The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-09-14

of Palestine, following the Battle of Armageddon,
and at the beginning of the Millennium
How ludcrous, how utterly silly to hear men
and women talking about the 'latter rain and
applying it to the Holy Spirit; and naming maga-
zines Latter Rain Evangel' and similar titles,
all of which are laughabe to man who knows the
Word of God.
Poor ignorant, deluded people! What foot
balls the devil makes out of them, kicking them
hither and thither, and making monkeys out of
them
Twenty y-rnth Verses
And it shall come to pass afterward, that will
pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons
and your daughters shall prOphesy, your old men
shall dream dreams, your young men shall see
Visions
And also upon the servants and upon the hand
maids in those days will pour out My Spirit
The promise IN these two verses is made to
Israel, and the fulfllment of this promise will be
at the beginning of the Millennium.
The Spirit has not been poured out upon all
flesh, and will not be poured out upon all flesh
until the beginning of the Millennium.
The promise made here is to Israel, and yet
what unspeakably disgraceful applications are
made of these two verses by poor deluded men
and women
when they read these words In their Grass ig-
norance, deluded by the doctrines of devils, they
will begin to rant and ask lot of idiotic questions
about the Second Chapter of the Acts of the
Apostles
| repeat again. that the promise of the Spirit in
Joel 2:28, 20, was made to ISRAEL.
Now then, John the Baptist, the forerunner of
Christ, delivered the message to Israel: Repent
We: for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand
Jesus delivered the same message to Israel
The twelve disciples delivered the same mes
sage to Israel
Israel, to whom the promise of the Spirit was
made in Joel 2:28, %, refused to repent, rejected
the message, rejected the offer of the Kingdom of
the Heavens, rejected the King and, therefore,
God broke off all dealings with Israel at the cruel
fxion.
Had Israel repented and accepted the offer of
the Kingdom and the King, the Kingdom of the
Heavens would, then and there, have been set up;
the promise of the Spirit, made in Joel 2:28, 2o,
would have been fulfilled and the spirit would
have been poured out upon all flesh.
But Israel rejected the offer, crucifed the King,
and therefore the Church = the hidden mystery,
a parenthetica period = comes in; and the
Church period covers the time from Pentecost to
the Rapture.
Immediately after the Rapture, Daniels Seven
dealings with Israel
Let it be noted again that the promise of the
Spirit, in Joel 2:2S, %, was made to Israel. But
after Israel rejected the message of John the Bap
tst, the message of Jesus, and the message of the
twelve disciples, the complete fulflment of the
promise was postponed There was primary,
partial, an anticipatory fulfllment on the Day of
Pentecost; but the complete ful61lment awaits the
setting up of the Kingdom of the Heavens at the
beginning of the Millennium.
If you will read the Fourteenth Chapter of St.
John, verses Sixteen to Twenty-six, you will find
where Jesus made the promise of the Spirit, and
that His promise was fulfilled on the Day of
Pentecost.
Let it be further understood that there was no
Church until the Day of Pentecost that the first
part of Christ's ministry was to Israel, and the
message was, "The Kingdom of the Heavens is
at hand :" that next He delivered a new message,
that of individual discipleship, and that He gath
cred together the disciples who, on the Day of
Pentecost became the charter members of the
Church
Let it be further noted - which fact is totally
ignored by the poor deluded people who talk
SO much about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and
so on and so forth - that, in the Second Chapter
of the Acts of the Apostles the preaching there
is to Israel.
In the Fourteenth Verse, Peter said eye men
of Judea;' in the Twenty-second Verse, he said,
"Ye men of Israel" in the Thirty-sixth Verse, he
said, Therefore let all the house of Israel know"
The Church was not born until you get down
to the Forty-second Verse All who were assem-
bled on the Day of Pentecost belonged to Israel.
The Fifth Verse tells us:
And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews de-
vout men, out of every nation under heaven
The Sixteenth Verse shows that that which
happened on the Day of Pentecost was an an
tIC1patOrY fuflment of that which will hanner1 at