K-018a the Spirit of the Lord 1 of 2 — Art Katz

This is tape number K018, Art Katz with the message entitled, The Spirit of the Lord, part number one.

This age, children, which is called the end of the ages, began not yesterday, but if I were to choose a conspicuous moment for its announcement, I would say that it began in the moment that a certain sun came out of hiddenness and out of obscurity in his 30th year, the age of maturity, and came into the familiar synagogue in Nazareth, where his custom was, and took a seat and it was given him the scroll of Isaiah to read, the famous Messianic passage known at that time to every Jew, and happily not as well known today.

And he read the words beginning, The Spirit of the Lord is now upon me. It was like the proverbial shot that was heard across the world. Bang! With that incisive statement, the end of the ages began, and the first word to announce it, The Spirit of the Lord.

As a former kind of intellectual, and one who is traipsed about in the academic world, and has read and studied the kinds of titles that are given to previous ages, the age of enlightenment, the age of reason, the industrial age, there's no question about the title of the age in which God has called us to live our life.

The consummating concluding age is eminently the age of the Spirit. This is the age of the Spirit. And every one of us who have eyes to see know that, and even those who have yet not had their eyes opened and are untutored, if they've had any kind of experience in the world, groping, seeking, they have already been aware that this also is the age of the Spirit.

They've not met the Spirit of light and the Spirit of holiness, but they've met the Spirit of darkness. And in this final hour, and in this end time, in this great age of the Spirit, there's going to be a titanic collision between these two spirits.

This is a spiritual age. When Jesus came forth into that synagogue in his 30th year, he did more than make an announcement verbally. He proclaimed something with his body and with his life. It says the eyes of all those in the synagogue were fastened upon him for the gracious words which he spoke.

They were stunned and awed at the electric in this personality. There was something about this personality that compelled their attention. They had seen him all through his youth, but he had remained inconspicuous.

There was nothing about him to have alerted their attention. Now it says all the eyes of those in the synagogue were fastened upon him because he said, this day are these words fulfilled in your hearing.

And they said, isn't this Joseph's son? Isn't this this obscure lout that we've seen around the streets of Nazareth and in and out and about in the synagogue and we've never noticed him before? What is it about him now that is so compelling?

There's an authority. There's an unction. There's a power to his life. And if I suppose that they were using modern terminology, they might have said, he's got it all together. He's put it all together.

Dominion, Maturity, and the Anointing

And putting it all together, children, is the very quintessence of maturity. Remember when Adam blew it? What did he blow? He blew the dominion that God called him to make manifest over the beast of the earth, over the fowls of the air, and over the fish of the sea.

And if you're not speaking too far-fetched for the purposes of my illustration today, in our own lives individually, what do these things represent? I would say that the beast of the earth represents animal or physical carnal desire, our physical nature.

Are you in possession and control of that? That's the most elementary struggle. It's the thing which occupies the world. And that's why we have in America such problems as obesity, overweight, flabbiness, early death, premature death.

Men have not brought under dominion the physical aspect of their life. The second of the birds of the air, which I would say is a symbolic depiction of our thought life. I guess every one of us in this room has or is having some kind of struggle in that area.

That's Satan's playground. He loves to buzz over our heads and to insinuate all kinds of filthy thoughts, suggestions, and sometimes it's quite a wrestling match, to bring the birds of the air under dominion.

That's why Paul said, I am determined not to know anything but Christ and Him crucified. Many of us have not learned that lesson, and our minds are open playgrounds, or should I say battlefields, for every kind of mental struggle.

Every kind of every kind of introspection or looking back or contemplation of the future, rather than enjoying and living the present moment. God chose to bring the thoughts of the air into dominion. And the last and I suppose the most difficult, the fish of the sea, would represent the unconscious or subconscious sphere of our life and personality.

Things which we can hardly identify. Little gnawing pains. Things that go back to childhood. Things that make themselves manifest in dreams and sometimes nightmares. A mature person is one who has put it all together.

Who has complete dominion over body, mind, soul, and spirit. And I'll tell you I believe with all my heart that God shall withhold His end time anointing until He has a mature son upon whom to pour it.

Remember that the heavens opened and Jesus received a baptism in the Holy Spirit. And a voice rang from heaven, this is my son in whom I am well pleased. He hadn't yet done anything. He hadn't performed a single miracle, and yet God was pleased with him.

