139 – Vanity Mirror
Neal Frisby’s CD #1164 | 7-5-87 (AM)
Man, glory, how great it is! How wonderful it is to have the Lord Jesus with us! Do you believe it in your heart? You can feel Him too, can’t you? Let us pray together, let us believe together, uniting your heart, no matter if you’re tired, whatever your problem is, filled with anxieties, burdens, you come to church to worship the Lord, and those burdens are lifted by His power. As you begin to expect in your heart, you believe in your heart, you rejoice in your heart because you believe it, you praise the Lord in your heart. Lord, we love you this morning. You are moving among your people, not only here, but gathering them across the earth into their proper places, Lord. And we believe in our heart for an outpouring and the going away. You are guiding your children into deeper power, deeper revelations, Lord, you are expanding their faith in the anointing. Touch the new ones here this morning, encourage their hearts to grow deeper, Lord God. And those that need salvation, it is as close as their breath. Let the anointing move in saving souls and touch the body in the name of the Lord Jesus. Give a handclap, praise the Lord! How sweet, how wonderful!
All right, you go ahead and be seated. Be back here tonight, we will have a special service and pray for the sick. And so this morning, we’ll just have a message here and come back for a real revival service tonight too. But we have a revival service here this morning. If you need anything from the Lord, you can receive it right here. Now this message was really strange. Out of the different messages that I minister to and so forth like that and I read about, I don’t know how many chapters, just reading here and reading there. I had a prophecy, different things and so forth like that, but I just kind of was going along there reading. Finally, you know, when the Lord moves on me, I know it. You probably don’t know what I’m talking about exactly, He may move on to you differently. And I read a little bit over this and over that and I went over it and finally, I had to come back to almost the first, some of the first things I was reading there. And I thought, “Well that probably gets in a lot of things,” but it just kept drawing me back there and so I’m going to preach it here this morning. And we’ll see what the Lord has for us.
1. Listen to this real good right here. And it’s kind of the way that He moved on me, it just kind of came the way that it did. Now, Vanity Mirror. Now listen to this. All nations in vanity. Now there’s not many sermons preached from the book of Proverbs or Ecclesiastes, or the Song of Solomon. And this morning we’re going to touch on it. So, listen real good. Many times, you know, when Solomon would talk and when he would preach, he called himself the preacher. How many of you know that? You won’t find it in the Bible. Now that means somebody that gives advice, somebody that’s telling them about moral conditions, about different conditions, about mankind. And he called himself the preacher, yet he was the wisest man that ever lived in the world. And he chose to use the term preacher instead of an evangelist or a prophet or anything like that. He just said he was the preacher. Now let’s see what he has. Vanity Mirror, all nations getting caught up into the vanity mirror. Ecclesiastes chapter 1 -12, “The words of the preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanities of vanity; all, all is vanity.” All is vanity. Now did anybody on this earth ever have any more than Solomon? We don’t know of anybody or any more wisdom than Solomon had upon this earth. He had so much wisdom from the Lord, knowledge from the Lord, it kind of ran into him. He had so much, it was kind of a burden from the Lord, and the things that God gave to him, he said vanities of vanities.
