God Bless all who love the unshakable truth of our loving Creator.
                                               CHRISTMAS
IS FOR ISRAEL   by Dr. Wesley Swift  Â
12-23-63 This afternoon as we
considered the subject of interest before all people of Christendom, and the
time of the year, and the season in which we are celebrating, there is one good
thing about Christmas and also about Resurrection or Easter. Upon these two weekends all of Christendom
thinks about the same thing at the same time.Â
The great catalyst of spiritual force which emerges out of this common
testimony is to great advantage to the Kingdom. But strikes fear deep into the heart of the enemy. Make no mistake about
it. For it is a very vital and
important service throughout all Christendom.Â
We well understand that there is always controversy over the exactness
of 'dates'. But the importance of the
exactness of dates is not as important as it is for Christendom to celebrate
the birth of Christ, that they set aside a ceremony and a period and a time for
rejoicing and for festivity. For
Christmas is a time of festivity for the people of God. This is one of the things about the
words--'The House of Isaac'--. For they
are the 'sons of laughter'--the 'sons of joy'.Â
Because of the covenants that God has made with them. Because of this then this is one of the
great days of festivities of God's Kingdom. The two greatest events in
the structure of our race, as it relates to our relationship with God was the
fulfillment of His coming which we celebrate at Christmas time. And the mighty triumph of His power over
death for us, which we celebrate at Easter time, or the Resurrection
period. Thus all Christendom sings its
songs of 'Praise'. Its services extol
first the coming of God, and secondly the mighty power of HIS Resurrection
having dwelt here as a man. In these
instances these -- churches whose pulpits have not stayed with the great and
vital facts of the Gospel, find their choirs singing praise to these
events. All Christendom then unites
around these historic situations which have transpired in God's relationship to
us. This does not mean today that all
churches understand or know what their heritage is, or their direct part--in
this matter. But it does mean that
Christians over the entire world are announcing that Christ was born. It is pretty hard to say
that He was born, and then say that HE was not THE CHRIST, at the same
time. So for this important declaration
that Christ was born, for this period of joy, and festivity, and happiness,
that has existed with Christians from the very earliest period of the beginning
of Christianity. Their recognition of
the birth of The Christ, and the continued festivities, in the ancient areas of
around Armenia, and over in the areas over around Palestine, and down in Egypt,
they celebrated in close proximity, but in different periods the exact time of
the birth of Christ. It was in the
second century that the church at Rome decided that they would set up a High
and Holy service for the Birth of Christ.Â
And around that Word and that service the Christ Mass was
established. And Christmas was set on
the 25th day of December, for this Mass. We well recognize that
this is not the birth date of the Christ.Â
But the great and important thing is that today all Christendom
recognizes that on that day, and around this period of time then Christ was
born. And this is one of the most
important patterns of the events in history that could have effected your race. Now, we hear the statement
that Christmas is for everyone. We will
agree that to some degree Christmas has its impact on everyone. But when we talk about Christmas, then I
cite to you that CHRISTMAS IS FOR ISRAEL.Â
I want to make this very clear because to do this we must define clearly
that we do not believe that Israel and the Jews are synonymous. Because we have the content of God's word to
prove that this is not true. And we
have the conduct between the differences of these people so as to prove it is
not true as well. Thus we say unto you
today, that Israel which makes up all the white Christian nations of the world, are a very special people unto the
MOST HIGH GOD. And we also declare unto
you this afternoon, that the Jews who are the enemies of Christ, continued
enemy of Christian observance of Christ and Christianity, are still the enemies
of God's Kingdom and we should not overlook this fact at Christmas time, in the
guise that 'Goodwill toward men' means goodwill toward God's enemies. Because it does not. But I point out to you
that this is a very vital thing that we must understand because out of all the
majesty of preparation, the preparation for the coming of God--EMBODIED IN
EARTH--as He promised your race, was one that reached back for thousands and
thousands of years. In the arrangement
of the stars in the heavens, in the plan of the measurements of the trip to
Astral bodies crossing the vastness of space.Â
In all the preparation that proceeded it, the messengers who came from
heaven to earth. The transportation
program from heaven to earth, even proceeded the hours of the birth of The
Christ. Angels came from heaven to
earth from God to man with messages and directions, throughout the period that
proceeded the birth of the Christ. I want you to know that
there is still some confusion about who apparently that HE was and to whom HE
was born. I have in my hands one of the
