<TITLE>13. Par 124-135</TITLE>L-124 And then the riders ride through the summer and put so many bulls, so many cows, and so forth. Then we... They have a drift fence, and the ranger stands there to check those cattle as they go through. Sometimes a whole bunch of us would get together when we're bringing them cattle up, in the spring. And there's literally thousands of head of cattle up-and-down that valley. And how many times have I set there with my leg wrapped around the horn of the saddle, watching that ranger stand there. He's checking those cattle as they go through.

L-125   Now, I noticed there was about... many different kinds of brands went in there, but the ranger never noticed the brand. He watched for the blood tag, 'cause nothing can come on that forest but a thoroughbred Hereford. Therefore, that keeps your breeding rights up. See?

L-126 I think that's the way it's going to be at the Day of Judgment. God ain't going to say, "Was you belong to the Assemblies, church of God?" He's going to watch for that Blood tag. "When I see the Blood, I'll pass over you." Regardless of the brand we got, that don't mean nothing.

L-127 Are you a Hereford? Are you registered? Are you a born-again Christian, filled with the Holy Ghost, washed in His Blood? That's what God is going to look forward, that Day, see that Blood tag. "When I see... Not when I see the brand. When I see the Blood tag, you can pass in." Amen.

L-128 I'm beginning to feel religious. Here it's almost twelve-thirty, and I ought to have been done twenty minutes ago, and just getting to feel religious right good. Oh, praise God! "When I see the Blood, I'll pass over you."
Now, for another minute or two, if you will.

L-129   I'm told that there's a certain type of eagle. Many of you tape men got my message on The Eagle Stirs Its Nest. And I was studying eagles. I like eagles. I know they think he's an old rascal, but he was here for a purpose. Like if I... I said to my wife, other day...

L-130 Then, you all seen, in Life magazine, where they killed that four hundred-and-something thousand coyotes last year, just taking them and shot them down. They got a bunch of domestic hogs went wild down here. They're just going to take, go in there with airplanes, and machine-gun them down. That's murder. That's not right. It's not right. That coyote can't help being a coyote. He has to kill, to eat.

L-131   Many times they say he kills off the lambs and things, like that. If that lazy bunch of herders they got up there... When them ewes are lambing, if they'd get out there and take care of those ewes, instead of sleeping up till ten or eleven o'clock, the coyote have a better name. That's right. He's not Don El, the--the mask over his face. He's a coyote. Sure. I've seen human beings worse than him. But...

L-132 And the bear, they're always talking about the bear, "He's a killer. He kills the calves." I've hunted since I was a little boy, and I've never seen a bear kill a calf. Course, he would do it, when he's starving to death. You'd do the same thing.

L-133 Remember, you have to kill, to eat. And every day, today, if you live, something has to die so you can live. You kill a cow; it died. You kill the sheep; it died. Say, "I don't eat meat." Well, something died, anyhow. If you eat a potato, it died. It's a life. If you eat greens, it died. It's a life. And a human can only live by dead substance.

L-134 Now, get it. And if something had to die, in order for you to live physically, isn't it only sensible that Something had to die so you could live spiritually? Christ died, not a creed, but a life that come from Christ. We live Eternally, through Christ.

L-135   This eagle, it's a great bird. I ain't... I haven't got time to unfold it, what he does, and how he makes his nest, and where he's not like his denominational brother, the chicken, a barnyard scratcher. He's going to be sure nothing ain't going to bother his children. He goes way high. No weasel is going to get him or his young ones.


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