<TITLE>10. Par 70-76</TITLE>L-70 [A brother says, "Luke 1:17"--Ed.] Luke 1:17. Thank you, brother. That's right, Luke 1. Mark... Luke 1:17, instead of 2. I want to get the 14th, that's where... That's it, brother. That's exactly right, Luke 1:17. All right. Now, now you can mark it down. Now, what it is, it's out of the blessings of the Lord, that it was blessed.
And thou shall have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink;
This man that comes forth will be taught from his birth not to drink or to have anything to do with sin like that. You get it?
... and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
And he shall go before him in the spirit and the power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; and make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Now, now, we realize that he was prophesied, and John was that person. Is that right? John was the Elijah of that day that was to come.

L-73 Now, we also know that Scripture sometimes means two things. It'll say one thing, like over there in Matthew is where It said, "Out of Egypt I call My son." All right, I believe that's what I was hunting for, "Out of Egypt I've called My son." And then if you'll run that "son" reference there, He was... It did not... It went back into Hosea, which did not mean Jesus His Son; it was--was Israel His son, "Out of Egypt He called Israel." But it had a compound meaning and a greater understanding to it when it meant and talked about for--for Jesus' coming, which was a greater than--than Israel, when He called Israel out. All right.

L-74 Now, we also a find they'd had, in His first coming wasn't at the day of the Lord. Is that right? Now, back to Malachi, let's straighten this out first, "Coming at the day of the Lord." Now, watch His compound coming, His one coming and His second. Have you got your spiritual thinking ready? 6th verse now.
He shall... He'll send Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the LORD:... (Is that right?)
Now, we realize that that wasn't John, 'cause it wasn't the dreadful day of the Lord, was it? And neither did He burn the earth. So it must've meant a preview, or--or another future coming of John--or of--of Elijah. Is that right? 'Cause He said, "I'll send Elijah, and I'm going to burn the whole earth, and I'm going to just clean it off, and you'll walk out upon their ashes." That's the millennium; we know that. After the atomic bomb shall blow it from pieces, then there'll be--the earth will straighten up. And there'll be a great day here on the earth, and the church will reign with Jesus on the earth for a thousand years. Is that right? "But before that great and dreadful day of the Lord, when it's going to be blowed up, I'll send to you Elijah the prophet." Is that right? So it did not mean John the Baptist in that state, because the dreadful day of the Lord wasn't then: two thousand years off. Is that right?

L-76 Now, watch the next verse, and if you'll be real spiritual now... Now, this is a love letter, and you have to read between the lines and then it's made right. You know what I mean. Remember how I said the Scripture, "Jesus thanked God because He'd hid It from the wise the eyes--and prudent, revealed It to babes"?
As I have often illustrated about my wife when she writes me a letter; I can see what's she's saying on the letter, but I read between the lines to know what she means (See?), because I love her and I--I know her nature. And you have to know God's nature and love Him, then the Scriptures stand right out to you. He reveals It.


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