I'm going to start reading here
in verse 11. And I beheld another beast coming
up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he
spake as a dragon. And he exercises all the power
of the first beast before him and causes the earth and them
that dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly
wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders so
that he maketh fire to come down from heaven on the earth in the
sight of men. And deceiveth them that dwell
on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power
to do in the sight of the beast. saying to them that dwell on
the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had
the wound by a sword and did live. And he had power to give
life unto the image of the beast. And the image of the beast should
both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the
image of the beast should be killed. And he causes all, both
small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark
in their right hand or in their foreheads. and that no man might
buy or sell, save that he that had the mark, or the name of
the beast, or the number of the name. Here is the wisdom, here
is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding
count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man,
and his number is 600, three score and six. Gonna talk about this second
beast tonight. Remember we looked at that beast
last week that came up out of the sea. And the beast that came
up out of the sea is symbolic and represents nations, governments,
anti-Christian governments. And you think about the world's
governments right now. You think about them. How corrupt
they are. And all you know, you think about
how beastly they are. It's why he got a good description
of this governments and worlds around the world are beastly
they're very beastly and they rule and they reign and the more
their power that they can get the better they like it and people
love to be governed and That's what he's talking about the anti-christian
government. You know any and I said this
last week. There's no such thing as as a
Christian nation. Never has been and never will
be. Never has been, never will be. There's nations that forget
God. All nations that forget God should
be turned into hell. Israel and Judah, God's chosen
people, they turned to idols. I mean, they wasn't even out
of the Egypt three days and they started finding forward God after
He took them through the Red Sea. So you think about how beastly
our nations are. That's a good description. They're
beastly. They're just very beastly. And they eat people up and just,
they don't care about people. They say they do, but they don't
care about people. They care about power, care about
authority, care about letting people know that I can do this
and I can do that and I can do something else. But this second
beast that comes up out of the earth He's the most dangerous,
and here's the reason why. There in verse 11, he had two
horns like a lamb. He appears as a lamb. He appears
as a lamb. But I wanna go up and make just
a few comments on this verse 10 before we, and remember now,
holy people is not gonna worship this beast, worship the governments,
worship the nations of this earth. And have not bowed down to them
as those whose lambs names are written in the lamb Book of life
from the foundation of the world. They're the ones it's not going
to do it then that's not going to do it God ain't gonna let
them do it But it arises this and then he says he that leadeth
into captivity shall go into captivity Our Lord said here
you saints of God you people of God if somebody leads you
into captivity They're going into captivity except they can
only lead you into captivity for a while, I'll lead them into
captivity for eternity. And then he says, he that killeth
with the sword, if you get killed with a sword, and somebody takes
a sword against you, he must be killed with the sword. But
the sword that God yields is the sword of his justice, and
that lasts for eternity. And then he said, here is the
patience and the faith of the saints. Remember whatever they
do to you God's gonna do it to them is that they're gonna suffer
for eternity We just suffer for a time. They'll suffer for eternity
and that's why he says But now let's go down here and didn't
go back here this second beast now when we remember that these
These beasts Satan is the one that uses them. They're just
something in his hand to use and they're used of him And you
and I have no idea, no conception whatsoever of the wickedness
that goes on in this world and the spiritual wickedness that's
in high places and among the spirits of this earth. And the
scriptures teaches us that very, very plainly. But here's the
thing about this second beast that come up out of the earth
that had the two horns. This second beast represents
or symbolizes false religion. philosophy, because he comes
as a lamb. And let me show you over here
in Revelations 19, look over in Revelations 19 and verse 20.
Now here you see the beast, you see the boast of the beast here
taken in verse 19 and 20, but I'm just going to look at verse
20. And the beast was taken, and
with him the false prophet, Listen to this, that wrought miracles,
this false prophet wrought miracles before him with whom, with which
he deceived them that had received, listen to this, the mark of the
beast, and then that worshiped his image, they were both cast
alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. So their ends
already determined, but this false prophet, this is false
religion, this is false philosophy. And I told you, you know, I looked
up humanism this week. And humanism, let me tell you,
they've got a manifesto. You know, you've heard of the
communist manifesto? Humanism's got a manifesto. They've
got things that they believe, and they go right down the line
with the things that they believe. They've got a manifesto. And
they meet, and there's a ruling body of them people. And they
all meet in great big groups, and they decide what's going
to happen in this world, what needs to happen in this world,
and how that the man can solve all of our problems. And if they
could just get rid of religion, then man wouldn't have no problems.
