<TITLE>07. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 You think Isaiah cursed the people like that? No. But by seeing a vision which God had already knew before the foundation of the world by foreknowledge, and Isaiah looked in and seen what was coming, and Isaiah reported what God had said before the foundation of the world. For this Word here tonight is only what God said before the world was created. And the...
A prophet, and it's call a gift of knowledge. Many times a prophet is referred to in the Bible as an eagle. A eagle can go higher in the air than any other bird, 'cause he--he's built. He's a heaven bird. He sails way above. He has it all to himself. There's no other birds around him. And he goes way high. And being high up, he can see far off. And his eagle eyes, unmatched with any other bird, can never match his eye. The hawk hasn't got a chance. See? When he--to the eagle, because the eagle can look far away. Well now--now, when you're high up and can see far away, then when you come back down, you can tell what is ahead of us if we're traveling that way.

L-21 And God takes His eagles of the Old Testament there, and He raises them up, and lets them see far off things that's coming. Then when they come down, they can predict what they see. You understand now? They are eagles. And I guess many, some of you scholars here has read Pember's "Early Ages" and lot of those and, "Preacher and Prayer."
And so I was wondering one time when I was at the Cincinnati zoo at Cincinnati, Ohio. I seen a sight that struck me. Being that I'm a lover of nature, I love animals. I was a game warden for years. And I love nature, and I love to study the--the habits of animals and everything, 'cause I--I--I love them. They're the creation of God. And He's give them to us.

L-22 So watching that, and I was studying the eagle. And I seen a sight one time that broke my heart. And it was an eagle that had been caged. He'd been caught somewhere in a trap. And he was just put in the cage, and he didn't understand why he should be caged up. And that eagle would get back, and he'd set those big wings, and he'd hit that cage. And the feathers would fly when he'd flop his big wings against the cage, till it'd knock him backward. And he'd raise up, and shake his head, and fly again. He'd fall on his back, and he'd look upwards, and his eyes looked around. There he was; he was in a cage. Mankind had caged him. A super race to him, had caged him. And he was--he was a heaven bird. And he looked through those bars and longed to soar with his big mighty wings. What could he do with them any more? He--he looked into the heavens. It was a sad sight to see that eagle.
But I seen a sadder sight than that, when I seen the sons of God caged down in denominations, and under barriers, and isms, till they know that there's something in them would like to spring forth. They were made to be sons of God. But a super person, the devil, has tied them down in such places, till they just roll their heads and wonder. "There is a fountain somewhere; oh, if I could reach to it." That's the saddest sight I ever seen: men who was made to be sons of God, and yet let the devil tie them down under their God given privileges.


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