2. Now, you know, when Solomon would write, he would write along in three or four sentences and, and a half a paragraph and change subjects on you. Then he’d come back and he’d change subjects again. And he’d go along a little while; he’d change subjects again. So you’re going to see this is kind of erratic, but that’s the way that he wrote. He called himself the preacher, giving different advice about different subjects, you see and he would, he would go right along, and it would change. That’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to change from one subject to the other and then come back to what he has to say. Now he says vanities of vanities, “What profit hath a man of all his labor, which he taketh under the sun?” He didn’t have any profit at all unless he worked for the Lord. How many of you believe that? That’s exactly right. Nothing will last but the labor and the work that we do for the Lord, the other, although God gives it to us, is vanity, it will disappear. Amen. And it will disappear right away. Listen, one generation passes away, so you can’t do any more about it. It’s gone, how long they were going to live, how long they were going to do this, how long we’re going to do that. “One generation passes away, it’s vanity, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever” for God made it, amen (Ecclesiastes 1:4). Do you believe that? All things pass away but what God does not want to pass away. Now let’s turn over here and let’s see what we’re going to do here. Vanities of vanities saith the preacher. And we’ll listen to it real close. Now the Lord wants His people to have nice things. I took notes after every other sentence that he gave, so they are valuable and I’ll just put them right in here. The Lord wants His people to have nice things. Solomon said so himself, wealth and riches, but all of these things are still vanity. How many of you know that? And the Lord will give you prosperity, and the Lord will give you this and the Lord will give you that, but it’s still considered all vanity when it’s said and done except your salvation and your eternal life. So, He wants you to have all of that, but it all becomes vanity or worthless. Now vanity is pride or being proud of something that is worthless that will pass away. How many of you believe that? We are getting down to something here on vanity. See, vanity is pride in something worthless. It will all vanish no matter how wealthy it is or no matter what it is, except God saying they will vanish away, saith the preacher. Now get hold of all the spiritual you can and hold on to it because this is what’s going to survive. Hold on to it, all the spirit that you can get. You know in the Bible and vanity, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest church and richest of them all?” Babylon sits on the beast, and she sits and looks upon the mirror and says, “I’m the richest and the fairest and most beautiful of them all.” Revelation 17 bears that out. Revelation 3:17 says, “We’re rich we have need of nothing” the other woman says. There are two women, see, and each one of them said they are the fairest of them all but they’re worthless saith the Lord and I will spew them out like I said I would. Vanity, vanity, who’s the fairest of them all saith the Lord? Solomon said the bride the elect is the fairest of them all. Fairest as the moon as a banner that goes forth (Song of Solomon 6:10). The elect is the fairest of them all, that’s right. They can say what they want to before and glamorize it, raise himself up and sit upon high, saith the Lord, that makes no difference I do the choosing. Isn’t that wonderful? Where that faith and where the power and where it’s there on the wall. See, it is just worthless. In fact later he wrote he said, the horseleach, the horseleach has two daughters, that saith give, give (Proverbs 30:15). Sounds like Mr. Babylon and apostate Protestants in all the ways they extract blood, bloodsuckers of the earth wind up with it all. We’ll touch on that in a moment. There is a generation. How many of you are with me now? Now see how it jumps. How many of you are still with me?
3. Alright, now watch, here we go. You know a while back, a painter not too many centuries back I guess was painting and it would take him sometimes maybe a half a day or day to paint a picture. His name was Van Gough and just lately one of his pictures which probably took him that morning and evening to paint, one of his pictures sold for $40 million, 40 million and all it looked like a dying plant in a vase about this big, For 40 million dollars! It’s vanity, vanity saith the Lord, vanity. It’d be worthless. That shows you one thing: your money is vanity and your money is worthless. Oh look at that! How many of you are still with me now? Somebody says in their heart that this picture will be more valuable than the whole United States Treasury someday. Worthless, vanity, vanity, vanity of the dollar, worthless. See, each time it begins to lose and each time until the Antichrist rises. The horseleach extracts the blood from the earth and he rises up and brings a new system that looks like prosperity is everywhere. But vanity, vanity, vanity, the Bible said it is all vain because it all passes away except Him, the [whose] eyes have flames in them that meet him in Armageddon. That’s exactly right, it will pass too, this system will go into a new system because it’s gradually like 40 million for one painting. His next one sold for 20 million dollars on that. Let’s get into something here. Vanity though, that will also pass away. It’s vanity and all of that worthless. Seeing a system comes to try to bring a new system to get out of this system and it gets into horrible mess and the marking of the beast and so forth like that. Now back to where we are at right here, see these things happen. Now in the Vatican, vanity, on the walls, the treasure, the artwork, Michelangelo superseding even Van Gogh and all the rest of the painters and Leonardo da Vinci. All of them, on the walls, the masterpieces, the sculpture. Perfect they claim in the time that he did it. Imprisoned him in a Vatican. All over the walls in that Sistine Chapel, everywhere, this great artist, a sculpture [sculptor] and a painter. And they wanted some money. They need more cash, there’s never enough cash, give, give, give. Not enough cash, so we need more cash, the great Vatican. And a man stepped out and the reporter said, “Well, why don’t you sell some of the artwork there? Why? He looked at him like, “Are you insane? Why? He said, “How can you put a price on Michelangelo or any of this artwork that we hear? There’s no price on that.” Yet the Lord says vanity, vanity, vanity. It’s all worthless and will be blown away in fire. Now we are doing Wednesday night, you’ll get to see some of this, on Wednesday night in part two inside the system. Not thinking at the time how I titled it because inside the system of the doctrines and the things that they do and so forth like that. And we had a film and we rolled along and we are rolling past here, and it shows the artwork. I say “Hey, cut that right there.” If we go any further you have to go to the adult bookstore down here. It’s the artwork, see, priceless. So, we only went so far. You’ll be here and you will see where it was cut off. Inside the building they call it artwork, it’s there. Your family, anybody can walk through there right there, but inside the system only for a moment there. And of course we didn’t go on with it because of children, so we just cut it off, but that’s their artwork, and that’s on the inside [of the Vatican].
4. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest and the richest of them all? How many of you are with me now? How many of you believe that? Who are you serving anyway? Can you say Hallelujah? Sure, setting the standard back hundreds of years ago and now it’s everywhere, called artwork. How can you put a price, they said on it? Vanity, saith the Lord is what I’m trying to say. Vanity no matter how it’s sculptured. No matter how it is painted. It’s vanity. It shall pass away. Now let’s get on in with this right here, touchy in here. You know they had an auction down in Hollywood, Los Angeles and they had an auction. You can see the vanity. Movie stars’ dresses sell for as much as $7,000 that they wore in certain pictures, one like Marilyn Monroe, $7,000. One little dress that was worn in the picture. Vanity, vanity, she’s gone now and the dress shall fade away and rot, vanity, it’s a vanity. Eyeglasses, some singer, Lennon or some of the Beatles, had worn thousands of dollars. See? Thousands of dollars. I don’t know, even higher than that. They had so many things going there and they were auctioning all of these things off, see, in these pictures, but it shows us a vanity. And you say, where are you getting that? It just comes as I was writing in between these verses, God was showing me, things that had just happened lately, things that are happening in pictures. We were talking back in that church and all that just happened lately and we happened to get a hold of some things there. Amen. See, God knows what its vanity is, He knows what it’s all about. See, vanity is pride in something that is worthless and pride into vanity in yourself would be in vain, see? Someday you’re gonna get old. You’re gonna pass on. Amen. Do you believe that? Even ugliness is vanity, so is beauty. Amen. It changes; it goes away. The thing that is not vanity is a glorified body in the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh praise God! Back him up. Let’s back up, back up old satan here that’s trying to come across the earth and cause all these things, glory! Alright, now listen right here real close here. And they got that and that’s all, all of these things, vanity, shall pass away, but what counts is hold on to the spiritual. The material things, they are all gone and they will go. James says they’re all like a vapor, so are men, like a flower that fadeth away and is blown away as the grass. And your life that we have upon this earth is as a vapor. It comes through and it passes on away like that, says in the Bible there.
5. Now we return and see what the Lord has for us here. Now we went down, vanities of vanities, what does it profit a man? To verse 4, saith the preacher. Now, we go to verse 5. Now he changes, “The sun also ariseth,” I guess the Lord said he might not talk any more of that. Now the sun also rises and the sun goeth down. It hasteth to go to his place where it arose” (Solomon 1:5). Goes up, goes down. Solomon’s gonna show us something here in a minute. Well, actually the earth is in its orbit. It’s turned on one side, that’s why the cold goes down in there when it passes. Now the earth orbits about the sun. It is the earth that orbits about the sun, that makes it look like the sun goes up and the sun goes down. It’s our orbit that causes that and as the earth tilts on its axis, see God tilted that on its axis there. But it just keeps going up, coming down. Now he’s gonna tell you some more about the sun. Now that tells you how it works right there, how the earth is tilted and then we get us to one point how the coals stay where it’s cold, where it never turns to that point like the sun reaches the rest of the earth, like the Arctic and so forth like that. But it’s the sun going about– the earth going in its orbit about the sun that causes the sun to look like it’s going up and down. It’s only going in retrogression very slowly, but it’s the earth that passes. “Now the wind goeth toward the south.” It’s according to how you look at that by speed. Well, I have to get in, that’s really deep. Now the wind goeth towards the south. It turns about into the north. It whirls about continually. It’s just a going and a coming and the wind returns again according to its circuits (Solomon 1:6). It obeys its circuits. Now when that gets broken up, our weather patterns change and right now on the earth they’re broken up. They have El Nino, what they call it, crosses down in the Gulf. They have changes in the Arctic, the hot air. They have the ozone layer being broken up. Our weather patterns are changing for the Great Tribulation now and for the end of the world and for the changing back into the Millennium. All these things are taking place. They will be out of their circuits. Let’s go a little further here. The wind, now we see, now what caused that wind? The sun, we’ll get to that in a moment, the heat. Now all the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. And then it says it runs in, is not full. Unto the place from whence the rivers come, hither they return again (v.7). It’s just like the sun. It goes around up and down, up and down, going around a circle like it says in there. You say how does that work? Well, the rivers, rainwater comes to the rivers. Rivers go back into the sea, yet it’s not full and out of the vapor of the water goes back up in the heavens. As the sun shines upon the sea, it vaporizes, it goes back up in the heavens. The winds blow and then the rain comes back again. It repeats a cycle. It’s like this, it goes up and down and the rain comes back again and again, up and down like that. How many of you follow nature…? Men did not know that all the rivers run into the sea until lately, but the Bible knew it thousands of years ago and it gave it. They did not know. And the Bible gave it here. They did not know about the earth and the sun there, but there it is as Solomon tells it. These things are all repeating themselves and he has a reason to say that to repeat themselves. Listen right here. Now all the rivers run into… from whence it comes, it goes again, up in the cycle, goes up and down.
