Cecil J. duCille
September 2006
Czech Republic
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Dinner tonight will be spread in Revelation 3. We thank God for giving us the meat of the Word last night pertaining to the preparation of the temple for the coming of the King. We shouldn’t leave this until we have the full understanding of what we need to do. The most important part of our lives at this time is to know what we must do so that the King might come in. We have been using the phrase, “Jesus is coming! Jesus is coming!” but we have never fully understood where He is going to come. He is coming from Heaven to earth, but then, He must hit the highest earth first, and the scriptures describe our spirit, soul and body as being the highest earth.
The Bible teachers that have missed the vision of God have taught us that we are going to be living up in the sky somewhere and that God is going to burn up the earth and destroy everything down here. But the truth of the gospel is that God is going to burn up sin and He is going to destroy everything that He did not make. Everything that God made is good. That which both man and devils make will be destroyed. So then the trees, the earth, the animals and all the things that God made, because they are good, will remain (Psalm 119:90; Ecclesiastes 1:4). If you are a Bible student, you will testify that this is the truth of the gospel.
Now, there seems to be some confusion in the Bible about Jesus’ coming, for the Bible says that Jesus Christ is coming as a thief in the night (II Peter 3:10). But there is another scripture that says that He is coming openly and every eye shall behold Him (Revelation 1:7). How can He come as a thief, and at the same time come openly? Let us put a finger in Revelation 3 to mark it, and turn back to Matthew 24:29, Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
You need to understand the heavenly language that is being used here. It says, the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then it speaks of all men seeing Him. If the sign of the Son of man is in heaven, how can the two be put together? How can all the people of the earth and the sinners see it at the same time? Well, it has to be a heaven that everybody can see. Now, it also says that He is coming in the clouds of heaven. Let’s see if we can clear up the matter a little bit by looking at another scripture. Let’s look at Hebrews 11:40, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us…
Now, the point I want to show you is that Hebrews 12:1 is speaking about the saints who have gone on before. In that chapter, the saints were called clouds. In another scripture, we see that Jesus went up on a mountain, said goodbye to the brethren, and began to rise up into the sky and a cloud came over and took Him away (Acts 1:9). The scripture said that this same Jesus will come back down in this same way that He went up (Acts 1:11). These are not natural clouds or rain clouds that the Bible is talking about. So, the same cloud of witnesses that took Him away will come back with Him when He returns.
So, then, if we go back to Matthew, we can see that this cloud of witnesses is coming with Jesus when He returns. Let’s make sure that we are rightly dividing the word of truth (II Timothy 2:15). He said, Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light. You know that the moon gets her light from the sun, so if the sun is darkened, it follows that the moon wouldn’t give any light. But He said that the stars shall fall from heaven. Let me give you an explanation to this scripture. When Joseph dreamed, he told his father the dream. He said he saw the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bow before him. His father interpreted the dream to mean that his mother, his father, and his eleven brothers were going to bow before him. His father was depicted in the dream as the sun, his mother as the moon, which is the church, and his brothers as the stars (Genesis 37:9-10).
Now, because the Bible says that the sun, the moon and the stars are there forever (Genesis 8:22), then we realize that He (God), in Revelation, must be speaking metaphorically of the sun, the moon and the stars – in a type and shadow. So, we should read the scriptures like this: Immediately after shall the (sons of God) be (sacrificed) from heaven, (and the Lord shall withdraw His light/His presence from the world) and (then shall Jesus appear). In other words, they won’t have the church any more. They won’t have the saints any more. Then Jesus will appear. That is the picture that we see here.
All right, let’s go back to Revelation 3:1, And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. 2Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. 3Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Let us go back to Matthew and look at something there.The Lord is saying that He is coming as a thief. Matthew24:40, Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 41Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Now, could you tell me what your Czech Bible has for thatword taken? It says taken, but in your language, do youhave a good taken and a bad taken, like arrested? (No.)Well, in the Greek, it speaks of being arrested. You see,you can take a wife unto yourself. You can take somethinggood. But you can also takepoison, and you can be takenby being arrested and takento prison. Well, this word inthe Greek says “taken to judgment,”arrested and taken tojudgment.
Remember now, we are going to have a short time for you to question the word, so if there is something that is not clear, make a little note. Now, verse 42 says, Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 44Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. 45Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? I want you to notice that God is not talking here about giving them milk. He is talking about giving them meat. Your Bible has what for meat? (Food in general.) Can you say meat? (Yes.)
