<TITLE>17. Par 141-148</TITLE>L-141 But let them all break down those prejudice and get together and say, "We will forget all these here creeds, and catechisms, and everything we're reading from; let us come back to the Word of the Lord." Watch what will take place then. God will raise them up a prophet (He sure will.) that will bring it right down to them if they're ready to receive it. First they have to pray. God waits.
Isn't it strange that God wants the people to have part into it? When Jesus looked out upon the harvest, He said, "The harvest is ripe; the laborers are few. You pray the Lord of the harvest (That was Him.)--you pray to Me, that I will send laborers into My harvest." It's some part you have to do. God's waiting for His church to call on Him. He's always did it. God is waiting today for the people to call His servant into action. And the servant can't get into action till the people prays.
Israel could not get into action down there with signs and wonders until they fell on their face and prayed for a deliverer. God had His deliverer. God had a prophet hanging up there in the wilderness, kept him there for forty years waiting for them to get right to pray. But when they got right and started praying, then God sent the deliverer. God will do the same thing today, if the people will just get together, get to praying. All right.
He was a sign to those false prophets and to Ahab that he was the servant of God. He was a prophet of God. Then he also was a sign to Israel that he could close the heavens or open the heavens when he desired to. He sure was. Tell me one can close the heavens. Show me one that can open the heavens outside of God. And the Word of the God--or the Word of God is with the prophets.

L-145 Micaiah, a sign to Jehoshaphat... Micaiah was a sign to Jehoshaphat that God keeps a true prophet on hand.
Now, notice. He had four hundred prophets; Ahab did. And he called out those four hundred prophets. And with one accord they told him... And yet, down in that Jehoshaphat's heart, a man of God, he knew there was something wrong. He knew there was something wrong. He said, "Haven't you got one more?" After four hundred standing there?
He said, "These are all prophets, Jehovah's prophets. There's the--the Methodists, the Baptists, the Presbyterian, the Unitarian, and oh, my, my, trinitarians and all different kind. We got them all here. And with one accord they say this is the greatest nation there is. We have nothing to fear about," like a little boy whistling in the graveyard, you know, when he's scared. Don't you worry about that.
Said, "But haven't you got one more?"
He said, "Oh, yes, there's another one here," but said, "I hate him." (See?) He said, "He's always telling evil about this country. He's always saying something evil's going to happen to us."

L-148 Jehoshaphat said, "I'd--I'd like to hear him." Oh, yes. What was he? A sign. Regardless of how many organizations or denominations, God's still got a prophet that stays with the Word.
Jehoshaphat knew that Ahab was doomed, because that real prophet Elijah, had been a sign to the nations, said, "The dogs will lick your blood."...?... That's right. He knowed that Jezebel and him had it coming to them. He know it did. See?


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