<TITLE>11. Par 41-43</TITLE>L-41 Now, look at Jonah. Now, he was in a critical shape. There's nobody here in this tabernacle that bad off tonight. He was in the belly of a whale. If he looked this way it was a whale's belly; everywhere he looked it was a whale's belly. And he said, "They are lying vanities. Once more will I look to Your holy temple."
For he knowed that when Solomon dedicated that temple, why, he prayed and said, "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and looked towards this holy temple, and pray, then You hear from heaven." And he believed the prayer of Solomon would be answered.
So God made that sick fish turn right around and take Jonah to the landing. Now, if Jonah, under those circumstances could look to a temple that was built by a man, Solomon, that later backslid, a earthly temple, and a prayer of an ordinary man, and God could do a miracle like that for him, how much more can He do for you and I when we refuse to look at our condition. And once more will I look to the holy temple where Jesus sets at the right hand of the Majesty on high making intercession upon our confession. Amen.
How can we look at a symptom? I look at Jesus. Not what--not what this looks like, but what that said. Look at Calvary; look what a price was paid for. Person come said, "I'm too low down, Brother Branham; God never saved me." Don't look how bad you are; look how good He is. Don't never look at yourself; look at Him. The priest never did see the--the--the one that the sacrifice was made for.

L-42 As Brother Bosworth used to say about his little mule, said, "A mule would be borned, and his ears was dropped down, and his tail sticking up, and his knees bowed, and his eyes crossed," said, "well, if he could talk he'd say, 'Well when they come out, they'll knock me in the head, because... They won't feed me; I ain't worth feeding.'"
But if his mammy was well instructed, she'd say, "Son, you don't have to worry; you were born under a birthright. There'll have to be a lamb without a blemish die for you so that you can live." And that's exactly right.
The priest never saw the mule. He didn't examine the mule; he examined the lamb. Not the blemish on the mule, the blemish, if there any blemish on the lamb. So if you can't find any blemish on Him, what you worried about then? It's not you; it's Him. God don't look at you; He looks at Him. You see it? See it, sister? Do you see it, brother, setting here? You see it?
It's not you He's looking at; He's looking at Christ. That's the Sacrifice. He looks at the Sacrifice.

L-43 So Jonah, to continue with him, we notice that the people of Nineveh was very wicked. I'm told they were idolaters, and they worshipped animals. And the God of the sea was the whale, and their occupation was fishing.
So when all the men went to work that morning, the city the size of St. Louis about, went out into the sea with their boats. Here come the sea god rolling in to the bank, licked out his tongue for a gangplank, here come the prophet walking right out of his mouth. No wonder they repented. See? Yes. Sure. They repented because their god had put forth a prophet by a supernatural sign. Amen. No wonder he said he'd condemn this generation, the people in Noah--Jonah's time.


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