You see, the Lord only allowed the Bible to be written in two languages. One is the Hebrew language and the other is the Greek; of course, God made all the languages except for the ones that man made from what God made. I believe that the Slavic languages were made by God at the tower of Babel – but your fathers have added things to them, so the languages that evolved from what God made really don’t express the fullness of the Word that God spoke in the Hebrew and the Greek. That is why every child of God must study the Word of God and be careful that he knows something about the other languages in which God has written. The Czech language here has said food, and food is very general. Sister, can you tell me what word the Ukrainian language has? Okay, it just uses a word that means food in general. Do you have a Hungarian Bible there? What does it say? It has the same meaning as the Czech Bible. Well, it is good for you to know that the English here says meat, that it is the correct rendition and that when the scriptures speak of meat, they speak of it as being strong food.
Could we pursue it a little further? All right, let’s look for the scripture where Paul speaks of meat being strong food, and how those who are exercised in the Spirit eat meat. That is in Hebrews. Now, I’m going to read the English for you here. Hebrews 5:13, For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. Now, what did the Czech say? It says milk. So, it says milk definitely. Ukrainian? Hungarian? Everybody’s Bible agrees that the correct translation is milk. Well, all right, that is milk. Now, how do they do verse 14? 14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. So, what does the Czech say? (General food, strong food.) Hallelujah! Ukrainian? Hungarian? They all say strong food. All of you seem to be translated from the same base. Be sure you check that out. Amen. Praise God.
So, we go back to Matthew. In any event, there was a difference because in Matthew, the Czech Bible says just general food, but in Hebrews it said strong food. Matthew 24:46, Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
So we have settled it then, that there is a coming of Jesus where He is creeping up on you. Let’s make sure that we show the scripture for it. I Thessalonians 5:2, For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child… So, you see, this passage insinuates that some people are going to be caught unaware that God is coming as a thief in the night.
Also, II Peter 3:10, But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Now, the question is asked, “What manner of people ought we to be?” In other words, it is not a matter of how much money you have or how much you don’t have, how nice a house you have or what you don’t have, how many cars you have or what you don’t have; it doesn’t matter in this case. But it is God asking us if we are ready for such a day. I believe, for us here, that this is the first time that God is pinpointing READINESS. He is dealing with how you might be safe and sure that you are ready.
How do we get the mind ready? The mind is brought to a place of readiness by the Word of God. The Bible says that we must “hide the Word of God in our hearts” (Psalm 119:11). You know, as a young man, as I have told you, sometimes I would kneel down to pray and my mind would be gone. It would have flown off. I would bring it back and start to pray again and off it would go again. Sometimes you struggle for an hour to get your mind to pray or even to say, “Lord Jesus.” I’m sure that is happening to some of you here. Because of that, you must find out how to fix the mind. So, as a young man, I asked God, “How can I get my mind not to stray?” I am going to tell you how He taught me, and you are going to try it out and see if it works for you.
He said that you take a good story in the Bible, something that is very exciting and interesting and read through the story one time. Then you look back on the story and begin to think, “Why is this in the Bible?” and you begin to see that it is in the Bible because in the story there is something of the gospel that God wants to pinpoint for you. I remember the first story that He gave me and it has lasted me the whole of my life. It is the story of Samson (Judges 13-16).
Now, an angel came to Samson’s mother one day and the angel told her that she was going to have a child and that he would be the deliverance of Israel. The woman said, “Wait a minute, please, so I can go call my husband.” Now, that was a smart woman. “I am not going to talk to any angel unless my husband is here. I don’t know what kind of an angel you are, but you wait, please. Hold on and let me go get my husband.”
When the husband came, the first thing the husband did was to check out the angel. He said, “What is your name?” The angel said to him, “Seeing as I don’t want to tell you my name, why do you ask?” In other words, the angel told the husband that he (the husband) knew that the angel was not going to want to tell him his name, because no angel of God will tell you his name. Did you know that? We only have the name of three angels of God in the Bible. The first one is Michael, “like God;” the second one is Gabriel, “messenger of God;” and the third one is Heylel, who became Satan, and there is no other name of an angel of God in the Bible. The reason is, that if God gave you the names of His angels, men would start worshiping them. So, when you go into certain churches, you see “St. Michael,” “St. Gabriel,” and then we have “Raphael,” “Uriel” – any other name besides Michael and Gabriel is from hell. So, in worshiping, in putting up the statue of Uriel and Raphael, THOSE are putting up the devil’s statues and worshiping them.
