(Demonology) When the Church Goes — Willie Mullan

And how often this question has been asked, when Jesus comes and the church goes, what of this world then? And I said to a fellow away in the north of Scotland when he said this to me, when you say, what of this world then, what do you mean?

He said, I mean, what of this world then as far as God is concerned? When God takes the church out, will he forget this world? Will he just leave it to go spinning into everlasting darkness? I said, my dear friend, when the Lord takes the church out, let me inform you that he will not leave himself without a witness on this planet at any time.

It's a make-or-mother-of-what dispensation we go to. God will not leave himself without a witness. You see, when he takes the church out, then immediately he will pick out a lot, if you like, 144 ,000 Jews, and he will seal them off as his witnesses when the Antichrist is abroad and the darkness deepens on this planet of ours.

Sometimes people say to me, when God takes the church out, what of this world then as far as the gospel is concerned? Well, let me tell you that the 144 ,000 who are sealed off will be the missionaries of the Lord in that dark period.

And they'll preach the gospel, the same gospel. There is no other gospel that I know. But they'll preach it to people who have never heard the gospel, because people who hear the gospel in this dispensation and believe not are damned.

No second chance for them. He that believeth not shall be damned. And you'll find tonight that even when the 144 ,000 go out with this great message, that there will be a crowd come out of this great tribulation who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Because that's where that text belongs to. So somebody's telling them about the blood. And I'll be showing you this evening when the old devil wrecks his mage with all its fury on the Jewish nation. And this he will most surely do.

There'll be a cloud in the nation, a remnant. And they'll overcome Satan by the blood of the Lamb. Well, they'll have learned all about it. Don't get excited. Sometimes people say to me, What will happen in this world as far as assemblies are concerned when the church is gone?

Oh, the Antichrist won't allow us to have assemblies like this. You know, we can see this clearly if we look at Russia tonight. This meeting couldn't be in Russia. We remember even the time of the Covenanters, that there came a force who wanted to put them down when they had to hide in the heather hills of Scotland.

When they had to meet in the dales. When they had to break bread in the caves. And mind you, I think there's a force abroad that would love to do this to the evangelicals again. About the four men that went to see the IRA, I might as well tell you.

I'm not sure about them. I just wonder sometimes, was it an honest move? And if it was, why don't they say now that they were bluffed by the IRA? For they were bluffed. There's no question about that by Miroslav.

But I'm not so sure if it was just bluff. I was wondering if they were not trying to sell the evangelicals down the river. But an old fellow told me once from the ethnic movement, they call it, he said to me, Oh listen you, you hold the cogs, you rule in world.

But the day will come when we'll go to Parliament and we'll ask Parliament to pass a law that unless you belong to one of the four main denominations, you won't get preachers. Boy, I wish the day was here.

He just said, my, we're written on it. God knows there's something inside me itching that they would really do it. I would love to see them at it. I'll tell you they're asking for trouble, will they get it?

I'm not sure of those four boys. And I would think, you know, that it could happen yet, that they would try to put evangelicals. Some around here would love to empty this meeting. It will not be done as easy as they think.

They'll only multiply it. I believe that when trial and testing and storm comes, that the believers only get stronger. But when God takes the church away, what of this world then? As far as the devil and his angels are concerned, that's the bit that we're after.

When the church goes and the Holy Ghost goes and the restrainer of evil goes, what will the devil and his angels do then? That's what we're after this evening. Now, we'll not need to go outside the book of Revelation to find the answer this evening.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ

We'll find it in the book. Now, please go to the book of Revelation because I want to show you one of two things as we get this subject launched this evening. You do see the title that's given to this book in your books.

It's called The Revelation of Saint John the Divine. Now, of course, I believe that every jot and tittle and stand and sentence of the original scriptures where God breathes, I believe it's an inspired word from end to end.

