Audio Sermon: I Will Come Again — Leonard Ravenhill

The Promise of Christ’s Return

Gospel as recorded by John, the 14th chapter, one of the best known chapters in the book and one of the best known verses in the chapter. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am, there ye may be also.

If you are here, you remember and if not let me remind you that in the past two weeks we have dealt with texts that had just three words in them. The first one was the word of the Lord Jesus when he died on the cross and he said it is finished.

We call them the three most important words that were ever uttered in history. It is finished. Last week we dealt with three words that superseded those three words. They were the words again of an angel.

He is risen. They completed what he had begun on the cross. Today we have four words, though we could reduce them to three if we took the book of the revelation and in the four simple words we have this exciting statement of Jesus, I will come again.

Whatever level you look to on the, in the world outside, economically, economically, morally, even spiritually, socially, internationally, whatever level you look on, the outlook is dark, but the outlook is glorious.

Prophetic Hope in a Darkening World

One of the old men in the Old Testament said, I shall see him, prophetically speaking, I shall see him, but not now. It's a prophetic word concerning the Lord Jesus. I shall see him, but not now. I shall know him, but not now.

I shall see him, I think the word is I know not when, a star will arise out of Jacob that shall rule my people Israel. So again I say the outlook is exceedingly dark, the outlook is exceedingly glorious, because we're the only one that have a star in the sky.

And you remember that when the sky was dark, those wise men followed that star and they found the Lord Jesus Christ. There is nothing more glorious, surely to the believer, the anticipation of the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And yet I confess to you that as I meditated over this, I kind of saw a cloud over this pulpit, and over every pulpit in the land. Not a white cloud, not a small cloud, not a thin cloud, a heavy cloud, a black cloud.

A cloud, I think with judgment, a cloud that I think I could say for my own comfort easily, though it's not comfortable, I'm comfortable to say it's a cloud of condemnation. Just one thing that makes this joyful anticipation of Jesus Christ, it kind of smears it for a little for me.

It takes a little of the dullness off the excitement of it, because in speaking of the return of Jesus, Luke says amongst many other things that he's describing, that one thing must happen before the Lord Jesus comes, and this is it.

You see, I'm going to tell you in a very limited way about the second coming of the Lord Jesus. The shadow is this, there are millions in the world haven't heard about the first coming of Jesus. And this is our shame.

If we were really excited about his coming, we'd just bend every energy that we have, that nobody will be sitting in darkness as far as possible, before this great event, the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Did you notice last week they had, was it last week, they had a Veterans Day, which normally would be this week. And the government has decreed now that this anniversary is going to be held again on the 11th day of this 11th month.

After World War I, there was an armistice signed. It wasn't a true settlement, it was an armistice, which means there's a cessation of hostilities. It was signed at 11 o 'clock in the morning, on the 11th day of the 11th month, 11 months after Allenby entered Jerusalem, 11 months from the signing of the armistice with Turkey.

Now there you have a sequence of five 11s in 1918 or dawning into 19. Five 11s in succession. Would it be unreasonable to say that God was telling us that humanity is entering into the 12th hour of human history?

It's dark today. When man turned his back on the Garden of Eden, he began the human race downhill and it's become increasingly dark, dark and increasingly vicious from that day to this. You've seen pictures maybe of, faked I suppose, on TV of a man trying to get out of a quagmire or sinking sand.

And the more he struggles, the, all he does is go down quicker and finally you see him just sucked down in the vortex of that horrible thing. And so to use a children's story again, man is trying to still, trying still to put humpty-dumpty together again and he just can't do it.

Man is made for God. To quote H .G. Wells again, that little arrogant man who strutted before World War II and said that his bunch of intellectuals who happened to be very superior men, including George Bernard Shaw, they'd formed the Fabian Socialist Society.

Why, it was a peaceful world. There hadn't been much trouble in the world, certainly no world war. One of the signs of the end of the age was not only war, but nation lifting up sword against nation. That didn't happen till World War I anyhow.

But he was strutting around two years before World War I, telling us that by intellectual and biological processes that men could make a new world order. He didn't talk about sin and redemption, he talked about the adequacy of materialism, the sufficiency of man, the inevitability of progress.