6. “All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing” (Ecclesiastes (1:8). All day long, men and women look in the stores, they shop, they go here, there, and they look, and they look until their necks are stretched, he does say that too over there. And they look, and they look, and they look, and then they go home and watch TV half the night and then fall asleep. They can’t get enough of looking. I mean, how many of you are with me now? Oh, he says it’s over and over and over. It always has been that way, see, and looking. I wonder how many of you look and look for Christ like that. Oh, glory, Hallelujah! All day long and looking for Him. You will find Him that way, amen. And they go to sleep, the next morning, they’re up early, they’re looking or listening again by radio or TV. They’re looking, they’re listening, see. That’s right, phone ringing, talking about business, see, just to go in and come and see. That’s exactly right. Hear that, kids, because I hear the phone ringing, ring, see, going to come and see. Things are happening there. Now, the thing is that, in other words, Solomon said, the thing that hath been, it is that which shall be after (v. 9). What has been before shall come again. Jesus comes one time: He’s going to come again. Oh, that’s definite on it. Our sun going up and down, the moon going back and forth, the earth turning red like it’s doing, making it, causing all them things. He’s trying to show us–the wind, the circuits, the way it comes, and rain over and over and over and back and forth, it shows the Lord is coming again. And said, he said, that which hath been, shall be again and that which is done is that which shall be done (v.9). And there is no new thing under the sun (v.10). Revival in the Old Testament, with His people coming out of Israel, all across there, revival, revival, apostasy, apostasy, apostasy, a revival, revival, revival. At the end of the age, Jesus, great revival to Israel. Again, at the end of the age, a great revival will come again and again. Revivals will come in cycles again, and we will have a great revival at the end of the age. He said, “Is there any, is there anything new under the sun that hasn’t been before?” Listen to this right here. Is there anything wherefore it may be said, see, this is new? Can you say that? “It has been already of old time, which was before us.” Sounds like God had other places, didn’t it? You say, you may, yeah, beyond what we’ve got here on this earth, probably? He’s no little God. He didn’t shut up, set up shop 6,000 years ago, when the seed of man come upon this earth. We don’t even know what was here before that, because the Bible said it’s just timeless, nearly the earth. It’s a man, Adam’s seed that come here so long ago. The creation took place about 6,000 years ago, too, something like that, maybe a little bit further in there, as He’d done that. I’ll tell you, it’s really deep, it’s really great. No new thing, Solomon says, what has been before shall come again. Is there any new thing? You tell me about it. He said it was before us, anything that has come again, now of old time which was before us. See, in Hebrews, it said worlds (1:v.2). Worlds mean people that can be on them, and worlds, and be somebody’s on there, because it said worlds in the Bible. Trillion, and billions, and billions, man cannot get out there, but a little ways out here, not way over in there. They don’t know what is out in there. They have no idea how many angels populate that place, how many, whoever God has, or whatever He’s created in other planets, they don’t know anything about that. We know very little about it, but we know according to God, He’s a busy God, and He does love His creation and creatures and His people. How many of you know that? That’s exactly right, and that’s not my subject, but Solomon makes it as though what we are doing upon this earth, ah, forget it, he said it’s done, been done before. I know where it was done before. God saw the whole thing, and put it out, and a handiwork of visions. How many of you know it? It’s already been done before.
