<TITLE>13. Par 128-141</TITLE>L-128 I said, "If it, let it be a whale. It was a special prepared, for God prepared a fish for him." This one was special. He could make one that the whole boxcar could run into. He is God, see, so that is true. We, we don't want to believe that, those things, or Bible stories. God prepared this fish for Jonah. He was a special fish, so he--he swallowed Jonah.

L-129   And now he was down in the belly of the whale. And his hands tied behind him, and his feet tied. Now you can imagine what condition that man was in. And, anyway, the--the whale, or it was like any other fish, perhaps, it prowls through the water till it finds its food, and then it goes down to the bottom of the sea.

L-130 Now you feed your little goldfishes and watch him. He gets his little belly full and he goes down to the bottom of the sea, and puts his little swimmers out. And there he rests, see, 'cause he--he has found his food.

L-131 Well, when this fish had found the prophet, and had swallowed him, well, then he must have went down in--in the bottom of the sea. Now, I don't know that he did, but I say he--he--he might have done it. And now here is this man.

L-132   Now we're always, it's too bad, but we're always trying to think, and show, or Satan showing us our symptoms. "Well, you see, you, you're not any better than you was yesterday. You, see, you're no better." Don't look at symptoms.

L-133 If anybody could have symptoms, it would have been Jonah. See? See, everywhere he looked was the whale's belly. See? But you know what he said? "They are lying vanities." He never said, "I'm going to look at this." He said, "Once more will I look to Your holy temple."

L-134 For he knew, when Solomon prayed and dedicated that temple, said, "If Thy people be in trouble, anywhere, and look to this holy place and pray, then hear from Heaven." He had confidence in Solomon's prayer, a man, an earthly man like you and I, he after a while even backslid, women drawed him away from God. And, but, his prayer was heard by God, and he could have faith under them circumstances.

L-135   And how much more faith ought we to have, when we don't have to look to a temple built by a man; but to Heaven Itself, where the Son of God sits at the right hand of His Majesty, with His Own Blood, ever living to make intercessions!

L-136 And there is none of us has that kind of symptom like that. We see people healed in the Presence of God, all the time. We should never look to symptoms; they are lying vanities. Look to God, that's Who made the promise.

L-137   Now we find out that whatever taken place, however God got oxygen to the prophet, I don't know. But he--he lived for three days and nights, according to the Bible. And I don't know how far Tarshish was, and how far it was from Nineveh, how far out in the sea they were; but Jonah stayed alive, according to the Scripture, for three days and nights. He called him.
Say, "Oh, that's impossible."

L-138 How about calling Lazarus, after being dead for four days? See? And He'll call us some day, though we be dead ten thousand years. It don't make any difference, see, it'll be the same. See, He is God.

L-139   Now we find him now, and here he comes up to Nineveh. The whale is coming right through the water, like taxiing him. A taxi ride on the bottom of the sea, coming right up to Nineveh, and must have been about noon.

L-140 Well, now, those people were fishermen. And they were out pulling in their nets, and so forth, their commercial fishermen. And they were heathens. They worshiped idols. And one of their gods...

L-141 Like the Indians used to have here in America, the grizzly bear was a god, Ovegus, which he was a god worshiped by heathen Indians before they were brought into Christianity. They had a god, god of power.


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