<TITLE>13. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 Now, notice as we come to a close. Peter was excited. He said, "Look. Let us build here three tabernacles. Let's build one for Moses, and one for Elijah, and one for Jesus." Let us build three tabernacles. Now, isn't that just the way man does today? They want to build a tabernacle; they want to build a denomination. "We'll just make ourself the Oneness. We'll make ourself the Trinity. We will make ourself the Methodist." Want to build three tabernacles.
Peter said, "You know what? We ought to do it this a way. We could have all these different denominations, and all just be all right anyhow." But God proved it right there; it won't work. Peter said, "Now, we'll build one for Moses, and all that wants to keep the law, let them keep the law: keep the sabbath day and the new moons and all, quit eating meat and all that. And we'll just... We'll just have..." A very good picture of the Seventh Day Adventists, we'll just let them start right there.
"Well then, one says, now if they want to listen to the prophets, we will build one for them."
But no sooner than he had got it out of his mouth, God spoke and said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him."

L-43 Moses was gone. Elijah was gone. Prophets and so forth was over. It's now "My beloved Son." You get it? Listen closely, now, as we pull this to the end. Watch.
Now, aren't you glad that He said that? Notice. Peter wanted to have all the denominations. It finally turned out that way, but not the will of God.
Now, here Moses: Moses represented the law. No man can be saved by the law. The law doesn't save anybody. No matter what you ever do, how good you live, how many good deeds you do, you're lost. That's all you got.
"Oh," you say, "Brother Branham, I give so much to the red feather; I give so much to charity. I feed the widows, I--I--I clothe the orphan children, and I go to church, and I..." Cain done as good as that any time, and was lost. It's not by good works that we are saved; it's by the grace of God we are saved.

L-44 Notice, he said, "Well, now, we'll keep the law." The law was not a saviour after all. The law was a--the prison house. The law only made you know you was a sinner. The law pointed out your sin, but it didn't have any remedy. If the policeman comes, and arrests you, and throws you back in the jail, that's the law. That shows you you are a sinner, but how you going to get out? That's the next thing. The law was just a school master. It pointed out sin.
And then what did Elijah mean? Elijah was the justice of God. Now, no man can be saved by the law, so I don't want to hear Moses any more. No man's saved by it. Now, no man could be saved by the law. It hasn't got no grace in it at all. So you can't be saved by your works, by the law, so then we'll find out then what Elijah meant. He was the justice of God.

L-45 Elijah went up on the mountain. And here's to show he's justice. God told him to go up and set down. And when he did, the king sent up fifty men, said, "Come on down off there, Elijah, want to talk to you."
Elijah raised up and said, "If I be a man of God, let fire from heaven come and consume you." And fire fell out of heaven and killed fifty: justice. It was tampering on God's territory. Who wants justice? I want to know today, who in this church would plead for justice? Not me. I plead for mercy, not justice. I'm justly due to die and go to hell. But it's the mercy of God that saves me, not the justice. I don't want it.
"Oh," the king said, "That might've been an accident. It perhaps was a thunderbolt hit the sky. We'll send another fifty."
And he sent another fifty, and that old prophet raised up in the stern justice of God, and said, "If I be a man of God, let fire come and burn you up."
And down it come again and destroyed fifty more. So it wasn't a accident. It was the justice of God. How dare anybody to say, "I want justice." I don't want justice; I want mercy.


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