<TITLE>09. Par 68-76</TITLE>L-68 There we seen them representing those who died, Moses to represent the dead saints, rose. Elijah, with his group at the last day, with his raptured group standing there all before the Lord Jesus. John revealed that... Jesus told them that he would not die; what was it to them if he would live until he seen His coming. And the disciples put a saying out.
Oh, I wished I could get real, real deep right now for a few minutes to the church. Everyone knows... And everyone lives a--a private life with God. It's an individual affair, things of the Spirit that carries you into places you'd be daresn't to even speak of it.
I've noticed this in my own little, humble ministry, that there's many times that I'll say something and not know why I said it, and it don't look right (but yet somebody will say something), but I'll watch and that thing will come just as perfect around to that as it can come. God will make it happen. When I just want to say something, I'd say, "Well, now, wait a minute. That guy, so-and-so, this to happen over here now that--that just has to be that way." Well, really, I--I don't know why I said it. And the first thing you know, it's just that way. God does it.

L-71 Now, when these disciples had said, "Oh, Jesus said this man wouldn't die." Jesus never said that.
Jesus said, "What is it to you if he lives till I come?"
But to see the disciples making a saying of it, then Jesus reached down, and took John, and brought him up and let him rehearse the whole thing, see the rehearsal of the coming of the Lord. John seen the church; he seen the end of the church age. He saw the end of the Jews; he saw the second coming. He saw all the order.
And look what God had to do: boil him in grease for about twenty-four hours down there to let them see that he was Divine, that the Divine Spirit had anointed the--the soulish (that outside, soulish, or whatever you call it, the human flesh), had so Divinely impressed it till hot burning grease for twenty-four hours didn't even scorch him. Trying to boil the Holy Spirit out of a man, you can't do that. Then put him out on the Isle of Patmos, and he wrote the Book, and come back and preached several years. See?

L-74 'Course, now, he had to pack a bad name, "He was a fortuneteller; he was a witch." How many knows that John was called a witch? Absolutely. Jesus was called one too. See? See, the world don't know nothing about these things. "He was a mind-reader." See? They said that he was such a witch till he bewitched that grease, that the grease couldn't burn him because he'd bewitched it, just because he didn't agree with their Catholic ideas. That was all.
He was a servant of God that--humble, had a little mission down there that he kept. He wouldn't tolerate with that big old things, and so God just kept him and preserved him. So did He Saint Martin and Irenaeus, and all down through the age. And He's doing the same thing today, coming right on down.

L-76 Now, don't never forget this, that God promised great shakings and great and mighty works. Now, write this on your notes that you're writing (See, see?), that what man calls mighty and great, God calls foolish. And what man calls foolish, God calls great. Don't forget that (See?); don't forget it. That'll help you along in the years to come, because we're looking for something greater all the time. And we're receiving greater all the time, but the peoples of the world don't know it. Neither did they know it in the days of Noah; neither did they know it in the days of John, in the days of Jesus, in the days of the apostles, in the days of Irenaeus, any of those days; they never knew it.


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