The Other Half of Pentecost — B.H. Clendennen

The Holy Spirit as the Life of the Church

I'm going to read this morning in Matthew chapter 3, verses 11 and 12. This whole meeting we've been talking about the Holy Spirit, because He is the answer to everything. When God gave us the Holy Spirit, He gave us Himself.

That is the life of God. The life of this body is in the blood. The life of the church is in the Holy Spirit. He is the Spirit of life. And in that life is everything that God is. If I learn to walk in the Spirit, if I always am sensitive to the Holy Ghost, then there will never be anything that I won't have the answer to.

But this Holy Ghost works both directions. He will bring death to that which would destroy and bring life to that which needs life. We've been talking about Him as the wind of God. And I'm going to read here, I just call this message the other half of Pentecost.

The Two Sides of Pentecost

Nobody ever talks about this side much. We're always on this other side. The other half, Matthew 3, 11, I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.

He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire, whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, gather his wheat into the garner, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

All of that's the Word of God, the same Holy Ghost that dictated the other, dictated that twelfth verse the same. It's all the Word of God. We like to make it kind of a smorgasbord. We go through, we pick, we choose what we like.

But it's all the Word of God. You cannot ever take it out of its context. And the greatest commentary on the New Testament is the Old Testament. And the greatest commentary on the Old is the New, the Bible is a book of itself.

Sixty-six books, the total library of God. Not saying there isn't a lot of good help, but I'm saying that all that's necessary is here if we have this Holy Spirit. And here it's been a feeling of many people, Christians, that we're about to experience a real revival of holiness.

A Revival of Holiness and Absolute Truth

People that love God. Now those folks on the outer fringes of things that have played their little games with it all along and tried to manipulate God, this may not have been with them. But I can tell you with those that know God, there is this sense that there is going to be a revival of holiness.

Not just believe it, we know it has to happen. There has to be what the song said, a coming back where black is black, white is white. Where there's absolutes in this thing. There's no suggestions whatsoever in the Bible.

God never asks any favors of anybody. He just simply tells us what to do. It's not a democracy, it is a military. In a democracy you have a choice. And you're right, in the service you don't have any such choice.

I never one time, I was four years in the Marine Corps from 1942, right at the first of 1942 at Pearl Harbor, till 1946 I was in the Marine Corps. They never asked me one time if I'd like to go on a hike.

Nobody ever said that to me. Nobody ever come around and wanted to know if I thought we were serving breakfast too early. No, no, they just told you we'll be going today. This is the way it'll be. There was no possibility of a choice.

And there is no choice here. You are not your own. You have been bought with a price. You do what he tells you or you're wrong. That's the whole of the Bible. But somehow we've come to believe we can manipulate God.

That we can work our way around some of these thoughts of God. And as a result, the church today has lost a real communication with God. But there is a belief that we're moving back. There is a knowledge we must move back.

The Outpouring and the Coming Cleansing

We've certainly experienced an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Now nobody can doubt that there's been a movement of God. I believe we're just getting ready for what's really going to happen. But there has been a move.

There's been a stir among people of all persuasions. It's been sometimes the wrong people. It's been an imitation. It's been distorted. But we've seen God's Spirit outpoured across lines into places you never dreamed they'd even talk about it.

But I believe that we've come to a place we're going to experience a second half of that Pentecost. We've been watching the outpouring. We've been watching people of all persuasions that have become interested at least in this Pentecostal experience.

Talking in tongues has become a very popular thing. They used to call us devils. Now they've become one of us. They're talking in tongues. They made the Holy Ghost nothing on earth but a prayer language.

I was in Vietnam as a missionary for seven years from 1968 to 1975. I saw Pentecost come to that world as far as I could see for the first time. I preached for nearly two years and nobody filled with the Holy Ghost.

Hundreds of people saved but nobody filled with the Holy Ghost. I took a man out there with me one time and I let him preach the second night. He got up and began to preach about speaking in tongues and I sat him down.

He's never forgiven me. I said, look, they don't need tongues. They need the Holy Ghost. They've been in a war 25 years. You can play those games in America. You get the Holy Ghost, you get tongues. I bought these shoes.

The tongue come with them. You don't have to bargain around about a tongue and a pair of shoes. They've been like the glorified body. You don't have to pray about that at all. You make the rapture, you'll come up with one of them.

