     Genesis is the Book of beginnings. If you care to write down the vital
statistics, it has 50 chapters, 1534 verses, 38,267 words. People say, "Why do
you keep such a count?" Because, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God doth man live."

     Some books in the Bible are more important than others. They are all the
word of God, and they're all good, and they're all great. But there are some
that are more important because of their content. And Genesis is one of those.

     The most important books in the Bible--and people may differ as to order
of importance--but the most important books in the Bible are Romans and John
and Job and Genesis and Revelation, and after that, then it's anybody's bet as
to what's what.

     But this Book here (Romans) has the doctrine of New Testament salvation
in it. And the only Book anywhere near it is Galatians for doctrinal truth on
New Testament salvation. This Book here (John) is the greatest Book in the
Bible on the deity of Jesus Christ. That Book is the deity of Jesus Christ.
This Book here (Job) is the Book in the Bible that answers the main problem in
life. And the main problem in life is why do you suffer? That's the problem.
And there's isn't a philosopher in every kind of school that didn't try to
figure that thing out. And this one here (Genesis) is showing how it all
started, and that one (Revelation) shows how it all ends.

     So tonight now we're on where it all starts, and Genesis is the seed plot
of the Bible, the seed plot of the entire Bible, and the Bible is contained
almost in a nutshell on the first three chapters of Genesis. There is so much
material in the first three chapters of Genesis, it will take us as long to
cover the first three chapters of Genesis as it will for the last twelve
chapters. Now, there are four times as much material as any other chapter in
the Book of Genesis.

     And the Book of Genesis is the Book of beginnings. The word comes from
these roots. Back in the old days, when a kid went to high school, long before
he got to high school, he studied Latin and Greek. He studied Latin and Greek
in grammar school and grade school. And the reason for teaching a kid Latin
and Greek was to teach him the roots of his language. They no longer do that.
And it's unfortunate they don't. Because you can fool people with language
now. Back in those days, you couldn't fool them. They knew what the word came
from. But those roots are connected with this derivation here. And this is
one--that way--and this is a another this way--and this is another way this
way--and this is another one this way--and those things all have this root in
them. Or part of this root. And it means "to begin." Whether it's the
beginning of life, or the beginning of electricity, or the beginning of
anything--it's the "beginning."

     So when this Book begins, it begins with saying "in the beginning." Now
the joke on that is this is the place where the Bible mentions baseball: "in
the big inning," you see. Somebody's always, you know, somebody's fooling
around with that.

     All right, the author is Moses. The author is Moses, especially from 1
Corinthians 13:34. 13:34? That isn't right. It's 14:34. That's a "scribal
error"! There are not 34 verses in 1 Corinthians 13. In 1 Corinthians 14:34,
which says the woman is under the law commanded to be silent. And the only
place where a woman is commanded that is in the Book of Genesis, along about
Genesis chapter 3, and Moses wrote Genesis chapter 3.

     Now, there are a lot of arguments about the Mosaic authorship of the Book
of Genesis. But Christ accepts it. And the New Testament writers accept it,
and nobody questions it. And no orthodox Jew would think of questioning it. As
a matter of fact, for an orthodox Jew, the first Book is called "The First
Book of Moses." And the next Book is called "The Second Book of Moses," and
the next Book is called "The Third Book of Moses." And the next Book is called
"The Fourth Book of Moses." And the next Book is called "The Fifth Book of
Moses." So Moses is the writer.

     All right, now, here we have seven beginnings. The Bible--this Book will
tell you how the heavens began, how the earth began, how animals began, how
man began, how sin began, how the Messianic line began, and how redemption
began--it's all in that one Book. And, since this is the Book of origins, then
you have in Genesis the only scientific textbook in print on origins. There
are no scientific textbooks on origins except the King James 1611 Authorized
Bible. When you go in the other room and pick up a scientific textbook or go
in a library and pick up a textbook on evolution, how it began, all you're
dealing with is guesses. And in science they call it "hypotheses." When you
fellows get in third year, if some of you haven't had it yet, you'll get into
advanced theology, and we'll go through and have us a time with the Cenozoic
and Mesozoic, and some of the brethren have just been though it, and
Stegosaurus and Terydactyl and all this mess. And all that stuff is, all that
stuff is is a bunch of blind guesswork.

     You're looking at the scientific account of creation. Look at verse 1.
See it? Now, that's it.

     Somebody said, "I don't believe it." Well, you'll have a hard time
proving it. You'll have a hard time proving that God didn't create the heaven
and the earth.

     And in advanced theology, you'll learn that there are only four ways it
could have been created anyway, and two of them are contrary to the laws of
thermodynamics, and one of them is hallucination--so you only have one left by
elimination.

     All right, there are seven pairs in the Book of Genesis. The first pair
is Adam and Eve. The second pair is Cain and Abel. The third pair is Lamech
and Enoch. The fourth pair is Abraham and Lot. The fifth pair is Isaac and
Ishmael. The sixth pair is Jacob and Esau. The seventh pair is Joseph and his
brethren.  The Book of Genesis seems to delight in presenting things in
couplets like that, and contrasting those things with each other, in those
pairs.

     You have here (Adam and Eve) a type of the Church and the Bride of
Christ. The believer and the unbeliever (Cain and Abel). You have the raptured
saint and the unsaved sinner (Lamech and Enoch). You have the consecrated
Christian and the worldly Christian (Abraham and Lot). The chosen seed, the
rejected seed (Isaac and Ishmael). The believing saint and the unbelieving
saint (Jacob and Esau). (Esau is probably a saved man; we'll get into that
more later on. But he doesn't believe the spiritual promise; he's not
spiritual; he's carnal.)

     All right, there are seven saints in the Book of Genesis. Those are the
saints: Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Those are the
seven saints. And the Book is mainly about those people right there.

     There is more space given in the Book to Joseph than any one of those
seven. There is more space given to Joseph than there is to Abraham. Now,
Joseph first, and Abraham next, and maybe Jacob next.

     All right, there are seven lessons that you learn in the Book of Genesis.
And I'll leave that up there and you'll have time to copy it later on if you
want to, but now we're going to get into the text itself. Genesis chapter 1.



@blockquote:1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face
of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.  

4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from
the darkness.  

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the
evening and the morning were the first day.



@normal:  All right. If all your Bible was missing except Genesis chapter 1,
you'd have the whole thing right there in your hand. Because in this chapter
is not only an accurate account of how the whole thing came into being, but
also the plan of salvation in the thing, and the date of both Advents is in
chapter 1. The date of both of Christ's Advents from the chapter. And in the
chapter is a picture of the Church--the moon over there in verses 15 and 16;
there's a picture of fruit-bearing Christians in verses 11 and 12; there's a
picture of the separation of the believer, in verse 6 and verse 7--the whole
thing's in there.

     All right, Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning." Now, if he said, "In the
beginning," then it's going to have to be the beginning of time. Because
before time began, what was there? I mean, the first verse in the Bible will
knock your brains out if you think about it long enough. I mean, "in the
beginning." Well, where did it start? Well, if it started, then there was
something before it. But when this started, there was nothing before it.

     You say, "What was before it?" God. "In the beginning God."

     That's how it starts. If you dropped the verse right there in the middle
it would say, "In the beginning God."

     Now the reason why you and I can't get that is we have finite minds. I
read a book one time, and the name of the book was "The Answer to
Everything"--that was the name of the book. Which, you know, is kind of an
ambitious title to put on a book. It's called "The Answer to Everything." And
his thesis was that everything in this world has three parts to it, and any
time you find something that doesn't make sense is because you're missing the
third part. And his thesis was, there is no such thing as a "fourth
dimension," because the fourth dimension is reality. The fourth dimension is
the sum of the other three dimensions. And that fellow was going along
there--I can't recite everything he said--but in the time-space continuum, he
had three parts--time, you know, and energy, and matter--and each one of them
divided into three.

     And when he got off into time, he said this. He said--well, I'll give you
an example of space first. He said all space has length, and breadth, and
width. And if any one of those is missing, you don't have any space. Right?
Can you draw a line that is all length and width and no breadth? No, sir, you
can't do it. Can you draw a line that is all breadth and width and no length?
You can't do it. There's no way in the world you can do anything unless you've
got three parts to it.

     That thing will come out--lookie here:

     Father, Son, Holy Spirit. 

     Body, soul, spirit. 

     Bible written in Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic. 

     Old Testament: Law, Prophets, Writings. 

     New Testament: Gospels, Acts, Epistles. 

     Overseas: Asia, Africa, Europe.

     This side: North America, Central America, South America.

     The thing is high, or low, or in the middle.

     It's heavy, or it's light, or it's medium.

     It's tall, or it's short, or it's in the middle.

     There's nothing you can with that thing.

     When you go to school, the lower grades are: the grade school, the junior
high school, high school.

     BREAK!

     Junior college, college, post-grad.

     Three.

     And you join the Army, or the Navy, or the Air Force.

     What are you going to do with that?

     QUESTION: What about the Marines?

     ANSWER: They're Navy. They go with the Navy. You're in them boats, man!
You're in them boats. I guess you know what "marine" means, don't you? Yeah,
you know what "marine" means.

     Now, you've got exosphere, ionosphere, stratosphere. See?

     And you know you can't beat that thing with an eggbeater, man. That thing
will come through three every time.

     And that thing will run, you've got the body, you've got the soul, you've
got the spirit.

     You've got the word, you've got the deed, you've got the action.

     There's the respiratory system, circulatory system, nervous system--upper
part. Three systems, lower part--three systems, all through. It'll come out
three every time.

     So--what was I gonna say? I got to losing my track.

     So, he was saying this. He was saying, if you are in the present, you
can't get in the present unless you've got something behind you and something
ahead of you. Now, if you get rid of all past time, are you in time? No,
you're not in time--if you get rid of all the past! You're just starting. And
if you're starting, time hasn't started yet. See?

     I mean, as soon as it moves, you've got past--right? It moved, didn't it?
Well, you've got one second gone--two, whatever it was. Now, you can't have a
present without a past and a future. If I'm here, there's something ahead of
me and something behind me. See? So, when you start "In the beginning God
created"--boy, your mind can't grab that thing!

     I mean, out there forever, there always was God. And then all of a sudden
He decided to do something. "In the beginning." Where, where was He before He
decided to do it?

     All right, Genesis 1:1. "In the beginning." "In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth." Now, notice something about the verse. The first
verse in the Bible hits everything a man wants to believe and just knocks it
in the head. The first thing it hits is atheism. Atheism. If you're an
atheist, you can't read the first verse in the Bible. The first verse in the
Bible is, "In the beginning God." There it is right in you face.

     All right, number 2. Polytheism. Polytheism is the Hindu belief in more
than one god. Well, the New ASV believes in more than one god. And the
polytheist--"poly" is many, you see. You get this thing "theism." That's
"god." That thing will be "theos"--like that. And if a fellow is a theist, he
believes in God. If he is an atheist, he doesn't believe in any God. If he's a
polytheist, he believes in all kinds of gods.

     Now, that first verse knocks out atheism, because God is there. The next
thing it knocks out is polytheism, because it didn't say "gods." It said
"God." Now maybe the new translations say "gods." Some fellows say, "Well,
elohim is a plural, and therefore means 'gods.'" Yeah, but your King James
Bible doesn't say "gods." Your King James Bible says "God."

     A lot of words in Hebrew--like these here--this one here is "elohim". You
put it out in Hebrew, it would look like this. That's an "i" and an "m"--they
write backwards--so you get it like this--put in vowel points--"elohim."
That's a plural ending on that thing. That thing right there. Well, that
plural ending is on the word "blood." And they don't translate "bloods." And
that plural ending is on "water." And they don't translate "waters." So there
wouldn't be any cause to translate it as "gods." The reason why it's plural is
because the Godhead consists of three Persons.

     All right, verse 1: "In the beginning God." "In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth." All right, the next thing it knocks out is
fatalism. Fatalism. Fatalism is, the teaching is that things just happen
without any regard to anything--it's just fate. Kind of existential thing, and
you can't do anything about it. And God isn't interested in the affairs of
anything; He just sits back and watches it roll.

     But in this place here, God has interjected Himself into time, and
created something Himself. This shows you that God can force Himself into time
and operate and influence what's there. So you're not in a godless universe.

     One of those fellows said one time, one of those scientists, "Sometimes I
think we're all alone, and sometimes I think we're not." He said, "In either
case, the thought is frightening!" Well, it might be to an unsaved fellow, but
not to a saved fellow.

     All right, evolution. It's against evolution. The first verse in the
Bible tears up all of man's playhouse. The first verse in the Bible knocks
evolution into a copped hat. "God created." It didn't evolve. And the dust
cloud didn't bring it out. "God created the heaven and the earth."

     Now, Jesus Christ was what you would call a creationist. He was not an
evolutionist. Take your Bible and come to the New Testament, to Mark. Mark 13.
And if anybody gives you a hard time on evolution, then always put the
argument between them and the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ was not
a theistic evolutionist, either. He was a creationist. We'll get Mark chapter
13. And get Mark chapter 13, verse 19. Mark 13, verse 19: "For [in] those days
shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which
God created." Now, Christ said, "God created." If Darwin said something else,
then he was anti-Christ from that point.

     All right, let's turn to Matthew chapter 19. The Lord goes beyond this.
He doesn't say the Lord just kicked it off and let it run. Matthew 19. Matthew
19. Now, this is Jesus Christ talking. I speak reverently; I suppose He knows
what He is talking about. When I compare His life with the lives of those who
don't believe Him, I know pretty well who to believe. Matthew 19:4: "And he
answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made [them] at
the beginning made them male and female." Then, when God made man, he wasn't
made as a monkey and gradually became a man. He wasn't made as an amoeba and
gradually became a paramecium and a hydra and a jellyfish with no sex; when
God made them, the sexes were there when God made them.

     That is not theistic evolution. Theistic evolution teaches that 'way back
there, God kicked the thing off, and it gradually came through, and gradually
developed into this, and gradually you got the sexes. There is no sex in an
amoeba. An amoeba is asexual; it has no sex. The lowest forms of life don't
have any sex.

     The question comes up, "Where do male and female come from?" Christ says,
"He that created them made them at the beginning male and female." So it's
just an argument between your college professor and Jesus Christ. And when it
comes to two of them, you don't have to flip a coin to decide which one to
believe.

     All right, the next thing it knocks out--Genesis 1:1--is pantheism. If a
man is a theist, he believes in God--theism. Theistic. If he is pan, that
means "all." Pan-American is both Americas. And that thing is, that's that
Greek word for "pan." "Pantas," "pante," some of you hitting second-year
Greek--and that means "all." Pantheism teaches that God is in everything and
everything is in God. Pantheism teaches that God is part of His creation. If a
man is pantheistic--all Buddhists and Hindus are pantheistic. If a man is a
Buddhist, he believes the way to attain progena, enlightenment, fooling around
with the Bhagavad Gita, is to sit cross-legged and get rid of his karma by
meditation and get to the place where he is at one with everything around him,
to where he can't distinguish what's around him. When he is at one with
whatever's there, it loses its distinction. Which means, Brahma or "the
presence" is there all the time. It's in the creation, see? That's pantheism.

     Look at verse 1. "In the beginning God"--He's over here--"created the
heaven and the earth"--they're over there. He's not in the woods and the
trees. He's over here, and the wood and the trees are over here.

     All right, the next thing it does away with. It does away with
materialism. It does away with materialism. Materialism is the belief that
matter is eternal. And that therefore, in a way, in a sense, matter is God.
Your modern scientist, if he was asked for a definition of God, he would
define God as "the force field of the universe." That is, the field of energy
that keeps matter and phenomena and matter to energy--as the force that keeps
that going. If he were asked how long that thing has been there, he would say,
"Forever."

     So, they make a little picture called "Star Wars," and they call it "The
Force." And they say, "The Force be with you," and "The Force be with you."
And the King James says, "He'll magnify the God of forces" in Daniel chapter
11--the Antichrist. So all your new bibles have changed it to "munitions."
Some more hocus-pocus.

     All right, Genesis chapter 1, verse 1. Now, you've got to admit that one
verse sure sank a lot of ships when it sailed in! When that verse came in, man
was left where he couldn't believe anything he wanted to believe. If he wanted
to believe in a lot of gods, it took care of that, if he wanted to find fault
with it. If he wanted to believe God wasn't interested, it took care of that.
If he wanted to believe that God was in a lamppost or a cat or a dog, it
knocked that out. Just messed up the whole thing.

     The Bible gets off to a flying start!

     And it says, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
Now, you say, "How do you feel about that?" Well, I believe it. I believe that
God created the heaven and the earth. I don't believe it happened. I don't
have enough--my mind can't comprehend an infinite God, but it can comprehend
that a lot easier than it can comprehend an infinite universe. I can't
comprehend a thing that has always been there that you can see it's always
been there. Now, I can comprehend something always being there that you can't
see. At least, I can do that better of you can. But, to comprehend a star or
sun or moon having always been there, wherever "there" is, see? I can't--that
takes more faith than I've got.

     All right, now, we're not through with the verse yet. Let's try the
Babylon. All right, let's get 1 John chapter 1 in one hand, and see what the
Bible says about the verse. Get 1 John 1 in one hand, and get John 1 in the
other. John 1:1, and 1 John 1:1. Now, this is the Bible comment on Genesis
1:1. Scripture with Scripture. First John chapter 1, the Gospel of John
chapter 1. Now, you read, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth." That's all you were told. Now, you're told something else. John 1:1:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word--" capital "W" "--was with God,
and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God." Then the God
that did that creating back there is also called the Word. Verse 3: "All
things were made by him--" like Genesis 1:1. "And without him was not any
thing made that was made." Then you know something about the God who did that
thing in Genesis 1:1; He has another name, and His name is the Word. And it's
capital "W".

     All right, 1 John 1. First John 1, verse 1: "That which was from the
beginning." That's what we want. "That which was from the beginning, which we
have heard." Then somebody heard that God you just read about. That God you
just read about that slung all that stuff out there--somebody heard Him.
"Which we have seen with our eyes." Somebody saw Him. "Which we have looked
upon, and our hands have handled." Now, see how impossible that gets to
believe? I mean, John is saying that thing you just read, in Genesis 1:1, the
God that made that thing, he got his hands on Him! As a matter of fact, in
John chapter 13, he's got his ear down on His chest! That's wild, see? That's
wild. You say, "You believe that?" Yeah, I believe that.

