<TITLE>09. Par 90-101</TITLE>L-90 I can see him put his arms around Simon, and one around Andrew, and say, "Boys, just before His coming, you'll see a flare. There will be all kinds of false things raise up, so it will just blind the eyes of the people." Always does that; and it did just that. "There would be all kinds of... But, remember, don't you be deceived. The Messiah will be a prophet. Cause, Moses said, in Deuteronomy the 18th chapter, the 15th verse, 'The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet likened unto me.' Now, we haven't any prophets to manifest the Word of God. There had been none of them here for the Word to come to, so we've just had a denominational affair for hundreds and hundreds of years. But when that One arrives on the scene, don't you be deceived, He will be a prophet. The Lord shall make Hisself known. He will be a prophet. And, when He comes, He'll identify Himself as a prophet."

L-91   I can imagine one day that Simon going down to see Jesus there at the shore. And when he walked up into the Presence of Jesus, Jesus looked at him and said...

L-92 Just started His ministry, now, Saint John the 1st chapter, and after "the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us," here He is. Now, we're told that Andrew seen Him first, and heard John preach, and tried to get Simon to go. And he just, "Oh, well, it's just another preacher. Let it go. And there has been this, that, or the other." But, the first thing you know, they thought they would come see.

L-93 He said, "Now the Messiah has arrived!" Oh, Andre... Simon couldn't believe that.

L-94 So he just walked up one day to where Jesus was standing. Jesus was standing down on the lake that morning, and all the people had gathered up. And the women washed the dishes real quick, and sit their clothes back, and everything they wouldn't wash that day, come down to hear Him speak. Simon had seined all night there, and had probably caught no fish or nothing. Walked out, thought, "I believe I'll just hear what He says." He walked up to Him.

L-95 He was an odd-looking sort of a Fellow. The Bible said, "There's no beauty we should desire Him." He didn't look like a king.

L-96   Beauty is of the devil, always. That's exactly right. And we might get to that, a little later on, so then find out. We see what Cain offered, and see what it was in Heaven, and find out what this world, vain beauty is, and what. Hollywood has took over, today, even the church. Yes, sir. It's a false conception, of the devil.

L-97 Amidst the beauty of the Lord, in holiness and Power; not in paint, and powder, and shorts, and everything else that they're trying to wear and do it. It's in beauty of the holiness and righteousness. We are not of this world. We're from a kingdom that's Above, where dwelleth righteousness within. Yes.

L-98 They won't adorn themselves with That. Too much television, and so forth.

L-99   So then we find that Simon walked up into His Presence, and there stood the One that Andrew believed to be the Messiah. And as Jesus, as soon as He looked at--at Simon, He said, "Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas." He knew then Who that was. There was no joke that there was God identified again right here in the Scripture, His same characteristic.
If Joseph could just have looked back there and seen that!

L-100 Jesus, when He was preaching here on earth, He said... He said, "Search the Scriptures, in Them you think you have Eternal Life; They are the Ones that testify of Me." If they'd just a turned back away from the law. The law was from that day, and they were living in that kind of a glare. But here they are today, they couldn't see the Scripture identified right there. And they failed to see It.

L-101 And they've done it in every age, and they'll do it in this one, too. Nothing else for them to do. It's been predicted they would, so they--they'll do it. There is no way of getting around it. The Laodicea Age will do the same thing.


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