<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>54-0723, The Prophet Elisha, Lane Tech High School, Chicago, IL, 81 min
L-1 Thank you Brother Boze. Shall we pray, friends, as we have our heads bowed.
Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight, for the opportunity we have to come before Thy children at Thy throne and to present them to You, to ask You to send blessings in this building tonight, upon all who wait upon Thee. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen.
Good evening, friends. It's with grateful heart that I come tonight, to minister again in the Name of our precious heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. And I'm trusting tonight, for a--a great outpouring of His Divine Being tonight in our meeting, praying that God will grant to us tonight, the exceedingly, abundantly above all we could do or think.

L-2 I wish to read a portion of Scripture. I want to start the prayer line just a little early tonight, if possible (as tomorrow's Saturday, and I know it's a busy day), so you can get out early.
We're thankful for it being as cool as what it is tonight, little better than usual. And now, tomorrow night, and Sunday afternoon, and Sunday night...
And for those who are selling the books and pictures, or care for one, tomorrow night will be the last opportunity. We do not sell on Sunday. And the picture or the book for tomorrow night... This will probably be the last time. They'll probably going off the market now. Why, my meetings in coming back will be in a different form. So we just ask you if you... We're not book salesmen. No, we just think they would do you good to have it. And it's just--let you have it just as cheap as we possibly can get it. And so if you see people that wants the book and doesn't have money, the picture, we give it to them anyhow. See? And so we just hope that you have one; it'd be a blessing to you.

L-3 Now, over in this, the readings of the prophets here... My words is a man's words, which will fail, but God's Words cannot fail.
And now, tonight, I trust that you'll pray with me while I speak and watch the clock for a few moments. Maybe a little testimony or something... Try to start the prayer line in the next twenty minutes, if the Lord permits.
Now, in the 3rd chapter of II Kings, we read these words:
 Now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.
And now, may the Lord add His blessings to His Word, the reading of His Word.

L-4 Our text tonight, deals with an Old Testament character, and that is the prophet Elisha. And in the time that our reading was, was a very dark hour in Israel. It was a time that a great king, Ahab, right in the dark ages, I would say, of Israel. They came through a--a "seigure of procesions" just like that the Christian church has.
And I believe about the darkest day of Israel, was when Ahab was reigning. And Ahab then married Jezebel and brought idolatry into the--into the Jewish church. She brought in her pagan gods.
And that was duplicated to the Gentiles during the dark ages when--when the church married into pagan again and brought idolatry into the church also.

L-5 And Ahab, during the time of our text, had just died. Jezebel, as you understand, by Jehu, was threw out of the window by some eunuchs. And the--Elijah had prophesied that the dogs would lick her blood like it did the just man that she had taken his life, Naboth, for taken hi--having his vineyards stolen from him. And the dogs eat practically all of Jezebel's body, this beautiful little queen, but wicked at heart. Just the palms of her hand and so forth, was left in the streets, where the dogs had eaten.
And then Jehoram reigned in Ahab's place (which was Ahab's son). And he wasn't quite as wicked as his father. His Father was kind of a borderline believer. We have a lot of those yet today. Just on the borderline: whichever way the wind blows, why, they go with it. But Jehoram, he did take down the idols of Baalim, but he still clave to sins that he should not do.


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