7. You mean the automobile, and all those things? Well, we know some things. You have a chariot before, then you have the car, but it’s doing the same thing, going up, down highways. How many of you believe that? So the thing, however you want to look at it, is going again, but this one was, hath been already of old time, which was before us, that means the human mankind before us. “There is no remembrance of the former things, nor shall there be any remembrance of the things that are to come with those that shall come after” (Ecclesiastes 1:11). God’s gonna fix it all. Vanity of vanities, all of it going up and down, going this way, going that way. Vanity saith the preacher of vanities. Now, let’s get over here for a moment. We have some more stuff here. Oh, my! Now, we’ll come over here, and we’ll read, this is 1 Corinthians 2: 14, “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God. [There’s where it’s going wrong, see]. For they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” It’s all foolish to the carnal man, it’s all foolish to him. He doesn’t understand the things of God, and doesn’t want to understand the things of God. But being spiritual this morning, saith the Lord, can you not understand the things that I have already written to you? You know that the Bible that’s written now was of old time before us. It was in the Word, and the Word in the beginning was with God. Solomon’s right, you get it? Everything back there in the mind of God, the heart of God, how great it is.
8. Now, let’s go over here. We will read Ecclesiastes 6: 3- 6, and then verse 12, “If a man begat a hundred children…” Why? I wonder if he ever saw anybody with a hundred children. Well, in those days, they had many, many different wives and concubines. How many know that in the Old Testament? Hey, he’s not so far off, is he? Amen. You know, a thousand [wives and concubines] himself. And he said, you know what? Out of a thousand, I couldn’t really find a good one and only found one man out of a thousand at that time. All vanity, all is vanity, see? How many of you are still with me now? He found it out, if a man begged a hundred children to live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with the good things and the Spirit of God, and also that he has no burial (v.3). In other words, it looks like he’s gonna live on and on and have a hundred children. He’s gonna live on and on and on. But if he’s not filled with God and the things that come from God, here’s what he said, it’s all vanity. How many of you know that? He said, and he has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better than he was. Amen. Now, for he cometh in with vanity, and he departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness (v.4). Because he has not God, nor the things of God. And one place in the Bible it said, if God giveth all the things that the Lord gives him, and prosperity, and gifts, and whatever he hath, and he hath God, he will rejoice, and time will pass, and God will bless him. But the man that has all of these things, that God allows him to have rich things, and all of these things too, and that man that God allows it, and he does not have God or want God, then to him it’s worthless, vanity. How many of you believe that? And those were the chapters leading up into some of these things right here. Though a hundred children live like he’s gonna never die, Solomon said there isn’t a thing to it if you don’t have goodness, and the power of God within him. Yea, though he lived a thousand years twice told, although he lived for two thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good. “Do not all go to the same place called the grave” (Ecclesiastes 6:6)? How many of you are with me now? Vanity, vanity, I’ve seen some of us there, I’m gonna live forever, it looks like, feeling good, real young, you know. Next thing you know, the overdose of cocaine, gone. Next thing you know, heart attack, gone, in their 20s, in their 30s. How many of you believe that? Dictators arose and were going to conquer the world, some of them did, but before they barely got to sit down in their chairs, they were gone. You see, God, vanity, ruling empires, all seven was called vanity from the first down in Egypt, to the last one in Rome, to the last of the antichrist system, is vanity, vanity, vanity, saith the preacher. That’s exactly right. God knows all about it there.
9. So we find out though Solomon, in case you didn’t get it about no burial, he went on down here in verse 6, yea, though he lived a thousand years twice told, yet he hath seen no good. “Do not all go to the same place” (Ecclesiastes 6: 6). The graves don’t make any difference, they are all going there, and then God divides where the spirits go, amen, the personalities. And then he says here in verse 12, part of it, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth is like a shadow. All the vain days of his life are like a shadow, it is gone. It is like grass, it’s like a vapor, it is like a second in God’s time. Man’s life on this earth is like a second in God’s time. Vanity is like an illusion, it is like not having Christ, it is vanity, it is illusion. If you do not have Christ, you have an illusion. How many of you believe that? It’s exactly right. If you have Christ, you have no more illusion. You have the real thing, saith the Lord. You have the Lord Jesus, which is no vanity. You have the Living God, Eternal Life, which is not worthless, but which is great gain, which cannot transpire, which cannot fade away, which cannot go away. It is eternal, and will never pass away. How great He is! And this sermon is greater than what I thought from the reaction in the audience, amen, praise God! And the Lord came, and the Lord, after so many chapters, came and said, do it this way. And as the Lord came to me, all of this, when you say, “Well, what did I hear?” Well, you go back in the beginning, we get through, and you’ll see what you hear, how the Lord does it. All of it passes away without Christ, but the natural man receiveth not the spiritual things of the Lord. And though he lives, twice told, a thousand years twice, and he has not these things in God, they all go to the same place, it doesn’t make no difference how short or how long, how rich or how poor. God will do the dividing. My, how great and how powerful He is! You know what Solomon said? He said, love your wife, remember God in your heart, because that’s all you’re gonna get out of this world with. How many of you believe that? You said, “Who is that man?” Well, he had so much silver that it was like rocks on the ground, it said. He had so much gold, they could no longer carry it, and hurt their backs. He had so many rubies and diamonds, and so many of the beautiful things today, that no one in this world had what he had. He had a thousand wives and concubines. Oh, he said finally, oh, see it’s vanity. What counts, he said, is the spiritual things, for these [riches] brought in idols, and so forth like that. Vanity, vanity, that’s the Old Testament there. You know, listen to this real close here. Not in the New Testament, it’s the Old Testament at that time, or whatever he allowed at that time there.
