<TITLE>04. Par 10-12</TITLE>L-10 Then along come Joseph. He said, "Now, wait." They put his bones in a coffin. I had my hand on an old lead coffin here, not long ago, they he was supposed to had his bone in. He said, "When you go out of here, bury my bones up there. Don't bury me down here." I wonder why? It isn't written in the Bible, but they were prophets: they could read between the lines. They knew that that firstfruits of the resurrection wasn't coming in Egypt; it was coming in Palestine.
And when Jesus came on earth and they done to Him what they said they would do, and when He died and rose on the third day, Matthew 27 said, "Many of the bodies of the saints that slept in the dust of the earth, rose and come out of the grave and entered into the city": Abraham, Isaac, Jacob... Therefore, have anything you wish to, but bury me in Christ, "For those that are in Christ will God bring with Him at His coming." Hide away from the world. What a beautiful picture. There it's between the lines. What the Bible says and what you see in between the lines goes right on with the rest of the Word, but it just fills up the gaps when you wonder why they was doing it.

L-11 Now, on our pilgrim journey, we noticed out in the wilderness, why, they begin to sin after God had ble--blessed them and brought them through the Red Sea. Isn't it strange, though, that the children of Israel, in their journey, God led them, the first thing, right into a death trap? Right up to the Red Sea. Pharaoh's army coming, pursuing. There's mountains on one side, the sea had them cut off. But God's camp went through the sea. Many times God lets us get dried up like that. Then He looked down through that Pillar of Fire and the sea rolled back, and they went across. God made a way of escape. He always will in every instance.
Notice, then they went right straight to the Wilderness of Sin. Isn't it strange; from one trial to another?
Some through the waters,
Some through the floods,
Some through deep trials
But all through the Blood.

L-12 God's way leads sometimes right through every briar patch, right up over the hills, down through the rugged places: sickness, trials; but God brings them more than victorious through them all. Notice, they begin to sin and murmur against God and against Moses, and God told Moses, when he went to praying, interceding for the people... Now, why did Moses intercede?
Now, listen closely. God had appeared to father Abraham years before that in Genesis 22, in the Name of Jehovah-jireh, when he was offering up his only begotten son. And a--a lamb bleated in the wilderness and God stayed his hand. And the Name of God was called Jehovah-jireh, meaning "the Lord will provide Himself a Sacrifice." Amen. Oh, this is beautiful. I just love the Word.


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