<TITLE>06. Par 23-28</TITLE>L-23 This man picked hisself a lap full of gourds and throwed them in a big pot, cooking it up to give life, sustain life. What a type that is today of many places in the world today: cooking up something all right, but what you got in the pot? And they come to find out when they started eat, there was death in the pot. One man cried out, "Oh, it's death in the pot." But they had somebody there that had a double portion: Elijah. Goes over and gets a handful of meal, which being at the school of prophets, was the meal offering. They had a meal offering. And he took the handful of meal and cast it into the pot; he said, "Eat as much as you want to for it's life now."

L-24 The meal offering, any teacher knows that the meal offering, wave offering, heave offering, all the offerings pertain to Jesus. The little meal offering must be ground with burrs that cuts every little speck the same; every little grain of corn must be cut the same. And they had a handful of it. And that means Jesus Christ, the Meal Offering: the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And when Christ is put into death, death and Life can't exist together no more than daylight and dark can exist together. When the sun comes up, I don't care how dark it is, dark fades away. And when Jesus comes into a soul, no matter how haughty, high minded, the type of person you been, sin vanishes: no more of it. The things of the world just pass away from you.

L-25 Someone said, not long ago, "Brother Branham, you believe we ought to do this, and do that, and train the people to do this?"
I said, "I live in a country where they have a lot of scrub oak. In the springtime we never have to go out and pick them old leaves off. They stayed there all winter. The only thing to do is let the new life come in, the old leaf drops off. And when a man or a woman is borned of the Spirit of God, the old life drops away and the new life takes it's place.

L-26 Now, these vines, a true vine... Saint John 14, Jesus said that He was the Vine; we were the branches. Many times in the Bible, you see that God likes His church unto a vine. Now, in order to properly understand this parable or this prophecy, everything that's on the earth, there's nothing new. Everything was at one time. Scripture teaches that. And every cult, and every fanaticism, and every formality, and every "ism" there is on the earth began in Genesis. You know that? "Genesis" means "beginning." And in Genesis began everything; begin the creation, begin the trees, begin the birds; begin human life; begin religion. Everything come from Genesis.

L-27 Now, let's take a little picture and go back. Just awhile ago in the room, I was reading to my boy, Revelations 17, of the old prostitute woman and her daughters, called Babylon. Babylon first began in Genesis. Then it appears over here in the days of King Nebuchadnezzar at the issuing in of the Gentiles. And then it appears at the going out of the age in Revelations. Babylon was the first, began with idolatry. In the middle of the book it's idolatry. It ends up in the end under the name of Christianity, but still idolatry. Now, if it began in Genesis, it ends over here.
Then salvation begins in Genesis. Impersonation begins in Genesis. Formality begins in Genesis. Everything began at Genesis like a vine.

L-28 Now, there was two boys. We'll start with... Adam and Eve was pure. God made Adam out of dust of the earth, taken from his side a rib and made a woman. And she sinned, brought Adam into it. They both sinned. Then God drove them out. They had two children. One was Cain. One was Abel. If I was going to speak here next week, there's one subject that I like to speak on: Three questions of God. Where art Thou? What is this thou has done? and Where is thy brother. 
"Where art thou?" He spoke to Adam. "What is this thou hast done?" He spoke to Eve. "Where is thy brother?" He spoke to Cain. Three questions God asked. Think of it.


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