THE LIGHT THAT WENT BEFORE THEM
(12-12-64)
As we have turned thru these panorama of events for this time of year, we find significant things. And now we will go back and look for more significant things which took place. We can be sure of the absolute divine authority thru out the Universe. There can be no question about the mind of the observer that the Eternal has always had all things in the hollow of HIS hand. We have cited to you that you were with the Father before the world was framed. And as the children of the Most High God, you viewed the vastness of HIS creation when in HIS great fiat and majestic purposes, HE rolled out solar system after solar system at HIS command.
Now we well understand that the Biblical records support this. And in the book of Matthew, we have the story of how in the day that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, of Judea, in the days of Herod the king: behold, there were wisemen from the east who came to Jerusalem. These men had gone first to Egypt and compared their measures at the temple of ON; and then they had journeyed on to Jerusalem to the spot where Herod the king presided as king of the Jews over the land of Palestine. Their statement was, “We have seen HIS star in the east, and we have come to worship HIM.”
So what was the measure which was well defined? For out of the constellation of Aquila across to the head of Virgo, from the Eagle to the head of the Virgin, will move this great 'sword of the LORD.' And as this bright and scintillating comet would move across the sky. Then also would you see the wanderer of Satan and the wanderer of God would come together. The conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter would occur three times during the pregnancy of the Virgin Mary. It is to be understood that the wise men had watched this sign. They had watched this star as it moved out of the constellation of Aquila. They saw this and they started their measure as it approached the head of the Virgin, and then it took some time having left the pyramid location and the temple of ON. And now they were on the last lap of their journey as they approached the city of Jerusalem.
But there is something else here that is rather significant, and we find the story when they came to Herod the king. As we called your attention to this before, Herod the king did not know anything about this matter. He did not know anything about the Messiah, and he had nothing in common with their message. He was not an Israelite and he did not know about the hope of Judah and Benjamin. He did not know that Christ, the Very LORD-GOD would be born Messiah. And he had to turn to the scribes to find out if these things be true. And we are told that as he found out that Messiah should be born in Bethlehem, of Judea, that the scribes said to him that in Bethlehem of Judea, it has been written by the prophets. And Herod said to the wisemen, ‘go down and find HIM, and when you do, come and tell me so that I may go and worship HIM also.’ Of course, we well know that the wisemen did not return to Herod. But there is a statement here that is rather significant. And they departed. The star went before them, and it stood over the place where the young child was.
Now it is rather significant, that in some of the manuscripts used by Mark in the early church, it said that they beheld the signs in the heavens, and they had beheld also the great moving of this Great sword of the LORD. And when they had started upon their journey and left their calculations in the land of Egypt---Behold there came a great light above them, and the light went before them and the light did lead them. And they went to Bethlehem as they left the temple of Herod, and they followed this light until it shown down over the spot where the child lay.
In the original text this was a great light which shown down upon them and went before them. And this great light guided them to the place where the Christ Child lay. Now we are well aware of this and the trapping of events that were in this hour be outstanding and unusual. But do not think for one moment that when God was visiting in earth, and by this mighty visitation and process of birth without all of the heavens being involved. Here HE had left the throne of God to be embodied in a body of flesh, coming as a babe with the fullness of God dwelling bodily, here in this hour and in this event. In fact we are told concerning this matter that in the book of Luke, concerning this matter, according to the events of this night. And it says that this very night when Mary had gone with Joseph, and they approached the city of David, because all of the world was to be taxed and they all had to journey down to be taxed. So Joseph and Mary had gone out of the city of Nazareth in Galilee, to the city of David to pay the tax according to their lineage and background. And we are told that at the same time there was in the same country shepherds. And the shepherds were in their fields watching over their flocks by night.
