<TITLE>21. Par 63-66</TITLE>L-63 Talk about symptoms, Jonah had symptoms. Looky here: Now, he was down in the belly of the whale, hands tied behind him, feet tied behind him, in a stormy sea, probably forty fathoms deep in the sea, in the belly of the whale, the vomit of the whale around him. He looked this way, it was whale's belly; that way was whale's belly; everywhere he looked was whale's belly. There's nobody here that bad off tonight, I'm sure. Oh, whale's belly everywhere he looked.
But you know what he said? He refused to see it. He said, "They are lying vanities; but once more will I look to Your holy temple, Lord." Oh, my.
Jonah knew that when that temple was dedicated, that Solomon prayed, and said, "God, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere and will look to this holy temple and pray, then hear from heaven." And Jonah had confidence that that man had faith in God, and God heared Solomon's prayer. And God kept that man alive three days and nights in the belly of that whale, and delivered him over to the right place. Whether He put a oxygen tank in there, I don't know what He done, but He kept him alive.

L-64 And if Jonah, under those circumstances, in that condition, could look to a temple that was made by man and prayed over by a man, how much more ought we tonight, under these conditions, look away from a temple, but to the throne where God sits there, and Jesus on His right hand with His own Bloody garments making intercession for our profession, setting as High Priest upon a throne. Symptoms doesn't mean anything to us then. God said so and that's all.
Jesus is setting there tonight to make your confession right before God. He's a High Priest to make intercessions upon our confession. You've got to believe it and confess it, that it's so, and then Jesus can go to work on it for you.

L-65 Oh, yes. God kept him alive three days and nights. And we find him then. And we was told that all the Ninevites had turned away from God and went to worshipping animals, which is a heathen trait, and they was... Most all around Nineveh, it was on the seashore, so the occupation was fishing. And the god of the sea was the whale. He was the largest specie in the--in the ocean, and that was the god of the ocean.
One day about forenoon, when they were all out there fishing, the thousands of them fishing, all at once up came the big whale god. Run up to the shore and licked his tongue out, and the prophet walked right out of his mouth. Sure, they repented. Certainly. The god of the sea delivered the prophet right up. God knows how to do things. So He had to put him in the whale's belly, don't you see?

L-66 So Jonah didn't misbehave God. He didn't miss... He--he minded God. God did that to show that He was God. Let him walk out of a whale's mouth right out on the shore, and that was the god delivering the prophet. Sure they would hear him. I can see him--see him going through the street, and that bald-head shining, saying "Repent, or in forty days this city will be destroyed" Why, they put sackcloth on their animals. They repented. Yes, sir.
Oh, Jesus referred back, and said, "An evil and a..." I'm going... listen to this. Said, "An evil and an adulterous generation seeks after signs." Seeks after signs: everybody's got to have a sign. This one's got..." A evil and an adulterous generation..." I'll tell you one thing; if you'll listen close, you'll find out he was talking about this generation: A wicked, evil and an adulterous... like Sodom.


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