<TITLE>18. Par 224-234</TITLE>L-224 Daniel, one time, was standing when he saw the--the ending of the Gentile kingdoms. He saw the image that Nebuchadnezzar had dreamed. He saw how each one would succeed the other, as they come down. And when he looked to see what was all going to happen at the end, when he saw Jesus, He was "a Stone hewed out of the mountain, without hands," that crushed the Gentile kingdoms.

L-225   Nebuchadnezzar throwed three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace, that believed in God and stood on His Word. If they had to die for It, they was going to stand, anyhow; just a little thing, of bowing their knee some other way. But when he looked away and saw Jesus, He was "the fourth man" that was in the fiery furnace, and it kept all the heat off of His obedient servants. That's what Nebuchadnezzar saw.

L-226 Ezekiel looked away to see Him one day, and He was "a Wheel in the middle of the wheel," way up in the middle of the air. He was the Hub to the wheel, where every spoke is fastened to. Amen! The big wheel run by faith, but the little Wheel turned by the Power of the Lord. That's who Ezekiel saw when he looked away.

L-227   John the Baptist looked away one day, and, when he did, he saw a Dove; and a Voice, saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in." That's what he saw. Then, he saw Jesus and God being the same Person, 'cause the Spirit come down from Heaven like a Dove, saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I am pleased to dwell." That's what he saw. Notice, He identifies Himself in that way.

L-228 Noah, when he looked away to see Him, Noah saw the just judgments of God coming upon a people of this world who had rejected His Word. That's what Noah said when he looked away.

L-229 Moses, when he looked away, he saw a bush on fire. A Pillar of Fire had brought Itself back into a bush, and, when Moses drawed close to It, He said, "Take off your shoes, for, 'I AM.'" Now, if you would weigh that word, "I AM," it's past tense, present tense, and future tense. "I AM," Eternal! See? "I AM," he saw the "I AM." That's what he saw in the burning bush.

L-230   Israel looked at the brass serpent that Moses made, and saw the suffering of Christ for the judgment for the sick, for we know that the serpent spoke of the Atonement.

L-231 Jesus was that Atonement. "As Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up," for the same purpose. See? Why? They had sinned, and had got sick; that was for the taking away their sins and for their sickness. And that's what, "Jesus was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed." Take Divine healing away from Christ, you cut half the Atonement, in two. See?

L-232 What do you see in Him when you look? Do you see that? Do you see that, "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed"? When you look away, can you see that, or can you just see one side of the Atonement? Can you see both sides of it when you look?
If you look at it through the creed, they'll tell you, "The days of healing is passed."
But if you look at it through the Word, you'll see, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." See?

L-233   The disciples looked to Him when they were in a troubled sea, and they saw the only help that could help them, coming.

L-234 Martha looked to Him in the time of death, and she saw that He was "the resurrection and the Life." Amen! In time of death, Martha saw, when she looked at Him... He had been rejected by her people; He had been turned down; even, she had sent for Him, and He did not come to her brother. But when finally He come, and she went and fell down so she could look at Him, she found out that He was both "resurrection and Life." Amen!


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