Don't worry about it. You make the rapture, you'll get the glorified body. If you get the baptism, you'll get the tongues. No need in preaching around, trying to teach people how to talk in tongues. But we've witnessed all of this.

Matthew 3:11–12 and the Second Half of Pentecost

But the second half of Pentecost is about to come. If we believe in the outpouring, we must believe in the rest of this promise. If you believe in verse 11, then you've got to believe in verse 12. They have to both go together.

Right after the promise of the outpouring comes the promise of the cleansing. What is happening today is God's doing, and it ought to make our hearts rejoice. Instead of being sad, we ought to be happy.

The Bible is being fulfilled. The cleansing, the purging, the washing of all that's not God today is the work of God. We're witnessing the second half of this Pentecostal message. God is cleaning the mess up.

God knows, and I know that it's time. It has to be. There has to be a purging. Our Lord is going to rid His true church of all that is false and corrupt. We cannot dodge the issue. God will probe His church.

Because when God looks at His church, all that He sees in that church is Christ. Now, you and I may believe that God is going to tolerate something in there other than Christ. But it's not so. In the final analysis, there'll be nothing but Christ.

What we're seeing is a long suffering of God. I can tell you that's coming to an end. We're witnessing a judgment begin in the house of God. He's a purging that floor today. He's dealing with that in that body that is not right.

The Winnowing of the Harvest

Now, in our text, John the Baptist foretells what Christ will do to the harvest gathered by the Holy Ghost. When that net is pulled in, we have the story. Every kind of a fish is in that net. When you throw it out, you pull in a little bit of everything.

You have to deal with it. It has to be worked on. We're seeing it. The Holy Ghost is not going to allow that to just be put into the garner. He is going to blow upon the church. He is going to come. He's not going to allow that harvest just to be put into that garner the way it is.

He's going to blow upon the church not just to baptize, but to cleanse it, to purge it. Of all of that that's been brought into that harvest that's not of God. The voice that's not of God has gained the ascendancy.

It's like the homosexual. He's got a louder voice than righteous people have today. But that's not always going to be so. That real church is going to have a voice in this earth. And you're going to discover that the outpouring of the Holy Ghost today is not so much a revival, a national revival, as it is opening the eyes of the elect to make you know that most of what's going on is an apostasy and not a revival.

How we need to know that. People plovering around with things. You know, I've been like an illegitimate child at a family reunion for 30 years. I preached for Brother Mayo in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the great Pentecostal men.

He and I were great friends. He told me one time, he said, Brother Clinton and God ought to have took me out here 20 years ago. Why do you say that? I just don't fit into this. I said, that's the reason you're here.

Somebody has to be here that don't fit. Somebody has to stand in the middle of this stream and let the waves break over them and say this is the way. Not where you're at. Something has gone wrong. This is the story, the message that's happening today.

Separating Wheat from Chaff

I told you how I watched them winter that wheat in India. Old fashioned. That wheat piled up on a canvas. And a man, one man with a shovel would throw it high into the air. Two others with a fan blowing it.

That chaff would blow away and the wheat fall back over and over again. Cleansing that wheat, ready to put it in the barn. But chaff had to be dealt with. God's Word said of Jesus, His fan is in His hand.

That fan is the Holy Ghost. It's blowing up on that harvest today. It is working on it. No one, no one can deny the effects of the harvest today. Nobody. He has used the Spirit as a comforter and as a baptizer.

But today He's going to use that same Holy Ghost as a separator. He who is truth is going to make us know what is truth again. We've been so confused. The psychologist has come. All truth is God's truth.

And we've listened to that false and phony come. All of this stuff. I told you about the one who said we've made them feel too guilty. What a tragedy that we have. This has always been. I never got involved in a lot of that.

Council people that want to be saved. But if you preach the whole truth in this pulpit, you won't have to spend your time back there in a room somewhere talking to people about stuff. I remember one evening just getting ready to go home.

Always, we'd eat breakfast. I'd go to that church, stay home or stay at the church in there. We'd go early to the prayer meeting. Then about 5 o 'clock in the evening, wife and I would eat. Well, things riot.

I'm fixing to leave. Here come two elderly people in. We've got to talk to you. They've been around a long time. I said, you've got problems. Yes, we must talk. I could tell he's all bowed down. She's coming in.

We sit down. He's got his head tucked. I said, what's the problem? I'm leaving him. I said, what did you tell me? She said, I'm leaving him. I said, why are you leaving him? I'm in love with another man.

