Toward the last of the sixth seal age, which ended in 1930, little things began to happen. “The little foxes spoil the vines.” At first there was a cooling off with some, a loss of anointing and power. The ministry began to appoint committees to decide things they used to settle on their knees. Resolutions were past to give power to this or that special appointed group. Committees were appointed to make out the program, saying who was to preach and the subject they were to preach on. The preacher who wanted Jesus to be the Head of the church, and the ministers be led by the Holy Spirit, as they had been for over forty years, were left off the programs. Of course they said these fellows are old foggies and not up to date and out of harmony.

For many years the prayer room has been replaced by the committee room. One old minister, after having been deprived of attending the national camp meeting for several years, said, “What is the matter? I do not hear much praying any more. It seems more like a homecoming than a camp meeting.” The man to whom he was speaking said, “Can explain this to you?” The preachers do not have to pray to find out who is going to preach; that was settled a few months ago by the program committee. The preachers do not have to pray about that any more; you see we have found a better way.” Well, in that program committee meeting one of the men prayed a nice prayer. He asked God to help them to know who to place on the program, and the subject he should preach on, so that OUR great program will go over. The meeting was dry. A program was about all they had. This old man left the camp ground broken-hearted, opposing such a program, and was soon branded OUT OF HARMONY WITH THE GREAT MINISTERIAL BODY OF THE CHURCH OF GOD ? ?? ? WHOSE HEADQUARTERS are at Anderson, IN.

The one-time simple practices of seeking God for direction through Jesus Christ, making “him to be head over all things to the church,” is gone; little practiced any more. They have gone back to the old practices the people came out of years ago. Paul says, “If I build again that which I have destroyed I make myself a transgressor.” With many preachers leading the way, “The sow hath returned to her wallowing in the mire.”

Time has moved us over into the seventh trumpet age since 1930. Many changes have been made in the past 22 years. Even 30 years ago, one would not have believed apostate conditions could have developed so fast as they have. We are living in the Laodicean, or lukewarm age. Worldliness and play has taken the place of spirituality and prayer. Ministers who used to preach against all worldly adornment and the wearing of gold, say it is alright now, many of whom perform double ring ceremonies with great pomp and pride. Many so-called churches of God have installed the gymnasium and supper room and turned the house of God into a social playhouse. Instead of PRAYING WITH ONE ACCORD, they are playing in one accord. Instead of organizing prayer bands, they are organizing bathing and ball teams. Instead of having a burden to win souls to Jesus, they put their all in winning the next game. Instead of a campaign for souls it is a campaign for MONEY. Instead of a minister and his congregation praying for more power and favor with God, they strive for more praise and applause with the movement.

The great majority of the ministers in the so-called church today are spewed out of the mouth of God. All they have left is their own. Spiritual vision and direction is gone. They are blinded into man-rule, feeling that some things are all right now that used to be wrong.

Lukewarmness strikes a death blow to faith in God. This is the reason many preachers have quit practicing divine healing and turned to the puny hand of men. You cannot trust both God and man at the same time. In order to get healed one must get his eyes off of man and get them on God. Do not misunderstand me. I am not criticizing doctors, for they have their place with unsaved people. The saints of God have the GREAT Physician who said, “All power is given unto me,” to be their physician and healer.

When people got saved in the sixth seal age, they were instructed to trust God for healing of their physical bodies, that “He forgiveth all our iniquities, and healeth all our diseases.” Psa. 103. They were not only taught that Jesus was the safest and best Physician, but that they owed it to him that in “All things He (Jesus) should have the preeminence” (first place). “Many were the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivered them out of them all,” and they came out with victory, glory and power which could be had in no other way.

There were some medical doctors who got saved, gave up their medical practice and went to preaching that Jesus would save sinners and heal the sick. They were well recognized, God-approved men of the sixth seal. No preacher who did not trust God for his physical healing was considered in good standing. He was usually taken to one side and taught the “way more perfectly.”

