They Should Have Known
Bro Gerald
REVELATION 10:1
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¶ And I saw another
mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow [was]
upon his head, and his face [was] as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of
fire:
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And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right
foot upon the sea, and [his] left [foot] on the earth,
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And cried with a loud voice, as [when] a lion roareth: and when he had
cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
>> If we missed this coming, WHY ??? <<
GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_
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20-…I thought it made a--a
text that we might study this before we go into the--the--the great teachings of
the Seven Seals. Many miss Him by the way He reveals Himself.
Now, man has their own ideas of what
God ought to be and what God is going to do; and as I have< made the old
statement many times that man still remains man. Man is always giving God praise
for what He did do, and always looking forward to what He will do, and
ignoring what He's doing. See, see?
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{265} So He was
so simple... For four thousand years every prophet spoke of Him. David sung of
Him, and all down through. And when
He come, the people had their own idea built up what He must do, how He was
going to do, how it was all explained, drawed out on charts, and
everything till when He come in that real simple way, it just--it just ruined
their theology. See? They didn't know it. See,
He come according to the Word.
Now, do you believe that
God spoke through the prophets that that Messiah would come in a certain way?
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And yet He was so simple till those great scholars
(>> message preachers <<) had got it
so mixed up, till they missed it.
But you know Jesus didn't come contrary to the Word;
He come according to the Word,
but contrary to their interpretation. See? He taught things that was against
their ecclesiastical training about Him.
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{273} Oh,
my. That hit their polish too hard. See? Their educational ethics could not
swallow that. Their interpretation of the Scriptures knowed nothing about that,
but yet it was the THUS SAITH THE LORD. Oh, my. Shivers me to think it.
And to see the same thing reoccurring
again... God cannot change.
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{366} And
the disciples... Now, think of it, disciples
(>> message believers <<) who had
walked with John, talked with him, eat with him in the wilderness, set down on
the bank, they said, "Why does the teachers say that Elias must first come? You
say you're going up to the crucifixion and going to rise; you're the Messiah,
take the throne. Now, why does the scribes... All of our Scriptures say
here--the Scriptures plainly says that before the Christ shall come, that Elias
will come first." See?
He said, "He's already
come, and you didn't know it." Now, who was that? Disciples.
(>> message preachers <<)
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{368} I'm
going to hurt here in just a little bit now, but I don't mean it. See? For the
next few minutes (See?), just a minute too; but so that you'll be sure to
understand. (Can you hear me?) Look: Why... Them men who'd walked with Christ,
"Why does the Scriptures first say that
Elias must come," and they were John's own converts and didn't even know him.
Why did the Scriptures say, the teachers? (>>
message preachers <<) Can you see what I mean? "Why does the Scriptures say
that Elias must first come?" Disciples
(>> message believers <<) that walked with him. "Why does the Scriptures say
that he must first come before these things and restore all things?" He did to
about a half dozen people, and that's all there was. See? That's all that was
supposed to receive it. That was what was ordained to see it.
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{370} Jesus
said, "He's already come, and you didn't know it. But he done just what the
Scriptures said he would do. He restored them, you all, that received Me and
believed on Me. He done exactly what the Scriptures said he'd do. And they did
to him what the Scriptures said they would do. He's already come, and you didn't
know it." Are you ready?
I want to shock you a
little bit. The rapture will be the
same way. It'll be so simple;
no doubt it'll be likewise, till the rapture will come one of these
days and nobody will know nothing
about it.
INDICTMENT.THE_
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35-…And that's the same thing
they're doing now. They got a church and they believe in Jesus Christ, and say
they do, (>> message believers <<)
and things, but deny the hour we're living in. Still brings the old proverb back
again: Man always praising God for what He has done, looking forward for what He
would do, and--or will do, and
ignoring what He's doing, and being condemned by it. See? They think
God's wonderful, how great He is. What He's going to do, He's going to come, and
be a rapture someday and go home; and denying the very signs and wonders right
here at the time that the Scripture says that He'll be doing it;
miss the whole thing. "If the
blind lead the blind," Jesus said, "they'll all fall in the ditch." Just pray
God to open our eyes in this last days. All right.
