<TITLE>05. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 Jonah turned over in that whale's belly, looked away towards the temple, the best that he knowed, towards the top of the whale, and begin to pray. And God turned that big fish around, took him right straight to Nineveh for a purpose.
Now, we believe that most of the Ninevites must have been backslidden and have went off... I read a story one time, where many of them had turned to heathenism, and they were worshipping idols. And they believed that the whale was the god of the sea. And while their occupation was fishing, here comes the whale swimming into the shore. The god of the sea, opens up his mouth and spits the prophet out on the bank. No wonder they heard him. God knows how to work things. He knows how to make things. You could take that version of it if you like. That might be all right.

L-19 But watch. The main thing was this: that they asked Jesus, "Show us a sign." And Jesus said, "A weak and an adulterous generation seeks after a sign." And they'll get a sign. What kind of a sign? A resurrection sign. And I believe that we are now living in the time of a weak and an evil generation of mixed up, confused theologians and churches all bundled together, till people don't know what to believe. But Jesus said that that weak generation would receive a sign of the resurrection. And I believe we receive it now. Jesus Christ is not dead; He's alive in here tonight, to live in us, and perform, and do just exactly what He promised to do.
"Oh," He said, "if Nineveh, if the generation then would've been like Nineveh..." Then He goes on to the days of Solomon. And He said, "In the days of Solomon..."

L-20 Now anyone knows, that any time that God sends a gift to the earth, and the people turns that gift down, it's always chaos to that nation and that people, that turns down the gift of God.
Jesus was the greatest Gift God ever give to the world. And the Jewish people turned it down, and is scattered throughout the world from that time since. And when God sends a gift, and the people refuses to see it, and refuses to take it, then it's scattered, the people is, and they--like sheep having no shepherd.

L-21 And I think of--if we, tonight, would only do as they did in the days of Solomon... God sent a gift of discernment to Israel, and He put it upon Solomon. And as soon as the people saw that this great power of God of discernment was upon Solomon, they cherished the gift, honored the man, made him king. And any Bible scholar knows that that was the golden age for Israel in the days of Solomon. It was called the golden age. Israel prospered. They built the temple. Hardly any wars at all, all nations feared them because that they had honored what God sent to them. Oh, if tonight...
You talk about a bomb shelter... They're trying to dig so many hundred feet beneath the earth to find a place to make steel places, so that you can escape the atomic bomb. Well, anyone knows that that bomb would hit the earth and blow a hundred feet deep. If you were five hundred foot below it, it would break every bone in your body. But there is no shelter here on earth, but One. There is a shelter, and It's not made out of steel. It's made out of feathers: under His wings, is the place to stay, is the best shelter that I know of, is beneath His protecting wings.


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