<TITLE>14. Par 136-146</TITLE>L-136 He said, "A wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign." Now you know what I think He was doing? He was prophesying, "A wicked and adulterous generation."

L-137 I wonder if any man in his right mind could deny that we are not living in a weak and an adulterous generation, when homosexuals, perversion! And the divorce rates in America is higher than any other nation in the world. And the whole world has gone into a chaos of it. Three out of every four, nearly, is divorced; around, taking the whole thing around in ten years of marriage. See? Think of it! Divorce, marry again and marry again, divorce and marry again. "They were eating, drinking, marrying wives and given in marriage." Look at the hour we're living in. When was it ever in such a chaos?

L-138   "A wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, notice, and they will receive a sign." What? This generation. "For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale, three days and nights, the Son of man must be in the heart of the earth three days and nights." What sign will that wicked and adulterous generation receive? The sign of the resurrection.

L-139 And today, after two thousand years, we still see Jesus Christ in the power of His resurrection, standing among us, doing the things that He did then and promised to do. "A wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, always wanting to 'show me this, and if you can do this and do this.' They'll get it, the sign of the resurrection." He is the same yesterday, today, and forever; the Word made manifest, dwelling among us. How we should thank God for His great sign!

L-140   Notice He referred to something else there. He said, "And as the queen of the south shall rise up," that's the queen of Sheba. Listen close now.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she cane from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

L-141 Notice, let's refer to that, a few minutes. He was reading the same Bible we read, about Jonah, and He was reading about Solomon. Now, when Solomon's age come on, he had a... he had a gift of discernment. And all the people, the whole nation, believed it. Everyone was one heart and one accord. Everybody believed it.

L-142 If everybody, tonight, if all America, would just turn back to God and believe God, it's the best assurance that we have, it'll be all the bomb shelters and everything else.

L-143   Nobody fooled with Solomon. They were afraid of him because he was a gifted man. And the people believed him so, he was sent from God, till they made him their king. All the nations feared them; not because of their military power, but because God was with them.

L-144 And if this nation who claims to be Christianity, if it could only, all of them together, cling around this great gift that's been given us in this last days, the Holy Spirit of God upon the Church. Not the creed. The Spirit of God! "Not by power, not by might, but by My Spirit," saith God. The Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in form of Spirit, upon us, "the same yesterday, today, and forever," making this Word live what He said It would do. Watch closely now.

L-145   Oh, the news went out through the world! They didn't have television and radio, and things in them days, so it went from lip to ear. And after a while the great caravans came plumb down across the Saraha Desert, which is a three-month's travel from Palestine down to where she lived. And faith cometh by (what?) hearing, hearing the Word of God. And she had heard about this great meeting they were having up there, and any time a caravan come from that way, she would question, "Have you, did you come through Palestine?"
"Yes."
"Oh, what about that?"

L-146 "Oh, it's--it's beyond anything! You never seen such discernment. And it's just like a god sitting there. Their God is represented in a man called Solomon."


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