{"id":62945,"date":"2015-02-24T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=62945"},"modified":"2023-07-11T16:29:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T23:29:42","slug":"annotated-transcript-q612","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=62945","title":{"rendered":"Annotated Transcript Q612"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unidentified male voice:\u00a0<\/b>Testing one two three, testing one two three, testing one two three, testing one two three, testing\u2014<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>\u2014or black. I rather suspect it was the latter, because my family tree was suddenly disposed of, because we came back from one of the\u00a0kings\u00a0in England. they were so pl\u2014 proud of that family tree, but I, I smelled, as the old whites used to say nastily, I smelled sweetly, a nigger in the woodpile.<\/p>\n

Laughter and applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>So I went to look at my family tree, because my father was such an autocrat and he was such an\u00a0aristocrat\u00a0and such a\u00a0blowhard\u00a0and such a\u00a0mean\u00a0soul, that he was trying to\u00a0hide\u00a0something. He talked too much against blacks and Jews. I knew something was\u00a0wrong\u00a0with this man. He talked down about the Indians, and I\u00a0knew\u00a0when people start kicking others, they\u2019re hiding something themselves.<\/p>\n

Laughter and applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Hmm? So I got that family tree \u2014 the\u00a0original\u00a0one, they\u2019d taken the one out of the courthouse, and they had\u2014\u00a0oh, it was all prettied up and had a seal on it and it was surrounded with a silver trim or gold trim \u2014 it was just beautiful. But I went to the courthouse and I searched and I searched and I went\u00a0way\u00a0back to South Carolina and I found that Grandma went out to somebody\u2019s back cabin.<\/p>\n

Laughter and applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>And when I came home and told my dad what I found, he didn\u2019t talk about family trees anymore. He forbade me to speak, and he kicked me out of the house, because I had found out what\u2019s happened to many, many millions in this land, across the land \u2014 some of you\u2019re here, you think you\u2019re white and you got that, that inner soul spirit and you feel that vibration for freedom and you got that love for oh, justice and \u2014 and then there is something to this, an intrinsic appreciation for art and aesthetics and rhythm, and you feel it in you and you look white, but honey, a nigger slipped in your woodpile somewhere.<\/p>\n

Laughter, cheers and applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>No people on earth has the beauty of drums and rhythm and dance like the Africans,\u00a0long\u00a0before all this so-called Christian civilization and oh the synchronization, every step, every movement, the harmony, and the great creative worship that is expressed in African dance and African song, and some of you whites, you danced (stretched for emphasis) (unintelligible word), you look white, but honey, you\u2019re a nigger<\/a> like Father Jim. I\u00a0know\u00a0you are.<\/p>\n

Cheers and applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Shouts, preacher\u2019s voice) Anyone in America who\u2019s poor \u2014 white, brown, yellow, or black \u2014 and does not admit that he\u2019s a nigger is a damn fool.<\/p>\n

Cheers and applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Lowers voice) Because nigger means\u2014\u00a0niggardly means to be treated cheatedly. You\u2019ve been cheated. And we know Indians and blacks and poor whites have been cheated, don\u2019t we?<\/p>\n

Assent and applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>So nobody\u2019s going to cause me to bow my head low. My son, Jim Jones Jr., who\u2019s black, I legally adopted \u2014 they used to send him home crying when they\u2019d spit on him or something or call that word “nigger”\u2014 they quit spitting because he got too big. He\u2019s taller than I am now, 12\u2014 you, you say anything to him, you spit now, and your teeth will end up down in your toes.<\/p>\n

Cheers and applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>But he said that\u00a0word hurt,\u00a0and so I turned that word around in my home, and I made it the proudest word for the chosen people. I said, yes we\u2019re niggers and we\u2019re proud. And now we say that word and our children don\u2019t get worried. The last time little Jim was called “nigger,” he said, sticks and stones may break my bones, but you\u2019re sure\u2014 certainly not going to hurt me with\u00a0that\u00a0word, because that\u2019s the\u00a0best\u00a0word in the world.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>I\u00a0started\u00a0to take an offering. I\u00a0started\u00a0to have a tape played to save the voice. But that didn\u2019t work out just as we would like to have it work out, so I end up preaching.<\/p>\n

Cheers and applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>\u2014\u2019Cause I preach and speak 20 to 22 hours a day. Doctors are amazed at my voice, they say it\u2019s amazing that I can ever open my mouth or even emit a sound, and they\u2019ve been amazed for several years. (Raises voice) Now, dear friends, when you have a church here that was formed the first of October, 1973 \u2014 this church was formed here \u2014 we started without a dime to pay for it, but today, it\u2019s paid for.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>And a beautiful facility down here, facilities where people can stay, facilities up to here, and the kitchen has been put in. Modern kitchen, \u2018cause these idiots in church before, they weren\u2019t even practical enough\u2014 all these other churches aren\u2019t even practical enough to at least\u00a0eat\u00a0together. We have a free dinner after each meeting. And anyway, in one year, a little over, we have paid for a church that they\u2019re now offering us $200,000 for. We paid, I paid $129,000, they wanted two hundred and some thousand for it, and we are honored by\u2014 The mayor sent us a certificate, that this is one of the historic buildings of Los Angeles. And if riots and way\u2014 race wars and concentration camps<\/a> do not come by 1980, this will be a relic that will be worth at least a million dollars, they say. Because this is an unusual fi\u2014 building. People come from everywhere to take pictures of it.<\/p>\n

