<TITLE>09. Par 86-99</TITLE>L-86   He said, "That's the reason God could say, before Esau or Jacob was either born, He said, 'I love one and hate the other one.'" Before either boy was born, God knew that Esau was a shyster, and He knew that Jacob was a... he loved his birthright. So He knew, before the world ever was formed, about it. Now, we're going to find out in a minute Who that was that knew it. This chapter has got it.
God,... in sundry time and in divers manner spoke... to the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,...
Has done what? "Has spoken to us in this last days by His Son."

L-87 Now, how would you think then, that, what would be a prophet? Would we have a prophet then of this day? Absolutely. Would He speak by it? Sure. But he that... The prophets of the old day was the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

L-88 Now, let's get that straight, 'cause I don't think it's soaking in right. Now, this is just like Sunday School, so we want to get this clear. See?

L-89   Notice. Let's take the Spirit of God that was in Moses, perfectly the... is the foreshadow of Jesus Christ. All of the Old Testament characters foreshadow the cross. Moses, born a proper child, hid in the bulrushes, taken away from his parents, so forth, and was... He was a king, or a--a leader, law-giver, intercessor, priest. Everything that he was foreshadowed Christ.

L-90 Look at Joseph, loved of his father, hated of his brethren, and sold for almost thirty pieces of silver. Throwed into a ditch, supposedly dead; taken out. In his persecution, butler saved, and butcher lost; two thieves at the cross. And then when he come out, he raised up out of that ditch, and was set at the right hand of Pharaoh, the biggest commercial... the--the--the nation who whipped all the rest of the world. And no man could come to Pharaoh except they come through Joseph; Jesus setting at the right hand of God, and no man can come to God except through Christ. And when Joseph left that throne and started out, men went before him, screaming and blowing trumpets, sound the trumpet, saying, "Bow the knee! Joseph is coming."

L-91 And when Jesus comes, a trumpet shall sound, and every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess. Yes, sir. There He was.

L-92   And when Joseph died, he left a memorial to them who were waiting for deliverance.

L-93 I put my hand on the old casket, here not long ago, it was made out of lead. And his body was supposed to stay... his bones... Said, "Don't you bury me here, for someday, God is going to visit you." He was a prophet. "God is going to visit you." And said, "When you go up to the promised land, take my bones."

L-94 There, an old Hebrew, with a beat back and bloody, could look over in that casket and say, "Someday, we're going out."

L-95 Jesus left a memorial, an empty tomb. Someday when we go over to the grave, and our loved ones, and hear the little old clods, when they say, "Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, and earth to earth." But, brother, we can look across the sea, to an empty tomb. Someday, we're going out of here. We're going home. He is coming. Everything was typed.

L-96   Look at David, rejected by his own people, dethroned by his own people. Being a king of Jerusalem, was drove out of Jerusalem by his own people. And as he went up Mount Olive, he looked back and wept. He was rejected.

L-97 Eight hundred years from then, the Son of David, King of Jerusalem, set on a hill and wept, 'cause he was rejected.

L-98 That was the Spirit of Christ in David. All foreshadowed the cross. Them prophets back there spoke in His Name. They lived in His Name. They acted in His Name. Sure. "God in sundry times and divers manners spoke to the fathers through the prophets, but in this last day through His Son."

L-99   So the prophets and spiritual men, this day, is only the reflection of Christ. There, by the law they stood, look. Over here they stand, looking back the other way, through grace.


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