<TITLE>03. Par 24-32</TITLE>L-24 You watch the quail when he comes up, the bobwhite, how he flies. Watch the Gambel quail when it comes up, you hunters. You see, there's a different. Watch the jacksnipe and the Wilson's snipe, the characteristic determines what he is.

L-25 A great sheep standing on the mountain side, if he had his back turned, the back part of the rump is white, the other part is gray. If you didn't know the characteristics of that sheep, it could be a deer. See? See, you have to know the characteristics of them, to detect what is and what is not. Many things we could go on telling you about animal life.

L-26   Then we come down to the human life, the characteristics between a man and a woman. There's a difference. They're both human being, but the characteristics of the two sex detect them. I was reading sometime ago about one of the problems that was put to the--the test of Solomon, by the queen, that she had some women dressed like men. And Solomon had them to walk and do a few things, quickly he said, "Them's women." See, because that he could tell the way they did, that the--the characteristics of them was women. There's something about it, that you can't hide it, it's--it's a woman because her--her characteristic denotes her to be a woman.

L-27 It's just like right hand and left hand on people. They're both people. You watch, and one of them is right-handed and the other is left-handed. Watch the way their characteristics detect them, you can tell whether they're right- or left-handed or not. See? Yet they both got hands, both hands look just exactly alike, just exactly alike.

L-28   I might drop a little something here. Jesus said, in Matthew, 24th chapter, that "In the last days, the two spirits would be so close together till it would deceive the very elected if it was possible."

L-29 Now, that's just like looking at a right hand and a left hand. They both got thumbs, fingers, nails, small fingers, middle fingers, so forth, index, all are different fingers. They, both the thumbprints, only one's just turned one way and one the other, both the same print, made the same way, the thumbprints. Everything is identically alike, the only difference is the characteristic of it. One is a left hand and one is a right hand, that's the only difference.

L-30 And that's just the way the spirits will be in the last day, they will, just the characteristic of it will detect whether it is of God or not. One of them will be right and the other one will be wrong, you'll only know it by the characteristic of God. Just perfectly, it'll have to be that way. But right hand, we'd say is "right," and the left hand was "wrong," see, or vice versa, one of them. They're determined by their characteristics. Only can you know it by its characteristic.

L-31   As Israel was in its journey, coming up out of Egypt. Now, God was with Israel, He had showed them a great sign down there, sent a prophet to them and identified His written Word. And as He brought them up, we watch His characteristic, how He met Moses, the things that He did. And on his... the road up, they come to another nation, which was Moab. And Moab was a great nation, now, not heathen, by no means. That was Lot's daughters' children, and they were believers. Now, watch the two nations. One of them is a recognized nation, the other one is just a sojourner. And now they come to the place that this great nation of Moab lays right straight in the line of their path of duty, to go to the promised land. Now they had...

L-32 Look at the--the two nations, each of them had a prophet. One of them was the great teacher and prophet, Balaam. The other one was Moses. Now Balaam comes down from... to curse Israel.


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