     You see, the trouble is, we get to preaching about Jesus Christ, people
keep thinking that He's kind of the healing Nazarene, that if you put your
hand on the radio, you'll get rid of your leprosy, you know. And, you know,
all that Jesus of Nazareth, Messiah, Davidic Son of Man may be true. But He's
God! See?

     We saved people are idolaters. A Jew told me one time, he said, "You
Christians are idolaters."

     I said, "You're right. We worship an image." Amen! The image of God is
Jesus Christ.

     All right, now, in here, verse 2. First John 1:2: "(For the life was
manifested, and we have seen [it], and bear witness, and shew unto you that
eternal life." Then it was there before Genesis 1:1. "Which was with the
Father, and was manifested unto us;)." Now, John is real strong on it. In this
Epistle, turn to chapter 5, and look at verse 20. Chapter 5, verse 20. Whoever
that was who created the galaxies and star clusters and nebula and the
variable set of drawfs and giants and all that business you see when you look
out there--whoever that was, John had his hand on Him. First John 5:20: "And
we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that
we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true,--" watch it!
"--[even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life."
See that?

     All right, turn to Colossians chapter 1. Colossians chapter 1. Jesus
Christ is not just Lord and the Lord. He is God Almighty. Colossians chapter
1. Colossians chapter 1. Colossians chapter 1, verse 15. Colossians 1:15. And
what God did in Genesis 1, He did through Jesus Christ. That's why He is
called the beginning of the creation of God. Now, when a Jehovah Witness gets
ahold of that, he gets all messed up. When he reads, "The beginning of the
creation of God," he thinks He's the first thing God created. But that wasn't
the statement. He's the beginning of what God created. What God
created--Genesis 1--Jesus Christ is the beginning of everthing in there.
That's the statement. And when a Jehovah Witness gets that passage in
Revelation--"Jesus Christ the beginning of the creation of God"--he makes the
God the object of the word "of." He's the subject. Jesus Christ is the
beginning of everything that the Lord did.

     All right, Colossians chapter 1:15. Now, if there's any doubt about it in
your mind, look at this. Colossians 1:15: "Who is the image of the invisible
God,--" Jesus Christ the image of the invisible God "--the firstborn of every
creature:  For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that
are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions,
or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him." See that thing?

     All right, back to Genesis 1. Then you know who is it that's doing this
thing here. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. In the passage, you say, they read,
"God." You have no further revelation. Moses doesn't have any revelation.
Moses doesn't know what His name is. Moses can't call Him the Word. Moses
can't call Him the Lord Jesus Christ. He calls Him what He's been shown. What
He's been shown is God.

     Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
Trouble! Verse 2: "And the earth was without form." Well, would God do that?
Would God create a thing without form to it when He created it? I mean, is
that like the Lord? Say, "We made a man out of the dust of the ground." Yeah,
but I'll bet when He formed him, chapter 2 verse 7, I'll bet when He got
through making him, he wasn't without form and void.

     When God made you over in Christ, did He make a mess of things when He
made you over in Christ? There was nothing wrong with His creation. You may
have marred it since then. But the Lord didn't mar it.

     "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the
face of the deep." Didn't say where that came from! "And the Spirit of God
moved upon the face of the" what? "Waters." What? "Waters." Say it again.
"Waters." Now, you want to get that down.

     I mean, Henry Morris and the Creation Research Fellowship out in
California do have a time with their Bible.

     All right, turn to 2 Peter chapter 3. Second Peter chapter 3. Now, I've
got a letter the other day from a kid at Bob Jones; it ran twelve pages. No,
it was about twenty pages--on the "Gap Theory." And all over there at Piedmont
and Pillsbury, they're arguing about, "Is there a Gap Theory? Was there really
trouble between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, or was it all the same?" you
know. And all these fellows pull out their Hebrew lexicon and saying, "The
word tohu and bohu means this, and the verb should have meant that, and the
verb means this," and all this stuff!

     Now, let me show you a shortcut. I mean, let me show you how the King
James infallible Authorized text throws light on the obscure originals, okay?
I get a lot of cussing out for talking the way I'm talking, but I'm not going
to talk that way and just say it with tongue in cheek. I'll show you! You want
to see it? Ok, get your face in the paper there.

     All right, verse 3. Second Peter 3:3; nothing like reading it: "Knowing
this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after
their own lusts,..." watch it! "...And saying, Where is the promise of his
coming? for since the fathers fell asleep,..." watch it! "...all things
continue as [they were] from the beginning of the creation." Genesis 1:1. "For
this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens..."
plural "...were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the
water." And you just read in Genesis 1:2, the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters. Verse 6: "Whereby the world that then was, being
overflowed with water, perished." There isn't any question about what happened
in Genesis 1:2. There isn't any "gap theory" to it. It was drowned. And if you
had the "original Greek and Hebrew," you couldn't know what you were talking
about if you stayed up all night. Because the English already told you what
happened!

     So what do these fellows do? They make their living publishing these
sheets on the Hebrew and Greek lexicons, and trying to make you think "if you
don't know all this stuff that we know, you can't find out all these deep
truths, and you can't possibly get it unless you know all that we know." And
the Lord put it right in front of your face! You don't have to be a high
school graduate to see what I just showed you right then.

     Now, if there's doubt in your mind about it, watch it. Mark it. Verse 5:
"the heavens and earth that were." Verse 5. Got it? All right, verse 7: "the
heavens and earth which are now." Got it? Okay, verse 13: "the heavens and
earth that will be." See it? There are three of them. There isn't four of
them. There are three of them.

     Now, that shows you that the Gap Theory of Genesis 1:2 is not a theory;
it's a fact. And the fellows who think it's a theory don't know what happened.
What happened was, it got drowned--that's what happened.

     Now, you have the heavens and earth that were, the heavens and earth that
are, the heavens and earth that shall be. Now, the heavens and earth that are
are the ones you're on right now, because they were there when Peter wrote the
verse. The heavens and earth that shall be are the new heavens and earth in
Revelation chapter 20. Then, by the process of elimination, dearly beloved,
what was that ("the heavens and earth that were")--Noah's flood? That couldn't
have been Noah's flood! That thing there is the heaven and earth that were in
Genesis 1:1, because he just said, "the beginning of the creation"!

     Now, notice how the King James Bible clears up a college education. And,
by believing what God said as God said it, you can always get more light than
any other way. That's like I told you last night. That's why we teach Hebrew
and Greek; we teach it for spite! There isn't any point in teaching it to give
you light on the text, because it doesn't give anybody light on the text who
has it. You want light on the text? The Author of the Scriptures will give you
light.

     Now, if there's still doubt in some of your minds, I mean, let me show
you how the infallible King James text will straighten the whole thing out.

     All right, there's a world that was in Genesis 1:1, when God first
created it. And here's a world that was before God drowned it out in the days
of Noah.

     All right, after the Lord drowned that thing out in the days of Noah, and
Noah stepped out of that ark, he has three sons--Shem, Ham, Japheth. When Adam
shows up, he has three sons--Abel, Cain, Seth.

     When Noah shows up after that ark, the Lord says, "Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth." When Adam shows up there, He says, "Be
fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth."

     You see that fellow there? One of his sons is a type of Christ; one's
under a curse. You see that fellow there? One of his sons is a type of Christ,
and one's under a curse.

     You see that fellow there? He's naked. You see that fellow there? He's
naked.

     See that fellow there? He took something he shouldn't have taken. See
that fellow there? He took something he shouldn't have taken.

     See that fellow there? Right before him was a flood. See that fellow
there?

     I mean, how in the world can u get a theory out of that? Why, somebody is
just as mad as a march hare, man! A fellow going around saying, "The Hebrew
says, the Hebrew says"--the Hebrew ain't gonna show you nuthin'!

     If you have a new bible, that word "replenish" is not in your new bible.
That word "replenish" has been taken out, so you'd miss the cross references.

     Oh, we got 'em. We got 'em.

     All right, Genesis 1:1. We've about got through this verse. "In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without
form." Something went wrong with it. "And void." Turned into nothing.
Something went wrong with it. 

     "And darkness was upon the face of the deep." Well, what is that? All
right, lets turn to Job. Job chapter 38. Now, Job is the oldest Book in the
Bible. The events recorded in Genesis take place before the events recorded in
Job, but the Book of Job is written before Moses writes Genesis. So we'd
expect to find a lot of material in Job that applied to Genesis, because Job
was written before Genesis was written. Job was written 'way back there in the
time of Isaac and Jacob, which is 400 years before Moses was born.

     And in Job chapter 38 look at this strange thing here. Job 38 verse 30.
"The waters." Nothing like Scripture with Scripture to get it. "The waters are
hid as [with] a stone,..." watch it: "...and the face of the deep"--that's
what we want--"the face of the deep is frozen." Well, that's a strange thing.
Back there in Genesis chapter 1, he talks about that whole thing being drowned
out. He talks about the deep. And then he says "the face of the deep is
frozen." Like ice.

     All right, let's take Job 26. Job 26. We call this the doctrine of the
great "deeps." If you want to get into the deeper things of God, this will get
you in deep. Job 26. Job 26, verse 5. Job 26:5: "Dead [things] are formed from
under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.  Hell [is] naked before him,
and destruction hath no covering.  He stretcheth out the north over the empty
place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.  He bindeth up the waters in his
thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.  He holdeth back the face
of hi/s throne, [and] spreadeth his cloud upon it.  He hath compassed the
waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end." What a wild
thing! God has a throne, and there's a cloud under that throne, and that cloud
is so far away, there's no time, there's no day and there's no night. And the
cloud under that throne prevents the throne from falling. And the waters under
that cloud hold that thing up so you can't get through it. And the waters that
hold that thing up have a boundary to them. And they're frozen. Verse 13: "By
his spirit he hath garnished the" what? He's been talking about stuff over
your head. "Heavens." See the plural?

     All right, let's turn to Psalms. Psalm 148. Nothing like a King James
Bible to put light on a seminary education. Psalm 148. Psalm 148, verse 1. Now
we start 'way at the top. Paul distinguishes three heavens in 2 Corinthians
12. Three heavens. Now, that beef starts at the top. Psalm 148:1: "Praise ye
the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens." Plural. "Praise him in the
heights.  Praise ye him, all his angels--" they're up there. "Praise ye him,
all his hosts--" they're up there. Step down: "Praise ye him, sun and moon:
praise him, all ye stars of light." Watch it: "Praise him, ye heavens {plural}
of heavens, and ye waters that [be] above the {plural} heavens."

     Then whatever that beef is, it's not the Atlantic or the Pacific. That
water is frozen on top, and that water is above the solar system. It's water
above the heavens.

     All right, now we're going to stop here for tonight, because we're
getting in, as you see, too deep! And we can't exegete properly now the rest
of that verse until we get the next three verses in Genesis. Because the next
three verses talk about dividing the firmament, and putting water above it and
water below it.

     But what you have so far is this--and we'll talk about this more later.
The universe must look like that. Because the answer to everything is three.
So it must have three parts like that, because the answer to everything is
three. So it must be water up here, and water down there, and sun, moon, and
stars, and galaxies, and constellations in there, and the face of the deep
must be frozen with a throne on it--likea that. And that direction must be
north. "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place." "Beautiful for
situation is Mount Zion, the city of the great King, located on the sides of
the north." So, when you leave tonight, you might take a look at the first
chart back there on the wall. The first chart is Genesis 1:1-5. And the first
chart shows the deep. And the water above it and the water below it. And the
frozen place on top. And the throne on the frozen place. And something out
there in that sea, that ocean, that's an aquatic, marine animal, with seven
heads.

     All right, now, any question on verse 1 and verse 2? Yes?

     QUESTION: Where does it talk about new heaven and new earth in 2 Peter?

     ANSWER: It's down there in chapter 3 verse 13: "We, according to his
promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth
righteousness."

     QUESTION: In Psalm 46 verse 6, it says: "The heathen raged, the kingdoms
were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted." Was that back then?

     ANSWER: You're on Second Advent. Yes, sir. Second Advent.

     QUESTION: What's the context of "forces" concerning Daniel?

     ANSWER: Oh, in Daniel, when the Antichrist comes, he is said to worship
the God of forces. This will be Daniel chapter 11, verse 38. You'll find that
changed in all the new bibles.

     QUESTION: What about the word "world" in 2 Peter 3:5-7?

     ANSWER: Well, sometimes when the word "world" is used, it means an
organized system with something on it. So he could have used it then. If he
used it then in that sense, the "world that then was," the organized world
system of that time, the devil was over it as the god of this world, and the
inhabitants on it were angels.

     QUESTION: Could you go over that thing briefly again about Adam and Noah?

     ANSWER: Well, there are all kinds of similarities. I just gave you a
brief. There are all kinds of things on it. But the way you spot that thing is
when the Lord made Adam in Genesis 1:27 and 28, He said, "Be fruitful,
multiply, and replenish the earth." When you get to Genesis chapter 9, when
Noah comes out of the ark, Genesis 9:1,2: "Be fruitful, multiply, and
replenish the earth." So it's the same commandment.

     And when you get to Genesis chapter 2, the Lord says in Genesis chapter
2, along about verses 9 and 10: "Of every tree of the garden you are to eat,
but don't eat of this one." When you get over here, He says, "Don't eat the
flesh with the blood." They match.

     On this one over here, he has three sons. Those are Cain, Abel, Seth.
Three sons [over here]: Shem, Ham, Japheth.

     Abel's a type of Christ; Cain's under a curse.

     Shem's a type of Christ; Canaan's under a curse, see? Ham. That's the
thing right there. So those match.

     All right, Adam is naked in the garden. Noah plants a vineyard and is
naked.

     And when he is naked, he does something he shouldn't do. He
takes--whatever he took, Adam took. You can't beat that thing. There's nothing
you can do with that thing. Adam takes of a vine tree; he takes wine in it.
It's a vine tree. You can't--no way--you can't avoid that thing no matter what
you do. It ain't no pear or apricot--it's a vine.

     QUESTION: Can "heaven" mean different things?

     ANSWER: Yes, that's true. The term "heaven" can be all inclusive. The
term "Heaven," as such, like "New Jerusalem coming down from God out of
Heaven" can refer to the third heaven. That is, the term "heaven" can refer to
the first heaven, second heaven, or third heaven. And so can "heavens." Either
one.

     Let me show you what I mean. Acts chapter 1: "This same Jesus, which is
taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen
him go into heaven." Remember that thing there? That term "heaven" there was
just a reference to the first heaven.

     All right, 2 Corinthians chapter 12: "I knew a man in Christ above
fourteen years ago..." caught up to paradise "...such an one caught up to the
third heaven." Singular. Again, that refers to the top of it instead of the
bottom of it.

     Another case: The Lord put the sun, the moon, and the stars in
heaven--singular. And yet that refers to the second.

     Any one part can refer to any of the other parts. You have to just know
where they are. Your first heaven is the clouds and the sky, and the second
heaven is the solar system and the stars, and the third heaven is the presence
of God.

     QUESTION: Who wrote that book?

     ANSWER: I wish I had written down the guy's name. I read it in the
library of Wendell Zimmerman when he pastored the Kansas City Baptist Temple,
and I forgot to write the guy's name down. Wendell Zimmerman--he's now
pastoring in Jacksonville, Florida. And that book was written by a Lutheran, a
Lutheran minister. It was a wild one--it's a wild one, boy, that book.

     QUESTION: Why does he say "heavens"?

     ANSWER: The reason why he said that is because he has the ending.
"Shenai..." Have I got that thing right? "Shenai..." Is that right, brother?
Yeah, that's it. See that "im" on the end of that thing? That's like "elohim."
That's a plural ending. "Heavens," "gods," "waters," "bloods." And the
hypocrites use that for an alibi to not translate them consistently. They will
not translate "blood" as "bloods"; they will not translate "water" as
"waters." When you come to a choice of translating a singular or a plural with
that word, you know what you've got to do? You've got to trust that God led
the King James translators to translate it right--and they did--and they were.

     All right, that's all for tonight. That's enough for tonight.

     He said, "I remember many years ago seeing a sign on the corner of Fourth
and Throckmorton in Fort Worth, Texas, that announced, 'The only seminary in
the world teaching the whole English Bible.'" Now, he didn't tell you whose
seminary that was, because he would get kicked out of the fellowship if he
did. That was J. Frank Norris's seminary. But you can't put that in this paper
here, see. That was Norris's seminary. "There was a feeling in those days
among fundamental Baptists that when God called man with a Bible, he was
thoroughly furnished in all good works. I don't want to press the panic
button, but I am fearful we have walked away from that concept. Many of the
voices that declare the whole English Bible concept is great, but little by
little we try to satisfy the demand of the times. The Book is replaced by many
textbooks in most classes. The exposition of God's word is replaced by
academic lectures. The English explanation is changed to a Greek exegesis. The
reason of the Bible is neglected in favor of psychology. Don't misunderstand;
I'm not anti-education. I'm overwhelmingly pro-Bible. In this hour of so many
translations, paraphrases, amplifications, modern thoughts, the truths of
God's word are being forsaken. When I first saw the sign of 'the only seminary
in the world teaching the whole English Bible,' I was impressed. I don't know
if it was true, but I do know there's a need for Bible-believing fundamental
Baptists get back to the position of the whole English Bible. It almost goes
without saying that the ones who hold to the concept of the whole English
Bible would naturally mean the King James Version. It was good enough for
Wesley, Spurgeon, Whitefield, Carey, Livingston, Moody, Finney, Sunday, Jones,
Rolley, and Vick, and it's good enough for me."

     Which is good. Now, of course, you pledge a little. When you put up the
cartoon, you put down God's word--"amazingly profound," all other books,
"limited profundity." Now it would have been much better if he put: "King
James Bible, amazingly profound, all other translations." So it's just a
little bit, you know. But you can't expect them to sail straight. I mean,
we're long past the place where hardly anybody will lay the cards down on the
table face up.

     All right, Genesis 1, verse 3. Now, we got through verse 2? No, we
haven't got through verse 2. In verse 2, we read that darkness was upon the
face of the deep, and we haven't located the deep yet. So we got to locate the
deep.