I jumped straight up. I said, my God, you're old enough to be dead. That's exactly the words I told her. I said, you've got grandkids that are grown, and now you're full of lust. I said, don't come here with that love business to me.

I said, now if you think I'm going to sit at this desk and talk to you, you're crazy. I said, if you want to pray, I'll get in that altar. I'll call that wife. We'll stay there until the morning until you straighten up.

But I'm not going to let my dinner get cold and talk to anybody about such foolishness. I'm not going to waste my time here. Amen. You know what's going on. Well, she just wouldn't listen, and she left him.

You know, about two months, his shoulders are straight, and he's a-walking, and she's wanting to come back, and he said, do I have to, Pastor? Oh, to sit around and talk with people about that. You see, the Bible doesn't require that of anybody.

No, he doesn't require that. We're talking about truth. When that truth is presented, when we stand for the truth, if we don't, then there's going to be things gathered in that harvest, and the Holy Spirit's not going to put that in the garner.

Amen. He said he's going to burn up all of that that's not God. That is happening today. Many of us, I believe, are feeling, all of us are feeling the breeze of that cleansing. And the church as a whole, all of us, have allowed things.

I'm not talking now with most of us. Not adultery. It's those little things. The wrong attachments, the wrong affections, the wrong attitudes. Things have come. God is dealing with those things because he wants to rid us of whatever is not Christ.

Judgment in the House of God

Let us not be deceived. Jesus has been watching that harvest. He knows that not everyone who cries, Lord, Lord, is going to be in that raptured church. He knows that. You may have been fooled by it, but he's never been fooled.

There are those in the harvest who must be exposed for what they are. The Ananias, the Sapphires, they must be exposed. God is not going to play any games with them. The time has come. That which is not true is going to be exposed for what it is.

It's a painful process. Our loss of the true evangelist has been the greatest loss of the church. I believe that. All we have is our tenor of preachers today running around trying to promote some program.

They don't have no burden for the church. It's been a long time since you've been able to really find an evangelist with a message, with a burden. The Bible said he gave some evangelists for the perfecting of sense and to find the body of Christ.

Paul told Timothy, do the work of an evangelist. Exhort, reprove, rebuke, for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. I was three years as an evangelist from 1953 to 1956. Traveled.

I thought I'd never get out of South Texas. One church to another. And I knew what an evangelist was. I'd just been in a while. My whole thing, I told that pastor when I got there, all I want you to do is give me a key to the church.

I want a key. I made a pledge to God from 6 o 'clock till 12 o 'clock, I stayed in that altar to find out what's going on here. If they need a revival, then something's wrong. It's like a doctor. He probes around on you.

If he ever hits a place that hurts, he's going to hit it again because he knows he's found the trouble. Now, a real evangelist will probe with that word. When that church groans, he knows he's found the problem.

But it's hard to discover that kind of an evangelist today. One little weep over that church and pray until God can reveal to him what's wrong. And if there is such an evangelist, 90 of the pastors wouldn't let him preach.

Because he goes to expose in those tares, they get upset. And it's sad, but about 85 of the Pentecostal church is tares. Made up of folks that have never been birthed of God. It's the truth. They're just convicted.

Just convicted. Most of them, that's as far as they ever got. When you're really convicted, you see sin like God sees sin. But you still love it. A person really convicted of God, that sinner sat there and God convicts him.

In that conviction, you see sin like God sees it. You see it ought to be sent to hell, but you still love it. Amen. You still love it. And so we bring them in. They're not born, just convicted. So all the while, you've got to keep a lot of hot water or pray them through every day.

Amen. Every time they come to church, they've got to get saved. They're always doing what they know isn't right. But when a man is born again, he doesn't just see sin for what it is. He feels about sin like God does.

He hates sin. And until you hate sin, you can't ever leave it alone. And we've got the church full of that because we've just brought them to a place, not even that, but filled up the church with folks that have been convicted of sin, but never birthed of God.

The Gospel and the Evangelist

And when the real gospel is preached, then there's trouble. I can tell you all it would take to break up a conference on evangelism in America is a man to preach the Word of God. That's all. That'll tear it up.

Billy Graham's, anybody else's. Just go there and preach the Word of God, and you'll tear the whole mess up because they're not there. They've got all kinds of programs, how to reach the lost. Jesus said, if I be lifted up, I'll draw up to me.

