<TITLE>12. Par 57-61</TITLE>L-57 Oh, my, I will tell you why I'm a holy-roller. Yes, sir. I see the sign coming up. Look at him there when they was going, the Church moving on.
Joel, saw through a... God put a binocular on his eyes one day and he looked down through that stream of time yonder, and he seen the Church. He seen this vine torn down, destroyed. He said, "What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten. What the caterpillar left, the locust eaten. What the locust eat, the--left another worm eaten." He said, "Could this Church to ever grow again."
But God said, "I will restore, saith the Lord."
Joel, that prophet, looking down through eyes of faith, he saw this vine coming up out of Genesis. He saw it all as far when they... There after Jerusalem, the Holy Ghost had fell, he seen the dark ages coming on. He seen that vine destroyed and pushed down to a stump.
But God said, "I will restore, saith the Lord."
Oh, my, if it wasn't for that, you might be able to kill the branches, but the Life is in the Church, which is Jesus Christ, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the earth. That spoken...?... forth. God will restore...?... the last...?... for the earth? He will get somebody who's going to believe Him. Amen. I feel like a holy-roller.
Look. Notice, "I will restore, saith the Lord."

L-58 I was going not long ago down--up here in Canada. Brother Rasmusson and I, we were going in Canada, Brother Baxter. We were going way up in the north woods. One night I was riding along there on my horse; there was a big old thicket of pines.
I just love the outdoors. I love to see God. That was my first Bible, God in His nature.
And I looked, and I passed by an old forest where it used to be a great towering pines, but a burn-over had come years ago and burned it all down. And it was just a big bunch of... It looked spooky, great big old white trees, the moon shining down against them, and them just parched white. And there come a wind blowing down through the mountains. And all them trees was doing--making the most mournful sound of "whooo, whooo." And I thought, "Oh, my, a spooky place."

L-59 Then that Scripture come on my mind, "What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten; what the caterpillar left, the locust eaten." But that was His Church. I thought, "Truly, Lord, after the reformation back yonder, what the Meth--Catholics left, the fundamentals eaten; what the fundamentals left, the Presbyterians eaten; what the Presbyterians left, the Baptist eaten; what the Baptist left, the Nazarenes eaten; until they eat the thing down. But 'I will restore, saith the Lord.'" Hallelujah. God's going to have a Church. "I will restore, saith the Lord."
I stood there and wondered. And here God sending that wind down, and all them big old trees was doing, going, "whoo."
I thought, "That's just exactly like that rushing mighty wind that come from heaven on the day of Pentecost. When it strikes them big old cold churches today like around Chicago the only thing they can hear is, mourn and cry and say, "The days of miracles is past."

L-60 Fundamental? They are trees, yes, sir. Yes, sir, they was once a tree. The Methodist, the Baptist, the Presbyterian, the Moody's, and all the rest, they've got great big towering spires. But they say the days of miracles is past, because the palmerworm has eaten all the blessings out of the church, till there's no more "hallelujahs," there's no more "praises to God." Hallelujah. There's no more Divine healing, speaking with tongues. They've carried it away...?... tongues: dead.

L-61 I stood and looked, there come the wind again. And instead of bending to it, they'd go, "Whooo."
I thought, "That's about like it." When God sends a revival in this city, they say, "Don't you believe such stuff. Days of miracles is past. There is no such a thing as Holy Ghost. Doctor So-and-so..."


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