But then men came and put headings to some of the books, and they put it into chapters and verses, and I'm quite willing to admit this evening that the chapters and verses have been a great help. Sometimes I believe and others believe that the chapters are wrongly placed, but we'll not go into that.

But I don't know who put this heading on this book. This is called The Revelation of Saint John. I tell you, John will go mad about that. John will not like that. And if the man who did this had only read this book, have a look at what it says in verse four.

It says, John took a serpent to it. Did he just call himself John? If you look, thirteen letters written by Paul in this book. Every one of them begins with the word Paul. Just Paul, that's all. And if you look at the two letters written by Peter, one begins with Peter, and the second letter begins with Simon Peter.

I don't know where we get all this potpourri from. Creeps in everywhere. I don't think John will be pleased with this. You see, verse nine, he says, I, John, who also am your brother, I don't know who called this Saint John.

I smell potpourri nonsense here. I think we'll have to get the text out and have it. I can see this. Whoever was daft enough to say this, they said that this is the revelation of Saint John the Divine.

This is not the revelation of Saint John the Divine. Look at your first verse, of your first chapter. It says, the revelation of Jesus Christ. You would think some of these old fellows couldn't read. That's not the revelation of Saint John.

No, that's not even the revelation of John. This is the revelation of Jesus Christ. This book is the revelation of Jesus Christ. Let's get that into our minds. This is a book that reveals Christ in all the glory and wonder that belongs to him.

Now, if you want to know the book, I'll show you an easy way. In the first three chapters, one, two, three, you have a revelation of Jesus Christ, our Lord, in the midst of the churches. That's what he is today.

He's the Lord in the midst of the churches. Now, we don't want to deal with that because that's the very dispensation we're in. But one of these days he keeps the church out, and what will the devil do then, is what we're after.

Christ Among the Churches and in the Midst of Judgment

Then when you come to chapters four and five, you see, we have a revelation of Jesus Christ, our Lord, in the midst of a tomb. Did you see the difference? In the first three chapters, we have a revelation of Jesus Christ, our Lord, in the midst of the churches.

He's got things to say to us tonight. And then when the church is gone, we have a revelation of Jesus Christ, our Lord, in the midst of the tomb, with the sins around them. If you've any bother with it, if you just look at chapter five, because it's not our subject, look at verse six.

John says, I beheld and lo, in the midst of the thorn and the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb. And you know all the sins were around him. And at second, verse nine, and they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the field, for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God.

Tell me who thou art. Father redeemed, or rather not her, that's what you're told. Now you see, the revelation, we have three chapters revealing Jesus Christ, our Lord, in the midst of the church. We have two chapters revealing Jesus Christ as lamb, in the midst of the thorns.

Now while they were singing up there, the church is gone, things were happening down near. See chapter six? That's the chapter with the four horsemen, isn't it? Ah yes, you can see the first horseman, the white horse, and he that sat on him and breathed through, and he's going forth conquering, and to conquer.

We'll be getting a picture of Christ, because it's the Antichrist. And I want you to see what will take place. Verse four, there went out another red horse, and power was given to him that sat there on to take peace from the earth.

What's this we get? And that they should kill one another. That's what you call civil war. We've been on the verge of that in this little province of ours for some time. And I can tell you that when I talk to some of the Protestants, whom you might call extreme, you may call them that, they're just about tired of being soldiered on.

And if they get very much more tired, we'll have our bloody battle on our hands. And there'll be thousands of Roman Catholic murderers. Take your time with it. And just, if this fellow Rhys pushes it just too far, there'll be trouble.

I never wanted that sort of thing. I pray it will never happen. I wouldn't take anything to do with it. But it might well not. There's civil war in this book. And it might well be that one of these nights the Lord will take the church out, just as we've been looking, and civil war will come.

But we don't find the devil there. We just find the conqueror. And I know he's the Antichrist. We've been through this. And when you come to chapter 7, you find God sealing off this 144 ,000. I know the Russellites go round the doors, and they say they belong to the 144 ,000.

