<TITLE>06. Par 50-58</TITLE>L-50 So Elijah, to get rid of her, had to go with her. So he went in and laid his body upon the little, dead baby, and it sneezed seven times and come to life.

L-51   My, what a--what a great story that was to this little Barti-... Bartimaeus, when he was a--a--a little boy. How he used to like that little story, because it was a resurrection of a little boy. That was one of his favorite.

L-52 "But that was in the days gone by," the priest tells him now. "Alas, that was days when Israel had great, mighty man; great, mighty prophets walked the land." But the priests said, "You know, Jehovah don't need prophets anymore." Not only priests say that. But--but they did then, "Jehovah don't need prophets anymore. He gave us the law, and we built a church, a temple, and that's all we need." And it's just about the same way they believe it today, but still Jehovah remains Jehovah and He cannot change His way; He is God, and change not. Now they believed that that's--that's all they--they needed.

L-53   And so while he was sitting there in this daydream, as it was, thinking about it, and his blinded eyes turned up towards the warm sun; all at once, he hears the clicking of a little mule's feet coming down the--the rocky road, coming down from Jerusalem, cobblestones, coming in. As, and he listened close, and there was somebody with sandal feet running in front of the little mule. And he knowed that must be a rich man, because his travel was by mule and he also had a servant to lead the mule.

L-54 So he rises, knowing that he had to get some money in order to--to live. So he rises and puts his robe around him, and a little ragged robe, and runs out towards the street, and he said, "I would like an alm. I was late this morning. Would you please give me an alm? I'm blind."

L-55   And we hear a real rough voice coming, "Out of the way, beggar! I am the servant of Jehovah. I'm a priest. I'm coming down from Jerusalem, sent by the association, to stop that healing meeting that's going to be down here this morning in--in Jericho. I got to meet the brethren down here and see that that thing doesn't go on, get the people. There is a false prophet in the land, see. We're... we hear He is in Jericho this morning, and I'm on my road. Out of my way!" Priest. "And, all right, servant, on your way." And the little mule trotted off again.

L-56   Then the beggar feels his way back till he finds the rock, sit down. He continued his dreaming, and when he begin to think, "Out there at that little road where I was standing; not too long ago, the great and mighty prophet, Elijah and Elisha, come, arm in arm, walking down that same road, arm in arm, going down to the Jordan. And Jordan was going to open again. And on the other side, for this tired old prophet, Elijah, there was a chariot of Fire and horses of Fire, hitched to some limb over there, to take him home. And he was to see this, young Elijah. Elisha was to look back and see the ministry before him, what was set before him. He had to keep his eyes on this prophet."

L-57   And I'd imagine Bartimaeus said, "If I could have only lived in that day, and been sitting here, I'd have run out to those prophets, fell upon my face, and said, "Oh, prophet of God! Pray for me, and Jehovah will give me back my sight.' But the priest says, 'That's, there is no such a thing no more. We don't have that. Jehovah doesn't heal by His power, no more. We have doctors and things that does that. And we don't need that no more, so Jehovah doesn't heal. That was of the day gone by. We just keep the law. And we get sick, and die and go to Heaven, and that's all. That's all we need.'"

L-58   Then as he begin to think, then he remembered. Not five hundred yards from where he was sitting; after Israel had crossed and camped, and all setting in order, all the tents all in places, waiting for orders to march up to Jericho. And probably the very rock he was sitting on was one that Jehovah had blasted off of the--of the walls.


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