A BIBLE BELIEVER'S COMMENTARY OF REVELATION Chapter 6

(Transcribed from tapes of a class taught by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman at Pensacola
Bible Institute, Pensacola, Florida)

     All right, now the action starts. Chapter 6, verse 1. We'll begin with
this chart here on Daniel's Seventieth Week, where it says "First Year," and
this first rider here in the gentleman there in the white horse.

6:1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were
the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. 2 And I
saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown
was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. 3 And when
he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. 4
And there went out another horse [that was] red: and [power] was given to him
that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one
another: and there was given unto him a great sword. 5 And when he had opened
the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and
lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 6
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat
for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not
the oil and the wine. 7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the
voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. 8 And I looked, and behold a pale
horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And
power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with
sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.


     6:1: "I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it
were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts." We take it for granted
it's the first one. In order, then, this would the one like a lion, chapter 4,
verse 7. So, one of the beasts--probably the first one, the lion--says, "Come
and see."

     "And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow;
and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer."
Now, every major denominational seminary in the world connects this rider with
Jesus Christ, and so does the Scofield Reference note. I mean, the marginal
note. Does he gave any reference to Christ anywhere there? Zechariah 6:3--I
think that's Christ. My marginal note says Psalm 45:4, which is a reference to
Christ. Any of you have that? Psalm 45:4.

     Well, now, Scofield's got it right, because he is premillennial. But
every major denominational seminary teaches that white horse rider is Jesus
Christ. And they identify him with the rider of Revelation 19 which is Jesus
Christ.

     When I say major seminary, I'm not talking about a little old place like
the Bible Baptist College in Springfield--that's back in the Pony League.

     You know, fundamentalists are very foolish. They give themselves so much
publicity they believe it. Now, they get all this publicity--Elmer Towns, The
Sword of the Lord--and they get to thinking they're this great big, whole,
wide world movement. Listen, man, the Catholics don't even know they're alive!
There are places up in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Michigan and New York who
wouldn't know Bob Jones from Sam Jones or Bill Jones. And there are places up
there that, if you said you're from Arlington or Springfield, they would just
think you're a hick from Sand Pit, Oklahoma.

     We get this funny idea that we've got Tennessee Temple, we've got
Midwestern, Northwestern, Southeast by Northeast, and Mid-South, and Bob Jones
and Piedmont and Pillsbury and tell 'em that's a big deal. Catholics had more
than that before Bob Jones was born. And so did the liberals.

     The Southern Baptists--any one of their schools, picked out at random.
You take Mercer or Furman or any of those places, is bigger than Bob Jones.

     You take the Baptist schools. The Baptist schools alone in Alabama and
Georgia had more than three times are many students as Tennessee Temple and
Falwell and Bob Jones combined. And people forget that.

     And when I say "major denominational seminary," I mean if you went to any
Southern Baptist Church school, or any Presbyterian church school, or any
Methodist church school, or any Lutheran church school, or any Catholic church
school, every one of them would teach the white horse rider is Jesus Christ.

     And they say, "He goes forth conquering and to conquer." So that's Christ
gradually conquering the earth and bringing in His Kingdom, you see? That's
postmillennialism. That's the teaching that Christ is the King and He's
reigning now, and He's gradually conquering everybody.

     Now, there are some differences between him and the one in Revelation 19
you need to notice, and you can check them when you get time. We'll get to
Revelation 19 in a minute. But the main differences are these. The rider in
Revelation 6 has a crown. The one in Revelation 19 has what? Many crowns! The
one in Revelation chapter 6 has a bow. The one in Revelation 19 has what? A
sword out of his mouth.

     The main thing about it is, the armies of heaven follow the rider in
Revelation 19. The armies of heaven upon white horses follow Christ in
Revelation 19. Now, you know who follows this bird here? Look at Revelation 6,
look at verse 8. Look at what follows him. Revelation 6:8. That isn't Christ.
War, famine, death, and hell follow that fellow.

     All right, chapter 6, verse 2: "a white horse: and he that sat on him had
a bow." Now, a bowman pulls a bow with two fingers, or three--depending upon
the pull. And, for years and years, the Boy Scout oath went like this--which
is a bowman's sign. And it's pulling the bow with the fingers. And you don't
have to use three fingers on a Syrian bow, or an Oriental bow of any kind. The
biggest bow they've got is about a 60-pound pull, and some of them are a 30-
pound pull. And those things would pull with two fingers--this way. And let go
that way. And ever since Nimrod, this has meant kill or attack. That. Only in
a superstitious place like America, where you have these ignorant pagans,
could you ever possibly think that meant peace. I mean, any man who believes
that is dangerous on the street at night. That thing there has never meant
peace.

     Now, look at this. See? You know what that is? That's cancer. Now, when a
guy wants a jigger of whiskey, you know what it is? It's two fingers. That
shot is two fingers. Now, if you think that means peace, you go to Naples or
Salerno and get off the ship, and do that to the first person you meet, and
see how many friends you make.

     Now, why anybody would think that thing meant peace is beyond finding
out. Any of you fellows ever in the Tank Corps? Let me see your hands. Did you
ever get this signal in the Tank Corps? Have you ever seen that signal? What
does that mean? Peace on earth, goodwill to men? That's an attack in the Tank
Corps!

     Any of you fellows in the infantry? Have we got any infantrymen here.
Well, in the infantry, does that mean peace on earth, good will to men? That's
a bayonet attack!

     Now, why would some incredible idiot get up and say that meant peace?
Well, before these peace hippies came along in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, that
thing was a signal for a bayonet attack in World War I. I've got photographs
at home of Hitler's SS, standing up taking the oath. When they stand up and
take the oath, it's that. That's 36-35-37. Now, why would anybody think that
meant peace?

     I've got photographs at home of the Papal Flag being dipped by the Swiss
mercenaries, and the Swiss mercenary bodyguard is taking an oath of allegiance
to the Pope. When they take the oath of allegiance, they touch the Papal Flag
with this hand, and they raise those two just like that.

     Those civil rights fellows that passed civil rights, the senators that
passed the Civil Rights Bill, the greatest Communist doctrine ever seen in
America, you know how many fellows there were who got that thing through?
There were 13 of them. I've got a picture of all 13 of them posed for the
camera--with their fingers like that. I've got a picture of Eisenhower with
his fingers like that. I've got a picture of Nixon with his fingers like that.
I've got a photograph of Roosevelt with his fingers like that. I've got
Winston Churchill with his fingers like that. When Winnie gave it that, he
meant "V", see, for victory. But the victory he's talking about is not peace
on earth, good will to men, it's unconditional surrender by annihilating an
enemy. That thing is an attack. It has never meant anything else. That thing
there means an attack in the military, because it's the picture of a loosed
arrow. And they were using that thing back in 1400 and 1200 in Nimrod's time,
before you had to have an automatic weapon. That thing always means killing.
It doesn't mean anything else.

