<TITLE>07. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 But God told him that was the way of escape and that's the way he was building away. As Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." There'd be a program on earth that would seem just that crazy to people (That's right.), just that foolish. But yet, it would be God's program. Because it would be taking God at His Word. And they'd be building away on an ark. And that ark is Jesus Christ. That's right. That's right, trying to get converts in to Him.
Now, No... God told Noah that that was the only way of escape there would be. And it was the only way. And he preached for a hundred and twenty years. And the people ignored him, laughed at him, made fun of him, mocked, scoffed. As it was in the days of Noah, eating... What kind of a world was they having? Eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage: all kinds of different things, just as they're doing now. They had a civilization even was greater than what we've got now. If you don't think that's so, try, let us--let us try to reproduce the pyramid down there. Let us try to build that, or the sphinx, or something on that order. Let us try to make a mummy like the Egyptians did in their embalming, find out how--how far we are away from the civilization of that day. We're far, far away from it.

L-25 In a day of a greater civilization than this, a man out there building on an ark, that said it was going to rain, and it had never even been a cloud in the skies. For two thousand years since the world had been in existence, there'd never been a cloud, a clap of thunder, lightning or nothing else. But yet, God told him it was going to do it. Because His great Spirit was going to push this world out of its cater, out there and lean it back and cause clouds to come. If God said so, it's going to be just the way God said it was going to be.
And Noah built right away, pitching the ark, putting the tar in it just the same as the thing was setting in water. Now, it only wasn't going to rain, but it was going to come a flood that was going to wash the whole world over. And Noah believed God, warned of God, moved by faith, and built the ark, working in God's provided way.

L-26 My. Oh, I can just imagine as he's beating away at the last part that was on, the people standing around laughing, say, "Hey, what you going to do with that big old thing? What..." Making fun of him, everything. He just built away, and stood on the end of it preaching just as hard as he could.
And then finally, there come a day when God got tired of it. And I can just imagine seeing the funny feeling coming over the earth. Just about like there is today, everybody restless, "What's fixing to happen?" You go out on the street and talk to any sinner you want to; you could go into a barroom, and everybody knows that something's fixing to happen. That's right. Something's fixing to happen. Judgment is on the world, and they see it.

L-27 Could you imagine a lamb out here eating in a field. And the poor little fellow can't see nothing, but he begins to feel restless, there's something fixing to happen. Crouching over yonder in the bushes is a lion coming up. It's just something about it, he could tell it; there's something fixing to happen. He can't see that lion, but he knows there's something wrong.
That's the way it is today, brother, there's setting a scene today with all of this conglomeration of blackness and darkness and sin and things that's going on in this world; they're setting a stage for the greatest drama that was ever acted out in all ages: the coming of Jesus Christ. And man cannot...
We cannot have the last day until people gets in the Spirit of the last day.


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