The Tower of Babel

Noah came out of the ark and offered the burnt offering unto the Lord. Now that's a condition, exactly opposite to the condition as it was that provoked flood, when the thoughts and the imaginations of men's hearts were only evil continually, when violence filled the earth, when it repented God that He had made man upon the earth. Now here is, a man that is offering burnt offerings unto the Lord,' that which speaks of being wholly for the Lord, a lovely picture of the Lord Jesus Christ, but we won't go into that, because it's divided into three distinct parts of the bullock, a kid and a goat, and a bird, and if we started on that subject we wouldn't get to the end of it for a long time.

But nevertheless, it speaks of that which is all for God, and at the end of the flood, and at the end of this judgement of God upon this godless, violent, evil world, we find God with a new beginning, where a man is presenting himself and his family to God and for God's service. Now brother, you remember that I did say that Satan produced and provoked such a thing s the flood because of the compromise that had been arranged that involved all the seed of the woman, with the exception of one family. It was his intention to destroy the seed of the woman that was to bruise the head of the serpent. But no, God preserved the seed, but He destroyed the seed of the serpent, and that's why you'll never find a ninth generation through Cain. They were all Destroyed, so that Satan lost his seed. Will you please notice, that though Noah did offer a burnt offering, that is, a gift offering, he offered a burnt offering, and there made his association with God, immediately he turns to be a servant of the ground. Now that was Cain's business, and he occupied himself with the ground to such an extent that he takes of the fruit of his labour and he becomes a drunken man. And there he lies naked in his tent, and it's his youngest son Ham that is looking in, and looks upon his father's nakedness. He goes to tell his two older brothers, and how he told then, we are not told. But they go in backward, the face covered, and they cover their father's nakedness so that they do not see him. Now brethren, when Noah woke, he knew what Ham had done. We are not even told that, and so we won't speculate about it. But he does say, ’cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be', he’ll be a servant of Shem, and Japheth should dwell in the tents of Shem, and that Canaan should be a servant to him as well. Because Noah occupied himself with earthly things and got drunk, he cursed his youngest grandson, he brought in another man that Satan could use as his seed. A cursed man. And here Canaan becomes that one of the seed of the serpent. I have said there are no distinctions at all, and we are only told of four notorious cities that were built – archaeologists have found the remains of at least three of them, and in particular the one that is referred to, Achad. Of course, we do not need to have this evidence to prove the Bible's correct, do we now? But it is evidence to a world that the Bible is true.

There came a man of the line of Ham, of the line of Cush, and his name was Nimrod, and he's described as the mighty hunter before the Lord. Now, that will conjure up before a lot of people a man like Esau, the ma".. that went out and hunted venison, that he might receive the blessing of his father, and never got it. But it is not that at all. It is a mighty hunter in the face of the Lord, or in defiance of the Lord. Here is a man who is saying that he is not going to serve, he is going to be served, and he is the originator of these four great cities, and he is going to become the master. And the hunter is not the hunter of beasts, the hunter is the hunter of power.

So, they move along from this great thing that they are bringing into being, and they come to the plain of Shinar. Now you will notice that they are moving further and further away from God and from Eden. Here is a godless world, no matter how clever it is, no matter how wise it may be, it doesn't mean to say that it is a godly world. It's a godless world. When they come to the plain of Shinar, they come together and say, 'Go to, letus make brick and burn them throughly', and they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. They are bringing in the artificial, and are rejecting that which is the natural. So here are the inventions of men coming in, beginning with the buildings that they are going to do.

Now that they have produce<i their brick and their slime, they say, 'Go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.’ Now here is a tremendous thing, brother and sister, and there is the danger that we can pass over it. A city had already been built, and Nimrod had built four cities as I have said, and Cain had already built a city long before that, before the flood, and he called it after the name of his younger son, Enoch. But now, it's not just a city, it's a tour they are going to build, whose top may reach unto heaven. Now here is something, this is Jack and the beanstalk, isn’t it? To hear some folk talk, they are building it that high, so that they can step off the top of it into heaven. Now brother and sister, they weren't as silly and as senseless as that. What the reference really means is this, that we will build a city that will answer to the earth, and we will build a tower that will answer to heaven. They wanted fellowship in both directions, politically and spiritually, but in a godless way.

Never let us forget this fact, that there are ungodly men that are still interested in a political situation, and a religious situation, but it does not make them a Christian, and it does not make them God -fearing men or women.

