<TITLE>18. Par 158-164</TITLE>L-158 Now, if you'll turn (if I had time to get these other Scriptures) to Revelations the 1st chapter, and when John saw Him standing, "One like unto the Son of man, standing in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks," which was the seven church ages...
And we started off with Ephesus and ending up in Laodicea, the lukewarm church age where we are now: Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: going to church, and having people come in and saying "accept Christ," and putting their name on the book; but denying the baptism of the Holy Ghost and power, and miracles, and signs, and wonders, making fun of It, in Laodicean church age which is spued from God's mouth; and the elect taken up. Oh, hallelujah. Oh, something gets into my soul when I think of it, friends. Oh, the world in its condition today...

L-160 And there He was standing there. What? And He was to look upon as Jasper and Sardius stone. What was Jasper? Was Reuben stone. What was Sardius? Benjamin. The first and the last, He was to look upon as the First and the Last. And--and a rainbow around His head, over the seven golden candlesticks... A rainbow, a covenant that God had made through Abraham, through Isaac, through Christ, through the church, by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The robe of the seven colors that was upon Joseph, that was upon Jesus; it's upon the church today, protects. The body was covered up by the robe. And the church is not you; it's the Holy Ghost that's got you covered with the Blood, God's covenant, predestinated before the foundation of the world. Hallelujah. I just had to let that out. All right. It was about to burst me.

L-161 Notice, let me tell... You might think I'm crazy. If I am, I'm happy; leave me alone. All right. Let me tell you something. Oh, how can I keep from being happy and know what I know? How can I hold it and know what I know? I'm trying to get it to people. My, it'd make anybody happy. Whew. My. All right.

L-162 There He was, and Jacob was--and Joseph was His type. The covering, the father--the father give him the robe. Hallelujah. Don't you remember when Jesus was baptized, "Went straightway out of the water, and, lo, the heavens was opened unto Him, and the Holy Ghost was descending like a Dove, and went upon Him, said, 'This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm well pleased.'" He never performed a miracle until then. Then right into the wilderness for temptation, and right out healing the sick, and the powers of God...
That's the church. When it's baptized, it's robed with the Holy Ghost, with power. Oh, my.

L-164 The very phenomena of Sarah's womb being dead before Isaac come... God just let it go on. She was sixty years old when she got the promise. She was ninety years old before the seed ever was conceived in her: perfectly, absolutely phenomenal.
And the man that's borned again is a phenomenal. Hallelujah. It's not accepting or raising up your hand like this. It's a gift of God. Phenomenal, born again, taken out of this world in the realm of senses. Yes, sir. Why, because you deserve it? Because God promised it, that the promise might be sure according to the election.


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