Scattered applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>It\u2019s so important to the city that they in\u2014 in\u2014 enter\u2014 entered into a contract that by that time that they will assist you in purchasing\u2014 and if a foundation to be purchased\u2014 and we have to have\u00a0approval\u00a0of any changes we make here, because this is one of the historic buildings in the entire area of Los Angeles. Well, anyway, in Redwood Valley, you can find Knob Hill Rest Home, Convalescent Home in Ukiah \u2014 brick, modern, beautiful, renovated in the last month since we took it over from that\u00a0heathen, that heathen that was named Phillips, and took it over from her, and cleaned it up and painted it, now it\u2019s a beautiful place, getting it on the road to be\u2014 being a place that\u2019s attractive for all. These people that own these rest homes in the world are degenerates, many of them. They treat people, old people, like they were a piece of wood. Now we have that home, and it\u2019s paid for. And we have one right across the\u2014 the street from the church, and we\u2019re paying for that. We have thirty something thousand dollars in it, the rest home, the Sweeney home just across the street. And then right next to the church in Redwood Valley, the community center where our swimming pool is, where we can give physical therapy, many have been healed, helped, brought back to health in the warm waters of that pool. And the children enjoy it for pleasure. Right next is a lovely rest home, and right next to that is a beautiful children\u2019s home, then a mile away is a 40-acre children\u2019s home, and then a mile the other direction is a lovely convalescent center surrounded with 25 acres. We\u2019re\u00a0paying\u00a0for some of those, of course. But we paid\u00a0this\u00a0church off. The San Francisco Temple is paid off, and it will be rebuilt in a beautiful style two months \u2014 Dr. Pilgrem (name unintelligible) told me yesterday that I healed of that tumor mass when he was to go to surgery, whi\u2014 that white pastor of the Church of God, he went to surgery, the doctors said it\u2019s all gone. Dr. Curtis said I don\u2019t know what goes with you people, but he said, I ought to know. Whenever I see somebody from Jones\u2019 group, to expect this sort of thing, because it\u2019s happened to me time after time, they\u2019ll come to be operated, and they won\u2019t need an operation after they come and\u00a0see\u00a0me. (Voice rising) He said, it was there when I saw you, before Jones worked on you.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>He told me Friday night that we will have our Temple\u00a0definitely\u00a0built in two months if all of you will volunteer time, if there\u2019s any here in Los Angeles that can go up, the roof\u2019s (unintelligible) enough that we can give you some living accommodations, I wish some of you would take some of your spare time and go up there and help us build it back, because we\u2019ll need it built in the Mexican design that we have, (sumbles) it\u2019s an old style architecture, so that we can\u00a0sell\u00a0it when that day comes, if we need to, and in fact, make it beautiful while we use it. Anyone here that will up there, by the way, and give us some spare time. I mean not from\u2014 I mean from Los Angeles. (Raps softly on podium.) Thank you, we\u2019d appreciate it\u00a0very\u00a0much, we\u2019d appreciate\u2014 Give your names to Brother Cleve here at the end, Cleve Jackson, C.J., he will take your names, and we could use it, because they\u2019re doing wonderful work. (Voice rises) That church is paid for. The Redwood Valley Temple is paid for. The parsonage is paid for. Several acres of fruit trees and vines, most luscious grapes,\u00a0paid\u00a0for. Thirteen Greyhound buses, air-conditioned and heated \u2014 I don\u2019t own a car \u2014\u00a0but they\u2019re paid for. And some of you Baptists and holiness and Church of God and Christ people, you\u2019re here today and you\u2019ve been in the same church, and all you\u2019ve paid for is preachers\u2019 anniversaries, preachers\u2019 birthdays, pastors\u2019 wives teas. (Shouts) You know that\u2019s all you pay for.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Chilly. These clothes \u2014 These clothes have got spots on them, these clothes have got\u2014\u00a0These\u2014 (long pause, unintelligible sentence.) These clothes have spots on them, you can see them anywhere. See \u2018em? Spots, spots, caked stuff? Now Sister Wilson over there will clean them\u00a0free. She cleans them\u00a0free. But you know, every time you clean clothes, you wear them out, don\u2019t you, a little bit more.<\/p>\n

Laughter.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>So she hadn\u2019t seen these pants in five weeks, this pair. And it smells like\u2014 little bit of any good free chosen nigger smells.<\/p>\n

Laughter and applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Used tie, thrift shops, here we buy nothing but what will help the people. I\u2019ve adopted eight children. We\u2019ve taken those children in that children\u2019s home that were beat with (pauses and shouts)\u00a0tire\u00a0rods, beat with\u00a0leather\u00a0whips and chairs, and now they\u2019re out, flowered out under the beautiful leadership of the Jewish couple that are in our church that have been healed and brought to light, not one of the them is ever\u00a0touched, and they work in the fields when they used to be beat by a\u00a0Christian\u00a0that run the place. These Christians have beat us long enough. And you\u00a0still, some of you, you stay under the dead letter, and that black book is your enemy. You say, well, what am I to believe? Then listen to me. Said God would always speak. God would always be with us. He said, Lo, I am with you always. He didn\u2019t say, it. He didn\u2019t say, it, the Holy Spirit, or the thing. He said,\u00a0I! He said, I am with you always,\u00a0even\u00a0unto the very end of the world. He said\u00a0I\u00a0will never\u00a0leave\u00a0you.\u00a0I\u00a0will never\u00a0forsake\u00a0you.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>In Azusa Street, when the spirit of Pentecost socialism fell, and they got that touch \u2014 they (unintelligible) word only had the tongue, they didn\u2019t go ahead and get the shoe \u2014\u00a0when the spirit of Azusa came and Pentecostalism\u00a0started, it was meant to start right, but it only got the tongue. And you\u2019d know how stupid a person would look, if they only had a tongue taped on their foot, and they didn\u2019t have any shoe, or didn\u2019t have any instep, didn\u2019t have any sole, didn\u2019t have any heel, they\u2019d look like a blind idiot. And that\u2019s the way these tongues people today, all they\u2019ve got\u2019s the tongue, they say,\u00a0I\u2019ve got it all. Now what he said when the spirit of truth is come, it will lead you and guide you into\u00a0all\u00a0truth.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Shouts his message)\u00a0You\u00a0cannot be saved by Bibles. Bibles will destroy you. Jesus said,\u00a0search\u00a0the scriptures.\u00a0Search\u00a0the Bible.\u00a0Search\u00a0the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life? But these are they that testify of the\u00a0living\u00a0Christ. That\u2019s what it says in the Hebrew, that I am the\u00a0living\u00a0spirit. They testify the living Christ, and you will never recognize him when he comes. You will not come to him, that you might have life. The Scriptures are death, but the Spirit of Christ,\u00a0hey hey, it\u2019s alive (2 Corinthians 3:1-6).<\/span><\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>So you say, what would I do without my black book? What are you going to do\u00a0with it?<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(In full throat) You\u2019re going to die in the wilderness with it. [You] say, it\u2019s the whole word of God. You are a liar! Jesus said himself, in the last chapter of John, if all the books, if all the sayings and works of Jesus had been recorded, the world \u2014 if it was a library \u2014 if all the world was a library, from the blue sky to the blue Pacific to the blue Atlantic, from China to Russia to America, he said if all the world was a library, the world would not be able to contain the writings, the world would not be able to contain the sayings, the world would not be able to contain the works and the Bibles of Jesus Christ (John 21:25, “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.”).<\/span><\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>You have been led by preachers that are empty cisterns. They tell you to believe in the book because they don\u2019t have any power. I have nine gifts. I\u2019ve healed every disease. I raised the dead 518 times this year before your eyes. I mean, before your eyes, how many have seen me raise them, when they were stiff as a poker? Bowel movement, blood coming out of their face, blood coming out of their mouth, vomit all over them, eyes set, no pulse, no heartbeat, dead for two hours, three hours like this sister, 20, 30 minutes like this sister, this sister had her back and neck broken, took it and healed it. This sister next to her, five times operated when she was in holiness, no one could heal her, when she was in the church of God and Christ,\u00a0no\u00a0one could heal her, five times operated for cancer, the doctors sewed her up to die, but\u00a0I, I said one day a year ago, your time has come, and she spit up the cancer.<\/p>\n

Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Her stomach had been cut away. Her bowels had been cut away, five times. Radium treatment, chemotherapy, surgery, the doctors said, I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m sewing you up to send you home to do what you must, because you must die, but when I got\u00a0through\u00a0with her, when the Living Word got\u00a0through\u00a0with her, when the Spirit got\u00a0through\u00a0with her\u2014<\/p>\n

Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>\u2014 she went back to the doctor over a year, nearly a year ago, and the doctor said,\u00a0I\u00a0don\u2019t know what\u2019s happened, but I know that whereas you were dying, now you don\u2019t need me anymore. You\u2019re healed!<\/p>\n

Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Voice drops back to conversation level) I\u2019ve got one young man back there that\u2019s worrying about the Antichrist healing. The Antichrist does not heal. (Pause). You\u2019ve been lied to again by preachers that want to keep you in bondage. They have no power, so they say (stage whisper), watch, don\u2019t go over there. (conversation level) The devil can heal. They accused Jesus of that, and we\u2019re living in a greater day than Jesus, because Jesus said, these things shall you do and greater,\u00a0greater, because I have come and gone to the Father. So it\u2019s a greater day than Jesus\u2014\u00a0but they accused him of being the Antichrist, they accused him of being, not only a devil, but they accused him of being the\u00a0Prince\u00a0of All Devils. They said, this is Beelzebub, and he cast out devils by devils, but he said,\u00a0nobody\u00a0can heal with the devil.\u00a0No\u00a0one can cast out a devil by a devil. He said, if it\u2019s true, if someone gets healed by the devil, a house is divided against itself.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Voice rises) That\u2019s just a\u00a0lie\u00a0that a lazy jack-legged, or a honky has told you, to keep you from the fount of Ever Blessing, to keep you from the law of life that\u2019s in the Christ, the revolution in this room. That\u2019s wha\u2014 just a\u00a0lie\u00a0that they have set up to keep you from having freedom. Now hear me, because I know the Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. (Pause) You say, that it\u2019s possible that the devil could heal. You don\u2019t even know you\u2019re reading. (Tape interrupts, sounds like edit) look like. An angel light. That\u2019s what most of these holiness churches are. They\u00a0look\u00a0holy, but watch them chasing around, everybody\u2019s wife-stealing and robbing the people. They\u00a0look\u00a0good in the pulpit, but they\u2019re an angel of darkness, though they appear as an angel of light. But\u00a0no\u00a0one can heal the sick and raise the dead, and resurrect the people, and give them freedom, and set them free from the jails and the courts and taken every one of the poor children and all of their needy seniors and give them home and guarantee as I do that not one of my people will ever be hungry or homeless. (Lower voice). No one can do that but God Good.<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

(Tape cut off)<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>\u2014you\u2019ve been lied to. They will not tell you the fact about the Bible. The Bible is a dangerous\u2014 it\u2019s dangerous as arsenic, unless you have a preacher that\u2019s sent. [It] didn\u2019t say, how can you hear without a Bible, it said, how can you hear without a preacher? And how can he preach, lest he be sent? It means, endowed. It means, that he has the power, the love, the nine gifts that you call them, wisdom, discernment, healings, miracles, prophecies, all those powers. And it means, most of all, that he\u2019s love.<\/p>\n

Murmurs of assent.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Now, how can you hear without a preacher \u2014 not a Bible \u2014 how can he preach, lest he be sent? Because\u00a0faith\u00a0doesn\u2019t come by reading. Faith comes by hearing. I\u2019ve got about 50 new people here today, and you wanted a chance when you were new, didn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n

Murmurs of assent.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Didn\u2019t you want a chance? How many are so glad you got saved from that slophouse religion?<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>All right. If my voice can take it, then your posterior can take it, yes sir. (garbled tape for a couple of words.)<\/p>\n

Pause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Faith does not come by Bible-reading. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”). Hebrews 4:12 tells you exactly what the Word of God will do. It tells you exactly\u2014 give me a letter-killer somewhere here, I have it, I think. The letter \u2014 don\u2019t forget that too, that\u2019ll be your key to freedom \u2014 the letter-killer. The Bible murders, but the Spirit giveth life. Now the Word\u2014 What is the Word? The Word of God is clearly described as something\u00a0alive, for the Word of God is\u00a0quick, Hebrews 4:12 says (Hebrews 4:12, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”)<\/span>. There\u2019s something around here that\u2019s pretty quick, raise everyone that\u2019s ever been dead, or they\u2019ve been electrocuted, or they\u2019ve fallen from great buildings, they\u2019ve been crushed by cars, or a bus fell on them like Brother Charlie Touchette. Now buses have traveled millions of miles, and even the police of chief is an atheist, said I\u00a0know\u00a0that God has to be with you. Some power from outer space or\u00a0something\u00a0has to be with you. He said, you are not an ordinary man, because, he said, buses cannot travel all these miles through snow, sleet (tape garbled) all these years, not one person ever being killed in\u2014 on the roads, in the thousands of miles we travel,\u00a0every\u00a0day,\u00a0every\u00a0week, I travel 1400 miles, many of us, every week we travel 1400 miles to get here, and I\u2019m here every week, and it was 2800 miles here this last week, \u2018cause I came here twice. Now\u00a0think\u00a0of it. The Word is quick. It\u2019s powerful. It\u2019s sharp. Sharper than a two-edged sword. It\u2019s a discerner of the thoughts. Yesterday, you saw someone that was crippled, healed. I discerned her thoughts. Holiness, Pentecostal holiness sister back there, she was crippled and she was healed, I discerned her thoughts. Yesterday, a sister whose hand over here wouldn\u2019t close, was numb due to being severed, it\u2019s all right today, isn\u2019t it? The eye was blind, and it was healed yesterday. Discerner of the thoughts, it\u2019s sharper than a two-edged sword. It knows the (tape garbled) I told her things about her life that she told no one. I do it, and I\u2019ve done it every day, every meeting I tell you, I fulfill the Word of God, because the Word of God\u2019s not dead, the Word of God\u2019s not a black book written by King James, the First Ship Jesus. He was the first one to send the Ship Jesus to Africa. (tape paused for unknown time). I hope that you\u2019ll wake up before it\u2019s too late. Said the Bible was good enough for me, \u2018cause it was good enough for Grandma. Grandma also was in chains. (Pause). How\u2019d they get the first black person that came from those slave boats, the Good Ship Jesus, how did they get them quiet? They put them in church. Where\u2019d they put them? In the balcony. Chained them. History shows us that hundreds and hundreds of our black brothers, uncles, aunties, grandmothers, our forefathers, fell to their death chained to a balcony, or the church would cat on\u2014 catch on fire and the whites would never free them. (Shouts) How did they get our proud field niggers to listen and to quit fighting them? (Dramatic whisper) Set them down with the Bible, without a preacher, without a prophet. Without a prophet, you cannot be saved. With the Word that\u2019s sharper than a two-edged sword. I did not finish. It says it will separate soul from spirit, it can\u00a0reunite\u00a0soul from spirit. You saw three class racial prejudiced enemies that stood up against me in this room drop dead. I just lifted my finger one (unintelligible word) on this pulpit, and I said,\u00a0Don\u2019t come, and they stepped on this pulpit, and they dropped as dead as a doornail.<\/p>\n