     Now, the Pope gets up at St. Peter's every now and then. When he gets up
there, he gives them this. See? The sign of the cross. Two fingers. And the
old Catholic, he'll do it with two fingers. And folks say, "Cross my heart,
and hope to die." And they say, "I told a lie, but I had my fingers crossed."
See that thing right there?

     And you get that thing right there, that sign of the cross, that thing
right there, that's the sign of a curse. "Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is
every one that hangeth on a tree." So, if you put yourself under that, you put
yourself under the sign of a curse. That's an X you put yourself under there.
You're crossing yourself.

     All right, when you take that thing right there, when Jack Kennedy went
over to Rome and had his private meeting with Rome, the Pope gave him this.
"The Lord bless you." In four months he was dead in Dallas. And then his
brother went over and had an audience with the Pope--Bobby. And nine months
later Bobby is shot in a hotel lobby. Then Martin Luther Coon went over. And
when he got over there, the Pope said, "The Lord bless you, brother." And in
two months he was dead in Memphis.

     Now, if you don't want to get shot, you'd better stay away from that
bird! I'll tell you, if they put that hex on you, say, "Back off, bud! Don't
you put that stuff on me!" I've got cases back there in my library where he
did that thing to several high muckety-mucks in Europe, like Ferdinands and
Louies and things in the French and German empires--and they were dead in less
than a year, boy! That's the hex.

     QUESTION: Do you think the Pope really carries that power?

     ANSWER: No, but I think the devil will use it. I think the devil will use
it.

     QUESTION: Do you think that they're aware of this?

     ANSWER: No, man! They think that's the most holy sign in the world. Did
you ever see this fellow come up to bat at a World Series, you know? Put
himself under a curse--strike out!

     QUESTION: Do you think the people were aware of this when the Pope did
that to them?

     ANSWER: No, my goodness, no! They thought they were getting a blessing!
Yeah.

     Now, that thing there is the sign of a bowman. So, when I drive down the
street, you know, and come up to the back end of a school bus, and all the
kiddies, you know, wave at you like that, I give 'em this! Gets 'em upset all
day long, you know.

     And you say, "Well, what is this right here?" Well, you fellows in the
infantry, what's this? No, sir, "spread out" is that--that's skirmishers.
Double-time is this, assemble here is this--but not this. That's laying down
the field of fire, brother. That's laying down the field of fire. When you
take that thing like that, what you said is, you've got the right range,
you've got the right azimuth, now put the fire in right there. Automatic
weapon, single shot, artillery, put down the field of fire. It means, kill
'em!

     I mean, overcome evil with good!

     All right, 6:2: "And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on
him had a bow." Notice, no arrows. The reason why he has no arrows is because
this fellow, when he comes in, he comes in peaceably and doesn't make war.
Come to Daniel; back to Daniel. From now on, these books get closer and closer
together; we'll be switching back and forth between them all year from now,
because they augment each other. All right, Daniel chapter 11, verse 21.
Daniel 11:21: "And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they
shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and
obtain the kingdom by flatteries." Verse 24: "He shall enter peaceably even
upon the fattest places of the province." And that isn't all. Another passage
in Daniel says he'll destroy many by peace. Where is that? Daniel 8:25. So his
big thing will be the kiss of peace, instead of the holy kiss. And, "Lord,
make me an instrument of thy peace."

     Daniel chapter 8:25. If you have access to a King James Bible, you have
access to the hidden wisdom of the ancients, brother. I'm telling you, now.
Don't you write to the Rosicrucians! They will waste your time. If you want to
get the hidden wisdom of the lost Atlantis, it's right there on the table in
front of you. Verse 25: "And through his policy also he shall cause craft to
prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify [himself] in his heart, and by peace
shall destroy many." Now, on this "father of peace" here, there's an
interesting character in the Bible. Second Samuel chapter 14. "The entrance of
thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding to the simple." Second Samuel
14:25: "But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom."
What does the "salom" or "shalom" mean, brother? Peace. What is "ab"--"abba"--
mean? Father. Father of peace.

     Ahhhhh! There's our boy!

     "But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for
his beauty..." Ezekiel 28! "...from the sole of his foot even to the crown of
his head there was no blemish in him. And when he polled his head, (for it was
at every year's end that he polled [it]: because [the hair] was heavy on him,
therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred
shekels after the king's weight." How did Absalom die? He got his hair caught
in an oak tree. He's a long-hair. One of the greatest types of Antichrist in
the Bible.

     Chapter 15, verse 2: "And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way
of the gate: and it was [so], that when any man that had a controversy came
to..." Absalom. And Absalom said in verse 4, "Oh that I were made judge in the
land...!" Verse 5: "And...he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed
him." Second Samuel chapter 15, verse 5. In those days, the men did that as a
matter of passing, a matter of formality they did it. And yet, still it's
instructive that it happened to show up in that place. I mean, right there and
the long hair with it, and some other things.

     All right, Second Samuel 18. (You'll have to forgive our uncouth
brethren, some of you folks visiting here tonight. He should have said "gay,"
you know!) Second Samuel 18:18. That's right, brother. Tell it like it is;
they're a bunch of freaks. Anita Bryant is about to get fired for her stand on
it. And she said recently she doesn't care; if it costs that to stand by her
convictions, it's all right with her. I'd give her a raise!

     We're not through here; one more, and we've got to get on it.

     All right, 18:18--six, six, six, six, six, six--six of 'em. "Now Absalom
in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which [is] in
the king's dale." "King's dale" is our word for "vale," "valley." "Tal" in
Deutsch. "Vale" is another spelling. "For he said, I have no son to keep my
name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is
called unto this day, Absalom's place." Remember what happened to Judas when
he died? He "went to his own place." See that thing?

     Isn't that Book put together marvelously, brethren?

     All right, we'll close there for tonight. That's Absalom--that's David's
son. That's his son by a wild, Bedouin tribesman, he's the son of Talme, the
daughter of the king of Geshur. And Geshur is over in Moab, over in Syria, so
he's partly Hamite. He's partly colored.

     All right, back to Revelation 6:2. Now, in this context, John is up in
Heaven. And a Book has been presented that nobody could open. And Christ has
opened the Book. And He is in the passage called the Lamb. And He opens the
Book of seven seals, one seal at a time. And when the first seal is opened,
chapter six, verses 1 and 2, a white horse comes out, represented by this
white horse rider over here in Daniel's seventieth week, with a bow, and the
seal is above him. So the first opens, and out comes a white horse. And we
identify this man here as an Antichrist, an imitation Christ.

     All right, verse 3: "And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the
second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse [that was]
red." Indicated over here on the chart again, where the red horse rider with
the seal, and the sword in his hand.

     "And [power] was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the
earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a
great sword." Then that's a war. Take peace from the earth, and kill one
another. That's a war!

     Now, here's all this talk about "peace on earth, good will to man," and
the "summit conference," and "bringing in peace"--and there's a war coming up!
Now, that's killing going on, and a great sword, and take peace from the earth-
-and that's a war going on after the Rapture.

