<TITLE>14. Par 163-179</TITLE>L-163 Therefore, Hebrews 1:1, "God, in sundry times by the prophets identified Himself, in this last days has identified the resurrection of His Son from the dead," by giving the Church the same characteristic that He had, making Hebrews 13:8 exactly right.

L-164 No feathers can be picked out of that. That's eagle feathers. They stay tight, because they're heavenly bird. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... they feeds them eagle food.

L-165   Now we notice that, "In the sundry times, divers manner, He spoke to the fathers through the prophets, in the last days through His Son Jesus Christ, by raising Him up from the dead." And here He is among us, after two thousand years, the same Jesus, not one of the prophets; Jesus, hallelujah, the resurrected Son of God!

L-166 Jesus said, one day, He said, "A wicked and adulterous generation seek after a sign, and they'll get a sign." A wicked and adulterous generation. When was the world any more wicked, or adultery and perverted, than it is now?

L-167 "As it was in the days of Jonas, as Jonas was in the belly of the whale for three days and nights, so must the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and nights."

L-168 Then, "a wicked and adulterous generation" was to receive a sign. What kind of a sign? A sign of the resurrection. And we have it today, after two thousand years, He is still alive. He is among us, tonight, the same yesterday, today, and forever, identifying Himself by the characteristics of God, manifesting the Word in this day that He promised to do. Amen.

L-169 There is the Word. Now will you believe the sign, is the next thing, last days, His identification by His Son? Notice.

L-170   God spake to Moses in sundry times. In the Deuteronomy 18:15, said, "The Lord your God shall raise a Prophet likened unto me." Now watch. That's the Word. That is the Word. That was God. That wasn't Moses. How would Moses know that; he was a man? But God, speaking through Moses, said this. Do you believe that? All right.

L-171 Now notice Jesus, watch how His--His characteristics identified this promised Word true. He certainly did. He was identified by this characteristic that Moses said He would be.

L-172 Many of them, like today, they want to see some great leader. "Oh, this is Doctor Ph. So-and-so. He's out of Hartford University. Or, he's out of some great big somewhere like that." That's no identification of God. No, no. Not a thing about it. The Word is what identifies God. See?

L-173 Jesus was not a scholar, neither was He a priest, neither was He a rabbi, to the world. He was a renegade, to the world.

L-174 But God was confirming His Word through Him, which made Him Emmanuel. That was His identification. Now, here, Jesus meeting this exactly what God in sundry times said He would do, through Moses, what He would do.

L-175   Now watch when He met Peter, as we dramatized it the other night, when He met Peter and told Peter what his name was. This sign identified His Messiahic claims, to Peter, for the Word had said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet."

L-176 And Peter come up, which was Simon then, come up where He was at. And Jesus looked at him, said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas." That identified the character of Christ to be that Word that Moses promised. Peter recognized that that sign identified Jesus as Messiah. "God was in Christ," the anointing for the last days. To Nathanael... Remember, He told Simon his name.

L-177 Now, watch, to Nathanael He told what he had done. "You were under the tree when I saw you." That identified Him Messiah.

L-178 Said, "You are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel." He was identified by the characteristic of the promised Word that he was to be the Messiah. "The Lord your God shall raise a Prophet."

L-179 The little woman at the well, He told her what she was, and that identified Him as this promised Messiah. See?


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