<TITLE>05. Par 17-21</TITLE>L-17 And I went to studying on the eagle, as my first Bible was the outdoors. I was a little boy, my parents were not Christians. And the only Bible that I had was watching the outdoors, how that animals, and how that life, how a flower would go down into the dirt, rise up again in spring. How that sap in a tree would go down into the roots in September, before any snow or... There has--has to be some great intelligence run that sap in down ground. If it did not, it would freeze up in the tree, and it would die.
What is it that governs the tree, that makes it hold its a sap in the roots where it's warm, and then bring it back into the spring, and produce fruit and stuff again? It's beyond any shadow of doubt; there has to be something do it. And it's not something just by nature, because it's an intelligence.

L-18 And how the trees different from each other. I've watch the bird life, and the animal life, and seen them how they would live and how that God cared for them.
Then I went to studying the eagle. And I learned that there's forty different kinds of eagles. Many of them... The word "eagle" means a "tearer with the bill." And learning that there's forty different types of eagles...
And the eagle is not a vulture. He kills his meat. He eats own prey.

L-19 And then I noticed that also, an eagle is a bird that soars high. There's not a bird in the earth that can follow an eagle. He goes so high... If the hawk would try to follow him, he'd just disintegrate in the air. And he hasn't got a eye to no ways compare with the eagle's. And now, the eagle could fly so high, that if another bird tried to follow him, he would die before he got halfway to him. And then in order to go so high, he has to be a special built bird. His birth, and all about him has to be something special to stand that altitude.
And so is the Church. The man that's borned again of the Spirit of God is a special built born person. It takes a special birth to stand it, to stand the spheres, and the glory, and the power, that God leads His children into.

L-20 And then his eye is so keen. If he'd go so high, and he cannot see when he's up there, his altitude wouldn't do him any good. But he can see farther than any other bird.
Therefore, God likened His prophets unto eagles. For higher you go, the further you can see. And the prophet rises into a sphere to go way so high, until he see things coming, then comes back and warns the people.
Then again, the eagle also is equipped with two great powerful wings. And the feathers, you could not pull out with the pair of pliers. Oh, they have to be tight, or when he gets up into that altitude and them storms, they would come out, and he'd fall. So he's got two wings. And I'm going to liken those two wings to the New and Old Testament that Jehovah Eagle spreads out before us.

L-21 And also, this eagle renews his youth. Now, when the eagle get so old, something happens to him. And then he comes back again as a young eagle. Oh, in the mountains I've watched them and been amazed at them--how that he renews his youth ever so often. And I'd say that that would be the revival.
I remember the first Pentecostal revival I was ever at. I was a young Baptist preacher. And I was at Mishawaka, Indiana. And they where having a conference. And I believe the denominations was called, "P. A. of W.," and, "P. A. of J. C." You might, some of you people, Pentecostal might remember those.


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