<TITLE>09. Par 80-88</TITLE>L-80 Now, Abraham, after coming out of the land, the Chaldeans, the land, city of Ur of the Chaldeans, the land of Shinar, separated, come out... Look at that, just like Christians today, still wandering. Look.
And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

L-81 Now, tomorrow I want you to go ahead and read that, if you're marking it down, on down. I'll quote it, because of time, space, 'cause I don't want to keep you too long. I want you to come back tomorrow night, so we can get right into this. We're just laying a--a ground tonight, just a foundation. See?

L-82 Now, he took these, heifer, she goat, and ram, and two--a turtledove and a pigeon, and he divided the ram and heifer, and so forth, and laid them out, put the turtledove in there, and without the--without dividing it. And he kept the birds off of it till the sun went down. And God came down on Abraham to confirm that covenant, come down, said, "Now, Abraham, now I'm going to prove to you what I'm going to do." And He...

L-83 And you know, many of you people was here in church, years ago, I taught this same thing. Yes. Yes, sir. Back in 1949 I was teaching it. All right, she had it marked in her Bible.

L-84 Look. Then He come down and showed to Abraham what He was going to. First He put Abraham to sleep, "Now, Abraham, you don't have nothing to do with it."

L-85 Now, to you that's trying to save yourself. I have understood that in the church, the Tabernacle, after setting under that teaching, that many people left the Tabernacle, went out into cults and so forth to--to believe all kinds of everything there is to be believed. Stopped some of them have quit eating meat, and some of them kept their Sabbath days and new moons, and I don't... I guess done sacrifices, and everything, after really refusing to accept the Word of God. That goes to show what it was in here. Paul said, "They went out because they wasn't of us." See, that's right. See, that's true. The Holy Spirit will take a hold of the Word of God. Those things, to a showdown, will be proven they're wrong.

L-86 Now, He said, "Abraham." He put him to sleep, said, "I'll show you how I'm going to do it, how I'm going to keep My covenant." And He took those animals, and now watch, when Abraham went to sleep, showing death must come to every creature. Then before him went a burning furnace; and a burning furnace represented hell, that every sinner deserved to go to hell. And then beyond that, by the sacrifice on the hill, went a little white Light, that went in between each one of those pieces of sacrifice. Covenant...

L-87 If you'll notice, there's been many ways people's made covenant, a lot of time. We today, how do we make a covenant? Say, "Shake, give me five." That's agreement. That's our covenant, isn't it? In the old days, they used to make... In China, you know how they make a covenant? They throw salt on one another. That's the covenant in China. See, and they make different covenants, different people's customs.

L-88 But the oriental custom was to kill a beast, and stand in between this beast, and then write out. Over here you find it, in Leviticus, and they write out here their agreement. And that agreement is tore in two over this dead beast. And they take an oath over the dead beast, that if they break this covenant, may their body be as this dead beast. And they give each one a piece. And then they're sent away. And when they come back, those two pieces has to dovetail just exactly the same pieces. How beautiful.


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