<TITLE>10. Par 86-96</TITLE>L-86   Now it might come the same way today, again, you see. Wouldn't it be too bad if it would? "And we've got it all drawed out, and we've had so much schooling till we put a chart and tell you almost the hour He is coming, and we tell you whether He's going to be riding on a white horse or in a cloud. We know just how it's going to be." And it might be altogether different when He comes. Yeah. He did. You know, those things are so treacherous when it comes to trying to saying, "This is that." Just--just the way the Scripture is written, that's it.

L-87   Did you notice, one time, I made a statement like this. One time the disciples said to Jesus, in... I believe in Saint Matthew 6:11... or 11:6, I believe it is, pardon me, 11:6, I think it is, that the disciples of John came to Jesus and--and wanted to know that if He really was the One. Now John (had been) introduced Him, and was laying in the prison. And now Jesus said, "Just stay until the service is over, then go back and show John what you saw." Now He never give him a book on how to behave himself in jail, or something like that, or some intellectual speech. He said, "You just stay around till the meeting is over, then go show John what you saw." And as they went, Jesus watched them as they crossed the hill.

L-88   He said, "What did you go out to see when you went to see John? Did you go to see a man dressed in fine soft clothes, and turned collars, and, you know, and so forth?" Said, "That's of kings' palaces. They kiss the babies and bury the dead, and so forth." Said, "But what did you go to see? A man shaken with the--the wind, like a reed?"

L-89 No, not John. You can't tell him, "I'll give you so much if you leave this church and come over here to this one." Not John. He wasn't shaken around, by organizations and things. Not John.

L-90 He said, "What did you go to see? A prophet?" And He said, "I say unto you, and more than a prophet." But he was more than a prophet because he was the--the... he was the--the--the--the arch between the law and grace. He was the messenger of the covenant of that day, a great man.

L-91   And we find out that as He was talking, speaking about John and about what a great person he was, He said, "If you can receive it, this is he who the prophet spoke of, 'I'll send My messenger before My face.'" See?

L-92 And they said, "Well, then, why does Elias say..." One time when He was speaking on it. Said, "Why did Elias say that, that the first thing was..." Or, "Why did the scribes say," pardon me, "that Elias must first come?"

L-93 And He said, "Elias has already come and you didn't know it." See? See? Those trained man watching for that forerunner of Jesus to come, trained in every way of the Bible, scribes who wrote the Bible and knowed It from A to Z, backwards, forwards. Lecturers, my, they were real men, they knowed the Scriptures inside and out, every Word, but yet failed to see that John was the Elias. Even His disciples never saw it.

L-94   Now wouldn't it be too bad, one of these days, if we see the judgment strike the earth, and we say, "Well, why is it? The Rapture is supposed to come."

L-95 And He would say, "Why, it's already come and you didn't know it." See? See? In a moment, in a twinkle of an eye, when no one is thinking about it, and it'll be stoled away. You'll never know when it leaves. I tell you, it pays us to be ready, say, and be ready for this hour.

L-96   Now let's take and see what He was. We find, as soon as He was baptized, God come upon Him, in the form of a dove, and He went into the wilderness for forty days of temptation. And there He defeated Satan, on the Word, first. He defeated Satan, on the Word.


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