<TITLE>08. Par 22-23</TITLE>L-22 Now, he said, "But when... I had it all in my heart." Said, "After I knowed my godly old father, which was a Pharisee, as you brethren all know that he was a Pharisee... And then, when he was getting old, I remember how he used to set after a days fishing on this lake; he would sit down around the bend, yonder where we used to pull the nets in. One day he picked me up in his arms and he said to me, 'Simon, my little boy, daddy is going to have to leave you one of these days, turn all of my boat and tackle and everything over to you.'"
As I look at my own little boy, Joseph, and think the same thing... Someday I've got to turn the Bible over to him, and all that--that I have.

L-23 And he said, "As my father would push the gray hairs from his brow, and his white beard, he said, 'Simon, set down. I want to instruct you, my son. All through the years we've waited, our people has waited for that coming Messiah. And we have now drawed up many descriptions and--of how He will look when He comes, riding down out of heaven in a chariot, driven by Angels or horses or something. We have many descriptions. But Simon, that's not going to be the coming Messiah. When the Messiah comes He's going to come in a different way from what any of our rabbi's are thinking. Now, Simon, I want you to read the Scriptures, 'cause the Scriptures always tells the truth. Now, here's one thing you can remember. When He comes, He's going to be rejected. He's going to be a rejected Man, because every true message of God is always rejected: always has been, always will be. It's going to be rejected by the people in the--the majority. They will reject it."
"And now here's where you're going to find. There may be many false Messiahs rise before your time, Simon. I've always thought that I would live to see Him. But I'm getting old, and I perhaps won't see it. But, Simon, never let this depart from you: When the Messiah comes, He will be a Prophet. He will be a God Prophet. Because, Simon, Moses, the one we are following his instructions now, said in his word, which he was a prophet, he said, 'The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet liken unto me.' And now you remember when the Messiah cometh, He will be a Prophet like Moses. But He will be more that a Prophet. He will be the God Prophet. It'll be God in a Prophet manifesting Himself.
"And when you see that great sign, now, people raise up and say they're this, that, or the other, don't you believe it, Simon. But when you see God working the sign of a prophet, because that's going to be the Messiahic sign, will be the sign of a prophet, because Moses said, 'The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet liken unto me, law Giver, priest, king, Prophet. And it will come to pass that whosoever shall not hear this Prophet will be cut off from the--among the people."


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