<TITLE>15. Par 163-179</TITLE>L-163 "One more, and we got the whole seminary here? The best we got in the country, Hebrew prophets, and they're telling exactly! Look how close they are on the Word. There's the Word, said that this land belongs to us. We got a right to go get it."

L-164 But Jesus told the devil the same thing, and said, "It's also written." That's what they failed to see. That's what made them disbelieve Jesus. It's also written, "A virgin shall conceive." See, they failed to see that.

L-165   So when they said, "Go on up! The Lord is with you. He'll give you the victory because it belongs to us. It's--it's in the Name of the Lord. Here it is."

L-166 But it didn't ring the bell. Jehoshaphat said, "Have you got one more that you might consult?"

L-167 Said, "Yes, there is another one, but I hate him. The association won't receive him." Uh-huh. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] We won't have nothing to do with him. He is Micaiah, the son of Imlah.

L-168 Said, "Don't let the king say so," said Jehoshaphat. "Go get him."

L-169   So then they sent a forerunner, said, "Micaiah, you want to come back into the fellowship again? See, just say the same thing the rest of them is saying. This is your opportunity now. You agree with the organization, all the rest of them, they'll bring you back. See? And you'll be in fellowship and you can have your campaigns all around, over the country, then."

L-170 He said, "As the Lord God lives, I'll only say what He puts in my mouth." We need some Micaiah's. He said, "I'll see what God says about it, first, if He wants me to go back in yet again." So he said, "Give me tonight, let me see what the Lord will say."

L-171 And that night the Lord showed him a vision. He compared his vision with the Word. That was right.

L-172 Said, "Go on up; but I seen Israel, like sheep, scattered, having no shepherd."

L-173   So then the one, the high priest, or the--or the Ecumenical Council leader, come up and smacked him in the mouth, and said, "Where did the Spirit of God go when It left me?"
He said, "You'll see, that day when you're sitting inside."
Said, "Where did It go?"

L-174 And he said, he said, "I saw God sitting upon a throne. I saw the host of Heaven gathered around Him. And there..."

L-175 God's prophet! The Word always comes to the prophet. No matter how unpopular it seems to be, it's always there. And the reason they know it is, it makes it so, that what the man speaks comes to pass. God said, then, this proves it. Then, a prophet means not only to speak the Word, but also to forthtell, and a Divine interpreter of the Word, Divine Word written. "The Word came to the prophet." And This is the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. This is the revelation, the Bible. It's revealing Jesus Christ. See?

L-176   And now, when the prophet came on the scene, then and could foretell things and it happened exactly like that, God said, "Remember, I am with him then." Then when he revealed the Word, what the other prophet had said before him, it come to pass, then they knowed that was true. That still remains God's way of doing it. He never changes His way. See? Remember, the great--great groups tried to change that, but it didn't do it.

L-177 Here is one we're talking of now. And they had a right; but Elijah had told Ahab. See, Israel had accepted the wrong man, who had made them organizations, and had turned down the true Word. See?

L-178 He said, "I seen God, and the council was held. And He said, 'Who can we get to go down and deceive Ahab?'" Said, "A lying spirit come up," probably from hell, "and said, 'I'll go down and get into those prophets, and cause them to prophesy a lie.'"

L-179 Hebrew prophets that was looking right at the Word! See? But what Elisha said was blinded to them. They thought he was a crank, too. See? But when Micaiah went under the Spirit, he saw exactly what the real prophet had said. That was the chance. That was it, to do it. And them Hebrews was right, on there.


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