<TITLE>02. Par 12-19</TITLE>L-12 Now, like in all nature, flowers are identified, many times, by their characteristic. If they're close together, of one specie to another, the characteristic of that flower will identify what flower it is. And in wildlife, many times...

L-13   I, I'm a hunter. And you have to know the characteristic of the animal that you're hunting, or sometimes you can be certainly deceived. For instance, like the Stone Sheep way up in British Columbia. I was just under the Yukon this last fall, a couple of brethren here now was with me, and we were hunting.

L-14 Now if you didn't know the difference, when you was tracking a sheep or a deer, you couldn't tell the difference 'less you was a shrewd hunter. Because, they make the same kind of tracks; they bound when they run away. And then you see one standing at a distance, with his head hid, why, you--you would hardly know the difference. They're about the same size across the rump part; it's white, just like the deer. It'd be very hard to tell them. But his horns identifies his characteristic, by them horns. The sheep has a horn that rounds, and a deer has prongs that run out. And another thing, a deer wouldn't go quite that high, to feed.

L-15 And then the goat, walking, also, there is a characteristic in a goat, and a sheep, that you would have to know the difference in them, when you were up high, because they both dwell high in the mountain. You have to know the difference. But if you notice, a--a goat stumbles himself as he walks; where, a sheep sits his feet down like this, as he walks. The characteristic of the way he makes his track. You identify your game by the characteristics of what it does, and how it acts, and what it feeds, and everything. It identifies itself by its characteristic. And then you jump one, and watch what it happens, you can tell the way they go. You can tell by that characteristic of different animal.

L-16   Then did you ever notice, I don't know whether you have them here or not, yellowhammers; well, flicker is the right name for them, and a jay bird. A jay bird is about the same size of a yellowhammer. And you see the two flying, they're both about the same kind of bird. If you can't see the color, but just watch them, you can tell which is the yellowhammer. The jay bird flies, more or less, in a beeline. But the yellowhammer, flopping his wings; as he flaps his wings, he goes down and then up, down and then up. See, he makes hisself in a bound, like that, and you can tell that's the characteristic of the yellowhammer, the way he flies.

L-17 If you notice the--the quail when he comes out, the way he comes up. And then watch if you're in a swamp, where quail might be, and a--and a snipe. You hunters know that. The Wilson's snipe and the jacksnipe, they identify themselves by the way they come out and the way they go. They identify by their characteristic of flying, of what kind of a bird they are. Therefore, if you just heard them, you can just tell what it was, the way he went out, what he is, by the characteristic of his flying.

L-18   Like a man and a woman. They're both human beings, but a woman has a different characteristics to a man. I was reading here, some time ago, about Solomon and the queen. I've never got around to preaching my little Message here, to you, on the queen of the South, coming up to see Solomon, and seeing that gift of discernment. I was reading about that, here not long ago, and they said, that, "One of the puzzles that was put before Solomon, was, this queen took a woman, or women, rather, and dressed them like man."

L-19 Now, that was foreign in that day, but it certainly is up-to-date, today. And--and you know that's wrong. The Bible said that a woman shouldn't do that. "It's an abomination for a woman to put on a garment pertains to a man." And the unchangeable God said that, so that is true.


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