Vol. 1 Timely
Greetings No. 30
THE ONLY
PEACE OF MIND
Volume 1
Number 30
Copyright, 1953 Reprint
All rights reserved
V.T. HOUTEFF
"SEVEN WOMEN TAKE
HOLD OF ONE MAN"
OPENING PRAYER THOUGHT
I shall read two paragraphs from page 188 of
"The Mount of Blessing." The
first paragraph elucidates on the statement, "Seek, and ye shall
find," the second on the words, "Knock, and it shall be opened unto
thee."
"'Seek.' Desire not merely His blessing, but
Himself. 'Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace.' Seek, and you shall find. God is seeking you, and the very desire you
feel to come to Him, is but the drawing of His Spirit. Yield to that drawing. Christ is pleading the cause of the tempted,
the erring, and the faithless. He is
seeking to lift them into companionship with Himself. 'If thou seek Him, He will be found of thee.'
"'Knock.' We come to God by special invitation, and He
waits to welcome us to His audience-chamber.
The first disciples who followed Jesus were not satisfied with a hurried
conversation with Him by the way; they said, 'Rabbi, where dwellest
Thou?... They came and saw where He dwelt, and abode
with Him that day.' So we may be
admitted into closest intimacy and communion with God. 'He that dwelleth
in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the
Almighty.' Let those who desire the
blessing of God, knock and wait at the door of mercy with firm assurance,
saying, For Thou, O Lord, hast said, Every one that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."
Not only that we are invited to seek the
Lord but we are assured that our seeking shall not be in vain. Our very desire to come to Him,
is the prompting of His Spirit. To this
drawing we must yield.
Let us now pray for unwavering faith in His
promise that if we seek, we shall find: if we knock, it shall be opened to us
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"SEVEN
WOMEN TAKE HOLD OF ONE MAN"
TEXT OF ADDRESS BY V.T. HOUTEFF,
MINISTER OF DAVIDIAN 7TH-DAY ADVENTISTS
SABBATH,
MT.
Today we are to continue our study of the book
of Isaiah, beginning with the first verse of the fourth chapter.
Isa. 4:1 -- "And in that day seven women shall take hold of
one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear
our own apparel: only let us be called by Thy name, to take away our reproach."
The first thing we need to know is the time
indicated by the term "in that day."
The antecedent of the words "that day" is found in verses 13
and 14 of the preceding chapters of which the fourth chapter is a
continuation. These verses point out
that "that day" is the Judgment day, the day in which the sanctuary
(the church) is cleansed -- the harvest day.
So, pointing to the day in which we are now living, to the Judgment day,
the scripture figuratively reveals that all (for that is what the Biblical
number "seven" indicates) the churches have arrived at the place
where by their actions they are in reality saying to the Lord: "We want
nothing from you but Your name. Just let us be called Christians is all we
want from You.
We want Your name because it takes away our
reproach; that is, if we be called Christians, then what we do can be blamed on
You; You get the credit for it."
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Accordingly, the world has reached the day
when God, in order to save the Church, is finally compelled to do something as
great and as revolutionary as brought about by the first Advent of Christ. And what could that be? -- The remaining
verses of the chapter give the answer.
Isa. 4:2 -- "In that day [when seven women take hold of one
man] shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of
the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of
This verse shows that the time is now ripe
for this glorious revolutionizing of the church and of the world. Let us remember that history repeats, and
that a dark cloudy day is always followed by a bright one. So this great apostasy is to be followed not
by chaos, but by glorious revival and reformation, by glory and prosperity for
all the saints who escape the vengeance of a great God. The faithful shall reap a harvest of souls as
did the Apostles on and after the Pentecost.
"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous
Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and
justice in the earth. In His days [in
the Christian era]
This very message, therefore, is the message
of "Righteousness by Faith" to them that believe. In the day the "righteous branch"
is raised,
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Yes, the day is here when
God's vengeance is to fall upon His adversaries, and the once trodden-down
kingdoms of
Plainly this is the final harvest of the
earth, the gathering of the people from all countries. It is the day in which to sing the song of
Moses and the Lamb. This is to be the
second and last Exodus Movement. So
great will it be that it will entirely eclipse the Movement of Moses' day. Do we, then, realize that we are on the verge
of a new day? -- a great day for the faithful and a
dreadful one for the unfaithful?
Isa. 4:3 -- "And it shall come to pass, that he that is
left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem,
shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in
Jerusalem."
This verse clearly shows that while none of
the wicked in the church will survive the purification, yet none of the
righteous will perish. Indeed, all that
are left, will be called holy, and will enjoy even greater security than did
His ancient people at the time they left
"Behold,...the
Lord, Whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the messenger of
the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith
the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the
day of his
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coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like
fullers' soap: and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he
shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may
offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness." Mal. 3:1-3.
Isa. 4:4-6 -- "When the Lord shall have washed away the filth
of the daughters of
"For I, saith
the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in
the midst of her." Zech. 2:5.
Anyone who knows the Bible can see that all
these events are premillennial. So it is that this present apostasy is to
bring forth the "Lord's fruitful branch"; that the wicked who are
among God's people are to be taken out of the way, and the faithful, those that
escape, are to be the servants of God and reap a harvest of souls, of
"such as should be saved," that the day of vengeance is already at
the threshold of the house; that His faithful ones are to be raised to
prominence and power; that the greatness and the glory of the movement is to
cause the wonders of the Exodus Movement and of the early Christian church to
fade into insignificance.
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Brother, Sister, are you prepared to abide
the day of His coming? Will it be to you
a great and glorious day? or will it be a dreadful day? Will you find yourself at His right, or at
His left? Will it be said to you
"Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from
the foundation of the world?" or will it be said unto you, "Depart
from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared
for the Devil and his angels"? Will
your garments pass His inspection? or will you find yourself cast into outer darkness, there to
gnash your teeth?
These are solemn questions that each of us
must now answer to himself. If we do not
answer them now, then we will have to answer by standing speechless before an
angry God. May every one of us be able
in that day to say "Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He
will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and
rejoice in His salvation." Isa. 25:9.
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