<TITLE>13. Par 60-65</TITLE>L-60 One more little statement, then we'll have the prayer line. Notice, right immediately after that, Abraham said, "Seeing that I go childless, there's been many years..." the 15th chapter now of Genesis. We've come from the 11th to the 15th. Now, in the 15th chapter Abraham said, "Is this heir of my house? This here Eliezer of Damascus, is that my heir?
And God said, "No. That's not your heir." Said, "Look down to the ground, see how many--how much sand there is by the seashore. Then look up to the heavens and see how many stars there are in heaven; number them if you can." Said, "So shall your seed be." Your seed... Sarah now about eighty, and Abraham ninety. But "Your seeds will be like the dust by the seashore or the stars of the heaven. Look, from dust to stars. Oh," he said, "I'm going..."
He said, "How will this be done?"

L-61 Now, set quiet just for a moment, in closing. You people that's sick, you that needs, you that's in and out, watch this confirmation of the covenant. He said, "Go, get me a heifer three years old." I hope you get that three years old. Three year old heifer, three year old she-goat and a three year old ram: Adam, the law, Christ. Three years old, three, that perfect three, like Father, Son, Holy Ghost (See?), God, in the Fatherhood, God, the same God, in Sonship, the same God in the Holy Ghost; Three offices of God: Fatherhood, Sonship, Holy Ghost. Three year olds...

L-62 We... My clock up there is getting away; I got--want to get this prayer line started before we go off the air, for the people. And I--I have to hurry, so I may drop back tomorrow night and pick some of this up.

L-63 Watch this. The heifer, the she-goat and the ram: three different species, clean sacrifices, and a turtledove and a young pigeon. And Abraham took these three animals, and split them in two, and piled them each end against each other. But the turtledove and the pigeon he did not cut apart.
Tomorrow night, if the Lord willing, we'll pick up that. That's Divine healing is always in that. The dispensations change but never did Divine healing. It's always based upon your faith. See? Don't separate the turtledove or the pigeon, the offering for leprosy and so forth, and the sickness. It's the same, based on faith, your own faith.

L-64 Now, and when he did, Abraham... Then he said when he did that the birds come down and begin to light on the sacrifice, and Abraham drove them away until the sun went down. Now, watch, there was three elements, a real horror come over Abraham of darkness. Then after that he saw a smoking furnace. Then after that he saw a lighted Lamp. And watch what that represented. This little Lamp went right between each one of those sacrifices, confirming the covenant to Abraham, not nothing Abraham done, but God's covenant grace, unconditionally. "Not if you will, Abraham; it's what I've done. Not if you do this, if you do that; it's what I've already done," what He would show in Christ, showing the sacrifice. Just a moment I'll get to it.
First, the darkness, death. Every man, they... "Though I walk through the valley of shadow of death." Next, a smoking furnace; hell, where every sinner belongs. But after that come a little Light. O God, grace, amazing grace, lighting up the way, making a covenant. "Well," you say, "Brother Branham, I don't see the covenant." All right, here it is now.

L-65 Before closing, listen close now, if you want to see whether it's by grace or not. In America when we want to make a covenant with one another, we'll usually go out and have a little dinner, and then we'll make our agreement, and reach up, and shake one another's hands. "Stick it here," they say, "shake." That's a covenant. We'll agree. Isn't that right? That's the American way of gree--agreeing.
In Japan when they make a covenant, they take a little cruse of salt and throw salt on one another. That's a covenant in Japan to throw salt on each other. It's like a handshake.


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