What is in the mind of these men? They don't want to be scattered abroad, they are of one lip, they are of one speech, and they all want to dwell together, and so we get this great business of world dominion still going on. Now Cain, he built a city, and when he built that city, he almost had the world under his hand. There was just one family that was not under his hand. As I pointed out, you can have a look at the sons and daughters of Lamech, and of Methuselah, you can have all the sons and daughters, and grandsons and granddaughters, and all that came of the godly line. They all perished, every one of them, with the exception of eight souls, and that was Noah and his wife, his three sons and wives. So Cain, by building a city, was working from that city. Through that city there comes these four things brought into being by Lamech's sons and daughter, that produced a modern civilisation. A political thing, a godless thing.

It never succeeded because there was nothing in Cain's system of things that made any provision for a man with a conscience towards God. It was merely political, there was nothing spiritual. So now, we'll build a city, we'll have a political situation, but we'll build a tower, and we will have a spiritual situation, and we will embrace everybody, no matter what their outlook may be. You will have to agree with me, brother and sister, that where Cain failed Nimrod and his company succeeded, and God admitted that they had done so. So that when we come after Babel, there is not a man that God can use. He had to take an idol worshipper out of Ur of the Chaldees. So there was success here, because a principle had been discovered that started in the garden of Eden, and will go on until the end of time. We will deal with that a little later on.

Now brethren and sisters, God says Himself, 'This they begin to do, and there will be no end of their imaginings.' In other words, He is admitting that they have succeeded in producing a principle, and the principle for success! What is that principle? It is is not just political that matters, there must be that which is spiritual linked with the political, and where the two are linked together then there is going to be success. When I go back to the garden of Eden I know that that man had power in the earth; you can call that political. But that man had access to God, and he walked with God in the cool of the day; that's spiritual. And God brings in a principle in relation to earth and in relation to heaven, and Adam had the principle of success, and he allowed Satan to come in and deceive the woman, and he himself partook of it.

That system that God brought into being, is the system which Satan now uses here, and he is using it to wrest power from the hands of Noah. He is going to claim it for the seed of the serpent. Political power, spiritual power, they've got to he moulded together. The man that wears the crown, he must wear the mitre, and then there is going to be power. I did promise that I wouldn't make any reference to any denomination, and I won't. But I'll tell you this, I walked past a certain place and I saw a flag flying – It's the only time I've seen it. On the flag there was a mitre and two keys that were crossed underneath. The following day, the Monday morning, I said to a man that belonged to that denomination, 'I passed by one of your churches and I saw a flag, on which there was a mitre, and two crossed keys under it. What would those keys mean?' I asked. ’Well,' he replied, 'They are the keys that the Lord Jesus gave to Peter.' I said, 'You're quite sure that He gave him two?' He wasn't sure. But I said, 'What would they mean?' And now listen. He said, 'One means the key of temporal power, and the other means the key of spiritual power.' Now no-one had told him, as far as I am concerned, about that. One was the key of temporal power, the city, and the other was the key of spiritual power, and that was the tower that reached up unto heaven.

Brother and sister, that's why they have succeeded for so long,' and that's why they are going to succeed yet again. hey are spoken of in the book of the Revelation, chapter 17.

Let me give you some instances. That principle which was begun here at Babel, and incidentally, if you have got a good concordance and a good lexicon, Babylon here is associated with confusion. 'And the name of the place was called Babel, for there He did confound their language.' But the Chaldean meaning of the word is 'a threshold for God.' God made the threshold here, when Adam had sinned, and the cherubim and flaming sword that turned in every direction guarding the way of the tree of life. God made the conditions of fellowship, God snakes the conditions of fellowship, and God always will make the conditions of fellowship. Now here at Babel they were seeking to rear up a tower, and they were going to make the conditions if God wanted to have fellowship with them. Isn’t it a great pity? I tell you, it's worse than idolatry, isn't it? hm? If you had seen some of the idols that I have seen, then you would wonder what kind of imaginations these people have got.

But they decided what kind of a god He must be, or she, and what they must do, and they must comply with the regulations of the people. Isn't that what the Philistines tried to do? When they took the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and there they put it in the hall of Dagon, before Dagon their god? They would have God, as long as He subjected Himself to Dagon. When they went the next day they found Dagon there before God, and they put him back in his place. The next day they went and found Dagon broken in two, and so they put the ark on a cart, and took it round the villages and the towns. They didn't want a God like that. They don't mind a God that will just behave Himself, and do what they want Him to do, but they don't want God to make the rules. So here, we come to a place where politically they would rule as far as men are concerned, and a tower, and they'd have the last word as far as God was concerned.

