<TITLE>07. Par 39-44</TITLE>L-39   Now, the Bible says... Let me prove to you now that that is the Truth. Isaiah the prophet, seven hundred and fifteen years before this happened, Isaiah the prophet said, "A virgin shall conceive, and shall bear a child." There's no doubt that everyone in that age thought their daughter would be that woman, because Isaiah said it. But, you see, it was seven hundred years later. But when... God didn't need anybody to interpret His Word, when He'll do it, or how He would do it. He said He would do it, and He did it!

L-40   God promised that He... over in Isaiah, also, I believe the 28th chapter, about the 18th verse. And also in Joel 2:28, that in the last days, the last two thousand years, He'd pour out His Spirit upon all flesh. He said, "Your sons and daughters shall prophesy. Your young man shall see visions. Your old man shall dream dreams." And the things that He would do, Isaiah said, "With stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people, and this is the Rest." But they wouldn't hear It. They wagged their heads and walked by It. He said, "All the tables of God would become full of vomit, and there would be nothing clean." And if that isn't a picture of Jerusalem, and the church of that day at the coming Messiah, it's a picture today the same. It's just repeating itself.

L-41 Now, when God says He'll do a thing, He did it. Regardless of what anybody else thinks about it, what anybody says, when God speaks of something, He's duty-bound to interpret that Word Himself. And His vindication of the Word is His Own interpretation. Notice, vindicating His Messiah's Message. He promised what the Messiah would do when He come. And when He came...

L-42   Even when the wise men in the east had looked down southwestward, from where they were at in Babylon, and they saw a majestic star. Did you know there's not a speck of history, nowhere, that any observatory (where they even kept the--the--the time by stars, great man who studied these stars)... There's not no history says that any of them seen that star at all. Why? It wasn't given to them, they wasn't looking for such. But these wise man knowed that there would be a Star of Jacob rise, and they were looking for It, and It passed from the time that Jesus was borned in Bethlehem...

L-43 Now, I know our Christian traditions, it's just like our churches, it has things topsy-turvy. You go out here and you see wise man coming to worship a baby; there's not such a thing in the Scripture. Two years later they got there, coming down through the plains and across the Tigris River. They never come to worship an infant, but a young child about two years old. Why was it, at the same time, Herod slew all the children from two years old under? That he might catch the Messiah. You see, they... God had vindicated by His Word.

L-44   And when these wise man came to Jerusalem... The star led them to the religious capitol of the world, Jerusalem. And as soon as they entered those gates, that star (the supernatural that had led them) refused to show them any more. Up-and-down the streets these fine man, rich man with fine draped camels, and so forth... up and down the streets saying, "Where is He that's born King of the Jews. We saw His star in the east." And that great religious capitol, after two years of the shepherd's Message, still didn't have the answer or knowed nothing about It. The head of all the denominations didn't have the answer.


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