<TITLE>10. Par 72-78</TITLE>L-72   When He had to leave that camp, then, of that whole gang of people that He brought up out of Egypt, He only dwelt among His prophets, to whom His Word came. The Word came to the prophet, to vindicate the hour. He dwelt among the prophets, and revealed to the prophet. How they cursed, the people, and cursed the thing. And God taught them His commandments and the way of life. And the people was always against it, and persecuted the prophet, and finally stoned him, or sawed him to pieces, and got rid of him.

L-73 Jesus said, "Which one of the prophets didn't your fathers murder? Which one of them, of the just one that was sent to them?" And said, "The works of your father you'll do." He wasn't talking to communists. He was talking to priests, denominational people, Pharisees and Sadducee. I suppose His voice wouldn't change very much tonight, only be a little worse, maybe, to them.

L-74   Now, we find out that He dwelt then among His prophet. He then became a stranger to them, for He dwells only in His Word, to confirm It. The Bible said that He watches over His Word, to confirm It. He is trying to find someone.
If He can just get a half-hearted man, like Samson. Samson surrendered his strength to God, but he gave his heart to Delilah. That's the way that many times we do, today, just give something to God, but not all. But, God wants all, of us.

L-75 Like an insurance policy, when you get an insurance policy, you might as well get full coverage. And that's what this blessed assurance does for us. It's a full-coverage policy. It covers all we have need of here in this life, and our resurrection, and Eternal Life. It includes everything.

L-76   Notice, God stayed out of their camp then for four hundred years. Why? He had no more prophet. From the prophet Malachi, to the prophet John, four hundred years, there is not one turn of a wheel that Israel done. God was out of the camp. They put Him out, by their creeds and their selfishness, and their difference towards the Word. Four hundred years without the Word! From one prophet to another, He journeyed, until the last prophet was Malachi, and then there wasn't another prophet for four hundred years.

L-77 And then God came on the scene again. One day He walked among them again, but their traditions had so took His place among them, He was a stranger to them. The traditions of the fathers, had washing pans, and--and the way to groom their hair, and wear the certain buttons on their coat, and their certainly priests--priests' robes; and--and one is a staunch Pharisee, and the other one is a Sadducee. And that had taken the place of the Word among those man, till, when God visit them, He was a foreigner.

L-78   May I say this with love and respects, but to drive it home. It's the same thing today. It hasn't changed a bit. When He comes among the people, in His power and manifestation, to prove that His Word is the same yesterday, today, and forever, 'cause He is the Word, the people says, "A fortuneteller, a Beelzebub, a Jesus only, or--or something like that." Some class you somewhere, but it has to be that way.
See, we haven't had a prophet now for almost two thousand years. The Gentiles didn't get one, you know; promised at the end. Now, we know that, by Scripture. We know that, also, by history that this is promised to us.


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