<TITLE>08. Par 62-71</TITLE>L-62 Before Abraham could see Elohim there had to be twenty-five years of testing. Before the Hebrew children could see the Son of God they had to go into a fiery furnace. Before Daniel could see an Angel he had to go into the lion's den. Before Job could ever see the resurrection he had to go in and lose everything he had; but then by a vision he saw.
And if Job by a vision could stand so firmly upon a promise, how much more ought we to do, after Christ has raised from the dead and become the Firstfruits of those that slept, and sent back the Holy Spirit as a seal of promise upon us, that we too shall live. "Because, I live, you live also." Seeing His great Presence among us, working, doing the same signs and wonders that He did on earth, giving us the hopes. And we come to the resurrection and then remain on our ash heaps? Let's get off the ash heap today with a new vision, with a new power, with a new determination that we see God in His power. We see the resurrection of the things coming.

L-64 We're at the time of death. We're setting in the doors of death. The nations is in the doors of death. Russia has discovered a new weapon now, as you all heard on the radio and things. They don't have to come over here and blow it up with a bomb. They can just bring a little something over here, and get amongst their spies, and spurt a little stuff out in any nation, and everybody will be paralyzed for twenty-four hours. Come over and, when you wake up, there's a Russian kicking you in the side, a big Russian guard taking over your home, ravishing your wife, throwing your children out in the street, and taking your home. They can do it. They wouldn't lose one thing. They've got it. Nobody knows what it is. See, everything working up in... Now, they can use that and not be afraid of it, because no one else has it.

L-66 We don't know how it will come, what will take place. But we know one thing, that we're on the ash heap. The nation's on the ash heap. The world's on the ash heap.
And because the world is on an ash heap, I'm so glad that the Spirit of God can come, and we can say, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last day He'll stand upon this earth." Someday He will come. No wonder the poet wrote:
Living, He loved me. Dying, He saved me.
Buried, He carried my sins far away.
Rising, He justified freely forever.
Someday He's coming, oh, glorious day!

L-68 It taken a Gethsemane of drops of Blood breaking through His skin, before there. And it taken a cruel agony of Calvary before there could come the proof of an eternal God Who could raise the dead up. It taken a--it taken a Gethsemane and a Calvary to make an Easter. It certainly did.
How those apostles, upon that morning, when they were so discouraged, until Peter said, "I am so discouraged, I believe I'll just go back a fishing again. I'll go back down. I--I've seen Him."
They had great hopes, and believed and everything until it come that great darkening place. What was God doing? He was bringing those apostles to an ash heap. He was bringing them to a place to where they would--they would have their faith confirmed to them.

L-71 And Peter said, "I--I have seen Him do great miracles down on Galilee. But, oh, He lays yonder, dead and cold in the tomb. I believe I'll just go down to the sea this morning and cast in a net and just go fishing. Maybe I can look out across the sea yonder, and I'll find out. I remember seeing Him when He waited for us at the bank. I believe I'll just go down."
And the apostles said, "You know what? I believe I'll just go with you." Oh, they were blue. They'd cried until their eyes were swollen.


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