Hear what He says in Exodus 20:4, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them… So, if you have a picture or a statueof Mary, a picture or statue of Gabriel,Michael, Uriel, Raphael… BURNTHEM! A statue of Jesus, a pictureof Jesus – BURN IT! God says, “Thoushalt not make any likeness or image ofJesus, Mary, anybody, to bow down to themand to serve them.” You know, if you have apicture of Jesus in your house, the little childrengrow up to believe that it is Jesus. Don’t have it!
Anyhow, let’s go back to the mind. He told me to study this story of Samson, and the first lesson that I learned was how the man dealt with the angel. As a Jew, he knew that you should not make any oblation or sacrifice to any angel or to any other being besides God. So, the next thing he said to the angel was, “Wait here a bit and let me get a sacrifice and offer it to you.” The angel said, “You can go get your kid, you can make your sacrifice, but you won’t offer it to me, you will offer it to God.” So when they offered the sacrifice, the angel took his staff and touched it and the fire went up and he went up in the fire (Judges 13).
So, this child was born and when he reached the age of accountability or maturity, (in Jewish law it is like 30 years of age), they said he started to behave funny. He was getting in the
Spirit and he would go maybe “prayerwalking” and they couldn’t understand him. But one day he came to his parents and said, “I saw a girl down in Timnath, and I love her and I want to marry her” (Judges 14). Now, no Jew is supposed to marry a Gentile, but he said that there was a Gentile girl down there whom he wanted to marry. His parents were very distressed about it, but they said, “All right, we will have to go along with him.” They decided to go down to Timnath to meet the parents and to meet this girl. While they were on their way, going down, he stopped back to be very private in a bush, in a wood, and a lion came out at him. The Bible said it was not an old, sick lion; it was a strong, young lion.
Your Bible is very specific. The Bible said that he did something that no human being could do. He confronted the lion, grabbed him by his mouth and tore him in two pieces. Now, as far as I know, the only thing that could do that is a bomb. So then, Samson acted like a bomb, he tore the lion in two and he left the carcass there. He went back and he did not tell his parents.
I am not going to give you the whole story because that would take the rest of the day. It is a message by itself. But after I got finished reading that very interesting story, in my mind I began to analyze the thing. It was impossible for him to tear the lion. It was incorrect for him to want to marry a girl from Timnath. It was peculiar that he killed 30 men to satisfy those who had used wrong means to get the meaning ofhis riddle.
I said to the Lord, “Why did You put a story like this in the Bible?” Because I understood that every story in the Bible was pointing to Jesus. Did you all know that, that every story in the Bible points to Jesus? And there were many stories that never went into the Bible. So, the Bible specifically said that He came DOWN from Jerusalem to Timnath. Anytime you read your Bible and it says a thing went “DOWN,” it has a specific meaning. For it says that when Abraham went DOWN south, he got into all kinds of trouble. It says the man that the good Samaritan helped was going DOWN from Jerusalem to Jericho (Luke 10). So, the moment I read DOWN, I asked, “What is the meaning of him coming DOWN to Timnath?”
God said, “Samson is a type of Christ.” Ah! So, if Samson is a type of Christ, then the woman he married is a type of us. And then you begin to go from point to point with the thoughts. By the time you realize what is happening, most of your spare time is taken up with thinking about the Word of God. Then the Word of God begins to take the place of the idle thoughts that you used to have. So, you can understand how God begins to work in your mind by you directing your mind to the Word of God.
The next thought He gave me was the story of Esther. The King represents God; Mordecai represents the ministry; Esther represents the church. Then, as you go on and on and on, it becomes a beautiful blessing that you think upon and it begins to form something in your mind. You see, your mind cannot get rid of poison that is in your mind. But the MIND OF CHRIST will get rid of the problem in your mind. So, if you want to prepare the temple for the coming of the King, you will have to use the process of displacement. Yes, displacement – one thing pushing out the other.
