<TITLE>20. Par 221-236</TITLE>L-221 And about three months from then, I was in a meeting. And here she stood, just as perfectly normal as any woman in the country; and invited any sister there to go with her into a room, and undress and see if she had had an operation or not.

L-222 Why? She was persistent. She was determined to get what she come for. That's the way it is. Yes, sir. Their faith had a hold of the Word.

L-223   Micaiah, one time, when he was called in. When Jehoshaphat made an alliance with Ahab, that's when the believer and the unbeliever mixes up. And he said they wanted to go have war; they was going up to a place, to take their own ground. Fundamentally, it belonged to them. Said, "Why should these Assyrians be eating corn that belongs to Israel? Joshua give us that!" That's exactly right. So they went and had a big school of preachers down there, a whole seminary; five, four or five hundred of them, well-trained Hebrew men.

L-224   And so Jehoshaphat said, being a righteous man, he said, "But shouldn't we consult the Lord?"

L-225 He said, "Oh, yes, maybe that's so." Ahab, you know what a fellow he was, so he goes down. And said, "I've got the answer, I've got four hundred prophets. We'll bring them up here."

L-226 So they got down there, and one of them, Zedekiah, I believe it was, made hisself two big horns and went up there, saying, "THUS SAITH THE LORD. Go up, it belongs to you. THUS SAITH THE LORD, you will push them Assyrians plum out of the country, with these horns."

L-227 Jehoshaphat looked around, you know, and he--he said, "Haven't you got another one?"

L-228 "Another one? When four hundred trained Hebrew prophets from the school, what do you need with another one? We've got four hundred! The whole seminary is here, and all of them with one accord, saying, 'Go up, the Lord is with you. THUS SAITH THE LORD.'"
Jehoshaphat said, "Well, haven't you got another one?"

L-229 He said, "Oh, I got another one I might consult," said, "that's Micaiah the son of Imlah, but," said, "I hate him." Oh, sure. Yeah. Said, "Well, he don't even agree with these denominations and things." Said, "We--we, well, you have to. There, there is a strange fellow," they said.
"Oh," he said, "don't let the king say so. Go get him."

L-230   So they sent one of the fellows down, said, "Now, Micaiah, you know you're put out of the association, you don't have fellowship with them no more. But now if you will just say, the same thing they do, they might give you your fellowship card back, when you come back again." Could you imagine talking to a prophet like that?

L-231 Micaiah said, "As the Lord God lives, I'll only say what He says." Now there you are. Amen. That's it.
"Well, you know what they could do for you?"

L-232 "That doesn't matter. I'll only say what He says." He went back to him, he said, "Now you let me have tonight, and I'll see what the Lord said."

L-233 He come back the next morning, and he said, "Go on up. Yes, sir. Go on up. But I seen Israel, like sheep scattered, having no shepherd."

L-234   Then this Zedekiah comes up, and takes his hand and smacks him right in the mouth, "that little holy-roller," set him down and said, "Which way did the Spirit of God go when it went out of me?"
He said, "You'll see."
So he said, "What about it?"

L-235 Said, "I saw a vision last night. I saw God sitting up on a high place, and in This, His great high Throne." And said, "He, all of them was around Him. They had a council, 'Who can we get to go down and to deceive Ahab, to get him up there to fulfill what the prophet Elijah had said? What can I do about this?'" And said, "A lying spirit come up, and said, 'I'll go down and get in those prophets, and cause them to make a lie.' And the Lord said, 'You're the one that can do it, 'cause they were seminarially trained, you know.' Said, 'You go do it. That's all you can do.'" Went down there, and he did it!

L-236   Now you say, "Well, who would know what was right?" Micaiah was with the Word!


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