10. Now, here, listen to this right here. I believe I’ve got time for it. Maybe you’ll enjoy this. There is a generation now, Proverbs 30:11, now he jumps, “There is a generation that curses their father, and doeth not bless their mother.” That’s the generation that we live in. Bang down the doors, blow up the house, rob their own people, crime in the streets, narcotics, liquor, drunk. Children, they murder their parents, they’re killing them all over. It said everywhere, abuse to the elderly in every other way that you can imagine. Solomon looked down through the corridors of time, he saw visions too, some of the things I read, it came from visions from God. Other times it just come from…he had a great gift of knowledge, which stretches out into the future, and wisdom. And he said, there is a generation now that curses their father, and doeth not bless their mother. We’re living in that generation right now, and it’s just saith the Lord, that’s your generation. Since especially the 30s, the end of the 30s, down into the 40s, the 50s, it has been worse, and worse, and worse, and it’ll lead out into the 80s, into the 90s. What is going to happen to this generation? There is a generation, you say, how do you, why do you say that? Because there would be a certain generation when they say it like that. Then he says here, there is a generation behind that, in the next verse (Proverbs 30:12), “There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes [Oh they’re perfect, and they’re all nice], and yet is not washed from their filthiness.” The great church systems on the earth have given forgiveness through cards and traditions, and all kinds of things. The sinners say, “I’m as good as the church people down there, I’m as good as here.” They are all over here, they are smoking, they are drinking, they’re running, their crowds, and they are doing this, they are doing that, all over. They are full of unbelief, they’re full of doubts, you see no miracles, you see nothing in them. Oh, but who’s the fairest of them all? The elect is doing miracles. Now, at the very end of the age, they will build large Pentecostal, places, and great things like that, and they will imitate right along, but they are going right on into the Vatican, right on into the Babylon systems of this world, and those prophecies are coming to pass so much right now that people no longer dare to say, it ain’t so, or it can’t be, because it’s coming right in front of their eyes. Daily, we see these things. Now, there is a generation, they say, “Oh, we’re okay,” in their eyes, but he said, they’re not washed from their filthiness, and God said, I will spew them out of my mouth. Now, watch all nations that forget God, so he turned them into hell.
11. Then the next verse 13 each verse has one (Proverbs 30). Here it is, the third generation, another generation, it’s the same generation he’s talking about. “There is a generation, Oh, how lofty are their eyes!” At the end of the age, you watch that, because the Bible even says, how haughty, how lofty are their eyes! Listen to this right here. Isaiah will back all this up, too. Oh, how lofty are their eyes, and I believe it follows the end of his books here. There is a generation, oh, how lofty are their eyes, and their eyelids are lifted up. Eyelashes, great, huge. Remember that Pentecostal woman that had such long eyelashes that Johnny Carson [Talk Show host] said she’d probably mate with a tarantula if she wasn’t careful. They said that’s what happened. I mean that is overdone and redone. When the general public starts making remarks like they had so many days to go back on television, it takes 19 days for her to get ready. Bless her heart, bless them both. They have been mistreated in a lot of ways. How many of you know that? But takeovers, horse leaches, I’ll tell you, I got a sermon coming later on and not just to criticize people or something like that, but we’ve seen everything. But there is, Solomon said, boy, they lifted it up on high in that generation. Now this is the same you read the first about the mother and father, and the same that you read that they thought they are okay. And all of that with a church system, and the next generation about the eyes that run right along there with it, and Isaiah gives you more to that, it runs right along there, right there with it there. God gave me all this just a poem, wow! He just came in there and did that, and it says here, and their eyes, their eyes are all lifted up, see, there it is. Hollywood started that, see, out of Hollywood down there.