     All right, there's one war coming on right there. And notice in verse 8,
the fourth part of the earth killed with the sword--some more war there, at
least a lot of killing going on. Now, there are two of them mentioned there
before the Rapture. And then coming on down through Revelation, turn to
Revelation 19, and Revelation 19, verse 15, there's another one there.
Revelation 19, verse 15--that's Armageddon. Revelation 19:15, where Christ
comes back with His armies and attacks the Gentile nations. There's the next
one. And then turn to Revelation chapter 20, and Revelation chapter 20, verses
8 and 9--there's the next one. Now those are worldwide military conflicts. One
at the end of the Tribulation--which is Armageddon; one at the end of the
Millennium--which is Gog and Magog. And then the one here after the Rapture.

     So, there are going to be at least three more world wars. There's World
War I, there's World War II, there's World War III, World War IV, and World
War V, coming up.

     So these fellows talking about "peace conference" and "summit
conference," "SALT," "PACT" treaties, unilateral disarmament--why, they're a
bunch of madmen. The three biggest wars are yet in the future--they're not in
the past. Armageddon and Gog and Magog are going to make World War II, you
know, look like a couple of kids wrestling in the back yard. That thing's
going to go into three world wars.

     So, the forecast, if you're a prophet of God--"despise not prophesyings"--
who knows the Book and doesn't quench the Spirit, is, "The bigger and best
wars are just around the corner!" I mean, you talk like that, and you upset
folks so bad, they get all nervous and upset, you know: "I don't think you
ought to joke about it..."

     Awww, shut your cotton-pickin' mouth! I mean, why try to lie through it
and then act pious? Why try to lie through it and talk about peace, peace,
peace, love, peace, love, peace, love, peace, when you are a liar and then get
to talking pious. Well, if you're a liar, you're not very pious. See?

     So, the three big wars are just ahead.

     So, if I'm going to give anybody advice, and the Lord's going to tarry, I
would say, get all the guns and ammunition you can get--is what I would say.
And keep your powder dry and, when the time comes, pray for a chance to shoot.

     Mark Revelation 6 World War III, and Revelation 19 World War IV, and
Revelation 20 World War V. It looks like, until this one here, the wars will
be local--they won't be worldwide. They'll be like Pakistan and Bangladesh and
Vietnam and Korea and all those kind of places. I don't always hit it in the
head; I get intimation of things; they don't always come to pass. I thought in
July 4, 1976, I thought this country was going to blow clean apart at the
seams. And I found later on it had been planned, but that it had miscarried.
And I'm glad it did.

     But, if I was going to guess where a war was going to be, I would say
Turkey. But I've been saying that for a long time, and haven't blown it yet.
But they've got the fleet messing around over there, and Gary Powers got in
trouble over there, and the reserve officers that I have contact with are
studying ballistics and stuff on Turkey, and they've got the maps out, and
they've got the train all sitting right there with the benchmarks on them and
everything else. They're not doing that, you know, just to play games.

     The war in chapter 6 is immediately following the Rapture.

     Now, the problem is, Russia is going to come down through Turkey and
attack Palestine, Ezekiel 38 and 39. That's in there. The problem is, when?
And the Scofield notes say it's Armageddon. But it says "Gog and Magog" in
Ezekiel, and Gog and Magog in Revelation is Revelation 20--not Armageddon. And
James McGinley taught it was a way before the Rapture. James McGinley taught
that Russia would attack Palestine before the Rapture. And maybe they will.
But I'm not sure about the placement of those things. All I know is, we always
fight the wrong people. The last person to get into a war with is a bunch of
Turks. That's the last bunch, man. I mean, the last bunch to get into it with
is that bunch--that's the wrong bunch! We always get the wrong bunch.

     We always find Germans, you know--or Turks, or Japanese. That's a good
way to get killed, man! It seems like you'd pick somebody stupid and dumb once
in a while. Japan and Germany are the two most literate countries in the
world, man! A Japanese soldier--that bird would get down on a trail, and he'd
get down in a two-man foxhole, and pull a dead body over that thing. And it
would stink so bad you had to put a handkerchief over your nose to walk within
30 feet of that thing--and he'd stay under that thing for a day and a night,
with his dried rice and his dried fish, with a machine gun in there. Your
troops would come by and make a detour around that thing, and go down the
trail. He'd come up, set that thing up, get in there and find your troops and
mow you down, boy! Soldiers, boy. Soldiers! That's the wrong bunch to mess
with!

     We pick the wrong enemies all the time.

     QUESTION: Would this third world war, would that be due to religion, or
political power, or would it be due to famine?

     ANSWER: This third? I don't know, because the famine doesn't come until
later. The famine doesn't come until verse 6, after it's over.

     All right, verse 5: "And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the
third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that
sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand." Now, that's a weighing
machine, a scale. A pair of balances in his hand.

     "And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of
wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou
hurt not the oil and the wine." Now, that's an enigmatical verse. It's hard to
understand; a lot of things about; explanations on it. Herodotus said it's now
the daily wage of a soldier. Most people prove it's paying an exhorbitant
price for a small amount of food. So, it's inflation.

     And then when you get to where it says "see thou hurt not the oil and the
wine" then the problem comes up, what does that represent? Literal oil?
Literal wine? And the commentaries say it means, don't fool with the rich
folks; the rich folks are safe. Well, if they are rich, they got rich off oil,
and they got rich off wine. The richest outfit in the world is the Vatican--
and they make their money off liquor. They own 60 percent of the Miller's
Brewing Company, and they have Christian distilleries out in California.
They're the only church that has never opposed the liquor traffic. And never
will.

     Now, I can't explain all that stuff, because I've read all kinds of
commentaries on it, and all I could tell you is what I get from it generally.
I get it generally that it's inflation, and they're paying here for what they
normally would pay for for an exhorbitant price, and evidently "see thou hurt
not the oil and wine"--I don't like to spiritualize. I've heard them say the
oil is the Holy Spirit, and the wine is a type of the blood of Christ. But I
don't think that's in the context. I think that has something to do with the
wine traffic and the oil traffic getting through the Tribulation, because it's
the income for rich folks. In the Tribulation, if you're rich, you're unsaved;
and if you're saved, you're poor.

     Now, write down some references here. And when you get home, I want to
have you study these things. I want to have you notice that in these
references, how there's going to come a time in this earth, when if a man is
saved, he has to be poor. And if he's rich, he's damned. Now, those passages
are in James chapter 2, and James chapter 4. And James chapter 5, verses 1 to
9. And the other passages are in Matthew chapter 25, and it'll be in verse 31
to verse 42, along in there. And then especially in Job, which is a type of
the Tribulation. It's taken for granted that if a man's rich here in Job, he's
ruined; and if he's poor, he's all right. And this is also taken for granted
in some of the Proverbs. In Job 24, verse 1--the whole chapter. All of Job 24.
And Job chapter 22, verse 1 to 19. And Job 21, verse 1 to 15.

