<TITLE>10. Par 74-80</TITLE>L-74 Where--where was there any in the Bible, where God ever took a priest and made a prophet out of him? Where did God ever take an ecclesiastical theologian (trained man, theological trained man) and make a prophet out of him? Never in the histories of anywhere, did He ever do it, in any age... did He ever do it. He has to get away from that system, and bring it up. And that's what He had done here.

L-75   Jesus, when He was born in Bethlehem of Judea, out of a poor family, and He had no backgrounds as they knowed of, just one of the tribe of--of Judah, and His mother and father was from the lineage of David; and they had to come up and be taxed. And here He was, just a young fellow, around... doing nothing but tearing up the churches. And they hated Him. And they couldn't say but what that man done miracles. Peter expressed that on the Day of Pentecost, said, "Jesus, of Nazareth, a Man approved of God among us, that God was with Him." And not to add to His Word or anything; to make it a little plainer: "He was God made flesh with us. God with us."

L-76   And saying the other night, that Moses, standing there with his hand in his bosom, he... that was God in Moses. He... (holding the secrets in his heart), and extended it white with leprosy. Then pulled it back into his bosom and healed it, and then extended it again to us when He sent down the Holy Spirit; which was God, again, in just another form on the Day of Pentecost. And we turn It down. We don't want That. That's the way they did then. That's the way that we'd probably do it today.

L-77   We see, every man has his own interpretation. That's why it's so confusing. But you know, the Bible said, that, "This Word is of no private interpretation." It don't need a Presbyterian interpretation of It. It don't need a Baptist interpretation. Neither does It need a Pentecostal interpretation. God is His own interpreter. He said He would do it, so He just does it, and that settles it. So that's why they see the Word of promise anointed and then they--they can't receive It. You see, because It's contrary to their--their creeds.

L-78   What the Messiah (Anointed One) would look like, and what He would do; it was far from their understanding. And then when it was read to them out of the Scriptures, what He'd do, still they didn't understand It. For when these wise man came down, from up at Babylon, they were kinda northeast from Jerusalem, and looked down and seen that Star leading westward. They followed It for two years, coming down across the Tigris River, and through the valleys and Shinar, and come on down, come to the head city of all the religions. The greatest religion in the world, in the temple, in Jerusalem. And up and down the streets saying, "Where is He? Where is He that's borned the King of the Jews?" Why, nobody knowed nothing about it. It was strange.

L-79   It even stirred to the Sanhedrin... called out the scholars and said, "Read in the Scriptures where a Messiah..."

L-80 And they went and got the--the Scriptures and read out that Micah said that, "Out... Judaea... Bethlehem of Judaea, art thou not the least among all the princes? But out of thee shall come this governor."
See, instead of investigating, they just throwed it off, "Well, it's a bunch of fanaticism." See? That's why the shepherds took the Message. See, they don't... They have their own interpretation, therefore, they--they miss the real true thing.


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