OCCUPYING THE KINGDOM
4-18-64
We are speaking this afternoon on Occupying the Kingdom. It is always important that we know where we are and what time it is, and that we understand our relationship with the plans of God. There should be no question in the mind of the children of God as to who they are, because HIS spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. That we are the progeny of God that we are HIS household, HIS offspring. It is also important for us to understand clearly that when we talk about the kingdom of God, that we are talking about a political social and spiritual order. A lot of people today, and their theology that we have discussed at various times, have been somewhat neutralized in their responsibilities to earth, because their relationship with God has been one of spiritual perception. It is totally tied up in the ritual and worship they find themselves engaged in week after week as they enter into the areas of church activities and the maintenance of their souls so that they will be in the proper relationship to reenter the spiritual realms. And the responsibility that they have, this constitutes the kingdom of God. This is the interpretation of what Jesus said as HE said, "My kingdom is not of this era.” And it is translated as tho HIS kingdom did not belong in this world at all. There are then many theologians who say, that since the Kingdom is not of this world, then it is up in the heavens; it is only a spiritual realm. Therefore there is to be no interest and no relationship to the social errors or the responsibilities that exist in earth for the true Christian. Therefore there is only one responsibility and that is in proper service and in the making of his spiritual obligations, and the adjustments of his soul so that he gets ready to die. Thus the church has been told that from one end of the nation to the other, and from one end of the earth to the other, get ready to die. But you were sent into the world to challenge it . . . to live. The Gospel of the Kingdom is one of life and not of death; one of victory and not defeat. It is one of the overthrow of evil and not one of defeat. And it is one of occupying the earth and not asking for a quick uplifting of one's self into the heavens.
I have listened to Clergy after Clergy saying, “Oh, God take us out of the world.” Where every Christian today should be praying, “Empower me to occupy and win.” Someone said, “Is this a selfish prayer?” No, because we were sent down here to win. We were sent down here to become empowered sons of God, not, my friends, to be weaklings. Today, therefore, challenges us. And this is the reason that in the psalmists vision, we read these words in the 82nd Psalm: “Ye are Elohim, ye are the sons of God. Why do you die like men? Why don't you occupy and win?”
If you were to go up into Yellowstone Park, you would notice one hill up where there are 27 areas of time where volcanic eruptions have sheered off forests which took thousands and thousands of years to develop. Then having covered them up and then run off a special flow, then upon the sedimentation year after year, seed time and harvest for thousands of years. Someone said, “How far back do you think this goes?” Well, my friends, the radio carbon test has run out on each one of these carbon period, and they run back 75 to 78,000 years. But each one of these carbon periods has run out of time before it was all covered. Pattern factors would then indicate that we have 53 million years of stacked up history in that one hill. Modern technology would support and technology would establish that that is a long long time. And that, my friends, is just relating to the impossible picture, relating to time from the standpoint of the finite mind. But when they laid the first foundation you all shouted for joy with the rest of the Sons of God. So don't worry about time, for there is a lot of it. If there has been any one thing that there has been a lot of, then it is time. But things are speeding up and time is being shortened. And we are in one of the most important hours in history. And your history in earth has been limited to 7400 years. This is the history of your race. This is the history of the household of God in the earth. And the MOST HIGH GOD who put this Universe together, and holds the whole thing in HIS hands, synthesizes it and directs it. And HE has a purpose and a plan for you. And HE understands that we must realize that HE did not do this in a minute, and HE did not intend to leave anything in HIS Universe out of balance. And HE understood what was to happen before it took place. HE could see this class struggle which existed in this Universe of God, in antiquity.
The other day, someone said, “My, everything is going wrong, so God is probably going to abandon the world.” No, HE is not going to abandon the world. HE would not have sent you in here, if HIS plan was to abandon it. God finds it impossible to abandon any part of HIS universe that HE created. HE has one idea in mind and that is the triumphant and victorious achievement of putting it all back in order, even as it relates to all flesh upon the earth; and this includes HIS own household, which HE declares is HIS own flesh in the field. God says HE will save all flesh.