So then, God says a word to you, and I hope you can all take charge of this word. You know the Word of God is the thing that is going to heal our problems. He said, Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life (Proverbs 4:23). The point He is trying to say is YOU KEEP YOUR HEART! YOU have the power to keep your heart with all diligence. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. God is saying that the LIFE OF GOD is planted in your heart, and out of this center comes ALL OF LIFE. If you want to break the power of Satan over you in any way, get the Word of God and plant it into your heart. Hallelujah!
You know, we go to school and we learn different things. If you are going to be a doctor, you have to learn everything that they teach you about the body and so forth. Then, after the individual has imbibed all the medical terminology and processes, they give him an exam. How did he come from an ordinary Mr. So-and-so to be a Dr. Soand- so? The “doctor” got imbibed in his heart. Now, you are born a son of So-and-so, and that means your father’s spirit, way of thinking and behavior is part of you. But then, you are born again as a son of God, so you have to open up your heart so that godliness, “god-like-ness,” gets into it. But when the godliness comes, it meets up with “Mr. Kluson.” Now, somebody has got to go! Either “Kluson” or “God.” Yes, and because we are born of “God,” we have to give up “Kluson.” We have to give up our parents, our inheritance and our heritage. This is what God means when He says that He is coming as a thief in the night, and you must be prepared (II Peter 3:10-14).
He says the way to be prepared is to eat strong meat (Hebrews 5:13-14). IF YOU WANT TO BE A SON OF GOD, YOU HAVE TO STOP DRINKING MILK. Now, the next thing that will happen is that I will see on the internet that somebody says that duCille said we must stop drinking milk. Don’t believe everything that you see on that internet. Oh yes. You would be shocked to see some of the things that they put up about me on the internet. “duCille says he talked to a demon and the demon went through the wall.” That is on the internet. When you get on the internet, you had better look for good things, or else you will find a lot of trash there.
So, we are preparing the temple in Jerusalem for the coming of the King. You are the temple of the living God. You are the Jerusalem of God. Brethren, do you know that it is in the Bible that you are the Jerusalem of God? Let me see the hands of all those that know – so, those who didn’t put up their hand, they don’t know. Let’s look at the scripture. As far as my memory can serve me, it is in Revelation. The scripture speaks of an angel calling to John and saying, “Come and let me show you the bride of Christ,” and he showed John the new Jerusalem coming down out of Heaven. Revelation 21:9, And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. 10And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God…
So he said, “Let me show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife,” and he showed John the city. Amen. Now, to give you further insight, go to verse 1. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. So, since you know who the bride of Christ is, you also know who the new Jerusalem is. Praise God.
We are preparing the temple for the coming of Jesus Christ, and I hope you have gotten a good idea of how to begin to prepare your mind. Because, remember now, the Bible says, “For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7).
“For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” So, if you know this, what are you supposed to do to your children? Can you see with me what I am seeing? You can make your children think of God by the way you deal with them. Make it the main thing in your house that the children think of God in the right way. Go home and take away all the pictures and the statues of God, Jesus, Raphael, Uriel, whatever, and burn them. Throw them away. Begin to teach your children about Jesus Christ. Don’t let them look at any programs that are going to lead them astray. Don’t send them to any school that teachers are going to teach them sinful things. I remember they started to teach the little children, five years of age, about this one and this one bring forth this one. They were teaching them sex. Don’t send your children to the devil to teach them. It is your problem now, because some of us didn’t have that problem when we were kids. But God will show you what to do. Don’t send your children to be taught by the devil.
“Out of your heart come the issues of life” (Proverbs 4:23). And if death is in your heart, death is going to come forth. “For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” That is the thought. Any way you think in your heart, that is the kind of person that you are.
Martin Kluson: We have these verses entirely different in the Czech Bible. The Slovak Bible and Russian Bible are okay, but the Hungarian Bible is also not good.
duCille: The different groups should have a time when they take the Greek and the Hebrew. There are enough books available that you don’t have to know the language to study it and get the children involved. The world is trying to kill your children. The world is trying to kill the young people. This is the reason why we have so much destruction among the youth all over the world.