Murmurs of assent.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>That\u2019s what I am. The Word. The Spoken Word.\u00a0The Living Word.<\/p>\n

Murmurs of assent.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>[You] say, you blasphemer. I am doing what Jesus got nailed to the cross for doing. When they came for Jesus, they said, What good work? Jesus said\u2014 He didn\u2019t do like I do, and tell you what you\u2019re up to. I\u2019ve told you every time we had a crisis, every time I was going to jail, when I went to free these people that were beat up by the (pause, laughs) you know. When the sister that was raised from the dead was kicked by an ambulance city official, called her nigger bitch, I raised her from the dead and healed her from total paralysis from a stroke. I\u00a0told\u00a0you, didn\u2019t I, setting right here, I said, don\u2019t go in the street, \u2018cause they\u2019re getting ready to set us up, there\u2019ll be trouble in the streets, but people didn\u2019t listen, so they went in the streets and they got arrested. First time in their life\u2014 They took this brother, beat him up like a dog, government official, Brother Brown, heads of the youth commission of human rights in the city\u2014 for the city of San Francisco, jailed him, beat him, beat my adopted children, beat women, didn\u2019t care who they beat. (Pause) That\u2019s what they\u2019ve got now, you see\u2014\u00a0reading in the papers about the death squad. Read it just yesterday about the death squad, it\u2019s all working in Mexico, it\u2019s been working in New York, not the superiors, not the off\u2014 the chiefs, but the underdogs, these cheap little rookies, redneck dummies, have gone together and taken the law in their own hands, and they\u2019re killing blacks in the night, or killing people they want to kill with\u00a0impunity, so much so, I had it\u00a0proven\u00a0to me. I cannot tell you, but I had it\u00a0proven\u00a0to me by a high law enforcement official, he said we can\u2019t even control our own departments. We\u2019re\u00a0afraid, he said, there are chiefs of police that are\u00a0afraid\u00a0to speak up today, because they\u2019re afraid they\u2019ll find themselves dead and it\u2019ll look like an accident, it\u2019ll look like it was a heart attack, but someone will have given just a little shot that doesn\u2019t even make a mark. (Pause. Short laugh.) But Jesus didn\u2019t know what was coming.\u00a0I knew\u00a0what was coming, and I went\u2014 When I left here and this audience was filled, I said they\u2019ll put me in jail. (Voice rises throughout) I may be put in jail, but I will come back, and I will bring my people and I will set them at liberty who have been bruised by the racists,\u00a0they will all be free, didn\u2019t I say it?<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>And I kept my word. When they come for Jesus, he said, for what good work do you come? Why do you stone me, because that was a lesser day, this is a greater day. He said, for what good work do you stone me? Your Bible\u2014 I\u2019m reading from your Bible, though I don\u2019t have to read it, because I know it. I know its truth, I know its lies. He said, the man that came, we come for you for no good work, we don\u2019t stone you for any good work, but because you being a man, (taps on pulpit) make yourself God. You\u2019ve got the\u00a0nerve, being a man of Nazarene, born out of wedlock, not of Abraham\u2019s seed. You make yourself God. He said, it is written \u2014 and no church will preach you this, because if they did, you would not be giving the preacher anniversaries, because I won\u2019t take them. I won\u2019t even let people give me Christmas gifts or birthday gifts. We believe that all are equal in the house of God. But in those churches, they get all this riches bestowed upon them, because they got a black book, and they say, you gotta listen to me, because I know the Bible. I graduated from a cemetery. (Pause) From a seminary, and it\u2019s a cemetery, that\u2019s where most of these people graduated from. Schools of death. These theological centers are schools of death. So they say,\u00a0you gotta listen\u00a0to me, give me your anniversary gifts, give me the Cadillac \u2014 I don\u2019t own a car, but as I said, you\u2019ve got 13 buses. Now you be patient. If we can get 25 people today and I want \u2014 (tape fades for two seconds) \u2014 because I have spoken enough that would save the world, just today.<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Shouts)\u00a0Anyway. (Pause) Now, are you awake? (Laughs) (Pause) How many are happy that they\u2019re here today?<\/p>\n

A few claps.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Very well. Shift yourself again.<\/p>\n

An indecipherable shout from crowd. Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>That\u2019s literally what happened to him. His heart was being destroyed, and he called on my name just a few days ago, and it was saved. The hospital was amazed, it happened right before their eyes on the cardiogram.<\/p>\n

Murmur near microphone. Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Now what was I saying? (Pause.) Hmm?<\/p>\n

Someone whispers about cardiogram.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>No. No, before his cardiogram.<\/p>\n

Voice:<\/b>\u00a0How many of us are happy to be here today?<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>No, before that.<\/p>\n

Indecipherable voice.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Shh. Hmm?<\/p>\n

