<TITLE>04. Par 28-38</TITLE>L-28 When Christ came on earth, He came to His Own, and His Own received Him not. And those Jews were instructed by the Scriptures, of what kind of a character that the Messiah would be. And the Messiah was to be a prophet, according to their laws. Moses said, "The Lord your God shall raise a Prophet up, like me, and to Him the people shall cling; and if won't hear Him, they'll be cut off from the people."

L-29 See, the Scripture never leaves any age without a clear-cut identification, that we might know what hour we're living in.

L-30   Even in Saint Matthew 24, Jesus speaking of the end time, He said, "Now learn a parable of the fig tree."

L-31 And He said what would be the sign of the three questions. "What time will these not be one stone left upon the other, of the building? What is the sign of Your Coming, and the end of the world?" And He answered all three questions. Many times, people put them all three as one question, but they asked Him three questions. He answered them three questions. But He give, along there, a sign, because, the Jews seek after sign. And why do they seek signs? Is because they were bidden to do so. The Jew always believed in the supernatural.

L-32   Even under the law, that when there was a dreamer, or a prophet, that give a message that was a little bit misunderstanding, or they wasn't too sure of it, they had a way of finding out whether that message was right or not. They taken this dreamer, or the prophet, down to the temple where the--the Urim Thummim, it was the breastplate that hung, or was over Aaron's breast, that represented all of the tribes of Israel. And this prophet prophesied, or the--the dreamer told his dream.

L-33 And no matter how real it seemed, if that dream or that prophecy did not reflect a supernatural light, kind of a conglomeration like a rainbow across that, which was called the Urim Thummim, the message was turned down. The natural must answer by the supernatural, and the supernatural must answer by the natural. Therefore, in the Old Testament, the Urim Thummim was the test, whether the words were true or not. That was under the Levitical priesthood.

L-34 But God never left us without a Urim Thummim, because His Word tonight is the Urim Thummim. No matter how nice the message sounds, or how well the dream sounds, yet, if it doesn't flash across the Urim Thummim, God's Word, in my advice, leave it alone, because God doesn't testify. Because, this Book is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ.

L-35   Now, Jesus had come and had performed just exactly like the Scriptures said He would do.

L-36 And when the apostle Peter, as we spoke last evening, being instructed by his father, by the teachers, that there would be a rising of the Messiah, and that this Messiah would be a Prophet. Now for four hundred years, since Malachi, they had had no prophets. And here was a Man that when He walked up, not dressed any different, not like some well-renown priest or a clergyman, but just an ordinary man. And he wouldn't know this Messiah by how He dressed, but they would know Him by the--the Life that was in Him. And when Jesus looked at him and said, "Your name is Simon and you are the son of Jonas," then the apostle was ready to surrender, because that he knew that Jesus did not know him. Not only did He know him, but He knowed his father also, so he knew that was the sign of the Messiah.

L-37   We followed also Philip, to get Nathanael. Brought him over, which was a--a staunch man, great learned in the Scripture. We find that perhaps Philip instructed him, on the road over, what had happened. But when he come to Him, He called him, said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there is no guile."
He said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?"

L-38 Said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you."
And he said, "Rabbi, You are the Son of God, the King of Israel."


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