<TITLE>02. Par 4-8</TITLE>L-4 I think that would be, seemingly to me, a very vital subject this afternoon. Why is it that some seems to be on the housetop all the time, and others seems to have their ups-and-downs all the time, and others seems to be practically in the valley all the time?
Getting the letters and the reports from the meetings, sometimes leads me to prayer to find what would the Lord have me to speak to the Church. For in the letters and sometimes it's nighttime when the anointing of the discernment is on, you seemingly you could find that confusion.
And them spirits that seems to be some of them rejoicing, and some sad, and some disappointed, and sometimes the Holy Spirit brings us to such subjects as we have this afternoon.

L-5 Now, we're speaking of Ezekiel, some eight or nine hundred years before the coming of the Messiah. In the Bible the prophets, the Word came to the prophets in the days of old. In Hebrews, it said, "God, in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers by the prophets, but in this last day has spoke to us through His Son, Christ Jesus."
Now, the prophets were seers, Divine seers. And at the change of the dispensations from law unto grace, did not change God sending still, prophets. For in the New Testament we find prophecy went on just the same. And also prophets went on just the same.
Prophecy is a gift. It's a gift that might be on one and then another in any local church. And everyone may prophesy one by one.

L-6 But a prophet is a office of the Church, not a gift in the Church, but an office of the Church: a prophet. They are not... They are ordained, predestined by God's foreknowledge to be what they are. They're born prophets. Prophets are not made; they are born prophets. And a prophet or a seer, in one word, is considered in the Old Testament as eagles. And how I love to think of it in that way, as an eagle.
I put much of my life in conservation, as you know, and studying wildlife, studying birds, wild birds, wild animals, learning their nature. And I find that an eagle is the most interesting bird, nearly, that I know, of outside of the dove.

L-7 The eagle is a bird of prey. But he's also a bird of the heavens. And in a certain book, reading one time where a--a terrible sight to see a eagle in a cage. And this eagle, this great mammoth bird, would get back and fly against the cage as hard as he could, only to hit his head and come back, fall on the floor, look around. He'd flog his great wings against the cage again. He'd just been caged.
And as he'd flog his wings, he had all the hide and feathers beat off his wings, off of parts of his body, where he had so stretched to get out of that cage. And when he would hit the cage, he'd fall back. Weary eyes would look up towards the heavens. He knew he was born a heaven soaring bird. That's his nature.

L-8 That was a sad sight, one of the saddest I ever seen. But I see a sight in Phoenix, and the world over, that's a much sadder sight than that: I see men and women who were born to be sons and daughters of God, and who are caged by the devil. And to see them walking the streets in lust and passion, caged in by the devil, when really they should be free sons and daughters of God...
Now, an eagle could fly higher than any other bird there is. There's no bird can climb where the eagle flies. And neither was there any man who, whether he was teacher, evangelist, pastor could climb to the spot where them prophets went. For they went way up, and higher you go, further you can see away.


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