     All right, let's get--no, let's read on down a little bit further, and
then we'll come back to it. Read on down to the firmament first. Verse 3: "And
God said, Let there be light: and there was light.  And God saw the light,
that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.  And God
called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and
the morning were the first day.

     Now, that's absolute day. Absolute night. That isn't like sunlight. The
sun doesn't show up until verse 15, 16, 17. That's absolute day, and absolute
night. So somewhere the face of the deep is frozen like this, and below that
thing it's dark. And that's night. And above that thing it's light, and that's
day. So, when you talk, when you sing these sings about the "land of the
cloudless day," and waking up "in the morning," you're talking about waking up
in a place where it's all day and no darkness and no night and absolute light.
First John says God is light; in Him there's no darkness. Now, that's that
kind of light in verse 4.

     Now, every fundamentalist in the world will make that light sunlight--but
it isn't. God doesn't make the sunlight until verse 16. The earth is made
before the sun is made, according to the Bible. Now, since that runs contrary
to every state university in America, Scofield and his board of editors must
shuffle the deck quickly. Let me have a Scofield Reference Bible. Scofield
will have to line up the world real quick, or he can't sell his Bible. So the
Scofield Bible says this. Sixteen: "And God made two great lights." Marginal
note: "The word does not imply a creative act; Verses 14-18 [the sun, moon,
and stars] are declarative of function merely.

     Your father's moustache!

     Now, that's the kind of a mess a fundamentalist gets into when he tries
to mess the Bible up and make it line up with what he's read in some other
book. And the whole thing is, he's trying to get along with scientists. And
what scientist could possibly countenance? The earth being made before the
sun--I mean, didn't Galileo get us free of all that, you see?

     Footnote: Neither here [verse 3] nor in verses 14-18 is an original
creative act implied. A different word is used. Ah, it isn't a different word
in the English! The sense is, made to appear;....The sun and moon were created
"in the beginning." The 'light,' of course, came from the sun, but the vapour
diffused the light. Later the sun appeared in an unclouded sky.

     Ah, shut up!

     Now, that's what you get into, you see. Now, you know what he said? He
said the sun, the moon, and the stars were there all the time, and they just
didn't show up until the fourth day.

     That isn't what your Bible says.

     Sixteen: "God made two great lights." Verse 14: "And God said, Let there
be lights in the firmament of the heaven." Verse 16: "The greater light to
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night." Seventeen: "And God set
them in the firmament of the heaven." It was done then.

     Now, when you start this kind of stuff, then all the scientific educated
world will say, "Oh, that bunch of dumb, ignorant and stupid hillbillies,
don't they know this and don't they know that?" We know a lot more than they
think we know! Uh, there isn't any scientist in the world who can prove the
sun was made before the earth. How do you prove it? Anybody care to try?

     Somebody says, "Well, you know, it was slung out--" That's the nebular
hypothesis. That's LaPlank. That's Kant. That's philosophy. You know, the sun
spinned around and threw out the gaseous masses, and they cooled off, you
know, and Mickey Mouse and Disneyland, you know, and Mary had a little lamb,
and puss in boots, and all that stuff. You can't prove that kind of stuff!
That fellow is just sitting around talking; he can't prove that. Somebody
said, "Well it's been here, you know, long, and we can prove that, because
it's older." How do you prove it's older? How do you prove that? You can't
prove it's older. If you go off in the Garden of Eden and saw Adam stand
there, you'd say, "I guess you've been here thirty-three years, haven't you?"

     He said, "No, as a matter of fact I've been here about ten minutes!"

     And you'd say, "Man, you couldn't have been here ten minutes, because
you're a grown man!"

     See?

     I mean, the Lord can mess them up so bad, man, they don't know where
they're at! Now, the greatest proof that the earth is made before the sun is
that it is off center. And it's off center four days. The earth goes around
the sun like this, and you'd think, according to that--and I haven't got a
perfect circle here, but if it was--you'd think the sun would be there--in the
center. But the sun is not there. The sun is off four days. The sun is sitting
off in here--like that. And that thing goes around September 20, 21, 22, and
the 23rd day, the sun shows up. It's four days off. You know why it's four
days off? Because the Lord made the sun on the fourth day. That's why it's
four days off.

     Yeah, brother!

     I mean, there's nothing like a King James Bible to clear up a scientific
laboratory.

     All right, Genesis chapter 1. When in doubt, throw scholarship out!
O-U-T. OUT! Genesis 1, where in 1 Timothy there was a warning, "Beware of
oppositions of science falsely so-called." And if you had any bible but a King
James Bible, you'd find the word "science" has been taken out, and the word
"knowledge" has been inserted instead. Why? Because all the new translators
and revisers like to think they are scientific, and they are afraid of
science, and they're afraid of not being scientific. They're all yellow.

     I mean, I have prayed to God for years to find some other way to say it.
There isn't any other way to say it! They just don't have any guts. That's the
problem.

     I got a telephone call the other night from some guy up in Carolina. He
said, "Brother Ruckman, we're in trouble up here!" No, it was Kentucky. And he
said, "The Southwide Baptist Fellowship is going to have a big meeting over
here in Louisville, Kentucky, and we got a bunch of defecters who believe the
King James Bible, and they're not going to it. They want to hold a King James
conference three blocks down from the other conference."

     Oh, Ruckman, Ruckman done split the fellowship! Oh, boy, you know.

     So he said, "I want to have you come up here."

     And I said, "Well, I can't make it. I've got a meeting that weekend. I'll
send Brother McGaughey up, and he can represent me. And what he says, I'll
stand with."

     So Brother McGaughey's going up there, and they're going to have a
meeting within three blocks of the Southwide Fellowship, see. Well, that's all
of the "buddies," that's old Lee Roberson, and John R. and Hugh Pyle, and all
the "boys," see. And you know what happened? Last year at the Southwide
Fellowship, a bunch of those King James men tried to get them to take a stand,
and they wouldn't take a stand. You know why? They're yellow! Now, if there's
some other way to say it, tell me how to say it!

     No guts, man!

     And these guys phone up and they say, "Well, now, Brother Ruckman, we're
taking our stand up here, and these people around here think we're crazy and
are making fun of us." And one of them said, "Well, we haven't got any
education, and we can't justify our belief, but we're gonna stand up!" You
know why? He's got guts! That's the difference.

     Now, you tell me why it is a man with no education has more courage than
a man with education. There must be something in that education that's
detrimental. There must be something about education that's degenerate. If you
have more courage before you get it than after you get it, what's it for? I
mean, you'd think a guy with education would be bolder than the fellow who
didn't have it. Boy, not when it comes to the King James Bible! Everybody's
worried about being called a "hillbilly," you know--"ignorant," "fanatic."

     Sticks and stones will hurt my bones, but names will never hurt me, you
know!

     I get to thinking about name-calling, and I think of these little kids
going around, "Yah-hah-hah-hah-HAH-hah! Di-de-di-de-DI-de!" Did you ever stop
to wonder who invented that? Do you know, all kids use that all over the
world, you know? "Da-de-da-de-DAH-da!" I wonder where that came from, anyway?

     Well, anyway, verse 3: "And God said, Let there be light: and there was
light." And that's absolute light. That is not sunlight. "God is light, and in
Him is no darkness."

     "Darkness was on the face of the deep," verse 2. It wasn't on the earth.
It was on the face of the deep.

     "And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light
from the darkness.  And God called the light Day." Absolute day. Not like
"evening" and "morning," small "e", small "m." Absolute day, absolute night.
"And the evening and the morning were the first day."

     Then time begins on God's scale before there was any sun to measure it
off. God measured Himself out some twenty-four-hour periods called "evening"
and "morning" with no sun to tell you whether it was twenty-four hours or not.
That means God is the Author of time. The sun is not the author of time. Once
you make the sun the center of the universe, and the sun before the earth,
you'll start moving toward sun-worship. God is the Author of time.



@blockquote:1:6  And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.  

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the
firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so.  

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were
the second day.



@normal: Verse 6--paragraph. All right, now we're going to step down. We were
up there on top of the deep; now we're going down into it. "And God said, Let
there be a firmament in the midst of the waters." What waters? Verse 2: "The
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Verse 6: And "divide the
waters from the waters" plural. "And God made the firmament, and divided the
waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the
firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven." Capital "H".
That's the big one. Coming on down. Not just heaven above the earth, like
clouds, that kind of business, but the big one coming on down.

     All right, He called it Heaven. "And the evening and the morning were the
second day." Now, when these fellows get to verse 6 and verse 7, all of them
just go to pieces. Give me a Scofield Reference Bible. Now, he's the best one.
I'm using him because he's the best. And the best can't, they can't hack it.

     "And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which above the
firmament from the waters which were below the firmament." Marginal note:
(i.e., of waters beneath {comma}, of vapour above).

     It didn't say "vapor"!

     And the Hebrew word there is not the word for vapor. It's the word for
"water."

     Now, watch these rascals come along and say, "He didn't make the sun the
fourth day, because that isn't the right Hebrew word"--and then the Lord gives
them the right Hebrew word, and they don't take it!

     Now, I'm not going to shock you again, but what is the word for that? And
when you describe these things, brethren, how do you describe them? How do you
describe a man who will change the word of God by appealing to the Hebrew, and
then when you give him the Hebrew, he won't use it in order to change it
again? You know what's the matter with him? He's obsessed with his own
education and he's obsessed with a fixation to alter the word of God and set
himself up as God Almighty.

     Didn't say "vapor." You know why it couldn't have been vapor? I'll show
you. Turn to the Psalms. I'll show you how a King James Bible will correct
every editor on that Scofield Board of Editors regardless of education. Psalm
148. Those waters above the heavens are no more vapor than they are cigarette
smoke. Psalm 148, verse 1. You'd think a fellow could get six verses into the
Bible without getting screwed up, wouldn't you? Six verses! Isn't that
something, man? The guy can't even get six verses, and he doesn't know where
he's at or what he's doing. Has twenty years of formal education, can read
Hebrew and read Greek, and hasn't got any more idea where he's at than a goose
in a horse race.

     All right, Psalm 148:1: "Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the
heavens." Plural. "Praise him in the heights." 'Way up, man--'way up! 'Way up.
"Praise ye him, all his angels." 'Way up. "Praise ye him, all his hosts." 'Way
up. "Praise ye him, sun and moon." Coming down a little ways. "Praise him, all
ye stars of light." Coming down a little ways. "Praise him, ye heavens..."
going back up "...of heavens,..." plural "...and ye waters that [be] above the
heavens." And where's not vapor? Verse 8--it's on the ground! That water above
the firmament is not vapor. Scofield says it's vapor.

     He's wrong! He's wrong. He's just as wrong as any Jehovah's Witness ever
was on the deity of Christ. He's just wrong.

     And he said what he said to line up with science so educated folks would
think he was smart. Now, we're not going to worry about that in this school.
If you learn your Bible, don't you worry when you get with educated folks. If
you learn your Bible, you won't have any trouble turning them over in knots.
You won't have any trouble. And if you learn Hebrew and Greek, you'll really
get adept at it.

     Like I told you the first night, we don't learn Hebrew and Greek here for
edification. We learn it for spite. And don't you ever worry about somebody
thinking you are stupid or dumb, if, number one, you love God, and, number
two, believe God, and, number three, aren't lazy. Now, if you're deficient in
any one of those, then worry about it. But if you love God and believe God and
you're not lazy, then don't worry about what they say. Let them say what they
want to say.

     All right, now about this thing. We've got a firmament above, and a
firmament, and then water above this firmament, and water below this
firmament. And the top of the deep is frozen. We've got a thing like
this--evidently. The face is frozen. Up there is light. Down here is Night.
This is Day. This is darkness. This is water. There's a firmament in the
middle of the water. And it's still pitch black. And there's water down there,
and there's water up there. And then sun, moon, and stars are put in this
firmament to give light on the earth, because there's no light on the earth,
because this whole thing is in pitch black darkness. And this thing is the
height--and this is called the deep. It's called the deep. We talk about "the
deep things of God"--that's what we're talking about, the deep.

     And the people who talk the most about "the deep things of God" are the
ones who don't know what "the deep" is or where it's at. Now, we call this
"the doctrine of the great deeps," and this doctrine will not be found in any
commentary anywhere in the world that any of these fellows wrote to change the
King James Bible. And when they changed the King James Bible, they lost all
the cross references, they don't know what they're talking about. And when I
talk this way, people say, "Well, Ruckman thinks he's right and everybody else
is wrong." And we're not discussing now what Ruckman thinks. We're discussing
the Bible doctrine of the great deeps.

     Let's turn to Ephesians and take the first series of booboos. Once you
get Genesis screwed up, you can't get anything right. All right, get
Ephesians. Get Ephesians. And in Ephesians we'll get Ephesians chapter 3. Now,
if you picked up any commentary in the world--Ellicott, Wycliffe, Dummelow,
Jamieson Fawcett and Brown, Matthew Henry, any of them--you'd get this.
Ephesians 3, verse 16: "That he would grant you, according to the riches of
his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;  That
Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded
in love,  May be able to comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth, and
length, and depth, and height" of the love of Christ. Did I read it right? No,
I didn't! But every commentary in the world reads as I read it. There isn't
any fundamental commentator who ever lived who can get through six verses and
get through them right. You can take any commentary you've got, and you'll
read "the breadth, the height, and the length and depth of the love of
Christ." And that isn't even what the thing says.

     The prayer is, 18, that you "may be able to comprehend with all saints
what [is] the breadth, and the length, and the depth, and the height--"
semicolon "and to know the love of Christ that passeth knowledge."

     Now, that was prayer Paul prayed. And Paul prayed for all saints to know
something about the breadth and the length and the depth and the height. Isn't
it too bad none of them ever found out about it? That's one prayer that sure
hit the dirt, didn't it?

     Let's take Romans chapter 8. That prayer had a rough time getting
through. The body of Christ had so many educated scientists in it, they
couldn't get the verse. Romans 8:38. That "height and depth" is in the
universe. It has nothing to do with the love of Christ. It wasn't even
connected.

     Did you ever hear this song: "Could we with ink the oceans fill and were
the skies of parchment made, Were every stalk on earth a quill and every man a
scribe by trade, To write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry, Nor
could the scroll contain the whole though stretched from sky to sky"? See that
"height and depth" there, compared to the love of Christ, where you
spiritualize it?

     Romans 8:38: "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels,..." over your head "...nor principalities,..." over your head "...nor
powers,..." over your head "...nor things present, nor things to come,  Nor
height,..." there it is! "...nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able
to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

     Now, you are in the building here tonight, in this building here tonight.
You are at the bottom of a sink. You are under about 150
squintillion--whatever that is!--tons of water. And so you are on the bottom.
You are what is known as a fish. And so when Christ comes down to this earth,
the first four men He calls are fishermen. And He says, "You follow me, and
I'll make you fishers of men." To catch that fish, you put a hook down
underwater, and pick it up and take it out and land it on the shore.

     Oh yeah, man! Let's turn to Matthew 13. Boy, what a wreck a King James
Bible can make of a college education. Matthew 13. Now, this is what we call a
hobby-horse at Bob Jones University. This search for the truth is what is
known as riding a hobby-horse and getting off the "essentials" of
"soul-winning," you see. That's why they have so many sorry soul-winners who
don't have the character of a five-year-old.

     Matthew 13. You're supposed to be rooted and grounded in the word,
brother! Now, while I am standing right here, you know what I'm conscious of?
I mean, you can think I'm crazy; it's a free country. I'm conscious of the
fact that I am in foreign territory. This is not my home. I know where my home
is; it's right there. And it's not there. And it's not there. And it's not
there, and it's not there. And it's not there. It's right there. And, if I
missed it, and you take me outside after the building tonight, I'll point
exactly where it is. I might have missed it five or six inches just then.

     See, you get stuff like that, and they say, "Huuuhhhh!" So, what have you
got? You've got a bunch of Christians who think their home is here! Now, if
you're a preacher or pastor and you've had enough time to fool around with
churches, you ought to know what the trouble in America. The Christians have
their roots. The thing that's wrong with the Christian is Heaven isn't real to
him.

     I've been to over 800 churches. I stand here flat-footed and tell you
without even thinking about it that the trouble with those churches that had
any trouble with them was one problem--the church members were trying to get
their roots into the community in which they live. That's what's wrong with
every one of them. Sometimes it's the preacher. More often it's a couple of
deacons that want to get in good with the community and stay in good there and
stay in good with the preacher, and push comes to shove, and they got to get
rid of the preacher to stay in good with the community. And that kind of stuff
goes on and on.

     Heaven isn't real to God's people.

     Now, I'm down here in the bottom of a sink hole; I'm in foreign
territory; I'm in darkness--which I don't particularly care for. And my home's
up there, the other side.  I don't belong here, I belong up there. And between
me and there, there's a body of water I cannot possibly swim. Now if the
astronauts can't get up there with a rocket, what you going to do with a
bathing suit? And somewhere between where I'm at and where I'm supposed to go,
there's a grrreeeeaaaattttt big ol' seven-headed red dragon. And when ol'
Columbus set out to sail in 1492, they said, "Chris, old boy, don't you know
if you get out there, you'll drop off the end, and that dragon's gonna get
you?" And ol' Chris went over and got back and said, "Good news! There ain't
no dragon out there!" And they said, "Awww, that's it! That Bible! That
superstitious Bible! Why, that silly Bible! That stuff about a dragon!" Tsk
tsk tsk!

     Wrong body of water, boy!

     It ain't the Atlantic--it's over your head!

     All right, let's try it one time again with feeling. Matthew chapter 13.
Matthew chapter 13, verse 47. Matthew 13:47. Do you ever wonder about the
songs people sing? "On Jordan's stormy banks I stand and cast a wishful eye,"
you know? "May there be no weeping when I set out to cross the bar." "We've
heard the joyful sound, 'Jesus saves!' Echo back ye ocean waves!" "I won't
have to cross Jordan alone." See that stuff there? When those guys sit down
and write those songs, and they're prayed up, they are making spiritual and
figurative what is doctrinally exact. They don't even know it when they're
writing the stuff.

