<TITLE>07. Par 21-25</TITLE>L-21 And He found Zacharias, yet faithful at his post of duty, waving the incense. And when he went in to burn the incense this day, Zacharias, now, an aged man, his wife way past the age of bearing, the Angel of the Lord stood on the right hand side of the altar; and as Zacharias turned and looked at Him, it was Gabriel, the Archangel. Look, God may send many angels, all of us has guarding angels. The children of God, God... Jesus said, "Take heed that you despise not these little ones; for their angels always beholds My Father's face which is in heaven." That true? Be careful what you do against Christians. Better to be--better to be drowned in the sea with a rock around your neck then to bring even offense to one of them. Be careful. See?

L-22 Now, this... He sends many angels, but when you hear of Gabriel coming down from glory, it's not just a minor thing; something major's fixing to take place. Gabriel... Here it is now. Gabriel announced the first coming of Christ. And Gabriel will announce the second coming of Christ. Amen. He's the Archangel, standing at the right hand of His Majesty in glory.
And here this priest, standing there, maybe praying and waving this censer, as the people was praying outside. And he looked, and there stood Gabriel. What a feeling. But he told Zacharias; he said, "He had found favor with God," and said, "now, Zacharias, when you go home after the days of the ministration here at the altar, then when you go up home, back up in Shiloh," he said, "you're going to be with your wife, and she's going to conceive and bear a son." What a message.

L-23 Now watch, a man be so set in his ecclesiastical ways, yet knowing he was standing in the presence of an Angel, said, "How could these things be?" Why, in other words, "they can't be, my wife's fifty years old, or sixty. Why, I lived with her since she was a little girl, seventeen, eighteen, years old, and she's past the age of bearing. These things can't be."
Watch, I like this. God's determined to fulfill His Word. Next Sunday I get on that election and calling there. Notice, He said, "I am Gabriel, that stands in the Presence of God, and My words will be fulfilled in their day. And because you've doubted, you'll be dumb till the day the baby's born. You'll call his name John."

L-24 Say, that's really something, isn't it? Watch now. You believe that Angel's dead? No, sir, he's listening in this afternoon. Watch. And then the first thing we know, we find the people all wondering why he was staying so long, so they come to take a look at him, and they found him beckoning his hands. They perceived that he'd saw a vision.
He goes home. And just as Gabriel said, so was it. Elisabeth conceived. Hallelujah. God's Word said so; it's got to come to pass. So Elisabeth, being old, come maybe many years past the menopause... But watch, that priest doubted that would be so. He had plenty of examples where it happened before. But yet he doubted in his own case.
Now, you say, "I see this one get healed and that one get healed, but as far as me, I don't know." Why, it's for you too.
You say, "I know, this one is awful happy since they received the Holy Spirit, but I'm just afraid the neighbors will make fun of me."

L-25 What do you care what the neighbors says. God ain't making a clown out of you; He's making a saint. What does God say about it? Don't make any difference what the neighbors says; it's what God says. Amen. You know, I begin to feel religious already. I do. The Holy Spirit, I believe He's here this afternoon to bless His people.
Oh, I think, and how I seen Zacharias then, doubting that, but after while Elisabeth conceived. She hid herself six months, for she was conceiving, and she was bringing forth this child. And six months later... Let's turn our views now, somewhere else, down to Nazareth, the meanest city in the world, worse than Connersville, Jeffersonville, or any of them. Oh, it was horrible.


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