<TITLE>19. Par 60-63</TITLE>L-60 You know what that head chief captain of the priests did like that? Walked right up, and pulled them horns off the top of his head, and smacked Micaiah right smack in the mouth. That showed his religion, didn't it? Well, he just might've had a bloody jaw there for a few minutes. And he said, "Which a way went the Spirit of God, when it went out of me to go to you?"
He said, "Just wait till you're setting, hiding in the cage over yonder, and you'll know which way it went," Micaiah did.
Micaiah said, "I saw Israel scattered." Said, "I looked up into the heavens, and I saw the great throne of God; and there was Angels standing on the right hand and left hand of God. And they were holding a counsel when they seen this all happening." Like they was holding their counsel down here. Remember, when something's going on down here, persecutors, and laughters, and fun makers, there's something going on up there too, you know. Just remember that. Fix your faith on that.

L-61 So then he said, "I--I saw them all having a counsel in heaven, and they were going before God and trying to find some way they could bring Ahab out there to fulfill," of course the word of Elijah, the prophet. Elijah spoke it under the inspiration; it had to be so. There was nothing else could stop it. So he knowed it had to happen.
And said, "I seen a spirit come up before God, and said, 'I'll go down, and I'll get in all them preachers and be a lying spirit, and I'll make them prophesy a lie. And that's the way we'll get Ahab out here and fulfill the Word of God.'" 'Cause God will... He let that evil spirit, that lying spirit come down, and get into those preachers, and anoint them, and prophesy in the Name of the Lord, a lie.
You say, "Then, Brother Branham, how could we ever know whether the prophecy is right or not?" Line it up with the Word. That's the way to stay with it. If it's not according to that Word, don't you believe it.

L-62 I told you last night this is God's Urim Thummim. If any kind of fantastics rise, wherever they are in this little church, whatever it is, pastor, stay with the Word. Don't feed these sheep something that'll kill them. Stay right with the Word, for it's written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Stay with the Word. See?
Now, Micaiah knew he was right, because he was with the Word. And they had just a swelling, popular idea. What happened? They took Micaiah, and smote him in the mouth, and took him up there, and put him in prison, and locked him up in the inner jails, and fed him b--bread and water of sorrow. Said, "Till I return in peace..." said Ahab. Ahab...
And Elijah, or Micaiah said, "If you return in peace at all, God hasn't spoke to me." That's right. 'Cause his vision compared with the Bible.

L-63 Now, there's where I want to dwell just a moment. His vision was with the Bible. Now, if it was... Now, the other's vision was contrary to the Bible. But Micaiah's was with the Bible, and God's got to keep His Word. Do you get it?
Now, what happened to Ahab? He was killed that day, and the dogs licked his blood as the sun went down, out of the chariot at the pool before they washed it that night. That's true. For one man, who took God's Word, his vision lined up with God's Word, and it was perfect, the absolute truth.
And now, friends, closing, this: A vision must line up with God's Word. A preacher must line up with God's Word. No matter what we think, and what are, the emotions are of the country, the crowd, or whatever it is, we must line up with God's Word. And that's the reason that I have defended.


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