<TITLE>33. Par 237-243</TITLE>L-237 All right, now one more quotation. And we took the 20th, so now let's see here on this verse here. Now, the 16th...
And he had in his right hand seven stars:...
Now, let's take the... and the... His countenances:
Out of his mouth goes a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenances was like the sun shining in its strength.
If you turn to, let's see, Matthew 17. Let's just get it right here while we're at it; so we're just passing it through, and many of those people that are taking it, let's--or writing it down, we'll just let them read it so that we'll know. Matthew 17, all right.
... after six days Jesus take Peter, James, and John... in a high mountain apart,
And was transfigured before them: and "His face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
He was transformed. What did He do? Passed Hisself into transformation, over into His coming day.

L-240 Now, watch, just a few hours before this, Jesus had made this quotation back here in the next chapter, "Verily I say unto you, that some stand here..." How many knows what I'm going to say? "Some stands here shall not pass away, not die, until they see the Son of man coming in glory." Is that right? And He taken Peter, James, and John, the three witnesses, 'cause in the Old Testament everything, every word was established by three witnesses, and taken them up on the mountain.
Notice what come first. Oh, I just can't stop right here, just got to get this. Look. What's the first thing they seen? They taken Jesus up on the mountain--or He taken them up, and He was transfigured before them, transformed. His raiment shined like the sun in the middle of its strength, and there appeared unto Him Moses and Elijah. What form is the Son of man coming in now? And first will appear will be Moses and Elijah.

L-242 Now, notice, before Jesus returns to the earth... Now, this is a little ahead of time, but the Spirit of Elijah will return back to the earth and turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers. The Bible said so. Jesus saw him here; the apostles saw him here, the order of the coming of the Son of man glorified. He's to be glorified and coming back. The first thing, before they saw Him, was what? Elijah. Then what? Moses; Israel returning yonder, the law-keepers, and then the glorified Son of man. Hallelujah. Do you see the order of His coming? The Spirit of Elijah, or the witness of the last church age (See?), coming in power to manifest Him.

L-243 Then a hundred and forty-four thousand Jews to gather on Mount Sinai... Where Israel has become a nation itself, the oldest nation in the world, the oldest flag in the world: has their own nation, their own flag, their own army, their own money, and everything else. They are one of the members of the leagues of the nations, because they are a nation. Jesus said they should never be cast away until all things is fulfilled.
The mysterious of how that bunch of Jews, persecuted everywhere, and turned out, and run out, and throwed out, like the church down through these ages of rejection, and yet Jesus said, "When you see the fig tree putting forth its buds (that nation returning back to be a nation again), the time is at hand, even at the door. Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass until all these things be fulfilled." This strain... This people shall not pass away. Hitler tried to kill them; Mussolini tried to kill them; Stalin tried to kill them, everybody else, but they will never be a-blemished or banished from the earth; they will be a people and a nation standing yonder. Amen.
There will come Moses and Elijah. Oh. Hope you get it.


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