<TITLE>03. Par 7-11</TITLE>L-7 And the next night, just as I'd walked to the platform, and they had two or three people on it. I felt something moving me. I looked around; there was an old lady. It told her how long she'd been crippled with arthritis, and where she been brought from, how she had been in this rolling wheel cart, not a chair. She had to lay flat. And the Holy Spirit told her, "Stand on her feet." And she was healed. And when she did, little Rebekah was setting behind her praying for her; that--that's what a done it.
And this girl that was healed the other night, I didn't know Rebekah was there, 'cause I couldn't even see it. But she said, "Daddy, when you called, when you called those prayer cards, she commenced to crying," said, "her number wasn't called." And little Rebekah was setting right in behind the chair. I believe that's right, Sister Woods, you know. She was setting right in behind the chair back there, praying that God would help this poor girl. And there she is come across and she was healed right there. Looks like I'm going to have a woman preacher sure as the world in the family. So there it is. All right.

L-8 Everybody, I hope, is feeling good with me this afternoon. I just kind of let down, you know, from the strain, and I want to speak to you a few minutes now from the Word. In Joel the 1st chapter... You who mark down the verses and so forth, I wish to read some out of the 1st and 2nd chapter of Joel:
The Word of the Lord came unto Joel.
Hear this, ye old men, give ear... you inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
Tell ye your children of it, and let them--let their--your children tell their children, and... another generation.
That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten;... that which the locust has left has the caterpillar eaten;... that which the caterpillar has left has the cankerworm eaten.

L-9 And then in the 12th, 11th and 12th verses we read this:
Be... ashamed, O you husband; howl, O you vineyard, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
The vine is dried up, and the... tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, and every tree of the field, is withered: because... the way of the sons of men.

L-10 Now, in the 2nd chapter of Joel and the 25th verse, we read this:
And I will restore unto you the years that the locust has eaten,... and the cankerworm, and the palmerworm, and all my great army which I sent among you.
And you shall eat in plenty, and shall be satisfied, and praise the Name of the Lord your God, that has dealt wonderfully with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
And may the Lord add His blessing to the Word.

L-11 Now, our text this afternoon is: "I Will Restore Unto You, Saith The Lord." And now, this great prophecy was given by Joel, the anointed of the Lord, and... (Shake my coat when it's about forty-five minutes, please.) And so it was--it was given to the prophet Joel, and he... God was a likening His heritage as a tree or a vine.
It's marvelous to see how our heavenly Father teaches us in parables. And that's about the way that I can understand it, is parables and types. And I'm a typologist myself. Like if I see what the Old Testament was, I have some conception of what it's going to be in the New Testament. For it was all shadows and types. If I can see what was then, I can see an idea of what it will be now.
In other words, if I've never seen a human being or myself, and I seen my shadow, I'd have some conception to know what I would look like by my shadow. Therefore, reading the Old Testament is a shadow of the New. And all those things were shadows and types of this day that we're living in now.


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