<TITLE>11. Par 111-123</TITLE>L-111   And I'd like to stop here, on Noah's witness, and let you know this, that there'll come a time that when men and women, the church, will be going right ahead preaching and believing they're getting saved, when the door will be closed just like it was then. If you're not in, you get in now, 'cause God will close the door and there'll be no more mercy. He said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man."

L-112 Remember, one time even the disciples said to Jesus, "Why does the scribes say that Elias must first come?" them disciples.

L-113 Jesus said, "He's already come and you didn't know it." And they understood it was John the Baptist; had done been here on earth, and done been beheaded and went up to Glory. And the thing that they were looking for was already in the past.

L-114 One of these days, men and women will cry out. It'll be too far, be too late. The door will be closed. Jesus says it would be that way. "The virgins come and knocked on the door, and said, 'Let us in.' They wanted to get some of the Oil." But they ought to have got Oil when Oil was being given out. They knocked on the door. It said, "They were cast into outer darkness where there'll be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth." I'm only trying to make that little side line of the defense, to the court now, of the--of the Word.

L-115   Now, Noah said, "But after a one hundred and twenty years, one morning the clouds begin to rise, and the rain came. God promised it. He never said when it would happen. They thought it was going to happen that same week that He told me. And I had an idea it could happen that week. And I was sure when I got the ark finished that it would happen, but it didn't happen. But I set steady because God made the promise. He never said just the day it's going to rain. He said it would rain." So, he, the witness steps down.

L-116   Second witness comes up, which is father Abraham. We'll call him. He said, "Oh, yes, I know Mr. Scoffer here. I--I know Mr. Unbeliever, Mr. Skeptic, oh, that Mr. Impatience. I was a prophet, also, in my day. And the Word of the Lord came to me and said, 'Separate yourself from these people, for you're going to have a baby by Sarah your wife.' She was sixty-five years old, and I was seventy-five. She was about twenty-five, thirty years past menopause. I married her. She was my half-sister. I married her when she just a girl, and I a boy. Ten years difference in our age, and I married her. She became my wife. We'd lived together all these years, and she was barren and I was sterile. And yet, being a prophet, the Word of the Lord came to me and said, 'You will bear a child by Sarah.'"

L-117 "Well, when I told Sarah that, she went downtown and got some yarn and made the booties, and got the pins ready and everything. And twenty-eight days passed. I said, 'How you feeling, honey?'"

L-118 "Said, 'No different.' But I held steady, because I knowed it was the Word of the Lord." That's right.

L-119   "We went over to see the doctor, and he run us out of the office." An old man, seventy-five years old; and a woman, sixty-five, going to have a baby?

L-120 You know, when you take God at His Word, regardless of what your condition is, He made the promise.

L-121 And he said, "I went to the doctor, and the doctor ran us out of the office."

L-122 "'An old man like you?' Said, 'Watch him. He's a little funny in his head.' Said, 'There is something wrong with the old fellow.'"

L-123 And the scoffers begin to walk around, say, "Abraham, where is that son that you was going to have by Sarah, after the first month? There's nothing wrong with her, so they tell me." The first year passed. Nothing happened. "Abraham, father of nations, how many children do you have now?" Ten years passed, still no different. Scoffers!


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