<TITLE>06. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 But you that wants to look in the Scripture, if you'll get into I Kings, the 22nd chapter, the 14th verse, that one verse for a little text to make the context from, if the Lord helps us to speak just a few moments.
 And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto me, that I will speak.
Now, we got a great story here ahead of us, but not time to approach it in the right way. And tomorrow night, if I can, the Lord willing, or one night, I'd like to go back into the Old Testament here and pick up an article on prophets and bring them out, if He's willing. Then it seems like He's been dealing me--with me to take Thursday and Friday night and preach "The Mark of the Beast" and "The Seal of God," and it's a timely thing I think the church should know.

L-20 And now, in this we find that there was a king in Israel at this time by the name of Ahab. He was king of Israel, and at this same time Jehoshaphat was king of Judah. And Jehoshaphat was a righteous man, a God-fearing man. And his father, Asa, before him, was a God-fearing man. But we find that Ahab was kind of what we call a borderline believer, a just a fellow that kinda went... Any way the winds blowed, why, it took Ahab.
And he had a wife by the name of Jezebel, and he'd married this girl only to strengthen his kingdom. And she was an idolater, and she'd got Israel all tore up. And the--the preachers had all went... What was real good preachers had went lukewarm. And--and they had just about all of them went back. But there was on old man they couldn't turn. That was Elijah. He wasn't fooling him; so he--he stayed right with that Word. And so he'd prophesied about what would happen to Ahab.

L-21 So then one day Jehoshaphat was called down to visit this king of Israel, which, they were just like brethren. Methodist, and Baptist, and Presbyterian, Pentecostals, they were brothers. They was all the same race and same, supposedly servingly the same God. And Ahab was... Still he was a believer, a lukewarm, borderline believer. But his wife was... He was the head of the house, but she must have been the neck that turned the head, you know, so whatever she said... She was the system.
And, brother, let me say this with respect to some of you good square-backed Democrats: that's what we got now. He may be all right, but there's a system behind there that turns the head. And we've done the same thing just... We'll get to that later on.
So, however, this woman, she just run him. Whatever she wanted, she just got with him and made him do it, wrapped around his finger. And she run the throne. She was the power behind the throne.

L-22 And so Jehoshaphat was invited down to visit Ahab, and Ahab showed him all the finery that Israel had. Now, that's when a believer can get on the wrong company. When Jehoshaphat went down to fellowship with Ahab he got in the wrong pew. Now, there's so many times that people can do that with good intentions. People don't mean to do wrong. I believe there's many people tonight that's in sin that really doesn't want to do it.
Some time ago a beautiful young girl in a psychopathic room... And they had and emergency room, and I went back there... As pretty a woman as I ever seen... I looked around at some of them in the straitjackets. And she said, "Would you take me first, Brother Branham?"
I thought, "Take first? You're not one of the patients." But she was.


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