<TITLE>19. Par 80-82</TITLE>L-80 Let's think of another one. One hot summer morning, coming down the Samaritan road, his face all wrinkled, his little teeny eyes looking up towards the sky, staff in his hand, his bare feet on the ground, old piece of sheepskin around him (looked like a fuzzy worm coming out there), and his bald head shining, stick in his hand... Brother, his steps was just like a young man coming down the road, a Samaritan road. He didn't stammer when he got before Ahab. He'd been preaching to them for a long time about their cursed way.
They was having these, maybe, water-head haircuts in them days, after the first lady, you know. He'd had enough of Jezebel and all of her carrying on. Oh, how he laid it onto them. God vindicated him to show that he was God's prophet. Yes, sir. But they wanted to be like the first lady, you know. It repeats so often, you know.

L-81 This nation's a whole lot like Israel. God gave them a land. They come over and run the occupants out. And for the first they had Solomon, they had David, fine kings. And there come a--a Ahab in a wishy-washy (I don't know) puppet (That's right.), with Jezebel, the neck of the Kingdom, guiding him.
And we did the same thing: come over and run the Israelites, or run the--not the--the Indians out, pushed them out and starving them to death (That's right.), took their land. We had a Washington and a Lincoln, but I wonder now. We got something up there now with the old Jezebel system behind it. Just exactly like they had. God will send us... He promised in the last days, according to Malachi 4, He'd raise up somebody (That's right.), wouldn't spare not. That's right.
And when he'd done worked all of his signs and wonders... Brother, I mean, he had THUS SAITH THE LORD, walked right down to the capital, and said, "The... Not even dew will fall from heaven till I call for it," stomped right back out of the way. Why? He had THUS SAITH THE LORD. It was a sign. There was a drought on. Death was in the land.

L-82 I think this time it's going to be spiritual death to--to some of Jezebel's children. Yes, sir. Spiritual death, dry up... I could say something, but I just better leave it alone, 'cause I believe there's a tor--tape recorder out there playing this. Now. Oh, my, the day that we're living in... Yes, sir.
After his God-given ministry, the true Word of God with true signs and wonders had been rejected, what could the man do? Bawled them out. Jezebel hated him, and all of her modern first ladies hated him. They didn't like him. Certainly not. They thought he was a horrible thing. But he was their pastor just the same. He was. Oh, yes, Pastor Elijah, oh, she wouldn't claim him, but he was a God-sent pastor, God's pastor to her. He didn't spare her. He poured out the Word.
And they rejected him, and thought he was a idiot, and--and turned him away. None of the organizations would have him. They kicked him out. That didn't stop the Word: went right on just the same. So way up there he waited till he had THUS SAITH THE LORD for Ahab, and he come told him. And when he did, the famine hit the land. That's right. And you know what taken place. Sure. That was Elijah before the drought.


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