<TITLE>09. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 Billy Jr. (somewhere here) he and I had just come into India a few years ago, and I picked up a English newspaper (which it's a bilingual country) and it said, "I suppose the earthquakes are over, because the birds are flying back." I read the article in detail. About two days before the earthquake struck...
In India they're not as well off as you are in Canada. They have to pick up the rocks on the fields to make their houses and--and make their--their fences and so forth. And little birds go in there and build their nests in the--these crevices. And then on the fences, the sheep come in, of a afternoon, the cattle, and stand in the shadow, where the sun, them direct rays of that tropical sun strikes them, and it's awfully hot. So they'd always come in in the afternoon and stand in the shadows of the walls, the big high walls. And the little birds would make their nests and live in these coves back in the rocks.

L-39 But one day, suddenly all the little birds, by some unknown reason, flew away from the walls. And the cattle and sheep did not come in to stand around the walls. They knew something was going to happen.
What happened? The second day they never come in. And do you know how they got shade? They leaned against one another and made shade for one another.
I think the Church ought to learn that. You Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostals, and Presbyterians, don't you know, brethren, that we ought to be leaning against one another, leaning on one another to make shade for one another, trying to help one another and not trying to condemn each other, but trying to make a little shade, a little Gospel shade to stand in, for it's a weary time that we're living.

L-40 All of a sudden about day break the next morning, there come a earthquake, one after the other, till it shook those walls down. If the sheep had been standing around the walls, they would've perished, the cattle also. The little birds would've been in their homes and in the walls. They would've perished. But what is it? The same God that run the sheep, and the cattle, and the birds into the ark, proves that He's still the same God in 1960.
Warned His animals to flee from the wrath to come, He can also call His... And I got the clipping of it out of the newspaper. Then after the last roar of the earthquake, the little birds returned, and the cattle returned.

L-41 What is it? God in His universe, God speaking to nature, shows that He's the same God that was in Noah's time, is the same God today. And if birds and animals can still be led by instinct, which is a God-given thing for them, how much more will--ought we by the Holy Spirit to flee the wrath that is to come? For we all know that our names are on a Russian hydrogen bomb somewhere.
Why not we flee the wrath? We know if we die in sin, hell would be our doom. And God, as He promised in the last days, to send these same signs and wonders that you see taken on now in the Church, to be the warning signs of the last day. And we look at it and still remain in the old mud huts of the world, still stay in our unbelief... God in His universe.


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