<TITLE>17. Par 66-69</TITLE>L-66 I went up, walked down the road a little piece, and went into an ordinary little restaurant, little road place. And when I walked in, behind the door, the door shut behind me real hard. And I looked, and there stood a--a policeman with his arm around a woman, playing a slot machine. And I... Gambling's illegal in Ohio. And I thought, "The law, the very law..." And the man was my age, perhaps married and had a family at home. I thought, "Oh, my, corruption, filth."
I looked back at a table back there, and some young boys, and a lady, about... little, young lady, about eighteen, twenty years old, they ought to been in Sunday school somewhere. Those boys drinking, back there, and, oh, the way they was abusing that girl. And her standing there, and letting them do it. And I happen to look over to my right, and there was an elderly woman setting there with little old clothes on--she oughtn't to have had on--real old, about sixty-five, maybe better. And she had a purple make-up on her mouth, and on her toe nails. And--and her arms (poor old thing) was flabby. And--and her hair was boyish, globbed in little kinky curls up on it. She's trying to light a cigarette--drunk and two drunken men with her.

L-67 And I thought, "Oh, God, how can You look at such as that?" I thought, "My little Sarah and Rebekah going to have to be raised up in a world like that? God, why don't You just destroy the thing, take it all off. I--I--I don't see how You can stand it, to look at such a thing as that."
I was standing there criticizing her. The two drunks with her got up and went out, to be gone just for a while. And just then, I felt something moving on me. I went back, and set down at a little booth to the side; nobody paid any attention to me yet. It was kinda dark in the corner. And there, God gave me a vision, and changed my mind, and things.

L-68 I looked there, and I saw a world. And around the world was, looked like a red streak, just a spray. Something said, "This is the Blood of the Lord Jesus, Who died to save sinners. That's the reason that God can't destroy; He can't see her. He can't. Every mortal being has a right, and has a right to accept their salvation, until they die and go beyond that Blood. They don't have to stand in judgment; they're already judged: "The day you eat thereof, that day you die," But as long as you're here, you got a right to the Tree of Life, if you'll accept it.
Then I looked, and above it there, stood the Lord Jesus, in a vision. And I seen His thorns on His head, and the Blood running down His face, and big mockery spit over His precious beard. And He was jerking His head, like that, ever once in a while, jumping like that. I thought, "What is that, my Lord?"

L-69 And He said, "That's your sin." And I seen that the Blood of Jesus, to my own sins, was acting like a bumper. If it have went beyond that stream of Blood there, that was around the earth, when He died to settle the sin question, if it have went beyond that, then God would've killed me. But...?... order... Just like the bumper to the car, to keep your car from being hurt, the bumper catches the lick. And the Blood of Jesus catches your sins. "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they're doing. Father, forgive them."


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