<TITLE>06. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 I want to say something here. And I hope you catch it in the right way. Do you mean to tell me that they would put a nearsighted watchman in that tower when the life of the city depended on him? Would he... Would they put a--a man in there that was half blind? Certainly not. It would be the best sighted man they could find they'd put in there.
God also, when He builds His city, He--His church, He walled it with the Blood of His own Son, Jesus Christ. And He put a tower in it. And in this tower... The Bible likens His prophets to being eagles. Now, a eagle can soar higher than any other bird. If another bird tries to follow an eagle, he'd die, because he--he--the eagle's made special, and he can go so high if the hawk trying to follow him, the hawk would disintegrate in the air. He just couldn't follow him; his feathers would fall out; he'd come apart. But the eagle is a special bird. Now, what good would it do him to go way up there in the air unless he could see way off? He'd be blind himself. But see, nature has provided the eagle with an eye that he can see as high till you can hardly see the eagle yourself: some of them fourteen feet across their wings. You can hardly see the eagle with your eye. But he can see any little moving object on the ground. Now, God likened His prophets, His preachers, to eagles. He calls Himself, "Jehovah Eagle." He's a eagle Himself.

L-17 Now, God has set, not man, God has set in the church first is--or apostles, secondary, prophets, teachers, pastors and so forth. God set them in the church. If God put them in there, they're qualified for the job. God wouldn't put a man in a tower, in a position like that that said, "The days of miracles is past." God would not put a man into position like that to be a prophet or a seer that would say that Jesus Christ isn't the same yesterday, today, and forever, when the Bible declares Him to be. God would not put a man in a tower there, that would preach a wishy-washy Gospel and not tell the truth and warn the people of the wrath that is to come. He'd put a man in there that would be bold, that would have the--a spirit that seen the oncoming judgment; and regardless of what the people said, he'd warn them anyhow, cry out against it. He doesn't put blind prophets in His tower. He puts prophets, preachers who foresees the coming judgment and warns the people to flee.

L-18 That's the same thing that took place here. The--the tower man had warned the people all day long; he says, "I see the dust."
"Why" they said, "nothing, I don't see no dust."
"Why, I know there's approaching army." And they went right on just the same. That's the way they're doing, the same thing today. Any man could read a newspaper, if he's got any spiritual discernment about him at all, can see that we're at the end. The hour is here; there's nothing left for us but the coming of the Lord Jesus.
Some people go out and say, "Oh, that might be a thousand years from today." I don't believe that. I believe this generation will see the coming of the Lord Jesus. If this generation doesn't do it, I want to preach to the young people that they'll be looking for it in their generation. I believe it'll be in this generation, 'cause the fig tree's putting forth its buds yonder, and Jesus said, "That generation will not pass till all things be fulfilled." Israel's restored, herself; she's a nation. All the signs and wonders that was to take place in the last days, it's here. We must cry out from the tower, from the high place that God places you in, and warn the people. But they--seem like they just go dumbly right on, as they did in that time.


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