<TITLE>08. Par 29-31</TITLE>L-29 But He's had His picture taken now with the mechanical eye of the camera here in Germany, and around over the world, and it's proven, hangs right here in Washington, DC, now in there at the hall of religious art, the only supernatural Being was ever photographed. What is it? It's Him expressing Himself that He's here. And you're going to wake up too late.
There wasn't a newspaper packed, not a magazine got it. Why? Why didn't they get it? God can't be, in this day any more than He was. They never knew who Elisha was till Elijah--Elisha was gone. They never knew who Elijah was till he was gone. They never knew who John was till he was beheaded. They never knowed Who Jesus was till He was dead, buried, and rose again.
They never knowed who Saint Patrick was (the Catholic church persecuted him) until he was dead and buried. Then they canonized him a saint. Saint Francis of Assisi, what we would call today a walking preacher with a Bible under his arm, the Catholic church, he protested it. And they hated him. But after he was dead, then they canonized him a saint.

L-30 Joan of Arc who saved France, a spiritual woman who saw visions and prophesied, the Catholic church burned her as a witch. Right. And said she was a witch and burnt her. A hundred years or more after she was dead they realized that she was a saint. Oh, they done penance, sure; they dug up the priests body and throwed them out in the river. That was a penance. But just the same, they didn't recognize her until she was gone.
And so is it today. The Holy Spirit's moving among the people with great things and showing Himself, even letting it be known, and they won't realize it till it's gone. They don't realize that God's promised it to... You say, "Well, when's He going to do these things?"
That's what the disciples said about John. They didn't understand; they said, "Why said the prophets Elias must come first?"
Jesus said, "He has already come, and you didn't know him." He can't be one thing in one generation, and something else in another. He's got to continue the same.

L-31 You look, Jesus is here now, and this is your opportunity. This is the day of salvation. Now is the time. Call upon Him. See? This is the hour. This is the time of deliverance. This is the time God's calling out His people, not another time; now is the day. He's manifest Himself, showing Himself.
Then here we come tonight before this sixty or seventy-five people with a challenge that He's raised from the dead. If He isn't I'm a--I'm a--I'm a awful person. I--I am a deceiver, if Christ hasn't raised from the dead and will meet wherever two or three gathers together according to His Word; then I'm found a false witness. And every other preacher is too, that preaches the Gospel.
Can you get people to listen to it? Certainly not. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the son of man." They mocked, they scoffed, they made fun. So did they... Look at the people when Lot tried before the destruction of Sodom. He went and tried to tell them, but they said, "Your idle tales." They wouldn't believe it.


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