The delay

Translation alert 110 | Neal Frisby’s Sermon CD #1208

Oh, another wonderful day in the house of God! Isn’t it wonderful? Jesus, bless your people. Bless all the new ones today and no matter what they need, Lord, and the request in their hearts, grant it. Be it according to the faith and to the power that you have given me that rests upon me. Touch each individual, Lord, and guide them, help them in every way, and inspire them to listen to this message. Take away the pains and all the tension of this life, Lord. We command it to go! Refresh your people because thou art the Great Comforter and that is why we come to church to worship you and you comfort us. Amen. Give the Lord a handclap! Oh, praise God! Go ahead and be seated. The Lord bless you.

I believe this is Mother’s Day, all of you, my mother, and all the rest of you, my father, my brothers, and my sisters. Amen. Glory to God! My daughter and son-in-law, and all of them. Amen. Now, we’ll get right in this message here and the Lord bless your hearts. Now, don’t forget your mother. She is one of the most important people you will have on this earth that helps you. How many of you little children know that? Because they make you do this and that sometimes, you don’t have the proper outlook. But remember, there is nothing like a mother because God said so Himself. They have been close to you and comforted you and brought you into this world by God’s Word.

Now, listen real close. Three important things to preach toward the end of the age right now. One of them is the power of salvation to save the soul and you don’t have too long to receive salvation. As the age climaxes, it will close out. And the next thing is deliverance: deliverance to the physical body, deliverance from oppression and mental diseases by the supernatural power of the Lord—deliverance by miracles. That must be preached right behind salvation there. The next thing in line is the coming of the Lord and expecting Him to come at any time now, see? Put urgency to it. Always, preachers must preach these three things at one time or another beside the other message on the Godhead, Who the Lord Jesus is and so forth like that. These three important things must go forth from time to time—that the Lord is coming soon. Those are the three things.

You know in the bible He told us about coming in the translation and coming back after the tribulation. I am going to read some scriptures before we get into our message this morning. Listen to this right here. The bible says Jesus shall come in clouds with great glory. Amen. Luke 21: 27-28: “And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” Here is another one; listen to this right here: He shall come as a lightning out of the east (Matthew 24: 27). Probably that will come toward the end of the time when He is coming back the second time or for the translation. He shall gather together the elect. He will bring them together from one end of heaven to the other end of heaven. He has already translated them, and He will bring them again. He shall come again to receive His people. Notice always in the bible, no matter where you look, it is always plainly in there—it is right to the point, no ifs or maybes — “I shall come again. You will see me again. You shall see me again. I will raise the dead.” The Lord Himself shall come. He is not a liar. You are going to see the One who created all the universes and everything–all of you–put you together before you ever got here, long before the eons of time.

You are going to see Him. The Lord Himself shall descend. Oh my! How much power do we need to explain that? He shall come again; a promise is given to the watchful servant. Blessed be those servants whom the Lord when He comes shall find expecting, shall find watching, and shall find preaching the urgency of the coming of the Lord. Now, this is going to get into the message. The wise servant shall be made ruler over all. It touched the Lord’s heart because he was awake. He was preaching and he was telling them that it was right now that Christ shall sit on the throne of His glory. “When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory” (Matthew 25:31). He will come again.

Listen to this right here: The Delay. There was a slight delay and the evil unruly servant, he knew somehow—but this is also taken through history many times, but it really winds up according to the scriptures at the very end of the age and it is given in the parable here. The delay, now watch, there is a certain reason for that delay. Something has to occur at that time, that delay, just before the Lord Jesus Christ comes. See, both sides must reach fruition. The Christian must come to his full corn of power, his full Word in God, and the full armor of God. The lukewarm churches and the sinners, they must come to full fruition on the other side. During that delay is when He stops just long enough for both of them to get into shape for the great outpouring and the antichrist that is to come. That is why the delay is right there. There are two servants. One preached no delay—the Lord can come at any time, and he preached urgency. He was a good servant, the Lord said. He preached the coming of the Lord. He preached the prophetic events of the Lord. He brought the people up to date and told them to watch for you know not in what hour the Lord cometh and he kept on and he kept on preaching that. That is symbolic not of just one man but the servants of the Lord, a prophet or anybody preaching the urgency of the coming of the Lord, because in all history they are supposed to preach Jesus and after that the urgency that He will come, or He can come to them at any hour see?

