<TITLE>08. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 Like a little lamb out in the field eating, and he seems to become nervous. What's the matter? You who are up high and look down, looky there, it's a lion crouching after him. He doesn't see the lion, but there's something telling him. That's the way it is today with human beings. They're nervous. They're upset. They don't know what to do. What's the matter? The enemy's crouching. He's ready to spring. The end's here. And anybody with right kind of mental thinking knows that something's wrong.

L-25 The Magi saw that, and they said, "There'll be a star rise. I will be watching for it." They saw it.
What did Jesus say would take place just about this time? "And I will restore to the people all the glory of the former, and I will pour out upon them the former and the latter rain. And the signs and wonders that was in the first Church will be in the second Church at the last day." Here's your sign. He's appearing on the earth. Signs and wonders, the same thing that He did is here again, His Spirit moving amongst the people.
The prophet said it'll be light in the evening. It'd be a day which was not day or night. It was gloomy. Back at the early church when they had signs and wonders of Jesus among them, they saw visions, and healed the sick, and so forth, great signs and wonders of the Bible. The light become dim. It went on till they come through the dark ages. After the dark age come Luther. After Luther come Wesley. After Wesley come Calvin. After Calvin come... Oh, just on and on. What is it? They had enough light to know that Jesus saved.

L-26 It was a gloomy day, but the Bible said, "In the evening time, it shall be Light." The sun was rising in the east on the eastern people, the Jews and the eastern people. And civilization travels with the sun. And now it's in the last days. We've traveled to the west coast. The next thing is the east again. And when the sun is going down, she'd shine out in all her glory.
The Holy Spirit's here. Have you been expecting Him? If you are, you'll surely see His leadings.
Simeon, he was expecting Jesus. And if God has made you a promise, God's under obligation to keep that promise. And God will never make a promise that He can't keep. So, when Simeon... Perhaps that day when Jesus was born, the wise men came. They was expecting it. The poor shepherds out on the hillside... He never went to the clergymen. They wasn't expecting Him. Those shepherds, poor peasants out on the hillside, the Angels came down and said, "Today, in the city of David, there's born Christ, the Lord." They went and found it even so. Messages didn't get scattered around.

L-27 Let's take it it's Monday morning in the temple. Many babies are born in two million people, as Jews was then. Many peop--babies are born. Every male child must be brought to the--to the temple after eight days and be circumcised. And the mother had to offer a lamb, or if she was poor, she offered two turtledoves for the purification of her ownself, and for the circumcision of the baby. It was a law.
Let's say it's Monday morning. Hundreds of babies is born every day. And it's Monday morning, busy around the temple. Caiaphas is setting back with his fan as a judge, knowing nothing about it. The priests are on their regular routine, arguing what kind of buttons they should have on their clothes, or something like that. And there's an old man by the name of Simeon setting in the prayer room, reading Isaiah, perhaps. "All we like sheep have gone astray. The Lord laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. For He was wounded for our transgressions, and He was bruised for our iniquities, and with His stripes we were healed." "Oh," he says, "God, O, God, and You've give me the wonderful promise that I will see Him." About that time... If God made you a promise, God will keep His promise.


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