<TITLE>13. Par 147-162</TITLE>L-147 He said, "You see, John was not baptized. So he had been baptizing, but hadn't been baptized; nobody was worthy to baptize him." That's good Baptist theology. "And here come Jesus, and said then... John said, 'I have need to be baptized of Thee; why comest Thou unto me?' And He said, 'Suffer it to be so.'" He said, "And then when he 'suffered' Him," said, "you see, then Jesus baptized John. And when He went out of the water, then the heavens opened and He saw God in the form of a dove, coming down and going on Him, said, 'This is My beloved Son, Whom I'm pleased to dwell in.'" But, no, not disagreeing with Doctor Davis, but he was wrong.

L-148   See, John was the prophet, and the Word always comes to the prophet. So if the Word was made flesh, It had to come to the prophet, anyhow; 'cause, he was testifying of the Word, and his very characteristic identified him that. Here comes the Word, now what happened? As soon as he walked into the face of Jesus, John said, "I have need to be baptized of Thee; why comest Thou unto me?"

L-149 Jesus said, "Suffer it to be so, for thus it is becoming to us (behooveth us) to fulfill all righteousness." John being the prophet; Him being the Word. He was the Sacrifice, and He was fixing to enter His earthly ministry, and the Sacrifice had to be washed before it was presented. And John baptized Him, 'cause he knowed. "Suffer that to be so, for thus it's becoming to us to fulfill all righteousness." The Sacrifice had to be washed before presented, and so John baptized Him. It was not Jesus baptizing John. John baptized Jesus. "Suffer it to be so."

L-150   Notice, here was Abraham, and he had the Word of the Lord. The Word of the Lord come to him. He was the prophet. And now here comes the Word. He called him, "Abraham," not Abram.

L-151 A few days before that, his name was Abram--was Abram, now it's Abraham. His wife was Sari, now it's "Sarah," not S-a-r-r-a; S-a-r-a-h. Not (A-b-r-a-h-a-m) A-b-r-a-m, but A-b-r-a-h-a-m, Abraham.

L-152 And this Man identified Himself, when He said, "Abraham!" Oh, my!
Abraham said, "Elohim!"

L-153 There is the Word and the prophet, together, both characters identified.

L-154 Elohim, He said, "Where is your wife, Sarah?"

L-155 Said, "She is in the tent, behind You." And the... Then the miracle was done. Elohim! Abraham called Him, "the all-sufficient, Almighty, omnipotent God."

L-156 Jesus said. When He was on earth, He did the same thing that Elohim did. That identified His characteristic as being God.

L-157 And He said, before, "In the last days, just at the coming of the Son of man, when He is being revealed, this setting will take place again, like it was at Sodom." Elohim among His people, the Almighty God! That's what the Scripture says. Elohim among the people!

L-158   For forty years He has been baptizing us with the Holy Ghost, Elohim, God! And the church...

L-159 Look, Abraham seen one sign, another calling; a sign, a calling; a calling, a sign; waiting for that promised son. But the last sign that he saw, the last appearing, the last visit of God before the promised son arrived on the scene, was Elohim in human flesh. Then the promised son come.

L-160 And Abraham's Seed is waiting for the promised Son, Jesus Christ. And they've seen signs, the pouring out of the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues, Divine healing, and so forth. But when the Son of man is being revealed, Elohim will return back to the royal Seed of Abraham and show that same thing that He showed in that day, amen, Elohim, as it was! Why? It will be the characteristic of God.

L-161 Now, if Christ was God, "Yet a little while and the world seeth Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, to the consummation, the end. The works that I do shall you do also."

L-162   Jesus said that in--in Luke, the 17th chapter. All right, when we believe and see these last days, this setting is to be reacted again.


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