GOD.IN.SIMPLICITY_
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{371} Now,
don't--don't--don't get up now, but study just a minute. I'm sure enough
closing. The rapture will come in
such a simple way till the judgments will fall, and they'll see the Son of man;
they'll say, "Wasn't we supposed to have such-and-such... And wasn't
there supposed to be Elias sent to us? And wasn't there supposed to be a
rapture?"
Jesus will say, "It's
already happened, and you didn't know it." God in simplicity... See?
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Notice. On the road over they were once... When you set here I want you
pay close attention... They were talking about Him when He appeared to them.
Now, that's the way He comes, is when you're talking about Him. The trouble
today, we talk about so many other things besides Him. We always talk about what
we got to do in some business deal, or the washing's got to be done, or this
kind of detergent you ought to use, when you ought to be giving Him praise and
glory. There's... Where our treasures is, there our heart is also.
They should have
recognized Him, but they never.
And so is it today. Yet the Scripture said it. See? He--He revealed to
them the Scripture promises concerning Hisself for that age. Remember, He began
with the beginning. He said, "Oh, fools, and slow of heart." He explained to
them the Scriptures. And after the Scriptures had been preached to them, yet
they didn't recognize Him. If that
isn't in a modern congregation, I don't know. See?
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They--the Scriptures explained
to them, and still they didn't get it. They was walking around claimed
to be His disciples. (>> preachers of the message <<)
Still they never recognized Him
after He'd done told them the Scripture for that age, where God had allotted it.
He said, "Don't you know that Christ should have suffered these things, and
entered into His glory, and raised again?" He --they
should've knowed it.
He said, "Know you not all
the prophets said about Christ?" And He begin back there and explained the whole
thing down to them, and laid it out to them. And still they never recognized
Him. After laying the Scripture out, just as perfect as it could be, and then
walking around it, supposed to be His disciples. "Oh, is that so? Is that so?"
And yet He was that Scripture fulfilled standing there. And still they didn't
get it. See?
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Now, that's just a very good
picture of the day we're living in. I don't say that bad. I say
that for the truth. That's exactly right. They still didn't recognize Him,
though His promises that He had made was fulfilled, and He was declaring it to
them, and standing right there in the Person. And still they never recognized
Him.
Notice the rebuke to them
for not recognizing the Scripture fulfilled, now, when
they should have known. They
were disciples. (>> message preachers <<)They were men who had done great
sacrifice. They was men who loved Him. They were man who were trained by Him.
And yet, after Him telling them these things, stand in the company, and saying
this thing would happen, and here it had happened, and still them standing right
with Him after His resurrection, and
did not recognize Him.
You say, "Could we do a
thing like that?" It could be possible we could do that. That's right.
It could certainly be possible. After He'd promised in His Word the thing
that He was going to do, and we see it come to pass just as He said, and
still we walk over it. That's
what they had done. And He had come right around, and told them He was going to
be crucified, raise up the third day, begin then to tell them all about it.
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And they was sad, said, "You know, some of the fellows went down to the
grave, and some of the women. They said He would raise up from the dead. All
this rumors got stirred around." Said, "Are You just a Stranger around here, You
don't know these things?"
He said, "What things?"
just like He didn't know nothing about it. See,
He said that just to throw them off.
And He did that purposely, just to try.
And don't you know He
doesn't change His nature? He does the same thing, just to--to try you, see what
you will do. He'll work around some way it'll be throwed before you, just to see
what you--what you say about it, your attitude, the way you take, what you think
about it. He does that purposely.
Does it yet, because that's His unchanging nature.
>> remember that, Jesus says things a certain
way, just to throw them off, the unbeliever.
He prophet told us he did that <<
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… You say, "Well, how would I know what was right and wrong?" It's the
promised Scripture for that hour. It's the Scripture that's promised. If they
would've got out of their traditions, and got away from that tradition that they
were in, and read the Scriptures like He told them to do. "Search the
Scriptures; for in Them you think you have Eternal Life: and They are that that
testifies of Me. They tell you Who I am."
And they said, "Well, now,
rabbi told us this and that. We--we believe what the church says.
(>> big name preachers <<) " See? It ain't what the church says; it's what
God says, what God says, not what the denomination says, or that. You believe
God. Now, and that's where they failed,
because they were so traditioned that they failed to recognize Him.
