<TITLE>08. Par -</TITLE>L-10-3 It didn't seem like that I'd excited him; it was something else excited him. Well, I thought, "Don't think I'm acting funny, because I'm not acting funny to myself. And I know He's a-blessing me. So you might as well join right in with me." And, so, I happened to look, and the storm had forced a big eagle down. And it'd forced him down in... He'd been down low, probably eating. He couldn't get his--gain his--above to get above the storm, so it forced him down into the bushes. And there he was down around under these--these bushes here, and that was what was exciting the little squirrel.
And he was watching it real close like that, and going, "chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter," like he was going to tear that eagle to pieces. Well, he wasn't big enough to tear nothing to pieces. So he was standing on that stump, his little tail curled up like that, and, "Chatter, chatter, chatter; chatter, chatter, chatter."
I thought, "Well, don't get excited; he ain't going to hurt you." And that big eagle jumped out on a limb like that, and I thought, "Oh God, there You are in that wolf call. There You are over here in the call of the wild. There You are in the sunset. There You are in the rainbow. Why did You put that eagle before me? What's--what's that eagle doing there? I can't see You in that eagle."

L-10-6 I watched that eagle. I said--looked at him, his great big gray-looking eyes. He wasn't noticing that pine squirrel so much; he was watching me. I could see those great big eyes watching me; and I thought, "Well, yeah, I can see God in that eagle, because that He's not afraid; there's something about him that he's not afraid."
I said, "I'll try and see if he's afraid." I said, "Say, fellow, you know I could shoot you?" I said, "This is my rifle. I could shoot you."
He just looked up at me like that. I kept noticing him feeling his wings. I said, "I see now. That's the reason. You're not afraid, because that God gave you two wings; and you know good and well you could be in that timber there before I could even get that rifle in my hand."
I thought, "If you could trust your God-given wings to get out of danger, how much more ought the church with a God-given Spirit of the Holy Ghost among us to get away from things, get out of it," like that. And I watched him, and how he felt them wings. As long...
Someone said to me one time, "Brother Branham, aren't you afraid you'll make a mistake?" No, sir, not as long as I can feel that Something around me. That's all right. That's okay. As long as He's there, it's Him a-doing it.

L-11-5 And I watched the eagle for a length of time. And he seen that I loved him too much; I wasn't going to hurt him. And so, he wasn't afraid of me, but he just got a-nauseated with that, "Chatter, chatter, chatter; chatter, chatter, chatter." And he got tired of it, so he just made one great big jump, flopped his wings about twice; and then I see why he broke in on me shouting.
That big eagle never flopped his wings any more. He just seemed to know how to set his wings, and every time the wind would come in, he'd ride up higher. And the wind would come in; he'd ride higher. And I stood there and watched him till he become just a little bitty speck.
And I said, "Oh God, that's it." He got tired of that, "Chatter, chatter, chatter." It isn't run from church to church, join this one and join that one; it's just knowing how to set your wings in the power of His Holy Spirit. When He comes riding in, just ride on, ride on, on, on, on. Get out of the way from this, "Chatter, chatter: days of miracles has passed." "No such a thing as the Holy Ghost." "You're all wrong in this." "There ain't no such thing as Divine healing." Just ride on above it. Just let the Holy Ghost ride in and ride on away. Just carry, on way up and above, plumb out of hearing distance.


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