<TITLE>11. Par 134-144</TITLE>L-134 How that Elijah condemned that generation, with all that was in him, and God vindicating him. And he was a prophet.

L-135 Just before the coming, so did John! Walked right up in Israel... Had married this woman to--to Hero-... to Herod, his brother Philip's wife. Walked right into his face; he pulled no punches. He wasn't afraid some presbyter was going to put him out. He carried no fellowship card; only with God. He was His prophet. The Word was with him. He didn't have to go to ask any bishop or deacons. He was anointed. He had the Word. He walked right into his face, and said, "Not lawful for you to have her!" Right. He pulled no punches, to nobody.
Them wicked women committing adultery, carrying on!

L-136   Like Amos, when he come on the scene, looked over there. We don't know even where he come from. My, how he must have looked upon that city of Samaria! Like the tourists did, all beautiful, and the preachers all in harmony with the--the nations, and the league with the nations and everybody, and still living in sin! His eyes narrowed, his bald head shined, and thus he come down. He didn't... wasn't much to look at, but he had THUS SAITH THE LORD.

L-137 We need an Amos on the scene today. Would we receive him? Certainly not, no more than he did. He would come on the scene, he would tear down every organization, every denomination, every short-wearing woman, every bobbed-haired Jezebel. He would tear them to pieces. They would kick him out on the street, and say, "That old fanatic!" But he would have THUS SAITH THE LORD, for it's just written that way. The denomination receive him? No.

L-138 He had nobody to sponsor his program. Would this great, fine city of--of lust, like Samaria was, would they receive this little unknown fellow with no fellowship card, nobody to sponsor him, or anything? He didn't have any sponsorship. He didn't have any fellowship card, no school he come from. But he had THUS SAITH THE LORD. And his coming, as a prophet, was a sign. His voice was from God, and it was identified in the days of Jeroboam the Second. Everything he said come to pass.

L-139   Now we find, this day that we're living in, it's just a repeat of that again. Ministers and people, ashamed to stand in the pulpit, and the--the Gospel becomes a meal ticket to them. They're afraid to say anything, some man is going to put them out of this, that, or the other.

L-140 There is only one Man can put you out of Heaven, that's God. And how are you going to be put out of Heaven, staying with His Word? That's what He sent you for.

L-141 Remember, the Bible said, in such a time as it was in the days of Elijah, in such a day as it was in the days of John, that Malachi 4 is going to return to the earth again. "I will send Elijah."

L-142 Now don't get that mixed up now with Malachi 3, "I send My messenger before My face." That was Elias, too.

L-143 But in Malachi 4, He said, "Just before the great and terrible Day of the Lord shall come, when the whole earth will burn like a oven, and the righteous shall walk out upon the ashes of the wicked," that's the Millennium, "I'll send Elijah the prophet." And what will he do? "He will restore the faith of the children back to the apostolic fathers," back to the Word. He'll have to be a prophet. "I'll send him." He'll be thoroughly identified. His nature will be the same as Elijah's was, exactly. His Message will be right on that line. He'll condemn, tear down. No fellowship, no cooperation, no nothing, but he'll have THUS SAITH THE LORD.

L-144   Now, remember, there's been all kinds of groups stand up and say, "This is the Elijah's robe, and this is the Elijah's doctrine." The whole group, an organization, turn into Elijah's group, or Elijah's robe. That's not Scripture. God never did deal with a group like that.


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