<TITLE>03. Par 10-14</TITLE>L-10 Some time ago I was in a--a city. It's been a number of years now, about three or four years ago, very famous, fine man, and a--a scholar and a student. And there was a newspaper that had just criticized me and said that I was... Oh, I don't... Everything but a Christian, I guess... But... And the brother, when I rode home, said, "Brother Branham, you know what I'd do? If I had favor with God like that, I'd curse that newspaper and have God to burn it down."
I said, "Aw, you wouldn't do that." I said, "I don't believe that's even in your heart." I said, "I don't believe you..."
"Oh," he said, "yes, sir."
I said, "Now, brother, the first place, we wouldn't want to do that, because that wouldn't be just like Jesus would want to do. You see, He wouldn't want us to do that."
He said, "Well, Brother Branham, the prophets has changed in these days." Said, "We need some prophets like Elijah, who went up there, and proved God, and called their own fire down out of heaven."
I said, "He only done it after he saw a vision."
"Oh, no," he said, "he just challenged them and said..."
I said, "After he saw the vision, brother."
He said, "No."
I said, "Now, watch when he laid all of his stuff in order. He said, 'Lord, I have did all of this at Thy Word.'" That's right. After he'd... all at His Word...

L-11 So no man, no time, ever does anything like that, unless first it's showed by God. Now, I mean just acts of faith to go do certain things. But I mean something definitely that you know is going to take place.
Now, may I... Would you bear with me an extra five minutes, so I could kinda tell you a little bit about vision, would you do that? What visions are, and what gifts are is nothing but... It's God making Hisself known in this age to people, similar as He did in the old age.

L-12 Now, everyone knows that the prophets of old just as Joseph... We know that he was borned a seer, hated of his brethren, loved of his father, and--and he portrayed Jesus Christ in every manner. Don't you believe that?
Just think. He was sold for almost thirty pieces of silver, taken up out of the pit, like he was--was supposed to have been dead in the pit and was put in prison. And one was lost and one was saved like the--on the cross.
And when Christ was prisoned as a earthly man, with His nails in His hands and then was put at the right hand of the greatest city in the world, right hand of Pharaoh. And everyone bowed the knee. And no man could come to Pharaoh except by Joseph, and Jesus sets at the right hand of God. No man can come to the Father except by Christ.

L-13 Portrayed it when Joseph died, and he left a sign in Egypt or an old casket. I was supposed to put my hands on it in a museum not long ago, an old lead beaten casket where they laid his bones. And said, "Don't you take my bones out of here, or don't you let me be buried here. But someday God's going to--to take you out of here, and take my bones before you to the promised land."
And he left. Every old back-beaten Israelite coming by, looking at those bones, could look over there and say, "Someday we're going out. Someday we're going out. 'Cause there is the prophet. And he said that his bones would be taken before the congregation, so someday we're going out. There's the sign."

L-14 And today when we go to the grave with our loved ones and hear the minister say, "Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, and earth to earth," and hear the clods dropping in upon the casket... But we could look at that, and by eyes of faith, we can look across the sea yonder and see an empty tomb. "If--if I go, I'll come again and receive you." We're going out someday.
Jesus was the Antitype of Joseph. David... many others. When David, dethroned in--at his h--in Jerusalem, and by his own people was chased out of the city, and as he went up the mount looking back crying... Eight hundred years from then, the Son of David, rejected in the city, set on the same mountain weeping over the city.


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