Chapter 36: In regard to the Second Coming, the believer does not need the external

When the devil looked at Calvary, he saw his Waterloo--his defeat. That's what is the matter with him. The devil is conscious of his defeat. That is why, in the closing of this dispensation, the wroth of the enemy is being felt all the time in more intense form, because he sees the net drawing in. In the end, he will become fairly frantic. He will possess, and move through every instrument he can find, in politics, in society, in art and music, in every form that he can get in. In the last days he is going to be captured in his own net. He sees his utter defeat at Calvary.

A demon is as evasive and subtle as a snake.

I never reason with the devil. He is unreasonable.

The devil is a servant, after all, and God uses him when He wants to. With Paul, He let a demon loose, "a messenger of Satan to buffet him." __________________________________________________________________

In regard to the Second Coming, the believer does not need the external signs such as the Jew returning to Israel. Those are for the ones who need to be aroused by great signs--but the believer is looking for these spiritual signs:

1. When the cup of iniquity is full. (That's the negative sign.)

2. When the Bride has made herself ready. (That's the positive sign.)

"Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown." (Rev. 3:11) "I come quickly" --not in the sense of time, but in the manner--like a flash; "That no man take thy crown"--in the sense of a bird snatching the seed (Truth) as in the parable of the sower; (Mark 4:4) "Hold fast the Truth--keep and guard My Word and message; hold; grasp the deposit of Truth, for it relates to a crown ("That no man take thy crown"). __________________________________________________________________