<TITLE>25. Par 257-272</TITLE>L-257 And then, when He did, He set down and begin to strictly tell the people. The people turned away. And the seventy said, "Uh! Who can hear This? That's a hard saying. You tear down what we really thought was something else. Now, who are You to tell us these things?" And they walked away.

L-258 Then Jesus turned to His little group, like in the days of Noah, like in the days of Sodom, said, "You want to go, too?"

L-259 Then Peter said those great words, "Lord, where would we go?" (God, help us.)

L-260   Notice when the Message is rejected and the messenger seems to be defeated, that's when God steps on the scene, his Message is over.

L-261 Noah, (closing now), Noah preached in the door of his ark for a hundred and twenty years, till, when finally they laughed him to scorn, Noah stepped in the ark thinking that the... it would just be all right. God closed the door. And the people hung around to see what was going to happen. Seven days he set there and sweated it out, and on the seventh day the rain come. Uh-huh.

L-262 Moses, what was he in? The very line of duty, leading the people. The Red Sea got in his way. He was at the end of his road. It was then that God came with the East wind and parted the sea, at the end of the road.

L-263   It was Daniel, standing on his message, "I'll not defile myself with this king's world." Standing true to God, was right down at the end of his road, seemed like the end of his time had come, they throwed him in the lions' den. God stepped on the scene.

L-264 And one morning, way down in Babylon... Amen! I can look up at Heaven, I can see a--a Throne, Angels standing around. Look down here in Babylon, I can see a--a burning furnace. I can see three children standing there, saying, "Our God is able to deliver us." See? "But we're not bowing to your image, because it's contrary to the Word." See? "We're standing here."

L-265   "All right," said the king, "walk up the steps, you're going to be burned." Great husky man, on the end of this spear, here they come up the steps, step by step, hotter and hotter.

L-266 I can see an Angel standing on the on the side of the Throne, grabbed a sword and pulled it out, said, "Father, look down there, what's going on! Let me go down, I'm Gabriel, I'll change the scene."

L-267 "Put your sword back in the sheath, Gabriel. I've watched it."

L-268 Here comes another up, said, "Father, I'm Wormwood, I'm the destroyer with the water. In the antediluvian time, man sinned and mistreated Your people, and I--I turned the whole world into a globe of water. I'll wash Babylon off the map this morning. Let me go."

L-269 "I know you could, Wormwood, you're a faithful Angel. See? But, I can't let you go, this is My job. I'm going, Myself."
"Here, you seen them?"

L-270 "I've watched them all night. I heard their prayer meeting. I seen their stand for My Word. I'll be there on time." Oh, my! I can see Him raise up and His kingly garments fall around Him, like that, and say, "Come here, East wind, North, South, West. Step over under that thunderhead yonder, I'm going to ride you as a chariot this morning. I'm going down into Babylon, I'm going to change the scene." Oh, brother, He was right there on time!

L-271 His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me. He's still watching tonight, watching me, He's watching you. He's watched whether we'll stand or not stand, what decisions we will make, whether we'll stand true to the Word or get away from It. It's later than you think.

L-272   Jacob, on his road home, inspired to go back home, his brother was meeting him. Oh, but one night he wrestled with God. He was scared to meet his brother, but the next morning he was a fearless, limping prince. "I don't need Esau nor his army, neither one," God stepped on the scene. See, He does in peculiar way.


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