<TITLE>07. Par 49-59</TITLE>L-49   One day he looked, coming down from Heaven... And he saw a--a Light, like a dove coming down from Heaven. And the One It lit upon, he said, "I bare record that this is the Son of God." He saw It. "For He, in the wilderness, told me, 'Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remaining on, that's the One that will baptize with the Holy Ghost and Fire.'"

L-50 He was a man sent from God, trained by God, and worked for God, till God and he became... He was the prophet, and the Word came to him, as I said the other night, in the water. He was the Word for the... of God, for the time of the prophecy of Malachi. Malachi said there would be such a person, and John came on the scene, a prophet, to fulfill the Word of the Lord, for that day. So, it, he was the sign to Israel, if they'd have only knowed the sign.

L-51 Even the disciples said, "Why is it the scribes say that the prophet must, Elijah must come first?"
He said, "He has already come, and you didn't know him."

L-52 God does it in such a simple way, just to pick up that elected seed, until the others never see it. That's the truth.

L-53   How many wise man were in Babylon, studying astronomy, when these three wise men knew that when, though, in that solar system, when them three stars lined up, it was a sign the Messiah was on the earth? They knew it. They believed it. And they was the one who saw the stars. The rest of them didn't see them. They were in their right constellation, but they saw them in the way that God had presented them to them.

L-54 That's the way the Gospel is today. It can only be seen in the way that God presents it to you. And if it's presented to you outside of the continuity of the Bible, then it's not God telling you that. Amen. You can't make the Bible lie. It's the infallible Word of God. And it has to agree with the continuity of His, rest of His Word. It just can't say this one place, and this something else; and do this over, hit, scatter. He hits the target every time, the Word does, so you have to make it in the continuity of the rest of the Word. Therefore, His way has always been, in the Word, to send a prophet before that time, before He makes His Word vindicated.

L-55   Now we might speak here, just a minute, what is a prophet. Now in the English terms, according to the English terms of it, it means a "preacher." Well, that's the English terms. But in the Hebrew terms, it's called "seer."

L-56 And a seer was the one who had the interpretation of the written Word, and he foresaw things that was to come. And when he spoke of the things that was to come, and proved that he was a seer, then he knowed. They knowed he had the right interpretation of the Scripture, because God, through him, manifested the written Scripture for that day. Amen. Don't be slothful. Wake up! That was the plain identification, a seer, a forth-teller and a teller-forth. And the only way that they knowed he was getting the right interpretation to the Scripture, because what he said come to pass. Then they knowed he was called of God, God said that. And then they noticed that it did, it come right back in continuity with the Word for that day.

L-57   Jesus said, "Search the Scriptures!" When they seen He could discern the thoughts that was in their mind, and they called Him Beelzebub, He said, "Search the Scriptures, They are the Ones that testify of Me." The continuity of the Scriptures running perfectly with the sign of the time! He was God's sign of the time. He was the manifestation of the written Word, and also could foretell what would happen, and they could not deny it. He was the super sign of the day. He certainly was.

L-58   Notice the continuity of His unchanging Word, also the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, "When the Holy Ghost is come upon you, He will remind you, or reveal these things that I have told you, and also will show you things to come." Now the Bible...

L-59 The people say today, "There is no such a thing as a prophet, in the world."


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