sorriest manifestations of that which I have seen. This is the bulletin whichÂ
is called 'The View Point'. This
happens to be the official bulletin of 'The Christian Churches'---The Disciples
of Christ' which makes this distinction.Â
This is the church of Jesus Christ Christian and all Christian Churches
are not tied up with this particular pattern of error. This bulletin says--'The Christian
Churches--The Disciples of Christ--in southern California. And I look upon this Christmas number and I
see a Negro Mary, a Chinese Joseph and fortunately they did not show us the
babe under such a combination. This, my friends, shows us
the great need for knowledge at this time.Â
I turn to the inside of this bulletin to see what their Christmas issue
contains and --'it contains a capitulation to the real patterns of truth with
the declaration that their churches have resolved for the coming year a firm
church position in support of all Civil Rights Legislation. It warns all Disciples that we are now
working in union with all church bodies in that we are supporting the advance
of the United Nations and the World Court.Â
And we also wish to say that we are taking a cautious attitude toward
all movements of Christendom and the American approach to our world problems.'  ---I think this speaks for itself. So I will not even comment on it. I point out to you that
the most important thing that you can know is who you are, from whence you
came, and what God--promised to do for you, and what HE has been doing and what
HE is going to do. It is so important
for you to find your relationship with God, and His plan so that you might
carry out your responsibility to God. In this instance then, we
point out to you, in the structure of the scriptures, that the prophet Isaiah
made a prophecy concerning the people and the purposes of the MOST HIGH GOD AS
IT RELATED TO HIS MESSIAHSHIP. This we
will discover if we turn back to the 9th chapter of the book of Isaiah. For it tells us concerning this Messiah--in
the 6th verse:--'Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the
government shall be upon His shoulders.' Now, I think it is pretty
important since we are talking about this, and since this is the greatest gift
that has ever been given to anyone at anytime--that unto us 'a child is given'
--'unto us a son is born. Who is this
child? We read here that this --us--is
the people that this son is given to, and the government is to be upon his
shoulders, his name shall be called --wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God,
the Everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace. If the government is to be
upon His shoulders and He is God, His wisdom, His guidance thru the Holy spirit
is the Counsellor, but He is given unto us, and He is going to rule over the
politics of our society --then we ought to know who --US-- is. Who are we? If I go back to the book
of Deuteronomy I find that there is a people in this book that are very
important. Because here in the seventh chapter of Deuteronomy God says:-- Verse
6--"Thou art a holy People unto YAHWEHÂ
thy God. And YAHWEH thy God hath chosen thee to be a very special people
unto Himself, above all the people on the face of the earth." That is
pretty important to. Thus God is the
Selector, He selects, He chooses. And I
discover in this bible that He even segregates. In this same chapter He says I have selected you---I have chosen
you--and you are a people chosen by Me, above all the people on the face of the
earth. You thus are the people of God,
the people elect of God, and I discover that God refers to you as his
children. He as your Father. And in this instance this is a message to a
people called Israel. I like that word --Israel
-- and it is first used in the writings of Seth. It is first used as God unveils wisdom to Seth, and then unveils
it to Enoch---the word Israel means ---Issue ruling with God. The word is first identified as Issue,
offspring, ruling Ra with El. Israel, people ruling with God. The first man whose name was officially
changed to this, was after God's covenant with Abraham, as he changed the name
of Jacob to Israel, proving that this is the Issue seed of God ruling with
God. This is a very important thing. If
we want to go back to the origin of some of these covenants and promises, we discover
that God made certain Covenants with Adam, and the scriptures give us a very
special designation concerning this. Since the scriptures tell
us that 'Unto us a child is born, unto
us a son is given', then we discover that this covenant was made with Israel,
that this was what would transpire. That God would become Embodied in the body
of a man, born of a woman of our race.Â
Someone says:--'But how do we know this is true? The most important thing that we can know
about this relationship is to go into the records concerning the genealogy of
Jesus. I turn over here to the book of Luke, and here I read in the third
chapter of Luke in the 38th verse:--'Which was the son of Enos, which was the
son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God. So I have evidence here in this third
chapter of the book of Luke, that the genealogy of Jesus Christ was also the
genealogy of Adam, who was the son of God.Â
Thus the Adamic was a divinely appointed race, whose spiritual beings were transplanted from heaven to earth, as
Christ Himself said when He talks about His identity of His people when He came
