<TITLE>11. Par 36-40</TITLE>L-36 Notice. But here come Abel (Hallelujah.), not working, but by grace, election, calling. Here he comes along with a little lamb he picked up out of the flock. He had a grapevine around its neck, come dragging it along. You say, "Did he have... How do you know it?" Well, they didn't have any hemp, so I guess it must have been a grapevine. "Did they lead him up there?" Yes, sir. Because that was a type of Christ, and they led Him away to Calvary.
Here comes Abel, knowing that it wasn't apples or fruits. God didn't dwell in beauty or a sincerity. He dwells in election and calling. So he wraps this vine around the lamb's neck and here he comes, moving up to the altar.

L-37 I suppose his altar was a big rock. He takes this little fellow, throws him back on this rock like this, takes a rock, 'cause I guess they didn't have any lances or knives in them days, pulled his little head back...
And there was Cain up there, just a glorifying God in his beauty. "Look what I've done, Lord. Looky here. You know my heart. You know I'm sincere. I'm giving You all the praise. I'm doing this. I'm doing that," all what he's doing.
And little old Abel took that lamb, threw it back like that, got a rock in his hand, begin to chop its little throat.

L-38 If a man ever heard a lamb die, the bleeding, bleating... I see Abel's hands become bloody. I see the white wool hanging around that little lamb, bloody. God looked down; He said, "That's it. You've got it."
What did it speak of? Of some nineteen hundred years later. The Lamb of God that was slain from the foundation of the earth, was led with a rope around His neck, up Golgotha's hill yonder. Hallelujah. They laid Him down; they beat His body into stripes for the healing. They nailed nails in His hands, and He stuck there between the heavens and earth, on the Rock of ages, crying out with an unknown tongue, speaking, "Eli, Eli." That lamb was speaking in an unknown tongue to who? To the sacrificer.

L-39 It was setting there before Abel. And Abel didn't know what that lamb was doing. It was bleating out, bleating out. And the people that was killing this Lamb, the Jews that hung Him to the cross, the unbelievers, didn't know what He was saying. He was speaking out to the Father, "Eli, Eli." That was Abel's Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world, His bloody locks hanging around Him.
Billy Sunday said every tree had an angel setting in it, saying, "Pull Your hand loose. Point Your finger; we'll change the scene."
The Jews said, "He saved others; He can't save Himself. If He's that great Saviour, let Him save Himself, then we believe Him." Why, it was the greatest compliment they ever paid Him. Why, He couldn't save others, and save Hisself, so He gave Hisself to save others. Hallelujah.

L-40 There's God's provided sacrifice. There's the faith that was once delivered to the saints, hanging, bleeding, bleating, dying, like Abel's lamb.
Well, there was Cain, just as sincere, just as religious as he was, just as much altar as he had. Look at that old spirit come right on down through the age. Look at it come down to the children of Israel.
If you'll notice for a few moments, look at Israel when they come out of the wilderness, in the wilderness, rather, and was getting ready to cross. Moab wouldn't let them cross the country. Now, Moab was believers, the Moabites. You know who it was? That generation come from Lot's daughter's child, where they lived with their father. And one of them, the oldest one went over, and the land of Moab come from him.


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