<TITLE>31. Par 272-280</TITLE>L-272 Now, remember, God's guards of the ark, or the mercy seat. Now, remember. To how many... John saw, how many? Four. How many did--did he see? He seen four too, four living creatures. Now, watch; they both seen the same vision.
And four is the number of earth. Did you know that? How many knows now before we have to go into it, four is an earthly number? Sure. Like the four Hebrew... It's an earth... It's a number of earth, of deliverance, deliverance. Now, keep that in your mind, "deliverance," 'cause I'm going to strike it just a minute real hard (See?), deliverance." Now, there was three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, but the fourth One come; it was deliverance. Lazarus was in the grave three days, but when the fourth one come he was delivered. Four is God's number of deliverance, so it showed that these beings must have been something about the earth.
I hope you're not too hungry now. I hope your spiritual appetite is a little--a little above your natural now. See? All right.

L-275 Now, notice, "They have eyes (in Ezekiel and here) in front, and in back, and within." Let's just read that. Look here. See? You see here, I believe they spoke in here, "beasts," four faces, like an eagle, and wings, full of eyes without, within. Look here.
And the four beasts and each of them had six wings about him;...
"And they flew," and so forth, "and had eyes without, within, and behind." It spoke of their intelligence. They knowed what was, which is, and which shall come; for they was right at the seat, so close till they wasn't even human. Temple guards--or not temple guards, the temple guards are the hundred and forty-four thousand. But this is the mercy seat guards, the throne guards. The throne right up next to God, "living creatures," next thing to God, standing there. Their intelligence, they knowed what was, which is, what shall come. They had "eyes without," showing what they could see, what was to come; "eyes within," knows everything now; and "eyes in the back," which knowed what was. Which was, which is, which shall come, reflecting through the church ages "He that Was, Which Is, and Shall Come; Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."

L-277 Hold them now. We're going to drive--drive that thing plumb through the blackboard in a few minutes. Watch it. Now, just a minute.
Reveals their intelligence, and it showed they knowed--know... They knowed all the future and the present and past, and all about it. And their... They were tireless. They never grew tired. They couldn't be anything connected with men; he grows tired. But they were tireless; they sang "Holy, holy, holy. Holy, holy, holy. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty. Holy, holy, holy." all day and all night through every age, "Holy..."

L-280 Let's just go back just a minute. Let's go back; I got a Scripture in mind, Isaiah 6, right quick. Watch. Isaiah saw the same thing just exactly.
Every vision of the Lord... That's what I say. If the visions we have today is not exactly Bible visions, then they're wrong. If they reflect, or, any revelation that shows God anything but what He always was, it's a wrong revelation. The whole church is built upon it, Matthew 17.


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