unto us, and to us, it was given, and this race He identified Himself with was
the Adamic Race. Now, someone says:--'this
is only important if we only trace this back to Abraham. And they think in
their ignorance, that He is talking about the Jews, and I tell you that He is
talking about Israel, He is talking about this Adamic Race. And the reason why we trace this back to
Adam is because there were other races here besides Adam. But Adam was God's offspring, seed
transplanted from heaven to embodiment in earth. When we talk about the
Kingdom of God we are talking about the literal rising of people called of God,
ordained for this task, selected for this destiny, and even their birth was
known unto Him from the beginning. This is an important thing
that we know who we are. Someone says
but this does not have anything to do with Christmas. Well, as you gather around that Christmas tree, and there are
some gifts there, the name of who this day is celebrated for is very
important. You have quite a problem if there is no designation of who it
is for. This is the greatest of all
gifts, the reason why we give gifts for the children to enjoy, is because this
is a part of our celebration of the greatest of all gifts,--God's gift to
us---that He was embodied in the flesh and not ashamed to say:--'Ye are my kinsmen--my
relatives'. You can't think of any
thing better than that but to be a Kinsman of God. And to know in all the covenants, and purposes of God that He
kept his word. "What is man that he
is mindful of, that the 'son of man' hath visited Him." I discover in the
second chapter of Hebrews in the sixth verse :--"thou hath made him just a littler lower than the Angels, but crowned him
with Glory, and honor, and you set him over all the works of creation. More
than this thou put all things under his feet" --We don't see them all
there at the present time but they are going to be restored to him as he comes
again to the fullness of divine purpose. Now, we see Jesus who also
come to earth just a little lower than the Angels, and He did this for the
suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the Grace of God
should taste death for every man. For
it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing
his many sons unto glory; to make the captain of their salvation perfect
through suffering.  For He who
sanctifieth (sets them apart) and they who are set apart are all of one, for
which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren. Before the foundation of the world you were elect according to
God, your names were written down in the Lamb's book of Life, and He who set
them apart and they who are set apart are all one: --one race, one household,
one people, one genera. And God says that they who were set apart, and He who
set them apart are all ONE. And because
of this He is not ashamed to call you His brethren. Do you know anything
better than that my friends--have you found anything better than that in any
book, or any record? If so then you
tell me where it is, for I would like to know if it is better than that. Listen.Â
We read again in this declaration concerning this :---but He not only
identified his race and his people, but in that great Prayer which came
later.--He said in this great prayer:--'They are not of this world, as I am not
of this world, but don't take them out of the world'---Why? Because the mighty blueprint of God was the
transference of his kingdom from Heaven to earth, to put the world in order,
and to over throw the powers of darkness, and to lift up the standards of
righteousness until every knee will bow, and every tongue shall proclaim that
Christ is LORD. Some say that is
bigotry. But if bigotry then it is
bigotry on the side of truth of God.Â
Someone said that the whole world does not want to be preached to, but
the whole world is going to do what God wants, cause God is not going to do
what the world wants. Let us for a moment think upon this pattern, for we have
the genealogy of a household, the Adamic race, the people ruling with God, as
it was declared to Enoch, it was declared earlier to Seth, and it was even
promised to Adam and Eve concerning the embodiment of God and this final
crushing of the powers of darkness by
the 'seed of the woman', which woman he designated who would be the symbol of
his race, when she was cleansed. Â Â Let us
turn to the words of Isaiah again in the seventh chapter of Isaiah and I read
something which is under fire by the enemies of God, and this text is one of
the signs of the measures of God's Grace.Â
It says:-- Therefore YAHWEH himself--the Eternal and Great God --and we
are using his rightful and right name--YAHWEH Himself give you a
sign---Who?--Israel --He shall give you a sign---'A holy virgin shall conceive
and bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Immanuel. Now, those who want to
belittle Christ, and those who want to belittle his words, and all those
who who want to hate him today are
trying to do away with that sign that He gave.Â
They say:--this should not be translated as a Virgin, it should be
translated as--- a young woman shall conceive and bear a son. But there is nothing significant about that.
All the people I know have been begotten by younger women, or older women, and thee
fact that children are begotten and brought forth by women. There is no sign here. The scripture says:---"Behold ! a
Virgin shall conceive and bear a son'----This is the sign I give unto you.