Aren't those high-sounding words? But remember he did live to see the horror of World War II, which is a, a lofty compared to what the next blast will be. But before we got through World War II, he had already written another book which was mind at the end of its tether.

And he did not say there's hope for mankind, he said man is incurably evil, there is no cure for him. He did say one thing that was intelligent about all as far as I'm concerned. He said there is a God-shaped blank in every man.

There is a cavity in there which God alone is able to fill. Education cannot fill it, science cannot fill it, wealth cannot fill it, success cannot fill it, achievement cannot fill it. There is a blank in that.

We used to sing a hymn many years ago, written by Dean Alford, if I remember right, from Greenland's icy mountains. He talks, he visualizes the heathen and he says the heathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone.

There are people foolish enough to say, you know, leave the heathen alone, they're all right, they're content. Well you can be sure that nobody has ever seen heathendom in its raw nature. That ever that is a foolish statement like that.

They panic, they're afraid, death is terrible. They still tear their hair, they still beat themselves up, they still pay exorbitant things to their witch doctors, they still offer even human blood. And yet again I say that that world outside, this great lost world, is a kind of a millstone around our neck.

The Promise, Proclamation, and Personal Nature of the Second Coming

So today we have not three words, we have four words. Jesus says I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there you may be also. So first of all we have the promise given by the Lord Jesus Christ, I will come again.

Well there are different ways of saying that. You can say I will come again, or you can change the emphasis, say I will come again, or you can change it and say this, I will come again. There's no question in my mind but what this was the hope of the church, the early church, and to some degree it is the hope of the church of Jesus Christ.

In fact it is the hope of the church of Jesus Christ today whether we recognize it or not. So first of all I have the promise of his coming, Jesus says I will come again. This promise is personalized because it says in Acts chapter 1 verse 11 when the disciples saw Jesus going up and they did not want him to go.

And one of the angels said the men standing there said wait a minute don't be worried about this, this same Jesus will also come in like manner as you have seen him go. So we have the promise, we have it personalized, it is this same Jesus.

We have the proclamation given by the Apostle Paul, the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the archangel and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ. I've got a daddy and mommy in the cemetery.

I had an old friend in England and people used to say oh I hope I'm alive when Jesus comes. He said I hope I'm dead. What do you want to be dead for? Because the dead in Christ shall rise first the word of God says.

They're going to get a start on us. I'm going to be caught up to meet them with the Lord in the air and so shall we be forever with the Lord. So we have a promise of his coming from Jesus. We have this personalized and emphasized by the disciples this same Jesus shall also come in like manner.

We have the proclamation given by the Apostle himself, the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. The promise personalized, proclaimed and prophesied over and over and over again in what we call the four gospels.

Emphasized, repeated, lest we become slack and careless about this. Now it's good for us to remember we do believe, I'm sure you do, I don't have to labor this point, that the same Jesus that went stepping up the clouds is going to come down on the clouds.

You see, you say there's nothing wonderful or very new about that. No, but I've heard preachers say this, the second coming of Jesus Christ is when he comes into your heart and you're born again, that's the second coming.

There's no kingdom, it's just when you're born again, that's when he comes. Oh others have said the second coming is is at the resurrection when the Lord Jesus comes to call us out of the grave. In other words, they depersonalize the visible appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now this subject is vast, we could spend every Sunday of the year on it. I remember being with some preachers a while ago and one of them said, you know, I wish Jesus would come today. The other one said, I don't.

Well I do, and another fellow said, I know why, you'll just run your church into a hundred and fifty thousand dollar debt and you wish he'd come today to get you off the hook, that's all. Now what is the motive for his coming?

You see, it does not matter which part of this, this part of eschatology, you know, pardon me, of theology is called eschatology. All right, it's concerning the things that are still going to happen. The two words concerning the Lord Jesus, it is finished, it was in the past.

He is risen, it is in the past. I will come again is in the future. There were not many people saw Jesus die, it was too, uh, it was too horrid to watch people die, too morbid for most people. There's nothing to go outside to go guffer, they were always crucifying men.

Why go again anyhow? Not many people saw Jesus die. Not many people, in fact, the resurrection of Jesus Christ was private personal property to the disciples. He never bothered to manifest himself to the world.

