<TITLE>15. Par 53-55</TITLE>L-53 And he stood like a angel-face stern, knowed where he was. and he said, "You men of Israel," begin to speak to them, "which one of your fathers hasn't persecuted the prophets." Then he said, "You stiffnecked, uncircumcised of heart and the ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: like your fathers did, so do you."
And to revenge that blood of that righteous martyr who was standing there telling them what was right and wrong, and they to avenge that blood, they dragged him like a bunch of wolves dragging a lamb, and when they throwed him on the ground, and took great big clods of rocks, and begin to beat him on the head with it like that, little Stephen being full of the Holy Ghost, the Bible said he looked steadfast towards heaven, raised his hand, and said, "I see heavens opened, and I see Jesus standing at the right hand of God."

L-54 When a high priest... When any man has finished his works, he steps down. When I quit preaching, I set down, but not until I quit preaching. When you're a working, when you set down, you're work is finished. Jesus set down at the right hand of glory, but when He seen this first martyr dying for the cause of Christ, the resurrected Lord Jesus brushed back the skies, and He must've raised from His Throne to give a special welcome to little Stephen to bring him home.
There He is, raised from the dead. His domain reaches from eternity to eternity. He is far above every Angel, every principality, everything there is in Heaven. Why, His--heavens His throne is far above the heavens of heavens, God raised Him up.
Saint Paul, when he was still Saul of Tarsus, on his road with a letter in his pocket to persecute all those people who were shouting and making all that noise down on--on his way to Damascus... He was riding upon his horse that day with a threat in his own throat. "I'll lock every one of them holy-rollers up. I'll put a stop to all this Divine healing and this nonsense going on here."
But on his road down thought, and riding on his steed, he fell from the horse to the ground; and over he went, and he raised up, and there was a big bright Light standing before him that even blinded his eyes, saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest Thou Me?"
"Who are You, Lord?"
He said, said, "I'm Jesus Who you persecute." He saw Him in His everlasting endless domain.

L-55 When the aged old seer, John, the beloved, standing out yonder on the Isle of Patmos for preaching the Word of God, for preaching Divine healing, for healing the sick, and for doing the things that Christ had told him to do... And they took him out on the Isle of Patmos, a little island out in the Aegean Sea, about fifteen miles in circumference around it, full of rocks like in Alcatraz now. Snakes and things laid on the island, and he was exiled out there because of preaching the Gospel.
And when the aged beloved old seer in his ninetieth year was setting out there on a rock one beautiful resurrection morning, he saw Him. He saw Him. He said, "I heard the Voice of a trumpet, and when I turned to look behind me, I saw one like the Son of man." Look the way the... He didn't have any... His eyes, they were not full of tears." He says, "His eyes shined like the sun in the middle of the day." The middle of the Syrian sun could not outshine His eyes.


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