<TITLE>14. Par 126-138</TITLE>L-126 And when you see prophets rising, you better watch; judgment's on its road.
So then Noah preaching, and the people turning it down, laughed in his face. I can imagine some of them said, "That don't meet our scientific approval." Huh. I imagine, the same thing like it is today. They say that, "Shouting and praising God, and crying, and this here so-called holy-roller life and things, just all emotional workup." It don't meet their scientific approval, but it meets God's Bible. That's the main thing.
Notice. I imagine science come out and said, "Look, fellows. Look, you're--you're kind of off at the head. Look here. I... We got radar, we can shoot the moon or send a Sputnik up there. There's not one drop of water between here and there. Now, where's it coming from?"
I can hear Noah say, "God said so. And if God said it was so; He's Jehovah-jireh; He can provide water up there. God said so. It's going to happen, anyhow." Someone said...

L-131 You take a man dying with a cancer, a shadow of a man, here he is; next year he is a good healthy man. How did it happen? Laid him back... I have hundreds of those testimonies. A man done gone out of this life, and the doctor signed a statement, "He's dead, been dead for hours after hours." And God give a vision; he's living now. How? Don't ask me. I don't know. But God said, "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils." That's right.
Whenever you're sick and God pronounces healing, you just go on--on to your doctor, let him tell you when you're well. He'll give you... That'll give a testimony to him when he says, "Well, it's all gone", say, "Praise God. Thank you, doctor, for your services," just go on. See? That's right.

L-133 Notice. Now, Noah, he said, "There's coming a rain; the whole world, going to wash you wicked people out."
"Oh, nonsense. We got our churches. Our pastor don't say nothing like that. The old man's off at his head, building away on an ark up there. You think anybody will believe it?"
One day God said, "I have heard their scoffing enough. I'm ready now. Go in." And here come the animals, two by two, the male and female parrot, the male and female sparrow, the male and female goat, male and female sheep, lion, tiger, all that's breathing breath upon the earth entered into the ark.
Noah said, "That's your last sign."
And they wouldn't believe it. "Go on up and live with your stinking animals."
There he was, Noah obeying God. No matter what the world said, he listened to God; he was a prophet. He entered into the ark, and God closed the door behind him.

L-138 Now, I can imagine, some of the borderline believers, that set around and listened to Noah's message, and set off a piece, you know, they said, "You know what, that old man might have been right. Let's go up and stand around. He said it's going to start raining when that door shuts. God told him He'd shut the door; it's going to rain. Let's go up and stand around. And if it does start raining, we'll knock on the door. Because he's a kindhearted old man, he'll open the door."
You see, sometimes you're looking at the messenger instead of the message. God shut the door. No matter how kindhearted Noah was, it was God that done the shutting and opening, whatever He wants.


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