<TITLE>16. Par 127-133</TITLE>L-127 Now, there's your hundred and forty-four thousand (Israel) that's waiting for the coming of the Lord and cannot go in until first the Gentiles are finished: got to be finished.
Now, I might say just a little personal something. I'll trust that you'll understand it. When Lewi Pethrus of Stockholm, Sweden, the general overseer, head of the Filadelfian churches, he sent down a million Bibles to these Jews, little Testaments. I got one of them up there, a little souvenir from him. The Jew always reads from the back to the front, and so you know how they--their language is. And they would read these books, and they said, "Well, if this Jesus is the Messiah, and He's dead and His Spirit is back in the form of the Spirit, let us see Him do the sign of the prophet, then we'll believe Him."
What a perfect setup; I thought, "Lord, here's the time now. Now's the time; here it is." So on a airplane I go, Billy and I and Loyce, and took off.

L-130 And I was going on up into India, and I said, "Now, on my road back, I'll slip right over here and I'll bring the message to the Jews, and get them out there and say, 'Here's the truth.'"
The Jews always believe their prophets; we all know that. 'Cause God told them that the Messiah would be a prophet, and they believe their prophets, and God said, "If there be among you a man who is a prophet, a seer, and if he... I'll deal with him in visions and so forth. And--and if what he says come to pass, then you hear him, for I am with him. (See?) But if it don't come to pass, then don't have nothing to do with that prophet, 'cause I--I--I ain't with him. But if it does come to pass, what he says, then you hear him, 'cause I'm with him." And the Jews know that.

L-132 And I thought, "Oh, my. Wouldn't it be wonderful. I'll just get me about four or five thousand of them and stand out there, and let them--them that's reading that Bible and say, 'If this be the Messiah, let's see Him do the sign of the prophet.'" I said, "What a setup it'll be." Had my ticket in my hand, just about thirty minutes 'fore calling time on the Arabian plane's line. So I was standing out there at Cairo, Egypt. I thought, "Praise God. In two more hours the Jews will receive the same thing that they did at Pentecost, just as sure as anything." I thought, "If I stand there and can tell them, 'Go pick yourself out a bunch of men out there among you, and bring them here, see if He's still Messiah.' See, and then I'll say, 'Now, upon the same grounds that your forefathers rejected this Messiah, you receive Him. Raise up your hands and He'll--you'll receive the Holy Ghost right now.' And then they'll evangelize the world in their part of the world when they--when they receive It. Get the leaders, don't... Just hit the main nerve center, the leaders, let them start it."

L-133 And Something struck me and said, "Do not go now, for the hour is not yet." See, the Gentile's isn't fulfilled yet (See?), day isn't finished.
"Oh," I thought, "that was just me."
So I started again, and it got so bad till I just couldn't stand it. And I went out behind a hangar, and I bowed my head; I said, "Father, is that You speaking to me?"
He said, "Do not go to Israel now; the hour is not yet." I just went in, changed my ticket, routed it again, went the other way (See?), 'cause the hour is not yet.
But one of these days the message will go to Israel, and what will break for... God will send unto them Moses and Elijah of Revelations 11, and they will do signs and wonders, and Jehovah's sign; while the Gentiles is finished, the grace of--day of grace will leave the Gentile church; the Pentecostal age will leave. The denominations will continue on, because they come up here with the sleeping virgin (We will go into that just in a moment.), but they will come up in that class.


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