He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. (Revelation 22:20)
22 And being that this is such a vital thing, I think just before…at the eve, rather, of our little revival, that we should look solemnly, and into the Scriptures, and see how close that we are. If I wanted to know what time it was, I would look at my watch. If I wanted to know what day of the week we was living in, or the month of the year, I would look at the calendar. And if I want to know the approaching time of this great event, I look at the Word of God, It tells the time when it is at hand. For the Bible said, “When these things begin to come to pass, lift up your head, your redemption is drawing nigh.” The time is at hand.
23 It was such a great thing to John, the revelator, on the Isle of Patmos, that when he saw the preview of the Coming of the Lord. When he saw the curses that rested upon the unbeliever, and the blessings that rest upon the believer, he screamed out, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus!” It so thrilled his heart after all he had seen, the events before His Coming, he screamed, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus!” And when the whole church age had been passed in his view, and he seen everything in major, the way it would happen, then the scream, “Come, Lord Jesus!” It must be a glorious thing that the Coming of the Lord draws near at hand.
24 Jesus, when His disciples had got to a place that they were looking at the carnal or the natural things of the earth. Now, here we want to stop just a few minutes. It doesn’t have to always be carnal that’ll draw us away, sometimes just the natural things will draw us away. Jesus’ servants, or His disciples, was pointing to Him the city temple, Jerusalem, the great temple where God in His Shekinah Glory had appeared in the Holiest of holies. And when they told Him of how goodly the stones was placed in, how the great master-mind of God had ordained that these stones was cut in many places in the world and come together. That, in forty years of its erecting, there wasn’t even to a buzz of a saw or the sound of a hammer. It was so masterly put together. And that how God had come in over the cherubims and it showed forth His Shekinah Glory, and how they had great hope in this great church.
25 And Jesus told them, “See not all these things.” Yet it was a holy place, it was a good place. It was a place, house of the dwelling of the Lord. But Jesus said, “Don’t see these things. I’ve got something to tell you that’s far greater than this. For there is coming the time” He said “that there will not be one stone left upon the other.”
26 No matter how well we try to take care of our physical being, no matter how hard we work for our organization, how hard we work in the church for our—our orders of the church, there’s coming a time when all those things will vanish and pass away.
57-0417 - "The Second Coming Of The Lord"
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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