Wouldn't have no problems. But this false prophet here,
this false religion, he outwardly resembles a lamb, but inwardly
he's a dragon. He's a dragon. And you know,
you can hear him when he speaks, he has the voice of the dragon.
And he has two horns, he don't have ten, he has just two horns.
And when you look at him, he appeals to the eyes. He's appealing,
he's attractive. And this beast looks innocent
when you look at him. He looks like a lamb. But his
speech is what betrays him. When he speaks, you hear the
voice of the dragon. And a speech is what betrays
everybody about what they think and what they believe. Now it
really does. I can show you that. Speech reveals
the inner thought, the inner essence, the character of a man.
And so what you say outwardly and what you are inwardly may
be two different things. You may appear to be something
and be something else altogether. Let me show you what I'm talking
about in Matthew 12 in verse 34. Matthew 12, 34. You know our
Lord Jesus, you know His speech betrayed Him. And here's what
our Lord said about these people here. Matthew 12, 34. O generation
of vipers, how can ye, being evil, Speak anything good? How can you speak anything good?
You're an evil person, how can anything good come out of you?
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. And
you remember when Peter stood before the fire and he denied
the Lord Jesus Christ. This one woman says, you're a
Galilean, you're following him because your speech betrays you. Your speech lets us know about
who you're from and who you're with and everything about you.
His speech, his language betrayed him. And that's what it does.
Our speech, our language, and what we say reveals the essence
and character of a person. And this, and this is Satan here
now. And as I say, look at his voice. When you look at a false
prophet, you're not, he may look beautiful, he may appear gracious,
he may appear nice, but listen, and listen to what comes out
of his mouth. You say, this is Satan appearing
as an angel of light. Paul said that, he said, they're
false apostles, deceitful workers. Satan appears as an angel of
light. And his ministers are ministers
of righteousness. What does that mean? He said,
they're teaching you how to live righteous, how to act righteous,
how to attain righteousness, and how to finally end up in
heaven if you're righteous enough. And that's what he means about
that. And then they come disguised as sheep. You remember our Lord
said, you know, they'll appear outwardly as sheep. But inwardly,
they're ravening wolves. They come among you, and they
look like a sheep. They look like a sheep. And he
comes up out of the earth, and James says the wisdom of this
earth, the wisdom of this world is earthly, sensual, devilish,
devilish. And these two beasts, one of
them's the anti-Christian government, and I mean our government as
anti-Christian as it can possibly be. It really is. I have no problem saying that.
I really don't. I really don't. And it's anti-Christian
religion. The second beast is anti-Christian
religion. And they work together. It may
not appear like they do, but they work together. This false
prophet, he exercised all the power of the first beast. Remember,
his head had blasphemy on it. And he exercises all the power
of the first beast. And they promote the same interest.
And you know what their interest is? Cause men not to worship
God in Christ. That's what they, they want to
stop men and women from worshiping God in Christ. You know what
they want you to worship? They want you to worship the
will of man. The great God of this age and the great God that's
always been, the greatest God that's ever been in this world
is man's free will. Man's will is so powerful, so
mighty, so powerful that God himself can't do anything about
it. Cry out to man in his abilities. Bring God down and he ain't got
no abilities. Tell man what he can do for God. Don't never tell him what God
done for him. Tell everybody to love Jesus. Because He loves you, whether
you ever manifest it or not. And that's what they do. They
say, worship the wheel. Wheel worship. Paul said in Colossians,
it's wheel worship. And then they teach you to, you
know, to human life is everything. And yet at the same time they
turn around and they commit abortions by the billions. Kip, you know
how much important life is to these people that run our governments?
