<TITLE>11. Par 36-38</TITLE>L-36 Notice, he made preparations for that too. Now, let's read between the lines just a little. You willing? Say, "Amen." Let's look between the lines.
Job, watch how he specified where his burying place was. Along came many other of the prophets. We'll take, for instance, Abraham, Sarah, the sweethearts of the Bible. And when Abraham come along, loving Sarah, when she died he just didn't bury her anywhere. He had a spiritual revelation of something, the same thing Job had. So he goes over near the grave where Job was buried and purchased a piece of ground, right in Palestine, and buried Sarah there. He wouldn't take it give to him. He give so many shekels of silver and made a testimony that he had bought this for a burying place. Amen. Making ready for something. Do you see it? He buried Sarah there.
And years later, when Abraham died, he went and was buried with Sarah. Abraham begot Isaac. And when Isaac died, he was buried with Abraham. Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob died way down in Egypt, way out of the country, way out of promised land. But he remembered, a spiritual man. He said, "Come here, my son Joseph," Joseph a prophet. He said, "Put your hands on my thigh, where one night in a wrestle with the Holy Spirit, he crippled me, and I've walked different ever since." Said, "Put your hand upon here, where the Holy Spirit put His hand, and swear to me by the God of Abraham, that you'll not bury me down here." Wonder why? What difference does it make where you was buried? He was a prophet. He had a spiritual revelation. Said, "Don't bury me down here. But as soon as I'm gone, I'll be gathered with my people. Take me back up into the promise land and bury me up there."
Joseph said, "I swear it." So when he took Isaac, his father, and buried him back there after the ceremony, right with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, all the patriarchs back there in those days, then Joseph, when he had grew old, and when it come time for him to die, he had a spiritual revelation. He said, "Don't bury me down here in Egypt, but just put me in a box. For someday, the Lord will visit you. And when you go out, take my bones with you and bury them up there in the promised land." I wonder why?

L-37 What Joseph was to Israel as a standing sign, Christ is to the church today. Every poor Israelite with his back, beat and stripes, under the task master, walked by that old lead coffin, (I supposed to put my hand on it here, a few years ago, in a museum, in a coffin that Joseph was supposed to have laid in, made out of lead down in Egypt.) And there, in this leaded coffin, the bones of the prophet, every Israelite walking by there, looked over and said, "Someday we're going out. The prophet has said so. And someday those bones will be packed over into the other land, and we'll go with them over to the homeland."
And that's the hope of every Christian today, that Joseph was a type laying in the tomb. Christ is the type out of the tomb, resurrection. You see it?

L-38 And I remember, after losing my wife... Billy, a little bitty fellow about like that... I was kindly papa and mama both to him. Walked at nighttime. We were poor. Had just an old one room we're living in. I take the little fellow to the neighbors, daytime, while I was working as a lineman, trying to pay off the bills and so forth and us to eat. I didn't--I couldn't afford fire all night long, so I'd take his little Coca Cola bottle. He'd break the others, drop them. I couldn't afford to buy those hygiene bottles, so I got him a Coca Cola bottle, put the little cap over the top of it. And at nighttime I'd put it under my head, let it lay against my body. And my heat of my body would keep his bottle warm and when he raised up at nighttime, and go to crying, I'd stick the bottle in his mouth. He had warm milk. In daytime I'd carry it under my arm here, on my coat, when we're out. We've been buddies.


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