The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-17


when the Wise shall enter in, and the doors
shall be shut, and the King shall withdraw
then the Consummation of the Age
will have come, and the Terrible Day of the
Lord, then this world, left to itself, will
worship the Man Of Sin, and the Lawless
One, and glorify and praise the Beast. I'm
til the Return of the Lord from the Rapture,
the world shall be, for a short time. wholly
controlled by the Devil.
From all the Ages, from Adam through
to Moses, and Moses to Christ, and Christ
to this day, hosts of spirits are gathering
who shall witness the final conflicts between
the powers of Heaven and He'll.
"These days of Preparation are compar-
atively few.
"They may extend into months and years,
and possibly, as think, t7venty, but short
are they; for although they extend SO far,
they cannot extend long The intensity of
the conflict will not permit them to extend
long. The work has to be DONE
The tares have to be gathered and burn
ed and the wheat gathered into the garner.
The Consummation of the Age comes.
but until it comes
THE Message must be sent forth.
1--WE must fight this fight, looking unto
the Captain of our Salvation, Who is the
Perfecter, of Our Faith, remembering how
He fought and how He won-remembering
that we must not be weary in we'll doing
These words were a part of sermon de-
livered in 1902. Add twenty" years to
l9O2 and you get 1922.
First Chapter of the Times of the Gentiles
Closed in 1914
AS [ showed you on the blackboard the
other night, the first chapter of the Times
of the Gentiles closed in 1914, and the
second chapter will probably close in 1922.
'To-night we are assembled here as officers
and members of the Christian Catholic
Apostolic Church in Zion.
But we have much to thank God for
we all have.
That God has used us to some extent is
true.
SO | ask every officer and member to-
night, to answer this. question for himself
and herself-What can I do to make the
Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion
more nearly perfection, in accordance with
Gods Word, for the year 1920 than ever
before?
If time would permit, I could give you an
outline of many things that you could say
and do that would close up our ranks.
strengthen the organization, and make it
tar greater power in preaching the Gospel
of the Grace Of God, and in sending forth
the message until He comes
One General Overseer-Not Two
One of the first things that I would i'm
press upon your minds is that this Church
has one general overseer-it does not have
two.
Any officer or member who does not real
lie that will be more or less of hindrance.
He will be saying and doing things that will
retard and hinder
Now, | am perfectly willing for anyone
else to be General Overseer if God called
him. But if God called me and put me in
this place, I am not willing that anyone in
this Church should attempt to usurp this
office or exercise its prerogatives.
There is where some people make mis-
take. That is the reason why some are out
in the cold tonight just because they were
not willing to be a tadpole, but wanted to be
pulled up and be frog.
No Right to Have any Personal Ambitions
[ want only what God wants and would
not want to be in a place where God did
not want me.
For man to take any other position is
to give the lie to his profession, as fol-
lower of the Lord Jesus Christ and as a
child of God.
have no right to have any personal am
bltlons; have no right to have any personal
wishes or desires. I have no right to have
any opinions of my own, to put up against
the Word of God. If I have, you can write
"lchabod" on my forehead, right tonight;
for | may be in trouble with God in miehtv
short order
What difference does it make-.when the
Word of God lays down a doctrine in plain
language what I wish?
| must submit to the will of God and to
the Word of God, or else I will be run over
and ground to powder
There is no place in this organization for
the lawless
1T any man or woman, who has come into
Our ranks, wants to be claw INTO himself"
want his or her resignation That person
has neither lot nor part in God Almighty's
work.
am not going to give statistics tonight
| will simply say this: have been General
Overseer of this Church from February
100. | suppose that might add word of
explanation here: ought to put it at
later date-when I really and truly got hold
of the reins and began to guide this organi
cation.
Guard the Deposit"