--But no, the Christ deniers want to take away a great miracle of God, the
Mighty Majesty of God coming to earth, and all that is involved of him being
born out of our race, so that he might be our kinsman. This My friends will
stand in its own testimony. Some one
said: --but there is a new revised transitions which says --a young woman. I am going to show you
just how false that version would be when this is a sign given to
Israel---"Behold! ---out of your race a woman --a virgin shall conceive
and bear a son". In the instance
of this declaration we come over here to the book of Luke as well as the book
of Matthew --and Behold! God sent the Angel Gabriel to Joseph, and he was a pretty important messenger, and this
Angel comes to Joseph and says:--'Thou son of David, do not fear to take Mary
unto thee as thy wife, for she has conceived of the Holy Ghost.' This is the
Miracle of Christmas--God found a way to join himself to the race He had
brought forth as issue. By the majesty
of His great and creative force, --reconstructed the essence of Life, into this
body He was to dwell in. And this body
was the essence and the substance He had before the world was framed. In this same instance we read these
words:--"Behold she shall bring
forth a son and thou shalt call His name YAHSHUA for He is the Messiah, and He
is going to save His people from their sins, He is going to fulfill His
destiny. " Now, it is rather a unique
thing that if they want to switch around the translation of Isaiah, to take
away the miracle of the Virgin and try to replace this with a young woman, that
they forgot to change the gospel to say also that no messenger came. I point out to you that in the magnitude of
these events, the testimony was not only given to Joseph, but it was given to
the High Priest, it was given to the father of John the Baptist, and it was
given by special messenger that came---and it was the Angle Gabriel who came to
the Virgin Mary saying:---'Hail Mary, blessed art thou above all women, for the
LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be this vessel.' You cannot take this out of
the heart of Christianity, for it is built around these vital truths. And the attack of the enemy will never
destroy it. The most important thing is
for you to understand that this is for you.Â
That this belongs to you, that this is a miracle of God. We go back
again to Isaiah where you read these words:---"A virgin shall conceive,
and bear a son ----Immanuel ---meaning God dwelling with us'. No less than this will satisfy us, no less
that this will consume the aching need of Christendom. Listen. We turn again to this chapter where ---a
child is born and unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his
shoulders. We are for this government
and his enemies are against it. Do you
know that they are so worried about this government that is going to be upon
His shoulders, this awakening again of Christianity, as God stirs them again in
the last days, that they have sought in insidious ways to try to stop the
singing of Christmas Carols in our schools. They have sought to keep the Cross
off the city halls, or the tableau of the nativity scenes out of the Plaza, and
in all public places. They have sought to take Christ out of Christmas and
Prayer out of our schools, because they
are God's enemies and they continue to be so.Â
They went so far as to interfere this year in a new area. For many, many years one of the most beautiful of all exhibits, and all of the
beauty of the heavens and the sky has been here in Los Angeles up here in the Planetarium in Griffith Park. Here in that
Planetarium we always had a Christmas show that ran each year a couple of weeks
before Christmas, and a period there
after, that showed the positions of all the planets, and just how the heavens
looked at the time of the Birth of the Christ.Â
And they would run this projection in this beautiful Planetarium of the
movement of the planets, the conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter, and the course
from which the comet moved, and all these patterns. It was a beautiful and
reverent approach which they presented, of the sky which fulfilled the prophecies even given to Enoch as what
would transpire and what it would look like at the time of the birth of the
Christ. But Jewry could not take
this, and all last week they put on the pressure, unprecedented pressure upon
the Planetarium, saying they were not Christians and they did not want the
heavens as it was at the time of the birth of Christ shown at this time. My friends, it does not matter whether they
like it or not, or whether they turn off this Planetarium.---This happened a
long time ago. But this sidereal
projector and calculator just projected the evidence in the heavens exactly as
they were in the declarations of Enoch, concerning the prophecy of the Star. You in this great Christian nation, where
145 million of you are Christians rejoicing that Christ was born, rejoicing
that Christ belongs to you and that you belong to HIM, had in your own nation
this scientific approach to the heavens at this time--saw this turned off by
the enemies of Jesus the Christ. Oh, you say I should never
insert this in this message, this is Peace and Good Will that we want--but
Peace that passes understanding is what we want, we want victory over the enemy
here even in our own country. What is this that we anticipate?---'Of the
increase of his government and His Peace there shall be no end."--Upon the
throne of David, and upon His kingdom to order it, and to establish it with
judgment and with justice there shall be no end--henceforth and forever. And
the Zeal of YAHWEHÂ of HOSTS is going to
perform this. We not only have the
assurance that this son is given, and this child who was born was the Eternal
Father, but before Abraham He Was. He
made the declaration "I AM". The Apostle Paul in the book of Colossians
points to the Universe and says;--All was made by HIM---Who? --'The Everlasting
Father --who embodied in earth we call YAHSHUA or Jesus. What could be a greater
gift to any people than to be identified with God? He came for them because He said:--I am not come but for the Lost
sheep of Israel. Lets go a little further with this declaration--lets turn over
here for a moment to the declaration of Peter, for Peter this Apostle of Jesus
had a great responsibility in the formation of the church, and in leadership.