He was already an obedient son. Then came the doom. And right after the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it says that He went into the wilderness in the fullness of the Spirit, but He came out in the power of the Spirit.

Have you ever noticed that? A lot of us naively thought that the moment we received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, eureka, boing, something was going to start to crackle and we would stretch forth our hands and dozens would fall under the power of the Spirit in healing deliverances and we would just cut a great swath through the world in the power because we received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

I'm not demeaning the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It's the entryway, it's the door, but between the fullness and the power there stands something called a wilderness experience. If you've not tasted of it yet, gird your loins because if you're going to be God's end-time man or woman, there's no way that the Spirit of God is going to be made manifest in power through you except you've first been tempered at the hand of God in the three areas of temptation, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the plight of life.

There aren't any other temptations. All that is in the world is the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the plight of life. And Jesus could say that the prince of this world cometh but he has nothing in me, not a thing.

I've met him on the hardest ground in the most severe strength and I answered him, it is written. He made the test and he came forth out in the power of the Spirit and then came on the Shabbat into the synagogue and took his seat and read the famous Lithuanianic passage, the credentials of the Messiah, and he said, this day are these scriptures fulfilled in your hearing.

The Corporate Son and Messianic Ministry

Now dear children, Jesus is the pattern son. What he did two thousand years ago is a depiction of what God intends to duplicate at the end of the ages in exactly the same way. He's waiting again for another son to come out of obscurity and out of hiddenness, a mature son in his 30th year and come again into the familiar synagogue but speak with such unction and anointing that all eyes shall be upon him.

You'll say, isn't this Joseph's son? Aren't these those Christians? Aren't these those charismatics that had clinics and conferences and all that kind of idol jazz and those Christians with their potluck suppers and their schools and all the rest of their paraphernalia that didn't so much shake the world.

We never took note of them but what is this now? There's something in their voice, their demeanor, their eyes. There's an unction, there's a power. Indeed, the Spirit of God is upon them for he has anointed them or anointed him.

I say, aren't your grammar least something to be desired? You keep skipping from singular to plural, plural to singular. That's because there's a mystery here which has been concealed from the beginning of the ages which is now being revealed, the body of Christ.

The corporate God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. A precious teacher said, even God himself is a sweet company. He delights in doing things in a corporate way and his end-time glory is going to bring forth a corporate many-membered Son who has it all together.

Every atom of it is going to have it all together, body, soul, and spirit. And every unit and cell will also have it all put together. Jew and Gentile, black and white, young and old, fat and skinny, every size, shape, and description, every cell in its place and every joint supplying liberally what the entire body needs.

Hallelujah! No place for lone rangers, no place for individuals doing their thing. God winked at such practices in times past, but this is an urgent hour and God's business is at hand and it's time for the 30-year-old Son in the fullness of maturity to come forth.

And when he comes forth in that maturity under that anointing, he's going to perform the same messianic task. He's going to heal the broken-hearted because the world now is at the verge of such a shaking that shall dislocate the lives of men, shall make them quake and their knees knock and their hearts fail them for fear when the bottom falls out from their security and their self-assurance.

They won't know what hit them and there'll be many hearts that shall need to be made whole and healed to heal the broken-hearted. The Spirit of the Lord is now upon me to heal the, to, is that the way it begins?

To heal the broken-hearted and set the captive free, to open prison doors and make the blind to see. I'll tell you children, not one of these great messianic ministries can be performed without the Spirit of the Lord.

There's no way to heal, no way to set captives free, no way to open prison doors, no way to give sight to the blind except in the power of the Holy Spirit. The last thing that Jesus quoted out of Isaiah 61, he said, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and then he closed the scrolls and gave it back to the ministers.

He did not finish the entire phrase because it was not yet time, but it is given to us to complete what he left unsaid because now it is time. How many of you know what it is that Jesus omitted that we are called to conclude?

The day of the vengeance of the Lord, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of his soon-coming vengeance or death. It wasn't so long ago as a recent atheist, when I used to look at magazines and they had the cartoons of men with long beards and strange-looking garments, you know, carrying signs, repenting for the day of the Lord.

