<TITLE>06. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 And God likened the prophet to the eagle that would go in the makeup of a prophet. He is a--a seer that in the Spirit climbs beyond the emotion of the church. He goes beyond the rhythm of the music. He goes beyond the clapping of the hands. He goes beyond the joy among the saints. He goes beyond all that. God brings him up into a realm alone: alone. Then He opens his eyes, and He lets him look around and see things that is to come. Then He brings him back down among the members of the body to foretell them of what is in the making.
So God had took Ezekiel high, far up, and let him see around about twenty-six hundred years. Think of it. Now, and let him have... A--a prophet is also a gift of knowledge. A knowledge is like an attorney, who studies the books, and when you go to hire an attorney to plead your case, he's only taking what he knows, and you're paying for what he knows to present your case before the judge.

L-20 And now, a gift of knowledge in the Bible is prophecy which goes up and finds out these things that are to come and brings them back down, but they must compare with the Bible, with the Book. If they're out of the Book, then they're not received, because the Judge judges by the Book. You see it? So it must be on the Word.
Then the Word that God has spoken before the foundation of the world, it isn't that God speaks and says something to the prophet at that time, it is that the prophet catches what God has already said. For the Word was before the foundation of the world. God spoke the Word, and It's laying way out, stretched out in time. And the prophet goes up and sees the time coming. So it's only a gift of knowledge that he brings down and puts it on the paper.
Now, Ezekiel the prophet goes up and sees the day that we're living in. Oh, what a trip up Jacob's ladder to foresee what will be. And he brings it down. And in these last years, the last two thousand years (which Ezekiel lived some six or eight hundred years before the coming of Christ) they had a stony heart, and that was the Holy Spirit could not enter that heart. He had no way of entering that heart because it was sinful. And there was only the atonement of blood of an animal laying between that stony heart and the Creator.

L-21 But when that animal blood, being substitutionary, of course, but only a shadow or a type of the true Blood coming, which the life in the cell of the blood was an animal life, which could not coincide with the human spirit, because the animal life has no soul in it. But human life has a soul in it. So therefore they could not mix like oil to water.
But when the Christ came and died... And now the Blood of Christ which was shed at Calvary, inside that Blood cell lays none other than the Life of God. See it? Notice. Then the worshipper comes before God with this appropriate Blood appropriated. It is the Blood of a Redeemer that redeems us.
You put yourself in the pawn shop by... See, Adam put you in the pawn shop, but Christ came, and He's your Redeemer, and you belong to Christ.

L-22 God gave you to Christ as a love gift for His sacrifice. And you are brought to Christ by the Holy Spirit Who wooed you through the Blood of the Lord Jesus, and presented to Him as a gift. And God loves His gifts. And He will not stand to see them destroyed.
A minister asked another one the other day. Which now, pardon this, this has just a little bit of my own doctrine in it, but in the tabernacle we do that.
Now, one fellow ask another one the other day; he said, "Do you believe... Don't you believe, if a man was once a child of God, borned of the Spirit of God, washed in the Blood, and redeemed thoroughly by God, by the renewing of his heart, by the washing of the water by the Blood through the Word, and becomes a child of God, don't you think that person could sin and get away from God to where he would be lost?"


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