<TITLE>15. Par 55-58</TITLE>L-55 You know, people reads the Bible... They... you don't... In reading the Bible, you don't want to just read It just bare like you was reading a newspaper. This Bible is hid from the wise and prudent. I don't care how great your school is, your seminary, you will never know nothing about God, until you get in love with God. You have to read between the lines. It's hid.
When I get a letter from Mrs. Branham, now, she'd say--she'd say, "Dear Billy, I--I--I love you much, and I'm thinking of you." That's what she is saying on the paper, but I can read between the lines. 'Cause I'm in love with her. And I know what she is talking about.
Now... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... else might read the letter and wouldn't think much about it. But I do. Because she loves me and I love her. It's a love affair. And when we're borned-again of God... [Blank.spot.on.tape]... read the Bible, it becomes more than just a story. It's a love affair between the believer and God. "Revealed to babes such as will learn."

L-56 Look... Show you that it's secretly, just one little thing here on the side. Let's take for instance, Job, when he was in trouble. There he stood there, all the... God looked down at him and said, "There's my servant Job."
Satan said, "Yes. But You got him hedged up. Let me have him. I'll make him curse You to Your face." Oh, my.
So he come down. And Job, he broke out Job in boils. You know how it was and everything, took his children and everything he had away from him. Job didn't have nothing left, setting out there broke out in boils, a piece of crock scraping his boils.
One time, I preached the book of Job, come to that place, I stayed on--Job on the ash heap for about six weeks. A lady wrote a letter to me, said, "Brother Branham, will you ever get Job off the ash heap?"

L-57 There he was setting out there, trying to let the people see what a condition that man was in. Setting out there, everything forsaken him. Some of his church members come down and accused him of being a secret sinner, turned their back to him for seven days. What a consolation. What a bunch of brethren.
But the man knew that he hadn't sinned. So, God's under obligation to visit him. So, He sends Elihu. Wish we had time to go into Elihu's name, to interpret and show you it was a representative of Christ.

L-58 And Elihu come down and straightened Job out. Job looked down and seen the flowers. It would die and go down; the seed would rot away; the pulp would go; the flower would go; and nothing left. And nothing was gone. When the springtime come along, there is no pulp, no petal, no seed, no nothing. It was all gone. That isn't the end of the flower. When the sun begin to shine, there was a germ of life somewhere in there. And the flower, it lived again. He said, "But man giveth up the ghost. He wastes away. Here, where is he? The son's come to mourn." See, he was talking about... He seen the flower raise again. He seen the tree raise again. He seen nature reproduce itself. But man goes into the ground and where is he? That was the question, yet man's supposed to be the image of God. So, Elihu...
And I'll put it in form so the children would understand. He said, "Job, you see, that flower never sinned. But man sinned. And it separated himself from God. But there's coming One someday, Who will stand in the breach for the man, put His hand on a sinful man and a Holy God and bridge the way."


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