And as it gets right close to the end of the age, the Lord gave a real call in Matthew 25 right at the end of the age. So, the servant was supposed to preach it all the way through—the good servant. The wise servant, He made him ruler of all things—and also the people who told of the coming of the Lord. Now, there was another servant, the unruly servant in there. Oh, but we have seen a little bit of that out there too. The other one, the unruly servant, said, “Sure, we have plenty of time. Let’s delay. Let’s just take out some time for God, quit church. Let’s just go on out here, riotous living right here, big time, see? Oh well, the Lord has delayed His coming.” Right, because in Matthew 25 it says the Lord, the Bridegroom for a moment delayed His coming. And then though right after, but only briefly, the work of God goes on. It was during the delaying time, those Jews appeared in their homeland. All the networks (news media) were preaching it more than the preachers were preaching it that they (the Jews) had fulfilled 40 years in their homeland. They spent one week on ABC (television network) telling about the time that Israel went back home, how they fought and struggled for their homeland and how they are wailing at the wailing wall crying, “Oh, Lord, come Lord. The prophet looked, the king, and he could see them at the end of the age crying out for the Messiah. And all of them (the prophets), Daniel and the rest of them saw them at the wailing wall crying out, but Jesus had come 483 years from the time of Daniel up to that time 2000 years ago. He had come but they are still looking for God. They are looking for Him in some manner. The Gentiles already knew Him as the Lord Jesus. Amen. What a secret He gave to us!

So, only briefly, there was a delay and at midnight the cry went forth. Matthew 25:6 says after the delay, a midnight hour, the cry went forth. See, it had to wait a moment. The foolish virgins got into their position, the world got in its position, the lukewarm church got into its position, and the rising of the world leader begins to come. On the other hand, the rising of the prophets, the rising of God, and the people of the Lord coming ready for that midnight hour when the outpouring will come upon them. That’s what the delay was, for that outpouring. The rain was delayed on that harvest. The crop could not come into fruition until the last rain hit it. And there was a delay in that rain. See, if it didn’t come, some of it would ripen too much. But it would come just at the right hour. So, He delayed, but in the delay, the Christian is preparing for His outpouring. And in the delay, the world is going further out and those that are backsliding right in there, you can’t even get them back in the church of God. But He is going out in the highways. He is going out in the hedges. All of a sudden, you will see a sight at the end of the age. It is going to take place. Watch and see what happens. So, it is during this time that the churches begin to be completely worldly. You won’t know them from the world out there. They are completely gone! It’s the time of all types of entertainment. They would okay all types of entertainment out there. The lukewarm churches, you will find them in Revelation 3: 11-15. They are set in there. Then you will find the other ones in Revelation 3:10 and also Matthew 25.

There was a delay, harvest time delay. Now, during this time–this delay, people are still working for God, souls are coming, they are being healed, but there is no great onslaught. It’s kind of slowed down. During this time, Satan has decided that it is the time—I believe they are in the delaying time right now, the transition period—during that delay, Satan is going to step up. Now he is going to be able to get in there and he is going to come in ways that he’s never been able to come before, through witchcraft and sorcery. We found out the believer, he stayed in the faith. He stayed watching. He stayed in expectancy. It was an urgency. It was a quickening spirit in him. The believer stayed with the Word of God. How many of you believe that? No matter how many problems they had in the Lord, no matter what was going on there, he stayed with the Word. Luke 12:45, “But and if that servant says in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming….” The ground has to be prepared first beforeSee, that’s the time you really want to pray. That’s the time that you prepare yourself. That’s the time you want to witness. It is the time you can reach on out to the Lord preparing for the outpouring. If you are not preparing for the outpouring, how in the world is it going to fall on you! The rain falls on it. Break up that fallow heart. Let the rain come upon it, see? That’s exactly right in the hour we live in.

So, Luke 12: 45, speaks about the wise servant that preached no delay, the coming of the Lord, and gave the meat to the people there. “And the Lord said, “Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? Blessed is that servant whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing. Of a truth I say unto you. That he will make him ruler over all that he hath” (Luke 12: 42-44). Now here is the unruly servant, “But and if that servant says in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat (smite) the menservants and maidservants….” See, he went on a rampage there. He begins to eat and to drink there: He begins to be riotous and begins to be drunken. All of a sudden, Jesus came. During this time, be sober, be vigilant, and watch in your heart because with the delay, there is a reason. It’s going to come to where the Lord wants it. Then all of a sudden, there is an outpouring, and gone!

