<TITLE>08. Par 69-79</TITLE>L-69 Now what happened to Him? Where did He go when He left the cross and went in Joseph of Arimathaea's tomb?
He was so poor He had not a place to lay His head. He was born in a manger, with a black name behind Him, as a illegitimate child. He was laughed at, made fun of, scoffed at in the earth. He was made fun of and rejected. And when He died, He had to die through capital punishment, between two thieves. And did not even have a place to bury Him, and He was buried in another man's grave. The very God of heaven coming to earth... Who do we think we are, that have to go through a little suffering? What He did for us, think of it, friends; study on it.

L-71 The Roman soldier said, "Truly, that's the Son of God." The sinner had to recognize it.
Judas said, "I have betrayed innocent Blood." He had to recognize it. The whole earth recognized it.
Then where did He go? When a man dies, does that finish it? No, sir. He had to die that way because God's Bible said that He would die that way. And He trusted God's Word. That's the reason He could say in His life, "Destroy this temple, and I'll raise it up in three days."
For David said one place, only in the Bible, under the Inspiration, when David, the man of God, the prophet that was anointed with the Word, said, "I'll not suffer My holy One to see corruption, neither will I leave His soul in hell."

L-74 Jesus said, "You destroy this body, and I'll raise it up in three days." He knowed that God's Word could not fail. Oh, my.
If He could rest solemnly upon that, believing that God's Word could not fail, how much more can we rest as solemnly that we have been borned again by the Holy Ghost, and It a witness in our heart right now that we know that our Redeemer liveth and will come again someday. Rest assure that those that are in Christ will God bring with Him.
Now notice. There He was. He knew that not one cell of that body would corrupt. Seventy-two hours, corruption sets in. That's the reason He never stayed the three days. He died on Friday afternoon, was up Sunday morning. But it was within them three days. Within those three days He was to rise again, because He trusted God's Word.

L-77 Here He goes. Where did He leave when He left? The Bible said, "He ascended. He went and preached to the souls that were in prison, that repented not in the long-suffering of the days of Noah." His soul, His Spirit, His Theophany of His Own Being, went down. Let's follow Him. Would you like tonight to follow Him a few minutes? Let's see where He went.
Just below the regions of mortal beings lays the realm of demon power; below that--just above that lays the souls of the unjust; below it lays the very domain of Satan: hell. Then just above us lays the Holy Spirit; then under the Altar lays the souls of the just men; the next is God Himself. One going downward, one going upward; the two spirits are here on earth, influencing the people of this earth.

L-79 And when Jesus died, He goes up, down there. I can see Him on that Friday afternoon, after His death, [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] knock on the door of the regions of the lost. Let's follow Him a minute. The door opens. There was women; there was men; there were young ladies; there were old; there were all together in that hideous place called the prison of the lost souls.
If I had time, I'd like to tell you. And it might be just a vision. But one time I visited that place and screamed for mercy, when I was a sinner going under an operation. When I come out, I was standing in the west, with my hands up towards the heaven, and a cross shining on me.


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