Signs and wonders surely followed the sixth seal ministry, but in comparison, where is it today? They are doing the very things they once preached against. They are now training and sending medical doctors to the mission fields, together with nurses, building hospitals, equipping them with drugs and surgical equipment. This is the greater part of the program of the so-called Church of God. Our Sunday school literature is full of such teaching, telling how sick people are healed by the doctors, and the great things the doctors and nurses are doing. When you send your money to the Missionary Board at headquarters, this is what you support. First, you support a great office force, few of whom trust God at all for healing. Second, the stream flown across to the heathen world is just like its head. quarters’ fountain—try man’s wisdom first, leave God to the last. The great need of the hour is to exalt Jesus Christ and his power to save and heal. “The wisdom of men is foolishness to God.”

The so-called church of God today has an organization equal to any sectarian movement I know of. They have organized every phase and force they can think of in the church. Great systems of governmental operations are put into working order. It has a great centralized headquarters, with men elected and seated there to plan and put over their program. This program is promoted with money, the raising of which is the chief subject and HEADLINES in all the literature. “MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, meet the budget” is the great war cry. Plans and instructions are given out from HEADQUARTERS. Laymen, state evangelists, youth leaders or WHAT HAVE YOU, are subsidiaries reaching into every place teaching loyalty and support to this great octopus of man-rule.

Most denominations have a way of openly and publicly taking people into their group, but this great organized movement calling itself Church of God, has a different method. All you have to do to be a member of this group is to SUPPORT THE BUDGET. This organization has many office workers at its headquarters, the salaries of whom are not given out. Field workers from every state in the Union are called by the authorities at headquarters to meet to receive instructions as to the best way to put over the money program. This costs money. The overhead expenses are great. Much of the money raised is absorbed in overhead expenses and never gets to the cause for which it was solicited. In God’s great plan, where He is secretary, treasurer, gatherer, dispenser and giver, the overhead expenses are light. Jesus says, “Go ye therefore into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature . . . , and lo, I am with you aiway, even unto the end of the world.”“I will supply ALL your needs.” If you have a purse, take it with you; if not, go any way, in faith trusting God who said, I will not leave nor forsake you. There are a few things wrong with man’s way of running the affairs of the church. (a) It is wrong because your ways are not my ways, saith the Lord. God’s way is best and should be accepted. “If ye love me keep my commandments.” (b) Man’s ways always misses the mark; God’s way is the only right way—safe, sound, economical and works out for the best for us, and His glory. (c) In God’s great plan of divine leadership and government there is no place a hypocrite can fill, because all offices, gifts and callings are of the Spirit; none but the Spirit-filled can have them.

This great movement, with its earthly organizations and headquarters, now calling itself Church of God, is of the same nature and origin as all other Babylonian movements. Therefore, it is a part of Babylon itself. It has the same quality and kind of subjects—good and bad mixed up together, and the same kind of government. It, too, “has become the cage of every unclean and hateful bird, the hold of every foul spirit.” One of the major reasons God does not want man to set up organizations in the church is that man cannot keep them clean. The covetous will seek for the money job; those that love praise of men will seek the high offices and places of honor. With hopeful aspirations many go along awaiting future elections and appointments.

In such institutions as this, setting itself up as the work of the church, only the ignorant can be blessed by the spirit of God and that in a small way. If they knew enough truth to get the richest blessings of God, they would have to come out of such as this. Those that once knew the truth of God’s word, that condemned such heresies of men, cannot go along in these things and be clear before God. For the sake of prestige and popularity many have not wished to retain a love for the truth, and are believing a delusion, and are being damned. This is what the Bible said would happen. We are living in perilous times and many are going to lose their souls rather than come out and take their stand against that which is wrong and stand for the right. Luther, Wesley, Warner and many others found it was not popular and easy to go against influential movements and tell them they were wrong.