And then the antichrist rises, So, in the delay is where Satan works. During this time, we’ve seen in the last few years, and I predicted more than thirty years ago how Satan would become probably worse than in the time Moses met with the Egyptian magicians and when Paul met with the sorcerer. And the book of Revelation talks about sorceries there and how it would happen at the end of the age that even a type of Pentecost would break off into witchcraft. I have already seen that. I have already seen them out there telling people this, telling people that through the radio claiming this and that. There is nothing there. That is nothing but witchcraft and sorcery, talking in tongues and so forth. Ah, there is a real—how many of you know that? There is a real gift of healing. There is a real gift of miracles in that Pentecost. Pentecost is the real thing. You’ve got to have the real thing before you can have the imitation of that. In the predictions, the only way you can see this come to pass is how bad the demon powers will get. In some of the movies they have made in the last 8-10 years, they really went out of there to see what type of power that satan is [using] trying to get a hold of the youth. If he can control the youth, he will control the nation finally. Get a hold of their brains. Control everyone of them through drugs, in sorcery, and witchcraft. Control them with evil power. They just don’t see how these things will get a hold of them. If they are not careful that will get a hold of them. If they don’t have a strong powerful church to knock that back, you see, if they want to get tangled up like that, they are goners there.

So, during the delay, there will be a lot of drugs and drinking around the world. All kinds of cult things and strange things from the dead and so forth. All those spirits running around there with satan bringing all these things on the screen (TV and movies). All these things are coming, and people are sitting there. Some of them are even dabbling in it. Some of them are going into it. We ought to know that it is true, but we don’t believe in it. We don’t have confidence in it at all. It is demon power. A lot of it is real, but we ignore it and go on with the power of faith. It is nothing to it then, not a thing. [Bro Frisby read the headlines of some movies]. Out of these movies come all these sorceries and things like that. The dangers of the occult amount to a form of necromancy which is a familiar spirit which is seeking out the dead, fooling with the dead. All these things, witchcraft, and sorceries that we mentioned here are strongly condemned in the bible. We find out in the book of Revelation, when the antichrist is destroyed, and the beast and the false prophet are cast into the lake of fire, all sorceries and unbelievers and the sorceries that they have are wiped out in destruction. How many of you believe that?

During this lull, I have watched Satan rise up and I mean he has gone forth in all types, in the computers, in the movies, in electronics, in videos, in all types of games, and on the streets, all kinds of things attending to the people. The worship of Satan has stepped up in California and different parts of the US. The bible says mystery Babylon at the end of the age will be wrapped up finally in the mysteries of witchcraft, walking around in lies, illusion, super science, wizardry, sorcery, magic, and phantasm. They are working miracles [false] in front of them. The antichrist and false prophet, and many more of them rising up will do many tricks that would make Pharaoh’s bunch [Jannes and Jambres] look like nothing. There is a massive dose of all these things. I tell you it is dangerous. Young people are getting tangled up in satanic power. Why? Because it says in 2 Thessalonians 2: 4 -7 that lying signs and wonders and all these things forerunning Satan and the man of sin would arise. So, we find out, at the end of time there was a delay and the unruly servant said, “Our Lord has delayed His coming now folks.” See, the pied piper—don’t forget the music, saith the Lord. Look at the sounds, look at the voices, and the music saying our Lord has delayed His coming. The different types of music are getting a hold of the people, giving them delusions. The pied piper is in the land again. Music holds one of the strongest holds upon the young people and upon the world, as any tool we have ever seen, but the music will finally be into false worship. It will ride into degradation. Look at what they now call vulgar or dirty dancing out there. During the great tribulation, it will turn into chaos. I believe some of you people sitting here are blinded, maybe you don’t get to see some of that or hear about that in the news, but it is the truth.

There is nothing like good music. There is nothing like the music of the Lord. I will say that the Lord has given us the music to begin with. Satan has taken God’s music and changed the notes and the words and twisted it up in there. Young people, be careful. Everyone has a plug [earphone] in their head. Do you know you are plugging something there that is going to take your mind if you are not careful? If it’s gospel music, that’s right. But do you know what? We are at the end of the age. The pied piper is out. Remember in Daniel’s time, the music was played, and they worshipped the image showing that at the end of the age, the music is going to play a great role and the music business is going to play a great role in the coming of the antichrist. My, don’t leave that out, the Lord said!

During the lull, they will come on with the music “The Lord has delayed His coming. Come on right here and let’s have a big time right here with the world. Go on out, we’ll come back in a year or two when the Lord comes.” They didn’t get back. What about the backsliders today? Oh, they would figure on coming back later. Smoking, carousing, and drinking all over there. Did they get back? How many got back? We know a new bunch is coming. We know the highway and hedges people who haven’t heard the gospel [God is going to bring them too], they are coming in right there. But during our period right now, the lull and the transition, that is time we will come into fruition. We are preparing now for the latter rain. This faith that I am preaching, the power of faith upon you, is preparing you for the latter rain. What they are preaching and what they are teaching in the world, what they are doing in science, what they are doing in music, theater, and what they are doing in the occult all over the world, they are preparing and will receive the wrong man, the antichrist. On our side, we are preaching that powerful faith.

