<TITLE>10. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 Abraham believed God, said, "Lord, how will I know that these things will be?"
Said, "Come out, Abraham, I want to show you." Said, "First..." He said, "Look to the dust." He said, "Your seed will be like the dust in the earth. Can you number it?"
"No."
And He said, "Look up to heaven in another place." Said, "Your seed will be like the stars of heaven without numbers." See, from the dust to the stars, speaking of the resurrection. You see it? Spiritual minds ought to pick that up quickly: "From the dust to the stars." And the Chief of all is the Morning Star, the brightest, Fairest of ten thousand, the Lily of the valley, the Morning Star, the Redeemer, the Kinsman Redeemer. How lovely He is.
Said, "Come, Abraham, I'll show you how I'll do this." Said... He went and took a heifer, a she goat, a ram, turtledove, and a pigeon. And he cut the heifer, the she goat and the ram apart. But he never separated the dove and the pigeon. He throwed them together."
We'll have to get in on that sometime. Let me show you a little something here. I'm kind of a typologist. I love the types and shadows. Look. He had five different species: J-E-S-U-S, what it was speaking of, the sacrifice to come. Three of them was chopped to pieces, J-E-S; and the other U-S, was not separated: Jehovah's, Elected One's, Salvation, saving U-S, us, inseparable, and the entire church of the living God, regardless of denominational barriers, is not separated. They're one in heart. I don't care what they are. They wasn't separated. J-E-S-U-S. Jehovah's Elected, Salvation, saves U-S. You get it? His elected One, foreshowing through Isaac, coming of the great One, Christ.

L-32 Then notice... Now, here you are Arminian teachers, my brethren, I don't mean to rub this in now. I want you just to watch this real close, to show you that it's not by works, it's by grace, by election, by foreknowledge. It's God that does the saving. You have nothing to do with it. "Not him that willeth or him that runneth, but it's God that showeth mercy."
Notice, "Abraham, come up here on the side of the hill. Now, you've watched the birds off of this... While He piled them together." Said, "You've watched the birds off of them, and the sun is going down now." And the Bible said, "A deep sleep fell on Abraham."
"Now, you haven't got nothing to do with it, Abraham. I'm just going to shut you out, show you, it's not what you can do or what you want. It's Me doing it. I'm doing the saving." Saved him when he started, told him He'd come to him in an old age. He'd save his seed after him. God did it by sovereign grace.
So what you scared about? That's what's the matter with the church. You're afraid. Don't be afraid: If God be for you, who can be against you? Stop being afraid. Take His Word. Let the Holy Spirit in you come to life. It's so feeble. Let It wake up to the realization of the very hour that you're living and the time that you're living. Watch Him.

L-33 Abraham, He put him to sleep to show Abraham, "You're out of the picture." And then, as soon as He did that, Abraham asleep, there come a great darkness, which means death. Every mortal must come to that place, death. Then after death, there was a smoking furnace, hell, where every sinner deserves to go. What's He picturing in here? Calvary, Jesus. And then, He showed... Beyond that went a--a little Light. God is Light. And that little Light went between each one of those pieces of sacrifice, making His covenant. It was an oriental custom.
Now, today, when you and I make a covenant, we go down to one another, and I say, "Brother, will you do so and so?"
"Yes, Brother Branham, I'll do it."
Well, shake hands. That's the way we make a covenant. Back in Japan, how they make a covenant there, they go talk it over with each other, and then they have a little kettle full of salt. And they stand and throw salt on one another. That's a covenant, making a salt covenant.


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