It was a secret rising only for the church. But the death is in the past, the resurrection is in the past, but the coming is in the future. Every man from Adam, right down to the last babe born before Jesus, he's going to turn his eyes in that direction because the word of God says, every eye shall see him.

And all the nations of the earth are going to bow down to him. See him as the king of kings and as the Lord of lords. Now again, immediately you talk about the coming of Jesus, you get schools of theology, and if you stress one, other people turn up their nose, and if you don't have theirs, they turn up their nose.

So where are you? You've got people who today are excited about a pre-tribulation rapture. You know, we're not going to suffer. Oh, the Lord won't let one hair of our heads be hurt. Well, it says that in the 18th verse of the 21st chapter of Luke, that there shall not a hair of your head perish.

The only thing just before that, he says, some of you will be killed. Now what do you do about it? You think God's concerned about your hair? Do if he is, I'd better get a better one. I'll get some more hair, I'm growing up through it, it's getting thin or something.

You see what he's saying is this, your hair or anything else does not matter. You've got something which is eternal. Now you get people saying, you know, things are getting worse and worse. Well, I don't think you need to be too smart to say that.

Twice in the last week, I've heard one of the national broadcasters say, well, that's the end of the bad news. You know, when Satan starts casting out Satan, you're in trouble. When some of the devil's children start ringing the alarm bells, we'd better watch out.

Well, I hope Jesus comes before the great tribulation. Yeah, I guess you do. I don't know whether we sell it. There's a book by George Ladd called The Blessed Hope. He destroys that pre-tribulation theory pretty, pretty quickly.

He gives it no foundation at all I guess. He's very strong on the fact that the church will go through the tribulation. And I suggest to you that if you were living in Russia today, in a concentration camp or China, and you hadn't seen your darling wife for 10 years, and the last thing you hear is she's walking around with two new sons you don't know a thing about.

She'd become the servant of the state, and your daughter at 16 had been pulled out of your hands, and your boy at 18 had been taken away, and you've lived in misery, and you're living in filth, and you're sleeping in your own urine every night.

And the men that come at us fierce as tigers, and they brutalize you every time they come in. I think God would excuse you if you thought you were in personally in the great tribulation. You know, if I were to wear green glasses and go out there, everything would be green.

And you know, in America and England and a few countries, we live in such creature comforts, we think God's going to have to shift the Rocky Mountains and blast everything under our feet before tribulation comes.

There are some who are still in great tribulation. I've reminded you before about my friend, a very famous missionary, a book is written about him, and I asked him where he had been, and he said, I've been with a friend of mine.

Did you have a good time? No, no I didn't. He said he upset my theology, upset my thinking, because he had just come through Taiwan. He had been a missionary in China when China fell in the 1920s somewhere there, or later when the communists took over.

He said he went down into this particular place where these people were working, and he spoke to this China man who turned his head away. He spoke in his own language. He spoke a second time, and thirdly he said, listen you don't recognize me.

I've got fatter, and I'm bald, and I'm older, but I'm your pastor. I'm so-and-so. The man, he said, had tears in his eyes, and he turned on him and said, you're a false prophet. He said, call me anything but that.

What do you mean I'm a false prophet? Well, didn't you have a great big map at the back of your preaching? Didn't you have a great big sign, Russia in red? Didn't you have great big arrows with murder, and rape, and pillage, and plunder, and all those other things on them, sweeping down into China?

Yes. And didn't you tell us that we'd live to see communists come down our streets, and rape our women, and burn our churches, and tear our bibles up? Yes. And didn't you tell us that just as it was happening, we would be raptured, and not one thing would happen to us?

My wife was dragged out of my arms, screaming. My son was put in the truck with a man's big boot behind him to get him in. My terrified daughter was taken away. We saw our churches go up in smoke, and our bibles just torn to shreds.

And you told me that would happen, but you said you'll be raptured. No rapture happened. I've lived in misery since. Somebody came through this area a few years ago and said they'd seen my wife with two little boys, and asked, well they're my children, who do you think you are?

