<TITLE>11. Par 103-117</TITLE>L-103 "Five years, twenty years, fifty years, the ark is completed." Noah was setting in the door. "Here comes Mr. Scoffer, Mr. Unbeliever, Mr. Skeptic, Mr. Impatient, 'Well, now, where is the rain?'

L-104 "'God said it was going to rain. He didn't say when. He said, "It was going to rain." He didn't say when. He just said, "It's going to rain. Get an ark. You'll be safe in it. It's going to rain." He didn't say when it was going to rain. He said, "It's going to rain," and I built the ark.'

L-105 "'Well, it looks to me, like, if you built the ark and you've done your part, God will do His part.'

L-106 "'He will, but He didn't say when He would do it. He just said it's going to do it. "It's going to rain."'"

L-107   So we find out, he said then, "Years passed, to a hundred and nineteen years, and just lacking about seven days in being a hundred and twenty years. Mr. Unbelief, Mr. Scoffer, all these others, Mr. Skeptic, rather, and Mr. Impatient, they all made fun of me, and everything, and said I was 'Crazy, to believe such a rashel promise as that. That, if God did promise me that, He told something that wasn't true, and He wasn't able to back up what He said.' But I believed God, and held steady. There you are, I believed Him. I held steady.

L-108 "And, you know, one day they come up to laugh at me, and the door was shut. They said, "Well, the old fanatic went out there and shut the door, I suppose. But I heard them. But I told them, 'God shut the door. No doubt that the rain will fall today! That'll be it.'

L-109 "The first day passed by, there was no rain, then they really scoffed at me. 'Telling, "God shut the door." I don't believe such stuff as that. Noah shut the door, hisself, him and his sons.' See, Scoffer, Unbeliever, Skeptic!

L-110   "All right, it went on for a while, but on May the seventeenth, one morning, it rained. And it--it absolutely destroyed all those people that was put to a test against the Word of God, and saved those who believed God and made preparations for it."
Noah said, "Let me testi-..."

L-111 "No, Noah, step down. Let's call another witness. We haven't got time this afternoon."

L-112 Let's let the--the defense witness now call the second witness. He'll call Abraham.

L-113 Abraham said, "I was just an ordinary man, a believer, and God spoke to me by His Word, and said, one day, that I'd 'have a child, by Sarah.' Sarah was sixty-five, and I was seventy-five. I married her when she was about sixteen years old. She was my half sister. And she was sterile, and I was. She was barren, and I was sterile, so there was no way for us to have this child. And so we went on, for years. But God promised it, and we went down and got all the birdeye and the pins, and the everything, got ready for the baby, and made the little booties. And Sarah...

L-114 "And the first month passed by, I said, 'Sarah?' Remember, she's about twenty years a-past menopause. See? And said, 'Now, Sarah, is there any difference this last--these last twenty-eight days?'
"'No, no difference.'

L-115 "Well, I knowed we was going to have the baby, anyhow. And we went on and on, year after year, and I still believed God.

L-116   "Mr. Unbeliever, Mr. Skeptic, and Mr. Impatient, tried their best to get a way. They tried to tell me I was wrong. 'Why, Abraham, you was a successful farmer, you were a fine man, everybody thought of you, but you went off on the deep end. You are believing something that can't be true. It's unscientific for an old man like you, and an old woman like Sarah, to have a baby.'

L-117 "But I believed God, anyhow! It was twenty-five years later. He didn't tell me when I was going to have that baby, but He said I would have it. And I believed God, and counted anything that was contrary as though it was not."


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