I'm not laughing longer. I'll tell you children, the day of the Lord is at hand and the elements are going to melt with a fervent heat and a fire is going to come upon the earth and a fire is going to follow that shall not be quenched and God is looking for a mature son that shall conclude the messianic ministry by calling men to repentance before the day of his soon-coming wrath.

Now I'll tell you there's not a message more difficult to proclaim than that message. Men want to stop their ears or gnash at you with their teeth and if you're going to be well-meaning and feeble and think you can recite it in a kind of incantation like four spiritual laws or five spiritual laws, forget it.

Proclaiming Repentance and the Cost of Love

I'll never forget once I spoke at a church, I think it was Louisville, Kentucky, and God gave me that message on the two Judaisms but I'll tell you it went forth like a veritable blast and someone had gotten up in the audience and said, speak on prophet and I spoke on and when it was finished I stood by the door, you know how the experience is that we preachers oftentimes have?

People pass you by, maybe you're betraying your immaturity, a man comes in through me, all the eyes turn, how long Lord? Everybody passed me by with kind of sullen glances, maybe a few shook my hands and thanked me for the nice sermon and there's nothing that makes a preacher's heart more sick than to be congratulated for a nice sermon when people should have been prostrate on their faces before the Lord.

But there was a Jewish man who had been brought to that service by his Gentile wife, Christian wife, and I had been briefly introduced to him and he walked me by as if I were a stone, he didn't even take note, he was so angered by the things which I spoke, I thought well I should be with that time and so they took me out to eat at some restaurant in the neighborhood and who do you suppose was eating there with his wife but the same Jewish man and so with my typical Jewish chutzpah coupled with the Holy Spirit, chutzpah is brass or arrogance, I picked up my knife and fork and plate and cup and I walked over and I sat right down at his table.

I don't always do things like that but that was the leading of the Lord in that moment and we had a conversation until four o 'clock in the afternoon. I would say that this man was the epitome of the finest that Jewish life has to offer and after what I spoke last night we can say that what is the finest of Jewish life is also the finest that the modern world has to offer because they are essentially the same thing.

He was a humanist, he was philanthropic, he was full of good works, he was a nice guy and he was telling me the gospel of nice guyism. He was telling me the conventional wisdom of the world. Look God, he said, I don't know if there's a God, not a God but even if there is a God, surely he doesn't care what you believe.

Anybody can believe anything, that's sissy stuff, that's kid stuff, that's kappa, believing is nothing, it's doing that counts. This is a pure perfect expression of the Jewish mentality and he says as far as doing is concerned I'm a lawyer and I go to bat for the underdog and I take special cases and I don't accept fees and I help people and he painted me quite a picture of what a nice guy he is and I didn't say a word, I received his whole gospel.

Then when he was finished and I began to give him God's gospel with such recitations as there's no man good, no not one, we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. If God were to mark iniquity, who can stand?

There's not a righteous man upon the earth who doeth good and sinneth not. What are your righteous acts with so many filthy rags in God's sight? And by about four o 'clock in the afternoon this man's face had visibly changed, something had gone out of his face, there was a kind of a gray pallor, he was bloodless, there was a white impression in his lips and he had kind of a stunned look in his eyes but being Jewish if he was not going to win at least he wanted to come out with a draw.

So we stood up, it was time to go and he extended forth his hand to me and he said, look Artie, it's very evident that you're a man of integrity and zeal, I respect your opinions, I can't agree with them but I'll tell you what he said, I'll respect your opinion if you'll respect my opinion.

Isn't that fair, groovy? I took a deep breath and out of my mouth came these words, I said so long as there's breath in my body I'll never cease to persuade you to give up your opinions and to receive God's for if you will not you shall surely perish.

I would say it was something, I'm speaking it now conversationally but when it came out of my mouth under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, it was something like a big Turkish towel saturated in icy water and he got sloshed with that statement right in the mouth, whack!

He was expecting some kind of nicety, a little pat but that wasn't the loving thing which he needed in that moment and by the way let's make a little footnote here, love doesn't always make nice. Satan has sold us a bill of good, a bunch of schmaltzy sentimental nonsense because my Jesus was always loving, there's not a thing that ever emanated from his life, his speech, his conduct in his ministry that was not done in love even when he called the Pharisees hypocrites and white and sepulchres.

