<TITLE>07. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 What good would it do him to go up, if he couldn't have sight to see way off? That's what I think today. If we educate our ministers, what good does it do to educate them, if they haven't got a spiritual insight to see far off, the coming, and warning of the danger? It's just like giving your canary bird good vitamins to make good wing feathers and so forth, and then keeping him in a cage. What good does it do to give him vitamins? What good does it do to learn of a God that was, if He isn't the same today? What good does it do to learn the Bible, if we're going to deny all the power thereof of it? We must be equipped for such.

L-27 This towerman, he got up. And then if anything happened, he was supposed to warn the people of any approaching danger. We see our Lord Jesus when He was here on earth, He was the great Watchman of the hour. And we notice that in His earthly journey, He talked more about His second coming than He did His going away. He said more about His second coming, many times more, than He did of His going away. Right in the shadows of the cross, He kept talking about His second coming and warning the people what would take place just before His second coming. He was the Watchman; He was the Chief of the watchmen.
And then, if we see that was so much to Him (just in the shadows of the cross) to dismiss that and to speak of His coming, what kind of a people ought we to be now, when we see those things that He spoke of coming to pass. If it was so great, that even His crucifixion and His suffering, and everything meant so much as it did, but yet, His second coming was so much more, till He ignored His crucifixion and warned the people of His coming.

L-28 Let's hear some of the things He said: He said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." He said, "For in the days before the flood, they were eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, and knew it not until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the whole world was destroyed."
"Knew it not..." Why didn't they know it? Is because they failed to hear the warning voice of Noah, and called him a fanatic, because he had a true message of God. It was supernatural. It had never rained; God watered vegetation through the earth. But Noah said, "There's coming a rain, and all that's not in this ark will perish." He stood in the door of the ark and proclaimed the message of destruction, and was laughed at, and scoffed at, and made fun of.
Today the true messenger of the covenant stands at the Door-- which Jesus is the Door of salvation, and the only Door--and claims that He is the only way of escape, just before judgment. And the people had said...

L-29 There were scoffers in that day, and there'll be scoffers in this days. And how they were pleasure crazed. You see what the world is today--pleasure crazed. He said there would be... The sea would be roaring. Look at it today: tidal waves, never heard of them before in history. Here they are breaking on the shores and killing people. Earthquakes in diverse places... I just don't have the right statistics, but I forget how much that the earthquake has come to a place where every so many hours, there's so many earthquakes all over the world. Just coming all the time, for the little shell that we live on is becoming thinner and thinner all the time.


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