<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 And I looked around and I seen an old woman that always prayed for me. She wore one of these little aprons. Do you women up here ever wear a apron had a pocket on the inside, you know, a little--on the inside of the apron. She reached down and got one of them little bitty pocket books with snaps on top, reaching down there for those nickels... Oh, my, I couldn't do that. "Oh," I said, "I was just teasing. I didn't mean it." And that's the closest I ever come to taking up an offering. I couldn't have taken her nickels. I couldn't have done it.
There's a little old man come down from Benton Harbor, old Brother Ryan. Just went home to glory. Not the John Rhyn now, that's healed at Fort Wayne, blind, where the Jewish Rabbi's from. It was another John Ryan.
He rode a little bicycle down there, and he gave it to me. And it was backslid. Oh, I wouldn't say, "Backslid." It was just wore out. It--it was just in a bad shape. And it was out there, and I went up to the ten cent store and got me a can of paint, painted it up, and put a sign on it, "For Sale." Sold it. Didn't have to take up the offering after all. That was the closest I ever come of taking an offering. But I certainly respect it, and the Lord bless you richly.

L-10 Now, we want to go right straight to His Word, so then let you out as early as possible tonight, for tomorrow night, we are expecting the exceedingly, abundantly, especially for the sick and afflicted, so get them out tomorrow night.
Let us pray. Author of this Book and of Eternal Life, open to us the inspiration, Lord, that goes with this Word. And may we learn to live by the Word and by the Spirit. And may it be to us tonight, a correction and a making ready for the coming of the Son of God.
Forgive the sins that's been committed among us today, God. And inspire the ministers that's in our midst tonight to take new courage. Give us all of Thy Divine blessings, Father, as we submit ourselves to Thee for the hearing of Thy Word. And may we have fellowship around the same, for we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen.

L-11 I want to take a little text. Which I was just thinking of preaching something else, but this just come to my heart, awhile ago: Daniel 5:25
And this is the meaning of the writing. MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
We are opening our text tonight in Babylon. And we have this under consideration for just a little while. And if you'll give me your attention and your hearts to the Holy Spirit, may He interpret this for us: "The Sign Of The Time."

L-12 Babylon begin in the beginning of the Bible. Genesis is the beginning of all things. And Babylon was found in the first of the Bible, and it's found in the middle of the Bible, and it's found in the last of the Bible. So I think it would do us good if we went back and found out where this great city, how it was established, and where it's located, and some things about it, so we could get a--an idea of what our text and reading means tonight.
Babylon is located in the valley of Shinar. And it was built by Nimrod, a son of Ham. And the Babylon, the city of Babylon, was the greatest city in the known world. The word "Babylon," first means "it was the gate of paradise." Secondly, it was called, "confusion," which means "backslidden." And the city is a great place. All the nations around paid tribute to it. All of them was taxed by Babylon. And it become a great wicked and indifferent city.
We are told by historians, that it was one hundred and twenty miles around the city of Babylon. That would make it thirty miles on each side. And the streets of Babylon, which ordinarily in the days gone by, they didn't make big broad streets. They made them narrow.


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