Love is always a benevolent act intended for another, issuing forth from a person at cost to himself, it's always sacrificial. I'm sure men would not have gnashed their teeth upon him or have taken such delight in saying crucify him, crucify him if he had made nice.

Now there are times when we should make nice but there are times also to tell men that if they will not alter their opinions they shall surely perish. It behooves us to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of his soon coming vengeance.

Men have laughed at such concepts but I'll tell you the immediacy of that day is so now upon us that it is no longer a laughing matter and there's not a one of us who can proclaim such a thing and minister in the messianic way except that the Spirit of the Lord be upon us because he has anointed us, because we are the mature sons prepared in obscurity and hiddenness, tested in wilderness, coming forth in the power of the Spirit to do the will of the Father.

We are that mature son. God shall not conclude his messianic task except through an anointed son. Which son we are together with the body of Christ in Germany, the body of Christ in Israel, the body of Christ in Yugoslavia and that's why Jesus said greatest things that I have done you will do.

I never understood that before but I'll tell you when you put on the end time glasses you begin to understand a lot of things you never understood before. How can we do greater things than he did? He didn't mean greater qualitatively he meant greater quantitatively.

He was limited to the shores of Galilee to Jerusalem to Nazareth but we are not limited. We're everywhere. We're in Japan, we're in Oshkosh, we're in Timbuktu, we're in Africa, we're Rhodesia, South America, Israel, Russia, you name it wherever the people of God are together in unity in one spirit and one accord there is God's body doing God's messianic end times work.

Acts 16 and the Anointed Ministry of Ordinary Servants

Got the picture? Okay now let's look at an illustration in the book of Acts of the principle that I'm describing the 16th chapter. Do you love the word of God? Isn't it unspeakably delicious, rich, such fullness?

I'll tell you there's not a time when I look into the word or speak from the word that I don't end with some kind of faint guilt consciousness that I've been superficial and glib. Such mysteries and such truths hidden in every verse and yet what are we reading here but a day an episode in the life of two Jewish men doing their thing.

You say what's the big deal then? Here's the big deal. I love it all the more because it's representative. It's not spectacular, it's not outstanding. The whole result of this ministry was a couple of women saved, a couple of some scum out of the prison cells, a prison keeper, big deal.

It wasn't some magnificent work that can be recorded in astounding numbers. It was a day in the life of a couple of men under the anointing of the Spirit of God sent forth by the Spirit fulfilling God's messianic task and that's why it's all the more rich and instructive to us.

I love it because it's history, because it's accurate, because it's true, but all the more because it reveals the definitive pattern and working of God. There's a pattern here children and everywhere that you open the book you'll find the pattern, the principles, the way of God.

Why people perish for the warmth of knowledge. They don't know my way God said. It behooves us to know the way of the living God which changes not as he does not change. So let's begin about the fifth verse where it says and so were the churches established in the faith and increased in number daily.

Isn't that a beautiful verse of which to begin? Paul had taken Timothy and they were going about in Asia and they were establishing the churches, they were doing the work of God and they were meeting with conspicuous success.

Then we read when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia and after they would come to Midia they assayed to go into Bithynia but the Spirit suffered them not and they passing by Midia came down to Taurus and the vision appeared to Paul in the night there stood a man of Macedonia and prayed him saying come over into Macedonia and help us.

Let's stop there for a moment. The first thing that we can note is that I did a lousy job in reading the scriptures and I intentionally did a lousy job and I wonder how many of you were aware of it? Oh thank you because I think this is pretty much customarily the way we read the scriptures.

We go bang bang bang bang when God says that we should live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. We should salivate over this. It should rest on our tongue like some rare wine. We should pop the cork from that bottle and smell the bouquet as if we're anticipating a treat that had been prepared for us by the process of a seed falling into the ground and plucked grapes, crushed its essence, ground out of it, strained, filtered, made captive in bottles and buried in dark places and brought forth now for our delight.

This is the way a Jew feels when he holds that glass and he says L 'chaim. What does that mean? To life. Wine is a picture of life and he's not quick to knock it back as we do Coca-Cola. You hold it under your nose.

You feel a prickly thing going up there and the anticipation is heightened. Then you bring it closer slowly lest you let a drop slip. Put some on your tongue and something shoots like darts into your tongue and then you let it seep down slowly and you feel the warmth and the glow.

