<TITLE>14. Par 130-138</TITLE>L-130 Eight centuries before it happened, Joel the son of Pethuel prophesied that He would come. Eight hundred years before it happened this great son of Pethuel, a prophet; considered a neurotic, off at his head, nervous, emotionally, mentally upset; prophesied, Joel 2:28, and said:
... it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I'll pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy...
... upon my handmaids and my maidservants will I pour out of my spirit, and they shall prophesy.
And I'll show wonders in the heavens above and in the earth below, signs, pillars of fire and smoke and vapor.
And it shall come to pass, before the great and terrible day of the LORD shall come, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved;
Eight hundred years before this great Witness come, the son of Pethuel testified of It, prophesied of It. What struck that little fellow?

L-132 Tell me what could tell a man, that was borned of a woman, of few days and full of trouble... That's what he is. Tell me what could stir his innermost being, that he could look through space and time, and see this great Witness coming to the church in the last days. Tell me what could do it. Nothing but an intelligent, supreme, great and almighty God. That's the only thing could do it. Strike a mortal, "A man that's borned of a woman, and full of trouble, and of a few days," as Job 14 said. "Cometh forth like a flower, is cut down; yea, he wasteth away, giveth up the spirit." But on that kind of a person, the Spirit, the intelligence of a great, mighty God can break all barriers and time, press down through there with His Spirit, and show a mortal what will come to pass. Hallelujah.
If that's not a testimony of the living God, what is one? That can tell it before it happens (Amen.), that can see it before it happens, and foretell it with intelligence and perfect accuracy that it happens just exactly the way he said it... If that isn't a testimony, what is one? What could speak more of a living God? Sure, He's a witness.

L-135 Prophesied that it would come to pass, "In the last days, that He'd pour out His Spirit upon all flesh."...
Seventy-five years after Joel prophesied. Isaiah, the son of Amoz, he prophesied concerning this great Witness that was to come to the Church.
What am I speaking of? A Witness, a true Witness, a real Witness, bring Him through nature, through the prophets, through the Bible. Now, we're getting Him, coming down into the day that He's to be given.
Seventy-five years, approximately seventy-five years after Joel prophesied, then Isaiah said, Amoz's son, the great prophet who gave the complete Bible from Genesis to Revelations in his sixty-six chapters (as a book has sixty-six books in it)... And he started off with creation in Genesis and ended up in the millennium. This great man, he foretold of the coming of the Holy Ghost.

L-138 Let's just go back and read. I got Isaiah 28:11. Let's just read for a moment and find out here what he said about the coming of the Holy Spirit. Isaiah the 28th chapter, let's begin at the 5th verse,
In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory...
He's speaking of this great day that when the Witness would come. What is our crown? The Holy Spirit crowns us.
... a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
The residue, the "people that's left over." He'll be a diadem, a crown of glory, a diadem of beauty. Think, this is seven hundred years before it happened.
... for a spirit of judgment to him that is sitting in judgment... (That's what He does to us at the altar.)
... for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate... (Let me see.)... that turn the battle to the gate.


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