What was wrong with the unruly servant? He was in unbelief. That was where he was to begin with. If you are a real believer, God is going to bring you out one way or the other in that wash. You might have to get washed and scrubbed there, but He will bring you out. Amen. So, during this period that we are in now, this is your hour. Prepare your heart to get ready in the outpouring that is coming from the Lord for we will reach fruition on the other side here. And there was a midnight cry. But first, it said the Bridegroom, the Lord delayed His coming in Matthew 25:5. Nothing moved. He just stopped a little bit, see. It was only briefly. He had to allow the others to catch up and learn what has been preached to them and to build their faith while the others ripened out there. At that moment, there was a delay. It’s when the unruly servant jumped out in there and said, “Well.” And then a little bit later, that midnight cry. That was the last call. There it was the midnight cry. They ran out to meet the Lord and they were caught up with the Lord and met Him in the air. The others were blinded in delusion, drunkenness and all these things took place, and they missed it. They were totally asleep when the Lord came. So, this is the hour. One servant—I hope you don’t go to sleep. Exactly as I am preaching here, one servant—urgency—didn’t let Him down, told them [the people] the Lord was coming, gave them meat in due season. God rewarded him and the Lord made him and the people rulers of all that He had. How many of you believe that? Oh, but they liked this other fellow. He was even like Satan. He slapped them around, beat them. “Ah, we’ve got plenty of time, he said. The Lord delayeth His coming. Come on, now.” See? That’s your modern churches today. It’s alright to dance and to drink, to do all these things in the world out there, the entertainment, all types of it is allowed. Bring it on to the church, the lukewarm Laodiceans out there. And that unruly servant led them into chaos and that’s the false church. God said I will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers, with the hypocrites in there. He never believed in the first place.
But the other wise servant, he kept on pounding. He told the people about the coming of the Lord. He told them and warned them. Finally, the Lord after the delay, here He comes. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the Lord came. He said after the delay, in an hour you think not, the Son of man cometh. The whole world if you look at it, see the way they are doing and what is happening in the churches, you will say, “Ah, we’ve got forever,” the way they are acting. Yeah, but in an hour you think not, the Lord cometh. He almost lulled them to act like that. If you truly didn’t have a hold of the Lord, then you’ve missed it. You know so many events in the future will take place that will alter the thinking and the very nature of the US in the way it operates with other nations and in this nation right here. So many events are going to take place. We have seen so many prophecies fulfilled all over the world and more and more will be fulfilled. This is your hour during this time right now. Did you know if you get in prayer actually and you stay in prayer you can feel that delay that has come and it’s been here for a while. My ministry still heals the sick. We still see miracles. The Lord is moving by His miraculous power. We see new people coming and going. It’s hard for them to stay with the power of God where the Word of truth is. They are looking for the unruly servant.

I can see He is still going on saving people. People are being delivered. But we are in a kind of a lull all over the world. Any major preacher who has sought God can know that something is happening. Since the 1946 outpouring, into the late 1950s and 60s, something began to happen, and there was a lull in the 70s to where we are now. Anybody who has seen or known something about the first coming of the great power and the ministry that went forth with the gift of healing can see how that delay has come. Now, Israel has finished its 40 years, we are to expect something to happen. Now, this is our hour. Now, I have given the warning and the watchfulness of it, you should have a quickening Spirit on you. Remember this, the bible says watch and pray for it will be in an hour you think not. But it says the whole world will be caught off guard. Amen.

I want you to stand on your feet this morning. So, three most important things. You have to keep people alerted for He will come like lightning in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. Behold, I come quickly. Three times closing out the book of Revelation: Behold, I come quickly—meaning that the events are going to take place swiftly and suddenly and like we’ve never seen before. The only people that are not going to like this are the people that are not ready. Amen. Did you [Bro Frisby] say that? No, the Lord did. Amen. Give the Lord a handclap! Praise the Lord! Amen. Keep them preparing! Keep them ready! If you need salvation this morning, there is nothing to keep you from coming right now with enough power in the audience right there, enough of the anointing of the Lord. All you have to say is, “I love you, Jesus. I repent. I accept you as my Lord and Savior.” Mean it in your heart. Let Him come into your heart. Let Him guide you. He most certainly will. You can receive a miracle from Him. You give your heart to Him and get back in this prayer line. Give your heart to Him this morning. Mean it in your heart and come back.

How many of you feel good in your heart? Amen. The Lord is really great. Alright, what we are going to do is put our hands in the air. We are going to thank God for this service, and we are going to ask the Lord to bless, and He will bless. Now, let’s get our hands in the air and thank God for this service. Praise God! Bless your hearts. Amen. Are you ready? Come on, now! Praise Jesus! Amen. Praise to Jesus!

110 – The Delay