And in the responsibility in the leadership of the church, and their society, and He said:---"To whom
did he come ---to whom coming as a living stone?" The Kingdom of God has a
lot of such significant factors involved in symbolism. The Kingdom of God is
symbolized as an Eternal Kingdom, a Living Kingdom in which God himself,
embodied as Messiah, in the earth, is the chief corner stone of that
kingdom. That kingdom is established in
earth. He taught us to pray:--'Thy
kingdom come they Will be done in earth as it is in heaven."Â We are told as the Apostle Peter tells
us---"We are living stones fitly framed together, and we grow into a Holy
Temple unto God, in which he is the Chief Corner Stone." I turn again in the second
chapter of Peter in which he says:---to whom did he come? ---He came therefore
to these Living Stones, and He is the chief corner stone, but all of you are
lively stones, built up into a spiritual house and Priesthood. So offer up
these sacrifices unto God---and how do you do this--thru the manifestation of
He who is Jesus the Christ. ----Therefore it is contained in the
scriptures---'I lay in Zion---' and don't think of the Zionists when we read this and say Zion. We are talking about the Israel of God, not
these usurpers who would take your title, your heritage, and your
civilization. For God talks about you
as the people of His household, and his race, and He says:----Behold! I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect and
precious, and he that believeth in Him shall not be confounded, and unto ye who
believe, He is precious, this is the stoneÂ
which the builders disallowed which is made the Head of the corner. Ages ago when your
forefathers guided by inspiration, in the days of Enoch, erected that great and
mighty emblem in the land of Egypt known as the Pyramid, they left the chief
cap stone off because of the significance of the measure. That perfect stone would have to seal all
the angles and all form in which the
whole building was consummated. They left off the cap stone---and it had a
spiritual significance for it was the stone that the builders rejected. The
same was to become the head stone of the corner. And Christ we discover in the book of Luke identifies himself as that corner stone for this
building. Identifying Himself with that symbolism and identifying himself with
this great and mighty Kingdom of God--the Great Stone Kingdom. If you look upon the back of a good dollar,
or even a new phoney one you see the seal of the United States. And on the obverse side of that seal you
will see this pyramid, and this pyramid is made up of stones, and the 'All
seeing eye of God' next to the cap stone identifies it as the Eternal YAHWEH,
the Christ who seals our culture and
our destiny ----This is 'the stone which the builders rejected which has become
the head of the corner, and this is the destiny of Christian civilization. I
tell you this afternoon that we pray for the elimination from our society of
those who will not acknowledge that Stone, or put that Headstone on your
government. Jesus said in the book of
Luke:---'Is it not written, that the stone which the builders rejected --that
stone has become the head of the corner.Â
And who so ever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken. Who so ever that it falls upon shall be
ground into powder. ' Yes, in the Majesty of
those events we would think back for a few moments to the manifestation and
declaration of heaven. Angels came to
Joseph and an Angel came to Mary, and even to the shepherds who were out on the
hills watching their flock. But convergent with the hope and the expectations
of Israel, they had gone to sleep upon the hill side, and suddenly a great
miracle transpires---a light shines down around them and all around them. Now I can understand that this must have
been a startling thing for these men, for this light to suddenly shine
down. This light wasn't shining from
the Pleaides billions of miles away, it was right above them and they could
hear voices of the heavenly choir, and thru that process of communications--whether
it was a megaphone, or what ever they were using, these Angels on that space
craft of God, brought it down so as to awaken those shepherds so they would
recognize what He was about to announce.Â
We read these words:--An Angel of the heavenly hosts while this Glory of
the LORD was shinning down around, announced --"Behold !--I bring you good
tidings of Great joy, for there is born unto you this day in the city of David,
a savior which is Christ the LORD."Â
And this shall be a sign for you shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling
clothes and lying in a manger. And
suddenly there was great heavenly hosts singing and praising God. They were
singing:--"Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth Peace and Good Will
toward men." When it says:--Peace on
earth and good will toward men, in some translations it says:---Peace on earth
to men of good Will. I point out to you that these shepherds must have had one
of the most tremendous thrills of their lives, to bee suddenly singled out b
this heavenly choir. They could not see