If you would go back into the Old Testament to the time that the power of God was made manifest at Mt. Sinai, and Moses was directed, you will remember, for there he would meet the mighty God. There your race would receive the law and the pattern of divine revelation, concerning all of the relationship of man, and to earth, and to living. Laws of morality, and laws of ethics, and laws of the proper use of agriculture, and laws of the fallowing of the land. Laws of responsibility and laws of property rights. All the divine decisions of the law and the giving of the law to Israel would take place here upon that mountain. And Moses the chieftain of God's household, as the leader whom God raised up as he was out in the desert place, and God called him to come and to lead Israel. All of the majesties of the events that had proceeded, all of the revelation of it now would be equal to it now by this tremendous event. And if you will turn to the book of Deuteronomy, you will find out a little about what transpired.
Yes, it was as in the days of Elijah and Elisha as we see the great prophet of God was carried away into the heavens never knowing death, for he traveled from earth in one of these great crafts. There are numerous occasions in the scriptures where we have an opportunity to catch a glimpse of the mighty forces of the MOST HIGH GOD. Of the great fleets that came captained by Archangels and administering spirits, and by the very household of HIS own living sons, extending from one end of the Universe to the other. There could be no doubt then, that in this proper day, prophesied to our forefather Adam, that the Messiah would come, born in earth to perform HIS physical ministry, and be the very God to abide among men and consummate it by the very atonement in which HE would put down the powers of death and the forces of darkness, then triumph over their evil design by the power of HIS Resurrection by lifting HIS many sons unto glory. There was no question of the fact that all of the Universe was operating on God's timetable. Even the powers of darkness were finding themselves subject to the powers of the Universe, and to the Master of the Universe who had laid the courses of those later events.
You know, when a priesthood of wisdom and when Savants study the sky, for 5000 years, waiting for an event that they had been told would come, some of them had been set apart. And they were looking, watching, waiting, waiting for the sign of 'the son of man' to appear in the heavens, for the declaration of HIS birth. King of KINGS and LORD of LORD'S. The significance of this can be easily discerned for all of the importance of that hour. For all of the powers of darkness were not alerted that Christ was about to be born. And they designed to wreck all of the plans by the attack to destroy, as we cited this afternoon that Herod, who not having an answer from the three wisemen was more angry when a fourth wiseman came asking the same question when his armies were about to march on the city of Bethlehem of Judea. And so the evil hatred of Lucifer's sons would be demonstrated. For Herod's army marched on the city of Bethlehem and killed all of the babies up to a year old, hoping to get the Christ child. And the fulfilling of the Prophecy of ‘Rachel crying for her children' became a matter of history. And of course as we have mentioned, again this fulfilled only a portion of this narrative how the forth wiseman bearing the robe, went to the Temple. No star guided him. For he had been late in his arrival in Egypt because of his service to people who needed his attention. But had been delivered late to the land on purpose by destiny. He would preserve the life of John the Baptist, who was the son of Zechariah the Priest. And he was none other than the spirit of Elijah who was to come, to prepare 'the way of the LORD.' This is prophesied in Malachi.
In the instances of time, a great number of prophecies were to be made. And these prophecies were of great value to you and I, because we have discovered that all thru the history of our race we have been in a struggle with the powers of darkness. The forces of evil have sought to conquer the sons of God. And Lucifer's own family has led in this attempt to destroy God's own kingdom. A battle against your race, and a battle against your faith has continued since the day of its conception. And in the ministry of Christ when HE was to declare things which were to come to pass, HE was to tell HIS disciples as to how some of these things would end. Altho HE prophesied HIS eventful crucifixion and resurrection, HE also told them of a great day of coming glory. Of the majesty which would transpire in earth when HE, as KING of KINGS and LORD of LORD'S, with all of HIS majesty and all of HIS glory and with all the hosts of heaven, and with all of HIS family and HIS archangels and HIS great armies of space, would sweep down with the task of putting down the forces of darkness, and for the ushering in of one of the greatest days in all time and history.
