<TITLE>06. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 "The law, having a shadow of good things to come..." Listen at that, "The law having a shadow of good things to come..." Now, if we would have to type, which I do--do much typology. So then the law was a shadow, so all the law could not have been darkness. There has to be certain percent of light in the darkness to make a shadow. Is that right?
So many people, in quoting the 23rd Psalm they misquote it by saying, "I go through the dark valley of the shadow of death." Now, if it was a dark valley, it didn't have any shadow. So you see, death itself's under the law... To David, death now only is a shadow. There's a lot of light in death. Now, if it was all darkness, my, that would horrible, but death is just a shadow. So there has to be light mixed with the darkness to reflect the shadow. Isn't it wonderful, knows what the struggles in...?...

L-18 Well, how many knows Brother Bosworth? Oh, how the meeting he had in Chicago. While in Indianapolis, his wife called me, said, "Brother Branham, your old friend is dying." Said, "He's got death rattles in his throat all day. And we've tried to locate you everywhere. He's under a oxygen tent, unconscious. And he's rattled in his throat all day. I believe he will be gone before morning. And Brother Branham, we want you to preach his funeral."
I said, "Sister Bosworth, don't speak of that. Let's speak of something else." And we went over and fell on our knees before God, and announced it to the church that night of thousands of people. And the next night Brother Bosworth called me up and talked to me on the phone. Yes, sir.
He said, "Brother Branham, I'd like to be with you in the Cadle Tabernacle, in a revival." Said, "Maybe we can go in the next couple of years sometime."
Oh, I love that courage. No shadow, no--no--no negative; it's all positive. That old teacher he knows right where he's standing. And every reader of the Bible knows that all that death can do is to put a shadow or a spook before you. But it cannot hold you. Christ burst forth all those thunders of darkness and freed those that were in paradise in the shadows entering in the positive now in the Presence of God our Father. What a thought, not only a thought, but a truth, that God has made manifest through His Word.

L-19 All the law did was foreshadow Jesus Christ. For in Him is the perfection. And if I was going from the sun and there was a--a sun at my back, it would cast a shadow. I could look at that shadow and pretty well guess what I would look like. Whether I was a--a flying fowl, or four-footed beast, or whatever it would be, it would cast a shadow.
And the law only cast a shadow of the coming of the Lord Jesus. On over here in the next chapter, of Hebrews 11th chapter, how Paul speaking there, told about the great heroes of faith, how they escape the edge of the sword and was... And the mouths of the lions were closed, and great wonderful things was done as the people lived under the shadow. And to do all of that by faith, how much more ought we to be able to do today when the antishadow is here, when Christ has come, and fulfilled all the law, and has become a real, living, resurrected, glorified Christ in our midst? What kind of a people ought we to be?

L-20 Why, I believe the time will soon arrive, that when healing will be--a miracle healing will be such a common thing... We've got to get some rapturing faith in the church to get away from here one of these days.
"Law having a shadow..." how it foreshadowed all things. We could go back, if time would only permit, and get the great things back all through the coming of the ark at the flood, how Moses down in Egypt, and many of the great characters in the changing of the dispensation, how the law, by the word of the law had supremacy, and how that everything else give away when God's law stretched forth the law.


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