<TITLE>02. Par 7-13</TITLE>L-7   Now let us read just a--a verse or two here out of the--the 7th chapter of the Book of Acts, beginning with the 44th verse.
Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he has appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
Which also our father that came after brought in with Jesus unto the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
But Solomon built him a house.
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Heaven is my throne,... earth is my footstool: what house will you build me: saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
Has not my hands made all these things?

L-8   Upon This, the reading of this Scripture, I want to say the few words that I want to say before Brother Pearry brings the morning message.

L-9 I find this one of the great moments of my visit to Tucson. I come here because that I was led to come here. I come here because that the Holy Spirit, through a vision, sent me here. I know that might seem strange, maybe. But He, as far as I know, anything that I know of God, I was sent by a vision to Tucson. I've wondered how I ever was sent to this desert place. And then here where there is...

L-10 Spiritually speaking, over the city, I don't know of any place that's any more spiritual dead, than in the city of Tucson. There is war between the churches. There is fusses between the congregations. There is no unity, and everyone grabbing, and holding, and squeezing, and trying to get this one, and proselyting. It is a desert, spiritually speaking, also.

L-11   But then I read in the Bible, that where God called Moses away from his loved ones and all that was dear to him, and sent him into the wilderness, to write the Laws of the Bible. That was the Old Testament, the first four Books, Genesis, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy, Exodus. He... I never said them just in routine, but that's four Books. That really is the Old Testament. Because, the rest of It was what the prophets said, in the Psalms of David, and so forth, but the Chronicles of the kings. But this was the fundamentals of the Old Testament. Was Moses wrote them after he was called from his homeland, where he had been born and brought up among his people, and was sent into the desert, to write this Book of the Old Testament.

L-12   Then I find that in the Book of the New Testament, where Paul, which is the author, or not the author, but the writer of the New Testament. He also was drove out from among his people, and, by the Spirit, into Arabia, where he was three and a half years, to find the inspiration. And Paul is the chief writer of the New Testament. Now, there is Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but they were scribes that just wrote what Jesus said as they followed Him along. And, but, you take the Book to Timothy, and to the Romans, and to the Hebrews, and so forth, Paul received inspiration to write the New Testament; taking all the Old Testament as a shadow, and setting it in order. And God honored it, and made it the New Testament.

L-13   And now if the Old Testament had to be drove from the... the writer had to be drove from his people, into the wilderness, to get inspiration to write the Old Testament. And in the New Testament, the writer was drove by the Author, into a desert place, to get the inspiration to write the New Testament. And the Books are sealed with Seven Seals; it would also require the same, I believe, in these days, to open those Seven Seals. To leave what you hold dear, to what you cherish, and a little home that was given me by the people, and amongst all my people and friends, and a church that was flourishing, and had nothing lacking; and to--to leave that, pull right away from it, and move away, out into a desert where you knew nobody, and everything against you.


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