<TITLE>11. Par 128-141</TITLE>L-128   Here not long ago, in Louisville, Kentucky, about ten years ago, they had a--a whale laying upon a--a flatcar. And there was some little Ricky there, had more intelligence than he knowed how to control. He was trying to make the Bible out telling a lie. He said, "You know, you hear that old Bible proverb, that the whale swallowed Jonah." He said, "Look, you couldn't put a ball through his throat, it was so small. How could a full-grown man go into his belly?" Said, "You see, it's just an old proverb, like the Bible is full of them."

L-129 That was too much for my--my thinking. I said, "Sir, I'd like to say something there."
Said, "What you got to say?"

L-130 I said, "You see, you haven't read the Bible right." I said, "The Bible said this was a special whale. 'God prepared a big fish.' This was a special built, to swallow him with, that let him done it! It wasn't an ordinary fish. God was going to do an unusual job, so He got an unusual fish." See? He didn't say no more about it then. So, it, God had a special thing.

L-131   Like a little girl, one time, coming from the tabernacle; her little hair combed back, and slick, enough till her little face looked like a peeled onion. She was just had a Bible, going down.

L-132 This old man named Jim Dorsey lived at Utica. He was an infidel, an old soldier, and--and he didn't believe in God. And he said, "Where you going, young lady?"
She said, "I'm going home, sir."
Said, "What's that you're packing in your arm?"
She said, "It's a Bible."
Said, "You don't believe that, do you?" And he...
Said, "Yes, I believe it, sir."

L-133 And said, "Do you believe that story in there about the whale swallowing Jonah?"
Said, "Why, sure, I believe every Word of it."

L-134 He said, "How you going to prove it any other way besides faith, what you call faith?"
"Why," she said, "when I get to Heaven, I'll ask Jonah." See?
He said, "Then what if he is not there?"

L-135 She said, "Then you'll have to ask him." So I thought that was a pretty good straightener out. So I think that that's about right.

L-136 If the Bible said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it. He could prepare it. What God has said, God is able to perform, and He always keeps His Word. So, Jonah, we make fun of him...

L-137   But did you ever notice a fish when it's swimming? It's hunting its food. And then when it eats, it goes right down to the bottom and rests its little swimmers on the bottom. Feed your goldfish and watch what happened. They get their little belly full, then they go down and put their swimmers right against the bottom, and lay there and take it easy.

L-138 Well, this big prepared fish come along and swallowed up this prophet. And he went down to the bottom of the sea, and maybe forty fathoms deep there. He went way down, to rest hisself on the bottom of the sea.

L-139   Now we're always thinking about Jonah. And everybody say, "Now I was prayed for, but my hand is no better. I was prayed for, but I don't feel no better." Don't you ever holler at Jonah.

L-140 Now look at the symptoms he had. Now, first place, he was out on a stormy sea, and he was off of the course that God had sent him. His hands and feet was bound. He was throwed into a storming, raging sea, and a whale swallowed him and went plumb down in the bottom of the sea. And he was laying there in the vomit, in the whale's belly, seaweeds around his neck. And if he looked this a way, it was whale's belly. He looked that way, it was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked, it was the whale's belly. You talk about a case of symptoms, he might have had it. But you know what he said? He said, "They are lying vanities. I'll not no more look at them, but once more will I look to Your holy temple."

L-141 For, Solomon, a natural man of earth, who prayed in dedicating a temple, said, "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and look to this holy place, then hear from Heaven."


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