<TITLE>23. Par 152-158</TITLE>L-152 Another thing, when Billy, my son, and I, and Brother Ern Baxter was on our road to Palestine, after we'd met the Jews at Brother Arganbright's, and they seen the meeting... Lewi Pethrus had sent these Bibles over there, and he said, "These Jews come, said, 'If you will call up a bunch of the leaders of Israel, I mean, not these new rabbis with all their ceremonies, but call the real Israelite leaders together... And we have read this New Testament, and we know that when the Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things, like the woman at Samaria. We know that Moses said our Messiah would be a prophet.' And when you can tell them, and show them by the Scripture that (which we will get in tonight's message) that they had to be darkened and their hearts cut off so that the Gentile space could come, that we'd have a time of reconciliation for the Gentiles, and their hearts were hardened just exactly like it was in the time of Joseph and so forth, and then bring those Jews to a place, and call those men from that audience just like you do these Gentiles here by that inspiration of the Spirit, 'cause they said, 'If this Jesus, if He is the Messiah and your words are true, then He is not dead, and He's alive. And if He's alive, He promised to be in His--the--His servants, His disciples. And if we can see Him do the sign of a prophet, then we will believe that He is Messiah...'" What a perfect thing, exactly right. Then what would that do? A nation would be borned in one day amongst the leaders. Every one of them would say, "We know it." When that rabbi says that, that settles it. A nation would be born in one day. Israel would be born in one day.

L-153 And I was on my road and stood at Cairo, Egypt, with the ticket in my hand, and fifteen or twenty minutes of calling time. They was fixing to make the call. And I walked down to see a little piece of this ebony with--a little elephant made out of ebony with a--a ivory tusk. I was going to send it to a doctor friend of mine, Dr. Sam Adair, for a paper weight. And I was looking at it, and something said to me, "This is not yet the hour. Stay out of Palestine." So I thought, "That was just me thinking that." And I went on.
Something said, "This is not the hour."
And I went out behind the hangar; I raised up my head to God; I said, "God, was that You speaking to me?"
He said, "This is not the hour. Stay out of Palestine. This is not the time." Then I took my ticket, and changed it, and went from there up through Rome, and come back to Lisbon in the Portuguese, and from there back to the United States.

L-157 The hour was not yet. The iniquity of the Gentiles hasn't filled up yet, just to the end of the cup, but someday that'll be. And God will send somebody there that's a prophet, and will prove to them... I trust that God will raise him up right away, whoever he may be, that'll raise him quickly. I believe it has to come. That's what we're studying this for. That we're so close...

L-158 And remember, the very minute that the Jews receive Christ, the Gentile Church is gone. Then the Gentiles has the plagues poured out upon them, the tribulation.
And--and how can men, great teachers, teach, and looking at this Bible like this, and say that the Church goes through the tribulation period when there's not a Scripture in the Bible that says it. They haven't got one thing.


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