<TITLE>18. Par 184-200</TITLE>L-184 He said, "Oh, yes, there is another one, but he don't even belong to this council." Uh-huh. "He's an outcast. It's Micaiah, the son of Imla, and I hate him." See? Said, "They won't receive him into fellowship, and he's just a common outcast to begin with. And he's constantly, everything he prophesies, he just won't encourage my seminary a bit." Uh-huh. "And he does all these things evil, he's always prophesying evil against me, just to be different."

L-185 "Oh," Jehoshaphat said, "don't let the king say such a thing as that. But I'd like to hear what this, man's got to say."

L-186   Said, "Well, we'll find him." So they sent out somewhere in the wilderness, and they sent a man.

L-187 Said, told him, said, "Now, on your road back now, I want to tell you something. Do you want to get back in the denomination again?" See? "Do you want to have fellowship with all of them again? If you do, say the same thing the district presbyter says, say the same thing the bishop says, and they'll bring you right back. Now is the time to do it."

L-188 But could you imagine a anointed, true prophet of God compromising on one Word of God? No indeedy!

L-189 He said, "As the Lord lives, I'll only say what God says!" We need a son of Imla. "As the Lord lives, I'll only say what He says." That's right, "What He says."

L-190   So when they got down there before the people, all the prophets, they said, "Now, you say they...

L-191 He said, "Wait, give me tonight, let me see what the Lord's going to say." So, that night, the Lord appeared to him in a vision and told him what to say.

L-192 The next morning he said, "What do you say, Imla?" when they was all standing out... I mean "Micaiah, son of Imla," said, "what do you say now? We're all here together, all of the priests, and all of the prophets, and all of the kings, and everything setting here together. What do you say now at this great council?"

L-193 Said, "Go on up," said, "but I seen Israel scattered like sheep having no shepherd."

L-194 And Ahab said, "What did I tell you! That renegade can only prophesy evil against me!"

L-195 How could he say anything else when God was saying the same thing? A prophet's supposed to be the mouth of God speaking, not his own thinking. His... You see, he's com-... so completely yielded to God, he don't want to hurt nothing, but he has to say what God says, 'cause he has no control of It hisself. See?

L-196   He said, "Now, didn't I tell you?"

L-197 And then up come the--the big man with the horn, and smacked him in the mouth, he said, "Which a-way went the Spirit of God when It went out of me?" In other words, let me try to break that down, "Looky here in... Looky here, I want to tell you something, Micaiah. Do you realize that I am a master in the Scripture? Do you realize that I have the anointing?" Or, "the Baptism," we'd say it today. "Do you realize that I have that?"

L-198 Imla said, "I'm not doubting that."

L-199 He said, "But listen! The Spirit of God has told me, and bore witness with all my four hundred here, that we're 'going to push the Syrians out of the land.' And who are you to come around and say that our great king is going to be slain?" He said, "The Spirit of God told me that."

L-200   Let me just break it down so you'll understand it. And maybe we find Micaiah say, "Last night in the vision, sir, I saw God setting upon a Throne. And I saw all the host of Heaven gathered around Him, uh-huh, and they were having a council in Heaven. They said, 'Who can we get to go down and deceive Ahab? Because under the Throne here is a prophet, a true prophet, his name is Elijah. And he has prophesied by My Word and said that "That wicked Ahab, because he slew Naboth, the dogs will lick the blood of that wicked man," and we've got to make That come to pass because It's already been spoken, It's THUS SAITH THE LORD! It has to come to pass, got to be there. And how are we going to do it?'"


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