<TITLE>20. Par 146-152</TITLE>L-146 And if Jonah, under those circumstances, could have that much faith in God, what about you? There's none of you here in that bad of circumstances. Now, how much more, look to a temple where a man finally backslid, Saul, who prayed the prayer, but was God's dedication when the Holy Spirit witnessed it by a Pillar of Fire to come in and go down in behind... The same Pillar of Fire that you have the picture with you today, moving among us, doing the same signs and wonders... What's the matter? Listen quietly. Listen. How could we, when we look not to a earthly temple, or some organization or some denomination, but to the right hand of God, where Jesus sets there with His--His own Bloody garments, amen, His own Blood before the Father, to make intercessions upon your confessions. Amen. Hebrews 3, said that He--He is a High Priest, ever living to make intercessions (Oh, my.) before the Father this morning: a High Priest. If Jonah could look out, refuse to see the whale's belly, how much more can we fail to see the little ache and the little pain, or the little whatever we got. I look towards Your holy promise, Lord. You can't hide a saint from His prayer; that's all there is to it. Sure, oh, he was...
I got to hurry up, my friends, I'm going to be too late again. Let's a few more little text here.

L-148 John, he was so sure, 'cause God told him. You know, now his father was a priest, you know, but strange, he didn't go down to be a priest; he went to the wilderness. He didn't want to get mixed up in man's theory. He went to the wilderness to find out, at the age of nine. His father and mother being old, knowed they'd never see their prophet son ever come into power in that day.
And remember, that same Spirit is promised us in this last day: Elijah.
Remember, Jesus never referred to that when He said--He spoke of John the Baptist. If you notice, "I send My messenger before My face," Matthew 3. 'Cause if you don't, you got a contradiction in the Scripture.

L-151 He said, "Before this day comes, of the great and terrible day of the Lord shall come to burn the earth with fire..." The earth wasn't burnt with fire back in them days. The world would be burnt with fire after this coming. He would send the Elijah to straighten the things up and bring the people back to reconciliation. And what this Elijah, the first one come, would restore, would bring the faith of the fathers to the children, but the one in the last days would restore them back to the faith of the fathers. See? See, back to the original Pentecostal fathers, the right message, the beginning. Elijah, "God, send him," is my prayer. "Send him, O Lord, send him quickly." We'll pray for him, that he'll appear on the scene.
And God always has His representative somewhere in the earth. He's never been without a witness somewhere, always got a witness standing true. And I believe he's... I believe that we're shadowing the coming of the Lord right now: time for the power of God to rise again in a form of a prophet of Elijah, and send down here and straighten the people, and bring them, that little group. As it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Lot, so will it be, just in the minority, the Church will be.

L-152 All right, we find John didn't go down to get his ecclesiastical training, but he went to the wilderness to get an experience. When he come back out, he talked wilderness: "Generation of vipers," snakes he found in the wilderness. "Axe is laid to the root of the tree." His sermons was based upon such as that. But watch, they come around, he said, "There's One standing among you now that you don't know." He knew what he was talking about.
"Are you the Messiah?"
He said, "No."
"Are you that Prophet, that Messiah-Prophet was to raise up?"
"I am not," he said, "but He's standing among you now."


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