<TITLE>14. Par 148-162</TITLE>L-148   Wasn't it a strange thing in the days that when King Ahab was king, and--and of Judaea, and of Israel, rather; and--and Jehoshaphat, the righteous man, king of Judaea, of Judah; and they made an alliance there. How a believer can get connected with a--with a make-believer!

L-149 Sometimes man gets in that kind of a fix, today, mix themselves up with people who don't believe the Word, and yet they're bound into them, with such ties, till they can't get out. They're afraid to accept It.

L-150 I admire your, brothers' courage. Now, you don't have to have that interpreted. See? See? When they deny, or won't have nothing to do with It, "get It away," and yet you'll step right out and sponsor It. See? I admire a man like that there. You're not afraid of the Caesars and the commandment, see. Yeah.

L-151   Believers being hooked up with make-believers! And Jehoshaphat did that when he went down to Ahab, that lukewarm, borderline believer, thought more of the social things of the world, and his wife's fine hairdos, and things, than he did of God. Give in to her! And we find out that Israel was a very type of this nation, then; how they went over and took the occupants out, and occupied, and had great man like David and Solomon, but finally there rose up a fellow like Ahab.

L-152 But in the days of Ahab is when the prophet came on the scene. God always manifests His Word.

L-153 And we find out, then, that this nation has done the same. We come in, drove out the Indians, and occupied, and we had a Washington and a Lincoln. But where we getting to now? But God can still raise up prophets. He is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham, when His Word requires it. Malachi said we would have it, and we'll have it. It'll be here. Don't you worry. His Word will be fulfilled.
Notice, Micaiah was down in the country.

L-154   And Ahab, to kind of make a shine to the country, he had four hundred Hebrew prophets down there, great organization of them. They was all well dressed, fine dressed, educated, scholarly man, Hebrew prophets, now, not heathens. Hebrew prophets! Jehoshaphat made this alliance.

L-155 I think that all things works together. The symphony is just beating out the beat. See?

L-156 So he made an alliance, to go up, take the king of Edom and go on up into the land, take the Syrians, because it seemed very good.

L-157 And Jehoshaphat fell on the idea, being a godly man, said, "We should consult the Lord, shouldn't we?"

L-158 Said, "That's right. Excuse me, I should have thought of that. Yeah, I got a seminary down here, got the best there is in the country, most scholarly. They can say 'amen' the prettiest you ever heard." See?

L-159   Well, he goes down and gets them. "Bring them up and let them prophesy." Here come the prophets all up, well fine-dressed man, and fine-cultured, educated to the dot. They knowed all their Greek, Hebrew, and all. See?

L-160 They come up, and they all prophesied. And they had a right to prophesy. They said, "Go on up. What's the matter? That land up there belongs to Israel." And that's true. "Joshua gave it to us. God gave it, and Joshua divided it. And our children going hungry, and the Philistines' bellies are filled with the wheat that's raised on that country."

L-161 They was absolutely on the Word, when it come to that. But they had sinned and lost that land. They had lost it. It absolutely wasn't theirs, then, see. But, accordingly, if you want to go back to the foundation, it did belong to them, and them prophets were right.
They said, "Go on up! The Lord is with you!"

L-162   But, you know, when a man is really... Like I said last night about Joseph being a just man. There was something didn't ring a bell with Jehoshaphat. He was a righteous man. He said, "Haven't you got one more?"


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