Why do you need anything? A friend of mine was dying, laying in the hospital, dying. He had a disease, and they'd done about ready to cover him up. Laying there in that bed, Jesus come in, touched him, and he was instantly made whole.

Amen. Instantly made whole. Well, he got out of the hospital, and a man gave him a book and said, you read this, How to Stay Well. Oh, he said, you take that book back. I found out how to stay well. He said, go and sin no more.

Hallelujah. The truth, the truth makes free. He said, I know. I don't have to buy your book. Amen. That's all just a lot of propaganda. Just go and sin no more. Live for God. Walk with God. That's what the Holy Spirit is saying all the time.

We've lost the evangelist, and if he comes most places, won't let him preach. I've been preaching, brother, the whole time I'm preaching. They're pulling on my coattail. I can tell they're so afraid that you're going to find some hair out there that needs to be saved.

And all the while, you feel a tugging at that coattail. Up to this point, though, Jesus has allowed the wheat and the tares to grow together. He's allowed it. But listen, he's allowed that mingle harvest to accumulate on that floor.

It's been brought in, brought in. But he'll soon do what the Scripture said. He's going to purge that. You can mark it. If the rapture took place this morning, amen, those bloated statistics would be cut down so much that the preacher would never recognize his church.

If the rapture took place, amen, those bloated statistics, that we have all of that, would be so distorted and changed, we wouldn't recognize our own churches. I told you about the all-night prayer meeting, 40 people out of 400.

God said, you're looking at the rapture out of this one. Can't get them to a prayer meeting. Ain't no chance at all on God's earth getting a man into a rapture. Just in no way that's ever going to happen.

The Winnowing Fork and Prosperity Teaching

But he's going to purge it. His winnowing fork is about to be plunged in to every group of believers. Living Waters, Victory Temple in Beaumont, wherever. That fork is about to be plunged in to that body of believers as sure as there's a God in heaven.

There in Virginia, brother, he's going to plunge that fork into it. You mark it down. No matter how you may protect it, you're not going to protect it. It's his church. It's not yours. It's his, and he's going to remove that chaff.

And he's about ready to plunge that fork in. We've been in an outpouring that's coming and uprooting, whether we like it or not. Hudson Taylor had planted those churches across China. God had used him.

Then come that storm to shake everything that can be shaken. That old earthquake like this one, it was going both ways spiritually in China. He wrote Alice's sister, and he said, Alice, everything seems to be fluid.

I don't know whether there'll be a church left when it gets through. But he said, Alice, it's his, and if he's through, I am too. So you can expect the shaking. The fork is coming. The whirlings, the compromisers are going to be purged.

They're going to be purged. All this prosperity, hocus pocus, amen, is going to be purged. I know God gives to those that give because they give to him. He said, it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that his covenant may be established.

Paul comes along and tells me that how the power to get wealth is, he that gives seed to the sower multiplies that which he sows. That's the power. But the only reason is that this gospel may be preached, not for you to have some kind of a big automobile or a bigger house or to boast about what you have.

He is going to rid the church of all of that. I had one of those prosperity preachers wanting to send me to hell because I wouldn't believe that Jesus was a rich man while he was here on this earth. Oh, he said he wore designer clothes, lived in the best hotels.

I said to him, you know, the biggest shock to you is going to be if you make that rapture, is that 90 of that bride never had running water. Never knew what electricity was. Never owned a jackass, much less a Cadillac.

Don't talk about that. God don't mind you having things, but if things get you, you're out. If they get you, you're through. If that's what drives you, then you don't know anything about God. Amen. Whether he gives or don't gives doesn't matter a nickel's worth.

It is what he wants. That is all going to be dealt with in this hour. All of that is going to be brought out for what it is. There will be a final day of separation of sheep and goats. A clear line of demarcation is coming now.

The Separation of Sheep and Goats

You can believe it. You're going to know who's God and who's not God. You're going to know who belongs to him and who doesn't belong to him. I was a boy. You know, I had to deal a little bit with those sheep and goats.

I've never understood why that a man really that knows God couldn't tell the difference between a goat and a sheep. You know, they're radically different. Amen. But we've got them all mingled through the church today, and the goat's treated just like the sheep.

You know, you take an old goat, put him in with sheep. You fill that trough up with food. That old goat will come along there, and he'll butt every sheep away from that trough. He'll eat until he looks like he's going to explode.

