<TITLE>07. Par 26-30</TITLE>L-26 But he wanted to hide. And he made himself a fig leaf apron, him and Eve. And they thought that would just be all right. But when they really come to the showdown... Here it is now, when they had to stand in the Presence of God their own made religion wouldn't work. That's right.
My friend tonight, you may belong to some of these fine churches around here, but if that's the kind of religion you got tonight, your own made... "I keep the golden rule. I don't do anybody any harm." That won't stand at all. No, sir. God had a provided way for you. God's got a provided way tonight.
So God went out and killed something, perhaps, sheep, brought the old bloody sheepskins back and throwed them into the bushes. And Adam and Eve wrapped theirselves in them bushes--in them bushes and covered theirselves and come out in the Presence of God.

L-27 Then when God pronounced a judgment, "Because you listen to your wife and not to God, I took you from the dust, dust thou shalt return. Eve, because you listened to the serpent instead of your husband..." what He would do for her, and the serpent and so forth. Then I can see Adam and Eve starting, his big black shaggy hair, tears running down their cheeks, watch over at Eve, most beautiful body, Adam's big strong arms and shoulders, down across his legs the blood running beneath those sheepskins. And as they started walking away, I can hear something going like [Brother Branham makes a slapping noise--Ed.] slapping. What is it? It's those old bloody sheepskins slapping around Adam's leg.

L-28 Then I can see the most dramatic picture of all the Bible. I can see that great Jehovah God, Who covered all of space and all of time, where you could look forever and forever, and never see the beginning of His being or the ending of Him.
I can see it all coming down like a funnel in the four little letters, love. He could not bear to see His son and daughter going away in disgrace. Then he said, "I'll put enmity between thy seed and the serpent seed."
Let's change our picture for a few moments and take it four thousand years later. Let's stand in the city of Jerusalem, God dealing with sin now, His way of judgment. And then in the city of Jerusalem I can hear coming down the streets something dragging across the cobble stones, a howling mob like a bunch of wolves crying for a lamb's blood. I look coming down the street, I see a frail little thin Fellow, a crown of thorns on His head and the blood running down His face, blood all over His tracks...

L-29 I looked, I noticed all over His little garment, wove through out without a blemish, without a seam, rather. There's little spots all over His garment, little red spots. As I keep watching them spots, I see that they getting bigger and bigger. What are those spots? After while they all run into one big spot. I hear something again [Brother Branham makes a slapping noise--Ed.] slapping against the second Adam's leg.
It was God's provided Lamb, the way God was dealing for sinners. He taken on Himself the form of sinful flesh, came down here and made in the likeness of a man, and there He was going up Golgotha's hill bleeding, bleating... Oh, when He hung there between the heavens and earth...

L-30 What a beautiful picture we pick up in Eden again, quickly. When I see Abel trying to find out how he could find favor before God...
Cain a great man, a religious man. He came down and built a church, just as good as your church. He built an altar; he offered a sacrifice; he paid tribute to God. If God only requires you to have faith in Him... Cain was not an infidel. Cain was a believer. Certainly he was.
Cain was not only that, but he was a worshipper. And Cain was a genuine church member. And he built an altar to the Lord, knelt before the Lord and prayed. If God is just, which we know He is, and a altar, a church, a sacrifice, a faith in God, is all that God requires, He was unrighteous to condemn Cain.


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