Cecil J. duCille
September 27, 2007
Czech Republic
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Well, praise the Lord. It is wonderful to be here again together with you! We can cancel out the 5,000 miles between us and let the Spirit of God continue to bless us. Praise God. We praise God for the service that has gone on before. We thank God for the service this morning.
We were seeing Brother George and Brother Burt and we thank God for the Word that went out today. I want to say a few words about what Brother George said – a kind of correction so that the Germans don’t feel too badly. When he spoke about the German spirit it sounded like the Germans might feel pretty bad that we were saying something not so good about them. When he spoke of those who came from Luxembourg, my wife turned and asked me, “Were you born in Luxembourg?” I said, “No.” What happens is that all nations have national spirits that manifest on different levels. One might be a demanding rulership spirit. The other might be another type of spirit. So, if we could use the words “German spirit” to apply to all ancestral behavioral spirits, our German brothers would probably forgive us for saying “German spirit” in such a negative sense. Praise God.
We want to continue with the message that we were having yesterday, but I would like to give you a vision that I had and I really want to follow my own rules, which is to not interpret your own visions. So, I am going to leave it with you and afterwards if the Lord speaks the interpretation to any one we will probably be able to talk about it.
In the vision, I saw that the brethren were together and that we were looking across a field to some high mountains on the other side. Suddenly, there was fire coming up from behind the mountains like a volcano. The hot lava began to flow down the sides of the volcano and we were terrified that it was going to catch the people in their houses. It swept away some of the people, but to my great surprise, they were swimming in the hot lava. It didn’t do any harm to their clothes except they were wet and it was probably affecting their attitude. We wanted to go a little closer to see what was really happening, but when we got closer, the fire broke out close to us and began to run on the ground towards us. We had a child with us and we started to run away from this fire, but the fire caught up with the child. I ran and picked up the child in my hand, but the child didn’t have any sign of hurt at all. Praise God. I prayed, and I believed that it was referring to the present meeting here in Czech, but I want somebody else to get the word from the Lord.
The Word I received this morning was from Ephesians 5 and starting in verse 16. It says here, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. 18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit. Yesterday we were talking about our bodies being the temple of the Living God and how God’s desire is to fill us with His Spirit that we would be walking and talking temples of God. God is expecting us to get to this place in a very short time. He gave us certain signs so we could understand how close we are to the time of His appearance. He said that as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the time of the end. We find that in Matthew 24:38, For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
There are certain things that we see in the scriptures pertaining to Noah’s time. The first thought is that God said that the men were violent. The second thought in Genesis 6:1 was that the men were giants. I want you to understand that. The scriptures show that there were physical, natural giants. In our time, man has become a giant in knowledge and in science. Now, whatever happens in the natural also happens in the spiritual. So, if there are scientists and men whose thoughts have propelled them into the category of a giant, then the same thing must be happening in the church, in the Body of Christ.
It is in our midst and we don’t even recognize it. Yesterday afternoon my wife and I got together and we began to look at certain situations that needed to be taken care of immediately. She said to me, “God has enough time in which to fix this business, which is 24 hours.” This morning a brother called and told me that they have received a word from the Lord that certain things should be done and it was being done immediately. The most I can say is, “Praise be to God. The people of God are alive and they are hearing Him.”
We are in a period of time that is “shortly, shortly.” A lot of things that are written in the Word of God that have never come to pass before will come to pass in our time. Jesus Christ is speaking to His people so that we will be alert and come alive for what God is about to do in the earth. The scripture says, Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets (Amos 3:7). That means that those of you who labor in prophecy must keep your hearts and minds clean and open towards God, so that He can pour the truth into your hearts. The Lord is speaking through the various branches of prophecy.
I don’t know if you understand that there are many, many branches of prophecy. Brother Burt has been anointed as a prophet in the Body, but he hardly dreams. He does not dream, but Brother George dreams and he does not prophesy. What I am saying is that we have some sisters who will hear the word of the Lord and there are some who hear the audible voice of God. There are some who hear in their hearts. There are some who have dreams and visions, and these are all parts of the prophetic voice of the church.
I remember having a very, very deep problem dealing with the Lord on certain issues. A sister called me from the Czech Republic and it was as if she was reading a book. She told me everything that was going on. I only said, “Amen. Please pray.” The marvelous thing about it is that there is not one brother or one sister who is filled with the Holy Ghost – God said, “Be ye filled with the Spirit” – who does not have a position in the Lord and in the Body. You know, the scripture that we read yesterday said, …the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple (Psalm 19:7). The testimony of Jesus Christ is IN the people of God. We testify by everything we see, everything we say and everything we do. God is expressing Himself through a Body. But the devil wants to express himself, also. So, we have to learn how to resist the devil and how to submit to the Lord.
