<TITLE>15. Par -</TITLE>L-321-Q-69 69. Who are the twenty and four elders? All right, I believe that would be on the--the... Who are the twenty-four elders?
Now, that's just simple; we could get to it. The twenty-four elders was setting before the throne. That's in the ver... I believe it's in verse 4, is where it's found. "And there went out another..." I've got to... Let's see, I've... 4:10.
All right, Revelations the 4th chapter and the 10th verse. That's right. We'll get to it.
And the four and twenty elders fell down before him that set on the throne, and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne saying,
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

L-321-691 Now, the four and twenty elders, an elder is an overseer. Now, notice, they were twelve patriarchs and twelve apostles. And they were setting, twelve on one side and twelve on the other. There were the twenty and four elders, which were, the twelve patriarchs on one side, the Old Testament, the twelve apostles on the other side, of the New Testament. Didn't Jesus say, "You'll set on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel"?
And how the foundations looked... There's even a tree in there. And the tree on either side bears twelve manners of fruit. And they yield their fruit once a month, which is twelve months in a year. They render twelve manners of fruit every year as it goes by. "Twelve," is that "worship number." You see? And there's a twenty and four, would be twenty-four, twelve apostles and twelve patriarchs. They're setting at the throne.

L-322-Q-70 All right, now the 4th verse--or the fourth question.
70. What did the scarlet thread in Genesis 38 represent?
The scarlet thread, if you'll notice, it was Judah. And he had a--sons, and one of his sons married a Canaanite woman. And this Canaanite woman didn't have any children, and his son died. Then the law then was to take... The next son had to take the brother's wife and raise up seed to the dead. And the other man did not cooperate and do as he should do, and the Lord slayed him. Then he had one young son; so Judah said, "Wait till this son drives--grows up until the place where you can marry him."
And when he grew up to a place that he was supposed to marry his two brothers' former wife, well, he was supposed to take her then to raise seed up to his brethren that had been--that had died before him... Judah did not give the woman, the Canaanite woman, the son, the boy, and just let him go ahead. So she seen that she was doing wrong, so she goes out and wraps a veil over her face, and set in a public place as a harlot would set.

L-322-696 Judah come by and took the woman as his wife, and she was a harlot, and lived with her. And said... She said, "Well, what would you bargain with me?" And he... She said...
He said, "A gift of a--a kid." He said...
"Well, give me a sign that you'll do it." So she took his staff and his signet and so forth, and kept it.
And when they brought the kid, they couldn't find the harlot, 'cause she wasn't a harlot.
After while, she showed up that she was to be a mother. And when she showed up that she was to be a mother, they come told Judah, "Thy daughter-in-law has played the part of a harlot." Said, "Because that she--she's to be mother, and your both boys are dead."
He said, "Well, she'll be called forth and burned."
And so she sent word to Judah, and she said, "The man that did this, owned this staff and this signet." All right. That was her father-in-law.
And he said, "She's more righteous than I am."


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