<TITLE>12. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 I trust you'll do the same thing. Watch for the place where the signs are following. That was the only difference you could make out between Moab and Israel. Why, fundamentally, they were both right. Fundamentally, Cain and Abel was both right. Cain built [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... church, Abel built a church. Cain made a sacrifice, Abel made a sacrifice. Cain worshipped, Abel worshipped. So if going to church, having a creed, worshipping, and paying in, making sacrifice, if that's all God requires, He was unjust to destroy Cain. But there is a way that seemeth right unto a man. Abel had the revelation.
And look here at when that same group. Watch them how Cain's people and then Seth's people. Death of Abel and the coming of Cai--of Seth was the death and resurrection of Christ. Watch how them two lineages run, them two streams of blood. The side of Cain become smart men, scientists, educated, scholars. The other side were humble peasants. They tempered iron, and made metal, and great builders, science, very religious. Still running the same way. See how--how it is? No wonder Jesus said it would deceive the very elect if possible. Watch them two trees coming up through Eden.

L-43 Here they come on over to--to Israel, a little old group of people that was all--not denominated, just wandering around, tent dwellers. And they come down there and stopped at the foot of the land and asked their brother, Moab, a believer in God, if they--if they could just pass through the land. They wouldn't do no harm; they just wanted a campaign. That was all. And they wouldn't do no harm to them. And said, "The cattle licks up some grass, we'll pay for it. They drink any water, we'll pay for it."
But Moab went and called the bishop out and said, "Now, come here a minute. You got to go down there and curse them."
So they got him up on top of the hill and showed him the worse part of Israel. And look. Balaam said, "Build me seven altars." That's exactly what was in Israel. Fundamentally right. "Put me seven clean sacrifices upon them." Exactly what was in Israel, just below the hill. "And put a ram on each one." What was that representing? He was speaking of the coming of Jesus. Both of them the same One. Fundamentally just as much right as the other one was right, fundamentally speaking.

L-44 But what did he fail to see? He failed to hear the shout of the King in the camp down there. They had a smitten rock. They had a Pillar of Fire, a supernatural sign. They failed to see that. That's what's the matter with the world today, they fail to see It.
"Oh, no," Balaam might've said, "Well sure, they've done all kinds of bad things." What--but they failed to see that smitten Rock going before them making an atonement for them all the time.
That's what it is today. They say, "Pentecostal people? Them that shout and carry on?" That's the same kind they had in the Old Test--in the New Testament. At the day of Pentecost they had the same kind of things. "Those people speak with tongues, and they prayed for the sick, they got Divine healers. And I know ornery things they've done." And yes, the other side's done a bunch of it too, but you just don't hear it.
But he failed to see that smitten Rock and those signs--the supernatural signs. He couldn't curse it. Every time he tried to curse, God blessed it.
You can't never smother It out. It's God's Message. It'll burn till Jesus comes. Certainly It will.


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