<TITLE>15. Par 187-203</TITLE>L-187   Now looky here. He said, "Will you go up with me, and help me to take that land back? Well, that's, them Philistine kids are filling their bellies over there, with the wheat that belongs to Israel." That's Scripturally right. He said, "Help me go up and get them."

L-188 Said, "Well, my..." There he made a rashel mistake. "My chariots is yours, my man the same as yours. I'll go with you."

L-189 And then Jehoshaphat begin to think, you know. "Say, shouldn't we consult the Lord about this before we go?"

L-190 "Oh, of course," Ahab said, "certainly. Uh-huh. Excuse me. I--I ought to have thought of that."
"Isn't there a prophet somewhere?"

L-191 "Oh, sure. I've got--I've got a--a seminary of them down here, the best you ever seen. They all wear the finest of clothes. They're the highest-polished scholars. I've educated them, to the dot. We'll go get them."

L-192   So they went down there. And they all got together. They wasn't hypocritical. They prayed and prayed and prayed, till they saw a vision.

L-193 Then they come up. And one of them made him two big horns out of iron. He said, "By this you're going to press the Philistine, or the--the Assyrians, plumb out of the country." He said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD. Go up, the Lord is with you." Every one of them, then, with one accord, fell into the spirit. Israelite prophets said, "Go up, the Lord is with you." You say, is that Scriptural? "God gave this inheritance to the people, and the enemy has it. You have a right to go get it."
Now, Pentecost, I want you to get a lesson here.

L-194 But, Jehoshaphat, being a godly man, he said, "There is something a little wrong yet." Said, "Haven't you got one more?"

L-195 "One more, after four hundred well-trained prophets standing here?" As many as is on this bottom floor here. "Standing in one accord, saying, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD.' Turn it back, and say, 'Joshua give the land to us. It's ours. Go get it!'"

L-196 But Jehoshaphat asked for another one. Said, "Isn't there another one we can consult the Lord by?"

L-197 He said, "Oh, there is one more, but," said, "I hate him." Uh-huh, uh-huh. Said, "He is Micaiah, the son of Imlah." Said, "I hate him. He is always saying evil things about me."
Said, "Don't let the king say so. Go get him."

L-198   Then they sent some runners over there. And some of them said, "Now, Micaiah, I want to tell you something. Now, you know they excommuned you, -cated you from the fellowship, not long ago, because you're always saying bad things to the people. Now if you want to get your fellowship card back, you say the same thing they do, and, oh, they'll just take you right in under their arm."

L-199 But he happened to be that he really was a prophet. He said, "As the Lord God lives, I'll only say what God puts in my mouth." Oh! God bless the man. He said, "Wait till tonight, and I'll see what the Lord tells me."

L-200 The next morning, said, "Go on up, but I seen Israel scattered like sheep having no shepherd." Then he took his vision and compared it with what Elijah said, what had happened to Ahab. How could He bless what had been cursed? No matter how much...

L-201   We are a godly nation. The Pentecostal church, Baptist, and Methodist, and so forth, are a Christian church, but how can you bless what God has cursed? I don't care, you say, "I--I joined this. I did this." That don't have one thing to do with it. Look what you've done. Look at Pentecost, how they let down the bars. Look what you used to be, and look what you are now. No wonder, eyes is, eyes are blinded.

L-202   Then he, Ahab, the... This priest slapped him in the mouth. And said, "Put him," and Ahab said, "put him back there in the inner prison. When I come back in peace, I'll deal with this fellow."

L-203 He said, "If you come back at all, God hasn't spoke to me." Uh-huh? See? There was a prophet, there was a sign; there was His voice. And, to fail to obey it, brought judgment.


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