TYPES SET IN THE PROPHET FOR THE PEOPLE. 365 I'll make them sick to hear the sound Then sick like thee they'll surely come; And weak like thee they'll soon appear: Thou knowest, one day thou could'st not bear, For on thy bed thou'st often fell, And can'st not stand the day all through, I'll make them weak and sick like thee, After the three months that Joanna's appetite was taken from bread, it was restored for five weeks: and on the 24th of October taken from her again, and she has not been able to eat bread since; therefore she eats but one meal a day, which is her dinner; but is so weak, faint, and sick, that she knows not how to abide up four or five hours together, but is obliged to lie down upon the bed every day, go to bed early, and rise late. "The Type to man in thee is strong→→ "Tis time for all to fear That now in mockery do go on: And so 'tis here, the end I'll clear, I told thee that in the tenth year I say, in thee for all to sec What shortly will appear. So weigh the whole and judge your fall, If you this way go on, It is a warning deep for all That now do mock her hand. And so will end your destiny, The shadows here you all may fear, THE TYPES PLACED IN EZEKIEL CONTINUED. 367 I tell you, in the following year, In her was plac'd, ye fallen race? Her appetite, 'tis known to ME, And those that in her faith do stand, For they'll grow wise, and I'll chastise Could things go on by her weak hand I tell you, No; they all shall know-- For I'll appear in wisdom here And strike their learning mute. Thou knowest not how to persevere, Continuation of the Bible, from Thursday night, Nov. 1. Sunday evening, Nov. 4, 1904. "Here I have shewed the likeness with they and the prophet. As in me there is no variableness, or shadow of turning, then why do men seek out so many inventions, to say I must vary and turn from the whole, when I said I am God, and changeth not? Now let them answer from Ezekiel v. 1-Son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thy head, and upon thy beard; then take thee a balance to weigh and divide the hair. Now as I know men are mocking the parables that I have ordered thee to put in print, and mocking the things I have ordered thee to do, by Sealing the People, for their protection, that now are looking to ME for REDEMPTION; and ordered 1 thee to seal up Satan's destruction; now as all this appears foolish to mankind, and placed as types and shadows of things to come. Let them answer ME, from the prophet, whether these things, I have commanded thee to do, are more simple than what I commanded the prophet to do? Could I not bring all the judgments upon the people, that I threatened, without ordering the prophet to cut off his hair by two different instruments? Mark the chapter and weigh it through, what I commanded the prophet to do, and how I brought it as types and shadows to the people, of what I should do unto them. Tell ME, ye blind leaders of the blind, when I pronounced judgments by the prophets, without setting some type and shadow in them, to set signs before them? Now let this be answered by the learned, why I should do all these things at first, to set types and shadows, from what I should do at first, and vary from them at last? Now let them weigh Chapter viii. 8-Then he said unto ME, son of man, dig now in the wall and when I had digged the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me go in and behold the wicked abomination that they do here. Now let the learned answer ME from this vision, what abomination did he hear from the creeping things or the abominable beasts? Yet from these things I shewed him the abomination that was in man: but could I not tell him what abomination there was in the sons of men, without shewing him the vision? Chapter x. 13-As for the wheels, it was cried unto them, O wheel: and every one had four faces. Now let the learned men appear And answer my demand, Yet know at first I so did burst, These visions all by ME were plac'd To shew the sons of men, NO JUDGMENTS PROPHESIED WITHOUT TYPES. 369* From Types at first my Bible's plac'd, And so, I tell you, at the last So here's a wheel beyond men's skill, The faces here I now shall clear, That now do come in heart to join, So now take care, those that mock here, My ways to man how could I clear Had I said then they should be slain, The COMING of their LORD; For all was past, as it was plac'd, But from the vision here, These visions strong stand deep for man, The ending now draws near. So learned men may now begin These visions to explain, And when their wisdom I have seen, I'll answer thee again. The chapters through I bid them go And so explain the word; But if they say they do not know, That I'll work round for man ; Ezekiel xiii. 2-Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, hear ye the words of the Lord: thus saith the Lord God, |