<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 Now, when Adam and Eve, our first father and mother, started walking out of the garden of Eden, why, cloudily, the sin hanging over their brows, and the clouds of darkness hanging around them after they had received their--the word of their Eternal destination. They walked out, with those bloody sheepskins around them, they had some little ray of hope, that sometime, there was coming a redeemer. See? They had a ray of hope. It was cloudy and dark, because tears of regret was falling down their cheeks from their sins. And they were sorry of their sins, but they were--they knew that somewhere there'd be a redemption, because He said, "I'll put enmity between her seed and the serpent's seed."
And they... So many people, in quoting the 23rd Psalm, say, like this, say, "Yea, though I walk through the dark valleys of the shadows of death..." It doesn't say dark valley; it said, "Through the valley of the shadow..." And if it's dark, there'd be no shadow. It takes a certain amount of light to make shadow.

L-21 So death, after the very beginning, never had a complete darkness; it was a shadow. So there had to be a certain percent of light. And when Adam and Eve was walking out of the garden of Eden, the shadows of redemption was before them.
In the Mosaic laws in the ceremonies in the sacrifices, and so forth, was also a foreshadow of the coming of the perfect Sacrifice, the perfect plan of God's redemption. And when they foresaw those things through the bleeding sacrifice of the animals that they were slaying, as a--as a go-between or a covering for their sins... In that shadow, they foresaw the coming of the Lord Jesus. And it was that way, until finally, at last, the Dayspring from on high sprang forth, and those who set in the regions of the shadows of death saw a great light. When God Himself was made manifest here on earth, to take away sin, then they seen full redemption through God Himself. Till the Dayspring from on high come forth.

L-22 Now, in the Old Testament under the shadows, and the laws, and the types, how that God giving those things back there, foretyping the coming of the Son of God. For instance, in a Mosaic dispensation, when God told Moses to take a lamb (first one from the old mother ewe), and to keep it up, take it on the tenth day, and keep it until the fourteenth day to be tried, purged, find out if they's any blemish about the lamb...
You know the law of redemption in the Old Testament, how that the innocent must die for the guilty. For all the way from--all the way from Eden to the cross, the innocent died for the guilty.

L-23 Under the laws of old redemption, say for instance, a little mule was born out in the pasture, and that little mule had both ears broke down, cross-eyed, knock-kneed, and his tail sticking right straight up, what a horrible looking critter. If the little fellow could think for himself, he'd say, "Well, mammy, I suppose when the master of the house comes out, he will just knock me in the head. I ain't worth nothing. I'll never be able to make it, because look--look what a horrible looking thing I am."
That's the way people still try to think; they're unworthy. You are; all of us is unworthy. But if the mother was well instructed in the laws of redemption, she'd say, "Honey, look, the priest will never see you. But the man of the house will have to take a lamb without a blemish, and that lamb will have to be looked over. And the lamb will have to be killed, so that you can live."
He'd say, "Why is this, mammy?"
He'd say, "Because you're borned under a birthright; you're the first one."


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