<TITLE>08. Par 27-29</TITLE>L-27 And then he remembered that not thirty feet from where he was setting the great prophet Elijah and Elisha walked down that road together, arm in arm.
Oh, I can imagine to hear him within his heart, "Oh, if I would've only been setting here then. I would've raised and said, "Oh, prophet of God, you great mighty prophet, speak to Jehovah for me. But, oh, the days of miracles is past, so my priest tells me. That was Jehovah in the day gone by. But think of it. One day right down where I'm sitting within thirty feet went those two mighty prophets, that walked right down to that Jordan and struck the Jordan and opened it up."
Surely in his heart he was saying, "That Jehovah didn't die." And of the great coming out of the children of Israel, when their oldest son was killed because there was no blood on the lintel of the door, would be another favorite story for him. And also of just a few hundred yards from where he was setting, the great mighty Joshua delivered the people into the promised land, walked down to the Jordan, taken the ark to where that God in the front of them, and it opened up. And His people walked across on dry land.

L-28 Oh, then he thought, "We are still the people of God. We are circumcised according to the precepts of the Testament, but they tell me that Jehovah doesn't do those things any more." You know, times hasn't changed too much. And I say that with respect.
And then he thought again, not over two hundred yards from where he was sitting then, one day when the mighty Joshua, the great prince, was walking out a viewing the walls of Jericho, before the great battle, he saw a Man standing with a drawn sword.
He had oft heard his mother tell that story, read it to her out of the Bible. And as he stood with his sword drawed, Joshua might've thought, "Where did He come from?" He just appeared, and He was a Man with His sword drawed. And Joshua drew his sword and went to meet Him. And as Joshua went to meet Him, he said, "Are You for us? Are You for the enemy?"
And the Man spoke back to this Joshua and said, "Nay. I am the Captain of the host of the Lord," just two hundred yards from where he was sitting. Little did he know that that same Captain of the Lord's host was not two hundred yards from him right then.

L-29 And as He begin to come into Jerusalem--or to Jericho, there begin to be...?... everywhere, people running, after while noises, people talking, different...?... subjects, some one way, some another. He listened. He was blind. And as he listened...?...
And after while there come a stream of criticism, people hollering, "Here comes that fanatic. Here comes that man that speaks against our priests and our church. Let's not let him enter the city." Others come, and above all he heard the great roar of his priest which said, "Hey, you Galilean, you who can raise a dead man, we've got a whole graveyard full of them up here on the hill. Come up and raise some of them."
That was the kind of mockery He got. That's the kind He gets today. But Jesus never heard them. Perhaps, rotten cabbage, or overripe eggs thrown at Him, and making fun of Him, and said, "You who has done all these miracles, let me see You do something. Ha-ha. Just who says there's nothing to this fanatic? He doesn't join up with our schools. And there's nothing to Him to begin with."


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