A few years ago I knew many preachers who cried out against the above mentioned things. It came to the place where they had to line up and go along or lose their popularity. Some thought they would reform the movement, but they found that this could not be done. Instead of reforming the movement it reformed them and they fell in line. They support it and send their money to it, and they are a part of it. Many evangelists on the field do not believe in this great earthly headquarters and its machinery, but are afraid to speak against it, for fear of losing meetings. God pity such a one! He is one of the “fearful” who John said would have his part in the lake of fire, with all the false prophets, etc. This is the very condition man gets into when God sends him a strong delusion, that he may believe a lie and be damned. The minister who sees these things and will not cry against them is a watchman on whom the blood of the people will rest. The blood of many will be required at his hands.

Out of this apostate, lukewarm, spewed out condition God is endeavoring to gather out a remnant for His name who will again stand for the truth. God is going to be able to find a few who will not fear, falter, let up or let down. These will hear the second cry, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen. Come out of her, MY people.” Yes, “Be not partakers of her sins, . . . for her sins have reached unto heaven.”

“And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his hand AGAIN THE SECOND TIME to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, . . . “ from all their confused and scattered condition. God set his hand the FIRST TIME in the sixth seal age, and he got a people out, in whom He said, “I find no fault in them.” Now, this same movement of people have slid back into the very things they came out of. In this seventh seal age God is having to set his hand again the second time to gather a people for his name. It will only be a REMNANT who will have courage to stand against such great opposition. Jeremiah represents this remnant as the children of Benjamin. “0 ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow ye the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhasccerum, for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.” Jer. 6:1. He is speaking of the very time in which we live. We are told to flee out of Jerusalem. It is not a safe place to live any more. Evil always comes from the cold, frozen regions of the “north.” Tekoa was a defense City, and we are told to flee into it and “blow ye the trumpet.” Sound the warning of danger against Jerusalem. Bethhaccerein was a beacon light city, so he said to set up a sign of fire there. We should take warning, get out of this modern, lukewarm group and get on fire for God and sound the warning to others to flee. The people calling themselves “Jerusalem” today are trying to live on the husks of a manmade program, becoming poor, blind, and naked. They set a table and furnished their own drink offering, of which Isaiah tells us. “Ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain (Mt. Zion), that prepare a table for the troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall bow down to the slaughter. Therefore thus saith the Lord, My servants (the remnant) shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: (programed to death) behold, my servants shall drink (pure water of life) but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice (praise God, I’m out of such things), but ye shall be ashamed: (no power, no victory, joy is gone). . . . And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen, for the Lord God shall slay thee and call his servants by another name.” Isa. 65:11-15. When people rebel against the word of God they are slain by it. Today, those who refuse to come out of this so-called Church of God (Jerusalem) are slain. The name by which they are known has become a curse unto God’s people. God is setting his hand the second time and is gathering a remnant who refuse to be identified with, or be called by their name, for it is left for a curse. The things they are doing have disgraced the name. Who would want to be of a group whose practices made their name an abomination? That is what the people have done who carried the name Church of God through the sixth seal age. They failed to live up to the New Testament, became lukewarm and were spewed out of the. znouth of God, and are no longer the heavenly Jerusalem.

“That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten and because they are hid from mine eyes.” Isa. 65:16. The people who have been blessed of God in the sixth seal age no longer bless themselves in the God of truth; their pledges and affirmations are no longer in Him, but are turned to earthly things. In the last part of this verse God said he was going to let these things be in the past and hid from his eyes and raise up another people worthy of His name. As we pass out of the sixth seal into the seventh God is taking the “remnant”, who will flee out of the old Jerusalem, whose name is left for a curse, and create them a new heavenly Jerusalem. V. 17 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” The righteousness of the righteous in the sixth seal age are not going to be remembered, for now they have sinned. God is forgetting them and using the “remnant” who fled out of their midst to “create a new heaven and a new earth” in which men will “bless themselves in the God of truth.” V. 18. “But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.” “And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.” God tells us to rejoice forever in this new group whom He has created a rejoicing. Those who come out of the old and become a part of the newly created Jerusalem certainly have much to rejoice about; they are free from its sinful practices and bondage.

