<TITLE>16. Par 59-62</TITLE>L-59 Job, being a prophet, the Spirit come on him. And he stood up on his feet and shook himself, the Spirit on him. The prophet now, finding the will of God and standing up, he said, "I know my Redeemer liveth. And at the last days He will stand upon this earth. Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Whom I shall see for myself, my eyes shall behold and not another." That's right. The prophet seen the Coming of the Lord. "I know my Redeemer liveth." Not... Lives, now, continually, forever. "My Redeemer liveth."
The oldest book in the Bible is Job. "I know that my Redeemer liveth. And at the last days (the last two thousand years) He will stand on the earth. Though the skin worms destroyed my body like it did the flower down there and so forth. Yet in my flesh I'll see God, Whom I shall see for myself; mine eyes shall behold and not another." Watch, to make it quick now, to get to my point.

L-60 When Job died, he specified where to be buried. Wonder why? They buried Job. Along come Abraham years later. When Abraham died, or Sarah died, Abraham went right straight into the same land where Job was buried, and bought a piece of ground, and buried Sarah. And when Sarah--Abraham died, Abraham slept with Sarah. Same place where Job was. I wonder why?
Abraham begot Isaac. When Isaac died, he was buried with Abraham. When Abraham--when Isaac begot Jacob, Jacob died way down in Egypt. But before he died, he called Joseph, the prophet son of his, and said, "Put your hand on my crippled hip here, where the Holy Ghost touched me one day, and I've walked different ever since. Yes." Said, "Put your hand on my hip and swear by the God of our fathers that you'll not bury me down here in this place." I wonder why?
Oh, I do feel religious now. Wonder why? It's not written in the Word, but they were prophets. They foreseen it. Wonder why? "Don't bury me down here in Egypt. No. But take me up there and bury me with my fathers." Why? They took him up and buried him there.

L-61 When Joseph died, he said, "Don't bury me here. Put my bones..." (which was a perfect representation of Christ) and said, "Someday, God will visit you, then take my bones up in the promised land and bury them." Why? Why?
They caught the vision that Job caught. They knowed that Jesus was coming. They knowed that He'd stand, and there'd be a Resurrection in the last days, not in Egypt but in Palestine.
And that's it today. You can have all your church joining and frolics and basketball parties and everything else you want to. But for me, bury me in Christ. "For those that are in Christ will God bring with Him in the Resurrection." Yes, it means something.
"Oh, as long as I joined a church, Reverend Branham, isn't it all right?" No, sir.
"Except a man be borned of the Spirit and water, He will no wise see God." Bury me in Jesus Christ. Let them call me a holy-roller, fanatic, or whatever you want to, let me stay in Jesus. "For those that are in Christ," not those that are in Egypt, not those that are in the churches. But "Those that are in Christ will God bring with Him at the resurrection." Can't you get your eyes open, people, to see what it means? In Christ. How do we come into Christ? By a Holy Ghost baptism.

L-62 Look at Jesus when He died. He hung between the heavens and earth on the very tree that He growed. The heavens said, "That's the Son of God." God shut His vision off. He couldn't let Him die. He didn't... He died a sinner, not sin that He had done, But my sin and your sin on Him drove Him to the cross. He died in the absence of God. Said, "My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?"
And there when God shut the vision off. And said He couldn't watch His own Son die. And when the rocks rent out of the mountain since the very Creator that created them was dying at the cross, when a Roman soldier put his hand on his heart and said, "Truly, that is the Son of God." Everything...


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