     Matthew 13:47: "Matthew 13:47  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto
a net." I guess you know what "Joshua" is translated as in Acts chapter 7
don't you? What is it? "Jesus." Joshua the son of Nun in the Old Testament.
You know what the word "nun" is? It's a fish. It's a fish. They're trying to
make that fish the symbol for Christians. That isn't the symbol of a
Christian. That's the symbol of something that Jesus Christ comes down inside
his belly, like Jonah was in the belly of the whale, and the whale is a
picture of hell. That fish is no symbol for a Christian. That's the symbol for
the inside of a marine animal stomach in which you are. And some day you'll
have to be vomited out. Wooo-wooo ha ha!

     13:47.  Like my old professor used to say, "That turns into a highly
imaginative exegesis." Ha ha ha!

     Matthew 13:47: "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was
cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:  Which, when it was full, they
drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the
bad away." Tell me something. What did John come baptizing for? What was he
doing putting folks under water? Did you ever think about that? You never read
about anybody baptized in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Kings and Chronicles
and Samuel. All of a sudden you come to Matthew; this guy comes out of the
wilderness: "Repent and be baptized!" Starts putting them under water. How
come? Cause Somebody's just getting ready to come down under the water and get
to you to get you saved. Boy, you talk about an argument for water baptism,
man, what a baptism that thing is! Why, you're immersed right now! If you
haven't been immersed since you have been saved, you sure are in a funny
position. You're all wet anyway! You're under the water.

     All right, let's check the references now. We've got about fifteen here
to go. It's all through the Bible. Psalm 88:7. Psalm 88:7. This is such great
advanced scientific information, no scientist can find out, not even the
scientists at the Christian Research Foundation in California. Henry Morris
and Harry Rimmer, those fellows rejected the King James text, so the Lord just
slammed the door in their face. Psalm 88. Psalm 88. David speaking. Psalm
88:6: "Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.  Thy
wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves."
Now David there of course is speaking figuratively, but he likens the wrath of
God on him as drowning. That's the picture. Why? Because God drowned them out
once in Genesis 1:2, and drowned them out again in Genesis chapter 6.
Therefore, drowning is a picture of the wrath of God. Therefore, Christ says,
"Are ye able to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?" Not
referring to water baptism that time but of baptism of suffering on the cross,
the wrath of God on Him--on the cross. Suffering under the wrath of God is
pictured as drowning under water.

     Psalm 18. Psalm 18 verse 16. Psalm 18 verse 16. And I'll begin at verse
14. This is the Advent. Now look at verse 7. 18:7: "Then the earth shook and
trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he
was wroth." Verse 9: "He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness
[was] under his feet." Verse 14: "Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered
them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them." Verse 15: "Then the
channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered
at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.  He sent
from above,"--Rapture!-- "he took me,"--Rapture! "--he drew me out of many
waters." David picturing the Rapture in the Old Testament as coming out from
below sea level.

     Psalm 66:12. It's all through the Bible. Once you stumble in Genesis
chapter 1, then a lot of the Bible is just a shut Book to you. Your Hebrew and
Greek will do you no good at all, if you can't believe what God said. Psalm
66:12: "Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and
through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy [place]." 

     Psalm 12 verse 69. Psalm 12:69. That couldn't be 12:69. Have to be 12:6
and 9 I guess. Couldn't be that either! That's a scribal error there. The
"scribe" made a mistake in copying that one. Psalm 124:4--that's the wrong
reference. Psalm 124:4. Psalm 124:4. I'll begin at verse 4. And this is Israel
talking about the end of the Tribulation. Psalm 124:4, begin at verse 3. "Then
they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:  Then
the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:  Then the
proud waters had gone over our soul." That's like Jonah's case.

     All right, Jeremiah 5:22. Jeremiah 5:22. In all these places, the wrath
of God or the judgment of God is likened to poured out water on a drowning
man, with the billows and waves going over his head. Jeremiah 5. Jeremiah 5
verse 22. This is the Lord talking. Jeremiah 5:22: "Fear ye not me? saith the
LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand [for] the
bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the
waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet
can they not pass over it?" Now, if that's a reference to just earthly oceans
out there in the sand, ok. But, if you got a thing like here, those things are
found there and the waters can't get over them--unless the Lord breaks them
up.

     Genesis chapter 6. No, make it 7. Genesis chapter 7. Genesis chapter 7.
Genesis chapter 7, verse 11. Genesis 7:11: "In the six hundredth year of
Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same
day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of
heaven were opened." Where'd you get the idea it was clouds? See how people
are? See how people are? Just go charging through there. No, they were not
clouds. Windows. Something opens. Something opens, and something comes down.
But when it comes down, man, it comes down! That thing isn't coming down at
the rate of six inches a minute. That thing is coming down at the rate of
about four feet a minute, when that thing comes down. Chapter 10, the land
upon this earth is dry in less than ten hours. Maybe less than six.

     Now, a fellow says, "Well," he says, "I don't believe in the windows of
heaven." Well, if you don't, you know what's going to happen to you? You're
gonna get stomped on by a mob in a gate! How many know what I'm talking about?
Let me see your hands. All right, turn to it. Second Kings. A mob is going to
run over you in a gate, friend. Second Kings, chapter 7. Nothing like a King
James Bible to clear up the weather report. Ahh, you got the right Book. You
got the right Book! There's nothing like this. They haven't got nothin' down
at the Space Center that will come anywhere near it. Second Kings 7:1: "Then
Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow
about this time [shall] a measure of fine flour [be sold] for a shekel, and
two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.  Then a lord on
whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the
LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold,
thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof." Why not?
Verse 17: "And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the
charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as
the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.  And it
came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of
barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to
morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:  And that lord answered the man
of God, and said, Now, behold, [if] the LORD should make windows in heaven,
might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes,
but shalt not eat thereof.  And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode
upon him in the gate, and he died." You know what the moral of that is? When
God says windows, He means windows--like you open a window.

     All right, let's go to Job. Job chapter 38. On the "deeps." Job chapter
38. Job chapter 38. Job chapter 38 verse 30. Job 38 verse 30: "The waters are
hid as [with] a stone." Job 38:30: "The waters are hid as [with] a stone, and
the face of the deep..." You just read in Genesis 1:2 "the face"--the waters--
"the face of the deep" is what? "Frozen." Say it again: "Frozen." One more
time: "Frozen."

     Then it's going to be north. The way to handle that thing, that thing is
north.

     Now, the face of that deep is frozen, which means it's like a "sea of
glass"--Revelation chapter 5, Revelation chapter 7, Revelation chapter 14. The
top of that thing is frozen--that's a solid thing--the way you just can't get
over. Let's take chapter 38. Job chapter 38. Job chapter 38 verse 7: "When the
morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?  Or
[who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued
out of the womb?  When I made the cloud the garment..." The cloud? Why, the
"cloud" there is the garment for the sea--not for vapors. Whatever cloud that
is, it keeps an ocean back. "...and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, 
And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,  And said,
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be
stayed?" He's not talking about the Atlantic and the Pacific--no way in the
world! He's talking about a body of water that's held in place by something
like a cloud that it can't break out of, and in the days of old, Noah, it
broke out! It broke out through openings which the Lord calls "windows."

     Job chapter 26. Job 26. It's found throughout the Scripture. To prepare
for the Second Advent, you'll need to learn how to swim and how to ride a
horse. You swim going up, and ride a horse coming back! I'm kidding; you walk
on dry land going up. In Exodus, you see, in Exodus they were redeemed by the
blood--like you--by the blood of the lamb--like you--and the Lord called them
out--like you--and when they were called out they had to go through
water--like you--and it was Red--we'll get into that later--it was Red--and
the devil came after them--like he'll come after you--and it opened up--like
it's going to open up--and you'll go through it--like they went through
it--and the devil will try to come up after you--and it'll close, and down
he'll go!

     I mean, now how are you going to find that in Exodus reading a
commentator? You see, the Bible interprets itself. The Bible is its own
commentator. The best commentator on the Bible is the Bible.

     All right, Job 26, verse 5: "Dead [things] are formed from under the
waters, and the inhabitants thereof.  Hell [is] naked before him, and
destruction hath no covering." Watch it: "He stretcheth out the north over the
empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.  He bindeth up the waters
in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them." Where is that on
this earth? Nowhere in the world; look at verse 9: "He holdeth back the face
of his throne." 10: "He hath compassed the waters with bounds--" not on this
earth; up some place where there is no day and there's no night. See that
thing in verse 10? Now that's what you call Bible metaphysics and Bible
cosmology. And there's no astronomer in the world that knows anything about
it. They're just throwing their work right in the trash can where it belongs.

     Verse 13: Up there in the heavens, verse 13, there's something up there
waiting for you. And he's called "the crooked serpent." Job chapter 41. Job
chapter 41. There sure is a lot in the first six verses in Genesis, isn't
there? You know one time I went up to Camp Myrtle up in Mississippi, and I
wanted to get me a blessing. And I had a good time, I had a shouting time in
the some of the places, you know, and enjoyed. But they had some teacher from
some southern seminary--Baptist seminary--some old fellow, and he taught the
Book of Genesis for something like ten years up there. I tell you, that was
the dryest thing--you couldn't get any dryer in the bottom of a cracker barrel
in the middle of the Sahara Desert. And that guy was up there in Genesis 1,
going on and saying, "And so the firmament, the firmament! Ah, brethren! The
firmament!" You know, that's the way they always talk when they've nothing to
say, you know.

     "Ah, the firmament! This word in the Hebrew means 'a beaten out expanse.'
You see, the ancient Hebrews conceived of the earth as a flat surface with an
arch"--oh, blah, blah, blah, blah--

     That fellow was just wasting his time and my time and God's time and
everybody else's time. What a travesty of the word of God! What a blasphemy,
man! What a waste of time, man! Go see a good movie; you'll get as much out of
it!

     All right, Job chapter 41, verse 1: "Canst thou draw out leviathan with
an hook?" Must be kind of like a fish. "Or his tongue with a cord [which] thou
lettest down?" You put the hook on the cord and let it down, when you get that
thing.

     Verse 7: "fish spears." Verse 7: "barbed irons." Like when you go after
the flounder. But this is an amazing fish. Verse 9: He has no hope. Verse 9:
If you could see him, you'd fall down on your face." Verse 10: He's so fierce,
you wouldn't dare stir him up.

     So what is he?

     New Scofield note says he's a crocodile! Ha ha! Ahhh, shut up! What a
thing, man! I mean, what a thing, man! I mean, I don't have the epithets and
the adjectives to describe it! The fellow says he's a "godly, dedicated,
Spirit-filled, soul-winning..." Why, he's an idiot! These people--I don't know
what they're doing. I guess they're watching television for so long, they
think something like they've seen on there, some of them don't know what in
the world the thing is. And the idea of a guy calling himself a "recognized
qualified scholar." This "great Biblical scholar" with this "unquestioned
loyalty to the word of God." "Deep study" with a "qualified scientific
method"--he can't see his nose in front of his face!

     You couldn't get a crocodile out of that passage. That's a crock! Now,
that leviathan is called a "serpent" and a "dragon" in Isaiah 27:1. He is said
to have more than one head in Psalm 74, and he's called the "devil" in
Revelation 12. Did you ever see a red crocodile with seven heads? Now, that
would be a sight, wouldn't it?

     All right, 18, and 19, and 20. He smokes. There it is right there--18,
19, and 20. But now here is what we're after. Verse 31: "He maketh the deep--"
that's what we're after "--to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of
ointment." He's in the water!

     And that's why all the ancient scientists thought if Columbus went out
and sailed out in the water, he'd run into that thing. They were right. They
just got the wrong body of water.

     Now, these dumb scientists go out--these dumb astronauts--go up. You
couldn't pay me to get into one of them things! If you offered me two million
dollars in cash, I would not get in a capsule and go up there and look at that
dead volcanic piece of ash up there. I'm superstitious about that stuff, boy.
Can you imagine what it would feel like to step out in that thing, if you were
a real child of God? Don't you know the Holy Spirit would bear witness to
something in you, boy, when you stepped out in that thing? I'm like a colored
man, who said, "I ain't worried about getting out." He said, "Trouble is, I's
afraid something might get in back in with me!"

     All right, now you have over your head water, and something's in that
water. Now, what is this thing? Well, now, you know what this thing is. Verse
33 and verse 34. There can't be any doubt about what it is! "Crocodile"? I
mean that's Gaebelein and McClain and Feinberg and Walvoord--Dallas
Theological Seminary. "Crocodile"--ahh, go back to the nursery! I wouldn't let
a guy like that here teach junior church. That's right, brother! If some
fellow up there in Alabama thought it was a "crocodile," I wouldn't let him
teach the primaries and the beginners. What a blasphemy of the name of Jesus
Christ!

     All right, we've to close here. We're just now getting started. We got to
close about now. Now, what you have--if you believe what you read--and I'll
guarantee you, truth is stranger than fiction--is you got a universe down here
with sun, moon, stars, galaxies, nebula, star clusters, and all this stuff
down in here. You have water above it. You have water below it. And out in
here, you have a seven-headed hydra, like that. And his size is not given. The
standard cliche used by all apostate fundamentalists is the devil is not
omnipresent. They kind of say, "He can't be in more than one place at the same
time." Therefore, he has to have demons. Which is a double-tongued flim-flam.
When you said the devil can't be everywhere at the same time, did you mean
everywhere on earth or everywhere in the universe? They didn't say. Now, when
we say God is omnipresent, we mean he's everywhere in the universe, right?
Well, I'll guarantee you the devil's not omnipresent. But when you qualify
that by saying he can't be every place in earth at the same time, then you go
against your definition. A thing could be in the earth everywhere at the same
time and not be omnipresent. Because the earth isn't everyplace there is. See
how they "shuffle up" that thing through there?

     I don't know how big the devil is. And I'll hazard a guess. I'm going by,
in my mind, I'm going over some verse that says he trusts he could take up
Jordan in his mouth. In my mind I'm going through a thing where he casts out a
flood after the nation of Israel around Palestine and likes to drown her. So,
I'm apt to believe that when he spits out, he can spit out a hundred and fifty
billion tons of water without too much trouble. A hundred and fifty billion
gallons, or whatever you say it was, without too much trouble.

     All right, if I was going to guess, I would say if the Lord took the veil
off your eyes right now--I'm just guessing--took the veil off your eyes right
now, and you saw, and looked up there and saw what the Lord sees, you'd see a
sure-enough, Chinese, red, fire-breathing dragon with scales and the whole
works. And that thing would be about twenty thousand miles long, and about a
hundred miles thick--inside. And it travels up and down and back and forth.
And the Bible says if you could see him, you would fall flat on your face, and
the Lord says, "Who then is able to stand before me?"

     If that would frighten you, what are you going to do when you meet his
Creator?

     All right, now we're going to close here, and take a little time for
questions, as time allows. And, uh, we won't get them all, but we'll get some
of them. In the back. You'll have to talk twice that loud, brother; this gang
is noisy.

     QUESTION: In Jeremiah 4:23, is that the same as Genesis 1:1?

     ANSWER: Umm, most of the scholars say it is, because the words match
verbatim. I'd be real careful of it, because if you read on in Jeremiah
chapter 4, it says the birds fled, and there was no man there. And there are
no birds in Genesis 1:1, and there are no men in Genesis 1:1. If you read on,
the context is the Tribulation.

     QUESTION: When Satan goes up to talk to the Lord in Job 1, has he been
deposed?

     ANSWER: The indication right now is that Satan has been deposed from the
throne room, and cannot get in the throne room because of Genesis 1:2. So,
when he comes up to accuse the brethren, he comes up below that thing in front
of the throne. If you drew a picture of it, it would be a wild picture. It
would be a picture of a throne on a sheet of crystal clear glass ice at
absolute zero, where there is no molecular action, and then as the Lord looks
down through that sheet, up comes this red thing in front of it, and below
Him, and says what he says.

     If you fool with science fiction very much, or TV, before we get through
you'll hear everything I talked about counterfeited by Hollywood, Chicago, and
New York.

     QUESTION: Where it says "the windows of heaven were opened," some people
make that waters above, the heaven where God is, and then it opened up, you
know. Which heaven would he be talking about?

     ANSWER: It would probably be a reference to here. It's probably a
reference to water coming out of this thing here. And coming down like a
sluice.

     QUESTION: Can you tell me, please, it says in verse 6,  are we on the
water or in the water or under the water?

     ANSWER: We're under the water. We're not in it, but we're under it. We're
like Jonah.

     You know, there's a passage in 1 John 5 that says, "The whole world lieth
in wickedness." And if you get to fooling with the Greek on that, you've got
the "whole world lieth in the wicked one." And if the wicked one is leviathan,
he's a whale--Jonah chapter 2, Matthew chapter 12. And if he is, you're inside
the belly of a sea monster right now. And he's down in the bottom. And your
problem is how to get out of him. And the Lord came inside of him. Came inside
the house and bound the strong man and spoiled his house. The Lord says, "The
next time I come down there, I'm gonna come as a thief in the night and steal
the best thing in the house!"

     If you're in the body of Christ, he couldn't split the Body of Christ.
He'd probably leave you on the tail end. And that way you'd get up, and you'd
turn around and see the devil coming right behind you, all the way up! That
would put the fear of God in you, man! Boy, I tell you.

     QUESTION: There's something that's still a little unclear in my mind.
That is, between verse 1 and verse 2, does the Lord give the devil control of
the earth, and he made after his own kind, and then after he had the fall, the
Lord restores it.

     ANSWER: Yes, something like that. Yes, something like that.

     QUESTION: Would that account for the dinosaurs?

     ANSWER: Well, that's one explanation. I don't know whether it's so or
not. Now, back there in that second chart, I've got the earth without form and
void, and I've got the dinosaurs on it, you see. But I can't prove that. But
to my way of thinking, if you took those dinosaur bones and put them back
together again, you'd probably get men about thirty feet high. Now, there's
always a chance that the Lord could have taken all those sons of God, and
turned them into marine monsters. Because the devil was a cherub, and he was
turned into a marine monster. And, brethren, it is past time, and we got to
close. Have your questions ready for next time. I'll try to cover them next
time. It's eight minutes till; we're three minutes over, and time is up.

     Now, listen! I'm going to answer all your questions, but you've got
enough to chew on for awhile. Now, you've got enough to chew on for awhile.
You go out through that door tonight, and you look up at the North Star. You
know what the name of that star is? Alpha Draconis. You know what a "draconis"
is? It's a dragon! And just beyond that North Star is New Jerusalem. And
that's where you're going. All right.

