<TITLE>07. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 Very picture of the church today, in the status it stands in now. Notice how that God gave a picture there then, we'll have to take in the tabernacle to make this proof of it. Now, we find out the tabernacle was a worship place; we come to that last night. The only place, the only common grounds that God met with the people was at the tabernacle, under the shed blood.
And now there was three different courts, or places in the tabernacle, that I want to draw your attention to. And one of them was the outer court, the court. Then the--the altar, which was a holy place, and then the holiest of holies, where only the high priest went once a year, and no one dared to follow him behind that holy place.

L-26 Now, if we'll notice, how that the furniture and so forth, was placed in those--those places, represents the dispensations that we have lived in since the Dark Age, or the coming out of the church and the continuation of its journey.
Now, the outer courts represented justification, the--which was there, water baptism, the laver set out there where the--they was washed before they ministered. And the altar represented the sacrifice place where the--the punishment was put or expelled, for the judgment was placed upon the--the sacrifice, and the brazen altar and brass speaks of Divine judgment. The brass serpent in the wilderness spoke of Divine judgment, the serpent being sin already judged in the garden of Eden, and brass spoke of Divine judgment ([Brother Branham clears throat--Ed.] pardon me), like the brazen altar where the sacrifice was burned.

L-27 Then in there they had seven golden candlesticks, then--a seven pronged lamp, rather. But in the inside behind the veil there was an ark. And in the ark was the--the tablets, the Ten Commandments, as we call them. And that was--represented the human heart. That how God promised in the days gone by, that in this day that He would write His laws, not upon tables of stone, but upon the heart, He'd place the law in the heart. Ezekiel spoke of it. And the prophets all spoke of how that God would do that in the days coming, which was a type.
But the high priest once going into this holiest of holies, then the curtain dropped, sound proof, he was shut off from the things of the world. No one could see him; he was hid away.

L-28 Through the Lutheran age came forth, "The just shall live by faith," the outer court. Along come the Methodist age, the sanctification age, they call the second definite work of grace, which come in in that age. And there's the altar age. And then in the last days the restoration of the Holy Spirit, the hidden Life. And I'm sure, right here's where the trouble lays. I want you to see it. Right here's where the trouble lays with the church today, coming from--can't deviate between the altar and the holiest of holies. In there's where the place, where the church ought to be. And there's too many of them still on the outside: out there instead of being in here.
That's the reason we have our days that we have, and the lack of faith that we have, when the church should be in its last age, its last dispensation. I believe we're living at the turn of time. God's help tomorrow night I will prove that by the Bible, Word by Word, that we're living in the shadows of the coming of the Son of God, right now, right now. Just watch how the Scripture will prove it without a shadow of doubt. Even the things that's taken place is a scientific proof that we're at the end time, might be any time. And here the church is still dilly-dallying outside here.


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