He said, “Your covenant with death will be annulled.” Many times I have been at a funeral service and realized this. Many people feel they are safe spiritually because they made a certain move or agreement. And when the truth of God’s judgment was put on them they became stirred in their soul and as to the agreement, they had thought they were settled and ready to face death. But they found out it was not as real as they thought it was and they were not ready to face death as they had thought they were. The false refuges are many, but you cannot rest if the truth pierces your soul. No man can rest short of a real heart experience in Jesus Christ.

They said the truth went forth as hail and fire mingled with blood. It may be that you feel you have plenty of insurance on your home, but it catches fire---when it goes to burning, you run and get your insurance policy and find out it’s no good. Judge about how much rest you would have, realizing your loss. Just so, many people think they are insured by church joining, etc., for heaven, but when they get around the fire of the Holy Spirit, it sets them on fire, and they begin to be fearful and go to checking up on this thing and find out their covenant is no good. Jesus said: “Search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life.” People are building their experience on this part of the Bible or that part of the Bible. You have to have Him reign in your heart. You must have a living, born again experience in your very heart and life. Many, when the Holy Spirit begins to work on them and they begin to check, they find their experience is not as good, even as Jesus said, and they have only thought they had eternal life and they haven’t. This is hiding in false refuges. He took not only the emblem of the hail and the water in speaking of God’s Word and righteousness, but He used the line and plummet. He said he had laid judgment to the line and righteousness to the plummet.

When you put the plummet to the wall, it will show up all the crooked places and the errors that are hid in the crooked places. Even so, God said in His Word He was going to lay His truth to the line and righteousness to the plummet. It will show up every place that doesn’t come up to standard. It’s in those doctrines that fail to come up to the standard of God’s truth, that’s the false refuge---hiding the errors today. But we’re told: the waters (Word) will overflow the hiding places. The over “flowing scourge” is what we need. There’s been too much tampering with the Word. There’s been too much dealing out at a “famine rate”. We need to let truth loose and have an over flowing scourge. The truth turned loose, will surely do the job. Let’s take an illustration of Noah and the ark: When God turned the water loose, back in Noah’s time, it over flowed all the hiding places. They probably found hiding places in the rocks and the tops of the mountains.

No doubt it took days and maybe weeks for the water to get up there, but it finally reached there and overflowed every hiding place, and there was only one place of safety. That was the ark. But the same waters that overflowed the hiding places and destroyed the hiders, made the ark float and that’s the Gospel; the same truth that uncovers man’s false hiding places! These “waters of truth” will never over flow the church, the true body of Christ, for she’s built on the truth of God’s Eternal Word. The more truth you turn loose, the higher her position will be. Let’s turn the truth loose as never before. What a day for the Gospel to shine out, when hearts are troubled and men don’t know which way to go. If you’re hiding in any place, where the truth will overflow, it would be better to run out of it. We can hide behind a preacher, or behind an organization, but if they won’t receive the truth, we had better flee the thing.

This is what God meant where He said, “Come out of her my people.” It is a false hiding place and the truth will overflow it. And you will drown when the flood comes. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies. This was the morning church where the truth worked so powerfully.

HAIL WILL SWEEP AWAY THE LIES ABOUT CREATION

Well, we’re doing our best to sound the first trumpet, but when we get to the seventh we’ll find there’s still hail there. When the seventh vial was poured out there were hailstones the size of a talent. And that’s the day and age we’re living in. The hail will still sweep away the refuge of lies about our creation. Our land is becoming more and more saturated with this false doctrine of evolution. It’s not true, and anybody who advocates this teaching is not a Child of God. Some ministers say “we have to preach this teaching of evolution if we get any credit.” Well, there will be lots of credits in hell! What credit is it to them, to teach the doctrines that will damn their souls and maybe lead other souls astray; and influence them toward damnation? This is a picture of earth bound men and women, who step aside from the principles and doctrines of Christ and His truth, to get some earthly credit. Genesis 1:26 God says: “Let us make man in our own image after our own likeness.”

The truth says He made us in His own likeness so when the evolution teacher says we came from monkeys, he, in so may words, is he saying God’s a monkey? But the hail of God’s eternal judgment will sweep away the lies about creation.

THE HAIL WILL SWEEP AWAY THE LIES ABOUT REGENERATION

It will sweep away the lies about regeneration and sin. For example, here’s a little hail: John was a morning time trumpeter. He was in the first group that sounded out the first hail, 1 John 3. Many Ministers are surely scattering lies today. They say, “I sin, you sin, we all sin.” But John answers this with hail. He says, “Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God. Therefore, the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when He shall appear; we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” “And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.” There is some hail. This will sweep away a lot of lies. You can tell who has the hope and who has not. John said, “everyone that has this hope will became pure as Christ is.”

“Whosoever committeth sin, transgresseth also the law, for sin is the transgression of the law. And ye know that He was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin.” “Everyone that hath this hope purifieth himself even as He is pure.” “Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not; whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither known Him. Little children, let no man deceive you, (this is where the trouble is) he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil.”

We have many preachers who by the sounding of the trumpets are of the devil. They say, “I sin more or less.” The trumpet sounds out saying, He that committeth sin is of the devil. He has not yet known Christ according to scripture. He may have been sprinkled, confirmed or baptized, but if he never quit the sin business, he’s still of the devil. “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in Him, and He cannot sin because he is born of God.” Do we mean we cannot sin? We can stop living for Christ and commit sin, but we must sow other seed. Our free moral agency is not taken away from us, but if we want to keep that seed, there is only one way to keep it, to cultivate it---make room for it, let it take root and let it grow, and do nothing to hinder the growth of that seed. You cannot plant wheat and get oats; neither can you plant the seed of God in your hearts, a righteous seed, and see fruits of unrighteousness. Brother, if we have unrighteous fruit coming forth in our life, there’s another seed in there. You cannot have two kinds of seed at once.

“This hail will sweep away the refuge of lies.” In this the children of God are manifested, and the children of the devil. There are only two groups of people in the world, children of God and children of the devil. Well, the fence is torn down. We’re either one or the other. Doesn’t matter how many churches we’ve joined, how many lodges we may belong to, how many times we were baptized, we’re either a child of God or a child of the devil. When we get up to the seventh trumpet, the people tried (so we find) to get on the fence of lukewarmness. This puts a false picture of the church before the world. People “on the fence” say, “dear devil and dear God”. Only one of them is their father. “In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil.” “Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.”

IT WILL REVEAL TRUTH AND CONDEMN LYING

A man on the radio recently said that no man goes without lying, that it’s a common thing. Many times in the day, he continued, the situation merits you telling a lie, instead of telling the truth---when there’s much involved. Then, psychologists say it is unhealthy to not lie, once in a while. And it is, he said, an impossibility to live without telling a lie. He said if you could live that way, you’d be an oddity. Well, there he told the truth, finally (smile).

We thank God for peculiar people. Well, he finally ended by saying that the man who tells the biggest lie today, is the man who says he doesn’t lie. Rev. 21:8 says: “All liars have their place in the lake of fire.” That’s hail and hell!

It is absurd to think we can have a league with death and hell and be at peace with God. Rev. 1:18 Christ says “I am he that was alive, (or was dead) and am alive forever more and I have the keys of death and hell.” We cannot have a league with death and hell without meeting Jesus Christ on His terms first. [ The End ]