<TITLE>10. Par 81-86</TITLE>L-81 But all the time in there, do you notice, there's working a great mighty mystery that no one seemed to understand. That's the same thing it is in God's Bethlehem today; there's working a--a mystery sign, that no one seems to understand it. It's something that goes over the top of the heads of the people. They don't seem to get it. No matter what's done, or what's said, and the mysterious part of the things that's done, the people will say, "Oh, well, I guess it's all right," and go on, but they don't understand it. They can't catch it. They can't grasp it. That's what God was doing in Bethlehem in Judaea. He's working, all these little things moving up to come to one great head.

L-82 David, oh, when he was anointed king, as a--a little boy, he was ruddy to look up at, but he must've been something in him that looked real to God. The little bitty, the smallest of the family... The rest of the boys, great big fine men, would look good in the robes, and a crown on their head. But God showed what He looks at: not the outward appearance, but the inside of a man. He looked at his heart. He knew what was in David's heart, no matter how the crown looked on him. He knowed He was finding Him a man that was a man after His own heart, which David would be a man after His own heart. That's why He poured the anointing oil, or had it poured upon David. Which the name "David" means "beloved."

L-83 And it was well represented in Jesus, the Beloved One, years later, the Son of David, Who was to come to fulfill all things that had been promised. This little city of Bethlehem was where this taken place. And it was on them same little Judaean hills where David had herded his sheep, many years later, that the Angels sang their first Noel on the hills of Judaea, overlooking Bethlehem. The first Noel, "Unto thee is born in the city of David, Christ the Lord." Angels first made their appearance to sing; it wasn't at Jerusalem the big church; neither was it at Gilgal; or neither was it at Shiloh, where they'd had the religious denominational worship all the time. But it was in little Bethlehem, where the Spirit of God had been moving in a mysterious way, bringing forth something. It was there.

L-84 It was there, where Christ had to come. It was there. It was right in that same little city was a King born, that a mother, virgin, brought forth her firstborn Son. It sheltered and housed in its little fortress the King of kings and the Lord of lords. It were not only did Samuel come to pour out the anointing oil, but God poured out upon Him, and upon the world, Christ the Lord. The Angels herald His coming and sang to the shepherds on the hillside, who followed David the king, years before. See the mystery of God, how great it is?
He was born in this great wheat belt, which from wheat comes forth the basic principles of life. And He was the Bread of Life. "I am the Bread of Life. He that eats My flesh and drinks My Blood has Eternal Life, and shall never die or come into condemnation, but's passed from death unto Life."

L-86 Bethlehem, the name Bethel. B-e-t-h, beth, "beth" in the Hebrew word means "house." "E-l" stands for "Elohim"; its abbreviation; "Elohim" means "God." B-e-t-h, beth... E-l, E-l is Elohim, which is God, "the House of God," where the Bread of Life is laid. E-l-h-e-m, finish it out and bring back your "l" again with your "e," means a "loaf of bread," in the Hebrew, El-hem. E-l is God, Elohim. B-e-t-h is bread, or b-e-t-h is... B-e-t-h is "house." E-l, it's Elohim, abbreviation. Then E-l, e-m is "bread." What was He? The House of the Bread of God: "The House of God's Bread." House, beth: Elohim, God: El-h-e-m, bread. "The house of God's Bread," means Bethlehem.


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