Now I understand that the Devil wants to keep control over the earth. But I am not going to bow to him just because I understand why he wants to keep it. We ask today why people are so persuaded and we say everybody has a right to be a devil, or do anything they want to do to extend freedom, or do anything at anytime for anybody. But I tell you that no one possesses freedom in the mind of God, except those HE has set free . . . and those HE has set free are in Christ, not outside of HIM. And the only Administration that has freedom is the Christian civilization and the only freedom in the earth should be Christian.
Now if you do not believe that, then you can go be a Buddhist or something else. Someone said, “But that just speaks of religious superiority.” Well, if I did not believe in religious superiority this afternoon, then I would not be a Christian. If I did not believe that there was just ONE God, alone, and beside HIM there was no God, I would not be a Christian. We have every affidavit that "I alone am God, and beside ME there is no God." “I alone am God, and except for my offspring I will not share my Glory with anyone else. But I will put it down upon my sons and my daughters.” This is why the great prophecy of Divine light and Glory belongs to your race. Because God says, “This is what I have ordained.” And the fulfillment and the transition of destiny will see the development of the Glory of God which will shine upon you, as a race of people. That is why this verse, that we never get tired of, in the book of Isaiah, "Arise and shine, for thy light has come and the Glory of God has risen upon thee.” ( Isaiah 16)
Now almost all of these people had one thing in common. They had almost all of them no other written religion. And only after having gotten the scripture, it became the text of their theology. It is rather interesting that in the periods proceeding this, among various branches of this household of Abraham, you will note that they accepted no theology that was Asiatic or African. They were only waiting for the truth which was finally brought to them. You know . . . we can see this trail of history, for it makes a long panorama. God descended to multiply this household, HIS household. And from the days when there was a proper son for Adam, which was Seth, down thru the house of Noah, thru Shem, thru Isaac and Jacob, and down to our time, the subject is the building of a throne line, a people to rule, a society to administer the earth, to overthrow the powers of darkness, and for the establishment of a house. It’s spiritual responsibilities were great. And God's activities in the maintenance of their responsibilities was the most important area of vision and enterprise. For without that vision, no spiritual outcome could have been successful. No attainment of your western culture would have been the results. The inherited vision and initiative has traveled with you from those days up unto this hour. And this has been one of increasing monotheism and the divine purpose of the Father.
Now what house? --The House of God in the earth, of course. What is the House of God here for?---The building of a Kingdom. To do what? --To rule. You mean to win them by persuasion? --No, to rule whether they want to be persuaded or not. Did you ever hear of the devil deciding that he wanted to be converted? You won't find this with the Jews either, until they want to get into your churches, and maybe this acceptance will help them along the road to the Presidency. I heard one of them say, “The reason why I am a Christian is because there was no Synagogue in my community.” I do not want that man for president. That is a sad reason for being a Christian---just because there is no Synagogue in your community. I look for the day when we won't have any around anyhow.
I turn in this 3rd chapter of the book of Hebrews: --- “Every house is builded by some man every kingdom. HE who built all things however is the Eternal GOD. And Moses was a faithful servant unto this household of God. But Christ was the embodiment of God over HIS own house whose household we are.
Do you want anything better than that? We go back to those words of the Apostle Paul, and we find that this embodied God made all things, that all things existed because of HIM, and that HE made all things that they were made by HIM and for HIM. And if only we could catch the pattern of this in our minds, we could see the Glorified Christ upon the Mount of Transfiguration, and the radiancy of the Christ as HE moved out of that broken into Tomb. We would catch eight little patterns of the light that was with HIM before the world was framed, and we would realize that it is time that we walked like sons and daughters of God and that we occupied the earth. When the Church resumes its full responsibility, and make no mistake, it is just about to do this . . . when the church resumes its full responsibilities to the sons and daughters of the household of God in this great land which God has ordained will play its part in the events of today which are taking place, not only here but across the world, what will happen is that the sons of God will decide that they are going to stand up tall and that they are going to take possession.
