<TITLE>11. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 "Oh, it did, Mary. It thrilled my heart. And how he went down there in Egypt, this great prophet, showed great signs and wonders, and brought them out to the Red Sea, and Jehovah just opened up the Red Sea. When they were hungry, God blowed in quails and fed them. When they was thirsty, they spoke to a rock, got water from there. And all that they had need of, Jehovah seen that it was cared for. When they got sick, and was bitten by serpents, and had sinned, Jehovah had Moses make a brass serpent and put it on a pole."
"What was your interpretation of that Joseph, my dear?"
"Well, Mary, I believe that that meant that there would be a sin offering someday. That that brass serpent, the brass meant that the serpent itself was sin already judged. And that brass was Divine judgment, and Divine judgment would be upon One someday and would be an atonement for healing forever. That brass serpent meant that, I believe."

L-34 And as they set there and talked, but she said, all at once, "But did you notice, he ruined his sermon? Right at the end of his sermon, he said, after telling how great Jehovah was, 'Now, all those days have passed away. Jehovah doesn't perform miracles any more. There is no such a thing as God's ever making healings for the sick or doing anything like that. Jehovah just expects us to be good Pharisees, and to go to church, and to pay in our tithings and our offerings into the church, and build Him a nice place, and go there and sing hymns every Sabbath morning and worship Him. And that's what Jehovah expects these days.' You know, Joseph, I could hardly agree with the fine rabbi on that. I believe if He ever was Jehovah, He's still Jehovah. If He ever was almighty, He still is almighty."
You know, God always has a remnant of the people that's going to believe Him somewhere. He always has a remnant, someone He can lay His hands on. Always has and always will...

L-35 Then, as she journeyed on a little farther, she remembered also as they set out there on the--the porch and was talking, it was their custom to read the Scriptures on Sunday afternoon. So she goes back into the building and gets out the little basket and brings out the scrolls. Them days it wasn't in a book like this; it was scroll, one chapter by Isaiah, and Jeremiah, and all put on leather on a scroll and rolled up and put into a basket. They didn't have paper in those days. So they put it on leather that had been tanned out.
So, she said, "Joseph, you choose the scroll for this afternoon's reading, this Sunday afternoon."
And he said, "Oh, Mary, you reach in and get it, dear."
And she reached her pretty, little hands in as her eyes flashed. She picked up the scroll and hand it over to him.
He said, "You know, Mary, I would like to hear you read."

L-36 And she had Isaiah. And she read down in Isaiah, and begin reading till she come to Isaiah 9 and 6: "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulders: and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, the Prince of Peace." And she stopped.
And she said, "Joseph, you are well-learned in the Scriptures. What was the prophet speaking of when he said this, 'Unto us a son is born'?"
"Well," Joseph said, "Mary, I believe he was meaning the Messiah, the coming Messiah that Moses spoke of."
"Well," she said, "Joseph, how would the Messiah be? Will He be another God? Or will He be... What relation will He be to God?"
Joseph said, "He will be God manifested in the flesh. God will be made manifest in this Son that He will create."
"Well how will He create this Son?"
"Oh, my dear Mary," must--Joseph must have said, "You know, Isaiah also said in 7:14 there, that 'a virgin shall conceive and shall bear a son. And He will be Emmanuel, God with us.'"
Oh, her pretty eyes must have flashed. And as the evening draw close to dark, they made ready to go to church to hear another message from the rabbi. And the scroll was put away.


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