<TITLE>07. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 Then he gathers up his ro--old ragged clothes and sets down again. He continues his study. He said, "You know, when that little old mule was trotting, going along there, over those same cobblestones, Elijah and Elisha walked down that same road, arm in arm together, going down to cross over Jordan. My mama told me that story. Oh, if I could've only lived in that day... If I could've only been sitting here. If Jehovah only had another prophet like that today, I would run out into the street where they were passing, and I'd say, 'Oh great prophets and honored of God, would you say a--have a--a little word of prayer for me, a blind man?' And I believe if those anointed prophets would've ask Jehovah, Jehovah would've restored my sight. And just think," as he's wondering, pondering in his mind, "they passed within a stone's throw."

L-24 "Now... But, oh, every time they lead me up to the temple, they tell me that all the days of miracles is past; it don't happen no more. Wonder what happened to Jehovah? I know Elijah's gone and Elisha's gone, but has Jehovah gone?" He's reasoning this. You know, there's always a reason for those reasonings.
And he thinks again. "Just about a few--about five hundred yards from here, a little farther, that great warrior Joshua, prophet, leader, walked down to the Jordan that morning, when the old Jordan, in the month of April, the big waves a going through, and the whole valley spread with flood waters coming down from Judea, the snow melting up in the mountains. And this great warrior walks down there to this Jordan, and said, 'Gather all the people around. You're going to see the glory of God.' Oh," he said, "if I could've only lived in that day. Wouldn't it been marvelous, if I could've lived in that day, and I could've met Joshua?
And then when he took--the priest put the Word first, which was the Ark, and started them towards the Jordan, that same Jordan that's a roaring just behind here little piece, gave away, walled up; and my ancient fathers crossed over Jordan on dry ground. But oh, that was a day gone: Jehovah isn't like that no more; they tell me: He doesn't heal; He doesn't have prophets and so forth, no more. He doesn't provide for such as that." Oh, what a mistake.
What a mistake that people still get into when you think that. Jehovah changes not. Bible said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. God did that back there; He's obligated to meet the same thing under the same circumstance.

L-25 So, setting there... And after a while it gets a little cool and he moves back again. The sun's shining on him now. He ducks his head over, begins to think again: "You know, mother used to read the Scriptures to me. And she told me all she was reading as the Joshua and that great host of people. And some of my fathers was in that. They camped right out, perhaps now, if the wind's coming this a way, as they said this morning, they camped right out below here, just a little ways. And the very walls that I'm standing by the ruins now, fell down by the people marching around the walls. What a great Jehovah He must've been then. But He isn't today."
That's the way it is today: we still teach those things. What a great Pentecost was. What a great thing when Peter and John passed through the gate called Beautiful, the man was healed. What good is a Jehovah of yesterday if He isn't the same Jehovah today? What good is the God of Moses if He isn't still the same today?


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