And as I look around some days, I am convinced that a whole lot of people belong to the enemy, instead of God. That is why you get earthquakes shaking down part of your country. You act like devils and God will treat you like it for a while. That chastisement is good for you. That is why it can happen right in the midst of great population centers and not hurt you at all. Cause God knows how to handle that.
But I want you to know that the plan is not changed, the occupation is not changed. The great nations of God's kingdom are here and they are going to awaken to their responsibility as to why they are here, and they are still going to finish the task God ordained them to do. But you are in the absolute crucial point in which all of the powers of darkness, and all of the forces of evil are trying to defeat the occupation of God's kingdom. Therefore it is the responsibility of the church to charge men in high office, and men in statesmanship status, and all of the communicants and participants of the church to accept their responsibility, to arise and occupy. Jesus looked upon this chalice and having bestowed upon you this chalice of occupation, giving you the patterns of genius to develop it. HE said, “Now, I want you to know this. YOU ARE NOT TO WORRY, YOU ARE NOT TO MOVE WITH FEAR. YOU ARE TO OCCUPY UNTIL I RETURN. A lot of people didn't read that very closely. For HE did not say--hurry up and get out of here. HE said, “You stay as long as you can, but you occupy until I return.” The Kingdom is going to be occupying when HE returns. You say, “How long is that going to be?” Well, how long before you step up your occupation? WE DON'T LIVE WITH FEAR. A lot of Christianity is built on fear. I think the President's is built on fear, if he has any Christianity. Someone said, “What do you mean by that?” He belongs to a Christian church. That may be true. But he said the other day that we have to work fast, for the total integration of all men and all nations, or else we are going to die. This is just about four days ago as he said this while on the White House Lawn. He said, “We must integrate with all patterns of society, and all of the religious systems of the earth. For if we do not do this, we are going to die.” He is afraid this is all going up in a great big nuclear holocaust. “But if we move for togetherness today, then the enemy will permit us to live.”
Talk about law . . . yesterday, as you opened up the Herald, you saw an ad right on page two, and you wondered as to what was going on. But all of the Negro leaders had put an ad in there. It said, “get ready . . . we are going to have fall in's.” As I was going home yesterday, from here in the city, and I had the radio on, and it said in New York, that the law could not now stop these Negroes from their plan of violence. They said that they were going to stop all traffic as it moves towards the world's fair. This in the city of New York. They were going to stop all cars, and let the air out of all tires, and block off all traffic. And they would not let the White people leave their automobiles until they get their demands and the assurance from the State of New York and their officials. And they want to put on this pressure nationwide so they will get a meek concession on the part of the Senate, to pass the Civil Rights legislation. Law? This is not law. These are outlaws. This is a sub-society, a depraved group of animals turned loose. It tells me in the book of Revelation that they belong to the Beast system. And they are taking their instructions from the Beast order. Do you know what the governor of New York said he was going to do? This might not be a help to his campaign, but he said that he was going to “call out the Militia. I have had enough.” You might even educate a Rockefeller, you know. He might have decided like some others that there are more White people in America. So he said he would call out the militia.
The President is very frightened and he urged the Negroes, saying, “Don't you do it. Because if you do it, there might be violence and it might hinder this silly set of things that they call law.” We have a good law in the Constitution of the United States, and it guarantees all of the laws that intelligent people need. It does not give a measure of favor or discriminate against the majority of the people. So in this instance, we see that we are ripe for trouble. I understand that the other night Chief Parker told the police the other day that the same design set for here may go off any time, any time. It may be this week, or it may happen on Sunday. Negroes are going to slow down and chain their cars together across the freeway and make it impossible for them to go forward or backwards. And then Negroes are going to swarm up from the underpasses and keep people from leaving their cars, and then make demands on the city. So what he is worried about is that the White people might not take this, and there could be violence.
