<TITLE>18. Par 72-75</TITLE>L-72 Now. Isaiah described Him. When he saw Him, he said... Now, when they saw Him in this fellowship, saw Him in this mighty tower, abiding in it and believing in it... He's a refuge. But when Isaiah saw Him here in the 32nd chapter, he said, "He's a rock in a weary land." That must be this land, a weary, dismal land.
"Oh," you say, "my, this is a land of joy and happiness." Yeah, I know it is. Just like preached, I believe, last Sunday on the line of a true prophet. When Amos come up and looked over into that city, that old country preacher, bald-headed, and whiskers hanging around, his eyes narrowed, he didn't look like one of these modern tourists coming into Hollywood, looking at the glamor and things. His eyes narrowed, he looked down upon there and said, "The very God that you claim to trust in will destroy you." If he'd come to America tonight, he'd say the same thing. "The very God that you claim to serve will be your destruction." And He did it. He only preached about thirteen years, but he lived to see his word fulfilled. He was a man fearless with God's Word.

L-73 You say how did Amos know that? Because he could diagnose that case just exactly like a doctor diagnoses a case. When a doctor takes a case, and looks at it, and sees the symptoms on it that's cancer, and it's far advanced, he says, "It's death." There's no hopes as far as he knows. There's no hopes for that patient because he's too advanced.
But when a real true prophet of God looks down and sees the sin of a nation, seeing our women bob their hair and wear dresses that's ornery; and see men having a form of godliness, and creed-bound, and things like that, leading men astray, blind leaders of the blind; diagnosing the case by God's Word, there can't nothing happen but destruction. All's left. The cancer that's eaten in, and rottenness to the core...

L-74 Among all the denominations it's done. There's nothing to do but cry out against the thing that's wrong. Amen. Means "so be it," and that's right. All right. "A great rock in a weary land, a shelter in the time of storm." Oh, I'm so glad when he saw in it a great rock in a weary land.
Oh, I remember here not long ago I was reading a book on an eagle, a certain kind of an eagle. I think he's in--over in the orient. And I--I preached here some time ago on it, "As the Eagle Stirreth Its Nest." And I was reading up on eagles, and I found out there's forty different types of eagles.
But this certain eagle... The Bible says as the eagle renews his youth, renews his strength; we shall mount up like eagles, and so forth. And this certain eagle, when he begins to get old he knows he's going to die pretty soon. There's a crust comes over his head. He's bald, you know.

L-75 And that's the reason God likened Himself to an eagle. He likes His children to eagles. And because they're the highest soaring bird, they can go higher than any other bird there is. His eye's so keen. It wouldn't do him no good to get up there unless he seen what was going on down here, see far off. He likened His prophet to eagles that can sail up like this, and look way off and see things coming, come back down and tell the people what's fixing to happen: the eagle.
And these old eagle, when he begins to get old, he finds... And he goes way up high into the cleft of the rocks, and he finds a certain rock. He gets up there. He's getting so old he can't hardly walk around. This crust is killing him, over his head.
And he takes his head and he starts beating against that rock, beating it against the rock until he knocks the crust off his head. Oh, it hurts him. You can see him up there flopping around. He will jump back (watching him through glasses), he will knock his head again. What's he trying to do? Knock that crust off. And he will bleed, and the blood will run all over him till he knocks that crust off.


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