     All right, last time we studied in Genesis chapter 1. We just got barely
started. You are supposed to have a quiz over Genesis sometime in September,
one--I don't know how we're ever going to make it with the progress we're
making. We got through eight verses, and we haven't really covered them
thoroughly.

     But what you have here is, before anything showed up down here, there was
an earth down here. And this earth down here was in water and out of water
and, being overflowed with water, it perished. And when it was overflowed with
water, evidently it sank. And I don't understand enough about physics and
astronomy to fill in all the gaps. But evidently, originally, the top of this
earth, floating the water like a cork, on top of the earth, or wherever that
thing was, the Lord was there. So, whatever beings were there were in His
presence. The original Eden was there, and God was there, and the cherubim
were there, and the seraphim were there, and the devil was there. And
something went wrong, and that thing being overflowed with water perished, and
dropped down into an abyss, and later God separated that thing, and put water
above it, and water below it. And then the earth is down in the center of that
thing, with water above it, and water below. And that's called a firmament.

     The top of that is frozen, and the Lord's on top of that thing on His
throne. I've drawn the chart back there at the back. And that first chart
there shows the position. The first chart shows the sea of glass on top; the
Lord's throne north; the devil between you and where you're going in the
water; and the solar system and galaxies down underneath that thing.

     Now, 2 Peter chapter 3 distinguishes three heavens and three earths.
Second Peter 3 says the heavens and the earth that were; the heavens and the
earth that are; and the heavens and the earth that shall be. Three of them.
All in chapter 3. The heavens and the earth that "were" are Genesis chapter 1,
verse 1. The heavens and earth that "are" are Genesis chapter 1 verse 2, to
right now. The heavens and earth that "shall be" are the new heaven and the
new earth here, over here in Revelation chapter 21 and 22.

     So the earth only has three conditions: it was, it is, and it will be.

     And, on the second chart back there, you notice how I've got a circle
drawn, and it says Lucifer and the Sons of God. Well, the sons of God were on
this earth before Adam and Eve were here. And you know they were on this earth
before Adam and Eve were here, because when the devil shows up to Eve, he
says, "You shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." There isn't any point in
telling her she'd be like gods if there hadn't been some around.

     Now, turn to Job chapter 38, and you'll see they were around. And they
are called "sons of God," and they are called "gods." Job chapter 38. And on
the primeval earth, they are on the earth before Adam shows up. Job 38, verse
3, and this is the Lord talking to Job. Job 38, verse 3, the Lord talking to
Job. Job 38:3: "Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee,
and answer thou me.  Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the
earth?" There's Genesis 1:1. "Declare, if thou hast understanding.  Who hath
laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line
upon it?  Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the
corner stone thereof;  When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons
of God shouted for joy?" So the sons of God are around here in Genesis 1:1
when God made that thing.

     Now, to say that the sons of God in the Old Testament are the godly line
of Seth is a pipe dream. That's hallucination. These sons of God are here
before even Adam shows up. Seth's got nothing to do with it. Seth hadn't even
been born. Adam hadn't even been made when these things are here.

     And these things evidently have something to do with the devil. Turn to
Job chapter 1. Job chapter 1, verse 6. Job chapter 1, verse 6. Job 1, verse 6:
"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before
the LORD, and Satan came also among them." So they are connected with the
devil.

     And the devil is called the "god of this world" in 2 Corinthians chapter
4, and he offered Christ this world in payment for obeisance, for worship, in
Matthew chapter 4. So evidently the devil once ran this world, with the sons
of God under him, and he was their leader.

     Let's turn to Psalm 82. Psalm 82. And Psalm 82, begin at verse 1. Now
these sons of God are down in this earth in the days of Noah. That's clear
from Genesis 6, and they are also coming again. That's clear from Matthew
chapter 24. So when the sons of God show up the second time, they'll be
accepted as people from outer space. And when they show up, they'll show up as
33-year-old males--without wings. Because every angel in the Bible is a
male--none of them are sexless, and none of them have wings. Those references
are Judges chapter 13, Luke chapter 24, Acts chapter 1, Revelation chapter 21,
and Genesis chapter 20, and some other places. And when these things show up,
evidently they have some kind of an aura about them, like light coming off of
them.

     They used to call this in the old days a nimbus. And a nimbus was
supposed to be a thing like this: the fellow's head was here, and there's this
circle of light coming out around his head. Rays coming off. And if you look
at modern color photography now, and they begin to take pictures of people,
they begin to photograph those rays. But somebody saw them long before anybody
ever had a camera. Because they are painted like the head was glowing.

     Now, there are all kinds of variations of this. It's very interesting, as
the Germans say. "Gentleman prefer blondes," you see. Why? It's a remnant of a
shining head, a light coming out of the head. And so when the Catholics draw a
picture of the saints, they put a little tire around their head. And then when
they want to make them really look saintly, they give them a circular tonsure,
and cut their hair in a circle. And, just to make sure you get the idea, they
give them a collar just like it--with a collar on backwards and a circle like
that.

     Now, that is all connected with this. Or this. And in a Roman Catholic
church, if you go into the altar and look at the altar, there will be a big
dinner plate sitting right over the altar just like that. And it will be gold
or brass. And it will shine. And if you kneel down at the altar and take the
communion, they put a little ol' piece of something in your hand. And it is
justa likea thata! It's small, and it's round, and it's white.

     Now, this thing here--that symbol there--and that symbol there--sum up
all symbols for Satan. Those right there. And every symbol of the devil in the
world is a variation of one of those two--or a combination of one of those
two.

     And that thing comes from the fact that the source of energy is the sun.
And it puts out light. You see? Like that. So, any kind of symbol where the
sun god is worshipped--Baal in the Old Testament--you have the dinner plate
over the thing there, putting out the rays. You have this thing here, and you
have this here. Or that there. Or this here. Or this here. That's a good one.
Or this one here. Or sometimes like that. And every one of those things is a
picture of the sun and the rays from the sun that comes from sun worship.
Every one of those things is connected with some kind of superior beings that
come down from outer space and shine. And when they step out, they have an
aura about them. It's an electrical circuit that comes out of them. So, if you
ever, if you want to get armed for the UFO invasion, what you get you is, you
get you a water pistol. Now, have you noticed that nobody yet has tried firing
on them yet with a water pistol? That would be very interesting. If that thing
is an electrical circuit, you'd do some damage, brother! You put some water on
that, you'll blow some fuses on that thing, brother!

     Now, they're shooting at them with bullets, and they're pinging off and
bouncing off and glowing when they bounce, and all this stuff. But the thing
you need is a water pistol; that's what you need.

     All right, Psalm 82. Psalm 82:1: "God standeth in the congregation of the
mighty; he judgeth among the..." G-O-D-S. Verse 6: "I have said, Ye [are]
gods; and all of you [are] children of the most High.  But ye shall die like
men." Then they're not men. You don't say "you're cats, and you shall die like
cats." You don't say "you're dogs, and you'll die like dogs." If you say
you're something but you're going to die like something else, then you're not
what the other else is. I mean, he said, "You are gods, but you shall die like
men." They're not men, what those things are. But they die like men.

     So, when they come down here to this earth in Noah's time, they drown,
and they die like men--but they're not men.

     All right, Genesis chapter 1. Genesis chapter 1, verse 6: "And God said,
Let there be a firmament"--an open, beaten-out expanse-- "in the midst of the
waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the
firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the
waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so." Now, I gave you
references last time in the Psalms that showed you that water is above the
clouds and above the heavens. You got a first heaven, from here up to the
clouds, like Acts chapter 1. You got a second heaven, like the sun, the moon,
and the stars, like you are getting ready to read about in verse 17. You got a
third heaven, where Paul was caught up to, in 2 Corinthians chapter 12, and if
he says "waters above the heavens," this water is above the first heaven
(singular), second heaven (singular)--HEAVENS. This water has to be above the
solar system.

     So, this water is outside the solar system; it's over your head, and it
constitutes a body of water at least 150 billion times bigger than our whole
solar system put together. And when they go out there, they call them
astronauts. What's the naut? Why, it's nautical! Can't you figure that out?
And the guy who sails that ship--it's a rocket, ship--is called the pilot. Did
you ever get in an airplane, and you've got a pilot, and a copilot? That's a
ship term! That isn't a ground term. That's a ship term.

     In plainer words, the King James Bible can explain why people talk the
way they talk. And Cape Canaveral and Houston Space Center have to go by a
King James Bible. The fact that they don't believe it is immaterial. It
doesn't make any difference whether they believe it or not; they still have to
go by it.

     All right, Genesis 1:8: "And God called the firmament--" capital H--
"Heaven." That's the real one. That's the big one. That's going on up.

     Notice when he talks about the one you're in--verse 17--he comes on down.
See that business? He talks about birds flying around in the heavens down
there in verse 20--the open firmament of heaven--that's a different heaven.

     Now, how do the King James translators know that? How did they know to
capitalize the first one and leave the second one uncapitalized? Scofield
didn't know it. Scofield thought the firmament and the waters over there in
verses 6, 7, and 8, were the clouds over the earth and the first heaven. So he
just said the capital "H" doesn't mean anything. But the capital "H" in verse
8 shows that Heaven is above the solar system, and the small "H" down in verse
20 shows that one is down in the ground. How do you account for the King James
translators knowing more about the solar system than C.I. Scofield? 'Way back
in 1611, they knew more about the composition of the universe than the best
educated men did of 1910, 1920, and 1930. That's a strange business, isn't it?

     Eight: "And God called the firmament Heaven." Capital H. "And the evening
and the morning were the second day."

     Now notice, when God starts the time going, he makes the evening first.
Look at verse 5: "The evening and the morning were the first day." Verse 8:
"The evening and the morning were the second day." Now, Gentiles have that
backwards. They have the days start with the morning, and end with the
evening. Gentiles have the days start with sunrise. God's days start with
sunset. The Gentile day starts at 12 o'clock in the morning, and that's called
morning--although it's black as, you know, a coal bin. All right, 12 o'clock
in the morning is called morning, and then you get along toward that evening
it runs to 12 o'clock at night.

     To the Jew, the day begins at 6 o'clock in the evening. And the evening
is 6 o'clock at night till 6 in the morning. And the morning is 6 o'clock in
the morning till 6 o'clock the next night--which is much better, as you can
see. Because when a Jew says "evening," it's turning dark--and it stays
evening until it begins to turn light. And when he says "morning," it begins
to turn light, and it stays light until the morning's over, and then it begins
to turn dark. So it's much more, see it's much more consistent than our way.
We say that "morning" is 1 o'clock a.m. Well, that's morning, God deliver me
from it! It's right in the middle of the night, where the dead man's shift,
the graveyard shift, one two three four o'clock in the morning--that ain't
morning, it's night, man! And then we call them, you know, morning that
way--we call them morning and evening.

     All right, so the Jewish day begins in the evening, and then it goes to
the morning.



@blockquote:1:9  And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered
together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.  

10 And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the
waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.  

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,
[and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself,
upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind,
and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and
God saw that [it was] good.  

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.



@normal:  Verse 9: "And God said, Let the waters..." plural "...under the
heaven..." small h. Now, he's down on the ground. That water in verses 6 to 8
is over your head, and that water in verse 9 is down here where you live.

     "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and
let the dry [land] appear: and it was so. So, you're down on the ground now;
you're on the planet. "And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering
together of the waters called he Seas." Now you're on the ground. "And God saw
that [it was] good."

     Now, each time it says "God saw it was good," except in one place. Notice
there under verse 10, "And God saw that [it was] good." See that business
right there? In this creation, look at, oh, verse 4: "And God saw the light,
that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness." Look at the
end of verse 12: "and God saw that [it was] good."

     But when you get to the fourth day, verse 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19--well it
says it there, "good" too. "And God saw that [it was] good." Verse 8? That's
what I want; verse 8. In verse 8, it doesn't say, "He saw it was good." That's
the only one of the six where it doesn't say God saw it was good--verse 7 and
verse 8. Now, why is that? Because there must be something out there in that
firmament that's not good. Or, in those waters above that firmament that's not
good. And what's in that water above that firmament is back in that first
chart; it's the devil.

     Now, notice the paragraph mark starts in verse 9. Break it up. The second
day is over in verse 8. So the second day of work, no "good" is said about it,
anywhere it occurs.

     All right, verse 11: "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the
herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit..." underline it:
"...after his kind." Now, in many languages, the third person singular is
masculine and feminine; in some, its masculine, and feminine, and neuter. In
our language, you can't even tell. I mean, in our language, words don't have
masculine, neuter, and feminine variations. In most languages, a chair is
masculine or feminine or neuter. The sky is masculine or feminine or neuter.
And so you have to get the neuter, feminine, or masculine ending with it. Now,
in Hebrew, the third person singular can be one of two things. It can be
feminine or masculine. Now, our way of translating is to say, when we hit a
masculine Hebrew pronoun is to say "it." "It." "It." "It." But, when Moses
writes back here in this ancient Hebrew, they never translated "it." They
translated "his." "His." "His."

     Did you ever read "The Tabernacle"? The Tabernacle of "his" furniture,
and "his" ouches, and "his"--see that thing? That's why that's translated that
way. Because the Hebrew word back then only had two genders--feminine and
masculine. Now, you could say "it," but technically it's "his." And so he
translated it this way.

     "After his kind." Underline that. A fruit tree yields fruit "after his
kind." A pear tree does not grow cherries. A cherry tree does not produce
oranges. Only in colleges! Only in state universities do cats give birth to
monkeys, and monkeys give birth to 'possums, and 'possums give birth to
aligators, and they give birth to porpoises. I mean, lookie here, coming out
of the water. See, it's a fish. And he gets real smart and comes up on the
land and starts having kids like folks do. Right? Is a porpoise a fish or a
mammal? It doesn't lay eggs. Here's this fish that's been laying eggs all
these years, and learns how to tie them up in the ground, and have, you know,
have offspring like cats and dogs and people. And then he backslides and goes
back in the water! Now, how do you explain that from the standpoint of
evolution? You can't explain that kind of crazy mess! There isn't any way you
can figure that thing out! I mean, if you went back in the water after
learning how to have offspring out here, wouldn't they drown back in the
water? After they learned how to breathe air up here, they went back and had
to breathe water again?

     That porpoise picks up to where they suckle their young under water. How
do you develop the equipment for that? Can you imagine what happened to the
first 150 million babies, who drowned trying? See, I mean, that evolution
thing just won't come through. You can't figure that thing out. A porpoise and
a whale are two of the biggest contradictions in evolution you ever saw. Let
me ask you something. What is the advantage in giving birth the way you ladies
give birth over laying eggs? Isn't it more painful? Doesn't it cost more?
Doesn't it take longer to raise your children? Why, that's no improvement over
laying eggs! I mean, why shoot man! I mean, who are these fellows are trying
to tell you that all these primitive animals lay eggs, and the higher forms
give birth the way you give birth--what's "higher" about that? It's fifty
thousand times as complicated, and twice as expensive, and you can't give
birth to as many, and they are less protected and need more shelter. That's a
dumb way to do things! You call that advancement? A mullet lays something like
two million eggs a year. And yet who remembers a mullet on Mother's Day?

     I mean, you can't say that the way that dogs and cats and horses give
birth to young ones is an improvement over that. Evolution! Pssshhh!

     All right, 11: "After his kind." Now, "after his kind" means that bats
beget bats, not rats and cats. "Whose seed is in itself." Like produces like.
The seed produces what's in the seed.

     Now, you would think that any farmer would know that. I mean, he gets
corn, collects the seed, puts it up and dries it and plants it again next
year. He doesn't expect cabbage out of it. You've got to be a college
professor to believe that. I mean, there are some things that modern man is
teaching that you can't believe unless you're educated--because nobody is born
that dumb! I mean, everybody when they're born just naturally has more sense
than that.

     I was out here in Pensacola Junior College one night, and sitting down
there watching a TV panel public discussion program, on whether to get rid of
the names of lavatories or not. The idea was, you ladies were terribly
oppressed by the fact that one said "Men" and the other said "Women." That
gave you an inferiority complex. If it says "black" the white folks get upset;
if it says "white" the black folks get upset. So, obviously, if it says "male"
the females get upset; if it says "female" the males get upset. So, to take
care of the communist minorities who are trying to overthrow the government,
what they want to do is put up a thing up there with no sign on it--so men and
women both use the same bathroom.

     Now, has that gone anywhere? Let me see your hands if anybody knows of a
case like that? One, two, three, four, five, six--just what I figured, see. I
mean, it's actually being done in some places.

     Now, tell me something. Who could be dumb enough to think of a thing like
that? You go back in the back end of Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina,
Alabama, and you can't find anybody back there that stupid. I mean, if a man
doesn't know there's physical differences in the build, the physical build
between men and women, he should be locked up in a nuthouse! You got to go to
school to be that crazy, man! Nobody's born that dumb!

     All right, Genesis chapter 1, verse 12: "...whose seed [is] in itself,
upon the earth: and it was so.And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb
yielding seed--" underline it: "after his kind." Everything there is after its
kind. Nothing crosses over. There are no cross species. The cross species, you
have to cross them. By nature, none of them cross each other.

     "And the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself--" underline it:
"after his kind." You want to underline that, because the new bibles will
change that around to get evolution going again.

     "And God saw that [it was] good. And the evening and the morning were the
third day."



@blockquote:1:14  And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days, and years:  

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth: and it was so.  

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.  

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth,  

18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from
the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.  

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.  

20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature
that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament
of heaven.  

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which
the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl
after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.  

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.



@normal:  "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven."
Notice the small "h." Not the third Heaven, where the Lord is, but down in the
solar system where you are. "Lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide
the day from the night; and let them be.." all right, one: "for signs." Then
the sun and the moon and the stars are primarily for signs. "And for seasons,
and for days, and years."

     "And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth: and it was so." The purpose of the sun, moon, and stars is to
give light on this earth and to stand for signs, and indicate seasons, and for
days, and for years. So, when that sun comes up, and that sun goes down, a day
is over. Now, when that sun goes up and that sun goes down 365 times, a year
is over. And when that sun backs off from the earth, it's fall. And when it
moves in closer, it's going to be summertime. And the sun, the position of the
sun to the earth, determines the seasons. The earth is out here; you got fall,
out here you got winter, out here you got spring, out here you got summer.

