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Photo courtesy of Jordan Peterson and Pearry Green.

Last week we had a meeting at Shreveport, Louisiana, the greatest spiritual meeting I ever went into in my life: Shreveport.
I was--had a couple days of vacation, and I went down in Kentucky with a Brother Wood here, one of the deacons of the church, or trustees, rather, to hunt. And we went into the woods.
I'd shot the first squirrel, and I said, "I'll just wait," because someone come through with some dogs. And I said, "I'll just wait till the squirrels come back out of the holes and run up in the trees in the holes and hid." Now, I said, "When they come out... I'll set here and wait." Because it was real cold and frosty, and ears a-burning, and, you know, the--the keen winds coming through the hollows. I said, "I'll just wait till the squirrels come back out."
No more than set down, until the Holy Spirit said, "Rise, and go up in the place that you call Sportsman's Hollow,' there I'll speak with you."
And I went up into this place that I named "Sportsman's Hollow." Because the reason I named those hollows myself, so I'd know where I was at. "Sportsman's Hollow" was because they had... I went in there and saw sixteen squirrels setting on one tree, shot the limit, left the rest of them there, went away (and that's the sport, the thing to do); so then I call it Sportsman's Hollow.
And He referred to me, "The place that you called 'Sportsman's Hollow,'" not that He called it, but I called it that.
Then I went up at the head of that hollow and set down under a white oak tree and waited about a half hour; nothing happened. I laid myself on the ground, prostrated myself on the ground, laid my hands out. Then He spoke to me.
And when He did, the Words that He revealed to me on this very Scripture that we're coming to this morning, I'd never seen it before in all my life.

Sermon: Revelation Chapter One, Jeffersonville, Indiana, December 4, 1960.