<TITLE>08. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 Now, we've heard of all kinds of things taken place. We've heard of Elijahs, we've heard of virgin Marys all over the country. And we've heard of all kinds of sensations and everything like that. Which I--I am not here to speak against that. I am here to say that any angel of God, or any messenger of God, must stay strictly in the Word of God.
In the Old Bible they had a way to find out whether it was the truth or not. They had in their Mosaic laws they had what they called the Aaronic priesthood, and then the Levitical priesthood, rather, and Aaron was the high priest carrying the breast--on his breast, the stones of each birth of the patriarchs. They hung that breastplate up. And then it was called the Urim Thummim. And when a prophet prophesied, if he went to the Urim Thummim, and he told his prophecy, or told his dream, and that supernatural lights didn't reflect back in a conglomerations of light, then, I don't care how good it sound, it was wrong. They refused it. All good teachers knows that, that they--they refused it. It had to witness to the Urim Thummim. And now, of course when that priesthood ended, then there was another priesthood come in which after the order of Melchisedec.
Now, now today we do not have the birthstones of the patriarchs, but we do have a Urim Thummim. And that's God's Bible. Jesus said, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away." And in the book of Revelations, which is the revelation of Jesus Christ, He said, "If anybody will add to or take away from It, the same will be taken, his part, out of the book of life." This is the Urim Thummim.
Joseph Smith met an angel; it wasn't Scriptural. Now, if any angel or anything that's contrary to God's Word, this is the full revelation of Jesus Christ. So therefore stay with It.

L-24 Then, Jesus making Hisself known to His brethren by speaking to Simon and telling him who he was and who his father was, Simon recognized immediately that He was the Messiah. Do you believe that God before the foundation of the world knew that that thing would happen like that? Jesus said so. He knew it before the foundation of the world. So... And God had called them.
Now, when Nathanael came, he was also, as I heard the brother here speaking a few moments ago. That was proven. And Nathanael being a Scriptural man, he knew that that was the Messiah, what the Messiah would do. The woman at the well, as He referred to. How many more times? Zacchaeus up in the tree, hiding from Him. Stood right under the tree and said, "Zacchaeus come down; I'm going home with you for dinner." Blind Bartimaeus going down in the crowd... And them throwing stuff at Him and screaming and making fun of Him, yet his faith stopped Him, and not only stopped Him, but it healed the man. A woman touched the borders of His garment, and went off and set down, He said, "Somebody touched Me." And the apostle rebuked Him for saying such a word. He looked around over the audience till He found the woman and told her of her--of her blood issue and said her faith had saved her. See? It was perfect, the sign of the Messiah, and they refused to recognize it.

L-25 Now, my contentions is, is this on the Scripture, that He--He did those signs before both Jew and Samaritan but not to the Gentile, not once, because the Gentiles wasn't looking for no Messiah. But are we Gentile Christians tonight looking for a Messiah? He promised us in Luke; He said that when we seen the sign of Sodom, that's the way it would be at the coming of the Son of man. You remember that? How that Lot down there, the borderline believer down in Sodom, little church member, all messed up with the world and his theology all messed up; but there was a modern Billy Graham went down there and they preached the Gospel and brought Lot and them out.


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