End of side 1.<\/p>\n

Side 2:<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Some are listening. They won\u2019t tell you the truth, because the black book is the\u00a0easiest\u00a0gravy train that they\u2019ve ever been on. Yet Allen [A.A. Allen, Pentecostal evangelist] came to me, Oral Roberts [Pentecostal evangelist] spoke this, Billy Graham came right to us \u2013 Ijames [Archie Ijames], Jack [Jack Arnold Beam], and me \u2013 in Claypool Hotel, said I don\u2019t believe a\u00a0thing\u00a0in that Bible hardly. But he said, it\u2019s the way to make a living. Billy Graham, who I prophesied his death, Billy Branham rather, said his head would be\u2014 I said he\u2019d lose his head. His head was cut off in Texas.\u00a0[Editorial note<\/strong>: The reference is to William Branham, an evangelical preacher and acquaintance of Jim Jones during the Temple’s Indianapolis days. Branham died in an automobile accident on Christmas Eve 1965 in Texas, but was not decapitated.]<\/em>\u00a0He said you can\u2019t preach the truth about that Bible, he said (tape cuts out about three seconds)\u00a0preach\u00a0reincarnation, you cannot\u00a0preach\u00a0the truth about the Bible, you will be in trouble. I said, I choose to treat th\u2014 preach the truth. He said, well, I\u2019ll be around, while you will be in trouble. Well, I\u2019m still here, and his head is cut off from his body.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>No, we\u2019re not happy about that, but I\u2019m just saying, there is\u00a0no\u00a0thing on earth to gain by holding back the truth. There\u2019s nothing that\u00a0frees\u00a0you so wonderfully as speaking the truth. (Ministerial cadence) Now, though\u00a0no\u00a0one believes that Bible \u2014\u00a0you\u00a0don\u2019t believe that Bible, your Pentecostal preacher doesn\u2019t believe the Bible \u2014 if he did, they would do what they did when they got the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, when they got the spirit of truth, when they got freedom, on the day of Pentecost, they\u00a0sold\u00a0their possessions. You don\u2019t get any of them selling anything, it all comes one way. They take from you, anniversaries, we don\u2019t have pastors\u2019 wives teas here or birthdays, we don\u2019t have\u00a0any\u00a0of that junk. I live with used furniture, I\u2019ve got an orange crate for a lamp stand, I\u2019ve adopted eight babies of all races, but these preachers will take from you, and if you\u2019d stop giving them your tithes tomorrow, they\u2019d go get drunk, and they\u2019d quit preaching right tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers. Unintelligible comment from front row.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>That\u2019s what I was saying. I\u2019ve got a little\u2014 My coffee stand, a little table, writing table in my living room is a table that I\u2014\u00a0that was used by his children in their home when they were children.<\/p>\n

Man in front row:\u00a0<\/b>(Unintelligible) \u2014 when Jack [Jack Arnold Beam] and Joyce [Joyce Parks, nee Joyce Beam] were babies.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>When they were babies. And it doesn\u2019t even stay on its legs, it\u2019ll fall off.<\/p>\n

Laughter.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>So you have to push it back every now and then, \u2018cause it\u2019s just laying there on the legs. But somehow\u2014 people say, you need to\u00a0get\u00a0a new one. I said, (stretches words) just be patient. Because this man is taking care of his children. And every time, since that big old heavy thing would fall, but it\u2019s never fallen yet. But it\u2014 (tape cuts like an edit). Secondly, they wanted to wire our house this year, that used to be mine until I turned it over to the church. And I said, Brother Pierpoint, who I healed of that massive growth of tumor in his bowels \u2014\u00a0the doctor couldn\u2019t find it after he said it was there, x-ray said it was there \u2014 he said, you\u00a0must\u00a0get it wired, and Archie said, you must get it wired, it\u2019s going to burn down. It said, no it won\u2019t. \u2018Cause I said we\u2019re not going to spend our $4000 to rewire this house, \u2018cause\u00a0trouble\u2019s\u00a0coming to this land. I said, I\u2019ll\u00a0keep\u00a0this house safe this year. He said, it\u2019ll\u00a0burn down.\u00a0It hasn\u2019t burned down yet, and it isn\u2019t going to burn down by no faulty wiring.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>They said, you need\u00a0air-conditioning, I said, no, I don\u2019t. You need a furnace. We don\u2019t have a furnace. I said, no, I don\u2019t. Because we\u2019ve got to get ourselves ready for a great day. We\u2019ve got no\u00a0time. He said I run \u2018em out. I did. They came to do it, and I run them out. Because I wasn\u2019t spending no $4000 of the people\u2019s money, my money or people\u2019s money or\u00a0anybody\u2019s\u00a0money, \u2018cause I\u00a0know\u00a0what\u2019s ahead, and you better get somebody that knows what\u2019s ahead. Jesus didn\u2019t know everything. He said, what do you come for? Why have you forsaken me? He said so many things that showed that he still had questions. I\u2019ve got no questions. (Voice rises during next minute) Jesus said to you, what I\u2019m doing today, he said it is written, ye all are gods. We don\u2019t worship anything in the sky. We know that heaven is within us. We have had heard his prayer, the kingdom come on earth. We\u2019ve heard the lord\u2019s Prayer. We\u2019ve heard the pastor\u2019s prayer. (Pause, voice drops.) And we\u2019re living the pastor\u2019s prayer. I hope you\u2019re following me today, some of you new people. It\u2019s hard to follow me. But I hope you\u2019ll take this book and read it. In closing, this book will open your eyes. It\u2019ll prove to you that there are lies in the Bible, that you need a prophet to guide you. How could there help but be a liar? Would you believe something that uh, [Adolf] Hitler wrote?<\/p>\n

A few scattered voices:\u00a0<\/b>No.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Would some of you believe what [Richard] Nixon wrote?<\/p>\n

More:<\/b>\u00a0No.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Well, King James was a murderer of Christians. He held slaves and sent the first Ship Jesus to get the first slaves. He was a drunk, an alcoholic, and he (stumbles for words) was a sexual deviant, a sexual deviant of the worst type. Now how can an evil man write a good book? (Pause) I often wonder why people couldn\u2019t see that. How can an evil man write a good book? How many of you will say to me, that the Catholic Church is in error? (Pause)\u00a0Sure\u00a0you do that. All Protestants, all Pentecostals say they\u2019ve got the full\u00a0Gospel, don\u2019t sit there and lie to me, you\u2019ve all heard them preach against the Catholic Church, haven\u2019t you?<\/p>\n

Murmurs of assent.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Where did you get your Bible? From the Catholic Church. (Pause) Latin Vulgate edition, the first one was written 404 years, A.D., 404 years after Jesus had died. Why how man\u2014 humans can\u2019t even tell the truth 404\u00a0seconds\u00a0after somebody died.<\/p>\n