I don't know if you can all see it, (see chart) but here you have got a head of gold, and we are back again at Babel, aren't we? Back at Babel. And here is the beginning of the times of the gentiles, and can I say this, brother, that is the greatest form of human government that a world will ever know. It's deteriorating, and will deteriorate, until he comes to iron and clay. I'm glad I won't be alive in those kind of circumstances, it's bad enough as it is now.

But here at Babel there is the man with dominion, and he had so many kingdoms under his hand, he was the autocrat, he didn't need a cabinet, he didn't need a government – he ruled. That’s the highest form, but you need a good man to take a position like that. (The millennium isn't the rule of the autocrat, that's the rule of the theocrat, and it's a rule for God, and it's a rule by God.) But we are coming back to Babel, and now it's called Babylon. The man with political power is not enough for Nebuchadnezzar, and so we discover that he builds a great golden image, there upon the plain of Dura, and he gathers representatives of all the countries under his hand. If they don't understand the language, then they can understand the music, and what time they heard the spend of the harp, the sackbut, the timbrel, then they had to bow to the image of Nebuchadnezzar on the plain of Dura. He wanted spiritual power as well.

Now let us go on because we are going to come to the end times, and here in Daniel's 70th week you are going to have two men. Quite a lot is said about these two men, but without going any further, one of them is a Jew, and the other one is a Gentile, and the Gentile is the political man, the one who vill revive the Roman Empire, or at least, the Roman Empire will be under his hand.

Then we are coming to a political man, and we are coming to a religious man, and we are coming back again to a system that is called Babylon, and so we are getting the wedding of the political and the spiritual again, and the world is going to be deceived and it will bend the knee to the image that is to be put in the Holy Place, and the cry is going to go out 'Peace, peace. ’ They've won, they’ve shut the door upon God, and they've put Him out, they've slain His last witnesses, the two witnesses, and there is no-one to speak for God.

So we will remember this thing, that when we come to Babel here, Satan is applying a principle that God has already applied there in the Garden of Eden, and it's a principle that God says will work. But in Eden He gives confusion, and here at Babel He gives confusion, and He makes that great proud King bend the knee to three Jewish slaves, and admit that there is no God like the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.

The future system of Babylon is going to end in confusion, because when they say peace, peace, then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as a woman in travail.

Why, if this principle is a principle for success, why does it always end in confusion? I'll tell you why. Because it is always in Satan's place, and it is applied by Satan’s man. Where Satan applies it, in his place and with his man, it will always end in confusion. So what I've told you about that flag and the crossed keys, there is a day coming when the whole lot of it is going to end in co- "=ion, because it is not God's place, and it is not God's man.

Let me go a step further, because I want to bring this home so that we can see it clearly. Adam is the King – Priest, the first of them, and then when we come to a period in Abram's life we find another King and Priest, you've noticed that? He was the King of Salem, and the Priest of the most high God. And you get them both linked together. Now read that chapter 14 of Genesis and you'll find 5 kings against 4 kings, and the habitable world is at war. And if you look at your map, then the battle is coming up along the sides of that little kingdom of Melchisedec, but it never touches him, and Melchisedec holds his kingdom intact. Why? Because the principle of kingship and priesthood are linked together. Not in Satan's place, it's Jerusalem, that's God's place. It is not Satan's man now, it is Melchisedec, the priest of the most high God. And so we find, for the second time, here at the beginning of Abram's experience God applying that principle.

Now let us come to where Moses has come down from Mount Sinai. Not only are there the ten commandments presented to the people, but a priesthood is offered to the people as well. So that we get the political point of view, I'm not using it lightly of a Conservative and Liberal and that kind, I'm talking of the affairs as they are conducted among men, that’s the political outlook.

We don’t look deep enough into the significance of the law of Moses and its application to the present time. It answered to every situation that a man child be in. If he had a personal problem he could apply to the law of Moses, and it answered to a personal problem. If it was a domestic situation the law of Moses answered to the domestic situation. If it was a secular situation, then his behaviour is seen there in the law of ."loses. If it's here among the people of Israel and Tabernacle worship, there's the answer in the law of Moses. So that everything concerning the man, personal, domestic, secular and religious, it was all answered from the law of Moses.

