<TITLE>03. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 I wonder what the Church ought to look like, how pretty it ought to be in order at the coming of the Lord? Its robes should be washed in the Blood of the Lamb, and all the Divine orders of God set perfectly in order in it, no friction, just waiting for that moment. God will have it that way.
And we see him as he noticed her beautiful face. And he said, "Mary, your face just shines." But it seems that she didn't notice him too much; her lovely eyes where looking towards the skies. And he followed her direction of sight. And he noticed hanging over the little city, one of the most beautiful stars he ever seen in all of his life. And he perhaps said something like this, "That star, I haven't noticed it till just now. That's where that reflection is coming from upon your lovely face."
Oh, if God tonight could just reflect His grace upon the Church and His beauty, and He wants to do it, when the Church will get Itself ready for the event.

L-11 And she said something like this, perhaps, "Joseph, just as soon as the sun begin to go down, when we were yet at the bottom of the mountain, I noticed that star. And it seems to me that it's followed me all the way up the mountain. I just couldn't keep my eyes off of it."
And as he caught her by the hand, and as they two, the young couple standing there, just a few hours before the birth of the greatest One that ever walked on earth, holding her hands, they faced the east towards that great star that hung over Bethlehem.

L-12 Let's journey on eastward for a little while, way into the extreme east, across the valleys, over the mountains. To the extreme east, there was some Magis which were known in the days of Daniel to be the Medes-o-Persians. They worship one true God. They waited on Him by a sacred fire. And they would go up to the top of the mountain, and they studied all the heavenly bodies. For they had learned in Job and--of the moving of the stars, and the names of the stars. And they watched for that one true God to give them a sign by the stars.
And they studied those stars just like we study the Bible. It was handed down scrolls from ancient fathers as they studied those heavenly bodies. And they knowed where every one was. And if one moved the least bit out of its place, they knew it.

L-13 Night after night they held their ceremonies. And now, they believed that there was one true God. We know them today, mostly as Mohammedans. Then as they set watching, they would build a fire and watch--worship God by singing sacred hymns, and watching the fire, and--and they would discuss Scriptures and so forth. And then they would climb up into this great tower, like an observatory. And they would watch the bodies of the skies all night long. And they believed that the moving of them meant different signs to them from the god of the fire.
And one night while they were setting, perhaps discussing the rising of kingdoms, and the fall of empires, and the things that had taken place in the earth, ancient histories, and so forth...
It must have been about the time that they picked up the Scroll of Daniel, and was reading in Daniel. Because he must've conversed with them. Daniel 2 said that he was their chief. And so, they must've conversed with him. And they picked up a Scroll where Daniel had prophesied that there'd come a time when there'd be a stone cut out of the mountain without hands, and it would tear down the kingdoms of the world. They must've been reading that. And then at... They'd had some of the Hebrew scolls--or Scrolls, of back in Numbers, where that Balaam said there would be a Star of Jacob rise.


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