<TITLE>08. Par 55-64</TITLE>L-55 Now, Noah was producing what he was talking about. He said, "There's coming a flood of judgment upon this unrighteous generation. And God will pour from the heavens rain, and He'll flood the whole earth." And not only was He doing that, but He was making a way of escape and bidding the people to come to it. But they wouldn't listen at him.
But Noah as a prophet was a sign to that generation, a sign that was evil spoken of, a man that was thought to be a--a insane man, preparing something that there was no evidence anywhere, or never had been, that there'd ever be any use for it. But that's the way people seems to think today. They can think of a fallout shelter. What good's a fallout shelter going to do you when there's not even a--will be a tree or a rock left on the earth? We got a fallout shelter, the Christian has.
As I said a few Sundays ago, or thought somewhere along the road, "It's not a fallout shelter; it's a 'fall in' shelter, where we fall into it headlong with all of our heart, and all of our soul and all of our mind, into Christ, God's Ark of safety."

L-58 But Noah, a neurotic, considered in that day, through the foolishness of preaching and performing a sign before the people, giving them warning, condemned the world, condemned the world by building an ark when there was no water for it to float in. He condemned the world, the Bible said, Hebrews 11th chapter. He condemned the world and saved his own house by preparing and being a sign for God of the oncoming judgment of that day. What a glorious thing.

L-59 Later years there come another sign; that was Moses, a prophet. That was God's sign to Israel. They'd been four hundred years in bondage. And God prepared a sign for them just before deliverance. And he was a sign of deliverance to Israel and a sign of judgment to Egypt.
Noah was a sign of deliverance to his people and a sign of judgment to the lost world, the unbeliever. The very waters that choked the world and drowned the world was the only means of saving Noah, only thing that could save him was the judgment. The only thing that'll save the church today is the judgment, God laying the judgment to the plummet. But Noah preached the same. He become a sign.

L-61 And now, Israel after four hundred years, they begin to cry out for deliverance. And God never reveals Himself and shows Himself until His people are ready to receive what He shows.
Now, oh, what could be said right there, how that God has left this nation naked. They know better. Newspapers has published it round and around and around. Signs of His coming has been produced, and they continually go right on like they ignored it. They're without any excuse. We're in the end.
God only sends His prophets when the people wants a prophet. God sends His sign when the people are ready for a sign. But the--the thing it is, the people seldom... They get to a place that they want emotion, or they want some, "Show us a sign from heaven," but when God sends a sign, then they don't want to see it. So it's hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent to be revealed to babes that will learn.

L-64 They overlook it, the sign. How Israel ought to knowed when that proper child was born, when they looked up there and saw by the--the time of years they were living in, "Thy people shall be a stranger for four hundred years in a strange land, but then I'll bring them out." They ought to knowed the time was at hand, and when they seen that proper child born, that even the mother and father, Amram and Jochebed, wasn't afraid of the king's commandments. And they stuck him right out in the river where the crocodiles was; not a one of them could bite him. They seen there was a sign. But they ignored it. They wasn't ready for it. God brought him right in, and put him right in Pharaoh's palace, and let Pharaoh raise him up, and give him all the education that he could get to show (God) how He does things--and then took him on the backside of the desert, let him forget all about it.


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