They were born for the state. He said, you might, if you'd put a knife in and rip my heart out, I'd rather have heard that than hear that my wife had become subject to the filth of those brutes. When I mentioned that in Canada, a man who had gone through the Russian Revolution said, the hardest thing for me to put up with was not the communists, it was the preachers.

They said Russia is going to run with blood. Don't worry, that's not for you. You believers are going to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. There's going to be no punishment, no suffering, no hardship.

They'd lost sight of the martyrs. People burned at the stake and brutalized for his sake. He didn't rapture them. You see, there are many things that have to happen. Let's just say, it would take a month of Sundays to describe the things the Word of God says must happen before the Lord Jesus Christ comes.

The Gospel Must Reach All Nations

But to me, one of the most serious challenges of all is this, that the Gospel must first be preached to all nations. Then the end cometh. It's a very serious charge that's laid against us. Well then, the theory that Jesus comes when we're born again doesn't hold water, because he's going to come in the clouds.

Or that we come from our graves. No, no, no, that is not. This same Jesus shall also come in like manner as ye have seen him go. And Luke says of the lightning, night and the thunder, one part of the heaven unto the other part of the heaven.

So shall the Son of Man be in his coming. Now, what do we usually stress about the coming of the Lord Jesus? We always stress it, it seems to me, on the ground level. One of the particular scriptures is this, as it was in the days of Noah.

And I don't think there's any doubt about it, that those sons of those evil men that came down and produced children by women were demon-possessed people. They had spirit power. There's no question in the days of Lot that the earth was given up to corruption, and now we change the word.

It's a smooth, easy word, homosexuality. In the Bible it's called sodomy. It's a damnable thing in the sight of God. We, today, we're almost legalizing it. A woman was accepted into the ministry. Well, I wouldn't kick too much against that.

I don't think that's the job. I don't think there's any scripture for it. There might be some women who prophesy now and again. But, recently, the Episcopal Church admitted two women into the priesthood, and one of them is a pronounced lesbian, and she defends the gay rights.

There's a church up in, the Metropolitan Church in Dallas, where, when you go in, there's somebody, David Wilkerson has an exposé of this. He sent one of his men to see what was happening, and as they went in, they were given a brochure, and it had naked centerfolds of men, and it had all the gay clubs of Dallas area outlined.

And, do you know what it said? At the end of that thing, he recorded it. It actually happened. This man says, yes, God says he had condemned men who burn in lust one toward another. But, that won't be us, because we were born this way.

And, he actually says, get through with a holy ghost and enjoy your homosexuality. Did you ever think you'd live to a day when such vileness would be proclaimed from the pulpit? My Lord, I'd expect that in Las Vegas.

I'd expect it in Hollywood. But, to hear it pronounced from the pulpit, oh yes, there's no question about it. We've hit an all-time low in morality. We've hit an all-time low in politics. Right now, we're worried there might be something that will follow Watergate, which will be worse than Watergate, Creagate, and they're trying to hide it.

This week, a man got exemption because he wouldn't spill the beans, and maybe rightly so, because there's so much to uncover that we want to keep secret. He gets more and more plain to me, this, you either live in the kingdom of this world or you live in that kingdom, and you can't bridge the two very well.

You can't stand with a foot in either of them. The kingdoms of this world and the kingdom of Satan, they're diametrically opposed to each other. Right now, the great problem is the problem of what we're going to do with that marvelous little country called Israel.

It's so big you could drop it in one of the Great Lakes. And yet, it's a thorn in the flesh. There are not as many Jews in Israel as there are in America. There are less Jews in America than there are in Russia.

Russia just about beats us in that area. But here is a little country, a thorn in the flesh. Menachem Begin, the new, the new prime minister is constantly reciting the scripture. He holds on to the scripture.

He thumps the people with the scripture. And it was interesting last week to hear Mr. Carter say, on at least two occasions, he said, look, I'll commit, not spiritual or moral or physical, but I'll commit political suicide before I let Israel down.

Well, I think that's a very brave statement, and if he does it, I feel he'll be honored, though I'm afraid it might trigger off another war too. But you see, we have this nation, this, this thorn in the side of all nations.

The Jews wanted a, a place of their own. They got it through the Balfour Declaration, and I'm glad that they got it. But they're a sign, a sign to the nations. This is what the Word of God says. You may try to destroy the Jew, you can't do it.

