<TITLE>06. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 Then he remembers that same prophet, Elijah and Elisha came down that same cobblestone street--or road, arm in arm, going down to Jordan, five hundred yards from where he was setting, to open up that Jordan.
Oh, I can imagine him saying, "If I could hear their footsteps coming down that road now, I'd run out there real quick and fall down by their side and say, 'Oh, great prophets of the Lord God, I believe that you're God's servants. Just offer a little prayer for me and God will give me back my sight.'" Of course, they've been gone for years. The days of miracles were over.
Then he begin to think of something else. That after Joshua had crossed the Jordan, by being opened by the hand of God, one day just before he was going to take Jericho... Joshua was a mighty warrior. And he was walking around, viewing over the great high towering walls, and wondering just how that he was going to get over those walls to lead his army to take the land that God promised. God promises the land, but he had to fight for every inch of it.

L-21 Sister, in that wheelchairs, and on this stretcher, God promised you healing. You'll have to fight every inch of it. The devil will make you fight with the Sword of God every inch you--you could... But remember, footsteps is possession. "Wheresoever your foot treads, that I give unto you." Every step you can make. You know, that gets me feeling religious. Footsteps is possession. All the land that your feet will tread upon in this promised land, it's yours.
And it's the same to every believer tonight. Anything that you can take, any Divine promise of God, and claim it, and hold it, it's yours. Footprints...
And then when Joshua was--had not got very far yet... He'd camped, and he was out looking over the situation. All of a sudden, he looked, and there stood a great Warrior with His sword pulled. So Joshua pulled his sword and went to meet Him. So he stopped and said, "Are You on our side, or are You for our enemy?"
And the Voice came back from the One Who had His sword up in the air; He said, "I am the Captain of the Host of the Lord."
The mighty warrior Joshua pulled off his helmet and laid it on the ground.

L-22 Blind Bartimaeus said, "If I could've only been setting at this gate when that Chief Captain of the Host of the Lord would've been standing there, I would've got my healing. If I just knowed that His Presence was there."
Little did he know, that less that two hundred yards from him, right then come that same Captain, the Lord Jesus, the Captain of the Host of the Lord. Then, all of a sudden, there was a noise. Isn't it most unusual, that where Jesus is, there's usually a lot of noise.
And we hear them coming out the gates, screaming, some hollering, "Hosannah to Him that cometh in the Name of the Lord."
Others saying, "Thou mighty prophet of Galilee."... And the others saying, "Away with him. He's a witch. He's Beelzebub. He does nothing but deceive the people. He's a spiritualist. He's a mind reader. Away with such a hypocrite." And they were throwing, at Him, overripe vegetables, I suppose. I can hear him, as some saying one thing and the other one, and--and the great rush coming on...
And, do you know, where Jesus is, there's usually a mixed multitude like that. It's always that way. There's a mixed multitude: some for Him, and some against Him.


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