The people who once constituted the “heavenly Jerusalem” in the sixth seal age lost their heavenly standing, so God had to move the city over into the seventh seal and create the city, Jerusalem, anew. He is taking “the overcomers” in the sixth seal, those who continue to lift the sixth seal standard and accept the additional light of the seventh, and making them the newly created Jerusalem, over which He said He would rejoice.

Many groups here in the beginning of this seventh seal age have accepted the name Church of God. Some are as follows: Seventh Day Advent Church of God, Pentecost Church of God, Apostolic Church of God, The Assembly Church of God, The Church of God in Christ, and The Freewill Church of God. These are Protestant reform movements who have not seen the Church of God up to the full standard of the New Testament. They seem to be working around a certain teaching or doctrine, and do not have a clear knowledge of all the teachings and doctrines of the Bible necessary to bring them up to the standard of the New Testament.

Following this, we have the Gospel Trumpet Church of God, or Warner Reformation, divided into about a half dozen groups, each one having an auxiliary or subsidiary handle attached to the name Church of God to designate its location or group according to the grouping of men. This Jerusalem God said He would make anew and create a rejoicing is not all or any one of these groups. Some of these groups are considered as compromisers and some as “standpatters,” that is, they are claiming to hold to the sixth seal teaching and practice of the Church of God. Some are holding to more truth than others. With some the thought of “we” and “us” have hindered their vision from seeing “it” and “them.” This kind of group-mindedness is sectish and destructive to the unity of the Spirit. A saint on entering a congregation or assembly must be granted the same FREEDOM IN THE LORD the first day of his arrival the same as he would six months or one year later. I mean a SAINT.

It is easy to see that “lukewarmness”has affected all these groups, and there has been a loss of faith, power, victory and leadership of the Spirit. Wherever there is lukewarmness there are to be seen those things of which God said to repent.

Some groups are trying to stand for the sixth seal light and reject the seventh. This will put them under the same condemnation that characterized all groups in the past who rejected new light on the Word of God. In this seventh seal age, God is setting His hand again the second time to gather a people for His name who are not ‘group-minded” but “God-conscious and TRUTH-minded.” The GROUPING will take care of itself. The call is to “whosoever will,” but only a “remnant” will accept His message on His terms of truth. If you reject all groups made by men, you will be denounced by them. God’s way is not popular among men. This remnant which God is now setting His hand the second time to gather must come out of all groups who are falling short of Bible standard of faith and Christian living, and “Follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.” Just a few (remnant) will ever know just what it means to be DELIVERED FROM THE WORLD, SELF AND THE PEOPLE, Just a few people will ever know what it really means to be ALIVE TO CHRIST and DEAD TO EVERY THING ELSE.

The seventh seal is the harvesting of the earth, spoken of in Rev. 14:19: “And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great wine press of the wrath of God.” The angel spoken of here is the ministry in the seventh seal age who are preaching against theories, organizations and men-dominations of all kinds. Christ and his standards of truth only is the “true vine.” Everything else is the false vine of earthly origin. God’s truth and judgments are His sickle and winepress. Every thing of earthly origin is being gathered and burned in the fire of Holy Writ.

In Matt. 13:39 Jesus made it plain that “the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels” (the ministry). “The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.” Matt. 13:39-43. This makes it clear that those who are determined to hold to the cluster of the vine made by men will be gathered by the ministry, who use the true Word of God as the sickle, and cast them into a furnace of spiritual fire. From such ones you can hear wailing and gnashing of teeth against the true people of God, for dealing out God’s judgments against them. Many are offended when they hear the message, come out of Babylon, both old and new; they feel the price is too great for them to pay. Do not be deceived; much of this “vine of the earth” is branded Church of God. Many who read this little book will wail and gnash their teeth. He, who is a part of the “true vine,” and refuses to become a part of or give any support to the false vine of man-rule and organizations in the church, is branded by such people as being false. The sickle, the Word of God, will never harm the individual who is standing out clear for ALL THE TRUTH, and against ALL DECEPTIONS AND DOCTRINES OF MEN. Clinging to the TRUE VINE OF TRUTH and spiritual life is the hope of the Church.

