<TITLE>14. Par 52-54</TITLE>L-52 After while the wind would blow again. And they'd go "whoo." And I thought, "Well, I don't understand this. Lord, why do You want me to stop here for?" I felt like shouting, but I didn't know why I wanted to shout. I thought, "What would You want me to shout here in this graveyard for? These big old trees, once were great big trees, but now there ain't nothing but... They don't even have no bark on them." And I thought, "Oh, I see, uh-huh, one time it was just like big churches. I see where Joel said, 'What the palmerworm has left, the caterpillar eaten. What the caterpillar left, the locust eaten. What the Methodists left, the Baptists eat. And what the Baptist left, the Pentecost eaten.' What's happened to the tree? It's all dead. That's what's the matter, hasn't got no life in it." That's true.
And when God sends a great big mighty rushing wind on these great big old cold formal churches, these big tombstones, the only thing they do is moan and groan, "Umm, days of miracles is past." "Umm, ain't no such thing as Divine healing." "Umm, they're a bunch of holy-rollers; ain't nothing to them. Umm." They're trees all right; they're churches all right, but they're dead. Hallelujah. That's right. Great big old tombstones and that's all there is to it. Dead formal religion, God deliver us from such. Hallelujah.
That wind would come again like a rushing mighty wind from the heaven; it'd come down through. Them old trees couldn't bend, they were too dead. See, that's the way the Holy Ghost hits through these old churches and things, Pentecost too: say, "Umm, oh, the presbyters would put us out if we had a revival there." Whoo, spooky. Yes. Lord, help us. Life's been burnt out. Creeds and denominations, everything else has burnt the Tree of God down.
I thought, "What a spooky place."
"Days of miracles is past. Ohhh, we don't believe it." And the Holy Ghost pouring right down through the building. Yes.

L-53 I thought, "Lord, what does all this mean?" I thought, "That's what Joel seen. He seen all those trees eat up, the vines of God eat up. What the palmerworm left, the caterpillar eaten. What the caterpillar left, the locust eaten. All eat it down; it's dead. The tree, old form is still stand there like he said they'd have a form of godliness."
And I said, "It's standing there, but what's going to be?" But You said, "I will restore, saith God." I thought, "Why You sending that wind for?"
Then I happened to notice, coming up under the undergrowth, come some little trees about that high. The same kind of trees, only were new, they had bark on them; they had leaves on them; they had life in them. Every time the wind would hit them, they'd just frolic back and forth. I said, "That's it."

L-54 "I will restore," saith the Lord! "I will restore all the days of the caterpillar was. I'll restore all the blessings the Lutheran had, the Baptists had, the Methodists had, I will restore, saith the Lord." A tree that won't stand stiff, but when the Holy Ghost falls they're flexible, just... We might be green, but we're flexible, brother. Hallelujah. That's one thing about us. We may not be Doctors of Divinity and have all the theology, but we're green enough to bend to the power of God and rejoice and have a real good old fashion Holy Ghost meeting, is what we need today, brother, more than anything else, sweeping the world. Amen!
I thought, "Lord, truly, You will restore, saith the Lord." I thought, "But what You shaking them for?"
The Lord said to me, "You see, if I shake them, it loosens them up at the roots so they can reach down and get a better hold." Amen.


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