<TITLE>13. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 Now, I want you to notice; He said, "I'm El Shaddai." How beautiful.
He said, "Lord, how You going to do this?"
I can't get to my text, the end of it, 'cause next time I come down, I will finish this up. It's too late.
Said, "Lord, tell me how You're going to do this."
Said, "Come out here, Abraham. I'll show you what I'm going to do. I'll just show you right here what I'm going to do." He said, "Get Me a heifer of three years old, and get Me a sheep of three years old, and so forth. And--and bring them out here and slay them." And Abraham went and got the--the heifer, and the ram, and the goat, and cut them apart. And he got a pigeon and a turtledove. Wish we had time to go into that. Any Bible reader knows the turtledove represented healing. God cut in dispensations, split them, but not in healing, never.

L-41 Notice, He always had a way of healing. Even when they had judges, and they had all kinds of dispensations, but God continually on to heal. But he cut the beast, the three beasts, but he didn't separate the turtledove or the pigeon. And he put them down. He kept the birds off of them. Now, watch how God told him what He's going to do.
Now, when the sun went down, He said, "Now, Abraham..." A deep sleep come on Abraham. Now, what is it? "Abraham, you haven't got nothing to do with this. This is My doings. I'm going to do this, 'cause you wouldn't keep it. So I'm going to do it anyhow. Abraham, going to put you out of the picture. You go to sleep."
And Abraham went to sleep. Then the first saw--thing he saw was a horror of darkness. What does that mean? That means death. It's due to every sinner. Every person has to face death. A horrible darkness come before him. "Though I walk through the valley of the shadows of death." The next thing he seen was a smoking furnace. What's that? Hell. Every sinner will go there, every unrepented soul will go there--hell... And then a little white Light. And watch. It went between each one of those pieces. Back and forth. Said, "Abraham, that's what I'm going to do. That's how I'm going to do it." What was He doing? He was making His covenant with Abraham.

L-42 Now, in America, when we make a covenant, what do we do? We go down, have a little bite to eat at the table, and--and you get up, and say, "Will you do it boy?"
"Yeah."
"Shake." There you are. That's a covenant. Shake hands on it. That's the way we Americans make covenants.
What do they do in Japan when they make a covenant? They go down and talk it over with each other, then get a little cruse of salt, and they pitch salt on one another. That's a covenant in Japan. So--what is--was a covenant in the orient in Abraham's time? They went and killed a beast, and they took this beast and cut it apart, and they got in between the beast and wrote their covenant, what they would do. And then they took this piece of paper and tore it apart. One man took one piece and one the other. They raised their hands to heaven and swore that if they broke this covenant, let their body be as this dead beast. That's how God swore to Abraham He'd keep this covenant.


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