<TITLE>17. Par 63-66</TITLE>L-63 Now, watch. He was speaking of a weak and an adulterous generation. Let me say this with sincerity. He was speaking of this generation. For if there ever was a weak, dishwater  generation that's full of adultery as this nation, this people...
Look, our nation leads the world in divorces. Homosexuals is worse than it is in Paris, France. I read an article the other day where forty percent of the government employed was thought to be homosexuals. I was flying over Los Angeles recently, and put in a paper in the state of Los An--of California alone, homosexuals, year before last, increased twenty percent.
My office lays full of letters of mothers crying, their boys taking other boys and going to rooms and living with them. They have absolutely abused themselves so much, and so forth, till they've perverted the natural course between man and woman.
A wick--weak and an adulterous generation seeks after signs: this generation. Watching... And they shall receive it. What? The sign of Jonas. What? They'll receive the sign of the resurrection. "For as Jonas was in the belly of the whale three days and nights, so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth three days and nights." But He will raise again. And the weak and adulterous generation will receive the sign of the resurrection. You get it?

L-64 Always felt sorry for Jonah. So many people said that Jonah... backslidden. I don't believe he was. I believe if he was a prophet, the Word of God was with him in every... God ordains the steps of the righteous. Don't you believe that?
Now, we know he was supposed to go to Nineveh, that great city full of sin and adultery. And it come up before God, and bunch of Gentiles down there. But notice, the city was pretty near the size of St. Louis, several times big as this city here. And they were just wicked. And he was supposed to go down there, but he got his ticket for Tarshish. I believe that was God's will. Notice. He got out on the sea, and a storm came up. And they bound his hands and throwed him overboard.

L-65 Here not long ago in Louisville, Kentucky, they had a whale's frame laying on a--on a (oh, it's been about fifteen, twenty years ago, I guess), laying on a--a big flatcar. And that old fellow standing out there said, "Now, I want to tell you; you've heard that--that mystic story about Jonah being swallowed by the whale." He said, "I want to show you how that's impossible." Said, "A man could not go through the throat of this whale." Oh, he was all scientific, you know.
He said, "You see, it could hardly be a baseball go through his swallow." And this whale weighed, I forget, how many tons.
I just stood as much as I could. So I said, "Sir, may I say a word?"
Said, "What is it, young man?"
I said, "You fail to understand God's Word. God never said it was a whale. It was a special fish. God prepared a fish for him. This could've swallowed a house if he'd wanted to." That trimmed his feathers. See? This was a special fish. God prepared a fish for him. He had a big throat, and he swallowed this preacher. And he had his hands bound, his feet bound.

L-66 And, you know, you feed your goldfish. You know what happens? Why, he goes right to... After he's prowling around through the waters to find his food, then when he gets his belly full, he goes right down at the bottom of the little goldfish jar, and rests his little swimmers on the bottom, and rests. That's what he does. All fish do that.
And this big special fish must've done the same thing. Might've been... I don't know how many fathoms deep it was out there. But he prowled around till he swallowed Jonah. And then he must've went right down at the bottom and rested his swimmers right on the bottom, laying there. Here Jonah was, down in the whale of the belly turning over in the vomit.


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