plenty of gold. But the gold of the immortal world has been forgotten. They have made friends with the mammon of unrighteousness.-He that gets the sixth key can open all mysteries to the house of Israel, and in the sixth day mortal will put on immortality; but the seventh key remains for one thousand years, not at the beginning, but when it ends; so it is as the words of the Lord: the last is the first and the first last, and after the seven thousand years, those who are not in the image of God, will be made perfect men. The six churches are the six thousand years, which are the six golden pipes that empty the golden oil out of themselves.In conclusion, the Lord said unto Moses: Go unto Pharaoh, and say: thus saith the Lord, if thou refuse to let Israel my son, even my firstborn go, that he may serve me, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn which Pharaoh refused to do, figurative of these days.-This son, was Jesus, who was in the loins of His fathers, of the tribe of Judah, which was then with the rest of the twelve tribes in bondage under Pharaoh.—When Pharaoh had received all the plagues, and the death of his firstborn, of man and cattle, he thrust Israel out; still the man of sin prevailed, and followed after them. And the Lord said unto Moses: stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and upon their horsemen.—And he did so, and the sea returned, and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. This being done as a figure of the return of Israel, "For when they shall say: peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them; as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."-The seed of the youngest son who was lost among the Gentiles, will be found in Zion at their return from among them at their fulness. "And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more."-And the Lord shall be King over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord, and His name one."-" Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come

in." "He will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn. The great salvation of Israel will come out of Zion. And the Lord will bring back the captivity of His people, and Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad."

END OF PART III.

EXTRACTS FROM THE FLYING ROLL.”

COMPILED INTO A SERIES OF SERMONS FOR THE

"GENTILE CHURCHES."

SERMON II. PART IV.

“When He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.”—Joв xxiii. 10. "To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet."-PROV. xxvii. 7.

THE hungry soul, who is made hungry by reason of the bitter things that he eats, if he hungers after righteousness, to him, all and every bitter thing is sweet. Had he never tasted bitter things he could never have appreciated the virtues of sweet things. In other words: the hungry soul who hungers and thirsteth after righteousness; to him, evil is good;-for all things, whether they be good or evil, bitter or sweet, do work together for good to those who love God, who are the called according to His purpose. He extracts the sweetest honey from the bitterest flower.-Gold from the earthen crucible, comfort from the cup of sorrow,-an eternal weight of glory from afflictions; immortality in the image and likeness of God from dead and corruptible earth ;-in a word, he extracts good from evil.-Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled;-not with the husks of the citizen, nor with their own fatted calf, but with the lamb slain from the foundation of the world, the flesh and blood of the son of man.- Blessed, yea thrice blessed is the hungry soul who has learnt by experience in the rich pastures of Christ, that the bitter thing is sweet, and that the greatest trials in the furnace of affliction doth remove dross and purify us as gold.-To the natural man who walketh after the flesh,-evil is a curse, and the sweet morsel rolled under the tongue turns bitter in the belly; but to the spiritually minded man who walks and dwells in the Spirit: evil becomes a blessing, evil once bitter to him is now turned to sweetness.-Evil came first, good last. Evil was permitted to come first, that the good might be better in

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the end. If Adam had not touched, tasted or handled the evil, there would have been nothing to subdue. We are not commanded to replenish the evil, but the good; but evil remains with the man, like the tares which are sown.-Once we desired the evil fruit, but now it is otherwise, and why? because good has swallowed up the evil and turned the bitter thing to sweet.-Touch not, taste not, handle not that which is not thine own, because evil belongs to Satan. Tares are the evil and they grew there; it did not grow there of itself, but was placed or sown there.-Man is commanded to subdue the evil, he is not required to subdue another's but only his Men find that there is something that attracts them to evil. Evil has no permission but by a lie; Satan is stripped of all power without it. The man who has done evil is empty. Satan is empty, he can do nothing but by a lie, and thus he overcame the woman in the beginning—and the stronger continue to beguile and oppress the weaker. If man had not eaten of the tree, he would have replenished the earth, and have subdued it, but the evil was replenished and it subdued him.-The world will not believe, because the world is to be destroyed. This world is the evil which is to be destroyed both from Jew and Gentile, but from Israel the first, that is from the immortal; for the evil is to serve that Spirit in the mortal, so they are called the world, and the evil in man must serve man, and man must serve God.-God placed evil in the city, that man might see he was not the creator. He gave man for man's transgression, then it was that God repented that He had set the evil, and He will overcome that evil.-God placed the evil in the city, to teach man that the evil should not be worshipped, but that God should be worshipped in Spirit and in truth.-Man was made subject to the evil to prove him. God made His own Son Jesus, lower than the angels, and every man while he dwells in the body is subject to vanity.-Satan was the head angel in heaven, he is called in Scripture: son of the morning; and even Michael durst not bring a railing accusation against him. Satan took the seed of the woman-the seed of the land, and

said if He would bow down and worship him, all the kingdoms of the world should be His; Jesus did not dispute his power as god of this world but said: "it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve."-God placed evil in the city for a good and wise purpose.-Christendom cannot see that every bitter thing will eventually become sweet, albeit many believe that Jesus drank the bitter cup to the dregs for EVERY man; yet they claim that the man who dies unrepenting will be sentenced to drink this bitter cup throughout all eternity, without hope that this bitter cup will ever be made sweet; but strange to say, they believe that the evil must in the end serve God. Then we feel constrained to ask them "will God punish that which serves Him to all eternity?"-Evil was placed before man, and he was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who hath subjected the same in hope that he might be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.-Wherefore, to rail against evil or Satan is to rail against Him that made him, then how can ye seek unto him to deliver ye?—If God in the creation subjected ye to evil, why should ye arise up against the evil? But look ye to that one immortal Spirit, who saith: "If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." Till this mortal life be swallowed up in immortality. God loves him that has kept His secret, for His secret is the truth, and happy is that man who keepeth God's secret, unto which no light can be compared, for it is unknown to the world. The secret of the Lord can never be revealed to the world, for it is written: "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him; and He will shew them His covenant."-Wherever evil is, there is the prisoner, death;— there is that cup which has the poison in it from the creation; there is that which parts the spirit from the soul and body. Like a cup containing poison placed in a dark place, not to be touched. But he that touches it is a prisoner unto death. -How can we rail upon the evil?-did the Messiah rail upon the evil?—It is that immortal Spirit that will keep us from