God is bringing the whole business to an end. We are in the seventh millennium in the dispensation of the fullness of times. In this time, God is gathering together all the saints of heaven and the people on earth into one Body (Ephesians 1:10). Now, we are not talking about ecumenism. They say that I am too dogmatic, that I only believe in our group and our church, but our group has no boundaries and our church has no walls. In other words, God creates a church out of the churches, not IN the churches. All those who are hearing God, who are walking in Christ, are a part of this church. There is no joining and there is no legal document that we have to join us together. The scriptures declare that the law of the LORD is perfect (Psalm 19:7). The law by which we gather together, by which we are one in Christ, is CHRIST. Christ Jesus is our law. Christ Jesus is our life and we are working according to the law of life which is in Christ Jesus. Now, this law of life is the same law of life that the apostle Paul is working with at this very moment. Thus, if I turn around in my kitchen or in my bedroom and I see Paul, I would not be surprised, for the Lord God is with us and He is working in us and through us and by us.
Now, what I am seeing, I believe is the same thing that all of us are seeing. I am seeing that as far as there being time for us to do our own thing, that time is over. The scripture says that the angel put one foot on the sea and one foot on the land and swore by the Living God that time should be no more (Revelation 10:5,6). TIME IS FINISHED. We have no TIME to do anything of our own making any more. The time to hear God is now. Hallelujah. Our only hope for tomorrow is that we hear God today. The young man, Samuel, was told by Eli, “When thou hear the Voice say, ‘Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth’” (I Samuel 3:9). This is what we need to hear now. I expect that within the months to come that the Spirit of God will be speaking to the Body of Christ some things that we have never heard before. The three angels went to Abraham and these three angels ate a calf that Abraham killed (Genesis 18:1-5). These three angels were not ordinary angelic beings. One of them was Jesus Christ and even as Moses and Elias appeared with Jesus on the mount of transfiguration, I believe that some of the brothers appeared with Him when He was speaking to Abraham (Matthew 17:2-3). When Manoah’s wife told her husband and he offered the angel food to eat, he said, “I will not eat” (Judges 13:16). Then he put his staff to it and it went up in flames. Angels don’t eat our natural food, but the three angels were a manifestation of Heaven. The brothers were in Heaven with Jesus Christ and they ate that calf to prove to us who they were.
What I am saying is that there is a manifestation of Christ in our midst and we don’t even pay enough attention to what Heaven is doing for us now. In days to come the Lord will lead us into places of safety and places of deliverance. The Bible said that when Lot came out of Sodom fire rained down on the city (Genesis 19:24). Now we are looking for certain things to happen in our world very, very soon.
I want to read for you Revelation 13:1, And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Watch the news, brethren, of what is happening in Europe, for this beast has the mark of Europe. First of all, he said he stood upon the sand of the sea. The sea means nations. So the prophet is saying that he saw the nations and he saw a beast rising up out of the nations. Now, let me explain beast to you so that you might understand what we are talking about as we go along.
God made man and He made the beast. The man had a spirit, a soul and a body. The beast has a soul and a body. When the Bible said that God breathed into the man, I know that God doesn’t breathe air like we breathe. He breathes Spirit. So God Spirited Himself into clay and the clay became a living soul (Genesis 2:7). Now, that spirit that God puts there to be with that soul is to lead that soul back to God, because the spirit is a part of God, an endowment from God Himself into the human being. The spirit, therefore, is the Holy of Holies in the human realm where God dwells. So when you receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you receive the living God into your spirit. Thus in our realm we have perfection in the spirit.
The brethren asked Jesus to teach them to pray and He said to pray, Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, (my soul and my body and the world) as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10). So, heaven dwells in the human being. The kingdom of God is within you (Luke 17:21). The scriptures tell us in Hebrews 6:4-6that it is impossible to renew someone to repentance who has eventually receivedthe Spirit, received the fullness of God, rejected Him, and cut himself off from God.This is what we call a beast. Hebrews 6:6, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
That is a perfect description of a beast. So, when the Lord speaks of a man as a beast, it means that the man has rejected the basic human quality that would take him back to God. He is like the brute beast. Now, if men of that quality get together to blaspheme God, then you call it a whole nation. A whole nation can be represented by that beast. That is what we are reading in Revelation 13. As we go along let us remember now that God is telling you about the time and what is happening to redeem the time because the days are evil. So, we are the redeemers of the time and we are talking about the time. When Lot said to the angel, “Please send me to that little city, Zoar.”
The angel said, “All right. Go to Zoar and for your sake we will not destroy Zoar” (Genesis 19:20-22). In other words, the reason that I am showing you these things that are happening in Europe is because God will not allow them to happen unless He gives you the power and the grace to overcome them. So, when we see these things begin to come to pass we should rejoice and say, “Thank You, Jesus! The hour is near at hand!”
Let’s look here. It says it has seven heads and ten horns. Now, the heads are the governments and the horns are the men. Now, the seven heads and ten horns are going to be described in verse 2. (We are back in Revelation 13.)
2And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Let’s first of all look at where they got their authority from. It says from the dragon. Let’s see if we can find the dragon then. If you turn to Revelation 12, let us read from verse 7 to 9.
