<TITLE>16. Par 131-142</TITLE>L-131 How did He be able to reflect Hisself back through His stars of the earth, after the wise men saw Him in heaven, and they become ministering spirits here on the earth? "He was wounded (the big Diamond, cut off) for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace upon Him, with His stripes we were healed." What was it doing? Reflecting.
Any man that claims to be a servant of God, that denies Divine healing and His power, is not getting his light from that Diamond, not getting his light from that throne. Because it's reflecting Him the same yesterday, today, and forever. You can see the seven stars and the seven church ages.

L-133 Oh, praise be to God. Guess it's appropriate for a minister to worship God from the pulpit with thanksgiving, and praise, and honor, and might. Oh, how real, how it just thrills my soul till I feel like I could scream, and run, and jump as high as I could jump, because there is Something within me that's changed me from what I was. I'm not what I ought to be, and not what I want to be, but I know I've been changed from what I used to be. Something has happened, something taken place.
And stand here and see this eternal Word that's waved every storm. When they tried to burn the Bibles and everything, It waved right on just the same, because It said, "Heavens and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall not pass away."

L-135 Up here near Chicago now, and a--a Bible lays on a pulpit of a church. Way back before the First World War, a missionary had... A fellow was converted, and he wanted to give this missionary a Bible, said, "I can't give you this one; my mother had give me this one." Said, "When I get home I'll send you one."
He started back across the sea and a German submarine blowed the--the ship up. They never found a piece of it. And two years later, way down on the coast, they seen a box floating. Some of them thought it might be something that drowned, so they got the box out and opened it up, two fellows walking along. And in there, the only thing survived it, there was that Bible that he was sending back to the missionary. It lays on a pulpit here near Chicago today in a Methodist church. "Heavens and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall not pass away."

L-137 During the time of the flood here in 1937, this little old church, when the mud floors and so forth that was in it, we could ride over the top of it here in a--in a rowboat. The floods went up, and that night when I preached the Gospel and had left my Bible laying open on the pulpit when I went home. Predicting that flood would come, I said, "I seen them measure twenty-two feet over Spring Street down here."
Old Brother Jim Wisehart and them laughed at me. You remember that, Brother George? I said... He--he said, "Oh, Billy, in '84 it only was about six inches on Spring Street."
I said, "I seen a man come down from the skies, and take a measure stick, and stick it there on Spring Street, said twenty-two feet."
He said, "You're just excited."
I said, "I'm not excited. It's THUS SAITH THE LORD."
Ask them how many feet was over Spring Street: twenty-two feet to the inch. Exactly.

L-142 And that old Bible where I had been preaching on that night... She started raining, the floods breaking through and so forth, and this old church... The seats went right straight up to the ceiling, the Bible went right straight up to the ceiling, washing through here with all that water raising it up. The pulpit went right straight up. They come right down; and every seat set right back in the same place, and the Bible laid right back in the same place, and all that water, and still opened up, the same chapter at the same place.
"Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never pass away."
How that Bible float in that salty water for two years without even soiling the words on It... God's Word's are true. Amen.


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