They kill people by the billions. You think that's as anti-Christian
as you can get? You can't get no more anti-Christian
than that. God's the only one who can give life, and he puts
life in a woman's womb, and she decides as a government to pay
for it, and say, listen, go ahead and kill that baby. He ain't
nothing anyway, he's just a blob. Just a blob. And oh my, and then they get
taken up with a particular race. Oh my. And I tell you what they
want to do is to subject men to the authority and the will
of men. Paganism. You know, you don't
have to go very far to find paganism. Go up here and stand on the streets
and cross one. You'll run across all the paganism
you want. Huh? You don't have to go far.
I was a pagan. I was as pagan as they was. Now
you ain't in that way. I was a pagan. I was a pagan. The worst kind of pagan. And then they worshipped paganism.
When I was in Vietnam, I think they had these pagodas everywhere.
And they got these little Buddhas sitting in them. And you know
that you go in their homes, they got these little Buddhas sitting
around. And you know you go and rub Buddha's head or rub his
belly, man, you're all right. And then there's the Pope. Now
I'm gonna tell you, you know about your lesson, but listen.
Do you know the Pope sticks out his hands and people bow down
and kiss his ring? What kind of man thinks he's
got the authority and the power, and what kind of a fool is it
that would bow down and kiss a man's ring and think that he's
doing God a service, and the Pope thinking he's doing God
a service? I don't even kiss my own ring. I kiss the wife I married from
the winter rain, you know. But oh my, no, no, no. Paganism, the Pope. There's been
emperor worship, idol worship. I've seen Baptist churches with
idols sitting on their porch. Pictures of Jesus. You go out
to this graveyard and there's this great big picture of Jesus
standing there. People go out there and get their
pictures took with them. A statue. That's an idol. And I tell you what, put a picture
of Him up on the wall, you just as well have an idol. I'm telling
you. Man worship. We'll worship. Sacrifices
of every kind. But I'm telling you, beloved,
they say Caesar is Lord, and there's angel worship. Oh my,
you know how many people believe in angels and worship angels
and call on angels? That's what they do, isn't it?
They call on saints. Can you imagine calling on somebody
besides Christ? We're talking about false religion
now. And we're talking about, could you imagine calling on
anybody in heaven besides the Lord Jesus Christ? But they call
on St. Francis, they call on St. Dominic,
they call on St. Jude, they call on St. Aquinas,
they call on every saint under the sun, and call on Mary, but
the last person they'll ever mention is the Lord Jesus Christ. And when's the last time you've
heard anybody on radio or any place else mention Christ? They
mention the church, how you dress at the church, the contemporary
or fashion, and all the ways you can come and all the services
they can offer, and how you can look when you get there. But
they never mention Christ. Antichrist is what they are.
A free willer is as antichrist as you can get. And I'm gonna
tell you something else, since we're on this. You know, there's
people that believe that predestination and election is such a way that
you may not know you're one of God's elect and may not know
you're one of God's children until you get to heaven. They say God can save a person
any way He wants to. He don't have to use any means.
That's Antichrist too. You know the greatest means God
used to save a person in this world? Sinny son. And you think he sent his son
to live, to die, to bear sin in his own body on the tree,
took him down off that tree and buried him, and he went to a
tomb and arose the third day. Do you think God Almighty is
going to set a man apart from the death of Christ being declared
to him? No! It ain't going to happen. God, we're not going to bypass
Christ. We're not going to do that. God
ain't going to let them. Oh, He ain't going to let them. And
I tell you, a saint worshiped, and then look what he said, oh
my goodness. You can tell that I don't like this
stuff. I don't like this anti-Christian stuff. I don't like it at all.