     Now, verse 14: "For signs." All right, so the moon as a sign is a picture
of the church. Song of Solomon chapter 6, verse 10. The moon pictures the
bride of Christ, the church. What's the sun? A type of Christ. Malachi chapter
4. Malachi chapter 4 says, "Then shall the Sun of righteousness arise with
healing in his wings." Psalm 19 says the sun comes forth as a bridegroom out
of his place. In Christ's Millennial Reign, the Bible says the righteous shall
shine forth as the sun, the kingdom of the Father. The sun is a picture of
Jesus Christ; the moon is a picture of the bride of Christ, the church. The
stars are pictures of what? What kind of people? What kind of saved people?
Soul-winners! They're a picture of soul-winners. Daniel chapter 12. Daniel
chapter 12.

     All right, now, here's the earth. And the earth is going this way. It's
going west to east. That way. Here come the sun. The sun is going east to
west. Right? Then the sun goes against the world. And the world goes against
the sun. And if you're going with the world, you are going against Jesus
Christ. And if you're going with Jesus Christ, you are going against the
world. Is that clear? You got any questions about that? There's no way you can
go with Christ without going contrary to the world. There isn't any way. You
say, "Why?" It's a scientific law. It isn't a Bible doctrine; it's a law of
nature. When a man thinks he's going with Christ and is in fellowship with the
world, he's--same old business--he belongs in a looney bin. You can't violate
that law of nature; that law of nature has been operating for 6,000 years,
just like that--the world turned against the sun.

     All right, now, what follows the sun? The moon. "Be ye followers of me,
as I am a follower of Christ." Christ says to Peter, "What is that to thee?
Follow thou me." Now you see that moon? It goes east to west. If you go with
the body of Christ, the body of Christ, you'll go against the world. If you go
with the world, you'll go against the body of Christ.

     Your opinion is not to be consulted. I wouldn't ask you whether you
thought that or believed it. I'm just telling you, if you don't like it, lump
it. I mean, it's a fact. Facts are stubborn things, brother. Now, you take
that moon--that moon's a dead planet. You know what the Bible says? The Bible
says, "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with God in Christ." You take that
moon; sometimes it's bright; sometimes it's dull. Did you know when the earth
is here like this, and the moon is over there like that, and the sun is over
here like this, you see? When the earth comes between the Christian and the
sun, there's an eclipse.

     Do you know why they were so anxious to get up to that thing and stamp
their dirty feet all over it? Because it's a picture of the body of Christ.
And the significance of the moon landing had nothing to do with volcanic ash;
it had nothing to do with 25 billion dollars of your money going down the
drain--which it did. And it had nothing to do with evolution, because there
was nothing up there to evolute. The significant thing was, that marks the day
the world took over the church. Because the moon is a picture of the church.
And there are unsaved men stepping their dirty feet all over it. That's the
end of the church, as far as its separation goes.

     All right, so this goes against it over this way and follows the sun.
Now, those things are signs. The Bible says before Christ comes back, there's
going to be signs in the sun and the moon. The sun will be darkened, and the
moon will turn to blood, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

     Now those things--the most famous one for signs, of course--is the moon.
And if you live up in Carolina or Tennessee or Georgia or Alabama or
Mississippi, you always plant by the signs. And the agriculture experiment
station will say you're crazy, and you can get as good a crop by planting by
the signs. I'll give you a word of testimony. This year I got hit by a choo
choo train, and I couldn't plant my garden when I was supposed to. And I
delayed three weeks, and the signs were wrong. And this is the first garden I
ever planted off the signs. Nothing survived but the beans! The first time I
ever planted off the signs. First time--ten years, twelve years--I planted
without any regard for the signs. And down came that rain and went over the
head of the cabbage, and the cabbage rotted. Down came that rain; I lost
ninety pepper plants. Ninety of them! Thirty jalapena plants! And that rain
came down, and one day I went out there and my corn was made, and all my corn
was just lying like that. I went over and pushed it back up and it
went--oooph!--like that. I pushed it back up, and it went--booph!--like that!
And it rained so hard, that ground was just like mush, and it couldn't hold a
stalk up. And the tomatoes sat there; you never saw as pretty things in all
your life, man. I mean, tomatoes up six feet high, you know, and up eighteen,
fifteen to a bush, and down came that rain--and they got more mildewed and
more mildewed. The sun came out for about one day, and they wilted. And right
back into four inches of rain, sun out again, wilt--lost over half the crop.

     Now, the moral of that, as far as I'm concerned, is plant by the signs.
And up in the country they swear by it. Up in the country, there are farmers
up there that would just--you know why I have more faith in the farmers than
the state agriculture experiment station? Because the farmers count on it for
a living. And when a guy is counting on it for a living, he is always going to
find out more about it than a guy who is just fooling around with it. They're
up there for survival.

     Now, I'm not going to do a long thing tonight on the moon. But one night,
about oh, about fifteen years ago, we had a Bible class down at Brent. And,
just for fun I went around the class, and asked everybody to contribute a
little bit on a full moon. And you wouldn't believe what showed up there. I
mean, there were nurses in there, there was a medical doctor in there, there
were policemen there, there was somebody else in there. When they got through
with that thing, we had--if you dig a hole when the is going up or coming
down, I forget which--you can't fill it back up, because the dirt you took out
won't fill it. And then, another time when you dig the hole, there will be too
much dirt, and you'll have some left over. Then, when you operate on cows and
things that are set the wrong time, they'll bleed to death. Or in day you'll
bleed 'em to death. Free bleeding. And if you slaughter your hogs at the wrong
time, your meat goes bad on you. I don't know how you refrigerate it. And the
bean vines come up big, but no beans on them, or little beans on them. And the
corn will come up, but it won't make a full thing in the ear.

     And then the nurses: the most murders happen in a full moon. The ones
that work in the emergency ward. And the most people that die during phases of
the moon, die during that time.

     It's the wildest thing you ever saw in your life! And most babies born.

     Now, I don't understand all that. But I know when you see a good horror
movie on the full moon, you know--OUUUUUOOOOOOO! {howl}--the guy goin', or the
guy becomes a werewolf, you know, and begins to slobber.

     I remember when I was about eight years old I saw a movie, and I just
remember one scene in it. I remember a guy bending over a basin of stuff that
looked like custard, and it was a full moon outside the window, and he was
saying, "Synthetic flesh! Synthetic flesh! Woowooohoohoohoohoohahahaha!" I
never have forgotten that. I was about eight years old, and that made a
lasting impression on me. There was that big moon out in the window, you know.

     Uh, generally speaking, if you plant top crops, you plant when the moon
is going up. When you plant blue crops, bottom crops, you plant when it's
going down. And the idea behind that, is when the moon's coming up, then it
pulls the crop up, to bear better fruit. And if you plant it with the moon
going down, it pushes it down, and it bears better fruit going down, see. Of
course, there are some other factors. You've got to get Scorpio and
Saggitarius and Capricorn and all the rest of them worked there, and the
Twins, all this and that. But those, and the main thing is the moon. There may
be a lot of other things. But, those things, the moon and the sun, are for
signs. So if an old farmer is planting according to signs, he's Biblical. He's
Biblical. Because the sun and the moon are for signs.

     "Let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let
them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth: and it was so." You notice every time God says something, it happens?
He said this, and it was so. He said this, and it was so. "And God said, Let
there be light, and there was light." That's power, see. Now, you know what
you have in your hand tonight if you've got a King James Bible? You have what
God said. And if God said it, it was so. And, when the Lord says something,
why, it's done.

     You think about your standing in Heaven. I mean, when you got saved and
trusted Christ, the Lord up in Heaven says, "All right, he's predestined to be
conformed to the image of my Son." Now, once He said that, who do you suppose
could stop that? I mean, if the Lord said, "Let there be light," poof! there
it goes, see, so bright that the sun looks like a fly speck on it. If He says,
"Let there be stars," poof! and there are so many you can't even count them.
They haven't got them all catalogued. There are a bunch of galaxies they're
just picking up right now; they can't get them catalogued; they don't even
know where half of them are.

     Did you ever go out and look at the water? You ought to go down to the
Gulf area in Fort Walton Beach some time and look at that thing. There's a
Gulf area there in Fort Walton Beach, a big tank about as big as this room.
And they've got in that about 800 or 900 different species of fish, just all
swimming around in that thing. And then glass things all around the sides of
those things. And you get to watching those things in there, and looking at
those things, and you'll come to the conclusion there isn't any alibi for
making those things. I mean, whoever made those things just made them for pure
whimsy. Ol' Darwin would say, "Well, it's protected." They're not protected;
some of those fish are so bright red, you could see them a mile off. Darwin
would say, "Well it was done, you know, they had this ink cloud to protect
them from the enemies"--oh, go on! A shad minnow don't have any ink cloud! If
you had to come back and reincarnate another life, you better hope you don't
come back as a shrimp or a shad minnow--because everybody's after them;
they've got no protection at all.

     And you get to looking at those fish there. And I've often looked at
them. And I've been fishing out in Pensacola Bay and out in the ocean. And
I've had a school fish drive by me so thick they bumped me. I mean, bumped my
legs and arms going by. And those things were four and five feet deep and two
acres square--those fish. And those bodies so close together that--. Wayne
Mundt, a fisherman we used to have here, said they'd get so close he has had
his motorboat, the screw of the motorboat, stopped going through a school of
mullet. The school was so thick they jammed the motor.

     Now, you take that swarm out there like that, see. Now, you know who did
that? The Lord did that! And the Lord said, "Let it bring forth." Poooosh,
man! You can't even count the stuff!

     Now anybody who is that powerful when they say something, don't you know
when the Lord says, "You're saved," you're saved! I mean, He said, "This is
the record, that God hath given us eternal life, and this life is in his son;
he that believeth not God hath made him a liar. These things have I written
unto you," see--what God said-- "that you may believe that you have eternal
life." You've got eternal life. If God says it, that's it! Nobody can
contramand that thing! Why, the devil would just be wasting his time against
that kind of power. The devil can't say, "Let there be a universe," then throw
out so many stars you can't even count 'em.

     Look at 16. Look at the last six words: "He made the stars also." Ha ha!
What a "P.S." to put in a letter! I mean, the scientists can't even find them!
Ahh, "He made 'em too," you know.

     I'll tell you something else. He's got them all named. Turn to the
Psalms. He's got them all named. They can't even find them to name them. Look
at Psalm 147, look at verse 4. So He's got them numbered and named. Psalm
147:4: "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by [their]
names."

     All right, now don't you know if the Lord can keep track of 150 billion
stars, He can keep track of us? If He'd bother to waste time to memorize 150
billion names of something burning out there, don't you know when He says, "I
know my sheep, and I call them by name, and I know them," you know He knows
it. Somebody worrying about stuff. "An atom bomb's going to blow us to a
million pieces!" Well, the Lord will put them back together again. If I get
blown into a million pieces, the Lord will say, "Come together!" and
phooooommmmsssshhh! and it will all come back together again, it doesn't make
any difference.

     All right, Genesis chapter 1, verse 15: "And let them be for lights in
the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.  And
God made two great lights; the greater light [would be the sun] to rule the
day..." a type of the Millennium "...and the lesser light [the moon, the body
of Christ] to rule the night:..." the Church Age "...[he made] the stars
also." So this dispensation is night. Now, you know that, because Christ says,
"Behold, I come as a thief in the night." So this age is night, and at night,
we're the witness. In the Millennium, He's the Witness. You know what the moon
does? Does the moon have any light of its own? It reflects the sunlight. See
that thing? The Light of the world is Jesus. If you are the light of the
world, you are reflecting His light. You ought to keep your reflector
polished!

     You know what they say, don't you? Have your lights on thirty minutes
before sundown, and thirty minutes after sunup.

     All right, verse 17: "And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to
give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to
divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.  And the
evening and the morning were the fourth day."

     All right, we'll stop there, and have a few questions. Yes, sir:

     QUESTION: I'm trying to figure this thing out in verses 6-8 about the
waters under the firmament. That would be between the first and second heaven,
right?

     ANSWER: The waters under the firmament are below the universe. The
firmament is the middle--that's the universe. There's water under here, and
water up here.

     QUESTION: Yeah, but in verse 9, he says--

     ANSWER: Yeah, but then, he's come down--that isn't the same water. That
won't be the same bunch, because it's a different heaven. That's why I was
pointing out about the capital. In verse, lookie here--in verses 1 and 2,
you're above the third Heaven. In verses 6, 7, and 8, you are above the second
heaven. And in verse 9, you are above the first heaven.

     QUESTION: So that's the third Heaven in verse 8?

     ANSWER: No. No. That will be the second. That will be above the solar
system. The third's in verse 2 and verse 3--where God is.

     QUESTION: You reckon there's something to that "full moon" stuff?

     ANSWER: I don't know, brother. I just know it's weird. I just know--all I
know is this. I've had ten years of college; ten years. And I must confess
that in ten years of college, I not only did not get the answers, I wasn't
even told what the questions were! And there are just a lot of things like
what you are asking about, I don't know anything about, but I know there's
something behind them. You men here that are married, why don't you start
taking notes on your wife and the full moon, ok? Take notes on her on the full
moon.

     QUESTION: What about this thing that I came across, "not being an
observer of times"? I wondered what that is about?

     ANSWER: Well, an "observer of times" is wrong, but verse 14 doesn't say
times. Fourteen says, "Signs, seasons, days and years." That times is
astrology and trying to predict something the wrong. It tells when it's going
to happen by divining. But this thing here is for purposes.

     QUESTION: Some verses on this?

     ANSWER: I gave you, I think, Song of Solomon chapter 6, verse 10. And, on
your life being dead and hid with Christ, I don't have it marked. It ought to
be in Colossians or Ephesians. Where is it? Colossians 3:1-3.

     QUESTION: Did you say that the firmament was the second heaven?

     ANSWER: The firmament where? In verse 6? There are two firmaments.
There's a firmament containing the universe in verses 6 to 8, and there's a
firmament below that containing our solar system here.

     QUESTION: Okay, we have water. We have our firmament. We have water. We
have the next firmament. We have the ice.

     ANSWER: Right. Right. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Now, that's called three
stories. It's called stories in Amos, and there are three of them, if we
believe Noah.

     QUESTION: Okay, where he says the sun is a type of Jesus Christ, what was
the Scripture on that?

     ANSWER: Umm, Psalm chapter 19, Matthew chapter 13, and Malachi chapter 4.

     QUESTION: I still can't get it straight on verse 8. Would that be the
throne then?

     ANSWER: No. That would be below the throne, between the solar system and
the throne.

     QUESTION: That's where all that big body of water is?

     ANSWER: Yes, sir. And the heaven is the open place between the two bodies
of water. It's capitalized because it's not the heaven that's mentioned in,
oh, say verse 20 where there are birds flying around in it.

     QUESTION: On "God," you were running a reference on Psalm 82, verse 6, it
says, "Ye are gods," and John 10:34, that's a reference where Jesus is talking
to the Jews, and He says that ye are gods. He called them gods.

     ANSWER: No, He didn't. He said He called them gods to whom the word of
God came. He doesn't say that they are gods.

     QUESTION: In the Greenville News, November or December of '76, I cut out
an article on the newswire, and they said there was some large radio telescope
someplace that was the world's most powerful, and it picked up traces of water
from the further north. And I cut the article out.

     ANSWER: Ohhh, yeah. That might be some of the galaxies might be stuck up
there in that thing; it might be a little bit wet.

     QUESTION: You were saying that they were destroyed in the flood. Did they
have that electrical power or anything you were talking about?

     ANSWER: I don't know. I'm not sure about that. It sure would close the
circuit, wouldn't it?

     QUESTION: What did you say the moon was a type of?

     ANSWER: The moon was a type of the body of Christ.

     QUESTION: Two questions: Is there any Scripture for the lake of fire
beneath the second body of water?

     ANSWER: No, there isn't.

     QUESTION: Second question, which is abstract, I guess: Where can I get
the pamphlet by the Knights of Columbus on holy sacrifices? Where can I get
that?

     ANSWER: You mean the oath of the Knights of Columbus?

     QUESTION: The one where they're talking about transubstantiation.

     ANSWER: Oh. Well, Brother Nichols said he'd give you one, but you can get
that anywhere. For example, if you go out to the airport and go to the tract
rack anytime, they'll have a pamphlet there on the mass; it'll have that stuff
in it.    

     QUESTION: I'm sorry; I still don't get it. I only see one firmament
between two bodies of water in verses 6 through 8. The third Heaven above that
water like back there on the chart. One firmament where the planets and the
universe and stuff.

     ANSWER: All right, well good, fine. What's the problem?

     QUESTION: So you've got two bodies of water--one above and one
underneath, right?

     ANSWER: Right. Yeah, but you skipped the paragraph there, and went down
someplace else. See, as soon as you did that, see, you changed. You're trying
to pretend that verse 8 and verse 9 go together.

     QUESTION: No, verse 9 is talking about the water in the earth.

     ANSWER: The Holy Spirit put a paragraph right there so you couldn't
possibly miss it. Just like He put one in verse 6 so you couldn't possibly
confuse verse 6 with verse 2.

     QUESTION: I have a Scofield Bible.

     ANSWER: Ahhhh! There you go! Moral: Don't ever trust Scofield when you
can get a King James.

     QUESTION: If you've got a body of water above, and a body water below,
then in between, what happens if you go out this way?

