<TITLE>18. Par 60-63</TITLE>L-60 Now, so Noah got ready, and all the animals went in, and then Noah himself went in. And so, when he went in, I guess, the last thing he said was standing in the door and saying, "It's THUS SAITH THE LORD." The last call, That's where we're standing today by the ark, at the door of the Ark. Christ is that Door.
If you'll take that literally and want to work on it a little bit, take over in Revelations between the Philadelphian and the Laodicean age, He said, "I set a door open before you, and you refused it." See? That's the hour we're living, just before the destruction: an open door. But they wouldn't listen. Now, they turned Him outside.
Now, He stood in the door and proclaimed, "The hour is at hand that when the Word of God that has spoke will be fulfilled." That's right.

L-61 Into the ark he went, and when he went into the ark, you know what? God shut the door. Oh, my. Nobody had to shut it; God shut it. That was all; the last chance to be saved was gone. So I'd imagine the kids got arm in arm around that, about a five-hundred yard ark there; and the old folks walked up and said, "Why, that old fellow will smother to death in there." See? So on making fun of him just the same, made jeering.
And you know, every person... (Now, listen. Maybe this will help you. Listen close.) When you take God's Word and follow God's Word, there's many times that after you've already done all you can do, your faith is put to a test. There's nobody here but home-folks. I'm standing on that ground right now. That's right. I don't know what to do. The revival's over. You see? I don't know where the next call is. I'm just--just standing, nervously, looking, wondering what's next.

L-62 Noah went in; he followed the will of God. And God shut the door behind him. But it never rained for seven more days. Wonder what Noah thought all that time in there? Noah setting in the ark, the door shut, he thought, "Just any time, children, you'll hear it. We'll pull the door, the lid up here on top." They was up on the top floor, you know. The animals on the bottom, the birds in the next, and they was on top. "That sun, oh, in the morning, there'll be--there'll be something over there, dark, and the rain will come." But the next morning up come the sun.
Maybe some people that kind of halfway believed Noah might've went up there and stood around the ark, and said, "You know what? That old man might have been right. We'd better stand here." Well then, they seen a mistake. God's prophets make no mistake. God's Word can't fail.
You've heard me preach on about Jonah going to Nineveh. They said he was backslidden; he sure wasn't. He was right in the will of God, exactly. He had the Word of the Lord, and he walked in it.

L-63 Here Noah said, "Now, children, all of you get around and you'll see the first cloud that ever come in the skies. It'll come over in the morning." Well, the sun come up. "Well, maybe by nine o'clock; we'll watch." At nine o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, three, four, five, six... Whew. "He shut the door yesterday too."
Some of them said, "Well, you know what? I'm going to agree with Sister Suzie down there in that great--in her big church. That old man's crazy. See, he went up there and shut that door and said the rain was going to fall, and there he sets. And then there's nothing to it. See?"
Sun come right up, went on across like it always did. No such thing as rain. So them lukewarm, halfway believers, half-hearted, that's not willing to take God plumb down to the end of the road, live or die... You see what I mean? Stand in your fortified condition, live or die, sink or drown. Stay right there just the same.


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