And he doth great wonders. Look what it says there in verse
12. or excuse me, down here in verse
13. And he does great wonders so
that he makes fire to come down from heaven on the earth in the
sight of men. Now what in the world do you
think he's talking about here? Look at Acts chapter 2 with me. Let
me give you a scripture view of what fire is. Acts chapter
2. Acts chapter 2. He doth great
wonders to cause fire to come down from heaven in the sight
of men. Verse 1. And when the day of
Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one
place. And suddenly there came from
heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house
where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them
cloven tongues like as fire, like as fire, and it set upon
them. And that was the Holy Ghost that
they were talking about. And our Lord Jesus Christ, when
he talks about fire, he's not talking about literal fire. He's
talking about the fire of the Holy Spirit. Our Lord Jesus,
John the Baptist said, he said, I'll baptize you with water,
but there's coming one after me. who will baptize you with
the Holy Ghost and with fire. And the Holy Ghost represents
fire. And so when he talks about fire,
he's talking about a spiritual fire, a false fire. There's lots
of false fire in this world. And there's lots of false fire
in this world. And our Lord Jesus, you know,
He said, if it was possible, they'd even deceive the very
elect. And this is a false spiritual fire. It's just a, it's a thing
that he makes people think that the Holy Spirit's coming down
and doing great wonders. Great, great wonders. And he
diseased men, and the scripture says there in verse 14, he brings
down this fire from heaven in the sight of men, deceives them
that dwell on the earth. Now I wanna show you another
thing over in 2 Thessalonians 2. Now look over here at this
with me. 2 Thessalonians 2. See what God says about this
stuff. You know, He deceives men. The scriptures
tells they deceive and being deceived. Deceive and being deceived. You was talking about a young
man tonight, you know, that was wrong and you told him the truth
and he listened to the truth. I was deceived until somebody
told me the truth. And I was willingly deceived.
I didn't know until somebody come along and told me the truth.
And look what he said here in verse 7. For the mystery of iniquity
doth already work, Mystery of sin, the mystery of
lawlessness is already working. Only he who now lets, that word
let means to hinder, to stop, will let until he be taken out
of the way, until the Holy Spirit be taken out of the way and let
this thing have his full course. And then that, shall that wicked
be revealed. Now everybody here thinks this
is a man. Everybody thinks this is a man,
but it doesn't say that it's a man. It says, when that wicked
shall be revealed, he's evidently got a title. I think this is
Satan more than anybody. When that wicked shall be revealed,
whom the Lord, listen to this, shall consume with the spirit
of his mouth, and he go destroy him with the brightness of his
glory. Even him, now listen, this is
what he's talking about. Even him who's coming is after
the working of Satan. And here he goes again with all
power and signs and lying wonders. So they do all these lying wonders.
You don't say, oh, we had 30,000 people got converted. I was looking at an article I
wrote here a while back. Marketing Jesus. Marketing Jesus. You know these fellas go to school
to learn how to market themselves. And they put Jesus on the marketplace. They put him on the marketplace. And I've seen this thing that
they've got going now that they're going to have all the teenagers,
have all the teenagers come out as many as they can get out.
And they're going to have a big shot comedian come, and then
they're going to have this great big singer come, and they're
going to give them all the pizza they can possibly eat. And they're
looking for the greatest crowd that they've ever seen of teenagers. Give them some pizza. Give them
something by saying to them. That's what we're talking about.
Powers and signs and light and wonders. And listen to this,
and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness. Oh, unrighteousness,
they're deceivable. And them that perish, now listen
to this, because they receive not the love of the truth, that
they might be saved. They have the same Bible we do,
but they don't see the same faith. And for this cause, now listen
to this, and for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion
that they should believe a lie, and that they all might be damned
who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in all that playin'. All that playin'. Huh? Oh my. Well this, he deceives men. Oh
he deceives nations, deceives men. And then you go down here
and look what it says there in verse 14. And he deceives them
that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles. which
he had power to do, and decided that beast to come up out of
the sea, saying to them that dwell on the earth that they
should make an image to the beast. Now when they talk about an image,
an image, that's all it is, is an image. There's no substance
to it. There's no reality to it. It's
just an image to the beast which had the wound by sword and didn't
live. So he makes the governments, he saves the governments. He
comes and does things for the governments. And listen to this
now. He said, and he had power to
give life unto the people. You know, to give life to the
image of the beast. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ,
without God's permission, without God's power, and without God
letting it happen, Satan can do nothing. It's given unto him,
given unto him. And I'll tell you what, in the
power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image
of the beast shall both speak, oh, he's gonna be able to talk,
talk. And as many as worship not the
image of the beast shall be killed. Multitudes on multitudes and
multitudes have been killed for not worshiping the image. or
the state, or Caesar, or superstition, or anything else. I've told you
this before. You look at Fox's book, The Martyrs,
and I tell you, the place called Smithville in England, they burned
them at the stake there just one after another. Burned them,
and burned them, and you know those people, they would rejoice,
and even they would rejoice, and lift up their voices, and
thank God that they were allowed to suffer, and praise the Lord
for it. And then in what they have called
the Spanish Inquisition, the Catholic Church decided to, if
you didn't join the Catholic Church, you know what they'd
do to you? They'd either tie you to horses, Two hands or two
legs and two horses and make them all go in different directions
and pull you all to pieces. Or they'll put you on a rack
and stretch you out on a rack and somebody turn to that thing
and they'll start jerking you bones out of joint. And they'd
do that and kill you if you did not join the Catholic Church. I mean, there's people that think,
listen, you know what Muslims would do to us if they got their
hands on us? They wouldn't think no more of
cutting a baby's throat than they would spitting on the ground.