Murmurs, applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Voice rises throughout) You go back and trace the Bible, you\u2019ll see for\u00a0yourself,\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0telling you the truth, and I\u2019ll close with this. The most\u2014 I\u2019ve got a whole book full of the mistakes. First part is the truths, the last part is thousands of errors, it\u2019ll show how one chapter will say one thing, and it\u2019ll turn right around and say another thing. That\u2019s why you have to have a preacher, and if you don\u2019t have a preacher that is sent, you cannot hear. You are saved by the foolishness of\u00a0preaching, not by Bible readers, not by scholars, not by Baptist training (unintelligible word), not by Bible-teaching courses, you are saved, just like that sister yesterday \u2014 her bones were made brittle with cancer, and I see her here, and I saved her, and I saved a young one, and here she\u2019s standing today, she\u2019ll run around this Temple, her bo\u2014\u00a0her bones were eaten up with cancer, and a little child that was do\u2014 dying, now here today. (Unintelligible sentence\u2014 sounds like “Brought up his picture, because I made him everly whole.”).\u00a0You\u00a0need to get somebody that\u2019s got the goods, but all you\u2019ve got is phony loudmouths, balloon cisterns filled with hot air, all they got\u2019s a black book, they don\u2019t even believe what they preach. They tell you Jesus is coming soon, but if they don\u2019t have a new Cadillac every year, they quit your church.<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>We know he\u2019s here. We know he\u2019s not\u00a0gone\u00a0anywhere. He said, Lo, I am with you\u00a0always. (Voice drops.) We know that always someone will speak for God. Someone will set themselves in the Messiah\u2019s chair, and declare the unsearchable riches. Jesus had died just a little while, Mary and Martha was coming back from the tomb and they were heavy-hearted, low in spirit. They walked by the wayside, and a man came up to them. He said, be of good cheer. He consoled them, but they didn\u2019t pay much attention to him. They said he was the gardener. But the\u2014 own Bible \u2014 King James didn\u2019t get out all the lies \u2014 your own Bible said, it wasn\u2019t the gardener, (Awestruck) it was Jesus, it was God, in another body, talking to them. Now you say, it was Jesus? Mary and Martha had been with Jesus for three years, (Pause) almost three constant years, they\u00a0cooked\u00a0for him,\u00a0washed\u00a0his feet, which we wouldn\u2019t do now because this is a higher day, no\u2014 no\u2014 no person in the Christ the hundredfold today \u2014 a hundredfold, you know, that means full God. Full God. You can be fully God. Jesus said you could. He said, Ye all are gods. I have manifested full godship. Purity of heart, mind and soul. He said some seed will fall in thirty. Some seed will fall and produce sixtyfold. Some seed will fall and produce one hundredfold, where the mind of Christ will be in you. The same mind that was in Christ will be in somebody in every day. Now if you don\u2019t know where it is, I won\u2019t tell you. But if you will get a revelation (laughs), if you will let the Spirit\u00a0speak, (voice rises to crescendo) before you leave this room today, you\u2019ll know, you\u2019ll know where he is.<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Now\u00a0think\u00a0of this: If God was going to come back in the same body as he did in Jesus, Mary and Martha would have known him. But they didn\u2019t recognize him. He had no doubt different hair color. He may have looked a little different in his eyes. He had different color of skin, perhaps, \u2018cause they thought he was a\u00a0gardener. That\u2019s the way with a lot of church people today. They say, Jesus is coming soon. They\u2019re looking for a Goldilocked Jesus. And the first place \u2014 that\u2019s another lie of King James \u2014 Jesus was not white.<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Voice rises throughout) But they\u2019re looking for somebody with long hair, and they say, oh, he\u2019s coming soon, I\u2019ll\u00a0know\u00a0him when he comes, I\u2019ll\u00a0see\u00a0him. But it was just like Mary and Martha. They were\u00a0walking\u00a0with him, and they\u00a0know not\u00a0that it was\u00a0the same\u00a0Jesus, the\u00a0very same God.<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Normal voice) Because God is a state of evolution. God is a state of consciousness. Somebody else had taken on the mantle, Jesus was in the tomb, but somebody else (dramatic whisper) stepped in to the Messiah\u2019s energy and was walking talking God, and they didn\u2019t know it, because they were looking for a white \u2014 or a brown, as he was then \u2014 looking for a Jesus (stretches out words dramatically) that looked exactly like the Jesus that they had known. But he never appears. God, I said,\u00a0God. As you call it God, I pro\u2014 prefer liberator, savior, Emmanuel, the\u00a0Savior, he never appears the same way twice.<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Paul\u00a0said, Paul said, in King James, he showed you the mystery. Paul said, I come to you what? \u2014 in the person. Of who? Christ. He didn\u2019t say the name of Christ (2 Corinthians 2:10, “To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;”)<\/span>. Moses was what? Said Christ overshadowed him. Didn\u2019t it say? He was the God of his day, leading his people through the wilderness. It was a lesser degree than Jesus, because like everything, things go more and more to the perfect day. We die daily. God in 1973 will be manifested in a higher degree than he was in 1920. You understand. Or in 1900.\u00a0Surely,\u00a0because Jesus said, these things shall you do and greater. Now I don\u2019t often take so long in teachings, but we have plenty of miracles yesterday to astound everyone, every person here, hundreds of hands lifted up, said I\u2019m sick, I\u2019m crippled, I\u2019m in pain, but before I got through, I even healed a woman here that had fallen down the stairs, to the last one, I took away every pain in this room.<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>And she fell down the stairs, and she said she still feels good, wonderful today. That\u2019s what she said to him, I gather. Now, my friend (taps podium), someplace along the road, you better get the truth. I heard someone come up here the other day and say,\u00a0Thank, Jim\u2014 I\u00a0thank\u00a0God for Jim.<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers. (Someone calls out, “I thank Jim for God.”) Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(In high voice) You better get the horse where it belongs, in the cart where it belongs. You didn\u2019t know anything about a Savior until I came. Some of you were living in poverty, you were in jails, you were in\u00a0prisons, you were\u00a0homeless, you were\u00a0down\u00a0with the\u00a0boot\u00a0of the\u00a0oppressor\u00a0on your\u00a0neck. You better thank Jim for the Savior.<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Peace. Shift yourself again, just now. Couple of lights, (unintelligible word) two back lights to save our lights to get us ready for the Promised Land. \u2018Cause we\u00a0save\u00a0here. Where else can you see a father that will go every day into the courts and free his people, have people standing in the gap of the hedge, like the young man that went away, John Haynes, went away, only came back when he was in trouble. People ready to go, and I came out, hadn\u2019t had any sleep. I rushed out, stopped them, I said, you don\u2019t have information to know what you\u2019re doing. And when they listened to me, they went, and five years was wiped away. Five-year sentence that he was doomed to get was wiped away. You better be ready to listen tomorrow, if you get in there to help him again, \u2018cause he had several charges against him, but five years, wiped away, the judge said, just because,\u00a0just\u00a0because I \u2014\u00a0my people \u2014\u00a0had followed my advice and offered their assistance and\u00a0done\u00a0what I said, just because they followed instructions, that\u2019s why the man got five years removed, a sentence that was doomed to get. Dana(?)\u2019s facing 15 years. Anita, get the testimony, all of you should get that testimony that Deanna Mertle has written so beautifully. You should pass that out of Anita. You ought to get those\u2014 It\u2019s a\u2014 It would touch anyone\u2019s heart, how the police department in this very town, I called, she came here confessing to a crime, it would put her away for years. I said, turn yourself in. And I said, she\u2019ll be back, and she was back in an hour. The police loosed her, the chiefs, the upper division, \u2018cause there\u2019re some\u00a0good\u00a0people here in this police department. There\u2019re some mean devils on the low level, but there\u2019re some\u00a0good\u00a0ones here. That\u2019s why the lower ones are trying\u00a0always\u00a0to trap us, and have\u00a0smeared\u00a0us and have tried to put false charges against everyone here, but we come through\u00a0thus\u00a0far, and if you\u2019ll stick together, if you will always stick together, nothing can come nigh our dwelling.<\/p>\n