We have repeated these passages with the idea that it is only fitting that we should meditate upon them at all times and seasons. For it not only dwelt with the fact that HE was very God, but as lightening comes out of the east and shines to the west, so shall again be this sign of the 'coming of the son of man.’ And you and I on the threshold of the greatest chain of events, have watched this fulfillment of this area of the passages of Matthew, in which HE said it would be as lightening coming out of the east and shinning to the west, so shall it be this coming of 'the son of man.’ And this is the title used for HIS Messianic message and HIS mighty glory. And in these periods of time and in these latter days, the times, the troubles, the tribulation of HIS people, there would be great events like the darkening of the sun and the moon would turn red like blood. And this would be preceded by a period when the stars would fall out of the heavens. And after that, we would see the sign of 'the son of man' in the heavens. And this sign would indicate that the time was drawing nigh. And again HE turns back to Enoch who had been told these things, had been told this measure and what to look for. For just as the measure had been given unto the wisemen who knew that they had saw that star and having studied these measures and watching the sky, they knew that it was the time for the birth of Messiah, and they arrived on time, proving that they were right.
It was not long from the great apostasy of 1909 until 1914, and the war, and there has been no peace on the earth from that day unto this as we moved thru these climactic events.
Back in the 60's, we were in the midst of the nuclear experiments. We exploded a bomb out in the Pacific greater than anything we had previously tried. It had disturbed the elements more than anything we had tried before. And those people in the Hawaiian Islands were to know this. We mentioned this afternoon, and we only leave it in for the panorama of this verse tonight, because what had transpired had filled the atmosphere and far up into the stratosphere with particles and material and matter . . . radio active material, and water, and materials into the atmosphere as the world had never seen. In fact, when this thing transpired people trembled. For like the aurora borealis, strange species and streaks of color moved across the sky. These bands rippling across the sky out there in the Pacific were green and purple, and strange yellow bands moving in to them. And as people saw these strange and fantastic colors the people were stricken with fear. There were great noises, popping noises in the sky which lasted all day. And the sun became almost like a black orb in the sky. And particles of materials filled the sky. And as evening came, the moon had turned to blood. And for a week from that time, the moon was blood red over the Pacific. The remarks about this were in scientific journals and newspapers, and areas of observation. And so in the 60's, we had different explosions. But nothing like this explosion out over Hawaii. It struck great fear in the people of that area. But the awe of this experience and the measure of time would bring the prophecies of Joel to fulfillment of the elements dissolving in fervent heat. Of the great pillars of fire and the prophecies he repeated for the end of the age.
Now it tells us that HE is going to gather HIS Elect from the four corners of the heavens and from the four corners of the earth. Thus, one of the great events is also marked by the Signs which HE gave unto HIS prophets for the gathering of the hosts of God. The majestic majesty of their return to earth for a triumphant victory---and a Light went before the wisemen, and that light we know was one of the attending forces of the MOST HIGH. Out of the great fleets of Michael and out of the great hosts of heaven as beheld by Ezekiel, are we to behold these events. If you could turn your eyes to what is round about you in the universe tonight. And you could identify from its motions and its patterns, you would see that the signs are in the sky now, for these great events.
In the days when our forbearers were in the land of Palestine in the days of Judah and Benjamin, and those most closely related in their background, possibly like the Anglo-Saxons and the Nordic, were largely existing inside of Europe. And at this time Rome was ruling over Palestine. But the hideous thing was that Satan's own children with Herod their king, was ruling over that land, and had taken possession of that ancient Temple. And the result was that they were contaminating and ruling with ruthlessness in their design to keep the kingdom suppressed. And I tell you that the same people are ruling with ruthlessness today. And with all of the standards of righteousness and justice in your land, these have been challenged and are treated as of no effect.
