<TITLE>11. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 I read a story on it one time. All the people of Nineveh was heathens. Heathens usually worship animals and life. Way down there in south America, I noticed them doing a kangaroo dance. They had a dance, some kind of a party, and they all danced just like the kangaroo, 'cause that's... Everything they'd ever seen is the kangaroo. So they was going to eat the kangaroo directly, and they throwed him on the fire and singed him a little. Oh, how they done it, I don't know. I wasn't hungry. So then, anyhow, the way they was dancing is like the kangaroo dance. That's the way they...
And you see them come through Africa. They got all kinds of little funny-looking things of animals, sprinkled with blood. Well, that's what they believe to be God.
And now, we find out that these people down there in Nineveh also worshipped idols, and their sea god was a whale. So all the men, the occupation being by the sea, they were fishermen: the main occupation. And it was a great export there of fish to the world at that time.
So then, the--all the fishermen was out there about noontime one day, fishing, pulling in their nets. And all at once the god come up out of the sea, the whale god. It run up to the shore, and licked out his tongue, and the prophet come walking right off the tongue of the whale, right out on to the ground. No wonder they repented. Amen.

L-40 God knows how to do things. Yet, in its simplicity God knows how to do it. See? Jonah wasn't backslid. He was just following the leading of the Spirit. That's how to make the people repent. He said... He went right down through the city and said, "If you don't repent, in forty days this place will sink." That's all. See, how could they do anything but repent, because their--their very god spit the prophet out. And they knowed he had a message. That was their god, so they... Just spit it right out.
Our God is Christ. Amen. And He sent down the Holy Ghost. Why can't we believe it what I wonder? Here He was manifested in flesh. There He stood, and He said, "And the people of Nineveh will rise in the last day with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And a greater than Jonah is here." Then ask Him for a sign...

L-41 Then He goes on to say, about then, that God through all generations spoke. Whenever God sends a gift to the earth, and the people receive it, that's a golden age for that generation. But when they reject it, it's chaos for that generation.
Now, what if tonight... If American people who claim to be a Christian nation, what if all we who claim to be Christians would accept God's gift that He sent to us, the Holy Ghost? Wouldn't it be wonderful? Why, we could quit making missiles. Why, there wouldn't be nothing in the world ever hurt us. They couldn't. We have protection. The Holy Ghost is upon us. Certainly. We wouldn't need nothing else but the Holy Ghost, if the people would just accept the gift the God sent them, and that's the Holy Spirit.
But one church will different from the other, and this one say, "Oh, there's no such thing as the Holy Ghost. That was for the disciples." And it's a gift right now. It's for the church, and now's the last days.

L-42 Why, you don't have to talk about bomb shelters. People are digging under the ground like moles, trying to get away from the atomic bomb. How you going to do it? Why, they'll blow a hole in the ground about a mile deep and for one hundred and fifty miles square. Well, if you was fifty miles below the earth, plumb below the--the lava, the shock of it would break every bone in your body. There's no way at all of escape.
Only one way. But we've got a bomb shelter. It's not made out of steel; but it's made out of feathers. Under His wings we rest. Amen. And it's not down here; it's up there. You get above it, when you sail into the--soar into His bosom. Sure. That's the escape.


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