<TITLE>17. Par 73-75</TITLE>L-73 And you know what he was doing? The fish when it feeds he gets a belly full, he goes down to the bottom of the sea to rest. Just feed your goldfish and see what happens. He goes down to rest. So he had this prophet in his belly, so was pretty well filled up. So he--he went down to rest. And there he was with his hands tied behind him, and if he turned over in the vomit of the whale, when he looked this way it was whale's belly, this a way it was whale's belly, everywhere he looked was whale's belly. Now, there's nobody here in that bad of shape tonight. You know that.
But you know what that prophet said? He refused to see the whale's belly. He said, "They're lying vanities. I won't look at them." He said, "But once more will I look to Your holy temple." For when Solomon dedicated the temple, he prayed, a man, earthly man who later backslid. When he dedicated the temple of God, he prayed, he said, "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere and look towards this holy place and pray, then hear from heaven." He had that much confidence in the prayer of Solomon, a man by a earthly temple.

L-74 And God, I don't know what He done. He must've put an oxygen tank in there or something. But He kept him alive for three days and nights and delivered him at Nineveh where he was supposed to go. And if Jonah could have that much faith in a man's prayer, an earthly man that later backslid, to a earthly tabernacle built with hands, how much more under--we under these circumstances can have faith in the Blood of Jesus Christ Who sets, not at a earthly temple, but is at the right hand of God the Father with His own Bloody garments, making intercession upon our confession? How much more can we deny any symptom that's contrary to the faith of God that's leading us? How can we do such a thing? Now, I want to tell you; Jonah wasn't altogether that, but he also... Jonah was in the will of God.

L-75 Now, the people had begin to worship beasts and animals. That's what heathens do: worship animals. I see all these people, these little old dogs around, and practicing birth control, I believe it's just about got back to America again.
So then we come back, and we find that they worship... The god of the sea was a whale. They were fisherman by occupation. All the men were out fishing with their nets. And one day about eleven o'clock in the day, here come the sea god in, the whale, raised up out of the sea. All the men got scared, 'cause the great sea god was coming in. He run up to the bank, licked his tongue out for a gangplank, and the prophet walked right off and begin to prophesy: "Repent, or this place will perish in forty days." Right down through the street he went with his bald head shining, "Repent, or this place will perish. Repent, or the place will perish." Sure, the god spit the prophet out. Sure, God knows how to do things. He knows just how to make everything work right.
Jesus referred to him here. "A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after signs," He said. Seeking after signs... But He said, "They will receive a sign, for as Jonah was in the belly of the whale tree days and nights, so the Son of man..."


<A HREF="P18">Next Page</A>