<TITLE>04. Par 12-16</TITLE>L-12 All the Old Testament, being--all the ordinances of the Old Testament being a shadow of the New, therefore, not being educated, and I just more as a typologist... I--I am not a--a scholar. So I, knowing that I have some way of not knowing how to pronounce the big Greek and Hebrew words like the brothers do that knows these things, I just take all the old things as a type or a shadow. And if I see what a shadow of anything looks like, I have a pretty good idea what the real thing's going to look like when it gets there.

L-13 If the--if I see my shadow on the wall, I can pretty near tell what I'm going to look like when the negative and positive comes together. So all the Old Testament was a shadow of the New.
Now, in this the children of Israel were on their journey, going from the--from Egypt up into the promised land, God promising to provide every thing they had need of in their journey. Which was a type in itself, of the church now, coming up out of Egypt, out of the chaos, journeying to the promised land. Don't you believe we have a promised land? Sure we do. Jesus said, "In My Father's house is many mansions: if it wasn't so, I would have told you. And I go to prepare a place for you, and come again to receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also." That settles it with me. There's a house; there's a place, and we're going that way. That's all.

L-14 We're in our pilgrimage now, wondering through the wilderness, in our different stations, as the children of Israel journeyed also. Now, and as they went, they was given an Angel to guide them, or to bring them into the place that God had promised. That Angel was seen by their natural eye, which was a Pillar of Fire that led them through the wilderness. God's given us the same Pillar of Fire, which is nothing else in the world, that... Who? What was that Pillar of Fire? What was that Angel? Any scholar here, any of these brethren, or you learned men out there knows that the Angel of the Covenant was Christ Himself. Sure it was.
Moses forsook Egypt, esteeming the riches of Christ greater treasures than the riches of Egypt. So Christ in the wilderness with the children of Israel... And it was a Pillar of Fire. And we have the same thing with us today, even scientifically proven, same thing leading the church today.

L-15 Now, out here, to make a way of approach to Christ, God was giving to them a water of separation, that a believer on his journey, out of fellowship, might have a way of approach again into fellowship. And this is the type that we read of here in the Scriptures.
Now, notice the first thing that was to be brought was a heifer, which is a beast of burden, or a--or sacrificial animal. And the heifer was a sacrificial animal, young.
When He give Abraham the confirmation of the covenant, He required a heifer of three years old, a sacrifice, speaking of Christ. Now, this heifer was to be a distinguished heifer, or one different. It was to be a heifer that was red in color, without one spot on it. Now, all those things had a significance to them. They had a meaning. Every little detail had a meaning.

L-16 Oh, would we just love to get together for a complete winter's vacation sometime, and just take the Old Testament and just teach it, all those little things. I tell you, we would--we'd have a marvelous time. Just stay right with the Word, teaching it, and showing the types and so forth, bringing out those old nuggets and shining them up, just to see how--what they really are...
What they meant to those people in the type, what ought it to mean to us in the antitype. What they done with it there under the law, what could we do under it--with it today, under the baptism of the Holy Spirit? See? If they had the shadow, we got the positive. See? They had the negative; we've got the positive. They had the picture in a negative; we've got it in a positive, after it's been developed at Calvary. Amen. And we went to Calvary with the Lamb.


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