Now it is just the same today. Personally, domestically, secularly, and religiously, you'll find all your answers to your problems in the New Testament Scriptures, and you don't need to go to a psychologist, and you don't need to go to anybody else to answer your problems.

When we come here, (see chart, Legal Valley) we'll find that we have a priest now, one that can hold the people in fellowship with God. But we have a Moses, and a Moses is King in Jeshurun, and that man is the man that had authority among the people in relation to the people, and Aaron, in relation to God. Oh! That they would have walked in the direction that God had given them. Politically and spiritually, that nation would have been a mighty nation today. But they failed.

Now will you notice, when we get a bit further on here, that we come to David. David has got 24 priests. He has got 16 after the family of Ithamar, and 8 of the family of Zadok. He divides them into two parts,12 of them have the government of the sanctuary, 12 of them have the rule of the House, and you'll get the political and the spiritual brought together. I am not surprised that such men as David, and in a great measure after him his son Solomon, enjoyed victory and enjoyed peace.

We'll go a step further, shall we, because this principle is a principle which is applied continually. We'll discover now,, that they've been taken captive, into Babylon, and they are there for 70 years.

After those 70 years have finished Cyrus the Persian comes to the throne. In the first year of his reign he allows the Jews that have the inclination to go back and to build a house for God. Will you notice that they only built an altar in the first year of the reign of Cyrus the Persian, and they had to wait another nineteen years before they could st;art to build the Temple. Have you ever thought why? After all if Cyrus told tham to go and build a house for God, as God had commanded him, why were they only allowed to build the altar, and then they had to put the whole work down? You see, the enemies had come, and they had said, ’We want to help you in building the house.’ The builders replied 'You have got no part nor lot with us in the matter.' So they wrote to the king, and the king was told to look into his archives and he would discover that it was a troublous city, and if they let these people build that city, it would be trouble for them, and they would get no rates and they would get no taxes and all the rest of it. And so search was made, and Jerusalem was discovered to be a troublous city, and a letter was sent that the building had got to stop. It stopped until Haggai and Zechariah came to do their work, and that was nineteen years afterwards. If you have a look at the book of Daniel, Daniel associates his book with Nebuchadnezzar's first visit to Jerusalem. At the opening verses of the book of Ezekiel, Ezekiel identifies his book with the second visit of Nebuchadnezzar. If you'll have a look at the book of Nehemiah, then the opening verses of Nehemiah associate themselves with the third visit of Nebuchadnezzar. Have a look at the end of the second book of Chronicles and the second book of Kings and you'll find it so.

So that Nebuchadnezzar made three visits. Now Daniel was taken prisoner in the first visit, that's when Ezra was taken as well, and the princes and the nobility were taken. And Jehoiakim had reigned for three years when Nebuchadnezzar paid the visit, and Nebuchadnezzar put that king under tribute until Jehoiakim had died, eight years afterwards. Jehoiachin reigned for about three months and Nebuchadnezzar paid his second visit and took Jehoiachin back to Babylon and put him in jail, and 37 years afterwards, one of the kings raised him head and brought him to his table. But Zedekiah took his place, and Zedekiah reigned for 11 years, and he rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar, and Nebuchadnezzar paid his third visit an he broke down the walls and the Temple and he left the whole of Jerusalem in a state of desolation. So that you get 8 years of Jehoiakim, and you get 11 years of Zedekiah, and that comes to your nineteen, doesn't it, hm? So that the 70 years of captivity ended in the first year of Cyrus the Persian. That's why they were sent to build. But the 70 years of desolation hadn't finished, and they weren't finished until nineteen years after, with the third visit of Nebuchadnezzar, and when those 19 years were finished then Haggai and Zechariah were sent. When we come to the building of the Temple, you'll please notice, that there is a priest there, and he's Joshua the son of Josedech. There is a man of the royal line there, and he is Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel. And God gave them the principle of rule, and the principle of success; He gave them a priest and a king. Had they obeyed that, then they would have carried on, instead of failing as they did. You'll notice, that Joshua never functioned as a high priest in Babylon, have you noticed that? There are no priests in Babylon, I mean, after God's order. Babylon had got plenty of priests of their own, but none after God's own order. Will you notice, brother and sister, his garments were defiled according to the third chapter of the book of Zechariah. They were defiled by Babylon, and he couldn't function as a priest. Now if you want another little problem, I'll give it to you. Will you notice, that there is a man, and he is the father of Zerubbabel. His name is Shealtiel. That man has got two fathers. If you have a look in Matthew chapter 1 then Jeconiah begat Salathiel, and Salathiel begat Zerubbabel. Have a look in Luke chapter 3 and you will discover that Salathiel was the son of Nimri. Matthew says it was Jeconiah; and Luke says it was Nimri. There are no contradictions, you can trust your Bible, and you can trust it implicitly. In Matthew chapter one we have come to a man, and God says concerning that man through Jeremiah, 'Write this man childless, no son of Jeconiah shall sit upon the throne of his father David.' And neither did they, and you never hear about Jeconiah's children. Childless he was!