Since the 16th century reformation began, light has been coming; with this light the enemy of souls has brought much deception. For every ray of light the devil has offered a substitute, which he has successfully used to deceive many. “In the last days perilous times shall come.” It is clear, according to the Word of God, that we are in the last days. This is the last age symbolized in the Revelation—the drama of time ends; the next is eternity. The Gog and Magog forces (Catholic and Protestant deceptions) are gathering together in the form of the National Council of Churches to offset and oppose the true saints of God who stand for Bible truth. God is gathering His true children, the few who will follow, into the “camp of the saints.” A clear knowledge of gospel, prophecy and the book of Revelation, with a willingness to walk in the light, will bring us in knowledge into what is called “the camp of the saints.” This is the last age—this is where we must camp in order to be ready for the return of Christ.

The devil is working through the “three unclean spirits” of Rev. 16. The spirit out of the mouth of the dragon is atheistic. An example is clearly seen in Russia and her allies. The spirit out of the mouth of the beast would signify the infidelity and deception in Catholicism and Protestantism. The spirit out of the “false prophet” is clearly seen by the miracles and wildfire of false holiness movements. These would naturally be against the few who declare the truth which condemns such things and says, “Come out of her, my people.”

“And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.’ Rev. 16:17. This is not a literal battle John was talking about. It is a spiritual conflict; the battle for truth and right, which we have already entered into, and will get worse from here on to the end. In tracing history and running references in our Bibles, this word Armageddon runs us back to the plains of Megiddo, where Deborah, Barak and Gideon fought some great battles and won great victories in the days of ancient Israel. If you are not well acquainted with the story of Gideon’s army, turn to Judges 6:7. You will find Gideon’s army a type of the battle of Armageddon which we are fighting today. We note that Gideon had 32,000 men to face 120,000 of the enemy, but God told him he had too many. God knew they would be inclined to take the glory to themselves and say, “I did it.” God told Gideon to put the men to a test and let all who were “fearful” to return quickly, and 22,000 returned and went back. This was a little over two-thirds of the men. In the past few years I have observed many who said they saw the truth, started to battle, but soon returned back. Many ministers, who should be true-blue warriors, a few years ago acknowledged truth, became fearful and went back. There is a fear of losing prestige and popularity with those who oppose the truth. Many are well aware that the iron hand of human control, in an underhanded and sty way, will soon boycott all who will not support it. Some preachers, who would not stand for this spiritual tyranny, have had their church houses and even parsonages taken from them. And for this cause many others became FEARFUL, changed their attitude and took their stand again for and send their money to support these ABOMINABLE THINGS.

God told Gideon the 10,000 were too many and to put them to a test. God wants a people made white and tried. Only 300 stood the test and lapped water from their hand like the dog. In order to stand for God’s truth you may have to take the water of life and be treated like a dog; if so, it will pay off well at the end. God’s true people today in comparison are like the 300—just a “remnant.”

I have observed this Church of God movement for forty or fifty years. There are preachers who years ago seemed to be solid for certain truth, but today they are going whole heart and soul with the thing they used to preach against. They became “fearful,” did not wish to retain a love for the truth, fell into “delusions,” and then what? ? ? ? We might find a better method, but TRUTH DOES NOT CHANGE! That which was truth forty years ago is still TRUTH. Woe unto that man who adds to or takes from the precious old Book.

