<TITLE>07. Par 25-27</TITLE>L-25 I noticed then the sun setting back in the west, looking through the crevices like it was passing over California. That great eye peeping out looked like the eye of Jehovah, Who runs to and fro all over the earth. There's no way to get away from Him. I seen that, and I raised up my hands and begin to worship the Lord. And then the sun hitting that ice on the trees made a rainbow across the valley. And I said, "That's right. There's God in the bugle of the elk. There's God in the call of the wolf. There's God in the sunset. There's God on the mountain, God in the valley; it's God all around." And I said, "There He is in the rainbow." The rainbow is His covenant. And in the 1st chapter of Revelation, He was to look upon as Jasper and Sardis stone, which is First and Last, He that Was, which Is, and shall come. The jasper and sardis stone was both Benjamin and Reuben, the first and the last, the oldest and the youngest. And the covenant, God made a covenant that He would save man.
And it just started bursting in my heart so much till I got real religious. I set my gun down against the tree, and around and around that bush I went, screaming to the top of my voice. I just had to let it out some way; I'd have blowed up. If somebody would've been in the woods, they'd thought they'd had an insane man up there. But I was rejoicing. I was right in the Presence of the God of the universe. Everywhere around was God. If you'll just look around, you'll see Him. He's not hard to find, and--if He's on the inside.

L-26 And I was a shouting and screaming with my hands up. Now, you don't think Baptists shout, but you should have been there then. I'm a Pentecostal Baptist, you know. And so I run around this tree shouting. And I stopped with my hands up in the air and all at once, a little pine squirrel, a--just the blue coat policeman of the woods, all noise and no squirrel... And he's the noisiest little fellow there is in the woods, the tattletale that warns all the game to run. And he jumped up on a stump there, and looked over to me, and started "Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter," like he was going to tear me to pieces. Why, I stopped, I said, "There is no need of getting excited, little fellow. I'm just worshipping the Lord, the very God that made you. You should be doing the same thing." I said, "If you felt like I did, you'd be doing the same thing."
But I noticed the little fellow, in the amazement he wasn't exactly chattering at me. He'd cock his little head sideways and look down in a--some blow down there, where the storms previously, not that storm, but another storm had blowed some trees down. Well, I thought, "What's the little fellow so excited about?" And I looked down there, and the--it had forced a great eagle... A lot of big brown eagles up in there, and it had forced this eagle, the winds had, the storms, down into this blow down. And he was chattering at that eagle. And oh, he jumping up-and-down like he was going to tear that eagle to pieces.

L-27 And I thought, "Lord, why did You distract my attention from Your rainbow, and from Your great glory, and Your--Your nature here? Why did You distract me from that? Why, it's good to be here. I could build three tabernacles like Peter said." But 'course, there's sick waiting down at the bottom (You see?); that's where I go just to rest a few days.
And this big eagle jumped up on the limb, and I thought, "Now, God, You--there's something that You want me to learn a lesson, or You wouldn't have had this scene to take place." And I thought, "Now, the big eagle wasn't so worried about the little squirrel, or neither was he worried about me." So he'd roll those big gray eyes and look at that squirrel; then he'd look back at me. And I thought, "Well, there's one thing that I can admire in the eagle, that he's not scared."


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