Applause and cheers.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Certainly\u00a0they\u2019ll talk against us.\u00a0Certainly\u00a0they\u2019ll ridicule us in newspapers.\u00a0Certainly\u00a0they will even try to kill us, thinking they do God a service. That means, the worst enemies of the people that bear truth in the last days, will be the church, (Voice slows) because it\u2019s said they will kill you, thinking they do God a service. Bible people are dangerous. They hate\u2014 If you don\u2019t get baptized their way, they\u2019re ready to send you to hell. We had a sister sitting down on the front rows one night, she came on one Saturday service, she set down there and she got up and said, he\u2019s preaching against the Bible, and it\u2019s wrong. And I said, sister, show me where it\u2019s wrong. She couldn\u2019t, because as I started to say, this book will show you, even King James cannot tell you the facts about Jesus\u2019 birth. Matthew, the first chapter, sixteenth verse, Matthew says Jesus\u2019 father was Joseph. And he says his grandfather was Jacob. And he said his great-grandfather was Matthan, M-A-T-T-H-A-N. Right? Luke 3:23, says exactly the same story, I mean telling about the birth of Jesus. But King James makes a mistake. Here he says Jesus\u2019 father was indeed Joseph, but he says his grandfather was not Jacob, but Heli. And his great-grandfather was not Matthan, M-A-T-T-H-A-N, but it\u2019s misspelled. Luke says it\u2019s M-A-T-T-H-A-T, Matthat (Matthew 1:15-16 \u201c\u2026Matthan begat Jacob; And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ\u201d; Luke 3:23-24, \u201cAnd Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which wasthe son of Heli, Which was the son of Matthat.\u201d).<\/span> And you trace it on back to Abraham, both of them trace it back to Abraham, but Matthew has 27 grandparents, and Luke has 42 generations. (Pause) I could show you one thing after another,\u00a0all\u00a0through the Bible,\u00a0surely\u00a0you\u2019ve read the Bible and saw where it didn\u2019t make me\u2014 any sense. How many know that, and read it, saw things you didn\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n

Murmurs.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Saw direct contradictions.\u00a0Sure\u00a0you have. Like Jesus was first nailed on the cross, all the thieves rebuked him. Another writer says only one of the thieves. The other thief rebuked the other thief, and Jesus said, this day, thou shall be with me in Paradise (Matthew 27:38-44; Luke 23:39-43).<\/span> One place after Jesus was baptized, had to be made perfect through his infilling of the Holy Spirit of Truth, said he went immediately to the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights, and was tempted of the devil. That\u2019s what one Bible says. Another Bible chapter says that three days after Jesus was baptized in the river Jordan, and the dove settled on him, that he was in Cana of Galilee, which is 80 miles from the wilderness, three days after he was baptized, turning water into wine (Matthew 4:1-2, Mark 1:12-13, Luke 4:1-2; contrasted with John 1:32, 2:1, 2:9).<\/span> How can you be 40 days in the wilderness, and be three days after your baptism, the third day of the 40 days, he was over at Cana. But one Bible writer says he never left the wilderness, the mound of temptation, for 40 days and 40 nights. (Pause. Voice drops) If you don\u2019t get this truth, the white man\u2019s going to lead you into hell.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>I wish I did not have to tear down your paper idol, because\u00a0all\u00a0idols have to go. I wish I did not have to do it, but you will never open your mind to truth, until you get rid of the paper idol, until you allow someone that is sent with love and power and has\u00a0proved\u00a0himself with the fruits and the gifts of the Holy Spirit of Truth to lead you until\u00a0you\u00a0come into your own Christ consciousness, \u2018cause that\u2019s what we want to work towards, where\u00a0all\u00a0shall be one,\u00a0all\u00a0shall know, from the least to the greatest, the knowledge of the revolution of God, which God means, a revolution, God means, ultimate good, the highest good, the knowledge of God will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. But\u00a0first\u00a0you better follow someone. Can you raise the dead? Can you heal a blind woman like I healed four weeks ago, or six weeks ago now? Can you do that? Can you cause someone to spit up cancer yesterday, or the cripple to walk, or the woman to close her hand and life to come back into it, when it was severed, cut clear off? Can you do this? Can you cause blind to see, or the woman yesterday that was\u2014\u00a0her kidneys were completely destroyed, can you see\u2014 you saw the terrible growth that came out, and her kidneys came back to normal immediately, can you do that? Can\u00a0you\u00a0cause the prison doors to open like I\u2019ve caused them to open time and again, or the dead to raise? Then, until you can, follow me, because I have come in the person \u2014 not the name, but (in full throat) I have come like Paul said, I have come in the very person, I have come in the very nature, I have come in the person of Christ the Revolution (2 Corinthians 2:10, \u201cTo whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ.\u201d).<\/span> I thank you.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Preachers will rob you because they don\u2019t believe in what they preach themselves. They slip to me by night to get healed. Like Nicodemus, they\u2019ll come into our beautiful court of Garden of Eden up there in Redwood Valley, they\u2019ll slip in to get healed (John 7:48-52)<\/span>. Or they\u2019ll call me on the phone, say don\u2019t tell my church I called you. And they\u2019ll preach that Jesus is coming soon? Well, if he\u2019s coming soon, why do they have to have a new car every year? Why, as soon as one anniversary is finished, do they start planning for the next anniversary? If he\u2019s coming so\u00a0soon, why do they have to dress so nice? (Laughs dismissively) Ah, they don\u2019t believe it. They\u2019ve got a bunch of suckers.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Matter of fact) They could sue me. All these people could sue me, I told you the ministers\u2019 names, one after another, that have told me they didn\u2019t believe in the Bible. Reverend Nathan Ershawn(?), he told me he didn\u2019t believe that the Bible was true. There were errors and lies in the Bible, the one that tried to kidnap that sister to get her into a mental hospital and take her property, and I caused him, by my revelation, to bring it right back and lay it to the altar with the police. Now he could\u00a0sue\u00a0me if that wasn\u2019t true. Couldn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n