12. There is another time, he says again, “There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, [that’s war], and their jaw teeth are knives, [there, that’s another, that’s four generations, the same one here], to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men” (Proverbs 30:14). That’s your antichrist system, great weapons, the forcing of the mark of the beast. Let’s read that again. Each one of these are prophecies of the future, the last generation that shall be upon this earth. “There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, [that’s warrior stuff], and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth.” That generation wants to do that, by saying, “Peace, peace, we give you this, we give you that,” until they get the mark of the beast on you, see. To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men. That’s your great Antichrist state; there is a generation of weapons that shall try to wipe out everything upon the earth. Then he’s right here, verse 15, he starts automatically, he changes, but it must mean something with the rest, see. Verse 15, which says there is a generation, 14 says there is a generation, then it says, “The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give, give.” Apostate Protestants, the Babylonian systems, see a horseleach, blood extractors! How many of you are with me now? And they extract the blood upon the earth, and the riches upon the earth, and all you can hear, you have 24 hours a day. How many of you are with me right now? And all the troubles that got television a while back, going, oh there’s special times that you do special things, I believe that, but here Solomon tells it. Now watch this right here, that’s not speaking about individuals at all, he’s symbolizing the whole thing at the end of the age, because he just got through with those generations.
13. Now listen to this right here, the horseleach. Then he says, after that, there are, those are two things, there are three things that are never satisfied, and it seems to me they’re out there like that too, amen. I believe in giving, I believe in doing this, but the systems are wrong, and the systems are going to mess things up, the extractors of blood. Now it says here, “There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, [I say] four things, say not it is enough,” they never say it’s enough (Proverbs 30:15). Solomon says, the grave, bodies die and die, and the earth just keeps filling up, grave, grave, it never says enough, build another grave, and the barren womb, which always wants a child. In the Bible from the great prophets, sometimes they had wives, hard for them to child bear. But then they, one time I was teaching, I’m gonna correct this right here, I said that Jacob had Rebecca, and I believe it was Leah, it was Rachel and Leah. If you don’t go back in those stories, you’ll speak real fast, so if you find out what I said, Jacob had Rachel and Leah, and the others. But little Rachel, the first choice that he had, first choice he had, and the other one [Leah] he got too. I think she had almost all the ten [sons], and Rachel crying for her children, crying, couldn’t have any children, wanted so bad to compete with Leah. Leah had favor because she could have those children, and Rachel, she couldn’t. Finally, God heard her at a proper time, He had the appointed time, and then the Lord said, “Now Rachel, you can bring forth Joseph. How many are still with me now? You bring forth Joseph, little Benjamin, that’s all that you will bring forth,” and it took place. So, the womb never says enough, see the barren womb, I’ll imagine the other, it’s okay, we’ll say it is enough, but the barren one, the woman that doesn’t have one sometimes, if she really doesn’t know the Lord, will say it is not enough. So we find the grave and the barren womb, never enough, the earth that is not filled with water, it can rain and flood and pretty soon it says give me more water. The desert, I can’t have no water over here. In some places on the earth the water is running out, it’s raining, raining, raining, running, and running, and the earth says there is never enough water. See, there are four things that never say enough, the earth that is not with enough water, and the fire that says not it is enough. Now you start a fire, and as long as there’s something to burn, it’ll never stop, it will never stop. These things say it is never enough.
