<TITLE>03. Par 22-35</TITLE>L-22   But Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah," a great smart civilization as it was then, "so will it be at the coming of the Son of man."

L-23 And now perhaps they, in their scientific research, they--they found something there that they could make a coloring that would last till today, a dye of some sort, that would not give away.

L-24 And they could embalm a body, make a mummy, that would look quite natural; yet today, after four thousand years, they still look natural. We couldn't do that if we had to. We have nothing to do it with. We've lost the art, many great arts that they had.

L-25   No doubt they had instruments that would prove there was no water in the air. And this man coming around, contrary to science, and says that, "There is going to come water out of the heavens."

L-26 Now, the science could take an instrument and shoot up into the air, and say, "Look at here, Noah, read this instrument. It gives on this barometer here, whether there is any water up there, or not, and there is none. Now you say it's up there, and yet the scientific research shows that it's not there."

L-27 That didn't stop Noah. He was persistent. He knowed that God had said, "It's going to rain," and God was able to put rain up there if He said so. He would make it, whether there was any there or not. So he was persistent after he knowed the Word of the Lord.

L-28   And when a man knows the Word and will of God, you become persistent. You become perseverant. No matter what science says, "Well, they can't do this, they cannot do that," you know it, anyhow. You got a hold of Something, and that Something has got a hold of you. You're rotating together. You, there is something about it, that you cannot explain it. No matter how scientific it seems to be untrue, yet there is Something in it that tells you that it's God, and there is nothing going to stop it.

L-29 So we find that Noah pounded right ahead on the ark, no matter how much scientific proof, "it wasn't so, and there was no rain." And he believed it anyhow, because he had heard the Word of the Lord.

L-30 And there is where faith is solemnly based upon, THUS SAITH THE LORD.

L-31   Moses, another great, smart man that had been raised up, borned in the world for a certain achievement of God. And he tried to meet this goal by his scientific acts. We are taught and told by history that he was a great military leader, and his only way of doing anything, was, killing off. He was so smart that he could teach the smart Egyptians, wisdom. In all of his wisdom and all that he knew, yet he failed, miserably failed, to achieve what God had in mind for him to do. And in finding his failure, by slaying the Egyptian and hiding him in the sand, and hearing the rebuke from his brother, or the question, "Will you slay us as you did the Egyptian?" Upon this, Moses ran into the wilderness, a runaway prophet.

L-32   After forty years in the wilderness, that God had uneducating him from the things of the world, unto the mind of God; taking all of his doctor's degree, and everything, away from him, till He could work into his heart.

L-33 When He had the material about ready, one day while he was herding sheep on the backside of the desert, an old familiar path, he found a tree on fire.

L-34 Moses, being a scientist, he never approached it in the way of a scientist. If you'll notice, if he had been a scientist, he'd a-said, "Now I'm going to take some of the leaves from that tree, and take them down to the laboratory and find out what they were sprayed with, the reason they burn and don't burn up." If he would have done that, then he wasn't ready yet.

L-35   But what he did, he approached It and took off. his shoes, knelt upon his knees and begin to talk to It, because he knowed It was supernatural. From there came the Word of the Lord, saying, "I have heard the groans of My people, and I remember My Word. I'm sending you down to deliver them."


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