<TITLE>17. Par 152-157</TITLE>L-152 Now, then He called; then He brought His Seed down. The next thing, He come down through Abraham, and then through Isaac, and then through Jacob, and then from Jacob to Joseph. Now, watch, if we had time sometime to go into this. We will, but not now. Look. Election is in Abraham. Did you notice, just those four patriarchs, and then it ceased, broke up, went out in the twelve patriarchs and the tribes tribed off. Is that right? And will... Never did return again, till it returned in One, the Seed of Abraham; then it come into the human Being, which was Christ; glo--was glorified here on earth and lifted up into God. And the Holy Ghost come back to spread the whole nations, to fill the earth with knowledge of the Lord, as deep as the heavens, and, oh, that's the Holy Spirit today.

L-153 Now, watch: election in Abraham; justification in Isaac; grace in Jacob; and perfection in Joseph. There's not one thing recorded against Joseph. That's the perfection. The three earthly stages of the pilgrimage of the children of Israel, and the fourth was when they went into the promised land, which was the millennium. And the three stages of the Gentile church... This week, God being willing, I can bring it through the Bible and show you that we're in our third stage now, ready to go into the millennium in the time of Joseph.

L-154 Now watch, when everything heaped up in Joseph. What? A perfect man, the one who was born of his father, loved of his father, hated of his brother... Now, look quickly now, 'cause I got to hurry; and give me your undivided attention. Loved of His Father, hated of His brother: the Lord Jesus... Watch Jesus acting out in every character in there. Look at Joseph, the perfect one. Oh, we could spend weeks on him. Look, hated of his brother, loved of his father. Why? He was a spiritual man. He saw visions, could interpret dreams. He was spiritual. His little old... His brothers said, "Nonsense. Get away."
Now, look at the churches today. Watch the spiritual side. The Lord Jesus in His church today, He's hated by all the offsprings. See, just exactly. Made fun of, call them fanatics everywhere. Well, it has to be. Here's the antitype; here's the shadow of it.
You say, "Well, Brother Branham, if I receive the Holy Spirit, they'd all laugh at me."
Well, if you didn't, you didn't receive It. You have to be hated of the world. Jesus said, "They call the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call His disciples (See?), they of the household." Now, He was. And watch.

L-157 Then he was loved. And his father... Which we can't move, leave from this. His father give him a coat of many colors. Is that right? Now, if you'll watch that robe without seam, which represented the Holy Spirit that covered his being... And today it's the Holy Spirit that covers the church, the Robe of many colors. And there's seven colors in the rainbow. See? And it's seven perfect colors is all the colors we have. And they blend together making the rainbow. And a rainbow in the Bible means a covenant. And God made His covenant with Noah, for no more water (but the fire next time), He give him the rainbow sign, and we still have it. Is that right?


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