There was a time when the Incas numbered about, numbered about five million. One of the greatest tribes of Indians that I know of, the Incas, where are they today? They've gone. The Jews, they have been less than five million on more than one occasion, but you can't erase them.

You can't find the Incas. The Incas thought the Jews have never been a warlike nation. Until recently, they, they, they've had no coins of their own. Since Old Testament days, now they have a currency, now they have stamps, now they have an air force, now they have a navy, now they're building up.

And one of the signs, the Word of God says that when you see Jerusalem compassed with armies, it says in this 20th verse of the 21st chapter, when you see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.

Signs of the End in Luke 21

But these, let me read these things that the Word of God tells us about the near coming of Jesus. The disciples asked, when shall these things be? What shall be the sign wherever thou speakest that shall come to pass?

And he said, take heed that ye be not deceived, for many shall come in my name saying, I am Christ. As the time draweth near, go ye not therefore after them. But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified, for these things must first come to pass, but the end is not by and by.

Then said he unto them, nations shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and great earthquakes shall be in divers, or many places, and famines, and pestilences, and fearful sights, and great signs shall be from heaven.

But before all these, they shall lay hands on you and persecute you, delivering you to the synagogues, into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. He goes on to say, you shall be put to death.

He goes on to say, when Jerusalem is surrounded with armies, he goes on to say in the 25th verse of this 21st chapter of Luke, there shall be signs in the sun, in the moon, in the stars, and upon the earth, distress of nations with persecutions and perplexities.

And the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear, and for the looking after those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. Then shall they see the Son of Man coming in clouds with power and great glory.

And when these things begin to come to pass, begin to come to pass, then lift up, then look up, and lift up your heads, for behold your redemption doth nigh. Paul gives it to Peter in this language again, this now also in the last days, perilous times shall come.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truth-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those of the good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures, more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, and from such he says, turn away.

Then he goes on to say, thou hast fully known my doctrine, my manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, charity, patience, persecutions and afflictions, which came to me at Antioch, and so forth, and yea, all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Okay, that's one other aspect. So, as we see this distress of nations with perplexities, again, that country of South Africa that has stood so long is in danger now, in my judgment, of falling like a lot of dominoes, you flick the first one, the man does this on TV, and 2 ,100 dominoes just go around like that, and they fall, fall, fall, and I think this domino theory is going to work there too.

Suddenly, the United Nations got a bit of conscience and decided to jump on South Africa, I noticed they didn't jump on Idi Amin. I read this week a review of the book of one of the statesmen that said, I saw 150 ,000 bodies floating on the lake, I saw doctors pulled out of surgery and brutalized and murdered on the streets, I saw judges pulled out in their robes and they were put to death before people, one of the wives of Amin was dismembered, and then her body, the members of her body were sewn back in reverse order, and the body was exhibited to warn others of what might happen to them, but I haven't seen any condemnation of him, hardly, at least nobody's ganged up, because we've ganged up on Rhodesia.

Saying that to pass over the political aspect, that these are the uneasy things, these are monsters we're dealing with and nobody knows the answer, and more than once Mr. Carter has teetered on the edge of saying, look, I'm in a state of confusion, I don't know which way to go, how can he know which way to go?

These things are all outlined, we need to remember them and keep them clear before our own eyes, let me go now to the scripture that really, two scriptures that really matter about this, one is in Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians, and in chapter 4 and verse 15 he says this, for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, and we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we be forever with the Lord.

The Bride of Christ and the Ten Virgins

Now, what is Jesus coming, who is he coming for? Again, you've got six different theories about this, he's coming for his church, whether he comes before the tribulation, mid-tribulation, post-tribulation, right now I'm not concerned, who is he coming for?

He's coming for believers, he's coming for a bride, well, then the argument is, who makes up the bride? You see, there's one thing I'm very sure of, I think you are too, in the parable that's given of the ten virgins, and remember they were all virgins, what happened?

Well, they were all asleep, number two they all had lamps, number three all their lamps were lit, but some of them said our lamps are going out, not gone out as the authorized version says, our lamps are going out.

