have a message. The enemy has worked in
prophecy, he’s worked in the Revelation, and he’s
worked in the Gospel; trying to take that sickle; that
message, that calls us out, and makes us a separate
people. I pray to God, we’ll rise to our feet, as never
before, and if we don’t have the power to do it---come
to God. He will furnish the power. He stands ready to give
power today under a ministry where they can scorch men
with fire. He wants to give us that---give us power to
stand and rejoice.
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