There are many who are affiliated with the Church of God movement, whose headquarters are at Anderson, In., who never heard the truth preached and practiced as it used to be preached. All they know is man-rule with boards, committees, resolutions and earthly headquarters. They have never seen any people demonstrate where the government was not left to other people. They seem to think some how Jesus will be the head of “other men,” whom he said would never be allowed to fill such a place, only in Babylon. I have reasons to believe some, who are mixed up in this abominable condition, are saved because they have not heard the truth. This cannot be applied to those who once knew the truth and then turned away. God wants the TRUTH broadcast to the four winds of heaven, so no one will have any excuse. One man said he saw some new truth, but he was waiting for God to raise up a man who could put it over with the MOVEMENT. God does not have and never will have such a man, because the MOVEMENT WILL NOT HAVE IT. They have already rejected it as a movement. History does not record any movement, once settled and fixed, ever being reformed. God’s plan is not to reform man-made movements, but to COME OUT OF THEM.

I have been asked, “What group shall I go with”? Group-mindedness is sectarian in its very nature. Get your mind off of groups. Jesus said, “Follow me,” not the group. If you claim to belong to a visible group you may point to, you will not go long until you will find some one has disgraced the group. There are a few, yes, a remnant who are being gathered into the camp of the saints, in understandiing and knowledge, who have their eyes set on the Word of God, determined to “Follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.” These become a group without any grouping by men. Their minds are not on groups, as such, but stayed on God and truth. As long as we have a desire for the esteem, praise and applause of men we will cater to the group that will give it. Get your minds upon Jesus Christ and His truth; look higher than worldly things. Refuse to listen to the one who says, “Lo, here or lo, there.” Those that “knock, seek and ask” with an eye single to the glory of God are the ones to whom “it shall be given.”

As to the name God’s people should go by here on the earth, there is not a name God’s true people can be called by that a false group or a hypocrite cannot assume. There are many, who call themselves Church of God, whose lives disgrace the name. For the sake of holding church property the name, New Testament Church of God, comes nearer to expressing what God’s people must be to be the Bible church. To be the Bible Church of God we must measure up to the New Testament. Even at that, a hypocrite can take that name. Perhaps, by name only, the true people of God can never be located here in this world. Earthly property is never secure from invasion of apostate conditions, but truth and grace in the “Camp of the saints” will never be exploited to the spoils of the enemies of truth any more. Amid all this confusion and strife of the “last days” in which we live, it will take more than assuming a NAME to point out the TRUE people of God. At this critical time in which we live, God has a name for His people which no one can borrow or substitute. Let us turn to Rev. 3:12 and read: “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalerm, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”

John here is telling us of those who come out of the sixth seal age with victory, according to the sixth seal light, pass over into the seventh seal age and accept the additional light, that God will make such a one a pillar in his temple or church in the seventh seal age. It is easy to see by observation and previous scriptures given that only a remnant have faith, power and victory through the Lord Jesus Christ today. For “they shall go no more out.” The next move will be up, as this is the last age of time; no other age to move out into.

Let us notice what Jesus said of that individual that comes through with victory and what he would do: “I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.” This writing is to be done in the Spirit. Only those who have forsaken all, and are following the Lamb whithersoever he goeth, are worthy of such spiritual power and victory. This is that Jerusalem God said “He would create a rejoicing.” On this people God said He would “write his NEW NAME.” There are just a few today who will have courage to denounce all organizations of men and women. Even great missionary societies, run by women, are an abomination in the sight of God. To denounce and quit supporting such things is the ONLY way to follow the Lamb of God and not man. This is the people on whom God can write a name no one can steal or substitute; only God can write it there, and man cannot rub it out. Only those given over to and completely submitted to the will of God can have such an experience. Those who follow man or groups of men or women dishonor Christ as the Head of the body, the church. They once more kill the two witnesses—WORD and SPIRIT. Jesus will not write “the name of his God or the name of the city of his God” upon a people who take the members of “the body of Christ” and join them to the modern harlot groups of men.

