#61-0108 Revelation Chapter Four #3
285. Let's go back just a minute now, to be sure that we got these fellows right. The first time that these guards was mentioned, is in Genesis. Now, remember, everything that we preach has got to come from Genesis to Revelation. Any time that you want to be questioning, come ask me. See? It must be the whole Bible, not just part of it, 'cause God don't change! What He was in Genesis, He is today, and He was in the middle age. He's always the same! See? Now, in Genesis, when these Cherubims... That's how I come to find them, I had to go back to find out what they was at the beginning.
286. Let's turn to Genesis 3:24, just for a moment now. Genesis, the 3rd chapter and the 24th verse. You love It? [Congregation says, "Amen!"--Ed.] All right. Now, let's begin about 22nd verse. I--I just like This! This is something I just want to put in here, just a little extra, but it may do a whole lot of good someday.
And the Lord... said, Behold, the man is become... one of us,...
Now, my loving and precious and darling sisters (let me place it like that), do not think that I am throwing a reflect upon the--the loyalty and the gracious, precious jewel of womanhood. I'm trying to show here what a woman... Please! And to you on tape, you women that'll be listening to this tape, I am not trying to scorn you, I'm only a servant of the Lord to bring Light. The lowest and immoralest and most filthy thing on earth is a woman when she's bad. And the most precious jewel that there is to a man, besides his salvation, is a good woman. And I'm speaking to that low, immoral, degraded. And I'm going to show you right here while we're at it, just might as well show you why that I... that the Bible teaches for women not to be preachers, pastors, teachers, or anything else in the church. Now, just listen to this:
288. And the Lord... said, Behold, the man is become... one of us, (Now, He never said the woman has become one, "the man has become one.")... and knows good and evil:... (The woman didn't; she was deceived. Do you see it?)
Now, Paul said, "I suffer not a woman to teach or to usurp any authority, but... for Adam was first formed and then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived." So she didn't become one of God. She didn't know no difference, she was deceived. Do you get it? If you do, say "Amen," so I... [Congregation says, "Amen!"--Ed.]
... the Lord... said, Behold, the man is become... one of us, to know good and evil: and know... and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Therefore the Lord... sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flying sword... flaming sword which turns every way, (See the four beasts? There's only four ways you can go, see: east, north, west, and south. These Cherubims had a flaming sword at the gate of the garden... ) to keep the way of the tree of life.
Cause if man ever got a hold of the Tree of Life, then he could live forever.