They're doing all our service. They're doing something for Mohammed. Oh my. And there's people suffering
right now over their faith all over the world. And I'll tell
you what, and if you take all China, Russia, Africa, Asia,
they all worship The emperor of the beast. And it's like the
Jew said this morning. Said, we have no king but Caesar.
And you know, they said, hear O Israel, the Lord our God is
one. And they said, we ain't got no
king. Caesar's our king. And Caesar's the one set up the
first emperor worship. The first Caesar. And then it was given unto him.
There in verse 15, he had the power to give life. It was given
unto him. Oh, only Christ can give that.
Only Christ can give that. Then look what he says in verse
16. And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free
and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their
forehands, and that no man might buy or sell or save he that had
the mark or name of the beast or the number of his name. Now,
when he starts talking about everybody, he's talking about
everybody, every kind of class and person on the face of the
earth. They receive a mark in their forehead and receive a
mark on their hand. And the false prophet, the false
religion, gives a mark. Remember, he resembles the Lamb.
But now the followers of the Lamb, they don't receive a mark.
You know what they have? They've been sealed. They get
marks. We're sealed. We're sealed by
the Holy Spirit of power. We're sealed by the Spirit of
God. Nevertheless, the foundation
of God stands assured having this seal. Christ. Yeah, Christ, He's our
seal. And the mark of the beast, listen
to me, what the mark of the beast is. I'm going to tell you what
it is. The mark of the beast is God opposing, Christ rejecting,
church persecuting spirit of antichrist. Whenever and wherever
it shows itself Now I want you to look at a verse of scripture
in Deuteronomy 6 8 chapter 6 in verse 8 Won't you look at that
with me then I'm gonna say a thing or two about the mind and the
hand Deuteronomy 6 verse 8 Now this is what the Lord tells
Israel to do Back up there in verse four,
he says, here is where the Lord our God is one. Love God with
all your heart, all your soul, all your might. And these words
I commanded this day, teach them to your children. And then he
says here, look in verse eight. Then bind them for a sign upon
your hand, and they shall be as frontless between your eyes.
Those are those phylacteries. What they did was they put scriptures
on their hand in little pouches. Rolled them up and put them in
there. And they had this phylactery put around their head, a little
old verse of scripture right there in the middle of their
forehead. And that forehead symbolizes the mind. Keep God's Word in
your mind. Your thought, your life, your
philosophy. and the belief of a person, the
forehead, the mind, that's what it represents. The right hand,
he said put it on your right hand. The right hand is the deed
that you do, the action, the works of a person. And what a
person thinks and how a person acts toward God and toward Christ
and his people indicates whether he has the mark of the beast
or not. You know how many people we know
that has the mark of the beast? I mean, you go listen to a woman
preacher, woman pastor, go listen to a homosexual preacher, pastor. What do you think those folks
got in their mind? What do you think they're doing
with their hands? You can't get more beastly than that. See how
simple it is when you think about it? How plain it is? Huh? What a person thinks and how
a person acts toward God, toward the Lord Jesus Christ and his
people, indicates whether he has the mark of the beast or
not. And the seal that believers receive, it's on our forehead. You know, in Revelation 3, you
go home and listen, he said he sealed them in their foreheads.
