<TITLE>12. Par 119-130</TITLE>L-119 And he couldn't understand it. "How a man, much more glory than a flower; a man, much more glory than a tree, in the image of God; and yet he planted him in the ground, and that--that settled it. His sons come to mourn, and he perceive it not. O that Thou would hide me in the grave, Thou would keep me in the secret place till Thy wrath be passed. Thou appointest me a time and place; I cannot pass."

L-120   Notice now, when all this distress come. And his friends turned their back upon him, and accused him of being a secret sinner. Wife had turned him down. Everybody had turned him down. Said, "His breath was strange to his wife." And all the things that happened to him! And looked like God turned him down. And he's going to die and go into the ground.

L-121 God spoke to him, as much as it is to say, "Job, now gird up your loins. I'm going to talk to you." And then when He said, "You see, the tree never sinned. The--the flower never sinned. It served My purpose. Therefore it was germitized, one to the other, and it didn't sin, so it rises up again. But a man sinned, therefore he's cut off."

L-122 So, then, Job begin to wonder, and then he got in distress just like Martha did. In the darkest hour, when, all of his influence, had he lived it in vain? How would He speak to Job? He's a prophet. How will He speak to him? In a vision.

L-123 Then he looked up, and the thunders roared, the lightnings flashed, and Jesus came along. Then he seen Him in the last days. He said, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He'll stand upon this earth. Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see." The darkest hour, then Jesus come along.

L-124 Now, that's the oldest Book in the Bible. Job, it was wrote before Genesis was written, they claim.

L-125   Notice now Moses, in his dark hour. He had knowed. His mother had told him how Jehovah had raised him up, how he was going to be the deliverer of the people. And he had tried to do it in a military standpoint, 'cause he was a military man, raised up with Pharaoh, become a--a leader. He was the next pharaoh to be. And he went out to try to deliver them with his own hand.
But God don't deliver like that. God delivers by His hand.

L-126 So he got smart, educated, learned all the... got his Ph. D., and LL.D. and all the LL's and DD's that went with it, I guess. So he thought, "I really got her now. I'm just fresh out of the seminary." So he goes out there, and he failed.

L-127   Then God took him out there for forty year and took all that education out of him, see, forty years. Now he's an old man, whiskers hanging way down at his waistline, a stick in his hand, all hopes of delivering the people is done gone. Them poor Hebrews down there, suffering with them taskmasters, and beaten backs, and--and mud daubers in that mud. All hopes of delivering was gone. And then one day, on the back side of the desert, Jesus came along, a Pillar of Fire. He said, "I AM."
That's Who He was. One day He was talking...

L-128 He said, "Well, You say You 'seen Abraham'? Why, he said, "Why, You're not over fifty years old. And say... We know You're mad. You're--You're got a devil."
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."

L-129 So, it was Jesus came along, in a Pillar of Fire, in his darkest hour. And he went down, then.

L-130 You know, when Jesus gets a hold of you, it makes you do things that sound crazy, to the world. Could you imagine that old man going down there to take that city over, or that country over? And he did it, with a crooked stick in his hand, but he himself was in the hand of God. That's what made the difference.


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