<TITLE>10. Par 98-108</TITLE>L-98 Now, Israel was always taught to only believe the prophets. You Bible teachers know that. And a prophet could only be identified, a prophet, that when he prophesied and the thing he said come to pass. The Bible said, "If there be one among you, who is spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will speak to him, make Myself known to him, in visions and dreams. And what he says comes to pass, then hear him. But if it doesn't come to pass, don't fear him." That same, that's what He told Moses to tell the people, and that was their Scripture identification that the Messiah would be the prophet.

L-99   Now anyone knows that the Word of the Lord comes to the prophet; not to the priest, but to the prophet. The Bible said so. The Word of the Lord came unto the prophet. And we know, if it's the Word of the Lord, and the prophet is true, then his words are true, then his words comes to pass. And that's his credentials, that, first, it's the Word. And, first, God is the Word. And then if he speaks a word, and it happens, then that shows that God has Divinely set that man.

L-100 Now then with that in mind, they might have raised up all kinds of sensations and everything else in the world, them Bible students would have never believed it, because the Messiah had to be a prophet. And they hadn't had a prophet for four hundred years. Malachi was the last prophet. No prophet.

L-101   And here comes Simon, with such teaching as that, into the presence of a Man that his brother firmly believed that He was the Messiah. And as soon as he walks into His Presence, not only did He know who he was, He knowed that godly old father, Jonas. No wonder it took the starch out of him. He knowed that was the true identification of the Messiah. "Thy, your name is Simon, you are the son of Jonas."

L-102 And a man that was so illiterate that he could not even sign his own name, we are told; the Bible said, in the Book of the Acts of the apostles, the 3rd chapter, that, "he was both ignorant and unlearned." But it pleased God to make him the head of the church at Jerusalem, and give him the keys to the Kingdom. Cause, when that predestinated seed laying there in that old fisherman, and when the Light struck it, quickly it recognized that that was the Messiah.

L-103   Now that proved there, that that man knowed, it proved that that seed had been laying there. His name was on the Lamb's Book of Life since the foundation of the world, when the Lamb was slain in God's Own thinking. And as soon as the Light struck it, quickly it come to life and recognized it to be the Messiah.

L-104 There was one standing there by the name of Philip, and he saw this, quickly comes to his mind. "That's truly Him, for I know the Scriptures. That Man never seen that man before, and how would He know who he was? That's the Prophet."

L-105 He took out after a friend that he had been having Bible studies with, since a boy. His name was Nathanael. It's fifteen miles from where they were preaching, around the mountain, to where Nathanael owned a olive grove. I can imagine Philip on his road, jumping and shouting. He had found something that was real.

L-106   Oh, how It should start our hearts, around the hillsides, across the prairies, down through the fields, down the alley, across the street, over across the nation, somewhere.

L-107 He found something. And he had a friend. Bible studies, before, had proved that this Scriptural Messiah would be the Prophet. No prophets for four hundred years.

L-108 When he comes into the place, he finds Nathanael out under a tree, praying. And perhaps he stopped just a few moments, to wait, as a Christian gentleman, to wait till he finished his prayer. And when he got up, perhaps was dusting the dust from his robe, Philip quickly might have said, "Nathanael!"
And he come around, said, "Philip, my colleague, I'm glad to see you!"


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