     ANSWER: Heh heh. Well, brother, I'm not that much of a physicist. I
couldn't tell you what would happen if you kept on going down to the bottom.
You get in the lake of fire, but if you kept on going through the lake of
fire, where would you be? That question has to do there with the infinite size
of the universe. Now, I've drawn borders on it--but how else could you draw
it? I mean, how does somebody draw the universe? I don't know. Now, we're ten
minutes over. There's one more question, and that's going to be it. Yes. You
all will run here, you'll run here till eleven o'clock tonight, if I just let
you go. Till eleven o'clock at night. And some of it you're going to get, you
couldn't get anyway, you're going to have to get by yourself. And some of the
questions you're asking will be answered in another three or four weeks
anyway. Go ahead:

     QUESTION: What was the reason you drew the triangle like you did when He
divided the firmament--

     ANSWER: I drew the triangle, I drew the triangle as a picture of the
universe, because since I drew that picture there, I've come to the conclusion
that if there's any shape to the universe--but you see what kind of ground
we're on; I mean, how do you shape the universe? If you draw a triangle,
what's outside the triangle? Right? I drew it as a triangle because the Bible
says, "Beautiful for situation is Mount Zion, the city of the great King,
located in the sides"--it's got sides-- "of the north." All right, if you say
it's like that, and these are the sides here, when you get to the sides, you
don't come up to a point, you come up to a plateau. But--it must be this way,
because He says over there in Hebrews chapter 12 you're not come to the
earthly Jerusalem, but to the heavenly Mount Zion. The mountain is not shaped
like this; the mountain is shaped like there's a window and it's not through
yet. So, if you have these three things here, then you have God the Father
here, and God the Son here, and God the Holy Spirit here, and the universe is
a manifestation of the Trinity. It must be like this, because everything else
is trinity.

     For example: In the time-space continuum, there's only three elements.
Each one of those three elements is busted down to three elements. For
example, if you time--you have past, you have present, you have future.
There's no past without present and future; there's no present without past
and future; there's no future without past and present.

     You have a body, you have a soul, you have a spirit.

     God's a Father, and a Son, and a Holy Ghost.

     You got a Bible written in Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic.

     The Old Testament is the Law, and the Writings, and the Prophets. And the
New Testament is the Gospels, and the Acts, and the Epistles.

     You can't beat the three, because here is North America, Central America,
and South America; the other side is Africa, and Asia and Europe. Whether
you're on the land, or the sea, or the air, or the army or the navy or the air
corps--the marines coming across--and the first time you go to school, it is
grade school, junior high school, high school. The next time it is, junior
college, college, or post-grad.

     And it won't do anything but three other times you put it down. There are
three roots of hair: straight roots, curly roots, and kinky roots. Ask any
barber. Ask any barber. It will come three every time you fool with it!
Doesn't matter what it is!

     Therefore, I suppose the universe is three cornered. Now, next time,
brethren, I've got a wife and two little girls who have to go to school
tomorrow, and some of you do too. And I know you want to get all you can get.
But you just can't get that much in a class that meets one hour a week. Now,
if you want me to talk twice as fast as I'm talking, I can do it. But I'm
going so fast right now, I'm leaving some of you in some places, so I'm trying
to slow down, and there just isn't enough time. You're supposed to have an
examination--what is today? The 19th? All right, next week's the 26th. You're
supposed to have an examination next week over--what is it, 1 and 2?--Genesis
1 and 2. There isn't any way in the world you can be examined over Genesis 1
and 2 next week--or the week after that, or the week after that. So, what you
are going to get this year in this course is two grades. And, if one of them
goes under seventy, you flunk the course. So, what I'm saying is, you better
hold back on the questions, and you better let me get the material, and get it
across. And on this thing here about overtime, now, I notice some of you, you
stay up all night, you know. But a lot of folks here have children, and
children in school, and like I say, some of you can afford to be away from
your kids a little while, for a year--but I'm doing this fourteen years at a
time. And my kids have grown up and gone while I'm doing this. So I want to
spend a little time with them. Now, I've taken ten minutes of time right now,
which I should be on my way, so we're going to close. And if you've got
something else, it will have to save for next time. Eish leva desh, ava gooten
nacht!

     Well, now, we're in Genesis chapter 1. You've learned from Genesis
chapter 1 that a man gets derailed pretty quickly when he picks up a Bible.
And because a man's saved doesn't mean he'll stay on the track. And by the
time they got to verse 2, they were finished, and by the time they got to
verse 6, they quit and were gone home.

     And we're still going to stay with it and believe it means just what it
says and says just what it means.

     Genesis chapter 1, verse 20: "And God said, Let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above
the earth in the open firmament of heaven." Notice that "open firmament of
heaven" there is clouds; it's the first heaven, and it's the firmament that
goes from here up to the clouds.

     Now, by Scofield and that bunch confusing that firmament in verse 20 with
the firmament in verse 7, they got all messed up. So, when you get down to
verse 9, you're coming down to the ground again. All right, then he says in
verse 20: "Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath
life." Underline the word "life," or emphasize it some way. That's the first
time it occurs in the Bible.

     Now, the law of first occurrence in homiletics means that the first time
a word shows up in the Bible, you should notice the way it's used, because
thereafter through the Bible it always has the uniform meaning. And you want
to be careful to notice the first mention of a word. The first time the word
"thirteen" shows up in the Bible it's a connection with rebellion. And it's
rebellion till the end of the Bible. The first time a shepherd shows up in the
Bible, he's a type of Christ, the Good Shepherd. And the first time life shows
up, it shows up in connection with water. So physical life is connected with
water, because the first physical life comes from water.

     Therefore a man must be born of water, and of the Spirit. Therefore,
water could have no reference to the word of God--not by the wildest stroke of
your imagination.

     Now, notice how the King James Bible clears up Greek text and Hebrew text
and theology. A Campbellite will say, "Well, unless you're born of water
baptism and the Spirit"--and that isn't it, because baptism isn't in the
passage. And the Fundamentalist said, "Well, the water here is the
word"--going to Ephesians. No way in the world! In the context of John chapter
3 it says, "Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot see the
kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit." Now, why did He say that? Because every Jew knows
that physical life is connected with water.

     Now take your Bible and turn to Proverbs, and notice this is even so
strongly so, that a man's wife is called his fountain, and the waters that
come from that fountain are likened to his children. Proverbs--I don't have it
marked, it must be about Proverbs 6, 5, 5:18. 5:18. Now he says, 5:18: "Let
thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth." Verse 16:
"Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the
streets." But what comes from that fountain? "Let them be only thine own, and
not strangers' with thee." Your children, not somebody else's children.

     And over there in Isaiah he says Israel comes forth from the waters of
Jacob. A Jew understands that water has to do with physical. Now, you know how
you know he understood that? Because in the Old Testament they sprinkled water
on them to sanctify the flesh. And there were six waterpots of stone there in
John chapter 2, "after the manner of the Jewish purifying was." They never
connected water with the Spirit--never. They connected water with flesh and
purifying the flesh--never the Spirit--never.

     All right, Genesis chapter 1, verse 20: "Let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl." Notice that birds
are closer kin to fish than they are to man and animals--and thatsa whya they
laya eggsa! Now, isn't that an amazing thing there? See, the Lord's got that
thing down. That fowl--that flying animal--is closer kin to the fish than he
is to the mammals--they lay eggs.

     "Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath
life, and fowl." Then birds and fishes come from water. Mammals and man come
from the ground. Genesis chapter 2, Genesis chapter 2 verse 19: "And out of
the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the
air." Then it's a combination of water and dirt. Or, as they say out in the
world, "Your name is Mud!" And the mammals and the man are made as a unit, and
the fowls and the fishes are made as a unit, and the combination that's used
is water with dirt. In the case of man it would be wet red clay. You want to
find how to make a man out of something like these scientists are doing, you
are wasting your time fooling with cloning. You have to get red clay to fool
with. You have to get water to mix with it.

     All right, Genesis 1:20: "And God said, Let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature that hath life." We're not through yet. The
word "life" shows up on the fifth day. In your Bible hereafter, the number
five stands for death. You got a thing here going, where there's one day, two
days, three days, four days, life. Five days, six days, Millennial sabbath of
rest. So, in the first chapter of Genesis, you have the First and Second
Advent, and everything in between. One chapter. If you knocked out the whole
Bible but one chapter, you'd have the whole thing in one chapter, and I'll
show you that in a minute.

     All right, so that thing goes one, two, three, four, LIFE. And it's life
through death--right on the money. And this date here will be 2,000--and this
date here will be 4,000--and you're in 1978. You haven't got twenty years to
go at a maximum--you've got to allow seven years for the Great Tribulation. So
you haven't got twenty years to go. If you are under 40, you're going to make
it, unless you die a violent death.

     All right, 20: "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the
moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the
open firmament of heaven.  And God created great whales, and every living
creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their
kind." Notice, whales are given as a separate order--and they are given as a
separate order because they are mammal. They don't lay eggs. So when the Lord
is talking about the stuff in the water bringing forth, He signifies one kind
that isn't a regular kind.

     "Great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters
brought forth abundantly,..." underline it: "...after their kind." They
don't--salmon do not produce tuna, tuna do not produce mullet, mullet do not
produce bass, bass do not produce gars, gars don't reproduce catfish, and
catfish do not reproduce salmon. You'd think a fellow would know that,
wouldn't you? You got to go to college to believe that.

     It's "after their kind." "After their kind, and every winged fowl..."
underline it again: "after his kind." Bats beget bats, not rats or cats.
"After their kind." "After his kind."

     "After his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.  And God blessed them,
saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let
fowl multiply in the earth.  And the evening and the morning were the fifth
day."



@blockquote:1:24  And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his
kind: and it was so.  

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their
kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw
that [it was] good.



@normal:  "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after
his kind, cattle, and creeping thing." "Let the EARTH bring forth..." It's
ground.

     "Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle,
and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind..." there are your
mammals "...and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth..." underline
it: "after his kind." After his kind! After his kind! After his kind! See that
thing? There's no "origin of the species" back to one. There's no something
branched into coming different things. That whole thing in Genesis 1 is
contrary to evolution. Jesus said, "From the beginning of the creation which
God created." Jesus Christ is not an evolutionist; He's a creationist. And He
said, "From the beginning of the creation which God created."

     Now, if you're an evolutionist, you've got this false cock-and-bull story
in Darwin's Disneyland. And this is the main teaching in the world today. That
is, the Communist Party are all evolutionists. Uh, if a man is a communist by
virtue of what he believes, he has to be an evolutionist. He has to believe in
dialectical materialism. Dialectical materialism comes from Darwin, evolution,
and Hegel.

     Now, here is the teaching. I'm going to simplify it. Understand this
isn't very scientific, but then you don't have to be very scientific to get
this. You are like this. Don't you recognize yourself? Ha! You are an amoeba.
You are a blob. And then gradually you become two blobs. And then you become
three blobs. And pretty soon you become a hundred blobs. And the trouble with
that is, you'll always remain a blob! Ha!

     The trouble with that is the amoeba is a one-celled animal, and there are
no--I said there are no--I said there are no two-celled animals. It isn't a
matter of a missing link. These fellows keep trying to tell you about this
"missing link" from animal to man. A missing link? What you talking about,
man? There are thirty-three thousand missing links! There isn't one missing
link.

     They always fool around in Africa, you know, trying to dig up some
half-monkey man over there. And you know, some of those skulls--you can see
them every day in Pensacola! And they're trying to dig that thing up. They're
trying to dig that thing up and prove this thing suddenly jumped from an ape
to man, and they can't find it; they call it the "missing link."

     That's a lie. There are thirty-three thousand "missing links."

     The first one is right there. How do you get from a one-celled to a
two-celled animal? You don't. First missing link.

     You know what the second missing link is? How do you get from a
two-celled animal to a three-celled animal? You know what the next missing
link is? How do you get from a three-celled animal to a four-celled animal?
Well, you don't.

     So the next thing you pick up is something like paramecium, or hydra.
They get hydra. They get ol' hydra running like that with his "flagella"
moving around, see. But he's got all kinds of cells in him. He's not a
one-celled animal; he's got ten or fifteen kinds of cells, and multiples of
those.

     And then he goes into this, see. You're still kind of a blob. And he gets
kind of pointed at one end, like that. And he keeps getting pointed until his
feet come together, and then he finally gets it down pretty good, see. And
it's logical. And if you think it isn't logical, you see the pretty pictures?
See what they do when they--yeah, man! When you all go to college, what they
show you, they show you the pretty pictures. And these guys like me who have
spent all their life painting and drawing draw pretty pictures--and you look
at them and say, "Oh, yuh, eeeahh, aayyyy, ahhhh..." It's kind of like
watching a Mickey Mouse cartoon; they don't have that stuff.

     All right, then this thing goes along like this, and pretty soon it gets
kinda like that for some reason, and then it gets kinda like this for some
reason. And then, for some reason, it keeps wanting to stand up like this.

     I saw a cartoon in Mad Magazine one time where a guy--this archeologist
got this piece of bone together, and he works at 'em like a dog, see. And he
finally gets after about 55 pieces of this bone together, he finally gets this
bone together all shaped like this. And then the artist comes along and
reconstructs the animal. And he gets this. Now, to me, that ought to make good
sense, see. I mean, if you're gonna say, "Well, this bone indicates that the
thing was a certain way," well you can build anything around it, man! I mean,
the fellow says he got this thing here, see, and he got the top of the skull
like this. And he got this bottom of the skull like this. Now, if he puts that
together, then you've got this ape man. Now, I'm an artist, see. If I want to
have fun,... I mean, that's all that stuff. Now, you know there are kids that
spend six to ten thousand dollars a year going to school looking at that stuff
in picture books and believe it. They believe it. Then you finally get up
here, and you get longer and longer and longer, you know. You're dragging your
feet on the ground, you've got a tail out here, you know. Then you get your
tail hacked off in a stump. And then you get up in here someplace, and pretty
soon:

     Once I was a tadpole, and I began to begin.

     And then I was a frog with my tail tucked in.

     Next I was a monkey in a banion tree.

     And now I'm a doctor with a Ph.D.

     Now, see--that's what they get, see. Now, that theory is that this thing
comes up that you skip from species to species by a gradual thing. And, of
course, there's anybody looking around and doesn't see it in evidence
anywhere. I mean, where right now is there a monkey that's in the process of
becoming a man? Can you imagine a fellow being an evolutionist and believing
integration at the same time? Imagine that! Imagine that! I mean, imagine a
fellow believing in mixing all the races, and admitting that there's one race
that is a throwover from the Stone Age.

     Did you know they put that whole series of programs out now on evolution
over television about ten years ago, that ran for almost a half a year; they
ran that thing and had to shut that thing down and cool it. Because when they
got back there and kept going back, they had to go to an Australian, African
bushman to get to the original species.

     You know the implication behind that, brother? I mean, if you're an
evolutionist, you know what that implies? I can't imagine a man being an
evolutionist and an integrationist--no way in the world. Being one or the
other, but don't be both of them.

     All right now, you take that thing right there. That thing split off, and
somewhere here--somewhere along the line--you got to get aligators, going off
here; mammals going off here; and aligators and crocodiles going off here; and
'possums, weasels, monkeys going off here. And where that brings in cats and
dogs and bears and giraffes and all that stuff, I don't know. The whale is a
wreck! Because here's this whale out in this ocean, see, and it gives birth to
its young--like a mammal--and they all drown. How do you suckle a baby under
water? Well, it's got the apparatus. Where did it get the apparatus from? The
apparatus had to be developed on land.

     Well, a whale came out and climbed on land and developed a land whale
bearing its young, then went back in the water--what a deal, man! I mean,
there isn't any way to figure that thing out. Now, that thing there--that's
the maddest scheme you ever saw. And the consistent evolutionist that I ever
studied was Adolph Hitler. And he was perfectly consistent. And he has gone
down as the world's biggest boogey man, and the holy terror, and the archangel
of death, and this and that. There have been more people killed in communist
Russia in the last--oh, in the last twenty years, during the Communist Party's
takeover--than were killed in Germany during the entire time that Hitler was
there, and during the entire time the Czars reigned over Russia. That
estimation is somewhere around 10 to 12 million people--not counting Communist
China.

     Now, Hitler figured this way: If you came from animals, then you are
high-class animals. Right? That's logical. If you are high-class animals, then
you should get high-class treatment. For example, if you've got diseased
animals and old animals and weak animals you want to get rid of, and do it
humanely, you gas them. So you put the people in the crematorium, and put in
the Xyklon B pellet and put it in--and you gas them.

     And all these American people over here in the college university say,
"Gasp! Oh! Oh, the horror of the holocaust!" Why, you crazy sap! You're
teaching that stuff at West Florida University! You're teaching now that you
can mess around with genes and mix chromosomes--that's what you experiment
with animals in the laboratory. You want to find you get cancer? Run a rat
through a maze until you get cancer from doing what the rat does. They're
think you're kin to rats.

     The thing is, they're not consistent. Hitler would say, "Well, all right,
if they come from animals, then their skin ought to be good for something. Why
waste the skin? All right, skin 'em and make lampshades out of them and
billfolds, and tear 'em into leather." And folks say, "Gasp, ahhh, ohhh!"
Well, if you're an evolutionist, what are you going to do? You going to
pretend he has a soul when you don't believe he has one?

     Now, I'm not an evolutionist. I don't think Adolph was right. I think
that's the biggest cock-and-bull story you ever saw, but if you're going to be
consistent, if you're going to be consistent--that's where it's going to wind
up. And most Communists are consistent about those things.

     All right, now that thing comes out "after his kind." Come on down in
verse 24: "After his kind: and it was so.  And God made the beast of the earth
after his kind,..." underline it "...and cattle after their kind,..."
underline it "...and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his
kind..." look how he keeps driving that thing in! Just slam! slam! slam! slam!
slam! If He wants to get you one thing, He wants to have you get that Darwin
didn't know what he was talking about. Now, when Charlie Darwin erected that
fantastic superstructure, it was an attack on Genesis chapter 1. And the
people who believed it rejected Genesis chapter 1. If you reject the beginning
of the Bible, you're going to reject the end of the Bible. If you reject the
beginning and the ending, you reject the middle.

     If Genesis 1, 2, and 3 aren't history, nobody in this building needs to
be born again. Because if Genesis 1, 2, and 3 didn't take place, you're not a
fallen creation, you're a creation climbing up from a mud puddle. Pilgrim's
Progress from puddle to paradise! You're coming up from an amoeba. If Genesis
1, 2, and 3 aren't right, you don't have to be born again--forget it. You're
OK, just keep on climbing up! If Genesis 1, 2, and 3 are history, you were up
and you fell flat on your face, and God has to lift you up again or you will
go to hell. And that's why men don't like Genesis 1, 2, and 3. And Darwin did
one of the greatest services to unsaved mankind man ever did, when he gave him
an alibi to reject Genesis 1, 2, and 3. That fellow, when he gets wherever
he's going, Heaven or hell, he's going to have so much blood on his hands, you
won't be able to carry it in dump trucks.