Murmurs of assent.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Why, of\u00a0course\u00a0he could. \u2018Cause I be\u00a0libeling\u00a0him, I be\u00a0slandering\u00a0him. But I said the facts are spoken\u00a0too\u00a0stout to be denied. (Taps podium). These preachers have got the easiest gravy train going. That\u2019s why there\u2019re be lies told on me. (Voice rises throughout) That\u2019s why people will fight me. Because I\u2019ll set you free. I\u2019ll make you a God. I\u2019ll show you, you don\u2019t need no jack-legged preacher, I\u2019ll show you that you are sufficient unto yourself. I will start a revolution in you that will cause you to go to the ends of the world.<\/p>\n

Cheers and applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Voice rises throughout) Bless your heart, come and go with me, for in your father\u2019s house, there are\u00a0many\u00a0realms, there are\u00a0many\u00a0levels, there are\u00a0many\u00a0mansions, ooooh, yes, there are. Come and go with me. I\u2019ve got shelter for you in depression, food in our warehouses and our storehouses if depression comes, and there will be famine, where people will be in souplines 10 mile long. There\u2019ll be so much chaos in this country, the money crash will come when your dollar won\u2019t\u2014 a whole wheelbarrow full won\u2019t be able to buy you a sack of groceries. And there\u2019ll come a dictatorship in this land, because they\u2019re trying to whip it up now, with the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the Nazis and all this hate, and the kidnappings, (Voice lowers, but intensifies) they\u2019re trying to get white people to kill blacks, so the rich will be able to have all they want. They don\u2019t need workers anymore, so they want the poor worker destroyed. So come and go with me, because across the sea, just this week, we purchased a boat that will\u00a0land\u00a0to get our supplies, in just a few weeks, it will\u00a0land. We bought a boat. We haven\u2019t bought preachers cars, we\u2019re not talking about new churches, or fine robes for the preachers, or fine homes for the preachers, or like that one that was in the newspaper this week, that had thirty-some thousand dollars of gold fixtures in his bathroom, no, we\u2019ve got houses, we\u2019ve got jobs, we\u2019ve got 20,000 acres across the Atlantic Ocean, we\u2019ve got (unintelligible word\u2014\u00a0plan? land?), we\u2019ve got hope, we\u2019ve got refuge in the time of storm. My\u2014<\/p>\n

Cheers and applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Cries out) Hallelujah. Freedom. Love your neighbor again. (Pause) Hey!<\/p>\n

(Long pause, low indecipherable voice talks to Jim.)<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Peace, everyone. You may be seated. Study this sermon now. Study it over and over again. If I go away at anytime to prepare a place for you, for just a short time, if I go across this nation to reap the harvest, if I go across the nation to win those that are hungry\u2014 they write me every week from Chicago and Philadelphia, they\u2014 we\u2014 they took our vacation together, because I have no vacations unless I take them with you. Whatever I have, you have. And we went across the nation on our vacation, and we still get hundreds of people that write us every week from Chicago and Philadelphia and Houston, saying, oh how fortunate the Peoples Temple is, how fortunate California is, to be free, how fortunate they are to have the\u00a0truth. So\u00a0feast\u00a0on this sermon. Make this the\u2014\u00a0(tape cuts off for few seconds). Let it be heard, because this has been the truth, the whole truth and (stretches out words for effect) nothing but the truth.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(In full throat) Glory, glory, glory. And one you get it, once you get it, you\u2019ll be thankful in your heart, you\u2019ll be grateful because it\u2019ll set you free, like you\u2019ve never been free in your life. You\u2019ll come out under the yoke of bondage and you won\u2019t have to look down to no one, you\u2019ll be able to look everyone straight in the eyes, because you have a city, oh yes you have, you have a promised land.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Voices rises throughout) God has come down out of the imaginary heavens and he has condescending to walk\u00a0in\u00a0his people, to talk with them, to be with them, to be their God, their redeemer, he has\u00a0wiped\u00a0away the tears from the eyes of those that know him. He has caused\u00a0sorrow\u00a0to cease. He has caused\u00a0criticism\u00a0to pass. He\u2019s caused\u00a0hope\u00a0to spring forth as a\u00a0wellspring\u00a0eternal. He\u2019s brought you forth. As you were dead, now you are alive. Hallelujah!<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>(Conversational) Caution. Be sure. I\u2019m dealing with a very physical condition there, (unintelligible phrase\u2014 sounds like “Brother Morris warned”), importance of staying in the atmosphere. Where are you going, when you need to be close to the body? Peace. (Pause). Very well, it\u2019s all right, that\u2019s\u2014 it\u2019s very well, I see sir, I know, you have to get to job responsibility, but I want to say (warning tone) when you are leaving for a musical or an anniversary, or you\u2019re leaving to get to some other jack-legged church after you\u2019ve set in heavenly places today, you\u2019ve set where the truth is preached as no where in America. Woe unto you, once having tasted of the heavenly gift, it\u2019s\u00a0impossible\u00a0to go back and renew dead works under a penance (?) (repentance?).<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>Is there one hungry heart here that would say, that there\u2019s something you don\u2019t understand? I appreciate\u2014 I saw the young man over there on my left that has come in with an entire different theology, but he\u2019s opened his heart in one session, fine looking young man that\u2019s opened his heart. I hope that others have opened your mind. Came with the Bible in the hand, but now has got the Scripture in the heart.<\/p>\n

Applause.<\/p>\n

Jones:\u00a0<\/b>If there\u2019s one last question on this truth that you do not understand\u2014 I don\u2019t want a question about healing, because all you have to do is to\u00a0think, just\u00a0call, I did not\u00a0touch\u00a0any of those that were lifting their hands yesterday, except the one sister. Hundreds of people that lifted their hands in pain and crippling conditions, I did not touch them. I just sent my word, and everyone in the room was healed. That\u2019s all it takes. If you know\u2014<\/p>\n

End of side two.<\/p>\n

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