<TITLE>16. Par 150-155</TITLE>L-150 But Isaiah prophesied and said that, "It would come to pass that He would send His Spirit, and It would be a crown of glory for the Church, and strength for him that stands in the gate." How would we know it was the Spirit? Said, "'Cause, with stammering lips and with other tongues will I speak to this people, and this is the rest and the refreshening."
But for all this, they wanted their organizations and their denominations. And they went on after their vomity tables, and world, and mixed, and pleasures of the things of the world. They're not borned again. They turn away from the Truths, and go to the things of the world, and make the Lord's house an abomination of filthiness, where they have dances and parties, and carry on; and women wearing undecent clothes and shorts, and cutting their hair, and using makeup, and all such stuff as that, as the Bible prophesied.
Isaiah said they would do that: Isaiah, the 5th and 6th chapter. Read It, how that he said that the women would do that in the last days. God's witnesses are true. They trusted in the vanities of the world, instead of the power of God to save them. Now, that was seventy-five years after Joel.

L-152 Thirty years after the birth of Jesus. I've got several other prophets wrote down here. But thirty years after the birth of Jesus, there was that prince amongst the prophets (Oh, my.) John the Baptist. All men knowed he was a prophet from God, the forerunner of coming of Christ, which is predicted again in the last days.
Jesus said, "What'd you go out to see, a reed shaken with any wind, any denomination turn him this way or that way? Not John." Said, "What'd you go to see, some dignitary with some kind of a psychiatrist with him, to keep his clothes just so-and-so, and tell him how he must dress?" And He said, "Them kind kisses the babies and stay in kings' palaces, and talks to public schools, and so forth; he's not a warrior; he's not out on the front line; he don't know how to handle a two-edged Sword. See, they are the kind that does that. But what did you go to see, a prophet?" He said, "Now, I say, more than a prophet."

L-155 Listen at this great prince, coming with a piece of sheepskin wrapped around him, living off the herbs of the woods (Hallelujah.): no theological seminary experience behind him; but a experience that he'd talked to God and was born for the purpose to do it. The Word spoke that he would come. Yes, sir. Walked out on the banks of Jordan with his feet in the mud, said, "Don't you think, you Pharisees that say, 'We have Abraham to our Father,' for I tell you, God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham."
That prince of the prophets, the one that had the privilege of introducing the Messiah; and saw the sign of the Messiah, and recognized it, as that Light fell from heaven and went upon Him, was a witness of it, what did he say about it? Here's his word, that prophet said as a witness.
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that come after me, who's mightier than I, his shoes I am not worthy to loose; he will baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.
 And his fan is in his hand, and he'll thoroughly purge his floor, and gather the wheat into the garner; but... burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.


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