<TITLE>04. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 Joel, now... I seen some of you turning in your Bibles. I was waiting for you to get It open. Want to read just a portion of Scripture and have this portion under consideration for a few moments this afternoon. Don't forget tonight's service, the closing service. I wished you'd just get the sick all out and gather out a great host of people. You know this might be the last time I was ever in Shreveport with you until I meet you at glory.
Lot of things ahead of me, if God permits. Way in among the dark tribes of the--Africa, way into the jungles and countries of India amongst witch doctors, fire eaters, impersonators... And don't think they won't charge you and will challenge you right to the spot: stand right there just as brazen as they can be and challenge everything. You better know what you're speaking about. That's right.
But I've always thought, since I met you here at Shreveport, in those dark hours that streak up, when witch doctors and things, I thought, "Well, I had them all to raise their hand at Shreveport, and in California, and different places, that they'd be praying for me. They're praying right now." See?

L-16 A little lady who was in the meeting, from up in Arkansas, here, not long ago, she and her sisters and her--their husbands, a lovely family called Babbs; they're setting here somewhere. Don't make me conspicuous to ask them to raise up or something. But she said, this morning, passing through by the--over the Tabernacle; she said, "Brother Branham, we pray every morning at four o'clock for you." I was just trying to figure up what time that would be in Africa. That's just right. Just keep that hour going. That's wonderful. Now.
The word of the Lord came unto Joel...
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, ... you inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your day, or even in the days of your fathers?
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and let their children tell another generation.
That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; ... that which the locust has left has the cankerworm eaten; ... that which the cankerworm has left has the caterpiller eaten.
Awake, ye drunkards,... weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because... the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
For a nation has come up... my hand, strong, without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has... cheek teeth of a great lion.

L-17 Now, in the next chapter, Joel, the 2nd chapter, this would be a horrible picture right here, the prophet speaking at the end time, if it wasn't for this 25th, 26th, and 27th verses of the 2nd chapter. Listen, God giving consolation to the believer.
... I will restore unto you the years that the locust has eaten, and the cankerworm,... the caterpiller,... palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that has dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
May His blessings be added to His Word now, as we think on these subjects for the next twenty-five or thirty minutes. Let you out early. Come back around five-thirty, so they'd be giving out the prayer cards and getting ready for a great service tonight.

L-18 Now, notice in this reading, the setting of this Scripture with Joel, God was... He was one of the last prophets. God was using Joel to foretell. Or God never does anything, any major thing, unless He foretells and gives a time of warning before He does things. Joel seen the coming of the Holy Spirit. He saw plumb down into this day. He saw the coming of the Lord.
Now, and in this part we're speaking of now, He was speaking of the days that firmly I believe that we're living in now.


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