<TITLE>04. Par 13-16</TITLE>L-13 Now, and Noah preached a hundred and twenty years. And notice, he was laughed at. Now, Jesus also said that as it was in the days of Lot, that it would be... In the days of Lot they were eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, planting, building, selling, buying.
Oh, there never was a day that's so much commercial as today. Just used car lots and everything, so much till you can buy a refrigerator this year and pay about four or five hundred dollars for it, and next year nobody wants it. It's out of style. Don't you see where the commercial world has your nose to the grind wheel.
You can buy a car this year, and next year it's probably as good as the one you could buy then, but it'll depreciate a thousand dollars, because they change the radiator cap, or they done some little silly something to it. It's only a sales talk to fulfill the Bible. "As it was the days of Noah... and in the days of Lot..."

L-14 Although each time, angels appeared, prophets arose, and their message has always been grace, mercy, and deliverance. God's message has always been deliverance, just before the end time. Check it through the Scriptures, how Noah preached deliverance, and they laughed at him, and made fun of him, and were scoffed at. And as it was in them days, so is it today. And when you go forth with a message that Christ has raised from the dead, as He promised He would show Hisself forth, and they do today to that message, just like they did to the message in the other day...
Lot went out into Sodom and tried his best to get his kindred to listen to the Angel's message, but they mocked at him, and said that he was making fun. Oh, what a picture of this day. When you bring to them the message of God's deliverance, they say, "You're making fun of religion. You're trying to impersonate something." Same type of a group. What a hour we're living in. Why, they think that they're the only ones that's going to be saved. They think they're the only ones that's preaching the Gospel. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." It isn't my word; it's His Word.

L-15 And notice, I want you to notice quickly, the type of message it was. Oh, this just thrills my heart. When I think of Sodom and Gomorrah had got so polluted, morally, until perverts was everywhere. But just before the final great destruction, God sent a prophet down there. And I'm thinking of also, He sent an Angel down there. And I want you to notice the Angel's message.
Abraham, who had took his way with the Lord's despised few, he set out in the--the desert where the grounds were poor. And Lot went down and become the mayor of the city. And he was a great man among sin. I'd rather not be so popular and be right with God. But Lot was very popular. And he set in the streets in the city gate. He was a judge of what could come in and what could not come in. And there he was, giving his life into fornication, and knowing that in his city such things went on.

L-16 If that isn't a picture of today and our nation: uncensored programs, all kinds of folly, meanness, devicity... Oh, they could break it up if they wanted to, but they don't want to. And they can't do it, because God said it would be this way. If they could only open their eye and could understand...
And notice, just before the great crucial hour come, Abraham and Sarah, who set out under the oak tree... One day while they were out there, Sarah saw some Men coming and she took off towards the tent.
What a difference to the women of this day and how different it would been down in Sodom. Come time for the men to come home, they all get on their little short clothes, and go out, and get the lawn mow. What a difference.


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