<TITLE>04. Par 36-45</TITLE>L-36   We can imagine of Noah, as the brother sang of him here, "While God sent His love on the wings of a dove," one of my favorite songs. And I've always wanted to get somebody that could play that. I wanted to speak on it.

L-37 One time I read a story of some soldiers being pinned down, and the enemy, Germans in the first World War, had them pinned down. And they had a--a little pigeon to take a message. And when the... That's a form of a dove, of course. It's one variety of dove. And when they put the message on the little pigeon, he flew up in the air. And bullets shooting at him, every way, 'cause they knowed what it was. It broke his leg. His little legs was hanging down, crippled. And his wings had the feathers shot out of it. He was turning sideways, and everything, through the air. But he dropped right in the camp where he was supposed to, and they got help.

L-38 You know what I mean, from there on. See? So, we were in that kind of shape one day, too, you know. And He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquity, but the message got here, just the same. He got the message to us.

L-39   Noah, in his days. I can imagine a man of his caliber, a prophet that was vindicated of God. And--and God spoke to him one day. What a strange thing it was, in a great scientific age. Perhaps could shoot the moon with their radar, and they could build a sphinx and the pyramid. And--and God spoke to him and said, "Noah, it's going to rain water down out of the heaven." Could you imagine a man of his caliber, a prophet of the Lord, go out with such a silly message as that, and say that?

L-40 It had never rained, remember, from the heavens, in them days. God watered the earth, the Bible says, by irrigation through the ditches and so forth, springs. It had never rained a drop. There was no water up there. So they could prove there was no water up there.

L-41   And then a man come out with a message. And not only that, but separated himself from the rest the world. He become a nut to the world. That's right. He was a nut of his age. How a man with such a crazy message, would try to bring a people out into a little trailer, or an ark, or whatever it was they--they were building up there. And--and he was--he was actually a foolish man.

L-42 But what did he do? In doing so, he was the nut that saved the believing Church in that day. Yes, sir. That's what happened. He had to take them out from the world. But he was preparing a place that he knowed that Christ could come to and would take them. He become a nut.

L-43   You, could you imagine Moses in his day, a man going down to a great intellectual? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] They conquered the world at that time. And their scientific and their--their art and stuff, really, I guess, exceeded ours today. And their master art and their mastership of buildings, and so forth, and the great things that they did then, in--in that day.

L-44 And could you imagine a man coming down there, and said he met a--a--a God that they didn't even believe in, in a burning bush? And he came down... Being a military man, to begin with, and been trained in all the maneuvers of--of--of military world. And we find that he comes down there with a stick in his hand to take and deliver a people out of a nation that held--held the world captive.

L-45   Why, to Pharaoh, he was a nut. That's all. "He was crazy." Said, "Let him do it, go ahead, rave on. He'll declare himself insane." Well, now, really to Pharaoh, and his great scientific world, he was a oddball. He was a nut to--to them. You see? He was.


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