<TITLE>08. Par 28-30</TITLE>L-28 Now, we find out then, that after he had said that to him, he got ready and along the road, he was coming. And I can imagine Philip saying to him something like this, "Nathanael, do you remember that old fisherman that you bought them fish from last summer?"
"Oh, the old fellow, Simon. Yes."
"You know, you wanted a receipt, and he couldn't even sign his name to the receipt." The Bible said he was ignorant and unlearned. "Well, he came up before this One that we know to be the Messiah, and He said to him, 'Your name is Simon, and your father's name is Jonas.' Now, Nathanael, let's us be gentlemen. You know the Messiah is to be the God-prophet, for Moses, the one we believe, said, 'The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me,' and the Messiah is to be a prophet, God-prophet, the God of the prophet. But He's to be like a prophet. And wouldn't that just fit Him exactly? When this old ignorant fisherman came, and He told him that his... what his name was and what his father's name was?" Philip might have said something like this. "It wouldn't surprise me He didn't know you."
"Oh, now, just a minute. You're not putting any of that... He will never be able to read my mind. You just wait till I get around there, I'll tell Him about it."

L-29 And perhaps Jesus was standing... Maybe it was in the prayer line. Or, maybe it was just standing talking to the people. But however, when they arrived, and Philip came up into the line with Nathanael, Jesus looked at Nathanael for the first time, and said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile."
I can imagine Philip punched him, "What did I tell you? See there? What did I tell you?"
And it astonished this man. And he said to Him, "When knowest Thou me, Rabbi? Teacher? When did you ever know me? This is the first time we've ever met."
Now, He didn't know him by the way he was... He did not know him the way he was dressed, because all the Oriental people dressed the same way. He could've been an Egyptian, he could've been a Greek, or something else. I'm told they all dressed alike then, wore a beard and so forth.
"When did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you," fifteen miles around the mountain, day before. Yet, "I saw you." What eyes.
Oh, quickly then, this staunch Hebrew, who was called to Eternal Life, fell on his face and said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." Oh, he believed It, because he knowed that Messiah was of the God-prophet, and only Messiah could do that. Now, hold that close. Messiah was the only One could do that. And he was looking for that. That settled it.

L-30 Oh, there were those standing by now, that did not believe that. We'll take that up later, of the Jews, the great staunch and the big high churches and so forth. They were standing by. And not out loud, but in their hearts, they said, "This man is a fortuneteller, or--or a devil." And we all know that fortune telling's of the devil. "This man is a fortuneteller, or maybe he has a telepathy. He--he is a mind reader. He has... He has Beelzebub, the chief of the devils telling Him that."
What did Jesus say? He said, "You speak that against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven you." But in so many words, to break it down, "Someday, the Holy Spirit's coming, and He will do the same things that I done. One word against It will never be forgiven."
Now remember, the Jews were looking for Him. He was pointing to the Gentile age. That sign was never performed before a Gentile. It was to a Jew and a Samaritan, 'cause they was both looking for His coming. Now, they were taken out then as a nation. But now, it's the Gentile's age. Only three: Ham, Shem and Japheth's people from Noah, which we believe that all is--all of our human race sprang from those three.


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