But nevertheless, God had given a promise to David, 'There shall not fail me a man of thy seed from before My face to sit upon thy throne.' So He has got to keep the promise alive. So that in Matthew chapter one there is David, and I see the genealogy come through Solomon and bringing us to Jeconiah. But when I come to Luke chapter three there I see David again, but it is not Solomon, it's Nathan his son, and I see the genealogy through Nathan to Nimri. They are both alongside each other in genealogy. Naturally, Salathiel is the son of Nimri, but officially Salathiel is the son of Jeconiah, because he has a right to sit upon the throne of David, because he belongs to the royal line of David. Now that's the distinction, one is the natural son, and the other is the official son.

So will you please notice then, that here, when the captivity is ended, we find that there is a man that is of the kingly line, and a man that is of the priestly line, and Israel could have succeeded, had they walked in obedience to God ' s word.

In book of Zephaniah there is a genealogy given to us of Zephaniah, genealogy finishes with a man by the name of Hizkiah, and Jewish authorities say that is Hezekiah, the king. So that here in the days of Josiah, because Zephaniah is prophesying in his days, here is a prophet with a kingly background. But there is another prophet at the same time as Zephaniah, in the days of Josiah, and it's Jeremiah. Look at Jeremiah in chapter one you'll discover that he has got a genealogy of priesthood. So that here is a young man, eight, he's not a young man he's a child, eight years of age, and after 57 years of the most wicked reign that Judah ever knew, 55 under Manasseh, and 2 years under Amon, and a child of 8 is coming to the throne. God gives that child two prophets, one with a priestly background, and the other with a royal background, and I tell you brother and sister, Josiah made a good job of it, didn’t he? Until he became too proud a little later on. It's the secret of success.

Let's go a step further. When we come to this lovely period, (the Millennium) there's the king, and He is the King of kings. There'll be no denying that, but please, in the Millennium, He's the priest after the order of Melchisedec. This is where He functions in the Melchisedec period. At present He's fulfilling the Aaronic priesthood. Today it's the day of Atonement., and He has entered into heaven itself, in the virtue of His own blood, there to appear in the presence of God for us, and then accomplish that, and He is going to come out with the blessing, the Aaronic blessing. The Melchisedec blessing is coming out as the priest forever, after the order of Melchisedec.

Now will you notice, brethren, that when God is doing the work it is in the place where God has appointed, with God's man. In the wilderness, and concerning the tabernacle, it's in God's place, with God's men. In the days of Cyrus, and the building of the Temple, (it took 4 years to build, some are getting bothered about how long the Temple's going to be building, there in readiness for the great tribulation. I have no trouble at all about it), God is at Jerusalem, in His place, with His men, the priest and the king. When we came to the millennium Jerusalem will be the centre of the earth, and the centre of the world, and He shall sit upon the throne of His father David. I know sane say that David's going to reign on his throne, I don't believe that. The Lord Jesus is going to sit upon the throne of his father David. He is king, but he is going to be priest after the order of Melchisedec. He will be God's man, and in God's place.

So, carry on now. There you get the beginning of things, as far as Satan is concerned, and he's got a principle, and a principle that God has used, and God will continue to use. Can I say, brethren, just while it's in my mind, that we are constituted a kingdom of priests. I know the Authorised Version says kings and priests, but it's the same order. It's a Divine principle, that God has put in the hands of His people, and here is the Temple of -God, and if we vill only exercise ourselves as a kingdom of priests, then the power of God is towards us, and if God be for us, who then can be against us? Are we just taking things for granted? We're taking things out of habit, and we wonder why so much we fail.

With the Lord, it will be in God's place in the Temple in Jerusalem is God's place, and it works! But it will never work with Satan's man in Satan's place.

Will you remember that principle? And when you come across it, just apply it, and you'll see how it works out.