At least some of them say they belong to the 144 ,000. Remember, we last come into the door, and you're like, well, but the books belong around who she was. I said, no, you did. I was trying to be nice.

It's a little hard for me to try to be nice, because I've got a face that's the other way, you know. I said, no, you did. She says, I'm one of the 144 ,000. I said, my God, they must have left me behind.

I said, that's Revelation chapter 7? She said, yes. I said, the 12 ,000 out of each tribe? She said, yes. I said, what tribe are you out of? She said, Dan. I said, well, let's have a look at your Bible.

Find me Dan. There are 12 tribes there, but there's not one out of Dan. Dan's not there. She picked the wrong one. And there's big graves. You sit there, smiling, you do. He did the very thing with the Russellite at the door, and the boy at the door said the same thing.

I want to teach these Russellites a lesson. The tribe of Dan is not there. There are 12 tribes, but Dan is not there. You just look up to them, sometime when you have time. It is 144 ,000 Jews, not Russellites.

And God is sealing them off, because he's going to make them as witnesses. And you know they're going to work hard for God. But you'll find out that when this man goes abroad, this man of sin, and God has these 144 ,000 sealed off, that certain things will happen in this world.

The Trumpet Judgments and the Release of Demonic Forces

See chapter 8. Because we're going to have an atomic war, whether we like it or not. Mind you, I don't know if Israel will not be the first to have a go at it. I ever will not go into it just now. But I know this, in chapter 8 and verse 7, if you'll follow me, because I'm rushing.

I don't want to deal with this at all. The first angels founded, and there followed heel and fire mingled with blood. And they were cast upon the earth. And the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass.

You see, a third part of all the forests on the face of the earth was burnt. And all the grass. I'll tell you this, that one day after the church is gone, these weapons that they're building up and they have secretly set here and there, they're going to go off, you know.

They'll burn the third part of the trees. There'll not be a blade of grass that's not scorched. Look again. You see what it says in verse 8. Second angels founded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire.

What a description of atomic energy was cast into the sea. And the third part of the sea became blood. And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea and had life died. And the third part of the ships.

I'll tell you they'll give it a bit of a waking up. You know, when I was in Germany with the soldiers in the Rhine, the colonel took me down to see these great rockets, all about 60, maybe more, all sitting in what would be twice a football field.

And they're all sitting, they must be 60 feet high and here they were, and they're all sitting. The Indians are pushing this up. I said, colonel, what's this about? He said, they're all aimed at Russia.

And let them just take one straight other place. They said, you must be daft, they must have as many over there aimed this way. So we said, and nobody helped. Well, we've got a lot of fools in the government, you know.

Wish you would know that if you watched TV, wouldn't you? You're far better looking at the cartoons. Yes, they're going to blow the place up on us. Only I think the church won't be here. They're going to burn all the grass and the trees and the ships.

And this atomic energy will destroy the creatures in the sea. The fish will be destroyed. Look at this bit. Verse 10. Verse 11. That'll make a mess of things, won't it? You'll be looking for water if you're left behind.

Look, if you're getting it as quickly as I want you to get it, a third part of everything on the earth, and a third part of everything around the earth, and a third part of everything under the earth.

And here's another one for you, quick. And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was split, and the third part of the moon, third part of the star. We've got the whole thing. When this atomic energy blast goes off in all its fury, either Israel's cutting it off and Russia following, and America coming in, and all the rest of them, there'll be a third part of everything on the earth, a third part of everything around the earth, a third part of everything under the earth, and a third part of everything above the earth.

What a blast it'll be. This book wasn't written yesterday. This book was written a long time ago by a prisoner on the Isle of Paton, John the Apostle. This must be God's book. Nobody else could do this.

Now, we're looking at this. I want you to get this. The church is going to go, and the Antichrist is going to be revealed, going forth conquering and to conquer. And civil war will follow out of the fields.