     Now, I don't have the references marked in Proverbs, but how many times
have you seen in the book of Proverbs, "the rich doeth this, but the poor so
and so"? And, "the rich man something in all his ways, but poor comes and
searches them out." Did you ever find that thing in Proverbs? Did you ever get
to reading in the Psalms and see this poor man crying, and the Lord heard him--
"I am poor and needy"? "They boast themselves in their wealth, but I am poor
and needy...The Lord hath thought upon me...The Lord hath respect to the poor
and lowly," all that kind of business? Now all that business is aimed at a
time on this earth when, in order to get by, you'll have to take the mark. And
if you don't take the mark of the Beast, you'll starve. You'll starve.

     I'm illustrating the Book of Revelation at home--or trying to. I'm trying
to do it on canvas, oil paintings, acrylic paintings. I've only got 27 of them
done; and I've got to do 100 to get them done, so I'm about a fourth of the
way through. But that thing there, I've got a picture there for this verse on
the mark of the Beast; I show an alley with a woman there dying, and the baby
already dead, and the little boy starving there, and some skeletons lying
around. And that picture would be there, would be on a slide put up there,
where it says, "No man might buy or sell, save he had the mark of the beast,
or the number of his name," see? So, in the Tribulation, you can't be rich and
be saved; there isn't any way to do it. You can't get hold of the oil and the
wine unless you take the mark, and then you're ruined.

     Now, I don't want to apply it to this age, although sometimes I've
wondered about it. And when I try to get money to publish some of my books, I
wonder if it's possible to be rich and be dedicated at the same time.

     But people who have money today, you know what they do? They put all
their money in grass and hallways and buildings and bathing lots. And it seems
like the richer you get, the more you attract them.

     If I were a rich man and had me a little money, it seems to me I'd look
around for a poor bunch of folks that needed help, and try to help them out.

     But evidently it takes money to get money. And these rich folks seem to
delight in pouring the money in places like the Oral Roberts University--which
is about a $75 million plant. Or pouring it into Falwell, you know--"We need
ten million this year." Brother Horton downtown here says, "We can finish out
our plan with ten million."

     I guess you could! That wouldn't crimp your style any, you know.

     People seem to be, you know, anxious to dump into stuff like that. And
yet there are works in the country and overseas that need help a lot more than
that.

     So, when this age ends, you're seeing a heading up. And when this age
ends, you're going to see where it's getting harder and harder to be rich and
be godly. The Bible says supposing that gain is godliness, from such withdraw
thyself.

     Now, I'm not saying you can't do it. And I'm not saying I hope you won't.
I mean, I hope you all become millionaires. Really! I hope you do.

     But you're going to find its rather difficult. And it's going to be
difficult because, if the Antichrist prepares and tunes up the orchestra and
sets the stage, the federal government is going to keep getting in there and
getting a hold on this and a hold on that and a hold on this and hold on that,
to cut down here, and to cut down and cut down and cut down, to where you'll
have to do something crooked to get your hands on the money. And, boy, they're
working at it!

     Brother Lance or someone back there just told me the government bought
out the largest warehouse, or storehouse, or something, where a bunch of
apricot seeds in southern Florida were stored, as soon as that law was passed.
Now, the newspapers are always left-wing Communists. So the newspapers gave
you to believe that this great victory for Latrelle had been accomplished by
the fact that you can now get it through your doctor legally. That isn't a
victory; that's a defeat. That's saying that what you could have grown in your
own backyard and eating for your own health that you wanted to use, is now a
federal crime, and that you have to pay the exhorbitant prices from a doctor
to get it. And, he will give you something else, but it isn't it, but he'll
pretend it's it, and still charge you the bill.

     Now, while all that stuff is going on, they're talking about federalizing
medicine and socializing medicine because of these high prices, they had a
chance there to do something real cheap and muffed it. That crazy stuff going
on!

     You get that going where, in order to be rich, you've got to do certain
things. Now, for example, I'm going to be as real brief as I can. Suppose I
want to get Job printed--it's been written for three years and isn't printed
yet. Suppose I want to get Acts printed--it's been written for five years, and
hasn't got a good copy yet. One time Pulaski didn't have any ink on the page,
and they printed half those pages. All right, suppose I want to get that stuff
out. Suppose I want to put out this 150-page color cartoon book; I've already
done the pictures; it isn't out. I've done the text--it isn't out. Now,
suppose I want to get this stuff done.

     Now, if I want to get this stuff done, what I do is go up and down this
country, and instead of getting in these pastors meetings, I get up there and
talk about my need for my books. Now, I've got the names and addresses of
their ten richest members by telephoning them while I'm at the church, and
then write them back letters and get them to send me in the money. And I try
to help a few of them make out their wills to me, when they die, you know,
print these books.

     And then I get out there and I finally offer this offer where, if you'll
send me $10,000 this month, I'll send you a zip code number off the back of a
tract that led 10 people to Christ--you know, that kind of business. Or,
"We'll sell you a square foot of ground out on the gulf power line out there,"
you know. You know what I mean, jellybean? I mean, did you ever hear that
stuff before?

     Now, that's how you get the money. And that's how they get it. They get
it like that. And if there are any of them that don't get it like that, I
don't know exactly who they are. I think probably the ones I listen to the
most, I believe Pastor Roloff's the most honest in getting the money. Of
course, he'll put a lot on you, but he'll tell you straight out. I mean, he'll
tell you, "We need so much, we've got to have this and that. Here's what we
need. Shell out!" Which is a pretty honest way of putting it.

     QUESTION: Suppose you charge more for your books?

     ANSWER: Yeah, well then the problem then comes, how to you get them sold?

     QUESTION: What about Larkin?

     ANSWER: Yeah, but Larkin is a leaker. Larkin's book leaks out one copy
per month for 20 years, and gets stolen, borrowed, and hidden in peculiar
places. It's a bomb. And you go in a pastor's office, and he'll have it hidden
under a pile of stuff where he's rather ashamed that you caught him with it.
How many of you have ever seen that? Let me see your hands? One, two--see, I'm
not just talkin'.

     There are some things I know nothing about, but I believe I know how
these things go. The books I print are leakers; they leak out about one or two
a day, or one or two a week. They get underground, hand to hand. How many of
you ever loaned out a copy of one of my books you never got back? Let me see
your hands. Twenty-eight. You never will, either!

     And that guy that got it from you, don't feel bad about him, because he
just lost it too. And he loaned it out, and he didn't get it back!

     And those things, they move under the current. And because of that,
they'll never sell a whole lot, and there'll never be enough money to put them
out in volume, and because of that there will probably never be enough money
to reprint them when they're out of print.

     I go up to a meeting, and a fellow says, "When are you going to get out
your book?" And I try to be polite, but the last year or so my patience gets
thinner and thinner. "When are you going to put out the book?"

     I feel like saying, "When you send us $100,000, we'll have it right ready
for you, brother. Send it; I'll take a check this time."

     I don't want to talk like that, but I'm getting to where I'm going to
talk that way. I just get sick and tired of it.

     I come off that plane up in Knoxville, and as they're driving me from the
airport, "Well, Brother Ruckman, when will we get the Book of Job."

     "Well, when the moon turns to blood and the sun turns to ashes, the
grateful, dreadful day of the Lord has come, brother!"