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Now, we find then He said--He rebuked them. Watch. "Fools and slow of
heart to understand all the Scriptural signs and things that took place of this
age. Fools, slow of heart to understand all that the prophets have said that
should take place in this day, all these signs that you see. The Bible said
these signs were to take place in this day, and you see them taking place. And
then are you foolish enough not to believe it?" And Him talking that straight
to them, and yet they didn't recognize
it.
Talk about blind...
Could we do that? Might be we could,
if we don't search the Scriptures to find what hour we're living in (See?) what
hour, what's... It's maybe later than what we think it is. Yet they claimed to
be His disciples. They claimed to believe,
(>> message believres <<) that they
had believed every Word that He had--He had said, they believed all the Bible
(>> believed all the message <<). And
here was the--here was the Messiah, the God of the Bible, standing there in
identification, identifying the very written Word. And they were supposed to be
believers of that Word. And Him referring back and telling them that, "You
remember what was said about this, and what was said about this? And how Jesus
must do this, or, how the--the Christ must do this? And how He..."
All these things and yet they didn't
understand it. They didn't know.
>> They still don’t know, though Christ has
perfectly identified Himself in His second coming,
they say, “well, I think it is this way, or that way… all the time
failing to believe the scripture <<
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What was it? They knowed the Word as far as the letter was, but they
didn't understand the Word when It was literally interpreted.
That's what it is today. Every man's
got his own interpretation, when God condemns the whole thing. God does
His Own interpretating. If God said He'll do a thing, He does it. That's the
interpretation thereof. God interprets His Own Word. There He was standing
there, His Own Interpreter. Hallelujah. He's the same yesterday, today, and
forever. He does His Own interpretation. He doesn't need any seminary or any
ministers, me, you, or no one else to interpret Him. He promised it, and then He
turns around and does it. That settles it. That interprets Itself.
WHAT.IS.THE.ATTRACTION?_
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Now, we see... And let us go back in the Scriptures and take some other
unusual events, just for a few more minutes, when God fulfilled His prophecy.
When God says anything, He's going to do it. All heavens and earth will pass
away, but that Word can never pass away.
So It usually causes a scene, an unusual scene.
Notice how ridiculous that
the Word of God to a--a people who's supposed to believe It,
(>> message people <<) and yet It's
so unusual they cry out, "Well,
what's this? Where'd you get that stuff? Who is this? What is this?"
When they ought to have been screaming, "Hosanna to the King that cometh in the
Name of the Lord." (But there's just a little group doing that, just a little
group.
(>> only the Elected Bride of Christ <<)
Of four thousand years of prophecy, for
the greatest thing that could ever happen to the nation, for all the hope of the
dead rested upon It, all the future laid in It, and the religious people that
claimed they believe It was screaming out, "Who is It? And what's this
attraction?" Something unusual! About
the same, it just don't change, now unusual.
WHO.DO.YOU.SAY.THIS.IS_
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Time hasn't changed. People are designed the same as they was then. Hebrews 13:8
said, "He's same yesterday, today and forever." Now I'm going to close by saying
this: The question isn't to them
anymore. They asked, "Who it is?" But in 1964, the question is: "Who do
you say It is?" What's this
all about? Have you stopped to search the Scriptures? Who do you think This is?
Is it mental telepathy? Is it some wild something out of the wilderness yonder
somewhere, like they said, "John was a man, wild, drowning people in water out
there." When, Isaiah said he'd be there, the forerunner. Malachi said he would
be there just exactly. Them prophets said, "This prophet will rise right up
there to forerun it." And here he was.
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They said, "That's a wild man. Stay away from him. See? Don't have nothing to do
with him." And here comes the Messiah, just exactly what the Scripture said,
"That He would ride in the city upon the foal of an ass. Meek and lowly, upon
the foal of an ass, coming into the city, that the Scriptures might be
fulfilled." And here stands the people
at a religious feast again, like Balaam, at a religious feast, saying, "Who is
this?"
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And today, the Scriptures promised for this hour, friends,
It's fulfilled right in our midst, hour after hour. Who do
you think It is? Let us study about It when we bow our heads.