his mouth water as a flood, after_ (the
fugitives, us who are here today) _that he might cause them to be
carried away of the flood. And the earth helped_ (the fugitives) _and
the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon
cast out of his mouth._' Has not every item of this been actually
fulfilled, has not God opened the earth and swallowed up the flood, and
delivered us? Then that wonderful prophecy goes on:

"_And_ (the fugitives) _fled into the wilderness, where they had a
place prepared of God, and where they should be fed for twelve hundred
and sixty days_, (three and a half years.)

"I do not pose as a prophet, friends, but I cannot help thinking from
all I read, some of which I have quoted to you, that God's mind for us
is that we should make our way into the wilderness beyond here, where
God's people of old time went, after God had swallowed up Pharoah's
hosts, even as He has just swallowed up Apleon's hosts. For, did you
notice, in the word I quoted to you just now, it not only said '_the_
wilderness,' but '_her place_.' It was the wilderness yonder there----"

He pointed Southwards with his finger. "In Sinai; where Moses fled
from the wrath of Pharoah; where Israel fled when pursued by the
Egyptians; where Elijah fled from bloody Jezebel, and where, again and
again, God's people have found shelter, so that God calls it '_her_
place.' It comes to me, as I speak thus, that since Apleon's attempt
to destroy us has failed, (whether he will learn that, or not, he will
know that his punitive expedition does not return to him) his rage will
be fixed against all, in every part of the world, who will not Worship
him, and his image. So that the persecuted ones, in each land, against
whom his rage shall blaze, will probably flee to some wilderness in
their own land, while thousands of those who cannot flee will meet
martyrdom.

"But wheresoever the wilderness shall be, whether down there in Sinai,
or in that vast desert in my wonderful land of Australia, or in one or
other of America's deserts, or the desert of whatever land it may be.
God will, I believe, miraculously feed, as He miraculously fed the
fugitive millions of Israel with manna, and fed Elijah with food from
Heaven by ravens. He could send 'manna' again, or any other food he
pleased. Or he could as readily feed if he pleased, with one meal to
last the three and a half years, as he could make his servants of old
'go in t