<TITLE>13. Par 137-148</TITLE>L-137   We find out, the different prophets coming on the scene, we hardly know where they come from. They just rose up and went away. God used them, and sealed them, sent them away, and that was all. The message went on. The Word was confirmed. And off it went to another generation, then they built upon what these prophets did. And they...

L-138 Then when He come along, Jesus said, "You've whitened the walls, and the--the tombs of the prophets, and you're the one that put them in there." See?

L-139 A man will raise up with a message, and preach this message, and gives the message of the hour, and then after while he's put to death, and put in the tomb. And years on, they build an organization on top of this, and on top of that comes something else. What you doing? The man's message is done gone on. It's in history. We press on, looking forward.

L-140   Science don't look back and say what some science says. I read where a science proved, by rolling a ball; and--and--and over in France, about three hundred years ago, "If a man ever went the terrific speed of thirty-five miles an hour, he'd leave the earth." And I come down here about sixty miles an hour. See? So science don't refer back to that. They keep pressing on. They got him now going hundreds of miles an hour. And just... They don't stop at that. They just keep on pressing.

L-141 But, we, we're looking back to see what, "What did Finney say? What did Sankey say? What did Moody say?" They were fine men; so was Moses and Joseph. And that was another age.

L-142 Let's see what the Word says, today, Jesus Christ is. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And the only way that we'll ever know what He is today, is to find out what he was yesterday, then you'll see what He is.

L-143   Now, we don't have time to lay too much of it, tonight, because we just got a few minutes left. Notice. The Word that's ordained for each age, when that Word is made manifest, that is Christ of that day, just like it was in each one of the days.

L-144 Now, when we find Jesus coming on--on the scene, He was rejected, yet, He was the promised Word. Now, in Deuteronomy 18:15, Moses said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet like me. And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall not hear this Prophet, will be cut off from among the people." Now there he was, exactly the Prophet for that age, and the teachers of that day didn't see it. They finally put Him to death. See? And He done just exactly.

L-145 He was born of a virgin. They didn't believe that. "That was a bunch of fanaticism." But we believe it now, after it's been proven.

L-146   Joan of Arc, when she rose on the scene back there in France, the French Revolutionary, what'd you Catholic people do? You put her to death, for a witch, because she seen visions, interpret dreams. Two hundred years later, you done penitence, dug up those priests' body, that killed them and had her burnt to a stake, and throwed them in the river. That's your penitence. See?

L-147 You never knowed Saint Patrick when he was on the earth, which was Sucat. You never knew him. Claim to be one of the saints; look how many thousands of his children you killed there in Ireland. See?

L-148 It's after it's all over, its vindicating gone, then they build a tomb to it. The message has done passed and going into something else. Man is always praising God for what He has done, looking forward for what He will do, and ignoring what He's doing. That's as good as the devil wants them to be, very religious scholars and educators: prove what He had done, and prove what He's going to do, and ignoring what He's doing. See? That's where it's always been, the same. On and on we could go, through that.


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