Now God ordained that we should go out to the ends of the earth and colonize all the ends of the earth and rule over it. So the colonization of the British Empire and of Belgium and of Holland, and here in the U.S., we were a colonial country to start with. And we have also administrated over colonies and territories. And this was in accordance of Divine purpose. This is the only area of illumination which has come into the earth, and that is since you have been here as a race. My, how we have watched the battle of semantics attacking the principal, saying that Colonialism is an invasion of liberty and of tyranny. This means that it is a suppression of Satanic liberty. This is to suppress the control of the witch doctor, his control of the people who are in Africa and the pagans of the world do not want this challenged with the message of the God who visited the earth, this Supreme God of the Universe. They do not want Christians, or Christianity. So the thing to do was to get into Christian nations and then attack the principal which they have been using to occupy the earth. We are told that we have to reeducate a new society today, to assure that every man has a right to be anything he wants to be. And that we should support a one world government which suppresses only the Christian part of it. Because, as they say, the one people who will not accept this interrelated, inter-mongrelization is the White man and his Christianity. Therefore, it is Christianity that disturbs, and it is Christianity that we must suppress.
I have listened to attacks upon Christianity even by theologians; and they say we have to modify it and make it as loving as other religions. Well, these other religions want to get close together. For in Africa they want to devour you.
Let’s take a look at what is happening right now. Here I take out of yesterday's newspaper. In Rhodesia yesterday, the Negroes started setting upon the White women shoppers in the down town stores, punching them and stomping them, and beating them. There has been stoning and riots against White people everywhere. And they are being stirred up by Kenyatta over in Kenya Colony, and several others of the black revolution. They are calling on the United Nations to remove all White people so that they can do as they please in leadership of their country. So here it is, here it goes on. And it is Mr. Uthant who thinks that the White man should be suppressed because he might resist this violence. This just goes to show how far down the road these things go when you do not occupy. In fact, instead of retreating, the British should have mustered enough military strength to assure Rhodesia that the law would be maintained. Instead, of retreating they should have inspired that colony to maintain its position, and not to retreat from law and order and administration. I do not believe that any of these Africans in the Beast system are adapted to administration in any way.
Now this is a White Christian nation. And we should take Malcolm X and lock him up. He does not have the right to organize Mau Mau to kill White people. We used to have a law called the law of conspiracy. And here then is a design to not only conspire against the government of the U.S., but also against the people here who make up this majority. But we are being told -- “Oh, no--they are just emotionally disturbed because they have not been treated right.” If you know any part of the world where they have been better treated than here, then tell me where it is. Even the Communist party cannot come up with an answer to that. Because they said ‘listen’ then should not complain because they have been treated better there than anywhere else. Instead, demand political rights.’
We are in the midst of a situation where it is important for us to know that in occupying, HE intended for us to occupy with the establishment of nations, for the administration of government, and this is a part of that responsibility. If the design is only to get ready to reenter the Celestial realm, there would have been no statement to--"occupy until I come,” because you would soon have been arriving in the Celestial realm. He said, “You hold the earth until I get back.” This is what your responsibility really is in this hour. Never have we witnessed a situation which is so wrought with pressure but here in these United States, where God has not only guided our forefathers to guarantee all of the rights of occupancy, but we have described the value of property rights, the right of a man to be secure in his home. The right of a man to possess property and pass it down to his heirs. The right of protection is a part of the freedom of our society, from state papers of our nation, we were denying the right of any government to confiscate the property of that people, and to give it away or to disperse. But today we are watching the confiscation of about 30% of your income and about 20% of it is being given away to your enemies. I hold in my hands a rather interesting statement because the President of the United States who is making war on poverty, and also just for the principal of repeating the synthesis of this, for the President said here in Washington, about two weeks ago, “In battling poverty, we have finally found the answer. We are going to confiscate the money which is unnecessarily spent by the “haves” and let it be spent by the “have-nots” where they will spend it in a better fashion. This is one way we will move,” said the President.
