<TITLE>12. Par 45-48</TITLE>L-45 Forget your sympon--symptoms. If you... As long as you look at your hand and say, "It's twisted," it'll always be twisted. "I refuse to look at it any more. I look to Thy holy temple, oh, Lord."
I'm telling you, something will get sick; Satan will, when you go to beginning like that. I want you see how God made this so real.
Then, we're told that the Ninevites would become idol--idolaters, and they worshipped the animals. All idolatry worships animals. And then, we notice that--that their--their sea god was the whale, because he was the master of the sea. And their occupation at Nineveh were fishermen. And here all the men were out, thousands of them (a--a city as big as Portland, Oregon), and they were all out there in their boats a fishing. And here come their god, whale god in, licked out his tongue, and a prophet walked right out the gangplank. Sure, they'd hear his message. The whale god had spit the prophet out. Certainly. God knows how to do things. It might be simple, but He knows how to do it. He knows how to reach the heart of men.

L-46 The whale opened up his mouth and out walked the prophet, their god. And he said, "Except you repent, in forty days this place will sink!"
Right in that Scripture we're reading here this afternoon, Jesus said, "As it was..."
And look what they asked there first. They said, "Show us a sign, Master." The Pharisees said to Him, said, "Show us a sign."
He said, "A--an evil and an adulterous generation seeks after signs, and there will be no sign given them but the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so the Son of man must be in the belly of the whale three days and nights."
Now, you spiritual minded people, open up. What's that? What's that? Don't just read right over it. Let the Spirit catch it for you. What? What kind of a generation was seeking after a sign? This generation. This is that evil and adulterous generation that would seek after a sign everywhere; every little sign they seek after it. Said, "There would be no sign, but the sign of Jonah."
What was Jonah the sign of? The resurrection! Hallelujah! The resurrection! That's the thing we're seeing now, the sign of the resurrection; Jesus lives; He isn't dead. He's in our midst, doing the same thing that He did then. That's the sign that that generation would receive.

L-47 He said, "Oh, you're speaking of the generation right then." No, sir. Look at the signs they received then from Him. He was speaking of this generation: an evil and an adulterous generation. Looky here now in our country; Adulterous is like Sodom and Gomorrah--certainly it is--and on the increase daily.
That evil and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, and they'll get it. He promised they would get it. They'd get a true sign from heaven. Compare that with the days of Sodom: "So shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." I hope you get that. See? "There'll be a sign given them," He said. God's Word is exactly on the dot every place through the Bible.

L-48 Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Look at that Angel down there to the church elect, to what he done. Look at Jesus, what He done in His generation. Look down here at this generation, what He's doing now. They'll receive a sign, but they won't believe it. There you are. But it come just the same. "A evil and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign." And they'll have it; it'll be given to them. "As Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth three days and nights."
But the resurrection will be the sign. And the resurrection sign is given to the church in this last days. The Angel of the Holy Spirit in the meet--in the meetings, showing the same things, doing the same things across the nation, proving that Jesus Christ has raised from the dead just the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's the generation that will receive it.


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