     Now, if you want to get that money, I know how to get that money. I know
exactly how to get that money. Instead of spending my time taping and painting
pictures and writing books and raising a family, I'll spend my time over at So
and So's house, drinking coffee and eating cake. And playing tennis with him
and golf with him on the weekend.

     I know how to get the money. I know how to get it. I just ain't gonna get
it!

     Sometimes it isn't apparent, see? You take a guy like Swaggart. He'll get
on the radio, you know, and sing, "He'll come dowwn from the skies, and wipe
your tears, oh yes He will," you know. And he'll come off on that soft, slick,
modern, smooth, soft, polished, soft stuff, you know--just draining every dime
they got, man, just hand over fist. And somebody said, "Well, he's doing
nothing wrong to get it." Yeah, I'll tell you what he's doing wrong! He's not
saying one-fifth of what any God-called preacher is called to say! I'll tell
you something else. He isn't gonna, either. Hasn't got the guts to. You know
why he doesn't? It would cost him his broadcast, that's why.

     All right, verse 7: "And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the
voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale
horse." Pale in the sense of, it's a pale green. It's a pale orange-green, a
sickly color--like a rotten Easter egg. And that one up there is a little too
bright green for him; it's a paler color than that. It's a toad-frog green.

     "Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that
sat on him was Death." That's death personified. That's probably the angel of
the bottomless pit, called Abaddon or Destruction in Revelation chapter 9. And
the devil has the power of death, and that death is delegated to an angel in
the Book of Exodus--called the Death Angel.

     "And his name that sat on him was Death." This is a horror story you're
reading here! You get Death running around, and Hell coming out after him, and
then you get beings come up from the bottomless pit, then you get the moon
turning into blood and it raining fire, and you turn on your faucet in the
bathroom and blood comes out of it, you got a sure-enough Alfred Hitchcock
thriller! And what's going on, see, is now again the Devil is preparing
everybody for this by putting all this stuff out, to where they get used to
seeing it just as fiction, see? So, when they pick up their Bible, they won't
believe what they read. "Oh, that's good science fiction." But this isn't
science fiction. This is science! The rest is fiction. The rest is fiction.
And so the Devil is conditioning you for that kind of thing.

     "And his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."
"And Hell followed with him"--there's Hell personified, spoken of as a person,
an individual--capital "H". Now, it can only mean one of two things. It means
that the Death Angel in charge of the bottomless pit is the first one, and
some angel in charge of Hell is the second one. Or else it means that, during
the Tribulation, Hell opens up and something comes out of it and runs around
on this earth. And they're called dragons--plural--in Isaiah. And they're
called satyrs in Isaiah chapter 34, which indicates a half-man, half-animal.
In Revelation 9, they're said to be a combination of horse, lion, man and
woman together. And when the horses come out and start across the Euphrates,
they're said to be a combination of horse, lion, and serpent. So those things
are mongrel-mutations of man and beast in the state of decomposition or
degeneration, or some mismatch, or something.

     And all this werewolf, Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf Man, Jeckyl-Hide,
mummy, happy little monsters--all this stuff is the warm-up for that. I was
amazed when I heard these fellows give their testimonies this year, how many
of them got under conviction or got upset by fooling around with the Book of
Revelation. And that's what made up my mind, I got my mind settled that if
Disneyland isn't going to do something with it, I'm going to do something with
it, whether I'm equipped to do it or not. Because, it seems like--I heard it
last year, I heard maybe two or three of them last year, five or six of them
this year--it seems like, as this thing gets closer and closer and closer,
that Book of Revelation is getting a stronger factor in bringing a sinner
under conviction than John 3:16. And maybe the reason why is because in the
newspaper, in the 10 o'clock newscast, you kind of get the sneaking suspicion
that maybe it's coming.

     Like a fellow said, the nearest thing to hellfire preaching these days is
the ten o'clock newscast.

     All right, so I don't know exactly what's involved here, but have you
ever heard folks say, "All hell broke loose"? Ever hear folks say, "I'm going
to get this done in spite of hell or high water"? Well, the high water is in
Revelation chapter 12, and Hell comes out here.

     All right, 6:8: "And his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell
followed with him." Now, if a fellow is unsaved and goes into the Tribulation,
he really goes into it. Now, before we get through with this Book, you'll see
what he gets into. He gets into a thing where, when he walks out in the
street, or gets outside a house, there are locusts as big as your hand, biting
him. There's a sun in so close that you're getting second-degree burns just
being outdoor five or six minutes. And the population is on drugs. The whole
earth is in a federal drug program, and all drugged up, and running around
half crazy. And then through that thing are fallen angels, probably numbering
in the several million because a third of them come down--several million. And
then through that thing ten U.F.O. humanoids from outer space, out of iron
that run in a hydrogen cycle, producing giants. And then through that thing,
the Devil in an absolute military dictatorship.

     And then you go take a bath and turn on the shower, and blood comes out
of the shower.

     Now, that's the wrong place to be, brother! I mean, if you're going to
make this world a better place to live in, you're on the wrong track, brother.
You better switch and get on the main line.

     "And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill
with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the
earth." Kill with the sword--indicating violent death. With hunger--
starvation. Death--indicating pestilence, disease. And with the what? The
birds go rabid! "The Birds", I believe Hitchcock says. Then the dogs and cats
go rabid, like the last movie they have coming in. Now did you see "Jaws",
where it comes in? Comes in like that. You get on a thing there where the
beasts turn on man; they all revolt and they go mad. You think about going out
there on the street with a rabid dogs and rabid squirrels and rabbits, and
rats, running all over the place. Any one of them would give you hydrophobia.

     And, lookie here. "The fourth part." What is the population? About three
billion now? Four billion? OK, there's a billion dead people right there
before the Tribulation hardly gets started. There's a billion of them dead,
man! A billion! That's more than five times as many casualties as World War
II. World War II wasn't anything. That was just a dress rehearsal.

     So, this is your fourth horseman. And so these are known, in the School
of Our Lady of Notre Dame, they're called the Four Horsemen. In the backfield
of Notre Dame, they're called the Four Horsemen. I don't make any of them
figurative; I make all of them literal. I don't know why they do that; I'd
make all of them literal.

     There are horses in the Battle of Armageddon, and there are horses that
come across the Euphrates, and there are horses that come up out of the pit.

     Now, I say that Hell personified might be an angel in charge of Hell
because there's evidently an angel in charge of the bottomless pit, and he's
given; and there are four angels in charge of the Euphrates River, and they're
given; and Michael the Archangel is in charge of Israel, and he's given.
Therefore, it could logically be that there's an angel in charge of hell.

      9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls
of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they
held: 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and
true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the
earth? 11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said
unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their
fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they [were],
should be fulfilled. 12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and,
lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of
hair, and the moon became as blood; 13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the
earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a
mighty wind. 14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled
together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15 And
the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief
captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid
themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the
mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth
on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his
wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?


