<TITLE>05. Par 35-42</TITLE>L-35   Watch the geese over here in Texas, where many of them go. I've seen the time that we'd have to stop the car, on the road. They are not bothered about nobody. They're thinking about going. They got a revival going on. All of them together, you never heard such a noise. It's worse than the Pentecostals, when they get together. See? What is it? It's the laws of nature. See, they, every year they get together, then swarm, and away they go. When them ducks leave, and geese leave Texas, summer is on the road. That's right.

L-36 And when they leave northern British Columbia, winter is on the way; hear them geese going over, screaming the way they do, going south. I can listen at them and cry, because I see God guiding them. What is it guides them through the pathless air, when he's nothing but a dumb brute? What is it that does it? When I hear him going down, screaming, that leader out there, kind of taking his way; maybe he's never winged his way to Louisiana before, but he'll get there. Don't you worry. He's got something in him that tells him where to go. He is taking his flight. He is leading the herd. The whole swarm of them is coming. They may never been here before. But he knows right exactly where the--the rice paddies has got the rice, because he's got something that leads him. It's a nature.

L-37 Then the spring, when it's nice and warm down here through the winter, he'll go right straight back again. Why? It's nature displaying itself. It's the laws of God.

L-38   His signs always foreruns His events, just as that does. When you see the geese going, see the buds coming on, see the leaves falling off, see, it's the continuity of nature blending in. God's law of nature blends in, and He foreruns His events. It always has been, it never has failed, and it never will fail.

L-39 If we just follow the continuity of God's Word, we will never fail, either. If we'll not take the--the modern trend of the day and--and try to inject something else into it, but just follow the continuity of it for this age, watch what takes place. We'll go straight home, too, one of these days. Always does that, and never fails.

L-40   Prophets are the chief sign. God's chief sign is a prophet. Now I'm going to speak a few minutes about that. They are His Word made manifest for that age, and that's the reason a prophet is always God's chief sign. He has never sent a judgment upon the earth without first sending a prophet. Just see, and search the Scriptures. A prophet is the chief sign of God, to His people, that He has sent this person, this certain person, like Noah, like Moses, and--and Elijah and the prophets. He sends them to manifest the Word for that age, to give His people a warning.

L-41 Just the same as He sends a cold spell upon the ducks, to run them from the North to the South; continuity in nature, continuity in the Word, He never fails to do it. If it takes cold weather to run them down, next year it takes cold weather to run them down. If it takes hot weather to run them back, the next year it takes hot weather to run them back.

L-42   And when God gets ready to send judgment, before He sends judgment, He sends a prophet and manifests His Word, vindicates the Word of that age. He did it in all other ages. He promised to do it in this age. And He will do it in this age, regardless of what people says about it. He'll do it, anyhow, because He cannot break His continuity. It's the way He planned, He always does it the same way. He never fails to do it like He did it at the first time.


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