<TITLE>12. Par 43-45</TITLE>L-43 Oh, my, I--I feel beside myself nearly, I guess. He knew that he had received Isaac as one from the dead, and he knew that God was able to raise him up from the dead, because He had made the promise. "Isaac and I will return." The little fellow, too young to know what it was all about... Up the hill they went; they got up on top of this big mountain. Then they rolled up some rocks. Abraham took the wood off of Isaac's back, a type of Christ packing His cross up the mountain, years to come, to die for the sins of the world, the only Begotten of the Father.
And there on top of the mountain, he laid the wood in order, took the fire and made the fire, and little Isaac got kindly suspicious. And he said, "My father."
He said, "Yes, my son, I am here."
Said, "Here is the altar; here is the wood; here is the fire, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
Now, what's he going to answer him? How's he going to say it? God gets us in some awful predicaments at times, just to show His love and grace to us. He said, "My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for the sacrifice." Oh, I wish that could soak deep. "God will provide a lamb for the burnt offering."

L-44 So he took little Isaac and turned him around, bound his hands and his feet, laid him upon the rocks, and moved his hair back from his face, pulled the knife out, held his little head back, kindly in this manner, took the knife in his hand, raised up towards heaven, and looked to the God Who give him the promise, raised up his hand to stab his own son to death. And about that time the Holy Spirit caught his hand, said, "Abraham, Abraham, hold your peace. Wait a minute, Abraham. I see that you love Me and you trust Me." And about that time, a lamb bleated, hooked by his horns, a ram, male sheep, hooked by his horns in the wilderness, Christ in the form of a sheep.
I want to ask you something. Where did that ram come from? He's a hundred miles from civilization, amongst lions, and leopards, and beasts that would... and wolves, and wild dogs--hundred miles back; not only that, but he's plumb up on top of the mountain where there's no water. Where did that ram come from? It wasn't a vision, because he took the ram and killed it, and the blood poured out it. It was a real ram. Where did it come from? Jehovah-jireh had provided that ram. God spoke it into existence in one minute, and it went out of existence in another minute. For God is able to do anything that He desires to do.
And tonight, He's still Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide a sacrifice."
Someone said the other day said, "Brother Branham, do you mean to tell me you believe the world will be destroyed? How could you destroy the whole world?"
I said, "The same Word of God, that spoke it into existence, is able to speak it out of existence, 'cause He said it would do it." He's Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice.

L-45 He's the provided sacrifice tonight for your sins. He's the provided sacrifice tonight for your sickness.
Say, "Brother Branham, the doctor said I had cancer, and there was no way for me to be healed."
Do you realize He said He's Jehovah-jireh, "I'm the Lord that heals all thy diseases"?
You say, "Brother Branham, I've been so sinful; I believe I've crossed the separating line." No, you haven't, or you wouldn't be here tonight.
"How can He make atonement for me; I broke my marriage vows, I've done this, that, and the other." He's Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice.


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