<TITLE>21. Par 241-249</TITLE>L-241   What do we need? We need to get back on the course, get back to the charter. What do we need? We need a genuine, true Scriptural sign of the Truth. A vindicated Gospel Truth is what the Church needs for this end-time way. God promised to give them a sign for this last day.

L-242   Do you remember when Jesus was speaking and said, "The queen of the south shall rise up in the last day, will rise up and condemn this generation"? She come from the utmost parts of the world, to hear the wisdom of Solomon. He had a spirit of discernment. How she come so far, to see that spirit of discernment! He said, "A greater than Solomon is here."

L-243   He said, also, "As in the... like the prophet Jonah. Jonah, as he was in the belly of the whale for three days and nights, so must the Son of man be in the heart of the earth, three days and nights." And He said, "A wicked and adulterous generation will seek after a sign." If this ain't that sign, or that generation, I don't know where it's at: a weak, wicked, church-going, adulterous generation. They would seek after a sign, and He said they would get it. "For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days, so would the Son of man be in the heart of the earth." But there would be a resurrection, like Jonah come out of the belly of the whale.

L-244   Malachi, the 4th chapter, promised us that in the last days, that, "There would come forth the Message that would turn the hearts of the children back to the Faith of the fathers, the original Faith of the fathers." They promised it. Jesus promised it. Faith of the end-time believers will see the original Messiahic sign. Notice. If He is raised from the dead... And creeds has put Him out, all these years, and denied that Truth. Then the thing that we've got to look for, in the last days, is a turning back to the--the original Faith, back to the Faith of the early pentecostal fathers.

L-245   And they seen His resurrection. And today we are seeing His resurrection, the sign of His resurrection. Jonah, three days and nights was in the belly of the whale, and on the third day he arose from the whale. Jesus raised from the dead, after being three days in its belly. Two thousand years He's been absent from the church. But He promised, through Joel, "What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten. But I will restore, saith the Lord, all that the palmerworm, and the caterpillar, and the locust, and so forth, eat up. I will restore it in the last days."

L-246 The prophet said, "It shall be Light in the evening time." The same sun shines in the east shines in the west. It's been a day, a dark day. They've joined, and put creeds and things. But in the evening time it shall be Light: the same sun, the same results, the same signs, the same wonders, the evening time.

L-247   How did He prove Hisself to be Messiah? Now, the question is, after two thousand years of hammering against it, is He still Messiah? Well, what He was then, Hebrews 13:8 said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." What He was then, He has to be the same today. How did He prove Himself to be the Messiah? According to the Word of God. "For God had said," through Moses, "the Lord your God shall raise up a prophet likened unto me."

L-248 That's the reason the woman at the well, when He told her her sins, "Why," she said, "Sir, I perceive You're a prophet. We know when Messiah cometh He will tell us these things."
He said, "I'm He, that speaks to you."

L-249 She run quickly and told the people in the city. "Come, see a Man Who told me what I done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" And the people believed it, because they were looking for that Messiahic sign, four hundred years without a prophet.


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