what was behind the light but they could hear this choir singing, and they
could hear this voice saying:---'Do not be afraid, but you go on down to
Bethlehem, and this is what you are going to find. Even the knowledge of the
situations which would transpire, for we are told that Joseph had gone down to
Bethlehem to pay the tax for his wife Mary.Â
And thus this babe was born in the manger just because there was no room
in the inn. Not because there was no
room in the inn, not because someone was trying to keep them out of the inn,
but everyone going down there to pay their taxes had filled the inn. Thus this child was born in a manger. And in this instance every prophecy, every
pattern of destiny involved in this took place. As we speak to you this
evening, about the 'Star of the New Order', we will show you how far the
astronomical situation for this date had been laid in the heavens. Let me assure you of this. That of all the events of history there was
more Glory surrounding this event that people who do not know who Christ was
can understand. Heaven was in full
operation. Heavenly Hosts were standing
by. The angels of God were standing by. Let me make this clear
this afternoon, that the Bible is filled with a long and continuous
account. And each one of the Gospels
mentions this event. The statement in
the books of Matthew and Luke make it quite clear. I want you to recognize that you cannot fully appreciate the
magnitude of this event without realizing that all the forces of darkness were
also involved in this. If you were to
study the 12th chapter of the book of Revelation, you would discover that at
the time when this Christ child was being born, that Satan the dragon, and his
kingdom, had been gathering all the hosts of darkness so as to try to destroy
this child as soon as He was born. It
this were not a major part of this message it would not be here in
Revelation. And it would not be in the
declaration of Matthew as to the birth of Christ. Herod and his Jewish army
sought to destroy the Christ Child at His birth. And that animosity continues until this time and throughout our
entire ministry. And we remember that
as He was being crucified, they said:--'Let His blood be upon us and upon our
children', never realizing the mighty
dynamic power of His resurrection that would seal for all times any possibility
of any fears of any man--that the powers of evil could triumph over God or over
His Kingdom, or over His household in the earth. It was God the man who was crucified and it was God the man who
resurrected. But the divine power
embodied in Him could never be destroyed.Â
For this was the fullness of God dwelling bodily with man. You can have Christmas with all its
celebration and all the joy which belongs to it. Do not let anyone take from the fullness of this hour and its
majesty by trying to take from you that this was the Mighty fullness of God,
dwelling here first in this babe who would grow up the SAVIOR OF OUR RACE. Let me make this clear.---"An Everlasting
Father and the Prince of Peace"---this was unto us, this child was born,
unto us this son was given. As I turn
to the words of Peter, I read:--'You are a Royal Priesthood, a Holy Nation, and
a peculiar people.'Â Now the Apostle Paul said
that you were strangers and pilgrims in the earth. But the thing I like about what Paul said is:--'You are people
who I see as Strangers and Pilgrims in earth, having your conversation honest
among the gentiles (nations), whereas they speak against you are evil. But remember that you are to glorify
God.'Â The thing I like about what Peter
said---'you are that chosen people'.Â
And now he was talking to the church. Â
And the people who make up that church are Christians and they are
members of the Household of god. They
have come out of Israel. And they make
up all of the white Christian nations on the face of the earth. In this declaration then, the Apostle Paul
said--I want you to know that you are like strangers and Pilgrims in the earth,
of which the world is not worthy, because they do not recognize who you are, as
the powers of darkness fight against you.Â
Therefore you who make up Christendom, among the nations wherein you
travel--and altho the word here is gentile or nations---but you are the
children of the Living God. You are the
Israel of God and the Household of God. Thus I tell you that
Christmas belongs to Israel---elect and precious. When we sing 'Silent Night, Holy Night' it was for us, even tho
the enemies of HIM made it a night of bloodshed and a night of war. Remember that the life of Christ started out
with all the hostility of the enemy against HIM. The Life of Christ was brought to Calgary, but in the mighty
triumph of His Resurrection, He triumphed over all the mighty powers and forces
of darkness. And with His holy energies
He energized His church in the center of your civilization to be extended with
a continued realization that the Kingdom of this earth were to become the
Kingdom of our LORD AND HIS CHRIST.Â
That you would be stirred to occupy, that the powers of darkness would
be defeated. And out of that would come
the mighty triumph of Christ and His Kingdom.Â