Now there are 32 members of this group who support this idea and they are Socialists. And many of them veterans of the Communist Party. They are all of the "New Frontier." And some are Communist leaders in the ‘pacifist movement,’ working on disarmament. And Hugh Heftner one of the leaders of this, is a retired Army General, who is one of the official organizers of the Communist Party U.S.A. These men are a part of the President’s cabinet for this measure . . . the special 'anti-poverty cabinet.' And most of these fellows listed here are communist to start with and they are pushing this 'Anti-poverty thing.' You say, “But it is not time to occupy.” They think this is going to gather more votes for the President than any plan that has been offered. They think that there are more people in these United States, that would rather have $1,500.00 and not work than to be men and dwell in a free society. (This the start of welfare.) I am going to tell you that your most powerful weapon in fighting this thing is a great powerful spiritual stirring of responsibility. The great intelligence from our society comes from this battle of semantics and the lack of proper instruction by the church itself, until there is given no great challenge being given to the students of this great nation to resist this thing has hindered our understandings. But only God can consummate this kind of spiritual stirring and then these organizations which say they are out to defeat communism talk about how the church and those things of Communism do collide. Let me tell you something. The power of resistance only comes from the consciousness of God telling us what it is all about. Then when men know what it is all about and their relationship to it then, how this is a strategy to destroy us, they are not going to stop at $1,500.00 given to us, for they are going to occupy the earth and take what they want. You know, they want to keep people at a sub-poverty level. And by the time they gave them this amount of money, the inflation that would be the basic result along with this whole strategy, then $1,500.00 would not buy very much. This is just one of the fantastic things which appeared this week in your nation, as a top level plan in operation.
Now they could bring anything else they wished on to this campus but there had been enough of a political stir, a spiritual stir upon the youth of that area until they were bringing their Bibles with them to school. And during their lunch hour, they were discussing things in the Bible. But now the law says that you cannot bring the Bible on to the campus. Let me tell you. When they tell your children, when they make a move toward God, that they cannot bring their Bibles on campus, then we Christians better occupy and do a little removing ourselves.
Oh, you say, “But that is in New Jersey.” But let me tell you that when they try to stop little children from saying the prayer ‘God is great, God is good, we thank HIM for our food,’ when they want to take that away and the Jew operated Civil Liberties Union and that crowd can come in and try to force the courts along this line, then we are overdue for Christian action.
Now HE said, “I came only to the Lost Sheep of Israeli.” --And HE also said, “I call you by name---I lead you out.” And to the disciples, HE said, “You who have been with ME from the beginning.” HE said (John 17), “You are my household.” Speaking of HIS spirit, HE said, “Thine they were in the heavens, and mine they are in earth,” as HE was speaking in HIS own embodiment. Here they are. So don't say that HIS own did not receive HIM, for they followed HIM all around. They sat and listened to what HE said and they thronged the roads wherever HE went. Then in the 19th chapter of the book of Luke, it is good to read this, because when HE spake this parable, those who would not receive HIM, those occupiers, they perceived this man, now an embodied son. And they said, “If we don't kill this man, we will lose this nation.” Thus we are not the heirs, for HE is the heir. This is what Jesus is talking about as HE said, “Bring hither mine enemies who will not have ME to rule over them and slay them before ME.”
Someone said, “This is not the Christ with meekness and grace.” No, this is the Mighty God of Grace that knows that sometimes some belong back in their own place. And tho HE was to rule with righteousness and justice, and filled with mercy and Grace, still HE does not intend to permit tyranny and the loss of everything that is good, and to permit us to be ruled by Lucifer for lack of resistance. Do you know that there are some people who will take a cowardly course in the name of religion?
I want you to know that there is no premium on cowardliness in the name of pacifism either. There are 'times' for the fulfillment of events. Do not think that just because Christ permitted that army to be defeated and then the eventual miscarriages of justice that ended in HIS crucifixion, do not think that because HE permitted this that HE wants you to go around and permit your crucifixion. When HE told Peter to put up his sword for HE could call in a legion of Angels, then this was a part of destiny. But HE did not tell Peter to always put up his sword because it was this same embodied Christ who told Peter to buy one. HE said you are going forth as among wolves, and these rascals will assassinate you, or kill you. So if you do not have a sword, you better sell your coat and buy one.