     In Revelation chapter 6 now, we've talked about the seven-sealed Book
that's opened, and the Lord's been opening the seals one at a time, and He's
opened four seals. And each time a seal is open, John has seen a horse rider
here, different. And by the time he gets to this fourth seal, I've got you
four years in the Tribulation. Now, I'm not sure of the placement of all these
seals, but we do know that Daniel's Seventieth Week is seven years. So, for
convenience' sake, I've just put one seal for the first year, the second seal
for the second year, a seal for the third year, and the fourth seal for the
fourth year.

     Now, when I get to the fourth seal, I'm in the fourth year, and the
fourth year puts you right smack in the middle of Daniel's Seventieth Week. If
Daniel's Seventieth Week runs seven years, then the middle point is three-and-
a-half. And three-and-a-half is right in the middle of four. So Death and Hell
come out there at the beginning of that fourth year, and then right on in that
thing, you're coming to a time when the Antichrist will be at Jerusalem as the
Son of Perdition. And that explains what you're about ready to read. Because
you're about ready to read verse 9, the fifth seal, and when that fifth seal
opens up, you've got a bunch of people that are killed--they've been martyred,
and they've had their heads cut off. And so, on that chart over there, you'll
find right at the end of that fourth year, an axman up there with an ax over
his head, and somebody with a chopping block, and heads rolling off the block
there, at the beginning of that fifth year.

     And then right down below that fifth year, you'll see a bunch of figures
down there with their hands raised up in the air, and that's what you're going
to read about here now.

     All right, Revelation 6, verse 9: "And when he had opened the fifth
seal." Number of death. "And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under
the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the
testimony which they held." Now, those are martyrs. They've been slain for the
word of God and the testimony that they held, and they've been slain at an
altar. "I saw under the altar."

     Now, the method of their death is described in Revelation 20. So, turn to
Revelation 20, and notice that they have a certain kind of death. Revelation
chapter 20, Revelation chapter 20, verse 4. They're not shot, and they're not
stabbed. They're decapitated. Revelation 20. Turn to Revelation 20, and look
at verse 4, and notice the way these people die. Revelation 20, verse 4: "And
I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and
[I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for
the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image."

     So this thing takes place right in the middle of Daniel's Seventieth
Week. And in the middle of Daniel's Seventieth Week, the Antichrist comes down
and sets up, and he demands worship. And when they don't worship him and don't
take the mark, they get their heads cut off. And they get their heads cut off
at an altar.

     Then the future form of capital punishment will be decapitation. It will
not be like electrocution. They're not going to get in the hot seat. And
they're not going to hang them. And they're not going to shoot them. They're
going to cut off their heads.

     That's one of the most primitive methods of killing, and it'll come back
in. Darwin is all wrong. What you're getting ready to read right now here is
people sacrificed at an altar, and their heads cut off, and their blood drunk
as part of a Sunday morning worship.

     I always thought that decapitation was real quick. But a guy told me that
in the French Revolution, that there were cases where after the head was cut
off, the guy would speak to the head, and the head would look at it, and blink
its eyes, and try to move its mouth and say something--after the head was cut
off!

     I've been painting the Book of Revelation at home, and I've got a mass
execution device where they're going up a platform, and the platform is a big
long thing with two pieces of metal that make a yoke, like a New England stock
you put your head in, and it accommodates fifty of them at one time. Then you
get a blade above that thing like a straight-edged razor, that goes up on
pneumatic jacks, and comes back down and they drop them in a chute off down in
a river.

     Let's go to Leviticus now, and let me show you something about the altar
and head. Now, I'm in favor of a whipping post. I think that, for rape, you
shouldn't send a guy to jail at all. I think for rape you ought to have a
public whipping post and have the husband or the brother or the son or the
father take the guy and give him ten with a bull whip, right out there at
Halifax and Gregory at twelve o'clock noon. I think that acts as a great
reformatory deterrent to bring to a closer ethnic cohesion the cultural
aspects of the communicative dialogue.

     All right, Leviticus chapter 1 now. Now, we're talking about somebody
killed in an altar, and they have their head cut off. Leviticus chapter 1.
Now, Leviticus is the great book on offerings at the altar. And here are these
offerings coming in, Leviticus 1 and 3, and they're offered at the tabernacle.
Verse 5, kill a bullock before the Lord. Verse 6, "flay the burnt offering and
cut it into his pieces." Verse 8: "And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay
the parts {comma}, the head {comma}, and the fat, in order upon the wood that
[is] on the fire which [is] upon the altar." Verse 9: "burn on the altar."
Verse 12: "He shall cut into his pieces with his head and fat." Verse 15:
"Ring off his head." See that thing? Every one of those offerings made there
at the altar is decapitated. And the pigeons and the birds, of course, have
their heads wrung off them.

     All right, now that thing is offered there at the altar there, and
sacrificed to the Lord. They're forbidden to take of the blood of that
sacrifice. Look at Leviticus 17. And, in Leviticus 17, notice that they
absolutely refuse to take that blood. Leviticus 17, verse 11. I'll begin at
verse 10. This is the Book on Levitical offerings. Leviticus 17:10: "And
whatsoever man [there be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that
sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face
against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his
people.  For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have given it to
you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it [is] the blood
[that] maketh an atonement for the soul." Now, that blood at the altar is made
an atonement for your soul. It is not to be drunk.

     But somebody is drinking it!

     Turn to Psalm 16, right in the middle of your Bible. Somebody is drinking
it! Psalm 16. Somebody believes in drinking literal blood as part of the
worship service. Psalm 16, verse 4, right in the middle of your Bible. Cut the
deck, and you're right in the Psalms. Psalm 16, verse 4: "Their sorrows shall
be multiplied [that] hasten [after] another [god]..." watch it: "their drink
offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips."

     Deuteronomy chapter 32, fifth book in your Bible. Deuteronomy 32.
Scripture with Scripture. Deuteronomy 32. "The entrance of thy words giveth
light; it giveth understanding to the simple." Deuteronomy chapter 32.
Deuteronomy chapter 32, verse 31. Now, here we go again, you see. I'm not
doing this intentionally, but I'm talking about a bunch of people who are
beheaded at the altar and their blood is being drunk. Now, what are you going
to do? You know who you're going to run into, don't you? You can't get around
it, man! I mean, if you put out the truth, you're going to hit a liar head-on
ever time you move, man! Now, watch it here. Deuteronomy 32:31: "For their
rock {small "r"} [is] not as our Rock." Now, what is that, man? I didn't write
that! Don't you get mad at me! Don't you get mad at me! Anti-Catholic? Man,
I'm not anti-Catholic! That's what's anti-Catholic. That thing right there,
boy!

     One of those priests told one of his fellows, "You can buy any version of
the Bible; they're all good, except for the King James!" "Their rock [is] not
as our Rock, even our enemies themselves [being] judges." If you had the enemy
right there, he'd bear witness; they're not the same.

     Who is your Rock? Who is their rock? All right, that's all there is to
that. It isn't a matter of anybody's belief; it's a matter of their
profession. That's what they profess; that's what you profess.