God will have 144 ,000 that he'll keep no matter what kind of blast goes off. And they'll lead others to Lord of Sages' precious blood. But you'll find that after this blast has gone off, well, it's up to man now.

You see, and this is where it says, A star shall fall from heaven onto the earth unto him. Don't mix up the star with one of the stars in the sky. The word star is the old Greek word for messenger. It's the word for angel.

God's directing. You can see, unto him was given the key of the bottomless pit, and he opened the bottomless pit. Oh, he's going to let demons out. And, you know, you can see that while they use the word locusts as the source of picture language, you can see that these demons, or locusts, verse 4, and it was commanded them.

You can't command ordinary locusts. Commanded them that they should not hunt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any green thing, neither any tree. Because the grass will grow again as the dread inherit it, right?

But only those men which have not the steel of God in their foreheads. Yes, these demons have got their commands because they're limited. God won't allow them to do what they like. They'll not be allowed to touch one of the 144 ,000.

They'll only be allowed to touch those men who have not the steel of God. So you can't be working with ordinary locusts. And you'll find that it says this,. And to them it was given that they should not kill them.

They would love to do it. But that they, these men, should be tormented five months. See what it says down in verse 11,. And there the king over them, which is the angel, they're getting the word proper now, of the bottomless pit.

You see, this is a bottom. This is a destroyer. That's what the word means, even if you take it in Hebrew or Greek. Apollyon means destroyer, so does Abaddon. Now, there's more to follow. It says in verse 13,.

The sixth angel sounded, and when he sounded, there was a voice saying to the sixth angel, which under trumpet loosed the four angels, which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year, for to slay a third part of men.

You see, this book reveals that when the church goes, then the devil and his angels are going to bring an awful time upon the unbelievers on the face of the earth. They're going to be tormented and then they're going to be slain.

And you know, this has always been the tactics of the devil. You know, he will energize men. This is seen and has always been seen in the gang warfare in America. You know, there's a big boss somewhere, and he's got a lot of sharpshooters who look after him.

And he says that John Smith and James Brown they're to be shot so they get them off the face of the earth. And of course, there's boys who run up his very word and do so. After a while, he gets somebody else to shoot them.

That's the way the devil works all the time. That's the way the devil works in all these gang warfares. Yes, they're moved to do this, and then somebody behind their backs is moved to do them. That's the devil.

The Two Witnesses and the Lord's Claim Over the Earth

And he's going to give the unbelievers on the face of this earth a time of torment, and then a third part of all on the face of the earth will be slain. What a day it will be. When you come to chapter 10, you will find that the Lord Jesus is seen again.

He's coming near, and it looks as if he's just coming like a mighty angel clothed with the clouds and the rain brought upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun. His feet as pillars of fire. Now, I want you to get this.

He had in his hand a little book opened, and he set his right foot upon the sea, his left foot upon the earth. You know, he's just claiming everything that's his. It doesn't make a matter about atomic warfare, and it doesn't make a matter about the Antichrist, and it doesn't make a matter about the demons.

The Lord has just come to let them see that he owns everything. Puts his foot on that, and puts his foot on that as well. Now, when you see the Lord in this book, in chapters 1, 2, 3, and when you see him in 4 and 5, and when you see him in 7, and when you see him in 10, you know the devil's put into the background.

And you'll find the same in chapter 11. You see, you have two witnesses there. Because in those terrible, horrible days, even when the demons are loose, God's going to send two witnesses. Now, I want you to get this.

It says that, And there was given me a reed like unto a rod, and the angel stood, saying, Rise and measure the temple of God. For the temple will be built in those days. And the altar and them that worship therein.

But the court, which is without the temple, leave out, and measure it not. For it is given unto the Gentiles. And the holy city shall they tread on the foot forty and two months. Three and a half years.

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand, two hundred and three scored days. Three and a half years. So, God's going to send two witnesses. And there'll be nobody on the earth able to do anything with them.