He said he sealed them. Sealed them. God knows them better
than he does. He got a seal on them. A seal
means ownership. Identification. Oh my. And I tell you that seal
that he put on us reveals we belong to Christ. We worship
him. We have his spirit. We have the
mind of Christ. And with our hands and with our
hearts and with our minds, we worship Christ, we believe Christ,
we trust Christ. And we've been sealed by the
Holy Spirit of promise. And the Scriptures tells us we've
been sealed until the day of redemption. God said, they're
mine. How do you know? I put a seal
on them. Old Spurgeon used to say, you
know, If you believe in election, why don't you just preach to
an elect? And you say, if they had it on their foreheads, elect,
elect, elect, that's the ones I've preached to. But we don't
know who they are, but God does. God does. And I tell you, the
believer receives a seal. The unbeliever receives a mark. And look what it says here now
about not buying or selling. And you know, here's some things
that people, here's wisdom. You know, Let him, let him, here's wisdom, let him that hath
understanding of the number of the beast. You know what the
number of the beast is? Six. Six, six, six. You know the day man was made?
On the sixth day. And six never makes seven. Never be perfect. And you show
me a man anywhere, that ain't nothing but a failure. Huh? I don't care how many numbers
you put on him, he's still a failure. He's still a failure. Oh my. And what is this mark of the
beast? Let me say this, on the right hand and the fourth. Well,
you know, here's what people have said over the years. They
said, well, it's your social security number. Folks, those
old palmers were scared to death to get a social security card,
because they said, if I get that, that's the mark of the beast.
Then when they come out with barcodes, you know, and they
could run a barcode across something, they said, oh my goodness, that's
the mark of the beast. Then they started the census.
I ain't gonna tell you nothing about being in the census. That's
the mark of the beast. You ought to keep track of us.
And then you know some people, you've seen a dollar bill or
whatever, and it's got that triangle on it, you know, and that eye
right in the middle of it. That's the mark of the beast
too. And then there's some that go
around knocking on doors, and they say if you worship on Sunday
and not on Saturday, you've got the mark of the beast. That's
what they tell you. And that 666 just means man. Sorry, sinful,
God dishonoring, Christ rejecting, sinful, sinful, failing man. It's not an individual, not an
outward visible sign that'll appear on the wicked hands and
hands and forehead of a particular time in history. The beast always
persecutes the church. by secular and religious power,
tries believers wherever they are. And wherever the beast appears,
whether he appears in a Baptist church, Pentecostal church, Lutheran
church, Catholic church, Baptist church, it don't make any difference
where he appears. But wherever he's at, people
are wearing the mark of the beast. Wearing the mark of the beast.
And you know cattle and slaves were marked, branded, believed
that they belonged to the painter. But the mark of the beast, and
they go together all the time. But I tell you, it's the number
of a man. So every time somebody tells you that you got the mark
of the beast, their mind receives what lie
they're told. and their hand reaches out and
gets it. Their hand reaches out and takes it. And how beastly,
beastly is the governments of this world. How beastly, you
talk about beastly, how beastly false religion is. You just think
of it as a great big behemoth, beast that's in this world. And view the government the same
way And then you get an idea of what
I'm talking about. Our Savior, our blessed Lord,
thank you for letting us meet here tonight. Thank you for the
day that you've given us. Lord, thank you for your truth.
Lord, we thank you that you sealed us and that we can't be deceived. You promised us we couldn't be
deceived. He promised us, oh, that we'd have trials, we'd have
troubles, we'd have heartaches, we'd have sorrows. He promised us there'd be a furnace
of affliction for us. But we'd never be deceived. We'd
never be lost. All man can do is what he can
do to a body. He can't do nothing to a soul.
He can't do nothing to that person that Christ is saying. He's eternally
with the Lord Jesus Christ. And Father, we pray that you'd
give us understanding of these things, not never make light
of them, not never be a partaker of them. Lord, you called us
out from among them, called us out of the world, called us out
of religion, called us out of self-righteousness, legalism,
free will, works, you called us out of all that, brought us
to your blessed son, and sealed us by that Holy Spirit of promise.
God bless these dear saints. Lord, strengthen them, meet their
needs. Keep them going in and coming out, getting up and going
down. Lord, bless them for Christ's
sake. Amen. Amen. Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will
grow strangely dim. in the light of His glory and
grace. Seed wished tonight, God willing.