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Photo Courtesy of Jordan Peterson and Pearry Green.

And one morning the Lord said, "Go up in the top of Sabino Canyon."
And I was up there holding up my hands, praying. I felt something strike my hand. It was a sword. Now, you can just imagine how you'd feel, standing there by yourself and here's a knife in your hand about that long. I pulled it down and looked at it. It was just a knife, one of them... And I'm scared of a knife, anyhow. And it had a--it had a--a metal, something like one of these knives, like pot metal or something, real sharp and narrow. Had a sheath around it here, where the dueler's used to, to keep from cutting one another's hands, and--and it had a pearl in the handle here, just fit my hand exactly. Well, I rubbed my face and looked back. (Right on that same spot, the other day, I saw a little white dove come down. I'll tell you about that later on.)''
And I was holding that in my hand; I thought, "That's strange. Now, Lord, I--am I losing my mind? There's no one here. I'm miles from anybody, and here is a sword. I had my hands up, and where did it come from?" And I thought, "That's the strangest thing. Now, looky here; it's a sword; see, hit it, and it was a sword." And I said, "There's nobody here standing here. I'm up on top of these rocks, plumb on top of the mountain." And you couldn't even see Tucson from there, it was so far down.
I thought, "Now, that's a strange thing. Now, it's got to be in this vicinity somewhere, somebody that could create and make a sword and put it in my hand." And I said, "It could only be the very God that created a ram for Abraham, could create those squirrels" that you've heard. And I said, "Here is the material, three different kinds of material in it, and I'm holding it in my hand just as real as anything else I could hold in my hand."
And I heard a Voice, said, "That's the King's Sword."
And I thought, "Now, where did that come from? Was right along there in them rocks somewhere." And I held up my hand like that; I said, "A king's sword."
And I looked around, and the sword was gone. And I said, "A king's sword." That's to... They knight with--with a sword; I think that's right, the army or some way; they knight with it. You know, and I said, "Well, that's what that was probably for. It means that maybe I'm to lay hands upon ministers, or something like that to make them ministers." And then I...
A Voice spoke back again, said, "THE King's Sword," not a king, THE King's Sword. See?

Sermon: Trying to do God a service, Shreveport, LA, November 27, 1965