So God said, 'Go to, let us confound their language,' and He scattered them abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Now that's what God intended, isn't it? That they should be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. But they didn't want to do it, they just wanted to stay huddled together. That's just what the church wanted to do in Acts chapter 2. Away until Acts chapter 8, they just wanted to huddle together, all in Jerusalem, and God scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Now, you know the origin of languages. It was away there at Shinar, God unfounded their speech. Some of my brethren say that in Acts chapter 2 God just took the confusion away and it was just like as it was before the confusion of tongues, they heard a language and they all understood it. But in Acts 2 it says they heard it in their own dialect. No, it wasn't just one language, they heard it in their own dialect. But brother and sister, when you come here, then we are informed that they will speak with a perfect lip, and then there will be one language, and the confusion will be gone, and we'll enjoy seeing akin to Eden, although sin will still be there. And so there God puts the work down.

God finished His first work – His work of universal dominion, and He scattered them abroad, and this (see chart – Abraham Valley) is where He starts concerning the nation. Now in this period then, there are three crises – Eden, Flood, Babel. A world says the Bible is a lot of old wives fables, eh? But I'll tell you this, if it's a lot of old wives' fables then we've got a lot of problems there are no answers to. Let me put it like this, as a result of the first crisis Adam lost his right of access into the presence of God. But he didn't only lose it for himself, he lost it for the whole of the human race.

There is not a man today that has the right of access to the presence of God. I'm speaking apart from the work of Calvary. I'm talking about a man in his own merit and in his own power. There is not a man that has discovered the right of access into the presence of God. If God made the whole of this earth and put the human race on this earth, why has God shut Himself up, and no-one has the right of access into the presence of God? If Genesis chapters two and three are a lot of old wives' fables, then we have got a problem, that no-one can answer. Genesis two and three are right, and I know the reason why: it was because of Adam's sin, and his right of access was lost, and it was lost not only for him, but it was lost for the human race.

The result of the flood crisis was this: – the right of the possession was lost. Here Cain almost had his hands upon it, just with the exception of a family, and he was going to usurp the authority that belonged to Adam and to that godly line. But the flood came, and the right of the possession is lost. Whether it's the Egyptian dynasty, or the Assyrian, the Babylonian, the Medo-Persian, the Grecian, the Roman, or whatever it is, there is not one that has had dominion over all the earth. Not one. Promotion cometh neither from the north, the south, the east or the west, but fran God, He is judge of all, He abaseth one and exalteth another. And as Ezekiel says, 'I will overturn, overturn, overturn, till He shall come whose right it is, and I will give it Him. ' There has never been a man that can claim universal dominion; never! The man lost his right of possession. I remember saying that on one occasion, and after the meeting a man came to me. ’Well, ' he said, 'If we don't have universal dominion, there is the day when I will have six feet of earth. ' So I looked at him, and I said 'You haven't got as much sense as I thought you had. It won't be you that will have six feet of earth, it'll be six feet of earth that will have you.' The right of the possession is lost, and it's been lost down through the ages.

When we come (Babel Crisis) here it was the right of relationship that was lost. So they became strangers and foreigners the one to the other. The customs and the borders grew. So the nations were made, and brother and sister, you can do what you like, but you can't change the situation even to this day, it'll stay no matter what they do.

So brethren, our world has got three problems to answer: the right of access into the presence of God; the right of the possession; and the right of relationship. There is not a man in all the world that can answer those three situations.

In Psalm 69, 'Then I restored that which I took not away'. We boast obedience to Him, and have access unto the Father. It's been restored. Then we get concerning His earthly people, 'Fear not, little flock, it's your Father's good pleasure to give to you the kingdom. ' Concerning His spiritual flock: 'An inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God. ' And here the right of relationship, we are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God. So all that was lost in those crises, bless God, has been regained by the One that died upon Golgotha's tree, and rose again.

Will you notice that these things were lost when God was dealing with the whole of the human race. No Jew and Gentile, they were lost to the whole of the human race. If they were lost to the whole of the human race, then through the sacrifice of Christ the salvation is offered to the whole of the human race. That's what the church couldn't understand at it's beginning. Not until Acts 15, is it understood that the Gentile stood on the same ground as the Jew. Before the Jew ever came into being these things were lost to the human race, and were regained for the human race.

It took a long time for them to learn that it is whosoever believeth in Him. Other sheep have I which are not of this fold, them also I must bring. There is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor finale, they are all one in Christ.

And so we have got good scriptural authority for going into all the world to preach the gospel to every creature.