     Verse 32: "For their vine..." there's a vine tree "...[is] of the vine of
Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their
clusters [are] bitter:  Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel
venom of asps.  [Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed up among
my treasures?" Second Advent, verse 35. Verse 38: "...wine of their drink
offerings?"

     All right, Isaiah 6. And then we'll finally go back to Revelation. The
Book of Revelation opens up the Old Testament. Isaiah 6. Verse 9. Isaiah 6:9.
Now here you have the rejection of Christ by the Israelites, quoted in the New
Testament in the Book of Acts. Then you've got the Church Age. Then you have
the Tribulation. And then we have the drink offering of blood. Verse 9: "And
he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see
ye indeed, but perceive not." Do any of you have a cross reference to that in
the New Testament? All right, Matthew 13. Where else? Mark 4. All right, now
this is talking about the rejection of Christ in the New Testament by Israel.
"Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their
eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand
with their heart, and convert, and be healed." Has anybody got a New Testament
reference? There you go, Acts 28.

     All right, so those passages there in verse 9 and verse 10 are talking
about the rejection of Christ at His first coming. Now, here's where we come
in. Verse 11. Isaiah 6:11: "Then said I, Lord, how long?" How long the Church
Age? "And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant,..." my,
my! "...and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, And the
LORD have removed men far away, and [there be] a great forsaking in the midst
of the land." He told Isaiah to get out there and preach. He said, "How long?"
He said, "You preach until there's nothing left but a wreck. You preach until
there's nothing left but a bombed out city."

     Verse 13--and look out for the 13! "But yet in it {the land} [shall be] a
tenth, and [it] {the tenth} shall return, and shall be eaten." Is that clear?
"As a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance [is] in them, when they cast
[their leaves..." What's he talking about? "so] the holy seed [shall be] the
substance thereof." All right, let's try cannibals for 15 verses. That's
Israel--that's a tenth of Israel going back. And that's probably what that
"tithe" is connected with.

     All right, Amos chapter 5, verse 3--now we'll find out if you've been
reading the Bible. Amos 5, verse 3. When you find Amos, raise your hand. Amos
5:3. Some of you are a little slow, there! Amos 5:3. Some of you had better
look it up in the index! Amos 5:3: "For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that
went out [by] a thousand shall leave an hundred,..." that's a tenth "...and
that which went forth [by] an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of
Israel."

     All right, Isaiah 66:3. Isaiah 66:3. Isaiah 66:3: "He that killeth an ox
[is as if] he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, [as if] he cut off a
dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, [as if he offered] swine's blood; he
that burneth incense, [as if] he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their
own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations."

     Jeremiah 10:25. Jeremiah 10:25: "Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that
know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have
eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his
habitation desolate." You say it's just figurative. It might be figurative
without the other references, but with the other references it gets pretty
ominous!

     You see a little thing like that stuck in there, and you know it's stuck
in there for a purpose. There isn't any point in saying it, see? He's always
doing stuff like that!

     All right, Jeremiah 51, verse 34. Jeremiah 51, verse 34. Jeremiah 51:34:
"Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he
hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon." That's
that thing sitting there.

     Psalm 53:4. Now the coming thing is cannibalism. That's the coming thing.
Psalm 53:4. Psalm 53:4: "Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up
my people [as] they eat bread." How do you eat bread? Well, that's how they're
eating His people! Like bread! There it is!

     All right, back to Revelation chapter 6. So, what you've got in the
Tribulation is, you've got an altar at Jerusalem in the Temple, and you have
the Antichrist in the Temple, 2 Thessalonians 2, sitting down, showing himself
that he is God, and he is offering sacrifice outside on the altar, and the
offering outside is human sacrifice, and they're being decapitated, and the
blood is coming out of the corpse into a glass, a golden goblet, and that's
being raised up in the air--"Pro!" "Sco!" "Cheers!" and all that--and then
drunk.

     Let's see if I've got this right. Turn to Revelation chapter 17. Here we
go again. I don't know how you can get away from it. Revelation 17, verse 6:
"And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood
of the martyrs of Jesus." Now, let's try it again. Revelation chapter 19.
Revelation 19:2: "For true and righteous [are] his judgments: for he hath
judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and
hath avenged the blood of his servants." All right, Revelation chapter 16. I
want a verse that says, "You've given them blood to drink, and they are worthy
to drink blood..." What is it? Revelation 16:6--there you go. Chapter 16,
begin at verse 5: "Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt
be, because thou hast judged thus.  For they have shed the blood of saints and
prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink." There it is.

     All right, Revelation chapter 6. Now, you say, "How come I can read
Pentecost's Things to Come and Larkin's Things to Come and Newell and
Pettingill and Scofield and McClain and can't find this stuff?" Because, as
soon as a man sets in judgment on the King James text and thinks he's smart
enough to correct it, he loses the chain reference and he can't find the
stuff.

     Now, you watch what happens to Africa when they drive the white man out.
You watch all this talk about this "white minority rule"--crazy newspapers,
just as nutty as a fruitcake, man! The newspaper talking about this "terrible
white minority rule." Why, the minority ruled out there at the rebel high
schools playing "dixie"! The black minority decided to have them change the
name of the school and change the school song. And they did! Right here in
town! Here's a paper hollering about, "Oh, this white minority. White
minority! White minority!" Listen, man, when the white minority leaves Africa,
you know what those folks will start doing? They'll start eating each other!
That's what they were doing when we picked them up!

     Back after World War I, a British major was talking with some bumba-gumba
Mohammed Ali down their in South Africa, and he was talking to this British
major through an interpreter. He said, "How many people did you kill in that
war?"

     And he said, "Six million."

     And he said, "Did they taste good?"

     And the major said, "My God! No, man, we didn't eat them!"

     And the cannibal said, "What'd you kill them for then?"

     There's a practical side to it, you know!

     I mean, a cannibal can't understand why you'd kill somebody just to kill
them. I mean, if you don't have a need, you know.

     I don't know what a fellow might do. Now, I'm saved, so I'm counting on
the Holy Spirit and the grace of God to get me through, dead or alive. But,
then again, you don't know. I mean, down in the hold of that ship where the
Bataan Death March survivors were shipped over to Formosa and the South Seas;
there were boys there with high school educations; they were afraid to touch
each other in the dark in the hold of that ship because they were killing each
other and drinking each other's blood. They had been put down in the hold of
that ship and left down there for three and four days without water. And you
don't know what you might do if you went three or four days without water.

     All right, Revelation 6:9. "And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw
under the altar." Notice it's the altar--not an altar--the. It's the alter of
sacrifice. "The souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the
testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice." Now, there's a
revelation; look at that. A soul has a voice. Notice in verse 9 you can see a
soul. Notice in verse 11 a soul can wear a white robe. Your soul, therefore,
is not something like a peanut or a croquet ball or a golf ball stuck 'way in
your body someplace. Your soul has a bodily shape. The rich man in hell lifted
up his eyes, being in torments, and said, "Send Lazarus, that he may dip his
finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame."

