<TITLE>14. Par 59-62</TITLE>L-59 God through all ages has sent gifts, and recognitions, and signs to the people. Prophets has always been signs. Every time you see a prophet rise, you'd better be careful: judgment's on its road. Look at Noah; look at Moses. Look at Jeremiah before--'fore going into Babylon. Look at John the Baptist 'fore the rejection of Israel. And oh, so forth, all along. Prophets are signs, and the Jews were commanded to believe these prophets. And when they come forth with these--with these message, God, through all ages, He was telling this wicked generation what they had done.
And listen, every age that God sends a gift to the church, and the church receives it, it's a golden age for the church. But when the church rejects it, it's judgment for that age.

L-60 Now, there come an age of Solomon Jesus referred to. Now, we all know that the days of Solomon was the--was the golden age of Israel: no wars and all the nations feared them. Why? God gave them a gift, and the whole nation believed it with one accord. It was a golden age.
If we Americans would only do that tonight, all the missile race, and atomic bomb, and all these other things could be sunk out in the middle of the sea. God has give this nation a great Gift: the Holy Ghost. But they don't believe It. Even the clergymen, tens of thousands of them, reject It. The church has turned It down, when it's doing the very same things it did at Pentecost, and down through the age, until the Roman cankerworm and palmerworm eat it up. But He said, "I will restore it again, saith the Lord." He will.

L-61 Now, notice. Solomon in his days, how great that he had a gift of discernment, and all the people rallied around that gift. Nobody talked against it. What if it was today that everybody, even Full Gospel people, would just talk just so glorious against--about the Holy Spirit? How wonderful it is to everybody. What if every man in America that claimed to be a Christian just rallied around the gift of the Holy Spirit? Oh, my. The millennium would be on. Sure it would.
But our little petty differences between--our organizational fences, and so forth, has separated them as far as the east is from the west. And God will never be able to do nothing to us until them walls are broke down, and we become one in Christ. That's right.

L-62 We find them there, and there they was. All, everywhere you'd go, say, "Oh, wasn't it wonderful? They tell me that God came upon Solomon yesterday and a great thing taken place. Oh, glory to God." Somebody else told somebody else, and somebody else, "Oh, hallelujah to God." It's a golden age.
What if the church was like that today, brethren? Wouldn't it be wonderful? Oh, what could we do? Wouldn't it be wonderful? There would be no... nothing would...
We would have a bomb shelter all right. It wouldn't be dug down in the ground. Them bombs will grow a--blow a hole in the ground a hundred and fifty yards in, or two hundred yards, or something like that, deep in the ground, and spread out for a hundred and fifty miles. Why, if you were a thousand... If you was down into the lava, it would break every bone in your body.
You can't dig down; you have to dig up to get out of the way of it. We have a shelter. And it's made out of feathers: under His wings (Amen.), carried away. Oh, I'm so glad for that shelter (Yes, sir.) under His wings. Why, the dust won't be settled till we'll be in glory (That's right.), safely under His wings. Oh, how that great wings of an eagle will pack us out of here one of these days.


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