The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-08-12
THE DIVINITY In THE MASSES SADLY OBSCURED

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God The divinity in them has become so OBSCURE thaC
sometimes have been almost led to think that there IS no
divinity left to which appeal.
The people in poor old Noah's day laughed and mace
fun of him.
While they went on with their tomfooery hundred
years passed. and they sad Look at the old foo
he has been preaching that flood is coming Tor one
hundred nineteen years, and there is no flood yet!
Then one hundred nineteen years and eleven months
passed, and food And after twenty more Gays stl
there was flood
One hundred nineteen years eleven months and twenty
nine days passed. yet there ood but when the
predicted hundred twenty had passed and Moan
was in the Ark, Gods prophet was indicated
He had believed Gods Word, not turning aside
Now the windows of Heaven opened all the
fountains of the great deep are broken up and the waters
begin to rise and still these wicked people mock, and
laugh and say, ooh, it will be only a little shower.
But the days pass and the waters continue to RISE
tell you when they bed at night they 90 not say
much but they do great deal of serious thnkng they
even say to themselves "Wel wonder if after ALL old
Noah was not right; wonder if flood is not really
ocming!"
| BEI.ATED CONVERTS TO NoAH's PROPHETIC WARNINGS
Even the wife begins to believe that Noah right but
the husband tries hold and when his wife speaks to
him he says "Oh turn and go to sleep; shut up
In the morning they have to upstairs, the lower
part of the house being filled with water that still continues
to rise.
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will make the application far ZION is concerned later
Now we come to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the
bringing of the Children Of Israel out of Egypt
ZIoN there part of the Word of God that you can
study with greater profit during the next six days than the
story of the deverance of the Children of Israel from
Egypt their history the Wilderness and how those wicked
wretches murmured.
One day they were all alive and shouting Hurrah for
Moses' Then when there was little trouble they would
o4oI flash
would give them flesh to eat until out OF their nos
tris
They soourned in the wilderness until the generation
that of Egypt had all passed away with the execp
ton of Caleb and Joshua.
Moses SINFUL ANGER AT THE SMITTEN ROCK
During that time Moses got angry with the people, and
God would not let him enter Palestine.
God told him occasion to speak to the rock, and
he sote it; but friends let give thought here it
may you from falling into the clutches of the Devil
Moses at last became angry and smo the rock and was kept
out of the Promised Land.
AS we pass through the Bible in very many places,
only Isaiah and jeremiah but in many of the Psams
it is 'ZIoN" ZIoN.'
Cut out of the Old Testament all that is said about
Z1oN and tell you you will have to take large part
of it.
Then four hundred years after Malachi John the
Baptist the rugged supplemented Prophet who
camels hair robe and ate locusts and wild honey
Suddenly he appeared before the people and preached
Repent ye for KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is at hand!'
Why cannot stick to the Word of God?
Some say, II have revelation message from God
for you, will you accept it?"
will tell you what will do; will accept what God
says in His Word land will follow and obey it and will
do what can to get you to obey it,
THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD FooLIsHNEss WITH GOD
John the Baptist you know, not very polished
preacher; never knew powerful preacher who pol
ished.
He not very dgnifed man, either; and never
knew dignifed who worth the snap of ones
fingers the platform not one!
Neither he cultured
Some say, eve want cultured man.. tell you, the
wisdom of this world is fooshness with God Do you hear
that?
God has chosen the weak things of this world to
found the mighty and the foolish things the wise
I want to get away from self and let God use me to
the Salvation, Healing, and Cleansing of Humanity
want to let God speak, and not to make great show
of learning and prove how precise can be in the pronunca
ton of words.
LET GOD RULE IN YOUR HEARTS
John the Baptist spoke sharply to those Pharisees of
his day. correspond exactly the Apoate parsons of
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