<TITLE>04. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 "I believe that He is immortal, and He doesn't get old and fade away. He's just simply the same Jehovah, and He expects us not... I don't think that I would disregard or disrespect the honorable rabbi, but when he said this morning in his message that Jehovah performed no more miracles, that the only thing that He wanted us to do was to come to church, and pay our tithes, and live a good life as we could, and He'd take us up home in glory, I--I can't hardly believe that, Mary. I--I believe that Jehovah wants us to walk with Him like they did in that day."
And then it must have been that Mary said, "Oh, dear, do you know, we should read the Scriptures first."
Well, if you've ever been in a Palestinian home and see some of the old ancient landmarks... The books of the Bible was kept in like a... It's called a scroll, rolled up on like a stick. And they kept them in a container like a waste basket. And just stick them down in this container. And, like the scroll of Isaiah, the scroll of Jeremiah, and all those prophets were in there, so it didn't make any difference which one they read, because they knowed it was all ordained of God, because it was their prophet.

L-12 So Joseph said, "Well, my dear, would--would you go in and get one of the scrolls." She just by chance reached in to get the scroll and brought it out.
She said, "Well, dear, today it seems like we read from the book of Isaiah."
So he pulled open the scroll, and Joseph begin to read, and his mind... his eyes fell upon this portion: "A virgin shall conceive, and shall bring forth a Son... They shall call His name Counselor, mighty God, Prince of Peace, everlasting Father."
And when he got down to the end, the little virgin lady setting by the side, said, "Just a moment, Joseph, dear. What does the prophet mean by a virgin conceiving?"
Well, Joseph might have said this: "Dear, that's just a little too deep for me. I do not understand it, but I believe it. It's just what the Bible said. I don't know how it will ever happen, but we know this, dear, we know that Isaiah was Jehovah's prophet. Therefore, being anointed with the Holy Spirit of God upon him, he could not prophesy wrong, because he was borned a prophet and we know that his words are true. And when he said, 'A virgin shall conceive, ' that was not Isaiah, that was our Jehovah, and Jehovah is able to do anything that He says that He will do."

L-13 And as they spoke about it--and on down, how His name would be called Counselor, Prince of Peace, mighty God, everlasting Father, and the government shall be upon His shoulders and there would be no end to His kingdom, and so forth--she said, "It must be the same One that the prophet Moses promised to us: 'The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me. ' Therefore it must be the Messiah."
Joseph said, "I believe the Scribes interpret it that way, that this would be the Messiah that was to come." And as the evening passed on, the night service drew near, why, they went on back to church again.


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