<TITLE>09. Par 89-98</TITLE>L-89 God rested, physically, for He had made the heavens and earth in six days, and on the seventh day He rested from all His work. He rested one thousand years. For the Bible said, that, "One day on earth is a thousand years in Heaven; a thousand years in Heaven; is one day on the earth." How many knows the Scripture says that in Second Peter? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right. "God rested on the seventh day. And He spoke on this wise at a certain place."

L-90   Now listen close.
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God rested... from all his works.
And in this place again, the law, If they shall enter into my rest.
He give the Jews, on their way from the promised land... or from Egypt, to the promised land, the seventh-day sabbath.

L-91 Now listen.
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and to they whom it was first preached...
The rest! God give them the law, and the sabbath was the fourth commandment.
... entered not in because of unbelief:...

L-92 Now watch. He's talking about the law, how they entered in, wasn't mixed with faith. They didn't keep it. They kept the sabbath in a memorial, that they were going to a land of sabbath, to have everlasting rest from all their troubles and all their worries, no more taskmasters, no more restless nights. They were on their way to the promised land of rest. It flowed with milk and honey. The grapes was so big that two men packed one bunch over their shoulders. Oh, what a land of blessed rest! But they failed to get it when they got there, because of their unbelief. They were turned aside, at only forty miles from where they left in Egypt, to the promised land. And they were forty years getting there, because of their unbelief. God gave them their prophet, gave him His sign, give him the Pillar of Fire, showed signs and wonders, and preached the Gospel to them. And they walked out, after the fishes and loaves, and fell in the wilderness. "And their carcases perished in the wilderness."

L-93   Jesus, at the fountain, He said.
Said, "Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness, for forty years."

L-94 He said, "I AM that Bread of Life that come from God out of Heaven. I AM the Bread of Life. Moses didn't give you that Bread. My Father give that Bread. And I AM the Bread that comes from God out of Heaven. If a man eats This, will never die." There's the difference.

L-95 Now watch. They said that He..." They drank from the Rock that was in the wilderness, for the space of so-many years."

L-96 He said, "I AM that Rock." Blessed be His Holy Name! "I AM that Rock."
How could He be that Rock? That Rock was a spiritual Rock. It followed the children of Israel. And Moses had a stick in his hand, which was a judgment rod of God. And God told him to smite the Rock, and he smote the Rock. And when he did, waters came from the Rock. And Christ was that Rock, and the judgment of God's penalty of sin was struck upon Him. "God caused to lay on Him the iniquity of us all," and that iniquity bursted forth His heart. And from His heart poured the Holy Spirit, like rivers of water, to a perishing, dying people.
"I AM that Rock that was in the wilderness."
"Why," he said, "You mean to tell..."

L-97   He said, "Moses, the one that told you that, he longed to see My day. And he saw it in portion."

L-98 He said, "Now, You mean to tell us that You're greater than Moses? That You seen Moses? And Moses has been dead eight hundred years." Said, "Now we know that You got a devil," other words, "crazy. We know that You're crazy."


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