This is the prophecy, and this is therefore what we now in expectation
look forward to ---the final scenes of this event. In these latter days, the Kingdom of God has suffered violence
and the violence has taken it by triumphant and the powers of darkness are
going to lose their control over the Kingdom and over the earth. And the Kingdom will not be given to the
Jews and Christianity will be triumphant. I am going to tell you
that there is nothing that God points out that is close in infinity with this
message as going back into the book of Isaiah to read again what accompanies
this declaration:--We are told that a Virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and
then the 8th verse says:-- now listen, My people, don't you associate
yourselves with any other races on the face of the earth, because of any fear
of any power---for when they say a Confederacy, don't you be afraid and don't
you join them. You just sanctify the
Lord of Hosts in your heart---for in the 9th chapter, it tells us that 'Unto us
this child is born, and unto us this child is given'. But just before this, it makes this declaration concerning
this.---That there is confusion in the earth, in there is trouble and
problems. But do not forger this
declaration. In the book of Isaiah,
again we read:--'(28:16)--Thus saith YAHWEH--'behold I lay in Zion, among My
people, this foundation, this tried and true stone, this precious corner stone
as your foundation. Therefore, believe
on this and do not make haste to join these other nations. For I have instructed you not to join them.' This then is what Christ
refers to concerning His coming to earth to fulfill what Peter talked about and
what this scripture tells us here in the book of Isaiah. And it says for us not to make a covenant
with the enemies of God's Kingdom, for behold you will be making a covenant
with death and with hell---You are making an agreement with the over flowing
hoards of darkness in order to make a refuge out of falsehoods and lies. So don't you make the expectation of your
Nation, the center of God's Kingdom--the United Nations, or your union with
pagan powers, but be continually in consecration with the LORD thy God and His
commandments. Separate yourself and
watch. The LORD thy God created the
strength in your nation necessary for its growth and its survival. Watch this my
friends. For He said when you make this
refuge of lies as your security, you are bringing on catastrophe. But when you make the LORD of HOSTS your
stronghold, then my friends, it says that you will have great victory. You are not to form a confederacy with
them. The reason I bring this out is because
this is all tied in with the promise of the Virgin and all tied in with the
recognition of the Birth of Christ. And
I am going to site to you, that at this hour one of the greatest challenges of
God's Kingdom is our faith in this Eternal King, this Messiah, High Born. This Christ who belongs to us and to the
orders of His Kingdom, rather than this order of pagan darkness that would
swallow us up. I think we have a little
to rejoice about on this Sunday before Christmas. For the first time in a long time, the Congress is trying to act
like men. In fact, they were told that
they could not even go home for Christmas unless they supported this world
order of darkness, this giving away of the substance of God's Kingdom, this
extension of foreign aid to all the enemies of God throughout the world. Oh, they only want to cut it back some, but
the system of World Government, the system of World Darkness seeking to try to
influence our society was trying to force our people to walk this way. God does not want this.  For this is the climax of an age. I am going to site this to
you, that Presidents can get angry, but it is a lot better for Presidents to
get angry than for a nation of God's Kingdom to continue under servitude and
bondage. I was interested by this
statement on the back of this bulletin from 'The Disciples of Christ' with
their black Mary and the Chinese Joseph.Â
They said we are going to support President Johnson because he is a
member of our church. It is nice to
know that he belongs to a church. But
it is easy to understand how people become confused in their responsibilities
toward God, the preservation of their nation, their racial self respect in
carrying out their obligations in the ministry of God's Kingdom when they have
not been properly informed when they go to church. I charge you that at this
time you are witnesses of the Most High God.Â
He said that Ye are My witnesses.Â
And the most important thing that you can witness to is to the Word of
God, the identity of God and to the plan of God. Therefore I think that there is not greater contribution that you
can make to the service of Christ, to the recognition of His birth, to the joy
of this season, than to tell it. Tell
it everywhere. Let's fill the earth
with the Joy, the melodies, the Hymns of a people who know that God visited us,
came to us, was born for us. Redeemed
us that we might finish the task that He sent us into the world to do. (end of message) MERRY CHRISTMAS
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