<TITLE>17. Par 41-42</TITLE>L-41 Notice, then he takes his little boy, binds his hands and his feet. Isaac never said a word: obedient unto death, just like Jesus was at the cross. Laid him up on the altar, pulled out the knife, the tears, maybe, rolling down his checks, laid his hand on his little head, brushed back the curls, pulled back the knife like this, raised his hands to plunge the knife into his own son's throat, 'cause God had told him to do it. Just about the time he got ready to act upon God's commandment, the Holy Spirit grabbed his hand and said, "Abraham, stay your hand. I know you love Me." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
About that time right over behind him a ram hooked in the wilderness with his horns, bleated. Hallelujah. Oh, my. "Hallelujah" means "Praise our God." What was it? Abraham loosed his son, went over and got this ram, and offered him instead. I want to ask you something, friends; He called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: "the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice."
Where did that ram come from? He was a hundred miles from civilization. And beside that, the ram couldn't have been there; the wolves and lions and things would've eat it. And another thing, it's up on top of the mountain where there's no water. Where did the ram come from? Jehovah-jireh, the Creator spoke the lamb into existence. He is there at all times. He's... That lamb come into existence in one minute and died the next minute. For one man taking God's Word, God provided the thing. And He's still Jehovah-jireh tonight that'll provide the sacrifice, and every time, that a man or a woman will take His Word and step out on It and call It the truth.
I felt someone say it was a vision. It wasn't a vision; it was a ram. He laid it on the altar and killed it, and blood run out of it. It was a ram. God the Creator spoke it into existence, and He can do the same thing tonight, can speak into existence the power and the operation of the Holy Ghost to transform a sinner into a saint. His omnipotence is here, His Presence. He's here. He's still Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide.
"How can I be saved, Brother Branham, when I've done..." The Lord has provided. "How can I be healed?" The Lord has provided a ram. You believe it? Let us pray.

L-42 Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for all these marvelous examples. Paul, the writer of the Hebrews, said, "Seeing that we're compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses..." O God, let we tonight, living down in the closing of time... Many thousands and innumerable miracles of God since that day upon the mount where Jehovah introduced Himself as God's will provide... Thou has provided us the Holy Spirit. Thou has provided us healing. Thou has provided us salvation. Thou has provided us joy. And God, with grasping arms, may we embrace every Calvary promise tonight as our own personal property. Grant it, Father.


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