<TITLE>03. Par 9-13</TITLE>L-9 And now, He had been telling them how He had done, and what the miracles and signs that He had done, and said, "If these things would have been done in other generations, why, it'd been yet standing, the cities."
And it's strange, some good theologian could tell you the cities that He cursed is not there today. The cities that He blessed, remains till this day. It's very striking, and I've heard real good Bible scholars speak of it.
But Jesus had come in every form of the Messiah that the Bible predicted Him to come in. He'd come as a--the God prophet. He had come just exactly the way the Bible said he would come, and yet they missed seeing Him. Oh, may that not be our attitude when He comes the second time.

L-10 Now, they was failing to see His supernatural work. The people, the churches, had gotten so far away from the supernatural, until they could not give a answer to their congregation for the supernatural that was being done; so they just had to class it something. 'Stead of figuring it out, laying aside their thoughts, and--and going to the Scriptures, why, instead of doing that, they just answered their congregations, said, "Why, He's the devil. That's all. He's just a fortuneteller or something. There's nothing to Him."
But then, when He did that supernatural, it usually blinds those who are blinded to those things. It makes them worse. But in every generation, God has always had His agents. It's got down sometime to merely one, but God always had somebody in every generation that He could lay His finger on, some people that He could put His finger on, and say, "This is My people, and they'll do as I tell them to do."

L-11 And Jesus had been referring back. The 41st verse of this same chapter, He'd spo--spoke about the days of Jonah and Nineveh. Many people... I like to speak just a moment before I get to my text, on Jonah.
So many people condemn that prophet. He should not be condemned. He--the--the steps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord. And He makes everything work just exactly right.
Now, I believe God had a purpose in sending Jonah to Tarshish instead of Nineveh. I believe that was God's purpose to confirm His Word to the Ninevites. Then when Jonah, on his road to Tarshish, a great storm came up, as we know, and he told the captain of the ship that he was in fault. And they tied his hands and feet, throwed him over the--the ship sides into the water. The Scripture says that this great fish swallowed him.

L-12 I never forget, sometime ago, a man said to me (who knowed a lot about science, he said), said, "That story cannot be true, Brother Branham."
I said, "Why?"
He said, "The swallow of a whale isn't big enough to swallow a man."
I said, "But sir, you just don't read the Scriptures right. This is a special prepared fish. God fixed this one just right. God had a fish prepared for it. He enlarged his swallow so Jonah could get in. God can do whatever He wants to." The Bible said that God had a fish prepared for him and--that could swallow him. He was a special one.

L-13 And then when the fish, prowling through the water, hunting something to eat... And when a fish has fed... If you'll feed your little gold fish, watch them, they'll go right down to the bottom of the bowl and rest their little swimmers on the bottom, after they have fed.
Then after, perhaps, this big fish had swallowed Jonah, and had went down then, to the bottom of the sea... I wouldn't know how many fathoms deep it would be out there from Nineveh, but could you imagine the condition this poor prophet being in?


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