I hope I'm not inducing anyone through alcoholism but I'll tell you children that's the way we ought to savor the Word of God. How many of us realize that we just read three manifestations of the Holy Spirit?

Bang, bang, bang. Three manifestations of the Holy Spirit and there are those in this room who are perhaps waiting for their first and certainly in Christendom there must be untold numbers who are 20 and 30 or 40 years old in the Lord who have yet to experience a single manifestation of the Holy Spirit and here in a space of four verses, bang, bang, bang.

Three manifestations. You say well maybe the Spirit of God was more alive at that time. The Holy Spirit hasn't changed. We have. He is copiously poured out upon servants who are in the place of God to check, to direct, to lead, to empower, to anoint because this is eminently the age of the Spirit.

And let's take a quick and closer look at these manifestations because they're unusual. When they had gone through our fridges and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the Word in Asia.

Did you really notice that or did you think that there was some typographical error? Oh this can't be because the Word said that we should go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.

So I'm going and I'm going to determine where I'm going to go and how I'm going to do it. God has given me a blank check. You better watch out before you get your ears pinned back. Yes, God has given us a general invitation but I'll tell you that the specific fulfilling of it has best be directed by the Holy Spirit or not at all.

They were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach the Word in Asia. And I don't know about you but I think for Jewish guys like myself, we're much more responsive to the Holy Spirit that bids us go than the Holy Spirit that bids us stop.

We want to go go go and do for the Lord and sometimes be seen in doing but to be stopped by the Holy Spirit, to be dead and hid with God in Christ is not quite as easy to receive especially when you have been successful in establishing the churches in Asia.

Let me ask you a question children. Can the Holy Spirit stop you in the midst of your success? That's the test of the mature son. When the Holy Spirit can do that I would say he has the possession of his vessel.

Because I'll tell you what most of us would have said if we thought that a spirit was saying you're forbidden to go into Asia. When we're meeting with success daily and God is adding to the church. We would have said that's not the Spirit of God, that's the Spirit of Satan trying to distract God's servants and take him away from his successful field of endeavor and send him to some remote place where he's going to be lost in obscurity.

That's what many of us would have said and that raises therefore a very interesting question, an end time question. How can we determine whether it's the Spirit of God speaking or the Spirit of the evil one?

We know that he's a vicious counterfeiter. We know that he's awful and full of guile. We know that he can even seek to imitate the voice of God and he has succeeded often in distracting God's people and taking them out of the place of service.

What's the answer? The answer is that these men were so familiar with the accent of the still small voice of God that they knew that it was God speaking. Such a one is not born in a day. A man who has that kind of intimacy and familiarity with the voice of God is one who has been long processed at his hands.

A three month course or a six month course or an do it. It's only the beginning of things. This is part of that wilderness testing and that breaking and grinding and cutting away of the flesh that we might be sensitive to the things of the Spirit and able to discern.

And I'll tell you children as I told you from the first, these are life and death. You say, well, Bibio, supposing they had missed it? Well, if they had missed it, we would not be sitting here today because they heard it and obeyed.

The gospel went from Asia to Europe for the first time and men who had previously drunk their beer out of skulls were saved out of paganism and death and turned to the living God. Obedience was life for a continent and for the entire western world at a critical juncture in the timing of God in his end time purpose.

This is the age of the Spirit, eminently the age of the Spirit, and we are called to be the people of the Spirit. And this isn't a game for amateurs. Here's the principle. The Spirit of God is given to them that obey him.

After we had seen the vision immediately, we endeavored to God. Assuredly gathering, there was no doubt about this. They weren't confused. They didn't have to groan and aggravate themselves. Assuredly gathering, the Lord had called what men of the Spirit they were.

And loosing some trust, they came with a straight course to Philippi, which is the chief city. Doesn't that make you drool? I salivate every time I read those words for men of obedience like that who immediately set forth with a straight course to the chief city.

Assuredly gathering, the Lord had called them. I'll tell you, the eye of God is roving to and fro over the face of the earth, over his Christian people, looking for the polls and silences of this generation who will immediately set forth with a straight course.

But what's the nature of our generation? Indecision, compromise, deceit, ifs, ands, buts, whys, hows. When my kids grow up, when I have sufficient in the bank account, when I've established my security, when I receive my pension, when I'll retire, then I'll devote myself.

