<TITLE>08. Par 88-99</TITLE>L-88 Notice, He said, "As Jonah was in the belly of the whale, three days and nights," it was to be a sign, "so must the Son of man be in the heart of the earth, three days and nights. And a wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there shall be no sign given them from God, remember, but the sign of Jonas." What is Jonas' sign? The resurrection. And this is that Sodom generation, adulterous, spiritual adultery, co-... committing spiritual fornications against the Truth of God, making fun of It. "A wicked and an adulterous generation will seek for a sign, and they'll get it, it'll be the sign of the resurrection." Look, Jonah...

L-89   Them people were heathen, and it was a great... It was a commercial city. The great industry was fish. They sent fish all over the country. The man were fishermens. That was the occupation. And they had been heathens, they worshiped animals and idols, and become very wicked.

L-90 Like this nation now, full of sex and Hollywood, and all kinds, even into the churches. And notice what takes place. Why, sometimes even sex appeal in the church is called modern. How can this nation stand under such a thing as that? Call yourselves Christians, and act on such a things as that, how can it stand?

L-91 As my good friend, Jack Moore, said, years ago, "If God lets this nation get by with this, He'll be obligated, as a just God, to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah, and apologize to them for burning them up."

L-92 You're bound for judgment. There is no other way to accept it. Write it down in your Bibles. I'm getting to be an old man. You see if it doesn't go to judgment. If I live a normal life, I'll see it, normal time. Another few years will turn it.

L-93   Jonah. They was all out fishing, about noontime, and here come the god of the sea, up, the whale, run up to the bank and spit the prophet out on the bank. What a sign!

L-94 God delivered His prophet, with a message. Now they seen the sign, they believe the sign, now what's the message? "Repent!" That's the voice of the sign. The voice of the sign is, "Repent, or within forty days you'll be consumed." They knew enough to repent.

L-95 Jesus said, "They'll condemn this generation, 'cause they repented at the preaching of Jonas; a greater than Jonas is here."

L-96 The voice was, "Repent, or in forty days you'll be consumed."

L-97   John the prophet, appearing, a prophet-appearing sign, after four hundred years with no prophet. They had had all the intellectuals. I just imagine what a mess they had! Four hundred years, no prophet, but the time drew nigh that the Messiah was to come. Now, John was the sign, being a prophet, that the Messiah was ready to speak, the voice of the sign; because, in Malachi 3, we find out, "I'll send My messenger before My face." Elias was to come before His face, and Elias come. John, in the spirit and power of Elias, come and done exactly what the Scriptures did, and they did not understand it. Scripture says so. He was the sign, a prophet sign, that the Messiah was going to speak.

L-98 That prophet, knowing it so well, until he said, "Why, there is One standing among you, right now. That Messiah that I'm speaking of, is among you. I'm not worthy to loose His shoes. He is the One that'll baptize with the Holy Ghost and Fire. I'm baptizing with water, unto repentance, but He'll be after me. He is among you now."

L-99   One day he saw a young Man coming, walking down. He saw that Pillar of Fire, in the form of a Dove, coming down from Heaven; a Voice, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in." Says, "Whom I'm pleased to dwell," it's just the verb before the adverb, so it's just the same. "In Who I'm pleased to dwell," or, "in Whom I'm pleased to dwell," makes no difference. Notice, "I'm pleased to dwell in Him."


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