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forward ONLY BY THE POWER OF GOD'S SPIRIT! That is GOD'S MESSAGE
TO US. Zerubbabel is the TYPE! The message is for US!
Continue: "Who art thou, O great mountain?" (verse 7--
speaking of the coming "Beast" in Europe), "before Zerubbabel thou
shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the Headstone
thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it." That Head
stone (Eph. 2:20) is CHRIST, the HEAD STONE, rejected by the
builders, but HEAD of His CHURCH!
Continue: "Moreover the Word of the Eternal came unto me
saying, The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this
HOUSE; his hands shall also finish it."
Now compare that with Ephesians 2:19-21: "Now therefore ye
are . . . fellow citizens with the saints, and of the Household of
GOD. And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief CORNER STONE; in
whom all the building (CHURCH) fitly framed together groweth unto
an holy TEMPLE in the Lord."
I do not mean at all that Zerubbabel was a type of me. But
this does show that it is God's PRINCIPLE by which He works--which
is His WAY--His WILL--that when a MAN was used to START that
building, it was God's will to FINISH IT by that same man. But in
this case it is not a man ALONE--but a MAN-AND-WIFE TEAM TOGETHER.
For that temple WAS a type of God's CHURCH, called a TEMPLE (for
the Holy Spirit) in Ephesians 2:21.
When King Hezekiah had reached the time to die, he turned
and prayed to God in tears, and God spared his life and added 15
years. Every time any man, in recorded Bible experience, ever
HUMBLED himself and turned to God for mercy, GOD HAS GRANTED
IT--HEARD, and ANSWERED!
Even the wicked King Ahab whom Elijah contended with, one
of the most evil men pictured in the Bible, HUMBLED himself when
Elijah told him the terrible END God had pronounced on him. (I
Kings 21:17-27.)
Did God hear even that wicked man--who apparently DID NOT
repent, but humbled himself and fasted BECAUSE of FRIGHT at what he
had heard was to happen? HE DID. "And the word of the ETERNAL
came to Elijah . . . saying, Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself
before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring
the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil
upon his house." (Verses 28-29.)
God's ministers here all feel God has shown us that He WILL
heal Mrs. Armstrong. That blockage is still there. But the past
two days God has given us a few small signs of His intervention for
our encouragement. God is GIVING us more and more of CHRIST'S
faith. He is drawing us closer to Him by the day.
We have HUMBLED ourselves before Him--we have CONFESSED our
short-comings and our sins--we have REPENTED! I have changed my
entire DAILY ROUTINE--my entire life. The FASTING and PRAYER has