We are now in the last age of time, and entering the last great conflict. There has never been a time when men were more fearful to stand for truth. Men are afraid to break with this great modern organization calling itself the Church of God, for fear of losing prestige and honor with the movement. For selfish purposes many “unclean and hateful birds” have slipped in, whose picture is drawn in 2 Tim. 3:1-9. You may read it for yourself. God wants a holy people; God wants a separate people. “Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and I will receive you.” “Holiness becometh thy house forever, 0 Lord.” “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.” My brother, God wants a people to come out of every thing and follow the Lamb and not groups of men. The government of God’s church is a theocracy and not a democracy. Men have always tried to cover up the bad things about sects and creeds of men with some good things it may bring about. This is a poor way to judge any deception, sin or sect. God does not want us to even tolerate “sin that grace may abound.” “Come out of her, my people” is God’s way

“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. Hi eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed in a vesture dipped in. blood; and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he had on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” Rev. 19:11-16.

John the Revelator here was shown Jesus Christ, the Word of God, marching to victory with the judgments of God against ALL SIN, deceptions and organizations of men. In verse 14, mention is made of those following the white horse and rider—The Word of God—clothed in fine linen clean and white. These are they who have walked out of modern Babylon of today, calling itself Church of God. These are they who have come out of EVERY THING pertaining to man rule. They follow the Word of God only. “They follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.” Christ is the head of such a people; they seek, fast and pray until the Holy Spirit makes the way clear. All they have and are is consecrated to the service of the White Horse Captain and Leader — Lord of Lords and King of Kings. Such a group does not need a man or men for its leader, neither does it need an earthly headquarters. Its headquarters is the throne of God in heaven itself.

This white horse and rider is dealing out judgment against all nations. The sword out of his mouth is the word of truth exposing and condemning everything unscriptural and sinful. Its message must ring “Holiness,” even “the bells of the horses must ring holiness unto the Lord.”

This group on white horses, following the Word of God, is the last reform. A reformation has been under way since the beginning of the Protestant age. Some things have been good and some bad brought to the nations of the earth. The sixth seal or Warner age, ending in 1930, brought a clear message of God’s plan of complete redemption and a divine church. Lukewarmness has caused this people to lose their vision of divine truth. They have gone back to building the things they once tore down. God is once more “setting his hand the second time” and last time, to gather a people for His name. This is the “Camp of the saints,” a “remnant,” that “third part brought through the fire,” represented as “armies on white horses,” making the last march in battle, getting ready for the return of Christ. Only those who are dead to sin, self and the world, being “delivered from the people,” can be a part of that group, whose captain and leader is the “Lord of Lord and King of Kings.”

The angel is now standing in the sun, inviting “the fouls of the air,” evil spirits, to devour “kings and captains,” great religious leaders, who do not “wish to retain a love for the truth.” Rev. 19:17-18. These “kings and captains” are great religious leaders who will not accept God’s message of truth because it condemns what they are doing. Every one who refuses to walk in the light of revealed truth will be devoured by evil spirits. We are sure the end of time is near. “The day and the hour knoweth no man, but my Father only.” The signs given in the word of God, including the symbols of the book of Revelation, are nearing an end. This seventh seal or Laeodicean church age is the last age given in the book of Revelation. There is no more going out; the next is going up for the redeemed and down for the damned.

This time world will end with the second coming of Christ, the general resurrection of the dead, and the final judgment. Both they “that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation,” will receive their eternal rewards.

“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” 2 Peter 3:10. Like the thief, Jesus will come at a time when people will least expect him. “For many will say, where is the sign of his coming; since our fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were.” When Jesus comes, this world and the heavens which surround it will be burned up. Not burned over, but burned UP. That just means that it will be no more. No place will be found for them. There will be no time, place or need for a millennium. The judgment will be a separating time. The Lord will separate the saved from the unsaved as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. The saved ones will hear the words, “Come, ye blessed of my 1ather, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” The unsaved will hear the words, “Depart, ye cursed, into everlasting punishment prepared for the devil and his angels.” We are told again that the righteous shall mount up to “meet the Lord in the air, and forever be with the Lord.”“I go to prepare a place for you. I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye may be also.” John 14:3. “Be thou faithful unto death and thou shalt receive a crown of life.”
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