Then he'll get up in the trough and walk around, keep them out. And sister, you go out there with a stick and run that goat out of there. And when he leaves, you scrape the paint off the barn on the way out.

You've met that goat, haven't you? A man preaching one time, and I was sitting on that front seat, locked in on him. He's telling about this fellow. I said, I met him, brother. I met him. I can tell you one thing.

God's going to make a difference. We're going to know who's who. We're going to know what's what. The purging of this harvest comes before it's gathered into the barn, according to Peter 4, verse 17. Judgment must begin at the house of God.

That purging is going to take place before that rapture. Because God is only going to take out of here that which is right, that which is His. It's like the devil. You know that mark of the beast. I've heard it preached.

I've heard it preached a hundred ways. I know there's going to be a brand. But I can tell you, that isn't a mark. That brand isn't a mark. In Texas, you won't get but two years for killing a child or murdering somebody.

But if you steal cows, man, they'll hang you if you get somebody. Every man brands his own. He puts that brand on that cow, and that means it's his. Now, the devil is never going to brand a child of God.

He is only going to brand his own. And so today, he's making them his own. And the mark of that beast is the nature of the devil. That's what it is. Selfishness. That's the mark of the beast. That's the people.

The church is full of them. The law of the jungle is self-preservation. You let a wild animal give birth to a litter of little ones. If she's hungry, she'll eat her own. I've watched the church do that.

The Mark of Christ and Self-Examination

Paul said, they bite and devour one another. I mean, just eat up one another. That's selfish. Selfishness and lawlessness are convertible terms. Amen. That is the mark of the beast. But the mark of Christ is the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul said, examine yourself, whether Christ is in you or not. I can't look in there to see. I can't look in Duke's heart to see if Christ is in there. How do you know? It's what comes out. Love, joy, peace, meekness, temperance, faith.

If Christ is in there, everything else is being purged. Judgment on everything that's not that. You know, I've traveled this nation. I've watched with astonishment the gathering over the last years. I really have.

I knew most of it wasn't real. But I've watched with astonishment the gathering. Amen. I was here, you know, about in the 1970s. I was on Channel 9, Channel 30, and Channel 40 in Los Angeles, all three.

I was in there in a rally. And we was having a rally in Los Angeles. And Paul Crouch asked me. Just had one station in 40. I didn't know nobody. Just buying time on the station. Wanted to be on that Praise the Lord.

I don't know. It may have been 1972 or 3. I went in there. I never heard of Praise the Lord myself. And I got in there and sat down. First question he asked me. Brother Clinton, what do you think will be the part of the Pope in his last days?

I said, no question. He's a false prophet. Oh. Los Angeles, come alive, brother. I'm telling you, every phone letter. We never took none of them, though. Just hold all the calls. Amen. One of them boys back there said, there's some of them ready to shoot you.

Others said, thank God somebody said something. Amen. I've been invited back there very many times. I'm just saying, we live in a time. All of that has to be dealt with. What's real? We watched this mixture of neo-Pentecostalism and Romanism and called it a revival.

Amen. People talk in tongues while they say the Rosary. One man wrote and said the Catholics said it made the Rosary more real. I said, that wasn't the Holy Ghost then. All of that has to be dealt with.

And it's going to be dealt with whether we want it to be dealt with or not. It's coming down. This truth, this end, I've traveled. The call was come together in the name of Jesus. Be gathered in love.

They did not come, they come from every walk of life, all religious groups. The love was all-encompassing. Amen. That is all. You dare not speak out against the false even. The love. If we spoke in tongues and hugged one another, brother, everything was wonderful.

And you dare not say anything about it. I mean, I watched it. The gathering was everywhere. I was in a meeting. I was talking to a Catholic priest. They had spent an hour plovering over him. And winds up sitting right by me.

And I asked him, I said, do you believe that Mary is co-equal with Jesus, co-redemptive? Yes, yes. Do you believe in transubstantiation? Oh, I do. Do you believe that you really received God with that wafer?

Yes. Do you pray to the dead? Yes. I said, they've lied to you. You're not saved. And I thought they were going to throw me out of that. I said, I had no love. I said, I'm the only human this house loves him.

Amen. Here a man is lost, and you're going to tell him he's all right? You call that love? If I went to a doctor and had a cancer, he told me nothing's wrong with him, when I'm dying, you can believe I'm going to try to find that doctor and find out if he lied to me or just didn't know what he's doing.