I think of the newspaper clippings of the last few days. For instance, in this very land where they are trying to destroy your land, they are pulling down the banners of the sons of God, and they have attempted to absorb the kingdom in the Antichrist program of Lucifer and his world order. And we have only one position which is a measure of the civilization and the culture......Our faith in God, or recognition of HIS HOLY WORD, and our establishment of a government under law. But I tell you that the forces of ‘darkness' do not respect the law. They use their influence around those whom you think are your leaders. And they seek to have two rules, one for them in which they seek to have crime and violence, and one for you in which they seek to suppress you if you even try to take a stand on the laws of God, for your self-respect.
I think nothing demonstrates the utter ruthlessness of the Satanic powers than their power thru out the Federal Government. For in the newspaper ‘The Record,’ is this story of this war against your race, where a group of Federal judges were demanding an indictment for a bunch of Negroes who had violated the law, and they had perjured themselves. And because these Federal judges had demanded that these indictments be given, the U.S. Attorney, acting under Attorney General Katzenbaum, refused to let any indictment be given against any Negro. I point this out, that several indictments had been given for violation of the law. But the Attorney General following the course of Jew design, used two standards of law and aims to crush you under a black heel. And says we will not introduce these indictments. The Federal judges said, “but this means that we have all law and order broken down, and this means that the law designs to persecute, not prosecute. But to persecute the White man to hinder the processes of justice by not indicting those already apprehended and charged with the crime, only because they are Negroes.” Two standards . . . For the leaders in government have decided on the two standards. They will cover the Negroes and not protect the Whites.
Now in this land of the heathen, they battle one another. One group of pagan Priests fights another and communist hordes have been aided and abetted by these pagan priests. And America does not know what to do, we are told. They do not know where to turn or how to align themselves with this situation. How are we to handle this situation because the pagans with whom we are in alignment do not agree?
My friends, we have no business aligning ourselves with pagans any where on the face of the earth. If we want to win this war, let’s win it for the Kingdom of God, not for a bunch of Buddhist, not for a bunch of pagans. One of the greatest mistakes we ever made was in the days of the Kennedy administration and we pushed the Christians out of power in Vietnam, because of the Buddhist who had never won a battle of truth.
Yes, there is no doubt that we are in a climactic period of the age. And we have a great need of a savior and a deliverer, who we know as HE who was born a babe in that night of wonder. He came to fulfill the Majestic destiny of God walking among men, and yet had power over all of the elements. And now we the children of HIS kingdom having ridden the crest of a rising civilization, filled with vision inspiration, and spirit, we have carried knowledge to the ends of the earth and we have watched the Antichrist bring on this kind of trouble to roll back our progress. And we have watched the cannibals now sweeping the lands that we helped develop, bruising, and attacking in the last few weeks, White men and Black men alike, and selling human flesh upon the markets under the shadow of the events of our day and even in this time of Christmas.
Who ever in history, now the allies of God's kingdom, tell us now that we must join with the witch doctors and join with the cannibals into your government? I think it is about time we took the cannibals out of ours.
Every day we hear of some attack against our citizens or against our society. And here in our land they do not want the name of Christ to be associated with anything in our government. They do not want our children to pray or to read the Bible anywhere. They do not want celebrations of Christ's birthday. And this year, after all of the experiences had by Christendom, and this year at Christmas time, greater pressure was on to keep nativity scenes off our civic centers and away from our city halls. No crosses, no lights, no crosses. And who demands this? But the same Jews, the same despicable society that tried to murder Christ at HIS birth. And they killed the babes of Bethlehem.
