<TITLE>16. Par 61-64</TITLE>L-61 And then you know what? Noah had a trial of his faith. Yes, he did (See?), 'cause, you know, he went in there on the seventeenth of February. But you know what? It didn't rain for seven days. The first day passed. I imagine some of the borderline believers come up and said, "Well, you know, the old man could've been right. You know, it might be there might be something up there we can't even find. Maybe science didn't look high enough. So we...?... we'll go up and stand around, just hang around the meeting awhile and see what takes place."
Oh, my. It hasn't changed. They just want to find one mistake. And it sure looked like they had it, 'cause the first day they come, said, "Well, we'll get up there. And if it is, we'll call Papa Noah, and tell him to come on down, let a ladder down and pick us up." So all of them come around, the borderline believers. The rest of them went on jawing and laughing. Those others kind of hung around, listened to Noah once in a while, said, "Might be so, so we'll stand around. Even if the door is closed, we can go in. Noah's good hearted. He will let us in." But you know, God closed the door. Noah had nothing to do with it.

L-62 And then the first thing you know, the first thing Noah said, "All of you all get ready now. All you children get ready now. You're going to hear a clap of something, and it's going to be something you know nothing about. You never heard such a noise. Going to be worse than the blast. And it's going to come out of the skies, and great darkness, I saw it in a vision. And water's going to pour out there like fountains."
First day the sun come up, they said, "Hey." Ten o'clock, twelve o'clock, three o'clock, five o'clock: no rain. Noah thought, "Wait a minute."
All of them said, "Aw, wasn't nothing to it. Well, let's try another day." Second day. "It'll be here in the morning. It's a little late; that's all right. It'll be here." And the next morning, nine o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven o'clock: no rain. Five days passed. Six days passed. He had to sweat it out. That's right.

L-63 We have to sweat it out too. Uh-huh. But if God said anything, stay with it. It's "By His stripes we are healed." And we take His Word. Sweat it out. God promised the Holy Ghost. Be like old Buddy Robinson said, "Lord, if You don't give me the Holy Ghost, when You come back You'll find a pile of bones laying right here." That's it. Sweat it out. Stay there. "God said so." Abraham sweated it out for twenty-five years for that baby. But it got there...?... What difference? Just so it arrives. That's all that's necessary. He promised it, just stay with it.

L-64 And after seven days, then that morning he got up, he said, "Oh, oh, there it is." Oh, what a feeling. My, could you imagine? He knowed that the promise was close. Why? He could feel... That morning before anything taken place, he could hear it way in the distance, a roar, that window open in the top, maybe twenty foot across or whatever it was, that big window up there. You know, that hot parched ground and that hot sun, that... You know when you get a real dry spell for a long time, then in the distance you can feel that cool wind coming in from that rain? He knowed it was coming.
That's what's the matter with the world today. You know the people look around, say, "Oh, the atomic bomb. We're going to build a fallout shelter, we're going to do this..." Nonsense. Nonsense. What you so scared about?


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