<TITLE>12. Par 86-97</TITLE>L-86   Now, God knew that them man was so puffed up and so full of theology that they thought they had everything right. They had never noticed the Word for the hour. So God said, "You will succeed; go on down." And when Micaiah said that, that made them prophesying under an evil spirit. They'd have jerked the plug out of the telephone, or turned off the radio, or done anything; they heard That coming against them, got up and walked out. But look what happened. Now, Micaiah had to check his vision with the written Word, therefore he knowed.

L-87 He said, "When I come... Put that man in prison, give him waters of sorrow and bread of sorrow. When I return, I'll deal with him."

L-88 He said, "If you come back at all, God never spoke to me." That's when he knows his vision is exactly with every Word for that hour. It was Ahab's time.

L-89 Brother, sister, this is the hour and the time of the calling out of Babylon. The evening Lights are here. Walk in the Light while it is light. Notice, the believers saw the Word manifested and believe It. Jesus said, "My sheep know My Voice, My Word, My signs of the age. A false one they'll not follow."

L-90   Now let's get to our text, 'cause I see I'm going to get away. I'm wanting to emphasize on that prayer line a lot. Let's get back to the text now we got under consideration, here for a minute. Well, it'll happen again like it always did, as usual.

L-91 God sent His prophet, John, as His Word had said, promised in Malachi 3, "Behold, I send My messenger before My face, to prepare the way." John witnessed the same thing. And we find out also, in Isaiah 40:3, that Isaiah said, "There will be a voice of a prophet, one crying in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the Lord.'" See? All those prophecies! And--and look, notice quickly, the Scripture identified him.
When they said, "Who are you? Are you the Messiah?"
He said, "I am not."
"Are you Jeremiah? The prophets, or one of them?

L-92 He said, "I am not. But I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, as saith the prophet Isaiah."

L-93 You think they would believe that? No, sir. Why? He didn't come through their church. He wasn't of their... See, he went in the wilderness at the age of nine years old, and come out at thirty. His message was too great to go through a school of theology; he was the one to introduce the--the Messiah. And everybody would be pulling him this way and that way. And God sent him in the wilderness, after the death of his father, Zechariah. And he was a priest, but he never followed the line of his father.

L-94 Cause, prophets don't come out of such things as that. They come from the rugged lands, the wilderness. No man knows where they come from, or how they arise on the scene, or any of their history. They just come right out and preach the Word, and God takes them off, and away they go; condemns that generation, and moves on into His Word, waiting for the great day.

L-95   The church did not believe him, because he was not known of them. They had no record of his ordination on their books, so therefore they refused him. See, they didn't believe God's vindicated Word, plainly, letter by letter. See? Malachi 3, two Scriptures to vindicate him, Malachi 3 and Isaiah 40:3. See, both those Scriptures spoke of a man coming, preparing the way of the Lord. He met every specification of it.

L-96 He was to be a prophet. "I'll send to you Elisha." And there he was, in every rugged way. Watch how his nature blended in with Elijah. Elijah was a man of the wilderness, so was John; the outdoors. He wasn't a smooth man, he was a rugged man.

L-97 Notice again, Elijah was a woman hater, he told Jezebel about all of her paint, and where to get on and off at. So was John. Jezebel tried to kill Elijah, swore by her gods that she'd take his head off of him. So did Herodia. See?


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