The Fourth Dimension 309before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah
being instructed to build his ark .... "
"Yes, that I understand. But how can we make this fit
in with the second half of the twentieth century ?"
"There are people in your world who can gather large
audiences. Your great rock and roll groups, for instance.
A live concert of the Beatles could draw fifty to seventy
thousand people without any problems, right? There is a
man in Boston who can give a concert that could attract a
crowd of a hundred and fifty thousand."
"Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. Yes, a single
concert of his attracts a lot of people."
"Take the Rose Bowl, the British rock groups .... "
"What would happen at one of these events?"
"After the high-draw personality or group had per-
formed, someone would announce that so and so is
going to be appearing the following month. Maybe along
with that person, someone popular would also be
appearing.
Let me ask you, if someone had come to tell you six
months ago that Christ would be speaking at Madison
Square Garden, would you have gone?"
"No."
"You see, you could have missed the boat."
"What sort of preparation do we need to understand
when the time has come?"
"You know the rules: knowledge of God, helping and
loving one another, faith to understand."
"You have to accept that Christ is the Master Mind of
the details of '144-Earth Rescue.' There will be no
pattern. Remember what the scripture said about the
Lord moving in mysterious ways. You just read where it
said he may come as a thief. When you accept this, then
you love your fellow human beings out of conviction,
because you know there was someone great willing to
die just to prove the point."
"What point was that?"