<TITLE>25. Par 283-293</TITLE>L-283   As Job back there under his great strain, my, everything took away from him! The devil said, "Let me have him. I'll make him curse You to Your face." And then he broke loose.

L-284 Said, "Don't you take his life." And he did (he) all but take his life.

L-285 And his wife even turned against him. Said her breath had become strange to him. In other words, she--she would have nothing to do with him. She didn't seem to love him any more, just pushed him away. "Job, you're miserable! Why don't you just curse God, and die?"
Said, "You talk like a foolish woman." Oh, my!

L-286 See, he held right to what he had. Now, he was a prophet. He said, "I am not a sinner. I have offered the provided sacrifice." Amen. He knew where he was standing. He was on the Word. No matter what the others said, he was right there at the Word. Then that great tremendous hour... Said, "You speak like a foolish woman." He said, "The Lord gave, the Lord take it away; why, blessed be the Name of the Lord!" Said, "I come in this world without anything. I come here, naked, I'll go out the same way. Blessed be the Name of the Lord!" Setting there, broke out in boils, his kids dead, he was poverty-stricken, and his friends all turned against him, his church members, everything else, scraping himself with a... And what a miserable wretch! None of you has ever been through that yet. Still, he held to that Word.

L-287   He was an eagle. Oh, my! You can't keep the film over his eyes all the time. No, no. All at once, standing on that Word, what happened? The skies peeled back, the thunders begin to roar, the lightning begin to flash, and Job looked up and saw the vision, said, "I know my Redeemer liveth. At the last days He'll stand upon this earth. And though after the skin worms has destroyed this body, bones and all, that quickening Power will be there. I'll see God for myself, Whom I shall see for myself. My eyes shall behold and not another." Is that right? "Though after my reins be consumed within me, though after the skin worms that's in my body now, will destroy it."

L-288   You know, skin worms don't come to you. That worm is already in you, your own skin worms. Did you ever notice that? Put you in a coffin, and put it air tight; the bugs will eat you up, just the same, 'cause they're in you. You are just a bunch of bugs, to begin with, on the inside.

L-289 "Though the skin worms, my skin worms destroys me, my flesh, yet in my flesh I'll see God."

L-290 And on that resurrection morning! Glory! Hallelujah! Matthew, this great writer, 27:51, said, "After He was resurrected from the dead, that the Old Testament saints, many of those that slept in the dust of the earth, come up out of the grave, and entered into the city and appeared to many." That quickening Power, still on them bones of Elijah when there wasn't no more bones, still on Job when there wasn't a spoonful of dust left of his body. But the quickening Power was still there.

L-291 "If this Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He'll also quicken your mortal body." Notice, quickly now.

L-292   You say, "Oh, I wish I lived back..." You live in a better time. Now if you all...

L-293 I see you putting down some Scriptures. All right, put down First Thessalonians 4:16. Notice how beautiful, see. In the... "The saints, them that sleep in Christ, will God bring with Him," see, saints in the grave, resting. Like Elijah was; some like Elisha was; see, some of them be quickened, some will be taken, some will be in the grave. They will go with Him. "The Trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. And we which alive and remaining shall be caught up together with them, to meet the Lord in the air." The quickening Power on the living; the quicken Power on the dead. See?


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