<TITLE>14. Par 128-146</TITLE>L-128 What if it'd be that way tonight? There's five hundred million, supposed to be, I think, Christians in the world, about that figure, just a round figure. If the rapture would come tonight then, in the living going, there'd only be five hundred people. Well, there's that many missing any day, almost, that they can't 'count for. The Bride will be taken away and we'd wonder what it's all about; and the people going right on preaching, saying they're "getting this or that, and the other," and look what a deception that would be. Say if it would be that; I don't say it is, I don't know, I'm no authority of that. God's the judge of that. But look how easy it could happen, in all figures and things, how it could be proven.

L-129   Why didn't Korah see That? Why didn't Dathan see That?

L-130 Why didn't Ahab see It? When Ahab... When Jehosaphat went down to Ahab, he said, "Ahab, we're in trouble. Do you know God gave us this land, Joshua divided it up? You know this piece of ground up here that the Syrians taken, isn't that our ground?"
"Yes!"

L-131 "Our children's hungry, and the Syrians (our enemy) are feeding their children, filling their bellies with the wheat that ought to be ours." That's scripturally right. Said, "Will you help me to go up there and take that?"

L-132 Now, sometimes a good man under the influence of evil will give in. Better watch, church, watch real close.

L-133   Now, the first thing you know, Jehosaphat, being a great religious man, he said, "Well, we should go up, sure, to our church, we're all the same people." But they wasn't the same people! No! He said, "Well, our church is your church, our people is your people. Sure, we'll go," he said, "but let's consult the Lord first."

L-134 So he said, O Ahab, "No doubt, we should have thought of that. Well, we'll..."

L-135 "Is there a prophet of the Lord?"

L-136 Said, "I got a seminary full of them. I got four hundred down here, the best ones there is. They all got their Ph.D., L.L.D., their double L.D.'s, and everything else that goes with it. They're every one..." Now remember, they were Hebrew prophets, from a school of prophets.

L-137 Said, "Bring them up, let's hear them."

L-138   Now, I believe it was Zedekiah (the great head over the bishop, all of them) come up there, and he had the inspiration. He had inspiration, absolutely. He come up there, and made himself two big iron horns. He said, "You know, THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'You're going to take these horns and push the Syrians plumb out of the country.'"

L-139 Well, all the rest of them prophesied, "That's exactly right!" Every one of them, the whole seminary, in agreement. See?

L-140 Ahab said, "You see?"

L-141 Jehosaphat, being kind of spiritual, you know, he hadn't dried up altogether, he said, "But isn't there just another one somewhere, that we could consult?"

L-142 "What do you want to consult others, when the whole Ecumenical (the whole council), it says 'It's all right'?" (Excuse me, see.) "The whole thing said, 'That's what we ought to do.'" See? "That's what we should do."

L-143 He said, "But isn't there just another one somewhere?" That odd one, you know.

L-144 He said, "Yes, there is. There's one, Micaiah the son of Imla, but I hate him." Always that way. "I hate him because he's always just bawling our people out, and cursing me, and telling me all the evil about me. I hate the man!"

L-145 Said, "Ah, don't let the king say so." Said, "Go get him."

L-146   So they went over there to the son of Imla, some of the--the bishops, or, some of the elders, and went over there, said, "Now, listen, do you want to get back in the organization again? You say the same thing that they say, they bring you back."


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