14. You see there is a generation likened to all of this that we are talking about, vanity, vanity, vanity, no purpose, but when God comes back, turns this earth into new heavens and a new earth, vanity is gone, vanity has fled now, worthiness is gone now. There is your value, there is your substance, there is your faith, there is your Word, there is your power, there is eternal life, He is all and all, He is all and all. Solomon said love your wife, remember God in your heart, because that’s all you’re gonna come out of this thing with, and it’s good. Solomon said for God to bless His people, and for men to prosper that believe, but they will find out themselves even in the comfort of that, and they will enjoy it because God will allow it, if they didn’t have Him they wouldn’t, but they will find that all of that will fade, though they live twice told. a thousand years up, they all go at the same place till God does the dividing which is the grave. Wisdom saith the preacher, all over the bible he called himself the preacher, meaning one that gives advice, meaning also in one dictionary said get tired, a tiresome talk. See, preacher, one that gives advice on many different subjects, an instructor, man of knowledge, a man of wisdom. Sometimes his books you know, or well they say they jump around, and the one says this in a minute, and he turns and says that in the next minute. But if you interpret by the Holy Spirit, it all has great meaning, it wouldn’t be in here if it didn’t. His three books are Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Songs of Solomon, dealing with the church in the songs of Solomon, how God loves the church. How great it is! Mirror, mirror on the wall, the great church system says we are the fairest of them all, we sit upon the beast, we are rich and have need of nothing, not even God, all we need is a superhuman to guide us, the antichrist. But he looks and says, the fairest of them all, Solomon said, was the elect bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, that’s the fairest of them all. How great the Lord is!
15. There is a generation, four times, and we are coming into that generation, and yea, you are going out of it, says the Lord soon. That’s exactly right. My, my, my, what a time to serve the Lord! And that sermon kind of goes on and on, there were a few more things, but He told me to kind of end it over here. Jesus is your all and all. Take the things of life as you will, believe God for the material and the spiritual as you will. But remember this in your heart, those are only things that kind of go along with your life, your job, and so forth like that, the real value and the real thing that is not vanity, is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is perfect, amen. We need go no further, we need to go no Michelangelo, all the painting, all of that, none is the greatest artist as He is, by looking in His face, amen. Glory, Hallelujah! That’s great, and we will serve Him with the heart. If you need salvation, and you need it today, He is ready. The ark only had one door, there’s only, that’s right, only one door. It had one way to look out, and that was look up to God. He preaches on, glory, Hallelujah! One door, and that door, if you didn’t get in there, you didn’t get in there, and only a few got in that door, and God shut the door, not man. And we are living at that end of the age that we are living in. If you’re listening to this on the cassette, there is a wisdom and knowledge spirit all over this cassette, probably make your body feel funny, and the Lord will do great things for you, kind of make you feel in a strange way. Jesus is the same as that ark today. He said it’d be like the days of Noah, when the great destruction of the flood, and great destruction came upon mankind. What He’s talking about and it’s coming into the world, the signs of the world, and what was taking place would be the same as that time, and the same as Sodom and Gomorrah at that time, and so forth like that. We live today at the end, now there’s a door, and Jesus is that door, and He says only one door. You don’t have five or ten doors. Now you have a lot of doors in these different places, but He’s the only door. I don’t care how many angels, how many names, how many different gods you call upon, that means nothing. There is one door, the same as that ark, and that door is the Lord Jesus Christ, and when you give Him your heart, and you believe in him, and you repent in your heart, you pass through that door spiritually, you’re in there with Him. Isn’t that great? That’s right, and the only way they had to look out of the ark, so they couldn’t see the judgment, scare them I guess, or whatever. They couldn’t look out, but they could look up to a window on the third floor, they could look up through there, and see God in there, according to what it says in the Bible, and if you can fathom it just exactly right, but there was one door. Oh, how great God is! And you know what, if you find that door today, and get in it, oh, what value! Let vanity run, let all of it disappear, and all of it is gone, but that will remain a part of your life, that’s what counts.
16. I want you to stand on your feet here this morning, and although it is a strange sermon, it’s fair, it’s true, and God’s words are really great. Yea, they shall not return unto me void either. Glory, Hallelujah! How many of you enjoyed that this morning? I’ll tell you, that’s what’s gonna really count, amen. Now, if you need Jesus, you raise your hands up to Him. Tonight I have a special, we’ll have a special service here tonight, and you’ll be back. We will see how the Lord leads us to pray for the sick, and so forth like that. Now, let’s just praise the Lord this morning, and let’s thank Him for being in there, and the wisdom that He gives us to be where we belong in God, and to listen to what He has to say, the greatest wisdom in this world. There’s no greater wisdom, and that is to listen to what the Lord says, says the preacher. Well, glory! Alright now, let’s praise the Lord, and let’s worship Him. Let’s thank Him, let’s show Him why we are in church, to worship Him. And as we worship and praise Him, then He just gets in there, and works your problems over, and does all you want Him to do for you, amen. Clears that old mind up, makes you happy, full of joy, divine love, all of these things are yours. Come on, and let’s shout the victory! Shout the victory!
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