<TITLE>15. Par 148-157</TITLE>L-148   We, like the prophet, seen come out of self-exaltation, the denominations. We see exactly today, in the church, what's happened, like Isaiah saw. He saw a man yet being honored of God, but we saw him, he saw him exalt hisself and was stricken with leprosy. We today, we see the same thing, of self-exalted denominations, "We're the biggest one of the bunch. We got more members than the rest of them." Self-exaltation, see the leprosy of unbelief strike them, and they are cast out.

L-149 Then we ought to have looked for a vision from Heaven, that will show us Jesus Christ among us, His promised Word that He would do it, yes, sir, influenced not by some man-made system, but influenced by God Himself.

L-150   We find them, like Uzziah, lose their hold on the Word, because they've exchanged It for creeds, trying to make themself like Uzziah of old, try to take the place of the anointed office behind the platform, and reject the true Word of God. They have no more business back there than Uzziah did in that, by that altar, with the incense. A man that claims to be a Christian, and will deny the facts of the Word, has no more business in the pulpit than what Uzziah had with that--with that censer. A man that claimed to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, and blessed of God, and will stand up and deny that Bible and the Truth of It, has swapped It for a creed or something, he is just as full of leprosy of sin and unbelief as Uzziah was.

L-151   He was put off from the office, but they try to fulfill that office by intellectual. "I'm Doctor Ph.D., LL.D. So-and-so." See, they try to take that and assert education for the anointing of the Holy Ghost. You see, therefore, a man can take that Bible, and some big institution can explain it and take it apart, and lay it out here and fix it up to make it look pretty good to you. That's intellectual. That is because he studied and studied, of these angles and things, how to put it together.

L-152 But let me tell you something. When God comes down into His Word, He don't only put it together, He manifests It out there and makes It alive, and vindicates It and proves It, that it is the Truth. That's the truth of the Word. That's when God Hisself says.

L-153   The vision affected the prophet. Oh, the effects the vision had on him! It caused this prophet...

L-154 Now, remember, he had been looking at a man. But when he saw something real... He had watched a man's holy life, he watched him fail, he seen him take leprosy and die. You're looking at the same thing in your denominations. You see where every one of them are gone?

L-155 Now this great ecumenical move. If a church isn't in this ecumenical move, in a time of--of an emergency, that church cannot be used as a church. "And no minister can minister to anybody, he'll be put to death by doing so. If he ministers any blessing to the people outside, he is with the ecumenical move." That's exactly in the writings today, by the Lutheran; I forget his name. See, that's right. "Your church cannot be worshiped in; it'll be made a storeroom." See the mark of the beast already coming in effect, and we're looking at it. The time, oh, it ought to put the church in action. Certainly, it ought to.

L-156 Watch the effects of the vision now, what it did to the prophet. It caused him... after watching that man, and see it fail. He saw God angry with the man, and withdrawed from him, and smote him with leprosy.

L-157   Then he went down to the temple, to say, "Lord God, I know You are God. And I've been looking at the wrong thing." And then God showed him a vision. And not only a vision, but the vision was vindicated; because, in their midst was the Seraphims flying back and forth, and even Their voice rocked the building when it come together, the posts of it.


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