<TITLE>06. Par 18-20</TITLE>L-18 The Sunday before had been an unusual Sunday at the synagogue in Nazareth. The good rabbi had preached a mighty sermon. And he had told of the great God of Abraham, how that in the days of His visiting His children down in Egypt, how that He had brought them out with a mighty hand of power; how He had showed Hisself to be Ruler of both heavens and earth; how that water could not stand in His path, or nothing could hinder His Divine will; and how that He had sprinkled with His own hands, bread upon the ground of a night to feed His journeying children that had no bread. And he'd also referred to a time that they run out of meat, and the Lord God Jehovah had caused a great wind to blow, and quails come into the camp by the thousands. And each Israelite, without using anything more than their hands, had caught these quails and dressed them, and had eaten all that they wanted.
And it was at this point that Joseph must've said, "Did you realize, dear, how many quails that it would take to feed them people?" For there were about two and one half million people in that camp. And each man could easily eat two quail or more, for satisfying. So it would take more than five million quails. But He's Jehovah, the Creator. How that He could create quail. There probably wasn't five million quail in all Palestine, or all the wilderness. But He's Jehovah God Who can put them there. If there's none there He can still create them, for He did it in the days of Abraham on the mount where Abraham called Him Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide anything He has need of."

L-19 Then Joseph must've said something like this, "The message was striking, but I thought the good rabbi ruined it at the end when he said, 'But it is true that Jehovah used to do miracles, but alas, Jehovah doesn't even do miracles today, that those days have passed long ago. All Jehovah wants us to do is to go to church, and pay our dues, and just live a good normal life.'" Joseph might've said, "I kinda disagree with the rabbi, because if He is God He has to remain the same God. If He was Jehovah-jireh, could provide for them, He can provide for us also." How I would like to hollered "Amen" to Joseph.

L-20 Mary slips back into the house, and picks up a scroll, and brings it out as their usually Sunday afternoons Bible study. And it happened to be this day, we'd say, that she brought out the scroll of Isaiah. And as Joseph took the scroll and opened it up, he begin to read the scroll to Mary and to comment. Finally, he comes to the place of Isaiah 9:6, where it says something like this, "Unto us a Child is given, unto us a Son: and the government shall be upon His shoulders: and His Name shall be called Counsellor, Prince of Peace, mighty God, everlasting Father."
And while he was reading he heard a sigh, and he looked sideways; and the little lady, sweetheart of his, her little face had flashed up, and her eyes were glittering like the stars on a dark night, and said, "Read that again, dear." And he read it again, and she must've said, "Oh, who will that be? What is the prophet speaking of?"
And he said something like this, or would've said, "The prophet was speaking of the Messiah which will come. And one of our women someday will bear the Messiah." That Scripture seemed to grip the little virgin; she just couldn't get away from it.


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