They set forth immediately with a straight course. God is looking for such a heart to the chief city. And I'll tell your children that wherever God shall call you by the Holy Spirit, be it however humble, to the dishes, to diapers, to sweeping the floor, to asking forgiveness, to a word of apology, to something gracious, to something humiliating, for you that is the chief city.

And if you will not obey that call, you need not think that you shall hear another. A lot of us have been stalemated. And like Abraham, who had a 13-year silence from God, he's been silent to us also.

Because there was a time in his speaking when we chose not to hear and not to obey. We would have loved the grandiose call to action, but it was a call to humiliation. And that, we thought, was indigestion.

That was the chief city at that time, if you had chosen to obey it. You may find some time today to seek the face of the Lord and ask him to repeat anything that he might previously spoken, which you have ignored, that you might do the first things, that his call might come again, and that ultimately he would lead you to the chief Philippi's of the world in the end times.

Submission, Authority, and Corporate Discernment

Now here's a principle we have to see before we move on. The Templar says, after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go. Isn't that glorious? Wow. Paul saw the vision. It came only to one man, but it says immediately we endeavored to go.

What does that suggest? The order of God in the body of Christ. They were knit together joint by joint in the place of God's ordering. And one was the head, and he was Paul. He had apostolic authority, and the vision came to him.

And the relationships were so intimate and tested and true, that if Paul had a vision, no one would ever suggest that it was indigestion. We assuredly gathered the Lord had called us. I remember I preached this message one time, and when it was over, a woman came over to me.

She was about 55 years of age, and she was very distraught. Her husband had a vision that they should leave their business, their beautiful home, their swimming pool, their little Christian ministry where they had baptized believers and had Bible meetings and prayer groups in their home, and they were really a significant Christian couple in their community, and sell all and leave all, and come to the youth with a mission in Europe and study evangelism.

She thought her husband had slipped out. She said, when I see the vision, then we'll go. I said, dear sister, you'll never see the vision. She thought I was attacking her spirituality. No. I showed her the order of God.

Visions come only to the head. The body that is knit joint by joint to the head is required to move with it. And the question for the body of Christ in the end times, when the explicit word shall come from the Lord or a vision calling us to an end time task, faithful, life and death issues being profounded, is, are we in the proper order of God, submitted to the heads which God has established over us, that when they receive the vision, we shall assuredly gather that the Lord has called us, and that therefore we shall immediately set forth, we, with a straight course.

Up until now, it's been a jungle of discordancies and rebellion and murmuring and hot shots who are critical of their pastors or their elders or what have you. But I'll tell you, there's an order of God.

And God is not going to minister to those elders and to those heads until the body is submitted unto them. I know that they're wanting, I know that they're lacking, but if they're the ones whom God has established, it behooves us to be submitted unto them in the same way that it behooves a wife to be submitted to her husband, even though he may be lacking.

And God is not going to minister maturity and depth and spirituality to that husband until that wife is willing to submit to his authority. Not because he has impressive endowments, but because God has established an order.

Part of the meaning of the word maturity is submitting to authority. There's no maturity without submission. And there's no action of the body of Christ without this profound principle being exercised.

And God has buried this like a little gold nugget in Acts 16 for almost 2 ,000 years, and now all of a sudden it's being revealed. After he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavor to go. Before we leave this question of visions, I want to say this.

We'll find as we read the rest of the chapter, they never did see that man. They never saw the man that Paul had seen in the vision. You say, what kind of a God is this? Who will give men visions that they're not going to see expressly realized?

Well, I recently had the experience myself. God gave us a vision. He gave us the name, the date, and the place for a special convocation for Jewish believers in New York City, where it was to be conducted at the beginning on the night of Pentecost, Shavuos, the Jewish feast day, when the fire fell on the heads of the disciples in Jerusalem 2 ,000 years before, and God said you should call it Shekinah 74, and hold it at Columbia University, the very same place where the student rebellions broke out some years ago, where it was Jewish youth in the leadership, where they urinated and defecated in the university president's office, and made a mock and a travesty of that place.

There you plant the banner of my holiness. Yes, Lord. He gave us a vision, and you know what the vision was? That the Shekinah glory of God was going to fall. I came to that conference without a message prepared.