<TITLE>04. Par 36-44</TITLE>L-36 And so one of the children picked it up, and we would feel the pages. No, it looked all right. But right down at the bottom, it was two pages sticking together, see, and the 16th chapter was on this side, and then the continuation of the 16th chapter come up on the other side. And the 17th started on the... see, it's just perfectly, exactly the same, across. And that India paper, real thin, sticking together, and I was reading out of the 17th chapter all the time, instead of the 16th chapter.

L-37   And I thought, "God, why did You do that? Why would there be such a thing now?" That's me feeling, you know, to see what it was all about, 'cause I think nothing happens by chance. And I was thinking about the comfort of this brother here, coming, telling me, "'Hold steady,' him being a priest, 'hold steady, maybe God is going to do something,'" or something in that manner. And I thought, "How could that be?"

L-38 And then, sitting there, like a thunderbolt out of Heaven it came to me. Now, this might not make sense to you, but it does to me, see.

L-39   I remember, in Luke the 4th chapter, that Jesus entered the synagogue at Nazareth, where He was brought up at, as His custom was to go into the church on the... synagogue, on the Sabbath. And when He did, we notice there that the priest gave Him the Bible, the Scroll. Jesus, looking through the Scroll, found the certain place, Isaiah 61, and He read the Scripture. Then He handed the Bible back to the minister. And then as He turned to the audience, all eyes was upon Him. And He said:
... This day this Scripture is fulfilled...

L-40 And we know how peculiar that Scripture reading was, because He just took a portion of the 1st and 2nd verses, of Isaiah 61:1 and 2. But He read down this far, where, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, to bind up the brokenhearted, and to--to (give) heal the sick, and to open the blinded eyes, and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord," and then He stopped. For, the next was to bring judgment; that would apply to His Second Coming, not His first coming. And He stopped, and turned around, and said, "This day this Scripture is fulfilled." How direct that was!

L-41   And what a--what a--a statement it was to the teachers and to the people that were present, that He could make this plain to the people, "This day this Scripture is fulfilled." For here He was, the Messiah, yet they didn't believe it. Here He was, the anointed One for that hour. Every bit of His ministry, from His birth up, had proved to be what He was, and yet they could not believe it. What a statement! But He could say today...

L-42 And if a person opened up their eyes, they could have knew, known what day that they were living in, for that was His hour, for He was right there doing exactly what the Scriptures, all the prophets, had said would happen in that day. Here He was doing exactly what God had prophesied would happen! How did they miss seeing it? They should have. known right quick, seeing what His ministry was. There is the Messiah. They would have known it, because He said, "The Scripture is fulfilled."

L-43   I think of today. And notice what that was as the priest gave the Word over. The Word was read, handed back to the priest. And the last quotation out of my text that I had, and my Scriptures wrote down, was Saint Luke 17:30, where, Jesus referring back to this day that we're living in, "rich, Laodicea Age," and yet rotten in politics, church politics and national politics, just as rotten as it could be. And then He said, "As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the coming end time," notice what He said there, "in the day that the Son of man will be revealed."

L-44 See, "In the days that the Son of man will be revealed!" I want to draw your attention.


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