<TITLE>05. Par 22-26</TITLE>L-22 Some time ago way down in Africa, I was reading a little story of how that watching a little lamb amongst the sheep raisers... The little fellow was out in a little place--grass eating, just as peaceful, watching him through binoculars. And as... All of a sudden the little fellow begin to become nervous. He, of course, he didn't know just why. So focusing the binoculars over to one side, way out in the great tall, high grass a great huge black maned lion had whiffed the air and had smelt the little fellow. Now, the sheep cannot smell the lion, but the lion can smell the sheep. And he was creeping up real easy. And the little fellow got so nervous. He just begin to run around in rings.

L-23 Then while thinking on this, I thought, "Look at the--our lovely land of America, represented in the Bible in Revelations 13 as the lamb, and how that it has become so nervous." Everybody's in a hurry. They're honking their horns, turning the corners; speak a word to them they're short and cut you off. And they'll go down the street paying fines for breaking speed limits just to get to a beer joint to drink a little while before they get home. What's the hurry? It used to be we had time to fellowship and to talk with each other. But now you haven't got time even to meet your neighbor. One doesn't know the other. Even to psychiatrist are breaking up and going to the insane institution. So many nervous, upset neurotics, I often wonder, "What does this?"

L-24 It's the same picture. It's the setting of a scene. Judgment's just about to strike this nation, and the--not only this nation but all the nations. And they are nervous. Their emotions... They cannot tell what makes them this way. The insane institutions are filled. The psychopathic wards are running over, and they don't know what's causing it. It's the coming of the Lord. It's always darkest before day, because it's the day pressing the dark together. And it's right now the darkest hour, because it's before the breaking of the day.

L-25 And a great drama has been set by the Word of God. The lambs are wondering. And there's a great enemy sneaking right up on us all the time. And what ought ministers to be doing, but to warning the people and then showing them of the signs of the time that we are now living. How that the Lord Jesus has come down among us showing signs, wonders, miracles, all kinds of things; and a great revival has swept the world over. And we just walk on as if we got three meals a day, and drive a Cadillac, "What difference does it make." Brother, it makes a lot of difference.
You say, "I belong to church." That's not the question. Jesus said, "Except a man be borned again he will in no wise enter. Many are called, few are chosen." Be a chosen. Don't be a miserable, halfway Christian. Come all the way to Christ. Be borned again.

L-26 And as God was setting this great drama, down from the heavens come Moses, down come Elijah, and there was Christ, three heavenly witnesses; Peter, James, and John, three earthly witnesses. God was going to do something. And He was going to let it be known by the witnesses of heaven and witnesses of the earth.
Now, I know, and you brethren, ministers here especially, the right way to approach this would be to say, "It was the order of the second coming of Christ." And that's truly. But the Word of God is so inspired, till It will link up with any other subject in the Bible 'cause it's all the Word of God.


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