Well, why do you light a lamp? Well, he lights a lamp in the darkness, some of them had lamps, some had not, now they were all virgins, but they did not all go into the marriage, it doesn't say they were the bride even, it's assumed on the basis of an oriental wedding, the bridegroom had already gone in, that's what he'd done, he'd gone in, and the door was shut, he was in with his bride, five of the virgins had gone in, the other five were not there.

Now, I remember going to Martha's home in Ireland, they used to have servants and whatnot, and I remember a maid would gather all the lamps in the morning, refill them, they were burning low, and I watched to cut those wicks, change the wicks, or trim the wicks as they said.

Now, the oil in that vessel surely is a type of the Holy Spirit, the wick surely must be a type of faith which draws on the Holy Spirit, that faith can get clouded, faith can get lazy, faith can get unexpected.

Who is the bride? The only recorded prayer at the end of the Old Testament, of the New Testament, is the Spirit and the Bride. The last prayer of the Holy Ghost, the prayer of the Holy Ghost is come, actually the Greek is come thou.

The last statement of Jesus is not about the world being on fire, it's not about wars and rumors of wars, it's not about great earthquakes. There was an earthquake in China months ago, but we're told destroyed three quarters of a million people.

We're told that we shot a thing up in the sky there, one of those amazing contraptions we have these days, satellites that can take a photograph of anything on earth, but I noticed they never produced a photograph of that great earthquake.

Did you happen to see one of the great outstanding men of government say two weeks ago with a face as though he were announcing the death of the nation, he said we've got so much stuff floating up in space that the Russians have put something up which we call a killer satellite, which can neutralize every satellite we have there.

We put billions and billions and billions of material up in the sky, we can spy on Russia, we know where their armies are marching, we know where their silos are, we know where they're going to shoot rockets in there, and suddenly this man says they got a thing that can go like that and liquidate everything we ever put in the sky.

And yet the last words are not about anguish and the travail the nations are going into, sure they're going into travail. 40 ,000 Jews that thought they'd found the promised land pulled out of Israel last year.

20 ,000 new lots of folk went in for sure. But the Word of God says, and I think it's in the future as far as I read it, that Jacob's trouble, the time of Jacob's trouble is still to come. I say listen, when you talk about this theme of the second coming, I hear somebody say one night, well bless the Lord, drive carefully before you get home tonight, the Lord may come.

Hallelujah. Then he says, listen to me tomorrow night, I'm going to tell you about the rebuilding of Jerusalem. What, they're going to build it before you get home? They'd have to if the temple has to be rebuilt before the Lord comes, they'll have to build it before you get out of your car.

That would be a bit of smart engineering. All the theories we come up with. Yes sir, there are some dreadful things. What about the Antichrist? Well John says, back in those days you see the world is Antichrist, systems are Antichrist.

Well is there going to be a person Antichrist? One school of scholarship says yes, the other says no. One school goes back and says, remember what John says, in this day in which he lived there were many Antichrists.

Well read a bit about Antiochus Epiphanes and see what happened in it. Read a chapter or two about Nero and see what he did with the Christians, will you? If you had to see your precious wife dipped in oil and put around a coliseum and set on fire at midnight to be a torch, would you say, well of course things will get worse than this, it might happen to me.

You wouldn't say that. If you saw your wife standing in an arena with a babe at her breast and they said, look your wife will be eaten and that babe will be chewed up in front of your eyes if you don't say three simple words, Caesar is Lord.

But if you say them, we'll call your darling wife back and you can live a happy ever after. What are you going to do? Now you wouldn't be a brute and say that Christ is Lord, would you? And a man had to stand there and make, you and I not demanding, demands are not made like that on us, God help us, what would you do if they were?

Well I don't think you could read every bit about Foxe's book of martyrs to your children, but I'm glad I read it when I was a teenager, changed my life. We're the most lush, easygoing, comfortable Christians the world has ever known.

Man, there was a conflict in those days. There's a conflict now in certain countries, not in our country so much, thank God, nor does opposition. Antichrist, let's mention three and pass. The antichrist system, sometimes I look at a map of North Africa, I take a globe in my hands, there's that vast Sahara desert, then there's a northern part there, up out there what, Antibes and those places, they came up in the second world war.