This is what I'm saying. I've watched it gathered from everywhere. The harvest reached into Hollywood, Nashville, politics. Amen. It was endless. They were coming from everywhere. No one can deny the effects of the harvest.

That net was pulling them in. Amen. Of every walk, every walk. But that harvest doesn't just lay there untouched, waiting to be stored. Are you listening to me? It doesn't just lay there. There's chaff all through that harvest.

The chaff cannot, will not be allowed to remain with the harvest. The owner of that harvest is going to come, and he's going to separate the real from the make-believe. As sure as there's a God in heaven, there's going to be a separation of that facade and that which is real.

There's coming, there's coming the separation of the real from the phony. You know, I was going to preach on the Christian home, and I began to, a New Testament home, I called it. I began to search the Scriptures and was shocked to find so little said about it.

Out of 156 verses in the book of Ephesians, Paul only had about five or six about the home. Same was true in the other. But then I discovered that everything he said about the church, he said about that home.

Amen. That the church isn't somewhere I go, it's what I am. It isn't just somewhere I go on a Sunday. The church is what I am. And I began then to deal with it from that aspect, the home. One thing for you to go to church, it's another thing for you to take that church to your house.

Holiness in the Christian Home

And as I began to deal with that, I found the real mark of it in final was faith, hope, and love. Those are the mark of a real church, of the maturity of the church, and it's a mark of the home. And I began to ask the question, probe through that congregation.

I said, what about your children? Are they inspired? You are. What do they feel? Do they know your faith? Is it something you talk about? But when the earth begins to rattle and shake, how do they feel now?

Can they come to you and believe? Now, how about hope? Are they gaining? How about love? This is the whole test of things. In our homes, in our lives, it's one thing to put on a reverend on the front of your name and get up there with some kind of a Hollywood look, amen, and carry on with all of this stuff.

I plan to smile and talk about a God. But I can tell you, if you go to that house, you'll probably find out what's going on. Talk to that wife. Talk to them children. Have a look at it when it's not all up there, with all of this showmanship.

I believe the pastor, he talked about hypocrites. He said it was a stage actor. A stage actor, performance on the stage. There's so much of that in religion today. Men talking about God that know nothing about Him.

You know the Baptist had this guy, Bob Harrington. He was going on television everywhere. I had, at that time, was on television all over. And we had a mobile, one of the first ones, we had all of our television on a bus.

And so he called and wanted us to film him some of the places where he was. And my son run that in those days. And he filmed him the first time with Governor Wallace in Alabama. And he come back to me and I said, What do you think about it?

He said, Dad, I want to tell you. He's a salesman. He can talk about religion, but he don't have an ounce of it. He knew it then before all that expose comes. I've never seen a more phony human in my life.

That was his exact words to me, my son. We never did any more filming. I didn't want them cameras looking at that. You've got to keep it sanctified. But I can tell you folks, there's so much of that. There's so much of that.

All of this. All of this stuff. Going out of business all the time. If you don't help me, I'm going to have to shut it down. I ought to shut it down. Amen. Folks talking about all this prosperity. Why are you bothering me about my money?

All you've got to do is speak to your pocketbook and all of these things. Why write me any letters about it? Amen. But all of this, I'm telling you, God is going to expose it for what it is. And the sooner the better, folks.

I said the sooner the better. That the thing comes. We're moving toward the coming of the Lord. And everybody that says Lord, Lord, is not going to be a part of that rapture church. It's going to be a frightening moment when that trumpet sounds.

And you and I are got out of here. It's moving so rapidly. Chaff will not be allowed to remain. There's plenty that's unreal. Look at Elijah and Carmel. The whole challenge is that there's a mixture. Jezebel has caused that nation to become mixed politically and spiritually.

They're marrying, intermarrying. And now Baal and religion is all mixed up. Now that mixture didn't hurt Baal, but it destroyed Judaism. That mixture doesn't hurt the false, but it totally destroys Christianity.

And the whole challenge up there is if Baal is God, then get with him. But if God is God, then serve God. But you cannot serve both of them. It has to be that distinction. That mixture has to be dealt with.

You know the story. But 2 ,000 years later, either that woman come back to life or it's more than a woman involved. She showed up in the church of Thyatira, Jezebel. You suffer that woman Jezebel. What's he talking about?