In Jamaica, the biggest gunmen are only 13, 14, 15 years old. They don’t live to be 20. The children over in the Middle East are being taught to kill from when they are babes. Begin to teach your children about Jesus and about life, because this is what God is saying at this time, that we must prepare the temple for the coming of the Lord Jesus. Now, we do not know when Jesus is coming, but we know that we are in the tribulation and that the last part of the tribulation is going to be the worst and that we are not going to be raptured up. We are going to have to become overcomers in the tribulation, and when the destruction starts, we will have to be the people to help the other people who are suffering. That is why God has you here. Amen.
I don’t know what God is going to do – if He will bring you together in a kind of a camp or what, so that you can serve and help people. I don’t know if that is what God is doing. But within the next two years, God is going to make His plan clear to all the churches of God everywhere. These will be the two greatest years in the history of the world, because the world will be struggling for its life. In other words, I am saying to you that it is possible that the world could be destroyed and that every living creature could be destroyed on the face of the earth. And God said that except the fathers would come to the children and the children to the fathers, He would send a curse upon the earth to destroy the whole thing (Malachi 4:6).
Now, let me show you a scripture that tells you what I am saying so that you will have it in the Word of God. Go back to Matthew 24:21, For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. That means that God is saying that all flesh, man and beast, would be destroyed from the face of the earth, but for you. YOU are the instrument that God is going to use to stop the destruction. I believe that if an atomic war lasts more than three months, all human beings will be killed. But God said that in the midst of destruction, “I WILL GIVE POWER unto my two witnesses” (Revelation 11:3). Yes! The people of God will get together and say STOP to Satan!
So, we do believe that God is calling us closer now than we have ever been before. I am showing you how God shows me, so that you can be prepared. The mind is the most important part of the whole equation. Begin now to think about Jesus. Not that you have not been thinking before, but I am asking you now to begin to concentrate! Every morning, take a Word of God, memorize it and keep repeating it all day, so that the world might be kept out of your mind.
Now, your mind affects your emotions, so that the way a man thinks is the way he feels. Now, God enters through the mind and I call the mind the eastern gate. If you read about the temple, you will see that the king enters through the eastern gate. The Jews believe it so much that they have sealed up the eastern gate in Jerusalem, for they believe that one day the Messiah will come through that eastern gate. They don’t realize that the temple is the Body of Christ, and that Christ Jesus is coming through your eastern gate. So you need to repent of your mind. Go before God and say, “God, I am sorry for all the time I wasted thinking wrong things.” Let the Spirit of God enter through your mind now.
I’ll tell you something. It is not only a spiritual healing that you will get, but you will get a natural healing. There is somebody who has been praying for a healing for years and has not received a healing. It would seem the situation is getting worse. Begin to open up your heart to God and just ask God to come in! Ask Him to come in. Welcome Him in and the King will come through that eastern gate. There is a time appointed, and we are in the appointed time when the King will come through the eastern gate. No matter how it is closed, He is coming through. Amen.
Now, we have the emotions. God have mercy upon us, because our emotions sometimes control us! Our emotions, at times, control us, but we need to control the emotions. Now, to control the emotions, you have to use a different method. You can’t get the Word into the emotions. You have to get the Word into the mind. But the emotions can be controlled by fasting and prayer. I’ll make a little drawing here for you.
We have a mind, “M”, emotions, “E”, will, “W”, and desires, “D”. The scriptures describe it as a living creature. Do you remember how the prophet saw the four living creatures? (Ezekiel 1). Now, this creature, “M”, had a wing, and this creature, “E”, had a wing, but they were joined. So then, although the scriptures describe them as four living creatures, they are really ONE.
The living MIND joined to the dead EMOTIONS to the living WILL and the living DESIRES. So, if you want to bring the emotions alive, you have to use a bulldozer that you call fasting. Fasting and prayer are God’s atomic weapon. They will deliver your emotions from the devils that you have living in there. Remember now, as people of God, you will not overcome without fasting and prayer. The scripture says, Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting (Matthew 17:21).
Then you have the DESIRES. If the Spirit is in the mind, it will control the desires. You know, it is said that the way to hell is paved by good intentions. People sometimes have good intentions, but they never carry them out. When you have the mind ministering Life, and the Life comes forth in the emotions and in the desires, the will follows.
Now, the body is the expression of the soul. If your soul wants to laugh, it laughs through your mouth. If the soul wants to cry, it cries through the body. When the soul wants to sin, it sins through the body. So, the body is an expression of the soul. Amen. Oh, God bless you, brethren. God bless you!
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