You know, it's wonderful when you're a servant of God. You know, so many people say to me, it's a wonder big Jesus was not shot long ago. Some years ago, when he was in a little bit of trouble, it's maybe a couple of years ago, came to our house at two in the morning.

And I don't like to see him coming at two in the morning. Because then I'll think that he and I are going to take off between them soon. But it was just the thing he wanted to talk over with me, and it took us some time to talk it over.

And he's leaving about three in the morning, and he's on his own. And I said to him, I said, listen here, you're going to get shot one of these nights. He said, Willie, you ought to know better. He said, I belong to God, and I'm immortal until my work's done.

And that's what he believes. And he's right. If you're a servant of God, and you're serving the Lord, then nothing will touch you unless God allows it. I think it's time that we began to cheer up a bit.

Nobody's going to touch you. Ah, we belong to God. The fellow that shouts hallelujah's in bed tonight. I hope he shouts a hallelujah instead. No, not until, watch this, verse seven. And when they, that's the two witnesses, shall have finished their testimony, that would finish a lovely woman.

My God will allow them to be killed then. It says here, verse eight, and their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city. That's Jerusalem, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt. It's Jerusalem, just the same, where also our Lord was crucified, in case you would make a mistake about it.

Wanted to get their dead bodies to lie in the street. And you know, the whole world will see them because the TV will be on them, and they'll be looking at them from every quarter of the earth, these two boys are dead at last.

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half. Write that bit, you know. Because these dead bodies are going to lie for three days and a half.

You'd wonder why God put the half in, wouldn't you? Ah, well, the Lord's got to have the pre-eminence. He was only three days. So they'll have to put a half in just to be behind heaven. Now, I want you to get this.

And they that dwell, verse 10, upon the earth shall rejoice over them, make merry. Verse 11, after three days and a half, the Spirit of Life, capital S, Spirit of Life from God, entered into them, and they stood upon their feet.

I would like to ask the Russellites, is this bodily resurrection? They don't believe in bodily resurrection. I want you to get this. These three bodies, let's get the wood bodies. The dead, the whole world sees them.

Every household rejoices. These three boys that gave the Antichrist so much trouble were dead. While they're watching, these bodies will move. They'll stand on their feet. Is it bodily resurrection? Of course it's bodily resurrection.

Israel, the Dragon, and Satan's Assault

Now, you see, while these witnesses are here, we don't see the devil and his angels just for nothing. But when you come to chapter 12, see 12, and there appeared to great wonder in heaven a woman clothed with the sun and the moon on her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

You would know that that's Israel even if you couldn't get the figures at all. And she being with child, quiet, surveilled and thus, and came to be delivered. Because it was Israel, remember, that brought our Lord to this world.

And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and behold, what's it? A great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns. And she peeled through the third part of the stars of heaven. And when we are at the wood scars, it's the same word.

It's the angels, a third part of them, follow them. He's a fallen angel. They know he is after Israel, he is. It says the woman, verse 6, the woman fled into the wilderness where she had a place prepared of God that they should keep her there a thousand two hundred and three score days, the same time, three and a half years.

Israel is going to go through a terrible, awful time. This book reveals that when the church goes, then the devil is going to put on believers through an awful time. Then the devil and his angels is going to put Israel through an awful time.

You can be very sure of that. And it says this in verse 14, that the woman was given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness, into a place where she is nourished for a time and time and half a time.

Surely that's three and a half. You see, I want you to get this. We have the revelation of an awful time for unbelieving sinners, and we have the revelation of an awful time for unbelieving Israel. Now, when we come to chapter 15, it's a big chapter.

We're only taking snippets out of it. Of course, you have no bother in your mind about who the great dragon was. You haven't. Look at verse 9 of chapter 12. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan.

So you haven't any bother with that. It was the devil. And the devil means to destroy Israel. But he will never succeed. He will never succeed. God will protect Israel. Now, when we come into chapter 13, we see the beast in all his glory here.

