<TITLE>17. Par 51-54</TITLE>L-51 And notice, Jesus said, that a wicked and an adulterous generation seeks after signs. Did He say that? Right here it is, read this verse. "A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after signs; and they will receive no sign, except like the prophet Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and nights; the Son of man must be in the heart of the earth three days and nights." Now, what was the sign that a wicked and adulterous generation would receive? The sign of the resurrection.
Well now, tell me, when did we ever have a more wicked and an adulterous generation, when perverts is here in California increasing twenty to thirty percent every year? When in our own government they claim there's thirty-five or forty percent of the  homosexuals. "As it was in Sodom..." Tell me when we ever had any more wicked... Why, people do things that the ancient people wouldn't think about doing, the cruel punishment. Wicked, unbelieving, unregenerated, every evil imagination in a man's heart like it was in the days of Noah, that's the generation He was talking about. A wicked and an adulterous generation will receive what kind of a sign? The sign of the resurrected Jesus, the sign of the resurrection; they would receive it. Now, He says so right here in the Scriptures.

L-52 Now, then He goes down to the closing text. "And as it was in the days of Solomon, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. For in the days of Solomon the queen of the south come from the utmost parts of the known world to hear the wisdom of Solomon."
Now, let's take Solomon in his age, just for a moment. Solomon was a great man of God who God gave a gift to. His gift was discernment. How many knows that? Sure, it was. All right. And look at all of Israel. How many Bible teachers here know that that was Israel's golden age? Sure, it was. They built the temple; they done greater things; there was no wars or nothing. Well sure, why? They were all with one accord, giving praise to what God had done for them. Every one of them rallied around that great gift. And Israel was at peace with the rest of the nation.

L-53 Let me stop here a minute. If America would take its science and try to find research to cure cancer, or something that would do somebody good, instead of trying to... Or here, I'll change that. If America would turn to its gift from God and would receive God's gift that's in the nation now, they wouldn't have to build bomb shelters and things to protect themselves. The whole world would fear this nation. There's only one weapon against communism, and that's Christ. Christ is what communism fears.

L-54 I was standing there in Russia, or not in Russia, but in Finland, when the little boy... You read it in the magazines and things, when that little boy was raised from the dead. And there, when you're in Russia, when you're forty miles off of the place you were born, you have to have a visa to show that you got business to be away from forty miles from where you was born. And when that went out over that radio that day that that little boy had been raised from the dead, from laying there... Many of you people setting right here that wrote that in your Bible two years before that happened when I told you... How many's in here tell me they've heard and I--I told you to write in your Bible that there'd be a resurrection of a little boy, that I'd cross through the west and all that. How many's here remembers that story, raise up your hand. Looky there. See? All around over the building. Two years before it happened... There the little boy... Wasn't it just exactly the way it said it would be? Sure. God always, He does it just the right way. Now, just the way He says it's going to be, that's the way it's going to be. That's the reason His Word, His time, and everything's going to be just exactly like He said it. No matter who don't believe it, it's going to be that way anyhow. See?


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