<TITLE>10. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 Now this... Brother, I tell you; sometimes we need to be skinned down and rubbed a little bit to see where we're standing. Don't you think so? Make right, right. Any person... If those saints... Now, I'm not condemning Catholic saints. But look. The reason that the witch of Endor could call the spirit of Samuel, because Samuel couldn't go into the Presence of God; he was in paradise; for the blood of bulls and goats would not take away sin. But since Jesus died, He divorced sin, and taken away sin, and the believer now goes into the Presence of God. And he can't come back, Jesus said in Luke when He was talking about the rich man. He can't return. So if you're interceding with any kind of a spirit of someone that's gone on, outside of God, Christ, the only Mediator between God and man, then you're in spiritualism called religion. Now, where is spiritualism at? So be careful what you say about the Spirit of God. See? Communing with saints is spiritualism.

L-31 Now notice. These souls under the altar here... These souls, I mean in... Jesus here... I read the text a few minutes ago. David, foresaw Him always before, and said, "Moreover my flesh shall rest in hope, for He'll not leave my soul in hell, neither will I suffer the holy One to see corruption."
A better Scripture than that is found in Peter. He said Jesus, when He died, He went and preached to the souls that were in chains of darkness, in prison, waiting for the eternal judgment; that Jesus, when He died at Calvary went and preached to souls, unjust souls that repented not in the long suffering of the days of Noah.

L-32 Let's get that. Here He stands on earth. The most glorious... You have to read between the lines to get the Bible, a lot of times.
I think of old Job there, when he said... He was all broke out with boils; and the people were coming and saying how... "Won't you curse God and die?" his wife said.
He said, "Thou speakest as a foolish woman." And there he was all broke out, setting on the ash heap.
I preached on that for about three months one time. A woman wrote in, told me, "When are you going to get Job off the ash heap, Brother Branham?"
And I... He was scraping his boils. The woman come to the door and told him he ought to curse God and die.
And he said, "Thou speakest as a foolish woman. The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord."

L-33 I want you to notice, when Job died, he specified his burial. Along came Abraham. Watch between the lines now, you readers. This is not written right in the Word; you have to read it in between. It's hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent. When Job died, he specified his burial ground.
Along came Abraham; and when Sarah died, he bought a parcel of ground: bought it. You know how he did with a shekels of silver, near Job. And he bury her... When he was--died--he was buried with her.
Abraham begot Isaac. When Isaac died, Isaac slept with Jacob, or with Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac, and Isaac begot Jacob. Jacob died down in Egypt, but he said, "Don't bury me down here." Why? Ha. "Take me back up in Palestine and bury me." Why? "Bury me in with my fathers in the cave."


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