Let this be a lesson for you, to anyone who thinks that today the Jews are Israelites, or have anything to do with Israel, or the tribe of Judah. If the Jews were of the tribe of Judah, they would not have killed 3000 babies that night in Bethlehem. They were killing the babes to stop the Christ child and they cared nothing for these people of Israel, of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. I point out to you now that we stand on the other end of the threshold . . . The events that caused the world to shudder . . . never has there been measures quite like this. We gave you measures when we described the events for 1964. Remember we told this would be a time of strange judgments. And that it would be a measure of great pressure. Do you realize that this has been a time of low atmospheric pressure and high oxidation and intense pressure upon the nervous system of man kind? These low pressure areas bring in the coldest waves which cross our nation. And it has been joined by more configurations that increase the patterns of alignment. The fact remains that even the eye balls of cattle on our northern plains froze. And many of them will have to be destroyed. Never had this happened before when cattle died because they were actually freezing on their feet. Never have we witnessed such a wave of fires which have been burning across the nation, since the measure of this. And some explain this as that there was a very high oxygen content during this time and things ignited more readily. But this is not the only explanation, but the fires were there. And then along with this loss of life in the fires, came the accidents. And more people were killed in accidents in just a few days as we started to move in under this cycle. And they say that the reactions of the people must be slower than ever before. Thus, we have storms and trouble, and the toll mounts in all directions. But they are measures in the sky. And many men's hearts are failing them for fear of things to come upon the face of the earth. We do not challenge this fear, for we have a faith built on assurance.
But let me tell you that the hosts of Michael are standing by. And Michael that great Prince shall stand as he did in the days of yore when he fought for your race in celestial plains and celestial skies before even Lucifer fell into earth.
I tell you that we are watching the heavens again. For each Christmas becomes a virtual holiday for the children of the kingdom, because this is the fulfillment of a covenant keeping God who keeps HIS appointments and could set up a quarter of a million years just to set up a change, then tell you about it 500 years before it happened, and then watch it come to pass.
Thus, I tell you tonight that we stand on the edge of a new age, a New Order. And this light which went before the wisemen was a chariot of the Most High. And great forces of them are now moving around the earth. And soon they will become visible and their light which has been caused to not be shown from them, because of wisdom, will soon be shinning down from them. And it shall be brighter than the sun in that day with Glory.
Yes, 1964 shall be as it moves out a year of prophecy and of destiny. And the things taking down will be remembered. And as we move into the New Year, this does not slow down. It steps up. And New Year will be one of the most intense years in human history. (The Negro revolution.)
Thus, we tell you that thru out the nation we find ourselves in a holiday that is built around the joy in the birth of The Christ. This is your holiday. Rejoice, be merry. And don’t let anyone rob you of it. Possess it in your faith. For the enemy does not want you to identify with it.
So here we stand in 1964 and we are measuring a course of events. We are in the time of Jacob's trouble and we call for deliverance. And the morning cometh. So we say rejoice that you are the children of the Father and HE is determined that you shall. You are known as HIS household.
Remember the joy of the shepherds and the apathy of the wisemen, and know that today is not any less knowledge of movement in the mind of God. For HE knows the day and the hour and HE is alerting you to the greatest of all days when the hosts of heaven shall come in. Think what a day that will be when in light and glory, God stands forth like the light of the sun. When in that day, we shall hear the great trumpet call reaching out around the world to all men who shall hear it when the call says for them to break their swords, for only the sons of God shall keep their rods of iron. And then every knee shall bow and every tongue proclaim that Christ is Lord.
So we say that a Light went before them, and a light stands by to guard you, and the hosts of heaven is with that light. And with that experience this will bear testimony to you that heaven was standing by. There is no part of the testimony of heaven when the armies were not standing by, the hosts of heaven were at HIS command. For HE told Peter that round about were a hosts of Angels, and HE could have commanded them to come in if HE had so willed. So round about you tonight are the watchers. And round about you tonight are hosts of angelic powers. And in the plains around you are a great company of witnesses. Then soon out of the skies above shall return, your everlasting Father with all of the hosts of heaven saying, “Thou art my kinsmen, and I want the world to know that I have loved you.” So do not let anyone dampen the spirit of your holiday, for there is no other holiday in Christendom which has the power to relate to the birth of Christ. And the sky shall be filled with HIS glory again. So watch for it and know that out there is the measure of a great new day.
End of message.