<TITLE>13. Par 97-104</TITLE>L-97   Seeing the promise vindicated, he made the people ready for their exodus. When? When he saw the promise of God vindicated. Remember, he run with his theology; he run with his training. But when he saw the Word of God made manifest, he saw It vindicated, "I AM THAT I AM," then he didn't care what anybody said. He didn't fear what Pharaoh would do with him. He didn't fear what the rest of them would do. He only feared God, that he might misunderstand God, or some way that he might misunderstand God. He didn't fear the people and what they would say or what they would do. He only feared God, after he recognized that it was the Word of God.

L-98   He couldn't understand how a man like him would be sent down there. But when he recognized, by the vindicated Word, what it was, then he didn't fear the king's commandments. If you'd only recognize, if we today could only recognize! Moses recognized it when he seen the Word vindicated, seen the vindication made prove, He was ready for the exodus for the people.
Job never recognized that it was God. As long as the devil can--can make you believe sometime that the little trials you go through is--is God may... punishing you! It was God trying to show him something. Job never recognized it till he saw a vision. Like Moses; when Moses saw the vision, the Pillar of Fire in the bush, it was vindicated. And when...
Job, in his question, "If a man dies, can he live again? I see a tree die, and it lives again. I see a flower dies, and it lives again." That was his question. "But man layeth down, he giveth up the ghost, he wasteth away. His sons come to mourn, and he perceive it not. Oh, that Thou would hide me in the grave until Thy wrath be passed!" He couldn't understand why a flower would die and live again, how a leaf would go off of a tree, down, and lay on the ground, and come back again in the spring. He said, "Man layeth down, and where does he go? I believe God; but what happens to a man?"

L-99 But then one day the lightning begin to flash, the thunders begin to roar, the Spirit come upon the prophet. And he saw the coming of a Man Who could put His hand upon a sinful man, and a holy God, and bridge the way. Then he screamed, "I know my Redeemer liveth! Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh I'll see God!" He recognized what the resurrection was.

L-100   Balaam never recognized the Angel until the mule spoke in tongues. Balaam could not recognize that an Angel was standing in his way. A blinded preacher could not recognize that it was God standing in the way, trying to keep him from selling his gift for money. And when the mule spoke in a human voice, then Balaam recognized that it was the Angel standing in his way, trying to keep him from doing what he was doing.

L-101 Oh, you blinded denominations! If God can use a mule, that's dumb, to speak in a language that he doesn't know, to reveal to a minister that he's out of the way, can't He use a man to do the same thing? Blinded people!

L-102   If Ahab had only recognized his day, he would have never condemned the prophet, Micaiah, with the Word of God of promise to him.

L-103 When Ahab stood there that day, him and--and Jehoshaphat. And when they had four hundred prophets out there prophesying, saying, "Go up! Everything is all right. Ahab, you're living in sin. You've made us great denomination! We're a great people. We're a great ministry. Here we are, we're four hundred trained priests, or prophets. We are four hundred, trained in the Word and theology. We know all about It."

L-104 So, now, it proved they didn't know all about It. The man that they called a crazy man, in the generation before them, Elijah, the true prophet of God, had prophesied, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'The dogs will lick your blood, Ahab!'" See?


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