The Beast, the False Prophet, and the Mark

It says,. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth was the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his feet and great authority.

The old devil was going to give to this man of sin great authority. And you know, he'd be able to do mighty things. It says at the end of verse 3,. All the world wondered after the beast. I think we should take the word world up now in this chapter.

Look at verse 7. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints. That's the witnesses that God had at that time. And to overcome them. And Paul was digging him over all kindreds and tongues and nations and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him.

Because they argue with me, you see. Somebody came to argue the other night and said, you know, even if the man of sin rises in Europe and comes out of the ecumenical movement, even if he does, he won't touch Islam or Confucius or all the religions of the world.

He won't touch them. Will he not? So I had to take this character to this passage. And I had to let him see that Paul was giving him over all kindreds and tongues and nations and all that dwell upon the earth quick now shall worship him.

Oh, he'll take their religion from them. This is the thing I think we want to get the hold of. Because this is what the devil is determined to do. He's determined to put this man of sin on this planet and he's determined to get every need from this planet to bow before him.

And the devil's given this man this power. You can see this very same thought again. It says, verse 14,. And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles. This is the man that works with them, the false prophet.

Now, I want you to watch this. Now, how is this man going to get this whole world at his feet? You see, it says, verse 4,. And they worshipped the dragon, which gave power unto the beast. And they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast?

Who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and glad to me. And power was given unto him to continue for three and two months. We've seen that a time or two tonight.

For three and a half years he'd go marching. I think he'd use TV. They tell me they have it in America now that they can full tell when you have it on in the house. And I believe that he'd bring in a law that you'll have to have it on and you'll have to listen to what he's got to say and the whole world will have to listen.

And he'd do a lot of other things. You see, he's going to do it first of all by mouth. And then he's going to do it by might because the devil has given him his power and his authority. And he's going to use that might.

And then of course this false prophet is going to come and work miracles. So he's going to have mouth and might and miracles. But wait a minute. Go down the chapter to verse 16. And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond.

We're getting the whole world in a way to receive a mark in the right hand in the forehead and that no man might buy or sell save he that hath the mark. You see, he's a marketer. Oh, we're beginning to wake up, you know, now.

Old Arabs who've shopped half-dozen in the desert for years. They know the value of oil now. They're beginning to push us around. They've put this country and many others into a bit of a fix just because they know how to work the market.

And they don't know the half of what this fellow will know. And when he mouths on the TV and everybody listens. And when he shows the world his might. And when miracles are performed which are miracles wrought by demons.

And when he gets control of all the markets. There isn't a religion in the world that will not bow. Every religion. Let me say this to you. He will select the Roman Catholic Church as his church. And it says that the woman in scarlet which is the Roman Church she'll ride the beast.

Yes, she will. And the Roman Catholic Church will rule every inch, everywhere. Whether we like it or not. Only we'll not be here. We'll be far above it all. You see, when we come to chapter 14 we have the lamb and you again.

And I looked and more lambs stood on Mount Simon. With them 144 ,000. Ha, ha. We never lost one of them. Are they the rough rides? Yes, there was a dark night too and a bit of a storm and there were a blast and there were people killed.

They're all here. I think they'll shout, do thyself no harm. They're all here. And when you get down to 14 you see you don't see the devil at all because the lamb is there. And when you come to 15 it's all praise.

Oh, what wonderful praises. And they sing the song of Moses. That's me. The servant of God and the song of the lamb saying great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways thou king of saints.

He won't put the singing out of the saints, you know. Man, when Paul was in the prison at midnight and the fates passed in the stars and his hands came to the wall and it was terrible in an old dark, dark Roman cell in the middle of the night and he sung praises.

And other saints will always sing. They'll sing no matter what happens. Now you see we come to 16 now. I want you to get this. Just bear with me. It's been a long difficult struggle mind you if you're behind this.