7And there was war in heaven…
“And there was war in Heaven.” A peculiar phrase. Heaven is a place of peace. Heaven is a place of joy. Heaven is a place where God dwells. What kind of Heaven then would have war? Now, Heaven is where God dwells and if God dwells in me than I become a heaven of God. The scripture says that the Kingdom of God is within us. So, then, the church becomes the Kingdom of God. Now, this is the only part of God’s Kingdom where there is war. In our realm the dragon is fighting against Michael, the angel of God. So, we see here then that God has sent to us power over the power of the enemy. I am telling you, brethren, he is here and he is helping us. In some of our small problems, Michael is right there helping us.
I had a vision some time ago that he was here and that we were actually afraid of him because this big mighty man was a fearsome sight. We were trying to move a sister’s house from one spot to another and we were having a lot of trouble and he just came and bent down. He pushed his hand under the house and gently just lifted it from one place, carried it across and put it down gently and then we began to trust him. I have good reason to believe that the heavenly host is with us. Now, because of this we have power against the power of the enemy. Verse 9 says, And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. What God is saying to us is that at a certain stage in our warfare, Satan will not be in the church any more. He will be outside there in the world with the sinners. Now, then, since we understand what is meant by the dragon, we will go back to Revelation 13.
One sister said that she had a revelation that the dragon represented also one of the nations, which is China. I have no doubt that the things that are in the spiritual are also in the natural. So let us read from verse 2, And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Now, remember, we are looking at something that is highly symbolic. In other words, it is not natural. It has a spiritual meaning. Therefore when we look at the leopard, we have to say to ourselves, “What nation does the leopard represent?” In the ancient world the leopard usually represents France. Now, that means that the body of the thing is France. France is the body of the beast. The feet were those of a bear and the bear represents Russia. The mouth is the mouth of a lion and the lion represents England and the British countries. But all these nations will get their power from the devil. Incidentally, many of them are now being armed by China. But it is the first organization on earth that has the seat of Satan as its power and great authority the Bible says. When you think of the satanic authority that Satan has over the nations, consider that the Bible is saying that this massive authority is going to be transferred to the United Nations.
3And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. Whichof the heads was wounded? I should think that this head was wounded byCalvary. We must also understand that the nature of these beasts is a nature thatoppresses. The nature of some peoples that might not have been mentioned aspart of the beast, but the great authority of Satan has brought them in to be part ofthe nature of the beast.
4And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? The great thought that I want to leave with you today is that these thingsare happening right before us and we need to look, see and understand them, that itis pointing to us getting closer to the time when we will come forth in the fullnessof Christ. Notice that it says that these nations will have the power of Satan. TheBible tells me that Jesus Christ has given us power over the power of the devil. Sothe excitement in seeing these things come to pass is that we are also coming forthin Christ. Let us not forget that the more power that we see the world have, the devilhave, means that the more power that we, the sons of God, have. Let us rejoice in God Almighty that Hehas given us power to control the beast! Hallelujah.
We can go into another part. I think that we will have another opportunity to really carry this thing out to the full measure of what God is saying to the church at another time. Let’s dwell a little bit more on certain points here. I heard a young lady from Hollywood, one of the “stars” they call them, curse Jesus Christ the other day. The most amazing thing is that when she came forth with her cursing about Jesus, they cheered her. She was cheered by the crowd. The blasphemy of the nations is very much in the forefront at this time. There are those who are comparing us, the church, with Islam, that we are just another religion.
In verse 6 we see, And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. 7And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. But the time came; the Bible says that he willcontinue for three and a half years and the time came when the saints will overthrowthe kingdom of the devil. Praise God.
We, therefore, must keep our minds straight. We must keep understanding what God’s Word is no matter what we see happen in the world. Therefore, we are going to end the message by coming right back to the basic thought of baptism. The reason is that without the baptism of the Holy Ghost we wouldn’t be part of the victorious company. You cannot be baptized in the Holy Ghost unless you have made a covenant with Jesus Christ by water baptism. Now, the brother yesterday asked the question, “What about those who don’t have any water, or are in a country where you dare not do anything like that?” But we need to remember that water baptism is the outward sign of an inward work. So, it is only to teach the children of God what baptism really means: death, burial, resurrection. We are buried with Him in baptism and we rise in newness of life.
So as the sons of the devil grow in power and strength and authority, we must realize that we also are growing to be above them, to be able to control the beast. In Revelation 12:11, And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Now, remember, it is the Word of God and the Law of God. It is the precept and the testimony of God. It is the commandment and the judgment of God. When we have all of this in place, it is the Spirit of God according to God’s ordinance, according to God’s promise, according to God’s covenant that He has made with us that is in us doing the work. So let us go forth in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ from victory to victory, knowing that, regardless of what happens, we will overcome.
Praise God. We bless you and may the Lord God keep you. May the Lord God continue to strengthen you by His power until we meet again. We will be ready to come any time you are ready. In the name of Jesus, God bless you.
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