Someone said, “When are we going to put up our sword?” When the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our LORD and HIS Christ. And the swords we are going to put up are theirs. In those instances, the kingdom shall rule with the implacability with the graciousness and the mercy of God. But the law shall be maintained with a rod of iron.
Let me tell you what will happen. God is going to move with HIS spirit, and these institutions which become dead theological hierarchies are going to watch the people leave them, and they will move toward truth. And those institutions are going to stand out as they properly should. If all of these people form one confederacy, then when they start to crack down on them with anti-Christ tyranny and the proposition that they must acquiesce with this error, and you lift up the spirit of truth of your race, then the people of God move to come to Truth. And HE said,--- “If I be lifted up then I draw all men unto me.” They are not lifting up Christ as they talk about integration, and depravity, and mongrelization. Someone said, “What do you do if people start to accept the Gospel in these countries?” Well that is fine. Then you train some of their people to be their ministers. Someone said, “Do you believe in black churches?” Yes, I do. And I think they should have a black minister under White supervision. Someone said, “But they should be brought right into our congregation.” No, they should not. God Almighty said they should not come in.
The government said that they are going to integrate everything. But there is one thing that they are not going to do, and that is to integrate this church. It is not going to make any break in the establishing of religion. They finally had to stop short on that, as it is one thing that they had to eliminate in the Civil Rights legislation, that none of these institutions or laws of legislation apply to an institution of religion. So now the churches which have been under the control of this legislation, and who have men in the pulpits are advocating that they go along and make this a church regulation. Well, a church regulation does not belong to the Children of God.
Thus we point out that an occupied kingdom is a process that God has engineered from the beginning of the days of Abraham. In fact, from the days of Adam. And God is the one who wills it and God is the one who is able to bring it to pass. Let’s go over again into this book of Hebrews, in which we find that God is talking of the fact that HE is the Priest over HIS own household, over HIS own kingdom. And when God made promises to Abraham, and because HE could swear by no greater than by Himself, said, “I will bless thee, multiplying thee,” more abundantly willing to show unto the heirs of HIS promise the immutability of HIS counsel and HE bound it by an oath. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, that we might have strong constellation ---- of the multiplicity of the kingdom and of its eternal nature.
Now therefore, we read that God, Himself who was the High Priest of HIS own household, HIS own race, ordained survival of its descendancy.
You go out of here this afternoon remembering this. That there is one thing God cannot do. HE cannot reverse Himself. HE thinks right to begin with. And it never takes a readjustment in HIS design. And HE has designed that your race, transferred from Heaven to earth, picks up and acknowledges its fall and then steps into the full radiance of its glory. Establishes this clearly, before the world that these are HIS sons and HIS daughters, the emanation of HIS Holy Spirit bears witness. And HE has not only ordained that you shall rule in the great nations where you have congregated in separation, but you are to rule over the ends of the world over all people, and all nations, with HIS Grace and HIS Glory and HIS law.
Someone said, “But you cannot have Grace and law at the same time.” But you cannot have Grace without law. I want you to know that you are not thru. The kingdom is not going to surrender. It has just begun to fight. We are challenged this afternoon that we must tell the ends of the earth just who God is, and we will burn down every pagan temple if we have the power. We want you to know that this will be a nation under God, an Empire under God. And you as children, will participate.
Some of the things that we see make an ugly picture. But the great and divine things put all things in order. And this is the solution of the earth. This is a great salvation. God has not lost any sleep or any worries about the time when you have been here in earth. HE has not worried about getting you back. HE knows that HE is going to get you back. HE wrote it down in the beginning, and predestinated it in HIS patterns and sent down enough spiritual Grace to bring it to conclusion. HE has even adjusted in Celestial plains the casualties which had to reenter. And then HE is going to resurrect every last one of HIS sons and HIS daughters. And they shall complete the task. This is the blessed hope, the arch and the keystone of the Christian faith.
End of message.