<TITLE>12. Par 46-50</TITLE>L-46 Many of you know Lewi Pethrus, a very personal friend of mine. He sent about a million New Testaments down, when they brought up those Jews from down in Iran, giving them these New Testaments. You know the Jewish Testament, you read from the back to the front. And these Jews reading this, they never heard about such a thing as Jesus being Messiah.
They'd been taken down there in the Roman captivity. They'd plow with... You've seen it in the "Look Magazine" here a few years ago, and when they returned back. And I got a picture of it, them returning in. Wish we had time we could throw it on a screen some night, and show you. Call it... We call it "Three Minutes Till Midnight"--see these Jews returning, packing their loved ones on their backs, off of planes, and so forth. They're saying. They said, "Are you coming home to the homeland to die?"
He said, "We're coming to see the Messiah."

L-47 My, when that fig tree puts forth its buds, there she is: a nation with her own money and everything else--currency, own army, and everything, the first time for twenty-five hundred years. See? Jesus said, "When you see it putting them buds forth." Now, we're at the end time.
Notice. Now, they was... When they went to get on those planes, they wouldn't; they was afraid of those planes. So the rabbi called them out and said, "Remember, our prophet said we'd be taken home on the wings of an eagle." That was it--the plane. So they come on. And there they are, setting in their homeland today. They believed their prophets.

L-48 Now, therefore, when Messiah was to come He was to be a God-prophet. He was to be a prophet-plus, more than a prophet. But He was to do the works of the prophet.
Lewi Pethrus, when he sent those Bibles down there, they said, "If this Jesus was Messiah, then He is not dead, you say, but He's raised again. Let us see Him do the sign of the prophet, and we'll believe it." Oh, my.
When that happens, Gentiles are finished. And you know that. All you Bible readers know that. That's the end time right then when... Just let them Jews get it again, so... Just a perfect thing for just a little time off now. While we've got the doors open, God has the--the Gentiles receive the rest that's coming in, to come--doors of mercy.

L-49 Now, let's see what He was. We find Him then being the Word, baptized, went into the wilderness, come out after tempted forty days of the devil. And immediately He--He begin... His fame begin to spread. Yet, He... I guess He wasn't a--a minister that would be--hear His voice like ours out in the streets, and so forth. But there was something about Him that was different.
And we notice, as soon as He got His ministry started, there was one named Andrew (Saint John here), one... I'm staying right in Saint John for the rest of my notes for just now. One named Andrew stayed all night with Him, and was thoroughly convinced that He was the Messiah. He goes over to Simon. Now, if any... That's his brother.

L-50 If anyone ever read the history of Peter and--and Andrew, as we know them, their father was a great believer. He told those boys, "Someday... I've--I've always thought I would see the Messiah. Every Jew has longed for that since Eden. And so they said, 'We have... We... Someday the Messiah will come.' I thought I would see Him, but perhaps I'm getting old and won't. But, boys, just before that coming Messiah, remember there'll be a whole lot of things that'll come up."
There's always messiahs coming. We know that, everywhere, still having them everywhere, messiahs. Well, if all the false messiahs come up, it shows there's got to be a true Messiah somewhere. Before there can be a bogus dollar, there has to be a good one for it to be made off of. That's the reason it's bogus.


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