<TITLE>03. Par 16-23</TITLE>L-16   In the Holy Scriptures, I want to read a text here; found over in the Book of St. Luke, at the 24th chapter, the... I'm going to begin at the 13th verse, and read a portion of It.
And, behold, two of them went the same day from the village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore--score furlong.
And they talked together... these things which had happened.
And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and... Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
And he said unto them, What manner of communication are these that you have one to another, as you walk, and are sad?
And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered and said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and has thou not known all these things which have come to pass... in these days?
And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
And how the chief priests and the rulers delivered him to the... be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and besides all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
Yea, and certain of the women also of our company made us astonished, which were... at the sepulchre;
... when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said unto them... that said that he was alive.
And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but he they... but him they saw not.
Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe (not to believe) all that the prophets have spoken:
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and... entered into his glory?
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them... all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Words.

L-17   Now I take... if I call it a subject, I'd like to take this: The events... Modern Events Are Made Clear By Prophecy. Now, it's always been God's... the unchanging God's way to fore-... let His people foreknow before certain events happen.

L-18 If the people in the days of the Lord Jesus would have only have sought God and knowed what was just about to take place, they would not have condemned Jesus to death. But the reason it was, because the Scriptures had to be fulfilled, because the Jews had to be blinded. We all are aware of that.

L-19 Do you realize that that's promised again in this very age that we're living? The Laodicean Church Age, this seventh church age that we're in now, is naked, miserable, blind, and don't know it. The same as He blinded them back there for the purpose of getting His Message through to the elected people, He's promised to do the same thing today.

L-20   And if I'd say this to respects, and to all my brethren and sisters in Christ, one of these days somebody's going to say, "Isn't it written that these things should happen first?"

L-21 And it'll be the same way it was then, "Verily, I say unto you, he's already come, and they had did what they listed to him."

L-22 When they asked Him, said, "Why, the scribes say, and the Scriptures say that--that 'Elias must first come.'" They said that to Jesus.

L-23 He said, "He's already come, and you didn't know him." See? And that's perhaps the way it'll end up again.


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