     If you wrote down the names of the men that damned humanity, you could
write down the names of ten men, and those ten men would have more than ninety
percent of the lost people's blood on their hands who ever went to hell. Ten
men. And eight of them would be educators or philosophers.

     Verse 25: "And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind:
and God saw that [it was] good."



@blockquote:1:26  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  

27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.  

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth
upon the earth.



@normal:  "And God said, Let us." Then there's somebody around there beside
the Lord. Or, if it's just the Lord there by Himself, then the Lord is more
than just one unit.

     "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Now, there are two
things about it. One, it could be a reference to the Trinity, which
undoubtedly it is. And two, it can be a reference to the sons of God who are
still there. And no sons of God are made after the image of God in the sense
that they are representations or appearances of the Lord. When the devil shows
up to Eve, he says to Eve, "You shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." And
when the Lord runs Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden in Genesis chapter
3, He says in verse 22, "Now the man is become as one of us, to know good and
evil"--which, although it may be the Trinity, it seems to go a good bit beyond
that. It seems like the Lord and the angels of the Lord.

     All right, Genesis chapter 1, Genesis chapter 1, verse 26: "Let us make
man in our image, after our likeness." Turn to Luke chapter 3. So, in this
passage, Adam is called "the son of God." Jesus Christ is the Son of God, so
Jesus Christ is called "the last Adam." Luke 3:38. Luke 3:38. Luke 3:38:
"Which was [the son] of Enos, which was [the son] of Seth, which was [the son]
of Adam, which was [the son] of God." Now, if you take out even "the son" it
won't change the reading any: "Which was of Enos, which was of Seth, which was
of Adam, which was of God."

     All right, then, Genesis chapter 1, verse 26: "Let us make man in our
image." Now, "our" is proper because of the Trinity--Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit. "After our likeness: and let them..." Man in the plural. Then:
"...have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his [own] image, in the image
of God created he him; male and female created he them."

     All right, "so God created man in his own image": (1) "in the image of
God created he him"; (2) "male and female created he them." You notice that
Trinity showing up through there in those statements divided off into threes?
Uh, take 26--God said: One-- "Let us make man in our image." Two-- "After our
likeness." Three-- "Let them have dominion." They are all busted off in
threes.

     Twenty-seven: "So God created man in his own image." What is the "image"
of God? Whatever the image of God was, that's what Adam was made in. The
textbooks say true righteousness, holiness, so forth and so on. But, of
course, that's denying the word of God. Take your Bible and turn to 2
Corinthians chapter 4. You are told in the Bible what the image of God is.
Second Corinthians chapter 4; there can't be any doubt about it. Second
Corinthians chapter 4, verse 4. Second Corinthians chapter 4, verse 4: "In
whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,
lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God,...."
Hebrews chapter 1. Hebrews chapter 1. It's all through here. Hebrews chapter
1. Hebrews chapter 1, verse 3; I'll begin at verse 2. Hebrews 1, verse 2:
"Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son." Three: "Who being the
brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person." All right,
come to Colossians chapter 3. Colossians chapter 3. Adam was made like Jesus
Christ, and he's made like Jesus Christ with two notable exceptions. Jesus
Christ is made from a woman; Adam is made from dirt. And Jesus Christ is made
with blood in Him, and Adam has no blood. Colossians chapter 3. Now, you won't
find that in the commentary; they tear down the word anyway, so it don't make
any difference. Colossians 3:9. Colossians 3:9. Nothing is as shocking as a
King James Bible. Colossians 3:9: "Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have
put off the old man with his deeds;  And have put on the new [man], which is
renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him." It's talking
about Christ.

     So, you have a thing here where man was made in God's image, and when he
fell, he lost that image, and didn't get that image back till Christ showed
up. Adam is made in God's image; made like Christ. When Christ shows up,
Christ is called "the last Adam," 1 Corinthians chapter 15. There is no image
of God between Genesis 3 and Matthew chapter 1. They are told to make no
graven image of any likeness of nothing anywhere, anywhere--there's no image
there. And that means that no man in the Old Testament was born again. And no
man in the Old Testament was in Christ, and no man in the Old Testament was
made in the image of God.

     Take your Bible and turn to Genesis 5. They are all made in the image of
fallen Adam. Genesis 5, verse 1. Genesis 5, verse 1: "This [is] the book of
the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of
God made he him;  Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and
called their name Adam" and Eve. Right? NO! He didn't call them Adam and Eve.
That's some more stuff. Adam called her Eve after they fell; she is just
called "Adam."

     And that's why a woman has no name. What could be any funnier than this
"ERA"? Would can be funnier than that? What's her name--Abzug--going
around--Abzug--going around trying to tell people what to do. Abzug doesn't
have a name; her name is a man's name. Abzug is her husband's name or her
father's name. Now, how many of you girls are single? Let me see your hands.
Are you single here? Now, we've got about six single girls here. Your last
name is your father's name. Now, when you get married, your last name will be
your husband's name. A woman has no name. What could be any funnier than
somebody going around talking about "equal rights"? "The woman are equal with
the men"? What a joke, man! If you took every woman in this town and dressed
her up in uniform and drafted her and gave her a cigar and a beer styne, she
still wouldn't have any name! Her name is a male name! And if she had
children, what would you call her children? You gonna call them by her name?
You'd have to change the name every time a child was born then; there wouldn't
be any name coming on down through there. You'd have to change the name every
time--because the "seed" isn't the woman; the "seed" is the man's.

     Sick generation, boy! Sick generation. They can't think.

     You know what I think it is? I think it's television. I got a book the
other day that Brother Davis loaned me on four reasons why we should get rid
of television, written by an unsaved Jew. And he has an argument to get rid of
all television, to make it a crime to have a television set, and just do away
with them. And I must confess, I never read a more sensible thing in all my
life. And one of his arguments is this: He says you can't watch it, he said,
without losing your hold on reality. He says there isn't any way to do it.
Because, he said, when you walk in a room, you see the room. Now, to keep your
interest in that television, when somebody walks in the room, the camera shows
the side, the ceiling, back of the floor, toward the face, over here. That
camera position will change sometimes eight times in a minute. Sometimes it
will change twenty times in a minute on a commercial. Look at the beer glass
close up, at a distance--over the hill, the battle forming, the horse riding,
back to the battle--see? Snap! snap! snap! snap! snap! snap! Like that, see.

     Now, eyesight doesn't look that way. When I look at you right now, I
don't see myself standing here, close up with the Bible, close up of the
lights, close up of the board, from the rearview through that door and back to
that window. I just see one thing fixed, see. You keep watching that thing,
and you'll go nuts, see. Because you keep watching that thing, and your whole
picture of what you should look at doesn't match what you are seeing.

     This fellow who wrote that thing, he said he got out in the woods one day
with his kids; hadn't been out in the woods for about five years. And he said
the first couple of hours was the most boring thing he ever spent in his life.
And he thought, "What a nothing place this is!" Then he said he got to walking
down the pathway, and began to enjoy the smell of the air. He hadn't noticed
that till just then. And the smell of air smelled kind of funny; it was fresh!
And then he noticed that the sun looked different. He had been living down
there, you know, in the smog, and the sun looked different. Then he heard a
bird. After he had been out there about six or seven hours, his kids got
chasing squirrels and birds and having the time of their life, and he stayed
out there in the woods and camped out there for about five days. And he said,
when he came back into town, he said, as soon as he got near the city, he said
that artificial thing began to pick up, and pick up, and pick up. He said it
was like trying to catch on to the tail end of a runaway train.

     Now, I think the trouble is, Americans have got to the place where they
watch that boob tube so long that their mind is permanently damaged and they
can't think. I mean, the idea of a man trying to say that men and women are
equal and the same when any fool knows a woman doesn't even have a last name!
Now, who doesn't know that?

     All right, 5:3: "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years--" watch it--
"and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image." See that? Not after
God's image; his image.

     So, everybody from Adam to Christ is made in the image of fallen man.
They are made after Adam. They are Adamic. "The first man is of the earth,
earthy; the second man is the Lord from Heaven."

     All right, Genesis 1, verse 28: "And God blessed them, and God said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it." And
I talked to you about that "replenish" last time. "And have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth." Notice man's dominion. Man's dominion goes to
what's in the ocean, what's on the ground, and what's as high up as an eagle
flies. And, when a man gets above where an eagle flies, he is out of his
dominion!

     Take your Bible and turn to Psalm 116. And he is out where he shouldn't
be, and he is bound to run into something up there that he never saw befo'!
Psalm 116. Psalm 116, I think it is. I may have got the wrong reference. I
want a verse; I don't see it marked; here it is! It's in 115. Psalm 115, verse
15. When Carpenter and the other fellow went up there, one of those fellows
asked this Presbyterian minister, he said, "I kind of got a bad conscience
about going up in this rocket. Is it God's will for man to get to the moon?"

     And this Presbyterian preacher told him, "Go right ahead. It is the will
of God."

     Well, you know, more TV! The Crusaders went to Jerusalem; "it is the will
of God." Where is the will of God? Where do you find the will of God for man
to get to the moon? Fifteen: "Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which made heaven
and earth." Watch it: "The heaven, [even] the heavens, [are] the LORD'S: but
the earth hath he given to the children of men." He didn't give you the solar
system; somebody else has got it.

     Genesis chapter 1. Genesis chapter 1:29--you couldn't pay me to go up
there! You couldn't pay me. If a guy came in this building right now and said,
"Ruckman, we'll give you two million dollars in cash to take the next trip to
the moon up there in that capsule," I'd say, "Give it to somebody that needs
the money!" I'm superstitious about the whole thing, boy. I'm like that old
colored boy who said, "I ain't worried about getting out. What I's worried
about is what will get back in with me!" I mean, I've read some of the
aftereffects of some of those trips. Every one of those guys who went up
there--well, something mysterious or something, you know, his blood or his
life or his family or his metabolism or something. You just don't have any
business being up there. You go out there and look at that moon and think
about some fool walking around in that thing? Boy, that sure takes all the
romanticism out of it, doesn't it? You know, "New moon, Tennessee moon,
Kentucky moon, Indiana moon." A couple of lovers out there in the night:
"Isn't it a beautiful moon?" you know? EEEEAAAAAAUUUUUOOOOOO! Ha ha!
"Beautiful moon"--PPPPPKKKKKKKSSSSSS! blast off that thing!

     What a mess, man!



@blockquote:1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing
seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which
[is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.  

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every
thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have given]
every green herb for meat: and it was so.  

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.



@normal:  Twenty-nine: "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in
the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for
meat." Notice how the King James Bible defines its own words. "Meat" in the
King James Bible can be fruit and vegetables. "Meat" in the King James Bible
means something to eat.

     "To you it shall be meat." Take the "m" off "meat" and what does it
spell? Sure, man! "To you it shall be for eat!" For meat.

     All right, the original diet is vegetarian. Vegetarian. So all the gurus
and people who try to get real spiritual and transcendental are always going
back to a vegetarian diet.

     "And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to
every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have
given] every green herb for meat." The animals are vegetarian. So, in the
Millennium, when Christ comes back, the lion eats straw like an ox.

     "And it was so.  And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold,
[it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."

     All right, now very briefly, in Genesis chapter 1, you have these items
of a devotional nature, or a practical nature. And I've talked about the
doctrinal things here. But look what you've got here for the plan of
salvation. Verse 1: In the beginning God created you and gave you a physical
life and physical birth.

     Verse 2: And you are born dead in trespasses and sin, and by the law came
the knowledge of sin, and sin revived, and you died.

     Verse 3: "And God said, Let there be light," and the entrance of thy word
giveth light. And when God spoke light, you got light in your darkened soul,
and God saw the light, and it was good. And Jesus Christ is the Light of the
world; you got saved!

     And when you got saved, verse 4, God divided the light from the darkness.
And God separated those two things, and circumcised you inside, so your soul
was not stuck to your flesh.

     And then the Lord said in verse 6, "There's going to be a firmament, and
let it divide." And the Lord divided you and separated you from the world. God
separated you--supposedly--and brought you.

     And then after that, in verses 9, 10, and 11, the Lord said, "OK, be
fruitful." So you are supposed to bear fruit as a child of God, and you are
supposed to grow. 

     And that isn't all; you're supposed to be a soul-winner--the "stars"
(verse 16). You're supposed to reflect the light of Jesus Christ--the "moon"
(verse 16). And you're to go by the Lord's great light, the sun, the Lord
Jesus Christ.

     And when you get that, verse 20, you're supposed to lead people to
Christ, and not only bring forth the fruit of the Holy Spirit, verse 11, but
bring forth life, verse 20-- "after its kind."

     Are you a Christian? Then you should reproduce Christians! Are you a
preacher? Then you should reproduce preachers. Are you a Bible teacher? Then
you should reproduce Bible teachers. "After his kind." You see that thing
there?

     Now, I don't have time to go into all that stuff there. That makes a
long, long sermon through there--and in 26, bless God, you're going to be
conformed to His image. Verse 26.

     All right.

     We were talking the other night here. We got off, way off, somewhere
talking about homemade cures. And I was telling about the stuff that I ran
into. And I forgot to tell them that I always ate the seeds of
anything--except something like a plum, an apricot, or a peach. And sometimes
I would chew them! When I was a boy, apple seeds--you didn't spill out the
apple seed, you ate it. And those slip-skinned grapes, you ate the whole thing
and swallowed the seed. They got these seedless grapes, you know? We didn't
pay any attention to that; we swallowed the whole thing; it's a wonder we
didn't sprout a grape vine out of our ears. But we ate those. And I wouldn't
take all the grapefruits and all the seeds and eat them. And they said that
Vitamin B or B17 is in the apricot, apricot seed. So there's probably
something to it. And there's probably more to it than that.

     Yep, that's right. Those birds have a tail, like that fish. And his wings
are like the fins of a fish. And down here fowl and fish are a much more
stable diet than they are up north. The chicken am a fowl. Everybody's talking
about chicken; chicken's a popular bird. Remember that song?

     Any questions? Yes sir?

     QUESTION: That thing about "after his kind," "after its kind," is that
also a thing about the segregation of the races?

     ANSWER: Well, evidently. Black people beget black people.

     QUESTION: I'm saying, is that justification for teaching segregation--I
mean, black and white, or yellow and white, or--

     ANSWER: It isn't a good rule to go by. Now there are people who can do it
and get away with it. And when we get on to Genesis chapter 9 and 10, we'll
see that integration between Shem and Japheth isn't too bad. Integration
between Shem and Ham isn't disastrous. Integration between Shem and Ham
produces Malay, Polynesian, Melanesian, some crossing in the Filipinos, those
kind of places--which isn't too bad a cross. Cross between Shem and Japheth
isn't too bad; that produces most of your beauty queens. And all your beauty
queens are from Memphis and Valesh, are models. And they have the high cheek
bone and the round face of Shem and the height or stature of Japheth. And that
isn't too bad.

     When you mix Ham with Japheth, you've got a real mess.

     Why, sure, sure. The boob tube is not going to give you an imagination
that's right, because everything's in front of you. You get after a while in
front of you, you can't figure the thing out. Radio is a much better medium
for imagination.

     When I was a boy, we used to listen to "Renfroe of the Mountain." And it
would come on like this. Close your eyes. Close your eyes. Close your eyes.
"SSSSSSSSHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUU  OOOWOWWWWWLLLLLL" See that! Now, you know
something? A little old boy sitting there in that room hearing that thing,
he's got it all right in front of his face, you see? And that's much better,
you know, than seeing the wind and seeing the wolf. It doesn't leave anything
to the imagination. You take, I was a sound effects man for radio for years.
Close your eyes. Let me show you something. Now this building is burning down.
{Sound of crackling, ruffling.} {Cough! cough!} See? See? I mean, you get that
thing going: {tapping fingers in a "gallop" and yelling:} Hi, oh! silver! Now,
you can do much more with radio than you can with TV.

     Yes. That implies, when he says "let" in one case, the thing suddenly
shows up. In another case, when he says, "Let the thing be there," the thing
is there, it's gonna be made ripped, and then he does something with it, and
fixes it. An act of creation.

     QUESTION: When it says "Let us make man in our image," couldn't that be
the angels during the first part of creation, along with God, saying, "Let us
make man in our image?"

     ANSWER: Well, is an angel a "son of God" in Job chapter 1 and Genesis
chapter 6. That's what Adam is--a son of God. I think it's a reference to the
Trinity; I think it's a reference to Jesus Christ. But that means that Jesus
Christ is right there; and, if He's right there, then He's the Angel of the
Lord. See?

     QUESTION: So, God's image is Jesus Christ? The only "form" He has is
Jesus Christ?

     ANSWER: That's right. "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." Christ
said, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." That's all the "Father"
you'll see, is Jesus Christ. Umm, running ten minutes late; one more in the
back. We got to close shop here sometime tonight.

     QUESTION: When Eve was created, did she have blood?

     ANSWER: Well, we haven't had time to hit it. But, in a little while, when
Eve is made out of his side, he says to Eve, "This is now bone of my bone and
flesh of my flesh." And it says nothing about blood. That can't be an
accidental omission, because in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, it says, "Flesh and
blood shall not inherit the kingdom of God," and in Luke chapter 24, Christ
says, "Handle me and see that a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me
have." So, if he meant blood, he would have said it--and he didn't say it.

     QUESTION: If God had no form or image except Jesus Christ, what was Jesus
Christ talking about in Luke 23:46 when He said, "Father, into my hands I
commend my spirit"?

     ANSWER: Well, that would have to be figurative.

     QUESTION: But he mentions "hands," though.

     ANSWER: Yeah, that's true, but you have to grant that some of that's
figurative. For example, He says, "My sheep hear me and follow my voice, and
no man shall pluck them out of my Father's hand." Well, obviously there isn't
a four-footed, grass-eating animal sitting up there in somebody's palm. I
mean, some of them are figurative. "Into thy hands I commend my spirit" means
He is turning Himself over to God. You can't press that thing too literal
there.

     Ahh, brethren, I've got a family, and it is ten o'clock at night, and I
do this fifteen years at a time--and we gonna quit! Ets too tme leit!

(c) 1997  Peter S. Ruckman

