<TITLE>13. Par 39-41</TITLE>L-39 Now, He--He is showing in a figure to Abraham what He was going to do for all his seed after him; which out of Abraham would come Isaac, and out of Isaac would come Christ; showing what kind of a sacrifice that he would make through Christ. When Abraham give a pre-shadow of it, when he went to the mountain to offer Isaac, and God spared Isaac, and didn't spare His own Son, because Isaac was only a shadow of Christ, packing the wood, and everything right up the same hill, as we'll get to it later on in our lesson in a night or two.
Well, notice. What he did... Oh, it's marvelous. He kept the birds off of it until the sun went down. Notice. Then a deep sleep fell on Abraham. "First thing, Abraham, I'm just going to shut you off to show you there's not one thing you can do about it. This is My covenant."
And it wasn't one thing, brother, that you could do about it. It isn't one thing, sister, that you done about it. It's what God did for you in Christ. Not because you was good, not because a mother was good. But what? Christ was good, and what Christ did by calling you.

L-40 Put him to sleep. Now, he hasn't got anything to do with it. So after he went to sleep, then there come a real deep horrible darkness. What did that mean? Hell, separation, every sinner deserves it, separation. And then beyond that was a burning furnace, death: separation, hell after death, to every sinner. But then beyond that went a little white Light. I hope you never disbelieve no more from this hour. Abraham, asleep, and in a vision, showing that every man must come to this horrible darkness of separation, death. That every man deserves to go to hell, 'cause he's a sinner; he fell. He's the offspring of a sinner. And then, beyond that, went the little white Light, in other words, the same Pillar of Fire that followed Israel, the same Holy Spirit that's here tonight. And It went right in between each one of these sacrifices, God confirming by His grace, that someday what He would do in Christ Jesus.
Now, to the oath, God took an oath over It. He took an oath tonight swore by Himself, that none other greater to swear by, He swore by Himself, He'd keep His Word. Amen. He will keep His promise. He didn't only say it, but He swore to it, that He'd do it.

L-41 "What are you trying to do, Brother Branham?" Get you to a place where you can see what God has done for you. That's why these things take place. God has promised to do them, and He's got to do them. In order to be God, He has to keep His promise, brethren.
Notice. In the Old... Many ways we make covenants. Here in America when we make a covenant, why, we just go out and make an agreement and reach over and shake one another's hands, and say, "That's it, boy. Seal her. Here we are. All right." We shake on it. That's the way we make a covenant.
Down in Japan they got a funny way of making a covenant. They go out and make their agreement; then they get a little salt and throw it on one another. That's the way they make a covenant, throwing salt on one another.
But in the time of Abraham, the way they made a covenant, the way God made a covenant, they took an animal and split it apart. And they took a piece of paper and wrote on this piece of paper, whatever they were--their agreement was. And they tore this piece of paper apart, and one man took one part, and the other man took the other part. And they took an oath over the dead body of this sacrifice, that if either of those broke that covenant, let their--let them be as this dead animal was below them. And when they come together again, to make this covenant right, these two pieces of paper had to dovetail right straight together letter by letter, for it would be the same piece of paper.


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