     Cool my tongue? Just recently, the scientists have got photographs, some
pretty little colored pictures of people with bodies, and a little purple ray
and yellow ray around them, and green and red, and the lights went off and on,
and came up when they touched and necked and so forth and so on. And they
suddenly got this idea, why, man evidently has some kind of a shape there,
kind of a shape you can't see that isn't physical. Well, we could have told
them that in 1611 if they had listened. But they never listen. Once in a
while, they catch up with the King James. Once in a while they don't.

     If you had an arm here, and you had this arm amputated, or a hand
amputated, a couple of months later you'd tell your wife or your mother, "My
fingers itch." And you wouldn't have any hand for your fingers to itch on! And
you would go to the doctor and say, "My hand bothers me at night." And he
would say, "It's the nerve endings," see? They've got all kind of ways to work
it out.

     Now, in the Bible, you have a body just like this one inside this body
here. Those old Rosicrucians call it an "astral body." And the psychiatrists
call it an "ego." In the Bible, it's a body--shaped just like this. It has
head, it has fingers, eyes, ears, nose, throat, mouth, stomach, back, ankles,
knees--all the rest of it.

     And when you die, that thing steps out, and that thing goes up or it goes
down. If it goes down, it burns. And if it burns, it'll burn forever. It can't
burn up because it isn't physical.

     Now, if that soul had a white robe given to it, out of fine linen, and
came through that door, you'd think you were looking at Casper the Friendly
Ghost. Because, if you tore that sheet off, there'd be nothing there. So, they
always draw the ghost in a white sheet.

     All right, verse 10: "And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long,
O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that
dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it
was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season,..." Three-
and-a-half more years. "Until their fellowservants also and their
brethren,..." Notice this: "That should be killed as they [were]." See? It's a
particular kind of death. It's decapitation for not taking the Antichrist's
mark. "That should be killed as they [were], should be fulfilled."

     All right, come to Revelation chapter 13, and see what's going on.
Revelation chapter 13, verse 12. "And he exerciseth all the power of the first
beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to
worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed." Verse 15: "And he had
power to give life unto the image of the beast." Now, your modern computer is
coming down that way, to where it carries on a conversation with you and
thinks and talks and has a memory filing system. And the big computer over in
Belgium is called The Beast. "And he had power to give life unto the image of
the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak,..." now, watch it:
"and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be
killed." There it is.

     So, for three-and-a-half years, people are going to get killed for not
worshipping the image of the Beast. And when they are getting killed in
Jerusalem, they are at the altar of the Temple in Jerusalem, and their heads
are cut off on that altar, and their blood is drunk.

     All right, Revelation 6:12. This comes down to the next to the last year
in the Tribulation. Revelation 6:12: "And I beheld when he had opened the
sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as
sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood." And indeed this phenomenon
is mentioned throughout the Old Testament, especially in Joel 2.

     "And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth
her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." Now, the "stars of
heaven" as it stands, could be something like meteorites or comets. But, much
more likely, they're angels. And this is by definition. Turn to Revelation
chapter 1, and notice how the Bible defines a star, not as always something
like a sun, but an angel. Revelation chapter 1, verse 20. Revelation chapter
1, verse 20, and look at about the middle of the verse. Now, this is a
definition for a star. Somebody said, "If the stars fell to the earth, they'd
burn it up!" They say, "If the sun fell to the earth, it'd burn it up!" These
stars aren't like the sun. Revelation 1, verse 20, in the middle of the verse:
"The seven stars are the angels." So, in the Bible, a star is sometimes called
an angel. And I pointed out to you, out in the "City of the Angels," they call
them "stars." Los Angeles.

     Now, come to Revelation chapter 12, and notice that, if they are angels
coming down, it's mentioned specifically. Revelation chapter 12, verse 4. Now,
here it's specific. Revelation 12:4: "And his tail drew the third part of the
stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth." What are these "stars"?
Verse 9: "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the
Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the
earth, and his angels were cast out with him." So it looks like, toward the
end of that Tribulation right there, that angels are pitched out of Heaven,
and come down to this earth. And, in the passage, it's a third of them.

     Now, I don't know how many that amounts to, a third of them. I don't know
how many angels there are. But they're called "hosts"--as in "The Lord of
hosts"--and likely number into at least the millions.

     I don't know what this earth will be like with five million fallen angels
on it. But I don't want to be here when they come!

     QUESTION: Will the angels be here when we return in Revelation 19?

     ANSWER: Will the angels be here when we come down? Yeah, they probably
will be. Paul said, "What? Know ye not that ye shall judge angels?"

     In the Garden of Gethsemane, when they came to betray Christ, Judas came
in there. They wanted to know who He was. And He said, "I am." And when He
said, "I am," they all fell flat on their faces. And those birds, realizing
that He could knock them down by speaking, got up and came and got Him.

     Verse 14: "And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled
together." That's the first heaven. Now, I don't know how that thing can be,
but something just comes undone like a window shade. Did you ever pull down a
window shade, and it pulls itself back up and spins around four or five times?
It's like that.

     "And every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the
kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief
captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman." Bondman?? Slavery! Slavery
isn't done away with in the Civil War. There are more slaves on this earth
right now than there ever was at the time at the Civil War. Stupid newspaper!
"We want to be free! Want to be free! Want to be free! Want to be free!" There
are more people in ball and chain right now than there ever was at any time on
the face of this earth.

     "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. Died to make
men holy, let us die to make men free."

     Go to Siberia and die to make a few of them free, brother! Over in
Siberia right now, there are probably about 400,000 of them. In China there
are probably about 800,000 of them more. Nobody's going to die to make them
free. That's a bunch of political gas!

     Ok, verse 15: "And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the
rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and
every free man,..." there's the contrast "...hid themselves in the dens and in
the rocks of the mountains." Now, look at that! Everybody's running for their
life! Ain't man great? My, how great is man! The four freedoms--freedom from
fear! "AAAAAYYYYYYEEEE!!" Running for the rocks!

     I'll tell you, brother, when the Lord shows up, you aren't going to have
no freedom from fear if you die--you're going to be scared as a jackrabbit
with ten hunting dogs after him.

     QUESTION: I thought that, when the Tribulation started, after the
Rapture, that the Great Tribulation was going to be the last three-and-a-half
years, and during the first three-and-a-half years they're going to have peace
on earth. Is that just speculation?

     ANSWER: I know, they all say that. Yeah, they all say that. I'm not sure
about that. I'm not sure about what they're saying is so or not. I know they
all say that, but I've never found any evidence that that was so.

     QUESTION: How can they call the first half a "tribulation" if there's
peace?

     ANSWER: Yeah. See? I imagine when they say "Peace and safety" is at the
end of the Tribulation. Looks to me like everything gets torn up, and then
there's an interval there where they think everything's all right, and they
think they've got rid of the Jews and got it made, and them BLAM! The Lord
comes back.

     Verse 16: "And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us." They're
praying to the land now! "And hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the
throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb." So somewhere at the end of that
Tribulation, they see Christ, and they see Him either coming or about to come,
one.

     "That sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the
great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"

